Chapter 384: The Hour of Noon Has Arrived, Sunlight Floods the City (Part II)

"Come, let me see what you have to break the rules?!"

As Xu Jing's voice fell, one figure after another streaked toward this side.

The two helmsmen of the General Headquarters of the Pacification Bureau: Chu Bo and Fu Lang.

Three Dao Foundation realm retainers from the General Headquarters of the Inspectorate.

They had all come.

In addition to this, a flying sword, a bright mirror, a bronze drum, and a white jade ruler—four magic treasures rose into the air with a clamorous momentum, positioning themselves at the four corners of the plaza.

In an instant, the sword light became like a dragon, the bronze drum stirred up a gale and emitted bursts of tiger roars, the sea of fire transformed into a giant bird, and monstrous waves surged around the bright mirror!

Azure Dragon on the east side, White Tiger on the west, Vermilion Bird on the south, and Black Tortoise on the north!

The people from the General Headquarters of the Orthodox Law had laid out the ritual tracks around this plaza in advance, so as soon as the four Great Mages of the Possession realm made their move, they recreated the Four Symbols Constellation Seal in the blink of an eye.

This great formation had once blocked the path of the "Blade King" Gu Vanguard Commander on Mount Mount Tiefeng!

With the emergence of this great formation, the civilians on the outskirts of the plaza could no longer see the situation inside, and they scattered in flight under the terrifying pressure.

On the plaza, the inspectors and martial artists below the Qi Transformation realm also retreated one after another, hiding far away.

Senior Bian Senior Bian Jingru actually did not want to get involved in the grudge between Xu Jing and Hao Yi, but Hao Yi had come to hijack the execution ground publicly; this was a slap in the face to the entire Datong Prefecture!

Senior Bian Senior Bian Jingru had no choice but to intervene.

Moreover, after Hao Yi appeared, he was not the only one on the scene who wanted him dead.

"This person defies national law and truly deserves to die. I request that the Lord Garrison Commander order his immediate execution!"

On the viewing platform, Shen Zhaolin, the Deputy Chief Inspector of the General Headquarters of the Inspectorate, shouted sternly.

More than thirty years ago, there were not just three great families in Datong Prefecture, but five, and among them was the Shen family.

Thanks to Hao Yi, the then-head of the Shen family and a host of Shen family members were all imprisoned for various reasons, causing the Shen family's vitality to be severely damaged, to the point where they could no longer stand on equal footing with the other great families.

Although Shen Zhaolin had now climbed to the position of a seated official through the efforts of his entire family, his hatred for Hao Yi had not dissipated; his father had died because of Hao Yi.

"That's right, such a thief must not be allowed to escape today!"

The Deputy Chief Judge of the General Headquarters of the Judiciary on the side also spoke up.

Several of his family's elders had also been arrested because of Hao Yi, and some had even been sentenced to death.

Although the officialdom of Datong Prefecture had been almost completely "reshuffled" because of Hao Yi back then, some families had "risen from the ashes" and reclaimed high positions after many years.

At this moment, there were two seated officials on the viewing platform who wanted Hao Yi dead!

Besides them, a Great Mage of the Possession realm from the General Headquarters of the Orthodox Law and a Dao Foundation realm retainer from the General Headquarters of the Inspectorate also held old grudges against Hao Yi.

Therefore, there was no need for Senior Bian Senior Bian Jingru to give an order; some had already been unable to resist taking action.

In the air, the Vermilion Bird, condensed from flames, let out a long cry toward the sky and then dove from the air toward Hao Yi!

This Great Mage from the General Headquarters of the Orthodox Law was currently forming a formation with the others, and his move immediately affected the entire great formation.

Jiang Jin, who was responsible for presiding over this great formation, sighed and also took action accordingly.

Thus, in the next instant, the sword light like an Azure Dragon, the bronze drum surrounded by gales, and the bright mirror surrounded by frost—these three magic treasures also moved, attacking Hao Yi in unison!

On the execution platform, Xu Jing watched this scene with interest, not in a hurry to act.

According to Hao Yi's principles, the experts maintaining the security of the execution ground were innocent and should not be killed.

Therefore, he wanted to watch Hao Yi break his own principles and be forced to kill!

Watching the four magic treasures descending toward him from above, Hao Yi extended his right hand and said softly:

"Rise."

Hum, hum, hum, hum, hum, hum—

On the plaza, the blades and swords in the hands of over a hundred guards flew out of their hands and soared into the air!

The next second, every weapon quickly turned red, grew hot, and then ignited with flames.

Over a hundred weapons became over a hundred fireballs, shooting into the sky!

In an instant, the temperature of the entire Glory Plaza rose by more than ten degrees, as if it had turned into a furnace.

The four descending magic treasures were held back by the hundreds of fireballs, and the Four Symbols Constellation Seal was affected by a powerful force of will, becoming unstable.

"Heaven and Earth Furnace Power, 【Magnetic Horn】?"

Xu Jing looked at Hao Yi with excited eyes, "After all these years, you really haven't given up!"

