Ji Mo did not care what Li Xuan thought. Still smiling, he kept the crystal ball and looked towards the battlefield. His tone was gentle, but the killing intent in his voice turned the surrounding air ice-cold, “It’s about time...
“Go. No need for prisoners this time. Kill them all.”
As his hand fell, figures slowly rose into the air behind him.
A terrifying pressure swept forth like the tide, enveloping the entire canyon.
Chapter 1124 Rising Against the Tide
Rumble!
In an instant, countless powerful Genesis Qi light beams shot into the sky. Figures rose into the sky one after another behind Ji Mo. This was the Sacred Race subteam he led.
Wei Tuo indifferently said, “Kill all these pigs.”
“Attack!” Several thousand Sacred Race experts cast their gazes towards the battlefield, their eyes filled with cruelness and bloodlust. In their eyes, the races of the other heavens were merely livestock to be slaughtered.
The Sacred Race was the true ruler of the Tianyuan World!
Rumble!
The Sacred Palace team fanned out, seemingly filling the sky, before plunging into the battlefield.
With the Sacred Race team’s entry, the tides instantly began to turn.
The Cangxuan Heaven’s alliance force was swiftly crushed, figure after figure falling like flies from the air. It was a very tragic sight.
Red blossomed in the giant river below, dyeing it dark red.
Despair emerged on the faces of the alliance force. Some individuals lost their courage, crumbling inside as they desperately dashed towards the Sacred Race team while shouting out their surrender.
However, they were met with merciless blasts of Genesis Qi.
Bodies were blown apart and turned into bloody chunks.
Chu Qing’s fingers dug into his flesh. He lowered his head and looked towards a certain corner of the battlefield where Li Qingchan was leading the Cangxuan Sect disciples. Their gazes met for an instant before he took a deep breath and began moving forward against the fleeing alliance army.
He knew that if no one stepped up to cover their backs, the entire Cangxuan Heaven alliance force would be annihilated.
Everyone else desperately ran away, whereas Chu Qing advanced alone.
It was an extremely moving yet tragic scene.
The eyes of Li Qingchan and the other Cangxuan Sect disciples turned red, several female disciples trying their best to muffle their crying.
Azure smoke condensed behind Chu Qing, revealing Mu Wuji’s figure.
“I can’t let you die alone.” He sighed.
“Senior brother Chu Qing, don’t forget about us!” Several advanced Heavenly Sun experts also rushed over and landed behind Chu Qing. Their expressions were determined; they were ready to face their deaths.
Chu Qing gave a slight nod. He did not speak and merely continued to move forward.
The other top experts of the five great sects finally realized Chu Qing’s intentions, causing them to fall silent for a moment. They quickly said something to their fellow disciples before appearing behind Chu Qing one after another.
They understood that someone needed to step up at such a time.
The Cangxuan Sect’s Chu Qing had dared to step forward. How could they not do the same?
As such, Chu Qing led the tiny force of Cangxuan Heaven’s most elite disciples to meet the seemingly endless army of the Sacred Palace and Sacred Race teams.
Li Xuan mockingly said, “What a touching scene. Chu Qing, do you really think that your efforts will have any use?”
Chu Qing did not reply. His bald head glowed as his hair began to grow, falling behind him like a black cape. His strands of hair looked like a million black spikes as they gently swayed in the wind.
Chu Qing coldly said, “Li Xuan, not everyone likes to be someone else’s dog like your Sacred Palace. You should be careful. If you kneel for too long, you might not be able to get back up.”
Li Xuan’s expression darkened. Before he could speak, a hand reached out from behind him and patted his shoulder.
Ji Mo moved past Li Xuan, looking at Chu Qing with an amused smile. “How admirable. However, my favorite pastime is to break unyielding pigs like you. Since you don’t like to kneel, forever crawl on the ground like worms.”
His gaze swept past Chu Qing, looking towards the elite Cangxuan Heaven disciples. “I can give the others a chance. I promise not to kill whoever manages to capture him.”
He pointed towards Chu Qing.
However, no one responded. There only an ice-cold determination in their gazes as they stared at Ji Mo.
Everyone who decided to follow Chu Qing was naturally ready for death. All they hoped for now was to delay the enemy even a second longer to buy more time for the disciples behind them to escape.
