Chapter 339: Chapter 184: Fame Spreads Throughout the World, Purple Qi Comes From the East
RUMBLE!
A deafening boom tore through tens of thousands of miles of sky!
An endless killing intent, so potent it nearly materialized, completely enveloped Celestial Extinction Mountain.
Within every Venerable, spiritual energy surged, and they each unleashed a vast, boundless aura.
"Trash?! Heh, you’ve got quite the mouth on you!"
"Some Overseas Dragon dares to spout such nonsense in our Ye State!"
"Absolutely shameless. If we don’t take you down today, then my Jinglong Mountain has no right to call itself one of the Six Sects!"
In that moment, a sudden, inexplicable rage flared in their hearts, and they were about to unleash their Divine Techniques to take down Wang Xiao in one fell swoop!
However, at that moment, the Wine Sword Immortal from the Three Pristine Sacred Land sensed something was amiss. His eyes narrowed as he roared:
"This man is subtly affecting our minds! Don’t be swayed by him!"
His voice boomed like thunder as he forcibly suppressed the inexplicable anger that had been stirred within him.
By all rights, as Venerables who had undergone ten thousand years of Cultivation, their ability to temper their minds and dispositions should have long since reached perfection.
It should have been impossible for a single sentence to provoke such a strong emotional response.
’The only explanation is that we’re being influenced by this man!’
Hearing the Wine Sword Immortal’s words, the others also snapped back to their senses and suppressed their own anger.
Their eyes narrowed, revealing a trace of lingering fear.
A cultivator’s mental state is crucial in a battle between Venerables.
If one’s mind is compromised, an opponent can easily find an opening.
’For this man to be able to influence our minds so imperceptibly... his true strength must be beyond our imagination.’
"Hmph, just as I thought. Some practitioner of deviant arts from another state, resorting to such despicable tricks."
"Do you really think you can defeat all of us just by messing with our minds?"
"How dare you flaunt such paltry tricks before us?!"
In an instant, all the Venerables employed their own techniques. Piercing golden light enveloped them as they stared warily at Wang Xiao.
Wang Xiao, however, just smiled.
"Influence your minds? When a man blows a puff of air, an ant thinks a hurricane has struck. When he speaks a word, it mistakes it for thunder."
"You feel this way simply because you are so, so far beneath me."
"For that matter, is the me you see before you truly me?!"
The instant his voice fell,
RUMBLE—
A clap of thunder echoed from the heavens. All the Venerables felt Heaven and Earth suddenly darken.
Rays of black and white light, carrying a majestic aura, streamed down, filling the sky and covering the land like a thousand descending galaxies.
In that instant, a feeling of cosmic displacement, of boundless infinity, suddenly arose in the hearts of all the Venerables.
The Venerables all looked up to see a Tai Chi Diagram spanning thousands of miles, which had appeared above their heads at some unknown point in time.
A figure sat cross-legged in the center of the Tai Chi Diagram. Wisps of Divine Light coiled around him, lending him a sacred and ethereal aura.
He was like an Immortal God seated in the highest heavens, or a Celestial Emperor who reigned over all of antiquity, majestic and inviolable.
"When?!"
The expressions of the Wine Sword Immortal, the Pu Xuan Saintess, and the others changed drastically.
Unconcealable shock filled their eyes.
As fellow Venerables, they hadn’t even perceived how the plain-clothed youth had left their field of vision.
"Be careful! His mastery over Time and Space is sublime. Don’t get caught in it!"
The Wine Sword Immortal narrowed his eyes.
Among all the Venerables present, his power was on par with the Pu Xuan Saintess, and he was quick to see what was happening.
"Everyone, I will clear a path! Let’s attack together! We’ll break his Technique first and worry about the rest later!"
Feeling the Power of Space-Time crushing down on them like a vast ocean, the Wine Sword Immortal raised his wine gourd and gulped down the gushing Spirit Wine.
Then, his abdomen visibly swelled before he opened his mouth and exhaled with explosive force!
