Chapter 586: The World Against the Heavenly King Xiao

Chapter 586: The World Against the Heavenly King Xiao



Sun Wutian forcefully stopped his vomiting, and suddenly, the blade's edge shifted, followed by a loud rumble as a cluster of blade aura surged upwards.

Brilliant sunlight shone in an instant, illuminating the Hatred Heaven Blade, causing its edge to abruptly shift and reflect wildly. A mountain of blades suddenly formed, with countless purple clouds bursting forth from the blade's glow!

At this moment, Sun Wutian himself was like the sun!

It was the power of heaven and earth!

The power of the Great Sun!

The crimson clouds rose majestically, and the six guys simultaneously felt as if their eyes were being pricked by needles, unable to see anything, and they all retreated in shock.

Sun Wutian burst into laughter, and with a loud boom, he struck the guy whose arm had been severed, sending him flying hundreds of zhang away, and he fled for his life!

How could the six guys bear to let the prey they had already caught escape like this?

A hoarse howl echoed as they desperately gave chase.

Just then...

The sky suddenly filled with an eerie aura, and countless white bones appeared in the air, towering like mountains and filling the heavens and earth.

The chilling wind howled, and mournful clouds shrouded the nether mist. Ghostly cries pierced the gloom.

Hundreds of millions of white skeletons opened their mouths in sinister laughter.

Silently, a heaven-piercing earth-splitting gateway appeared amidst the white bones, flashing into existence.

A slender figure emerged from the white bone gateway in a flash.

His eyes were cold and merciless, and he held a Bone Dream-Shattering Gun.

With a single step, he crossed a thousand zhang of space, blocking the way behind Sun Wutian with the gun, saying nothing but effectively halting the pursuit of the six men.

The white bone gun suddenly flew up.

Hundreds of millions of gun shadows simultaneously rushed towards the six pursuers, and the six black-clad guys were startled, acting simultaneously to intercept the guns, followed by a loud howl as the six men once again took up six positions, preparing to start spinning.

"Be careful, they're releasing stench! It's a stinky ferret!"

Sun Wutian shouted a warning.

Duan Xiyang's face was cold, and he stood unmoved in the air.

But the figure standing in the air suddenly vanished.

It was just an illusion.

The real figure had already appeared in front of one of the six men.

The white bone gun made a 'puh' sound as it pierced the chest of the black-clad guy, penetrating straight through.

It was the guy who had lost his arm!

A loud boom sounded.

Duan Xiyang's essence exploded within the guy's body, and you could clearly see countless gun intents surging out of his body, piercing through the black robe with a 'swoosh' sound.

The black robe was torn to shreds.

But his body remained intact.

This was Duan Xiyang's deliberate control.

Because Yan Nan had instructed him to bring back a body for research.

The other five black-clad guys frantically howled and pounced forward.

But by the time they reached him, Duan Xiyang's figure had transformed into an illusion and disappeared again.

The real body, however, had already appeared in front of Sun Wutian, and he grabbed the body from the white bone gun, and the white bone aura exploded again, turning the body into a corpse.

The white bone gun naturally stood its ground in the air.

Duan Xiyang's right index finger calmly brushed across the space ring on his left hand.

With a 'swoosh' sound, he stored the corpse in the space ring.

Without turning back, he said indifferently, "Grand Protector, shall we join forces again and kill these five beasts?"

He gave a cold smile, "Under the bright sky, in this clear world, how can we allow beasts to roam free?"

Seizing the opportunity, Sun Wutian stuffed a large handful of pills into his mouth, suppressing the urge to vomit as his intestines still convulsed, and he laughed loudly, "Then let's kill these five beasts."

Both of them didn't turn back.

But at the same time, they leaped into action, the Hatred Heaven Blade, the white bone gun, and their full strength clashed.

"Roar!"

Five black robes danced in the air, slowly falling, and in the midst of the blades and guns, they transformed into five trails of black smoke, rushing downward.

They landed on the ground, merging into the soil of the mountain, and disappeared without a trace.

It was a futile situation.

Facing the two experts, the Hatred Heaven Blade and the white bone gun, if the remaining five continued to fight, they would only find death.

A blade and a gun, slashing through heaven and earth, descended in frenzy!

