Chapter 1699: Sword Slays Calamity-Dread!

Had Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua really failed?

No.

They had thought all along that Jian Changsheng's words, "Lure it to the Ancient Armory of the Military Path," meant to lure the Calamity-Dread into the interior of the Ancient Armory and then obliterate it using some power within the treasury...

But they never expected that the final killing move Jian Changsheng had prepared for the Calamity-Dread was not inside the Ancient Armory of the Military Path...

It was the Ancient Armory of the Military Path itself!

The Ancient Armory of the Military Path was simply too massive. Using it as a sword, the range of the strike was unbelievably exaggerated, so in fact, as long as the Calamity-Dread was lured near the Ancient Armory, it was completely sufficient.

Jian Changsheng hovered above this Sword of Humanity, measured the distance between the two with his eyes, and cautiously raised the sword finger of his left hand...

He admitted he was a little nervous.

Because what he was controlling at this moment was the strongest sword carrying the slaughter of humanity, and there was only one chance.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the fate of humanity was in his hands at this moment... But Jian Changsheng had been tempered to the extreme along the way. How could he still be that little Jian who was panicked and at a loss the first time he came to the Ancient Armory of the Military Path? He was already the Eighth-Order [Asura] of this era, Jian Changsheng, holding the strongest sword of human slaughter!

The moment he truly grasped the fate of humanity, he found that the nervousness was only for an instant... What followed was unprecedented calm.

The sword is in my hand,

it is only natural.

Black ribbons danced wildly in the wind. Jian Changsheng raised his sword finger and pointed it into the air at the Calamity-Dread...

He said faintly:

"Go."

轰——!!!

Killing intent that tore through the heavens erupted from that Sword of Humanity. A massive giant shadow that seemed capable of slicing through all things roared as it slashed down in one direction!!!

At this moment, Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua were stunned.

When Jian Changsheng stepped on the giant sword and soared into the sky, they had actually vaguely guessed this possibility, but they subconsciously denied it... They didn't think the Ancient Armory of the Military Path could be used by them.

Until Jian Changsheng truly swung this sword, they were still terrified, but what followed was the wild joy of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!!

They really could kill the Calamity-Dread!!

Sun Bumian, already exhausted, was slammed heavily by the Calamity-Dread's broken tail, his bones shattered, and he fell toward the abyss of the seabed, spitting blood...

As a world-ending calamity, the Calamity-Dread could naturally sense how much energy was contained in that strike. It knew very well that with its current state, it absolutely couldn't withstand this strike, so it squeezed out its last bit of strength, and the lantern on its head lit up again.

This strike was too big; without the support of seawater to move, it absolutely couldn't swim away to avoid it...

Since that was the case, it could only rely on spatial extension and fission.

As long as it could teleport away from here, it could dodge this strike. It didn't believe these humans could trigger the same strike a second time!

Just as the Calamity-Dread's lantern lit up, a hand wrapped in bandages punched into the lantern regardless of everything!

His messy white hair danced in the wind. Jiang Xiaohua, with only half his body left, was strapped to the Calamity-Dread with bandages. At this moment, his hand had already submerged into the lantern, and unprecedented resolution appeared in his eyes...

"You..."

"Are not allowed to escape!!"

Jiang Xiaohua pulled forcibly, and his whole body drilled directly into the Calamity-Dread's lantern. The terrifying curse directly contaminated his body into black, but he had no intention of stopping.

He spat out the lethal poison pill he had been holding between his teeth, then squeezed it hard. Extreme toxicity spread within the Calamity-Dread's lantern, instantly staining a small area blood-red...

Then, Jiang Xiaohua dug his five fingers into his own chest, where a curse was flickering with a faint light. With a push, his entire body exploded!!

砰——!!!

Countless witchcraft curse tools detonated simultaneously from within his body.

A blood-colored holy grail flipped over, directly trapping the curse on Jiang Xiaohua's body. When it flipped again, the curse had already disappeared... Immediately after, a continuous stream of curses surged out like a monstrous sea!!

Under the double superposition of lethal poison and curse explosion, two-thirds of the Calamity-Dread's massive lantern were directly contaminated. The dim light barely shone through, and in this state, the Calamity-Dread could only barely flash one kilometer...

In the face of the strike from that towering giant sword, a deviation of one kilometer was completely meaningless!

"XIAOHUA!!!!"

Sun Bumian, who had been knocked into the abyss, saw Jiang Xiaohua sacrifice himself to disable the Calamity-Dread's domain, and his eyes instantly turned red!

Immediately after, endless killing intent, like a great flood submerging the world, pressed down from the firmament. This towering giant sword, guided by the sword finger of the figure bearing the divine ring of killing intent, slashed onto the Calamity-Dread!!

轰——！！！！！

In an instant,

the giant beast shrieked, and the seawater evaporated!

Sun Bumian only felt his vision go black, and the violent impact caused him to lose consciousness.

……

哗啦啦啦——

I don't know how much time passed.

Bone-chilling cold rainwater slid down Sun Bumian's cheeks.

His eyelids fluttered, his expression changed repeatedly, and the next second he opened his eyes violently, sat up, and fresh blood sprayed from his mouth...

An unprecedented sense of weakness washed over Sun Bumian. After exhausting the power of reincarnation, his hair began to turn into dry, gray-white. He looked at his haggard, aged self in the reflection of the water, and a hint of confusion appeared in his eyes...

Then, he finally seemed to recall something and looked around.

He was still in the frozen sea.

In the distance was the Ancient Armory of the Military Path in the frozen sea, but that giant sword that had once towered into the sky had now completely collapsed. One-third was buried in the seabed, one-third was swallowed by the seawater, and only a small section of the hilt remained, slanted and exposed above the sea surface...

The Military Path killing intent contained within it gradually dissipated, and no life force could be felt within it, as if the entire ancient treasury had burned out completely due to that strike.

The drizzling seawater soaked Sun Bumian's body. These raindrops seemed to be the seawater that had been slashed to pieces, gathered in the sky, and then fell again. Besides being bone-chillingly cold, there was also a fishy, cursed smell.

Sun Bumian looked back and saw countless pieces of flesh floating on the sea surface, staining the entire sea area pitch-black. And among the flesh, one could still see some remains that looked like the ruins of the ancient treasury, standing among them...

The Calamity-Dread... was really dead.

That strike had shattered the Calamity-Dread's body and obliterated its life.

They had done it...

Sun Bumian recalled Jiang Xiaohua's final moment of resolution, and an indescribable sorrow rose in his heart... He knew that Jiang Xiaohua spitting out the poison and choosing to use poison against the Calamity-Dread was a final, helpless act.

This also meant... Jiang Xiaohua's soul could not enter the next world.

Just as Sun Bumian lowered his head in silence, on the other side of the sea, a figure wearing armor, holding a broken sword in one hand and a fragment of the Witch Path ancient treasury's foundation in the other, walked slowly toward here...