Chapter Ninety-Two: The Golden Blade Is Drawn!

Above the sky over the valley.

The instant Wang Ran shot upward, Liu Jun and the others also snapped out of their daze, and then they saw this scene. All of them found it somewhat absurd.

After all, Wang Ran’s cultivation was far too weak. Only at the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, he had actually dared to challenge the Queen Bee head-on. Was that not the same as courting death?

“What is wrong with the people of the Sole Sect? How can they be so ignorant of their own limits?”

“How arrogant. A beast that even our Grand Origin Gate cannot handle, and they think they can lay claim to it?”

“Probably he has lost his mind and wants to die.”

“Forget it. Let them throw their lives away. We should withdraw first. This beast is no longer something we can deal with.”

The Grand Origin Gate disciples wore mocking expressions, sneering again and again, having already made up their minds to leave this place at once and wait for Senior Brother Ling to come in person and slay the beast.

Liu Jun’s gaze was equally indifferent. He did not care much for these ignorant ants. With a hand seal forming between his fingers, he was about to leave.

And at this very moment, Wang Ran in midair had already flashed to the front of the Heavenly Demon Queen Bee, and because he had flown up from the ground, he was directly facing the weak point beneath her abdomen.

The Queen Bee no longer had time to turn her body. She could only release demonic energy in midair and beat her two massive wings, raising a fierce storm that swept toward Wang Ran.

Yet Wang Ran remained utterly composed, showing no intention of evading at all. The moment he came into contact with that storm of demonic energy, flames burst forth all over his body. In a boiling surge, they transformed into armor. After burning ripples through the void itself, he forcefully pushed through the storm.

In the next instant, a golden long sword, dazzling beyond description and radiating an overwhelmingly terrifying aura, abruptly appeared in Wang Ran’s hand. It carried boundless might as it pierced toward the Heavenly Demon Queen Bee.

At the same moment that blade appeared, everyone present felt a chill run through their bodies, their hearts pounding wildly as they looked up at the sky in disbelief.

Liu Jun even sucked in a sharp breath, his eyes widening as he stared at the golden sword above him. For some reason, a wave of fear seized him all at once, as though that sword possessed the power to cut down everything in the world.

“What kind of sword is that?!”

Liu Jun was stunned to the core. From that sword, he had sensed the scent of death.

The Heavenly Demon Queen Bee let out a shrill cry as well. Her body instinctively told her that this weak human before her possessed power beyond imagination.

She wanted to flee, but the sword was simply too fast. So fast that she could not react at all.

A flash of gold vanished across the heavens.

Wang Ran’s figure appeared behind the Heavenly Demon Queen Bee. He held the golden sword in his hand, his whole body wrapped in an exotic flame cloak that fluttered in the wind. The fierce heat scorched the air into ripples, making his form seem faint and indistinct.

That sword was the divine art of the Light Clan from the Central Province, nurtured within his divine sea: Endless Light Blade.

It was also Wang Ran’s strongest strike.

This had always been one of the means he relied on most. It was precisely with this Endless Light Blade that he had defeated Xu Ke, crushed Beiming Lie, stood above the crowd, and established the renowned Hao Ran Alliance.

The Endless Light Blade normally needed only to be nurtured within the divine sea. With it in hand, the power of all his techniques could be doubled. It was truly a heaven-defying divine art.

Although he had obtained this sword from the system a long time ago, he had always been nurturing it within his body and had never truly used it before. Today was the first time he had drawn it.

And this draw had been worth it.

Because the one he had cut down was not some nameless nobody, but a Golden Core demon beast famed for its ferocity across the Northern Marsh!

Wang Ran stood coldly with the golden sword in hand. Behind him, the Heavenly Demon Queen Bee gave a mournful cry, a sound so sharp it was like nails scraping across iron.

The Grand Origin Gate disciples who had just been sneering moments ago were now all utterly breathless, staring blankly at the sky.

