Ch 18: Heavenly Sword Divine Might
“You are the Qianyuan Emperor!” The man was surprised and quickly retreated, flicking open the fan in his right hand.
“You protect the Empress well.” Zhou An walked towards the opponent.
The Purple Guard all leaped over, surrounding the Empress, Shangguan Rong immediately shouted: “Great Ancestor, this person’s poison skill is formidable, do not get close. He is harmless beyond ten steps. Also, his cultivation is not even Innate, his lightness skill is extremely high, but his martial arts are average.”
The man’s mouth twitched when he heard this, and he wanted to slap himself. He flicked his fan, and a faint green mist appeared around him.
Now that he had been exposed, he didn’t hide it anymore. If the person in front of him was really the Great Ancestor Emperor, then he must be an Innate expert, otherwise, how could an ordinary person live so long.
“Poison!” Zhou An chuckled. He had the Hundred Poisons Pearl given by Sai Nai Mu, so most poisons could not approach within three feet of him.
Zhou An clenched his right hand into a fist, using the Qianyang Heavenly Alignment Fist with the Vast Universe Art internal force. Even before the fist was thrown, the extremely overbearing internal force fluctuations were already suffocating.
“How is it possible, such power before even throwing a punch, this is really Innate.” The man was horrified, not daring to be careless, losing confidence in his poison. He chanted incantations, drawing a talisman on the fan surface with his finger, then shouted, and ten silver fan bones flew out.
Zhou An threw a punch, the overbearing fist force spread, the poisonous gas was blown away before it could even get close, and then collided with the ten flying fan bones.
These fan bones were flying swords refined by the man. Although not as good as real Immortal cultivators, they were also refined with heretical magic, and ordinary weapons could not contend with them.
However, when colliding with Zhou An’s fist, they only burst out sparks and were shaken away by the extremely Yang and rigid internal force.
The man cried out, relying on his high lightness skill, and immediately flew away.
But just as he jumped out of the wall, he felt a strange movement behind him. When he turned his head, he was so scared that his soul flew away.
Zhou An didn’t know when he was already behind him, and that terrifying fist force hit his back. His spine and ribs were instantly shattered, and his internal organs were broken.
The man spat out flesh and blood, and his body shot out, hitting the bluestone ground outside the palace, smashing a large pit. The person was completely dead, lying in the pit like mud.
The Universe Steps are based on Yin-Yang and Universe, stepping on the formation positions, moving like a teleport, fast and elusive.
The Empress walked out of the courtyard gate and said to Zhou An: “Great Ancestor, the target of these heretics is the Sun Moon Universe Pearl you obtained, said to be an Immortal treasure. Moreover, these people just happened to be in Qian Capital, and in the future, I am afraid that more Immortal Heroes will come to Qian Capital.”
“Do you know how many people entered the Imperial Palace?” Zhou An asked.
“I only know there are many of them, and they are from a Sect.” The Empress said.
“Let the Purple Guard all stay by your side, I will handle the affairs within the Imperial Palace.” Zhou An’s footsteps danced, and he disappeared in an instant.
The Empress immediately said: “You follow me to Qianyang Palace, the Emperor may be in danger.”
“Yes.” Everyone responded and left using their lightness skills.
Zhou An jumped onto the highest roof of the Imperial Palace, scanning the entire city. If the Purple Guard hadn’t sent out a signal, he wouldn’t have known that the Imperial Palace had been invaded. Fortunately, the Empress was resourceful, not only stabilizing the invaders but also extracting some information.
This made him feel more of a sense of crisis. The strength of the Purple Guard was too poor. Facing these people who practiced unorthodox ways, even if their martial arts were higher, it would be difficult to defend against them.
Just as he was thinking, suddenly there was movement from the Imperial Treasury. He immediately flew over.
He saw the Imperial Guards falling down in pieces, and a fat monk ran out of the treasury cursing, carrying a sack full of things on his back.
Zhou An directly pounced down from the air, throwing out the Qianyang Heavenly Alignment Fist, his fist rushing down with Yang and rigid internal force.
The fat monk was startled, not even seeing who was coming, he directly slapped out a palm.
When the fist and palm touched, there was a loud bang, and the surrounding ground was shattered by the force. The fat monk cried out and retreated more than ten steps before stabilizing his body.
