21: As the Heavenly Emperor, I shall naturally annihilate all enemies!

Looking at Jiang Lianshan before him, Xu Jinhuan grew even more displeased.

On the surface, this man spoke with such conviction and sincerity, acting as if he were doing it for the sake of the Holy Land.

In reality, if Xu Jinhuan truly followed his advice and kicked Fang Qingyao out...

He feared that no one would ever dare to follow him again, right?

Moreover, it was just a few Holy Lands; it wasn't enough to make him lose his composure.

Addictive Master had said it before.

Just that old fogey, the Taiyi Old Ancestor, was enough to steamroll these Holy Lands; they were nothing to fear.

Furthermore, Xu Jinhuan was confident.

He only needed a little time to grow to a height that would make all his enemies tremble with fear!

"Heh, so what?"

"A mere few Holy Lands, what is there to be afraid of?"

He sneered, and his gaze toward Jiang Lianshan turned cold.

His impression of this Saint who harbored malicious intent had reached an absolute low.

"Hahaha, sequence speaks lightly. Those are ancient orthodoxies with legacies spanning tens of thousands of years, with countless God Realm experts within, no shortage of Saints, and even Great Saint Realm masters pulling the strings from behind the scenes."

Jiang Lianshan laughed loudly, as if he had heard the world's greatest joke.

"Against such a lineup, the entire Taiyi Holy Land would have to avoid their sharp edge."

"Sequence Xu, are you trying to drag the entire Holy Land down a path to death with you?"

His words were impassioned and fierce, carrying a strong inflammatory tone that made all the Disciples present look up and focus their gazes on Xu Jinhuan.

Doubt, fear, pleading... though no one dared to speak.

But Xu Jinhuan could feel that the prestige he had worked so hard to build by breaking the eternal limits was being rapidly dismantled by a few sentences.

What clever rhetoric!

At this moment, the look in Xu Jinhuan's eyes changed.

What he hated most was this feeling of being morally kidnapped by others.

"Hmph, if a mere few Holy Lands could make this sequence shrink back, then I might as well stop my cultivation and just kneel down to them."

Xu Jinhuan stood with his head held high, his white robes fluttering and snapping even without the wind.

"So what if she is an orphan of a Primordial Clan? So what if she is wanted?"

He looked up, his eyes bright and his voice resonant.

"Since Fang Qingyao entered my tutelage today, she is my, Xu Jinhuan's, person!

Her grudges are my grudges; her enemies are my enemies!"

"What does it matter if there are three Holy Lands? Even if ten or a hundred more come, I, Xu Jinhuan, will bear it all alone!"

Xu Jinhuan took a step forward, his voice slowing down but becoming even more deafening:

"Furthermore, the path of the Dao is long and surrounded by powerful enemies; this is the normal state of cultivation!"

"If one shrinks back for fear of powerful enemies, or abandons a fellow Disciple for fear of retaliation, then what Dao is there to Cultivate? Why start a sect or establish a faction? It's better to cripple your own cultivation early and go home to farm and water flowers!"

He scanned the entire field, his gaze like lightning.

His voice suddenly rose, like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens, piercing through the clouds and echoing throughout the entire Giant Deer Dao Province:

"From the past to the future, the myriad Daos become empty; I alone am Supreme."

"In the future, when I am the Heavenly Emperor, I shall suppress and kill all enemies!"

BOOM—

As soon as these words were spoken, all doubts vanished!

Only awe and fanaticism remained!

Even a phenomenon of heaven and earth suddenly arose!

Above the Nine Heavens, dark clouds gathered, purple lightning danced wildly, and thousands of thunderclaps roared, with wind and clouds surging!

Such words actually caused the heaven and earth to change color!

Above the Nine Heavens, the Taiyi Old Ancestor's Clone took a deep breath, his eyes complex and excited.

"Hahaha! As expected of the person that existence took an interest in, truly incomparably overbearing, with an aura that overshadows the world!"

He knew that such domineering words themselves represented great Karma and great aspirations.

