Hongmen Banquet

Wind Snow Prefecture, deepest part.

A secret chamber built entirely from soundproof black stone.

Tie Zhan, the Fortress Lord of Iron Clothes Fortress, abruptly stood up from his steel chair.

"Bang!"

His thick fingers slammed heavily onto the stone table before him, shaking it and causing several cracks to appear.

"Chu Jue is dead! An old monster in the Divine Sea Realm, his head was blown apart by a single punch!" Tie Zhan's eyes were bloodshot, his breathing heavy like a bellows.

His proud steel bones felt chilled to the core the moment he heard the intelligence.

"This kid isn't human at all! He's an ancient ferocious beast wearing human skin! He can crush Spirit Artifacts with his bare hands, how many punches can my Iron Clothes Fortress withstand?"

Li Xuekuang, the Sect Master of Blood Saber Gate, paced frantically within the secret chamber.

The top-grade Blood Saber at his waist emitted an uneasy hum, a resonance triggered by his disordered True Qi.

"The Prefecture must act!" Li Xuekuang suddenly stopped pacing, staring intently at the Prefecture Lord seated in the main seat.

"Prefectural Lord Xiao! Heavenly Sword Sect is gone. If we two families are visited one by one by that madman, the entire Wind Snow Great Province will be thrown into chaos! You represent the Imperial Court, are you going to watch him slaughter the Prefecture from top to bottom?!"

In the main seat.

Prefecture Lord Xiao Tiannan sat unmoving.

He wore a Cloud Pattern Official Robe and had a stern expression.

The vast True Qi of the early Divine Sea Realm flowed slowly within him like an abyss, forcefully suppressing the anxious aura emanating from Li Xuekuang and Tie Zhan.

Xiao Tiannan played with two smooth Jade Gallbladders in his hand.

"Crack."

His thumb exerted force, crushing one of the Jade Gallbladders into powder.

The jade powder trickled down through his fingers.

"What's the rush," Xiao Tiannan's voice was extremely cold, laced with undisguised killing intent.

"He destroyed Heavenly Sword Sect and shattered the tripartite balance of Wind Snow Great Province. I, as the Prefecture Lord, will naturally not let such a madman, who is beyond the Imperial Court's control, live."

Tie Zhan stepped forward, asking urgently, "The Prefecture Lord intends to act personally? That kid's physical body is bizarre; he could kill Chu Jue with one punch. If the Prefecture Lord faces him alone..."

"If I were to clash head-on with him, I can't guarantee I wouldn't lose a piece of myself." Xiao Tiannan casually tossed aside the remaining half of the Jade Gallbladder.

He reached into his sleeve and pulled out a bronze token, dark blue all over, emitting a bone-chilling coldness.

"Snap."

The bronze token was thrown onto the stone table.

Li Xuekuang and Tie Zhan's gazes were instantly drawn to the token.

"Cold Dragon Blood Abyss?!" Both of them gasped in unison.

This was the deepest forbidden area of the Imperial Court in Wind Snow Great Province!

Xiao Tiannan placed both hands on the stone table, leaned forward, a hint of venom flashing in his eyes.

"That's right. Isn't this kid relying on his brute physical strength and love for slaughter? Doesn't he like to devour the flesh and blood of high-level Demon Beasts?"

Xiao Tiannan let out a cold laugh.

"At the bottom of that abyss, sealed by an ancient mountain-sealing formation, lies a mid-stage Divine Sea Realm Demon Beast raised by the Imperial Court, the Ice Calamity Dragon."

"This Calamity Dragon has been starved for three hundred years. Its blood and qi are like the sea; it will go completely berserk at the mere scent of living flesh and blood."

Li Xuekuang's eyes suddenly lit up, his rapid footsteps completely ceasing.

"The Prefecture Lord means... to kill with a borrowed knife?"

Xiao Tiannan straightened up.

"I will send someone to deliver an invitation and the forbidden area token, stating that the Prefecture, along with your two great sects, is willing to bow and concede. We will invite him to the Cold Dragon Blood Abyss for a banquet, offering the Imperial Court's treasure vault as tribute."