A loud rumble echoed, and an entire mountain peak below completely crumbled!

Countless fragments flew out for thousands of zhang, and the entire earth shook!

Amidst the intense tremors, several groans of forced control could be heard, and the five black shadows never appeared again!

A huge mushroom cloud spun and rose into the clear sky.

In the morning sunlight, it expanded, reaching towards the blue sky.

"They escaped!"

Duan Xiyang looked at the huge hole in the ground, the aftermath of an entire mountain collapsing, and now, water was gushing from below.

If there had been a human village within a radius of thousands of zhang, not a single person would have survived this strike.

But the two killing machines didn't consider this.

What they considered was that the five Divine Ferret Sect members had escaped!

Especially Sun Wutian, who was furious.

Damn it, these five bastards got away!

The two of them leisurely returned to the peak of another mountain.

Duan Xiyang leaned on the white bone gun, gazing at the mountains and rivers before him, and said, "They were targeting me."

Sun Wutian: "???"

"Recently, in the southeast, I've killed these things, completely wiping out over two thousand seven hundred mountains, hills, and valleys, and over four hundred various ferret types..."

Duan Xiyang narrowed his eyes and said, "Over a hundred billion."

Sun Wutian felt a surge of anger rising in his chest once more.

The gratitude he had just felt vanished into thin air.

So it turned out that this unexpected ambush and the severe beating he suffered were all because he had taken the fall for Duan Xiyang and shielded him from the attack!

This damn...

After a long while, he finally sighed and said, "But I still have to thank you. If it weren't for you, even if I could escape this time, it wouldn't have been easy."

Duan Xiyang turned his head and glanced at Sun Wutian's face, saying, "It was my fault, as I have already clearly stated. You were just the one who took the fall."

"

Sun Wutian's anger flared up again: "But you did take action! Since you took action, it's worth it for this old man to say thank you!"

A hint of a smile appeared in the depths of Duan Xiyang's eyes.

Looking at the rising cloud and dust, he said calmly, "Grandprotector, there's actually something I've always been curious about."

When Sun Wutian heard Duan Xiyang call him 'Grandprotector,' he couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion, suddenly filled with myriad thoughts.

After composing himself, he said quietly, "Ask away."

"Why did you use a lie as the foundation of your Heaven-Hating Blade?"

Duan Xiyang asked.

This was something he found deeply perplexing.

Over the past few days, his feelings had shifted from initial disdain to profound confusion.

Using a lie as the foundation of a blade was an extremely foolish move. Once the lie was exposed, one's strength would be severely weakened.

Just like this ambush; if Sun Wutian's strength had been at its peak and the foundation of his Heaven-Hating Blade hadn't been destroyed, the six Black Cloaked Ones wouldn't have been able to hurt him. Instead, he would have been able to turn the tables and hunt them down!

This was the most obvious outcome.

Given Sun Wutian's experience, he couldn't possibly be unaware of this.

Sun Wutian sighed deeply, shaking his head, his expression filled with sorrow, as if recounting a painful past.

He said in a hoarse voice, "I didn't use a lie as the foundation of my blade, or rather... at the time, I didn't even know it was a misunderstanding, a lie."

Duan Xiyang suddenly understood and was shocked, "You are..."

Sun Wutian gave a bitter smile, "Back then, I was naive and didn't realize the trouble I had caused, let alone that my family's destruction was my own doing. When I returned, I was overwhelmed by anger and madness, and I don't even know how I got through those years."

"Everything I saw was just a scene of corpses!"

"My grandfather, my father, my mother, my sister, my younger sister, my nieces and nephews..."

"They were all dead!"

"After a few years, I recovered from my mental breakdown and returned again, only to find that the graves had been desecrated..."

Sun Wutian said with a heavy heart, "A scan with my divine mind revealed that the descendants of the former tenants were wearing the jewelry of my deceased relatives on their necks and wrists..."

"I... I killed them all... but the anger in my heart! Your family treated us so well, and you could do this? If not for my family, who could have survived?"

"In that state, I joined the sect and cultivated the Heaven-Hating Blade! My heart was filled with injustice!"

"Repaying kindness with enmity! A grain of rice brings a bushel of resentment! Ungrateful and treacherous! There is not a single good person in the world! The common people have no conscience! The most ungrateful are the common people!"

