Chapter 144

How could he possibly accept this?!

For a moment.

His eyes split with rage, his face twisted into a ferocious expression.

The whole process sounds lengthy when told.

But in truth, it happened in the blink of an eye.

By the time Monk Mohe tried to fight back.

An extreme sense of crisis quietly rose in his heart.

He looked up.

Sword-light filling the sky was already right before his eyes.

"No!!!"

Monk Mohe's eyes filled with despair as he roared with a face full of unwillingness.

Unfortunately.

The sound had barely risen before it abruptly cut off!

Silence!

Quiet!

Utterly quiet!

As countless streams of sword-light pierced through the bodies of Monk Mohe and the Mad Monk.

The entire Huashan fell into a deathly stillness.

The watching crowd.

All stared wide-eyed, dumbfounded on the spot.

Their aged faces were filled with endless shock and horror.

Deep within their pupils, there was even a trace of bewilderment.

It all felt somewhat unreal.

After all.

This was a being of the Earthly Immortal Realm!

When the Heavenly Beings do not appear.

The uncrowned king of the Nine Provinces' jianghu!

Moreover, every Earthly Immortal had once been a terrifying existence who suppressed a region's jianghu!!

But right now.

They had actually perished so cleanly and decisively.

Such a shock, for them.

Was truly too immense!

So immense that even though they had clearly witnessed it with their own eyes.

They still could hardly believe it!

"Huu~"

"Finally dealt with."

"Hope they haven't gotten there first."

Guichen let out a light breath.

Muttered to himself.

Then his figure flashed.

Appearing instantly before Abbot Xuan Ci and the others.

Raised his sword, sheathed it, turned around—all in one fluid motion!

Then, without so much as a glance at the crowd.

He vanished into the horizon.

And not long after he left.

Abbot Xuan Ci and the group of Yunzhou Shaolin Gao Seng suddenly widened their eyes.

Their faces full of disbelief, they spoke haltingly.

"What... what a fast sword!!"

Having said this.

They crashed to the ground, all life extinguished.

Hiss!!!

Also unclear how long passed.

Only then did the crowd barely come back to their senses.

Their faces still bearing the shock and horror that had yet to fade.

They collectively drew in a sharp breath.

Then.

Before they could even begin to discuss.

High above the void.

The Heavenly Dao Golden List trembled slightly.

Suddenly, its radiance blazed brilliantly.

After a few breaths.

As the golden light faded.

Lines of text slowly appeared.

【Nine States Combat Ceiling Rank - No. 4...】

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【Nine States Combat Ceiling Rank - No. 4: Senior Xiaoyaozi, Cultivation: late-stage Heavenly Being.】

【Identity: Founder of the Songxiaoyao Sect, current Fourth Dragon Head of the Qinglong Society.】

【Senior Xiaoyaozi, native of Great Song, though plagued by hardship since childhood, possessed a mind far beyond ordinary men.】

【Observing him, he was not only handsome and elegant, refined and ethereal, but his martial talent was utterly unmatched!】

【He was born with extraordinary intelligence and insight; by age twelve, he mastered music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, tea, astronomy, geography, the Five Phases and Eight Trigrams, Qi Men Dun Jia, medicine, horticulture, entertainment, even agriculture, water conservancy, economics, and military strategy—none escaped his grasp, none was beyond his mastery!】

【Later, upon reading Zhuangzi's "Free and Easy Wandering," he comprehended the Northern Darkness Divine Art, thus entering the martial path.】

【Since the Northern Darkness Divine Art only absorbed others' internal force and provided defense, he found it inconvenient and secluded himself at Tianchi to painstakingly create new martial arts.】

【No effort goes unrewarded; after three years, he created the elusive lightness technique, Lingbo Microstep.】

【This technique not only excelled in dodging and evading during combat, but astonishingly, could also increase internal force while channeling, thereby strengthening himself.】

【In addition, he created the Xiao Wu Xiang Art, whose core is formlessness—any martial art under heaven, upon a single glance, could be turned to his own use!】

【And the Eight Directions, Six Realms, Only I Am Supreme Art; when cultivated to profound depths, it could reverse aging and theoretically grant immortality.】

【His techniques also included Tianshan Plucking Plum Hands, Tianshan Six Yang Palms, Baihong Palm Power, and Voice-Seeking Soul-Tracking, among others.】

【From then on, Senior Xiaoyaozi roamed the martial world, undefeated!】

【Later, he gradually settled down, fearing his martial arts might be lost to time, and founded the Xiaoyao Sect, taking four disciples.】

【When his cultivation became stuck at the peak Immortal Realm and made no progress, he sought to travel the world in search of breakthrough opportunities.】

【Later, in the Dali Never-Old Evergreen Valley, he encountered a group of people who had reversed aging; after inquiry, he learned of a Never-Old Evergreen Spring and a Scripture.】

【There he studied the Scripture and regularly drank the spring water, then entered seclusion two years later.】

【After thirty days, he created the Heaven-Long Earth-Long Never-Old Evergreen Art; his cultivation immediately shattered its constraints and entered the Heavenly Being Realm!】

【After bidding farewell to the people of the Never-Old Evergreen Valley, he returned with his youngest disciple, Li Canghai, traveling the world to comprehend the martial Dao.】

【Forty years ago, he happened upon the First Dragon Head of the Qinglong Society, Ximen Wudi; overcome by martial urge, the two exchanged techniques.】

【This battle lasted nine days and nine nights; in cultivation, martial arts, martial Dao insight, and even ancillary arts like music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, Senior Xiaoyaozi was utterly outclassed in every aspect.】

【So shaken was his Dao heart that he nearly fell into demonic deviation; later, with Ximen Wudi's aid, he recovered and was profoundly humbled, joining the Qinglong Society as its Fourth Dragon Head!】

【Heaven's Judgment: Unparalleled in antiquity and modernity, rare through all ages—he shall surely hold a place in the Shattered Realm!】