Invincible Under Heaven, An Enemy Descends from the Heavens

Lin Hanzhou had naturally noticed the fleeting change in the other party's expression.

He knew she was trying to hide something.

Since that was the case, he planned to use a few measures of his own, take her back, and let the Great Gan Dynasty's justice department interrogate her.

For now, however, he headed to the imperial palace himself to see if he could find any clues.

But just then, he suddenly sensed an unusual presence behind him.

A blood-red needle wreathed in eerie crimson light soundlessly emerged from the void behind him.

This attack came far too suddenly and was far too strange.

By the time Lin Hanzhou noticed it, it was already right before him. There was no time to dodge.

"Pfft!"

A flash of blood-red light streaked past!

The protective aura around Lin Hanzhou, comparable to that of a top-tier third-rank divine weapon, was pierced in an instant.

After piercing through his protective aura, the blood-red needle continued on without slowing, easily stabbing into his chest.

A terrifying force, corrosive in nature, erupted inside him.

"Puh—!"

Lin Hanzhou braced one hand against the ground and clutched his chest with the other, blood spraying wildly from his mouth.

Shock filled his face. He could hardly believe he had been gravely wounded by a single strike.

As Lin Hanzhou reeled in shock, a stunning mature woman with a voluptuous figure and sultry, half-lidded eyes slowly emerged from the distorted void before him.

She wore a revealing blood-red dress, leaving her long, snow-white legs bare and lending her an even more seductive air.

She licked her crimson lips and looked Lin Hanzhou up and down with keen interest, as though he were prey.

"Very nice indeed. Hehehe..."

Her laughter rang like silver bells, yet sent a chill down the spine.

"I never thought even this low-grade secret realm could produce a martial arts prodigy with such a solid foundation."

"If I capture you and refine you into one of my Blood God Child puppets, it couldn't be better..."

As she spoke, she came to stand before Lin Hanzhou and gently caressed his handsome face.

She looked him over as if he were a perfect work of art.

At the same time, Lin Hanzhou endured the pain in his body and studied the woman before him.

The instant she appeared, his heart sank to the bottom.

Her aura was unfathomable. He couldn't see through her at all!

There was only one possibility: her cultivation far surpassed his.

She was at least fourth-rank, and not merely at its lower levels. She was a high-level fourth-rank cultivator, or even... fifth-rank or above!

"Who... are you?"

Lin Hanzhou struggled to endure the strange blood-colored energy that was eating away at his qi sea and asked in a hoarse voice.

A storm unlike any he had ever known surged through his heart.

He understood everything in an instant!

The secret of Great Qing wasn't some rare treasure of heaven and earth, nor an ancient ruin.

It was this terrifying woman before him, who had come from who knew where.

Those ten grandmasters had to be her doing, and the spiritual energy here had to be connected to her as well.

"Little one, don't look at me with such hostility."

The mature woman giggled behind her hand. Paired with her stunning features, the gesture made her look utterly bewitching.

"I am Feng Xiaotian, a cultivator from the Blood Demon Sect of the Heavenly Profound Realm above."

"As for my cultivation, I'm at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Realm. You don't need to understand what that means. Just know that I could crush you with a single finger."

"I came here by using a few little tricks to force my way into this place."

"My aim, of course, is to collect some puppet materials like you from this undeveloped secret realm."

Heavenly Profound Realm? Blood Demon Sect? Nascent Soul Realm?

The unfamiliar terms crashed into Lin Hanzhou's mind, making him realize what kind of existence he was facing.

Well, damn. Some Heavenly Profound Realm from above?

He'd just become invincible under heaven, and now an enemy had come down from the heavens?

As for the Nascent Soul Realm, that was a level he wasn't unfamiliar with.

It belonged to a cultivation system outside martial arts—the system of immortal cultivation.

He didn't know much about this system, only a little from hearsay.

But he knew that, according to the stages of Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul, a Nascent Soul expert's life level and strength were equivalent to those of a fourth-rank True Origin Realm martial artist.

And the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Realm was roughly equivalent to the ninth level of the fourth-rank True Origin Realm.

