Chapter 586

The endless sea stirred up thousand-zhang waves, the seawater gushing up in torrents, flowing backward toward the sky like water dragons.

Such a scene was terrifyingly grand.

"Is this the might of a Heaven-Human realm expert?"

Li Rui's pupils contracted slightly.

He saw.

The battlefield of the Private Secretary Gao Tianxia and Hong Tianyong shifted again and again, from the endless sea to the nine heavens.

And in this battle, Li Rui was the only spectator.

The Private Secretary proved the Dao through strength, his overbearing nature fully revealed.

Countless times, he knocked away Hong Tianyong's natal profound weapon, the small tripod, and the scene was almost a complete suppression.

"How is this possible?!"

The small tripod was knocked away once again.

The shock in Hong Tianyong's heart reached its peak.

He also knew that proving the Dao through strength was incredibly overbearing, but he never expected Gao Tianxia to be this powerful.

This was unusual!

It wasn't just that the Dao was strong; more importantly, the person was strong.

Gao Tianxia, in terms of combat power, even surpassed ordinary strength-cultivators.

There was simply no way to fight.

Just look at how Hong Tianyong could only rely on the myriad changes of his magic treasure to barely maneuver and avoid having his physical body shattered by Gao Tianxia.

In an instant.

There were more than ten more collisions.

Finally—

A crack appeared on the small tripod; although small, it was the beginning of its shattering.

With his natal profound weapon damaged, Hong Tianyong, whose life was connected to it, let out a muffled groan, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

He looked at Gao Tianxia in disbelief.

Shattering a natal profound weapon with a physical body?!

What kind of monster is this!

Without hesitation, he turned and flew toward the horizon.

Gao Tianxia also transformed into a divine rainbow.

"In the end, Hong Tianyong was forced by our Grandmaster to dissolve his cultivation and disperse his Dao. From today on, there will only be two Vice City Lords in Shenxiao City."

Nie Siming said excitedly.

The battle in the endless sea finally spread back to Shenxiao City and the thirty-six guard cities.

An earthquake!

Hong Tianyong's dissolution of his Dao almost meant a major reshuffling for Shenxiao City.

Generally speaking.

Changes in the rankings among Vice City Lords are always accompanied by bloodshed.

But for someone as overbearing as Gao Tianxia, it was extremely rare to force a Vice City Lord to his death.

It was truly terrifying.

It was incredibly tough.

Of course.

If Hong Tianyong hadn't been willing to disperse his Dao, he might have truly been beaten until his soul was scattered by Gao Tianxia.

By dispersing his Dao, at least if he could break the secret of the womb after reincarnation, he would still have a sliver of a chance to make a comeback.

If his soul were scattered, he would have absolutely no chance left.

As for why he wasn't killed directly.

Li Rui's Grandmaster Gao Tianxia was only a Vice City Lord, only a Heaven-Human realm expert, and above him was the City Lord of Shenxiao City; forcing Hong Tianyong to disperse his Dao instead of killing him directly was giving face to the City Lord of Shenxiao City.

In this way.

The situation wouldn't be too ugly.

"Big brother, tell us about it."

Ning Zhongtian looked at Li Rui with glowing eyes.

Full of anticipation.

In this earth-shattering battle, Li Rui was the only spectator.

Li Rui smiled.

He simply recounted the scene of the battle.

The few people in the courtyard listened as if they were intoxicated.

They were either wanderers of the martial arts world or those who had fought on the battlefield, so they worshipped hand-to-hand combat the most; hearing that Gao Tianxia had shattered a profound weapon with his physical body, their jaws all dropped.

Why are body-cultivators weak?

It's because no matter how strong a body-cultivator's physical body is, it's only in comparison to the physical bodies of other cultivators.

If compared to magic treasures and profound weapons, it is far inferior.

Therefore, when body-cultivators duel with other cultivators, they try their best to avoid magic treasures and then engage in close-quarters combat. Precisely because of this, body-cultivators have almost gone extinct in the immortal cultivation world.

