Chapter 753: Exhibit

The firmament was silent.

The earth was silent.

The entire world seemed to have become silent.

But at this moment, all the students of the Imperial Academy and the various forces in the Imperial Capital had monstrous storms rising in their hearts. All divine senses and all gazes gathered on the Imperial Sword in mid-air and... the place where the Seventh Imperial Prince dissipated.

The Seventh Imperial Prince, body and soul destroyed, died and Dao dissipated, and even his soul was scattered, with no chance to enter reincarnation.

A dignified Imperial Prince had fallen just like that.

And this was the second Imperial Prince to die during the reign of the Sister Xuan Zhan Human Emperor.

When the Eleventh Imperial Prince died back then, the Human Emperor's fury soared to the heavens, and the blood rain stirred up inside and outside the Imperial Capital to investigate this matter affected a huge range, and countless people also fell.

It was not until a year later that it slowly calmed down.

And today... another Imperial Prince died, and it was in front of the Human Emperor, in front of the masses, beheaded by the Imperial Sword.

Especially since the Human Emperor had already spoken, allowing the Seventh Imperial Prince to prove his innocence with the Immortal Bell, but he was refuted by Xu Qing in one sentence.

Thus, the churning of the soul formed an oppressive aura, and rapid breathing turned into a heavy atmosphere. The pressure from all directions seemed to turn into mountains of ten thousand jun.

Gathering in this Imperial Capital, accumulating in this Imperial Academy, and finally, pressing heavily on Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's expression under the mask did not change at all. His gaze was calm, his body slowly fell from mid-air, and finally stood on the white Dao platform, bowing to the sages of the firmament, bowing to the students of the Imperial Academy below, and bowing to the Alien Immortal Sect Master behind him.

Finally, he raised his hand and placed it in front of him. After a pause, he slowly took off the mask on his face, actively giving up the cover of the Imperial Academy's rules, revealing his true face, reflected in everyone's eyes.

The face revealed before the masses was flawless and beautiful.

Like the first ray of sunlight at dawn, falling on the Imperial Academy at this instant, gentle yet dazzling.

Beneath the sword-like eyebrows was a pair of eyes like deep lakes, like the Big Dipper in the dark night, revealing a kind of detachment from the world, calmness, and composure.

A long head of hair flowed like a waterfall, fluttering with the wind, every strand and every thread full of the power of life and the decisiveness of killing.

All of this made Xu Qing, standing on the Dao platform, look like a star in the night sky, shining brightly.

The corners of his student robes fluttered gently, like flowing clouds in a poem, and the golden light remaining on his body was like the reflection of the bright moon on the autumn water, brilliant and quiet.

And the Imperial Sword that returned amidst whistling now slowly merged behind Xu Qing. Although it gradually blurred and dissipated, its existence was the symbol of Xu Qing's identity.

Xu Qing raised his head, and the last direction he looked at was the Human Emperor in the Imperial Palace projection on the horizon.

He bowed.

As a student, he bowed to the students and the Alien Immortal Sect, took off his mask, and as a Domain Venerable, he bowed to the Human Emperor.

The Human Emperor was silent. No one knew what he was thinking. They only saw him close his eyes slowly after silence. The thirteen Heavenly Kings under his command, although their faces were blurred, mostly had deep gazes falling on Xu Qing.

Xu Qing also did not speak. After a bow, he came to the Alien Immortal Sect Master, who was full of shock, sat on one side, and also closed his eyes.

Last night, the moment he got the jade slip in that house, he had already called out to the Imperial Sword in his heart. At that time... the Imperial Sword moved.

This was also why Xu Qing was sure that the Seventh Imperial Prince would die.

As for the Seventh Imperial Prince's multiple requests to prove his innocence with the Immortal Bell, Xu Qing did not want to explore it, nor would he give the other party this chance. No matter if the picture in the jade slip was true or false.

This was not important.

The Imperial Sword moved, which was enough to explain everything.

Following Xu Qing's closing of his eyes, after the Imperial Academy was quiet for a while, gasps gradually came. To everyone, this was the first time in their lives they had seen an Imperial Prince beheaded with their own eyes.

