Anger, panic, disbelief, and other emotions together created a mask of such indescribable grotesquery on Nie Renlong’s face as he glared at Li Mu with the venom of a viper, completely devoid of any guilt or compassion.
“Kill me, you say?” he sneered. “I might not be certain that I’d be able to kill you, Li Zhiyuan. But that does not mean that my life is a fruit ripe for the plucking. Last I checked, I’m not alone. There are the champions of the Great Five here. Do you think you’ll be able to defeat everyone here?”
Li Mu would have burst out laughing if it was not to maintain his dignity and decorum.
“See for yourself,” he pointed towards Nie Renlong’s back.
Nie Renlong spun around. To his surprise, everyone from the Great Five coalition, including the Champion of the Western Wilderness, had retreated more than a hundred meters away from him and were staring at him with gazes and stares fraught with wariness, suspicion, and spurn li
In just one single night, more than hundreds of thousands of warriors and champions were all slain like sheep.Just who in the name of the gods was capable of such savagery?The gorge was a lake of red from the blood of the dead.A wide basin of blood where smaller streams separated from it, each bubbling and flowing in its most grotesque manner as the morbid streams spread far and wide like red slimy worms heading straight for the nearest crevice and crack in the ground that they could find.Steaming red fumes billowed upward into the air, the gory hue from the bloody effluvium dyeing the vista red enough for anyone to wonder if the skies were on fire.The blood of Cultivators held tremendous amounts of energy, more so, the blood of champions.And the deep crimson effluvium came from the very dissipation of power from the blood.That was why the sky became red. The blood that was spilled came
"That’s impossible! How!?"Nie Renlong shouted, his voice replete with shock, frustration, and incredulity."You know where I come from, then you should have guessed that this is not my first time facing this diabolical Cuirass. I’ve killed Xenoses deadlier and stronger than you. And yeah, you heard me right. It’s ‘Xenoses’. That’s what we call that so-called Cuirass of yours."Li Mu drew menacingly closer."Y-You—" Nie Renlong trembled uncontrollably, clawing his way backward with mounting panic, "That’s impossible! Y-You’re really—""That’s why I’ve been saying this: you’re a fool," said Li Mu. "You guessed rightly that I’m a ‘spy’ from the other world. That was what you said that time, no? Then you should have guessed that I’ve killed my fair share of Xenoses, right? What you have there is just something you just created. It isn’t even perfect yet. And you think that’s going to defeat me?""That’
Wang Yanyi was clutching "his" rusted sword, standing guard outside the palatial building with a menacing look on "his" face.Bi Yan was sitting on the balustrade nearby, her naked feet swinging lazily below the railing like a pendulum. Cradling her head with both her hands and her lips murmuring something incomprehensible, she looked every bit the semblance of a carefree young lass looking up into the sky, counting stars. If stars could be seen here.The cacophony of battle slowly rumbled its way nearer.The pounding tremors elicited by the heavy energy-imbued blows came thundering through the sprawl of the abandoned city. Intermittent blasts of light shone every now and then like fireworks.Wang Yanyi immediately knew what was coming. It must be Bi Yan's mutant champions trying to stop the enemy from coming."Give up the gift of providence! Hand me Li Mu!"A deafening voice swept over the whole ci
Deep in the clouds far high up in the skies, the figure of a man with hair flowing over his shoulders materialized. Despite his outwardly ordinary appearance, he did not look ordinary at all. He looked every bit the semblance of an image; a sliver of consciousness now in the image of a man left behind by a powerful and omnipotent entity. No one could see his face—a distortion in the fabric of Time and Space swirled at where his head should be, obscuring his true visage from the sight of mere mortals and other lesser beings. There he hovered in mid-air, with a star-studded smog like a miniature universe just below his feet.Something told Wang Yanyi that the world itself would tremble and crack by the sheer pressure of his presence if he would only just reveal himself a little bit more.“Who is he?!“Imperial Lord Void?!”Bi Yan’s outburst had told Wang Yanyi enough to guess who this stranger was. The man—or rather, the being
Bi Yan stared at Wang Yanyi and beheld the lone “man” standing at the entrance of the palatial building armed only with a rusted sword. She did not feel fine at all. A strange sensation swept through her, a strange tremor that rocked her balance and made her pause. She stopped there for seconds before she finally decided to turn back around. “You’ll die, you know?” she said to Wang Yanyi. Wang Yanyi smirked at “him” with undisguised derision. “Die and everything will be for naught,” said Bi Yan again. But that did little to wipe the smirk off Wang Yanyi’s face. If anything, it made “him” prouder. Bi Yan opened her mouth to say something else, only for Wang Yanyi to cut her off. “Funny that you dying means losing everything.” “Then why persist in a futile attempt?” Bi Yan said, “You can be as gifted as you want, but there’s no way you’ll be able to resist the might of the incumbent Imperial Lord. All creatur
