Chapter 722 - 40: Blood Spilled Within Five Steps
The remaining three Grandmaster Marshals, upon seeing the Peak Grandmaster Wei Yu, couldn’t last more than a few rounds and didn’t dare to square off with Chen Tang.
The three of them turned pale with fright and unanimously turned around to flee.
"Still trying to escape!"
Chen Tang took large strides and caught up with one of the Grandmaster Marshals in just a few steps, killing him with a single punch!
The three Grandmaster Marshals were clever enough to flee in three different directions.
After Chen Tang killed one of them, the remaining two had already fled dozens of yards away.
Chen Tang sneered slightly, his body moved, and he leapt into the air, transforming into a streak of light, breaking through the air with lightning speed!
No matter how fast the body techniques of these two Grandmasters were, they couldn’t compare to Chen Tang’s speed.
Xiaoyao Wanderings, derived from the flight of the Golden-Winged Roc and based on the Fuyao Technique, is the fastest martial art of its time!
At present, Chen Tang doesn’t have much chance of winning against a Grandmaster of the Transformation Realm.
But if he wanted to leave, even a Grandmaster couldn’t catch up to him!
Chen Tang’s entry into the Capital City wasn’t just to rescue Yuan Qingmo, Yuan Qingmu, and others. He also had an important objective, to seek justice for his senior brother Yuan Qingshan.
He wanted to crush the Profound Celestial Sect in the Daqian Capital City!
These Marshals were affiliated with the Profound Celestial Sect, and he wouldn’t let them go.
A dozen breaths later, as the Grandmaster Marshal was escaping far away, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and the sound of wind whistled by his ears.
Instinctively, he turned his head to see Chen Tang closing in on him!
"Ah!"
The murderous gaze of Chen Tang almost scared his soul out of his body.
Thud!
Chen Tang raised a fist and smashed the Grandmaster Marshal’s head to smithereens!
In the blink of an eye, of the fifteen Marshals who entered the Capital City, only Mu Junyun remained.
The crowd was in chaos, and both sides of Vermilion Bird Avenue were filled with the sounds of battle and screams. Not far away, he ran into a convoy from Da Wan Country.
The Xiling Saintess was sitting in front of a carriage.
"This person was just rude to me, senior brother, help me kill him."
Luo Sha saw Mu Junyun and said casually.
As soon as the words fell, the Death Demon appeared, blocking Mu Junyun’s path, and without a word, he raised his hand with a Celestial Demon Hand!
"I’m not..."
Mu Junyun wanted to explain, but just as he uttered the first three words, the fierce energy unleashed by the Celestial Demon Hand forcibly pressed the rest of his words back!
For decades, relying on the Profound Celestial Sect’s backing, they rampaged across Daqian without restraint.
Even when they took a fancy to a woman and directly abducted her, it wasn’t a big deal, let alone just a few vulgar teasing words.
Yet he didn’t expect that these few words would cost him his life on this spot!
Mu Junyun was merely a Grandmaster inferior, and stood no chance against the Death Demon.
Moreover, after being scared by Chen Tang, even if he had ten parts of fighting strength, he could only exert five.
In just a few rounds, the Death Demon severely injured him, causing him to cough up blood, and he was not long for this world.
Seeing this person was doomed, Chen Tang paid him no further mind and leapt into the air.
That group of Mystic Masters was still controlling flying swords, continuously attacking him.
Though temporarily unable to pierce his body radiance, it was quite annoying.
Chen Tang extended his hands and grabbed wildly in the air.
He instantly seized dozens of flying swords and hurled them back towards the group of Mystic Masters.
Thud thud thud!
With just a casual throw, a large area of the Mystic Masters fell.
Chen Tang tread through the air, seizing more flying swords and tossing them out, causing massive casualties.
In the end, none of the Mystic Masters dared to unleash their flying swords in front of Chen Tang, retreating in all directions.
Chen Tang glanced across the battlefield.
At this moment, the fat old man, after rescuing everyone, converged with them, charging out of the Capital City.
The masters in the Capital City were almost entirely killed or injured, with hardly anyone able to threaten him.
Their original plan was to escape the Capital City after the rescue without lingering.
However, before leaving the Capital, Chen Tang still had one more thing to do!
He activated the Xiaoyao Wanderings Body Technique and broke into the Imperial Palace Inner Courtyard.
Being high in the sky, from a commanding position, he had a panoramic view of the entire environment and terrain of the Imperial Palace Inner Courtyard, witnessing everything happening there.
After a moment of scanning, Chen Tang’s gaze sharpened, quickly locking onto a figure fleeing in panic.
"Taiping, where do you think you’re escaping to?"
Chen Tang’s voice echoed eerily.
"You, you all stop him!"
Yuan Taiping was sweating profusely and terrified, commanding the Black Tortoise Guard around him, shouting loudly.
These Black Tortoise Guards wanted to intercept him, but Chen Tang traversed the void and traveled through the clouds. No matter how skilled their lightweight skills were, they couldn’t touch Chen Tang, only exchanging helpless glances.
Yuan Taiping crawled and rolled, suddenly aware of something, looking up sharply.
In the clouds, like a Demon God descending upon the world, Chen Tang’s figure appeared faintly, hovering above him!
Those eyes seemed to contain the power of thunder and were fixated upon him.
Yuan Taiping trembled all over, and when he saw a little eunuch approaching with his head down, he grabbed the little eunuch like a lifeline and shouted, "You, you also go and stop him!"
The little eunuch suddenly looked up at Yuan Taiping, revealing a sinister smile, suddenly producing a dagger from his sleeve, stabbing it viciously into Yuan Taiping’s chest and abdomen!
