The Nether God Palace's last Saint fell, his death so effortless, so inevitable.
Facing a Great Saint and two Quasi-Emperor Artifacts, he had actually died with considerable dignity.
Such was the dominance of the Assassin Heavenly Court!
Unless an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon appeared, the Assassin Heavenly Court was the heaven looming over all the holy lands!
It could destroy whichever holy land it wanted and kill whichever Saint it pleased!
Not convinced?
Then bring out two Quasi-Emperor Weapons and let me see!
There was no denying how extraordinary the first Lord of the Heavenly Court had been, leaving an assassin organization such a lavish inheritance.
He had truly deserved to be called a legend of his generation, obtaining an Immortal Divine Medicine, venturing into the domain of time, and becoming a Quasi-Emperor.
"Assassin Heavenly Court, your wanton destruction of our Nether God Palace has crossed the bottom line of every holy land! Retribution will come for you!"
"One day, when the most brilliant prodigies of our holy lands return from the Starry Sky Ancient Road, they will destroy your Assassin Heavenly Court!"
A surviving elder of the Nether God Palace howled in anguish.
The Lord of the Heavenly Court swept his gaze over him, and the Dao-Slaying King's body split open, blood spraying everywhere.
The Killer King fighting him seized the opening, unleashing a dazzling killing strike that cleaved him apart!
"If I obtain the divine medicine and live another lifetime, I might glimpse the Quasi-Emperor realm and rise another step..."
The Lord of the Heavenly Court murmured, "Then what would it matter if those outstanding figures returned from the Starry Sky Ancient Road? How many could defeat me?"
"If I cannot obtain the divine medicine... once I am dead, why should I care..."
The Lord of the Heavenly Court's voice trailed into nothingness.
He feared no threats!
The Golden Age? The outstanding figures of the Starry Sky Ancient Road?
Let them return first, if they had the ability!
There were countless legends about the Starry Sky Ancient Road, yet scarcely anyone truly returned. The struggle along the Emperor Road was simply too brutal-even prodigies left their bones behind!
Even if they returned, the Assassin Heavenly Court had nothing to fear!
Every holy land on the Big Dipper Ancient Star had hidden reserves... did the Assassin Heavenly Court not have its own?
Only if the Assassin Heavenly Court failed to activate even those reserves in time could anyone possibly destroy it.
The Lord of the Heavenly Court gazed indifferently down at the battlefield. He made no further moves, leaving the remaining Nether God Palace cultivators as trials for the Heavenly Court's assassins.
It was a savage battle. The Heavenly Court's assassins fought with soaring morale, while the Nether God Palace's cultivators were determined to drag their enemies down with them-they knew the Assassin Heavenly Court never left an enemy alive.
"Kill!"
Bones littered the ground, blood flowed in rivers, and mountains and rivers shattered. The most frenzied slaughter raged everywhere, in the skies and on the earth.
Palaces burned and divine weapons snapped. The carnage reached its utmost extreme.
An undying holy land met its end that day. Hall after hall fell, and its resistance, fought with everything it had, merely tempered the assassins' cutting edges.
"Found it!"
Facing the Nether God Palace's crazed current Holy Son, Feng Jiu's eyes suddenly brightened for an instant.
Seemingly deliberate, seemingly accidental, he unleashed a strike of supreme brilliance. Standing within the domain of divine prohibition, his combat strength soared as he cleaved apart the Nether God Palace's Holy Son facing him.
And his peerless sword light seemed to reach everywhere, holding the birth and destruction of worlds within it. It split mountains and rivers, threatening to overturn them all!
In an instant, towering dragon qi gushed forth, carrying a fragrance that refreshed the heart and soul as it spread through the fluctuations of Feng Jiu's divine power!
"This is... a medicinal fragrance?"
"Could it be an Immortal Divine Medicine?"
Almost simultaneously, terrifying gazes turned toward it, belonging to the Heavenly Court's two Killing Saints as well as dreadful beings lurking in the shadows!
After all...
