I became a Sword Emperor in the Martial Arts World

Chapter 232 Father's Kindness, Daughter's Filial Piety, Queen Mother of the West

Lian Lingxiao's phoenix eyes flashed with killing intent. The wrath of the Martial God was like the mighty power of the heavens, pressing down like Mount Tai.

The boundless power of thought, like a raging torrent, instantly engulfed Ye Qingzhou's mental world.

Yet, amidst the deep, solemn, and deathly darkness, a ray of sword light pierced through the waves and broke through the clouds, standing proudly between heaven and earth.

Unyielding and dazzling!

True strength lies in the strength of the mind; even when facing a god high above, one has the courage to wield a sword!

"Excellent sword intent."

Their eyes met for only a moment before Lian Lingxiao sensed the purity and resolve of Ye Qingzhou's sword intent: "Unfortunately, you have defied me, and you will surely die today."

With a flap of his golden wings, Lian Lingxiao moved abruptly, entering a super-fast state and rushing towards Ye Qingzhou at thirty times the speed of sound.

Such speed was so incredible that even Lian Qixia and Lian Hongying could not save them in time.

"Die!"

As Lian Lingxiao unleashed his sword strike, a bright moon instantly rose into the sky. The light of the divine sword reflected the brilliance of the moon, creating a scene of breathtaking beauty.

The bright red flames, like water lily petals dancing in the night sky, foreshadowed that the enemy's life had reached its end, death.

"Divine Heavenly Slash", a Heaven-rank martial skill, the Divine Blade Slashes the Moon!

However, this devastating attack was blocked by an invisible barrier just three feet away from Ye Qingzhou.

The aftershocks of the massive attack, when they reached Ye Qingzhou, barely ruffled his hair, like a gentle breeze, posing no threat whatsoever.

"Um?"

Lian Lingxiao realized something was wrong and tried to back away, but it felt as if a thousand mountains were pressing down on her, making even a powerful martial goddess like her feel breathless and her shoulders heavy: "The royal city's grand formation is attacking me? How is that possible?"

Despite possessing the bloodline of the Rakshasa royal family, Lian Lingxiao found it unbelievable that he was not only unable to receive the protection of the great formation, but was instead being suppressed.

"To be able to instantly detect that I set up the formation and determine that my location is the core of the formation, I must say, you are exceptionally intelligent and decisive."

Ye Qingzhou was only fifteen meters away from Lian Lingxiao. With the latter's cultivation level, he could kill him with a flick of his wrist: "What a pity, you were already a dead man when you stepped into this formation."

At this moment, Ye Qingzhou is protected by the formation, so attacking him is equivalent to attacking the entire royal city formation.

Before the formation is broken, even if the God of War wanted to kill him, it would be difficult to succeed in a short time.

Of course, even with Ye Qingzhou's strength, it would be difficult for him to kill a Martial God.

But this battle didn't even require him to lift a finger.

"Sisters Wang, it's up to you now."

"kill!"

Seeing that Ye Qingzhou was unharmed, Lian Hongying immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Then, her gaze turned cold, and she glared at Lian Lingxiao with murderous intent: "Colluding with foreign enemies and plotting to kill the emperor, you deserve to die!"

Wherever the blade pointed, Lian Lingxiao was judged by Lian Hongying to be a sinner of the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom.

Immediately, the power of the Great Dao pressed down on Lian Lingxiao, suppressing her layer by layer.

"Heh, it's all about the winner, the loser is the one who's guilty, but I haven't lost yet!"

In the midst of verbal sparring, what is represented is a contest of 'the Way'.

It was seen that the power of the 'Dao' also surged from Lian Lingxiao's body, and the 'Dao' she chose was none other than the path of 'protection' represented by the King's Way.

In mid-air, the two forces of Dao collided with each other. Lian Lingxiao shook her shoulders and broke free of the "shackles" of sinners that Lian Hongying had put on her.

"Your path is actually protection?"

Lian Qixia chuckled, and at the same time, she gathered her true essence, displaying her domineering power.

The three martial gods, each wielding a different "Dao" power, clashed fiercely before Ye Qingzhou, captivating him completely and keeping his eyes glued to the screen.

"Grandmasters refine evil spirits into their bodies, Martial Saints condense their inner energy into divine spirit, and when one reaches the realm of Martial God, the inner energy and evil spirits merge, Yin and Yang intertwine, and true energy is refined into true essence, thus entering the realm of the beginning of a new beginning, directly reaching the origin of the Dao, bearing the great power of the Great Dao, and forming a world of one's own."

At this moment, the methods used by the God of War were beyond the imagination of ordinary martial artists. Every move he made was a mighty force capable of moving mountains and filling seas.