Ji Mo’s smile grew even wider. Soon after, he shook his head. “A bunch of foolish pigs. Since that is the case...
“Kill them all.”
He waved his hand.
Rumble!
Astonishing killing intent erupted from the Sacred Palace and Sacred Race members behind him before his side swarmed forward like a wave.
They were like a giant black cloud that blotted out the sun, spreading the smell of death.
Chu Qing gazed at the vast army charging towards them. He took a deep breath and shouted, “For Cangxuan Heaven! To our deaths!”
“For Cangxuan Heaven! To our deaths!”
“To our deaths!”
“...”
Shouts rang out one after another.
Chu Qing led the charge. There was only determination visible on his face and not a trace of his past laziness.
Behind them, Li Qingchan and the many Cangxuan Sect disciples displayed sorrowful expressions. They quickly turned to run, not wanting to waste any of the precious time Chu Qing and the others were buying for them.
Rumble!
However, the piercing sound of rushing wind was suddenly heard from the horizon. The sound grew louder and louder, becoming akin to rumbling thunder as it swept over from afar.
The entire canyon seemed to tremble faintly.
This sudden turn of events alarmed both sides. Everyone turned their gaze towards the noise in bewilderment.
The eyes of countless people violently shrank.
They saw numerous figures appearing in the sky. These figures seemed to cover the horizon as they flew over, the scale not the least bit inferior to the Sacred Race team.
“This is?” Li Qingchan and the Cangxuan Sect disciples dazedly stared at the giant force that had suddenly appeared as they began to tremble.
Chu Qing forcibly stopped himself, his expression changing rapidly as he looked at the enormous group that was swiftly flying towards them. From their Genesis Qi pressure and aura, they were obviously no ordinary faction.
Was this an enemy or a friend?
Ji Mo frowned as he gazed at the arriving army, and his expression turned cold. The new arrivals were not weaker than them.
He took a step forward as his indifferent voice boomed like thunder, “I am Ji Mo of Shengling Heaven’s Sea Subduing Hall. Who are you?!”
His voice powerfully rippled through the air.
Under countless bewildered gazes, the new group got into a formation and parted in the sky. A path was revealed, and a youthful figure walked out.
When the figure walked out, the sword in Li Qingchan’s hand slipped from her hand as shock filled her usually frosty face.
Li Chunjun, Zhen Xu and Ning Zhan also dazedly stared at the figure, the latter two even rubbing their eyes.
Ning Zhan mumbled, “Are we seeing things? He looks like…”
However, the majority had blank looks on their faces. After all, it had been many years since Zhou Yuan had left Cangxuan Heaven. Besides the handful who knew him, no one else could recognize him. Hence, they were utterly confused by Li Qingchan’s, Li Chunjun’s and the others’ shocked reactions.
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br /> However, their confusion did not last long. As the youthful figure walked forward, his calm voice that seemed to give off a feeling of pressure echoed across the sky, “Hunyuan Heaven, grand elder of the Tianyuan Region...
“Cangxuan Sect Chosen, Zhou Yuan is here!”
Chapter 1125 Cangxuan Sect’s Chosen
“Hunyuan Heaven, Tianyuan Region’s grand elder, Cangxuan Sect Chosen, Zhou Yuan is here!”
When a voice echoed throughout the great valley, countless people from the Cangxuan Sect opened their mouths soundlessly, particularly disciples of the Cangxuan Sect. Their faces were crossed with shocked disbelief.
“Cangxuan Sect Chosen, Zhou Yuan?!”
They didn’t quite understand Zhou Yuan's first sentence, but his identity was clear from his last sentence.
He’s also from the Cangxuan Sect?
The majority of the Cangxuan Sect disciples who could stand here were more senior than Zhou Yuan and were higher-ups within the sect when Zhou Yuan had made a name in the Cangxuan Sect. Therefore, they always looked at Zhou Yuan proudly as if he were their younger brother.
When Zhou Yuan left Cangxuan Heaven, his name gradually faded from the sect over the years, and only very few people ever mentioned his name, except for some of his friends. But when they heard his name again, the dazzling achievements he had gained in the Cangxuan Sect involuntarily flashed to their minds.
