I became a Sword Emperor in the Martial Arts World

Chapter 216 Acting on Behalf of Heaven, Slaying Evil Without Mercy

"Brother Wen, let's go."

"Where to?"

"To watch the excitement."

Ye Qingzhou led Huang Liwen away from the courtyard where they lived.

At that moment, as the city's protective formation was destroyed, the rebel soldiers outside Huajian City seemed to have been prepared and immediately launched an attack on the city.

Beset by internal and external troubles, the city gates were quickly breached.

"Kill them!"

"The city has fallen! Victory! Victory!"

"Anyone who dares to resist is a lackey of the royal family; kill them all without exception!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Soon, a massacre began. The crazed rebel soldiers were like wild beasts, instinctively craving to "hunt" everything in their sight.

Only in this way can they slightly satisfy the insatiable desires that have been growing in their hearts.

The rebel army, which claimed to be overthrowing the tyranny of the Rakshasa Kingdom, did nothing but burn, kill, and loot as soon as they entered the city.

Using justice as a pretext to commit unjust acts.

Initially, the outer city districts were hit by industries related to the nobility, such as various luxury shops, especially gold and silver jewelry and silk fabrics, which became the most sought-after commodities by the rebels.

As for rare and precious items, they are very rare in the outer city; even if you wanted to steal them, you wouldn't know where to go.

As the looting continued, the rebel soldiers gradually lost control of their bestiality, and not only the nobles' properties, but also many wealthy merchants and commoners became targets of the rebels' hunt.

Then came the women's cries and wails. Anyone who dared to disobey would be branded as a royal lackey and executed on the spot.

Robbery, murder, arson, and the abuse of women followed one after another. This group, which claimed to overthrow the tyranny of the monarchy, was itself ten times more tyrannical than the monarchy.

Some rebel groups even turned on each other due to disputes over the distribution of spoils, further exacerbating the chaos.

The once bustling streets are now lined with corpses, and the blood has stained the stone pavement black and red.

"They've gone mad, they've all gone mad! This place is like hell on earth."

This was the first time Huang Liwen had ever witnessed such a horrific scene. His face turned pale, and along with fear, he also felt a surge of anger.

Because almost all the dead were commoners, including many women and children, and there were no nobles at all.

Most of the nobles in Huajian City live in the inner city.

"These rebels claim to overthrow the monarchy's tyranny, so why are they turning their swords on the people of the outer city?"

Huang Liwen felt that the rebels were simply incomprehensible.

Ye Qingzhou's gaze was icy, and he was equally furious: "Because the reason they want to overthrow the existing royal family is not to resist injustice, but simply to become the new royal family."

As they were talking, the two unexpectedly encountered a group of rebel soldiers.

The weapons in the other party's hands were all stained with blood, and he carried large and small bags on his back, which were filled with clothes and jewelry of various styles, obviously from different owners.

Looking at the bloodstains and tears on the backpacks, one can easily guess what happened to their original owners.

"Humans?"

"Dressed in fine clothes and with delicate skin, he must be a royal lackey!"

"Kill them!"

The bloodthirsty rebel soldiers, upon seeing Ye Qingzhou and Huang Liwen's attire and appearance, could no longer suppress their greed and charged forward, brandishing their knives.

Clang~

Ye Qingzhou pointed his fingers like a sword, and with one finger each, he killed all the small fry in the blink of an eye.

Huang Liwen, however, was worried about the safety of Yin Yulan and Yin Guangwu: "I wonder if the two little ones are safe, sigh..."

"You're barely able to take care of yourself, how can you have the energy to worry about others?"

"What do you know? I'm just being humane!"

Huang Liwen muttered something, but after taking only a few steps, he saw a human head rolling on the side of the road and was startled: "It's...it's Yin Ding'an!"

Clearly, he recognized the head as belonging to Yin Ding'an, the landlord who worked as a groom for the nobleman.

"We saw each other just this morning, how could he suddenly be dead?"

At this moment, Huang Liwen couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Ye Qingzhou couldn't help but sigh: "This is the chaotic world, where human life is as worthless as grass."

The two did not stop there, but continued towards the inner city. Now that Flower Stream City was in chaos, it was a good time to fish in troubled waters.

Just as they were passing by the ironware market, they heard the sounds of fierce fighting coming from inside.

Ding~

Ding ding~

Two tall figures were clashing swords. They were agile, fighting their way from the ground into the sky. Behind them were a pair of gray-white wings, which stirred up a howling wind with each flap.

