Firepower Coverage

The universe was far from silent. Heavenly Tribulations raged everywhere, all kinds of lightning striking down in brilliant cascades. Wails and shouts filled the air as countless living beings died in this Heavenly Tribulation.

From afar, the several Ancient Stars surrounding the Eternal Star Domain had already become deathly silent. The ground had sunk, endless lava spread across the land, and thick smoke billowed upward. It was a scene from hell.

Blazing bolts of lightning stretched thousands of zhang, illuminating everything. At this moment, everyone was focused on resisting the Heavenly Tribulation and had no mind to spare for Xu Changqing.

But Xu Changqing had no intention of letting them off. Bearing the Saint's Heavenly Punishment and wielding the Bone Saber, he plunged straight into the Sea of Lightning. Hundreds of millions of lightning bolts, like giant dragons, weaved through the Steel Jungle.

Clang!

A fierce saber radiance erupted again. The Bone Saber drew down the Chaos Divine Thunder from the sky, and the Saber Intent swept away all the Mechas and spacecraft before him. Countless steel fragments fell.

Bang, bang, bang...

Xu Changqing moved at astonishing speed, his expression blank as he darted through the dense piles of metal. Every time he vanished, a series of explosions and cries for help rang out.

He understood that now that he had triggered the Heavenly Tribulation, the Great Sages or Saint Kings lurking in the shadows did not dare make a move. They did not even dare reveal the slightest aura.

Otherwise, the moment their aura leaked out, what awaited them would be a Great Sage Tribulation.

Now, millions of people were undergoing tribulation together. The sky had vanished, filled entirely with lightning. The whole world was a vast expanse of white.

The mortals of the Eternal Star Domain trembled as they hid inside their rooms. The younger generation and all those with cultivation silently raised their heads to look at the sky.

Boom, whoosh...

The people of the Eternal Star Domain saw another streak of red light tear through the white world, dazzlingly conspicuous.

In a city called Fantian City, every living being raised their heads and witnessed a terrifying sight.

It was a long spear wreathed in blazing fire, its banner snapping in the wind. With every movement, dense swarms of ghosts descended from the sky and entered Fantian City.

Boom!

The instant the Demonic Banner touched the city, everyone was engulfed in red light. In the end, the entire city turned to ashes, and everyone died.

Those people became bloody light, while their souls were sucked into the Demonic Banner.

Fantian City was where the Fan Family resided. Now, it had been directly destroyed by a Great Sage artifact, and fewer than one in ten living beings remained.

If not for the Fan Family's considerable background, that single strike would have wiped the entire Fan Family from Ancient History.

Yet that strike had also turned a city into a dead city, and the entire land had sunk.

A region at the edge of the Eternal Star Domain broke away and drifted through the Starry Sky.

The Eternal Star Domain had lost a fragment of its continent!

"Ah!!!" Fan Zhantian nearly exploded with rage at the sight. Enduring lightning tribulation thousands of zhang high, he piloted his purple battle armor and charged toward Xu Changqing, prepared to fight to the death.

"You inhuman bastard, if you have the guts, stop hiding!"

Fan Zhantian roared helplessly. Because of one action of his, a family that had existed for hundreds of thousands of years had become a dead city.

Those ancestors did not dare show themselves. Their strength was not at its peak, and even if they piloted Mechas into battle, they feared they would be struck dead by the Heavenly Tribulation.

This time, Xu Changqing did not hide. He simply stood quietly beneath the Heavenly Tribulation, allowing the five-colored tribulation lightning to strike his head. Yet he remained unharmed.

He had been able to kill Saints when he was a Half-Saint. Now that he had reached the Saint Realm, it was even less of a concern.

"Die!" Seeing that Xu Changqing was not evading, Fan Zhantian was delighted. Piloting the purple Saint-grade Battle Armor, he gripped a massive blue sword with both hands and delivered an incomparably brilliant slash at Xu Changqing.

But in the next instant, something happened that left him dumbfounded.

Clang!

Xu Changqing held the Bone Saber in one hand, while his other hand rested behind his back. His white hair fluttered in the wind, and a faint cold smile rested on his lips. He looked at the purple battle armor with utter disdain.

Clang!

The purple greatsword struck the milky-white Bone Saber, instantly erupting with dazzling radiance.

"One hand!"

Fan Zhantian was terrified. Xu Changqing had caught a Saint's full-power strike with one hand and blocked it without even taking half a step back.