"Back then, my heart was filled with these thoughts!"

"The more honest and simple someone seemed, the more painful their betrayal!"

"Everyone in the world deserved to die!"

"That's how I thought, and that's how I laid the foundation of my blade."

Sun Wutian said, "You basically know everything that happened after that."

Duan Xiyang exhaled deeply, "So that's how it is!"

"You thought correctly. Why could I suppress you back then? Duan Xiyang, you are a pure warrior. You are cruel, you are brutal, but you are very pure!"

"Or rather, you still have humanity, you still follow some rules of this world, and you have your own principles in your heart!"

"As for me, I only have slaughter!"

"All rules, humanity, and principles are a joke to me! And the principles of the Heaven-Hating Blade and the Boneless Spear, you understand them, and I don't need to explain more."

"Under that mindset, it was only natural that I could suppress you back then."

Sun Wutian said silently, "As time passed and I learned more, I realized that I had probably misunderstood. Especially after the Protectors repeatedly conveyed messages..."

"But what could I do if I had taken the wrong path? I have already achieved the foundation of the Heaven-Hating Blade, what can I do now?"

"Abandon it and start over?"

Sun Wutian said with a grimace, "Duan Xiyang, if someone were to tell you now that you had misunderstood this world and misdirected your hatred; if you had to abandon everything you have, and your Boneless Spear required you to start from scratch, would you be willing?"

"I was wrong, but I can only make the best of my mistake!"

"I have no other path!"

"If I were to abandon myself, our sect would kill me, and the Protectors and the entire world would seek revenge! The only ones who might not kill me would be Dongfang Sansan and a few other high-ranking members."

"But I would need tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years, to cultivate again! Even then, I might not be as strong as I am now! What can I do?"

Sun Wutian spat out his anger bitterly.

He said softly, "Old Duan, you wouldn't understand."

"No, I do understand."

Duan Xiyang sighed, "I truly understand."

He slowly exhaled, saying with a hint of pain, "In the future, I won't look down on you anymore."

"He understood, he was relieved, but also in pain, because he had forever lost an opponent!

Sun Wutian flew into a rage, "Do you think I'm worthy of you?!"

Duan Xiyang laughed.

He reached out and said, "Give me that arm."

"......Here you go!"

Sun Wutian took it out from his spatial ring and threw it to Duan Xiyang.

Duan Xiyang took it without even looking and put it away.

"I need to go back and deliver this first. Yan Wu needs to study it."

Duan Xiyang said, "This is our first encounter with the Divine Weasel Sect... Old Sun, are you going to the White Elephant Continent?"

"I want to go back and see if that kid is dead or not."

Sun Wutian mentioned this and started raging again, "Where's Heavenly King Xiao? Did you save him and put him somewhere? Duan Xiyang, you're really useless!"

Duan Xiyang rarely felt embarrassed.

He even seemed a bit flustered.

He dryly said, "I tore him to pieces... Oh... I... I didn't know he did this before..."

He explained awkwardly, "If not for the fight here, I might still be beating Ning Zainei at the headquarters..."

"Hehe..."

Sun Wutian rolled his eyes and said, "Is Ning Zainei crazy? How could he do this? Who gave him the order?"

"It was Yan Wu's order..."

As soon as Duan Xiyang finished speaking, he saw Sun Wutian's eyes bulging out.

He hurriedly followed up, "But actually, Ning Zainei misunderstood..."

He explained the situation, even speaking in a low and apologetic tone.

This was the first time Duan Xiyang felt so awkward, and it was also the first time he felt the need to hastily explain something to someone, especially to Sun Wutian in such a low and apologetic manner.

Sun Wutian listened and felt dumbfounded, "This... this... there's actually such a thing? Damn... I..."

Sun Wutian's appearance was in disarray in the wind.

Duan Xiyang also joined him, looking disheveled in the wind.

The two peak experts were both speechless.

Because both of them felt the same 'desolate' feeling in their hearts.

After a long while,

They both spoke in unison, "Damn it!"

It was true.

Besides this word, there was no other word to describe their feelings and emotions!

"I need to go back and check."

Sun Wutian sighed, "Maybe... he's not dead yet?"

Duan Xiyang took a step closer and said, "Then you..."

