Chapter 650 - 177: Bright Heart Realm? One Punch Each, Killed Bare-handed

While their bodies were still arcing through the air, they watched in terror— The three women from the Moon Worship Sect, diving down, swung their longswords in unison. Their movements were perfectly synchronized! "SHIIING—!" The ringing of swords shook the heavens, their sharp whistle piercing the air. Three dazzling, silver-white streams of Sword Qi, each tens of feet long, carried a terrifying, world-destroying might. Like three inverted silver rivers of stars, they wove into an inescapable net of death, slashing viciously down toward Chu Fan’s position! ’It’s over...’ The same desperate thought surfaced in the minds of Tang Tinghua and Yun Bufan, who were still airborne. A furious, combined strike from three Bright Heart Realm experts—with such terrifying power, probably not even many of the battle-hardened, veteran Demon Suppression Captains in the Demon Suppression Bureau could have taken it head-on! Today, Chu Fan was sure to die! However—just at the instant those three streams of Sword Qi, powerful enough to sunder mountains and obliterate anything in their path, were about to fall on Chu Fan’s head. "WHOOSH!" There was no earth-shattering collision of energy, no roar of a desperate, last-ditch struggle. Chu Fan, who was right there in the open, vanished into thin air without a sound, like a drop of water merging into the ocean! 「The next instant.」 Before his residual image had even completely faded, he reappeared like a phantom behind the Bright Heart Realm woman to the south, who had not yet landed! "Not good!" The masked woman, who had been standing on the large boulder to oversee the battle and who had previously escaped from Xiao Ziye in the Burial Demon Marsh, cried out in alarm as her pupils suddenly contracted. But her warning came a step too late... The woman from the Moon Worship Sect to the south felt a chill on the back of her neck as a bone-deep, deathly cold shot through her body, causing all her hair to stand on end. Alarm bells screamed in her heart. She tried to swing her sword back to defend herself from the ambush, but it was too late. Chu Fan’s expression was blank, his gaze as indifferent as ice. He clenched his right hand into a fist. There were no flashy moves, just a brutally simple and unadorned punch thrown straight forward. Yet this punch was supremely fast and supremely heavy! "BAM!" A dull, heavy impact, accompanied by the sickening crack of shattering bone, erupted at once. The Protective Primordial Qi that the Bright Heart Realm woman prided herself on was as fragile as paper, instantly shattering and dissipating into nothing. Immediately after, her head exploded into a crimson mist of blood, like a watermelon struck by a sledgehammer! Her headless body, still in the posture of a downward slash, swayed in the air for a moment before crashing to the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust. At the same time, the two sharp streams of Sword Qi from the other women finally slashed into the spot where Chu Fan had just been standing! "BOOM—!!!" The earth trembled violently, as if in an earthquake, and dust shot into the sky, blotting out the sun. The terrifying Sword Qi gouged three bottomless chasms into the incredibly hard, rocky ground. Countless stone fragments shot out in all directions like cannonballs with astonishing force! "Help!" Having been thrown into a distant pile of rubble, Tang Tinghua and Yun Bufan had to cover their heads and scramble for their lives amidst the dense shower of debris. They darted back and forth, desperately dodging the massive falling rocks, their hearts already filled with endless terror. ’Monster!’ ’They’re all monsters!’ They weren’t qualified to participate in such a terrifying battle. Even just standing on the sidelines, they could be blasted into dust by the aftershocks at any moment! The dust had yet to settle, still lingering throughout the valley... "SWISH!" Just as the two remaining women from the Moon Worship Sect landed, before they could even recover from the profound shock of their companion’s instant, gruesome death. A figure flashed across the battlefield, as fast as a streak of light. Chu Fan’s figure, trailing a series of blurry residual images, shot toward one of them like a cheetah poised to strike! ’Too fast!!’ The pupils of the two remaining women shrank violently, their hearts nearly stopping! ’Even a peak Bright Heart Realm Martial Artist who specialized in Body Techniques probably couldn’t move this fast!’ The woman targeted by Chu Fan was terrified. Just as she was about to circulate her Primordial Qi to fight back, a massive, ink-black phantom of a swallow materialized behind him! The swallow’s wings unfurled, obscuring the sky and sun, blotting out nearly all the light from her vision. It radiated a ferocious aura from a primordial age, yet it was also mixed with an indescribable sense of nimble grace. ’What kind of Fist Technique is this...?’ The woman’s attention was instantly captured by the strange swallow phantom, and for a brief moment, her mind went blank. And in that fleeting, life-or-death instant. Chu Fan’s right hand came together, fingers straight, like an incomparably sharp Hand Blade, or like the silent tail of a swallow skimming across the water’s surface... "TCH!" An extremely faint sound, almost inaudible. His hand sliced through the air, tracing a grimly beautiful arc of blood as it glided across the woman’s throat with ultimate speed. Graceful in posture, yet lethal in execution. "Ghhk!!" The woman’s eyes bulged, her pupils shot through with horrifying blood vessels. Her face was a mask of disbelief, terror, and agony. Her longsword fell to the ground with a CLANG. She desperately clutched her throat with both hands, trying to stop her life from rapidly ebbing away. However, warm blood still gushed from between her fingers like a fountain, staining the black robe embroidered with its delicate crescent moon pattern. Without even a glance at her, Chu Fan’s footwork shifted, his form suddenly changing as he once again activated the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step to its absolute limit! His body twisted like an intangible specter, narrowly avoiding the fatal sword thrust from the other terrified woman behind him. The edge of the sword grazed the hem of his clothes, kicking up a sharp gust of wind. In the instant they brushed past each other... "THUMP!" A dull thud echoed. Chu Fan’s eyes were terrifyingly calm, without the slightest ripple. With a simple punch, his fist passed straight through the woman’s chest without any resistance! The woman’s body went rigid. Her eyes were wide, her face frozen with lingering terror and disbelief. Chu Fan slowly withdrew his hand, his gaze turning indifferently toward the last remaining person on the cliffs above the valley. "THUD!" The woman next to him, her body pierced by his fist, collapsed to the ground, utterly lifeless. "..." Hiding behind a large boulder in the distance, the two Demon Suppression Guards, Tang Tinghua and Yun Bufan, stared blankly at the surreal scene. They forgot to breathe, their bodies frozen stiff. Three breaths. It took only the span of three breaths! Three Bright Heart Realm experts, without using a single Divine Secret Skill or one Magical Treasure Secret Artifact, were slaughtered by Chu Fan with his bare hands, one move per person, as if they were made of paper! What was even more terrifying was that from start to finish, Chu Fan’s blade had never left its sheath! They rubbed their eyes hard. They even began to wonder if they had inhaled poisonous miasma from the Mist Forest and were suffering from severe hallucinations. Or perhaps, they had unknowingly undergone Demonic Transformation?! Otherwise, how could they be witnessing something so absurd and unbelievable in broad daylight? Those were Bright Heart Realm experts! Ordinarily, those were great figures whom they could only look up to and worship from afar! "CHU FAN!!!" A shrill, furious roar echoed from the cliffs above. Seeing all her companions dead, the masked woman who had escaped the Burial Demon Marsh finally showed a look of terror and madness in her eyes. She completely snapped! "BOOM!" The woman’s Primordial Qi began to burn frantically around her as she raised her hands high. High in the air, the very atmosphere seemed to shift as a giant sword dozens of feet long rapidly took shape. Wreathed in lightning and rumbling with the sound of a thunderstorm, it slashed down fiercely at Chu Fan! The power of this single sword was several times more terrifying than the previous combined attack of the three women! "..." Feeling the world-destroying pressure, Tang Tinghua and Yun Bufan’s legs went weak, and they almost started crying. ’When gods fight, mortals suffer!’ The two of them scrambled away, running for their lives with only one thought in their minds:’Run!’ ’If we’re half a step too slow, there won’t even be bones left to find!’