41: Ji Wuchen, you are very strong

Outside the hall, on the bluestone plaza, the competition between First Brother and Fourth Brother had just concluded.

Fourth Brother Qin Kuangge's robes were slightly disheveled, having fought the Yan Family Prodigy to a draw;

Qin Wudao stood with his hands behind his back, his white robes billowing like an immortal descending.

Before him, the Prodigies of the three clans all bowed their heads—some knelt on one knee, their blades shattered; some stumbled backward, blood at the corners of their mouths; and some even fainted outright, hastily carried away by their own Elders.

Yet, he, fighting one against three, had not even a single fold of his robe disturbed.

His presence was fully established.

Several people simultaneously looked up at the sky—clouds surged like boiling water, and the entire firmament was twisting and deforming.

Terrifying Imperial Might poured down like a tide, snapping the ancient trees around the plaza.

"Imperial Might... A Great Emperor's true body is about to descend." In Qin Kuangge's usually cheerful eyes, a rare trace of solemnity flashed. "It seems the person Ninth Brother detained is more important than imagined."

After speaking, he looked at Qin Wudao in the distance: "First Brother! Can you handle it?"

Qin Wudao withdrew his gaze from the sky and calmly uttered two words:

"Foolish question."

Before his words faded—

"Boom!"

A brilliant pillar of light shot up from Qin Wangchuan, instantly drawing everyone's attention!

The Spiritual Qi within his body was like a bursting dam, no longer suppressible.

His Spiritual Sea suddenly boiled, stirring up a thousand-zhang-high tempest.

As his Supreme Dao Heart pulsed, it actually triggered a resonance with Heaven and Earth, causing the Spiritual Qi within a hundred-li radius to frantically gather, forming a towering Spiritual Qi vortex above his head.

"Buzz—"

Qin Wangchuan's pores all over his body spewed forth brilliant immortal light, each ray containing the true meaning of the Great Dao.

Deep within his Spirit Platform, what was once a vast Spiritual Sea now transformed into a boiling Star Domain, each surge causing the Realm barrier to tremble violently.

"Boom!"

When the ninth wave of starlight crashed, a primordial roar like the creation of Heaven and Earth echoed within him.

In that instant, with him as the center, the space within a three-zhang radius suddenly twisted—this was the "Domain" unique to the Sixth Realm, the Void Realm!

Within this confined space: the air solidified like amber, dust particles froze into a galaxy; the flow of time drastically slowed, falling leaves suspended mid-air; even the rampant Imperial Might, upon entering this Domain, had three-tenths of its sharpness forcefully Cut away!

Sixth Realm, achieved!

Qin Wangchuan slowly opened his eyes, his pupils reflecting Ji Wuchen's shocked gaze.

He took a step forward, his slender fingers gripping the hilt of the G Lone Luan Sword—

"Zheng!"

With a clear sword cry echoing through the nine heavens, a sword shadow arced perfectly through the air, its tip pointing directly at Ji Wuchen.

"Time is short."

"This sword comes from the Heavenly Sword Li Family, and I have also entered the Sixth Realm. At this moment, I can be called the strongest." The young man's voice was terrifyingly calm. "Use your strongest Move."

He paused, emphasizing:

"I mean the strongest."

Qin Wangchuan could sense the enemies hidden above the sky, thanks to Ji Wuchen.

In the simulation, after he defeated Ji Wuchen, he looked up at the sky, an unusual action that Qin Wangchuan remembered.

Since it was an assassination, it was impossible for only a few people to come.

The reason for looking up at the sky was simple: there were enemies above the sky!

And it turned out he was right.

To return his favor.

There was no holding back.

Qin Wangchuan would use his strongest Move to resolve the young man's Heart Demon.

Ji Wuchen's pupils contracted sharply.

His strongest trump card was undoubtedly the Tai Xu Halberd personally bestowed by the Old Ancestor, yet he had never revealed it to anyone.

However, Qin Wangchuan's insightful gaze made him realize—

The other party already knew everything.

Fine beads of sweat permeated Ji Wuchen's palms.

If he had a chance to fight before Qin Wangchuan's Breakthrough, he now clearly understood—he was bound to lose.

'I'll lose...'

'Should I... just give up now?'

"Slap!"

A crisp slap echoed across the plaza.

Five red marks instantly appeared on Ji Wuchen's left cheek, and blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

'You bastard!'

'Have you forgotten why you came today?!'

