He resolved to stake everything on one desperate gamble!
With the strongest art he took such pride in!
His body hung high in the air, power overflowing as he unleashed mighty moves in succession!
Formless Devil Art: Raging Tide Assails the Heavens!
Formless Devil Art: Heaven and Earth Both Annihilated!
Formless Devil Art: Ancestral Dragon Devours!
Qu Jiangxuan unleashed one supreme move after another.
Unable to withstand such terrifying upheaval any longer, the Realm of Clouds and Mist fell away in massive chunks, the surging waters of the celestial river washing over the mortal world.
Xie Feng watched quietly.
No matter how terrifying the towering waves!
No matter how overbearing the Ancestral Dragon Devil Qi!
He remained as tranquil as a vast ocean!
Then...
He reached out and tapped lightly.
Whoosh!
The world-shaking power froze, stopped, and disintegrated!
Faced with Qu Jiangxuan's frenzied attacks, even a supreme expert at Ascension Realm Great Perfection could not have remained so composed, so utterly unruffled!
Yet!
Qu Jiangxuan lost!
His defeat came like a collapsing mountain, complete and crushing!
Xie Feng lowered his finger, and a streak of silver light flashed straight past. Qu Jiangxuan, the terrifying Azure Dragon King, a mighty Ascension Realm expert, had his head sent flying!
Crack, crack...
His body made a horrifying cracking sound, like porcelain splitting apart.
Bang!
Qu Jiangxuan exploded!
His flesh was pulverized!
His soul was annihilated!
Beyond redemption for all eternity!
A king of a super ancient clan perished just like that!
Xie Feng closed his fan and clasped his hands behind his back, smiling so pleasantly that Ning Liao and Yan Ya felt their scalps go numb!
"An immortal!"
"Xie Feng is an immortal!"
Yan Ya shrieked.
His face bore an expression of utter terror.
And...
Boundless shock!
Ning Liao was no different!
There were no immortals in this world!
Yet now, right before their eyes, a young man had effortlessly defeated the Azure Dragon King of the Ascension Realm. Such overwhelming strength could belong to none but an immortal!
Such a young immortal!
Such heaven-defying strength!
Run!
Run now!
Run for your lives!
After Qu Jiangxuan died, this was the only thought in their minds.
They had been scared out of their wits.
Loyally protecting their master, taking revenge-all of it vanished completely before their instinct to survive.
The two of them were merely at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm!
How could they fight an immortal?!
Ning Liao and Yan Ya fled swiftly toward the outside of the Realm of Clouds and Mist.
They moved faster than they ever had in their lives.
Racing against death.
But now, the one who held life and death in his hands was not a god, but Xie Feng!
Xie Feng was death itself!
Bang!
Bang!
Before they had taken more than a few steps, an invisible blade seemed to slice swiftly down from the tops of their heads, splitting them in two and scattering them into the clouds and mist!
Ning Liao fell!
Yan Ya fell!
Xie Feng stepped toward the outside of the Realm of Clouds and Mist. His starry eyes narrowed slightly, his gaze gradually turning cold.
The next one...
Would be Xuan Tugu!
The Primordial White Tiger Clan, Xiao Shang, crimson wildfire iron, the Azure Dragon Clan...
There had to be a connection between them!
At that very instant!
Countless rays of radiance streamed across the firmament, and the third round of rankings began!
Xie Feng stopped and looked at the Heavenly Ranking.
Time returned to its proper course.
After Xie Feng killed Qu Jiangxuan and the other two, the Heavenly Ranking began, announcing tenth and ninth place in turn before updating to eighth place!
[Eighth place] Name: Changying Assessment: Her disposition is exceptional, her potential limitless. As a descendant of ancient immortals, her state of mind is as vast as the ocean. Score: 1700 Reward: White Jade Immortal Gourd
In the video, a woman in white burst out of the sea. Her features were beautiful and refined, her bearing elegant and understated. She drifted like an immortal among the clouds, beyond the mortal world.
She unfurled green bamboo slips and, without so much as furrowing her brow, brought about the deaths of two Mahayana Realm experts, their Daos extinguished!
Everyone was astonished to see her make the ranking again. She was also fourth on the Aptitude Ranking! Anyone who could appear on the rankings twice was surely extraordinary!
Amid the clamor, the heavenly light suddenly blazed brighter, and another golden Heavenly Ranking appeared!
The Dharma Artifact Ranking!
The placements on the ranking began to change.
"What's going on?"
"The Dharma Artifact Ranking is changing again!"
"Look, everyone!"
Everyone buzzed with discussion as they watched the information for tenth place on the Dharma Artifact Ranking gradually fade, dim, and disappear...
Until nothing remained!
The sudden change left everyone stunned.
They looked closely.
Tenth place on the Dharma Artifact Ranking had already been replaced with something new!
[Tenth place] Name: Rainbow Abyss Flute Grade: Divine artifact Owner: Xing Qianran
"The Rainbow Abyss Flute-that's an ancient divine artifact too!"
