The entire sword-drawing process looked way too fast and way too casual. It left people completely baffled.

However.

Just when everyone thought Ye Tian was being arrogant and carefree and was about to capsize in the gutter—

Suddenly!

"Roar..." Jin Du let out a shrill, miserable scream, extreme pain twisting his voice, ear‑piercing and yet Real Space‑deep.

Blood splattered through the air.

The gold grew dim.

Clear as day, that claw of Jin Du’s which had already reached right in front of Ye Tian, just a hair’s breadth from slapping down, actually...actually had been neatly chopped off!

Cut off by that one sword of Ye Tian’s.

A miracle!!!

A super miracle that only appears once in hundreds of millions of years.

And it was shoved right in their faces like that.

"The other claw, leave that here too." Ye Tian suddenly said again, and struck once more.

Sword Light flickered.

Jin Du’s other claw was also neatly severed.

The two claws were collected by Ye Tian into his Space Ring.

In terms of pure hardness alone, these two claws had already reached the level of a Low Grade Dao Artifact; honestly, they were even more frightening than some Meteorite Gold from beyond the domain, and even some of the weapons left behind by Strong People from hundreds of millions of years ago in Ancient Relics.

Very worth collecting.

Moreover, Ye Tian was almost certain that these two claws were likely something the Mysterious Stele would take a fancy to. Once the Mysterious Stele Devoured these two claws, it might very well gain yet another improvement.

Thinking of this, Ye Tian’s heart burned hot; he hadn’t expected that the true bodies of the Ancient Golden Peng Clan would be such treasures.

For a moment, he was itching to chop off the claws of every strong member of the Ancient Golden Peng Clan that could be put on the table.

"No! No!! Impossible!!!"

Compared to the heat in Ye Tian’s heart, Jin Du collapsed once more. The mental focus and state of mind he had just barely gathered, this time, crumbled utterly, shattered into powder‑fine fragments.

Jin Du’s incomparably huge true body went flying backward crazily; both claws were gone, only two legs left, spilling blood like it cost nothing.

Jin Du truly, genuinely could not accept it.

To him, this was a nightmare.

He had already fused the Ancient Eternal Body and the Golden Peng Body to the level of seventy percent integration; what kind of terrifying true‑body toughness was that supposed to be?

Not to mention, these were claws—claws were the hardest part of the true body.

How could they possibly be severed?

Jin Du even felt that even a true Emperor Martial Realm expert wouldn’t be able to directly hack off his two claws.

Yet of all people, Ye Tian did it!

Did it with ease!

His Martial Arts View was once again ground to dust.

He was even so despairing he almost wanted to self‑destruct...

How did Ye Tian pull it off?

In truth, it wasn’t easy at all.

He had tried a new move: Nine Swords Shocking Immortal + Ten Swords of Eternity + Life and Death Instant Shadow—three swords fused into one. It had the purity and ferocity of Nine Swords Shocking Immortal, the lock‑on and power of Ten Swords of Eternity, and the speed of Life and Death Instant Shadow.

On top of that, there were the Space Law, Death Law, Power Condensation, and so on...

Plus Mid Stage Sublimation Realm‑level Sword Intent!!!

With this strike, Ye Tian also used a small portion of his current strength; of course, it was also an entirely new experiment.

The experimental effect wasn’t exactly great; the fusion of these three swords was nowhere near as easy as imagined. After all, all three were top‑tier, inconceivable Divine Skills or Sword Skills, each with its own pride. How could they be willing to fuse with the others???

It was only because Ye Tian forcibly used Mid Stage Sublimation Realm‑level Sword Intent as a binding agent that he barely managed it.

But even so, the degree of fusion was low. By Ye Tian’s own estimation, the fusion level of that strike just now was probably only around ten percent.

Yet even like that, it still chopped off Jin Du’s two claws as easily as slicing melons and chopping vegetables.

It was truly, genuinely terrifying.

Even Ye Tian felt a faint burning anticipation in his heart.

He was thinking that next, he absolutely had to find a way to completely fuse these three swords into one. Once they reached one hundred percent fusion, wouldn’t that one strike be enough to destroy heaven and earth?

For the first Time, the Dragon Prison Sword in his hand felt a bit weak to Ye Tian.

He could almost be sure, could almost foresee, that once these three swords truly fused to one hundred percent and he executed them again, the Dragon Prison Sword would probably be unable to withstand it and would likely directly Beng and collapse.

While his thoughts rippled—

Ye Tian didn’t notice the current mood saturating the entire Desolate City.

That crazy, pure terror to the point of cramping.

Even with Jin Du releasing his true body, he still couldn’t withstand a single sword from this young Human???!

"......"

Jin Jiu Cang’s face had already turned a bit pale; he even felt a slight twinge of regret.

Something that should have been absolutely impossible had actually happened.

The next second.

Abruptly.

"Boom!" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Ye Tian was actually a nice guy; he knew Jin Du was in agony right now, his inner Dao‑heart shattered, sunk in utter self‑doubt, living worse than dying. So he raised a fist—Returning to Dust—and slammed it straight into Jin Du’s colossal true body. A bloody hole appeared in Jin Du’s true form.

Pierced through.

Jin Du’s corpse plummeted rapidly, lost all vitality, and even his Divine Soul was crushed.

Boom!

Jin Du’s corpse landed inside the Desolate City, directly crushing more than a thousand buildings, collapsing an entire small corner of the city.

"You’re very strong."

No one saw how Jin Suyi had come to stand right in front of Ye Tian, face to face. Jin Suyi’s expression was calm, calm yet tinged with a certain gravity; she even faintly frowned. She seemed to want to see through Ye Tian, but no matter how she tried, she couldn’t.

"Of course."

Ye Tian nodded, openly and straightforwardly admitting it.

"So, you must die."

Jin Suyi was very serious. Not just because Ye Tian and the Ancient Golden Peng were already at the point of Never give up, but also because Ye Tian was only around twenty, and he was a Human. A freak of this level—if he didn’t die—would be a disaster for the entire Desolate Beast Empire in the future.

As her words fell—

Jin Suyi’s wrist suddenly moved.

The bamboo sword in her hand lightly flicked.

A streak of Sword Blade shot straight toward Ye Tian; that blade, at first glance, seemed like nothing, utterly ordinary.

However.

At the instant that Sword Blade was about to reach Ye Tian, it suddenly erupted!!!

One Sword Blade split into ninety‑nine.

Sword blades like threads.

Threads threading into Spirit.

Those ninety‑nine strands of Sword Blade actually combined and wove together, constructing a Sword Blade Sword Array!

Ninety‑nine‑strand Sword Blade Sword Array.

Even Ye Tian was a bit stunned by this kind of ultimate micro‑level operation.

Because this ability to control a Sword Blade down to such a minute, hair‑splitting level was the first time he’d ever seen something like it. It was like doing measurement by hand and yet measuring down to the nanometer.

It was downright insane!

Ye Tian truly broadened his horizons.

Even his eyeballs swelled slightly.

And under this method—boom!!!

That originally seemingly ordinary bamboo‑sword Sword Blade was like an ant suddenly becoming a dinosaur, like a single drop of water suddenly becoming an ocean.

That abrupt eruption, that extreme outburst in the shortest Instant Shadow, was too shocking.

The moment that Sword Blade flared, its speed was horrifying; its forward speed increased more than tenfold. It had already reached Ye Tian’s face, and then suddenly sped up ten times—truly terrifying.

It left no room for survival.

With just this sword, Jin Suyi’s strength was displayed in full.

....