One of them was none other than Qiong Jie, who had a hideous face but a kind heart. At this moment, he was bleeding profusely, and a long knife wound on his chest had ripped through his breastplate, the wound so deep that the bone was visible.

"Arrogant and impoverished!"

"Qiong Jie, you actually turned your sword against me for the sake of a few outsiders!"

Like Qiong Jie, Qiong Ao was a warrior of the Qiongqi tribe.

Even in terms of seniority, he was Qiong Jie's cousin, and the two came from the same tribe, but now they served different masters and became enemies on the battlefield.

Qiong Jie kept his duty to the letter and accepted the mission from the city guards to protect the people of the city and fight against the rebels.

Qiong Ao, on the other hand, joined the rebel army with the goal of assisting Duan Qianfeng and others in breaking through Huajian City.

Qiong Ao first swung his sword, feigning an attack, but as Qiong Jie parried, he turned his spear and slashed at the mother and her two children on the ground.

"Go to hell!"

Faced with the sharp glint of the blade, Yin Guangwu and Yin Yulan, the two siblings, helplessly embraced their mother, closed their eyes, and awaited their death.

"No!"

Qiong Jie was unable to save him and looked desperate and angry.

Just as Qiong Ao's deadly blade was about to engulf the mother and her two children, a magnificent sword aura swept across the sky, like the Yangtze River flowing to the sea never to return.

"Hmm? There's another expert!"

Sensing the power of this move, Qiong Ao's scalp tingled. He immediately abandoned Yin Guangwu and his two children, retreating while parrying with his sword.

clang clang ~

However, the sword energy surged endlessly, stretching without end, overwhelming and relentlessly crashing against Qiong'ao.

One sword aura after another slashed him hundreds of meters away before he finally stopped.

At this moment, Qiong Ao's hands, which were gripping the knife, were split open, and blood dripped from his wrists to the ground. He was also panting heavily, his gaze fixed solemnly on the street corner.

With light footsteps, Ye Qingzhou's tall figure emerged from the shadows unhurriedly, like a wealthy young master on an outing, elegant and composed.

"Brother Ye Long!"

Yin Guangwu stood in front of his mother and sister. He was not tall, but he already had the air of a man who could stand tall and upright.

Ye Qingzhou patted the little guy's head and said approvingly, "You take your mother and sister to a safe place first. Leave this to me."

Yin Guangwu held a dagger given to him by Ye Qingzhou in his hand and nodded seriously.

Then Ye Qingzhou looked at Qiong Jie and saw that he only looked miserable but was not seriously injured, so he joked, "Old Qiong, you're as bad as a master."

Qiong Jie rolled his eyes speechlessly: "I'm at the second level of the Ascension Realm, which, according to your human race's standards, is already a master level, okay?!"

"If you're going to cook, practice more. Don't make excuses."

Ye Qingzhou made a joke, then his gaze fell on Qiong Ao: "Old Qiong, this seven or eight-tenths resemblance, are you related?"

"My cousin."

"Do you need me to be spared?"

"..."

Qiong Jie remained silent. Although he was born into the Qiongqi clan and made a living by risking his life, he was already accustomed to killing.

But deep down, he still adhered to his own moral principles, which was never to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

In comparison, Qiong Ao's bottom line is much more flexible. This time, he accepted a job from the Black Mountain Bandits, followed Qiong Li, and stormed into Huajian City to create chaos.

In terms of crimes, Qiong Ao enjoyed torturing and killing the elderly, weak, women and children; hundreds of innocent people died at his hands.

But blood is thicker than water, and he couldn't bring himself to betray his own family for the greater good.

Ye Qingzhou saw Qiong Jie's dilemma, so he made the decision for him: "Understood. I'll kill the man and take the blame."

When Qiong Ao was swept by Ye Qingzhou's chilling gaze, he was immediately terrified, as if he had been dragged to the execution platform, with a guillotine held to his neck, making his spine go cold.

"Such intense killing intent!"

"This man is too strong to be defeated by force!"

Instinctively sensing the approach of death, Qiong Ao dared not hesitate and immediately flapped its wings to soar into the sky, wanting to escape the battlefield.

However, Ye Qingzhou had already decided to kill him, so how could he let him leave?

"Heaven has unleashed its killing intent; the stars have shifted their positions."

Ye Qingzhou drew his killing sword, Tianxing. His martial bones and sword intent resonated with each other, emitting a buzzing vibration.

The arrogant man was in mid-air when he suddenly felt a murderous intent strike him. He was locked onto by a chilling killing intent, and felt a coldness rush up his spine to his head.

"No!"

The surrounding starlight began to spin rapidly.

