The cold wind howled.
The sounds of fighting were incessant.
Inside the Qian King's mansion.
Han Peiling, with narrowed eyes, watched Chen Biandao and Elder Han being suppressed and beaten by their enemies, both covered in wounds, yet he remained unmoved.
He spoke, "With the blood exchange complete, you should smoothly advance to the sixth level of the Earth Realm. What is your combat strength?"
"Combat strength?" Chen Jiuyang's eyes were calm as he mused, "I am yet to know."
Han Peiling raised his hand and, smiling, asked the half-step Heavenly Realm expert who was fighting Chen Biandao in mid-air, "Can you slay your opponent?"
Chen Jiuyang smiled faintly and replied, "It should be fine."
"Good!" Han Peiling clapped his hands and laughed heartily, "If that is the case, then make your move and let this old ancestor have a look."
"Rumble!"
Chen Jiuyang's vital energy and blood suddenly surged and burned, his figure streaking towards the sky. His indifferent voice carried,
"I will certainly not disappoint."
...
Chen Biandao, being pressured by three half-step Heavenly Realm experts, his eyes turned extremely grim. He coldly stated,
"Wu Chengshan of the Western Mountain Wu family, Cao Buren of the Western Mountain Cao family, He Changbu of the Western Mountain He family!"
"Even I did not expect that you would believe such absurd talk, joining the Longevity Alliance to wreak havoc!"
Cao Buren replied, "Brother Chen, immortals and gods have returned from ancient times; this is not absurd talk, nor are we fools."
Chen Biandao asked, "Where is the evidence?"
Wu Chengshan said, "Is that person from the Lotus Sect not evidence? If that person did not obtain the methods of immortals, how could their lifespan rival that of a Royal Realm expert?"
"Absurd talk!" Chen Biandao's pupils contracted sharply as he retorted, "For the sake of longevity, you would disrupt the unprecedented prosperous national destiny of our Dragon Kingdom for thousands of years?"
"Brother Chen, do not speak nonsense," He Changbu said, "We would not dare to disrupt the current prosperous national destiny. At the very least, we would not dare to do so before the war for national destiny."
Chen Biandao narrowed his eyes and asked, "Then what is your intention in coming to the Qian King's mansion now?"
Wu Chengshan stated, "The Qian King is the person with the most prosperous destiny in the province for a thousand years. The Alliance Leader wishes to meet the Qian King. However, Brother Chen is blocking our path to invite the Qian King, so we must put Brother Chen to death."
"Brother Chen, on that day, when your ancestor Chen Fengge of Shu Mountain attacked our Longevity Alliance, you should have anticipated today."
"Please accept our farewell, Brother Chen!"
"Clang!"
A colossal stone phantom suddenly appeared in the dark night, its divine might surging towards Chen Biandao.
Then, the other two also simultaneously unleashed their divine might trump cards, intending to kill Chen Biandao.
Chen Biandao's brows furrowed tightly, his expression extremely grim, yet his heart was not overly panicked. Ancestor Han Peiling would certainly not allow him to be killed just like this.
Just as he was struggling to hold on.
"Boom!"
His vital energy and blood were like a saint's, as if a great sun furnace had appeared in the night.
Terrifying and vast vital energy and blood erupted from the Qian King's mansion below, and then a figure streaked towards Chen Biandao.
Upon seeing this figure, the pressure on Chen Biandao instantly eased.
"Qian King, we have been waiting for you for a long time!"
"Waiting for me?" Chen Jiuyang, bare-chested, his eyes calm, scanned the three half-step Heavenly Realm experts before him. "Waiting for me to do what?"
"Send you on your way?"
His indifferent and confident words were laced with a hint of mockery.
"What virtue and capability do I, the King, possess that you would wait for me to send you on your way?"
"Jiuyang!" Chen Biandao, looking at the vital energy and blood aura emanating from Chen Jiuyang, was shocked, then his expression turned delighted, "He has broken through to the sixth level of the Earth Realm!"
This kind of supreme yang, absolute power, was truly extraordinary.
