Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

“You’ve finally arrived! We’ve been waiting to trap you all for quite some time!”

Aoki and the other profound experts, along with Headmaster Qingxuan and his group, appeared atop the five mountain peaks, overlooking the sword array confinement zone.

“Aoki!” A powerhouse from the Royal Academy glared fiercely at Real Person Aoki, and roared: “Do you know what you’re doing? This is insubordination! Does Qingyun intend to rebel?”

“Rebel?” Real Person Qingxuan, the Headmaster, sneered and said: “The current Emperor and Crown Prince of Dagan are incompetent and arrogant. They actually want to kill Qingyun’s guardian and destroy Qingyun. Our Qingyun guardian has no choice but to reluctantly seize Dagan’s throne. Whether it’s rebellion or creating peace for all generations, does it matter?”

“What did you say?” The powerhouses from the Royal Academy were shocked and furious: “Who is your guardian?”

“Listen well, Yue Wuxie is Qingyun’s guardian, and also the border city guardian who repelled the Wu’an army. In the future, he will be the guardian of the entire Dagan land. Do you have any further questions, or any last words to say?”

Real Person Qingxuan stood on the mountain peak, his hands behind his back, looking down at the half-step Hegemon Saint realm experts from the Haihe Clan and the Royal Academy, his posture extremely domineering.

His current mood was indescribably comfortable!

For so many years, Qingyun had endured humiliation to preserve its inheritance, constantly suppressing itself, abandoning its dignity, and silently swallowing too many grievances.

The greatest wish in the past was to survive in the cracks, allowing the sect’s inheritance to continue, and not be destroyed in the struggle between the Emperor and Prince Ning.

How could they dare to hope for a day like today, looking down upon the profound experts of the Royal Academy?

At this moment, not only the powerhouses of the Royal Academy, but even the experts of the Haihe Clan were filled with shock.

That kid named Yue had transformed from a True Martial Peak disciple into Qingyun’s guardian, becoming the most influential figure in Qingyun!

What shocked them the most was that the one named Yue had not only become the guardian of Qingyun, but also harbored the ambition to covet the entire Dagan land. Such ambition was truly unbelievable.

“Hahaha!”

Amidst shock and anger, a powerhouse from the Royal Academy suddenly looked up and laughed wildly, mocking: “Qingxuan, you ant in the half-step Great Saint realm, how dare you speak so shamelessly! That kid named Yue has some ability, but with his fallout with Prince Ning, what does he have to fight the Emperor with? He wants to seize the throne of Dagan, with no foundation, no background, and no legitimacy. Do you think the position of Dagan’s Emperor is like your sect’s sect master, where anyone can sit on it? It’s simply a huge joke!”

“Is that so?” Qingxuan smiled faintly and said: “I wonder if Princess Anning would be legitimate as the Empress of Dagan?”

The smiles on the faces of the Royal Academy powerhouses instantly froze, turning ashen, and the muscles on their faces began to twitch.

“That Yue kid is ambitious, actually trying to control Anning to seize the throne? So, all the events during this period were a play he put on with Prince Ning?”

“That’s not the case. Prince Ning’s physical disability is real, but he voluntarily repented and atoned for what he did to my True Martial Peak. As for why Prince Ning did this, why don’t you think about it carefully?”

Headmaster Qingxuan spoke calmly, enjoying the shocked and angry expressions on the faces of the Royal Academy powerhouses.

“Dream on, that Yue kid is dreaming, and you are dreaming even more! In today’s Dagan, no one can shake the imperial family! The situation in the world has already begun, and the affairs of Qing Province are no longer something that the people of Qing Province can decide!”

“Who knows? We’ll see.”

After Qingxuan finished speaking, he suddenly clapped his hands together, and several Saint Swords hummed, shooting out dazzling cold light in the air.

“Wait!” A Haihe Clan powerhouse exclaimed: “You must consider carefully! You must know that we are the powerhouses of the Haihe Clan! The Haihe Clan’s power is stronger than the combined power of the entire Dagan! You are opposing the Dagan imperial family, do you also want to oppose our Haihe Clan? That will only put you in a desperate situation!”

