On the purple, ethereal face, those deep, profound eyes gazed down at everything below.
“Is… is this Lord Xuan Shi?”
He Yan stared at the purple face in the sky, his mind utterly shaken.
What kind of divine skill was this?
Can a martial artist truly achieve such a feat?
Thanks to the good fortune brought by our Lord Xuan Shi, He Yan witnessed a sight he could never have seen in his entire lifetime.
The power of a Divine Mansion True Person is not something just anyone is qualified to witness!
At the same time, Yu Hong and the others, who had been staying inside their rooms, also walked out.
Following He Yan’s gaze, they too saw this extraordinary, world-shaking sight!
“Old He, is… is that being up there… could it be that Lord Xuan Shi?”
Upon seeing this power beyond his imagination, Yu Hong couldn’t help but swallow nervously.
While He Yan was still dazed, a Xuan Bird Guard who had been with Yu Hong and had seen Lu Xuan before, spoke up in reply.
“That’s right, Vice Envoy Sir. I once had the honor of seeing Lord Xuan Shi’s appearance.”
“That face in the sky is exactly Lord Xuan Shi!”
However, just as He Yan and the others were in shock, the ground began to tremble again.
It was the Tiger-Servant Demon King crawling back up from the deep pit. With every step, it caused violent tremors in the ground.
“What is this thing!”
The Tiger-Servant Demon King’s eerie green eyes stared fixedly at the purple ethereal face in the sky.
Bang!
With a violent tremor, the solid ground instantly cracked open, forming a horrifying fissure.
Amidst the rising dust, the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s massive body shot up like an arrow from a bow, then fled into the distance at an extremely fast speed.
This happened so suddenly that even Lu Xuan’s divine will, present in the sky, was a bit surprised.
However, Lu Xuan’s divine will had been locking onto the Tiger-Servant Demon King the entire time.
The next moment, before the Tiger-Servant Demon King could get far, it felt a mysterious force pressing in madly from all directions.
It felt as if the entire heaven and earth were pressing down upon its body.
Boom!
The Tiger-Servant Demon King’s massive body fell from mid-air once again, kicking up rolling clouds of dust!
As the dust settled, the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s huge body looked as if it was being pinned to the ground by an invisible giant hand, completely unable to move.
In the sky, wind and clouds began to churn. Lu Xuan’s divine will transformed into a dazzling brilliance within the purple light.
Gradually, that brilliant purple light eventually formed a colossal purple hand that blotted out the sky.
That enormous purple palm hovered in the air, as if it could control all things in heaven and earth, stir the four seas, and cause the stars to tremble in awe.
Suddenly, the purple giant hand pierced through the thick layers of clouds, and the wind and clouds in the sky shifted violently and dramatically.
It was like a towering tsunami rising from the sea, filling everyone with utter despair.
The Tiger-Servant Demon King’s perception became incredibly sharp in that instant.
It could clearly sense that the purple giant hand in the sky possessed the power to annihilate its very existence.
But what filled the Tiger-Servant Demon King with despair was that its entire body’s power seemed to be sealed, responding not at all.
Had this part of the world been sealed off by that purple giant hand above?
Why did this power of heaven and earth feel so similar to those damnable humans from back then?
The power released by the weapons those humans wielded was exactly like that purple giant hand up there.
Only, back then, the Tiger-Servant Demon King could still abandon its physical body, wrap its internal demon core, and flee far away.
But now, the Tiger-Servant Demon King was sealed within this heaven and earth, unable to use the method of abandoning its body and escaping with its demon core.
In an instant, the purple giant hand seemed to transcend time and space. In the blink of an eye, it was already above the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s head.
Then, without any pause, the purple giant hand pressed down mercilessly.
Bang!
A loud crash!
The earth seemed to suffer an unprecedented, violent impact, and the entire town of Huangshan shook several times.
The purple giant hand carried an unstoppable, majestic force, rampagingly destroying the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s massive body.
After the deafening sound faded, dust and smoke shot into the sky, spreading throughout Huangshan Town, blurring everything.
Fifteen or so breaths later, the billowing dust and smoke thinned, revealing the scene inside.
There, where the Tiger-Servant Demon King had been, was now a ruined wasteland, and all human buildings had been leveled to the ground!
All that remained was a huge depression, a deep pit over ten meters deep, now clearly visible to everyone.
Of course, there were no living people inside those buildings.
Way back when the Tiger-Servant Demon King first appeared, the nearby common folk had already fled in fear.
And that purple giant hand had long since disappeared, leaving only a single message that reached the ears of He Yan and the others.
