Chapter 1028: Slaying the Immortal

Fang Yue stared blankly at the transformed spirit tree, completely dumbfounded.

The King of the Wuyu Clan also watched Feng Wang warily, not daring to act rashly.

Everyone was waiting for Feng Wang's stance, and Fang Yue's heart sank even further.

Because he was the one who killed Feng Wang, and now Feng Wang had revived and was occupying An Dong'er's tree body—both powerful enemies were at the immortal-demon level, and no one could withstand that.

"Heaven wants to destroy me."

Fang Yue did want to flee, but in front of these two, he had no chance to escape at all.

Feng Wang, having gathered his emotions, first looked at the King of the Wuyu Clan before him, who was uncertain and uneasy, and only then turned his gaze toward Fang Yue.

"Boy, didn't expect it, did you? I'm back!"

With a sinister laugh, the sky-filling tree vines instantly transformed into a black curtain and pounced toward Fang Yue, but before the vines could touch Fang Yue, their movement suddenly stopped entirely.

Feng Wang's expression froze; the human face on the bark actually showed signs of shrinking back into the bark.

His face changed, and he immediately understood what was happening.

"Damn it! An Dong'er is the main body. If I don't eliminate her influence, I can't attack the people she cares about! That thing will keep interfering with my actions from inside!"

The thought flashing through his mind, Feng Wang's face darkened. He gritted his teeth, turned around, and left. The spirit tree drilled into the ground, and after a while, only a large hole was left on the spot—no one knew where it had gone.

"Don't leave! Leave An Dong'er behind! Captain Wu, stop it!!"

"Nation-Protecting Stone Lion!!"

Captain Wu roared out, but the Nation-Protecting Stone Lion simply refused to obey his command.

The King of the Wuyu Clan was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized what was happening. He reversed his blade and slashed Captain Wu on the ground into pieces, his corpse scattered in chunks, preventing Captain Wu from retrieving the spirit tree, and only then turned to look at Fang Yue with a sinister smile.

If the spirit tree came back, it would truly be hard for him to operate. Now that the spirit tree was gone, who could stop him!

The situation once again fell into a desperate plight; everyone's hearts sank, and even Fang Yue felt bitterness in his heart, understanding that this moment was truly a dead end.

"This really is one twist after another. Unfortunately, the one laughing last is still our Wuyu Clan."

The King of the Wuyu Clan sneered, his figure moved, and he charged straight to Fang Yue.

The blood sword in his hand blazed with sword light.

The might of this sword strike was not something Fang Yue could withstand!

【Fang Yue!!】

"Ahhhhh!!"

Fang Yue roared fiercely and raised his sword to block, but a massive object, moving faster than he could draw his sword, charged over and slammed heavily into the King of the Wuyu Clan's blood sword.

Boom!!

With a tremendous crash, the blood sword actually got stuck in the forehead of the enormous object.

That was unmistakably... the Nation-Protecting Stone Lion!

"Ha... ha... barely... blocked... this sword..."

Fang Yue looked down at the ground and saw Captain Wu, with only a head remaining, giving him a weak smile, while the Phoenix Cry grew ever stronger.

This guy really is an undying cockroach!

Fang Yue set his heart at ease.

If Captain Wu could still hold on, then there was still a chance in this battle!

Crack!

Just then, a crack appeared on the forehead of the Nation-Protecting Stone Lion, at the spot struck by the blood sword.

A few bits of rubble fell from the wound, causing the people below to widen their eyes in terror.

"Th-the Nation-Protecting Stone Lion has been damaged?!"

"Im-impossible! The Nation-Protecting Stone Lion is a single unified whole—how could mere strange entities possibly cause it damage!"

"That is the invincible Nation-Protecting Stone Lion, the legend of undefeated!!"

Hearing the commotion below, the King of the Wuyu Clan sneered inwardly.

The Nation-Protecting Stone Lion could indeed be called invincible, but that depended on who was controlling it.

If it were that invincible King of Qing Guo himself controlling it, naturally he wouldn't dare to take it head-on.

