The Heavens: Man Covers the Heavens, Refines Treasures to Become an Emperor

The aura belonging to Jiang Xuan was like a drop of water falling into the ocean, growing fainter and fainter, becoming increasingly difficult to detect! It seemed that the other party possessed some kind of secret technique to conceal his aura, or that his utilization of the environment had reached an unbelievable level.

After several forks in the road, Lu Zhong even had the illusion that the enemy had broken through the encirclement and fled thousands of miles away!

"impossible!"

Lu Zhong's eyes were sharp as an eagle's as he forcibly suppressed his anxiety. Years of battlefield experience told him that the more critical the moment, the more calm he needed to be.

"He was injured and exhausted; it's impossible for him to shake off the pursuers so quickly! He must still be hiding in this area!"

His gaze, like a cold blade, swept across a seemingly cluttered side room on the left.

The room was locked, the windows were broken, and it appeared to be empty.

But just now, when his soul perception swept across, he seemed to catch an extremely faint heartbeat, almost completely masked by the sound of rain? And a very familiar, faint smell of metal and gunpowder?
Although the faintness was almost an illusion, Lu Zhong would rather kill the innocent than let the guilty go free!
A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and with a low roar, the powerful energy of the mid-stage Earthly Fiend Realm within him erupted without reservation!
"Get out of here!"

The dark gold spear burst forth with dazzling golden light, like a roaring golden dragon, carrying a terrifying power capable of shattering mountains and splitting rocks, as it fiercely pierced towards the tightly closed, dilapidated wooden door!
He was going to use absolute force to smash the house, along with anyone who might be hiding inside! He would use brute force to overcome skill!

Just as the tip of the dark gold spear was about to pierce the wooden door...
A sudden change occurred!

"BOOM!!!"

The seemingly fragile wooden door wasn't pierced by the spear; instead, it suddenly exploded from the inside out! Countless pieces of wood shot out like shrapnel from a detonated bomb!

But this is just the appetizer!

Immediately following the explosion of the wooden door were hundreds and thousands of blinding streaks of light!
They were like volcanic lava erupting suddenly, or like a sunset burning to its fullest extent, instantly filling Lu Zhong's entire field of vision! Scorching, violent, and carrying an aura of destruction!

Burning Clouds Short Crossbows! And it's an astonishing, one-time burst of Burning Clouds Short Crossbow bolts!

This was one of the life-saving trump cards that Jiang Xuan brought from the Bloodthirsty Camp!
After crashing into the house, he had no intention of hiding. Instead, he used the brief time difference to quickly set up this deadly trap in the side room! The debris concealed the Burning Cloud Crossbow Array, which had been pre-loaded and activated in one go using a special mechanism!

"what?!"

Lu Zhong's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints!
He had no idea that his opponent would not only not flee, but would also dare to set up such a dangerous counterattack trap! In a hurry, he could only forcefully retract the spear he had thrust out, cross his arms in front of him to protect himself, and the powerful qi in his body surged out of his body like a boiling river, condensing into a thick dark golden qi shield!
"Ding ding ding ding!!!"

A deafening barrage of impacts, like popping beans, erupted! Hundreds upon hundreds of blazing crossbow bolts rained down upon the dark gold shield! Each bolt contained explosive energy with immense penetrating power! Sparks flew, and chaotic energy currents raged wildly!
Lu Zhong felt an immense force, like a continuous, raging wave, crashing against his shield and body!
He groaned, his feet feeling as if they were on ice, uncontrollably sliding backward! Each step carved deep furrows into the ground! His blood and qi surged violently, his protective aura fluctuated wildly, its light flickering as if it might shatter at any moment! His arms were also tingling from the shock!
What terrifying explosive power! The power of this crossbow bolt far exceeds that of ordinary ones!
However, the terrifying attack of the burning arrows was merely the prelude to this deadly trap!

Just as the rain of arrows was about to run out, Lu Zhong was jolted backward, his mind reeling from the ferocious attack.
"Buzz!"

A strange sword cry, as if coming from the deepest hell, or as if resounding from the depths of the soul, suddenly pierced through all the explosions and the clamor of the rain!
The voice wasn't loud, but it possessed a penetrating power that went straight to the heart! Lu Zhong felt his mind suddenly sink, as if he had been plunged into an endless abyss of darkness! Everything before his eyes began to distort and spin!
In a daze, he seemed to see the sky collapse, countless enormous stars trailing destructive tails, plummeting with a despairing aura of annihilation! The earth wailed, and all things withered! A fear and despair of ultimate destruction, originating from the instinct of life, surged like an icy tide, instantly engulfing all his thoughts!

