A Cauldron of Merit

A blade qi ten thousand zhang long cleaved across the sky.

Over a hundred Enlightenment Realm experts above Jade Capital City were instantly swallowed up. Their protective barriers were like paper, thoroughly shredded in a single exchange.

"No..."

Furious roars of unwillingness and despair echoed through the air.

Of the hundred or so, not one survived.

This strike of Lin Baichuan's was the strongest he could wield. No one in Jade Capital City could withstand it—not even Lü Yuxin, who had burned her life-force origin and forcibly raised her cultivation to the peak of the Dao Seeking Fourth Realm.

She had only barely held on for ten breaths.

After ten breaths, her body was completely ground apart by the blade light, turning into a rain of blood mist.

Heaven and earth fell silent.

Everyone had been stunned by Lin Baichuan's strike.

Aboard the warship, Tu Fusheng, Luo Zhan, and the others were all dumbfounded. They had known Lin Baichuan was strong, but they had never imagined he would be powerful to such an extent.

At the same time!

In concealed locations around Jade Capital City, another group of people was equally stunned.

They had been dispatched to the Barren Land by the various great powers to investigate the Barbarian Suppression Army's campaign against Jade Capital City.

Originally, they had merely wanted to see how strong the Barbarian Suppression Army truly was and whether it could capture Jade Capital City.

Who would have thought that they would witness a scene so unbelievable?

"My heavens, is that Lin Baichuan, the Commander of the Barbarian Suppression Army? Just how terrifying has his strength become? Could he have already stepped into the Five Realms of Dao Seeking?"

"According to the intelligence, he seems to be only around twenty years old! To possess such horrifying