Lin Xun! 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Around Hazy Moon Divine Mountain, the world suddenly fell still. Only Lin Xun’s calm voice echoed between heaven and earth.

Countless eyes widened, as if trying to get a clear look at the man who had always been like a living legend. In truth, this was the first time any of them had ever seen Lin Xun in person. Until now, they had only heard about earth-shaking deeds.

“I just...I just called him a coward...right to his face...” The little girl stood frozen in shock.

Her grandfather broke into a cold sweat and clamped a hand over her mouth. “Not another word, girl. Say one more thing and you’ll bring calamity on yourself.”

Boom!

In the distance, deep within Hazy Moon Divine Mountain, a terrifying surge of the dao power erupted. Countless restriction forces roared to life. Divine radiance pierced the heavens, and law power swept outward like an ocean, eclipsing the sky and sun. It felt as if some ancient, slumbering beast was awakening after countless ages.

“Lin Xun, I have waited many days for you. You finally arrived!” A deep, majestic voice rolled across the world as Donghuang Jiuhui stepped forth from the mountains, standing proudly atop the clouds.

Behind him, terrifying auras erupted one after another. Old monsters at the very pinnacle of the Transcendence Realm revealed themselves one by one. There were dozens of them!

Radiant divine lights surged around them, rising and falling. Some exuded chilling sword qi, some blazed with crimson flames that pierced the heavens, and others were as eerie as phantoms from the underworld. Each of them presided over their own domain, lofty as suns hanging high in the sky. Endless power radiated from their bodies and their imposing might rolled outward like raging tides, crashing across the land and shaking heaven and earth.

In this small stretch of land alone, including Donghuang Jiuhui, there were a total of nineteen perfect Transcendence Stage experts gathered! It was a sight terrifying beyond imagination.

Rumble!

Although these old monsters had all suppressed their might, even the faintest traces of their aura leaked into the surroundings caused boulders to explode and the void to collapse.

They themselves were embodiments of law. Countless Immortal laws filled the heaven and earth, twisting the entire region. Space split into a massive rift, and from within it, endless spatial storms roared out.

“Those are perfect Transcendence experts from the Ten Immortal Giants!”

Shocked cries rang out from all directions. The crowd was in an uproar. No one had expected the Donghuang Clan to call upon so many old antiques from the Immortal Giants.

Meanwhile, Lin Xun...stood alone! The contrast was so stark that anyone watching couldn’t help but worry for him.

“You are Lin Xun?” Wang Daochuan, wearing a tall hat and ancient robes, asked indifferently.

Power roared through heaven and earth. Laws surged and flowed like rivers, while divine flames, dao light and demonic fire filled the skies, twisting space itself. This was also the first time these old antiques had ever seen Lin Xun. Seeing him stand alone in the void left them somewhat taken aback.

“Things have already reached this point, why has no one from the Origin Sect shown themselves? Hiding like this...do they not feel it disgraces the honor of their sect?” An old antique said coldly.

“I know what you’re worried about. Rest easy, this time, I came to the Eighth Heaven Domain alone.” Lin Xun’s dark eyes remained calm and deep, without the slightest ripple.

He stood with his hands behind his back, and even as the overwhelming power surging from Hazy Moon Divine Mountain swept toward him, not a single strand of his hair moved. With his handsome features and calm, transcendent demeanor, it was hard to believe that this quiet young man was the legendary figure whose name now shook the world and shone as brightly as the sun.

“Just you?” Donghuang Jiuhui and the others narrowed their eyes, clearly not expecting Lin Xun to be so forthright.

“One person is enough,” Lin Xun said calmly.

“Hah! As expected of an Origin Sect’s deputy pavilion master! What an arrogant tone!” someone sneered.

If he had really come alone, then so what if he walked the Eternal Supremacy Path? The threat he posed to them wasn’t nearly as great as they had feared!

Many of the old antiques finally relaxed, shaking their heads with faint, relieved smiles. What they had feared most was the possibility that Lin Xun had brought the might of the Origin Sect with him. But now that he had come alone, their tension eased, and their thoughts shifted.

Wang Daochuan looked at him with great interest, speaking softly, almost pleasantly. “You certainly have courage. All of us have gathered here, and you still dare to appear alone. I wonder if you are simply arrogant beyond measure, or do you have something that makes you think you can face us all at once?”

Around him, the other old antiques fixed their gazes on Lin Xun. Their eyes glittered with scrutiny, and beneath it was a killing intent so cold it made the air tremble.

He dares challenge us alone? What difference is there between him and an ant?

Lin Xun swept his gaze across them and spoke lightly, “Back then, the Ten Clans Alliance gathered fifty perfect Transcendence Stage experts, and they were still annihilated in the Sixth Heaven Domain. Now, all that remains are you old geezers...Don’t you find that a little pitiful?”

His voice remained calm, but his meaning was razor-sharp. He didn’t take the ancient monsters before him seriously at all.

“You—!”

“Arrogant brat!”

In that instant, countless old antiques erupted in fury. Their previously restrained might burst forth all at once, surging outward like an oncoming storm.

Rumble!

Across the surrounding region, mountains shattered and the earth split apart. Cultivators who had been watching too closely were caught in the shockwave. Many were sent flying, coughing blood as they suffered heavy injuries.

In an instant, cries of alarm rang out in every direction. The spectators scattered throughout the area panicked and fled, scrambling to retreat as far away as they possibly could.

