Chapter 274 - 271: Giant Mountain Super Power Dominator! Ji Donglai! Grand Entrance

Chapter 274: Chapter 271: Giant Mountain Super Power Dominator! Ji Donglai! Grand Entrance

’Is it about to start?’ Fang Can’s heart tensed.

Xiang Hongtu made an incredibly high-profile entrance, landing atop Guiyun Peak in a jade chariot pulled by Third Turn Martial Artists.

The nineteen occupied lotus platforms represented nineteen Fourth Turn Martial Artists.

Fang Can stood on the central stone platform, his white hair whipping violently in the fierce wind.

He impassively scanned the scene and felt a sense of relief.

Liu Qingmeng hadn’t come, and none of the many Fourth Turn Martial Artists present had any connection to him. This meant he could act without reservation.

As for Yan Chqing? ’Our "relationship" was just her sucking my dick, nothing more.’

Fang Can could only silently wish that she’d survive the coming battle.

The situation wasn’t ideal, but it was still acceptable.

If the powerful Martial Artists he’d seen before were all cut from the same cloth, then the ones here now were a one-in-a-billion collection of oddities.

For example, there was the team from the Blazing Kingdom. They occupied three lotus platforms, yet their auras felt no different from those of ordinary people.

In Fang Can’s eyes, not a single one of them had any connection to the Martial Dao. Their bodies were out of shape, and their vitality was as weak and superficial as any normal person’s.

But based on the intelligence he had gathered, Fang Can knew this was the signature trait of Martial Artists from the Blazing Kingdom.

This country was one of the five great nations of the martial world.

After walking the Heaven-Ascending Road, every Martial Artist from the Blazing Kingdom would sacrifice all their blood and vital energy, regressing to the state of an ordinary person in exchange for borrowing power from an external object.

When the time came, they could rely on the power of these external objects to unleash combat strength far exceeding others of the same rank.

According to the currently available intelligence, the entire Blazing Kingdom was dominated by three major lineages.

After the Heaven-Ascending Road, each lineage’s Sacrificial Artifact came with a unique legacy name. These legacies were:

The Giant Mountain Super Power Dominator, the Masked Squad, and the Superpower Meter!

Now, representatives from all three sects were gathered here, each having mastered one of these legacies. Fang Can felt they would be tough opponents.

But among everyone present, the one who concerned Fang Can the most was a blond, innocent-looking boy accompanied by a Third Turn Martial Artist.

Fang Can had been watching him closely. The blond boy spoke in a local dialect no one could understand, curiously asking the Third Turn Martial Artist beside him all sorts of questions.

The Third Turn Martial Artist respectfully answered the boy’s every question, even acting as his translator.

’A mighty Third Turn expert, someone who could rule an entire city in the outside world, is merely acting as this boy’s translator?’

’And the fact that he’s occupying a lotus platform alone means his strength has already reached the Fourth Turn!’

’But there was no record of this guy in any of the intelligence reports I’ve seen!’

’What happened to the rule that when a Martial Artist breaks through to the Fourth Turn, it resonates with the heavens and all living beings within ten thousand miles can feel it?’

’In theory, every Fourth Turn in the martial world should be recorded. It should be impossible to hide!’

’So why is there zero intelligence on this Fourth Turn?’

’Intelligence is a critical part of any battle!’

’If I don’t know his identity or his true nature, I can’t know what abilities he has.’

’What if he has some kind of touch-of-death legacy? Without an overwhelming advantage in Realm, most Martial Artists can’t survive a first-encounter kill.’

Even if he struck first, he wasn’t certain of victory.

’I can only hope his legacy isn’t too ridiculous, and that I can take him out in the first wave!’

’If I can’t kill him, I’ll just have to slowly figure out the secrets of his legacy through fighting.’

But Fang Can’s senses told him that this seemingly innocent blond boy was one of the most formidable opponents present.

’A Fourth Turn who can’t even speak the common tongue and needs a Third Turn to translate for him?’

’Weird! So damn weird!’

As Fang Can was observing the scene, Sand Whale, who was watching from the side, saw Xiang Hongtu’s chariot arrive and said with a fawning smile:

"Emperor Chu, where are the other Fourth Turns from Great Chu? Have you come alone?"

"Within my domain, all are my subjects. As the supreme emperor of Great Chu, my will represents that of my entire nation."

Xiang Hongtu clenched his fist, his posture radiating an intense, unquestionable dominance.

After saying this, he turned to face Fang Can in front of all the other Fourth Turns. "You and Purple Jade are fated. As such, you can consider me your Imperial Father. Seeing me, why do you not perform your filial duty and kneel?"

’Shameless.’

Hearing Xiang Hongtu’s words, the expressions of most Martial Artists present darkened.

’Does Fang Can even know he’s supposed to be your son-in-law?’

Of course, they knew this was just Xiang Hongtu’s ploy to build a connection.

He wanted to use this to get closer to Fang Can and leverage the status of a guardian to reap more benefits.

Faced with the gaze of a Fourth Turn, Fang Can felt immense pressure crushing him.

It felt as if a hand had wrapped itself around his heart and was squeezing it tightly.

It was his body’s alarm, blaring a warning to his brain after sensing the vast gap in their power, desperately wanting to escape that gaze.

And the easiest way to escape that gaze was to kneel.

Just from a few words from a Fourth Turn, Fang Can’s body was overcome with the urge to kneel.

But in the face of this pressure, Fang Can felt... glad!

He didn’t believe he was weaker than any other being.

Sooner or later, he too would reach the Fourth Turn, and even higher Realms.

This pressure was just giving him a sneak peek of his own future power!