“Bring that Tiger-Servant Demon King’s demon core back to me, the Director.”
“As for its physical body, there are still some remains. You all can deal with them yourselves!”
Meanwhile, back in the prefectural city, Lu Xuan seemed to sense something and immediately called up the system panel.
Host: Lu Xuan
Realm: Divine Mansion True Person
Techniques: Burning Heaven Blade Technique 3/9, So Near Yet Worlds Away 0/9, Indestructibility 0/9 (Available for deduction)
Points: 16200
Host, please confirm whether to consume 8000 system points to deduce Indestructibility!
“Increased by ten thousand system points, huh?”
Lu Xuan had deduced the Burning Heaven Blade Technique to the third layer, consuming twenty thousand system points.
That left him with 6200 system points.
But Lu Xuan had just sensed that his strand of divine will had been fully activated and had killed the Tiger-Servant Demon King.
So, the system points the Tiger-Servant Demon King brought Lu Xuan was 10,000 points.
The Tiger-Servant Demon King’s strength was roughly within the range of a Grandmaster-level martial artist at the External Gang stage, just a bit stronger than an ordinary External Gang Grandmaster.
“And there’s still that demon core from the Tiger-Servant Demon King!”
“For demon beasts at the Demon King level and above, all the essence of blood and flesh is condensed into the demon core.”
Therefore, the effect of the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s flesh and blood was even weaker than that of a Great Demon realm beast.
After looking at the extra 10,000 system points, Lu Xuan turned his gaze to the Indestructibility martial art on the panel.
He had deduced the Burning Heaven Blade Technique to the third layer. Next, he might as well deduce Indestructibility once!
Coincidentally, Lu Xuan was still getting familiar with the power of the Divine Mansion realm and needed some more time.
So, he would go ahead and deduce Indestructibility.
By the time he emerged from seclusion, it would be time to head to the Great Xia Celestial Capital!
The Spirit Ruins region would open in less than a year.
Perhaps, in the Celestial Capital, Lu Xuan could obtain detailed information about the realm beyond Divine Mansion.
Information about the Void Illusionary True Lord realm!
Indestructibility, deduce!
“You lot, what are you standing around for? Hurry up and follow me over.”
He Yan snapped back to reality as if waking from a dream. After regaining his senses, he swayed and dashed swiftly towards the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s location.
Seeing this, Yu Hong, whose body had only recently recovered, began circulating his internal energy again and followed closely behind He Yan.
The Tiger-Servant Demon King’s flesh and blood, for martial artists at the internal energy realm, was something even better than a mid-rank Heaven-Earth Spiritual Object.
Surrounding the deep pit, many common folks could be seen gathering at the edge, whispering to each other.
“What a huge tiger! Could it be one of those legendary demons and monsters?”
“Obviously.”
“I saw it with my own eyes. An immortal appeared in the sky and defeated this demon.”
“So it was an immortal revealing themselves?”
“How terrible! I just hid and missed seeing the immortal’s divine countenance!”
“What a pity.”
“This damned demon tiger has harmed so many people.”
“I saw that it devoured Old Wang from next door in one bite.”
When He Yan and Yu Hong arrived and saw the many common folks still around, they frowned slightly.
He Yan raised his right hand and waved it gently, signaling to the Xuan Bird Guard behind him.
The Tiger-Servant Demon King’s physical body was an extremely precious thing for martial artists.
How to handle the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s body next was not something common civilians should witness.
“Get rid of these people. No one is allowed to approach within a thousand meters!”
“And send someone to notify the County Magistrate of Liusha County, telling him to come personally with his men to properly resettle the surrounding affected common folks.”
“Compensate every commoner for their losses at triple the rate.”
“Remember, warn the Liusha County Magistrate for me. I will send someone to secretly supervise him.”
Because the surrounding buildings had all been leveled by our Lord Xuan Shi.
Therefore, He Yan naturally could not afford any carelessness or negligence. He had to properly resettle the surrounding common folks with generous compensation.
Otherwise, if it affected Lord Xuan Shi’s reputation, He Yan would be unforgivably at fault.
“Yes, Vice Envoy Sir!”
The next moment, the dozen or so Xuan Bird Guards following He Yan ran off in every direction, persuading the surrounding common folks to leave one by one.
Of course, among these common folks, there were also several martial artists who wanted to forcefully stay.
But after one Blood Refining realm Xuan Bird Guard unleashed his astonishing blood energy, there was no one left daring to resist.
In just a quarter of an hour, the area within a thousand meters or so was cordoned off by the dozen Xuan Bird Guards, with no one allowed near.