Suddenly, he frowned and covered his nose, "Why are you so smelly?"

Sun Wutian snorted, "I'm surrounded by a bunch of stinky weasels... Now my whole body, even my heart, stinks... I've been trying to suppress it."

Duan Xiyang raged, "Then why are you letting it out now?"

"Because I like you now."

Sun Wutian smiled triumphantly.

"Damn it!"

Duan Xiyang covered his nose and ran off, heading straight back to the headquarters.

This time, he wasn't in a hurry and didn't need to waste the Bone Teleportation Gate.

But Sun Wutian couldn't stand being around him for even a second.

Too smelly!

"You figure something out... like a damn rotten corpse!"

Duan Xiyang disappeared.

But Sun Wutian just smiled bitterly, "So accurate."

After a person dies, if no one buries them, on which day does the body start to stink the most? The best answer: The eighth day!

Stinking to the peak!

Duan Xiyang had already left.

Sun Wutian was still standing on the mountaintop.

He unbuttoned his shirt.

His body was filled with spiritual energy, and from the inside out, he began to frantically expel the stench.

As he expelled it, he cursed.

Because he discovered that this bizarre stench had already made his internal organs stink, and his muscles and bones were even more unbearably smelly.

Even his spiritual energy carried the stench.

And it wasn't easy to get rid of.

Sun Wutian judged that it would take almost two months to completely get rid of the stench if he used all his strength.

"Damn it!"

He put up a spiritual energy shield and headed towards the White Elephant Continent.

After all, he wasn't at ease.

He wanted to first confirm if Fang Che was dead or not, but regardless of whether Fang Che was dead or alive, Sun Wutian intended to leave the White Elephant Continent immediately and find a place to get rid of the stench.

It wasn't that he was afraid of being besieged by the Guardians.

Rather, it was because if he fought, he wouldn't be able to suppress the stench.

That would be... so embarrassing, it would spread across the entire continent!

He hurried back to the White Elephant Continent and went straight to the Guardian Hall in the sky.

Instantly, he felt relieved.

He was alive!

He didn't stay for even a second, and with a smirk, he left.

On the way back, he sent a message to Yan Nan, "Fang Che isn't dead! He's just heavily injured and will need some time to recover."

Sun Wutian then rushed back to the Southeast Headquarters, preparing to go and release the stench.

At the Only Me Orthodox Sect headquarters,

"Phew..."

Yan Nan sat down in a chair.

He took a long breath.

At this moment, he actually felt a sense of 'surviving a disaster'.

"Thank goodness!"

Yan Vice Sect Leader said.

Then, he cursed with relief, "Damn it!"

After that, he stood up and walked out.

"Where's Heavenly King Xiao?"

"He's in Room 4, recovering..."

Yan Nan walked into Heavenly King Xiao's room with his hands behind his back.

"Vice Sect Leader..."

The broken and battered Heavenly King Xiao lay on the bed, and when he saw Yan Nan enter, he almost cried.

After many years of dominating the martial world, it was the first time Heavenly King Xiao felt so vulnerable.

"It's alright."

Yan Nan sighed and patted Heavenly King Xiao's shoulder, "The person didn't die."

"Didn't die?"

Heavenly King Xiao's tears instantly welled up in his eyes, and his voice choked up, "That's great... didn't die, waaah... thank heavens... thank goodness..."

Heavenly King Xiao couldn't control his emotions anymore.

Who in this world could afford to offend Yan Nan, Duan Xiyang, and Sun Wutian all at once?

And to make matters worse, Heavenly King Xiao was a member of the Only Righteous Sect!

Upon hearing that Fang Che wasn't dead, he felt like the weather had suddenly cleared up, and his entire life seemed to brighten.

Being beaten up twice was just that—being beaten up twice. As long as there were no lingering troubles, it was fine. Who in this world hadn't been beaten before?

"So, Sun Wutian and Duan Xiyang probably won't cause you any more trouble. Rest assured. In the future, if they see you, they might beat you up, but there won't be any life-threatening danger."

Yan Nan comforted him, "This matter, I can take charge of it."

"Thank you, Vice Sect Leader."

"Don't be so quick to thank me..."