The Assassin Heavenly Court was not the only force that had come to this Extreme Northern Icefield in the Northern Region of the Eastern Wilderness!
Hell and Human World... they too had sent figures who had transcended mortality and attained sainthood, originally to hunt down a Sacred Body who had brazenly declared he would raze them!
But events had unfolded too quickly and grown too complicated.
In the midst of their pursuit, the tantalizing prospect of an Immortal Divine Medicine had drawn their attention away.
Granted, that supposed Immortal Divine Medicine had appeared only as briefly as a night-blooming flower, glimpsed from afar by a few Great Powers.
But that alone was enough to stir their hearts and redirect their efforts.
The trouble was that the Assassin Heavenly Court's Killing Saints carried mighty Quasi-Emperor Weapons. That was simply too frightening. Even fellow Saints were unwilling to confront the Assassin Heavenly Court over mere rumors caught on the wind.
But if they truly saw the divine medicine?
Then there was nothing more to discuss!
-I would dare storm a Life Forbidden Zone, so why should I avoid the Assassin Heavenly Court's edge?!
-I have little lifespan left anyway. I will not let even the slightest hope slip away!
"It's underground! There's an underground palace!"
The Saints discerned the source of the dragon qi. Deep beneath the earth lay a hidden realm. Someone had sealed the dragon vein underground, and had its seal not been accidentally split open, even Saints would have been deceived.
Boom!
In an instant, the Heavenly Court's Killing Saints arrived, locked onto the source of the erupting dragon qi, and charged straight inside!
Rumble!
In the distance, towering sacred light blazed as the Saints of Hell and Human World also appeared. Two terrifying assassins at the peak of the Saint King realm stood shoulder to shoulder. They exchanged a glance, everything left unspoken.
The Assassin Heavenly Court had suppressed them for far too long!
Perhaps...
Then they moved together, following closely as they charged underground and into the underground palace!
Not long after the Saints entered, the Heavenly Court's many Killer Kings could no longer restrain themselves and followed them inside!
At that moment, Feng Jiu stood far off to one side, as inconspicuous as a nobody.
No one could have understood what a terrifying storm that light stroke of his sword would bring upon all of Beidou!
"Let the bullets fly a little longer..."
His brows lifted slightly. Then he turned into a streak of light and rushed toward the Nether God Palace's breached halls, toward the many assassins carrying off its wealth like ants moving their stores.
A holy land's accumulation over countless years was astonishing.
All manner of spirit medicines, divine materials, rare treasures... there was no counting them.
With the entire holy land destroyed, all of it fell into the Assassin Heavenly Court's hands.
How much could an assassin earn by taking contracts and killing people?
Wiping out an entire sect brought money much faster!
But...
Boom!
Towering golden light blazed. The Heavenly Court's assassins, busy hauling away their spoils, came under attack as a golden figure descended from the sky and unleashed a peerless punch!
Or perhaps... six punches?
They were simply too fast, compressed to the utmost limit, and so there was only one punch.
As that "one punch" struck, six worlds seemed to manifest and revolve, their grandeur vast and sacred. With the irresistible might of a force smashing rotten wood, it blasted away a Killer King who had remained on guard. He coughed up great mouthfuls of blood, left half-dead on the spot!
It hit hard!
Nothing more needed to be said!
That was Feng Jiu's assessment of the Sacred Body Lineage's strongest combat technique!
Sacred Bodies? What does this lineage know about the six paths of reincarnation? They just make up names!
It merely hits hard!
If I throw six punches, manifest six worlds, and have enough speed and strength, mine can be the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist too!
Feng Jiu grumbled inwardly.
But that did not stop him from assuming his current identity, becoming the man whom the three great assassin organizations hated enough to grind their teeth and could never stop thinking about-
Wushi!
At that moment, he had come to... rob them!
The Assassin Heavenly Court had destroyed the Nether God Palace and gained a windfall... only for that windfall to change its surname to Feng!
I have to be fast and efficient. Once I'm done robbing them, I need to leave...