102: The City Lord Goes Crazy! The Divine Heart is Liberated

The Xuan Sacrificial Priest’s layers of defense were instantly pierced through as if made of paper.

“Ugh ah—!”

The Xuan Sacrificial Priest let out a pained shriek, his entire body jolting as if struck by lightning. He flew backward, crashing heavily into a distant city wall, creating a massive dent in the hard, dark-gray rock.

A deep, bone-visible wound appeared on his chest, its edges wreathed in pale flames that continuously scorched his flesh and soul.

“Soul… scorching…” The Xuan Sacrificial Priest’s eyes were filled with terror.

He could feel his life force rapidly draining away, and the pain brought by the pale flames far surpassed the physical, piercing directly to his soul.

“Impossible… just a mere sword qi…” He couldn't comprehend why, as fellow Tenth-Order cultivators, a casual strike from his opponent would possess such terrifying power.

Bai Xiao took a step, instantly appearing before the Xuan Sacrificial Priest. He looked down at him, his gaze devoid of any pity.

“It’s over.”

He slowly raised his hand, preparing to finish off this enemy for good.

Just then, a furious roar, like rolling thunder, swept across the entire city from the direction of Panshi City’s central altar!

“Stop!!!”

Accompanying the roar, a burly figure shot forth at an extremely high speed, arriving in an instant!

The newcomer was clad in dark-gold heavy armor, wielding a massive broadsword whose blade glowed with a thick, earthy-yellow light.

He was tall, with a resolute face, and his tiger-like eyes burned with raging fury. It was none other than Shi Potian, the City Lord of Panshi City!

Shi Potian arrived just as he saw Bai Xiao preparing to deliver a killing blow to the Xuan Sacrificial Priest.

He roared, sweeping his broadsword out. It brought forth a thick, earthy-yellow light curtain that, despite being launched later, arrived first, precisely blocking Bai Xiao’s palm.

“Clang—!”

A dull, massive thud.

Bai Xiao’s strike, which could have easily annihilated the Xuan Sacrificial Priest, was actually blocked by Shi Potian!

Although Shi Potian’s arm also tingled slightly from the impact, and the light on his armor flickered, he truly withstood it without injury!

Tenth-Order Peak!

And an Earth-element warrior specializing in defense and strength!

Bai Xiao’s brow imperceptibly relaxed.

Finally, he decided to show himself.

He just didn't know if there were others still hiding.

Shi Potian blocked Bai Xiao’s attack, glanced at the severely wounded and dying Xuan Sacrificial Priest, then turned his gaze to Bai Xiao, and to Zhui Yun, Lin Ye, and the others behind him.

When he saw these “outsiders” who were clearly different from the residents of Woma World, a flicker of doubt first crossed his eyes, which then transformed into deep-seated hatred and insane killing intent.

“So that’s it… outsiders… it’s you damned outsiders again!!!” Shi Potian roared to the sky, his voice filled with venom. “A hundred years ago, for your so-called domain crest, you killed my wife and children! Slaughtered my clansmen! Today, you again seek to destroy the foundation of my Panshi City!!”

He appeared maddened, his Earth-element spiritual energy surging wildly around him, forming visible yellow energy waves that swept in all directions.

“Hahahaha—Good! Very good! Since you’ve delivered yourselves to my doorstep, today, I, Shi Potian, shall use your blood to honor the souls of my wife, children, and clansmen in heaven!!”

Shi Potian suddenly raised his broadsword, pointing it skyward, and let out a heaven-shaking roar:

“All legions of Panshi City, heed my command! First-level combat readiness! Target, east of the city! Crush these invaders, all of them!!!”

His voice, amplified by some kind of array, echoed throughout Panshi City.

“Woo—woo—woo—”

Piercing horn calls sounded from all directions. The entire Panshi City, like a sleeping behemoth, fully awakened at this moment.

The ground began to tremble rhythmically. The sounds of countless legions’ armor clashing and war boots stomping converged, transforming into a suffocating torrent of war, surging forward.

On the city walls, the previously sparse guard figures instantly became dense. Countless arrowheads and heavy crossbows, glinting with cold light, emerged, locking onto the area east of the city.

The heavy grinding sound of war machines being pushed onto the city walls also faintly emanated.