Li Mu was stunned into dawning bewilderment.“Li Mu…” Wang Shiyu moaned, his face managing a weak smile. At the corners of her eyes, a crystal-clear bead of tear rolled down the side of her face. “Could you forgive me now?”Seeing this wrenched Li Mu’s heart.He knew what she was talking about. Back when she had decided to accept the role to become heiress to Fairy Emperor of Light’s crafts and power, she had surreptitiously been involved in the extirpation of many powerful sects and orders. Evil as they might be, no one could deny that her ways had been callous and brutal. Li Mu had learned about this, and although he made no remarks, almost everyone who knew him immediately noticed how he began keeping his distance from Wang Shiyu.Before his departure to return to Earth, Li Mu had expressed his wish for Wang Shiyu to turn away from everything here and come back to Earth with him. That was his olive branch; his way of telling her
Indescribable astonishment. That was what left the Imperial Lord stupefied.Never had his authority and superiority been challenged before since he was made Imperial Lord. Never had he felt such fear and panic before. All this stranger did was just glare at him and here he was, feeling suffocated as if Fear had a hand constricting around his gullet. Even in those days before the mantle of Imperial Lord and its trappings fell upon his shoulders, he had never once felt like this before, even when enemies came close to thwarting his ascend to power.But the image of the rusted sword and the wicked-looking saber on the totem that this young stranger brought demonstrated his intent.The rusted sword Wang Shiyu used came from him.“Who are you? An Imperial Lord from an alien galaxy? How dare you show yourself here in the Ziwei Star Zone?” The Imperial Lord roared, his great powers churning like a storm, his very presence as a supreme god
Old Swindler’s reaction was exactly what Li Mu had been hoping for.“He really knows Ding Hao!”“Who is he?” Li Mu pressed.“I’m not too sure myself,” Old Swindler muttered gravely, “But I’ve heard rumors about him. They say he’s a being comparable to the Divine Emperor Ye Qingyu. In fact, he achieved enlightenment even before Ye Qingyu did. They call him the Imperator of Blades. For reasons unknown, he has a certain bond with Earth. Powerful and omnipotent across the galaxy, everyone believes that he’s on par with Ye Qingyu and Sun Fei; all three of them being among the greatest in the universe.”"He said you would know how to save Shiyu.”“Amitabha,” lamented the priest, “This is a test… This young lass was not destined to achieve enlightenment. Yet by will and resolve, she managed to find one herself. And to think she’s acknowledged as the heiress to the Imperator of Blades’s swordcraft…” He reached into the jade sa
Li Mu's cultivation nowadays was at the peak of the Golden Immortal, and his battle power could cut down the first generals.If one were to obtain a drop of Immortal Marrow, one could instantly leap into the peak of Immortal Generals, and at that time, even if one were to face an Immortal King, one would be able to defeat him in battle, not to mention traversing across the major state capitals, even if it was the entire Eastern Sacred Continent, the heavens and the earth were vast, and one could go to it.At that time, it would be like a fish out of water to find Wang Shiyu, Hua Wanyong, and the others.At that thought, Li Mu immediately became desirous of this Immortal Marrow."One drop of Immortal Marrow, one great realm, so if a bottle of Immortal Marrow were all swallowed, wouldn't it directly soar into the Immortal Emperor, Immortal Emperor or even Immortal Lord realm?" Li Mu said.Xia Jing was stunned and then giggled."I didn't expect that
Uh-huh?What a scene of déjà vu.Li Mu all of a sudden, remembered the legendary Liu Huangshu Baidicheng entrusted the orphan.It's a pity that the Emperor is not Uncle Liu.And Li Mu is not Zhuge Kongming.Li Mu said indifferently, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I can make a dao oath that I won't taint the imperial power of Huangji Cliff for the rest of my life.""Cough cough cough ......" the emperor coughed, hastily said: "I ...... am not using words to frame you, I... ...In the chaotic world, there is no strength, sooner or later ...... sooner or later is the death ...... of the disaster ...... wood brother you if you are the emperor, or you may be able to ...... preserve a trace of my bloodline, I ......"Li Mu said, "Your Majesty's meaning, I understand, but my words remain the same, I will never dye the royal fist, Emperor Chen will be a bright ruler."The emperor sighed and said, "I understand ...... all ...... all stand down ....
