Chapter 499: Smashing Through Luck

In Baiyu Square.

One chaotic battle followed another.

First, the green-clad Cao Guanzi observed the ceremony in Taian City, fighting fiercely against a group of Liyang experts.

Immediately following that was a clash between the current world's number one, the Murong Duo Kui, and the world's number one from four hundred years ago, the Forget-Worry Heavenly Human.

To be honest, although this battle had great hype, because the two mostly compared moves and techniques, and their speed was extremely fast, it was difficult for ordinary experts to capture with the naked eye, so the momentum was not grand enough. If not for top-tier experts watching, it was far less exciting than Cao Zhangqing and the Imperial Palace experts, and they secretly speculated that this Martial Evaluation number one was likely full of water.

However, the third battle was truly eye-opening.

The world's number one blade user Gu Jiantang, the White-Clad Military Saint Chen Zhibao, the Wu Family ancestor, and the Green-Verse Chancellor Zhao Danping.

Which one of these four was not a top expert of the Liyang Dynasty?

Whether in the Imperial Court or the pugilistic world, they were all renowned.

Yet, under the joint siege of the four, Murong Tonghuang not only nonchalantly neutralized all attacks, but also repelled the four great experts one by one, even causing them heavy injuries.

Boom—!

The sound of the ground being trampled thundered, and as teams of fully armored Imperial Guards poured in like a tide, the civil and military officials finally began to set their hearts at ease.

Of course, some also recalled the legend of Murong Tonghuang "breaking three thousand cavalry with one hand," and became increasingly terrified, fearing that this act would provoke the other party to the point of a Jade Stone Burns Together.

Fortunately, that worst-case scenario did not happen.

Murong Tonghuang merely took out a bead no larger than a grain of rice.

This bead, however, shone brilliantly and glowed, with the faint sound of a dragon's roar emanating from within.

——Dragon Pearl.

The Dragon Pearl left behind by the True Dragon of the Northern Barbarians.

After some nourishment by Yu Liancheng, the Dragon Pearl had recovered some of its vitality.

Originally, Yu Liancheng had intended to raise a True Dragon, but he soon abandoned this plan.

The True Dragons of this world were too weak; a True Dragon reaching the peak of the Entering God Realm was only equivalent to the Heavenly Phenomenon Realm, and it still required Luck to nourish it.

Even if raised, the help it could provide him would be extremely limited, whereas raising a True Dragon would require a great deal of effort. Using it as a weapon at this time was the best choice.

Yu Liancheng took a deep breath and poured his own Luck into the Dragon Pearl like a river.

The Dragon Pearl's radiance grew even brighter.

The dragon's roar became increasingly vast.

The civil and military officials had retreated, and Baiyu Square was filled with a vast number of Imperial Guards. After an order was given, all the Bed Crossbows finally launched a volley.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Almost in an instant, a loud hissing sound erupted. It was as if wind and thunder were roaring together in mid-air, incessant to the ear, as a dense rain of arrows swept toward Yu Liancheng like a gale, covering a radius of several dozen zhang.

This round of specially made Bed Crossbows had immense lethality and was fierce and terrifying; ninety-nine percent of the experts in the world, if caught in it, would only end up being shot into a sieve.

Even if they could resist for a moment, the subsequent continuous rain of arrows could exhaust a martial arts expert's Qi to the point of emptiness, and then shoot them into a pincushion.

Yu Liancheng's expression was calm.

To him, the so-called Bed Crossbows could not hurt him in the slightest, no matter where he stood.

Of course, his clothes were not Golden Silk Armor; if he were covered in arrows from head to toe, he would look quite disheveled, which would damage the reputation of the Murong Duo Kui.

As the rain of arrows was about to pour down on Yu Liancheng, he finally moved.

He flicked his finger lightly.

Whoosh!

The Dragon Pearl flew out.

The dragon's roar became even more high-pitched and clear, as if coming from above the nine heavens.

Amidst the dragon's roar, the Dragon Pearl seemed to transform into a black dragon covered in pitch-black scales with eyes as red as blood, filled with a fierce and brutal aura, shooting out shocking killing intent as it charged straight toward Wuying Hall.

The Dragon Pearl did not fly fast, but it carried a vast and terrifying power; it was the gathering of Luck, Luck that could not be added to. The air seemed unable to bear it, emitting tearing sounds like ghosts wailing and wolves howling, and the arrows filling the sky shattered with a boom, turning into dust one after another.

The Dragon Pearl crashed into the Imperial Guards, the ground shattered with a boom, and large patches of spiderweb-like cracks spread, rapidly extending to twenty or thirty zhang and continuing to expand.

Miserable screams resounded through the Imperial Palace, accompanied by the breaking of the ground, as countless sounds of tendons snapping and bones breaking rang out like a string of firecrackers. Before the Dragon Pearl, the Imperial Guards, known for their elite bravery, were unable to withstand a single blow. In just a few breaths, the originally orderly formation of the Imperial Guards was torn open, paving a carpet of blood.

The Dragon Pearl had already arrived outside Wuying Hall, and the ten decorations on the eaves, the immortal, dragon, phoenix, lion-like beast, sea-fish, mythical justice beast, and fighting bull, turned into dust one after another.

