Chapter 968: Chapter 965: I Understand the Heavens Better Than You
Looking at the thousand-meter-long Golden Dragon in the sky, Wan Jie subconsciously swallowed: "Father, this guy’s strength is solid, I feel like I’m not his match!"
Even though he possessed a cultivation level at the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage.
At this moment, he could also feel a tremendous sense of oppression.
It was as if.
This Golden Dragon before him could take his life.
"All of you will die!" Xiang Tian Ce said with a blank expression.
He himself was at the peak cultivation of the Nascent Soul Stage.
Not to mention, the Heavenly Dragon Jue was a divine skill kept in reserve by the Qingzhou Imperial Family.
Once this divine skill was unleashed, it was invincible within the same realm.
"Then leave it to me!"
Xu Wendong stepped forward, looking at Xiang Tian Ce: "You, as the ruler of Qingzhou, ignore the lives of the common people and collude with others to harm the lives of Qingzhou’s people."
"Today, I bring down heavenly penalty as retribution upon you!"
"Just with you? Dare you talk of bringing down heavenly penalty? Do you even know what the Heavenly Dao is?" Xiang Tian Ce’s voice thundered as he pinched the spell with his hands, the giant dragon behind him erupting with a deafening dragon roar.
Xu Wendong: "I understand the heavens better than you!"
"Go die!"
Xiang Tian Ce formed hand seals, and the giant dragon behind him roared as it rushed toward Xu Wendong, intent on devouring him.
Dragon roars echoed in all directions.
Drawing the attention of the city folk.
Countless people trembled all over, frightened into prostrating on the ground.
Yet Xu Wendong stood quietly in the void.
Letting the giant dragon swallow him whole.
However.
His body remained standing there, without any change.
Instead, the Golden Dragon, just after swallowing Xu Wendong, suddenly exploded, disappearing into the depths of the firmament.
"What?" Xiang Tian Ce’s scalp tingled; he hadn’t expected Xu Wendong to so effortlessly break through his Heavenly Dragon Jue.
This left him unable to calm his heart.
Before he could recover his senses.
He saw Xu Wendong looking at him, a hint of icy coldness flashing in his eyes.
In the next second.
Xiang Tian Ce felt as if he were enveloped by a mysterious energy, then his cultivation rapidly declined.
Falling from the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Stage to the eighth layer.
Not only that.
Even his body underwent significant changes.
Like reversing the youthful appearance, regaining youth rapidly.
"What did you do to me?" Xiang Tian Ce felt deep fear; today’s events overturned his understanding of the world.
In the distance, another Nascent Soul Stage Expert was dumbstruck, utterly clueless as to why such things were happening.
Wan Jie grinned: "Are you bewildered?"
"Ha!"
"You are but part of the Kunlun Mountains Minor World."
"Even if you dominate the living beings."
"You are still a part of them."
"And my father, this young, handsome Xu Wendong Young Master you see, he has refined the Boundary Stele of the Kunlun Mountains Minor World."
"You heard right; he is an existence above the Kunlun Mountains Minor World."
"Yes, he transcends the Heavenly Dao Rules!"
"He is an invincible existence in this world!"
Boom!
Wan Jie’s words left Xiang Tian Ce and the other Nascent Soul Stage Expert feeling as if struck by a bolt from the blue.
They never imagined.
That Xu Wendong would obtain and even refine the Boundary Stele of the Kunlun Mountains Minor World.
Though hard to believe.
They really couldn’t explain the events before them in any other way.
After all.
Xu Wendong indeed possessed strength that transcended the Heavenly Dao Rules.
Xu Wendong’s voice slowly echoed: "I gave you an opportunity."
"But you did not seize it."
"If, when the Eight Provinces’ Experts attacked Qingzhou, you had stepped forward to protect your people instead of conspiring with them, I certainly wouldn’t have treated you wrongly."
"Even allowing the Xiang Family to become the sole royal family of the Nine Provinces wasn’t impossible."
"Unfortunately, you chose to join hands with outsiders to slaughter your own people!"
"Given this, what’s the use of you?"
Xiang Tian Ce’s heart trembled violently.
He remembered that on the eve of the great battle, Yuan Kui had once found him, explained that Xu Wendong was determined to fight alongside the Four Great Sects to the death.
And advised him to reconsider and protect his people.
However.
He hadn’t taken it to heart at all.
Even if Xu Wendong was the legendary Ancient Sacred Body.
He still didn’t think Xu Wendong could rival the Nine Provinces Imperial Family.
He just hadn’t expected.
The fortune of this son to be so astonishing, actually acquiring the Boundary Stele of the Kunlun Mountains Minor World.
Indeed.
A step in the wrong direction, every step further is wrong.
A strong sense of regret rose in his heart.
But he also knew, time couldn’t be turned back.
He must bear the consequences for his mistakes.
Thinking of this, he sighed softly: "One must take responsibility for one’s actions alone; I implore you, for the sake of heaven’s virtue of compassion, to spare a path for the Xiang Family!"
He originally intended to request sparing the Xiang Royal Family.
But the words stuck in his throat.
He had no right to call himself a royal before Xu Wendong.
Fuyao angrily asked: "So you know about heaven’s virtue of compassion, huh? If so, why didn’t you think of this when the Eight Provinces’ Cultivators invaded?"
Xiang Tian Ce was left speechless by the retort.
Xu Wendong said softly: "Master, there’s no need to waste words on such a person. I’ve said, today the Qingzhou Imperial Family must atone for the Qingzhou Cultivators!"
As his voice fell.
Silhouettes began to fly out from the Imperial Palace.
But.
They weren’t flying out on their own but were wrapped by a mysterious power that forced them out.
These were the members of the Qingzhou Royal Family, totaling three hundred and twenty-five, men and women, young and old.
At this moment.
The once exalted royal family, all wore pale faces, expressions of panic.
Though they hadn’t appeared before.
They knew what had happened outside.
They knew they were facing an imminent catastrophe.
"Are you really going to annihilate the Xiang Family?"
"They are also your kin!" Xiang Tian Ce roared unwillingly.
Xu Wendong: "I’ve said, I understand the heavens more than you."
As his words ended.
A scarlet blood mist suddenly appeared in the air.
It was a Royal Princess, exploding directly, not even making a sound before death.
Soon after.
More scarlet blood mists exploded in the air.
Under the sunlight, it was truly as if living beside the Naihe Bridge, the flowers on the other side by the Naihe Bridge, though enchanting, evoked a bone-chilling sensation.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Accompanied by a series of dull sounds.
The members of the Qingzhou Imperial Family also successively perished under the despairing, helpless, and angry gaze of Xiang Tian Ce.
Yet he.
Could only watch his kin perish due to a single wrong decision he made, helpless to change the outcome.
Ultimately.
The Qingzhou Imperial Family, all turned into blood mist, disappeared into the world.
Xu Wendong looked back at everyone and whispered: "A nation cannot be without a ruler for a day, who among you desires to become the ruler of Qingzhou?"
Fuyao looked troubled: "As your master, I will reluctantly become the ruler of Qingzhou, to help you govern Qingzhou!"
Xu Wendong’s mouth twitched hard.
Reluctant?
Can’t you have a bit of dignity?
But then.
It seemed he sensed something, a flash of excitement in his eyes.