Chapter 558

Chapter 558: Slaughtering the Gods

She had no time to think. With a swift motion, she raised her sword and swung at the iron chains.

Crack!

The supposedly indestructible cold iron shattered instantly under her blade. The disciples collapsed to the ground, their bodies weak and powerless, struggling to stand.

“Go…”

“Master, go…” Xing Hui’s eyes were bloodshot.

“Please, leave. The Execution Platform for Immortals annihilates all divine souls. Master, leave now!”

“Annihilate what?”

Lu Chao Chao stood calmly at the center of the Execution Platform for Immortals, her delicate brows furrowed in confusion.

“You mean this gale? But it doesn’t even hurt.” Lu Chao Chao casually reached out to touch the platform’s formation, yet remained completely unscathed.

Zong Bai: “???”

Sheng He refused to believe it and mimicked her action, extending a finger to touch the array. In an instant, his fingertip was sliced open, blood gushing forth. The pain made his very soul tremble.

The disciples were all dumbfounded, and Sheng He stammered, “I-It’s impossible… The Execution Platform for Immortals obliterates all divine souls across the Three Realms. Even the Monarch Emperor would die upon stepping in.” Unless… she was no longer part of the Three Realms?

Lu Chao Chao scratched her head. “Maybe because…” She abruptly stopped and refused to elaborate.

Xian Ting’s body suddenly slackened, and Xing Hui immediately caught him. “Xian Ting has endured too much punishment and lost his godhood. I fear he won’t last much longer.”

“Support Xian Ting,” Lu Chao Chao commanded before turning, sword in hand, towards the Execution Platform for Immortals.

Strike after strike, yet the platform absorbed every ounce of power, remaining unscathed.

Lu Chao Chao grew furious.

Suddenly, she remembered that mysterious power that had fused with her. The moment she activated it, she felt as though she had stepped into an enigmatic realm…

She became the wind, the rain, the flowers and grass by the roadside, the clouds in the sky…

She became all things.

Behind her, a faint, illusory figure materialized.

The Heavenly Dao’s power surged at her fingertips, and the crimson imprint on her brow flared brightly. She ascended into the air, floating above the Execution Platform for Immortals.

Her crimson robes billowed, her hair flowing wildly. The disciples could not mask their astonishment.

“Something’s wrong… Master… something’s very wrong. Her power… carries an overwhelming presence that does not belong to her.” Zong Bai muttered under his breath. “What happened to her?”

Outside the Execution Platform for Immortals.

Zhu Mo was on high alert, his mind collapsing in panic. It’s over, it’s over, Lu Chao Chao went into the Execution Platform for Immortals!!

Should he kneel and beg for forgiveness? Or just kneel and beg for forgiveness?

Just as his knees bent…

A terrifying explosion erupted from within the platform. The blast’s shockwave sent soldiers flying in all directions.

Even Lu Chao Chao coughed up a mouthful of blood.

The young girl had yet to recover her cultivation. During the slaughter of the gods earlier, she had already been at her limit. She dared not reveal her exhaustion, afraid Han Chuan would notice. But now…

“Windchaser, Zhu Mo, take them and leave.”

The hidden Windchaser immediately swept forward, whisking away the two gods.

Zhu Mo barely managed to stay upright, nearly collapsing to his knees.

Seeing Lu Chao Chao’s face as pale as paper, he couldn’t help but ask, “Chao Chao, are you alright?” She was barely holding herself together, almost revealing her small, stubby legs.

Lu Chao Chao’s vision blurred.

“Take them first, I’ll cover the rear.”

Zhu Mo hesitated no longer, transforming into a black dragon and carrying the others away.

The heavenly soldiers who tried to give chase were blocked by Lu Chao Chao’s sword.

Han Chuan felt as though he had been slapped across the face.

Lu Chao Chao, missing her heart and yet to recover her cultivation, wielding but a single sword, had thrown the entire Celestial Realm into chaos. The number of deities she had slain was beyond count.

