A Single Thought Annihilates the Demon Tide, Perfect Mastery of the Green Lotus Sword Art!

As his words fell, Lin Changqing raised his right hand.

Just as he was about to strike and kill all these Demons, the system's voice rang out in his mind once more.

["Ding! Random mission triggered: Eliminate all Demons besieging Qingshi County (0/1). Reward: Ninth-tier Supreme Grade Green Peak Sword and perfect mastery of the Ninth-tier Supreme Grade Green Lotus Sword Art."]

The smile on Lin Changqing's face grew broader.

A random mission had triggered so quickly?

And the reward was a Ninth-tier saint weapon comparable to the Martial Saint Peak realm!

It had come at exactly the right time.

"Then... let's deal with them all at once."

Lin Changqing's powerful perception spread out in an instant, enveloping the entire area around Qingshi County.

The location, aura, and rank of every Demon were all clearly displayed in his mind.

He raised his right hand and lightly snapped his fingers.

Snap.

The sound was soft.

But in the next instant, an invisible force rippled out from him like waves across water, spreading soundlessly in every direction!

Wherever the ripples passed, the Demons' bodies instantly stiffened.

Then... they scattered into ashes!

The soldiers atop the city walls witnessed a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

The Demons climbing the walls suddenly froze, then began turning into flying ash inch by inch, starting from their claws!

The Demon army beneath the walls suffered the same fate.

As that invisible force swept across them, whole swathes of Demons shattered and vanished like scraps of paper, unable even to let out a scream.

"Martial... Martial Saint..."

A Fifth-Order Demon turned to flee, but after taking just one step, its entire body turned to dust.

Even in death, these Demons could not understand.

How could a tiny Qingshi County have a Ninth-Rank Martial Saint stationed here?

In merely three breaths.

The tens of thousands of Demons outside the city were all reduced to ashes, without even a single intact corpse left behind.

A deathly silence fell over the city walls.

Every soldier stood frozen in place, staring wide-eyed at the sight before them.

How had those Demons suddenly... all disappeared?

The Demon army that had blanketed the sky just moments ago was simply... gone?

A weapon slipped from someone's hand and clattered to the ground.

No one picked it up.

Everyone stared blankly at the figure high in the air ahead.

His tattered armor fluttered noisily in the wind, yet no one found it laughable now.

That figure stood bathed in Purple Gold light, his robes billowing and black hair streaming behind him.

A Purple Gold spiritual energy vortex slowly revolved above his head, making heaven and earth change color.

The suffocating pressure of a Martial Saint spread around him, leaving people unable even to lift their heads and look directly at him.

Like an exiled immortal descending into the mortal world, awe-inspiring and inviolable.

"Saint... Saint Venerable..."

No one knew who spoke first, but the voice trembled.

It was a tremor of reverence.

The general defending the city stared upward blankly, his lips shaking violently.

What had he just witnessed?

With a single thought, tens of thousands of Demons had been reduced to ashes!

Was this a Martial Saint?

Was this the power that stood at the very summit of the continent?

Just then, the system notification sounded in Lin Changqing's mind.

["Ding! Random mission completed: Eliminate all Demons besieging Qingshi County (1/1)."]

["Obtained: Ninth-tier Supreme Grade Green Peak Sword!"]

["Obtained: Perfect mastery of the Ninth-tier Supreme Grade Green Lotus Sword Art!"]

["Green Peak Sword: Ninth-tier Supreme Grade saint weapon. The blade is three feet and six inches long, jade-green throughout, forged from Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron fused with Millennium Cold Jade. When drawn, it cries like a dragon; it cuts iron like mud, and can withstand the full eruption of a Martial Saint's power without damage."]

["Green Lotus Sword Art: Ninth-tier Supreme Grade sword technique, containing nine forms. It takes its meaning from the green lotus emerging from mud yet remaining unstained. Sword Qi transforms into lotuses, integrating offense and defense. Upon great mastery, a single sword strike can transform into ten thousand lotuses, covering a thousand miles with power that pierces heaven and earth."]

["Would the host like to claim them immediately?"]

