Chapter 224: Chapter 144: Overwhelming Crush, Securing a Destiny for the People

In his eyes, mortals were nothing more than tools for his Enlightenment.

Their lives and deaths were entirely at his whim, a matter of no concern.

They were merely short-lived humans, after all.

Even if he killed them, a new crop would sprout up in another ten years.

"Ninety-eight..." Wang Xiao said, his expression calm.

"What?" An Yuanshan asked, not understanding.

Wang Xiao spoke, "Just now, a total of ninety-eight commoners were killed by your aura!"

An Yuanshan burst into wild laughter, as if he had just heard the most ridiculous joke in the world:

"And? Don’t tell me you intend to seek justice for them?"

He hadn’t actually intended to kill the surrounding commoners.

If anyone was to blame, it was the commoners themselves for being too weak. They couldn’t even withstand the faintest trace of his leaked aura.

Wang Xiao said nothing more. Surging Gang Qi erupted from his body.

In an instant.

A colossal Tai Chi Diagram—a Yin Yang Five Elements Eight Trigrams Array—slowly materialized behind him.

’What kind of True Form Map is this?!’

An Yuanshan narrowed his eyes.

He felt the diagram before him was impossibly profound and mysterious.

It seemed to encompass thousands of miles of Heaven and Earth and every corner of the cosmos, all-encompassing.

Waves of joy, sorrow, anger, jealousy, and peace flowed through it, as though it contained every emotion of every living being in the world.

And yet, the golden line that split the black and white sections exuded only a single aura.

Killing intent!

Raw, undisguised killing intent!

It seemed even more potent than the Law of killing intent he had spent centuries comprehending.

Under An Yuanshan’s gaze.

Wang Xiao raised his hand. He reached out and plucked the golden line that divided the yin and yang from the Tai Chi Diagram, grasping it firmly.

ZZZING!

In that instant.

The golden line snapped taut, transforming into what looked like a sharp, golden sword.

A piercing Sword Aura, carrying with it an endless killing intent, shot toward the sky.

Then.

Wang Xiao’s voice reached An Yuanshan’s ears:

"Your aura killed ninety-eight people. I will strike you ninety-eight times."

"Block them and you live. Fail, and you die!"

An Yuanshan’s anger flared at Wang Xiao’s tone.

’Such a casual attitude! What does he take me for?!’

’A mere mortal he can humiliate as he pleases?!’

"Who do you think you are, an Earth Immortal Ancestor? You’re an Immortal King at best! Where do you get the audacity to talk so big? ’Strike me ninety-eight times’? I’ll take your life with a single lash of my whip!"

An Yuanshan violently swung his arm!

CRACK!

The golden whip in his hand lashed viciously toward Wang Xiao.

The surrounding turbulent void was whipped aside, exploding into gales of Gang Qi.

The very void twisted with a deafening roar.

Faintly, one could even see thin cracks appearing in Space!

Clearly.

While An Yuanshan’s physical body could not achieve Vacuum Shattering on its own, he could still easily accomplish it by relying on his Spiritual Power and Spiritual Treasure!

Watching the golden whip shatter the void as it lashed toward him.

Wang Xiao’s expression remained calm. The sharp sword in his hand rose in a thousandth of a second, and he slashed.

"The first strike!"

CLANG!

In an instant.

Terrifying ripples spread through the void as a fissure was slashed directly into it!

The sharp sword and the golden whip collided with a thunderous impact.

Massive shockwaves, like an apocalyptic storm, swept across a thousand miles of open sky!

The surrounding turbulence in the void seemed to quiet down in an instant.

CLANG!

The Immortal-Beating Whip, like a wave, was instantly slashed apart by the sword.

The next moment.

Wang Xiao tore through the void with his physical body, appeared before An Yuanshan, raised his sharp sword again, and slashed!

"The second strike!"

An Yuanshan hadn’t even had time to react. His pupils constricted as he stared at the incoming strike—a streak of golden light saturated with potent killing intent.

Just then.

The book he was holding erupted with a magnificent radiance.

From it, what sounded like the words of a Saint boomed forth.

The Saint’s words manifested as glowing characters, converging into a watery wave of light that enveloped An Yuanshan in its protection.

However.

The watery wave of light formed by the Saint’s words was instantly torn asunder by the golden sword.

Its momentum unbroken, the golden sword shattered the void and continued its fierce slash toward An Yuanshan!

"AARGH!"

An Yuanshan felt the crisis of impending Death wash over him.

Using the precious moment bought for him by the Saint’s words.

His figure flashed. It was as if a road thousands of miles long appeared beneath his feet, allowing him to reappear far in the distance in an instant.

This was the ultimate Body Technique of their Vast Immortal Sect: Traveling Ten Thousand Li!

However.

Despite his timely dodge, a searing ray of sword light still struck him, nearly tearing his torso in half.

A waterfall of blood sprayed across the sky before being scattered by the winds of Gang Qi.

An Yuanshan cried out in pain. The Spiritual Power in his body surged, instantly staunching the flow of blood.

The wound began to heal at a rate visible to the naked eye.

But.

A tremor of fear rose in his heart.

He knew that if he hadn’t dodged in time just now, that sword strike would have sliced him clean in two!

He was utterly bewildered.

’Why? Why is this happening?!’

’The man before me clearly doesn’t possess the aura of the Heaven and Earth Laws, which proves he isn’t in the Earth Immortal Realm.’

’Instead, like me, he is merely an Immortal King.’

However.

’How could an Immortal King possess such terrifying power?’

’One strike to cleave through my Immortal-Beating Whip, and a second to shatter the defensive light of my Saint’s Book.’

’Those are both Top Grade Spiritual Treasures! Even a peak Immortal King shouldn’t be able to break through them so easily, right?!’

And yet, the reality was laid bare before him.

He had no choice but to believe it.

While he was still reeling in shock and disbelief.

Wang Xiao once again tore through the sky and slashed toward An Yuanshan.

"The third strike!"

After his brief exchange with An Yuanshan, Wang Xiao had already discovered something: this Immortal King didn’t seem any stronger than an ordinary practitioner at the level of One Thought Reaches Heaven.