Chapter 1340: Chapter 1340 - The Thousand Ghoul Banner, Summoning the Underworld General, Killing

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Will you guys… dare to help?”

Chi Yue and the other Demonic Dao sky-prides had never felt so humiliated before, but none of them moved a muscle.

It was because none of them dared!

The moment they attacked, Chu Kuangren would do the same as well. With his power, they would not stand a chance against him.

Although the Chen Clan Leader was a Gilded Immortal, he might not necessarily attack because of the Battle of Heavenly Champions. Hence, he could not attack Chu Kuangren directly.

“D*mn it. Why are these sky-prides so afraid of this young man?”

“What the f*ck is happening?”

All the respect the Chen Clan Leader had for Chi Yue and the others was now replaced with contempt.

‘As a sky-pride, one should attack without fear of anything! Unlike these fools. To think they’re so scared that they don’t even dare to attack! What a bunch of useless cowards!’

The Chen Clan Leader secretly cursed.

Seeing Ao Yue attacking him, he exploded with rage. “How dare a mere True Immortal go against me?!”

With that, he channeled his Immortal’s Core energy and unleashed a golden palm attack into the air!

The attack seemed to contain an incredibly mysterious power that specially targeted the dead souls!

Chu Kuangren, who was watching the battle, felt a familiar throbbing in his heart.

“That’s the power of the Samsara Emperor Seal!”

The Chen Clan Leader had activated the Samsara Emperor Seal.

Due to that attack, Ao Yue was forced back, and his astral body was so close to shattering.

The fact that he, who was not yet at the Gilded Immortal Realm, could push the Chen Clan Leader so far was already a tremendous feat.

“Thousand Soul Banner, release!”

Then, the Chen Clan Leader took out a long black banner carved with ominous-looking runes. Countless dead souls were also attached to it, and their mournful wails and shrieks reverberated the realm.

“You captured the dead souls to create this Immortal Weapon?” Ao Yue said with a grim expression, for he could already guess what had happened.

“That’s right!”

Without another word, the Chen Clan Leader activated the Thousand Ghoul Banner.

Countless dead souls were released from that banner in an instant, and they charged toward Ao Yue’s dead souls, trying to tear them apart!

“With the Samsara Emperor Seal and the Thousand Ghoul Banner, you dead souls are nothing but mere prey on the cutting board. There’s no way you can defeat me!” The Chen Clan Leader burst out laughing.

“Fool!”

An apathetic voice sounded.

The Chen Clan Leader looked at Chu Kuangren and said in a harsh tone, “I don’t care who and how powerful you are. So what if you can control millions of dead souls? In the face of my Thousand Ghoul Banner and my Samsara Emperor Seal, there’s no way you can win. Even if I can’t harm you because of your status as a Heavenly Champion, there’s no way you can harm me either!”

“Is that so?”

Chu Kuangren took a step forward.

At that very instant, bursts of Immortal Sparks rose into the air as his authority as a Ghost Emperor erupted!

His Ghost Emperor’s authority was many times stronger than that of the Chen Clan Leader!

It was as if a supreme unparalleled Ghost Emperor had descended from the skies!

Under Chu Kuangren’s authority, the dead souls under the Chen Clan Leader’s control started shuddering with fear. They no longer looked as ferocious as before.

“This is the Ghost Emperor’s power!”

The Chen Clan Leader’s expression changed. “You’re the Ghost Emperor!”

As soon as he sensed Chu Kuangren’s aura, he quickly took out a large ancient black seal — his Samsara Emperor Seal!

The moment the Emperor Seal appeared, countless Daoist patterns intertwined, releasing surges of Samsara energy everywhere.

He wanted to repel Chu Kuangren’s Ghost Emperor authority with the Emperor Seal and then gain control over every dead soul present.

However, the Ghost Emperor’s authority he had upon activating the Emperor Seal was still nothing compared to that of Chu Kuangren.

“Take a look at yourself. You’re dressed lavishly in dragon robes but look nothing like a ruler at all. Do you really think that just because you took the Emperor Seal, it makes you the Ghost Emperor? What a joke!” Chu Kuangren sneered.

As he channeled the maximum power of his Ghost Emperor authority, another surge of samsara energy appeared.

