Unfettered Retribution: Slaughtering My Way through the World

Chapter 164: Chapter 129: Descending from the Heavens! Peerless and Unmatched

"Sect Master, give the order."

The Grand Elder, Lei Zhen, nodded fiercely. "Everyone has assembled!"

"Hn."

Ling Wanjian gave a slight nod, his face like ice. He gazed down at the sword-bearing disciples, their eyes burning with fervor. Just as he was about to give the command, a figure rushed in from outside, their expression panicked and their speed incredible.

"Report!"

He clutched a slip of paper as he ran, crying out in shock, "Sect Master, the Human List! The Human List has been updated..."

"Insolence! What does an update to the Human List have to do with us?"

Grand Elder Lei Zhen barked coldly, "How dare you interrupt the Sect Master with such trivial matters?"

"No, it’s Chen Xuan! Chen Xuan has risen again!"

The disciple panted, saying in terror, "He’s climbed to sixth on the Human List!"

"What rank?"

Ling Wanjian whipped his head around. His gaze instantly landed on the disciple, his aura so oppressive it felt like a thousand swords pressing in.

The disciple’s skin and muscles immediately began to prickle with pain. He hastily said, "Chen Xuan rose to sixth on the Human List, just now!"

BOOM!

An unparalleled, powerful aura erupted from Ling Wanjian. It was as if blades of light were shooting from his every pore. A terrifying pressure burst from him like a mountain collapsing or a tsunami crashing, causing the very ground to tremble slightly.

Countless bits of rubble flew everywhere. The entire grand dais seemed to grow dim, the atmosphere terrifying.

Even Grand Elder Lei Zhen was shaken to his core, finding it unbelievable.

’Sixth on the Human List?’

’Chen Xuan jumped from twentieth all the way to sixth?’

’What kind of joke is this!’

’Have those guys at the Celestial Secret Pavilion lost their minds?’

’Do they even know what sixth on the Human List means?’

"Very good."

Ling Wanjian’s voice was frigid, his aura blazing. Wisps of invisible Sword Qi emerged from his pores, swirling around his body with a sizzling sound. He said:

"He’s even more formidable than that woman, Wang Qinglian. I thank him for giving me a perfectly justifiable reason to eliminate him. Neither he nor Wang Qinglian can be allowed to live."

He glared down at the crowd below, his eyes turning cold, his hand about to fall.

But at that moment, outside the sect gates, a brilliant, blazing meteor was skimming the ground. It moved with unbelievable speed and power, carrying an unimaginable aura as it streaked toward the entrance of the Celestial Sword Sect.

At first, it didn’t attract anyone’s attention.

But soon, a deep, deafening, and terrifying rumble, like an earth dragon turning in its sleep, echoed from the distance.

RUMBLE...

The sound grew louder and more terrifying.

It was accompanied by an earth-shattering momentum, as if an invisible beast were charging wildly, its terrifying force causing the ground to tremble.

Ling Wanjian’s gesture froze. He snapped his head up to look.

On the plaza, the numerous disciples and elders all turned to look at almost the same time.

Every face was a mask of shock and astonishment.

’What is that?’

BOOM!!

A "meteor," shining with blinding intensity and wreathed in roaring, golden-red flames, suddenly leaped up from the horizon beyond the sect gates. It didn’t take the main path into the sect. Instead, in a gesture of pure provocation and contempt, it skimmed the edge of the light barrier generated by the Mountain Protection Array, carving a searing arc through the air.

Then, like a true meteorite from beyond the heavens, it descended with world-ending power, smashing down violently onto the massive plaza at the heart of the Celestial Sword Sect!

Everyone’s face was etched with horror.

"Scatter!"

No command was needed. Survival instinct drove the disciples on the plaza to flee madly in all directions, diving and rolling away!

THOOM!!!

An indescribably loud impact echoed to the heavens!

The entire plaza of the Celestial Sword Sect shook violently.

The incomparably solid Profound Steel Rock ground caved in, buckled, and shattered like fragile tofu!

CRACK!

A terrifying crater more than five or six meters in diameter formed in an instant. A searing heatwave mixed with pulverized rock exploded outward in a violent, circular shockwave!

A gale howled, sending sand and stones flying. The searing heat made the air twist and boil. The hair and eyebrows of the nearest disciples were instantly singed and curled, their clothes smoking!

"AHHH—!"

Screams rose and fell. Some disciples who couldn’t escape in time or were hit directly by the shockwave were sent flying like rag dolls, spitting blood. They crashed into distant buildings or cliff walls, their bones shattered, their fate unknown. Many more were thrown to the ground by the blast wave, their bodies sent tumbling as blood trickled from their ears and noses.

From the landing alone, no fewer than a dozen people died on the spot.

The faces of all the elders changed, their expressions full of disbelief.

Gaze after gaze swiftly converged on the spot.

Amidst the searing, terrifying heatwave, a tall and powerfully built figure in a black robe slowly rose from the now-scorching ground. His ink-black hair whipped about as his entire body radiated the pressure of the True Qi Eighth Layer...

His gaze, cold and indifferent, swept toward the top of the dais.

At the top of the dais, the Celestial Sword Sect’s Master, Ling Wanjian, and Grand Elder Lei Zhen were both shaken to the core.

Their eyes met Chen Xuan’s in an instant.

With a single glance, they were plunged into horror, their minds going blank, almost losing the ability to think.

"Chen Xuan!"

"It’s Chen Xuan!"

"True Qi Eighth Layer! How is that possible?"

Chen Xuan, who was just ranked sixth on the Human List, was now a master at the True Qi Eighth Layer?

The next moment.

Chen Xuan’s indifferent, icy words slowly echoed across the plaza.

"Today, the Celestial Sword Sect will be annihilated. Anyone not involved, leave now!"

BOOM!

The voice reverberated everywhere.

Echoing in every disciple’s ears.