He Yan and Yu Hong now stood at the edge of the deep pit, both staring down into it.
When they saw the grisly state of the Tiger-Servant Demon King, their pupils constricted, and their minds were deeply shaken.
The Tiger-Servant Demon King’s massive body looked almost flattened.
Its entire flesh was riddled with holes, a bloody, unrecognizable mess, its bones shattered, muscles torn, and not a single intact spot could be found anywhere on its body.
Blood and a dark, viscous liquid mixed together, dyeing the surrounding earth a terrifying black.
Shortly after, He Yan and Yu Hong leaped down from the edge of the pit, about five or six meters high, and landed next to the Tiger-Servant Demon King.
Yu Hong took a close look at the Tiger-Servant Demon King and couldn’t help but twitch his eyes.
Oh well, even in this state, the flesh and blood should still be barely edible.
Thank goodness his good niece, Yu Yueru, hadn’t seen this disgusting scene.
Otherwise, Yu Hong was really afraid that Yu Yueru would stubbornly refuse to eat the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s flesh and blood.
“Old Yu, don’t waste time.”
“Lord Xuan Shi said this Tiger-Servant Demon King has a demon core inside.”
“Let’s find that demon core first.”
“Then, we can think carefully about how to divide up the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s flesh and blood.”
After all, Lord Xuan Shi had personally said they could handle the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s flesh and blood as they wished.
He Yan and Yu Hong’s eyes burned with eager desire.
It was as if this mushy, rotten mess of flesh and blood was a rare treasure in their eyes.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
In the prefectural city of Baidao Prefecture, inside the main hall of the Xuan Bird Guard headquarters.
At this moment, many people had gathered in the hall because the Xuan Shi of Baidao Prefecture, Li Chengfeng, had returned from the Celestial Capital.
“Old Li, why are you back so quickly? It’s only been about two months.”
“Following the usual pattern, you’d take at least three months. What’s changed with you?”
Li Chengfeng sat on a chair on the left side. The person speaking next to him was Vice Envoy Yu Hong.
Seeing this, He Yan, sitting on a chair on the right side, looked at Li Chengfeng with suspicion.
“Yeah, Old Li, this doesn’t seem like your style, does it?”
Seeing these two teasing him, Li Chengfeng’s face momentarily flushed with embarrassment.
However, thinking of the reason he had rushed back so urgently, his expression quickly returned to calm.
“Sigh, if I hadn’t come back, someone would have personally carried me back.”
Who would have thought that in just two months, that guy Lu Xuan had stirred up enough attention to reach His Majesty in the imperial palace?
And he was exceptionally appointed as the youngest ever Vice Director of the Great Xia Dynasty, instantly becoming my direct superior, and at the very highest level at that!
So, the matter of His Majesty summoning Lu Xuan, Li Chengxing had informed me in advance.
It was to tell me to hurry back from the Celestial Capital to Baidao Prefecture, and not delay His Majesty’s decree.
Otherwise, if His Majesty was kept waiting too long, no one would have an easy time, regardless of who they were.
Li Chengfeng naturally understood this principle, so he consciously returned to Baidao Prefecture over a month early.
However, Li Chengfeng had no complaints at all. On the contrary, he was very grateful to Lu Xuan.
Because of Lu Xuan, the family ancestor had personally decided to exceptionally grant him a top-grade Heaven-Earth Spiritual Object!
A top-grade Heaven-Earth Spiritual Object!
Even within the family, only the truly core members were qualified to enjoy such things.
For example, the next family head, or those with exceptionally high martial arts talent.
He never imagined that he, with his utterly unremarkable martial arts aptitude, could also get his hands on a top-grade Heaven-Earth Spiritual Object.
All thanks to young friend Lu Xuan’s good fortune!
If Lu Xuan didn’t mind, Li Chengfeng would be willing to kowtow on the ground and call him “adoptive father”!
Relying on the power of the top-grade Heaven-Earth Spiritual Object, Li Chengfeng, without any surprises, smoothly broke through to perfected Internal Energy.
Thanks to the power of this top-grade Heaven-Earth Spiritual Object, Li Chengfeng now had hope of breaking through to that next realm.
The realm Li Chengfeng had dreamed of for so long, External Gang Grandmaster!
Of course, Lu Xuan’s influence didn’t stop with just Li Chengfeng.
That girl, Li Yanran, was the one who gained the most.
The family even exceptionally granted Li Yanran something surpassing a top-grade Heaven-Earth Spiritual Object.