A seemingly ordinary slash can easily cleave a mountain range hundreds of miles long.

A casual palm strike can instantly create a tsunami tens of meters high.

If Ye Qingzhou hadn't used the royal city's formation to absorb and transform the aftershocks of the three's attacks, the entire royal city and the millions of Rakshasa people living there would likely have suffered annihilation.

"Saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-story pagoda. I've saved so many people, it would be enough to build a new Buddhist kingdom, wouldn't it? Such immeasurable merit, yet no divine favor has been bestowed upon me?"

The Rakshasa clan's will of Heaven is a bit stingy.

What?

Was this conflict something I deliberately provoked?

Oh, that's okay.

Ye Qingzhou remained seated, continuing to maintain the operation of the great formation, while cheering on Lian Hongying and Lian Qixia: "Sisters, give it your all! The dawn of victory has appeared, so you must not falter."

Just as he finished speaking, Lian Qixia, who had just been cleaved away by Lian Lingxiao's blade and was covered in dust, overheard these words and immediately became furious. She glared at Ye Qingzhou and said, "Stop talking nonsense!"

Lian Qixia then turned back and charged into the battle, continuing her attack on Lian Lingxiao.

The more the battle raged, the more uneasy Lian Lingxiao felt: "Even if Lian Qixia and Lian Hongying join forces, they can only fight me to a draw at best. Given some time, breaking through shouldn't be difficult for me, so why did I receive a warning from Heaven, causing me to act impulsively?"

Filled with doubt and confusion, Lian Lingxiao grew increasingly agitated: "It must have been that brat's doing!"

If Ye Qingzhou hadn't interfered, her plan would have already been largely successful.

Once Lian Huozhi passes away, she can secretly sow discord between the Lian Qixia and Lian Hongying sisters. They already have many conflicts, and with just a little bit of conflict, she can surely turn them against each other and fight to the death.

Once the two sisters are both severely injured, it will be time for Lian Lingxiao to step in and clean up the mess.

Unfortunately, this perfect plan was completely ruined by Ye Qingzhou's appearance.

Now, not only is Lian Huozhi still alive, but he himself is also in a predicament, being besieged by Lian Qixia and Lian Hongying.

Just as the three were locked in the most intense battle, Ye Qingzhou took out the Shennong Cauldron, held the Dou character seal in his left hand, and resonated with the Yan Di and Longyuan swords in his mind. With his right hand, he grasped the Xing character seal and silently practiced the Yan Yang Bao Zhuan divine skill to transform the Earth Core Fiend Fire into the Six Ding Divine Fire.

"Heaven and Earth Furnace, activate the formation!"

Boom~

The lava tore a huge gash in the earth beneath their feet, and flames raged across the sky, the intense heat scorching the air and turning the low-hanging night sky a deep red.

At this moment, the Shennong Cauldron transformed into the array's core, gathering all the array power of Qiyu City onto Liuhuo Tianjie, turning the place into a giant furnace.

As the Six Ding Divine Fire continued to rise, Lian Lingxiao finally understood where the warning from Heaven came from.

"The Six Ding Divine Fire, the furnace of heaven and earth? You are a descendant of Emperor Yan!"

Lian Lingxiao was filled with despair. She had planned everything, but she hadn't anticipated Ye Qingzhou as a variable. She was also unaware that he possessed the inheritance of the Yan Emperor and that the Six Ding Divine Fire would be used to refine her to death here.

"One wrong move, and the whole game is lost!"

The raging fiery flames transformed into fiery shackles, binding Lian Lingxiao and slowly dragging her into the magma.

"I'm so unwilling to accept this!"

Lian Lingxiao still wanted to struggle, but how could she possibly resist the power of the royal city's grand formation?

Not to mention, there were two other martial arts masters of the same level nearby who kept kicking her while she was down, and in no time at all, they knocked her to the ground.

"fall!"

At Ye Qingzhou's command, the head guard under Lian Hongying led a group of silver-armored guards from the Chanwang Mansion to dump cartloads of rare minerals into the sea of ​​fire.

The sheer quantity of these artifacts, exceeding a thousand tons of various priceless rare gold and stones, is simply extravagant to the extreme.

But this money had to be spent; to forge divine weapons, metal mines were essential.

Ye Qingzhou formed the Sun and Moon Seal with his hands, using the technique of making all things equal and heaven and earth one with him to transform the spiritual energy of the earth's veins, gather it together, and inject it into the five metals and minerals.

The earth's energy was continuously extracted and fused with the metal minerals. Almost instantly, it was refined into liquid "golden water" by the Six Ding Divine Fire.

