112: Xiao Hongling slid to her knees, and everyone fought the BOSS together

"What do you mean by the Qin Family's Eldest Young Master alone slaughtering his way through two Immortal Families?" Xiao Hongling stood on the platform, speaking privately with her Family. Qin Wangchuan raised an eyebrow but wasn't in a hurry to make a Move.

"That's right!" On the other end, Father Xiao was still gloating.

"You wouldn't believe it, the Qin Family's flying ships covered the sky, but they couldn't find the Ji Family for a while. I was the one who led the way!"

Father Xiao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his voice unconsciously lowering:

"The Qin Family was also overconfident. Despite their army pressing down, they still let Qin Wudao step forward and set up a life-and-death gamble."

"Below the Emperor Realm, the Ji Family and the Gu Family would each send ten people. If anyone could even touch a corner of Qin Wudao's clothes, their Family would be spared from annihilation."

As he spoke, his fingers trembled uncontrollably: "But that Qin Wudao... he's simply a monster!"

"Twenty Prodigies at the Quasi-Emperor Realm, twenty Prodigies! They didn't go one by one, but ten by ten, ganging up on him, unleashing all their Moves, yet they couldn't even get within three inches of him."

"Instead, he... plucked heads like picking flowers! With a casual flick, a Quasi-Emperor fell by his hand, as if he were in his own backyard!"

"It's already over now, wait! The Gu Family's Emperor Realm expert has made a Move... The Gu Family's Emperor Realm expert has fallen!"

"Heavens! The Qin Emperor's Dharma body has even arrived!"

"I heard that the Gu and Ji Families suffered this great calamity because their junior members were blind, daring to provoke Qin Wangchuan of the Qin Family. He is their treasure."

"Your father knows your stubborn temperament. It's probably impossible for you to actively befriend Qin Wangchuan. In the future, just avoid him."

Father Xiao's tone suddenly softened as he spoke, asking with concern:

"Oh, by the way, my dear daughter, I haven't asked you yet, was there something urgent when you left the city with people last month?"

"If not, Qin Wangchuan is very likely to appear at the Great Yan Dynasty's Dao Discussion. By then, you..."

Xiao Hongling's fingertips suddenly trembled, and the sound-transmitting Dragon talisman fell to the ground, emitting a crisp sound.

Her pupils contracted violently, her father's words echoing in her ears—

"The Gu Family's Emperor Realm expert has fallen."

"The Qin Emperor's Dharma body has even arrived."

Every word struck her heart like a heavy hammer.

Her gaze refocused on the young man in front of her.

An unprecedented fear seized Xiao Hongling's heart.

She suddenly realized that her arrogant challenge to Qin Wangchuan at this moment might be pushing the entire Xiao Family into an abyss of eternal damnation.

As soon as she thought of this.

Under everyone's shocked gaze, this favored daughter of the Xiao Family, without hesitation, made the wisest decision of her life—

Xiao Hongling knelt heavily, sliding to Qin Wangchuan's front in a perfectly executed slide, her forehead pressed against the ground:

"I surrender!"

Passersby discussed quietly, not knowing what had happened.

"What's this about?"

"She surrendered before even fighting?"

But the next second, they understood.

Qin Wangchuan did not lower his head to look at Xiao Hongling, who was prostrate on the ground. Instead, he tilted his head slightly, his gaze piercing through the clouds towards the boundless sky.

A warm drop landed on his brow.

"Is it raining?" Qin Wangchuan murmured to himself, his fingertip lightly touching the shimmering drop.

"No, no..."

That drop of "rainwater" was strangely red, glowing with a faint golden light on his fingertip, containing a terrifying Emperor's might.

From afar, exclamations rose and fell:

"It's Emperor Blood!"

"An Emperor Realm expert has fallen!"

Above the sky, a torrential blood rain suddenly fell, each drop as heavy as a thousand catties, striking the Cloud Platform with dull thuds.

Within the blood rain, the sight of shattered Dao runes was faintly visible—that was the celestial phenomenon of heaven and earth mourning when an Emperor Realm expert fell.

The fall of an Emperor Realm expert, the dissipation of their Origin, and its return to heaven and earth—this was originally the principle of the Heavenly Dao's cycle.

However, for Cultivators, this was not a blessing, but a curse.

