106: Chapter 106: One Finger Slays the Beast King, the Entire Audience Falls Silent

The moment Chu Tianhe's final words fell, the entire Zongwu Hall plaza plunged into a death-like silence.

Tens of thousands of Disciples, including all the Elders on the high platform, were as if struck by an immobilization spell, their eyes wide open, mouths agape, and their minds completely blank.

A single finger... slaying a Third-Order Beast King?

What kind of concept was a Third-Order Beast King?

That was a genuine Great Yao of the Spirit Pill Realm!

In the Qingxuan Sect, aside from the peak Revered Masters of each peak and several Grand Elders, even those senior inner Sect deacons had to detour when encountering a Yao Beast of this level!

Now, Chu Tianhe was actually saying that a youth who looked less than twenty years old and wore the garments of an Outer Sect Disciple had used a single finger to kill such a terrifying existence of this level?

"Was this fucking mythological story?!"

"Chu Tianhe! Are you out of your mind?!"

The first to react was the Peak Master of Lieyang. He pointed at Chu Tianhe, trembling all over with anger, "To absolve this kid, you actually fabricated such an absurd lie! A single finger to slay a Third-Order Beast King? Why don't you say that with a single punch he could blow up the Guardian Array of our Qingxuan Sect?!"

"Precisely!" the Master of Tianjian Peak also chimed in sharply, "I think you've truly lost your mind! Li Qingfeng was beaten into severe injuries by him, his Meridians completely snapped. As a fellow Senior Brother, instead of thinking of seeking justice for him, you are aiding the evildoer instead. What crime should you bear!"

The two peak Revered Masters simply did not believe Chu Tianhe's words, assuming he was deliberately exaggerating to protect Zhao Ruoan.

However, right at this moment, those top Prodigies from various peaks standing behind Chu Tianhe also simultaneously stepped forward, bowing and saluting toward the Elders on the high platform.

"Reporting to all Elders! Every word spoken by Senior Brother Chu is true!"

"All of us can bear witness!"

"Had it not been for Senior Brother Zhao making a move, we would have long since lost our lives in the beasts' jaws! Senior Brother Zhao slaying the Beast King is something we witnessed with our own eyes, and there is not half a sentence of falsehood!"

These few Prodigies were all top-ranked Disciples of their respective peaks. Usually arrogant and prideful, and having much competition among themselves, it was utterly impossible for them to join hands to deceive the Elders of the Sect.

When they also stepped forward to testify, the nature of the entire incident instantly changed.

If only Chu Tianhe had said this alone, it might have been possible that he was bought off or hoodwinked.

But now, all the top Prodigies who had returned alive from the core region of the Wanshou Mountain Range spoke with one voice!

This forced the Elders on the high platform to re-examine the truth of this matter.

"This... what on earth is going on?" The Disciplinary Elder stroked his beard, his brows tightly knitting into a knot, "Could it be... that this kid named 9527 truly slew a Third-Order Beast King?"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" The Peak Master of Lieyang was still roaring, "Even his spiritual power fluctuations are extremely weak, at most he is at the Pulse Condensation Realm cultivation! How could someone in the Pulse Condensation Realm cross a major Realm to slay a Spirit Pill Realm Yao Beast? This completely defies the common sense of the cultivation world!"

As he spoke, he abruptly turned his head to look at a deacon of Zongwu Hall, shouting sharply, "Go! Carry Li Qingfeng and Zhang Kuang over here for me! I want to ask them right in front of everyone what on earth happened!"

Soon, two stretchers were carried up.

Li Qingfeng and Zhang Kuang both lay on the stretchers like two dead dogs, their complexions as pale as paper and their auras withered to the extreme.

Especially Li Qingfeng, whose entire body's Meridians had been sealed off by Zhao Ruoan's Fifth-Order Sword Intent. Now he couldn't even move a bit, and could only watch helplessly as everything happening on the plaza unfolded, his eyes filled with humiliation and fear.

"Zhang Kuang! You tell them!" The Peak Master of Lieyang pointed at his Disciple, asking eagerly, "Tell Revered Master, did this kid use some underhanded scheme to sneak attack you?!"

Everyone's gaze concentrated on Zhang Kuang.

Zhang Kuang's lips trembled. He glanced at his Revered Master on the high platform, then glanced at Zhao Ruoan not far away—who was bare-chested and looking at him with great interest—a trace of extremely complex struggle flashing across his face.

He desperately wanted to follow his Revered Master's words and push all the responsibility onto Zhao Ruoan, saying that he carried out a sneak attack and used poison.

But...

The moment he closed his eyes, his mind conjured the image of Zhao Ruoan using a tree branch to casually shatter his proud Lieyang Burning Heaven Palm, and then slapping him flying with a single palm.

That absolute, crushing gap in strength left him unable to even muster the courage to lie.

Lying in front of such a monster might result in an end a hundred times more miserable than now!

"Mas... Revered Master..."

