Chapter 494: Brilliant Strike

Chapter 494: Chapter 492: Brilliant Strike

Everyone present had different feelings about the situation. Many felt uneasy, but many others were secretly envious. The Emperor’s Throne had found himself a good wife, a truly capable partner.

The Shen Ran Phoenix Lady eliminated powerful enemies for the Emperor’s Throne and recruited talented individuals. With the power to shape the world at her whim, her ability to strategize from behind the scenes was truly remarkable.

“She has the bearing of an Empress!” Even among the Ghost Race, many who were unsettled by the situation couldn’t help but admit that the Shen Ran Phoenix Lady was an incredible woman.

“There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.” Another Cultivator couldn’t help but sigh. “When necessary, even mortal enemies can join hands. Reality is just that cruel!”

At this time, countless pairs of eyes were watching Li Qiye. Everyone understood that with the Ten Thousand Bones Throne and the Shen Ran Phoenix Lady trying so hard to recruit him, and with Li Qiye being so Defying Heaven-ly fierce, if he really joined the Ten Thousand Bones Throne, he would surely become an Invincible War General under the Emperor’s Throne in the future!

The hearts of some Cultivators pounded with excitement. If they were in his shoes, they would gladly accept. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Having the Ten Thousand Bones Throne as a backer was something countless people dreamed of.

Regarding the Shen Ran Phoenix Lady’s attempt at recruitment, Li Qiye smiled, spread his hands, and said, “As for being friends? I’m sorry, but I don’t have a habit of making friends with my enemies, unless they submit to me. As for being ‘thirsty for talent,’ that’s true. I’m also thirsty for talent. If the Emperor’s Throne is willing to swear allegiance to me, I’ll consider overlooking the deeds of those around him.”

At Li Qiye’s words, the expressions of both the Shen Ran Phoenix Lady and the leader of the Eighteen Beasts changed. The Phoenix Lady maintained some of her composure, but a cold light flared in the eyes of the beast leader!

“You should reconsider those words!” the leader of the Eighteen Beasts said coldly.

Li Qiye started laughing. “I never need to reconsider anything! Ha, what does the Emperor’s Throne amount to? You want my allegiance? If he swore allegiance to me, he might barely qualify to be a minor general under my command! You want to recruit me? Go resurrect your Emperor of Ten Thousand Bones!”

“Utterly obstinate!” the Shen Ran Phoenix Lady said coldly. “Since you refuse the path to heaven and insist on barging into Hell where there is no gate, then don’t blame us for being ruthless!”

If recruitment fails, then elimination is necessary. For the Shen Ran Phoenix Lady, whether it was to avenge her younger brother or to eliminate a future threat for her fiancé, if she couldn’t recruit Li Qiye, she would use any means necessary to destroy a monstrous genius like him with his limitless potential, paving her fiancé’s path to the Great Dao of the Immortal Emperor.

Hearing such words, many people paradoxically breathed a sigh of relief, while many others held their breath and stared at the battlefield. Recruitment had failed, so a battle to the death was sure to follow.

“I’ve already had a taste of your ruthlessness.” Li Qiye laughed and said, “Why don’t you come down and fight yourself? All this cannon fodder coming to die is just a waste of both our time. I’d like to see for myself just what’s so special about the Emperor’s Throne’s fiancée.”

The Shen Ran Phoenix Lady sat high up on her Phoenix Carriage, staring coldly at Li Qiye without making a move.

At this moment, the leader of the Eighteen Beasts blocking Li Qiye’s path said coldly, “Unless we’re dead, you’re not qualified to have our lady make a move!”

“Great Saint Venerables?” Li Qiye looked at the Eighteen Beasts before him, smiled, and said, “You really think you can stop me?”

These words sounded arrogant, but when Li Qiye smiled like that, even the most self-proclaimed powerful Great Saint Venerables would feel a chill in their hearts. In the battle today, he had killed at least eighty Saint Venerables, if not a hundred. Among them, more than ten Great Saint Venerables were famous, major figures—people whose names alone once made others turn pale!

“Among Saint Venerables, strength isn’t determined by numbers! For those who have not grasped an Emperor Technique, even reaching the Saint Venerable realm is a wasted life of cultivation,” the leader of the Eighteen Beasts said coldly.

At this moment, their Blood Qi instantly shot to the sky, roiling endlessly. In an instant, Immortal Emperor Dao Patterns appeared around their bodies. The eighteen of them were like a great wall stretching for ten thousand miles, a bastion of bronze and iron. Immortal Sounds rang out, as if an Immortal Emperor was defending a city; not even an army of a million heroes could cross the Thunder Pool by half a step!

Although the words of the leader of the Eighteen Beasts were harsh, they were largely true. For Cultivators, Emperor Techniques were priceless. Even for a Saint Venerable from a Great Teaching Territory, even one who practiced a powerful Cultivation Technique, if they had never seen or trained in an Emperor Technique, their perspective would ultimately be limited.

There was a considerable gap between a Saint Venerable who had cultivated an Emperor Technique and one who had not.

Now, the Eighteen Beasts were all experts from the Ten Thousand Bones Throne who had trained in several Emperor Techniques. They had even cultivated an incredibly powerful Emperor Array. Even though there were only eighteen of them, they were strong enough to resist several hundred, or even more, Great Saint Venerables.

At this, many people’s hearts shuddered. They couldn’t help but stare at the roiling Immortal Emperor Dao Patterns on the Eighteen Beasts. Someone murmured, “I’ve heard that the Eighteen Beasts have cultivated an Emperor Array. I wonder if it’s true!”