"As long as he dares to step into the abyss."

Xiao Tiannan clenched his right hand into a fist.

"We will fully activate the ancient mountain-sealing formation from the outside! Seal all his escape routes and awaken the Ice Calamity Dragon in advance!"

Tie Zhan clenched his fists, a sinister smile finally appearing on his face.

"A mid-stage Divine Sea Realm Calamity Dragon! Its body is ten times tougher than steel! No matter how strong that kid's body is, he'll be nothing more than a slightly hard bone in front of the Calamity Dragon. This is a perfect trap, a sure kill!"

"See to it immediately," Xiao Tiannan sat back in his grand chair.

"Let him die in the dragon's maw; we won't even have to clean up his remains."

Fifty miles outside Prefecture City.

A barren expanse of scattered rocks.

Sun Yu stood bare-chested, his pale skin revealing dark red Asura Demonic Marks that pulsed slowly beneath like a breath.

He stood before a giant rock ten zhang high.

He didn't draw his sword, nor did he throw a punch.

Sun Yu simply took a step forward with extreme casualness.

"Buzz!"

The bottomless black hole deep within his dantian roared to life.

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With Sun Yu at the center, the space within a ten-zhang radius around him suddenly distorted visibly.

Gravity, in this instant, surged by a full ten times!

"Crack, crack, crack, crack!"

Gnashing, cracking sounds erupted densely.

That massive, hard boulder, ten zhang tall, didn't even last a single breath.

Without any external force to strike it.

The boulder, under the terrifying pressure of ten times gravity, collapsed inch by inch from the top, instantly turning into a pile of fine stone powder, spread flat on the ground.

The ground within ten zhang caved downward by three feet out of nowhere.

Sun Yu stood in the center of the force field, stretching his neck, his joints emitting a crisp sword-like hum.

With ten times gravity pressing down, he didn't feel the slightest discomfort.

The ultimate foundation of the Asura Undying Body perfectly digested this immense pressure, even turning it into a whetstone for tempering his skin and flesh.

Just then.

"Screech!"

A sharp eagle cry echoed from the sky.

A Wind Chasing Eagle, two zhang long, carrying an envoy in provincial official attire, swooped down rapidly from the clouds.

This envoy possessed the cultivation of the early Fetal Transformation Realm. He had received a death order from Xiao Tiannan and had to brace himself to come find Sun Yu.

The envoy sat on the eagle's back, spotting Sun Yu standing in the pile of rubble from afar.

He swallowed hard, suppressing the fear in his heart, and controlled the Wind Chasing Eagle to land.

"Lord... Lord Sun!" the envoy shouted loudly, attempting to display the majesty of the provincial government while still in mid-air.

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The Wind Chasing Eagle folded its wings, gliding directly towards Sun Yu's location.

The next instant.

The Wind Chasing Eagle's massive body had just entered the ten-zhang radius around Sun Yu.

"Bang!!!"

An extremely muffled sound of flesh and blood bursting.

The Wind Chasing Eagle didn't even have time to scream.

The ten-times gravity Prison Suppressing Force Field, like ten invisible iron mountains, instantly crushed its back!

The Wind Chasing Eagle's bones shattered inch by inch, its internal organs exploded on the spot, and its entire body was instantly compressed into a ball of scarlet blood mist in mid-air!

"Ah!!!"

The envoy on the eagle's back let out a piercing scream.

He lost his mount and, like a falling meteor, was brutally smashed towards the ground by the ten-times gravity.

"Crack! Crack!"

The envoy landed on his knees, his sturdy kneecaps instantly shattering into dust.

He knelt in the sunken pit three paces in front of Sun Yu, in an extremely humiliating posture.

The rampant gravity pressed his internal organs to bleed profusely, making it impossible to even lift a finger.

Sun Yu lowered his head.

His eyes, like an abyss, gazed coldly down at the envoy on the ground.

With a thought.

The ten-times gravity Prison Suppressing Force Field instantly retracted and dissipated.

The pressure suddenly lessened.

The envoy vomited large mouthfuls of blood, his hands digging fiercely into the stone powder on the ground, his body trembling like a sieve.

