"Do you really think you have the makings of an ancient ancestor? Ridiculous. How dare you face us alone?"
"He Sky-Supporting? Can those two arms of yours truly support the sky, as your title claims?"
"Stand down! Stop clinging to your delusions, or after today, you will no longer be called the foremost among us."
Voice after voice rang out atop Enlightenment Mountain, thirteen in all, cold and merciless. They all belonged to Emperor Clan figures, each a supreme expert who looked down upon all around him.
Their voices were not loud, yet they carried across the entire summit. Everyone heard them. Cold and cruel, those low words struck people's hearts like divine hammers.
They did not seem intent on slaughtering He Xian. They had merely come to force his hand and preserve their own lofty standing.
It was much like accepting military orders while refusing an imperial summons!
Atop Enlightenment Mountain, every living being trembled. A great battle truly would erupt if neither side compromised.
These unscrupulous Emperor Clan heirs seemed genuinely willing to strike. Their words and gazes did not look like empty threats!
"Whoever strikes dies today!" That was all He Xian had to say in response.
He stood with his hands behind his back, looking down upon them all. Vast, mighty streams of imperial light surged from him, as though he had touched some realm of ultimate power within the mortal path. His killing intent poured forth like the sea of the Northern Abyss. When heaven unleashed its killing intent, all was doomed beyond redemption; when earth unleashed its killing intent, calamity was inescapable; when an emperor unleashed his killing intent, no corpse remained whole.
Now, he was that emperor.
The emperor of the Foreign Realm's younger generation.
Of the dozen or so fellows facing him, no more than five could endure ten moves against him head-on.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
World-shaking killing intent swept forth. At that moment, endless manifestations swirled around He Xian. Boundless golden light surged, his majesty crushed the void, and his air of unrivaled supremacy drained heaven and earth of their color.
"Stand down. Take just one step back, and you will still be the foremost among us, the peerless genius titled Sky-Supporting!" An unfamiliar Emperor Clan heir stepped forward, his voice and expression stern. Although He Xian's aura had frightened him,
he was not overly afraid. A dozen or so Emperor Clan heirs stood behind him, and that was why he felt no fear.
No one could defy heaven to such an extent.
"Die!" He Xian's expression was icy as he looked at the young Emperor Clan heir addressing him.
He brought his fingers together and swept them lightly downward. An unrivaled sword intent suddenly shot forth, slashing from his fingertips. A terrifying sword cry rang throughout heaven and earth.
Spurt!
The unfamiliar Emperor Clan heir's face filled with terror. As though sensing the danger, he hurriedly unleashed his Ancestral Arts, but the sword energy swept across his head.
Spurt! A spray of blood shot dozens of feet high. A young head flew into the air, its face etched with shock and fear, unable to believe any of this.
He had been slain just like that.
Everyone on Enlightenment Mountain was stunned senseless by the sight. With a flick of his fingers, He Xian had severed an Emperor Clan heir's head.
Since when had Emperor Clan heirs become so easy to kill?
Spurt!
The next moment, that brilliant sword light still had not dispersed. It wheeled around, transformed into a divine streak once more, and shot forth, impaling the young Emperor Clan heir's primordial spirit as well.
Utter silence fell over the scene, even among the allied Emperor Clan heirs. One of them stumbled a great step backward.
As for the other ordinary King Clan cultivators on Enlightenment Mountain, they were chilled to the bone, their bodies trembling uncontrollably. This was far too terrifying.
"How dare you?!"
"Join forces and kill him!" Among the twelve remaining Emperor Clan heirs, some were not frightened. Instead, their ferocity was roused, and they exchanged glances.
It seemed the situation had changed. They truly began to radiate towering killing intent.
"Kill him! There is no need to hold back. We've already offended him this badly today. Are you still dreaming of mercy from him?" another unfamiliar Emperor Clan heir barked coldly.
At last, all twelve Emperor Clan heirs moved together, roaring as they charged with their ancient weapons in hand.
"You would defy heaven?" He Xian roared, likening himself to heaven.
He unleashed a tremendous cry of fury, terrifying and majestic, like the destruction of the universe or the explosion of a great star!
That roar was like heaven and earth thundering, like primordial chaos first splitting open. An enormous savage beast appeared behind him, with nine heads, hideous and terrifying.
"Aah!!"
The Emperor Clan heirs cried out involuntarily, their heads aching as though about to split. Those closest to He Xian nearly exploded. Only when they faced him themselves did they realize that it was all true. He Xian really was that terrifying.
He was like an existence no strength could overcome.
"Die!" He Xian lunged forward alone, like a wolf charging into a sheep pen. Each punch felled another foe, blood and bone shattering across the sky, bodies torn apart.
"Die!" A primordial spirit that had burst free let out a desolate cry, trying to escape, but He Xian gave him no chance.
Spurt!
Like a god or demon, his eyes crimson as lanterns, He Xian reached out with his great hand, seized the fleeing primordial spirit in his palm, and crushed him to dust.
Immediately afterward, he strode forward, looking down upon them like a True Dragon. In an instant, he closed in on another unfamiliar Emperor Clan heir and swung his leg up. His kick punched straight through the man's belly, blasting his entire body apart on the spot. It was a ghastly sight.
"A swarm of ants, thinking you can defy heaven merely by banding together. I am the heaven above your heads. Heaven! The heaven you can only look up to."
He Xian shouted as he stood upon soil gleaming with metallic light. His terrifying killing intent shook the vast sky until it collapsed, like raging waves striking the clouds, engulfing everything above and below.
His words turned the attacking Emperor Clan heirs' faces livid. Earlier, they had mocked him without restraint; now, those insults had been slapped straight back at them.
"Devour!" He Xian barked coldly.
He cast the primordial spirit of the second Emperor Clan heir, whose body he had kicked apart, into the Heaven Devourer Furnace and refined him alive. The little figure could clearly be seen struggling within the scorching furnace, his face filled with despair as he cried out helplessly. Soon, however, he tore apart, reduced to fragments that became nourishment for this Ancestral Art.
One day, He Xian's Heaven Devourer would be able to swallow an entire great world.
"A deadly trap laid by over a dozen Emperor Clan heirs, broken just like that-and he slaughtered two of them in an instant!" Someone fainted outright at the sight.
Their breathing stopped as they stared blankly at this impossible scene. With his strength alone, he overwhelmed over a dozen great Emperor Clan experts. His battle prowess inspired terror.
"They were butchered just like that? Those two Emperor Clan heirs couldn't resist at all!"
Everyone was dumbfounded, and cries of astonishment rose once more. It had all happened too quickly. In the blink of an eye, he had killed two Emperor Clan heirs, as swiftly and easily as plucking weeds beside the road.
Only at that moment did they understand the true weight of the title of foremost. No wonder those who bore such titles in every generation were hailed as having the makings of ancient ancestors.
This was far too frightening! Not one of them possessed such potential!
"Terrifying. Is this He Sky-Supporting, who slew a great Gu Clan cultivator from a lower realm and crushed the Wu Shang Lineage beneath him?"
"The foremost beneath the Supreme realm! The foremost beneath the Supreme realm!" someone shouted, his heart surging with emotion he could not contain. That terrifying scene battered their minds, leaving everyone shaken and speechless.
Perhaps today they would witness a myth, a legend recorded in ancient history and passed down through the ages, perhaps even the most iconic battle of a future peerless figure!