Son-in-law Heaven Emperor Xiao Yi-Chapter 1609 - 1578: Slicing Open Heaven’s Gate with the Sword

Chapter 1609: Chapter 1578: Slicing Open Heaven’s Gate with the Sword

Yunjing City, atop the towering city tower.

The commander of the Eighteenth Legion, Huo Changtian, and vice commander Zhou Ziwen, had long been waiting for Ding Zhonghe’s triumphant return.

However...

When they saw Ding Zhonghe about to return to Yunjing City, they realized he did not immediately enter the city but instead warned them to activate the City Protection Array promptly.

Relying on the tacit understanding built from years of collaboration among the three.

The two hesitated hardly at all and immediately activated the City Protection Array.

As the formation was being activated.

Xiao Yi appeared, and Ding Zhonghe, in order to delay Xiao Yi to prevent him from rushing into the city before the City Protection Array could be activated, stood blocking Xiao Yi with a Fangtian Halberd.

But the next moment...

He merely brushed past Xiao Yi.

The mighty Ninth Layer Saint King Realm master Ding Zhonghe was decapitated.

Falling from the sky toward the ground.

The blood rain drenched the city tower, rendering Zhou Ziwen and Huo Changtian speechless and stunned.

Ding Zhonghe’s strength was the weakest among the three of them.

However.

No matter how weak Ding Zhonghe was, he was still a Ninth Layer Saint King after all!

Even a Saint King peak expert shouldn’t be able to kill him in one face-off, leaving no room for retaliation.

Gulp!

Someone swallowed, breaking the silence on the city tower.

Zhou Ziwen was the first to react, almost instinctively roaring toward the two experts handling the City Protection Array beside him: "Is the City Protection Array activated?"

"Almost there..."

The two experts were also pale and anxious.

They saw Xiao Yi’s encounter with Ding Zhonghe firsthand, unable to even see how Xiao Yi attacked, but merely brushed past and cleaved the powerful Ding Zhonghe in two.

Facing such a terrifying enemy, they deeply understood that if the City Protection Array couldn’t be activated in time.

If Xiao Yi rushed into the city.

They would be facing unilateral slaughter!

Huo Changtian had lost all his color; his cultivation was at the Ninth Layer of the Saint King Realm, only one step away from reaching the Tenth Layer.

But the closer he was...

The more he could understand the terror of Xiao Yi!

Even if he went all out to kill Ding Zhonghe, he’d need to use various methods. Even if he ambushed him, he couldn’t kill Ding Zhonghe in one face-off.

Xiao Yi’s powerful strength far exceeded his imagination.

Even though he hadn’t fought Xiao Yi yet.

Huo Changtian knew very well that once they fought, he might not be much stronger than Ding Zhonghe!

"Quick, quickly activate the City Protection Array, we cannot let him inside..." Huo Changtian shouted.

But he discovered that all the experts around were staring at him in a daze, no, he should say looking at what’s behind him. Even his old partner Zhou Ziwen was doing the same now, staring behind him with widened pupils.

Gulp!

Huo Changtian gulped hard, his mouth twisted sharply, looking at Zhou Ziwen: "He, he shouldn’t be so fast, right?"

A drop of cold sweat rolled off Zhou Ziwen’s forehead.

He didn’t speak.

But this drop of cold sweat had explained everything.

Huo Changtian felt a chill rise from his tailbone, shooting straight up to his head, making every muscle in his body tense to the extreme in an instant.

Slowly turning his stiff neck.

Before he fully turned, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Xiao Yi standing relaxed with his hands behind his back, smiling at him.

Just half a meter away.

But at such a close distance, if he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have even sensed Xiao Yi’s presence.

There are only two possibilities...

Either the opponent’s movement technique is so bizarre and powerful that it can avoid his divine sense detection.

The other.

Is that the opponent’s strength far surpasses his own.

Though unwilling to admit it.

But Huo Changtian knew very well in his heart, the Saint Heir from the Heavenly Tao Pavilion behind him must belong to the second category. And just this thought almost scared him into breaking out in cold sweat.