This kind of impact was incomparable.

And among the Imperial Academy crowd and the Imperial Capital cultivators, the one with the greatest uproar and shock, or even the highest degree of horror, was... the other Imperial Princes.

Standing beside the Imperial Academy Chancellor, his body was trembling uncontrollably. The gaze he looked at Xu Qing with also carried awe and fear.

He was also not clean, so he was afraid.

And outside the Imperial Academy, the First Imperial Prince, Second Imperial Prince, Fourth Imperial Prince, Sixth Imperial Prince, and even the Tenth Imperial Prince, their hearts were instinctively trembling. To them, Xu Qing's move this time was already equivalent to having the power of an Imperial Prince's Grand Tutor.

Even if it was an Imperial Prince's Grand Tutor, they only had the power of restraint and did not have the qualification to behead.

All of this, how could they not be afraid? After all... the beheading by the Imperial Sword represented the great righteousness of the human race, which even the Human Emperor could not stop, and how could others resist?

"His power... is too great!" This was the inner voice of all Imperial Princes except Ning Yan at this moment.

And Xu Qing's choice to sit beside the Alien Immortal Sect Master this time had an even different meaning.

In the eyes of the students and all parties, the Alien Immortal Sect was also completely different.

This was the sect Xu Qing chose, and Xu Qing proved that Alien Immortal was not evil for this sect, used the beheading of the Seventh Imperial Prince as might, and washed away the world's misunderstanding of the Alien Immortal Sect with blood, washing away the slander of Fusion God.

The soul-shaking impact caused by these things had long been monstrous.

So soon, the rainbow light of the Alien Immortal Sect's Dao platform soared directly, reaching thousands of feet high from a hundred feet. All the students who had once joined the Alien Immortal Sect were incomparably excited at this moment.

And the students of other sects, perhaps they did not recognize the Alien Immortal Sect, perhaps they only knew of Xu Qing's person and deeds before and had not come into contact with him, so they were still strangers, but now, witnessing Xu Qing not fearing imperial power and displaying the might of the Imperial Sword.

This scene brought an unprecedentedly huge impact to the younger generation.

"No wonder he could become a Domain Venerable!"

"I heard that back in Feng Hai County, it was Xu Qing who walked out alone to reveal the cause of the storm in Feng Hai County!"

"I also heard that Xu Qing asked his heart with the Sword-Wielding, and ten thousand feet of light rose, which represents that his quality can be trusted. I originally thought this was somewhat exaggerated, but looking at it now, this might be the reason why the Imperial Sword chose him!"

"The person recognized by the Great Emperor and chosen by the Imperial Sword chose the Alien Immortal Sect. This sect... must be extraordinary!"

The inner voices of the students echoed in their hearts. The Alien Immortal Sect Master on the white Dao platform had churning hearts, and his daze was even stronger. He only felt that his head seemed to be congested with blood, and waves of excitement emerged.

The things that happened today were completely beyond his expectations. Even now, he had not completely adapted, so he instinctively looked at Xu Qing beside him, opened his mouth, but did not know what to say.

In the end, he took a deep breath, raised his head, and looked proudly at the Fusion God Sect, which was silent on the black Dao platform

The Fusion God School Master's gaze remained fixed on Xu Qing, his eyes filled with complexity, emotion, and a touch of sharpness, before he finally withdrew it, looking toward the place where the Seventh Prince had fallen, sighing softly in his heart.

"What a fine display for the Human Emperor... The Seventh Prince, this chess piece, hadn't yet shown his value, nor had he reached the point of needing to be extinguished, yet he was detonated prematurely."

"Thinking about it, this Xu Qing... must have guessed my identity as well."

"Twice now... This time, I miscalculated on two points."

The Fusion God School Master sighed softly, his gaze shifting toward the direction of the Star-Plucking Tower in the outside world, a sense of guilt rising in his heart; he felt he might truly be getting old.

In the silence of this moment, mid-air, the Head of the Imperial Academy let out a weary sigh.