For what they saw was that the Golden Core beast which had just moments ago been so imposing, chasing them all over the sky, now had a huge hole pierced clean through its body, blood gushing down in streams.

And the one who had done all this was none other than the Sole Sect disciple they had looked down upon a thousand times over and regarded as an ant.

In an instant, an unimaginable, almost ridiculous feeling surged in their hearts.

“How can this be...” one disciple muttered, unable to accept the truth before his eyes.

Thinking of the words they had just spoken, they now felt even more ashamed and mortified, as though an invisible slap had come flying toward them and fiercely struck their faces swollen.

Liu Jun drew in a cold breath and staggered back several steps, his mind roaring as he stared blankly at the scene before him.

He could not believe how Wang Ran, who was only at the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, had actually dealt such severe damage to a Golden Core Heavenly Demon Queen Bee. Such a thing was simply too inconceivable.

At the same time, Xu Ke and the younger martial sister, along with the other disciples of the Sole Sect, erupted in thunderous cheers. Their Senior Brother Wang had indeed not disappointed them. That sword was breathtakingly brilliant, filling them with even greater admiration and making them feel all the more certain that they had chosen the right senior brother to follow.

What others did not know, they understood clearly: the hardship that had gone into this moment.

They had come all the way from the Sole Sect to the Northern Marsh, slaughtering countless demon beasts along the way. In the end, after Zhao Xiaobai and the others had harried the Queen Bee again and again, and even with one disciple seriously wounded, they had finally forced the Queen Bee out of the hive’s territory and made this astonishing sword of glory possible.

This was the result of all their joint effort, and it was worthy of celebration.

As the younger martial sister rejoiced, she also shot a proud look toward the people of the Grand Origin Gate. Her smug little expression made many of the Grand Origin Gate disciples flush red with anger, grinding their teeth.

At that moment, the Heavenly Demon Queen Bee suddenly gave a furious, grievous cry. Her eyes revealed a humanlike hatred. After glaring at Wang Ran, she ignored the wound in her abdomen and, still bleeding profusely, flew back toward the direction of the hive, hoping to recover her strength.

“You still want to run?”

Wang Ran snorted coldly. How could he possibly let her have her way? Flames surged all over his body at once, and with them he transformed into a streak of flowing fire, charging straight at the Queen Bee.

With a thunderous impact, the Heavenly Demon Queen Bee, now on guard, no longer allowed Wang Ran to strike her weak point. Using the armor of her shell to block this blow, she then thrust her long mouthparts toward Wang Ran in counterattack.

Yet Wang Ran showed the slightest fear. With a flick of his figure, he dodged the vital area. At the same time, the Vajra Glazed Body and the Immortal Undying Art in his body surged into operation together. He withstood the Queen Bee’s attack head-on, pressed in close, and slashed out with another sword.

This sight left many of the Grand Origin Gate disciples stunned.

“He... he actually used his flesh and blood body to withstand the Queen Bee’s attack? Damn it, is this guy made of iron?” one disciple said in a dull voice, rubbing his eyes in disbelief.

“You bunch of country bumpkins. How could you possibly imagine Senior Brother Wang’s body?” Xu Ke mocked them without the slightest shame, just as the Grand Origin Gate had mocked them earlier.

Indeed, Wang Ran’s body was no ordinary thing. Setting aside the Vajra Glazed Body, when he had been at the Foundation Establishment stage, the Immortal Undying Art had already entered its threshold. At that time, not only had his lifespan increased by a hundred years, but the speed of his physical recovery had already been comparable to that of a Golden Core cultivator. What was more, he was now wearing the Void Flame Sky-Scorching Armor.

Thus Wang Ran acted without the slightest reservation. Relying on a body of formidable divine arts and techniques, he fought the Queen Bee head-on in the air, chasing and cutting her all the way to the side of the hive.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A surge of spiritual power swept across the sky. After several exchanges, Wang Ran stood in the void with the golden sword in hand, gazing at the Queen Bee, who was already on the verge of death, his eyes gleaming sharply as he brought down the final sword.

“Die!”