Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 288 The Limit? World Destruction!
Zhu Jinzhen witnessed the power of the Ziwei Doutian Formation.

If the Grandmaster of Celestial Phenomena is not the limit, then the Immortal of the Land may not be the limit either.

What surprised Zhu Jinzhen the most was that the eighteen death row inmates in the main formation of the Ziwei Doutian Formation, at their peak, were able to break free from the mind-control techniques of Yan Yimei and Xiao Luoyang by burning everything they had to gain power.

It should be understood that the gap between those above the terrestrial celestial being and those above the terrestrial celestial being is greater than the gap between terrestrial immortals and mortals who do not know martial arts.

Normally, they have no chance of escaping control.

However, when the Ziwei Doutian Formation was upgraded to its limit, Zhu Jinzhen clearly sensed the surging killing intent of the eighteen death row inmates, as well as their unwilling, resentful, and fearful gazes.

Even after being resurrected, they remained conscious.

"Interesting. It seems there are still some special aspects of the Ziwei Doutian Formation that I don't know about." Zhu Jinzhen didn't care about the thoughts of the eighteen death row inmates. He could easily kill them when they sacrificed their lives to achieve a brief peak. Now, the only ones who had been forced to reach the Celestial Phenomenon Realm were ants to him.

Yan Yimei, Xiao Luoyang, and the surrounding guards could all sense the surging killing intent and malice emanating from the eighteen death row inmates. Although they were wary, no one took it too seriously.

Fighting to the death and maintaining harmony requires time to defend against the enemy.

With the strength of Yan Yimei and Xiao Luoyang, and the secret guards around them, they could nip any ideas in the bud before they even had a chance to be realized.

"They're useless now, get rid of them."

"Yes!"

Yan Yimei nodded and accepted the order. The next moment, the overwhelming pressure of heaven and earth descended, and several secret guards attacked at the same time, giving the eighteen death row inmates no chance to resist, until they were all shaken into a cloud of blood mist.

This shows how much importance is attached to them.

……

Such a surprise can be brought about by a single Ziwei Doutian Array.

Zhu Jinzhen valued the ancient book on battle formations he received from signing in by more than ten times.

So much so that even the dragon pearl that Yan Yimei had previously reported and casually delivered to Zhu Jinzhen was not examined carefully by him; he simply tossed it into his treasure vault.

Zhu Jinzhen suddenly had a brilliant idea:
"The Martial Arts Cultivation Furnace is so heaven-defying."

"Do you think it's possible to have a secret guard learn the Ziwei Doutian Formation, and, like those dozen or so death row inmates, improve his strength by burning his life force, and then record and preserve it using the power of the Martial Arts Cultivation Furnace?"

"This……"

Yan Yimei and Xiao Luoyang looked at each other, a sense of dread suddenly rising in their hearts.

If that martial arts cultivation furnace could record the power of those who used the Ziwei Doutian Formation, burning everything to gain a brief peak power, then a terrestrial immortal or terrestrial celestial being could enter it.

Wouldn't that be...?

Power exceeding that of a terrestrial celestial being by two, or even three, major realms?
What if it were them?
In an instant, Zhu Jinzhen, Yan Yimei, Xiao Luoyang, and the others disregarded everything else and returned to Tian Ce Mansion through the Anywhere Door. They entered the secret chamber of the Martial Arts Cultivation Furnace and immediately summoned eighteen absolutely loyal secret guards to conduct experiments.

Having conducted experiments on the previous eighteen death row inmates, eliminating the prerequisite for resurrection, Zhu Jinzhen was no longer afraid that they would sacrifice themselves because of the experiments. He decisively ordered these eighteen secret guards, all at the level of terrestrial immortals, to simultaneously master the battle formation of the Ziwei Doutian Formation.

"A few breaths later, he reached the Celestial Realm on Land!"

Although it wasn't the first time Zhu Jinzhen, Yan Yimei, Xiao Luoyang, and the others had seen the Ziwei Doutian Formation, their astonishing speed of improvement still left them utterly shocked.

The eighteen secret guards, all at the Land Immortal Realm, broke through to an unknown realm above the Land Celestial Realm, just like Zhu Jinzhen and the others, in less than five breaths of Land Celestial Realm cultivation.

