Chapter 144

Above the void, Zhuang Buran's eyes flowed, as if he had noticed something interesting, and his mouth curled slightly.

He didn't wait for the mushroom cloud he had created to dissipate and threw another punch. The fist intent surged, the fist momentum stirred, and the fist energy was vast and surging, as if a tsunami were tearing heaven and earth apart, drowning and swallowing everything.

"Boom!"

A burst of aura erupted, showing the momentum of a prairie fire, but it was extinguished by the surging fist intent. Then, a dormant thunder fist momentum descended across the sky like lightning, and then fell with the momentum of five thunders striking the top.

The surging fist momentum almost instantly annihilated this dormant thunder fist momentum. Afterward, a mysterious wind that seemed to lead to the nine heavens was born, sweeping toward the vast fist energy with a violent wind momentum, but it was ultimately in vain.

When the ground was completely calm, besides two tattered corpses without any breath, there was actually one more person.

His hair and beard were all white, and his face shape was quite round like Xiao Jingtian and his brother, but now he was constantly coughing up blood; he had clearly suffered extremely heavy injuries.

"As expected of Xiao Sanshan, the 'Twelve Startling Terrors' who has lived for four thousand years. After receiving my eighth limit 'Military Disaster Heavenly Danger', you only suffered some minor injuries. If I hadn't added another punch, you would have run away long ago."

"You discovered me long ago?" Xiao Sanshan said with difficulty.

"I used Dongying as a chessboard and millions of lives as pieces, thinking that it would definitely attract you over." The white-haired, black-robed man said leisurely:

"After all, no matter how much a son hates his father and how much he wants to take revenge, he kills his own biological father. And as a father, no matter how much he wants to destroy his relatives for the sake of righteousness, he cannot help but feel compassion."

"When you used the 'Dabei Extreme Joy Powder' to poison Xiao Jingtian and his brother, wasn't it just like that? Seeing them in extreme pain from the poison, you couldn't bear it and gave them the antidote."

"You must know that you had already discovered that they were the ones who would start the Millennium Tribulation."

Xiao Sanshan smiled bitterly:

"Do you think I am also one of the culprits, so I also deserve to die?"

The white-haired, black-robed man chuckled:

"You have been gifted by heaven many times in your life, so you were determined to stop the Millennium Tribulation, but you ended up promoting the birth of the Millennium Tribulation. Tell me, shouldn't you die?"

"You have lived for four thousand years, watched four thousand years of plays, and have been carefree for four thousand years. You have enjoyed everything in the world, which can be said to be a huge profit. If you live any longer, even heaven won't be able to stand it."

As soon as the words fell, a strong wind blew and thunder rolled.

"Look, heaven is angry. It wants to take you, this old immortal, away completely."

"Self-proclaimed as heaven, you are still the peerless hegemon you were back then." Xiao Sanshan said inexplicably:

"I relied on the 'Mirror of Heart' to deduce the heavenly secrets, clearly seeing that you would be ended by Feng and Yun, but I really didn't expect you to become an anomaly and have the achievement of destroying the Millennium Tribulation today."

"It is precisely because my destiny has not ended that I can suppress you ghosts, monsters, and demons." Zhuang Buran said indifferently:

"Once I die, the Shenzhou martial arts world will constantly experience all kinds of heaven-turning and earth-shattering disasters."

"Especially you, this old waste. You have four thousand years of cultivation, but you have always watched coldly, at most acting as an expert outside the world, and you are determined to stop the Millennium Tribulation. Don't put gold on your own face."

Xiao Sanshan said sternly:

"This is wrong. The heavenly secrets have already said that Feng and Yun are the saviors of the world. I only need to protect them as they grow, and I can stop the Millennium Tribulation without any future troubles."

"Relying on a piece of broken copper mirror to talk about heavenly secrets in front of me." Zhuang Buran laughed dumbly:

"It's really interesting enough."

With a "boom," ink-green heavenly thunder as thick as a tree rolled down, and in the blink of an eye, the place where Xiao Sanshan stood turned into an ink-green sea of thunder.

This is the Mysterious Yin Twelfth Sword, 'Ten Thousand Phenomena Chaos Extinction'!

Xiao Sanshan supported his severely injured body and returned the 'Four Absolute Arts of Mixing Heaven' to one move. Four forces that checked and balanced each other in heaven and earth appeared at the same time, and with peerless power as the foundation, he absorbed power by worshiping the moon and struck toward the ink-green sea of thunder.

When his face turned like gold paper and his body was swaying, he finally destroyed the ink-green sea of thunder.

"Excellent! You haven't lived for four thousand years in vain, but why do you like to stand by and watch!"

Zhuang Buran shook out a cold and chilly fist momentum, condensing the moisture in the air into indestructible hail, and punched downward. The hail shot toward the ground densely like a violent storm.

Xiao Sanshan began to squeeze the power of the divine turtle blood in his body, immediately recovering some strength, and used the 'Ten Thousand Ways of Forest' to the peak, surviving another 'Hail' move.

"Hehe, you have lived for four thousand years after all, and you still don't want to die. Only now are you truly fighting for your life."

Zhuang Buran's aura stirred, as if he had gathered the essence of endless heaven and earth into his body. Immediately, the celestial phenomena changed abnormally, manifesting the phenomenon of yin and yang imbalance and conflict, and the universe turning upside down.