So, what Fang Can thought was:

’So this is the Fourth Turn? Awesome! When I get to the Fourth Turn, I’m going to make my low-Realm enemies kneel with just a single look!’

Facing Xiang Hongtu’s demand, Fang Can withstood the Fourth Turn’s pressure and smiled. "Is that so? Even if my own father were to hang himself right in front of me, I wouldn’t bat an eye."

"Even if you really were my father-in-law, on what grounds should I kneel to you? Just because you’re a Fourth Turn?"

"Then in the future, when I’m a Fifth Turn or a Sixth Turn, will you be able to kneel and kowtow to me in return?"

As his words fell, the eyebrows of every Martial Artist on the scene shot up.

They all thought Fang Can was unbelievably arrogant. He was a captive, yet he still dared to speak with such audacity.

Sand Whale thought, ’What an arrogant brat. Even as a fellow Fourth Turn, I would never dare to be so insolent in front of Emperor Chu.’

For a moment, everyone stared at Xiang Hongtu as if watching a show, eager to see how he would handle this thorn in his side.

But to their surprise, Xiang Hongtu wasn’t angry at all. Instead, he was gazing at Fang Can with appreciation.

At this moment, Xiang Hongtu had only one thought: ’This boy is just like me!’

Perhaps because he himself had beaten his own father to death, the first part of Fang Can’s speech resonated deeply with Xiang Hongtu.

The anger he had felt when Fang Can feminized Xiang Longtao had vanished completely the night Xiang Longtao began to serve him with filial piety.

Now, seeing a Fang Can so much like himself, he grew even more determined to make him his Imperial Son-in-Law. Then he could have both Fang Can and Xiang Longtao serve him with filial piety together!

Although his mind was whirring with schemes, an emperor’s majesty could not be insulted.

Now facing Fang Can’s defiance, Xiang Hongtu slowly clenched his right fist and sneered, "You have a sharp tongue, boy. But arrogance must be backed by strength."

"And I just so happen to have it," Fang Can said flatly, holding out his hands.

"Ignorant child. It seems you don’t understand the gap between Realms."

Xiang Hongtu sneered. His body remained still as he merely bent his knuckles ever so slightly.

This imperceptible movement caused the sea of clouds for hundreds of feet around to twist into visible, spiraling ripples.

"Kneel!"

That single, casually spoken word was imbued with imperial majesty.

The next moment, the sea of clouds swirling above Guiyun Peak exploded, and an immense pressure bore down from above, crushing toward Fang Can on the stone platform.

A terrifying Qi Force blasted outwards. Seeing the distorting pressure, the faces of all Martial Artists below the Fourth Turn Realm turned pale.

This was an attack far beyond their ability to block. Taking it head-on would only result in being pulverized into dust.

The might of a Fourth Turn! It was utterly terrifying!

Looking at the red-eyed boy with his flowing white hair, Xiang Hongtu, of course, had no intention of delivering a killing blow.

With his Fourth Turn mastery over his power, he was one hundred percent confident he could force the boy to his knees without killing him.

After all, the might of a Fourth Turn was not to be trifled with.

It was time for this boy, who had just won the Grand Tournament of the Nations a few days ago, to witness the absolute gap between Realms that existed after the Heaven-Ascending Road.

Looking up at the golden impression descending from the sky, Fang Can felt the weight of tens of thousands of tons tugging at his body before it even reached him.

’If this hits me, I’ll probably end up just like Lin Dong when he first met Lin Langtian—crushed to the ground by terrifying pressure.’

The thought suddenly surfaced in Fang Can’s mind.

Almost in an instant, with a deafening BOOM, the golden Qi Force crashed down upon the central stone platform, which immediately disintegrated into dust.

The Liuli Qi-Suppressing Bricks laid beneath it, purchased from the Five Demons Sect to absorb kinetic energy, also exploded in an instant.

From Xiang Hongtu’s casual strike, the entire mountain peak shook violently, and the upper half of the summit showed signs of crumbling.

But after the strike, Xiang Hongtu’s previously indifferent expression flickered.

The expressions of the surrounding Fourth Turns, who had been watching the spectacle, also grew grave.

Because in the center of the stone platform, Fang Can’s figure was gone.

In his place stood a scar-faced, middle-aged man whose vitality seemed weak and superficial.

No one had seen how the middle-aged man appeared. They could only surmise it was some kind of substitution ability.

The middle-aged man was none other than Ji Donglai, who had been lying in wait within the Great Derivation for the past three days.

「Four days ago.」

Back in the modern world, before he transmigrated, Fang Can had handed a digital watch and a Stellar-Container Sash to Ji Donglai.

"Boss Ji, this is a storage sash. It contains ten cubic meters of space inside."

"It can’t store living beings, but you can put weapons in there."

"As for this digital watch, it’s linked to my luck."

"If I’m about to get into trouble, it will break ahead of time. When it does, find me as soon as you can."

...

Returning to the present, Ji Donglai had crossed space in an instant to arrive on Guiyun Peak.

Normally, his teleportation ability would have caused his body to displace the matter at his destination.

However, his internal space functioned like a one-way passage for espers. When their figures overlapped, Fang Can’s body was instantly swapped into Ji Donglai’s internal dimension, leaving Ji Donglai to face the descending Powerful Qi all by himself.

Facing the gazes of the Fourth Turns, Ji Donglai’s expression was filled with a sense of nostalgia.

He felt as if he had returned to those passionate, struggling years from long ago, before the founding of the New Country.

’This familiar sense of threat... It seems it’s time to risk my life for the sake of all espers once more.’

With a cold smile, Ji Donglai swept his gaze over the crowd. "A pleasure to meet you all. I see you’ve been taking such *good* care of my family member!"

"Now, then, allow me, his guardian..."

"...to be your opponent!"