Reimu smiled.Snap your fingers.Phew.A golden stream of light flashed by.Emperor Zhen, who was roaring at the top of his lungs, his voice came to an abrupt end, and his hands covered his neck, a splash of blood seeped out, followed by golden flames, which spewed out from his body."You ...... you dare to kill me?"He looked at Li Mu incredulously and eventually turned into a puff of flying ash.In the great hall, there was an instant dead silence.The horrific images, although they had ended, the aftermath was still like a hurricane, still madly hitting everyone's nerves over and over again.Prince Wood actually went out and killed someone?He actually made a move?Killing a royal son with royal blood flowing in his body right here in this great hall?He dared.He really dared.All the ministers felt that their bodies were cold, as if they had fallen into an ice cave, like the cold winter of the t
The other ministers in the hall, hearing such words, could not help but look at Zheng Yuan with shocked gazes.The so-called Emperor Tatsu's son is a wild seed, this kind of thing, if you don't explode it sooner or later, and you don't explode it at this time, what is the intention?Besides, it's not certain whether it's true or not.Saying such words in such an important meeting of the court was tantamount to slapping the emperor's face in public and rubbing the emperor's majesty, on the ground.What a nerve.On one side, Servant Yin's face changed wildly as she shook her head and argued, "No, it's not like that, Chen'er is His Majesty's child ...... "When the Emperor intended to set up Emperor Chen as the Crown Prince just now, she vaguely realized that this was a dangerous signal, the treacherous darkness of the palace court was not something she could resist as a small servant girl.But I didn't expect the slander and danger to come so
"Tatsu-chan!"Servant Yin was filled with a huge surprise in her chest and subconsciously rushed over to the little boy and held him in her arms."Mother, you're here too ...... Mother, I've seen father."The little boy dug into Squire Yin's arms with delight.His first words had to do with his parents.But many snickers resounded clearly and audibly in the great hall.Although no one said anything, the meaning was clear: 'Father' is a word you call, too?Servant Yin, however, didn't pay that much attention.In the instant she saw her son, her heart, without the slightest bit of nervousness or panic, held her son firmly in her arms, and the only thought in her entire life and soul at that moment was to protect her son at all costs."Do not make a noise and stand aside."The Grand Eunuch opened his mouth to chide.The little boy then kept his mouth tightly shut.He was foolish and hadn't seen much of the world, b
A cold aura flickered.A sword to the death.The sharp sword was about to pierce the young maid's brow.Just then, a sudden change occurred.Suddenly space and time seemed to freeze, and the black-clothed assassin realized that his immortal sword, after all, was no longer able to progress the slightest bit.What's going on?He was alarmed in his mind.And yet the next moment--Ding!The sword body incredibly broke apart and turned into countless shards.The tip of the sword flew backward and penetrated the black-clothed assassin's throat.Before the blood could soar out, his body erupted into a ball of golden flames, which then turned into flying ash and dissipated into the air.The little maid looked at what was in front of her in shock.In that moment just now, she thought she was bound to die.It turned out to be the assassin who died.Who saved me?She gasped in horror and looked arou
The Emperor was sitting on the throne of the Nine to Five, a little tired.The fact that he was poisoned was not revealed to the public.So until now, no one has known.But the toxin was eating away at his body so frantically that his energy was declining so much that his entire body felt extremely tired at all times.The sound of ministers' ears arguing seemed near and far away in the ear.The hand-wringing Prince Tatsu was led by the great eunuch and stood on the side of the dragon chair.Eight or nine year old boy, for the first time out of that small compound, face full of fear, timid, like a small goat caught in a wolf pack, not knowing what to do, lowered his head, twisted the corner of his coat, did not even dare to come out of the atmosphere.This look, in the eyes of the ministers, is even more unbearable."Your Majesty's intention to establish a Crown Prince is a major event, and should not be done in haste, perhaps it should
The little boy did not return until late afternoon.The young maid tried to inquire about the news several times, but was mercilessly stopped by the palace's close guards guarding the entrance of the firewood courtyard.She had been until, herself, she was secluded.This alarmed the young maid even more.What the hell is going on?What kind of terrible things would Tatsu'er face if he went to the palace?The Empress and the Noble Consorts, they won't poison him, will they?Why did His Majesty suddenly summon Chen'er to the palace?She speculated in her mind in fear, her tears were like a fountain that she could not control at all.It's a mother's love for her son.Humble but great love.Kneeling on both knees in the courtyard, she looked up at the Hao Sun that was gradually setting in the sky, and at the silver full moon that had already risen, shedding tears and silently praying with her life and soul."Tatsu'e
The Emperor was at the half-step Golden Immortal level of cultivation, and although this realm was forcefully instilled with various resources and secret techniques, the realm was enough after all.The lifespan of a half-step Golden Immortal could be more than five thousand years.So the Emperor never thought that he would have to face death head on, so soon."It's so ...... ungrateful."He smiled bitterly on his face and sighed deeply on the inside.But in the end, you have to face reality.The biggest problem to consider today was who should inherit the throne of Huangji Cliff after his death.He had only ascended the throne as emperor for just over two years, and because he was diligent in his political affairs and too young, he had not even considered the matter of the succession of the throne.In the harem, there are but one wife and two concubines.These three women were not his true love, but were allied for the sake of pr