He had not expected that a single discourse would result in such a situation, and the discourse... was not yet over.

So, after a brief moment of thought, he looked toward the Human Emperor.

"Continue."

The Human Emperor spoke for the first time, his voice low, deep, and extremely resonant.

The Head of the Imperial Academy's heart tightened, catching some extra meaning, and so his hoarse voice echoed throughout the Imperial Academy.

"The third segment of the discourse: Discourse on the Morrow!"

"'Morrow' implies the future. Alien Immortal School and Fusion God School, your ideologies have each been expressed before this, but we cultivators must ultimately see whose path can lead directly to the Great Dao."

"With the students here as witnesses, I invite both sides to display the Dao of your own cultivation techniques!"

After the Head of the Imperial Academy finished speaking, the Alien Immortal School Master took a deep breath, stood up, and his cultivation base erupted, over a hundred thousand soul threads dispersing from his body to form a vortex in mid-air, rumbling as it spun and wove into a divine child.

This was his limit, but the Alien Immortal School... besides him, there was still one ancestor.

And so, very quickly, this appearing child let out a low roar toward the direction of the Alien Immortal Bai Ta.

As the roar sounded like thunder, shattering the surroundings, the place of seclusion within the Alien Immortal Bai Ta opened with a boom, and an old man with white hair and a beard, wearing Daoist robes, stepped out from within.

This old man wore no mask, his eyes were bright, and his entire body radiated a terrifying pressure as he walked step by step into the void, approaching the Dao altar in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, he arrived on the Alien Immortal School's Dao altar.

His appearance sparked much discussion, and the Head of the Imperial Academy gazed at the newcomer, speaking softly.

"Chen Daoze."

The person who had arrived was none other than the Alien Immortal School ancestor, Chen Daoze.

Standing on the Alien Immortal Dao altar at this moment, his first glance was not at his school master, but at Xu Qing.

After gazing at him, Chen Daoze nodded slightly, then looked at the Head of the Imperial Academy and bowed with cupped hands.

"Head, Chen has just come out of seclusion and arrived late."

"Let this segment of Discourse on the Morrow be revealed first by Chen."

As he spoke, Chen Daoze's body rumbled, and soul threads surged into the sky from his sea of consciousness—one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand... until finally, six hundred thousand soul threads covered the sky, churning in all directions above the Imperial Academy.

It was as if he could swallow mountains and rivers, his momentum shaking the heavens.

Finally, they converged and wove together, actually forming an even more vast figure, divine power spreading, the heavens and earth losing their color, dimming and blurring, with alien substances spreading.

That figure was a god!

A god of black bones that had been slain by the Great Emperor in the early years.

Black, tattered robes fluttered on its body, its black deer-like body was covered in scales, and its four-eyed head contained the light of the sun and moon, standing now between heaven and earth, making all living beings tremble.

The students of the Imperial Academy gasped in shock, and all parties in the outside world were also shaken to their cores.

Six hundred thousand soul threads—for anyone who understood the Alien Immortal School, this was an impossible feat, nearly a myth, and thus the uproar erupted suddenly.

"Six hundred thousand to weave the body of a god..."

"Is... is this the Alien Immortal School?"

Sounds of gasping and shock erupted in chaos around the Imperial Academy's Dao altar.

"It has only the form, but lacks the spirit. Using six hundred thousand soul threads to shape the Alien Immortal method is nothing more than this."

Amidst the uproar of the students, a low voice came from the Fusion God School Master on the black Dao altar.

He knew his time was running out, so at this moment, he no longer cared about life or death; the only thing he cared about was the display.

Since the display piece prepared for the buyer had been slain before showing its value...

Then... it would not be unacceptable to use himself as the display piece.

Thinking of this, a look of decisiveness appeared in the Fusion God School Master's eyes, and as his voice echoed, he slowly stood up.

Xu Qing's eyes also opened at this moment, looking at the Fusion God School Master; the killing intent at this instant could no longer be suppressed, turning into an invisible sword, sharp to the extreme.