Qiong Ao felt a wave of confusion and dizziness in his brain, his five senses gradually lost, he could not judge his location, could not distinguish up from down, and could not even maintain a clear mind.

The only thing he could clearly feel at that moment was the phrase "imminent death"!

"Those who administer divine punishment are those who carry out punishments on behalf of Heaven, using killing to stop killing, and they will surely behead any evildoer."

Ye Qingzhou gripped the divine weapon in his hand tightly, acting as the embodiment of Heaven's punishment, and with a single sword strike, vanquished evil!

Super-level martial arts, mercilessly slaying evil!

This is a unique super-level martial skill that Ye Qingzhou developed after slaying countless evils and filth in the Chenli Kingdom, using the name of the Absolute Sword and incorporating countless mental energy.

Using public morality as the standard, the more heinous the person, the more powerful the sword of justice becomes.

After wiping out the entire Chenli Kingdom, Ye Qingzhou, under the alias Juejian, gained considerable fame worldwide, especially in Dongji Kingdom, where he became a household name due to his role in eliminating a telecommunications fraud ring.

Therefore, the Heavenly Punishment Sword has accumulated a massive amount of mental energy.

Ye Qingzhou had already absorbed the portion that could be purified and refined, using it to enhance his spiritual energy level.

The magazines that cannot be refined and absorbed are stored in the blade of the Heavenly Punishment Sword, used as fuel to activate the "Unforgiving Slaughter of Evil" technique.

At this moment, burning a million units of mental energy, Ye Qingzhou's sword strike was powerful enough to annihilate the mind of a master-level martial artist in one blow!

"You are guilty!"

"Guilty! Guilty!"

"Your crimes of rape, plunder, indiscriminate killing, cruelty, and inhumanity are countless... You are sentenced to death."

"Death penalty! Death penalty!"

At that moment, Qiong Ao clutched his head and screamed in agony. In his ears, it seemed as if a million people were shouting and howling at him, proclaiming his crimes.

A powerful spiritual shock is constantly testing the impoverished soul.

Public opinion can melt metal, and accumulated slander can destroy bones!

Public opinion is a fearsome thing; it can kill someone by destroying their spirit!

"I am innocent!"

"You are guilty!"

"Death penalty! Death penalty! No mercy!"

"No!!!"

The heavens unleash their killing intent, formless and without appearance; the sword that cuts down evil kills not only the body but also the soul!

Amidst countless curses of "guilty" and "death sentence," the arrogant spirit vanished in an instant, and his corpse fell from the sky, crashing down on a residential building.

Qiong Jie looked at Ye Qingzhou in disbelief. Although he had long guessed that Ye Qingzhou must be a martial arts expert, he never thought that he was so powerful.

Qiong Ao was his cousin, who entered the second level of the Ascension Realm a few years earlier than him.

It's unbelievable that he can't even withstand a single sword strike from Ye Qingzhou. Even killing a chicken would make it flap its wings twice.

Now, a martial arts master can just kick his legs and die instantly?

Ye Qingzhou sheathed his sword. That last strike had consumed a full one million units of mental energy, which made him feel quite distressed: "I'll have to squeeze more out of the fans in the live stream when I get back."

"Old and poor."

Ye Qingzhou called out to Qiong Jie.

"what?"

Qiong Jie was a little flustered.

"Does your Qiongqi clan have a custom of returning to one's roots and being buried in the earth for peace?"

"No, we practice sky burial. Why are you asking this?"

Qiong Jie looked puzzled.

Ye Qingzhou looked delighted: "That's good. Then I'll have to retrieve your cousin's body."

It's at least the corpse of a martial arts master; we can use puppetry techniques to modify it and turn it into a new combat puppet. As the saying goes, it's better to be prepared.

The more aliases you have, the better.

Upon hearing this, Qiong Jie was immediately terrified, thinking that Ye Qingzhou had some kind of strange necrophilia and liked to collect the corpses of masters to take back and make specimens for his own enjoyment.

Ye Qingzhou finally managed to dig out Qiong Ao's body from the collapsed house, but just then, a fierce battle broke out in the inner city. Three powerful auras shot straight into the sky, causing the wind and clouds to change color.

Within a radius of a hundred miles, the climate suddenly changed.

A fierce wind howled, a giant ape soared to the sky, and flames raged. The three mental forces, like three enormous sources of radiation, were constantly distorting the laws of heaven and earth in Flower Valley City.

"To substitute one's own heart for the will of Heaven—this is the power of a Martial Saint!"

