Four Great Ancient Desolations, each sent a Creation Realm cultivator. In less than a moment, three were annihilated, unable to even retaliate!
Humans!
Lian Jin stared at Li Bai, who was drinking wine above the ten-thousand-zhang long river. This man in white, with mere sword intents alone, had suppressed him to the point of not daring to make a move.
Zimu's death at this moment had driven him into a frenzy. Humans deserved to die!
He unleashed a terrifying axe strike. The magnificent axe energy, ferocious and potent, ripped through the void with a whistling sound. Li Bai was unfazed. From the azure river, ten thousand zhang long, a three-foot green sword intent suddenly burst forth. A streak of azure light, appearing deceptively weak, directly blocked Lian Jin's fierce axe.
"Boom!"
With a roar, the void and clouds shattered. A deep, dark abyss, its depth unfathomable, sprawled above the imperial palace of Chang'an City. Only the azure river, ten thousand zhang long, remained calm and placid, its sword intents silently nurturing within it.
"Verdict: Lian Jin of Hengtian Mountain in the Heavenly Demon Wasteland, subject to the Five Punishments!"
Li Bai cast aside his cup, his expression instantly turning cold.
As his voice fell, the ten-thousand-zhang azure river surged with killing intent. Instantly, over a hundred lotus sword intents shot out!
"Clang!"
The sword intents slashed through the void, converging and melding. A hundred-zhang green sword, shimmering with an ethereal glow and radiating intense luminescence, materialized.
The moment the hundred-zhang green sword solidified, it shot straight towards Lian Jin's head, as if to cleave it in two.
"Human, you are insolent! How dare you humiliate me thus!"
Lian Jin glared at Li Bai, his pupils filled with blood-red threads. He was of the ancient savage bull lineage, possessing immense strength. His explosive muscles instantly converged on his colossal axe.
He swung the great axe, his face turning crimson. The void where Lian Jin stood shattered. The formidable axe energy, dragging the axe, ripped forth: "Human, die!"
The axe light traversed the sky, a ferocious and bloodthirsty aura surging. With a single swing, it seemed he had poured all his strength into it. Lian Jin gasped for air, yet he continued to glare at Li Bai in the river. This axe strike, filled with chilling glints, even obscured the radiance of Li Bai's sword qi river.
"Boom!"
The ferocious axe energy clashed head-on with the hundred-zhang green sword. With a thunderous impact, even the ten-thousand-zhang azure river rippled with waves!
"Ah!"
Lian Jin clutched his face, blood trickling down. "Filthy human, what have you done to me?"
Using the chilling light of the great axe as a mirror, Lian Jin looked at his face. On his right cheekbone, a bloody character, "PRISON!" had starkly appeared.
"You!"
"Human, how dare you!"
Lian Jin stared at the character "PRISON!" on his cheek, his face contorting further in rage. This was more humiliating than death. How could he return to his clan with such a disfigured face? This was a disgrace, a disgrace to the ancient savage bull lineage. He roared in fury, gripping his great axe as if he wanted to crush it. He stomped on the void with his feet, his massive frame like a moving behemoth, crashing through the air and hacking down at Li Bai with furious intent.
"No rush!"
"Take your time!"
Li Bai pointed with his finger. The ten-thousand-zhang azure river shot out another hundred-foot green sword intent. The Five Punishments; this was merely the first step. He would not let Lian Jin die so easily. The Five Punishments, not a single step could be missed.
The hundred-zhang green sword, as if controlled, instantly struck Lian Jin. With a deafening explosion, Lian Jin's body was blasted apart in the void. He gripped his great axe, circulating his vital energy in the air to slow his descent, only stopping after being propelled a hundred zhang.
"You..."
Lian Jin was now extremely fearful, feeling a chilling breeze where his nose used to be. A pain like a twisted heart tore at his mind.
Li Bai looked at the nose-less Lian Jin. His eyes narrowed, and two streams of sword intent shot out. Instantly, two hundred-zhang green swords from the ten-thousand-zhang river burst forth, piercing towards Lian Jin ahead of time.
"Die for me!"
"How can an ancient savage bull endure such humiliation!"
Lian Jin had gone completely mad. The moment he lost his nose, he erupted. His mind was filled with the desire to cleave Li Bai, who stood above the river.
"Heaven Splitting!"
Lian Jin roared towards the sky, brandishing his great axe. The terrifying, ruthless, and hateful killing intent, and even more so, his rage, manifested as an axe light that enveloped the ten-thousand-zhang azure river.
"Moo!"
A colossal ancient savage bull materialized in the void, its eyes like the sun, flashing with crimson light, filled with ruthless fury. At this moment, Lian Jin seemed to have lost all reason, unleashing his entire vital energy.
"Buzz~~"
"Clang!"
Four streaks of sword qi, roughly a hundred zhang wide, slashed down towards Lian Jin!
"CRACKLE!!"
Two hundred-zhang green swords furiously struck Lian Jin's great axe. Lian Jin also gripped his great axe, not retreating an inch. Relying on his innate bloodline power, he ferociously attacked the sword qi, even managing to suppress it at times.
"Rrrrip~~"
"Ah!"
In an instant, the sword qi from Li Bai's eyes severed Lian Jin's left and right feet!
"Boom!"
Having lost his feet, Lian Jin knelt in the void!
"Huff... huff..."
Lian Jin's face was pale, cold sweat beading on his forehead. His great axe supported his massive body. The searing pain from losing his feet made the hand holding the axe tremble uncontrollably.
"Boom!"
Li Bai gave Lian Jin no chance to catch his breath. The ten-thousand-zhang river instantly unleashed a barrage of a thousand swords, like a bridge spanning the heavens!
Suddenly, the dense sword qi, like spiritual snakes, lashed fiercely at Lian Jin's body.
The speed was extreme, almost imperceptible to ordinary eyes. In the span of a single breath, how many sword qi strikes landed on Lian Jin's colossal form?
Yet, in just one breath, Lian Jin, who had only lost his nose and feet, now lay like a corpse in the void, motionless.
The dense sword qi shifted direction and struck Lian Jin's body again and again, repeating this for several breaths.
"Clang!"
A clear sword hum echoed, followed by a cold glint appearing at the bloody, mangled neck of Lian Jin!
His head instantly fell!
"Rrrrip!"
Under the gaze of millions of citizens of Chang'an City, the dense sword qi tore Lian Jin's massive body into dust, which drifted in the void!
"Hang his head outside the city gates as a warning to the Four Great Ancient Desolations!"
Yang Hao looked at the blood mist scattering across the sky, then descended from the sacrificial platform. The grand ceremony for the Great Han's ascension to an imperial dynasty had concluded. He was now the Human Emperor of the Great Han, the sole ruler of the human lands in the Southwest Domain!