“If you can treat today’s events as a misunderstanding and let us leave, then our Haihe Clan will not seek revenge in the future. What do you think of this condition?”

The Haihe Clan powerhouse offered what they thought was a very tempting condition, because normally speaking, who would want to be enemies on all sides? Especially when opposing the Dagan imperial family.

“Kill!”

Responding to the Haihe Clan powerhouse was the cold voice of Headmaster Qingxuan and Aoki, the leader of the profound experts.

In an instant, atop the five mountain peaks, all the Qingyun leaders used sword techniques to activate the sword array.

Dozens of high-grade top-tier Saint Swords, flowing with sword dao runes, pulled up long tails of light, and the aura of slaughter soared into the sky, like shooting stars shuttling, killing towards the dozen or so powerhouses of the Haihe Clan and the Royal Academy.

“Qingyun, how dare you do this! You will be destroyed one day!”

The Haihe Clan powerhouse roared repeatedly. In the midst of the roar, he spat out a river of true qi to resist the incoming Saint Swords, while simultaneously offering up weapons and wielding them.

The Royal Academy powerhouses, on the other hand, stood back-to-back, urging their weapons and using secret techniques to block the sword array’s attacks.

Dozens of high-grade top-tier Saint Swords, under the evolution of the sword array, transformed into thousands upon thousands, overwhelming the sky and covering the earth, striking the targets with a violent storm of attacks from all directions.

The powerhouses of the Haihe Clan and the Royal Academy were caught off guard, blood constantly splattering on their bodies, covered in sword wounds, and fresh blood flying everywhere.

They roared, screamed, their hair disheveled, and they were in a miserable state.

Awooo!

At this moment, a beast roar that shook the eight wastelands came from the distance, shaking the heavens and earth of the entire border city, causing them to tremble incessantly.

The terrifying sound waves spread out in waves, one wave after another surging in all directions.

The sound waves were deafening, sweeping across the mountains, causing the vegetation on the mountains to be blown by a strong wind.

In the distant area, in that battlefield, the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King appeared majestically, rushing into the midst of the three top-tier powerhouses of Hanzhou.

They were originally besieging Prince Ning and his subordinates in the City Lord’s Mansion, believing that it would be very smooth, and with their strength, they would soon be able to kill them all.

What they did not expect was that Prince Ning and his subordinates actually offered up a large number of high-grade top-tier Saint Weapons.

Those Saint Weapons were powerful, making it difficult for them to break through in a short time, so they thought of slowly depleting the true qi of Prince Ning and others.

As a result, at this time, the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King entered their battlefield!

The Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King, who should have entered the ancient tomb with that kid named Yue, was actually left behind, lurking in this city!

The lion-hound’s roar was terrifying, sweeping over, causing the experts of the Three Sects of Hanzhou and Wu’an to feel severe pain in their ears and buzzing in their brains.

With a poof.

A flash of blood appeared, and someone among them was torn apart by sharp claws.

“Quick! Block your hearing to avoid being affected by his lion-hound roar again!”

They recovered from the impact of the sound waves, moved their positions together, and instantly surrounded the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King.

“You deal with Prince Ning and his subordinates, and leave the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King to us! Remember, don’t give Prince Ning’s people a chance to come and support the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King!”

The three top-tier sects of Hanzhou had more than twenty half-step Hegemon Saint experts in total.

In their opinion, with preparations, joining forces was enough to surround and kill the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King.

The Wu’an experts immediately rushed towards Prince Ning and others in the sky above the City Lord’s Mansion.

They had more than thirty people, but the number of people on Prince Ning’s side was not much less than them, and they also had high-grade top-tier Saint Weapons in hand, making them much stronger.

“Everyone, come to the City Lord’s Mansion!”

The Wu’an experts shouted towards the vast battlefield in the northern city area, where the Great Saint Zenith Heaven Completion experts were fighting against the garrison’s formation.

They knew very well that with their thirty-odd half-step Hegemon Saints, not only could they not stop Prince Ning and others, but they would be killed by them over time.