Qiong Jie was utterly shocked: "The chaos in the outer city was just a feint. The real trump card is the combined attack of the three Martial Saints on the City Lord's Mansion!"

Ye Qingzhou stood on a pile of rubble, his gaze also fixed intently on the inner city. He silently activated his Heavenly Eye, just to witness the might of the Martial Saint and see this earth-shattering battle with his own eyes.

"Duan Qianfeng, I didn't expect you to be so secretive. You actually secretly crossed the life-or-death hurdle of the seventh level of the Ascension Realm and cultivated to the Martial Saint Realm."

A clear, melodious female voice, like that of a nightingale, resounded through the night sky, followed by a magnificent and grand mental image, blooming proudly like a red lotus of karmic fire.

The crimson flames, as red as blood, coalesced into the image of a six-petaled red lotus. The six petals were beautiful and pure, and under the intense light, all evil had nowhere to hide.

All sinful souls will be burned by the karmic fire of the red lotus.

Throughout the inner city, countless nobles of the Rakshasa Kingdom wailed and screamed in agony, especially some of the most heinous criminals, who were reduced to ashes by the flames of karma.

"No!"

"City Lord? Why?!"

"Lian Hongying, you have slaughtered nobles and disregarded the laws of the land; you will surely meet a terrible end!"

"Lord, spare our lives! We are willing to repent!"

Unfortunately, any screams, threats, or pleas for mercy were meaningless in the face of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire; only death awaited them.

"You actually managed to condense the Heart Image of the Pure World Red Lotus!?"

Duan Qianfeng was utterly shocked. The Crimson Lotus Heart Image was the core principle of the Rakshasa Kingdom's national martial art, "Divine Heavenly Fierce Slash." However, the Heart Image formed by the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire was not of a single type; rather, it varied from person to person.

Among these, the Pure World Red Lotus is the most powerful mental image, but also the most feared.

Because those who cultivate this kind of mindset must have a heart that purifies the world, be determined to eradicate evil completely, and be intolerant of even the slightest imperfection.

In the previous battles, Lian Hongying only revealed the image of the red lotus, and did not show the image of purifying the world.

Now that she has successfully lured the snake out of its hole, Lian Hongying no longer holds back and directly kills the evil nobles of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Huajian City, even if it incurs public wrath and makes her a target of public criticism in the future.

Because the strong are not subject to blame!

While Duan Qianfeng was filled with doubt and uncertainty, inside the City Lord's Mansion, Lian Hongying's aura was rising steadily, transforming into a seven-colored rainbow that soared into the sky.

A brilliant seven-colored ray of light illuminated an area of ​​hundreds of miles, enveloping the entire Flower Valley City.

"Oh no! She wants to bypass the Heavenly Divine Transformation stage and directly ascend to godhood, entering the realm of immortals and gods!"

Duan Qianfeng's face turned ashen; he had clearly figured out what Lian Hongying intended to do.

"What?"

Beside him, Yuan Jinyou, who revealed the image of Zhu Yanzhan Tianxin, looked horrified: "She really is a madwoman. But if she succeeds, we will all die without a burial place."

The realm of Martial God is beyond the comprehension of Martial Saint, therefore Lian Hongying must not be allowed to advance to Martial God.

"Let's all attack together!"

"good!"

Qiong Wu, the Martial Saint of the Qiongqi Clan, who revealed his ambition to travel thousands of miles, immediately responded: "Let the three of us join forces to break the inner city's magic array first. We absolutely cannot let this witch succeed!"

At this moment, Lian Hongying was sweeping across the entire city with the image of the Pure World Red Lotus. Anyone who had sins on their body was immediately subjected to the burning pain of karmic fire, screaming and wailing incessantly.

Those who commit minor offenses will only be given a small punishment as a warning.

But if someone's sins are unforgivable, they will be burned alive by the fires of karma and turned to ashes.

Tens of thousands of rebels were the first to be burned, and countless people who were committing evil deeds were instantly burned to ashes from the inside out by the karmic fire, and scattered by the wind.

Upon witnessing such a miracle, the people of Huajian City who were saved, as long as they were still alive, immediately prostrated themselves on the ground, knelt down in devout worship, and became Lian Hongying's most devout believers.

In an instant, a mountain of spiritual energy converged towards the City Lord's Mansion, becoming the resources for Lian Hongying to ascend to the Heavenly Ranks and become a deity.

"Holy crap!"

Huang Liwen was writhing on the ground in pain, clearly having done many bad things in the past.

However, he hadn't committed any serious crime, so his life wasn't in danger.

(End of this chapter)