A cultivation far exceeding his own.

One must know...

He was a Ninth Peak of the Saint King Realm, even a Half-step Saint Emperor couldn’t silently appear behind him.

Could the opponent be a Saint Emperor?

This thought not only floated in Huo Changtian’s mind but all who saw Xiao Yi bristle past and cleave Ding Zhonghe assumed the same.

Huo Changtian, a veteran of countless battles, calmed down quickly, recovering his composure as if Xiao Yi was not standing behind him.

With a light and composed demeanor, he slowly turned around.

But at the moment he just turned, two turbulent Origin Power currents formed into energy streams attached to his hands, like two gigantic powerful pythons charging up with explosive force.

Boom! 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Boom!

Two energy currents swept through the void with an army-sweeping momentum, slashing towards Xiao Yi at waist-level.

Swish!

Facing the two energy streams, Xiao Yi merely tapped his toes into the void, quickly leaping away from the city head. The energy streams lost their target, sweeping across several thousand miles of void.

The void hummed and trembled, as if it were being cut open.

Xiao Yi remained unscathed, standing several miles away in the void beyond the city gate.

Yet...

Facing this missed strike, Huo Changtian was not disappointed; he instead smirked arrogantly at Xiao Yi: "You’ve been tricked!"

"Oh?"

Xiao Yi raised an eyebrow.

Almost simultaneously.

Within Yunjing City, ninety-nine beams of light rose, each one piercing the sky.

Seemingly connecting heaven and earth.

It was the sign of the successful activation of the City Protection Array.

Huo Changtian stood atop the city head, watching Yunjing City enveloped in the City Protection Array, he exhaled a long breath, smirked coldly at Xiao Yi: "You are still too young. My prior attack didn’t intend to harm you at all, merely to force you to retreat!"

At the city head.

Zhou Ziwen also breathed a sigh of relief, relaxing his tense body: "Old Huo, you’re really something!"

The terrifying strength Xiao Yi displayed by killing Ding Zhonghe.

If there hadn’t been the City Protection Array.

The Eighteenth Legion couldn’t stop Xiao Yi.

Now...

With the City Protection Array activated.

They were full of confidence, ready to stop Xiao Yi and then call on experts from other cities for assistance; not to mention Xiao Yi, even if the Sky Suppressing King came, breaking through Yunjing City would be impossible.

Facing the confident Huo Changtian and Zhou Ziwen, Xiao Yi raised an eyebrow and asked with a smile: "What? You wouldn’t think this mere City Protection Array could stop me, would you?"

"Mere City Protection Array? Hahaha, Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, I don’t know whether to call you ignorant or arrogant. This City Protection Array is made up of 9,900 large-scale defense and attack formations. Even if the entire Sky Suppressing Army attacked it, it could hold for months, let alone you alone..." Huo Changtian sneered.

Zhou Ziwen looked confident: "Trying to breach the city alone? You’re dreaming, in the history of the Boundary Realm battlefield, no one has ever breached a main city’s protective formation alone!"

"Others might not, but it doesn’t mean I can’t!"

Xiao Yi’s lips slightly curved upward, green light streamed on his palm, and the Qingping Sword sliced through the air.

Xiao Yi held the sword single-handedly.

Standing proudly between heaven and earth.

The sky above was changing, even the sun and moon were obscured.

Standing resolutely against the wind, Xiao Yi’s face was cold, his longsword slashed through the air, slowly speaking: "One sword opens the heavens!"

Swish!

The terrifying sword edge sliced through the air.

Transforming into a heaven-defying sword light, it slashed directly at Yunjing City’s gate.

Boom!

Under one sword.

The City Protection Array exploded violently, and the terrifying sword edge charged forward unchecked, splitting Yunjing City’s gate in half under the stunned gaze of Huo Changtian and others!

One sword opens the gate!

Everyone looked up at the youth standing with his sword, their eyes filled with horror and fear...