The power of artistic conception! And it's a terrifying artistic conception containing destruction and despair!
"The Cave Heaven Realm?! No...impossible!!"

Lu Zhong roared in utter horror! This was clearly the soul-level power that only the legendary experts at the Cave Heaven Realm could initially touch and master! How could this young man possess it?! This was completely beyond his understanding of cultivation!
But it was this shock and fear from the depths of his soul that caused Lu Zhong's movements to slow fatally! Even if it was only for a fraction of a second!

enough!
Just as Lu Zhong lost his composure and his protective qi shield trembled slightly due to the shock of his mind,
A stunningly beautiful blade of light appeared, as if it had been born from nothingness!
It wasn't particularly dazzling, but it carried a resolute will to sever everything and annihilate all laws! The speed of the blade was extremely fast, seemingly ignoring the distance in space, following the barely perceptible fluctuation of qi, cutting in with the precision of a butcher dissecting an ox!

The timing, the angle, the force—perfect!

"Pfft.!"

Blood spurts out!
Lu Zhong let out a painful and incredulous groan!
His prized protective aura was torn apart like a fragile eggshell! A terrifying, deep gash, revealing bone, appeared instantly from his left shoulder to his right abdomen! Blood gushed out like a fountain, instantly staining his chest and the rain at his feet! Had he not managed to dodge the fatal blow at the last moment by relying on his honed combat instincts, this strike would have been enough to cleave him in two!
Even so, the intense pain and blood loss instantly deprived him of most of his fighting ability. He staggered backward and fell into the muddy water in a sorry state, almost dropping the dark gold spear in his hand!
Jiang Xuan's figure, like the Grim Reaper emerging from the shadows, slowly appeared before Lu Zhong.

His face was slightly pale, and his breathing was somewhat rapid, clearly indicating that the deadly strike he had just unleashed, imbued with profound meaning, had taken a heavy toll. The Black Spirit Battle Blade pointed diagonally at the ground, and a drop of blood mixed with rainwater slowly dripped from its tip.

"Why...why..." Lu Zhong struggled to raise his head, blood continuously spilling from his mouth, his eyes filled with horror, pain, and incomprehension.

"You... how could you... master... that kind of power... this is impossible..." He couldn't believe that such a young cultivator could unleash a strike containing profound meaning, which overturned his understanding of martial arts.

Jiang Xuan's eyes were cold and unwavering.

He didn't answer, nor did he need to. Explaining to the enemy was the most foolish thing to do.

He raised his left hand with lightning speed, and the short crossbow in his sleeve was already ready to be fired!
"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Three streaks of dark light, at extremely close range, pierced Lu Zhong's brow, throat, and heart in an instant, like venomous snakes emerging from their holes! Precise, ruthless, and deadly!

The light in Lu Zhong's eyes froze and dimmed instantly, filled with deep resentment and shock, and he completely lost his vitality.

This powerful Earthly Realm expert, a fierce general of the Azure Light Pavilion, who had emerged from the battlefield amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, perished in this cold, rainy alley. Having slain a formidable enemy, Jiang Xuan's taut nerves did not relax; instead, the immense exertion made him even more vigilant.

He was breathing heavily, trying to deal with the scene or move on immediately.
A faint yet chilling killing intent, penetrating to the very depths of his soul, like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows, locked onto Jiang Xuan once more without warning! More concealed and more deadly than the previous two times! And this time, there were three! Formed in a triangular shape, blocking all his angles of escape!

Lingering Wind! The third strike! The timing was still cunning and ruthless, right when Jiang Xuan's old strength was exhausted and new strength had not yet arisen, and when he was most relaxed after killing a powerful enemy!

"not good!"

Jiang Xuan's scalp instantly tingled! His soul perception triggered a frantic warning!
Almost at the moment the killing intent was about to strike, relying on his instincts that went beyond their limits, his body twisted violently to the right and fell down as if it had been broken!
"Hey!"

A searing pain shot through his left shoulder! A streak of black light grazed his shoulder, leaving a trail of blood! The chilling toxicity and the sharp, cutting sensation made half of his body go numb!
However, two other arrows followed closely behind, like maggots clinging to his bones! One shot towards his back as he fell, and the other towards his exposed back as he curled up!

