At this moment, all the members of the Xiao Family were somewhat at a loss.
Feathered Realm!
That's a legendary figure, a big shot at the top of the food chain even in the Thirty-Six Domains of Yuhua Prefecture.
Offending such a being is enough to send chills down your spine, as if you've fallen into an ice cave.
Can Zhang Yu stop him?
What should the Wei Kingdom do now?
Overwhelming worry and fear once again drowned out the nascent hope and emotion, causing Xiao Fenghua's heart to clench tightly.
She looked at Zhang Yu with an incredibly complex gaze, a mixture of boundless admiration and dependence, as well as unfathomable worry.
The atmosphere in front of the Imperial Palace was extremely heavy.
Li Feitian's body lay coldly in the pit, while Li Shan roared and struggled like a mad tiger, the golden chains buzzing as if he might break them at any moment.
The people of the Wei Kingdom were filled with mixed emotions, a mixture of fear and hope.
In the sky, Zhang Yu remained expressionless, as if he had done something insignificant.
He calmly turned to Li Shan, who was acting like a madman.
That gaze remained icy, even carrying a hint of... faint mockery?
"Direct descendant"?
Zhang Yu spoke calmly, his voice clearly reaching everyone's ears, like a bucket of ice water poured over the frantically roaring Li Shan:
So what?
"He deserved to die, so kill him."
"As for the Feathered Ancestor..."
The illusory figure paused, an invisible aura seemingly rising around it, faintly connecting with the entire Imperial City's Grand Formation:
"If he wants to come and die, I... I'll be waiting."
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Yu slowly raised his hand and gently pointed at Li Shan, whose eyes were bloodshot with rage.
This gesture was unremarkable.
There were no earth-shattering energy fluctuations, no dazzling light, and not even the slightest bit of wind.
It was as if an ordinary person had simply raised their finger and pointed in a certain direction.
However, the moment Zhang Yu pointed his finger, Li Shan's ferocious and crazed expression, like that of a trapped beast, suddenly froze!
A chilling, bone-deep, terrifying coldness, penetrating to the very depths of his soul, swept over his entire body without warning.
It wasn't Physical Body coldness, but an extreme fear of absolute destruction stemming from the instinct of the soul.
The sense of crisis he felt was as strong as the faint aura that the Feathered Ancestor of the Crimson Blood Sect had inadvertently revealed when he was young.
No! That's not right!
Li Shan's pupils contracted sharply, and his mind trembled violently.
This feeling... is even more despairing and unfathomable than when facing the Feathered Ancestor.
It was a death threat that he could not understand, touch, or even perceive the source of.
That Killing Intent was like an invisible blade hanging overhead, ready to fall at any moment—cold, silent, yet utterly deadly!
How is that possible?
This kid... how could Zhang Yu, who's controlling the Formation, possibly be at the Feathered Realm?
Even with the help of Formation to suppress himself, his aura was clearly only at the Grandmaster Realm.
Even if it's somewhat strange, it's absolutely impossible to achieve ascension.
But where does this deep-seated, Divine Soul -crushing sense of impending death come from?
"No--!"
Li Shan screamed wildly in his heart.
He wanted to struggle, to unleash all his True Essence, to use a life-saving technique, and to see where this invisible and intangible attack came from.
But it was too late.
He didn't even have time to make any effective response, or even to fully process the thought.
The next moment.
"Puff..."
A sound so faint it was almost negligible resonated deep within Li Shan's soul.
His frantically struggling body suddenly stiffened, and all his movements stopped instantly.
The ferocious, angry expression on his face froze, then transformed into utter bewilderment, followed by a final surge of fear.
The light in his wide eyes vanished rapidly, leaving them empty and lifeless.
"Bang."
Li Shan's lifeless body, like a tattered sack with all its bones removed, collapsed limply to the ground, kicking up a small cloud of dust.
Li Shan, the Great Grandmaster Protector of the Crimson Blood Sect, is dead!
Silent and eerie.
From the moment Zhang Yu raised his finger to the moment Li Shan collapsed and died, the entire process was incredibly fast and eerily quiet.
There was no fierce confrontation, no dazzling light and shadow, and not even any superfluous sound.
