The eunuchs collapsed to the ground, instantly causing another disturbance. This ti, however, none of the Jiuhua Hall retainers dared to move.
On Fengqing Hall’s side, with Xiao Shu’s orders, no one moved or left.
The crowd had been frightened by the Taoist’s demon-like martial arts, and everyone was afraid to make any rash moves.
But it was sowhat different with the governnt army of Jiuhua Hall; the soldiers had already been scared out of their wits, and at this shout, those at the very back quietly began to drop their weapons, bending over to drag so army clothing as they fled outside.
"Did you think my words were just wind by your ear?"
Lin Xin stepped forward, and his whole body soared into the air, leaping three ters high.
With a raise of his hand.
Shhhh!!!
From him as the center, a circle of gray specks burst out in all directions.
Within a few hundred ters, more than twenty soldiers who were trying to sneak away were all hit by the gray specks in an instant.
They fell to the ground without so much as a groan, dead.
Gurgle...
On the side of Jiuhua Hall, the retainers were so frightened that they began to swallow their saliva in terror.
Xiao Shu was also sweating coldly. He was secretly relieved that he had not resisted earlier, or else he feared that his luck would be running out by now.
So started to kneel and kowtow, begging for rcy, while many others were throwing down their weapons, giving up resistance.
There were those still hesitating, not sure what to do, standing in place.
Only a very few retainers, with flushed faces, gripped their weapons tightly, glaring fiercely at Lin Xin.
"Demon! Even if you kill today, when the might of the heavens descends, you will surely face the wrath of thunder! That will be your death day!!!"
A burly officer shouted furiously, raising his sword and charging at Lin Xin.
"Ignorant."
With a casual sword, a flash of silver light passed, and suddenly the burly officer’s body stiffened, frozen in place.
Bang!
His entire body exploded all at once, with flesh and innards turning into fragnts and splattered blood, flying everywhere.
"What is the might of the heavens? I, the Divine Monarch, am the might of heavens!!"
Lin Xin snorted coldly.
He was growing impatient.
Since he was sure that there were no other cultivators, he was the invincible existence here.
He decided to deal with this world as quickly as possible.
Spiritual Energy swirled in front of his chest and surged to his throat.
He spoke out loud.
"I, the Divine Monarch, will widely open the gate of my Lakeside Mountain Sect in Fengyi Town. Anyone within a hundred miles with intention can co forth for a test to beco a disciple. Join my Lakeside Mountain Sect."
"The path to longevity, only bestowed upon the destined!"
A technique for thousand-mile transmission opened, and even though the spiritual energy here was extrely scarce, he still managed to reach over a hundred miles.
This caused a sensation among all the people present.
Xiao Shu and the others heard the voice clearly in their ears, and they were all shocked.
The voice traveled far, sweeping into the distance, unknown how far it reached.
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Fengyi Town
"The path to longevity, only bestowed upon the destined."
A thunderous voice descended from the sky.
Several custors buying stead buns suddenly looked up, their faces stunned.
The stead bun vendor did the sa, his buns rolling off his hands to the ground, unnoticed.
Passersby on the street looked up at the sky, but saw nothing.
The sedan chair on its way stopped as well, with those inside getting out and looking up at the sky with shock.
The carriage slowed to a halt, and the coachman, too, looked up at the sky perplexedly, the source of the voice.
From every household where there were people, so walked out to look at the sky, and those who were busy all shook, imdiately rushing out to their courtyards.
Inside the governnt office, the officials with dull eyes and half-dressed erged with their concubines.
Even beggars on the road, idlers.
Servants from brothels and courtesans as well, they all heard the phrase at the sa ti.
Everyone looked up at the sky, the direction from where the voice ca.
"The immortals have revealed themselves... They have revealed themselves!!"
Soone knelt down and burst into tears, overwheld with joy.
But most were incredulous, as if what they had just heard was but an illusion.
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The wilderness.
A farr carrying goods walked on a mountain path.
Herbalists digging for herbs.
Miners and overseers in a cave mining, as well as travelers on the road speeding on their horses.
When they heard the sound, everyone thought they were hallucinating.
But the result was clear to see, not only had they heard it, but even the small animals in the wild ca out and looked up at the sky.
People all looked up, trying to find sothing speaking in the sky.
But how can a person reach the sky?
In a secluded farmhouse village in the deep mountains.
In a cave where a hidden Jianghu sect resides.
All those who originally lived peacefully ca out slowly, their faces full of astonishnt.
Lin Xin himself did not expect that the sound would spread not just a hundred miles, but a full thousand miles.
The dispersion of Elental Energy was far more powerful than he had anticipated, and this world, starved of Spiritual Energy, instantly ford a special Spiritual Pressure that spread in all directions.
To him, it was just a bit of spiritual power, but for this world, the concentration was already very high.
Fengyi Town and its surroundings for a thousand miles were shaken by the trendous sound, all living beings heard it in their ears.
At the entrance to the town, Wang Tong clutched the paper in his hand, feeling sweat starting to form in his palm.