The reputation of the Celestial Realm was utterly shattered on this day.

“Kill her! Whoever severs this fiend’s head will be promoted to High God, ranked among the Celestial Sovereigns!”

“She must not escape!” If she descended into the Mortal Realm, she would be like a tiger set free. She would become impossible to track!

If she fled today, the Celestial Realm would become a laughingstock.

Celestial Monarch Ling Xiao wanted to intervene, but Celestial Sovereign Bai Heng coldly warned, “Celestial Monarch Ling Xiao, you must think carefully. If you act today, you will stand against the entire Celestial Realm.”

“Your wife, your child—do you not want them?”

Ling Xiao clenched his eyes shut, his gaze bloodshot as he watched the crimson figure.

His grip tightened on his wife’s hand.

Lu Chao Chao continued swinging her sword. It was no longer clear whether the blood on her body was hers or her enemies’. Blood dripped down her eyelids, blurring her vision.

Her strength was depleting. Her arms could barely lift her sword.

From a distance, Bai Heng narrowed his eyes. His desires had long consumed him, and he had no choice but to aid Han Chuan.

Seeing the Sunshine Sword slip from Lu Chao Chao’s grasp, he seized the opportunity.

He shot forward, a streak of icy light aimed at Lu Chao Chao’s brow.

At that moment—

He glimpsed a transparent male figure behind her.

The man gently guided her hand, wrapping his fingers around hers upon the sword hilt…

One strike.

The blade pierced Bai Heng’s chest.

The Sunshine Sword was a divine weapon, but slaying a High God should have been difficult. Bai Heng wanted to laugh, to break free…

But then, he noticed—

The sword was enveloped in a faint aura of Heavenly Dao.

Bai Heng’s eyes widened in disbelief. He could feel the rapid depletion of his life force. He tried to speak, but only coughed up blood…

“Hea…ven…ly…”

Thud! A powerful force blasted him backward. The moment his body hit the ground, his divine soul was obliterated.

His eyes remained wide open in death.

What had he just seen?

The Heavenly Dao—it protected Lu Chao Chao?

The Heavenly Dao, the impartial force of the universe, had taken human form to shield her!!

Ha… Hahaha! How could they fight this?

How could they possibly fight this!?

But none of it mattered to Bai Heng anymore. Before countless witnesses, he perished by Lu Chao Chao’s sword.

Around her, corpses were scattered like fallen leaves. Her bloodstained eyes swept across the battlefield, and all who met her gaze instinctively retreated.

No one dared to become her next victim.

Her trembling fingers gripped her sword tightly. In a whisper, she said, “Take me away.”

A youth lifted Lu Chao Chao into his arms and disappeared into the wind, leaving the Celestial Realm behind.

Han Chuan, in a state of madness, felt the spiritual energy ripple—Lu Chao Chao had vanished before his very eyes. Today, she had single-handedly stormed the Celestial Realm, shattered the Execution Platform for Immortals, and rescued the disciples. It was as if she had slapped him in the face in front of the entire world.

He had believed he could purge the evil.

Yet Lu Chao Chao had come to slaughter the gods.

What a joke—an absolute, laughable joke! The Celestial Realm had been disgraced, and Han Chuan clutched his bleeding arm in fury.

“So what if she rescued them? A god who has lost their godhood is doomed. Their lives are already ticking away!”

“Whether they die at the Execution Platform for Immortals, or die before you—it makes no difference!”

Han Chuan slowly calmed his rage. By now, Seven Sins had already been born.

Born of Evil Miasma, he was destined to consume the filth of the world. He existed only for destruction.

His birth would be marked by his mother’s death.

And his life would be steeped in slaughter.

A cruel smile curled upon Han Chuan’s lips.

As Seven Sins grew stronger, he would lose all reason.

Lu Chao Chao, neither you nor the mortal world you protect will escape this calamity.