Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

This was a terrifying scene!

An elder from the Myriad Poisons Sect of Hanzhou splattered blood across the sky, right above the battlefield outside the city, blasted apart just like that, his body and soul completely destroyed.

Since ancient times, when had an elder from a top-tier force in Hanzhou, a powerhouse at the peak of the Overlord Saint Heaven Realm, been blasted apart by someone from Qingzhou in Qingzhou territory, under the watchful eyes of the public?

The death of an elder-level powerhouse meant that things would continue to deteriorate, with no possibility of reconciliation.

If only protector-level powerhouses had been killed before this, those top-tier sects in Hanzhou might have weighed the pros and cons under certain circumstances, thereby avoiding conflicts with such powerhouses and bringing greater losses to the sect.

But now, with an elder killed, no force would let it go easily under such circumstances, and they would definitely fight to the death.

Inside the city, while everyone was shocked and excited, they couldn't help but feel a strong sense of worry in their hearts.

What the Great Gan Dynasty was about to face was the strongest enemy it had ever encountered in history.

Lord Monarch was majestic and powerful, possessing invincible divine bearing, but facing the relentless revenge of several top-tier sects in Hanzhou, what would the outcome be? It was still difficult to say. After all, if such existences really disregarded everything, it would be a very terrifying thing.

At that time, they might even vent their anger on the Great Gan Dynasty, leading to the devastation of the people.

Presumably, these were the consequences that Lord Monarch had already foreseen. He should have a way to deal with it and would never allow the flames of war to spread to innocent citizens, but what about his own safety?

… …

"Why bother? You know this method is useless against me, yet you keep hiding in the shadows."

Lord Monarch's voice echoed between heaven and earth. At the same time, the people in the city saw his Chaos Golden Light blooming as his palm fingers struck across all directions.

His fingertips shattered the sky, obliterating all secret technique attacks, crushing everything in its path with irresistible force.

The Chaos Golden Blood Qi surged, and boundless divine power swept out. All the powerhouses forming the battle formation were blasted away, the battle formation disintegrated, and they coughed up blood.

A void collapsed, shattered by his palm, and a scream came from within. It was the Dancing Elephant Elder of the Seven Killings Tower.

He had used assassination techniques to hide in the void, launching a sneak attack on Lord Monarch.

Now, he was forcibly shaken out, his bones broken and tendons fractured, coughing up blood, his clothes stained red with blood, the palm fingers hanging down at his waist constantly twitching, his tiger's mouth split open, and the sword in his hand, as thin as a cicada's wing, had become twisted like a rope and was covered with cracks.

The reason for such a scene, causing him such serious injuries, was only because of Lord Monarch's casual blow just now.

"Jun Wuxie!"

The Dancing Elephant Elder roared like a beast, pulling on the injuries to his internal organs, and a mouthful of thick blood spurted out, his body swaying.

He felt excruciating pain in every inch of his body, unbearable pain in every bone, and the same in his internal organs.

He knew that his bones, internal organs, and meridians had all been shattered by the other party's divine power.

Today's situation had already entered a dead end.

When he came, he was so full of confidence, but he never expected to end up in this situation!

The Dancing Elephant Elder smelled the scent of death, and he knew that he had already stepped on the edge of the abyss and was about to fall into eternal darkness.

This made him feel terrified and unwilling at the same time.

So this was the feeling of facing death!

In the past, he had always made others face death, making others suffer pain and torment in the process of welcoming death, and agonizing and fearing in despair.

Finally, he himself tasted this feeling, this feeling of fear, unwillingness, and despair, but also a deep sense of powerlessness, only able to watch helplessly as death approached and be helpless.

"Hahaha!"

The Dancing Elephant Elder saw the coldness and ruthlessness in Jun Wuxie's eyes, and he laughed wildly at the sky, his whole person like a madman, with large amounts of blood foam gushing out of his mouth.

