122: Chapter 122 Is this all the skill a King Realm expert can muster?

Facing this interrogation capable of crushing a King Realm soul, Lin Yuan simply raised his head calmly.

His gaze didn't even linger on Baili Jiang.

Instead, it slowly swept across the Baili Family members below, whose faces were a mix of terror and malice.

Then, he spoke.

His voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone present.

"The Baili Family has people."

"But are the people of Baoan City not human?"

This sentence had no True Essence reinforcement; it was as plain as stating a trivial fact.

Yet, Baili Jiang's Emperor momentum, which had built up to its peak, stalled because of it.

Baili Jiang had imagined a thousand reactions from Lin Yuan.

Either begging for mercy in fear, or roaring with blustering bravado.

He alone hadn't expected the other party to throw out such a nonchalant question that he simply couldn't answer directly.

"Nonsense!"

Baili Jiang was, after all, an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years; his composure faltered for only a moment before being replaced by towering rage.

His voice was like a great bell as he barked:

"You slaughtered my clansmen and destroyed my sect's gate, and now you want to twist the truth and splash dirty water on my Imperial Clan?"

"Today, I, Baili Jiang, shall act on behalf of Heaven!"

"I will execute you, a demon who kills the innocent, right where you stand!"

He had found a high-sounding reason for his slaughter.

His Emperor Realm Three Stars True Essence erupted without reservation, and the Earth Vein energy of the entire Baili Mountain boiled along with it, as if merging into one with him.

Throughout Purple Dragon City, countless divine senses spying on this place fluctuated violently.

"Emperor Zhenyue is truly enraged!"

"By channeling the Earth Veins, he is the sole ruler here on Baili Mountain!"

"That youth is finished; he has finally paid the price for his arrogance."

However, facing the impending thunderous strike, Lin Yuan smiled.

That smile carried a hint of mockery.

"Act on behalf of Heaven? Killing the innocent?"

He chewed on those words as if he had heard the most absurd joke in the world.

"Baili Jiang, you secretly colluded with the Southern Border Demons, intending to trigger a Purgatory Rift beast tide and sacrifice the million lives of Baoan City just to use them to kill me."

Lin Yuan's voice suddenly turned cold.

"You haven't forgotten about this, have you?"

Boom!

This single sentence made everyone's head buzz.

Baili Jiang's figure froze completely.

For the first time, an unmaskable look of astonishment appeared on his majestic face.

How could he know?!

This plan was seamless; those in the know were all confidants, and Baili Lei was dead, leaving no witness!

Below, the Baili Family elites were instantly in an uproar, with countless incredulous gazes fixed on their ancestor.

And within Purple Dragon City, all the observing factions went completely mad!

"What?! Colluding with demons? Sacrificing a city?!"

"Crazy! Is the Baili Imperial Clan insane?!"

"Quick! Send the news back! At any cost!"

This crime was ten thousand times more serious than Lin Yuan slaughtering their mountain gate!

This was a crime of treason! Enough to shake the foundations of the nation!

The muscles on Baili Jiang's face twitched violently; he didn't dare let Lin Yuan continue speaking.

Every second was a slow execution of the Imperial Clan's reputation!

"Nonsense!"

Baili Jiang let out a beast-like roar, trying to use his Emperor Realm pressure to drown out all discussion.

"Little beast, you dare to slander me even when death is at your doorstep!"

In his shame and anger, he struck out violently!

"Imperial Martial Technique: Earth-Rending Eight Desolations!"

He struck down with a palm from a distance!

Rumble!

The earth let out an overwhelmed wail; with Lin Yuan as the center, the ground for a thousand meters around suddenly collapsed and burst!

Eight streaks of earthy-yellow astral energy, condensed to the extreme and carrying the heavy Laws of the Earth, transformed into eight roaring Earth Vein dragons and burst from the ground!

Each dragon was a hundred meters large, with law runes flickering on their bodies, emitting a destructive aura capable of easily strangling a Peak King Realm expert.

The eight dragons sealed the heavens and locked the earth, crashing toward the solitary, lofty figure in the center from eight directions with a momentum that could crush everything!

BOOM!!!

The deafening explosion made the entire Purple Dragon City tremble.

Where the eight dragons collided, space distorted, and a bottomless crater was forcibly gouged out.

A destructive energy storm mixed with dust shot into the clouds, obscuring everyone's vision.

