Chapter 226: Mysterious Woman

At this moment, in the distance, within a small city, the streets were littered with corpses; the entire small city was silent, the air filled with a heavy scent of blood, as if this tragic scene had occurred only recently.

A woman in golden robes, her face covered by a veil, flew into the sky above this city, gazing down at the tragic scene within, her eyebrows lightly furrowed.

"Slaughtering another city?" A ethereal voice drifted down from the sky.

Suddenly, she turned her head to look into the distance, where a massive Golden Crow had appeared in that direction, flashing with dazzling light.

She let out a soft "Eh?", her body suddenly transforming into light; with a flash, she instantly appeared within the Imperial City of the Black Wind Kingdom, the City-Protecting Great Array outside the city unable to hinder her in the slightest.

At this time, chaos had already erupted within the city; fierce battles raged everywhere, the sounds of killing and fighting filling the air, while countless corpses had already piled up on the ground.

Her gaze fixed on a certain individual amidst the melee, revealing an expression of interest; with another flash of golden light, she instantly appeared in a wine tower not far away.

With war raging outside, the wine tower had long since been emptied of people, not a single soul remaining.

She simply sat by the window in the wine tower, taking out a wine pot and a Wine Cup from her Storage Ring.

After filling the Wine Cup with wine, she directed her gaze toward the two Heavenly Prides battling outside, watching with great interest.

Only when Long Xuan was locked in close-quarters combat with Jun Zaitian did he finally realize just how terrifying the gravity was at the position closest to him.

Fighting him at close range would inevitably severely affect one's speed, while physical stamina would be consumed at a multiplied rate.

Under such circumstances, how much of one's combat power could actually be unleashed?

It was only because his own physical strength was truly too monstrous that, although the gravity affected him, it did not press him down to the point where he could not walk.

If it were anyone else, under such terrifying gravity, moving even a finger would be difficult; they would be defeated and killed within a few moves against Jun Zaitian.

Jun Zaitian clearly understood that the place closest to himself was where the gravity was most terrifying, so he consistently engaged Long Xuan in close combat to maximize his gravity advantage.

Suddenly, the two exchanged a heavy punch; wave after wave of Internal Force from Long Xuan ignored the defense on the body's surface and surged into Jun Zaitian's body like giant waves.

Faced with such a bizarre attack, Jun Zaitian's expression changed, and he heavily slapped his right palm against the wall beside him.

The power surging into his body was actually diverted by him, completely poured onto that wall; the house was violently shaken into powder with a loud boom, collapsing instantly and sending up a cloud of dust.

Long Xuan was stunned; after attempting several more attacks, he discovered that each time his power was diverted by this person onto external objects, shattering house after house along the street—it seemed this person possessed an ability to transfer an opponent's attacks.

"Heh! It's useless! I possess a Displacement Gu; I can transfer any attack, whether it is a Physical Attack or a non-physical one."

"In this world, no kind of ability can attack me; one could say I am an Immortal Person, and an opponent who can never be attacked is invincible!"

"That is why I have defeated all opponents in the Western Regions undefeated; no one of the same realm is my match!" Jun Zaitian looked at his opponent and sneered coldly.

At this moment, Long Xuan truly felt just how difficult to deal with the person who had swept through the Thirty-Six Lands as the First Heaven's Chosen really was.

This was the first time he had encountered such a thorny opponent; among all the opponents he had faced, this person was undoubtedly the strongest; having encountered the most difficult opponent of his life, Long Xuan's expression turned solemn.

"Is that so? Every kind of ability has its limits; no matter how strong your Displacement Gu is, could it possibly move a mountain?"

"If a mountain were flying toward you right now, could you still move the mountain away?"

As soon as Long Xuan finished speaking, the power from every part of his body, including his internal organs, including his blood, including his toes, including all his muscles—all the power from everywhere in his body—frantically converged toward his right fist.

He soared into the air and smashed a Firm Fist of fierce momentum directly at Jun Zaitian's head.

One must remember that Long Xuan was currently blessed by two great Dharma Idols; how could the force of this punch be anything less than thousands of catties?

