A colossal golden palm print, blotting out the sun, descended upon He Guangxin in a furious strike.
Yet, from somewhere deep within the clouds, a gaze seemed to pierce through, locking onto the Yan Emperor and all the formidable figures attempting to intervene.
The golden palm print instantly shattered. The Yan Emperor’s pupils contracted. An intense sense of crisis sent shivers down his spine. It was a gaze that rendered him paralyzed with dread, he dared not even turn his head to meet it.
However, this gaze appeared to target only those at the Void Refinement Realm and above. Their faces turned ashen, and none dared to move.
"Immortal... How is this possible..."
He Guangxin sneered. He only had ten seconds.
He had requested the Heavenly Secret Pavilion to act. His own death mattered little, but here were over a hundred of his brothers.
Mo Wuji had told him that the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, in name, was an absolutely neutral force. If they acted carelessly, they would be criticized.
To avoid drawing attention, He Guangxin had agreed to pledge allegiance to the Heavenly Secret Pavilion in exchange for someone acting on his behalf.
But this intervention was limited to controlling his enemies for thirty seconds. The Heavenly Secret Pavilion was not yet ready to reveal itself to the world.
Furthermore, it would only control enemies at the Void Refinement Realm and above.
The Second Prince collapsed onto the ground, completely debilitated. Facing He Guangxin, who had ignited the Five Elements Sword Intent, he possessed no power to resist whatsoever!
"Wait! I promised a fair fight! A battle to the death! A fair fight!"
The Second Prince roared in despair. The current situation was far too bizarre. His own father, a peak Nascent Soul stage expert, was immobilized by some unseen force!
What about him? Who would save him?
His earlier arrogant and overbearing demeanor had vanished. His gaze towards He Guangxin held only terror!
"Guards! Protect me!!!"
A sharp cry erupted from the Second Prince’s lips. He did not want to die.
The Yan Emperor also knew that the people hidden in the shadows might be unable to act forcefully due to some unknown reason. The Second Prince was his most beloved son.
Although he was unable to move, he could still issue orders.
"What are you waiting for? Protect the Second Prince! If anything happens to the Second Prince, I will hold you accountable!"
But He Guangxin knew he only had ten seconds. He couldn't be bothered to exchange pleasantries with the Second Prince. The sword, radiating five-colored divine light, coupled with his sword intent filled with intense vengeance.
"Die!"
With a mere flash of movement, the Second Prince let out a pig-like scream. The life-saving magical artifacts on his body frantically activated, but they were still cleaved in half by the destructive sword light. As his nascent soul attempted to escape, it was directly annihilated by the sword intent.
"You'er!!"
The Yan Emperor’s eyes split open in rage. The surge of anger caused him to spew a mouthful of blood!
Among his children, only the Second Prince, Yan Xingyou, could truly be called a genius. The other princes were all useless, propped up by vast amounts of resources, incapable of achieving anything.
Yet now, the future hope of his Great Yan Dynasty had been slain by a single sword strike!
The entire banquet hall erupted into chaos. Who could have imagined such an event?
The remnants of the Five Elements Immortal Sect had returned after fifteen years.
Despite only being at the Golden Core stage, they had unleashed such terrifying combat power using their sect’s secret techniques.
Seeing the Yan Emperor spitting blood, a surge of vengeful satisfaction arose. The sword in his hand erupted with a dazzling red light, and He Guangxin let out a long cry to the heavens.
"We didn't provoke any of you, yet for profit, purely for profit, you annihilated an entire sect from top to bottom! You even hunted down my brothers to the ends of the earth. In your eyes, human lives are like grass!"
"To hell with the cultivation world! To hell with moral constraints! To hell with the law of the jungle!"
"Kill! Just like you slaughtered the Five Elements Immortal Sect back then, I'm going to turn everything upside down today!"
He Guangxin laughed while crying. He didn't know if he had descended into madness, but he knew that now, he had to kill!
