With a "bang," the sound roared like thunder.
It was followed by a continuous, rumbling vibration.
Chen Hao, wielding the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade, was kicked in the abdomen by the Ghost King and sent flying at lightning speed into a distant mountain, only stopping after he plummeted dozens of meters deep.
The two had already clashed for hundreds of exchanges in just a few short minutes.
As each had reached the pinnacle of their Spiritual Power, their speed had also become too fast for human eyes to capture.
In just those few short minutes, everything around them had been leveled to ground, and the mountains that formed the underground valley had been razed.
"Cough!" Trapped deep within the rock, Chen Hao coughed; his view was completely obscured by the billowing dust, only a faint light visible at the mouth of the cave.
While Chen Hao looked around and contemplated how to escape this spot, suddenly he saw a dazzling purple light approaching him rapidly.
Quickly, his Nether Vision Technique activated in his left eye, and he saw the Ghost King wielding a long blade and stabbing toward him.
He was startled and lifted the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade, channeling a large amount of the Nether King's Power into it before hurling it forward.
"Whoosh, whoosh," the black Nether King's World-Slaying Blade shot forward like a rocket.
With a "bang," the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade collided with the long blade once again.
"Boom, boom!" The mountain where the two were located began to tremble due to the dispersal of the malevolent energy from the two blades.
At this moment, Chen Hao coughed again, more dust sucked into his throat, causing extreme discomfort.
After a deadlock in the cramped space, countless Blade Souls crawled out from the blades and started fighting amongst themselves.
"Aooo!" The Ghost King once again transformed into a mastiff beast, but this time, it was one that had lost its mind and gone mad.
With a "bang," the mountain was blown apart by the expanding bulk of the mastiff beast! It then dropped the long blade, broke through huge chunks of cracked boulder in its path, and lunged at Chen Hao.
Three blood-red beams of light flashed, and its massive paw carved three deep, lengthy gashes across Chen Hao's body.
Countless streams of black blood sprayed from Chen Hao.
Chen Hao bit his teeth, enduring the intense pain and refusing to make any sound.
Just as the mastiff beast's sharp teeth were about to bite off his head, a burst of black Nether King's Power suddenly shot from his left eye, directly into the gaping maw of the mastiff.
"Roar!" The mastiff beast let out a miserable howl, flailing its massive body.
Seizing this opportunity, Chen Hao kept stepping on the falling rocks around him, propelling himself into the sky.
The mastiff incarnation of the Ghost King closely pursued Chen Hao from behind, completely disregarding the boulders falling toward it, directly shattering them with its hardened body.
Seeing the Ghost King pounce, Chen Hao suddenly disappeared.
He had hidden inside a Nether Acupoint. However, he soon came out and found himself at the top of a mountain ten miles away.
Upon sensing Chen Hao's location, the frenzied mastiff beast immediately charged toward him at the highest speed. With every step it took, it covered half a mile, and every patch of ground it stepped on would crack and collapse the instant it lifted its leg.
When it reached Chen Hao, the path it had taken had already crumbled into ruin.
"I don't want to play with you anymore," Chen Hao said with a cold laugh, "I'm going to kill you right now!"
At that moment, his face was full of terrifying murderous intent.
He closed his eyes, driving all the Nether King's Power from the Nether King's Heart to release.
Then he opened his eyes! In that instant, countless black vortexes appeared around the mastiff beast, and immediately numerous strands of black Nether King's Power surged from the vortexes, entangling the mastiff beast's limbs, head, tail, and many other parts like myriad raging black dragons.
"Roar!" The mastiff beast roared like mad at Chen Hao, trying to break free from the Nether King's Power binding it.
Through the eyes of the mastiff beast, Chen Hao vaguely saw four ancient spirits. This made him wonder: These spirits could be the Hell King and his three princes who had attached themselves to the Ghost King.
He sneered and then walked towards the mastiff, saying, "Your time of death has come!"
Upon hearing Chen Hao's words, the mastiff beast roared even more fiercely.
It was struggling for the last time.
Chen Hao was not at all affected by the roar, but rather showed a look of disgust. Suddenly, black Nether King's Power overflowed from his body, flowing towards the mastiff beast like a deluge, enveloping it.
"Solidify!" Chen Hao thought, and the mastiff beast was solidified by the Nether King's Power, unable to move.
"Transform into Nether King's Fire!" Chen Hao's thoughts controlled the Nether King's Power again, and the Nether King's Power that had solidified the mastiff beast in the air started to ignite.
"Wuu wuu!" Unable to bear the burning of the Nether King's Fire, the mastiff beast let out a piteous howl.
Chen Hao's eyes bulged, and then he controlled the countless strands of Nether King's Power wrapped around the mastiff beast's body to tear the beast apart.
"Ao, wu, ao, wu!" The mastiff beast screamed in agonizing pain over and over again, while using the spectral power within its body to resist one last time.
"Ah!" Suddenly, the mastiff beast let out a voice in the form of the Ghost King.
And it was at this time that it was torn into countless pieces by the Nether King's Power. At this time, four purple lights flowed out from its torn body and swiftly fled towards the Netherworld City in the north.
"Nether King's World-Slaying Blade!" Chen Hao summoned the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade and then pursued the four purple lights.
Those four lights were the remnants of the souls of the Hell King and his three princes from within the Gate of the Nether King.
Shortly after, Chen Hao caught up with the four purple remnants. At the same time, the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade arrived in his hand. He swung the blade in his hand, shattered those four remnants, and let the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade absorb their souls.
Afterwards, Chen Hao returned to the mastiff beast's torn corpse, which by now was almost completely burned by the Nether King's Fire.
Just then, suddenly, the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade in Chen Hao's hand began to tremble violently!
He was shocked; he hadn't expected the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade to actually be repelling him!
He closed his eyes, sensing the Blade Soul of the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade. Immediately, an image appeared in his mind of a beast ablaze with raging flames, and behind that beast, countless more.
"Could these beasts have some relation to the Ghost King?" Chen Hao speculated.
Suddenly, these mastiff beasts pounced toward him, trying to tear apart and devour his Yin Soul. He hastily infused a great amount of Nether King's Power into the Nether King's World-Slaying Blade, which repelled the mastiff beasts and suppressed the trembling of the blade.
When he opened his eyes, the Ghost King had already been burned to ashes, leaving only five pieces flickering with black light.
These five map fragments were the pieces of the ancient city map that the Ghost King had collected over the years.
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