After waiting a few seconds, Su Ming chuckled lightly.
"As expected, opening it here was the best choice."
He withdrew his gaze from the sky, having glanced at the Abyssal channel entrance in mid-air during that time.
"Not in a hurry."
The Abyssal channel was already here. Moreover, because it involved the Abyss, after the Shura God solidified the channel, the God Realm Committee also intervened, preventing the Shura God from having complete control.
Of course, since it was his territory, and the channel's opening had sacrificed all the fallen ones in Slaughter City at that time, the Shura God had suffered significant indirect losses. Though the God of Destruction and others had intervened, apart from occasionally inspecting the channel, they didn't interfere with its management at other times.
Now, the channel wasn't something the Shura God could destroy on a whim.
In contrast, Tang San was the one who might run away at any moment.
Thinking this, Su Ming's gaze turned cold and stern. He stepped into the city, his Qi and Blood impacting his surroundings, killing all the fallen ones he saw along the way.
Fallen ones, all killable.
Even Blood Spring, whom Su Ming had helped a hundred years ago, only considered himself lawful.
Blood Spring didn't regard ordinary people as human beings.
Ordinary people without Spirit Power, without power or influence—killing them caused no loss to the Spirit Master world.
Thus, in Blood Spring's philosophy, he was still lawful.
Even such "lawfulness" wasn't based on morality but rather his fear of the blood toxin.
It wasn't that he didn't want to use his Blood Spring's devouring ability to cultivate or that he hadn't used it before. He simply feared excessive blood toxin accumulation, preventing him from slaughtering villages and cities indiscriminately like the Evil Spirit Masters who ran rampant in Douluo 2 and 3.
Su Ming's target wasn't to massacre the fallen ones here. His spiritual power spread out overwhelmingly in all directions, engulfing the surroundings like a raging tidal wave, submerging the entire Slaughter City.
After probing with his spiritual power, Su Ming located Tang San.
Suddenly, Su Ming raised an eyebrow and glanced at the sky again.
He sensed the Shura God's killing intent.
However, this time, the Shura God didn't gather sword energy.
He seemed to have been blocked.
Su Ming sneered coldly.
He transformed into a streak of bloody light, charging directly towards Slaughter City's inner city.
Within the inner city, Tang San felt an impending crisis, his heart palpitating. He sharply turned his head and saw Su Ming charging towards him, making his eyelids twitch.
Having stayed in Slaughter City for so long, his strength had naturally improved.
However, facing Su Ming, he was still powerless.
While soaring through the air, Su Ming directly reached out. Qi and Blood condensed into a claw shape, grabbing towards Tang San from a distance.
Tang San's eyes turned deep purple, bloodshot from intense emotion.
He summoned the Clear Sky Hammer, swinging it with all his might.
"Su Ming!"
He was also shocked and furious in his heart.
What a shameless villain!
He had secretly targeted him before, and now, coming to Slaughter City, he directly attacked with his higher cultivation.
Utterly shameless!
Who knows what Su Ming would feel if he knew Tang San's thoughts.
The massive Qi and Blood hand directly grabbed down.
Tang San had no chance to resist whatsoever.
He felt his Clear Sky Hammer instantly melting upon contact with the Qi and Blood hand.
The Qi and Blood was like a furnace. Merely touching his Clear Sky Hammer seemed to melt it. The terrifying force was also something he couldn't withstand. The Clear Sky Hammer was knocked aside, and then he was caught in the hand's palm.
Su Ming uttered no extra words, directly crushing Tang San to death.
Under Tang San's despairing gaze, Su Ming's eyes were cold, devoid of any mercy.
Bang!
The Qi and Blood hand clenched tightly. Tang San instantly exploded into a mist of blood.
Simultaneously as the hand clenched, a terrifying pressure permeated Slaughter City.
The Shura God was enraged.
At this moment, the God of Destruction and others in the God Realm were also greatly alarmed.
"A bunch of fools! If Tang San dies today, I, Shura, will definitely kill you all! Whether the God Realm is strong or not has nothing to do with me! My losses will be reclaimed from the God Realm itself! Destruction, you'd better be able to bear the consequences!"
For the good of the God Realm?
If his future was truly severed, he wouldn't mind destroying the entire God Realm.
The Shura God's threatening words caused even the God of Destruction to hesitate.
He couldn't discern what use Tang San was to the Shura God.
But the Shura God's tone was extremely severe.
Such a serious threat was something the God of Destruction had never heard from him before.
The Shura God had always maintained an image of a reasonable, amiable person, not seeking the limelight, just a stern, strict law enforcer who didn't form factions or vie for power.
If not for Su Ming's conflict with the Shura God, the God of Destruction wouldn't have witnessed the Shura God's rage, his relentless pursuit to exterminate a lower-plane cultivator, his multiple violations of God Realm order, and now even threatening to attack the God Realm itself.
The Shura God truly could cause irreversible damage to the God Realm.
The God of Destruction had a headache, momentarily intimidated.
It was also while the Shura God issued threats to intimidate the gods that he swiftly acted in the lower plane.
For some reason unknown to Su Ming, the God of Destruction and others failed to stop the Shura God.
Shura sword energy descended, directly slashing towards Su Ming.
Su Ming did not dodge.
The angle of this Shura sword energy was cunning. If Su Ming wanted the Abyssal channel, he had to personally bear this strike.
The Shura God had also realized that even while altering history, Su Ming needed to cultivate to at least Divine King level. The Abyssal channel was for entering Slaughter City to kill Tang San and also for Su Ming's own cultivation.
In that case, destroy it.
Su Ming's expression turned ugly.
"Plane's Power!"
He mobilized the Plane's Power to augment himself, pieces of Battle Armor appearing on his body.
With level 77 Spirit Power and top-tier Second-Word Battle Armor, his Spirit Power was instantly pushed into the Super Douluo realm.
Gold-level Second Awakening.
Trinity!
With just Su Ming's own amplification methods, he possessed Limit Douluo combat strength, let alone being augmented by the Plane's Power. He wasn't afraid in the slightest.
Behind him, Qi and Blood soared into the sky, overturning the entire Slaughter City.
He threw a punch, Laws swirling around him, Qi and Blood condensing into substance, bravely meeting the Shura sword energy.
Boom!
This time, Su Ming wasn't forced to resurrect.
He withstood the Shura sword energy.
Across the dimensional barrier, the sword energy the Shura God could hastily condensed had limited power.
But the fact that Su Ming could withstand this strike still greatly shocked the deities in the God Realm observing this.
At this moment, Su Ming's entire body was wreathed in killing intent, his eyes bloodshot as if eroded by endless murderous aura.
The Qi and Blood around his body had also scattered, permeated with countless strands of pure killing intent.
Clearly, even having withstood the strike, he was severely wounded.
He turned, not towards the Abyssal channel, but towards the Hell Road.
That was the core of Slaughter City.
He reached out his hand.
"You dare!"
The Shura God's furious roar actually resonated above Slaughter City.
Ignoring it, Su Ming continued to reach out.
From within the Hell Road, he pulled out Tang San's soul, which the Shura God was attempting to retrieve.
The Shura God was shocked and enraged.
Su Ming could actually detect Tang San's soul.
How was that possible?
Su Ming clenched Tang San's soul. A ball of white flame instantly appeared in his hand, engulfing Tang San's soul.
"Ah!"
Amidst a scream, Tang San's soul also completely vanished.
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