WHOOSH—
A gale powerful enough to end the world howled forth, causing the void itself to tremble violently and shatter.
SHING!
The sword on the Wine Sword Immortal’s back flared with a piercing divine light and flew into his hand.
"I ride the wind on my sword, to purge demons from Heaven and Earth!"
In that instant, the Wine Sword Immortal rode the apocalyptic gale. The Sword Intent in his hand was immense, its killing aura cascading like a waterfall as he unleashed a world-shaking river of Sword Qi!
With a roar, it slashed toward the Tai Chi Diagram in the heavens!
It carried an aura that seemed to question the very heavens, powerful enough to shatter galaxies.
"The Celestial Venerable Spiritual Treasure of the Three Pristine Sacred Land, the Heaven-Questioning Sword!"
"Excellent, Wine Sword Immortal, I’ll help you!"
"Hmph, I refuse to believe he can take on all of us at once!"
Seeing this, the other Venerables also flared with piercing divine light. They unleashed their own Divine Techniques, launching them toward the Tai Chi Diagram in the sky!
With a graceful flip of her jade-like hand, the Pu Xuan Celestial Maiden summoned a white Jade Purification Bottle.
She plucked the willow leaf from the bottle with her delicate fingers and gave it a gentle flick.
WHOOSH—
Droplets of water were flung from it!
Each droplet seemed to have been drawn from the celestial Tianhe River itself, causing the void to instantly collapse into nothingness wherever they passed.
"Kill!"
Gong Zhu of the Tai Sui Sect was also brimming with killing intent.
Having been sent flying by a single blow earlier, he could no longer suppress his desire to attack.
As the Wine Sword Immortal made his move, he too unleashed a devastating slash.
Myriad streams of blade qi crisscrossed the sky like a celestial net, radiating an aura capable of sundering all creation as it sought to slice through everything!
"I told you it was useless. Even with a Celestial Venerable Spiritual Treasure in hand, you are still..."
"Trash!"
The word boomed like the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, reverberating endlessly across thousands of miles.
Every one of Wang Xiao’s Acupoints began to vibrate, resonating in perfect harmony with the Tai Chi Diagram beneath him!
An immense, boundless, and utterly unstoppable power erupted from every inch of his skin, from every one of his cells!
This power seemed to even surpass the Power of the Origin Great Dao!
It exuded a primordial aura, reminiscent of the world’s creation.
Within all 1,296 of his Acupoints, he had forged an Acupoint God.
Wang Xiao’s Purple Mansion had also long since undergone a complete transformation.
Even the slightest lift of his hand could now crush the void!
It was as if Heaven and Earth itself could no longer bear the strain of his physical form.
BOOM!
With a deafening crack of thunder, Wang Xiao stomped his foot, and it was as if the very firmament shattered beneath him.
The Tai Chi Diagram thundered downward like the falling sky, carrying a surging, boundless power as it met the attacks of the Wine Sword Immortal and the others!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Almost instantly, the Tai Chi Diagram smashed head-on into their various Divine Techniques!
The tremendous impact seemed to render Heaven and Earth completely silent.
Thousands of miles of the void were utterly shattered.
The entirety of Celestial Extinction Mountain, as if carpet-bombed by a thousand nuclear warheads, was instantly razed to the ground.
A river thousands of miles long shot skyward in an instant, only to be vaporized into a fog that filled the heavens.
It became a dry riverbed in a flash, with not a single drop of water left to be seen!
In this entire stretch of the world, there was no longer any smoke, nor even a single speck of dust.
It was as if everything within thousands of miles had been utterly annihilated, leaving only a great, empty Void!
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
The Wine Sword Immortal and the others were struck by the immense force. Their bones nearly shattered as they fell from the sky like broken kites, spraying blood across the heavens!
Horror was etched on their faces.
’What kind of power is this? Our Divine Techniques shattered against it in an instant, as if they’d struck the hardest Star in existence!’
"He... he wields at least four Great Daos, and they’re all pinnacle ones!"
