Chapter 139 - 130: Gathering of Sect Leader-Level Experts!

Chapter 139: Chapter 130: Gathering of Sect Leader-Level Experts!

The old man, Bai Zancang, took the initiative to speak, inviting Chen Sha to punch him once in order to extinguish any thoughts the other party might have of seeking revenge in the future. Experts from various factions in the distance outside the Jade Capital Temple heard this sentence and felt faintly worried for this old woodcutter. Zhang Shouren, the ninth in the world—Grandmaster Zhang—and his four brothers had attacked together; two died and two escaped. Let alone an old man like him, who was a rank lower as the tenth in the world?

"Okay!" Chen Sha just spoke indifferently.

After this single response, Bai Zancang, standing two hundred feet away, felt his eyelids twitch violently. He saw the young Sect Leader, whose hands had been resting by his sides, already pacing forward.

BOOM!

This single movement was like the high heavens pressing down from above the clouds, driving an unmatched, colossal power that slammed onto the main street where the two stood.

Chen Sha’s qi power shook the heavens and earth. The air currents whipped up by his movement blew the dust and the stench of blood, sweeping over the numerous experts hiding in the dark. Some who were hiding far away in tall buildings a thousand feet away could feel a strong gale kicked up by the young Daoist’s single step, rapidly spreading to them.

In an instant, on that main street littered with bloody corpses, it was as if the dead Capital City soldiers and horses had come back to life, releasing the galloping sound of a massive army of thousands of men and horses. Yet, all this momentum belonged solely to Chen Sha as he charged towards Bai Zancang alone! Its immensity and grandeur left the numerous experts who had witnessed Chen Sha fighting four people single-handedly terrified in their hearts.

"This..."

"Why does this imposing aura feel even more terrifying than during the previous great battle against Zhang Shouren!"

Could it be that only under this punch, did this young Sect Leader finally bring out his absolute full power? Previously, fighting four people alone, he had not yet used his full strength. And now, because of Bai Zancang’s boast that "even the number one in the world cannot kill him," it truly made the young Daoist unleash his full power!

Countless people hidden in the dark paled in unison. Enveloped and covered by this grand aura, the old man who bore the brunt of it felt his heart pound fiercely. He thought, "This kid really wants to punch me to death."

Seeing Chen Sha, who was originally two hundred feet away, take a step forward, a pair of hands raised high from under his sleeves, as crystal clear as beautiful jade, reaching forward... With this reach, a lotus bloomed first between his palms and fingers. As his figure took step after step, the dust on the long street was trampled up, blooming one white lotus after another in the void, blossoming and fading in an instant...

Under this Lotus Blooming with Every Step, Chen Sha’s body seemed like a towering mountain peak rising from the ground, connecting heaven and earth. His already massive and grand aura unexpectedly surged upward even further at this moment, as if it had broken through the limit.

WHOOSH...

The terrifying air currents, whipped up like a hurricane, scraped against Bai Zancang’s robes like blades, making them flutter fiercely. His eyelids twitched wildly, and his heavily calloused hand had already gripped the handle of the woodcutting saber at his waist, slowly drawing it out...

Before the two even exchanged moves, their qi power, heart power, and move intent began to clash invisibly in the void.

In fact, it was just an instant. Chen Sha’s Lotus Blooming with Every Step covered the two-hundred-foot distance in the blink of an eye. His hands changed from the lotus to the Dao Yi Seal...

But only Bai Zancang, in this instant, saw clearly how many variations appeared between the palms and fingers when this young Sect Leader formed the seal!

In an instant, there were a full one hundred and eight variations! And every one of them was at least a Grandmaster Level martial arts variation, among which the Great Innate Level move intent variations were no fewer than ten. A single Fist Seal encompassed over a hundred variations of supreme martial arts, born in an instant, and finally transformed into the invincible Dao Yi Seal!

It pushed horizontally forward!

BOOM!!

Bai Zancang’s woodcutting saber was already gripped in his hand. The reflection of that increasingly large Fist Seal appeared in his eyes. Gradually, his vision began to blur. What he saw was no longer just the Fist Seal, nor was there Chen Sha’s figure; instead, it transformed into streaks of textural lines between heaven and earth...