He gritted his teeth and poured on the strength, trying to press the greatsword down, but it would not move.

Xu Changqing still held the greatsword up with one hand, sparks constantly spraying out.

Boom!

At that moment, Saintly Might surged in from the side. A blue spacecraft rammed directly toward Xu Changqing.

Furthermore, countless gun barrels emerged along the hull, absorbing the power of the Heavenly Tribulation as they charged blazing Divine Power.

Xu Changqing shook his arm and sent the purple Mecha flying. With a stomp of his left foot, he vanished from where he stood. He then unleashed Heaven's Will Saber Art at the purple Mecha.

Sshhk!

The white saber radiance seemed utterly inconspicuous within the blazing Sea of Lightning. With a bang, the purple Mecha was split in two.

Blood also flowed into the Sea of Lightning in the Starry Sky. A golden figure the size of a fist appeared, pain and fury written across its face.

Before he could react, however, he saw a dark-red nail flying toward him.

Pfft!

The dark-red nail pierced the golden figure's brow, then erupted with black light.

"Ah!"

The golden figure wailed. Its miserable cry was like that of a vicious ghost, enough to make one's scalp go numb.

Bang!

Fan Zhantian's Nascent Soul disintegrated in an instant. Its fragments were absorbed by the dark-red nail, and he completely perished.

The dark-red nail was another item Xu Changqing had obtained from the Demonic Great Sage. It was called the Soul Suppressing Nail, also known as the Soul Slaying Nail.

It was specially designed to target Nascent Souls.

"The family head has fallen!" A Fan Family disciple witnessed the scene and spoke in a trembling voice.

A Saint had fallen!

The Starry Sky was littered with metal fragments and corpses. The metal fragments became blazing streaks of fire as they fell into the Eternal Star Domain, piercing through its protective shield and crashing into various cities.

Xu Changqing was surrounded by endless Heavenly Tribulations. By this point in the battle, he had been injured as well. His whole body was covered in blood, there was even a hole at the corner of his eye, and his clothes were in tatters.

There were bloody holes and charred, ruined flesh across both his front and back.

These were the injuries inflicted on him by the Mechas and the Heavenly Tribulation.

Xu Changqing panted faintly as he stood above everyone's heads, enduring his own Heavenly Tribulation. He looked down with cold indifference. At a glance, most of his enemies had either fled or died, but many powerful foes still remained.

For example, he could sense seven Saints.

With the Heavenly Tribulation's support, killing them would be even easier.

With that thought, Xu Changqing attacked with all his strength once more. He entered the Divine Prohibition domain, and a Saint's aura burst forth. Flames ignited over his entire body, and his injuries healed in an instant, though his face began to turn pale.

"Emperor's Fall!"

Xu Changqing wielded the Bone Saber and carried lightning thousands of zhang high as he activated his Vision, charging directly toward another Saint's Mecha.

Boom!

The Purgatory World appeared again, along with several vague, indistinct figures fighting at his side. Those figures were towering and majestic, exuding an invincible aura.

It was not over yet. Xu Changqing took out all kinds of high-tech weapons he had obtained from Emperor Daoyan. With his Saint Realm cultivation, he activated Saint-grade Battleships, Saint-grade Mechas, and all manner of guns and cannons.

Buzz!

Behind him appeared countless silver barrels. At their muzzles were intricate Great Dao patterns. The moment they were activated, they absorbed the Heavenly Tribulation overhead and converted it into offensive energy.

In an instant, Xu Changqing felt his strength drop by half, because the high-tech weapons he had taken out were all at the Saint and Half-Saint levels.

At this moment, his terrifying Divine Sense controlled hundreds of Saint-level technological products. A silver Steel Jungle appeared behind him, all emitting the aura of Saints, Half-Saints, and Severing Dao cultivators.

A wave of weakness rose within him. Xu Changqing clenched his teeth slightly and continued pouring in energy. While enduring the Heavenly Tribulation, he charged those technological products with Saint-level attacks.

Once it reached a certain point, the entire Starry Sky began to tremble. This strike was like the combined attack of thousands of Saints.

Everyone despaired. Even the Saint Kings lurking in the shadows swallowed hard. They could not imagine how Xu Changqing was sustaining such a massive army of steel.

At most, a Saint could control only a few items of the same realm. Yet Xu Changqing's weapons formed dense, endless rows.

Every technological weapon could unleash a Saint's strike. The sheer scale of such weapons made their scalps tingle.

"How could he possess so many Saint-level items? Impossible!"

