Chapter 143: Divine Power Manifests, Sun and Moon Share the Sky?

Jiang Yu watched the long streak of light hurtling toward the summit of the mountain, and stepped forward. With every step he took, he uttered a sentence:

"Believe it or not, it makes no difference."

"I, Jiang Yu, make all living beings submit not through any tricks or background, but through the power that commands human life and death."

After seven steps, Jiang Yu trod upon the empty air and ascended into the sky.

Behind him, Zhou Ting, Zhang Yuan, and the others stood dumbfounded, petrified.

As for Zheng Xuan herself, she had long since frozen in place, gazing blankly at Jiang Yu as he walked up into the void. At this moment, his retreating figure looked precisely like an immortal walking the mortal world.

In an instant, Jiang Yu conjured a long sword out of thin air, turned, and slashed toward the peak of Mount Yandang. Like the Milky Way pouring down from the nine heavens, the sword radiance surged with mighty fury within Mount Yandang, resembling the sword strike of a celestial being. It tore through the curtain of night, illuminating both night and day.

"What is missed is missed. You can say a thousand or ten thousand things, but what good will it do?"

Jiang Yu's calm voice converged from all directions, ethereal and hard to trace.

Zheng Xuan opened her small mouth wide, her eyes unblinking as she stared fixedly at the sword radiance hanging in mid-air, witnessing the forests at the summit of Mount Yandang fall in swathes. Even the sweeping night wind was laced with boundless sword intent, shearing away many strands of her hair.

"Jiang Yu, is this the true trump card with which you roam the world?"

She finally understood. The countless questions in her heart already had their answers the moment she watched Jiang Yu execute this sky-defying slash.

Rocks tumbled down, violent winds raged in all directions, and leaves fluttered to the ground. Zheng Xuan stood rooted to the spot like a humanoid statue, unmoving. In the depths of her beautiful eyes, the figure of the young man standing in the void holding a sword was reflected.

Her sharp fingernails pierced into her palms. Only now did she realize what she had lost.

A brilliant, piercing light erupted from Jiang Yu's eyes, shooting out a dazzling beam. He took a fierce step forward, and his figure instantly materialized at the peak of Mount Yandang. Below him stood four figures, all possessing the strength of grandmasters.

"Junior, you've finally come."

Venerable Flame-Breaker waved his sleeve in a sweeping motion, and a fire dragon several zhang long abruptly burst forth from his cuff. The surrounding ice and snow melted instantly; before the slush could even soak into the soil, it was evaporated by the intense heat. Carrying the momentum to scorch the heavens, the flame dragon rolled toward Jiang Yu.

From the waist of the mountain, one could only see flames filling the sky—a majestic and imposing sight.

When enemies meet, what need is there for idle words? One simply draws the sword and faces them.

Jiang Yu gave a light snort, neither dodging nor parading. Amidst Vince's horrified gaze, he opened his mouth and swallowed the entire torrent of flames into his stomach, let it circulate through his body a couple of times, and then breathed it back out from his mouth once more.

Such a feat was no different from that of a celestial being.

Venerable Flame-Breaker's expression grew solemn. A single move was enough to reveal one's strength; this boy was truly as terrifyingly powerful as the legends claimed. Fortunately, two more grandmasters had arrived shortly after, otherwise his life would have been in mortal peril tonight.

This so-called Venerable Flame-Breaker was vastly inferior to Qin Mucheng. He seemed to have advanced to the Synthesis realm not long ago and had not yet fully mastered the power of a grandmaster.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and join me to kill this person!"

Venerable Flame-Breaker roared angrily, waving his sleeve to sweep away the sea of fire that had been cascading down from the firmament. The realm of a grandmaster could overturn mountains and seas, and various esoteric arts could be executed effortlessly.

Vince, as a foreign superpower wielding supernatural abilities, possessed the skill to control vines and trees. With both hands moving like an old ape embracing the moon, countless vines sprouted from the soles of his feet, attempting to trap Jiang Yu so they could encircle and slaughter him together.

The moment Jiang Yu entered the Foundation Establishment stage, he cultivated numerous divine physiques. Those tricks of controlling grass and vegetation were utterly vulnerable before the Azure Wood Divine Body. How could secular martial arts and superpowers ever compare to orthodox immortal teachings from millions of years ago?

"Break!"

With a single slash of Jiang Yu's sword, it felt as though Mount Yandang itself were about to be cleaved in two.

Those wildly proliferating plants and vines melted upon contact, just like the surrounding ice and snow. In the blink of an eye, they were shredded into countless fragments by the boundless sword radiance. A single sword strike broke all techniques; regardless of whether it was a divine ability or a spell, when faced with this long sword, everything was slashed to pieces.

Vince's expression grew even more solemn. "What is going on? According to the intelligence, isn't this person merely at the grandmaster realm?"

Venerable Flame-Breaker said in alarm, "His cultivation is likely pushing straight toward the Earth Immortal realm. Damn it! Could it be that his strength has skyrocketed once again within this short period?"

Jiang Yu calmly uttered, "A few stray cats, and yet you dare to provoke the majesty of an immortal."

At present, only Gu Changsheng was qualified to serve as an adversary to Jiang Yu. Even the five grandmasters of the Hidden Sect had suffered disastrous defeats at his hands, let alone these cats and dogs before him?

The combined strength of these four did not even equal half of the Hidden Sect.

Shadow Kill's intelligence was correct; a few months ago, Jiang Yu's cultivation was indeed only at the grandmaster realm. After all, a few months was merely the snap of a finger to a grandmaster.