But a Nation-Protecting Stone Lion controlled by some mere junior was truly not worth mentioning!

"This thing, in the end, is just a strange entity under control—not much to speak of."

Preparing to pull the blood sword out from the Nation-Protecting Stone Lion, the King of the Wuyu Clan even planned to chop the Nation-Protecting Stone Lion to death after killing Fang Yue and the others.

But just at the instant he pulled the blood sword out...

Hum!!

A white beam of light, with the Nation-Protecting Stone Lion as its origin, shot up into the sky, piercing through the clouds and illuminating the entire Jingcheng.

"What's happening?!" Everyone was stunned.

Captain Wu's face showed confusion: "What is that?"

"Wait! That light is..."

Fang Yue's face showed a look of confusion.

Because this pillar of light gave him a very familiar feeling.

It was unmistakably the white pillar of light that had teleported Lord Han back when they were attacked by the Bladeless Strange back in Gu Yue Cun!

That's right, it was exactly the same as the pillar of light from back then—only the pillar was thicker and the light brighter.

"Could this light be..."

Before Fang Yue's thought could settle, four voices, like sacred proclamations, thundered out from the pillar of light almost simultaneously.

"Audacious strange entity! How dare you break into the Imperial Palace!"

"Damaging the Nation-Protecting Stone Lion—ten thousand deaths cannot atone for this!"

"The Sacred Object of Qing Guo—who dares to touch it!!"

"To ruin the sacred rites of Qing Guo—what crime is that!"

The vast, mighty voice echoed throughout the entire Imperial Palace.

The instant the voice fell, four figures appeared almost simultaneously at the four positions around the Wuyu Clan's king, forming a cage-like encirclement!

Fang Yue fixed his gaze and saw that those four figures were unmistakably…

Qing Si 【Gold Clothes】 You Lao!

Hong Bu 【Tian Shu】 Nian Lao!

Lan Shan 【Zhi Lan】 Wu Lao!

Zi Dian 【Dian Zhu】 Zi Lao!

The four great clan heads—the foundation of Qing Guo, its foremost clan—had all, at this very moment, bathed in that white light, returned at once!

And the Wuyu Clan's king, now simultaneously surrounded by these four peak Xian-rank Rain-tier powerhouses, slowly raised his gaze, looking toward the white light gathering ahead.

Within that final blazing-white radiance, a figure—hands cradling a human head, clad in a blue robe—stood above the heavens, looking down upon all living beings!

That figure was unmistakably…the king of Qing Guo, Qing Wang!

And the human head cradled in his hands was unmistakably…Meiyu Xianzi's head!

Fang Yue's eyes went wide on the spot, his mind a complete blank, utterly unable to comprehend the scene before him.

But the people below who still lived did not recognize any Meiyu Xianzi at all; in their eyes, there was only their king—returned!

Their lips trembling, as though kneeling before a god, they dropped to their knees in unison and spoke as one.

"We bid welcome to His Majesty's return to the palace!!"

"We bid welcome to His Majesty's return to the palace!!"

"We bid welcome to His Majesty's return to the palace!!"

The voices rang through the Imperial Palace, spreading even to all of Qing Cheng.

At this moment, every surviving remnant of Qing Guo looked as though they had glimpsed the hope of living; light gradually returned to their eyes.

His Majesty had returned.

The invincible existence of Qing Guo had returned!!

Emotions surged so high that even the crisis right before their eyes seemed to dwindle into insignificance; all they could see was that sole existence above the heavens!

While everyone was gazing at Qing Wang, in a corner of the Imperial Palace, Lin Ling—whose injuries had been healing under Grand Master Qiankun—suddenly saw her eyes turn pitch-black. She stepped outside, lifted her head to look at the man above the heavens, her expression complicated, and murmured softly.

"Slaying an immortal…with a mortal's body, standing shoulder to shoulder with the gods…you actually did it…"

……

Lost in Yongjie Wujian, unable to pull myself out, got stunned back to my senses, back to update.

(End of this chapter)