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Chapter 185: Chapter 182: Cleaning Up
"Ah!"
The flying sword shattered.
Wen Rulong, Zhang Wuliang, and Xie Shanhe, who had been attempting a full-force sword control breakthrough, couldn’t retract their Yin Gods in time. Affixed to the flying swords, their Yin Gods collapsed with them, and they each suffered a backlash!
Three suppressed cries of agony emerged simultaneously from their mouths.
But at this moment, they could no longer care about the pain caused by the backlash of their Yin Gods. Their eyes were filled with panic as they struggled to preserve their lives amidst the barrage of bullets.
"Ah! My head! Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
"Someone! Come quickly! Help me leave!"
"Liu Yuji! Prepare the mounts, we must leave Star Curtain City at full speed!"
Their voices were filled with fear.
Each of them had thought they understood the Slaughter Spirit Artifact of Gu Jinlai well enough—the attack of the Slaughter Spirit Artifact could only be performed in a straight line, for which they had undergone specialized training to master the art of changing directions while controlling swords.
But...
They had never imagined that when six short-range defense cannons formed a dense interweaving net of fire, the deterrent power would be so tremendous.
The area within several hundred meters seemed to be entirely filled with barrages.
No matter which direction they attempted to break out from, they were swept up and torn apart by the metal storm filling the space.
That feeling of having nowhere to escape, no door to heaven and no way into the earth, deeply stimulated their nerves and even cast a shadow over their spirits.
From then on, they would likely never dare to face a firepower net constructed by five or six short-range defense cannons again.
The most terrifying thing was...
Their target was Gu Jinlai!
Yet, Gu Jinlai had not even made a move, and the three of them had their flying swords broken by the short-range defense cannons carried by Gu Chifeng and others around him.
This blow was the real reason they had quickly ordered a retreat from Star Curtain City.
It would have been better had they not drawn their swords.
Once they had drawn their swords and their Yin Gods were backlashed against, not only was their state affected, but the Divine Thought fluctuations they emitted could no longer be hidden as before.
With Gu Jinlai advancing with strides as long as meteors, when his form appeared below the city wall of Star Curtain City, his body had already rapidly expanded to become a majestic giant, nearly five meters tall.
The Eternal Furnace was in operation, and golden radiance shone continuously on him, making him appear like a divine being too awe-inspiring to look directly at.
With a slight bend of his legs, a burst of power exploded, and after a tremor of the earth, his body shot up like a cannonball, breaking through the air current to rush toward the heavens, and then...
He heavily "smashed" into the city wall made of bluestone.
"Bang!"
The burst of power dispersed the air waves.
The place where he stood instantly cracked, and countless stone chips splattered all around.
The battlements near the edge of the wall, under this force, shattered into pieces, and a good half of the wall collapsed directly.
Stone chips mixed with gravel continued to fall from the city wall, stirring up a burst of dust.
Before the dust had time to disperse, the violent force inside Gu Jinlai burst forth again.
With his body crouching again on the wall and using it to push off, his figure soared high up, like a boulder thrown by a catapult, wrapped in a whirlwind, smashing into the void thirty meters above, and in one breath crossed a hundred-meter distance.
The wall, already half-collapsed under the force he borrowed, finally could no longer bear the load, and with a thunderous rumble, it completely collapsed, breaking into numerous stone chips.
A few Gang Condensation Level Experts, who happened to be patrolling this section of the wall, were struck by the flying stone chips and were knocked out, spitting blood.
If it had been ordinary soldiers, these bursting stone chips would have been enough to turn all soldiers within a ten-meter radius into a mist of blood.
Gu Jinlai paid no attention to this, using his perception of the Mental Realm to lock on the aura of the Divinity Transformation Cultivator Zhang Wuliang very accurately as he ascended into the void.
Zhang Wuliang.
Then...
He twisted his body.
