Chapter 276 - 166: Endless Shock, Invincible ’Dao Heart

Chapter 276: Chapter 166: Endless Shock, Invincible ’Dao Heart

"If you dare not, then do not use your saintly might to suppress others. You all were merely born ten thousand years earlier than me, seizing the initiative. Given time, I might not necessarily fall beneath you.

"I have no intention of making enemies of a thousand sects, nor do I wish for a fight to the death with Cyan Mist. If I ever do, it would merely be to vent the resentment in my heart in the future.

"But if the Saint Venerable uses his power to bully the weak and intends to push me to a dead end..."

Jiang Hao paused here, slowly raising his eyes to look straight at Di Changqing. He enunciated every word clearly.

"Whatever the Venerable can do, I can do as well!

"In the future, if I enter the Saint Realm, it may not be impossible—for me to take—your head."

BOOM!!!

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around the Holy Ladder felt as if they had been struck by lightning. Deathly silence descended.

The voice was clearly quiet, low, and soft, yet the message it conveyed shook people to their cores.

At this moment, everyone was stunned—utterly dumbfounded.

Even Master Beardless was instantly petrified, frozen like a clay statue or wooden carving.

Di Changqing was even more incredulous, hardly daring to believe his own ears.

It wasn’t just him. Even Mu Wanli and Mu Wan Ning, who were an endless distance away, shuddered violently.

Mu Wan Ning, in particular, looked as if she had seen a ghost. "Sister Cyan Mist, is he... is he threatening the Sect Leader?"

Mu Wanli also paled in shock. For the first time in her life, a different emotion flickered in her normally icy eyes.

When the crowd finally snapped back to reality, they were shocked beyond measure.

"My god, he’s crazy! He’s absolutely insane! Does he know who he’s talking to?"

"That’s the Evergreen Saint Venerable!"

While countless Cultivators were astounded by his audacity, a different kind of glint flashed through the eyes of a few experts.

Even Master Beardless seemed to realize something, his gaze toward the young man changing drastically.

"A Dao Heart? Junior Brother Qin... he actually developed a Dao Heart?"

"What did you say? A Dao Heart?"

"Unafraid of formidable powers, fearless of life and death! A Dao Heart, it really is a Dao Heart! Good heavens, he hasn’t even entered the Dao yet. How could he have developed a Dao Heart?"

BOOM!!!

As Master Beardless finished speaking, massive waves of shock surged in his own heart. How could someone this young develop a Dao Heart so quickly? What exactly had this child been through?

However, whatever he had experienced was no longer important. What mattered was that, through merely a dozen years of struggle, that figure had inadvertently manifested a Dao Heart of his own.

Along his journey, everything Jiang Hao had gone through had imperceptibly altered his disposition bit by bit.

Different dispositions naturally bred different Dao Hearts.

What the crowd didn’t know was that this was simply Jiang Hao expressing his true self.

To him, formidable enemies were already as common as the hairs on an ox. The Celestial Sword Sect and the Ten Great Daoist Lineages—any one of them alone was enough to shake the entire Sword Dynasty.

Therefore, having one more enemy in the Cyan Mist Sect wasn’t that big of a deal. Adding another Saint Venerable to his list of powerful foes was merely a drop in the bucket.

Even Jiang Hao himself was unaware that through more than a decade of being on the run and undergoing the high-pressure baptism of facing deadly enemies time and again, he had gradually developed a Dao Heart.

Di Changqing’s earlier threat had inadvertently shattered the final bottleneck, bringing his Dao Heart to full maturity naturally.

The moment the young man’s Dao Heart took shape, the disposition he exuded allowed Master Beardless and the others to glimpse an aura that looked down upon the world with disdain. Even though this aura was merely in its embryonic form, it was soul-stirring.

For a moment, Master Beardless gasped heavily.

It was as if he already had an answer in his heart.

But before he could speak, Master Wuchen, who stood beside him, was the first to speak out. His eyes were filled with excitement, and his body trembled slightly.

"Sect Leader Senior Brother, did you see it? I saw it! I saw it! I saw the future of the Beardless Sect! I saw the tip of the iceberg of what this child will become! Senior Brother, you bet correctly. We bet correctly. The Beardless Sect must rise up, and it is time for us to do so. Protecting him means protecting our inheritance and securing the future of the Beardless Sect!"