The only way now was to call all the Great Saint Zenith Heaven Completion experts over, and besiege them together with more than a hundred people, in order to delay as much as possible and buy time for the Hanzhou Three Sects experts to severely injure or even kill the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King.

“You insects living in the shadows, this king will kill you all this time!”

The Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King was able to handle the siege with ease. Its body was as burly as an ox, but its speed was very fast, its agility was amazing, like a ball of burning blood-colored flames, carrying a monstrous aura of wildness, weaving and shuttling between the attacks of more than twenty half-step Hegemon Saints, its sharp claws striking in all directions.

The secret techniques of the Hanzhou Three Sects experts could not block its claws at all, and were easily torn apart each time, but they timely offered up their weapons to block the claw light that attacked them, making it difficult for the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King to cause them harm in a short time.

“Relying on weapons to forcibly endure, this king wants to see how long you can endure!”

The Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King roamed in all directions, its golden and iron-like claws tore through secret techniques, colliding with the weapons of the Hanzhou Three Sects experts, making harsh metallic tremors and sparks sputtering.

“Is it you who are forcibly enduring or are we who are forcibly enduring? You want to play psychological warfare with us? With these weapons as assistance, it is a certainty for us to surround and kill you, Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King, there is no suspense! Time will only be your Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King’s death warrant, not ours!”

The experts of the three top-tier sects of Hanzhou were very confident. Among them, there were a few experts from the Seven Kill Tower, whose movements were very strange. While fighting, they would suddenly disappear, and then appear in unexpected positions, launching surprise attacks on the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King.

However, the Bloodmane Lion-Hound Beast King’s divine sense perception was extremely sharp, and each time it resolved the surprise attacks at critical moments, making the Seven Kill Tower experts’ surprise attacks fail again and again, making it difficult to be effective.

Ah!!

A scream, from the mountains near the City Lord’s Mansion, was heart-wrenching, especially shrill, and particularly clear in this noisy, fiery, and incessantly shouting black night.

That voice carried intense unwillingness, deep fear and anger, and it was extremely uncomfortable to hear.

Within the mountain range where the Qingyun people were located, in the area covered by the sword array, a half-step Hegemon Saint expert died, pierced by the sword qi, and his body was pierced into a sieve, with dense dozens or hundreds of sword holes, and crimson blood spurted out.

Another sword qi pierced the man's head. His eyes widened, his scream cut short, and he fell backward.

His death dealt a massive psychological blow to the others trapped and being slaughtered by the sword formation.

"Ah!!"

Before even the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the second expert fell within the sword formation, their body mangled, head severed. Sword holes marked their temples and brow, blood gushing, their wide eyes filled with it, their face completely covered in blood.

This scene intensified the negative emotions in the half-step Overlord Saint experts from the Haihe Tribe and the Royal Academy.

The fear of death grew wildly, engulfing them.

All of them were covered in wounds and knew they couldn't last much longer.

For a dignified half-step Overlord Saint, a top expert in Qingzhou, to capsize and lose their life in Qingyun, where even a Great Saint wasn't present, was truly a great irony, the most tragic ending!

......

North of the city, the sounds of battle shook the heavens and the earth!

Here, an area of over two hundred square miles had become a battlefield.

The seventeen million soldiers of Daqian surrounded the ten million soldiers of Wu'an in the north of the city, launching a fierce attack from all directions.

In the heat of the battle, the northern sky was filled with a thick, bloody stench, and the ground was covered with corpses, like a scene from hell.

On the Biancheng side, senior generals from each legion commanded the battle while shouting surrender appeals to the Wu'an army, promising preferential treatment if they laid down their weapons and knelt in surrender.

At first, the Wu'an army was unmoved by these words, but as the war continued and more and more people died, the morale of the Wu'an army began to waver.

Some wanted to lay down their weapons and surrender, but were publicly beheaded by the Wu'an generals as a warning to others.

As a result, no one dared to surrender again.

"Kill their generals first!"

The senior generals on the Biancheng side said coldly.

If the Wu'an army could surrender, that would be the best outcome, avoiding unnecessary slaughter and reducing casualties on both sides.

Ning Wang had issued an order to kill as little as possible.