“It really is him!”
Zhen Xu and Ning Zhan looked at each other. Even Zhen Xu, who always had a gloomy personality, immediately showed a hint of excitement in his eyes.
Li Chunjun also raised his head, and he faced the same direction with his eyes covered by a black cloth. However, he was focused on something else. “That Genesis Qi indeed belongs to Zhou Yuan. Moreover, he has become so strong that even the sword qi in my body is trembling as though it sensed indescribable danger.”
Zhen Xu and Ning Zhan shuddered. Although Li Chunjun, like them, was only at the initial Heavenly Sun stage, they knew that Li Chunjun's combat strength far surpassed theirs.
After all, not all initial Heavenly Sun experts were capable of killing advanced Heavenly Sun experts, even if the advanced Heavenly Sun experts were relatively ordinary. But they had never heard Li Chunjun appraise someone in such a way.
Not even Chu Qing.
But right now, Li Chunjun had made such a comment about Zhou Yuan. In other words, Zhou Yuan had reached a level far beyond them.
Ning Zhan tightly clasped his iron bludgeon and slowly said, "It seems that he has been doing well these years.”
Zhou Yuan's appearance equally shocked Li Qingchan. She had never expected that an old friend would come to save them at such a critical moment. Moreover, others might not understand Zhou Yuan's first sentence, but she did.
"Hunyuan Heaven, Tianyuan Region’s grand elder?”
It seems he has been in Hunyuan Heaven all these years? Li Qingchan had heard that the most powerful forces in Hunyuan Heaven were overseen by Saint experts and that their grand elders were Law Domain experts, which was the same level as sect master Qing Yang!
It was precisely because of this that Li Qingchan couldn’t help exclaiming in her heart, Zhou Yuan has become a grand elder of the Tianyuan Region?!
Faced with such shocking facts, even Li Qingchan, who was always calm and composed, was left speechless. What has Zhou Yuan done over the years?!
However, in addition to shock, a relieved smile also lit up her icy face. She swept a glance over the panicking Cangxuan Sect disciples beside her and said in a serious voice, "We are saved!”
"Senior brother Zhou Yuan...can he really do it?" asked another disciple anxiously.
After all, the Sacred Race team was too strong that they felt despair.
Li Qingchan nodded firmly, staring at the vague slender figure in the distance. “If it’s someone else, I’m not sure. But I absolutely believe he can!”
This was because Li Qingchan had witnessed Zhou Yuan produce too many miracles.
The other forces from Cangxuan Heaven were also whispering to one another at that moment. Some Heavenly Sun experts also faintly remembered Zhou Yuan’s name, which had once reverberated throughout Cangxuan Heaven, and they couldn’t help look enviously at the former Cangxuan Sect Chosen who had been doing very well after disappearing for many years.
“He went to Hunyuan Heaven? Why did he become a grand elder of the Tianyuan Region?”
Mu Wuji was also dumbfounded. Tianyuan Region grand elder? What kind of identity is that? He really couldn't connect that position with the youngster who he introduced into the sect.
“I haven’t seen this kid in just a few years, but he has become so strong,” muttered Mu Wuji. His eyes then lit up. If Zhou Yuan had come alone, he might not be able to change the situation much, but he was a grand elder of the Tianyuan Region, and the powerful force before Mu Wuji had to be the Tianyuan Region team.
"It seems we won't have to die now.” Mu Wuji grinned at Chu Qing.
Chu Qing said a little helplessly, "This guy came at such an untimely moment. My emotions were already brewing, but he suddenly interrupted them.”
Although he said this, the relaxed corners of his eyes exposed his joy. He wasn’t concerned about his own safety, but he hoped more people from the Cangxuan Heaven could survive with Zhou Yuan leading the Tianyuan Region team to intervene.
“Cangxuan Sect Chosen, Zhou Yuan?”
On the opposite side, Li Xuan from the Sacred Palace scrunched his brows in a frown. Zhou Yuan’s name had had a vague impression on him before because Zhou Yuan had defeated even the Sacred Palace’s Jiang Taishen and Wu Huang. He had also made impressive achievements, but Li Xuan didn't care too much. After all, in his view, they were like children quarreling over rankings, and they weren't worthy of his attention.
