Chapter 789: Leader Beyond the Heavens

Boom, boom, boom!!

Under the continuous bombardment of powerful energy, the magnificent Essence Temple began to collapse into pieces.

A crowd of Essence Temple believers and disciples widened their mouths in shock, their expressions changing in horror, unable to believe that a temple that had existed for a thousand years had been destroyed just like that.

Meanwhile, the battle in mid-air grew increasingly intense; Haotian Golden Chapter was almost single-handedly contending against all the experts of the Essence Temple.

As his fists swung, they stirred up waves of intense hurricane-like fluctuations, sending sand flying and stones rolling.

Every attack possessed the power to shake the heavens and move the earth; even the gods with the strength of Fivefold Lightning Tribulation standing before him were all severely wounded, spitting blood.

If not for the fact that this was the Essence Temple, bolstered by a great array and assisted by other Essence Temple experts, those four great gods would likely have been captured or killed by him long ago.

"Truly, this is crazy enough."

Seeing this earth-shattering scene, God-Might King Yang Tuo could not calm his heart either.

No one could have imagined that the Essence Temple, which had stood for a thousand years, might actually be destroyed today.

He turned his head again to look at the spot where Yu Liancheng had previously stood.

The entire Essence Temple was about to be torn down, yet the two great figures, Yuan Qi Shen and the Pope, had not appeared. He refused to believe that this had nothing to do with the Champion Marquis who had just left.

It was just that he could not understand what method the Champion Marquis had used to pin down Yuan Qi Shen and the Pope; surely this guy wasn't also a Human Immortal expert with materialized fist intent?

But recalling the way the other party had grabbed and restrained him with a casual movement, he couldn't help but doubt the true strength of the Champion Marquis.

After pondering for a moment, the God-Might King shook his head and continued to watch the battle before him, though a trace of a smile could not help but appear at the corner of his mouth.

Because he knew that after this battle, the Essence Temple would be completely destroyed, and that deathmatch which was supposed to unfold in the yellow sands would also come to an end; countless young men would not have to die on the frontier.

……

At the same time.

Xu Feihong used a magic treasure to tear through the void, arriving in a desert thousands of miles away from the Essence Temple.

She turned her head, still feeling lingering fear as she looked in the direction of the Essence Temple, and let out a soft breath.

"Xu Feihong, where do you want to go?"

However, at this very moment, a portal with ten beast heads, resembling a banner gate, appeared. The portal was pushed open, and Yu Liancheng stepped out with large strides.

"To think that even the Ancient Rakshasa Gate is in your hands." Xu Feihong's pupils dilated in disbelief.

"Just surrender obediently; I am always extra merciful to beauties." Yu Liancheng smiled slightly.

"Ancient Yuan Qi... God is with you... Yuan Qi is the Great Ability, Yuan Qi is omniscience, Yuan Qi is immortality... May your will be spread to every corner of the human world."

A resonant holy song echoed from the void. Xu Feihong did not beg for mercy or stall for time. She spread her hands, her entire body suspended in mid-air as if she were a deity. Behind her, a huge god, several dozen zhang tall and composed entirely of platinum radiance, appeared, floating in mid-air.

This platinum god wore a crown and held a scepter. On the massive scepter, countless voices were singing and praising, as if all the glory and radiance in heaven and earth had been bestowed upon this scepter, infinite in its splendor.

Subsequently, a brilliant, dazzling pillar of Yuan Qi light, as thick as a water barrel and violently intense, suddenly erupted from the scepter and blasted toward Yu Liancheng.

Whoosh!

The entire space trembled, forming ripples like flowing water. That silver-white radiance pierced the firmament, making the whole world seem as if it were cast from ice and snow. All the air currents were stirred by this pillar of light, becoming boiling hot, and all the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi surged toward the light pillar like a tide, making it even more vast.

Yu Liancheng let out a cold snort and activated the Heavenly Phenomenon Dao. With a casual wave, he heard a "Boom—" like thunder, and a bolt of lightning, of unknown length but at least a thousand zhang, appeared, splitting the long sky; countless yin and yang energies were gestating lightning within it. With another wave of his hand, the lightning descended with a crash, like a Light Sword connecting heaven and earth, meeting the Yuan Qi light pillar.

Boom!!

The Yuan Qi light pillar collided with the ten-thousand-zhang lightning bolt. Every instant seemed to produce thousands of explosions, earth-shattering and shaking the universe. The golden ripples of the aftermath swept out, instantly turning all living things within a radius of nearly a hundred miles into powder, blasted to pieces alive.

In a stalemate that was neither long nor short, the Yuan Qi light pillar shattered with a crash. The remaining lightning and sparks darted out like divine dragons, heading toward Xu Feihong, who was about to flee.

