The pouring winter rain fell three meters above the Phoenix Maiden immortal body’s protective barrier, and it was as if it were being pulled by an invisible force—it tilted and swirled, and the moment it tried to advance even an inch further, it splashed and bounced away.
The Phoenix Maiden immortal body’s barrier was like a giant transparent umbrella, blocking out the bitter wind and rain outside.
“My dear wife is amazing! You’ve left me far behind—I worship you!”
Jiang Tian seemed not to have realized the danger right in front of him, dramatically making an expression of wanting to cry but having no tears.
It could be said that the power of the flawless Phoenix Maiden immortal body exceeded Jiang Tian’s imagination. This protective barrier had already held up for a full minute.
Qing’er rolled her eyes at him, seemingly finding his cheeky banter quite boring.
When the twenty-three flaming arrows exploded in unison, Qing’er’s pretty face turned slightly stern. Her cherry lips parted slightly, and she gave a delicate shout—
“Break!”
Before the sound even faded, all twenty-three flaming arrows eerily froze in midair, unable to advance even an inch further.
The frozen scene was utterly bizarre, still preserving a single moment in the middle of the explosion process.
The flaming arrows were like bright red flowers blooming around the barrier, trembling and swaying ever so slightly.
In truth, this scene lasted less than a second.
The next moment, the barrier suddenly expanded, pulsing once with a surge and a quake.
Bang!
The flaming arrows shot back out in all directions like heavenly maidens scattering flowers, at a speed no less than when they had first been shot over.
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The “Break!” that Zhao Xueqing shouted seemed to transcend the boundaries of space and time. It originated from hundreds of meters high in the sky, yet at the same time it rang out like thunder in Xu Zhenlei’s eardrums and in his qi sea.
Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!
Xu Zhenlei felt as if his heart had been gripped by an invisible hand and began to pound violently, like a war drum being struck without pause. His body swayed on the verge of collapse, and he vomited a mouthful of blood with a loud retch.
The phoenix’s majesty was awe-inspiring—this was a form of spiritual pressure, and once unleashed, it could force even Transformation Realm grandmasters to their knees!
Then Xu Zhenlei saw a flaming arrow, sent flying by the barrier’s shockwave, come shooting toward him.
“Get out of the way!”
Xu Zhenlei cried out in alarm, unable to dodge in time. His fist shot out like a cannonball, meeting it head-on.
Boom! With a earth-shattering roar, Xu Zhenlei was blasted seven or eight meters away, and a large chunk of the rooftop caved in.
…
“Oh no, honey, I think we hurt a bystander!” Zhao Xueqing’s face turned pale with fright, and she was terribly upset with herself.
Even though she had awakened her immortal body and become a supreme beauty, the soft kindness and compassion at the bottom of her heart had never changed.
“It’s fine, he won’t die! Seems to be Xu Ruocheng’s father…” Jiang Tian said lightly.
…
The moment Apollo detonated the flaming arrows, he had used spiritual power to control them. Now that the flaming arrows had been reflected back, it dealt an extremely severe blow to both his spirit and his body.
He fell to the ground like a stupid quail with broken wings, crashing down and spitting blood.
Apollo jumped up abruptly, trembling all over with rage: “Jiang Taichu, what is going on! Tell me what that thing is!?”
“What thing? Something a brainless fool like you can’t understand! With your trash-level abilities, you want to kill me? You’re far below Lin Zhenyu!”
Jiang Tian sneered coldly, his voice full of contempt: “You’ve shot so many arrows—it’s my turn now!”
“I won’t accept this! Go to hell!”
Apollo burned with fury. He raised the Helios Golden Bow in his hand, and his right hand began to draw the string…
An arrow of white-gold flame materialized out of thin air.
“This arrow could probably kill even a half-step Divine Realm expert!”
On the villa’s rooftop, Xu Zhenlei’s heart was filled with warning signs.
This arrow was far more terrifying than all the previous flaming arrows!