The core implant required for the Heaven and Earth Furnace Power is the fire-attribute 【Blade Refiner】, which was also the first implant Hao Yi incorporated.

And 【Magnetic Horn】 is an earth-attribute implant; the previous Garrison Commander of the Xingcheng City Guard, Wei Ge, used this implant.

Back when the Tiger Blade Gang and the Chief's faction were fighting in the city, Wei Ge led the City Guard against the Inspectorate, and Li Fei took a blade from Wei Ge to protect Li Lei. Afterward, Hao Yi stood up for Li Fei and returned the blade to Wei Ge, displaying the ability of 【Magnetic Horn】 at that time.

The 【Magnetic Horn】 implant has two extraordinary abilities: one is the attraction to metal, and the other is the repulsion of metal.

When Hao Yi appeared just now, he caused the weapons in the hands of all the guards in the plaza to vibrate, utilizing the extraordinary ability of 【Magnetic Horn】.

At this moment, he was controlling hundreds of weapons to rise into the air, also using the ability of 【Magnetic Horn】.

After stepping into the Dao Foundation realm, the order of incorporating implants must follow the principle of the Five Elements generating each other, either in forward or reverse order.

Hao Yi's core power is the fire-attribute Heaven and Earth Furnace Power, so the order in which he incorporated his implants was "reverse order":

The first implant was the fire-attribute 【Blade Refiner】, and the second had to be a wood-attribute implant, because wood generates fire.

The third had to be a water-attribute implant, because water generates wood.

The fourth had to be a metal-attribute implant, because metal generates water.

The last one incorporated was the earth-attribute implant, because earth generates metal. (Note 1)

When Hao Yi was attempting to construct his martial foundation and break through his realm back then, he suffered heavy injuries, leading to damage to his Dao Foundation, and the most severely damaged among them was the last incorporated earth-attribute implant, 【Magnetic Horn】.

Because the last incorporated implant must "connect the preceding and the following," once the breakthrough fails, the last incorporated implant bears the brunt and suffers the most damage!

It was also because this link was missing that Hao Yi's fire-attribute power could not complete a full cycle, causing fire poison to accumulate in his body, which led to the mutation of his hands.

Yet, even though the earth-attribute implant 【Magnetic Horn】 was the most severely damaged, Hao Yi had used 【Magnetic Horn】 casually when he took action against Wei Ge back then.

If it were truly severely damaged, he could have used other means; after all, the Wei Ge he had to deal with was only a Qi Transformation realm martial artist.

Unfortunately, everyone present at the time had their attention drawn to the fight between Hao Yi and Yu Hu, and they paid no attention to Hao Yi teaching a small character a lesson.

Otherwise, one could actually have seen some clues from this detail.

Now, Hao Yi was using 【Magnetic Horn】 to display an even more powerful extraordinary ability!

This was a complete showdown.

This meant that after all these years, the injuries in Hao Yi's body were not getting worse as others had thought.

"Attack together!"

That Dao Foundation realm retainer who held an old grudge against Hao Yi shouted and was the first to charge toward Hao Yi.

The four Great Mages of the Possession realm from the General Headquarters of the Orthodox Law joined forces to set up a formation, which could temporarily restrain even a Martial Arts Master, let alone Hao Yi, who was in the Dao Foundation realm?

Even if Hao Yi had returned to his peak of that year, it would be very difficult to deal with these Dao Foundation realm experts present simultaneously while being restrained by the Four Symbols Constellation Seal, which consumed most of his mental energy and power.

As this Dao Foundation realm retainer charged forward, Chu Bo and the others also took action one after another.

Duty-bound, with so many big figures watching from behind, they could not afford to hold back.

Watching the five Dao Foundation realm experts charging toward him, Hao Yi's expression was calm, and he flipped his extended right hand downward:

"Fall."

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

Half of the hundreds of fireballs that were holding back the great formation in the air suddenly fell toward these five Dao Foundation realm experts.

Like flaming meteors falling from the sky, these fireballs smashed down with astonishing momentum, forcing the five Dao Foundation realm experts to deal with these fireballs first.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The earth shook repeatedly, and one large crater after another was smashed into Glory Plaza.

After the fireballs exploded, the weapons inside also disintegrated, exploding into countless iron fragments that splashed in all directions, like an artillery explosion!

Some of these iron fragments would collide with the protective power of the Dao Foundation realm experts and turn into powder, while others would melt directly into molten iron and fall to the ground.

The molten iron on the ground connected with other molten iron, drawing more fire power to condense together, and then erupted!

The five Dao Foundation realm experts were like being in a hell of flames, with fire erupting from both above their heads and beneath their feet.

These flames were actually the Heaven and Earth Furnace Power; Hao Yi had created a small furnace locally, enveloping all five Dao Foundation realm experts, seemingly intending to refine the five of them into molten iron as well!

At the same time, as half of the "fireballs" accelerated downward, the remaining half of the "fireballs" were pushed by a reaction force and also violently accelerated to slam into the great formation in the air, then exploded one after another.