If she had only just entered the fourth rank, Lin Hanzhou might have had a chance to kill her with his incomparably solid foundation and the many methods at his disposal.

But she was the equivalent of a ninth-level fourth-rank cultivator. That was a chasm he could never cross.

What was more, he had been ambushed and badly wounded.

This was a hopeless dead end.

Lin Hanzhou knew that he would most likely die here today.

She intended to refine him into a puppet, which meant she would erase his consciousness.

But he would never surrender without a fight.

And he would never give her a chance to wreak havoc on this world.

He could imagine the human tragedy that would unfold if this Blood Demon Sect temptress were allowed to enter the Great Gan Dynasty and gather puppet materials.

His final score for this dreamworld transmigration would plummet as well.

"So that's how it is. I never imagined this world was so vast. The land is truly full of heroes."

Lin Hanzhou slowly raised his head and met Feng Xiaotian's gaze. All the shock and fear in his eyes had faded away.

In their place was a calm, resigned acceptance, as if he had already made peace with his fate.

"Hehehe. I rather like you, but if you're to become a Blood God Child puppet, I'll have to erase your consciousness."

Even Feng Xiaotian couldn't help feeling a pang of regret for Lin Hanzhou.

A talent like him would have been a great asset as a servant.

Unfortunately, for now, refining him into a Blood God Child puppet served her interests better.

"Heh. You want to turn me into a puppet? Then you'd better be alive to do it!"

As he spoke, an unprecedented resolve and madness flashed through Lin Hanzhou's eyes.

He drove the golden qi sea inside him in reverse, using the most extreme method possible.

Three Reverse Pulse Styles!

Third Style—God Fall!

"BOOM—!"

An energy capable of destroying heaven and earth gathered frantically inside him.

His body, his qi sea, even his soul—all began to burn fiercely!

"Not good! He's going to blow himself up?!"

The playful smile on Feng Xiaotian's face froze completely.

For the first time, fear and horror appeared in her seductive eyes.

She could clearly feel how terrifying the energy inside this ant was.

It was powerful enough to threaten her Nascent Soul cultivation.

She had never dreamed that an inhabitant of this low-grade secret realm could be so decisive.

Wait, weren't you just acting like you'd accepted your fate?

Why blow yourself up without even a word? Are you fucking crazy?

Feng Xiaotian cursed Lin Hanzhou in her heart over and over. She tried to escape, but it was already too late.

Lin Hanzhou had wrapped his arms tightly around her and gone straight for a lover's embrace kill.

With her cultivation, she could have broken free in an instant—but his self-destruction would happen in an instant too.

"Hehe, let's go together, beautiful."

Lin Hanzhou smiled as warmly as a spring breeze, showing not the slightest fear of death.

"Madman! You damn native madman, let go of me!"

Feng Xiaotian shrieked in terror, no longer composed or seductive in the least.

She frantically drove the spiritual power within her, trying to flee into the distance.

But it was all in vain. Lin Hanzhou's self-destruction had already begun right in her face.

In his mind flashed the Great Gan world, and the girl seated upon the dragon throne, her eyes resolute;

then came the many vivid, living faces of this world.

The next moment.

BOOM!!!

A colossal mushroom cloud slowly rose above Hertu, the capital of Great Qing.

Blinding light and scorching heat, beyond the power of words to describe, swallowed everything around them in an instant.

The entire Great Qing imperial city, along with the blood-soaked altar hidden beneath it, was consumed by the explosion in a moment.

Hundreds of miles of land were flattened in that instant.

Mountains collapsed and rivers ran backward, as if the end of the world had arrived.

No one could survive that terrifying explosion.

Even a Nascent Soul cultivator, caught completely unprepared by an explosion at point-blank range, would be certain to die.

If Feng Xiaotian had been even a little on guard, Lin Hanzhou's self-destruction wouldn't have been able to hurt her with her ninth-level Nascent Soul cultivation.

But there was no "if." This ninth-level Nascent Soul cultivator had died a pitiful death.

She had probably suffered the most humiliating death of any Nascent Soul cultivator—killed by her own arrogance.