The woman was lost in sorrow. Fourteen hundred years had passed, and the emperor was no longer surnamed Liu.
The Great Han had become a thing of the past. The people she had known, the events she had experienced, had all turned into words in history books, never to live again.
As she was lost in thought, the King of Zhenjiang had lost the will to fight, and even the Kai Shan Daoist had fled!
"This woman is unfathomable, not to be trifled with, let's go quickly!"
Biao Shanhe had no Ascension realm experts, so very few people knew the power characteristics of the Ascension realm. However, just now, the woman had killed a Nascent Soul with a flick of her finger, completely obliterating its form and spirit. The Kai Shan Daoist was shaken and concluded that this woman was at least a Pure Yang level expert!
Ancient immortals who had slept since the Han Dynasty were now reviving in the current era. Fourteen hundred years had passed, and many people did not even know whether the final "immortality" in the Corpse-Shedding method referred to Pure Yang or Ascension!
After all, very few people practiced the Corpse-Shedding technique in the current era. Burying oneself and sleeping, only to awaken at an unknown time, exchanging cultivation for time – this was too backward and ancient for the cultivation methods of the current era.
Biao Shanhe was not Li Shanhe; it did not have as much time to waste. For cultivators, their peak period could only be maintained through continuous cultivation.
Moreover, with the great chaos of the late Yuan Dynasty, there were not many experts left. Golden Core Earth Immortals were already considered experts, Nascent Soul realm cultivators could guard a region, and those in the Yellow Court and Innate realms were already considered foundational figures of various sects.
Above the Innate realm was the Holding Void Refining Spirit realm, a level attained only by hidden patriarchs within various sects.
Just as the Kai Shan Daoist was about to flee, he suddenly heard Ji Xiang's laughter:
"Fellow Daoist, please stay!"
Among his companions, Shen Yuanzi, who was skilled in talismans, had a bloody hole appear between his brows the moment this voice fell. Without any warning, his body disintegrated, his form and spirit attached to his escaping Nascent Soul, and then the void shook again with a great roar!
Boom!
The Great Void was formless, yet it seemed to emit the sound of heavenly thunder! Shen Yuanzi died before his eyes, and just like Bai Yangzi, he vanished without a trace in an instant!
"This?!"
The Kai Shan Daoist's divine sense probed in all directions. The source of all power, the origin of the spatial rift, came from the young Daoist covered in magical artifacts, in his palm!
It was the same situation as Bai Yangzi's death moments ago!
The Kai Shan Daoist's heart was filled with a cloud of strangeness. He fled without looking back, abandoning the idea of fighting Ji Xiang!
It wasn't that he couldn't win, but it was exceptionally strange!
This young Daoist had been very strange from the beginning, carrying many magical artifacts on his person. He claimed to be a Daoist from Wudang Mountain, but he didn't seem to have any connection to Wudang. Names could be fabricated casually, but his strength was even stranger!
His physical body was at the sixth realm, and he possessed the aura of an Earth Immortal, yet he could fight against someone in the Yellow Court realm for several rounds without being at a disadvantage!
Moreover, once he was stopped...
Stopped!
That's right, before Bai Yangzi and Shen Yuanzi died, no one else had attacked him!
It must be like this: to deal with this peculiar young Daoist, one must continuously attack him without pause, otherwise, these strange instant-kill events would occur!
This must be some kind of killing spell that requires charging!
"Wearing black, young physical body, is it a Nascent Soul expert possessing a borrowed corpse?"
"Is it really Lord Huo's father? But there's something inexplicably strange about it!"
The Kai Shan Daoist flew away, turning into a wisp of green smoke, and Ji Xiang was no longer visible. The strange instant-kill event had not happened to him, and he was relieved. As he prepared to report this strange matter to the King of Lu, he heard the sigh of the female immortal in his ear.
The Kai Shan Daoist used all his magical power. He did not have遁术 (escape techniques), so he could only fly with his physical body. However, he had already traveled several miles away and could no longer see that group of people. How could he hear the female immortal's voice?
But the most terrifying thing happened again!
The female immortal was actually asking for his name and origin!
"What mountain, what temple, what Daoist temple are you from? Who is your patriarch?"
