Chapter 1971 - 1956: Are You Here to Joke Around?

Shi Feng looked down from above at the hundred Supreme powerhouses below, that trace of disdainful, icy smile still on his face. For a moment, he did not speak.

And as he did not speak, not a single person below made a sound either; they only stared at him, and the atmosphere between heaven and earth grew stifling and oppressive.

Within Gue Mountain, many people even already felt that they could hardly breathe.

After a while, a gust of Qingfeng blew over. Shi Feng's long black hair drifted slightly in the wind as he spoke:

"You people do have some guts, daring to gather here at this Gue Mountain to fight to the death against I, the Demon Lord. To be honest, I do rather admire you lot who aren't afraid of dying."

As Shi Feng's voice fell, Gue Mountain still remained utterly silent.

Seeing no one speak again, Shi Feng opened his mouth once more and said, "Hm? Why is everyone suddenly silent? Don't tell me that Supreme Killing Array you used against I, the Demon Lord, demanded the price of turning you all into mutes?"

"Nine Nether Demon Lord, say it—what exactly do you want?" At this moment, a mighty, resounding voice echoed atop the peak of Gue Mountain.

The speaker was an old man with hair white as snow, stern and solemn in countenance, clad in a golden battle robe. He was precisely Gue Mountain Saint Master, Gu Ze!

Hearing that old man's words, Shi Feng's expression shifted slightly, taking on a trace of amused interest as he looked toward him and asked, "Old man, who are you?"

Gu Ze spoke, saying, "Gue Mountain Saint Master, Gu Ze!"

"Oh!" When he heard Gu Ze's introduction, Shi Feng's face changed at once, the smile on his lips growing even stronger as he said, "So you are the Saint Master of this Gue Mountain! You ask what I want? Heh!"

A cold chuckle reverberated through the mountains, reverberated through heaven and earth.

Though it was laughter, everyone who heard this laugh felt a sudden sense of foreboding in their hearts; even Gue Mountain Saint Master Gu Ze's brows gradually furrowed.

Then, everyone heard that young voice ring out once again:

"Your Gue Mountain raised such a cheap slut like Gu Yan as your Holy Maiden. That slut tried to plot against I, the Demon Lord—she deserved death from the start. I killing her is only right and proper, a law of heaven and earth!

Yet you, Gue Mountain, actually dared to send people to hunt I, the Demon Lord, committing such a great act of treason and rebellion—and now you come asking what I want?"

As Shi Feng spoke these words, countless people had already heard that this Fierce Demon's voice was growing colder and colder.

"I, Gu…"

And just as Gue Mountain Saint Master Gu Ze uttered the two words "I, Gu," Shi Feng's right index finger suddenly pointed downward, and a surge of Extreme Yin Power descended!

Immediately after, with a sharp "pa" sound, the many powerhouses atop the peak saw Gu Ze's body abruptly explode apart, bright red blood, shredded flesh, shattered bones, and various other remains splattering madly in all directions.

Thus fell Gu Ze, Saint Master of a generation of Gue Mountain!

"Dead!"

"Gu Ze is dead!"

"Gu Ze just died like that!"

"Saint Master!"

"Brother Gu!"

...

Seeing Gu Ze suddenly annihilated, one powerhouse after another was violently shocked.

This was, after all, Gue Mountain Saint Master, lord over the entire Ancient Boundary Domain, a being who held dominion over countless billions of Living Beings—yet he just died like that!

A Saint Master of a generation actually died so suddenly, died so easily!

And before Gu Ze died, he'd only said the two words "I, Gu." As for what he truly wanted to say, that will forever remain a mystery.

Did he intend to argue with that Fierce Demon? Or was he going to beg for mercy?

Seeing that Fierce Demon kill at the slightest disagreement, utterly disregarding the other party's status, every single person no longer dared to even breathe loudly.

This Fierce Demon was simply too savage!

With Gu Ze's death, his Power of Death, blood, and Soul surged toward that Fierce Demon in the sky and were very quickly absorbed by Shi Feng into the Blood Stone Stele.

At this moment, as Shi Feng saw the people below fall silent once more, his eyes swept over the crowd atop the mountain peak again. Then his gaze locked onto a mighty figure—Hanl Family Patriarch, Hanl Wei!

On the peak of Gue Mountain, when Hanl Wei felt that man's eyes fixed upon him, his body and mind trembled at the same instant, and the scene of Gu Ze's miserable death replayed in his mind.

"Nine Nether Demon Lord!" Hanl Wei shouted these four words toward the Void. But it could be heard that his tone at this moment carried a reverent respect; it seemed Hanl Wei had already been frightened by this one.

"Hanl Family Patriarch, Hanl Wei." Shi Feng spoke this title with a smile.

"It is indeed I." Hanl Wei replied respectfully.

Shi Feng sneered coldly and said, "That day at the Ice Snow Wilderness, it was that waste of a grandson of yours who took the initiative to provoke I, the Demon Lord. I killing him was only what he deserved; and such trash—dead is dead. Yet you, old thing, entered the Ice Snow Wilderness wanting to kill I, the Demon Lord, to avenge that waste of a grandson!"

Hearing that Fierce Demon's words, hearing his tone gradually grow cold again, Hanl Wei hurriedly spoke, saying, "It was that little beast who was blind and ignorant, and it was I who was muddle-headed. I beg the Nine Nether Demon Lord's forgiveness!"

Hanl Wei truly regretted it—regretted accepting their invitation, regretted participating in this battle against that Supreme Evil Demon.

After the deeds Nine Nether Demon Lord Shi Feng committed in the Sinister Abyss swept across the world and spread to the Hanl Family, into Hanl Wei's ears, in those days Hanl Wei lived in constant fear and terror, without a single good night's sleep.

Though Hanl Wei was a Supreme powerhouse of the Nine-star Demigod Realm, he was, in truth, born timid.

He feared that Nine Nether Demon Lord might come knocking. Even the Sinister Three Elder Demons and the Top Ten Demon Generals, leading millions of Martial Artists of the Sinister Abyss, had been defeated—let alone him, Hanl Wei, or his Hanl Family.

At that time, Hanl Wei as Family Head had even secretly slipped out of the Hanl Family, finding a mysterious, hidden place to hide.

If not for those fellows contacting him in secret days ago, saying that if the Six Great Forces joined together to set up a Supreme Killing Array, they had absolute confidence in slaying that Mad Demon—

Hanl Wei would never have come out of that secret place!

Now, what bullshit "absolute confidence" was that! The Supreme Killing Array laid jointly by tens of thousands of carefully selected Martial Artists from the Six Great Forces couldn't even touch that Mad Demon in the slightest, couldn't withstand him for ten breaths, and was effortlessly broken by him!

Hanl Wei had never imagined that the Mad Demon they had once jointly hunted through the Desert Ancient Forbidden Land would have mutated to such an extent!

Truly, life is unpredictable!

Scenes of the past flashed incessantly through Hanl Wei's mind in an instant.

"Forgiveness?" Hearing Hanl Wei's plea for mercy, Shi Feng seemed to have heard the greatest joke under heaven. He snorted a laugh and said:

"You, Old Man Han, have tried more than once to put I, the Demon Lord, to death. Of all the people present, I'd wager the one who most wants I, the Demon Lord, dead is you, Old Man Han, right? And now you actually have the face to ask I, the Demon Lord, for forgiveness?

Old Man Han, are you here to be funny?"