He also seemed to change from an old man nearing seventy into a youth cutting wood in the forest. When a swing of the chopping knife fell, it would naturally strike the texture of the wood that was easiest to split.

CRACK!

Just following the sound, the wood would be cleanly split into two halves. People were like this, moves were like this, and even the air currents between heaven and earth were like this. Everything in the world had its texture.

This tenth in the world, who looked dirty and had a dark red face like a rustic old peasant, relied precisely on this Woodcutting Saber Technique—chopping people like chopping wood—to stand in the position of the tenth in the world from decades ago until now!

RUMBLE!!!

Fist and saber clashed in one place, generating an earth-shattering saber wind that was like a force-twelve gale. The violent air currents, like countless divine weapons and sharp blades, howled and wreaked havoc. Scraping against the tops of some houses, the roofs were instantly sheared flat...

Then, rolling smoke and dust soared into the sky from the ground where the two originally stood. Many martial arts experts hurriedly tried to get a clear look. The next moment, the splashing dust scattered everywhere, flying over like the most formidable hidden weapons in the world. They immediately covered their faces with their sleeves or instantly hid behind walls and indoors...

CLATTER!

The terrifying sound of smashing and shooting impacts fell beside the ears of all kinds of people. Then, they only heard...

CRACK...

It sounded like the woodcutting saber shattering into pieces across the vast sky.

BANG!

Closely following this sound of the saber cracking, the numerous martial arts experts, as well as Yuu Miaolian and other Dao Yi Disciples, saw a white-haired figure covered in blood sent flying horizontally across the long sky. The shape of a Fist Seal was caved into his chest; it was evident that an unknown number of bones had been broken.

After taking this punch, the old man coughed up blood in mid-air and shouted loudly, "This punch of yours is even more tyrannical than your father’s back then! But as agreed beforehand, this old man risked his life to take a punch from you, and with this, I take my leave!"

Unexpectedly, Chen Sha’s eyes flashed. "Talk after you can escape from my hands!"

Although the punch had passed, Chen Sha still wanted to know how Bai Zancang could escape. With a downward stomp, his body soared a hundred feet high. The Beidou Killing Power charged into the starry sky and fell upon his head...

Snow drifted in the vast sky; the air currents froze!

He wanted to use this to freeze Bai Zancang’s escape route.

Unexpectedly, although Bai Zancang was scraped by the cold power howling from all over the sky, he pulled out two paper figures and paper horses from his chest with lightning speed and pasted them on his legs. Using the momentum of his fall, he smashed onto the ground, and as soon as he landed... his figure instantly vanished to a thousand feet away.

SWOOSH!

After another breath, he was already over a mile away, out of sight.

Chen Sha floated down from mid-air blankly, his sleeves fluttering, but he was somewhat in a trance. He thought, "This is actually... the Divine Armor Horse?"

He saw it clearly. Those pieces of paper Bai Zancang pasted on his body were entirely things that common folk burned for the dead or paper burial items used when making sacrifices to deities. But after Bai Zancang pasted them on his legs, it was as if he had been possessed by a ghost god.

Chen Sha had also heard of this kind of miraculous method within the Daoist Sect, but just like his own Beidou Killing Body, it was not something that belonged in the Martial Hero World. The Divine Armor Horse was a method akin to inviting divine power to possess the body.

He wondered, "Inviting divine power to possess the body? But are there gods in the Divine Land World?"

Chen Sha watched as Bai Zancang actually escaped from under his hands. He could not help but understand. He thought, "So this is the secret of how he was able to run away from the hands of two generations of the world’s number ones..."

But judging from Bai Zancang taking his full-powered punch just now, even if this old man managed to escape after being hit, it would definitely be difficult for him to fully recover without nursing his injuries for two or three years.

Perhaps...

Chen Sha guessed, "Could it be that because he continuously challenged the number one in the world, although he escaped, he actually suffered massive injuries each time? To the extent that his life was spared, but he spends the rest of his life healing, and thus is forced to just be the tenth in the world?"

And all the martial artists who were shocked by this battle staggered in their respective hiding places. They each wondered, "Why does the exchange between these two make me feel it was even more intense and earth-shattering than the young Sect Leader fighting four people single-handedly?"