"Qian King, your tone is a bit too arrogant. If your ancestor Chen Fengge of Shu Mountain were here, he would have the right to say such things, but you, where do you get your confidence?"
"No need for more nonsense. If we don't act against the Qian King, they won't be able to hold off the Sword Wielder for much longer!"
"Boom!"
A massive divine might technique reappeared.
The colossal stone phantom pressed down towards Chen Jiuyang.
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
Facing this divine might technique, Chen Jiuyang merely raised a hand, and a dull clang immediately sounded.
Then, he caused everyone's expressions to turn astonished.
"This is..." Even Han Peiling's expression revealed a hint of surprise.
"Half-step Heavenly Realm divine might, nothing more."
Chen Jiuyang, with just one hand raised, had grasped Wu Chengshan's divine might technique.
To withstand divine might with his physical body, unheard of, unseen.
It caused everyone, both in the open and in hiding, to fall into a daze.
Although Chen Jiuyang had previously defeated half-step Heavenly Realm experts, those victories were all strange. It was only now, as everyone witnessed Chen Jiuyang's feat of holding back a divine might technique with his bare hands and physical body, that they were all struck silent, unable to utter a word.
With a forceful swing of his arm, Chen Jiuyang lightly and casually tore Wu Chengshan's divine might technique to shreds, turning it into specks of starlight.
"Ah!"
With his divine might technique torn apart, Wu Chengshan's face instantly turned pale, he spat out blood, and let out a scream, his body convulsing and twitching as if he had epilepsy.
The other half-step Heavenly Realm experts' faces changed in unison, their eyelids twitching violently.
"On the occasion of the New Year, you esteemed gentlemen have come visiting. This King is not such a petty person."
"It is the auspicious time of the New Spring. This King shall grant your wishes and send you on your way, one by one."
"Yansheng, come!"
"Buzz!"
The Yansheng Saber let out a great hum and instantly transformed into a stream of light, flying from the Qian King's mansion into Chen Jiuyang's hand.
Cold light flickered, the saber's aura was golden, and then it returned to its natural state. Chen Jiuyang's latest understanding of martial arts flowed into the saber, causing it to change.
"Chh—"
Chen Jiuyang's figure streaked forward and rushed before Wu Chengshan, slashing down at him with a single saber strike.
"How dare you, mere child!" Wu Chengshan's eyes were bloodshot as he watched the Yansheng Saber descend, his eyes filled with fury. He couldn't help but roar, wanting to resist Chen Jiuyang's strike.
However, how fierce was this saber strike.
With just one strike, without the aid of the King's Sword, Chen Jiuyang cleanly bisected a half-step Heavenly Realm expert.
Pure life essence instantly surged into Chen Jiuyang's body.
Each of these half-step Heavenly Realm experts was nourishment for Chen Jiuyang's martial cultivation.
Truly, on this New Spring festival, they lined up to deliver gifts.
And Chen Jiuyang was happy to accept them.
"Unable to defeat the Qian King!" The other half-step Heavenly Realm experts' eyelids twitched violently.
"Flee!"
The remaining five half-step Heavenly Realm experts made their choice instantly, scattering in all directions.
However, Chen Jiuyang let out a cold laugh, raised his hand, and pointed his fingers towards the five fleeing half-step Heavenly Realm experts.
"Swoosh!"
A wisp of golden vital energy, like solid steel, shot out from his fingertips, the sonic boom accompanied by a terrifying wave of air.
With a single finger strike, a half-step Heavenly Realm expert was struck in an acupoint by Chen Jiuyang and fell from mid-air.
Han Peiling's eyes also flashed with a hint of daze, "Vital energy like gold, one finger becomes steel!"
However, Chen Jiuyang had only just mastered this technique and could not apply it as he wished. Of the five half-step Heavenly Realm experts, one finger missed its mark, and the half-step Heavenly Realm expert who had been attacking Elder Han fled towards the river.
Chen Jiuyang raised his saber and pursued that half-step Heavenly Realm expert, his figure like a demon, unstoppable!