Unrivaled Martial Emperor-Chapter 1602 - Scared Out of Their Mind

“Hiss!” Chen Fan sucked in a breath of cold air at the sight. A chill ran down the top of his head to his feet. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The female Immortal King had looked utterly helpless, like an infant before the claws of a primordial monster. She did not even have the chance to struggle. The claw closed, and she was crushed instantly.

Chen Fan had seen laws interwoven with the female Immortal King’s blood, flesh, tendons, and bones. Those were immortal king-law bones, forged and refined by the laws, as tough as high-grade immortal artifacts.

Yet under that claw, they offered no resistance at all. Blood misted the air, bones collapsed, and the laws anchoring her existence shattered into fragments.

An Immortal King powerhouse had been crushed like an ant.

A freezing sensation crawled down Chen Fan’s spine, and his scalp tingled violently. His hair stood straight up. He had once fought an Immortal King and knew how terrifying their vitality was. Such beings were notoriously difficult to kill, yet one had been annihilated in a single instant.

That was not an Immortal Platform realm expert but an Immortal King powerhouse, a supreme figure wherever they went in the Heavenly Realm. In pure combat strength, such an existence could easily suppress Chen Fan. And yet, a single claw had ended her life.

How horrifying was this beast?

An unthinkable thought surfaced. Could it be a ferocious beast at the Immortal Emperor level?

The blinding divine radiance blanketing the sky finally faded. The crowd at last saw the monster’s true form.

The massive, ferocious beast, like a mountain range, had thick, scarlet fur. Its eyes were as large as bells, its mouth full of sharp teeth. There were also large horns on its head, winding upwards.

The instant they recognized it, shock rippled through the crowd.

A Hou! [1]

The Heaven-Shaking Hou!

What sent true terror through their hearts was not merely its identity but its physical state: the beast was completely unharmed. Not a single strand of fur was disturbed. The combined assault of more than twenty Immortal Kings had failed to leave the slightest mark.

In other words, the attacks didn’t deal any damage to the Heaven-Shaking Hou. It only shattered the mountain range on its back.

That realization was what made everyone suck in a cold breath.

The power unleashed earlier had already surpassed imagination. It was a strength capable of destroying worlds. And yet, before this creature, it had been meaningless.

“Hiss, hiss.”

Everyone sucked in breaths of cold air.

While they were still in shock, the Heaven-Shaking Hou moved.

Despite its colossal size, its motion was terrifyingly swift. Its enormous paw snapped forward and seized another Immortal King, flinging him straight into its mouth.

“Crunch! Crunch!”

The crisp sound of bones being crushed entered the crowd’s ears, sending waves of nausea through the crowd. Some cultivators went limp on the spot. Others were so terrified that they vomited bile and died instantly.

Witnessing this scene, everyone felt horrified.

That was an Immortal King powerhouse. . Even at the lower levels, such an existence was godlike according to most cultivators. And now, he had been treated like prey, grabbed like a chick and chewed to death.

It felt as though the beast was not devouring Immortal Kings but chewing the crowd itself.

Even at their cultivation level, martial artists were not devoid of fear. They were no different from ordinary people in that regard. The only difference was that trivial supernatural events no longer startled them.

Having cultivated to their level, the martial artists themselves had become supernatural phenomena. They could live up to ten thousand years, so what had they never seen before? Ordinary things, even life and death, could not move them in the slightest.

But this was different. Seeing an Immortal King crushed like a worm and eaten alive shattered their composure completely.

Even the Immortal Kings were no exception. Only now did they realize that they were not as fearless as they had believed.

In front of this terrifying, ferocious beast that no one could resist, they were as fragile as the ants they had looked down on in the past.

This was what genuine fear felt like.

“Run!” shouted someone. Immediately, countless martial artists fled in a panic. Everyone ran for their lives with all their strength.

The massive beast had awakened, and it saw Immortal Kings as snacks. At this point, no one dared to remain here.

A terrifying conclusion formed in everyone’s mind: the creature was at the Immortal Emperor level, comparable to Immortal Emperor human cultivators.

Even those Immortal King powerhouses reached the same realization.

They had lost two Immortal Kings in the blink of an eye, powerless even to fight back. They were terrified out of their minds. At this point, dignity meant nothing. They fled in panic, faces pale, fearing they would be the next ones dragged into that monstrous maw.

They had stood at the forefront to be the first to charge into the seventh level and seize control of the Demon Suppression Tower. Now, that very position condemned them to face the Heaven-Shaking Hou head-on.

So be it if the Heaven-Shaking Hou remained in deep slumber; now that it had awakened after countless years, hunger was inevitable.

None of them wanted to be slowly chewed to death. Just imagining it sent shivers down their spines.

If the Heaven-Shaking Hou had merely been at the Immortal King realm, even at the peak, they could have tried to resist by joining forces. Fear would not have paralyzed them.

Before an Immortal Emperor, Immortal Kings were no different from Immortal Platform cultivators standing before an Immortal King. This was already proven with the lives of those two Immortal King powerhouses earlier.

After sleeping for so long, how many Immortal Kings would it take to sate its hunger?

They would rather not be the answer.

All of a sudden, the imposing army seemed to have become a beast tide, charging at random, fleeing in all directions, shrieking nonstop.

“Roar!” The Heaven-Shaking Hou let out a deafening roar, sending terrifying, vicious qi sweeping out. It moved like a ferocious tiger pouncing on its prey, capturing two more Immortal King powerhouses instantly and stuffing them into its mouth directly.

“Ah, no, help me! Help me!”

The two Immortal Kings were scared out of their wits, screaming desperately for help.

However, who dared to step in and save them? That would just be asking for death.

Everyone only wished for more legs to run faster. Helping others was impossible. Even if they wanted to, they simply lacked the power to do so.

1. A Chinese legendary creature known as Denglong, Wangtianhou, Chaotianhou, or simply Hou. Legend has it that Denglong is one of the Dragon King's sons and is known for guarding. ☜