"Hahaha, Daqian's generals and commanders, don't think that just because our Wu'an army has been defeated this time, you will be able to defend Daqian. This commander tells you, that is a fool's dream!"

The one leading the entire army into the city this time was Deputy Commander Bahelu. He rushed into the sky, surveyed the northern city area, and looked at the vast battlefield, where his army was constantly being defeated and killed.

Although they were fighting, they were clearly afraid and their morale was low.

"Bahelu, surrender! Don't let your soldiers die in vain!"

Commander Zhou of the Bian Army shouted in persuasion.

"Wishful thinking! Our Wu'an iron cavalry will one day trample all over Daqian's land! This defeat is only temporary. Wu'an will soon replenish its troops and come under the city again! By then, Biancheng will have nothing to resist! Your death is approaching, hahaha!"

"Stubborn!"

Commander Zhou's expression was grim.

"You should abandon the darkness and turn to the light. What's the point of being loyal to Daqian? Daqian is destined to be destroyed. Do you think Daqian can compete with the top sects of Hanzhou? You can't hold Biancheng!"

Upon hearing this, Commander Zhou reached out and took out a runic heavy bow, pulled the bowstring violently, and locked the arrow with its cold light on Bahelu in the air.

The arrow left the string, exploding with an ear-splitting sonic boom, piercing through the sky like a stream of light.

Bahelu's pupils contracted, his hands intertwined, changing hand seals, condensing a secret technique light shield in front of him, which blocked the arrow with a bang.

At the same time, the light shield shattered, and the energy swept out, causing him to retreat several steps.

......

The war raged in Biancheng, but inside the ancient tomb, Jun Wuxie was still sitting cross-legged in the silent ancient temple, cultivating, devouring Buddhist and Taoist golden pills, and improving his realm.

In these few days, his realm had advanced by leaps and bounds, breaking through several times.

His realm had gone from the Consummate Middle Heaven of the Saint King before cultivation to the Consummate Great Heaven of the Saint King now. If he continued to break through, he would be at the Extreme Heaven of the Saint King.

"Ee-yah~"

Just as Jun Wuxie was forging and tempering his body with the Weapon Burial Mound and exiting the Eternal Life Divine Palace, Lan Lan, who was lying on the stone steps behind him guarding and watching, suddenly made a sound, scratching his back twice with her little claws.

Jun Wuxie, who was about to continue refining the Buddhist and Taoist golden pills, stopped immediately, exited the cultivation state, and opened his eyes.

At this time, Lan Lan jumped onto his shoulder and pointed her little claws towards a certain area outside the ancient temple.

Nothing could be seen there, and nothing could be sensed.

But Jun Wuxie knew that there must be a problem, because that was exactly where the cultivators from the alien universe had once come out.

He condensed his divine sense and locked onto that place, carefully sensing it. Finally, he sensed some fluctuations in the void.

"It seems that people from the alien universe are coming..."

The fluctuations in the void indicated that the boundary path was extending towards here, and people from the alien world would arrive.

"There's not enough time. Continuing to cultivate would be counterproductive..."

Jun Wuxie estimated that, at most, within half a day, the alien world cultivators would appear.

There was not enough time for him to continue to break through his realm.

Moreover, having cultivated to this realm, breaking through or not was not that important, unless there was enough time to break through several realms.

Because in the great realm of the Saint Realm, breaking through to the Extreme Heaven was considered the later stage of the entire great realm.

He is now at the Consummate Great Heaven. When using the Dou Character Secret, the triggered effect is to increase ten minor realms, crossing the extreme realm, directly to the half-step Great Saint realm!

Due to the characteristics of the Dou Character Secret, if he does not break through to above the Consummate Extreme Heaven, his strength will be weaker than it is now.

Because after entering the Extreme Heaven, the effect of the Dou Character Secret becomes a tenfold increase in attack power.

"Aunt Jing, if I can obtain the origin of many powerful ancient bloodline possessors from the alien world this time, your old illness should be completely cured..."

Jun Wuxie muttered to himself, a smile on his face.

Thinking that Aunt Jing would be able to recover her realm, and might even reach a higher level during recovery because of these years of experience, his heart was filled with anticipation.