Ambush and Kill (2/5)

"My heavens, am I dreaming? This is a divine sword forged from Eternal Blue Gold."

"What terrifying aura!"

"Could this be an Emperor Weapon?" someone said in shock.

"My god, what kind of expert could actually break an Emperor Weapon?"

"Impossible. An Emperor Weapon is a divine weapon bound to a Great Emperor's life, already the strongest existence in this world. No one could possibly break it," said an old fossil who thought himself clever.

Everyone turned to look at him.

The old fossil continued arrogantly, "This old man has searched through ancient records and considers himself somewhat knowledgeable. The owner of this Eternal Blue Gold Sword must have challenged a Great Emperor and had his divine sword broken by the Great Emperor in the end."

"Take a careful look. This divine sword no longer contains any intertwined laws or principles. It is like a piece of natural Eternal Blue Gold."

"Obviously, its laws were worn away after its owner was killed by a Great Emperor."

"If someone were to fuse in some Eternal Blue Gold, they might even obtain the rough embryo of an Emperor Weapon."

Ji Hao also looked at what he had cut out, ignoring that self-important and ignorant old fossil.

This Eternal Blue Gold Sword truly was an Emperor Weapon, and it was stained with the blood of the Void Emperor.

It was hard to accept that an imperial sword forged from Eternal Blue Gold had been broken, but if the one who broke it was the Void Emperor, it became understandable.

After all, the Void Emperor had battled no fewer than ten Supreme Beings in his lifetime. His life had truly been too bitter.

When humanity had no Great Emperor, the nine Sacred Bodies fought beneath the heavens. After nine Great Success Sacred Bodies appeared in succession came the era of the Void Emperor. One Supreme Being after another began to feed, and the Dark Turmoil swept across heaven and earth.

That was the darkest era, when only an ancient mirror illuminated the world.

The Void Emperor fought the Supreme Beings of the Reincarnation Sea and Immortal Mountain in battles that shook the heavens. Even with an Immortality Elixir, he had lived only one lifetime. At the brink of death, he had even dragged two Supreme Beings down with him.

The owner of this Eternal Blue Gold Sword was likely one of the Supreme Beings slain by the Void Emperor.

The Void Emperor's Dao and the laws of the Eternal Blue Gold Sword's owner had contended for hundreds of thousands of years. In the end, the Void prevailed, and the sword owner's laws were ground away, leaving only a rough piece of Immortal Metal for later generations.

"Young man, this Eternal Blue Gold Sword contains the killing intent of a Great Emperor. You cannot suppress it. If anything changes, it will become a terrible disaster. You should hand it over to us so that an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon may suppress it," said an imperial uncle of exceedingly seniority from the Great Xia Dynasty.

"There is no need. Only a trace of the Great Emperor's killing intent remains. I can handle it myself," Ji Hao said mournfully.

Although Ji Hao's father was Xuanyuan, there was no denying that Void Emperor Blood flowed through his veins. Sensing this aura, the Emperor Blood within him began to awaken. Within his bloodline inheritance, Ji Hao seemed to see an ordinary-faced emperor raising the Void Mirror high and fighting Supreme Beings in a bloody battle. Even grievously wounded, he refused to take even half a step back.

He kept them firmly trapped within Immortal Mountain.

He fought for all living beings under heaven, never retreating through a hundred battles.

"Boy, you should understand that treasures in this world belong to those with virtue," an elderly man in the crowd said darkly.

He was an elder of the Ten Thousand Beginning Sacred Land.

"Sorry, but my Daoist title happens to be Daoist Youde," Ji Hao said.

It was also because no Great Emperor had appeared in the Big Dipper for so many years that even ants dared to covet the majesty of a Great Emperor.

When the Azure Emperor's Tomb appeared in the original story, several people who were not even great cultivators had dared to tear apart a Great Emperor's tomb. It was utterly laughable.

After all, their knowledge extended only so far. They always believed that the world they saw was the truth of everything, and that a Great Emperor was merely a little stronger than a Saint.