His early Fetal Transformation Realm cultivation was not even qualified to get close before this man!

"From the provincial government?"

Sun Yu's voice was flat, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

The envoy, enduring the crushing pain in his knees, didn't dare to look directly into Sun Yu's eyes.

Trembling, he pulled out a gold-rimmed invitation and a dark blue bronze token radiating cold air from his embrace.

He held both hands high above his head.

"Lord Sun! Your subordinate is acting on the orders of Prefect Xiao of the Provincial Prefecture, specially sent to... to deliver this invitation!"

The envoy stammered, his teeth chattering uncontrollably.

"Prefect Xiao, along with Sect Master Li of the Blood Saber Gate and Fortress Lord Tie of Iron Clothes Fortress... the three lords have already learned of your peerless prowess."

"The three lords have no intention of being your enemy; they are willing... willing to bow and surrender!"

"They have prepared a banquet of apology in the Cold Dragon Blood Abyss, the deepest part of the Great Snow Wind State. They are willing to hand over the highest permit and treasury resources of the Provincial Prefecture, all they ask is... is for you to quell your rage!"

Sun Yu stood in place, his hands hanging naturally at his sides.

He did not take the invitation.

He simply looked down at the dark blue bronze token held high by the envoy.

The bronze token emanated a faint, ancient, and violently brutal demonic aura.

"Bow and surrender?"

A cruel, cold smile curled Sun Yu's lips.

He raised his right foot and stepped directly onto the envoy's head.

He applied slight pressure with his foot.

"Crack."

The envoy's face was pressed firmly into the powdered stone, his nose broken and blood flowing freely.

"Three old foxes controlling an entire province. The Heavenly Sword Sect is barely destroyed, and they're already washing their necks and offering them up?"

Sun Yu's voice was like a chilling wind from hell, piercing the envoy's eardrums.

"Why choose the Cold Dragon Blood Abyss."

"What's inside."

Sun Yu applied more pressure with his foot.

The envoy's skull let out a creaking sound under the unbearable strain, as if it would explode like a watermelon at any moment.

The extreme fear of death completely shattered the envoy's mental defenses.

Loyalty to the Provincial Prefecture was nothing in the face of absolute violence.

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you! Stop stepping on me!"

The envoy howled mournfully, tears mixing with blood as they flowed into his mouth.

"The Cold Dragon Blood Abyss is a forbidden area of the Imperial Court! At the bottom of the abyss, a mid-stage Divine Sea Realm Ice Calamity Dragon is sealed!"

"The Prefect and the others never intended to negotiate! They plan to activate an ancient mountain-sealing formation outside and trap you in the abyss, letting the dragon devour you!"

The envoy spilled all of Xiao Tiannan's plan in one breath.

Sun Yu's foot pressure eased slightly.

He narrowed his eyes.

A Hongmen banquet.

Killing with a borrowed knife.

These schemes and tricks were within his expectations.

However, the monster mentioned by the envoy made Sun Yu's breathing momentarily deepen.

"Mid-stage Divine Sea Realm."

"Ice Calamity Dragon."

A fervent, crimson light suddenly erupted in Sun Yu's eyes.

He had just fused the Fetal Transformation Creation Art with the Asura Undying Body.

Whether it was the lake of true essence in his dantian that required endless energy to fill, or the newly initiated, ravenous Eight Desolations Prison Suppressing Technique.

Both required an extremely vast foundation of qi and blood to support!

The Heavenly Sword Sect's elixirs and herbs were barely enough to whet his appetite.

What he lacked most now was the flesh and blood of high-level Demon Beasts!

Sun Yu removed his right foot.

He bent down and grabbed the dark blue bronze token.

The token was extremely cold to the touch, indeed carrying a trace of draconic Sha Qi.

Sun Yu straightened up and casually tucked the token into his embrace.

He looked down at the envoy, who was now slumped in the pit, covered in blood.

"Scram."

Sun Yu turned around, casually pulled on a black robe, and strode towards the depths of the wilderness.

"Tell Xiao Tiannan, I accept this banquet!"