Chapter 280: Chapter 278: In the Name of the Moon, I’ll Punish You

Jiang Chen unleashed a relentless flurry of punches.

His entire arm blurred into a dazzling flurry of phantoms, sending a stream of afterimages crashing down.

Each punch carried devastating force!

Xin Yuhuang’s expression was cold. A silver, spherical barrier enveloped him, like a full moon shielding him from harm.

His Moonlight Divine Fist was an Earth-Tier High-Level Martial Skill.

With every punch he threw, a silver crescent moon seemed to slash through the air toward his target.

BOOM! RUMBLE—

Their battle raged from the heavens to the earth, burrowed deep underground, and then erupted back into the sky.

Each exchange was fleeting; they would clash for a moment before instantly pulling away.

"Iron Painting Silver Hooks!"

Xin Yuhuang roared, his sharp brows twitching. He swept his long, fair arm through the air, his palm grasping at the void.

BOOM!

The void trembled violently. A weapon, the Iron Painting Silver Hook, materialized in his palm, and he swung it at Jiang Chen. Gleaming with a grim, cold light, the incomparably sharp weapon descended with ferocious momentum. It caught Jiang Chen off guard and hacked into his shoulder.

DING!

A crisp, metallic clang rang out.

The robe on Jiang Chen’s shoulder was shredded, but his skin beneath was completely unscathed, bearing only a small white mark.

"How is that possible?" Xin Yuhuang stared in disbelief.

His Iron Painting Silver Hook was a genuine High-grade Earth Tier Profound Weapon. Before it, even the most tempered steel was as fragile as tofu.

’Jiang Chen took a direct hit to his body, and it didn’t even break the skin?’

Jiang Chen grimaced. Although the blow hadn’t broken his defense, a fiery, stinging pain radiated from the point of impact. He looked at Xin Yuhuang. "Nice weapon, but your strength is pathetic. You hit like a girl. Was that supposed to be a scratch for an itch?"

"You..."

Xin Yuhuang’s face went pale with rage.

’A girl?’

’He was a mighty expert at the Peak of the Heavenly Destiny Realm Eighth Stage, and this guy was calling him a girl?’

"Your sharp tongue won’t save you! I’ll show you just how terrifying the consequences of angering me can be!" A cold glint flashed in Xin Yuhuang’s eyes, and the silver, moon-like radiance around his body suddenly shattered.

Shards of pure white energy scattered like the fragments of a broken eggshell.

They whirled around his body for a moment.

Then, piece by piece, they flew toward Xin Yuhuang. With an incessant CLANGING, the white fragments attached themselves to his body, assembling into a suit of battle armor!

The white battle armor emanated a holy light, pure and flawless!

Xin Yuhuang was completely encased in the white battle armor. In one hand, he held the Iron Painting Silver Hook; in the other, a Crescent Moon Saber had appeared.

"I am the Moon God’s mortal representative, Jiang Chen. To offend me is to blaspheme the Moon God herself. In the name of the Moon God, I hereby sentence you to death!" A holy white light ebbed and flowed around Xin Yuhuang, making him resemble a lofty lunar deity looking down upon all of creation.

At this moment, his pitch-black eyes transformed into orbs of cold, white light.

It was as if his eyes held nothing.

Nothing but cold, killing intent!

"Moon God’s Light!"

Xin Yuhuang crossed his arms over his chest, bringing the Iron Painting Silver Hook in his right hand and the Crescent Moon Saber in his left together.

As the blades of the two Profound Weapons clashed, they erupted with blinding beams of silver light.

Infused with the power of the two High-grade Earth Tier Profound Weapons, the silver beams shot toward Jiang Chen like a torrential downpour.

The downpour of silver Moon God’s Light coalesced into focused beams.

Jiang Chen threw two consecutive palm strikes, but they were effortlessly dispersed. His figure flashed as he dodged away. The instant he moved, the swarm of Moon God’s Light descended upon his former position, and a series of thunderous explosions rang out. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ground trembled, and dust filled the air.

When the dust settled.

A massive crater, more than ten meters deep and over a hundred meters wide, had appeared where Jiang Chen had been standing.

"Azure Dragon Emerges from the Sea!"

By this time, Jiang Chen had already rushed to Xin Yuhuang’s left. He threw a punch, and the phantom of a True Dragon shot forth.

"A mere parlor trick!"

Xin Yuhuang sneered in disdain as silver light pulsed around him. "Moon God Guardian!"

HUMMM—

Without any visible movement from Xin Yuhuang, or even the slightest ripple of energy, a silver Light Shield materialized out of thin air to his left. The Azure Dragon slammed into the shield, its body shuddering on impact. Then, the Azure Dragon’s maw gaped open, and a phantom fist shot out from within.

BOOM!

The silver Light Shield instantly shattered, but Xin Yuhuang had already used the moment to retreat several hundred meters.