These scorching "golden liquids," as if possessing a spirit, transformed into five golden snakes that coiled around Lian Lingxiao's body, dissolving her flesh and blood until only an indestructible martial skeleton and a pair of golden wings remained. The pair of fiery wings that Lian Lingxiao had painstakingly crafted were now being used to benefit others, slowly melted and reforged into two golden longswords.

"Ladies Wang, please lend me a hand!"

"good!"

Lian Hongying responded to the call, and immediately a crimson lotus flower bloomed angrily in the sky.

With a thunderous roar, divine power transformed into thunderclouds, and streaks of lightning danced and roared wildly in the night sky, their sound reverberating for miles around.

From within the dark clouds, a crimson Garuda bird soared out and crashed violently into the golden twin blades!

Ye Qingzhou sensed the raging karmic fire on the Garuda divine bird, a powerful aura of punishing evil and promoting good, and immediately understood that this was the power of the Great Dao of Lian Hongying.

The two golden knives will become her tools for carrying out her principles in the future.

Rumble~

Thunder descended from the heavens, and bolts of lightning, one after another, struck the golden blade like heavy hammers, creating bursts of scorching sparks.

Click~

The longsword formed by the golden wings shattered at the blade, but as the "golden water" flowed in, the blade was constantly reforged, breaking and rebuilding again and again. Not only did its shape change, but its aura also grew stronger.

Finally, even Lian Lingxiao's remnant soul was incorporated into it, becoming a key material for forging the weapon's spirit.

After all, he was a powerful Martial God, and at the peak of the tenth level of the Ascension Realm, only half a step away from the Heavenly King Martial God Realm of the eleventh level of the Ascension Realm.

Therefore, her soul quality is extremely high, possessing incredible divine power.

At this moment, the blade that was integrated into the Divine Wing Golden Blade absorbed the power of the Great Dao that Lian Hongying had injected into the blade. After the two merged together, a brand new weapon spirit was born.

At this moment, the Divine Wing Golden Blade has been transformed into a pair of peerless divine weapons.

Its entire body shone with golden light, exuding a majestic and imposing aura, like the golden wings of the Garuda bird, both magnificent and sharp, possessing unparalleled domineering power and strength.

buzz~

The Divine Wing Golden Blade flew automatically into Lian Hongying's hand, as if a swallow returning to its nest, affectionately snuggling towards her. The latter gripped the hilt, overjoyed.

Ye Qingzhou smiled and congratulated her, saying, "The divine weapon is complete. Are you satisfied, Sister Wang?"

"I will never forget the kindness of my brother, the king."

"Hmph~"

Lian Qixia interrupted with a displeased expression, saying, "I'm not satisfied."

"Sister Qixia, you are already the queen of the Rakshasa Kingdom. You should have a broader perspective."

"I don't care, I contributed a lot to this battle, and I want everything she has!"

"That's true."

Ye Qingzhou nodded: "How about this? The martial bones left behind by Queen E can still be forged into a piece of armor. Although it's not as powerful as a divine weapon, its might is still enough to be considered divine. I'll spend some time here forging this divine armor for my sister, shall I?"

Above the highest grade is the divine grade, which greatly enhances the power of a martial god. Any one of these pieces is not only priceless, but would even tempt a martial god to exchange for it, and would be willing to give up the resources of an entire nation.

"You're smart to know what's good for you."

Lian Qixia nodded proudly, then said generously, "Please feel free to tell me what you need."

"Legend has it that the Kingdom of Rakshasa once received a branch of the Jianmu tree from the Queen Mother. If this rare treasure is used to forge armor, it may be possible for the divine armor to be blessed with the innate energy of the Jianmu tree and to possess spatial supernatural powers."

"The Jianmu tree grows atop Kunlun Mountain, thousands of feet above the ground, serving as a staircase connecting the three realms of heaven, earth, and humanity. Do you know how precious its branches are?"

If I didn't know, I wouldn't have asked you for it.

Ye Qingzhou smiled inwardly; he had long had his eye on this divine artifact of the highest caliber.

However, this item has always been kept in the treasury of the Rakshasa Kingdom. Even though Lian Huozhi, the stepmother, seems quite easy to get along with, there is no way she would hand over such a precious treasure to Ye Qingzhou.

Therefore, Ye Qingzhou wanted to change the queen of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

And right now is a good opportunity.

Ye Qingzhou looked directly into Lian Qixia's eyes and reminded her, "Your Majesty, although the Jianmu tree is precious, treasures only have meaning when they are transformed into power and used on oneself. As for piling it up on the shelf, it might become someone else's someday."

Upon hearing this, Lian Qixia was immediately persuaded.

To put it bluntly, it's like a son selling his father's land without a second thought.

