Chapter 223: Chapter 144: Overwhelming Suppression, Securing a Destiny for the People

His face was like polished jade, and he wore a long beard. In his left hand, he held a book, and in his right, a teaching rod, making him look just like a mortal teacher.

However, his aura was as ethereal as an immortal’s, possessing the bearing of a transcendent being.

At this moment.

His face was like frost. He stared up at the sky-high Wang Xiao, his expression devoid of fear, filled only with a thick killing intent.

In just a moment of distraction. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

His beloved disciple had been killed right before his eyes, his body and soul utterly annihilated. How could he not be furious?!

"Heh, so your disciple is off-limits?"

"Who do you think you are? I killed him. What are you going to do about it?!"

A voice like Celestial Thunder boomed, rolling down from above.

In that instant.

The frost formed by the surrounding killing intent melted away like ice and snow.

The suffocating pressure that had made it hard to breathe also dissipated completely.

Shangguan Xiyue and the others visibly relaxed. They instinctively stopped what they were doing and looked toward the execution ground in the distance.

They saw Wang Xiao’s enormous body shrink to the size of a normal person in the blink of an eye, facing off against the white-robed figure from a distance.

Waves of surging energy seemed to be clashing invisibly, causing the very space around them to twist and distort.

Wang Xiao floated in the air, calmly gazing at the white-robed figure before him.

[Analyzing...]

[Analysis Successful]

[An Yuanshan. Age: 860. At one year old, he was discovered to possess a Celestial Spirit Root and was taken in as a disciple by a Supreme Elder of the Vast Immortal Sect. He became Pregnant with the Spiritual Embryo within three years, began Gathering True Form within five, reached the Human Immortal Realm in thirty years, and stepped into the ranks of the Immortal Kings in fifty, becoming one of the nine great Immortal Kings of the Vast Immortal Sect. He then took control of Wenchang Country, repeatedly provoking wars to comprehend the Heaven and Earth Laws.]

[Future Trajectory: At the age of 960, he will finally comprehend the Law of Killing Intent from the Heaven and Earth Laws and step into the ranks of the Earth Immortals.]

[In the 109,600th year of the Great Immortal Calendar, the Celestial Gate will open. On the Invincible Road, he will be killed by Mu Tiange of the Taiyi Holy Land.]

Lines of information suddenly appeared before Wang Xiao’s eyes.

This allowed Wang Xiao to instantly grasp all the information about the white-robed figure before him.

This person could actually comprehend the Great Dao in the future and become an Earth Immortal.

His Talent was truly extraordinary.

However.

’Who on earth is this Mu Tiange?!’

This was not the first time Wang Xiao had seen the name. When he had analyzed Shangguan Xiyue and Liu Yuzhen before, he had seen that they were also fated to be killed by this Mu Tiange in the future.

’The Taiyi Holy Land seems to be in the Antarctic Ice Realm. It’s an extremely mysterious Holy Land; it seems not many people in the Cultivation Immortality Realm even know of it.’

Wang Xiao mused to himself.

Just then.

Not far away.

An Yuanshan narrowed his eyes, sweeping his cold gaze over Wang Xiao, his killing intent almost palpable:

"I never expected a small country like Wenchang to produce someone like you. You must have a Hidden Spirit Root, right? To have cultivated in secret all these years and reached such a Realm in just seventeen years... even with a fortunate encounter, you’d still be considered a peerless genius."

"A pity, what a pity!"

"If you had shown mercy just now, there might have been room for negotiation. I could have even recommended you to become an Elder of my Vast Immortal Sect."

"But now, you’ve killed my disciple right in front of me. Tell me, how can I possibly spare you?!"

Wang Xiao looked at An Yuanshan, ignoring the billowing killing intent gathering around him, and said flatly:

"You think I care about a position as an Elder in your Vast Immortal Sect?!"

An Yuanshan’s eyes narrowed. He said but a single word: "Good!"

In that instant.

BOOM!

A world-shaking sound suddenly erupted from the heavens.

It was as if ten thousand Thunderbolts had detonated at once. An endless, roiling torrent of air, like a tidal wave crashing ashore, blasted toward Wang Xiao.

For a moment.

An area a hundred li in radius was filled with flying sand and stones.

The void churned violently. One tornado after another ripped up from the ground, with the execution ground at their center, annihilating everything in their path.

The ground heaved and buckled as if an earth dragon were turning over beneath it. All the surrounding buildings were destroyed in an instant, reduced to a field of ruins.

The common people who were too close were instantly torn to shreds by the shockwave, turned into fine dust.

Such was the might of an Immortal King. Even though he wasn’t intentionally targeting the surrounding people, the aura he emitted was not something their mortal bodies could withstand!

"Eunuch Chen, let’s go!"

A faint moonlight glowed around Shangguan Xiyue as she resisted the aftershocks of the Immortal King’s power. She quickly reached Chen Fang, shielded him, and fled in a flash!

The True Form Realm Cultivators who had been besieging Shangguan Xiyue could no longer be bothered to pursue her; they all scrambled to escape!

Feeling the tyrannical pressure within the chaos, they were secretly terrified.

Fortunately, the pressure wasn’t aimed at them, but was merely the aura an Immortal King casually let leak. Otherwise, they would have met certain Death!

Wang Xiao glanced down at the wailing commoners amid the ruins below and narrowed his eyes slightly.

In that instant.

He tore through the torrent of air sealing off the area and shot up into the sky.

An Yuanshan’s killing intent boiled around him. With a snort, his Spiritual Power erupted, and he transformed into a streak of light, chasing after Wang Xiao.

One chasing the other, their speeds were both extremely fast.

In the blink of an eye, they had flown to a height of one hundred thousand zhang.

The sky here seemed to be incredibly, incredibly high.

If this were Earth, at such an altitude, they would have long since flown out of the atmosphere and left the planet.

But here, they were still beneath the heavens.

There were no Thunderbolts around them, only fierce astral winds and spatial turbulence so violent they seemed capable of shredding anything.

Wang Xiao hovered in the void, quietly watching the approaching An Yuanshan.

An Yuanshan also looked at Wang Xiao, his voice traveling across the distance in a peculiar way:

"Hah! I didn’t think you’d actually care about the lives of those ants down there!"

He had entered the Vast Immortal Sect for Cultivation Immortality as a child and had almost no interaction with mortals.