Long Chen reappeared in front of countless shocked gazes. His hand was like a blade stained with fresh blood.

On the other side, Shen Qingxue was holding her neck with a horrified expression. Blood dripped through her fingers.

Enraged and filled with disbelief, Shen Qingxue demanded, “You’re really trying to kill me?”

Long Chen shook his head. “It seems that you still don’t understand the situation you’re in.”

He stomped the floor, and the martial stage shuddered. A giant Taiji diagram appeared on top of it. However, the Yin-Yang fish of the Taiji diagram had no eyes.

“Heavens, the life and death martial stage! How did it become a life and death match?!” Frightened screams rang out.

The appearance of the Yin-Yang fish signified the activation of the life and death stage. These Yin-Yang fish had no eyes because they represented pure Yin and pure Yang. There was only life and death; there was no third choice.

The activation of the life and death stage meant that there was no leeway at all. No one knew how Long Chen had activated the life and death stage, but they had no choice but to believe what they were seeing. Shen Qingxue was in the same situation. Seeing this life and death stage, she took a deep breath and suppressed her shock and fury. She knew that the loser of this battle would die.

Long Chen coldly said, “You really are naive. An easy life really doesn’t make for maturity. I already gave you a chance to call me big brother in front of the Path Guidance Stone, but you didn’t seize it. Then I gave you another chance here on the martial stage. But you just waste your opportunities. Even though you knew I was strong, you were unable to sense any threat from me. Something as incomprehensible as that still didn’t make you think something was off? I already gave you two opportunities, so don’t blame me for giving you a chance.”

Long Chen began to walk towards Shen Qingxue. Sharp killing intent locked onto her firmly.

Shen Qingxue had lost an arm, and her neck was still bleeding. Just now, if she had not dodged fast enough, her head would have fallen. Worst of all, Long Chen’s oppressive killing intent made her realize that the moment she made any move, a killing blow would come without mercy. He would give her no chance to form hand seals, and not even the most minute bloodline fluctuations could escape his gaze.

His footsteps were not quick. But every step seemed to be pressing on top of her heart. Every step brought her closer to death.

Shen Qingxue had never seen such a terrifying person in all her life. Sweat dripped down her forehead and fell to the ground.

One misstep would lead to death. She was painfully aware of that. And precisely because of it, she couldn’t form hand seals. She couldn’t mobilize law power. She couldn’t even use her Violet Crystal Heavenly Pupils. Despite all her amazing divine abilities, she had no chance to use any of them. As Long Chen got closer and closer, her world lost all other sound. All she could hear was Long Chen’s footsteps pounding alongside her heartbeat.

I’m going to die? Such a stupid, worthless death? 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Space around her began to shudder. Law power grew berserk, as if her emotions were influencing it and making it grow frantic.

“Big brother, what are you doing?”

Xie Wanyi shouted in shock upon seeing Long Chen’s demeanor. The sheer killing intent radiating from him made space shudder. It was as if countless ghosts were wailing.

Unfortunately, the life and death stage meant that all sound was cut off from the inside. Long Chen couldn’t hear her shout. In fact, countless disciples were shouting for Long Chen to stop, but his footsteps did not waver.

Long Chen raised his hand, and violet qi condensed into a sword in his grip. The tip ripped the surrounding space, and that space was crying out like the final scream of life before death.

BOOM!

Just as Long Chen was just ten steps from Shen Qingxue, the space around Shen Qingxue exploded. Long Chen’s killing intent lock shattered.

Shen Qingxue’s violet blood raged. Under the pressure of death, her bloodline power erupted to save itself. Her law power automatically ignited.

“Violet Crystal Heavenly Pupils!”

The first thing she did after escaping the lock was activate the Violet Crystal Heavenly Pupils.

Long Chen’s ghost-like movement art terrified her. She knew that if she wanted to win, she had to find some way of seeing through his movement art, and only the Violet Crystal Heavenly Pupils could possibly manage to capture his ghost-like movements.

As a result, the moment she activated them, Long Chen tossed out a wave of black soil. Shen Qingxue screamed in pain, covering her eyes. It felt like they had just been stabbed. She couldn’t open them.

Shen Qingxue roared, “Long Chen, you despicable-!”

Violet armor appeared on top of Shen Qingxue, and she unleashed a punch towards an empty space. Long Chen appeared within that space and was forced to block the punch with his sword. With an explosive sound, Long Chen’s sword shattered, and he was sent flying.

“Oh? That punch was pretty decent.”

Long Chen gazed at his own chest in mild surprise. He had almost spat out blood from that one blow. His insides were shaking. It seemed he had underestimated the Vajra Saint Body.

After exchanging that palm strike, he had an understanding of her basic power. However, the boost of the Vajra Saint Body was truly terrifying. If he had not quickly used his bloodline power to defend, that punch could have well killed him.

“Even without the Violet Crystal Heavenly Pupils, don’t think that you can beat me! Merge!”

Shen Qingxue roared. Her broken arm flew back from the ground and reconnected. She formed hand seals.

The earth trembled. The entire martial stage became covered in yellow runes. Countless lightning runes flashed through the sky, lighting it up like a firework show. But the strongest light came from the golden runes covering Shen Qingxue’s body. The earth energy from below merged gathered towards her along with the lightning energy in the sky.

The entire martial stage had become Shen Qingxue’s domain. She could now “see” Long Chen even without her eyes.

“Beat you?” Long Chen shook his head. “You’re still so naive! I am here to kill you!”

“Then let’s see if you have the ability!” roared Shen Qingxue. The next instant, she suddenly appeared in front of Long Chen; she moved at a speed much akin to teleportation. She unleashed a ferocious punch.

BOOM!

The entire martial stage shuddered from the impact.

“How is this possible?!”

Cries of disbelief rang through the air. Long Chen was wearing golden armor identical to Shen Qingxue’s!

“Long Chen also has the Vajra Saint Body?!”

People couldn’t believe it. Shen Qingxue was the only member of the junior generation with the Vajra Saint Body. This made perfect sense, because only the unique bloodline of the Shen clan could awaken the Vajra Saint Body.

Shen Qingxue was also staring at him in disbelief. “This is impossible...”

Just then, golden light exploded out of Long Chen. Shen Qingxue was sent flying like a shooting star; she smashed into the martial stage and tumbled away.

As he stood there, in his golden armor, Long Chen exuded an overwhelming sharpness, like a divine sword that had finally been unsheathed and was capable of cutting apart the very heavens. This golden light radiating out of his Vajra Saint Body completely overwhelmed Shen Qingxue’s.

“Let me see just how strong the violet blood race’s Vajra Saint Body is!”

The ☷ essence rune appeared on Long Chen’s forehead. Golden light erupted, directly piercing the formation above. Then the earth exploded. The bricks, unblemished for untold ages, turned to smithereens!