Once he had dealt with his family matters, he asked the shopkeeper for so ti off. After hearing that the Taoist priest had left town and had not yet returned, the impatient Wang Tong ran directly to the town entrance to wait.
At the very mont he heard the sound, his heart leaped violently, as a huge wave of excitent surged within him.
For he recognized the voice, it belonged to the Taoist Priest who had given him the item in his hand.
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Lin Xin ordered King Qingjing to have all the personnel from King Zhou’s residence dispatched, one by one, to tally up the forces from Fengqing Hall and Jiuhua Hall.
Then he ford them into lineups and began to test each of them directly.
Having previously displayed his capabilities, everyone’s attitude towards him was now akin to that towards demons and wildest dreams; they didn’t dare to defy him.
Those who defied lay on the ground, unable to utter another word.
King Qingjing was also dumbfounded by the imnse surprise he hadn’t anticipated this outco.
A Thousand-Hand Divine Monarch had single-handedly suppressed two grandmaster-level experts from Fengqing Hall and Jiuhua Hall.
This was an extraordinary, almost mythic feat of battle.
One man against hundreds, among them two of the top strong grandmasters of the ti.
Such a battle record, if spoken of, would provoke disbelief, the first reaction being skepticism.
If not for witnessing it with his own eyes, King Qingjing himself would never have believed it.
Taking advantage of Lin Xin’s testing of the disciples’ qualifications, he hastily sent for his sons and daughters.
He even brought along his little infant, just over a year old, with them.
Not just him, many wealthy families in Fengyi Town did the sa, calling their entire families to rush over here.
Lin Xin even had soone spread the location of his whereabouts within the city itself.
Suddenly, the place was sward with people, and this small patch of grassland was surrounded and completely sealed off.
So people erged from the deep mountains, so charged over on horseback, others arrived leading donkeys, and there were even so riding on sheep.
All were drawn here.
Age did not matter, nor did lineage, only talent was of importance, signifying that anyone could have a chance.
On the surface, all forces had been subdued and suppressed; as long as Lin Xin was present, no problems would arise.
At least, until others probed the depths of his background, no other rash moves would occur.
But in truth, undercurrents surged in the shadows.
In Fengyi Town, within a quaint civilian courtyard,
the sound of coughing echoed faintly.
By the pond in the yard, a pale-faced young man covered his mouth with a handkerchief as he intently watched the goldfish in the water.
Two beautiful won dressed in red and blue robes stood by his side, watching him with concern, as if fearing that he might accidentally fall into the pond at any mont.
"Hong Xiu, Lü Yi, do you think there could really exist such a terrifying person in this world?"
The young man muttered softly.
The woman in red, Hong Xiu, exchanged a glance with the one in blue and gave a slight shake of her head.
"Maybe it’s so old tir who’s been cultivating in seclusion in the mountains for many years."
"No...."
The young man shook his head, "Just cultivating in seclusion wouldn’t achieve such a grandmaster-level stature."
"Is the Young Master thinking of how to deal with the Thousand-Hand Divine Monarch?" asked the woman in blue quietly. "Together, the two of us harnessing our combined power could possess the strength of a grandmaster."
"No... the Thousand-Hand Divine Monarch may be strong, but in the end, he is only one person. As long as he is human, he will have weaknesses and he must eventually die." The young master coughed again, and a faint trace of blood seeped through the white handkerchief.
"What I’m pondering is, can humans truly reach such a realm?"
"Young Master, it’s ti for your dicine."
Lü Yi looked at him worriedly, swiftly producing a small bottle of dicinal pills and pouring one out.
"Hong Xiu, what do you think?"
Instead of taking it, the young master directed his gaze towards the woman in a red dress.
Hong Xiu fell silent for a mont.
"The Young Master’s concern is, if more individuals of such realms appear in this world, they could break all the rules.
We can kill one, but that doesn’t an we can kill a second or a third."
"You know best." The young master accepted the dicine and swallowed it, chewing gently.
"By now, Jiuhua Hall must also, like us, wish that the Thousand-Hand Divine Monarch ets a graveless death, right? Perhaps we won’t even need to lift a finger...."
Cough cough cough...
He began to cough violently again.
Rumbling...
Suddenly, the very ground of Fengyi Town began to shake violently.
The young master paused, then smiled.
"It’s coming, it’s here."
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On the grasslands, beneath the setting sun.
A regint of over a thousand Black Cavalry soldiers, each wielding a lance and carrying a longbow, with quivers of arrows whose white fletchings fluttered in the wind tied to the sides of their horses,
rode like a black tide, charging toward Lin Xin’s testing field, steadily gaining speed in a frenzied sprint.
Hiss!
The leader at the vanguard lifted his lance and swept it fiercely forward.
"Kill!!!"
Boom!
Without any rcy, the thundering hooves charged towards the outskirts of Fengyi Town where thousands had gathered.
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Lin Xin was in the process of lifting his hand from a young boy’s wrist when suddenly his expression darkened and he stood up.
"Such audacity!"
His sharp gaze fixed on the distant prairie where countless black dots began to erge across the endless grassland, moving closer at great speed within the rising dust clouds, as if treading on rolling yellow clouds, heading straight for them.
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