Jun Zaitian crossed his arms to forcibly block this punch; at that moment, he felt as if a massive mountain were pressing down on him, and surging immense power frantically flooded into his body.

"Puh!"

Jun Zaitian violently spat out a mouthful of blood; under the mountain-like immense force, he dropped to one knee on the ground, while the earth beneath his feet rapidly cracked, dense fissures appearing with him at the center.

Seizing the gap while he was kneeling, Long Xuan kicked out at his chest with a heavy foot weighing fully thousands of catties.

Jun Zaitian was sent flying horizontally like a cannonball, consecutively crashing through and collapsing three houses before falling amidst a pile of ruins; dust rose from the ruins, concealing Jun Zaitian's figure.

The black-bearded man at the Spirit Sea Late Stage, who had been watching the battle from not far away, instantly stood up, his face revealing an expression of disbelief.

"What kind of Body Refining Cultivation Method is this youth practicing, that he could cultivate such terrifying immense strength!"

"Even a Spirit Sea Stage Gu Cultivator would rarely possess such immense strength; for a Gu Cultivator of the same realm to face him means certain death upon contact and certain destruction upon touch; Jun Zaitian has finally met his match today."

"I originally thought the Western Lands, being the weakest, would be the easiest to fight, and that this final battle would be a sure victory; yet I never expected the Heavenly Prides here to be not only hard to fight, but the most difficult among the Thirty-Six Lands; I fear Jun Zaitian's streak of consecutive victories is about to end in this battle."

Jun Mochen's expression turned solemn, his brows tightly locked as he gazed upon this battle.

Inside the wine tower, the woman in golden robes curved the corners of her mouth, lightly sipped a mouthful of wine from her cup, and said, "Interesting! Interesting!"

A roar of anger came from Jun Zaitian amidst the ruins: "Kid! You have enraged me!"

As soon as the words fell, huge stone blocks flew out from the dust one after another, followed immediately by a haggard figure darting out from the dust, charging toward Long Xuan once again.

After shattering all the flying stone blocks, Long Xuan suddenly felt a powerful repulsive force surging toward him; under this power, his body flew backward uncontrollably, heavily crashing through and collapsing two walls.

He stomped his foot heavily against the ground, using immense force to crush a deep pit into the earth, only then stopping his momentum.

"Is this Horizontal Gravity?" Long Xuan's heart sank.

One attack having failed, Long Xuan suddenly felt two massive forces tearing at him; powerful gravity yanked at his feet, while powerful Anti-Gravity yanked at his head, these two forces acting simultaneously from above and below, attempting to tear him in half.

But ultimately, Long Xuan's physical strength was too solid, and his body was not torn apart under the combined assault of gravity and anti-gravity.

Though he was unharmed, the others in the city were dead in the sea.

One must know that the range of gravity extended wherever the line of sight of the Gravity Pupil reached; the farther the distance, the smaller the gravity's influence, yet how large is the range of human vision?

Only to see that large swathes of people in the city were torn apart, half their bodies remaining on the ground while the other half flew toward the sky, the air filled with a mist of blood.

Even the houses were split in two, half remaining on the ground while the other half flew toward the sky.

The sky was densely packed with miscellaneous objects; nearly half the entire city had been bisected, presenting what now unmistakably resembled an apocalyptic scene.

With this ultimate move unleashed, people in the city died in droves; the densely packed Hundred Thousand Army was directly slaughtered by half by this move.

Only those behind him, not reached by his line of sight, managed to escape this calamity.

The survivors all revealed expressions of terror, their eyes staring blankly at this apocalyptic scene, as if they had lost their souls.

Long Dan only felt the surroundings suddenly empty; the people besieging him had already died out completely; he could not help but swallow saliva, wondering if this monster was truly something humans could contend with?

Long Xuan could actually contend with this monster! Was this his true strength?

After this attack also failed, the direction of gravity changed again, becoming Deflection Gravity; Long Xuan only felt forces from all directions twisting him, attempting to knead him into a ball.

Under the powerful Twisted Power, Long Xuan's body began to rotate uncontrollably, feeling as if his internal organs were being churned violently.