Bathed in silver moonlight, Xin Yuhuang’s face was cold and impassive. ’Such speed... But let’s see if you can withstand this next attack.’ His eyes flashed with cold killing intent. "Moon God’s Bow!"

Enveloped in a sheath of silver light,

the Crescent Moon Saber elongated, transforming into a greatbow, while the Iron Painting Silver Hook reshaped itself into an arrow.

He drew the bow and nocked the arrow.

TWANG—

The silver arrow shot through the air.

Young Master Silver Moon was truly worthy of his title as the Moon God’s mortal representative. His attacks condensed an unparalleled lunar essence—bright, holy, and peerlessly sharp.

The silver arrow rocketed toward Jiang Chen at an astonishing speed.

"Clear Wind Embracing the Moon!"

Jiang Chen threw a punch that made the arrow shudder but failed to halt its momentum. Instantly, with a thought, the Dustfall Sword appeared in his hand. He executed a Sword Technique as fluidly as moving clouds and flowing water.

Clear wind...

Crescent moon...

It was as if this sword strike had plucked the silver moon’s reflection from the water and flicked it into the air.

VMM!

An unparalleled beam of sword light collided with the silver arrow.

The silver arrow was knocked off course, grazing past Jiang Chen’s shoulder and burying itself in a hundred-meter-tall, ancient tree behind him.

The silver light vanished into the trunk.

After a moment of silence.

The hundred-meter-tall tree suddenly began to swell. Beams of white light burst from its trunk, and with a tremendous BOOM, the entire tree was blasted into splinters, utterly annihilated.

"You can dodge one arrow, but can you dodge ten? A hundred?" Xin Yuhuang sneered.

TWANG! TWANG! TWANG!

He loosed one silver arrow after another.

One.

Two.

Three...

A full hundred silver arrows tore through the air.

Each silver arrow carried destructive power, each one a killing blow intended to end Jiang Chen’s life.

Faced with a volley of silver arrows that blotted out the sky, Jiang Chen’s gaze grew even colder. His figure flickered as he activated the Shadow Body Technique, splitting into ten versions of himself that charged the incoming arrows. The Dustfall Sword in their hands unleashed one terrifying Sword Skill after another.

"Blood Rain Without Limits!"

"Great Sun Without Limits!"

"Galaxy Nine Heavens!"

Beams of Sword Qi shot to the heavens, destroying the sky-blotting volley of silver arrows.

The air filled with an unending rumble.

The silver arrows were ferocious, destroying seven of Jiang Chen’s clones before the final three suddenly merged into one.

He grasped the Dustfall Sword with both hands and slashed.

SWOOSH—

A hundred-zhang Sword Aura tore through the air, shattering the curtain of arrows before him. Jiang Chen hovered in the sky, his gaze icy and filled with grim killing intent as it fell upon Xin Yuhuang. "A grown-ass man who can’t stop talking about representing the Moon God, even calling yourself her representative? Fuck’s sake, you love the Moon God that much, huh? Fine! Then in the name of the moon, I’ll punish you!"

"Xin Yuhuang, taste my blade—"

Jiang Chen’s figure suddenly vanished. When he reappeared, he was already in front of Xin Yuhuang. With a furious roar, he swept his longsword through the air. "Endless Universe!"

VMM!

A Sword Qi Cage materialized from the void, trapping Xin Yuhuang inside as endless blades of Sword Qi crisscrossed within it.

"No—"

Xin Yuhuang shrieked. Under the onslaught of endless Sword Qi, his body exploded with a BOOM, leaving not even a complete corpse behind.

"Damn it, Young Master Silver Moon is dead! Run!"

"How is Jiang Chen so strong? Not even Young Master Silver Moon was his match! Let’s go!"

The Celestial Alliance experts scattered, fleeing in a panic.

Jiang Chen’s gaze was stern. ’You think you can escape?’

He activated the Shadow Body Technique, and ten versions of himself transformed into ten demonic Asuras. Wielding the Dustfall Sword, they cut down the Celestial Alliance experts one by one, turning them into cold corpses that stained the Celestial Fate Ancient Realm with blood.

A short while later...

The roughly two hundred surviving Celestial Alliance experts had all been slain.

The corner of Jiang Chen’s mouth curled into a cold smile. Just as he was about to start cleaning up the battlefield, his expression froze. He saw ripples pulsing through the void as a spatial passage opened, and a graceful female figure stumbled out.

His gaze swept over her, and his expression changed. ’Crap, she’s not with the Celestial Alliance!’

He flashed forward, grabbing the woman’s body just before she could be impaled on a set of iron spikes below. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

He held her entire body in his arms.

As they landed safely, Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief for having saved her. Just then, he felt a soft, warm sensation in his palm. He gave it a subconscious squeeze, and a delicate gasp sounded by his ear. Jiang Chen froze as if struck by lightning, his mind going completely blank...