"Boy, you are still young and have plenty of time ahead of you. Do not be too arrogant. This world is far vaster than you imagine," said a clan elder of the Ji Family as he stepped forward.

"Tch. There are indeed people in this world with broader horizons than mine, but at least in the Shrouding the Heavens world, there are none."

Above the Firmament, the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, the Fourth-Level Pagoda, the Reincarnation Road, the Weird Plateau—just naming them would scare you to death, Ji Hao thought.

"The Ji Family?" Ji Hao glanced at the clan elder with disdain. Clearly, he did not think much of the current Ji Family. They were a Desolate Ancient family, yet few of them still possessed the will of the Void Emperor.

"That is right, the Desolate Ancient Ji Family!" the clan elder said proudly.

Ji Hao glanced at the bloodstained Eternal Blue Gold Sword before him. "How many people in your Desolate Ancient Ji Family still remember the Void Emperor?"

Without waiting for an answer, he placed the Eternal Blue Gold Sword into the Lihuo Divine Furnace. After all, it contained the killing intent of a Great Emperor. Only a Quasi-Emperor Weapon like the Lihuo Divine Furnace could barely store it.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Ji Hao slowly left the Dao One Sacred Land.

He did not continue cutting stones in the other stone workshops. Although there were still seeds of the Qilin Immortality Elixir, one should leave some room for others to meet again in the future.

Who knew whether Ji Hao was at the earliest point in time? If he stole too many of Ye Fan's opportunities, and some Heavenly Emperor Ye above the Sacrificial Dao suddenly popped out from nowhere, that would be awkward for everyone.

As for the Dao laws within the Qilin Immortality Elixir, it would not be too much to borrow Ye Fan's Qilin Immortality Elixir someday and play with it, right?

"After all, I'm not the Black Emperor. For such a handsome and dashing 'ancestor' as me, he wouldn't refuse such a tiny request, would he?"

The cultivators watched Ji Hao's departing back, their expressions unreadable.

Ji Hao was extremely fast. Before long, he had shaken off the crowd, left Holy City, and gradually reached its outskirts.

In the desolate wilderness, the autumn wind wailed, carrying a grim killing intent.

"I've already come this far. Are you still not going to make your move?"

As soon as he spoke, divine power surged in like a tsunami, vast and deafening. Wave after wave crashed toward Ji Hao like billowing tides sweeping through the Ninth Heaven, carrying world-shaking force that seemed capable of destroying everything.

"Nothing impressive."

Ji Hao commented with calm indifference, as though he were looking down from above and testing them. His right hand gave a light shake, tracing an inexplicable trajectory. Then strange ripples suddenly emerged in the Void, shattering every attack.

"What?!"

The elder of the Ten Thousand Beginning Sacred Land was dumbfounded. His powerful offensive had been so effortlessly dissolved by this young man.

One had to know that he was a Dragon Transformation Realm expert, while the young man before him was only at the second level of the Four Extremes. They were separated by an entire major realm!

"Fellow Daoists, please join forces and retrieve the divine medicine and Immortal Metal."

"Retrieve them?" Ji Hao said.

"You gray-bearded old thief, you white-haired wretch—truly shameless!"

"Young man, you should obediently hand over the Immortal Metal and divine medicine," an elderly man appeared from the Void.

"Those are not things you can possess."

A dignified middle-aged man also appeared and spoke.

"And you deserve them?" Ji Hao said disdainfully.

"Two Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators and one Immortal Platform cultivator. At your age, you have only this much cultivation, yet you dare rob me of my belongings? Who gave you the courage?!" Ji Hao shouted.

"You refuse to appreciate kindness!"

The imposing middle-aged man rebuked him angrily and struck down with his palm. His divine power flowed with overwhelming force, and an aura capable of annihilating everything shot into the clouds.

"Trash like you dare contend with me?" Ji Hao threw a punch. His blood and qi roared, his divine power surged skyward, and heaven and earth trembled.