Boom, boom, boom, boom—

A "firework" exploded over the plaza, and the sky seemed to be flowing with a long river of fire; the Four Symbols Constellation Seal vibrated violently, and the four magic treasures were strongly interfered with and were shaken back one after another.

Heaven unleashes its killing intent, a lava hell!

On the execution platform, Xu Jing watched this familiar scene, recalling the scene when he fought Hao Yi back then.

Hao Yi actually only had four core-level extraordinary abilities; theoretically, he could only be a 7th-tier Dao Foundation realm.

But he was still able to stand firmly at the peak of the Dao Foundation realm back then, becoming an expert above the 7th tier, relying on his extraordinary combat skills.

Perfectly combining power and multiple extraordinary abilities to form this "Heaven and Earth Furnace" before his eyes!

With the reappearance of this Heaven and Earth Furnace, it meant that even if Hao Yi's combat power had not returned to the peak of that year, it was not far off.

The reason Hao Yi was able to leave Datong Prefecture alive back then, besides Shi Caiming's protection, was also because his Dao Foundation had indeed been severely damaged, and the five implants in his body were more than half destroyed.

Everyone who had seen Hao Yi had come to the same conclusion: this person was finished!

For the rest of his life, he would at most be an ordinary Dao Foundation realm practitioner struggling to survive, and it would be impossible for him to achieve anything more.

If they hadn't been certain of this point, even with Shi Caiming's protection, the powerful figures of Datong Prefecture back then would not have let Hao Yi leave alive.

But such a person, who was judged to be "finished," was now single-handedly blocking a great formation set up by four Great Mages and five Dao Foundation realm experts!

No one knew how Hao Yi had managed to do it.

No one knew why this man, who had been targeted by almost the entire Datong Prefecture for over thirty years and had ultimately lost so miserably, still insisted on struggling and refused to give up.

Today, Hao Yi brought out the accumulations and achievements of his past thirty-plus years, yet he appeared here in the posture of someone storming an execution ground.

He had worked hard for over thirty years, wanting to start all over again.

But today, he had abandoned all of that.

He had betrayed the "Dao" he had always firmly upheld.

This man had never deigned to explain anything for himself; previously, when faced with Xu Jing's questioning, he had only responded indifferently with, "So what if it is?"

No one knew what his state of mind was like now, and Xu Jing could not tell either.

"Is that really all there is?"

Xu Jing looked at Hao Yi, who was standing in place, and asked with disdain.

In truth, this trap had been sprung earlier than expected because Hao Yi's several actions in Xingcheng had begun to make some people feel uneasy.

Looking at it now, it was indeed necessary to initiate it early.

But Xu Jing still spoke with mockery:

"If that is all you have, then you don't even have the qualifications to die by my hand today!"

As his voice fell, several more figures rushed toward this side.

Among those who arrived were two professors from the Martial University; one was Wen Ke, who had previously ranked seventh on the Feng Province Wind and Cloud List, but because of Green-Faced Ghost, she had moved up and was now ranked eighth.

There was also a professor named Professor Guan Professor Guan Haoxuan, who had previously been third on the Feng Province Wind and Cloud List, but now his position had been taken by Green-Faced Ghost, making him fourth.

Wen Ke was a 5.5-tier Dao Foundation realm cultivator, and Professor Guan Professor Guan Haoxuan was 6.5-tier!

In addition to these two professors, Fan Yan, a provincial capital expert responsible for protecting the safety of the investigation team, also arrived.

He was a famous martial arts expert in the provincial capital, nicknamed "Dragon-Rending Hand," and his fame-making battle was a one-on-one fight to the death against a fifth-grade superior dragon beast.

On the Feng Province Wind and Cloud List released by the Wangyue Pavilion, Fan Yan was currently ranked seventh and was also a 5.5-tier Dao Foundation realm powerhouse.

In this way, counting Chu Bo, who had previously ranked tenth on the Wind and Cloud List before being pushed off, there were four Wind and Cloud List experts on the scene!

Although Hao Yi had blocked the Four Symbols Constellation Seal and five Dao Foundation realm powerhouses with a flip of his palm, in reality, he was not as relaxed as he appeared.

If Wen Ke and the others joined the battle, the situation would be reversed in an instant!

That was why Xu Jing said that if Hao Yi was limited to this, he didn't even have the qualifications to die by his hand.

Because there was simply no need for him to act.

Others might just want Hao Yi to die, but he wanted Hao Yi to die only after his state of mind had collapsed!

He wanted Hao Yi to exhaust his thoughts and exert all his strength, only to be powerless to save anyone, and then watch Shangguan Xiao die before his eyes.

"Attack."

Xu Jing said coldly.

Wen Ke still wore a gentle expression; she bowed to Hao Yi, who was in front:

"Senior Hao Yi, my apologies."

Then she was the first to charge forward.

But the next second, a figure stood in front of her, blocking the space between her and Hao Yi.

"Today, none of you are getting past."

The newcomer said, enunciating every word.

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