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Chapter 364: He's Actually Still Alive
"You can control an Imperial Weapon?"
Chu Tiancheng's eyes widened in utter disbelief. Even someone like him had suffered a backlash, so why was Li Xun completely unharmed?
He suddenly turned his head and looked toward Chu Lingyue, who stood beside Yang Yi.
The fury in his eyes nearly burst into flames.
With his insight, it was not difficult to realize that the reason Li Xun could control the Nine Nether Seal must be related to the descendants of the Nine Nether Emperor.
And the descendants of the Nine Nether Emperor had long since been nearly wiped out.
In the world today, perhaps Chu Lingyue was the only one left.
"You wretched girl!"
Chu Tiancheng roared angrily. He stretched out one hand and struck through the air. His palm covered thousands of miles, like an entire sky collapsing downward, causing despair to rise instinctively in people's hearts.
"I am your father!"
The Nine Nether Seal was simply too important to him.
If the Nine Nether Seal had been handed over for him to use, then today—even if a Saint King and a dozen Saints more had come, he would not have feared them in the slightest.
Even if the number of experts doubled, he still would have remained calm and fearless.
Unfortunately, all those fantasies had been personally shattered by the daughter he had always neglected.
She had known the whereabouts of the Nine Nether Seal all along, yet never handed it over to him.
To Chu Tiancheng, this was utterly unforgivable.
"Chu Tiancheng, your road ends here," Li Xun spoke.
The Nine Nether Seal in his hand erupted with endless divine radiance. A blazing light soared into the heavens. Across an immeasurable expanse, the earth exploded, ancient mountains collapsed, and entire mountain ranges shattered apart as rocks shot into the sky.
Countless people stared at this scene in utter shock, their hearts overwhelmed with awe.
It was hard to imagine that this was merely the power of an Imperial Weapon, and one activated by Li Xun.
If a true Emperor were to return to life, what kind of terrifying scene would that create?
Rumble—!
Rocks tore through the sky as divine power surged like crashing tidal waves. Boundless chaos exploded outward, sweeping away everything.
Under this strike, all things in the world were reduced to nothingness.
This was practically world-destroying power.
Nothing could withstand it.
Fortunately, under Li Xun's control, the Nine Nether Seal was not directed toward ordinary living beings.
Even so, the scene was still incomparably horrifying.
Everything within ten thousand miles, even a hundred thousand miles, had been utterly blasted apart.
The indestructible Nine Nether Blood Fiend Formation was erased into nothingness by a single strike.
"No!" Chu Tiancheng roared.
He watched helplessly as the Nine Nether Blood Fiend Formation, which he had painstakingly arranged, was destroyed before his eyes.
He was on the verge of going insane.
That formation had been the key to his path toward becoming an Emperor.
Without it, he would merely be an ordinary Saint.
At best, he might one day step into the Saint King Realm.
But becoming an Emperor? Impossible.
Even becoming a Great Saint would be out of reach.
Li Xun's strike had completely extinguished all his hopes.
"Pfft!"
The hand seal Chu Tiancheng had formed shattered in midair.
Facing that overwhelming divine might, he could not even offer the slightest resistance. His entire body exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
Within such divine power, even after refining countless Blood Essence Stones, there was still an instant in which he truly felt that he had already perished.
While it's true that Otherworldly Demons were notoriously difficult to kill and destroy, that was only in relative terms.
Against opponents of the same level, it was indeed difficult to kill them completely. Even if their bodies were blown apart, they still possessed countless methods to reconstruct themselves.
But against the divine might unleashed by an Imperial Weapon, everything was completely different.
This kind of power already touched upon the laws of existence themselves.
It could erase someone from the very source of their being.
Before such force, even Chu Tiancheng was as weak as an ant, incapable of causing even the slightest ripple.
After that single strike, nothing remained.
The Otherworldly Demon, Chu Tiancheng, even every trace of the Great Chu Dynasty—all had been wiped away.
The only ones left alive were the forces that had come to destroy the Great Chu Dynasty.
Among those survivors, who knew how many had been affected by the earlier shockwave? Every one of them had pale faces, and some had been erased outright.
But this was unavoidable.
The might of an Imperial Weapon was beyond imagination.
Even Li Xun could not control it with perfect precision.
"So… this is the power of an Imperial Weapon?" Someone muttered in shock.
The people who had survived by sheer luck were utterly shaken.
This was the first time in their lives they had witnessed a true Imperial Weapon reappear in the world.
Although it had only been activated by Li Xun alone, and he was still unable to fully unleash the Imperial Weapon's true might, it was already terrifying enough.
Everything within a radius of a hundred thousand miles had been flattened.
Even the once incomparably prosperous imperial capital of the Great Chu Dynasty had been blasted into nothingness.
Not even a single roof tile remained visible.
"Li… Xun…" A hoarse voice rang out.
Everyone looked over.
At the location where the Great Chu imperial city had once stood, a mass of blood mist was rolling and surging. Chu Tiancheng's voice emerged from within it.
However, compared to before, the voice was incomparably weak.
Although he could regenerate, after enduring a strike from an Imperial Weapon, he had suffered catastrophic damage to his vitality. His strength had fallen to rock bottom.
Not to mention facing a Saint, at this point, if several Life and Death Realm cultivators joined forces, Chu Tiancheng would likely struggle greatly to deal with them.
"He's actually still alive?"
Li Xun glanced at Chu Tiancheng, who was reconstructing his body, then looked toward Chu Lingyue, whose expression was filled with complexity.
A faint light flickered in his eyes.
He did not continue with a killing blow.
Instead, he formed a seal with one hand. Endless streams of light descended from all directions, directly sealing the newly revived Chu Tiancheng.
After sealing Chu Tiancheng, Li Xun did not stop.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he made a grasping motion with his palm and pulled out a blood-red pearl from the dust and debris.
The pearl was about the size of a baby's fist.
It was crimson like fresh blood, as though forged entirely from blood itself.
Yet strangely, it emitted no bloody smell at all. Instead, it carried a peculiar fragrance.
Streams of light flowed across its surface. Anyone who merely glanced at it could tell that the pearl contained boundless energy, enough to completely transform a person.
This pearl was none other than the object Chu Tiancheng had refined through the Nine Nether Blood Fiend Formation.
Within it was the essence blood of countless living beings.
Even the strike from the Imperial Weapon earlier had failed to destroy it.
And now, Li Xun had retrieved it once more.
Countless people stared at the blood pearl in Li Xun's hand, their eyes burning with desire.
They understood very clearly that this pearl was an immense fortune.
Even if it were given to an ordinary person, it could probably nurture them into a Saint, or perhaps even a Saint King, in an extremely short time.
The reason it was "only" enough for a Saint was because most of the people sacrificed within Chu Tiancheng's Nine Nether Blood Fiend Formation had merely been ordinary cultivators.
There had been very few Saints among them.
If this had been created using the methods of the Nine Nether Emperor himself back in the ancient era, the value of this blood pearl would likely have increased countless times over.
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Note:
Cultivation Realm so far:
1, Body Refinement
2, Qi Condensation
3, Spirit Meridian
4, Profound Elixir
5, Divine Power
6, Life and Death
7, Divine Palace
8, Half-Saint
9, Saint
10, Saint King
11, Great Saint
12, Quasi-Emperor
13, Emperor
Treasure Level so far:
1, Mortal Weapon
2, Magical Treasure
3, Spiritual Treasure
4, Dao Weapon
5, Sacred Weapon
6, Sacred King Weapon
7, Imperial Weapon