"And he’s tempered his physical body to the point where it’s comparable to a Celestial Venerable Spiritual Treasure!"
"How can such a person exist in this world? Retreat, quickly!"
From that single exchange, the Wine Sword Immortal and the others understood.
Although the plain-clothed youth before them was a Venerable, with his collection of Great Daos and his unbelievably powerful physical body, his strength was likely comparable to a Celestial Venerable!
Ordinary Venerables like them were no match for him at all.
At this thought, the Wine Sword Immortal and the others didn’t hesitate for a second longer. Their bodies flickered as they tried to flee!
However, just then, VMMMM! The world began to spin around them as an immense power washed over them!
As the cosmos seemed to shift around them, they felt as though they had arrived in another world entirely.
RUMBLE—
Boundless torrents of air rushed in, kicking up towering clouds of dust and smoke.
In that instant, the Celestial Extremist’s Grotto Heaven had become a cage, trapping all of the Venerables inside.
Inside the Grotto Heaven.
Ao Guang and the other members of the Demon Race watched as the Venerables from the great Holy Land Sects were pulled into the Grotto Heaven. They couldn’t help but gulp, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
’H-How is this possible?!’
’Who on earth is this man?’
’He actually suppressed all of those Venerables!’
’These were all major figures, renowned throughout an entire state.’
A chill ran down Ao Guang’s spine. He couldn’t believe his eyes!
BOOM!
A massive boom that shook the land for thousands of miles suddenly rang out.
The Tai Chi Diagram descended with a great rumble, absorbing the Grotto Heaven containing Ao Guang and the others.
After the original owner of a Grotto Heaven dies, it becomes an ownerless domain.
And it can be refined by another!
For example, the Celestial Venerable’s Supreme Treasures of the major Holy Land Sects all contain complete Grotto Heavens within them.
Naturally, Wang Xiao had already spent the past few months refining this Grotto Heaven for his own use!
A Grotto Heaven is equivalent to a small, private world and has many wondrous uses.
"So this is all the Holy Land Sects amount to. Nothing special!"
His booming voice spread in all directions.
With a sudden movement, Wang Xiao soared into the sky with all the captured Venerables and vanished into the clouds.
...
「Several days later.」
The Wine Sword Immortal of the Three Pristine Sacred Land, the Pu Xuan Celestial Maiden of the Jasper Pool Sacred Land, Gong Zhu of the Tai Sui Sect, and more than a dozen Venerables from the Six Sects—including Jinglong Mountain, the Destruction Dao Sect, and the Carefree Sect—had all been suppressed and captured by a single person!
The news spread through the entirety of Ye State with unimaginable speed.
Everyone in the entire Cultivation Realm—countless sects large and small, Loose Cultivators, and even ordinary mortals—heard of it.
What’s more, the news crossed the seas, spreading throughout the other eight of the Nine Provinces.
The world was left in stunned silence.
One must understand that in any of the provinces, a Cultivator who reaches the Venerable realm is, without exception, a figure of supreme status.
In the eyes of ordinary people, they were completely unapproachable, untouchable titans.
And yet, now, figures of this caliber had been carried off, their fates unknown.
How could this not leave people utterly aghast?
Soon, someone found out the captor’s name: Wang Xiao.
In an instant, that name spread throughout the Nine Provinces!
The common folk were inexplicably thrilled.
The great Holy Land Sects had controlled the lands for tens of thousands of years, and now, someone finally dared to challenge their authority.
Everyone knew that an even more earth-shattering battle was on the horizon.
After all, the Celestial Venerables of those Holy Land Sects had yet to make a move!
While the world was abuzz with discussion, Wang Xiao was riding in a donkey cart, traveling leisurely along a country road.
He was spending this time digesting the Cultivation Techniques and Great Daos he had obtained from the Venerables.
Vaguely, he could sense that he was close to grasping the paths of the remaining Material Great Dao and Void Great Dao.
Just as he was about to focus on this realization, he suddenly looked up.
He saw a pillar of purple qi soaring into the heavens.
It was rolling toward him from the east.