Of course, the more important reason is that Lian Hongying already possesses a divine weapon and has mastered the combat power of a Heavenly King Martial God at the eleventh realm.

On the other hand, Queen Lian Qixia has not yet refined the divine weapon inherited by the Rakshasa Kingdom and has not mastered the combat power of the eleventh realm, which makes her seem incomplete.

Ye Qingzhou used this point to persuade Lian Qixia.

Afterwards, Lian Qixia personally went to the treasury to retrieve a branch of the Jianmu tree and handed it to Ye Qingzhou: "Don't mess this up. The Jianmu branch is extremely precious. The Queen Mother bestowed this divine object upon us because she saw that the founding ancestor of my Rakshasa Kingdom had made great contributions to Kunlun Divine Mountain. There is only one of its kind."

"Your Majesty, please rest assured and wait for my good news."

Ye Qingzhou was full of confidence in this, and then he sat cross-legged and began to use Lian Lingxiao's sternum to forge a half-body armor.

Although it wasn't him who died, Ye Qingzhou couldn't help but feel a sense of shared sorrow: "E Wang was so powerful in her lifetime, but after her death, her bones were used to forge weapons and armor. It's truly pitiful and lamentable."

Lian Qixia couldn't help but complain from the side, "Hypocrite! Wasn't this all your idea from beginning to end?"

"Sister Wang, don't you find this strange?"

Ye Qingzhou casually mentioned his doubts: "The bones and souls of Martial Gods are the most suitable materials in the world for forging divine weapons. That is to say, the technique of forging with the help of heaven and man is strictly sealed. Otherwise, in the Kunlun Cave Heaven, Martial Gods would probably become regular harvested leeks."

"..."

Lian Qixia had never thought about this question before.

Before meeting Ye Qingzhou, she had only heard of the "Heavenly Forging Scripture" passed down by Emperor Yan, and had no idea that the Martial God was actually the "main material" for forging divine weapons.

Hearing Ye Qingzhou's words, she was startled and blurted out, "Ragnarok!"

"What Ragnarok?"

Ye Qingzhou did not understand what he meant.

Lian Qixia then revealed this ancient secret to Ye Qingzhou: "Legend has it that in ancient times, west of Kunlun Mountain, there was a powerful pantheon dominated by the Mao tribe. The Heavenly Emperor at that time was Di Jun, the supreme powerhouse of the Yu tribe, and the Queen Mother was Di Jun's daughter, a hybrid deity born from the marriage of Di Jun and a god of the Mao tribe. As a result, the Queen Mother of the West was extremely favored and, by Di Jun's order, was stationed in Kunlun, commanding all the gods."

"Di Jun?"

When Ye Qingzhou traveled to the capital of the capital, he read some local travelogues that recorded the story of this ancient god-emperor who was revered by the Dongyi people.

According to speculation, this is a powerful Emperor Realm expert at the twelfth level of the Ascension Realm, or even one of the top-ranked God Emperors in the Emperor Realm, and the ruler of the ancient Feather Clan.

The ancestors of the Dongyi people, such as Emperor Yan and Chi You, had all received the favor of Emperor Jun and had close ties with the Yu people.

It wasn't until the Battle of Zhuolu, where the Jiuli suffered a major defeat, that Emperor Jun's name gradually disappeared from the Central Plains. After the Dongyi tribe also disappeared, he vanished completely.

Recalling the Battle of Zhuolu, in which the Queen Mother of the West secretly assisted the Yellow Emperor in defeating the Jiuli group led by Chi You, Ye Qingzhou began to ponder the complex relationship between Emperor Jun and the Queen Mother of the West, father and daughter.

What kind of filial piety story is this?

Lian Qixia was unaware that Ye Qingzhou's mind had begun to wander. She continued, "Originally, the Eastern and Western pantheons were communicating more and more closely. But suddenly one day, a large number of the Mao tribe gods perished, and then very few remained. This is Ragnarok."

Mentioning this matter, Lian Qixia still felt lingering fear: "To this day, this matter remains shrouded in mystery. If we are only speculating, it is likely that a powerful figure is secretly plotting to hunt down gods and forge divine weapons."

"No wonder all the martial arts masters are hiding in their caves, not daring to leave even a step."

Ye Qingzhou now understood many things he couldn't understand before, such as how someone as powerful as Kang Jinlong was willing to stay in Lingyun Cave as a tortoise, a ten-thousand-year-old dragon.

It seems the older you get in the martial arts world, the more timid you become.

At this moment, Ye Qingzhou was simultaneously trying to learn about many ancient secrets from Lian Qixia, while also secretly refining the branches of the Jianmu tree to strengthen the Flying Frost Sword.

(End of this chapter)