The sword thrust pierced not only the Divine Mother, but sent tremors through all eight Heavenly Rivers.
Regardless of what world one was in, regardless of one's cultivation, all felt a destructive aura suddenly descend upon heaven and earth.
However, this aura did not persist for long — it lasted but a single instant.
After the black great sword pierced through the Divine Mother, her body dissipated, and the black great sword was withdrawn.
But every single person who had been observing the Pingyuan Upper Realm wore a deathly pale expression.
The black great sword contained power even more terrifying than that golden phantom.
They noticed that inscribed upon the massive blade were two characters — Asura!!!
"As Asura... also an ancient power?"
"Then... are the ancient races fighting amongst themselves?"
"Something even more fearsome than the Divine Clan — the ancient races."
The elders of the Seven Realms Holy Temple all arrived at this speculation.
Despite being Spirit World Masters, not a single one of them associated this terrifying power with the Asura Spirit World.
How could a Spirit Possession possibly possess such power?
...
At that moment, deep within the Pingyuan World's subterranean realm.
Every member of the Xianhai Fish Clan was gazing at Chu Feng.
Chu Feng's body was no longer pure crimson lightning, because half of it was now wreathed in black flame.
Half lightning, half black fire — he looked like a god of war and demon combined.
And that black flame emanated from the black sword gripped in Chu Feng's hand.
Being here in person, they could feel the terrifying power contained within that black sword far more clearly.
Though the sword had now retracted its aura, the sensation from that single instant was something they would never forget for as long as they lived.
Chu Feng, gripping the Asura Sword, walked up to Shen Yi. He reached out, seized Shen Yi's head in his palm, and lifted the prostrate figure off the ground.
Shen Yi's body was now emaciated, like a deathly ill man on the verge of dying. His eyes had lost all their former sharpness, replaced by nothing but despair.
"Chu... Chu Feng."
He was so weak that even speaking had become laborious. But the words that followed made everyone present feel a bitter irony.
"Spare me... I... I'll apologize to the Xianhai Fish Clan. I... I'll serve you as a beast of burden from now on. I beg you, spare my life."
He no longer called himself a god. He was begging for mercy.
But earlier, it was precisely because his clansmen had begged Chu Feng for mercy that he had devoured them.
And in the end, he was no different.
Chu Feng regarded the wretched Shen Yi with a mocking expression. "God?"
With that, Chu Feng's palm tightened slightly, and a strange yet immensely powerful force surged from his palm into Shen Yi's body.
Shen Yi's face twisted in agony, his body trembling violently. Then, his mouth wrenched open, and the man who moments ago could barely muster the breath to speak let out an absolutely ear-piercing scream.
"Ahhhhh!!!"
The force rampaged through his insides like a churning sea — a pain Shen Yi had never experienced since the day he was born, far worse than having his body cleaved apart.
Chu Feng had expected that Shen Yi would be unable to endure the suffering and would beg for death.
Shen Yi looked at Chu Feng once more. Though his eyes truly did plead, he did not ask Chu Feng to kill him. Instead...
"Chu Feng, spare me."
He was still begging for mercy.
He still craved to live.
Chu Feng said nothing. His palm clenched shut, and with a soft pop, Shen Yi utterly dissipated.
But after killing Shen Yi, Chu Feng himself collapsed to the ground with a thud. The Asura Sword slipped from his grasp, and the lightning wings behind his back vanished in an instant.
If the Chu Feng of moments past had been an overwhelming god of lightning, then the Chu Feng of now resembled a frail, dying man. The lightning still lingered on his body, but only in the form of an ordinary person's — its glow dim beyond measure, threatening to dissipate at any moment.
"Big Brother!!!"
At the sight, Little Fishy immediately rushed to Chu Feng's side, reaching for his hand to check his condition — only to find that her hand passed straight through his body.
Chu Feng was no longer corporeal.
"Chu Feng!!!"
At that moment, Xianhai Shaoyu and all the members of the Xianhai Fish Clan landed beside Chu Feng. Every one of them gazed at him with profound worry.