Xu Jinhuan would need to carry them out to the end in the future.

However, given this kid's talent, such an aspiration shouldn't be much of a problem; one could even say it was quite low-key and restrained.

Just as Xu Jinhuan's voice fell, on the other side of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

In the far west of a certain Dao province, within the Saint Burial Valley, a stone coffin that had slept for a hundred thousand years vibrated violently. A crack opened in the coffin lid, and a pair of ancient eyes opened, filled with shock and curiosity:

"What a 'suppress and kill all enemies'! Such spirit is rare throughout the ages!"

"However, this Golden Great Age is different from the past; it is the most brilliant era in the history of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. Can you truly live up to these words?"

Within those ancient eyes, an emotion called anticipation emerged.

In another Dao province, beneath an endless desert, within an ancient divine temple, an old man clad in black robes slowly stood up, a hint of wariness flashing in his eyes:

"Another monster has appeared..."

"It seems the Taiyi Holy Land has no small ambitions in this generation..."

And outside the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, deep within the three Holy Lands that held a blood feud with Fang Qingyao.

Inside the trial grounds of the Xuanyang Holy Land,

A young man bathed in golden light suddenly snapped his eyes open. He was surrounded by the aura of the Saint Dao; he was the once-in-ten-thousand-years Supreme Prodigy of the Xuanyang Holy Land, Li Xuanyang.

This name was personally bestowed by the Xuanyang Holy Land's Old Ancestor, named after the Holy Land itself, which was enough to prove his talent.

Before him was a water mirror projection given to him by the Xuanyang Holy Land's Old Ancestor.

In the image was the very moment Xu Jinhuan made his Great Dao oath.

Hearing the final oath, Li Xuanyang sneered:

"Suppress and kill all enemies? Arrogant! Ridiculous!!!

Xu Jinhuan, is it? This seat wants to see how you will withstand the wrath of my Xuanyang Holy Land!"

"The Taiyi Holy Land will also completely disappear because of you!"

The ultimate prodigies of the Nether Holy Land and the Fentian Holy Land also saw this scene and let out similar roars of anger as Li Xuanyang.

Within the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, many experts from other Holy Lands and Supreme orthodoxies also saw this scene, their reactions varying.

Xu Jinhuan probably didn't expect that a casual remark of his would cause such a stir.

He only knew that the moment those words left his mouth, he fell into an Epiphany.

Behind him, Fang Qingyao's eyes sparkled.

Looking at the back before her, her young girl's heart throbbed wildly.

No woman could resist the charm of this silhouette!

She had completely fallen... The surrounding Disciples were also shocked by Xu Jinhuan's immense pride and invincible confidence, becoming fanatical.

"Sequence Xu is mighty!"

"Sequence Xu is invincible, suppress and kill all enemies!"

Seeing his plan to sow discord and use moral kidnapping completely fail, and even allowing Xu Jinhuan to reverse the situation and further his reputation...

Jiang Lianshan's face was ugly to the extreme, as if he had swallowed a dead fly.

He stared fixedly at Xu Jinhuan, his eyes so gloomy they could drip water, his gaze filled with enmity and madness.

There was only one move left.

"Xu Jinhuan!"

He suddenly let out an angry roar, his eyes bloodshot.

"Stop your glib talk here. Do you really think you can go against heaven?"

"By being so obstinate, the Holy Land will be killed by you sooner or later!"

Before his voice could fade, divine light erupted around him, and Killing Intent soared as he directly made a move in public:

"Today, I, Jiang Lianshan, shall clean out the sect on behalf of the Holy Land."

"Do you dare to fight me?!"

The whole place was in an uproar, Disciples whispered one after another, their gazes toward the two filled with tension and anticipation.

"The Saint is challenging the sequence?!"

"Is this for real?"

"Jiang Lianshan is at the Late Stage of the Immortal Platform Realm, a combat Prodigy who fought his way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with combat power nearing the Life and Death Realm. Sequence Xu only recently broke through to the Golden Core Realm; this is too much of a bully..."