Chapter 3401: 1691: Offending Subordinates and Superiors Alike is a Crime, Disrespecting Saints, Emperors, and Present Gods and Buddhas |
“Li Country… Blade!”
Memories can’t always flow unimpeded, just as beauty will never last forever.
The revolving lantern had only just begun its flashbacks, and Ah Si was forever frozen in the terror of the moment, unable to make any effective resistance…
He was just about to fight back.
He had barely moved.
Then, he began to float!
The strength of Spatial Upanishad lies in Xu Xiaoshou’s current ability to casually carve out a new world for himself.
The completeness of the rules in this new world was irrelevant.
What mattered was that, using this, he could use a “quasi-exile” method to throw himself and Ah Si into a new battlefield.
Naturally, with such a spiritual technique presented before the five regions, no one could guess the true attack range of Li Country Blade anymore.
“It floated!”
The distance between Feng Zhongzui and Lord Shou was barely a dozen zhang, and staring at the all-too-familiar Void Swallowing Technique, his face was filled with astonishment.
After all, during the earlier narration, by observing the range limited by the Moonless Sword Deity, he deduced that Lord Shou’s bizarre spiritual technique had a defined distance limit.
To put it bluntly, anyone observant enough could see it back then. After all, a spiritual technique with no counters simply couldn’t exist.
The maximum range of Lord Shou’s spiritual technique was, at best, a single li!
But now…
“We’re all right beside Lord Shou. Lord Shou is right before me. That person moved. He floated. But I also moved… and yet nothing happened to me!”
Feng Zhongzui gestured wildly behind the mirror, only to suddenly recall that the five regions couldn’t see any of this.
He turned the mirror around, aiming it at the Holy Mountain Sanctuary group beside him.
The sanctuary group had all frozen like lifeless puppets, deeply aware of the devastating power of “Li Country Blade.”
And yet, different people had different ways of reacting.
Some noticed that this spiritual technique was similar to Elder Yan’s Pulsation of Light, where staying still was the best counter.
However, when the Dao Imparting Mirror turned to face them…
Some instinctively lifted their chins to reveal their profiles, others puffed out their chests, and some even smoothed their bangs.
“Look! They all moved!”
“Each one posturing like… uh, anyway, nothing happened to them!”
Feng Zhongzui was startled by a series of murderous glares and immediately reminded himself that careless words could cause trouble. He resolved to watch his mouth in the future.
The distance limitation no longer applied!
At this moment, everyone, including the Holy Mountain Sanctuary group and the spectators from across the five regions, gradually realized that their prior strategies for countering Lord Shou’s spiritual technique were now useless!
“The Stairway to Heaven Envoy
Fang Wenxin didn’t even know this envoy’s exact name, yet Xu Xiaoshou had already subdued him.
The envoy of the Stairway to Heaven didn’t appear to be a golden-robed agent of the judicial department, yet he still carried the rank of a demi-saint.
That was the critical point.
To reach the demi-saint position within the Five Great Holy Emperor families, one’s abilities had to be exceptional.
After all, in a sense, the number of demi-saint positions was finite, and the competition within the Holy Emperor’s secret realm was bound to be fierce.
All signs indicated that this unnamed envoy shouldn’t have been a weak demi-saint.
Yet he was no match for Xu Xiaoshou in a single exchange!
“Should I save him?”
“No, the real question is, can I even save him?”
Fang Wenxin’s heart was heavy with bitterness. At this moment, he still couldn’t see through Xu Xiaoshou’s bizarre spiritual technique. How could he save anyone?
If he rashly charged forward, unable to penetrate Lord Shou’s defenses, he’d only add another casualty to the tally!
…
“Ai Cangsheng, I’ll give you a chance. Right now, I don’t know anything. If your arrow stops, I’ll let him go.”
“Let’s set aside the matter of the Ancestral Tree for now. Consider this a gamble between us. If I lose, I’ll give the tree back to you. How about that?”
Xu Xiaoshou’s instincts told him this hostage was incredibly valuable.
The lack of reverence shown during the conversation with Fang Wenxin regarding the “Holy Emperor’s Golden Edict” was telling.
One had to understand, back on Abyss Island, Jiang Buyi had treated even a single roll of the Demi-Saint’s Mysterious Decree with utmost gravity.
Meanwhile, Qin Duan, Qiu Gu, and others had perished without ever producing even one Demi-Saint’s Mysterious Decree.
The Holy Emperor’s Golden Edict, being a tier above, should logically command far greater respect.
At that time, Bazhun’an had used the Holy Emperor’s Golden Edict to summon Abyss Island. Even in the deep sea, Xu Xiaoshou had heard the Eighth’s voice:
“The sacred secrecies buried a thousand millennia, I shed my blood to ferry the past.”
“A hundred generations bow to Bazhun’an; I summon divine light with my command!”
In hindsight, Xu Xiaoshou maintained a degree of reverence toward the Holy Emperor’s Golden Edict. After all, this artifact had summoned Abyss Island.
It was by leveraging the Holy Emperor’s Golden Edict that the Saint Servants launched their first assault, dealing a severe blow to the Holy Divine Palace’s forces—cutting down saints and sealing saints alike.
This fully set the stage, giving the Saint Servants barely enough footing to engage in a struggle with the Holy Divine Palace.
But as for this person before him, the Holy Emperor’s Golden Edict seemed casually given, and his tone carried an air of arrogance. Clearly, he was a prominent member of a Holy Emperor family, frequently in contact with high-level artifacts like the Holy Emperor’s Golden Edict.
Could it be that he was the Holy Emperor’s confidant?
Could capturing him draw out the Holy Emperor?
Even though he had witnessed the downfall of Wangze Holy Emperor and the meager state of Holy Emperor Fengtian in the Divine Relics, Xu Xiaoshou wasn’t arrogant enough to underestimate the remaining Four Great Holy Emperors.
After all, those incidents could be considered “anomalies.”
And the Shengshen Continent was their true home field.
It was for this exact reason that Xu Xiaoshou was unwilling to provoke more members of the Five Great Holy Emperor families. He wanted to proceed cautiously, step by step.
But if using this unknown individual—regardless of who he was—could exchange for two Ancestral Trees, even if temporarily…