45: Are they here to die again?

While the Chamber of Commerce Grand Competition was underway, Shen Lian, on the other side, was slowly driving the netherworld chariot towards Star Luo City.

Halfway through the journey... suddenly, a cold wind rustled, and a chilling, murderous atmosphere swept around the carriage.

“Hm? Killing Intent!”

Shen Lian, who was Cultivating inside the carriage, felt the Killing Intent and instantly transformed into a beam of light, rushing out of the carriage.

“Since you've come, why hide? Come out.”

A low shout brought forth a strong gale sweeping across the area.

In an instant, three extraordinary figures gracefully descended from the black clouds in the Void Realm.

“Hm?”

Shen Lian glanced coldly and instantly understood the identities of the three people.

“Goddess Palace, Yun Xiyue.”

“Falling Moon Sect, Huan Tianxing.”

“Shadow Kill Gate, Luo Aotian.”

“So they are all running dogs of Nangong Li of the Chess Sword Pavilion!”

With a flick of his Folding Fan, after Shen Lian listed their identities as if counting his treasures, his surrounding Aura instantly erupted, and Killing Intent arose from his heart.

None of these people were good; they had all helped Nangong Li humiliate and torment the former him.

They were already a bunch of despicable things, yet they actively delivered themselves to their deaths?

Then he couldn't be blamed.

“Shen Lian, we came today only to ask you one question: how exactly was the Heavenly Tribulation in the Monster Beast Mountain Range caused!”

Luo Aotian roared, unleashing the full pressure of the seventh layer of the Tribulation Crossing Realm, attempting to suppress Shen Lian's Aura.

“I can send you to the Nine Springs, and you can personally ask those trash what exactly happened!”

The reply to Luo Aotian was one of even greater disdain.

“Seeking death!”

Luo Aotian was enraged, and a scorching stream of flame swept out, attempting to completely engulf Shen Lian.

“I return that phrase to you, word for word!”

Shen Lian swept his Folding Fan, and Cold Qi shot out from his body, instantly swallowing the stream of flame.

“Ugh~”

In that instant clash of wills, Luo Aotian felt a sharp pain in his chest, groaned, clutched his chest, and stumbled back several steps.

Huan Tianxing and Yun Xiyue frowned simultaneously, realizing only then that Shen Lian's Aura was completely different from what they had encountered before, as if he were a changed person.

More critically, his cultivation was actually stronger than they imagined?

“Luo Aotian, do you still remember how you humiliated me in Haizhou City when I was injured and searching for the Azure Water Green Cloud Pearl for that bitch Nangong Li?”

“You and Nangong Li actually forced me to kneel in the city and then called me an insignificant toad? Claiming I delusionally tried to cling to Nangong Li to be my wife?”

“I remember that scene clearly to this day. Tell me, how should you repay this hatred?”

Luo Aotian clutched his chest and took a deep breath: “Hmph, it was your fortune to be able to kneel before Sect Master Nangong,

trash like you should be trampled underfoot! Why don't you look in a mirror? How could you possibly...”

Before he could finish speaking, a powerful suction force directly pulled Luo Aotian's body into Shen Lian's palm.

“You...”

The moment Shen Lian pressed down on his head, Luo Aotian felt as if his Divine Soul was being baptized by an irresistible force of thunder and lightning, making even uttering a sound a luxury due to the pain.

“Do you, this trash, think you can bear the price of offending Shen Lian? Do you think I am still that weak and helpless ant from back then!”

As his voice fell, Shen Lian tightened his grip.

Instantly, black smoke began to rise from Luo Aotian's entire body, and the smell of scorching gradually permeated the air.

“Stop, Shen Lian!”

Seeing the situation exceed their expectations, Huan Tianxing and Yun Xiyue spoke simultaneously, attempting to stop Shen Lian.

Huan Tianxing: “Shen Lian, quickly release Sect Master Luo. Do you know that if your Senior Sister Nangong Li finds out about this, she will definitely be angry.”

Yun Xiyue: “That's right, aren't you afraid Sect Master Nangong will be angry and sad when she finds out?”

“trash, shut up!”

Shen Lian let out a low shout, immediately halting their nonsense.

“Do you think you two are any better?”

“Yun Xiyue, back then, you framed me for defiling the innocence of a Goddess Palace Disciple, causing me to be locked in the Gale Wind Cave by that Old Thing from Heavenly Feather Sect for seven days, suffering the agony of Ten Thousand Swords Piercing the Heart.”

“And you, Huan Tianxing, you framed me for stealing your Falling Moon Sect's Cultivation Technique Secret Manuals, and without differentiating right from wrong, you let those seven bitches give me a brutal beating, leaving me bedridden for three years.”