A Martial Dao Great Grandmaster, considered a strong figure even in Yuhua Prefecture, was struck by a finger from a distance in full view of everyone, causing his Divine Soul to dissipate and him to perish completely.
This is one of Zhang Yu's true Trump Card — the Spirit Soul Sword —that allowed him to disregard the Crimson Blood Sect and even the threat from that Feathered Ancestor!
In the past few days, as system rewards have been continuously distributed, his Cultivation has quietly broken through to the Late Grandmaster at a speed that is incomprehensible to others.
Not only that, he also received eight years of Divine Soul Cultivation infusion and eight years of Body Refinement Cultivation enhancement.
The Cultivation Method he practiced was mysterious and unpredictable; even Zhang Yu himself had not been able to fully comprehend it, but its effects were nothing short of miraculous.
Without relying on any external force, his Physical Body strength and the power of his True Qi are now comparable to those of an ordinary Martial Dao Great Grandmaster.
The most crucial element was those eight years of Divine Soul Cultivation.
The Martial Dao of this world seem to have never involved the Divine Soul.
Zhang Yu has never seen any Martial Artist possess the Soul Power, including Great Grandmaster Li Shan.
Even with his current Grandmaster Cultivation and Physical Body, he wouldn't have been able to unleash such a refined Divine Soul attack.
This Spirit Soul Sword was something he created in a sudden burst of inspiration while setting up the Zhoutian Star-Dou Imperial City Composite Formation these past few days.
He deeply integrated himself with the Formation, using the vast Formation power as a guide, his own powerful and refined Divine Soul as a foundation, and with the help of the magnificent and unique energy field of the Imperial City's Earth Vein, he created a new move by fortuitous opportunity.
This move is formless and intangible, specifically designed to slay the Divine Soul, and its speed is beyond imagination.
Unless the opponent possesses a Divine Soul Cultivation no weaker than or even stronger than Zhang Yu's, or has a top-tier treasure or secret technique specifically designed to counter Divine Soul.
Otherwise, caught off guard, even a powerful expert Cultivation a much higher cultivation level could perish on the spot.
Although Li Shan was Great Grandmaster, he had no Soul Power whatsoever.
He didn't even realize the source or form of the attack before his Divine Soul was instantly annihilated by the silent Spirit Soul Sword.
In Zhang Yu's view, without a specific means to deal with attacks on the Divine Soul, even the legendary Feathered Realm might not be able to gain the upper hand against this unpredictable Spirit Soul Sword.
This is his greatest source of confidence.
Of course, this move consumes a great deal of Soul Power and requires Grand Formation integration with the Imperial City to unleash its maximum power, thus having many limitations.
A deathly silence fell once again in front of the Imperial Palace gates.
It was even quieter and more eerie than when Li Feitian was strangled to death.
All eyes were fixed on Li Shan's lifeless corpse, then slowly shifted to the blue-robed figure standing with his hands behind his back in the sky.
Xiao Zhengfeng's lips trembled, his mind went blank.
A Great Grandmaster... just like that... died?
He died just from a single pointing finger from Zhang Yu?
What... what kind of tactic is this?
Unheard of, unseen.
Just how strong is he?
Elder Xuan was utterly horrified; he understood the power and terror of Great Grandmaster even better than Xiao Zhengfeng.
Yet this powerful figure, capable of establishing a sect and dominating a region in Yuhua Prefecture, died so... so easily, so strangely, in front of Zhang Yu.
What exactly was that move Zhang Yu just made?
He simply couldn't understand it.
This unknown, even more powerful than the known, inspires fear and... awe.
"Could this be the method of a reincarnated powerful being? Truly unbelievable."
Xiao Xuan once again speculated, attributing everything to Zhang Yu's identity Great Being Reincarnation being.
Zhang Yu's illusory image slowly dissipated, as if it had never existed.
But his calm yet resolute words, and the terrifying power that allowed him to annihilate Great Grandmaster with a flick of his finger, were like a brand, deeply engraved in the soul of everyone present.
The trouble may have only just begun.
But Zhang Yu used the most direct and domineering method to declare his attitude and bottom line to everyone.