At the critical moment of life and death, Jiang Xuan unleashed unprecedented potential!
He suddenly curled up, his legs like springs compressed to their limit, and slammed them hard into the ground!
"Oh!"

Mud and water splashing everywhere!
He was like a ball of flesh that had been violently blasted, and in an extremely disheveled yet extremely effective manner, he was launched into the dilapidated side room next to him, where the crossbow bolts had been fired and no arrows had been fired!

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

Despite his lightning-fast reflexes and incredibly unpredictable movements, he still couldn't completely dodge! One arrow grazed his back, tearing his robes and carving a deep gash across his back! Another arrow pierced the muscle on the outside of his calf as he was thrown, causing excruciating pain!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Jiang Xuan's body had just stumbled into the side room in a disheveled state when he was immediately followed by a terrifying barrage of arrows! These arrows were incredibly powerful, instantly turning the already dilapidated side room into a sieve! Walls collapsed, beams broke, and tiles flew everywhere!
Under the cold and precise rain of arrows from Canfeng, the entire side room was as if it had been crushed and pushed over by an invisible giant hand, emitting a deafening roar, and was completely turned into a dusty ruin, burying Jiang Xuan's figure completely!

The torrential rain relentlessly washed over the newly formed ruins, cleansing away the bloodstains and traces of battle.

Canfeng's figure, like a ghost, silently emerged from the rain and stopped before the ruins.

His lifeless, gray-brown eyes swept over the mess, his pale face devoid of any expression, only the indifference of someone who had completed a task.

"ended."

A hoarse voice whispered.

He was certain that under his dense barrage of arrows, coupled with the burial caused by collapsing houses, the enemy had no chance of survival.

Even if they weren't riddled with arrows, they were smashed into a bloody pulp.

He slowly stepped forward, ignoring the mud and broken tiles and wood beneath his feet, and stretched out his pale, withered hand to begin digging through the rubble on top of the ruins. Soon, a body, pierced by several black arrows and half its body crushed and mangled by the collapsed beams, was pulled out.

Canfeng's gaze fell on the twisted face of the corpse. It was the face of a middle-aged man, deformed by pain and fear, covered in mud and blood. It was not Jiang Xuan's face at all!

Canfeng's movements froze instantly!
For the first time, his unchanging, deathly gray-brown pupils contracted violently! A chilling coldness, like a venomous snake, suddenly shot up his spine!

We've fallen for their trap! This was a decoy trap set up using the original owner's corpse! That kid... is still alive! And he's nearby!

Just as Canfeng was jolted awake and realized he had fallen into a trap, at the critical moment...
"Buzz!"

Beneath the ruins, in a place buried under deeper layers of rubble and soil, a flash of light suddenly appeared!
This blade of light was not dazzlingly bright, but it carried a resolute will to break through chaos and tear through darkness!
It seemed to break free from the deepest depths of the Netherworld, or like a deadly star suddenly rising from the silent earth! The killing intent and power gathered on the blade, after being suppressed to the extreme, suddenly erupted at this moment, unleashing a terrifying light that was enough to make even ghosts and gods flee!
The blade was aimed at Canfeng, who was caught off guard and within arm's reach!

On a cold, rainy night, a murderous aura suddenly descends!
Just as Canfeng was shaken to his core and realized he had fallen into a trap, a flash of light suddenly erupted from the depths of the ruins beneath his feet!

The blade's light was dazzling! Dazzling! It seemed to ignite the torrential rain, or like a deadly star that had broken free from the shackles of the deepest hell and suddenly risen! The brilliance of the light instantly tore through the deep darkness of the rainy night, illuminating every detail of Canfeng's pale and distorted face!

Fast! It’s almost as fast as it can be!
Ruthless! Ruthless to the bone!
The resolute killing intent and long-accumulated destructive power contained in the blade's light suddenly erupted within a small space, causing the air to emit a shrill shriek as if it were being forcibly torn apart!

"what?!"

The gray-brown pupils of the lingering wind instantly shrank to the size of pinpoints! An unprecedented, chilling aura of death, capable of freezing the soul, instantly gripped him!
He let out a piercing scream that was not human and filled with utter terror!

His survival instinct unleashed a speed beyond his limits!
His body, like a boneless, limp snake, twisted and folded backward at a bizarre angle that completely defied human anatomy! He was trying to avoid the fatal blow coming from beneath his feet!
However, it's too late!

That flash of light was too fast! Too close! Too unexpected!

"Pfft!!!"

A piercing cutting sound rang out, accompanied by the muffled thud of bones shattering! (End of Chapter)