"Claim them."

The moment Lin Changqing spoke, his waist suddenly sank as a longsword appeared out of thin air within the scabbard at his side.

The scabbard was dark green throughout, etched with ancient lotus patterns.

He gripped the hilt and slowly drew the blade.

A clear, ringing sword cry resounded through heaven and earth.

The blade was jade-green like polished gemstone. Sunlight reflected off it in a dazzling, flowing sheen, while the air around it faintly twisted as Sword Qi pulsed from it.

In his hand, it felt like an extension of his arm, incomparably suited to him.

Immediately afterward.

A vast amount of sword art memories flooded into his mind.

Every move and form of the Green Lotus Sword Art, including its methods of force application, transformations of Sword Qi, and combat applications... all became completely comprehensible in a single instant.

As if he had trained bitterly for hundreds of years!

Lin Changqing nodded in satisfaction, sheathed the sword, and with another thought dispersed the spiritual energy vortex above his head.

At this moment.

Someone on the city wall finally came to their senses.

The defending general dropped to his knees with a thud, smashing his forehead heavily against the ground.

"Th-this humble general, the deputy garrison commander of Cheng'an Prefecture in Green Province, pays respects to the Saint Venerable!"

"This humble general had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai and did not know of the Saint Venerable's arrival. I have offended you greatly! Thank you, Saint Venerable, for saving the tens of thousands of Qingshi County citizens from fire and water! This humble general will never forget the Saint Venerable's immense grace!"

His voice trembled.

His heart churned like raging seas.

He had personally pushed this Ninth-Rank Martial Saint onto the city wall earlier, and had even kicked him once!

He had kicked a Martial Saint in the backside!

At the thought.

Cold sweat poured down the general's back, and his knees went weak.

There were only a handful of warriors in the entire Great Yu Dynasty who had reached the Ninth-Rank Martial Saint realm, yet he had actually encountered one.

All he could do now was pray that the Saint Venerable would be magnanimous and not hold it against a nobody like him.

The other soldiers and civilians also fell to their knees.

"Greetings, Saint Venerable!"

"Thank you, Saint Venerable, for saving our lives!"

"Long live the Saint Venerable!"

Tens of thousands knelt upon the ground. Their voices gathered into a wave that resounded through the clouds, every pair of eyes filled with gratitude and reverence.

Lin Changqing slowly descended from the air and landed atop the city wall.

He glanced at the people kneeling all over the ground, his expression calm. "Rise."

His voice was not loud, yet it clearly entered everyone's ears.

There were no unnecessary words, nor did he seem particularly warm.

Yet that very indifference was the bearing a Martial Saint ought to possess!

A great weight lifted from the general's heart.

The Saint Venerable had not held that kick against him at all.

He stood up trembling, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

The Saint Venerable truly was broad-minded and magnanimous. He had been overthinking it.

How could someone like this possibly bother arguing with a mere defending general like him?

Just then.

The system notification sounded in Lin Changqing's mind once more.

["Ding! Random mission triggered: Kill the true culprit behind the Demons' siege of the city (0/1). Reward: Perfect mastery of the Ninth-tier Supreme Grade Heavenly Saint Profound Art."]

Lin Changqing raised a brow slightly.

Another mission? Kill the true culprit?

It seemed this siege was not a simple Demon assault. There was a commander behind it.

Lin Changqing closed his eyes and spread his perception with all his strength.

The divine sense of a Martial Saint Peak spread like an invisible tide in all directions from Qingshi County.

One hundred miles, three hundred miles, five hundred miles, one thousand miles...

Every inch of land and every aura within several thousand miles appeared in his mind.

Very quickly, he locked onto the southeast.

Roughly eight hundred miles away.

An even more powerful Demon army was fiercely battling a human army.

Demonic Qi surged into the sky above the battlefield, while killing cries shook the heavens.

At the center of the Demon army, one Demon noticeably larger than the rest was commanding the battle.

An Early Sixth-Order Demon!

This fellow was likely the highest-ranking Demon in the area.

There was a ninety percent chance it was the true culprit behind everything.

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