"I’ll stab you to death, stab you to death..."
Thwack thwack thwack!
In the blink of an eye, this little eunuch stabbed more than a dozen times, nearly ruining Yuan Taiping’s chest and abdomen, and blood splattered five steps away.
Yuan Taiping looked shocked, only gripping the little eunuch’s shoulders tightly with an incredulous expression.
"You..."
Yuan Taiping seemed to want to say something, but blood kept spilling from his mouth, preventing him from uttering a single word.
Who is this little eunuch?
He looks somewhat familiar, but I don’t recognize him. Why does he want to kill me?
Seeing the little eunuch’s tattered clothes, Yuan Taiping suddenly recalled that this morning, this little eunuch clumsily spilled a cup of grape wine and was punished by him.
This wretched slave dared to kill him, dared to...
Endless anger surged in Yuan Taiping’s eyes, but his hands gradually lost strength, and his whole body fell weakly.
The little eunuch seemed startled by his own actions. His face showed panic as he watched Yuan Taiping fall, trembling all over.
But soon, he started to laugh nervously.
"I’ve assassinated the emperor, I’ve assassinated the emperor!"
The little eunuch stood there, jumping up and down.
Before long, he collapsed on the ground, bleeding from the seven apertures, lifeless.
Yuan Taiping looked up at the sky, seeing that tall figure, and suddenly recalled what Chen Tang, as Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince, had told him a few years ago.
"Your Highness, let me teach you a lesson today, even when dealing with subordinates, don’t go too far."
"You must know, when an ordinary man is enraged, blood splatters five steps, and within inches, he can be a match for a country!"
These words echoed constantly in his mind.
Every drink and every peck seemed predestined.
Yuan Taiping stared with wide eyes.
He was unwilling.
As the Emperor of Daqian, he died at the hands of a little eunuch!
How could he die in such humiliation?
He didn’t want to die!
Yuan Taiping seemed to think of something, suddenly bursting with a powerful will to survive, struggling to flip over, and continued to crawl towards the Inner Courtyard, extending his arms as if trying to grasp something, murmuring softly: "Save me..."
Chen Tang looked at everything happening below, his expression complicated, letting out a sigh in his heart.
He was about to turn and leave, but suddenly heard what Yuan Taiping said and couldn’t help but be moved.
Chen Tang landed, arriving beside Yuan Taiping in an instant, grabbing him and channeling a wisp of extremely pure Innate True Qi into him, protecting his heart meridian, and asked sternly, "What did you just say? Who here can save you?"
Yuan Taiping stared with wide eyes, silent, already dead.
Chen Tang first checked the little eunuch, finding his body covered in whip marks, knowing he would die, he had already taken a deadly poison, and now the poison had taken his life.
Chen Tang looked in the direction Yuan Taiping was pointing for a while and found nothing unusual.
Perhaps he was overthinking it.
The two words Yuan Taiping uttered were likely just his unwillingness.
Chen Tang pondered for a moment, awakened by the sounds of battle and shouting outside, no longer thinking further, and soared away.
Before long, Chen Tang arrived at the Profound Celestial Temple in the inner city.
Gazing at the tallest, most magnificent building in the Daqian Capital City, Chen Tang gave a cold laugh and stormed in with great strides, killing everyone he encountered!
What Mystic Master and Golden Core True Master, Nascent Soul True Monarch, in Chen Tang’s eyes, they were like clay chickens and pottery dogs.
Their methods couldn’t break through his defenses.
And casually, with a punch or a kick, he could easily kill a Mystic Master!
Chen Tang killed people along the way, setting fires along the way.
Soon, the entire Profound Celestial Temple was ablaze, thick smoke billowing and obscuring the sky!
Back then, the Profound Celestial Sect forced Yuan Qingshan and his wife to self-immolate and sacrifice to the heavens.
Today, he burned down this Profound Celestial Temple, killing everyone inside, their corpses lying scattered, the blood flowing like rivers, to commemorate Yuan Qingshan and his wife!
After this battle, even if the Profound Celestial Sect Leader is still alive, the influence of the Profound Celestial Sect will certainly suffer severe weakening.
Since the founding of the Profound Celestial Sect, they had never suffered such enormous losses and casualties.
This was tantamount to having their lair wiped out!
The blow to the Profound Celestial Sect didn’t end there.
Before this, in the hearts of Daqian’s citizens, the Profound Celestial Sect held a transcendent status, possessing all-pervading mana, even able to communicate with True Dragons, akin to mythology.
And now, this myth has been shattered!
The Profound Celestial Sect is not invincible, not unbeatable.
Countless people witnessed, those once arrogant and domineering Mystic Masters being slaughtered into disarray and collapse by the once Lion-Tiger Arhat.
In a corner of the Daqian Capital, Kou Zhenshan and Xu Ridge, in disguise, saw the events unfolding in the capital, both with faces full of shock.
Even though they had witnessed Chen Tang’s methods at Ghost Cry Ridge, they never imagined Chen Tang could single-handedly turn the Daqian Capital City upside down!
"Qian Country is finished!"
Kou Zhenshan said softly.
"Let’s go, report back to the Young Master."
Xu Ridge said, "Qian Country is about to fall, even if the Profound Celestial Sect Leader returns to support a new Emperor of Daqian, it likely won’t last long. This is the perfect time for us to restore our country!"
The two quietly withdrew, blending into the crowd, leaving the capital.
Not just them, barbarians, people from the Extreme North Cold Domain, forces from all sides left the capital one after another, sending news back as soon as possible.
The battle of Qianjing is likely to change the world’s great situation and the landscape of the Divine Land!