"But Xing Qianran is an unknown. They must be an expert living in seclusion!"
"What about the Cloud Emperor Crown that was originally tenth?"
"Could it be..."
Everyone stood dumbfounded for a moment, then suddenly came to their senses.
If someone had seized the Cloud Emperor Crown, its place on the Heavenly Ranking would not change. Only its owner's name would be replaced.
But now, the Cloud Emperor Crown had dropped off the ranking!
The only possibility...
Was that the Cloud Emperor Crown had been destroyed!
Only when the old thing ceased to exist could something new replace it!
Everyone was stunned!
Who had the ability to destroy the Cloud Emperor Crown?
"Could it have been Xie Feng?"
"He owns the top four artifacts on the Heavenly Ranking!"
"And that Immortal-Slaying Furnace is even a quasi-sacred artifact!"
People began discussing it, and the scene grew tumultuous.
Dong!
The heavenly bell tolled, and a new placement appeared on the Grace Ranking!
[Seventh place] Name: Flame Emperor Assessment: His disposition is outstanding, his potential excellent. Amid an army of a million, he slaughtered in every direction, unleashing terrifying power without equal. Score: 2000 Reward: "Yaoguang Immortal Art"
A video appeared. A silver-blue figure stood between heaven and earth, the spear in his hand like a dragon. His long crimson hair danced wildly like a sheet of flame that would burn heaven and earth!
Spear in hand, he plunged into the million-strong army, battling furiously, bathed in blood, sweeping through all directions like a descending god of fire!
Before people could marvel, the Heavenly Ranking updated again!
[Sixth place] Name: Chu Shanjun Assessment: His disposition is extraordinary, his potential heaven-defying. The cold light of his sword swept across a million soldiers, his bearing heroic and majestic, the very image of a supreme ruler! Score: 2500 Reward: Immortal-grade Nine- revolution Mysterious Origin Pill
A video appeared, showing an ink-dark figure wielding a sword amid an army raging like fire. His Sword Qi cleaved through wind and clouds, yin and yang, splitting two divine artifacts, shaking heaven and earth, and killing countless people!
"The Cloud Emperor Crown was destroyed by Chu Shanjun!"
"His score is actually as high as 2500! It seems the earlier claim that 1000 was the maximum was wrong!"
"These two seem to be in the same scene! Could the Setting Sun Sect have gone to war with the Devil Beast Forest?"
"No! It's the Heavenly Dusk Dynasty against the Devil Beast Forest!"
As the rankings updated, everyone erupted!
At that same moment!
In the Devil Beast Forest.
The war was nearing its end!
The Heavenly Dusk Dynasty had already begun retreating!
In the minds of every Heavenly Dusk soldier, Chu Shanjun's world-shaking sword strike from a few days earlier kept flashing back!
He raised his sword, and dusk descended over the Devil Beast Forest.
He swung his sword down...
The Taotie Bowl shattered!
The Cloud Emperor Crown shattered!
A third of the million-strong army fell in an instant!
The Dusk Sword...
One of the nine great renowned blades of antiquity!
Chu Shanjun's sword!
He had used only the fourth form of the "Dusk Sword Art": Lightning Pan, yet it had left countless people with a shadow over their hearts that could never be erased!
That sword intent...
That figure...
That commanding dominance that reigned over the world...
Like a human emperor!
His physique was the Human Emperor Physique!
The emperor of the Heavenly Dusk Dynasty, Murong Jue, ultimately died under the combined assault of the Flame Emperor, Chu Shanjun, and Yan Fei after losing the cheat that was his divine artifact!
The Heavenly Dusk army fled in defeat.
Thunderous cheers erupted in the Devil Beast Forest.
"Old Chu, you're fucking awesome!"
"You've gotten even stronger, you bastard!"
Yan Fei was so excited that his voice cracked. After the great battle, he was covered in wounds, his clothes torn, his white robes turned into robes of blood, but he paid none of it any mind, gazing only at that distant, black-robed figure in adoration.
Previously, Chu Shanjun's cultivation had been at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm Fourth Stage, but the strength he displayed today was definitely on the level of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm Eighth Stage!
With the Dusk Sword added to the mix, if he unleashed his full power, he could definitely kill someone in the Mahayana Realm!
Murong Jue's death was no injustice!
This was the Flame Emperor's first glimpse of Chu Shanjun's splendor, and he, too, was awestruck by that heroic figure, as though the Human Emperor himself had descended.
His mind was filled with that sweeping Dusk Sword Intent!
How could such powerful swordsmanship exist in this world?
One strike shattered two divine artifacts!
One strike wiped out an army hundreds of thousands strong!
Was he really human?
Wasn't the Human Emperor Physique far too overpowered?!
"I, the emperor, am willing to call you invincible in the Dao of the Sword!" The Flame Emperor's admiration came from the bottom of his heart.