Is someone like you worthy of being a Young Emperor?”

Chu Kuangren spoke in an even and calm tone, but his words mocked Lei Ao.

Lei Ao was so infuriated that his eyes were bloodshot and his face red with rage. He was still a Young Emperor after all; such humiliation was intolerable!

“Chu Kuangren, I'm going to kill you!” Lei Ao charged at Chu Kuangren, roaring in anger as black lighting engulfed his body.

He moved as fast as lightning.

At least, it seemed that way to the onlookers.

The old Chu Kuangren would have thought that he was fast too, but in his eyes now, it was merely child's play.

He had improved far too much.

In addition to the root foundation from the purple palace hall, he also possessed the other three great root foundations and the Exquisite Nine Orifices Sword Heart. All these had caused him to excel beyond the world's standards.

Hence when Lei Ao charged at him, Chu Kuangren had already locked onto his movements. Then, the earth shook and a mountain appeared.

Lei Ao was, once again, sent flying.

“Such terrifying power. It's unstoppable…” Although Lei Ao was stunned, he calmed himself slowly. Rus.h.i.+ng in did him no favors.

Black lightning engulfed his body as his silhouette jumped from place to place.

“Chu Kuangren! Come, can you keep up with me? My lightning gives me great power and unparalleled speed! I can go as fast as the laws of the world allow it!”

“You pose no threat when you can't even hit me!”

Lei Ao's gleeful voice rang out.

At that, Gu Changge, the White Lotus Maiden Sage, and the others were slightly shocked.

“At this speed, even my spiritual thoughts can't keep up!”

“So fast!”

Lei Ao moved swiftly, aiming for one of Chu Kuangren's flaws. With a glint in his eyes, he sped up and swept behind Kuangren.

A ball of violent lightning gathered in his fists, but before he could unleash it, a sword struck his face.

It hit so hard that Lei Ao was knocked out of the sky and he spun a few dozen times in the air before he landed on the ground like a dead dog.

“You seem quite pleased with all your bouncing around.” Chu Kuangren looked down at Lei Ao on the floor like he was looking at an ant.

No one could comprehend how much rage Lei Ao felt at the time.

Three times.

Chu Kuangren had sent him flying three whole times! Moreover, since he did it in front of everyone, it was as if his status as a Young Emperor meant nothing!

In front of the other sky-prides, he was the Young Emperor, but to Chu Kuangren, his status meant nothing.

Lei Ao lay on the floor as his whole body twitched continuously.

Now, the black lightning on his body slowly was turning red, and an even more overwhelming Daoist Rhyme emerged.

“Chu Kuangren! You're the first sky-pride to force my hand! Only your death can erase my shame!”

Lei Ao stood up slowly as red lightning surrounded him, turning his hair red. This terrifying aura of his even forced Gu Changge and the other sky-prides to back away as Lei Ao's power level right now was close to an Honorable's!

“Daoist Physique Transformation, Thousand-fold Thunderclap!”

“Thundering Blood!”

The clouds in the sky grew heavy as the thunder rumbled.

Channeling the red lightning, Lei Ao charged at Chu Kuangren with the blessing of his transformation, in which its sheer power slightly distorted the time and s.p.a.ce around him.

“Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique!”

Chu Kuangren swung his sword and the purple sword ray shone.

The sword ray's light covered the sky as if it could swallow it whole.

Instantly, the red lightning was swallowed up too.

With just one swing, Lei Ao cried out in agony, and immediately, his physical form returned to his true form as a Thunder Falcon.

Streaks of blood that were left by the raging sword Qi could be seen on Lei Ao's body.

The blood gushed out like it was raining blood.

“Retreat!” No longer able to bring himself to fight back, a pair of wings burst out of Lei Ao, full of lightning. He then used one of his treasures to shatter the sword ray before he frantically tried to escape.

“Running away? Not on my watch!”

“Nine Heaven Sword Prison!”

Instantly, twelve pillars that were made from condensed sword Qi appeared from the ground. There were sealing runes on them too!

In his transformed state, Lei Ao's body was suddenly met with a powerful binding force. It felt as if he had been chained down by countless shackles!

Not only that, but the time and s.p.a.ce around him seemed distorted.

“Impossible! How can his vision be so powerful?! Wait, no! There's a spatial force within his vision!” Lei Ao exclaimed in horror.

An obvious sign of the Paradise Realm's cultivation was its initial contact with the spatial force. However, to use it required many years of training.

Chu Kuangren had just reached Paradise Realm, so how was he able to use the spatial force? It even merged with Lei Ao's Daoist Physique Transformation!

“This is the difference between you and me!” Chu Kuangren said emotionlessly.

Chu Kuangren had ascended to the Paradise Realm with the help of the G.o.dly Essence before he then entered a state of Dao enlightenment. With his prior experience in the state of Dao enlightenment and the Primordial Purple Haze, his knowledge ran so, so deep.

This also included the keys to cultivation in each Realm.

Thus, when he stepped into the Paradise Realm, he already had perfect control of the spatial force.

Merging into it was simple for him.

“Chu Kuangren, what do you think you're doing?! If you kill me, the Thunder Falcon Tribe won't rest until you're dead!” Lei Ao threatened.

“Let them come.”

Chu Kuangren swung his sacred sword and the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique reappeared.

This time, there were no accidents.

The sword Qi strangled Lei Ao and his body exploded in a cloud of blood.

The world's Young Emperor had fallen!

The White Lotus Maiden Sage, Bachelor Sage, Yuanhong, and the others looked at the white-clad figure; their hearts faltered, their minds shaken.

A total of eight Young Emperors stood at the top of all the sky-prides. Many have tried to shake them from their positions, but it was useless.

That was, until today, where one of the Young Emperors had fallen right in front of their eyes.

“Chu Kuangren, Chu Kuangren…”

Many whispered his name, lost for words.

They knew that from this day forth, his name would become an unattainable goal for many young, aspiring sky-prides.

Chu Kuangren walked back to the Daoist grounds and placed the Luminous Moon Sage's body into his Yin and Yang Ring. No one objected.

No one had the right to object.

“Let's go,” Chu Kuangren stated.

The Black Heaven Sect then left.

Coincidentally, just as Chu Kuangren and company left, Fangtian, Lin Batian, and a few other people who were trapped in the Gray Mist arrived at the Daoist grounds.

“Huh? Bachelor Sage? And the rest of you, what's happened to you?”

When Fangtian noticed the White Lotus Bachelor Sage's severed arm and the severely injured Yuanhong and Gu Changge, he was shocked.

“F*cking Chu Kuangren happened, that's what.”

The White Lotus Bachelor Sage spat hatefully.

Fangtian and Lin Batian looked at each other. Of course, it was Chu Kuangren. No one else could have severely injured these esteemed sky-prides on their own.

“I mean, why did you kick the hornet's nest for no reason? This man can slaughter sages!” Fangtian said, exasperated.

“What?!”

The crowd was originally prepared to leave, but they instantly turned around and rushed over with horrified expressions.

“The red rain and screams of the spirits were very much the vision of a fallen sage! Did Chu Kuangren kill that sage???”

“Hurry! Tell us!”

Then, Fangtian and Lin Batian told them what had happened in the Gray Mist, and everyone felt a shudder of disbelief.

He struck down a sage?

To them, sages were like deities that were far above and beyond them.

Yet somehow, Chu Kuangren had killed an Honorable sage!

At that thought, some people screamed into the void as they could only express their grief this way. “Since Chu Kuangren exists in this world, there's no fight for the throne anymore!”