The Cheng Ying Sword in his hand, like a ribbon cutting through the void, was thrown out, spinning rapidly with a thundering whistle to break the sound barrier, and in a cloud of white mist, it viciously slashed towards the figure that had just escaped six hundred meters away.
Zhang Wuliang, protected by his trusted aides, felt a chilling sensation and instinctively turned around to look back.
Just in time to see the Cheng Ying Sword cutting through the air, stirring up a trail of white waves, rapidly approaching before him.
"Gu Jinlai!"
In this moment of life and death, he only had time to shout out loudly as the Supreme Treasure Level Sabre suspended at his waist roared out of its sheath and slashed, bursting out a dazzling Sword Gang.
"Boom!"
The Sword Gang burst apart.
The rapidly spinning Cheng Ying Sword, with an overwhelming force, crushed Zhang Wuliang’s Sword Gang, shattered the Supreme Treasure in his hand, split open the spiritual armor he wore that was at the level of a Treasure Armor, and cut his body in two, then continued without losing momentum to slash into the ground six meters behind him, raising stone chips and dust.
"Clang!"
The sound of the Cheng Ying Sword entering the ground echoed clearly in the void.
"I..."
Zhang Wuliang’s eyes widened, seemingly anticipating something, his eyes revealing uncontrollable shock and terror, "I’ve been split open..."
The next moment, as if all the strength had been drained from his body, he could no longer maintain his body that had been cut in two and fell down unwillingly.
"General Zhang!"
"My general!"
At his side, one trusted aide after another let out cries of grief.
However, Gu Jinlai no longer paid any attention to them.
His figure crossed over a hundred meters, without the slightest pause, his feet erupted in power once again, speeding along at full speed.
The only flaw of the Crossing the World movement technique was that it wasn’t good at nimble shifting and dodging.
When facing an opponent who was evenly matched and proficient in movement techniques, he would completely be played around by the opponent. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝖚𝖇.𝔠𝔬𝖒
But in terms of straight-line speed and long-distance chasing...
It was top-tier among many movement techniques.
Naturally, this technique consumed a lot of energy and couldn’t last long in actual combat.
But the remaining Wen Rulong and Xie Shanhe, who were backfiring from the Yin God, severely wounded in spirit, the so-called lack of longevity to catch up to them was more than enough.
His figure was like a cannonball, raising dust and smoke.
As he flew close by some pavilions, the severe friction and collisions between his body and the air created hurricanes strong enough to shatter all the glass and porcelain within those pavilions.
Luckily, Star Curtain City was fairly affluent, with most houses built from brick and stone, sturdily constructed; if it had been some remote and backward area, perhaps one use of force from him on the ground, bursting with power, would have caused all buildings within dozens of meters to collapse.
Maintaining terrifying high-speed, Gu Jinlai’s figure instantly swept over the space above Zhang Wuliang’s corpse.
His several Hugging Pill Realm trusted aides, furious, wanted to intercept him to avenge the general, but they simply couldn’t catch up to Gu Jinlai’s speed.
The Sword Gang, struck in anger, had just been unleashed when Gu Jinlai had already snatched away the Cheng Ying Sword, and his figure appeared dozens of meters away.
Besides, even if their Sword Gang had hit Gu Jinlai, they wouldn’t have been able to penetrate the defense of the top-grade spiritual armor he wore.
Not to mention the defensive power inherently carried by his Middle Level Demon body.
At this moment, compared to when Gu Jinlai first came to this world, how much stronger had he become?
The Hugging Pill Masters who could pose a lethal threat to him then now couldn’t even dream of breaking through his defenses.
"Hugging Pill belongs to the Refining Essence to Qi Stage, the second major stage and its peak, upwards, Refining God, Divinity Transformation, and Primordial Spirit belong to the third major stage. If talking about fair combat alone, my current strength is considered not weak even among the Primordial Spirit Monarchs, and the difference between the Second Rank Peak and Third Rank Peak is an entire major realm..."
Gu Jinlai sped along, his thoughts whirling.
He had been in this world for less than three years.