That was the Heavenly Samsara Physique’s aura.

As if it was summoned by the aura, the Chen Clan Leader’s Emperor Seal started trembling. It then released a huge burst of samsara energy that blasted the Chen Clan Leader away while the Emperor Seal automatically flew to Chu Kuangren.

“How can this be?!”

The Chen Clan Leader could not believe it. Ever since he obtained it, he had been supplementing it with his Immortal’s Core day and night as if it was his precious lover.

It took a lot of hard work for him to refine it before he could wield a portion of the Samsara Emperor Seal’s power.

However, with just a wave of his hand, Chu Kuangren had made the Samsara Emperor Seal abandon its master, the Chen Clan Leader.

The Chen Clan Leader was about to have a mental breakdown.

“Why? Why have things turned out this way?”

“What can he possibly offer as a True Immortal that I, a Gilded Immortal, can’t! How could you choose him in the end?”

The Chen Clan Leader’s eyes were red with rage as he was reluctant to accept his reality.

When Chu Kuangren held the newly arrived Samsara Emperor Seal, a burst of Immortal Sparks radiated from his body. He could wield the Samsara Emperor Seal without even needing to refine it!

“Because I’m the true Ghost Emperor! And you are nothing but a scum of the Demonic Dao!” Chu Kuangren said indifferently.

Upon saying that, his samsara energy circulated in the air, activating the Heavenly Samsara Physique’s second divine ability, Divine Samsara Overworld!

Six surges of samsara energy filled the whole area to form countless Daoist patterns!

A force field made out of samsara energy appeared!

When he sensed the powerful samsara energy around him, the Chen Clan Leader’s expression darkened. “This divine ability… You have the Heavenly Samsara Physique!”

He finally understood why the Samsara Emperor Seal would choose Chu Kuangren over him.

The Heavenly Samsara Physique was said to be the most suitable Immortal Physique in the universe to wield the Samsara Emperor Seal!

“So what if you have the Samsara Emperor Seal? So what if you have the Heavenly Samsara Physique? You’re still a True Immortal at the end of the day. How can you possibly kill me!”

The Gilded Immortal energy in Chen Clan Leader’s body surged to resist the corrosive effects of the samsara energy around him.

‘As expected of a Gilded Immortal…’

‘I can easily kill a Third-grade True Immortal with my Divine Samsara Overworld, but I guess there’s quite a difference when it comes to a Gilded Immortal,’ Chu Kuangren thought.

However, it did not mean he had run out of ideas.

With a thought from his mind, a samsara vortex opened in the void, followed by an incredibly powerful aura emanating from within.

Even Ao Yue could not help but narrow his gaze upon sensing that aura. “This aura… Can it be…”

A black figure walked out from the vortex.

Dressed in a long black robe and armed with a black sickle, the figure was the Underworld General, and his cultivation level had reached the Gilded Immortal Realm!

“Greetings, Ghost Emperor!”

The Gilded Immortal Underworld General knelt before Chu Kuangren with immense respect.

“End him,” said Chu Kuangren apathetically as he pointed at the Chen Clan Leader.

“Understood.” The Underworld General nodded.

“Oh no!”

The Chen Clan Leader’s eyelid twitched. Suddenly, he did not dare to linger any longer and immediately fled into the distance.

To everyone’s surprise, he had abandoned the whole Chen clan and escaped!

‘He’s just too terrifying!’

To think someone could summon a Gilded Immortal Underworld General at will, he finally understood why those Demonic Dao sky-prides would fear Chu Kuangren that much.

‘This is just too crazy!’

All the Chen Clan Leader wanted now was to stay as far away from Chu Kuangren as he could!

However, he was one step too late.

A ghastly figure soon appeared before the Chen Clan Leader and unleashed a slash with his sickle. Then, a streak of black light shot across the void.

The Chen Clan Leader channeled all his power in an attempt to block that attack. Alas, the sickle continued moving forth until it sliced him into half!

It was an undeniable fact that the Chen Clan Leader was a Gilded Immortal.

However, he was just a normal First-Grade Gilded Immortal, while the Underworld General that Chu Kuangren summoned was a top-tiered Ninth-grade Gilded Immortal!

The difference in strength between them was worlds apart!