The fragments of Dao contained within the blood rain were too violent; not only could they not be absorbed, but they would also corrode a Cultivator's Dao Foundation.

"Ah—!"

A Cultivator, accidentally touched by the blood rain, immediately let out a mournful shriek.

His arm withered at a visible speed, his flesh and blood dissolving, revealing stark white bones—that was the instinctive rejection after the Emperor Blood merged with him.

Although Qin Wangchuan possessed an immortal bone and could resist for a time, he could not remain in the blood rain for long.

Most crucially, wherever the Emperor Blood fell, Formations collapsed, and Spiritual Qi became chaotic.

The battle on the Nine Heavens Cloud Platform was also forced to stop.

Qin Wangchuan slowly returned to his seat on the high platform. The atmosphere on the entire Cloud Platform, far from relaxing, fell into a suffocating, eerie silence.

The dull thud of the blood rain striking the Restriction became the only sound at this moment.

Each falling drop of Emperor Blood bloomed into a crimson flower on the Restriction, only to be covered by new blood rain in an instant.

The air was filled with a faint scent of rust, mixed with the scorching aroma of shattered Dao principles.

All the Prodigies maintained the same posture in unspoken agreement—sitting cross-legged, eyes tightly shut, like statues.

This was the calm before the storm.

Everyone was waiting.

Waiting for the rain to stop.

Waiting for a great battle.

"Brother..." Su Yingxue scanned the high platform. No one was speaking at this moment, and the oppressive atmosphere made her instinctively uneasy.

"It's alright."

Qin Wangchuan stroked her head to comfort her, then also closed his eyes.

He simulated the upcoming battle in his mind.

This rain was heavy, lasting for ten days and ten nights.

The raindrops gradually ceased.

The Wang Family had never wanted to come to this Dao Discussion. They simply feared the Qin Family, so they came to show their faces but did not step onto the platform.

Ji Wuchen, on the other hand, had a ten-year agreement with Qin Wangchuan and also did not step onto the platform.

Apart from these, the Prodigies of the Eight Great Emperor Families and the heirs of some Immortal Families/forces all stepped onto the platform.

"Let's get this straight first."

Qin Wangchuan said, looking around at everyone, a faint purple glow swirling from the Grand Void Divine Feathers behind him.

His gaze, sharp as a blade, slowly swept across the faces of every Prodigy present, a faint smile playing on his lips:

"No one intends to hold back, right?"

Zhou Yunyi subconsciously raised his hand: "I...!"

But halfway through, he froze. Wait, why is it just me?

Does not holding back mean fighting to the death?!

Where did the old geezer at home send me?

Before Zhou Yunyi could think further, Li Xuan's voice boomed in his ear:

"Slay, Annihilate, Open, Heaven, Fall!"

He started with a killing Move, a five-character sword seal, even stronger than the previous four-character one, suddenly taking shape!

However, the next moment—

Two clouds appeared around Qin Wangchuan, one ascending, one descending.

"Heaven Above, Heaven Below!"

He unhesitatingly activated his Domain.

The other Prodigies, seeing this, also hastily activated theirs.

—"Annihilation Sword Domain!"

—"Burning Heaven Purgatory!"

—"Heavenly Talisman Dao Evolution!"

Domains can strengthen oneself.

But similarly, Domains colliding with each other can cancel out effects.

However, Qin Wangchuan, who activated his first, could use a slightly enhanced Move due to the time advantage.

"Before Chaos was judged, containing the primordial Qi, clear and turbid, from the beginning, dividing into two polarities, ten thousand kalpas congealing into form!"

He clenched his right hand, and the entire sky above the Cloud Platform darkened.

The clouds were torn open by an invisible force, forming a rift that spanned the sky. The tip of a giant Spiritual Qi sword slowly emerged, its body entwined with solidified Chaos Qi.

"Heavenly Sword · Ten Thousand Kalpas!"

Four words softly uttered, like a Heavenly Dao decree.

With one sword strike, Li Xuan's sword seal in the sky was cut in half before it even fully formed.

This was the result of a mental simulation. Qin Wangchuan knew he would use this Move, but Li Xuan had not guessed that Qin Wangchuan would use the Heavenly Sword.

"I'll go!" Zhao Lingyun abruptly unfurled the Heavenly Talisman Jade Scroll, and countless white papers swirled out like snowflakes.