Three years to cross a major realm.
Despite the fact that he himself had fallen from the initial stages of the Third Rank, this pace was still unprecedented.
Even those prodigies who had been nourished with Treasure Medicines since childhood couldn’t match him.
A moment of thought passed, and Wen Rulong’s figure was already close at hand.
Seemingly sensing that he couldn’t escape, Wen Rulong, regardless of the severe wound in his spirit, transmitted through mental projection, "Heavenly Monarch Gu, Ancient City Lord, I manage all the operations and order of the State Lord Mansion, even Qi Fenglei relied on my substantial support to sit on the throne of the State Governor. If you, Gu Jinlai, would spare me, I am willing to serve Heavenly Monarch Gu and help you take down the State Lord Mansion, and from today onwards, you will be the Lord of Star State!"
"Your words tempt me greatly,"
Gu Jinlai said sincerely, "Because in that way, it would reduce the casualties of countless people and significantly shorten the process of unifying Star State."
Hearing this, Wen Rulong’s eyes sparkled with intense light, "Exactly, exactly, with my assistance, Star State would indeed be easily conquered for Heavenly Monarch Gu."
He understood clearly whether Dragon Sparrow Manor had the intention of making them and Gu Jinlai inflict mutual destruction, or perhaps using them to probe Gu Jinlai’s true strength, but as long as they desired to take over Star State, they would inevitably have to confront Gu Jinlai next; therefore, as long as he survived this moment...
"I wish to spare your life to reduce the deaths and injuries of more innocents, but..."
Gu Jinlai looked at the Dark Red Karma almost engulfing Wen Rulong in black and said, "Life is important, but the grievances of the dead cannot go unavenged. If a person’s abilities could erase all the wrongs he had committed over the years with a single stroke... I couldn’t face my own heart!"
Wen Rulong’s face drastically changed.
Without hesitation, he shouted, "Liu Yuji, stop him!"
And under the condition of severe spirit damage, he forcibly triggered a Forbidden Technique, and his speed suddenly surged.
However, after saying those words, Gu Jinlai had not hesitated for a moment and struck with full force.
The Cheng Ying Sword suddenly shot out from his hand, spinning at high speed, emitting a sharp whistling as it slashed toward Wen Rulong.
Although Liu Yuji, possessing the Refining God Realm, was ready to sacrifice his life, stepping forward to intercept Gu Jinlai head-on, because he hadn’t anticipated Gu Jinlai’s method of attack, he watched helplessly as Cheng Ying Sword ruthlessly struck Wen Rulong’s body...
"Bang!"
Sparks flew.
In a critical moment, Wen Rulong horizontally positioned his sword as if to block the blade of Cheng Ying Sword.
But Cheng Ying Sword not only possessed the Big and Small Ruyi and tenacity traits, it also contained sharpness and the power of Thousand Catties.
The piercing blade, carrying the force of a thousand catties, boldly cleaved through Wen Rulong’s front sword, and with its high-speed rotation, this strike hardly lost any power and unrelentingly sliced into Wen Rulong’s body.
Even though he activated True Yuan to protect his body at the last moment, at best, it only ensured his body wasn’t smashed by Cheng Ying Sword; however, he couldn’t avoid his body being swiftly cut open as if it were tofu.
He struggled to lift his head, glaring at Gu Jinlai with venomous eyes, his Mental Projection still not dispersed...
"Dragon Sparrow Manor... will not let you go... I’ll be waiting for you below..."
"Are you referring to Ye Wuxia, Wang Yinfeng, and the seven Divinity Transformation cultivators including Su Wen? Then you don’t need to wait."
Gu Jinlai looked at him calmly, "You might as well hurry along the road to the netherworld; you might catch up with them."
Upon hearing this, Wen Rulong incredulously widened his eyes, "You..."
Before he could finish speaking, blood spilled and his figure utterly collapsed,
Taking with him a trail of shock and unwillingness as he fell.
