Clang! Clang! Clang!
He hurled three blood-red banners into the earth in rapid succession. Their poles sank into the ground like pillars supporting the heavens, their imposing presence as unfathomable as mountains. The banners fluttered with metallic clangs, sending blood-red light surging into the sky.
The Dao Patterns on the ground instantly failed. The heaven and earth momentum stopped flowing, forcibly interrupted and unable to envelop the area-all because those three blood-red banners had been planted in the ground.
"Hahaha! Brother Jiang's Array Flags really are handy. As expected of someone from an Extreme Dao family-he knows so much."
"Kill!" The young man laughed and waved his hand, sending his underlings charging into the great array.
"Who dares trespass in our Yaoguang Forbidden Land?"
The cultivators of the Yaoguang Holy Land soared into the sky to block their path. Leading them were three elders with snow-white hair and beards, their eyes flashing like lightning.
Did I just run into others in the same trade?
Qin Tian, hidden nearby, froze. On his first-no, second-time doing this, he had already run into fellow robbers.
What a coincidence!
Too bad I don't like competition!
Qin Tian's expression darkened. "Just wait. I'll send you all on your way together!"
Qin Tian had no fondness whatsoever for these Great Bandits.
His sect had been wiped out by one of the Thirteen Great Bandits, and Qin Tian had been sold to a mine as a result.
He would never forget that day. His entire sect had been slaughtered, the flames of war raging everywhere. His overwhelming grief had broken through the mystery of the womb, only for him to be sold to a mine as a slave afterward.
Every hardship he had suffered thus far could be laid at that man's feet.
As he was now, his cultivation was still insufficient to kill that Great Bandit. Nor did he want to avenge himself with an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon. That would feel far too hollow.
Only revenge taken with his own hands would repay the kindness of those who had taught and nurtured him in this life.
Qin Tian cut away the distracting thoughts in his heart and quietly watched everything unfold.
He silently created a paper effigy clone, which slipped past the array formation's defenses and entered the Source Mine. Once the clone arrived, Qin Tian decisively activated the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
Rumble!
Just as the Yaoguang Holy Land and the Great Bandits faced off and fought-
An unimaginable pressure instantly enveloped a thousand li in every direction. No one could resist it. Almost everyone who had been fighting collapsed to the ground at the same moment.
The souls of countless cultivators trembled, and they could not help bowing in worship. It was entirely involuntary, as though they stood before a deity, filled with instinctive awe.
Extreme dao divine might!
Everyone was stunned, their mouths hanging open, unable to utter a single word. Their bodies had betrayed their wills and submitted beneath that divine might.
Only an Immortal Platform expert managed to shout, "Extreme dao divine might? Who is making an enemy of our Yaoguang Holy Land?"
"The Ji Family? The Jiang Family? The Jade Pool Holy Land? Or the Great Bandit Xu Tian?"
"We can talk this over!"
"If you want source, we can give it to you!"
Rumble!
Qin Tian did not answer. He directly unleashed the extreme dao divine might.
Rumble!
The Devouring Heaven Demon Lid was activated. Wisps of extreme dao aura shot skyward, piercing the heavens and releasing world-shaking fluctuations. Strands of Emperor Might spilled out uncontrollably, making every living creature within a hundred thousand li tremble and kowtow toward this place.
Faintly, the Dao coalesced into a tangible form, manifesting an earthenware jar behind the lid.
The jar was exceedingly plain, yet its divine might eclipsed the world. Under the terrifying devouring law, it transformed into a bottomless black hole radiating dense, dark light, as though it could devour heaven and earth and swallow anything.
Facing an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon did not mean there was no chance of survival. As long as one moved faster than its wielder could form a thought, escape was still possible.
But none of these people possessed such speed. Caught utterly unprepared by a calculated strike, every one of them took that blow of extreme dao imperial might head-on, at point-blank range.
Rumble!
Supreme Emperor Might descended from the void. Emperor Light surged into the heavens, breaking through the clouds and filling everything beneath the sky with brilliance.
Beneath extreme dao divine might, no soul survived!
Hundreds of Yaoguang cultivators and hundreds of Horse Bandits were reduced to bloody pulp in a single blow.
A wielder of the temporal eye, armed with an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, devoted himself to ambushes while grasping every possible change in the future.
The power he could unleash was not to be underestimated. Never mind these people-even a Great Power or a King would have died!
The aftermath swept outward, shattering the once-impregnable Protective Array.
Qin Tian, disguised as Duan De, descended from afar, bearing extreme dao divine might.
At that moment, the paper effigy clone he had prepared earlier ran over. Disguised as a "mine slave," it asked shakily, "Who exactly are you?"
"This Daoist never changes his name, standing or sitting. I am Duan De!"
This time, Qin Tian used an alias rather than his real name.
Qin Tian adhered to a simple principle: use his real name when there was no threat and his opponents could not kill him; use an alias when they could kill him, or when the deed would tarnish his image.
There were reasons he had revealed his real name at the mine before.
First, Qin Tian had spent three whole years in that Source Mine. His real name had long since been exposed.
Second, merely leveling a Source Mine was not actually such a major incident. The Great Bandits routinely plundered Source Mines, and the holy lands had long grown accustomed to it.
Had the death of a Great Power not caused such a tremendous stir-
The Yaoguang Holy Land would not even have announced it, preferring to settle the matter themselves.
But now Qin Tian intended to go fishing.
Using half an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon as bait, he would fish out every member of the Ruthless Lineage hidden within the Yaoguang Holy Land.
This was enough to drive the entire Yaoguang Holy Land into a frenzy.
It would inevitably mobilize the strength of the entire Yaoguang Holy Land. Even Saints might appear.
Under such circumstances, Qin Tian naturally would not use his real name. An alias was essential.
Qin Tian used the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to strike from a thousand li away. Even if someone sensed it and knew this Source Mine had been attacked by an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon-
They would have no way of knowing exactly which weapon it had been.
He had deliberately worn away nearly all the lingering aura.
Only the Ruthless Lineage could sense that aura born of the same root and source as their own.
It would let them understand exactly which weapon had unleashed that extreme dao strike.
The Devouring Heaven Demon Lid!
Once they sensed that the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid had emerged-
Whether it was a trap or not, whether there were suspicious details or not, they would seize that slender thread of a clue and follow it at any cost.
And any cultivator actively searching for "Duan De" would undoubtedly be connected to the Ruthless Lineage.
Qin Tian merely needed to seize the opportunity to abduct a few cultivators who practiced the Ruthless Secret Arts, read their pasts, and obtain that supreme scripture.
It was far more convenient than examining them one by one, trying to distinguish the genuine from the false within the vast Yaoguang Holy Land.
Then, before everyone's eyes, "Duan De" pocketed all the source in the Yaoguang Source Field.
"Tsk, tsk. Another haul of a full one million five hundred thousand jin of source." Qin Tian hefted the Storage Bag, thoroughly satisfied.
"Murder and arson earn you a golden belt!"
"But that aside, Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons really are difficult to activate!" Merely stirring a tiny, insignificant wisp of extreme dao aura had nearly drained Qin Tian dry.
With no other choice, Qin Tian had spent another hundred thousand jin of source to unleash a single burst of extreme dao divine might.
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