In the sky, the existing earthy-yellow defensive light curtain suddenly thickened and shone brightly, almost completely blocking out the daylight. This was a sign that Panshi City’s defense system had been pushed to its extreme.

Zhui Yun and the others’ expressions instantly turned incredibly grim.

…

Shi Potian’s roar still echoed in their ears, the aura mixed with grief and insane killing intent solidifying the air.

His burly figure stood before them like an insurmountable mountain, the broadsword in his hand gleaming with a chilling, heavy light.

“Revenge for your wife and daughter?” Bai Xiao looked at the maddened Shi Potian, his eyes as deep and calm as an abyss: “What does that have to do with me?”

He seemed to completely disregard Shi Potian’s threat, and was not at all worried by the changes in Panshi City.

“What does that have to do with you indeed!” Shi Potian laughed in extreme anger, his tiger-like eyes wide and bloodshot. “You wicked outsiders, for your own selfish desires, you treat human lives as grass and the world as a plaything! Today, I will make you understand what it means for blood debts to be paid with blood!”

He said no more, his Earth-element spiritual energy erupting without reservation. The ground beneath him trembled violently, and thick, earthy-yellow energy pillars shot up from the ground, swirling around him, forming a mobile fortress made of pure energy.

“【Wrath of the Stone Dragon】!”

Shi Potian roared, raising his broadsword high. On its blade, a massive, earthy-yellow energy dragon phantom coiled and roared deafeningly.

This strike concentrated his terrifying Tenth-Order Peak power, its might several times stronger than the Xuan Sacrificial Priest’s previous 【Earth Dragon Devour】!

Zhui Yun and the others behind Bai Xiao were all astonished as they felt this strike.

They could sense that Shi Potian’s attack possessed true world-destroying power.

Bai Xiao remained expressionless, his right hand already gripping his unsheathed longsword.

In an instant, an even more terrifying, more refined sword intent than before surged from his body.

If his previous sword intent was a winter that froze all things, then at this moment, his sword intent was the cosmic sharpness capable of cleaving stars!

Facing Shi Potian’s world-destroying slash, Bai Xiao neither dodged nor avoided, striking out with his own sword!

There was no earth-shattering momentum, nor any dazzling light effects.

Bai Xiao’s sword, enveloped in a pale-green spiritual pressure and flowing fire, simply and directly met the roaring energy dragon.

“Boom—!!!!”

The two swords collided with a resounding crash!

A visible shockwave, centered on the two of them, frantically spread in all directions!

The hard bluestone ground was churned up as if plowed, and the surrounding buildings crumbled into dust under this shockwave.

Zhui Yun and the others were shaken by the aftershock, their blood churning, and they retreated repeatedly.

Lin Ye and the others even spat out a mouthful of blood directly. If Zhui Yun hadn’t pulled him back in time, he would likely have been knocked flying.

Smoke and dust filled the air, and energy raged.

When everything finally settled slightly, everyone was horrified to find that Bai Xiao still stood in his original spot, his figure as tall and straight as a pine tree.

Shi Potian, on the other hand, had stumbled back three steps, each step leaving a deep imprint in the ground. The arm holding his broadsword trembled slightly, and the look of madness on his face was now tinged with a hint of gravity.

He had withstood the full-power strike of a Tenth-Order Peak expert, not only emerging unscathed but even subtly gaining the upper hand!

“This… is this Bai Xiao’s current power?” Zhui Yun was incredibly shocked.

As fellow Tenth-Order cultivators, the gap between Bai Xiao and ordinary Tenth-Order cultivators was like heaven and earth.

“You… are very strong.” Shi Potian’s voice was low, his killing intent growing even stronger. “But today, no matter the cost, you must die!”

Before his words finished, Shi Potian violently plunged his greatsword into the ground, raising both hands high above his head, palms upward, in a strange posture as if to lift the sky.

He looked up, his expression frenzied and devout, and roared: “‘heart of god’—Unleash!”

“Rumble—!!”

This time, the colossal sound did not come from the center of the battlefield, but from afar, from the direction of the already ruined refinery!

An aura far more immense, more primordial, and more ominous than the energy Shi Potian had previously unleashed, carrying with it the meaning of barbarism and destruction, suddenly shot up from deep within the earth!