"You will not die a good death! This elder can only barely be considered the second tier in the Seven Killings Tower. Above this seat, there are still those at the peak of the Overlord Saint Heaven Realm, and a large number of Half-Step Saint Emperors! If you dare to oppose us like this, before the demon race sends people to kill you, you will already be crushed to pieces! Offending the six top-tier sects in Hanzhou, just wait to die!"

He frantically vented the resentment and hatred in his heart, shouting viciously, laughing wantonly, his entire face twisted into a hideous and terrifying expression.

"Noisy!"

Jun Wuxie didn't want to listen to his nonsense at all, and punched across, striking the elder of the Soul Severing Valley and other powerhouses. Under one punch, the Chaos Golden Blood Qi presented a terrifying phenomenon.

Endless mountains and rivers appeared in the sky, collapsing and breaking within the fist mark, a scene of world destruction.

Those powerhouses who had regrouped into a battle formation could not withstand such a punch at all.

The energy of the fist mark covered a wide area, and even so, the power of the attack was greatly weakened, but it still impacted their bodies to the point of almost disintegrating, and fragments of internal organs spurted out of their mouths, and even their faces and bones were covered with cracks.

This completely deprived them of their combat power.

Because their brains were severely injured, even a slight attempt to use the power of the soul would cause a splitting headache, and their heads would almost explode.

This made them unable to control the true energy in their bodies with their souls, no different from cripples, falling from the sky like dumplings.

At the same time, the elder of the Soul Severing Valley also suffered fatal injuries under the fist force of Seven Killings Fist - Mountain and River Break.

The elder's body was covered with cracks, and even his brow was split open, with a large amount of blood seeping out, making him extremely frightened.

He didn't dare to move, just standing there, feeling that even a slight use of true energy would instantly increase the cracks in his body, and the cracks in his head were the same.

He was about to disintegrate! If he couldn't heal in time, he was destined to die without a complete corpse.

The thought of turning into a pool of blood made him unacceptable and filled his heart with fear.

"Jun Wuxie, we can actually cooperate, anything can be discussed, there's no need to fight to the death…"

The elder of the Soul Severing Valley rolled his eyes upwards, trying to look at the crack in his brow, which was slowly spreading, making his mood more and more tense.

"Cooperate? When you thought you were powerful and thought you could dominate Qingzhou, you wanted to fight to the death and conquer by force. Now that life and death are in my hands, you want to cooperate, truly shameless."

Jun Wuxie responded indifferently. As soon as his voice fell, he pierced the brow of the Dancing Elephant Elder of the Seven Killings Tower with a finger across the air, causing him to let out a miserable scream, but it was very short, and he died instantly.

He reached out and grabbed, sucking the Dancing Elephant Elder's corpse in front of him and into the cave heaven.

The elder of the Soul Severing Valley trembled fiercely when he saw this scene.

"Jun Wuxie, you really don't need to make so many enemies. Everything I said comes from the bottom of my heart, and I sincerely want to cooperate with you. Even, in the future, if you have any needs, we can help you!"

He didn't want to die. Having cultivated to this realm and being in an era when the great world was coming, the environment and rules of heaven and earth were changing with the passage of time.

This was an era that was more conducive to cultivators breaking through realms than ever before.

He could almost see the scenery of his future stepping into the Saint Emperor Realm.

It wasn't impossible to break through, and there was a great opportunity in this era.

If he were to die here like this, the beautiful future he once yearned for and the beautiful future he had woven in his heart, all his expectations, would become dream bubbles.

"I need it now."

Jun Wuxie said coldly.

As soon as the elder of the Soul Severing Valley heard this, he immediately showed a smile.

Having needs and requirements meant there was hope, there were conditions to talk about, and he could survive!

"What do you need, just say it!"

He hurriedly expressed his position, already feeling proud in his heart.

After all, he was just a young cultivator, with a short cultivation time and insufficient life experience. At this time, he was actually shaken by his conditions.

As the saying goes, ginger is still old and spicy. Did this kid also want to fight him?

