28: Chapter 28: Terrifying!

Sword Qi roared!

Six streaks of Sword Qi, like meteors streaking across the sky, shot rapidly toward the six people who had just mocked him. In an instant, they pierced through their skulls, and their bodies fell straight to the ground, dead.

This scene was too sudden. With a wave of his hand, Gu Jing had killed the six of them in seconds; no one had reacted in time!

When they finally reacted, expressions of terror and panic appeared on all their faces.

They never expected that Gu Jing would be so brazen as to slaughter fellow Disciples right in front of them. This was a major taboo of the Sect, punishable by death from the Law Enforcement Hall!

However, no one on the scene left to report the matter to the Law Enforcement Hall, because the ones Gu Jing had just killed were six Inner Sect Disciples!

To kill six Inner Sect Disciples in an instant with a wave of his hand—one could see how terrifying his strength was!

Not a single person dared to leave first!

"If anyone else doesn't want to live, feel free to run your mouth and mock me!"

Gu Jing scanned everyone below from his high position, his eyes filled with killing intent.

Dare to mock me? I'll kill you all!

Being stared at like this, everyone present shivered violently. They didn't dare to breathe, terrified of being killed by a wave of Gu Jing's hand.

"What is this Life-and-Death Arena you all mentioned? Who wants to challenge me? Is it Ye Qingcheng?" Gu Jing asked.

"It's him, Lin Chen!"

Almost everyone pointed simultaneously at a young man in black clothes within the crowd, and they subconsciously stepped back to distance themselves from him, fearing that Gu Jing might misunderstand something.

"I presume Ye Qingcheng sent you. Tell me his whereabouts, or die!" Gu Jing looked coldly at Lin Chen.

He guessed immediately that this person was acting under Ye Qingcheng's instructions; after all, he had just made an enemy of Ye Qingcheng yesterday, and now this had happened today.

At this moment, Lin Chen's scalp tingled. He hadn't expected Gu Jing's strength to be so terrifying. Wasn't he rumored to be a cowardly, timid trash?

However, Lin Chen quickly overcame his fear. He had a talisman bestowed by the Young Lord, so there was no need to be afraid. Moreover, the task the Young Lord had ordered must be completed!

"I don't know what you're talking about. Do you dare to come with me to the Life-and-Death Arena for a battle!?" Lin Chen looked coldly at Gu Jing as well.

Gu Jing smiled. What a loyal dog. He decided to go to the Life-and-Death Arena to take a look; Ye Qingcheng would most likely be observing this battle from the shadows.

"Let's go."

Having calmly said the word "go," without even looking at the crowd below, Gu Jing flew toward the Life-and-Death Arena on his sword.

Lin Chen immediately followed on his sword.

The people at the scene looked at each other and decided to follow to watch. One after another, they flew on their swords, closely trailing behind the two.

Not a single person snuck away to report Gu Jing's killing of fellow Disciples to the Law Enforcement Hall, as they were all afraid that Gu Jing would retaliate and kill them later.

Because even if they reported it, the Law Enforcement Hall likely wouldn't dare to arrest or judge a Disciple of the Empress.

...

On the northwest corner of the mountainside of Lingjian Peak.

This was a steep cliff. Ten zhang away in the sea of clouds in front, a two-hundred-square-meter conical platform floated in mid-air.

This was the Life-and-Death Arena!

Once both sides of a duel stepped onto the platform, even if one side was outmatched and fled the arena, the challenger could chase them off the arena to kill them, and the Sect's Law Enforcement Hall would not pursue the matter!

Therefore, unless it was a matter of killing one's father or stealing one's wife, no one would easily step onto the platform to issue a challenge.

At this moment, the area near the Life-and-Death Arena was very lively.

On the cliffs, in the sky, and beside the precipice, there were no less than ten thousand people gathered!

They were all Sect Disciples who had heard the rumors yesterday.

Everyone wanted to see for themselves what was so outstanding about the rumored Disciple of the Empress.

In fact, at the beginning of the Chen hour, there were even more people here—over one hundred thousand!

It was just that Gu Jing never appeared, and after waiting for half a day, most of them had left.

At this moment, Gu Jing arrived at the side of the cliff on his sword.

Lin Chen and the previous thousand or so people also arrived one after another.

The ten thousand people at the scene immediately became boisterous. They scrutinized Gu Jing, this Disciple of the Empress, whispering and murmuring among themselves.

They did not think highly of Gu Jing; the Aura he exuded was simply too weak!

In contrast, the challenger, Lin Chen, had an imposing Aura, a face full of confidence, and appeared completely sure of victory.

Everyone had already imagined the scene where Gu Jing would be killed in seconds as soon as he stepped onto the platform.

They couldn't help but look forward to it.

This would be the first Disciple of the Empress to be killed by someone!

Gu Jing didn't even look at the people present. He immediately spread his Divine Sense to its limit, permeating the surroundings to search for traces of Ye Qingcheng.

When his Divine Sense spread to a distance of five hundred and seventy-nine meters, he discovered Ye Qingcheng's figure on a strange, protruding rock on a cliff.

He was dressed in white, wearing a jade crown, and gently waving a folding fan in his hand. A breeze-like, gentle smile hung on the corners of his mouth as he looked calmly toward the Life-and-Death Arena.

"You dog, trying to act cool?"

Gu Jing sneered. His figure immediately took to the air, flying straight toward Ye Qingcheng's location.

"Gu Jing, is running all you trash can do!?"

Seeing that Gu Jing had arrived only to suddenly run away, Lin Chen was very annoyed. He had to complete the task the Young Lord had ordered today!

Having said that, he pursued him through the air.

"Noisy!"

Gu Jing looked back, cold light flashing in his eyes. With a lift of his hand, a bolt of lightning as thin as a strand of hair shot out, instantly piercing into the center of the eyebrows of the pursuing Lin Chen.

Boom!!!

The lightning released violent energy within Lin Chen's body, as if heaven and earth were collapsing. His body was instantly blown into a sky full of blood clots!

Hiss—

Seeing this scene, the ten thousand Disciples at the scene all gasped sharply, each of them dumbfounded!

They stared at this scene, stunned.

Wave... waving his hand to kill a Cultivator of the same stage in seconds???

This, this, this!! How is this possible!?

One had to know that even for a Prodigy, to kill an ordinary Cultivator of the same stage in seconds, one would need to use a Spiritual Artifact to accomplish it.

To have the strength to kill with a wave of one's hand like Gu Jing, even an Early Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator could not do it...

Everyone looked at Gu Jing, completely numb!

Is this the strength of the Empress's Disciple!?

Terrifying!