He suddenly planted both hands on the ground, leaped up, and jumped far away, employing Treading Stars to cover an immense distance in the blink of an eye.

Since the influence of the Gravity Pupil diminishes with distance, Long Xuan could only try to run farther to reduce its effect on himself.

"Run? Where to? I can move too!"

Jun Zaitian charged forward again; the two resumed their fierce struggle, and before long, both unleashed their Outer Gu, which then began battling each other.

Jun Zaitian's Outer Gu consisted of a Snake, a Toad, a Centipede, and a Scorpion.

Long Xuan's Wine Gu engaged his Snake, his Dragon Gu engaged his Centipede, and his Blade Gu engaged his Scorpion.

It was also at this moment that his Calamity Poison Gu, suddenly awakened by the tremendous noise of the battle outside, finally completed its Transformation by devouring the Plutonium Element.

The moment it awoke, Long Xuan flung it directly at that Toad.

With four Top Grade Gu Species on each side, they clashed in one-on-one duels.

Little White could slow down opponents while accelerating itself, making it impossible for any foe to land an attack.

As for the Dragon Gu, it could teleport everywhere, occasionally ambushing that Centipede; whenever the Centipede was about to strike, the Dragon Gu would vanish instantly—how could anything attack a being capable of teleporting everywhere?

As for the Calamity Poison Gu and the Blade Gu, there was even less to say.

One was Hundred Thousand Material Grade, the other Five Hundred Thousand Material Grade; how could any normal Gu Worm defeat them?

Once these two towering mountains appeared, they immediately suppressed the opposing Toad and Scorpion; those two Gu Worms quickly fell into a dire disadvantage, and their defeat was merely a matter of time.

Jun Mochen, who had been observing the battle from the sidelines, widened his eyes in astonishment, staring at the scene in disbelief.

"All four of Jun Zaitian's Extreme Grade Gu Worms have fallen into a disadvantage? How is this possible?"

"What kind of Gu Species are those four Extreme Grade Gu Worms of this Western Lands Heavenly Pride? Why have I never heard of them? How many materials were used to make them so strong?"

"Where did this youth come from? The situation is turning unfavorable!"

Deeply shocked in his heart, he suddenly turned his gaze back toward the direction where the two were fighting.

Although Jun Zaitian was at a severe disadvantage in the Gu Worm battlefield, in the Gu Cultivator battlefield, the two were evenly matched.

Long Xuan, hindered by gravity interfering from various directions, occasionally missed his attacks, leaving him unable to deal with his opponent for the moment.

Finally driven to desperation, he simply resorted to shameless tactics, discarding all Martial Virtue by unleashing all his Clones.

In an instant, five more Divine Dragon Illusions and five Golden Crow Illusions appeared in the sky.

With six Golden Crows in total, their combined heat caused the ground temperature to skyrocket; beneath the searing intensity of these six Golden Crows, the ground became like a massive furnace, hot enough to roast people to death, forcing everyone below to twist in agony and instantly break out in a cold sweat.

As soon as the five major Clones emerged, each released two Dharma Idols, and at this moment, the physical strength of each Clone was exactly identical to that of the original body.

A full-power strike using Firm Fist from any one of them was something the Displacement Gu could not defend against.

Merely dealing with one Long Xuan was already difficult for Jun Zaitian, let alone having to face five more simultaneously.

Just as he dodged one person's attack, his left and right hands simultaneously blocked two others' fists, leaving his front undefended as he was heavily kicked by two feet.

He vomited a mouthful of blood, his entire body flying horizontally outward, collapsing countless houses in its wake.

The five major Clones clenched their fists, let out a sinister laugh, and pressed forward again; within a few exchanges, Jun Zaitian was once more sent flying horizontally, collapsing an unknown number of houses.

"Trouble!" Seeing that this man still possessed five Clones whose combat power was no weaker than his original body, and that six fighting one were now grinding Jun Zaitian into the ground, Jun Mochen's expression changed.

In the restaurant that had already lost its roof, the woman in the golden robe looked up at the six Golden Crows in the sky, her smile growing ever brighter.

(End of Chapter)