A youth struck against heaven itself, bringing the Sacred Body's manifestation to its utmost. An "Immortal King" emerged from it and merged with his true body, as though he would truly reign over the nine heavens and command the mountains and rivers. Even a king who had severed the Dao would have to retreat in defeat!
Boundless killing tribulations were quelled, peerless killing light extinguished. The "Immortal King" advanced, with the faint image of an ancient tree behind him, like a World Tree bearing the vast universe upon its back!
Boom!
Universes were born and destroyed, the Six Paths of Reincarnation turned. The youth swung his fists, unleashing the Sacred Body Lineage's unrivaled combat technique. For a fleeting instant, he seemed to have truly punched forth six vast universes, their radiance interweaving as they crushed everything!
Sshk!
Blood sprayed. The Killer King had merely been grazed by that fist's light, yet in the next instant, half his body shuddered violently and burst into a skyful of bloody blossoms.
His Dao Fruit and the laws he had forged through severing the Dao could not withstand a pair of iron fists!
This was too inconceivable, beyond all reason. It could no longer be understood through the Eight Prohibitions as the world knew them.
That was not magical power unleashed to its utmost, but the sheer might of flesh and physique, forcibly crossing the barriers between cultivation realms. Just as a great accomplishment Sacred Body's cultivation stood only at the ninth heaven of Quasi-Emperor, yet his flesh had become imperial, capable of challenging the imperial bodies of Ancient Great Emperors!
The Killer King fell into a daze. Though the Sacred Body before him was only at the Great Power realm, his flesh might already have entered the Saint level. Hidden within it was a vast affinity with the Dao, becoming one with heaven and earth, as though it pulsed in rhythm with the universe. This bestowed an unrivaled divinity upon him, such that ordinary cultivators' Dao laws could not even hurt him!
With a body like that... was this fucking performance something a mixed-blood Sacred Body should have?
Forget mixed blood.
Even a pureblood, even a First Generation... surely the ancient histories had never recorded anything this heaven-defying?
"Which bastard supplied that information? How did this Sacred Body temper his flesh?"
Shaken to his core, the Killer King cursed the client who had placed the order until there was nothing left to curse.
Wasn't this just a fucking setup?!
Utterly inhuman!
But after his curses, the Killer King's gaze sharpened. Killing intent boiled within him, his resolve to kill unshakable.
Granted, the Sacred Body Lineage came with an innate ability to draw hostility, sending countless prodigies and outstanding talents along the Emperor Road rushing over, red-faced and frantic, to farm this foe and prove their great emperor potential.
But that was the treatment reserved for Sacred Bodies who had yet to reach great accomplishment.
Once a Sacred Body truly reached great accomplishment, those prodigies and outstanding talents would all bow low, their lips trembling, before finally and obediently addressing him as "Supreme"!
A great accomplishment Sacred Body could look down upon the mortal world, so long as he did not confront a Life Forbidden Zone.
The deeds of nine great accomplishment Sacred Bodies over the past few hundred thousand years were compelling proof of that.
The Killer King imagined a great accomplishment Sacred Body casting his gaze down upon Beidou some years hence... Wouldn't the entire Hell organization truly have no road into heaven and no door into the earth, every last name on its household register erased?
Right now, the Sacred Body before him already faintly displayed such magnificence. He was this powerful before even severing the Dao-how powerful would he become once he attained sainthood?
"You cannot be allowed to live!"
The Killer King let out a long howl. In the next instant, saintly might surged forth, blanketing heaven and earth and shaking the timeless mountains and rivers. A broken blade appeared. This was... a Saint Weapon!
Even an incomplete Saint Weapon was terrifying enough. Saintly light flowed, piercing the firmament and opening black holes side by side!
"Die!"
"What does it matter if your flesh is unrivaled? Today, I will rend your primordial spirit, cleave your sea of consciousness, and seize every last ounce of your fortune!"
