Gu Yue, the Old Ancestor of the Gu family in the World Sect Alliance, a living fossil who has lived for two thousand years.
“I once lived a carefree life under the rule of the first Human Emperor. Although he had disappeared by the time I was born, his reputation still lingered.”
“He didn’t need to show himself or take action. Just the name of the Human Emperor, even after thousands of years of disappearance, was enough to keep the deep-water crocodiles and chess players in the two realms from making any reckless moves.”
“They feared that one day the first Human Emperor would return and settle accounts with the troublemakers. Those were truly unforgettable years of peace.”
“Therefore, I have always tried to emulate the first Human Emperor. He had a technique called ‘Swift Wind.’”
“A forbidden divine power that can barely be executed at the Sky-Reaching Realm. I have spent thousands of years studying it and have luckily developed a similar technique.”
“Space-Time Sword Saint, please appreciate it.”
Gu Yue, as if carrying mountains on his back, stood with great difficulty. His feet cracked the frozen ground, splitting the earth like a brittle shell, forming a canyon.
When Gu Yue closed his eyes, the wind in the world ceased, becoming eerily silent. Even birds flapping their wings couldn’t fly, crashing to the ground and turning into a bloody mess.
“Swift Wind of a Thousand Miles, send you to the Yellow Springs!”
Gu Yue’s voice was hoarse, blood-red cracks appeared on his face, and the sun in his dantian, which had not yet formed an inner universe, began to shatter. However, his cultivation level did not fall but instead surged rapidly!
Behind him, nine late-stage Morning Glow Realm cultivators who had formed a life-binding array were struggling to hold on.
Gu Yue seemed like a massive black hole, frantically devouring the cultivation of the other nine, converting it into forbidden divine power.
Boom!!!
The void trembled, and the sky within a thousand-mile radius seemed like a great world was falling, like a hydraulic machine trying to crush all life and land in the middle into powder.
“Poof!” Some cultivators with shallow cultivation exploded into blood mist on the spot, unable to even scream.
The hundreds of thousands of troops of Great Jin, under Wu Shangpin’s command, formed an Emperor Grade military formation to resist the suppression of ‘Swift Wind.’ Even though Wu Shangpin reacted swiftly, nearly fifty thousand soldiers died instantly.
Not only that, the Great Beings of Great Jin and the World Sect Alliance soared into the sky to protect the weaker cultivators.
“What a terrifying forbidden divine power, able to cover a range of thousands of miles and crush everything within it.” Wu Shangpin’s expression was grave.
Minister of Personnel Fan Chen spat out several mouthfuls of blood, his face pale, and said:
“We are still on the edge, only grazed by a bit of the aftermath, and almost suffered heavy casualties. Ordinary Moon Shine Realm cultivators would be injured by this aftermath, so…”
“What kind of pressure must the Sword Saint be enduring?!”
Wu Shangpin took a deep breath and said, “It is probably infinitely close to the Sky-Reaching Realm. Though it lacks divinity and essence, the weight and power might have already reached the Sky-Reaching level.”
Ten late-stage Morning Glow Realm cultivators nearly sacrificed half their lives, combined with the emulation of the first Human Emperor’s signature technique, to produce such terrifying power.
Everyone looked ahead.
They saw that within a radius of thousands of miles centered on Meng Qingzhou, mountains and lands were collapsing and crumbling! Divine mountains and strange waters were crushed into fragments, then into powder.
The highland area that was originally tens of thousands of miles of sea was collapsing into a basin.
In the shocked gazes of the crowd, they looked down at the center of the basin, needing to cover it with their divine sense because it was hard to see the black-robed youth standing there with the naked eye.
The distance between them was like one standing on a cliff in the clouds and the other in the depths of an abyss.
“Space-Time Sword Saint, no matter how powerful you are, you will still drink your fill of regret!” Gu Yue laughed maniacally.
However, when the ashes and dust in the center of the basin cleared, a figure with tattered clothes and a bare upper body, like a sturdy bamboo at the edge of a cliff, stood there with legs firmly planted on the ground, seemingly unscathed.
“Interesting.” Meng Qingzhou, with blood at the corner of his mouth, still smiled as his body slowly dissipated into dust.
As his words fell, Meng Qingzhou returned from the place where he had just died!
“No way to dodge, only to endure. As expected of the Human Emperor’s technique. Though poorly imitated, its power is indeed formidable.”
“Hmm… too many drawbacks, and the requirements to perform this technique are too harsh. Where in the world are there so many cultivators of the same realm to use as consumables? Otherwise, I would really want to learn it.”
Meng Qingzhou took out a cloak from his storage ring and casually draped it over his shoulders, saying indifferently:
“If this is your limit, then you can die now.”
“Killing me once is enough for you to boast about.”
With that, Meng Qingzhou flicked his finger, and a sword light pierced through the brows of the nine ‘consumables,’ shattering their Sea of Consciousness and killing them instantly.
In the blink of an eye, only Gu Yue was left kneeling on the ground, gasping for breath, watching the black-cloaked youth walk towards him unhurriedly. The crisp sound of footsteps was like the chains of Yama, striking his heart one by one.
“Undying and indestructible, how can I fight this?” Gu Yue lowered his head bitterly.
After studying the forbidden divine power for thousands of years, it burst forth with enough power to instantly kill any living being below the Sky-Reaching Realm, yet it couldn’t harm Meng Qingzhou in the slightest. How despairing.
Crack…
The sun in Gu Yue’s dantian could no longer hold on and shattered, his late-stage Morning Glow Realm cultivation instantly falling to that of a mortal.
Without cultivation, he was a two-thousand-year-old living fossil, turning to dust on the spot.
“Farewell.”
Meng Qingzhou waved his sleeve, scattering the ashes into the sky, then opened his five fingers, drawing their storage rings into his palm.
Including the dozen or so who had died earlier, a total of twenty-eight Morning Glow Great Beings’ storage rings were strung together by Meng Qingzhou and worn on his wrist.
“Let’s continue. Today, I will kill your entire generation, breaking your backbone inch by inch.”
“Don’t pretend to be heroic with me; I won’t show mercy.”
Meng Qingzhou stood quietly. Until now, the Cicada Song sword was still planted in the center of the basin, having only been drawn once.
The cold wind blew, and the black-cloaked youth stood silently.
Opposite him, the entire World Sect Alliance was utterly terrified!
“Someone, continue the attack! I don’t believe there is truly an undying and indestructible principle in this world.” Ji Wushuang roared, gradually losing his composure.
However, he was met with deathly silence.
Ji Wushuang’s eyes widened in anger. When he turned his head, he saw everyone lowering their heads, their bodies trembling slightly.
Even those who had always followed him were now hesitating.
“Young Master Ji, please take action! We really can’t contend with him! Sending more people is just sending them to their deaths.” An elder of the World Sect Alliance knelt down with a thud, crying bitterly.
Ji Wushuang restrained his anger and calmed down, taking a deep look at these people.
He knew that including the remaining Morning Glow Realm cultivators, they had been scared out of their wits. Forcing them to their deaths would probably not even bring out a tenth of their strength.
No one wanted to die in vain, nor did they want to die without value, becoming mere foils.
They… were no different.
Ji Wushuang exhaled a turbid breath, looked back at the black-cloaked youth, and said calmly:
“Fine.”
“Let me end this.”
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