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

Chapter 400 A World-Shaking Strike, A View Above the Celestials

"boom!"

Suddenly, a violent tremor ripped through the night and resounded across the sky.

A terrifying roar accompanied Wang Xianzhi's earth-shattering all-out attack, stirring up dozens of terrifying ripples visible to the naked eye in the sky above the capital. The clouds hanging down from the heavens were swept away for dozens of miles by this attack.

Many experts who wanted to approach Zuichunlou were forced to retreat repeatedly by this terrifying aura.

The heavens and earth trembled violently, as if they were wailing.

With a cold expression, Wang Xianzhi unleashed his lifelong martial arts beliefs and cultivation, his body shining brightly. He pushed the heavens and earth with both palms, his tall and strong body standing between heaven and earth, and unleashed that earth-shattering blow towards Li Wuyi.

"Well done!"

Li Wuyi stood tall and imposing, his expression calm and composed. As Wang Xianzhi erupted, he couldn't help but let out a long, excited roar, breaking the calm on his face. A smile appeared on his lips as he swung his palm back at Li Wuyi, pressing down on him.

"Oh!"

The dazzling light was swallowed up by the darkness of the night sky.

Wang Xianzhi broke through his desperate situation and achieved another breakthrough in his martial arts realm. The earth-shattering strike he comprehended was like a mud ox entering the sea, crashing into Li Wuyi's palm strike that was pressing down on him. There was no fierce and overwhelming force of two strong people fighting each other.

Some are just...

Eerily calm.

Wang Xianzhi, defying all superstition, stirred up the winds and clouds with the will of heaven and man, gathering the surrounding energy within a hundred miles to form an energy vortex that poured down, and even summoning thunder from the heavens to unleash a more brilliant light, tearing through the darkness of the night sky.

"boom!"

Wang Xianzhi's chest thudded, and she staggered uncontrollably backward several steps, almost falling off the edge of the broken Zuichun Pavilion, before finally stopping, swaying precariously.

Seeing this, Li Wuyi slowly withdrew his outstretched right hand, as if he had just casually swatted away an annoying fly.

"This is impossible."

Huang Longshi let out a groan of resentment and pain.

Wang Xianzhi actually lost.

And... the defeat was so "utterly devastating"!!

Lord of Wudi City, the number one figure in the Jianghu of Liyang.

Even if Huang Longshi had a way to deal with Wang Xianzhi, it would only be by relying on the fortune of the Jianghu in Liyang, traveling among various forces, and making several calculations, and he would only have a less than 30% chance of winning by taking advantage of the overall fortune to eliminate Wang Xianzhi.

But now, what did he see?
Wang Xianzhi was defeated? And by someone who brazenly gave him all the preparations, then effortlessly broke through his moves and utterly crushed him!
Xu Fengnian looked as if he had been dumbfounded.

After all, just a moment ago, anyone could have seen Wang Xianzhi with an aura that was powerful and earth-shattering, like a god or demon about to fight against the heavens and earth and kill powerful enemies.

But the next second, it was like a fly that had been swatted dead.

Despite all resistance, not only did they fail to create any disturbance, but they couldn't even lift the hem of the other's clothes, and they couldn't calm down.

"Why?" Wang Xianzhi's voice was hoarse. His move was the ultimate expression of his life's work. Not to mention ordinary celestial beings, even if it were a Heavenly Lord or Demon Lord from the Heavenly Scar, he was at least 50% confident that he could severely injure or even kill them.

But why was he so weak and helpless when facing Li Wuyi?

Didn't I just say that?

"The reason why the celestial beings on land can be called the Dao for you is because of this."

"Because of……"

Li Wuyi smiled and raised his right hand, spreading his five fingers. His eyes were deep as he smiled and said, "Besides the three inches in the palm of my hand, there are also the five hundred feet where I stand, which is also my own mortal realm." "A terrestrial celestial being, with a single thought, can reach the heavens and move the world, using the Dao of Heaven as his martial force."

"As you just did, with a single thought you could stir up wind and clouds for hundreds of miles and unleash the vast energy of heaven and earth. You would be invincible below the level of a Celestial Being. But... those above the level of a Celestial Being do not need such things."

"The wind has no fixed shape, and water has no constant form; this is the rule of humankind."

"And when I reach my level..."

As Li Wuyi spoke, a wisp of emerald green breeze, mixed with a ball of water that seemed to gather out of thin air, formed a small water vapor tornado shaped like a funnel in his palm.

But that's not the most shocking thing.

Instead, the water on the waterspout suddenly burst into flames to everyone's astonishment.

"I... I didn't see wrong, did I?" Xu Fengnian rubbed his eyes hard, wondering if he was hallucinating. How could a fire start in water?

Huang Longshi swallowed hard, his eyes filled with deep despair, yet he couldn't help but reveal curiosity: "Above the Celestials, one can confuse water and fire, change heaven and earth, or rather... change the essence of all things?"

"Ah, the Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao."

"Figure it out yourself."

Li Wuyi smiled slightly, seemingly too lazy to explain, and with a clench of his right hand, the water-flame tornado vanished instantly.

He didn't glance at Huang Longshi again, but instead turned his gaze to Xu Fengnian and Li Chungang, and said in a low voice, "Tomorrow is the enthronement ceremony of my prince, no matter what your purpose is in coming to the Ming Dynasty."

"I hope you all better abide by the law."

"Otherwise, you won't be so lucky next time we come."

As Li Wuyi spoke, without waiting for Xu Fengnian and Li Chungang's reaction, he waved his hand and ordered the secret guards to seal Huang Longshi's extraordinary meridians and dantian, and also to lock his collarbone and escape.

As for Wang Xianzhi, in Li Wuyi's view, he could only sigh helplessly, suppress the surging martial arts insights in his mind, and obediently follow the secret guards.

This scene was naturally not surprising to the common people of the Ming Dynasty and the experts around them.

They had already experienced firsthand how powerful and terrifying the Xuanjia Secret Guards were.

However, for Xu Fengnian and Li Chungang, the sight of Wang Xianzhi, who had been invincible in the Jianghu for sixty years, bowing his head in front of the secret guards filled them with mixed feelings and made them extremely complicated.

Xu Fengnian watched Li Wuyi and his men disappear into the distance before belatedly realizing what was happening, feeling somewhat bewildered:

"This……"

"Leaving now?"

Li Chungang calmed his boiling blood and surging true energy, then glared at Xu Fengnian with annoyance: "Otherwise, would you rather be captured with Huang Longshi, or go as a guest with that group of secret guards like Wang Xianzhi?"

"Uh, haha, I... that's not what I meant." Xu Fengnian smiled awkwardly. He was just momentarily stunned; he wasn't stupid.

Just then, a mocking voice rang in their ears.

"Your Highness, it's best not to be too happy too soon."

The sudden voice and the meaning behind it made Xu Fengnian, who had just relaxed a little, jump his heart back into his throat, because he recognized who was speaking.

It was none other than the weasel-faced guy who had just kicked down the door.

It seems to be called something like...Sikong Zhaixing?
Li Chungang's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but cast a suspicious glance at Xu Fengnian, as if asking, "How come you always run into enemies and trouble wherever you go?"

(End of this chapter)