"With flesh so extraordinary, you should make a fine principal ingredient for a batch of saint pills, extending a Killing Saint's life by a hundred years!"
The Killer King seemed to have already seen the outcome. There would be no uncertainty in this battle.
But...
Humm!
An immense aura spread. A mighty weapon appeared in the young Sacred Body's hands, resembling both sword and spear, a Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Blade!
At first glance, it seemed wholly unremarkable, possessing none of the overwhelming might to shake mountains and rivers or awe the world. Yet it seemed to grow stronger against stronger foes. Under the pressure of the incomplete Saint Weapon, it revealed enough power to contend with it!
The Killer King's expression froze. The complexity of his feelings was difficult to put into words.
"A Saint Weapon? Not bad."
The young Sacred Body swung the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Saber. The divine weapon seemed to resonate with the true essence of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist. It exerted no soul-shaking pressure of laws, yet it made his sacred blood boil and his battle aura tower into the sky. The six paths of reincarnation turned, condensing an overwhelming force that could shatter every obstacle and split heaven from earth!
Boom!
The Three-Pointed Double-Edged Saber smashed down. In that instant, the Killer King's figure looked so pitiful, weak, and helpless.
He wanted to leave, but could not. The young Sacred Body took profound, mysterious steps, like the Great Dao Descending into Dust, sticking close to him and fighting with fearless ferocity.
Still, he was a king who had walked the path of assassination, baptized by life and death countless times. Even at death's door, someone like him would bite a mouthful of flesh from his enemy.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The Killer King burned his blood essence and set his divine power boiling. Resplendent divine chains of order intertwined with the broken blade as he cast life and death aside to perform the final dance of his life!
The battle shook heaven and earth. Two figures swept across the cosmos, shattering mountains and rivers, alarming countless traditions and stunning untold passersby.
"Golden blood energy... is that a Sacred Body?"
"Divine chains of order... a Dao-Slaying King?"
"Wait, am I seeing this right? A Sacred Body at the Great Power realm is fighting a king and gaining the upper hand?"
"Could the Sacred Body Lineage be about to rise again?"
A mighty demon from the Heavenly Demon Palace exclaimed, "Could our young lord finally have a rival?"
"Good. They can carry on the duel that left our ancestor with regrets..." he murmured. "Back then, our Heavenly Demon Palace's Peerless Demon Ancestor competed against a great accomplishment Sacred Body of his generation. They fought at the very pinnacle of their lives, but alas, he fell short by a single move in the end, defeated by that great accomplishment Sacred Body's Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist. It was the great regret of his life..."
"This lifetime may be different... Our young lord has heaven-bestowed divine talent. He began cultivating early, has already become a Saint, and has ventured into the starry sky..."
The Sacred Body's debut was destined to shake the world and draw every eye.
The achievements of his predecessors, the irresistible provocation of being able to challenge Great Emperors... who would not want to exchange a few blows with him?
A Sacred Body only needed to stand anywhere at all, and the era's prodigies and outstanding talents would already be on their way to bully him!
Even if that Sacred Body displayed ferocious, matchless combat prowess, fought a bloody battle across mountains and rivers, and finally bathed in his enemy's blood as he nailed a Dao-Slaying King to the walls of Saint City!
Caw!
Only a Sacred Body this powerful is fit to be the whetstone on my road to becoming a Great Emperor!
"It really wasn't easy..."
Meanwhile, the youth sighed softly. "Holding myself back was so hard... stepping over an ant without crushing it outright was far too
"great a test for me..."
"That display of combat strength won't have scared off the Heavenly Court's assassins, will it?"
Whether the Heavenly Court's assassins had been frightened was hard to say, but Hell's assassins were furious.
Their first step toward restoring Hell's glory had already been cut short?
It was time to let the young Sacred Body experience what it meant to beat the young only for the old to come running-and what it meant for a Great Accomplishment King with little lifespan remaining to carry a Saint Weapon into the final dance of his life!