"Could that kid already be dead? Not a trace of aura." In the sky, the weakest of the three men, a middle-aged man, couldn’t help but speak.

Of the three, aside from Di Heng, the other two were an elder and a steward, and the one speaking was the Third Steward.

The Third Steward, Di Hui, didn’t have much talent for martial cultivation, but had a fortunate encounter when he was young, which led to future development. Now, he was a Human Lord, a steward with actual power.

Of course, Di Hui was far inferior compared to Di Heng beside him and the old man with white hair.

Di Heng needs no introduction; he’s the strongest successor and the most likely candidate for the future head of the Di Family, with his realm reaching the peak of the second level of the Human Lord Realm. His combat power is truly terrifying. Compared to Di Heng, Di Hui is nothing.

And the other old man was an elder, none other than the lofty Fourth Elder. The old man, named Di Xi, was in the fourth level of the Human Lord Realm. Typically very low-key, more so than the Great Elder and Second Elder, yet his realm was undeniable!

"I don’t think so. I have a premonition," Di Heng spoke, indifferently.

Di Hui was about to retort that premonitions aren’t reliable, but dared not to.

It was precisely at this moment.

"Damn it!!! We’re under attack!" Fourth Elder Di Xi suddenly shouted, his elderly body seemingly filled with Blood Qi and Life Aura. Di Xi exuded a massive pressure, and in his hand appeared a massive, three-meter-long brown Heavy Saber, Semi-Emperor Level.

Di Xi indeed lived up to being an elder, up to the peak of the fourth level of the Human Lord Realm; his strength and perception were certainly excellent.

Su Chen secretly admired.

Initially, he had targeted Di Heng and the others from below, planning to deal with one person first, whereas Di Xi, at the fourth level of the Human Lord Realm, was the strongest of the three, perhaps even stronger than Di Heng, so he decided to deal with this Fourth Elder first.

Hence, from below, he swung a sword directly.

Yet it was not a simple sword strike.

A sword strike backed by more than 1.8 trillion Dragon’s Force, accompanied by Six Segment Peak Sword Rhyme, Nine Great Dao Rules, Chaos Current, Divine Demon Ghost Fire, and Chaotic Divine Thunder.

In any case, this strike was absolutely formidable.

According to Su Chen’s estimation, it should have no problem instantly killing someone at the third or fourth level of the Human Lord Realm.

"Unfortunately, the opponent’s perception is too terrifying," Su Chen felt regret, as, with the speed of this strike, if only the Fourth Elder’s perception faltered slightly, the Sword Light would have penetrated his body directly, piercing his heart.

"I underestimated the strength of the fourth level of the Human Lord Realm," Su Chen reflected, becoming more earnest.

"Nine Lives Blade!!!" At the same time, Fourth Elder Di Xi’s body suddenly halted, his Heavy Saber roaring and shaking. The blade’s radiance was blinding, and expansive Mysterious Qi surged into the Heavy Saber like a tsunami, with spiritual sound akin to Divine Thunder resting upon the blade.

Di Xi, with his aged, skeletal wrist, executed a complex movement, unleashing a vast Sword Formula.

Hum...

All around, the space trembled, even the Primeval River Storm stalled briefly.

Then, the Heavy Saber transformed into a sizzling, thin blade line at an extremely fast speed, as if teleporting, appearing brown, it pierced through the Primeval River Storm, slicing towards below!

Just after that slice...

Ding!

The sound of piercing echoed.

The surrounding firm, intense Primeval River Storm not only stalled but shattered.

In a short time, a small vacuum-like Chaos and Nothingness space formed.

The Sword Light and Blade Light had already clashed.

"What?" Di Xi’s expression changed again; he clearly detected that his full-force strike was actually in a weaker position against the opponent’s surprise attack.

And in the moment of Di Xi’s shock.

"Ka!!"

Di Xi’s Heavy Saber Blade Light shattered instantly. The opponent’s Sword Light was still advancing upward. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

How could this be?

The Fourth Elder was incredibly shocked; to suppress and shatter his Blade Light so easily, the opponent’s strength was superior, exceedingly strong! The entire Di Family could barely find a Martial Cultivator of this level!

However.

The Fourth Elder wasn’t particularly panicked, having experienced countless life-and-death battles over the millions of years, he had acquired immense combat experience.

In this moment of life and death, his soul bracelet’s eyes became translucent, tightly locking onto the already incoming Sword Light, and within the extreme limit of time, he discerned the attack direction, position, and route of the Sword Light.

Then, Di Xi stood on the void chaos, within him surged an immense Mysterious Qi, resounding throughout his limbs and bones.

With thunderous sounds in his limbs and bones,

Di Xi skillfully executed "Di Shadow Body," a top-level movement technique of the Di Family, a technique he had cultivated from youth, through which he had saved himself countless times.

Once the technique was executed, his elderly body seemed to revert to his youth, his most peak moment.

The speed was too fast, and the maneuvering form was too strange.

Silently, as if he was invisible, he maneuvered.

Indeed!

In the blink of an eye, Su Chen’s Sword Light, which had shattered the Heavy Saber Blade Light, was evaded by Di Xi.

Di Xi was slightly relieved, about to exhale.

Yet suddenly, he felt his heart tremble, a rich sense of impending death engulfed him, his whole being felt as if fallen into an icy abyss, cold, extremely cold, piercing the heart and marrow.

And at that moment.

"Pff..." The Sword Light pierced through Di Xi’s chest.

"The movement technique is decent, but alas, it cannot evade the capture of my Divine Soul," Su Chen muttered to himself, his heart silent.

Indeed, the surprise attack with his sword was obstructed by Di Xi’s Heavy Saber Blade Light by eighty percent, coupled with Di Xi’s strange movement technique, evading the remaining twenty percent. This sword hadn’t fulfilled its mission, it hadn’t claimed Di Xi’s life.

But where there’s one sword, there can be a second, right?

Subsequently, Su Chen executed another sword strike.

Nothing more was needed.

Moreover, the Sword Light from this second strike clearly locked onto Di Xi; no matter how strange Di Xi’s movement technique was, under Su Chen’s formidable Divine Soul, it held no effect.

Di Xi overestimated his movement technique and underestimated Su Chen’s Divine Soul.

Di Xi’s chest, after being penetrated, rapidly shattered into Shattered Void, his Divine Soul similarly crushed into Shattered Void.

From Su Chen’s surprise sword attack to the second sword strike that killed Di Xi.

In total, two sword strikes.

Though it appeared some time delays occurred between them, in fact, the entire process didn’t even take a tenth of a breath, and in this extremely brief moment, Di Xi was already dead!