The Baili Family soldiers finally showed cruel and satisfied sneers on their faces.

It's over!

No one could survive a full-strength strike from an enraged Emperor Zhenyue!

However...

Right in the heart of the thickest dust, a voice carrying a hint of laziness and disdain clearly pierced through the roaring and entered everyone's ears.

"Is that it?"

"A full-strength strike from an Emperor Realm Three Stars, and this is all the power it has?"

The dust slowly settled.

In the center of the giant crater, a figure stood quietly.

A set of ferocious and magnificent Black-green Dragon Scale Battle Armor had covered his entire body at some point, each scale flowing with a dark golden eerie light, full of explosive beauty.

Beneath his right hand, a massive Earth Vein dragon head was held down by him with a single hand.

The law runes on the dragon's head were crumbling inch by inch.

Crack.

Lin Yuan applied a slight pressure with his five fingers.

That dragon head, capable of crushing mountains, was forcibly crushed into a sky full of powder like a sand sculpture.

He raised his head, and from beneath the dragon armor's visor, a pair of calm, rippleless eyes pierced through the dust and landed on Baili Jiang in the sky.

Unscathed.

At this moment, there was a deathly silence between heaven and earth.

The thoughts of all observers fell into a standstill.

That was a full-strength strike from an Emperor Realm Three Stars who had channeled the Earth Veins!

To think... it couldn't even break through his defense?

A King Realm taking an Emperor Realm's killing move head-on with his physical body?

This had already exceeded their scope of understanding!

"Im... Impossible..."

In the sky, the majesty and composure on Baili Jiang's face vanished, replaced by a shock as if witnessing a myth.

He knew the power of "Earth-Rending Eight Desolations" better than anyone.

But the opponent hadn't even moved his footsteps an inch!

That armor... what on earth is it!

Lin Yuan didn't leave him time to think.

Against this kind of old fox, any words were superfluous.

Killing was enough.

"My turn."

The moment the words fell.

Buzz!

Countless deep purple vines grew from the void, carrying eerie spatial fluctuations like fast-growing demonic plants, instantly sealing the entire sky around Baili Jiang.

void-eroding thousand-knot vine!

Spatial Retardation Domain, silently activated!

Baili Jiang only felt the space around him become as thick as a swamp; his speed was forcibly weakened, and even the circulation of True Essence in his body showed a hint of stagnation.

"Paltry tricks!"

Baili Jiang was an Emperor Realm Expert after all; though shocked, he did not panic.

He let out an angry roar, his earthy-yellow True Essence erupting like a volcano, and he transformed into a brutal meteor, ignoring the entanglement of the vines and charging straight in one direction!

"Before my absolute power, any tricks are futile!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Layers of spatial vine nets were smashed one after another under his violent impact.

However, at the very moment Baili Jiang was about to break out of the cage.

A cold arc curled at the corner of Lin Yuan's lips.

Those smashed vines did not dissipate.

The moment they broke, they turned into countless invisible, tiny "pores," spewing out nine types of colorless and odorless poisonous miasmas.

Nine Miasma Lethality!

Baili Jiang only felt a very slight dizziness in his soul, but he didn't care, thinking it was just the exhaustion from forcibly breaking the formation.

He didn't realize.

Behind the ruins of the vines he had smashed, what was hidden was the true killing move!

It was a death trap compressed and reorganized from billions of willow leaves Spirit Blades, then refined by the Fire of Guixu!

"White Tiger God-Slayer."

Lin Yuan softly uttered four words, like a sentence from the God of Death.

Buzz—

Behind Baili Jiang, in the patch of void he had ignored, billions of piercing blue-white sharp lights suddenly lit up!

Every sharp light was a willow leaves Spirit Blade as thin as a cicada's wing!

Every Spirit Blade was entwined with a wisp of pitch-black fire!

That was the Fire of Guixu, capable of devouring life and soul!

"Not good!"

A fatal chill originating from the deepest part of his soul instantly pierced through Baili Jiang's entire body, making every hair on his body stand on end!

But by the time he noticed, it was already too late.

Swish—

Billions of Spirit Blades no longer hid; they converged into a death storm that swept through heaven and earth, completely swallowing the head of the Baili Imperial Clan, who had just broken through the vine net and whose old strength was spent while new strength had yet to arise!