Now that Gao Tianxia has shattered a profound weapon with his physical body, he is completely an existence that breaks common sense.

How could they not yearn for it?

Just as he finished speaking.

A young servant in the prefecture walked cautiously to Li Rui's side: "Marquis, someone outside the gate is asking to see you, saying they are from Shenxiao City and only wish to see you, Marquis. Should you see them?"

Li Rui raised an eyebrow.

If his guess was correct, it should be Ji Ze, or rather, Hong Tianqi.

"Bring him to the side courtyard."

Not long after.

Li Rui also arrived at the side courtyard and sure enough saw Ji Ze standing in the courtyard.

Seeing Li Rui appear, a smile appeared on Ji Ze's face: "Fellow Daoist Changqing, thank you."

"Just getting what we each needed. I wonder what Fellow Daoist Ji Hong plans to do next?"

Li Rui waved his hand.

Hong Tianqi was very carefree: "I naturally can't stay in Shenxiao City anymore. I plan to go to Zhongyaozhou. I was originally a rogue cultivator, so returning to being one now is only natural."

"Then I wish Fellow Daoist Hong a long-lasting immortal path."

"I wish you the same."

Hong Tianqi cupped his hands.

Then he turned and left.

Going to Zhongyaozhou was, on one hand, forced by the situation; Hong Tianyong was dead, and as the only true disciple of his good younger brother, if he continued to stay in Shenxiao City, he would definitely be liquidated.

The second reason was...

Hong Tianyong could find him through the bloodline connection, and naturally, he could too.

He already had a sense of it.

The place where Hong Tianyong reincarnated was in Zhongyaozhou.

He was going to Zhongyaozhou, of course, to find his good younger brother and then squeeze out every bit of value he had.

Brothers, after all, are meant to be used like this.

Shenxiao City was calm on the surface, but the undercurrents beneath had claimed the lives of countless people.

Most of them were Hong Tianyong's former confidants.

Soon.

Chonghua and Gao Tianxia divided up the remaining forces of Hong Tianyong.

Regarding this.

The City Lord of Shenxiao City didn't even show his face.

Clearly, this was a tacit approval of their actions.

The immortal cultivation world is like this; he only values the value brought to him. Hong Tianyong had impure motives and had long since had thoughts of liquidation; now that Gao Tianxia had resolved it, not only that, but the value Gao Tianxia displayed exceeded two Hong Tianyongs.

The City Lord of Shenxiao City naturally wouldn't interfere.

In an immortal sect, struggle is normal.

As long as it doesn't violate his interests, he naturally won't interfere.

Not to mention, Shenxiao City was essentially an immortal city, not an immortal sect; the two sides had an employment relationship, so he wouldn't restrict them even more.

For a time.

The prestige of Vice City Lord Gao Tianxia increased greatly.

There was even a momentum of vaguely surpassing Chonghua, the veteran Vice City Lord, and moving his ranking to first.

This day.

Above the ten thousand miles of waves.

A gourd magic treasure passed through layers of clouds, and not long after, a large piece of land was seen above the endless sea.

It was the Jin Ting Small Cave Heaven.

Two people were sitting in the gourd.

A handsome young man with an extremely immortal aura, and a little Daoist boy.

The little Daoist boy was warming wine while chattering away.

"I heard that this Jin Ting Small Cave Heaven is prosperous in martial virtue and produced two strength-cultivators who proved the Dao through strength; it's truly rare. It seems one of them, surnamed Gao, even beat a Vice City Lord of Shenxiao City to death not long ago."

"Daoist Child, didn't you stay in the Jin Ting Small Cave Heaven for a hundred years before?"

"Have you ever heard of someone called, called, called Gao Tianxia? Is he really as good at fighting as the rumors say?"

On the other side.

The young man drank a cup of warmed yellow wine to himself, his eyes drifting away.

"City Lord Gao, of course I've met him."

(End of this chapter)