"Unless he defeated a god and obtained all of that god's inheritance and possessions!"

"Should we stop him?!" A Saint King said excitedly. If they did not intervene, the Eternal Star Domain might split apart after this strike.

"How can we stop him? If we go, the Heavenly Tribulation will become even more violent. Then we will fall into a place of utter doom." Some family ancestors spoke bitterly, their faces filled with despair.

Nothing would work. Even if they activated the Protective Shields they had left within the Eternal Star Domain, they would not be able to block the surging Heavenly Tribulation and the aftershocks of all that energy.

"Then what do we do?"

"What else can we do? Wait for the Heavenly Tribulation to end. Who would dare go otherwise? We are all old men. Going there would only mean throwing away our lives."

The powerful figures in the shadows all fell silent. They could neither go nor stay away. If they went, they might be restricted and killed by the Heavenly Tribulation before they could even do anything.

If they did not go, they could only watch their descendants die before their eyes and watch ninety percent of their clan members perish.

It was agonizing for them.

"Kill!" Xu Changqing shouted coldly. His gaze was utterly indifferent as he looked at everyone in the Eternal Star Domain, without a trace of pity on his face.

By this point, he had forgotten Emperor Daoyan's instructions.

He now had only one thought: kill everyone here and leave them with an unforgettable impression and shadow.

Boom!

In the next moment, the dense Steel Jungle behind Xu Changqing unleashed beams of Immortal Light. Divine Power intertwined as brilliant technological radiance merged with Dao patterns, and fragments of profound mysteries flew through the air.

Dense beams of light shot toward the Sea of Lightning ahead.

Those terrifying beams caused enormous pillars of light to rise from every city in the Eternal Star Domain, attempting to form a protective shield.

But the battlefield in the Starry Sky was too chaotic. All kinds of energies raged wildly, the Lightning Tribulation ran amok, and the aftershocks of Dao arts and technological attacks overflowed everywhere.

All the stars outside the Eternal Star Domain shattered. Those planets turned to dust, while the moon and sun exploded as well. Dozens of enormous black holes devoured the matter, grinding away the steel fragments and rubble within.

Boom!

The light exploded again, and everyone closed their eyes. Outside the Eternal Star Domain, nothing remained.

Even the Saint's Mechas were dissolved by those terrifying beams.

This was true firepower coverage. Xu Changqing had brought out every technological product he had obtained from Emperor Daoyan and activated them all, using his vast Divine Power to operate every Saint-grade, Half-Saint, and Severing Dao-level technological weapon.

This place was destroyed and reduced to ruins in an instant. Stars, planets, suns, moons, spacecraft, and all kinds of high-tech weapons all disintegrated in a moment and turned to ashes.

From the moment Xu Changqing began his tribulation, this had been a one-sided crushing slaughter.

The powerful figures in the shadows wept at the sight. They had remained rational; otherwise, if rage had clouded their minds and they had charged in directly, the moment the Heavenly Tribulation restricted them, that white-haired man might have used a Great Sage weapon and activated the Great Sage's Divine Might within it to affect them.

"What hatred!"

"How could a god help this Outer Domain Heavenly Demon!"

"Our younger generation has been completely wiped out!"

"This old man hates it!"

All the powerful figures in the shadows wept, their voices filled with venom and regret. The living beings who had come to encircle and kill Xu Changqing were already dead.

Several million living beings had been wiped out, with ninety percent directly exterminated. Only a few powerful figures and those protected by special items remained.

Of course, if Xu Changqing had been alone, he would have died long ago.

But the Heavenly Tribulation was assisting him as well. Some living beings were struck dead by the Heavenly Tribulation without him needing to lift a hand.

Many others were grievously wounded by the Heavenly Tribulation, only to be hit by his attacks.

Boom!

In the next moment, flames exploded from within the Eternal Star Domain itself. The fire spread everywhere, and countless high-rise buildings collapsed in an instant.

All kinds of high-tech weapons intercepted those aftershocks, and they did provide some effect.

But many places in the Eternal Star Domain had been blasted into collapse. The sky lost its sun and moon, its endless stars and gorgeous Starry Sky. Only deathly silence and darkness remained.

Xu Changqing did not leave. He did not want to leave behind future trouble. Unless he slaughtered their clansmen, he would not rest.

With that thought, he carried the Saint's Heavenly Tribulation into the Eternal Star Domain and began searching for the families that had come to encircle him, cleansing them in blood one by one.