He suddenly looked up, bloodshot eyes staring: "Qin Wangchuan..."

"Boom—!!!"

Heaven and Earth suddenly changed color!

A pitch-black halberd appeared from the Void Realm, its shaft entwined with crimson lightning.

Where the halberd tip pointed, space collapsed inch by inch, revealing the endless Chaos Void behind it.

"Fight!"

Ji Wuchen roared, gripping the halberd shaft—"Sever the Star River!"

The moment the Tai Xu Halberd was wielded, the entire Heaven and Earth inverted.

Ji Wuchen's "Sever the Star River" had not yet been fully unleashed, but Qin Wangchuan's sword momentum had already taken shape.

Watching Qin Wangchuan's opening stance, Qin Fuhai and Qin Wenhe, who were observing, both widened their eyes.

"What is that?!"

As renowned sword masters, the Li Family had the Seven Kill Sword Seal, and the Qin Family naturally had its own secret techniques.

"Abyssal Profundity."

Qin Wangchuan suddenly tossed the G Lone Luan Sword into the sky, and the longsword transformed into a streak of light, piercing through the clouds.

"Before the Primordial Chaos was divided—Containing Primordial Qi."

He cupped his right hand, and the entire sky suddenly darkened. The clouds were torn open by an invisible force, creating a hundred-li-long crack, and the tip of a giant Spiritual Qi sword slowly emerged, its blade entwined with solidified Chaos Qi.

"Purity and turbidity, from the Great Beginning, divided into two principles, forming through myriad kalpas..."

"Heavenly Sword · Myriad Kalpas!"

These four words were softly uttered, yet they sounded like a Heavenly Dao decree.

Everyone at the banquet changed color—

"This... This is the Qin Family's Heavenly Sword!"

The ancient "Kalpa" inscription on the sword's body lit up with dazzling blood-red light, illuminating a hundred-li radius in crimson.

"With one sword, all methods become the sword."

"Beneath this sword—the Star River can be severed, the will of Heaven can be defied, and all kalpas can be transcended!

"Slash!"

The giant sword, which obscured the sun, plummeted with a roar, and the Void Realm shattered.

Before the sword's edge arrived, the ground of the entire plaza had already caved in by three feet.

Ji Wuchen's Tai Xu Halberd's glow, before this giant sword, was like a lone boat in a raging tempest.

His "Sever the Star River" had just met it when it was completely swallowed by the vast, ocean-like Sword Intent.

Just as the giant sword was about to strike—

"Boom!!"

A crimson-gold barrier suddenly spanned between Heaven and Earth, forcefully intercepting that world-destroying sword!

"Crack—"

The giant sword was damaged, but the barrier remained as good as new.

A terrifying shockwave swept out, causing the entire plaza to shake violently.

"This sword... its power is actually so great?!" The Ji Family Family's Quasi-Emperor guard, who had made the Move, had a look of horror in his eyes.

Although it couldn't shake him in the slightest, the power of this sword was truly terrifying.

One must know that Ninth Young Master was only in the Sixth Realm!

As the aftershock of that world-destroying sword dissipated, Ji Wuchen stumbled to his feet from the dust.

The Tai Xu Halberd was obliquely stuck in the ground, its shaft dim and lifeless, and the Battle Intent in his eyes had long since shattered.

"Why..." Ji Wuchen's voice was hoarse, and he clutched his head in pain, asking the question he couldn't voice in the simulation:

"Why are you so strong?"

"If this path of immortality... is destined to be a stage for you alone..."

His face was contorted in a bitter smile, his voice as low as dust:

"Then what Dao do we... Cultivate? What fate do we contend for?"

The observing crowd was silent, their eyes devoid of contempt, only a hint of unspeakable sorrow.

"To be of the same generation as a Prodigy like Qin Young Master is a tribulation in itself!"

"What a pity, Ji Wuchen was also a rare genius in a hundred years... He was born at the wrong time!"

Many people in the crowd shook their heads.

Cultivating is cultivating the heart, and the path of Cultivation is essentially about refining the heart.

"The path of Dao for the Ji Family Family's young lad is probably at its end."

Qin Wangchuan stood with his sword sheathed, his gaze calmly fixed on the young man who had been tormented by his Heart Demon for so long, and slowly spoke:

"Why are you looking down? Look up."

"Be proud."

"Ji Wuchen, you are very strong."

Just a few simple words, yet they made Ji Wuchen tremble all over.

"What...?"