The elders and disciples from the three major powers angrily charged onto the stage, attempting to stop He Guangxin.
But his sword was far too fast, its flashes filled with killing intent!
One by one, cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage fell beneath He Guangxin's sword.
Suddenly, with a "crack,"
He Guangxin's Golden Core shattered, and dark clouds gathered in the sky.
He had broken through. A bottleneck that had plagued him for over a decade was finally shattered amidst this slaughter.
Though both were sword cultivators, He Guangxin and Luo Xiaowei walked entirely different paths.
Luo Xiaowei's sword intent was as heavy as a mountain; he was like a wall, shielding those he wished to protect from wind and rain.
He Guangxin's sword intent, however, was like a blood-soaked butcher's knife; he sought to end killing with killing, to exterminate all hypocrisy and ugliness!
Thunderclouds churned in the sky, and everyone fled in terror.
"Damn it! It's the heavenly tribulation! Don't get too close!"
"Such terrifying killing intent, let's go! Quickly!"
"Damn it, whoever wants this lackey can have him, we're leaving!"
"..."
The heavenly tribulations continued to descend. He Guangxin, in essence, had one hundred and eight individuals involved in this tribulation. Unless his brothers dispersed their Five Elements Sword Intent, it would be a one-hundred-and-eight-fold amplification.
Who could withstand that?
Thick bolts of lightning struck He Guangxin’s body. It was as if heaven itself was punishing this sword cultivator with his fearsome killing intent.
But He Guangxin did not retreat!
He gripped his sword and charged towards Situ Kong and Han Qiu.
The two, realizing the danger and attempting to flee, were already too late!
The rolling heavenly tribulations had already enveloped them.
Within them was a demonic sword cultivator who, even with his body covered in wounds from the lightning strikes, continued to charge at them with mad intent.
"No! He Guangxin! I didn't kill many people!"
"Your master wasn't killed by us! Don't come any closer!"
The sect master of the Void Heaven Sect and the sect master of the Corpse Gu Sect also had their eyes split open in rage. These were their respective sect’s holy sons!
"He Guangxin, if you dare to strike, there will be no place for you in this world!"
"Spare Han Qiu, and we can let bygones be bygones!"
But He Guangxin dismissed their words as nonsense. Amidst the flashing tribulations and sword light, blood splattered, and their nascent souls were obliterated by the cleansing of the heavenly tribulation.
Two more powerful figures were left spitting blood.
He Guangxin had killed three targets. In truth, he still wished to kill more, but he knew that cultivators like the Yan Emperor, even with the help of the heavenly tribulation, could not be killed.
He then set his sights on Duan Shou, the current Sect Master of the Five Elements Immortal Sect.
Duan Shou was naturally filled with panic. He too was immobilized by that mysterious power.
Although he was a mid-stage Void Refining realm expert, for some unknown reason, seeing He Guangxin's gaze filled him with a mixture of trepidation and guilt.
"What do you want? He Guangxin, I am the Sect Master! If your master knew you attacked this sect master, he..."
"How dare he mention my master, damn it all!"
He Guangxin roared, charging towards Duan Shou with the terrifying heavenly tribulation!
"You can't kill me! I am at the Void Refining..."
However, the charging He Guangxin directly embraced Duan Shou and provocatively taunted the heavens, "You damned heaven! Come and strike me dead!"
The heavenly tribulation raged. The rolling thunderclouds became even more violent.
All the heavenly tribulations coalesced into a colossal dragon, roaring as it descended upon He Guangxin.
Duan Shou panicked, "He Guangxin! Do you want to die? If you are struck, you will surely die!"
"If I were afraid of dying, I wouldn't have come!"
"No!"
The lightning dragon descended, transforming the entire banquet venue into a sea of lightning. As far as the eye could see, only angry lightning continued to roar.
He Guangxin let out a wry smile, "Master, this is all your disciple can do for the sect..."
At this moment, a book-like imprint lit up on He Guangxin and the bodies of his more than a hundred brothers...