Just wait until he stabilizes him this time, escapes alive, and then comes here with the sect powerhouses to take revenge!

"I need to devour you as a cultivation resource, so it's time for you to dedicate yourself."

When Jun Wuxie said this, the elder of the Soul Severing Valley, who was proud in his heart, suddenly turned ashen.

Immediately, he saw Jun Wuxie reaching out his finger, and he was so frightened that his pupils quickly dilated, and a venomous curse came from his mouth: "Ah!!! Jun, you little bastard, I curse you to die a terrible death, to be unable to reincarnate in life and death, and to never be reborn!"

Pfft!

A smear of blood splashed out from the head of the elder of the Soul Severing Valley, his venomous voice stopped abruptly, his eyes widened, a large amount of blood overflowed from his forehead, staining his entire face red, and he fell backwards.

Jun Wuxie reached out and sucked him into the cave heaven.

The remaining powerhouses below the peak of the Overlord Saint Heaven Realm were all curled up on the ground, constantly struggling, but it was difficult to get up.

He stretched out his hand, his palm fingers enlarged, covering a large area, and instantly detained dozens of powerhouses from the three sects in his hand. The Chaos Golden Blood Qi shook slightly, and those powerhouses all died screaming.

Then he took them into the cave heaven.

The entire battlefield suddenly became quiet, so quiet that the sound of the breeze could be heard.

On the city wall, countless soldiers and generals watched the whole process blankly.

At this time, regaining their senses, the eyes of every soldier and general were filled with ardent worship, as well as deep awe.

The elders of the three sects of Hanzhou came strongly, but in a short period of time, they all died here, none of them could escape, and they were all killed by Lord Monarch alone!

"Lord Monarch is mighty!"

I don't know who shouted.

"Lord Monarch is mighty!"

"Lord Monarch is mighty!"

… …

Suddenly, the originally silent city boiled over in an instant, and countless people, whether soldiers or civilians in the city, all raised their arms and shouted.

Some chubby little milk dolls, who couldn't even walk steadily, were held in their mothers' arms, and also waved their little fists, following with a milky voice: "Lord Monarch is mighty!"

After shouting, the babies sucked on their pacifiers, making giggling sounds, and then raised their little fists, shouting in their slurred, milky voices: "Our Divine King is mighty!"

The soldiers and civilians in the city were too numerous, their voices shaking the heavens, carrying far and wide, echoing like thunder between the mountains and rivers.

"What is brilliance, what is supreme glory? Perhaps this is it."

Jian Chen, Dugu Ruyan, and the others listened to the city's excited voices, feeling the burning reverence in the people's hearts, and couldn't help but sigh.

They were very clear that if the Divine King could gain the support and reverence of the border city's people now, he would surely gain the reverence of all the people in the Great Qian Dynasty in the future, and also the reverence of all living beings in Qingzhou.

His future would be incomparably brilliant!

"Have you noticed that the Divine King's path is different from ours? Although we wouldn't ignore ordinary people, we rarely interact with them. In the past, we could say that we rarely had direct contact with ordinary people during our cultivation. But the Divine King is different; ever since he came to this city, he has been interacting with ordinary people."

Jian Chen was very emotional. He had never encountered such a cultivator in their world.

No genius king would put his mind on ordinary people, on cities mostly populated by ordinary people.

"This is true cultivation. Cultivation is not just about power and systems, but also about 'realm,' cultivating oneself, cultivating one's heart. The Divine King has achieved true cultivation of his heart."

Dugu Ruyan shook her head gently, saying, "In fact, everyone comes from the stage of being an ordinary person who has never cultivated. Our initial heart is the purest original heart, the most authentic self. During the cultivation process, the true self gradually becomes lost due to the Dao self. Cultivators always say that focusing on the Dao is the only way to go further, but this is not the kingly way. Like the Divine King, adhering to the original heart and always maintaining the true self is the true kingly way!"

