Number One Under Heaven Lin Heng

The Great Battle was over.

Corpses lay strewn everywhere, and the stench of blood permeated the air.

At this moment, the entire Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate had been reduced to ruins.

Yet no one cared. On the contrary, everyone was in extraordinarily high spirits, cheering and celebrating.

"Long live the Young Sect Master!"

"The Young Sect Master is invincible under heaven!"

"We owe today's victory entirely to the Young Sect Master!"

After defeating Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City, the two Martial Arts Holy Lands that stood alongside Cloud Sword Palace, no force in the world could any longer rival Cloud Sword Palace.

From this moment on, their Cloud Sword Palace was the Number One Sect Under Heaven!

They were the undisputed Strongest Legacy beneath heaven and earth, and Lin Heng was the unquestionable Number One Expert Under Heaven!

Every gaze directed at Lin Heng brimmed with intense worship and awe.

"We won."

Lin Heng looked around at the smiling faces surrounding him, and a smile appeared on his own face as well.

During the Great Battle just now, the internal energy consumed every minute and every second would have been an astronomical figure even to a Martial Artist at Grandmaster Perfection. Even with Lin Heng's formidable Essence, Qi, and Spirit, he had suffered no small amount of depletion. At this moment, he was still continuously drawing in Heaven and Earth Origin Energy to recover.

But that slight fatigue could not dampen his joy.

This Great Battle had forged Lin Heng's confidence. His Combat Power was invincible under heaven—terrifyingly powerful.

This simulation had begun with 20 points in family background, already at its peak from the outset.

But now, through his own unrelenting efforts, he had broken through that peak. After today, his family background would surpass 20 points.

Receiving a high evaluation for this simulation was as certain as a nail driven into a board.

"Reporting to Sect Master and Young Sect Master, a total of 4,937 enemies were killed in this battle. Our side lost 223 people. Not a single one was killed; they all died of old age."

At that moment, the Post-War tally was complete, and someone reported the results.

In tonight's Great Battle, Cloud Sword Palace had faced two successive waves of enemy invasion. The first had been the Kill Heng Society Members, whom Lin Heng had taken down alone.

The second had been an invasion by the experts of Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City. Lin Heng had divided them apart and dealt with the majority of their experts. Cloud Sword Palace's Great Grandmasters had dealt with the remaining Grandmasters, while the rest of the Cloud Sword Palace disciples had been responsible for stopping the Martial Artists who tried to flee.

The Cloud Sword Palace Martial Artists who had died were all frail old men in the twilight of their years.

To protect the younger generation, they had charged at the very front in the earlier fighting. Though their vital blood had been greatly depleted, Cloud Sword Palace had been fighting from a higher level against a lower one, so there had been no casualties because of it.

But after the battle ended, once they realized that Cloud Sword Palace had become the Strongest Legacy beneath heaven and earth, many of these old men—who had not had much lifespan left to begin with—could no longer hold themselves together. Their emotions surged, and they went ahead first.

Yet they had not died with any sense of grievance. They had truly gone to the Nine Springs with smiles on their faces.

"Give them proper burials. Let their merits shelter their descendants."

Xiao Rang answered.

During the battle just now, every Cloud Sword Palace expert had expended no small amount of Essence, Qi, and Spirit. Xiao Rang was no exception.

Having recovered some of his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, Xiao Rang rose to his feet.

He swept his gaze around, then finally fixed it on Lin Heng. Brimming with high spirits, he said, "Disciple, how about you remain here to guard the mountain gate? The Great Battle is over. Leave the remaining trivial matters to this old man."

Winning was only the beginning of this battle.

What came next was the reckoning with the other two Martial Arts Holy Lands—the time to truly reap the Spoils of War.

Xiao Rang intended to have Law Enforcement Elder Li Yan lead a group of experts to take over the Spoils of War from Heavenly Star Valley, while he himself would lead people to claim the Spoils of War from Ice Frost City.

Those who had come to lend their strength would return home to mobilize the forces under their command and settle accounts with the vassals that had submitted to Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City.

Only after this reckoning was thoroughly complete, and Cloud Sword Palace had obtained resources befitting its current status, could it be considered to have truly become the Strongest Legacy beneath heaven and earth.

Lin Heng was already exhausted from today's Great Battle, and Xiao Rang did not wish for him to keep rushing about.

In any case, Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City no longer had any experts left. As for the old, weak, sick, and crippled people remaining to guard their mountain gates, they could handle them without Lin Heng needing to act.

Of course, that was Xiao Rang's own thinking. He still needed to ask Lin Heng's opinion, since Lin Heng deserved the foremost credit for tonight's great victory.

"Alright. Master, go ahead. I'll remain here and hold the mountain gate."

Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

The Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate stored countless martial arts legacies and supplies, while the remains of Ancient Sages were buried beneath the ground. They had also captured many Demonic Heretics from the Kill Heng Society during the battle, who were awaiting interrogation. Someone absolutely had to remain behind to guard the place.

As the main Combat Power in the Great Battle, he had consumed a great deal of Essence, Qi, and Spirit. He truly was tired.

Moreover, he had gained quite a lot during the fighting. Next, he needed to cultivate in peace and transform those gains into his own cultivation.

Thus, for Lin Heng at this moment, stillness was better than motion.

"Oh, right. Ice Frost City."

At that moment, Lin Heng sent another Sound Transmission into Secrecy to Xiao Rang.

He had once received a Foundation Establishment Spirit Medicine from Ice Frost City to make up for his deficiency, eliminating the Negative Trait known as the Sign of Early Death. He therefore believed that he owed Ice Frost City a favor.

Though that favor was not enough to make Lin Heng show mercy while the two sides were enemies, after the battle was over, as the victor, he could show them a little consideration during the final reckoning and repay that favor.

"Don't worry. I'll leave a line of incense burning for the descendants of Ice Frost City Sect Master Shui Wenzhao."

Xiao Rang replied.

With that, the conversation ended, and Xiao Rang began issuing orders.

Law Enforcement Elder Li Yan would lead numerous Elders and Great Grandmaster-level experts, along with several hundred Grandmasters to assist them, to Heavenly Star Valley overnight and seize its Spoils of War.

Xiao Rang himself led people to Ice Frost City, while the experts who had come to lend their strength dispersed, returning home to claim the benefits due to them for choosing the right side this time.

Many Cloud Sword Palace disciples who had completed their training abroad would also be summoned later to help collect and transport the Spoils of War.

Within the enormous Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate, only Lin Heng and a group of old men with little lifespan remaining, who could not endure the journey, were left behind.

With the battle over, the servants and Maids who had previously been sent away to hide returned. Under the old men's direction, they began cleaning up the corpses throughout the mountain gate.

The prisoners who were still alive were also securely locked up, and interrogation by torture began to extract intelligence.

Though Lin Heng did nothing, simply knowing that he was within the mountain gate made them obey with heartfelt awe and reverence, keeping everything running along its proper course.

Seeing that everything was functioning normally, Lin Heng stopped concerning himself with it. Amid the Cloud Sword Palace that had become a field of ruins and wreckage, he sat down in Cross-Legged Meditation.

As he recovered his condition, he also began sorting through and digesting what he had gained from that Great Battle.

Time passed.

And at that very moment, news that the Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate had been ambushed and that the experts of Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City had been completely wiped out gradually spread throughout the Jianghu of Lan Continent.

The world was instantly shaken!