"Quick, quickly stop that bead."

The Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Imperial Princes, and others had already been taken out of Wuying Hall, but the Zhao Family Emperor felt a deep sense of foreboding from that Dragon Pearl, which looked like a black dragon crossing the sky, making his heart jump with fear, and he hurriedly issued the order.

Several Grandmasters guarding the Imperial City looked at each other and each used their unique skills, attempting to block it for a moment, but they were soon struck as if by lightning, flying backward rapidly and crashing directly into the gates of Wuying Hall, smashing the gates to pieces.

Finally, it was the Capital gatekeeper Liu Haoshi who stood in front of the Dragon Pearl; above him, black clouds were like ink, and thunder rolled.

Heavenly Phenomenon Realm experts resonate with heaven and earth, and to become famous in the pugilistic world, one more or less has a few trump card skills, and Liu Haoshi was no exception.

This move, Thunder Pool, was originally a grand gift for Cao Zhangqing.

Cao Guanzi's three passes through the Imperial Palace were like passing through a corridor, and every time he slapped him in the face. Today, he had finally caught Cao Guanzi, but he did not expect to use it on this Dragon Pearl first.

The dark clouds suddenly descended, floating above the earth like a mysterious scroll of the human world transforming into a sea of clouds, giving people a sense of the vicissitudes of life.

Half of Liu Haoshi's body was exposed in the clouds, and as his thoughts moved, the surrounding clouds and mist flashed with lightning and thunder, weaving into a net; about fifty or so purple thunders appeared, varying in size, some as large as a well mouth, others as small as a fist. Between the purple thunders, strands of snow-white lightning constantly jumped and connected, truly a Thunder Pool worthy of the name.

As the trump card skill of a Heavenly Phenomenon expert, the power of this Thunder Pool was not small, and the speed of the already slow Dragon Pearl became even slower, like a snail crawling.

The Emperor and the civil and military officials all felt their hearts relax and praised this Capital gatekeeper highly. He was indeed the expert who had stayed in the Heavenly Phenomenon Realm the longest; his move was truly extraordinary.

But Liu Haoshi's brows furrowed; the purple thunder in the Thunder Pool was rapidly draining away. Looking at the Dragon Pearl, however, it was overflowing with purple light, sizzling, and surrounded by wind and thunder.

It was as if... the Dragon Pearl had absorbed all the power of the purple thunder.

"Not good!

"

Sensing the increasingly violent power of the Dragon Pearl, Liu Haoshi's heart jumped wildly, a sense of ominous warning arose, and the hair all over his body stood on end.

However, it was already too late.

Whoosh!

The Dragon Pearl, which had originally been nearly stagnant, suddenly transformed into a bolt of purple lightning, ignoring the distance of space and time, and appeared instantly before the city guardian.

Liu Haoshi spread his hands wide, as if wanting to prop up an invincible canopy to resist the terrifying attack that was about to arrive.

However, in an instant, the Dragon Pearl pierced through his hands, pierced through his chest, pierced through the dragon throne that generations of Liyang Emperors had sat upon, and also pierced through the Liyang National Fortune.

Boom!

The Dragon Pearl exploded with a roar.

Endless purple lightning erupted, the heavens and earth seemed to dim, and the rumbling sound was deafening.

The entire Imperial Palace of Liyang was trembling and groaning, as if an earth dragon were turning over.

And as the Dragon Pearl exploded, a tyrannical ripple spread in all directions, carrying destructive power; palace walls, pillars... collapsed like dry weeds and rotten wood, and the Wuying Hall, the center of power in the Central Plains, instantly turned into a ruin, with dust and smoke flying.

It even affected several surrounding palaces, which cracked with hundreds or thousands of fissures from top to bottom, and amidst bursts of rumbling, several magnificent and solemn palaces suddenly collapsed, shattered into pieces, and kicked up a massive amount of dust.

In reality, the power of this Dragon Pearl was not originally this strong. But it just so happened that Liu Haoshi used the "Thunder Pool," and the True Dragon of Northern Barbarians feeds on thunder; swallowing thunder can strengthen itself, and thus this scene before us came to be.

Everyone stared at the scene before them, dumbfounded, as if fallen into a dream.

The Son of Heaven of the Zhao Family stared blankly at the scene before him, clutching his chest, feeling his heart ache as if being twisted. He coughed twice and actually coughed up fresh blood.

"The debt of courtesy is repaid; I shall take my leave now."

Yu Liancheng laughed ha-ha, picked up his wine pot, tilted his head back, and gulped down several mouthfuls, then drifted away.

This time, no one dared to stop him again.

The young eunuch sighed softly.

That was a Dragon Pearl from the Northern Barbarians, condensed from Luck. After this collision, the flourishing national fortune of Liyang would likely be plagued by disasters from now on.

It was not that the young eunuch had not thought about helping to intercept that Dragon Pearl.

However, Yu Liancheng's Qi had locked onto him; if there were the slightest unusual movement, the other party would immediately strike at him.

Thus, he could only watch helplessly as the Dragon Pearl broke into Wuying Hall. For this young eunuch who had lived for over two hundred years, his own life was ultimately more important.