"Perhaps we have really taken the wrong path. We always felt that we had transcended the mundane world. But how can we transcend? The whole world is the mundane world. Today, seeing the Divine King's techniques, it's like a sudden awakening. We are all just travelers in the mundane world."

Jian Xu and the others also had deep spiritual feelings.

Today's battle gave them deep spiritual inspiration.

"You're right, we are all travelers in the mundane world. Living means being in the mundane world; no one can escape the mundane world."

Jun Wuxie stepped through the air from outside the city and landed in front of them.

Jian Chen, Dugu Ruyan, Zhao Wenting, Jian Xu, and Di Hui looked at him blankly, revealing puzzled expressions.

"Is there really no one in the world who can escape the mundane world? Those enlightened people who have severed their ties with the world, don't they count as having left the mundane world?"

"What do you think the mundane world is?" Jun Wuxie looked at them calmly. "Is it joys and sorrows, partings and reunions, the seven emotions and six desires, joy, anger, grief, and happiness, greed, anger, ignorance, and hatred?"

"It is and isn't entirely. All these desires and emotions come not only from humans, but also from all living beings in the world. Having thoughts means having emotions and desires. There is no one in the world who has truly severed all emotions and desires. As long as they are alive and still thinking, they will have desires. Just like some cultivators who take the path of extremes, so-called severing the seven emotions and six desires, with a heart as still as water, focusing only on the existence of the Dao. These people don't lack desires; they are too obsessed with severing the seven emotions and six desires precisely because their desire for the Dao is too strong, too infatuated."

"Everything in the world can be said to be the mundane world. It can also be said to be within the mundane world. The changes of the times, the passing of years, all the traces recorded in the long river of history, the prosperity and decline of civilization, scene after scene are all the myriad aspects of the mundane world. You and I are both the mundane world and within the mundane world. Only by truly understanding and experiencing the meaning of the mundane world can we be in the mundane world yet transcend it, and forge a Dao heart as solid as a rock!"

"I'm telling you this not for anything else, but because you have gained some understanding in this matter, and I don't want you to get into a dead end, walking into a wrong alley and trapping yourselves in vain. You must remember, don't be obsessed with leaving the mundane world, and the so-called transcendence of the mundane world does not mean not being contaminated by the mundane world. At least before the Emperor Realm, it is impossible to achieve."

"Understood…"

They stared blankly at Jun Wuxie, digesting what he said.

"Does that mean that transcending the mundane world has nothing to do with leaving the mundane world? We ourselves are the mundane world. As long as we are alive, even if there is only one person, we are in the mundane world, because we cannot escape ourselves. Even if we die, we are buried in the mundane world. Is that what you mean?"

"That's right, that's what I mean. Wanting to leave the mundane world is a very wrong idea. Before you have truly transcended, leaving the mundane world will only make your Dao heart more fragile. Only a Dao heart forged in the mundane world is the most resilient."

"Hearing your words, Divine King, is better than a hundred years of cultivation."

Di Hui sighed. Why hadn't he understood these things before?

"By the way, Divine King, what is the Emperor Realm you just mentioned?"

They remembered this and couldn't help but feel curious.

"Doesn't your universe have legends about Emperor Realm experts?"

They all shook their heads, indicating they didn't.

Jun Wuxie was a little surprised. That's not right. How could a world connected to the Upper Realm not have produced an Emperor?

Had it really not produced one, or had the news about these things been deliberately erased?

"I don't know how to explain it to you. The Emperor Realm is a very high realm, very far away from us."

Jun Wuxie knew very little about the Emperor Realm, only knowing that it was an incredible realm of true transcendence, and nothing else.

"In that case, it should be the few realms after the Nine Realms of Terrestrial Immortals…"

Di Hui said.

Jun Wuxie: …

He didn't explain, not wanting to continue this topic. There was no point in continuing.

This guy, Di Hui, actually thought that the Emperor Realm was just a few realms after the Nine Realms of Terrestrial Immortals. He really didn't know what to say.