But just as they were about to unleash even greater power with the help of the Ziwei Doutian Formation, a sudden change occurred.

"Boom!!"

The clear sky suddenly darkened, and dark clouds gathered like a whirlpool.

A terrifying thunderstorm, like a rolling wave, instantly covered the entire Jiayuguan Pass and spread rapidly to the surrounding areas at an extremely alarming speed, covering hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of miles.

The Ming Dynasty, the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty. And the entire Central Plains, and rapidly spreading overseas.

Zhang Sanfeng, who had just received Zhang Wuji at the Quanzhen Sect and was preparing to return to the Ming Dynasty, was so shocked by this sudden, apocalyptic scene that he froze in shock.

"That direction, towards the Ming Dynasty?"

"What did that Prince Su do?"

Zhang Sanfeng stared in horror. With his celestial cultivation, he could vaguely perceive things thousands of miles away, but this world-destroying scene, which resembled divine punishment, gave him a feeling that was...

The whole world seemed to be emanating a chilling fear!
It felt like a great terror was about to befall us.

The thick, black clouds overhead had accumulated to a height of tens of thousands of meters, almost reaching the sky.

Zhang Sanfeng gritted his teeth, grabbed Zhang Wuji, and flashed back to the Quanzhen Sect. He then decisively used his divine sense to travel through the world, instantly covering thousands of miles to arrive at Jiayuguan.

But as soon as he appeared, Zhang Sanfeng's sense of heaven and man almost collapsed.

"Killing intent???" Zhang Sanfeng looked up at the sky, completely dumbfounded.

……

overseas.

Li Changsheng and Mo Yi spent half a day searching in the sea but failed to find any resemblance to Chuan Ying or the divine being who had descended from the sky. Just as they were preparing to return to Beili, they discovered a strange change in the heavens. Endless thunderstorms and dark clouds rolled in and instantly covered their heads.

“This is…?” Li Changsheng felt a chill run down his spine after just one glance at the sky.

"The heavens seem to be enraged, or perhaps fearful?" Mo Yi looked up at the sky, receiving a confusing and ambiguous message that made him frown deeply, utterly bewildered.

"No!"

Li Changsheng shook his head frantically, weakly uttering a few words: "It's killing intent."

"Huh?" Mo Yi looked at Li Changsheng blankly.

But Li Changsheng nodded with a pale face and said, "It is not the wrath of the heavens, nor the fear of the world, but the killing intent. I can feel it. In the far east, in the other direction before our return, there is an overwhelming killing intent spreading. That is the source of the disaster that caused the changes in the heavens and the earth."

Mo Yi was stunned, almost opening her mouth to ask Li Changsheng, "Tell me, is this endless dark cloud and thunderstorm covering the sky, resembling an apocalyptic scene, caused by murderous intent?"

Liyang, East Sea, Wudi City.

A figure stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance, his pupils flashing with a terrifying light: "What kind of power is it that can move heaven and earth from thousands of miles away, and even make me feel fear involuntarily?"

"Is the 'Land Celestial Being' far from the limit of martial arts?"

Although Wang Xianzhi claimed to be the second best in the world in Liyang, he left the title of the best in the world vacant for sixty years. He could kill all the experts below the level of Celestial on the land by himself. Even Zhang Fuyao of Shangyin Academy had to give way to him.

But now, he felt fear and helplessness!

He can make the clouds in the heavens hang down and the waters of the Eastern Sea stand upright.

But Wang Xianzhi asked himself, in this apocalyptic scene of world destruction, even though he was at the pinnacle of martial arts, he was still no different from the ordinary people in the Martial Emperor City who were filled with fear.

Behind the Shangyin Academy, a refined middle-aged man looked up at the sky and was momentarily lost in thought: "I've always known that when the heavens unleash their killing intent, the world is turned upside down. Only today do I realize that it's absolutely true."

"Huh? No, how come..."

Just as Zhang Fuyao broke through the barrier and landed beside the middle-aged man, he suddenly discovered that the dark clouds covering the sky and the strange phenomenon of thunder like raging dragons covering the heavens, which seemed to be hanging the sea upside down, had completely dissipated in a few breaths.

It was as if the apocalyptic scene just now, which seemed like the world was about to be destroyed and restarted, was just an illusion.

(End of this chapter)