Li Qiye glanced at the Eighteen Beasts, who were wreathed in roiling Immortal Emperor Dao Patterns, and said nonchalantly, “All this fighting back and forth is such a waste of time. Unfortunately for you, I’m not in the mood to play around, so let’s end this quickly.”

As he spoke, Li Qiye bent down and picked up a Great Sage Treasure from the battlefield. It was one of the Wounded Soldiers left behind by a Ghost Emperor he had slain. This Great Sage Treasure had been struck by Li Qiye’s Nine-Word True Bow, piercing a corner of it.

A Great Sage Treasure damaged to this extent could hardly unleash its true power. Furthermore, the Divinity of such a damaged Great Sage Treasure would quickly fade over time, eventually turning it into a piece of scrap metal.

“Then let’s end this.” Li Qiye smiled, holding the heavily damaged Great Sage Treasure, and instantly activated “Brilliant Strike”!

BUZZ—

In that instant, time itself seemed to become brilliant. Li Qiye’s right hand, which held the Great Sage Treasure, instantly became as if transparent, growing incomparably radiant as strands of Immortal Dao Divine Chains coiled around his arm.

BOOM! The Azure Heaven changed color and the earth trembled. At that moment, the Great Sage Treasure in Li Qiye’s hand seemed about to explode. In an instant, endless Great Sage Laws intertwined, as if a living Great Sage were stepping out from within it.

Reaching the apex of brilliance, an invincible Great Sage emerged to suppress and kill. At this moment, the damaged Great Sage Treasure struck out. This strike was wholly like that of a Great Sage’s personal arrival. It was the Ultimate Strike of the Great Sage Treasure, brilliant to the extreme, as if the most powerful Attack of a Great Sage’s entire life was concentrated within it.

“Not good! Raise the array—” At such a strike, not only did the faces of all the distant spectators change drastically, but even the Eighteen Beasts were horrified. But at this moment, they had no choice but to face it.

BOOM! The Grand Array of the Eighteen Beasts had only just begun to form when it instantly collapsed under the strike. They were completely unable to receive this ultimate strike from the Great Sage.

As the strike fell, yin and yang reversed, the six daos crumbled, and time and space froze. This was a genuine strike from a Great Sage’s own hand, not just a strike from a Great Sage Treasure.

It was like a Great Sage personally wielding his own Treasure Artifact and unleashing his strongest strike to annihilate everything.

How powerful was such a strike? Forget Saint Venerables, even a Saint Emperor would be instantly turned to ash, completely unable to block it.

Brilliant Strike. One strike, brilliant. Brilliant to the extreme, reducing everything to ash.

Brilliant Strike. Just as its name implied, a single strike of incomparable brilliance, like fireworks in the night sky, and then everything vanished.

This was an Invincible Skill from an incomparably ancient era. People of later generations had no idea how this skill came to be. In fact, very few in the world even knew of its existence.

Brilliant Strike. When this skill is used, it can unleash the absolute limit of a weapon, making it brilliant to its ultimate extreme! Moreover, Brilliant Strike can be used on anything; even a blade of grass can unleash a Brilliant Strike. Under a Brilliant Strike, that blade of grass would burn all its Life Force, burn the willpower from its most vigorous and tenacious struggle for survival. All its Life Force, all its willpower, everything would be gathered into this single strike!

Therefore, under a Brilliant Strike, even a blade of grass could erupt with terrifyingly lethal power.

A Great Sage Treasure, even a damaged and broken one, when subjected to a Brilliant Strike, would have all of its power, all of its essence, and all of its Power of the Great Dao gathered into this one strike. This strike burned all of the artifact’s Laws, all of its refinement Cultivation Techniques! This strike was like a Great Sage personally delivering his most powerful blow, and it was perhaps even stronger than that.

When a Brilliant Strike is unleashed, the Treasure Weapon exhausts everything it has, burning it all for this one strike. This strike could be called invincible.

And the price of this strike is the instantaneous destruction of the weapon. Everything is incinerated by the Brilliant Strike, and the weapon is ultimately reduced to ash!

BOOM— The Brilliant Strike landed. Blood sprayed, flesh and bone were separated, and countless fragments of meat and limbs rained down. Under this strike, the defenses of the Eighteen Beasts instantly collapsed. They had no chance to unleash the most powerful and invincible attack of their Emperor Array. Under the Brilliant Strike, they were all turned to ash, not even leaving a complete corpse behind.

At the same time, the Great Sage Treasure that delivered the blow suffered the same fate. Under this strike, even a Great Sage Treasure was turned to ash. The strike burned everything within the artifact—all of its potential, all of its power!

After the Brilliant Strike, the Great Sage Treasure, which had been forged from an incomparably astonishing Divine Gold, left nothing behind. It was utterly annihilated, without even a single fragment remaining.

Slaughtering Great Saint Venerables with a single move—this scene shocked everyone. For a time, all was silent, and the world became terrifyingly quiet. It was simply too shocking.

At this moment, everyone’s eyes were wide open as they stared blankly at the falling rain of blood. In that instant, countless people found it hard to breathe, some even felt like they were suffocating.

Everyone knew how powerful a Great Sage Treasure was, but its might was diminished when it was damaged. To take a step back, even with a complete Great Sage Treasure, unless wielded by the Great Sage themself, it would be impossible to unleash its most powerful strike.