“I have all these scores in my heart. Since you have come today, let's settle them together!”

Yun Xiyue and Huan Tianxing were instantly shocked, and their gaze towards Shen Lian carried a hint of evasion.

Back then, the two of them had framed Shen Lian under Nangong Li's orders.

They had thought that even if Shen Lian knew about this, he wouldn't say much, since the Shen Lian back then was a notorious simp, simping for his seven Senior Sisters to the point of madness.

How could they have foreseen this day?

Yun Xiyue hastily started arguing: “You're lying! It was clearly you who bullied my Goddess Palace Disciple back then! I saw it with my own eyes, you...”

“Hahahaha~”

Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted directly by Shen Lian's arrogant laughter.

“You want to say there's no evidence, right? Then let me tell you, bitch!”

Shen Lian suddenly exerted force in his palm.

“Ah~”

Boom—

Following a miserable scream, Luo Aotian instantly turned into a pile of fine dust.

Shen Lian extended his hand, quickly captured Luo Aotian's Remnant Divine Soul, and then looked at Yun Xiyue and Huan Tianxing.

“As long as I know you did it, that's enough. No one needs to prove anything!”

As his voice fell, Shen Lian raised his hand and attacked the two directly.

Yun Xiyue and Huan Tianxing had not yet recovered from the shock of Luo Aotian being killed when Shen Lian's cold and violent gaze appeared before them.

Boom—

Without any hesitation, the two almost simultaneously struck out, meeting Shen Lian with a palm strike.

The power of a single palm strike from the Tribulation Crossing Realm caused residual energy from the three parties to dissipate, instantly shattering rocks and causing earthquakes across a hundred-mile radius, affecting countless living beings.

“Ugh~”

“Wuu~”

After the single palm clash, Huan Tianxing and Yun Xiyue were forced back several dozen feet, staring in disbelief at Shen Lian, who stood rooted to the spot like an unmoving mountain.

“His strength is terrifying.”

“How is this possible? His cultivation is clearly only at the fifth layer of the Tribulation Crossing Realm, yet why...”

Before the two could think further, Shen Lian stepped forward, slowly extending a finger.

“One Move. If you two are not dead after one Move, I will commit suicide on the spot!”

Contemptuous and disdainful words, an Aura that looked down on all heroes.

Was the person before them truly the trash Shen Lian who allowed himself to be bullied and dared not fight back?

Yun Xiyue and Huan Tianxing were simultaneously bewildered.

Shen Lian didn't care what they were thinking, stopping only when he was ten steps away from them.

“Come, burn the final brilliance of your lives, and enjoy the thrill of gambling with death.”

He beckoned with his hand, seemingly enjoying the pleasure of the hunt.

“You are too arrogant! Gambling with death, you say? We'll grant your wish!”

Huan Tianxing was completely enraged. He immediately activated all his cultivation, leaped into the Void Realm above, holding the Heaven-grade Moon Shadow Blade, and rapidly gathered the surrounding Spiritual Qi.

“Shen Lian, you trash, let me show you the Ultimate Skill of my Falling Moon Sect!”

“Star River: Moon Fall!”

Instantly, the heavens and earth darkened, and a bright full moon appeared behind Huan Tianxing.

“This Move will send you to the West!”

Huan Tianxing swung his blade, and instantly, the bright moon behind him split in two, transforming into a blade mark that carried the might of world destruction as it attacked Shen Lian.

“Hmph!”

Witnessing such a terrifying Move, Shen Lian merely snorted softly and immediately took action.

He was seen stepping on the Qiankun and grasping the Yin and Yang.

All the Vital Energy within his body was released, forming a reversing Taiji Totem.

“Void Concealment: Receive Force!”

In an instant, Huan Tianxing's offensive, upon entering three feet of distance from Shen Lian, was completely reduced to nothing.

“What?”

Before Yun Xiyue and Huan Tianxing could recover from their shock, Shen Lian's counterattack surged forward.

“Void Concealment: Star River Reverse Flow!”

Boom~

With a massive explosion, the Vital Energy absorbed from Huan Tianxing was doubled and countered, instantly blasting him into nothingness.

“great dao human sovereign cauldron!”

Having killed his opponent with one Move, Shen Lian immediately activated his Ultimate Skill, instantly drawing Huan Tianxing's Soul into the Golden Cauldron condensed in his palm, truly leaving no room for escape.

“Ah~”

Seeing this scene, Yun Xiyue screamed in terror and turned to run.

Before she could take two steps, Shen Lian's figure blocked her path.

“Did I permit you to leave? Hm?”