Yan Nan coughed and said, "On this side, there's no problem, but from now on, you'll have to be cautious of Dong Fang San San, Xue Fu Xiao, Frost Sword, Yu Tian Qi, Azure Dragon Blade, and the others..."

Heavenly King Xiao's body stiffened.

His eyes bulged out of their sockets, "Ah??!"

His heart sank to the bottom of a valley with a loud thud!

Staring at Yan Nan in shock, Heavenly King Xiao pleaded, "Vice Sect Leader, are you joking?"

Yan Nan nodded affirmatively and said, "What I'm saying is true. There might be others as well. Like Feng Yun Qi, Feng Congrong, Mo Qing Tian, Jing Shuang Gao, and Qiu Yiye..."

Heavenly King Xiao let out a mournful cry. In that instant, he felt life was no longer worth living, and despite his severe injuries, he propped himself up, "Fifth Lord! Who exactly is this Fang Che...? I merely struck out with a sword, and I've offended the entire martial world?!"

"It's not entirely Fang Che's fault... Those other people, the ones you almost eliminated, were also the direct heirs of the Jing, Mo, and Feng families... And their teams include the Wind, Rain, and Snow families..."

Pfft!

Heavenly King Xiao lay stiffly on the bed, his eyes devoid of any spirit.

His heart was filled with only one feeling.

Damn it! This time, I've really stirred up a hornet's nest!

And it's a super-sized hornet's nest!

"In the future, when you walk in the martial world..."

Yan Nan patted Heavenly King Xiao's shoulder, "...be cautious and protect yourself."

Yan Nan left, and it was a long while before he returned.

Heavenly King Xiao's eyes remained wide open. He felt like he couldn't catch his breath for half a day.

...

At the Vast Mountain Sect Headquarters.

When the news of Fang Che, Yu Zhong Ge, and others being assassinated reached Eastern Triple, he was taken aback.

This was truly an unexpected turn of events.

Eastern Triple never imagined in his dreams that such a thing would happen!

"With Duan Xiyang and Sun Wutian as joint protectors, they still got assassinated? What the hell are those two are doing!"

Eastern Triple was furious, "Who did it?"

But who did it was something they didn't know at the moment.

"Investigate!"

"Also, I want specific intelligence."

Eastern Triple was genuinely enraged this time.

The situation had completely spiraled out of control, which was the most infuriating.

However, the specific intelligence, who exactly carried out the assassination, and the entire battle process, could only be known once Fang Che and the others woke up.

So being anxious wouldn't be of much use.

Eastern Triple furrowed his brows, and in his heart, he had already considered seventeen or eighteen possibilities; was it the Only Righteous Sect? Or the Feng Yun Sect? Or was it the Only Righteous Sect's family?

Or was it Shen Huoyan Xiong Jiang, who had been causing blood to flow like waves recently?

Or was it the mysterious Shen Yijiao?

Eastern Triple listed each possibility, prepared countermeasures, and then called upon Xue Fu Xiao to its previous state was the best option.

Because this matter involved Fang Che's side, and others were unaware of it.

Using Xue Fu Xiao might seem like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but on the one hand, Xue Fu Xiao had a sense of pride in knowing something that others didn't.

On the other hand, Eastern Triple considered, well, this matter wasn't small, so it wasn't exactly using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, was it?

Then, intelligence from various places kept arriving.

From the Southeast.

"There's a high-level expert fighting for about twenty thousand miles in the mountains... but who exactly it is, is unknown."

When this news arrived, it caught Eastern Triple's attention.

"It should be related to the assassination."

As for not being able to see who it was, it was completely understandable. For experts of this caliber to fight, there wouldn't be anyone in the Southeast who could even catch up to them.

Patience was required.

Xue Fu Xiao arrived, "What's up?"

"Fang Che was assassinated."

"Damn it!"

Xue Fu Xiao rushed out of the window and wanted to use his electric light to rush to the Southeast.

"Come back!"

Eastern Triple called him back with a single shout, "Didn't I say it wasn't fatal? You didn't even wait for me to finish!"

"That's not acceptable!"

Xue Fu Xiao exclaimed, "Who did it?"

"Currently, we don't know who did it."

Eastern Triple's eyes flashed with a rarely seen sharp and cold light, "But no matter who it is, this time, they must pay the price!"

(End of Chapter)

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