Just the condensation and formation of the arrow alone caused the mountain rock beneath Apollo’s feet to crack inch by inch, some of it even melting directly into scorching lava.
Suddenly, everyone was shocked to see—
From the dense forest, a white pillar of light shot into the sky, illuminating half the heavens, tearing the thick curtain of night into many pieces. Then, the pillar of light flashed and shot toward Jiang Tian through the air!
“Qing’er, let’s work together—release the Li Fire!” Jiang Tian’s sword-like brows rose, and he transmitted his thoughts.
“Okay, hubby!”
Thought transmission was much faster than speech. The moment the thought arose in Jiang Tian’s mind, Qing’er sensed it.
Immediately, her eyes flickered with golden light. Her phoenix eyes unleashed the Li Fire, and a massive ball of golden Li Fire, five meters in diameter, condensed and formed.
Whoosh!
Jiang Tian caught the fire and condensed it into a blade.
Swoosh!
With a single sound, a crescent-shaped Li Fire qi blade about ten meters long met the white-flame arrow head-on, slashing down through the air like a falling meteor!
“This is… a flame qi blade? It’s simply godlike!” Xu Zhenlei was utterly shaken, his heart sinking to the bottom of his stomach.
He couldn’t even withstand a single soft shout from Qing’er, let alone this flame qi blade that Jiang Tian was now unleashing.
Five-element true qi—only a half-step Divine Realm expert could unleash it. And once one entered the Divine Realm, all martial artists were mere ants!
In that instant, whatever challenges to Jiang Tian, whatever unification of Jinling…
All those heroic ambitions and hot-blooded passions froze faster than a pile of cow dung in winter, annihilated in an instant.
“So this is Madam Jiang? Truly peerless and magnificent, a supreme beauty. Only she could be worthy of Great Master Jiang!”
But Xu Ruocheng gazed up at the two figures in the sky, his eyes intoxicated, without a trace of jealousy—only endless admiration.
He felt they were like an immortal couple.
Beautiful things like this always made one want to look at them a little longer.
The inappropriate feelings she had hidden deep in her heart for Jiang Tian also crumbled and shattered in that instant.
…
Boom! With a crack, that white-gold flaming arrow—one that could pierce through even a giant ship—was like paper, cut clean through by the Li Fire qi blade.
Then the Li Fire qi blade came sweeping down wildly!
“You can’t kill me!”
Apollo raised his bow to block, simultaneously expanding layers of golden protective light around his body.
But it was utterly useless.
The golden bow was struck from his hand and sent flying. The golden protective light was equally useless. Amid a spray of blood and a shrill, agonized scream, Apollo’s right arm and shoulder were severed and fell to the ground.
The Phoenix Maiden immortal body was one of the twelve great immortal bodies of the cultivation world, supreme and unmatched.
The Li Fire stimulated by this constitution could burn gold and melt iron, incinerating all things!
No matter how strong Apollo was, he was still mortal flesh—how could he possibly resist?
This was the terrifying power of the flawless Phoenix Maiden immortal body!
“You dare kill me! I am Prince William, Apollo, one of the twelve great chief gods of the Western Pantheon…”
Seeing Jiang Tian approaching, Apollo threatened in utter terror, trying to scare Jiang Tian off.
“I’m so scared! So scared my little heart can’t take it!”
Jiang Tian said with a mocking smile, then without hesitation pointed his finger through the air.
Bang! With a single sound, Apollo’s head burst like a berry, splattering red and white everywhere.
Apollo—holder of one of the twelve chief god positions of the Pantheon and one of the Big Circle’s seven overlords—was dead!
And when Xu Zhenlei leaped over, he witnessed this awe-inspiring scene.
“Great Master Jiang…”
Xu Zhenlei’s heart pounded with fright. Like a schoolboy facing a teacher, he bowed respectfully with clasped fists.
He was practically scared to death.