Yu Liancheng's Primordial Spirit stirred, and the Ancient Rakshasa Gate immediately emitted a strange fluctuation, interfering with the space for several hundred miles around, causing Xu Feihong's figure to stall. It was this very stall that allowed the lightning to crash into Xu Feihong's body. This massive lightning, containing the power of destruction, directly blew open Xu Feihong's acupoints, and countless wounds burst open on her skin; blood splattered out, and she turned into a bloody person, her clothes tattered.

"I told you, surrender obediently; why did you have to make yourself look so wretched?"

Yu Liancheng shook his head and reached out to grab Xu Feihong: "Come, let me obediently take a look at your memories and see the scenery of the world beyond the heavens."

"You dare to pry into the world beyond the heavens? You are courting death!!"

Just at this moment, a powerful will erupted from Xu Feihong's body.

The Pope's voice, which was originally very cold and pleasant, also came rolling in like a vast heavenly sound, more terrifying and majestic than heavenly thunder. It was a voice that made one think of the resurrection of an ancient sage emperor or the Pan Emperor.

"This is... the will and thought of the leader beyond the heavens?" Yu Liancheng's heart stirred, and his five fingers gripped, the air instantly compressing as he prepared to turn Xu Feihong into a pool of flesh and blood.

"You want to kill me now? Too late!"

"Xu Feihong" suddenly raised her head, her eyes looking at Yu Liancheng.

What kind of eyes were these?

They carried the vastness of the primordial age, and even more, the emptiness of the universe.

They were infinitely mysterious, profound, and contained the will of heaven and earth, with a flavor of ruling, nurturing, and compassion for all living things.

Such a pair of eyes made one cannot help but feel that "Xu Feihong" had become the father of all living things in heaven and earth; any living thing, including heaven and earth itself, was his offspring, receiving his care and grace, and also having to submit to his majesty.

Treating all things in heaven and earth as offspring.

How overbearing.

And what a spirit.

In the Great Thousand World, throughout history, no one had ever possessed such a temperament.

Not even Hong Xuanji.

While looking at Yu Liancheng, "Xu Feihong" threw a punch.

With this punch, heaven and earth immediately became docile, turning into an obedient baby.

At the same time, Yu Liancheng felt himself completely excluded by this heaven and earth, unable to even sense the existence of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.

He was isolated by heaven and earth.

The entire heaven and earth listened completely to the command of this one person.

Boom!

The fierce grabbing force Yu Liancheng had exerted was instantly broken by the fist momentum.

At the same time, "Xu Feihong" threw another punch through the air, coming directly to kill Yu Liancheng.

This punch struck out like a dark cloud pressing down from above, covering everything directly and filling the entire universe, as if it intended to squeeze the opponent out of the heavens and earth entirely.

In that sudden instant, it even made Yu Liancheng feel as though he were unable to move.

"A mere thought, yet you dare to be presumptuous!"

Yu Liancheng let out a cold snort, his thoughts spinning frantically, and a tremendous roaring sound erupted from within his physical shell, as if the world were being destroyed.

It was him fusing his thoughts with his own Qi and Blood; his fist intent was vast and mighty, containing the profound mysteries of the "Three Realms Qi Cannon."

The Three Realms Qi Cannon possesses the power of great destruction and is a Daoist technique created based on the phenomenon of stars exploding. Since the opponent's fist intent sought to squeeze him out of the heavens and earth, he would simply resort to the Jade Stone Burns Together, shattering the entire heavens and earth so that he would not care about being repelled.

As Yu Liancheng pulled his fist back, like drawing a bow to shoot an arrow, he unleashed it with a crash.

Bang!!

The two fists collided.

Yet, the void only trembled slightly, far lacking the terrifying momentum of the previous collision between the pillar of Qi and the ten-thousand-foot thunder. This was only because both combatants had condensed their power within their fist momentum, and as the fist momentums countered each other, they wore each other down, with only a trace of force leaking out occasionally.

But every single trace of that fist force was as heavy as a mountain, with astonishingly great destructive power.

"No wonder you dare to probe my Central Great World; you truly have some means." The leader of the Pan Star, occupying the body of Xu Feihong, spoke softly: "But it is a pity, you are still far from enough." Xu Feihong was an important chess piece of his, so he naturally had made foolproof preparations, even planting a thought within her soul.

"However, you must still die!"

Within the shell of Xu Feihong, countless acupuncture points erupted with Qi and Blood.

Waves of immense power radiated from within the body.

He moved slightly, breaking through layers of spatial obstacles, appearing instantly before Yu Liancheng, and struck out with a killing punch.

Within this punch, the fist intent became tangible; a pitch-black tunnel appeared beside Yu Liancheng, and streaks of black spatial cracks emerged upon his shell, forming countless types of pulling, twisting, and decomposing forces. Before the fist had even arrived, this terrifying fist intent seemed as if it would tear his entire body apart.

