BOOM—!
A deep, sharp roar echoed from outside the Royal Palace gates, reverberating down Central Avenue and shaking the hearts of countless people.
A massive Palm Seal, over a hundred feet long, descended from the sky. It howled through the air, hurtling straight toward Gu Zheng.
Beneath the colossal palm, a distinct ripple tore through the void, sending out overlapping shockwaves.
A majestic and terrifying pressure, like a collapsing mountain, bore down on Central Avenue. It weighed on the hearts of the thousands of people both inside and outside the Royal Palace. For a mont, their hearts stopped, their breathing hitched, and their faces went pale. Their minds went completely blank.
Even Cao Qingsong, a third-stage Heroic Body master, froze stiff. A chill ran down his spine, and terror filled his eyes.
"A King’s Body!"
’A King’s Body!’ The thought flashed through Cao Qingsong’s mind.
The attacker was actually a King’s Body expert!
’A King’s Body is attacking us?’
’But this is the Wind Kingdom Capital, right at the city entrance!’
’The Wind Kingdom’s own King’s Body experts are definitely stationed in the Royal Capital today.’
’What could this suddenly appearing King’s Body expert possibly gain from attacking a procession on its way to the palace?’
VMMMM—!
While Cao Qingsong was still gripped by terror, an invisible force suddenly erupted. It charged upward from below, releasing a formidable power that sent another great ripple through space.
This force neutralized the imnse pressure from the descending Palm Seal before continuing upward to shatter it completely.
"BOOM—!"
An earth-shattering explosion resounded not only inside and outside the Royal Palace but throughout the entire Wind Kingdom Capital.
Before the eyes of countless onlookers, a translucent sphere of howling wind erupted from the marriage procession and shot skyward.
WHOOSH—
BOOM! BOOM!
The deafening blasts shook the heavens and the earth.
As the sphere of wind ascended, a translucent, ink-green sphere abruptly materialized above. It descended, wrapped in a violent aura, and collided with the wind.
The sound of the initial impact was not loud, but it carried clearly into everyone’s ears.
The Power of Heaven and Earth for miles around was pulled in by the two forces. It ford two vortexes, one to the north and one to the south, that spiraled around each other. They drew in countless streams of Powerful Qi and air currents, appearing like two giant eyes in the sky above the Royal Capital.
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH—!
A great gale raged, howling between heaven and earth.
The two spheres collided and ground against each other. Suddenly, vicious thorns, sharp as swords, shot out from within the ink-green sphere. Like massive pythons, they lunged downward to strike.
VMMMMM—!
The wind howled as crimson streams of Powerful Qi suddenly condensed, forming a new translucent sphere at a visible speed. It surged upward from below.
Within this new sphere, clusters of raging flas coalesced into fire dragons. Baring fangs and brandishing claws, they roared and lunged to et the thorny pythons.
BOOM BOOM—
CRASH!
The rapid, violent collisions echoed in all directions.
The fire dragons devoured the thorny pythons as they ascended. The crimson sphere surged with them, slamming into the ink-green sphere and sending it flying higher into the sky.
But in the next instant, a grass-green translucent sphere flickered into existence high above. It descended, pressing down on the ink-green sphere.
In an instant, three spheres had surrounded the ink-green one.
Although the three translucent spheres were each only two-thirds the diater of the ink-green one...
...their three powers combined to attack it from all sides, neutralizing it from above and below while constantly encroaching.
The ink-green sphere soon began to crack. A figure like a mountain of flesh could be seen inside, roaring in fury. "I’ll kill you! Kill you!" it bellowed as countless thorns rapidly grew, piercing through the sphere to attack both above and below.
BOOM BOOM BOOM—
The grass-green sphere, pressing down from above, responded in kind. Giant trees, wrapped in a razor-sharp aura, erged from within it. They pinned down the thorns and shattered them one by one.
As the three powers assaulted it simultaneously, a series of sharp CRACK CRACK CRACK sounds carried clearly down the street and into the ears of everyone near the Royal Palace gates.
Then, before everyone’s eyes, the ink-green sphere exploded with a loud BANG.
The Powerful Qi, air currents, and shockwaves from the explosion were instantly sucked up by the sphere of howling wind below. They were drawn upward, swept high into the sky, and finally disappeared into the Celestial Secret.
In the midst of this, an afterimage flickered through the air. With a series of SHNK SHNK SHNK sounds and a flash of light, the mountain-of-flesh figure was diced into more than a dozen pieces.
SWISH SWISH SWISH!
The sharp sound of sothing slicing through the air imdiately echoed across the Royal Capital.
The dozen or so bloodless chunks of flesh, each enveloped by a separate force, scattered and shot off in all directions.
WHOOSH—
A gentle breeze swirled, sweeping down the long street and past the Royal Palace.
The three spheres of different colors vanished.
Two figures, one after the other, suddenly appeared in mid-air.
"Gu, what’s going on?"
Ying Jiuxin hovered in the air, less than a ter off the ground. He cupped his fist in a salute to Gu Zheng, who had just landed back on his horse. "Who was that just now?" he asked from a distance.
"Was that Changsheng Zhentai of the Changsheng Family?"
ng Ao, following close behind, asked with a grim expression, "The Thorn Domain... impervious to pain and fear, capable only of shouting like a mad Demon Fiend... That was the Changsheng Family’s King’s Body, Changsheng Zhentai! Am I right?"
"What?"
Ying Jiuxin was astonished. "Changsheng Zhentai really ca?"
"Ying, you knew Changsheng Zhentai would co? And that he would attack Gu?" ng Ao retorted.
"I knew a little," Ying Jiuxin said, turning his gaze to Gu Zheng.
"I don’t know his na, but he was definitely from the Changsheng Family," Gu Zheng replied calmly. "So ti ago, in the fourth-rank Domain within Chongming Prefecture City, Changsheng Zhenfan tried to steal the Demon Pill from a Demon Fiend I had killed. I dealt with him then. It’s only natural that a King’s Body from the Changsheng Family would co looking for today."
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