But he had never expected that the person who had been missing for many years would appear at such a time. Moreover, he was afraid of the Hunyuan Heaven team behind Zhou Yuan.
"Who is that person?" Ji Mo asked.
Li Xuan hurriedly explained, "That person used to be a Chosen of the Cangxuan Sect, but our Sacred Palace had later driven him out of Cangxuan Heaven. It seems that he had fled to Hunyuan Heaven.”
"Then why did he say he’s a grand elder of the Tianyuan Region?” Ji Mo frowned. From what he knew, the Tianyuan Region’s grand elders were all at the Law Domain stage, but Zhou Yuan was evidently far from that level.
Li Xuan shook his head hesitantly. “It might just be a lie.”
Ji Mo said expressionless, "It doesn't matter whether it's a lie or not. Since the Tianyuan Region team has arrived, they will disrupt our plan.”
Their Shengling Heaven was ranked third among the four heavens of the Sacred Race, and Hunyuan Heaven was the leader of the lower five heavens. So even if Ji Mo was arrogant, he couldn’t underestimate them.
Fortunately for him, only the Tianyuan Region team had arrived, not Hunyuan Heaven’s other eight regions. It was clear that even Ji Mo knew about the Tianyuan Region’s deterioration over the years.
He raised his head and swept an indifferent gaze over Zhou Yuan, saying, "Everyone of Hunyuan Heaven, you and I have never interfered in each other’s business. If you turn around and leave now, I will be happy to make friends.”
Ji Mo paused for a moment before he continued, “I hope you can calmly think about the consequences of being an enemy of my Sacred Race.”
The battlefield fell silent, and many Cangxuan Heaven people’s expressions changed indefinitely. They knew Ji Mo was threatening them, but they could vividly feel the fear brought up by the words Sacred Race. In this world, no force could easily ignore that fear.
They turned to the young man standing at the forefront of the Tianyuan Region team. Could the former Chosen of the Cangxuan Sect really endure such pressure?
Under many gazes, Zhou Yuan remained calm and slowly lifted one finger.
Buzz!
Platinum Genesis Qi swiftly
gathered around his fingertip, turning into a shaft of light as it shot out.
Boom!
The beam of Genesis Qi brushed past Ji Mo’s shoulder and crashed into a cliff, blasting the wall apart.
Ji Mo's hair fluttered, but his face didn’t ripple at all. He knew that Zhou Yuan had shown his answer through action. Therefore, his lips cracked into a chilling smile.
"If you want to die, then I will fulfill your wish, lowly pig!"
Chapter 1126 Test
When Ji Mo’s voice filled with a thick murderous intent resounded, the many Sacred Race experts behind him fixed their gaze on Zhou Yuan. Although Hunyuan Heaven was the strongest of the lower five heavens, they still felt superior as part of the Sacred Race.
So in their view, Zhou Yuan was asking for death.
Zhou Yuan, however, didn’t seem to notice the many contemptuous gazes. He smiled at Ji Mo and said, "I wonder how you plan to let me die. Do you want to come up and play? I am also very curious to see what’s so great about the Sacred Race.”
A faint light flickered in Ji Mo's eyes as he studied Zhou Yuan for a moment. Then, he smiled mockingly. "Are you sure you’re the leader of the Tianyuan Region team? An intermediate Heavenly Sun expert?”
He detected Zhou Yuan's cultivation level.
His remark drew loud laughter from many Sacred Race experts, and the contempt in their eyes intensified. Had the Tianyuan Region deteriorated to such a state that even someone at the intermediate Heavenly Sun stage could become a leader?
Did they have no one else?
The various experts from Cangxuan Heaven stared at Zhou Yuan in bewilderment.
The former Chosen of the Cangxuan Sect is only at the intermediate Heavenly Sun stage? But, in truth, he is already considered very talented since he could achieve this in a few years.
After all, Zhou Yuan's peers, such as Li Chunjun and Zuoqiu Qingyu, were as talented as him but were still only at the initial Heavenly Sun stage.
Although Li Chunjun took an alternative route and could display a strength equal to the advanced Heavenly Sun stage, doing so placed a huge burden on him, and he wasn’t considered a true top-tier advanced Heavenly Sun expert.
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