This Great Master Jiang was just too strong—a peerless powerhouse like Apollo was killed with a single strike!
“Sorry about that—my wife just hurt you earlier. Here, take two pills!” Jiang Tian casually tossed out a medicine bottle, flashing a grin full of white teeth.
But to Xu Zhenlei, Jiang Tian was no different from a primordial beast opening its bloody maw to devour him. He was so frightened he nearly jumped out of his skin.
“It’s nothing, it’s nothing! Thank you, Great Master Jiang, for the medicine!” Xu Zhenlei knelt on the ground, trembling, and performed the grand ceremony of three kneelings and nine prostrations.
“Let’s go, Qing’er!”
Jiang Tian smiled warmly, took his beloved wife’s small hand, and with a flicker of movement, disappeared like a ghost into the heavy curtain of night.
…
When these momentous events in Jinling were posted on the dark web and spread to the West, the entire dark world was shaken.
If Jiang Tian’s killing of Qinglian Dashi and the others atop Mount Everest had only suppressed Southeast Asian forces, then this bloodbath in Jinling had suppressed powers across the entire globe.
On the dark web, there was a chorus of wails and shock.
Asia’s number one assassin organization, “Night Demon Shadow,” including its two overlords Ruan Kun and the Berserk Ape—completely annihilated!
The experts of the Butterfly Skull organization, including ace assassin Rattlesnake—completely annihilated!
America’s renowned “Sky Eye” organization lost five top operatives, including Jin Taixuan!
Blackwater mercenaries lost over twenty experts, including Satan!
Blood Color and Totem were even more depressed beyond words.
Count-level vampires could match martial arts grandmasters. To them, someone like Anthony was a rare and powerful pillar—yet he was dead just like that. The losses were devastating!
Named assassins and mercenaries on the Assassin King List—several dozen had fallen. In a single night, over a hundred top assassins who had gathered in Jinling were all wiped out, not a single one escaping!
The most terrifying thing was that not a single dark powerhouse escaped!
One had to understand that these powerhouses were wanted by police in every country. What they were best at was fleeing for their lives—yet they had all fallen. This showed just how powerful Jiang Taichu was, and how ruthless his methods were.
…
These messages were nothing short of a magnitude-twelve earthquake, both for the forces that had participated in the assassination and those that hadn’t.
In truth, this gathering of powerful figures in Jinling was not only about killing Jiang Tian—it was also meant to probe China’s Dragon Group and martial arts forces.
After all, for a very long time, China had been considered forbidden territory for global mercenaries and assassin organizations. But who wouldn’t covet such a massive market? Who wouldn’t want a piece of it?
Many forces were closely watching this event. If the dark world’s powerhouses won a great victory and withdrew safely, then they could start doing business in China.
Who would have thought that the Dragon Group wouldn’t even make a move, yet that lineup—one that could only be described as impossibly luxurious—was annihilated overnight in China? This filled them with even more terror and fear toward that mysterious nation.
In the mid-twentieth century, around the founding of China, there was an earth-shattering war in which the West suffered devastating losses.
They had originally thought that after decades of recuperation and biding their time, they had the capital and strength to make a comeback. Little did they know that this assassination would shatter all that confidence!
Then another super-explosive piece of news arrived—
Among the Big Circle’s seven overlords, Golden Scorpion and Apollo had participated in overseeing the operation and had encountered Jiang Taichu. Both were subsequently killed by him.
Apollo’s identity was also exposed—a peerless powerhouse, one of the twelve chief gods of Europe’s Pantheon!
A true overlord!
Even these two were dead!
For a time, who knew how many assassins, mercenaries, and dark organizations were trembling in fear, scared out of their wits.
That five-hundred-million-dollar bounty became a hot potato that no one dared to touch.
The entire dark world was shrouded in a mood of desolation and anxiety.
How many powerhouses weren’t vindictive and prone to settling scores?
If they hadn’t killed him this time, once he recovered, he would probably launch a mad retaliation!