Much like standing atop a hundred-foot pole, the higher one's cultivation realm climbed, the harder those final few steps became to cross.

For a grandmaster, a few months' time could not breed any great climate.

However, Shadow Kill had not anticipated that there would be someone in this world capable of multiplying their cultivation several times over within a mere few months. According to the understanding of the secular martial arts world, such a person simply should not exist.

At the foot of the mountain peak, Zheng Xuan and the others looked upward with boundless shock. Amidst the battle, they could almost feel the ground beneath their feet shaking slightly.

Moments later, another monstrous blaze rolled across the sky. Fortunately, it was a snowy period, and the inferno did not ignite the surrounding forests. Amidst the firelight that blighted the sky and blotted out the sun, everyone felt for the first time in their lives just how insignificant they truly were.

Within the flames, a human figure could be vaguely discerned. That person's arms were like the wings of a giant roc, and a majestic, awe-inspiring voice echoed across the heavens and earth: "I, Venerable Flame-Breaker, have entered the Synthesis realm, and tonight I shall slay a grandmaster to validate my Dao."

Tonight, tens of thousands of people witnessed the peerless battle on Mount Yandang with their own eyes.

For a grandmaster-level battle to take place near a bustling metropolis, with no fewer than ten grandmasters entering the fray one after another—nothing of the sort had happened in Huaxia for a century. The world once again gained a profound impression of the formidable power wielded by grandmasters.

This fierce battle was even broadcast overseas via the internet, making it a rare spectacle for the entire world.

The name "Grandmaster Jiang" appeared in the sights of martial artists worldwide tonight. Whenever Huaxia's martial arts world was mentioned, people only recognized Grandmaster Jiang. Even Gu Changsheng's limelight was overshadowed by him.

It would be fine if they managed to slay this person tonight, but if he were allowed to leave Yuzhou unscathed, both the Shadow Kill and Rothschild organizations would face endless hunts and assassinations by Jiang Yu.

Many people understood this logic; the deterrent force of a grandmaster was simply too overwhelming for the secular world.

This could be seen from the way the Hidden Sect had lowered their heads and conceded ground—it wasn't that they lacked the ability to deal with a single grandmaster, but rather that they feared letting him escape, which would bring endless, unending retaliation upon them in the future.

Jiang Yu's martial arts were grand and tyrannical, unprecedented in the secular martial arts world when displayed. Those techniques were ingenious; even some highly respected senior elders of the Hidden Sect, having searched through ancient texts, could not make heads or tails of them.

Before these celestial martial arts, the Hidden Sect had to admit that in today's Huaxia, apart from Gu Changsheng, only Xu Daozhi of Zhongzhou could match him evenly.

Boom!

Jiang Yu slashed down with yet another sword, and Vince had to summon over a dozen layers of azure vines consecutively before barely managing to block it.

Half of the peak of Mount Yandang was nearly cleaved off. By this point, Jiang Yu had taken a total of three steps in the void. Below, Venerable Flame-Breaker and the other three unleashed their lifelong ultimate arts; a battle of life and death was no child's play.

When Jiang Yu took his fourth step, Mount Yandang could no longer bear the immense, crushing weight and collapsed with a deafening roar. Viewed from afar, this famous mountain of Yuzhou saw soil flying in all directions and boulders tumbling down; half the citizens of Yuzhou heard the thunderous sound.

Mount Yandang had collapsed?

At this moment, everyone's gaze converged on the direction of Mount Yandang.

What was happening? Was someone using explosives?

Faced with the rubble tumbling down from the mountain peak, Zheng Xuan turned pale, her hands twisting the hem of her skirt as she had no idea what to do.

"Xuanxuan, run!"

Zhou Ting's legs were paralyzed with fright.

Splitting rivers and churning mountains, commanding all things, riding the wind...

Were these the various divine abilities of martial arts grandmasters?

Yearning filled the hearts of the few as they wore looks of adoration; no one could resist that power which rivaled the heavens and earth.

Just as Zheng Xuan was about to be swallowed by the cascading mountainside, three elderly figures appeared. One of them scooped up Zheng Xuan and Gu Feifei, turned, and fled without the slightest hesitation.

In a grandmaster-level battle, even Transformation Realm grandmasters dared not watch closely. For these few young folks to be secretly peering from nearby—wasn't that courting death?

By the time they retreated, Mount Yandang was completely enveloped in a golden radiance.

Little did anyone know, across four locations in Yuzhou, over a dozen artillery barrels were aimed directly at Mount Yandang. The Hidden Sect had issued an order: if the person walking out of the mountain was not Jiang Yu, the mountain was to be instantly flattened.

Atop the roof of a certain skyscraper in the dark of night stood four figures.

Qin Huishi stood right behind them, a turbulent storm of emotions churning in her heart. The commotion in Yuzhou tonight was simply too massive, and word had already reached Yanjing. The four great martial gods had also converged in Yuzhou.

"Uncle Li, are you guys confident?"

Qin Huishi asked in a soft voice.

Uncle Li replied, "The four of us can hold off an Earth Immortal."

Hearing that casual tone, her heart settled considerably.

Just as she was about to speak, a faint voice drifted over from Mount Yandang, piercing straight into her soul.

"Reflecting the Heavens!"

That night, many people witnessed a dazzling, piercing sun slowly rise from the peak of Mount Yandang amidst the dark night.

Yuzhou tonight seemed to possess both the sun and the moon in the sky simultaneously.