Although they only exchanged one punch and one saber strike, judging solely by the momentum, it made them feel that Bai Zancang was more like the ninth in the world. And that Sect Leader, Celestial Master Zhang, was the tenth in the world, the floor of the top ten.

Fifty miles away.

In merely the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Bai Zancang, who had fled fifty miles and finally escaped the Capital City, took off the armor horses on his legs, spewed out a mouthful of blood at the sky, and fell headfirst into a dilapidated small temple outside the city.

"Grandpa, Grandpa..." the Sugar-Coated Haws Girl, who had been waiting here for a long time, immediately jogged over with a pale face.

Bai Zancang lay on the ground, panting heavily, and said, "It’s fine. I traded a body full of injuries for a life. It’s just that Grandpa didn’t expect this kid’s fist technique to be even more terrifying and peerless than his father’s back then. It seems his becoming the number one in the world is absolutely a sure thing. Grandpa losing to the future number one in the world is not shameful, not shameful..."

Over the years, none of the nine people ahead of him would fight him. And acting as the gatekeeper to the top ten in the world, when facing other First-Grade Great Innates, a chop of his saber would win...

Who could have known that over so many years, this old man had only lost to successive generations of the world’s number ones. Other than that, he had never lost!

After this battle at the Jade Capital Temple, the top ten experts ranking list in the world was destined to change.

A young man who descended the mountain for the first time had, upon making a move, successively and easily defeated the ninth and tenth-ranked powerhouses. It even made the martial arts experts watching from the dark genuinely feel that Chen Sha’s strength, even if it had not reached the level of a stalemate with those undisputed top three powerhouses in the world, could definitely be ranked in the top five.

It was heard that this young Sect Leader’s mother had recently been defeated by the world’s fifth, Long Zaitian. They just did not know when the two of them would have a battle. When that time came, it would definitely make it clear to everyone whether Chen Sha truly possessed top-five-in-the-world strength or not.

With the battle at the Jade Capital Temple concluded, the dead bodies at the entrance were also tacitly hauled back by the dismayed Zhao Country Court in the middle of the night. After this battle, the civil and military officials of the entire court no longer dared to speak of forcefully welcoming their Emperor back from the hands of that Daoist.

The Jade Capital Temple, in a single day, became the greatest forbidden zone in the Capital City, but not because there was an Emperor inside. Rather, it was because there was an esteemed Daoist inside. He was already invincible in this entire nation, so the lofty imperial dynasty became something not worth mentioning.

However, on the very next day, the Jade Capital Temple, which had become the forbidden zone of the Capital City, welcomed guests.

"Sect Leader, the True Martial Sect’s Sect Leader Jiang Chengzi has come to visit, accompanied by three True Martial Elders. They are currently waiting outside the temple," Yuu Miaolian came in and said.

Hearing this, Chen Sha said, "The True Martial Sect... My Dao Yi has never had any dealings with him. You go ask him what business he has with me, and it won’t be too late for me to meet him after."

Yuu Miaolian showed slight hesitation but still nodded.

Yet, not long after Yuu Miaolian went out, Zhang Liting hurriedly ran in. "Sect Leader, the Queen Mother Sect’s Sect Leader Bi has also come. She is accompanied by a Daoist Child and is requesting an audience with you outside the temple."

"The Queen Mother Sect has also come." Chen Sha stood up slightly upon hearing this. "Since it is a sibling sect, I must personally go out to welcome her."

However, he wondered why True Martial and Queen Mother would come to the Jade Capital Temple at almost the exact same time. He could vaguely guess a bit. It was mostly likely because of the Jade Emperor Sect matter. But the Queen Mother Sect was definitely biased towards him. As for the True Martial Sect, he hadn’t heard that they had a great relationship with the Jade Emperor Sect. Why would they come the next day? And even use such polite etiquette as a formal visit.

Bi Yunxiao of the Queen Mother Sect. Jiang Chengzi of the True Martial Sect. If he also included Zhang Shouren of the Jade Emperor Sect, who had died outside the temple a few days ago, and Chen Sha himself... The Sect Leaders of the Four Great Daoist Sects were actually entirely gathered here in this Jade Capital Temple. This was something that would absolutely never happen under normal circumstances.