Sword Qi stretched across thirty thousand miles.
A single sword's light chilled the nineteen continents.
Chen Changan used his finger as a sword. With a flick of his hand, a wave of Sword Qi surged toward the crowd like an avalanche.
Wherever the Sword Qi passed, not a blade of grass remained!
Everyone saw a flash of sword light. The next moment, it seemed as if the entire world had fallen silent.
When they looked closely, corpses covered the ground!
A single strand of Sword Qi had such power?
Thud!
The King of the Great Zhou Kingdom dropped to his knees. He had lost—utterly and completely.
Who could have imagined that Chen Changan's strength would truly be this heaven-defying?
"Having more people doesn't always help," Chen Changan said calmly as he looked at the King of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
The palace grounds were limited, and only tens of thousands of soldiers could make their way inside.
Even so, Chen Changan's sword had been more than enough to amaze.
He'd slain tens of thousands of enemies with one sword. Was he even human?
The King of the Great Zhou Kingdom now understood perfectly: no matter how many times he gave the order, the soldiers outside wouldn't charge in.
Going in meant certain death. Who wanted to die?
No matter how many people there were, all they could do was make Chen Changan flick his fingers a few more times!
"I want to know who you really are."
"Let me die knowing the truth." The King of the Great Zhou Kingdom looked at Chen Changan and asked.
"I can't grant that wish."
Chen Changan didn't waste another word. He struck directly, killing everyone who remained.
A betrothal banquet had become a catastrophe for the entire Great Zhou Kingdom.
The two Grand Elders of the Shangqing Sect, along with its many Elders and disciples, had all been wiped out.
Not a single member of the Imperial Family survived, and the Liu Family was destroyed.
Though the guests hadn't all been killed, quite a few had suffered this undeserved calamity.
Only after taking care of everything did Chen Yunxuan slowly open his eyes.
When he saw the scene before him, he couldn't help freezing in shock.
"This... everyone's dead?"
"Ancestor, did you step in?" Chen Yunxuan looked at Chen Changan, feeling ashamed.
They'd agreed he would handle it himself, but in the end, he'd still troubled Chen Changan to intervene.
"Having an epiphany in the middle of battle isn't a good thing."
"I was here this time. Otherwise, you would have lost your life."
An epiphany was a good thing, but having one in the middle of a fight to the death was another matter entirely.
"You're right, Ancestor. I'll try to control it from now on," Chen Yunxuan said guiltily.
Try to control it?
"Can you actually control when you have an epiphany?" Da Huang asked, looking rather surprised.
"I feel... maybe I can." Chen Yunxuan nodded earnestly.
"Damn, Prodigy!"
Even Da Huang, a being of his caliber, couldn't help swearing.
Chen Yunxuan was every bit as much of a Prodigy as those so-called prodigies, if not more so.
"I just don't get it."
"Someone as much of a Prodigy as him—why was he so ordinary before he turned sixteen?"
"What were you doing all that time?" Da Huang asked, baffled.
Hearing Da Huang's question, Chen Yunxuan looked a little awkward. He smiled wryly. "Senior Da Huang, I worked hard before too. Maybe I just suddenly saw the light."
Suddenly saw the light?
That was certainly possible.
In a small place like Yan Gui City, Chen Yunxuan had no resources and no cultivation techniques. It was only natural that his talents had gone unnoticed.
If Chen Changan hadn't returned, Chen Yunxuan might still be just as he'd always been.
"How much did you gain from this epiphany?" Chen Changan asked.
"To answer you, Ancestor, this epiphany made my cultivation realm feel much more stable."
"Though my cultivation didn't improve, I feel stronger than before."
"And... I comprehended an artistic conception!"
An artistic conception?
There were people who could comprehend one in the Transcendent Realm, but Chen Yunxuan hadn't actually been cultivating seriously for all that long.
"What artistic conception did you comprehend?"
"You cultivate the Supreme Hegemon Body Art and follow the domineering path of charging straight ahead."
"I imagine this artistic conception has something to do with the word 'hegemon,' right?" Chen Changan asked.
"Just as you said, Ancestor, the essence of the artistic conception I comprehended is dominance."
"I can cover my whole body with this domineering force, or release it outward."
"It greatly increases my combat strength," Chen Yunxuan said, visibly excited.
There were countless artistic conceptions in the world, but Chen Yunxuan's seemed to belong to him alone. At least, Chen Changan had never heard of one like it.
"Does this artistic conception have a name?"
"I want to call it... the Heavenly One Artistic Conception."
The Heavenly One Artistic Conception?
The best under heaven, with none but me supreme?
It wasn't especially good, but it would do.
"Let's go. Things here are settled."
"We should find Chen Zhengyuan and the others," Chen Changan said calmly.
"Yes."
"Wait!"
"Something's wrong!"
Just as they were about to leave, Da Huang suddenly called out to Chen Changan and the others.
Chen Changan's brow furrowed slightly. It was rare to see Da Huang looking this shocked.
Before Chen Changan could ask what was wrong, he noticed the strange phenomenon too.
Chen Changan and Chen Yunxuan looked up and saw that, at some point, the entire sky had been enveloped by a tremendous energy.
A seven-colored glow flickered in the sky, appearing and disappearing.
"A celestial phenomenon?"
"Da Huang, is something major about to happen?" Chen Changan asked with a frown.
Chen Changan had never encountered anything like this before. Clearly, neither had Da Huang.
"I'm not sure, but I feel... this energy is terrifying," Da Huang said gravely.
Terrifying?
Cloud Peak
Mu Yunyao had just arrived near Cloud Peak as well.
Given Mu Yunyao's strength, it had still taken her more than ten days to get there, which showed just how far Cloud Peak was from the Great Zhou Kingdom.
Mu Yunyao wasn't the only one on Cloud Peak's outskirts. It seemed that many factions had sent people to keep watch on the mountain and observe its every move.
The energy fluctuations atop Cloud Peak were even more pronounced. The faint seven-colored glow in the sky was emanating from there.
"Cloud Peak is stirring. Could the Human Ranking from the legends finally be about to open?"
"I'm not sure. This is the first time I've heard of anything like this. But either way, our task is done."
"Exactly. Let's go report back."
"Let's go."
As Cloud Peak stirred, the people sent by every faction chose to leave.
Watching them go, Mu Yunyao shook her head. It seemed few of the people from her generation were still in this world.
Otherwise, how could they do something so foolish?
When the Human Ranking opened, everyone would be able to see it. There was no need for them to stand guard here or report back.
If the Human Ranking truly opened, the entire world would know before they even made it back.
"A wasted trip. If I'd known it would open this soon, I wouldn't have come."
Looking at the seven-colored glow atop Cloud Peak, Mu Yunyao's eyes filled with a trace of nostalgia.
After tens of thousands of years, the Heaven Earth Human Three Rankings were finally about to reappear in the world.
She only wondered what kind of upheaval they would bring to the Great Profound Realm this time.
As Mu Yunyao pondered, the Human Ranking suddenly shot skyward from Cloud Peak's summit, soaring into the air.
"The Human Ranking... is finally about to open!"
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