"I'll give you ten breaths."
Su Changge was in no hurry. Since he had already marked the man as a crop to harvest, did he think he could leave?
That was impossible.
Luo Yan's face darkened. He had come today to fulfill the three-year agreement and wash away his past humiliation, but he had never expected to encounter such a terrifying young man!
"Do you know who I am?"
"I am a Holy Son of the Returning Unity Sect!"
Su Changge was amused by his words.
Sure enough, the other man had begun using his identity to threaten him.
But a contest of status was what he feared least!
"Your name is Luo Yan. You joined the Returning Unity Sect five years ago and recently became its newly appointed eleventh Holy Son."
"So what if you're a Holy Son? You offended this Divine Son, and you must pay the price."
"Oh, and you have three breaths left."
Luo Yan's face was deathly pale now. The other man had no fear of his status! He even seemed utterly unconcerned!
That could only mean he had complete confidence!
"Junior, since you know of our Returning Unity Sect, aren't you being far too insolent?"
Just then, the void twisted and slowly split open, and an old man slowly emerged from within.
"Elder Li!" Both Luo Yan and Luo Qingyu looked delighted. Elder Li was in the late-stage Venerable Realm!
He counted among the foremost experts in this world!
"You two useless fools! You've disgraced our Returning Unity Sect!"
"I'll deal with you two later!" Elder Li glared fiercely at them. He was the Dao Protector accompanying Luo Yan and Luo Qingyu on this journey.
He had witnessed everything just now. They had truly brought shame upon their sect!
"I haven't even made a move, and an old man has already come out to throw his age around?"
Elder Li flew into a rage at those words. "Junior, I advise you to watch your mouth!"
"Otherwise, don't blame me for teaching you a lesson!"
At that moment.
Boom!!
With Su Changge at its center, a brilliant, dazzling sword light instantly appeared, circling around him.
Hundreds of millions of rays of sword light seemed to be constantly tearing space apart. Spatial fissures even appeared around Su Changge!
"A mayfly trying to shake a tree! You're courting death!"
Elder Li looked furious. He was a Venerable, yet a junior in the Sealed Emperor Realm actually wanted to fight him?
This was nothing short of a provocation!
Rumble!!
Suddenly.
The void behind him shook violently. Surging spiritual energy and laws churned, then swept toward him from every direction!
Screech!
The phantom of that ancient giant bird let out a heaven-shaking cry!
Its wings, which blotted out half the sky, lightly shook the void, sending raging storms sweeping across it!
Suddenly.
Two violent tornadoes surged through the void, their might utterly terrifying!
Whoosh-!!
Immediately afterward.
Countless wing blades formed from spiritual energy filled the sky!
Their cold gleam lay fully exposed, their edges incomparably sharp.
The immense pressure of spiritual energy even caused the temperature of this stretch of heaven and earth to plummet, making countless people nearby feel as though they had entered the frostbound depths of winter!
"Junior, I'll give you one last chance. If you still refuse to see reason..."
"Today, I'll teach you what it means to respect your elders!" He did not actually dare to injure Su Changge.
After all, he knew the Returning Origin Holy Land's fearsome reputation. If it truly flew into a rage, their Returning Unity Sect would be no match for it!
"Ridiculous."
As his words fell, Su Changge formed a sword gesture with his fingers. With a raise of his hand, endless sword qi enveloped him!
As the sword qi swept in every direction, it made him look like a Sword Immortal cleaving open the heavens. Even that stretch of heaven and earth became an ocean of swords beneath the roaming sword qi!
"Sever!"
Swish!!
A sword's cry rang through the void!
Suddenly, the vast sword qi poured forth completely!
In an instant, it became a brilliant streak of sword qi a hundred zhang long!
Boom!!
The sword fell like a star, erupting with sky-piercing radiance and the unstoppable force of crushing rotten wood!
The roaring spiritual energy storm shattered with a thunderous crash the instant it met the sword qi!
It became wisps of gentle breeze and dissipated between heaven and earth!
At the same time, even the thick sea of clouds overhead was torn apart by the sword qi, revealing an enormous rift from which rich, brilliant light spilled!
"This... is the Emperor-Sealing Realm...?"
Silence fell all around.
An attack from a Venerable expert had actually been neutralized so easily?
"With strength like that, you dare throw your age around?" Su Changge said with a faint smile.
"You little...!"
Veins bulged on Elder Li's forehead. He had cultivated the Dao for over a thousand years before finally becoming a Venerable.
He even enjoyed considerable prestige within the Returning Unity Sect!
How dare a mere junior act so insolently!?
At once.
Another violent whirlwind of spiritual energy rose in the void, its aura far, far stronger than before!
He intended to unleash his full power and no longer concern himself with so much!
"Boy, I'll show you how foolish it is to anger a Venerable!"
Su Changge smiled faintly, looking somewhat unconcerned. "This Divine Son respects the old and cherishes the young. Come, you may go first."
"You're courting death!"
Those words completely swept away Elder Li's last shred of reason!
He condensed a palm phantom as enormous as a divine mountain and brought it crashing straight down upon Su Changge!
Rumble!
Terrifying spiritual energy poured forth, and heaven and earth thundered!
Under such terrifying power, even Wind Cloud City trembled violently!
The spiritual energy filling the sky threatened to freeze the internal organs of everyone present!
Yet even before such might, Su Changge's gaze remained indifferent. "The late-stage Venerable Realm. Just right for testing the Dao Severing Art."
Su Changge drew the Azure Heaven Sword from the void and smiled to himself as he addressed it. "High Heaven, I'm mainly testing the technique this time. Slaying this old fool is merely incidental."
"I'll have to put you through a little indignity."
The Azure Heaven Sword seemed to sense his words and let out a clear sword cry. Frost-cold sword qi runes slowly condensed.
At the same time.
Su Changge slowly closed his eyes, recalling the scenes of his contemplation of the Dao Severing Art over the past few days.
"What is the Dao? Humanity follows earth, earth follows heaven, heaven follows the Dao, and the Dao follows nature. This is the Dao."
"The greatest image has no form; all things possess spirit. This is enlightenment."
"Dao Severing Art, first form: Enlightenment!"
"Sever!"
As Su Changge's whisper fell.
Swish!!
A brilliant streak of sword qi shot into the sky, its radiance illuminating the Nine Heavens!
Like the first opening of chaos, it illuminated all things and blossomed with blazing divine might!
One sword strike fell. Heaven and earth wailed, and the sun and moon lost their light!
Even time around them seemed to stop briefly at that moment, and the entire world seemed to become an ink-wash painting.
The sword qi swept through the void, brilliant and dazzling. The old man's figure was instantly torn apart by it, slain with a single sword strike!
A final, vast pillar of sword qi shot straight into the highest heavens. Smoke and dust billowed across the sky as sword qi rampaged in every direction!
As a wisp of white smoke dissipated, it was as though that Venerable man had never appeared.
All around was utter silence. Everyone stood as though petrified, their hearts trembling as they stared at the terrifying sword strike that had just fallen.
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