Only Lin Xun stood unmoved. His demeanor remained as calm as ever. Though he seemed insignificant beneath the terrifying pressure of so many ancient monsters, he stood like an eternal, unmoving boulder, unshaken even as raging waves crashed against him.

“Lin Xun, surrender and hand over the Divine Rank law you possess, and we may spare your life. Otherwise, today you will meet a tragic end. Your body will be destroyed and your soul scattered!” A Jing Clan old ancestor spoke, his entire figure shrouded in hazy, illusory shadows. His name was Jing Shanhu, a man infamous throughout the Eighth Heaven Domain.

“You want it? Then come and take it.” Lin Xun’s lips curved into a faint smile.

By now, how could he not see that the strongest forces of the Ten Immortal Giants had already gathered here on Hazy Moon Divine Mountain?

This also meant that the Eternal Divine Clans of the Ninth Heaven Domain were too preoccupied to bother with these watchdog clans. Otherwise, why would the Donghuang Clan need to ask the other Immortal Giants for aid? And why would the other Immortal Giants have rushed over to help?

In the end, they were huddling together for warmth, afraid of being annihilated one by one. So they gathered to form such a grand lineup.

“Those whom heaven seeks to destroy, it first drives mad. Lin Xun, you should never have come to the Eighth Heaven Domain alone.” Jing Shanhu let out a soft sigh.

Before his voice had even fallen...

Silently, a vast shadow descended, engulfing the space where Lin Xun stood. All light vanished in an instant, plunging that area into pitch-black darkness, as if night itself had swallowed the void whole.

At that same time, dozens of figures appeared silently like ghosts in that shadowed world, each launching a deadly assassination strike at Lin Xun from a different direction. Not one of them revealed the slightest ripple of aura as they appeared.

Each figure flickered like light and shadow, arriving in a blink and unleashing a terrifying, instantaneous assassination attack! The scene made even the distant onlookers break into a cold sweat, their faces draining of color.

However, Lin Xun stood firm in the darkness. In that stillness, a wisp of sword qi howled forth from the Immortal law swirling around him.

Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!

A chain of rapid explosions rang out, and the dozens of figures that had flickered like light and shadow were crushed one after another by the sword qi, as if they were nothing more than fragile paper. Blood misted through the void.

Boom!

In the end, the vast shadow that had swallowed heaven and earth shattered, collapsed and faded into nothingness.

Lin Xun snorted. “Those were the assassins of the Empty Hidden World that your Jing Clan commands, aren’t they? Just a bunch of initial Transcendence cultivators, yet they dared to assassinate me. How laughable.”

He remained perfectly composed, without a hint of aura leaking from him. Yet standing alone in the void, casting his gaze over the ancient figures in the distance, he resembled a primordial deity looking down upon mortals. He was utterly fearless and his presence quietly suppressed the entire battlefield, like a sovereign reigning over the nine heavens.

At that moment, the world fell silent. Everyone stared with wide, disbelieving eyes. In the blink of an eye, a group of top-tier Transcendence assassins from the Empty Hidden World were wiped out!

Jing Shanhu’s face turned ashen and the fury surging in his eyes seemed as though it might erupt at any moment. This ambush had been carefully prepared, executed with the most elite assassins under his command. Now, they were all dead!

So powerful!

The spectators watching from afar felt goosebumps crawl across their skin and their scalps going numb. Only by witnessing Lin Xun’s divine might with their own eyes could one truly grasp just how terrifying his power was. Even the old antiques felt a chill seep into their bones.

“Activate the Nine Absolute Killing Formation!” Donghuang Jiuhui roared.

Boom!

In an instant, hundreds of figures surged out from Hazy Moon Divine Mountain, each gripping a bronze dao rune battle flag. The flags blazed with dazzling light as they weaved together in midair to form a grand and solemn killing array.

These hundreds of figures were all at the initial or intermediate Transcendence Stage. As their full power was unleashed, a nine-layered killing formation unfolded between heaven and earth.

Each layer of the formation was like an independent world. One roared with raging divine flames, one was colder than a frozen abyss, one swirled with billions of stars, and another resembled a demonic purgatory filled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood...

When the formation fully materialized between heaven and earth, a terrifying killing intent erupted outward. Mountains, rivers and even the surrounding void collapsed and caved in, as though the world itself was sinking into ruin!

Furthermore, that was only the beginning. As soon as the formation stabilized, countless more dazzling figures shot forward, joining the array. They were all Transcendence Realm experts from the various forces under the Donghuang Clan’s command.

With their addition, the aura of the terrifying Nine Absolute Killing Formation surged skyward, rising like a world-ending tide about to swallow heaven and earth!

“Kill!”

A thunderous unified roar echoed from within the formation, rolling across the land like a peal of divine thunder.

Boom!

The Nine Absolute Killing Formation roared to life. Billions of blazing beams erupted like boiling light, sweeping across the heavens and closing in on Lin Xun. Seeing this, Lin Xun clenched his fist and drew his arm back. His body arched like a great divine bow drawn to its limit.

Drawing the fist like drawing a divine bow!

The entire world seemed to fall into absolute stillness. Even the laws of nature froze. Centered on where Lin Xun stood, the space in all directions suddenly collapsed, erupting with earthshattering roars.

Then, Lin Xun unleashed his punch, hurling forth all the terrifying power he had been building up.