“What amazing internal force!” The fat monk now saw who was coming, recognized the Qianyuan Emperor, touched his head, directly threw away the bag full of treasures, and used his lightness skill to run.
Just as he flew out more than thirty meters, Zhou An chased after him and threw a punch.
“This monk is finished this time, this Qianyuan Emperor’s internal force is too terrifying!” The fat monk panicked, his face full of fear.
At this time, a middle-aged man and a Beautiful Woman rushed out from the darkness, one sweeping with a heavy sword, and the other stabbing with a short sword.
Both of them had Houtian Ninth Level cultivation, and the martial arts they used were a bit strange. There were wandering souls around the heavy sword, and pink mist emerged from the short sword.
When Zhou An’s punch touched their weapons, the vast and fierce internal force directly shook the two back, both showing surprise.
“Drunken Taoist, this person’s Universe Steps are too mysterious, it is impossible to escape completely, maybe there is a chance of survival if we join forces.” The Beautiful Woman shouted.
“Okay, let’s fight.” The fat monk gritted his teeth, raising his internal force to the maximum. All three of them released their strongest moves.
The fat monk’s hands turned iron gray, more wandering souls appeared in the middle-aged man’s sword, and peach blossoms flew around the Beautiful Woman’s short sword, surrounded by pink mist.
Zhou An didn’t dare to be careless, lest he capsize in the gutter, and directly took out the Son of Heaven Sword, using the first form of the Son of Heaven Swordplay, Fire Dragon Nine Heavens Rises Wind and Clouds.
The Son of Heaven Sword stabbed out, the sword energy turned into a fire dragon and rushed out with a dragon’s roar. At the same time, the True Dragon Energy in his body was drawn, and the flying fire dragon was like a True Dragon, releasing Dragon Might.
Seeing this move, the three were scared out of their wits.
“We are dead this time!” The fat monk widened his eyes, his eyeballs about to pop out in shock.
The Beautiful Woman paled, and she and the fat monk suddenly scattered and fled.
Only the middle-aged man gritted his teeth and stabbed out with this sword. Seeing his companions fleeing, he cursed inwardly. At this time, it was too late to retreat, and he only saw the fire dragon rushing towards him.
Then a terrifying force came from the heavy sword, and it was directly blown away by the fire dragon. His protective internal force was like it didn’t exist, swallowed by the fire dragon. The hot sword energy shattered his body, and the meat was burned to ashes.
The fire dragon disappeared, only seeing the red-hot heavy sword flying out and piercing into the ground in the distance, emitting green smoke.
Just as Zhou An was thinking of chasing and killing, the Heavenly Sword in his hand was infected by his thoughts and automatically flew out, turning into a Crimson Dragon and flying out.
The fat monk saw the red light flying, and was using his lightness skill to fly. Seeing this scene, he was so scared that his soul flew away. His footsteps didn’t keep up, and he fell from the wall, falling headfirst to the ground.
Immediately afterward, the Crimson Dragon fell, beheading the fat monk, and then the Heavenly Sword flew towards the Beautiful Woman on the other side.
Although the Beautiful Woman’s lightness skill was not bad, the gap was still too big compared to the flying sword. Just as she flew out of the roof, she only saw a flash of red light, and she was pierced through the back by the Heavenly Sword, screaming and falling to the ground.
Seeing this scene, Zhou An remembered that the Heavenly Sword itself was an object of the Immortal Emperor, and it had spirituality, could fly on its own, and could even take its master to fly with a sword.
He showed joy, reached out, and the Heavenly Sword flew into his hand, touching the blade.
The Son of Heaven Swordplay undoubtedly belonged to Sky-Rank martial arts, but even if the Vast Universe Art was cultivated to the highest level, the Ninth Level, it still could not fully exert the power of this set of swordplay. Moreover, this set of swordplay consumed extremely amazing amounts of internal force. Just now, one move consumed 20% of his internal force.
If it weren’t for more than a hundred years of internal force, others might have consumed most of it in one move.
At this time, the Imperial Guards arrived. Zhou An didn’t intend to say much to them, and used the Universe Steps to leave. He had to speed up the process of lighting up the entire Qian Capital map. He didn’t know how many Immortal Heroes would covet the Imperial Palace.
Although lighting up these ordinary maps only yielded mundane things, based on the Imperial Palace check-in experience, when the entire Qian Capital map was complete, there would definitely be good things.