After struggling for a long time, Zhang Kuang finally lowered his head, saying in a hoarse voice, "Disciple... Disciple was inferior in skill; in a head-on duel, I was defeated... in a single move."

"What?!" The Peak Master of Lieyang was struck as if by lightning, his entire body freezing in place.

On the other side, the Master of Tianjian Peak also hurriedly leaned down to ask Li Qingfeng on the stretcher: "Qingfeng! What about you? You are a Sword Cultivator at the Half-Step Divine Soul Realm, and moreover a Genius who has comprehended Sword Intent! How could a mere Outer Sect Disciple like him injure you?!"

Li Qingfeng slowly rolled his eyeballs to look at his Revered Master. The fear in his eyes was a hundred times more intense than Zhang Kuang's.

He opened his mouth, his voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz.

"Revered Master... his Sword Intent... is Fifth-Order... is the supreme Fifth-Order peak Sword Intent..."

"He... he is not human at all... he is a monster..."

"Pfft!"

Having finished these words, Li Qingfeng's mind suffered a violent shock, and he could no longer suppress the injuries inside his body. A mouthful of fresh blood abruptly sprayed out, and he directly passed out.

Fifth-Order Sword Intent!

These four words were like four formless heavy hammers, fiercely smashing into the heart of every single person on the plaza!

The entire Qingxuan Sect, from the Sect Master down to the Outer Sect Disciples, everyone knew that what their Sect took the most pride in was the Dao of the Sword!

And the person with the highest attainments in the Dao of the Sword in the Qingxuan Sect today was undoubtedly the Master of Tianjian Peak! Yet even him, exhausting several hundred years of bitter cultivation, had only barely touched the threshold of Fourth-Order Sword Intent!

Now, an Outer Sect Disciple less than twenty years old had actually comprehended the peak Fifth-Order Sword Intent?!

What kind of concept was this?

This represented that, solely speaking in terms of the Dao of the Sword, this kid's achievements had already surpassed all the Ancestral Masters in the history of the Qingxuan Sect!

If previously "A single finger to slay a Third-Order Beast King" still seemed like a distant myth, then the four words "Fifth-Order Sword Intent" were an incomparably sharp dagger that completely pierced through everyone's illusions, forcing them to accept a cruel fact—

This fellow named 9527 was a true Prodigy who completely defied conventional logic!

The Peak Master of Lieyang and the Master of Tianjian Peak were completely dumbfounded.

They stood dazedly in place, their mouths half-open, their expressions transitioning from anger to shock, then to bewilderment, and finally turning into utter ashes.

Fifth-Order Sword Intent...

No wonder, no wonder Li Qingfeng had been defeated so miserably!

In front of Fifth-Order Sword Intent, Li Qingfeng's bit of proud Sword Dao talent was simply a joke!

"So that's how it is... So that's how it is..." The Disciplinary Elder muttered to himself, looking at Zhao Ruoan with eyes that had transformed from scrutiny into extreme shock and fanaticism, "Having comprehended Fifth-Order Sword Intent, one then possesses the capital to kill enemies across major Realms! Put this way, him slaying a Third-Order Beast King is not entirely impossible!"

"A Prodigy! This is simply an unparalleled Prodigy that our Qingxuan Sect has not seen in ten thousand years!"

"Hahaha! Heaven bless our Qingxuan Sect!"

On the high platform, several Grand Elders who had not spoken until now could finally no longer hold themselves back, each of them flushing red with excitement, their beards trembling.

The way they looked at Zhao Ruoan was as if they were looking at an unmatched, peerless treasure!

"This child! Must be personally taught by this old man!" A white-haired Grand Elder abruptly stepped out, announcing in a resonant voice.

"Bullshit! Old man Wang, you cultivate the Dao of the Saber, what the hell do you know about teaching the sword! Such a Sword Dao Genius must enter my Sect!" Another Grand Elder carrying an ancient sword immediately panicked on the spot.

"Stop fighting over him! This child was brought back by Chu Tianhe, a Disciple of my Main Peak, so he naturally belongs to my Main Peak!" Master Xuanyang, the Qingxuan Sect Revered Master who had remained silent all along, finally spoke up at this moment.

He gazed ardently at Zhao Ruoan, the appreciation and fondness in his eyes completely undisguised.

The scene that had just been brimming with tension and weapons drawn to judge Zhao Ruoan instantly turned into a battle to snatch a Disciple.

The Peak Master of Lieyang and the Master of Tianjian Peak stood to the side, their complexions turning green and white alternately, so awkward that their toes were practically about to dig straight through the bluestone slabs on the ground.

Just moments ago, they were loudly cursing him as a "little bastard" and wanting to abolish his cultivation.

As a result, in the blink of an eye, he had become a peerless treasure that even Grand Elders and the Sect Master were fighting to take in.

This face-slapping was simply making smacking sounds.

Just when everyone was arguing endlessly, a female voice, as cold as ice and devoid of the slightest bit of emotion, suddenly came from the horizon, ringing clearly in everyone's ears.

"He is my person, no one can even think of snatching him."