Yu Liancheng let out a cold snort, similarly mobilizing the strength of his tangible fist intent, and amidst the trembling void, he struck out a punch. This punch blotted out the sky and sun, bringing with it a violent storm. That fist intent transformed into substance, sweeping across the heavens and earth, billowing through the void, shattering the black spatial cracks, and then surging wildly toward the leader from beyond the heavens.

"You are not yet a Yang God; do you truly think that merely by relying on a thought planted in advance, you can defeat me?"

Boom!

This time, the collision of their fists stirred up violent sonic waves and Qi ripples, instantly spreading across a radius of several hundred miles, causing patches of the sky to shatter and space to collapse into black holes.

The two of them had once again concentrated their power within their fists; logically speaking, it should not have been like this.

The reason it was so was because cracks had bloomed upon the fist of the leader from beyond the heavens, and the Qi force was leaking out from those cracks.

This leader from beyond the heavens was indeed very strong, almost arguably among the strongest group of people below the Yang God and Shattering the Vacuum realms. He himself had undergone nine Thunder Tribulations, and his physical flesh and blood had evolved, making him boundlessly powerful.

But he was currently acting through the aid of Xu Feihong.

Xu Feihong herself had already been injured, so her physical body naturally could not withstand such surging and tumultuous power.

And after two head-on collisions, the disadvantage became increasingly obvious.

"Discarding this physical body, do you think you are my match?"

Rumble!

A crystalline thought rose up from the body of Xu Feihong. Within this thought, one could seemingly see an incomparably majestic and tall figure, overlooking the world, causing all things to submit and worship.

The thought suddenly ignited, releasing an unprecedented and terrifying power.

"I am the Heavenly Father; those who blaspheme the Heavenly Father must all die!!"

Swish!

The thought pierced toward Yu Liancheng!

Yu Liancheng let out a cold snort, his five fingers spread wide, and the clouds and Qi across the sky swept in, seemingly transforming into a giant hand covering the firmament. Those five fingers were like five heavenly pillars, gathering the five powers of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, covering the heavens and earth, shrouding the Great Thousand World. His palm force was as mighty as a heavenly river pouring backward, sweeping across all directions.

Boom!!

The thought crashed into the giant palm.

The surrounding space seemed like a small boat in a raging ocean.

A moment later, the wind calmed and the clouds dispersed.

Yu Liancheng opened his palm, holding a dim thought.

In the center of his palm, there was a small wound, caused precisely by this thought.

With his physical body of tangible fist intent, such a small wound would heal instantly, but now it was bleeding incessantly. The blood containing immense power dripped onto the ground, and every drop that landed caused the ground to tremble. It was as if that were not blood, but a small mountain descending from the heavens.

"The leader from beyond the heavens is indeed very strong."

Yu Liancheng muttered to himself: "The world beyond the heavens has already planted many secret agents in the Great Thousand World; in a few more years, I fear they will launch a full-scale invasion of the Great Thousand World. During this time, I must cultivate diligently; no matter what, I must advance my Martial Dao to the stage of Flesh and Blood Evolution."

Grasping this crystalline thought, Yu Liancheng obtained a great deal of information in an instant, and at the same time, a sense of tension arose.

A single thought from that leader from beyond the heavens was already so powerful; once his true self descended, with his current strength, he would have almost no choice but to run.

A moment later, Yu Liancheng returned to the Essence Spirit Temple.

Under the fierce attacks of his Human Immortal avatar, this world-renowned Essence Spirit Temple, which controlled the vast Western Regions and countless nations, had already been reduced to ruins. As for the four great gods, two had been crippled and sealed—after all, they were incarnations of faith and could be thrown to the Goddess of the Moon—while the other two had been directly blasted to death.

"The four great gods are dead, and the Pope has been captured; will you not surrender yet?" Yu Liancheng held up the battered and dying Pope.

The scene before them, combined with the previous capture and killing of the four great gods, caused the believers of the Essence Spirit Temple to panic.

But soon, someone shouted aloud: "No, the Yuan Qi Shen has not yet appeared. As long as the Yuan Qi Shen appears, he can kill all the blasphemers."

"That's right, we must pray for the descent of the Yuan Qi Shen."

In the hearts of the believers of the Essence Spirit Temple, the Yuan Qi Shen was even more important than the Daluo Tianzun was to the Daluo Sect.

The Yuan Qi Shen was their everything; they had been instilled with faith in the Yuan Qi Shen since birth. As long as the Yuan Qi Shen was not dead, they still had hope.

"Stubborn and unyielding."

Haotian Jinzhang let out a cold snort, and a surge of fist intent rose up, instantly sweeping toward the Essence Spirit Temple that had turned into ruins.

The next moment, screams rang out incessantly.

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