"Take this punch of mine, and I won't mind sparing your life!"

The fist momentum covered down like the collapse of the sky. Xiao Sanshan began to squeeze the power of the divine turtle blood in his body with all his might, but he only persisted for three or four breaths before he was forcibly turned into a broken bone meat pie, and his death was unbearable to look at.

Zhuang Buran also did the same as he had for more than a month, adding a 'Flame' move afterward. The fist energy burned the ten-mile area into white land with the momentum to burn the sky, boil the sea, and evaporate everything.

He suddenly landed on the deep pit smashed by 'Military Disaster Heavenly Danger', and after recording a line of small characters at the bottom of the pit with a brilliant sword light, he flew away without looking back.

More than ten days later, the Shenzhou martial arts world was in an uproar. When Dongying fell into a strange silence, many curious and skilled Jianghu people went in groups of three or five to check.

But they found that this had become a dead land. Not to mention any living people, even flying insects and beasts were rare to see. Everywhere were pits and bumps, and scenes burned into white land.

Such a scene didn't feel like a man-made disaster, but calling it a natural disaster made it hard to believe.

It wasn't until experts from major martial arts sects or famous seniors arrived that, after careful investigation, especially in a huge deep pit that looked like a meteorite fall, they finally confirmed that there was an existence that could kill millions and slaughter a country with its own strength.

Just because there was a line of domineering small characters at the bottom of the pit: "Tiny country, disrespectful to Shenzhou, should be punished by heaven." This person even left his name generously, which was the two words "Xiongba".

When this news reached the Shenzhou martial arts world, the Jianghu went completely crazy. I don't know how many people were digging into the various experiences of this former hegemon, wanting to know what kind of person he was to have such divine power.

I don't know how many people were looking for his tracks, both with the heart of pilgrimage and the intention of apprenticeship.

There were also many people who had some bellyaches, thinking that the means were too ruthless and heartless, worthy of being the leader of the World Association who said "those who follow me prosper, those who oppose me perish" back then, but they were immediately sprayed with dog blood by the vast majority of people.

Three months later.

Outside Ruoshui Ju, Zhuang Buran stood with his hands behind his back. Besides Youruo and the other three, Wuming was also there.

"Father, why did you suddenly call everyone over? Could it be that you want to ask about your great reputation in the martial arts world now?"

Youruo talked endlessly:

"You don't know how much the Jianghu people respect and admire you now, directly regarding you as the unique high mountain on the road of martial arts."

"For this reason, after failing to find your tracks, they set their sights on Brother Yun and Brother Feng, intending to come for a curve-to-save-the-country, apprentice to them, and thus witness the peerless divine art of you slaughtering a country alone."

Zhuang Buran smiled:

"Could it be that these people don't know that the disciples I accepted are all rebellious disciples who deceive their masters and destroy their ancestors."

Suddenly, Nie Feng and the other two showed expressions of crying and laughing.

"They all think you are taking the opportunity to retire from the Jianghu; otherwise, how could Brother Yun and Brother Feng have been safe and sound all along." Youruo said with a smile.

Zhuang Buran smiled, looked up at the sky, and said lightly:

"Youruo."

"Daughter is here."

Youruo looked at her father's figure suddenly becoming ethereal and had a bad premonition.

The white-haired, black-robed man said indifferently:

"Father hopes that you will not be trapped by your heart, confused by your feelings, afraid of the future, or miss the past from now on."

"You are..." Before Youruo finished speaking, she heard her father say:

"In these days, I have also destroyed the so-called evil weapons and sinful blades one by one. I said I would help the Shenzhou martial arts world eliminate all future troubles, so I must be perfect. Now, only I am the last trouble."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expression changed drastically.

"Father, are you going to abandon your daughter?" Youruo said hurriedly.

Nie Feng said anxiously:

"Master, you have done enough. Why be so determined?"

"That's right, Junior Brother Feng is right." Qin Shuang also said impatiently.

Bu Jingyun stepped out and said:

"You don't eat the Dragon Essence, did you have this plan long ago?"

"Looking at your expression, you don't have the heart to kill me?" The white-haired, black-robed man raised his eyebrows.

"You let us live forever, but you want to die yourself. What is the reason for this?" Bu Jingyun said word by word:

"Before I take revenge on you, you are not allowed to die!"

"I am very comforted to be able to train you, a rebellious disciple with a sea of blood and deep hatred, to the point where you sincerely want me to continue living!"

Zhuang Buran reached out and lifted his hand, and a barrier appeared out of thin air, forcing everyone to retreat more than ten steps.

"Father, don't... don't!" Youruo's eyes were filled with tears, and she kept using all her power to hit the barrier that looked weak but was actually extremely solid.

The others also used their most powerful martial arts moves.

"Brother Xiong, don't you think your move is too cruel?" Wuming roared.

"Since I don't have an immortal body, and she is not a child of a few years old, it's all a matter of time anyway. Where is the cruelty?"

Zhuang Buran's figure gradually became faint, and his voice became more and more ethereal:

"Besides... great compassion is close to cruelty, and great love contains a vicious heart. This is called great kindness without emotion."

"Everyone, take care. My life's fun is exhausted!"

(End of chapter)