The Kai Shan Daoist was filled with shock and uncertainty. Then, a woman's angry roar echoed through heaven and earth!
"Speak!"
The sound alone caused the Kai Shan Daoist's seven orifices to bleed. His entire Daoist robe was stained crimson. He panicked in terror:
"This humble Daoist... no, no, no! This junior is a cultivator from the Chongyang Palace on Mount Zhongnan. My patriarch is the founder of Quanzhen Dao, the True Lord Wang Chongyang! I am by no means an evil heretic, but a righteous person of the orthodox path! I have no deep connection with that King of Zhenjiang; I was merely invited by him to attend a banquet! I implore senior to see clearly! And let me go!"
The female immortal's voice echoed through heaven and earth:
"Wang Chongyang?"
"I don't know him!"
Then, a blade light cleaved from the sky to the ground, splitting his form, spirit, body, and soul into two!
The blade energy erupted, instantly erasing all evidence of his existence!
In heaven and earth, the Kai Shan Daoist no longer existed. Only his two lingering wishes disappeared from their location; one returned to the King of Lu, and the other returned to Chongyang Palace. Chongyang Palace was now aware of this matter!
But what difference did that make?
"Wang Chongyang, I don't know him. Then who is your patriarch?"
The female immortal looked in another direction. In the river, she raised her palm again, using her hand as a blade, and slashed through the void of heaven and earth!
Even if the Yang God's avatar was hidden in the surging deep water, there was no way it could escape!
Ascension realm cultivators could hear the nine heavens and see ten thousand miles!
Without profound escape techniques like Shadow Concealment and Form Evasion, it was impossible to survive under the hands of an Ascension realm expert!
The true body of the King of Zhenjiang, hidden in the deepest part of the water mansion, coughed up his heart's blood. His Yang God avatar had only one last one remaining!
The King of Zhenjiang knew that his plans had failed. Not only had they failed, but he might even be the main course at a feast.
He immediately used a spiritual talisman to contact the King of Lu, and soon heard the familiar voice of the King of Lu:
"King of Zhenjiang, what happened on your end? How did a great cultivator like Kai Shan Daoist in the Yellow Court realm suddenly die? Was it Lord Huo's father who did it?"
Just as the King of Zhenjiang was about to speak, the spiritual talisman was suddenly destroyed, turning into dust in an instant.
He looked up in terror. The river had split into two halves.
A blade light cleaved down from the sky!
The female immortal entered the underwater mansion. Even Ji Xiang was astonished by this divine power!
"Fight, fight, oh, it seems there's nothing for me to do..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a massive shadow flew out from the parted river. This colossal structure was the entire underwater mansion of Jinshan. The female immortal moved it out with one hand and threw it into the distant mountains and wilderness!
Whoosh!
The river water swirled. The female immortal killed the King of Zhenjiang and emerged. With a casual wave, the river water returned to its original state, without a ripple, as if nothing had happened!
"Thank you for your blade, which allowed me to successfully perform Corpse-Shedding. Then, what sect do you belong to?"
"Tell me, I don't know this world very well. I won't kill you, after all, you helped me."
"However..."
The female immortal's gaze was serious, her eyes narrowed slightly, and a hint of killing intent was well concealed:
"Why are you hiding your cultivation at the Immortal Realm? Do you have some ulterior motive?"
Ji Xiang smiled and did not answer the question. Instead, he asked, "You are a Han Immortal, coincidentally, I am also a Han Immortal. I only returned to the world a month ago."
"Emperor Ling of Han, have you heard of him?"
The female immortal frowned, "Emperor Ling of Han? I haven't heard of a Liu family emperor with this posthumous title... When I was alive, the Liu family emperor was called Liu Zhi."
"Then how coincidental! Liu Zhi's posthumous title was Huan, and he was Emperor Huan of Han. Emperor Ling of Han succeeded him. At that time, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and the world was in chaos. After Emperor Ling died, there were the Young Emperor and Emperor Xian, and then the world was divided into three. The fate of the Great Han was exhausted, and it perished at the hands of Cao Wei. Both you and I have become rootless people!"
Ji Xiang immediately began to build rapport: "Good sister, you are decades older than me!"