Volume One: The Divine Kingdom of Endless Night - Chapter Seventy-Three: Slaying Gods and Killing Immortals

Master Fan’s mind went blank.

When did he appear?

How could he possibly find him so fast?

Holding his saber and pointing it at Master Fan, Jiang Wang said, "I am a very reasonable person, so I'll give you one more chance."

Master Fan’s mouth twitched.

I'd sooner believe in ghosts.

Not a single talisman was left on him now, so even if he were given a hundred more chances, it would be useless.

Besides, you have no credibility whatsoever!

Jiang Wang frowned and asked, "Out of trump cards?"

He felt quite regretful, thinking that since Master Fan had hidden talismans to travel directly from the Chunyi Pavilion to Qixia Street, there should still be some wool left to shear, but it turned out to be a wasted expectation.

"How on earth did you find me?"

Jiang Wang said indomitably, "I have my own methods. Besides, the aura of blood practically overflowing from your body is way too obvious."

Master Fan could not understand.

I only spat a little blood.

Are you a dog?

How could you smell that from so far away?

Jiang Wang raised an eyebrow. "Your eyes are telling me that you seem to be cursing me?"

Master Fan immediately voiced his doubt, unable to figure it out no matter how hard he thought.

Jiang Wang said with a hint of mockery, "You really are just a clown. I suppose whenever you encountered cultivators in the past, you stayed as far away as possible, right?"

"Because you are stained with too much blood, a bloody aura naturally exists. This aura is hard to notice, usually just making a person look fierce and murderous, though there are also people of deep city-state who leave not the slightest trace."

"In the case of the former, let alone cultivators, even martial artists can perceive it, though they cannot directly see the bloody aura the way cultivators do."

Master Fan was utterly terrified.

A lingering fear gripped him.

Precisely out of caution, whenever he encountered something he knew to be dangerous, he avoided it as much as possible.

In the past, he did not have divine talismans to rely on. Ever since someone traded conditions with him and gave him a divine talisman, he immediately turned arrogant. Yet given his status, it was still hard for him to touch upon the higher echelons.

The time he managed to catch a glimpse of Master Zhang’s true appearance back then was purely by coincidence—it happened just as Master Zhang walked out of the Qingxuan Prefecture office and was being carried home in a sedan chair.

Had he ever offended a cultivator in the past, he probably would have lost his life long ago.

Jiang Wang’s wrist trembled slightly, and a chilling aura burst forth from the Longevity Saber. "If you have already exhausted your tricks, you are of no further use."

Master Fan suddenly sneered.

Jiang Wang frowned, and then a wave of joy surged in his heart. "What, you still have some tricks left?"

Master Fan’s face stiffened slightly.

Why are you so excited?

But he could no longer afford to care. A person with no way out most easily falls into madness.

Besides, he was already a madman to begin with.

"I no longer have talismans, but I am still a Master of Talismans."

Silently, he drew a talisman brush from his bosom, instantly channeled a wisp of Qi with the talisman paper, and with the fastest speed possible, violently slapped it onto the rock at the intersection of Qixia Street.

"Let the entire Hun City be buried with me!"

Master Fan laughed wildly, and as if afraid Jiang Wang wouldn't understand, he explained in all seriousness, "This rock contains baleful aura, surely left behind by some old Master of Talismans in the past to suppress evil spirits. By using the talismanic Qi to vibrate this rock, I can sweep the baleful aura across the entirety of Hun City. If the suppressed entity escapes, everyone will die!"

Jiang Wang gave a bland "Oh" and said, "So you really are at your wit's end. You made me look forward to it for nothing."

Master Fan’s face stiffened once more, and he said harshly, "This rock contains baleful aura! It might be suppressing something extremely terrifying!"

Jiang Wang shrugged and said, "So?"

Master Fan’s mind went blank again.

What kind of reaction is this?

Why is it different from what I imagined?

Shouldn't you be filled with fear?

Jiang Wang wasn't just putting on an act. Although he guessed there might be something wrong with this rock, in truth, he had never come to check it before.

Even though he used to frequent the Qixia Street intersection often, it was either back when he was a good-for-nothing or because he had never paid it any mind. Right now, taking advantage of the surging power of the divine kingdom, he could tell at a glance that while the rock indeed possessed baleful aura, it did not give off any sense of danger whatsoever.

Therefore, he could be certain that this rock had nothing to do with the so-called grand demon suppressed beneath Qixia Street.

Moreover, the talk of a suppressed demon was merely a guess to begin with.

Master Fan refused to accept this.

He pulled out his talisman brush once more and began drawing a talisman right in front of Jiang Wang. This time, he genuinely drew a graded talisman, which took quite a bit of time. Immediately afterward, he fiercely slapped the talisman onto the rock and shouted, "By decree!"

The moment his voice fell, the moss-covered rock suddenly trembled, and the baleful aura overflowed along with it.

Master Fan laughed maniacally once again. "You fool, you just stood there and watched. Now it's too late to stop it. Just wait for the entire Hun City to fall!"

The baleful aura showed a tendency to gradually thicken.

Because the night was deep, it wasn't obvious at first, but as it continuously overflowed, dark mist intertwined with dark red baleful aura condensed, and soon shrouded Qixia Street and Phelan Street, bringing an extremely oppressive feeling.

The immortal seekers in Hun City abruptly woke up.

Including martial artists, everyone converged on this location.

Commoners who had not yet gone home to sleep fell into panic.

Jiang Wang frowned slightly, looked at Master Fan, and said, "You are very noisy."

Master Fan sneered. "How long are you going to keep up that calm expression? With baleful aura this dense and extraordinary, it must be suppressing an extremely terrifying demon. Let alone Hun City, a radius of a hundred miles will be instantly flattened into a wasteland, and you won't escape death either."

Weighing the saber in his hand, Jiang Wang gazed at the baleful aura that had enveloped most of Hun City within breaths. His eyes narrowed slightly, the arm holding the saber suddenly tightened, and then he assumed a stance, exhaled lightly, and in the next moment, slashed out with a single saber stroke.

The saber radiance tore through the dark night.

The dense baleful aura was split directly in two.

A patch of bright moonlight was revealed.

But soon the baleful aura covered it up again.

Master Fan chuckled and said, "Don't waste your effort. To be a human being, one must know how to prepare for a rainy day. You are arrogant and conceited, giving me multiple chances to counterattack. Even though you didn't keep your promise, you only retaliated after I made my move. With a personality like yours, if you were to travel the pugilistic world, you would probably die tens of thousands of times the moment you stepped out the door."

Jiang Wang’s expression was indifferent. "You are too noisy. Human affairs require only one saber strike. If one strike isn't enough, then come with another."

Derision had already spread all over Master Fan's face.

Before he could say anything more, Jiang Wang had already swung his hand and delivered a second saber strike.

The scorching airflow and chilling cold blasted a gap out of the baleful aura.

Yet with the same result, the baleful aura condensed once more.

Master Fan sneered.

Jiang Wang remained expressionless.

The moment the baleful aura was about to completely condense, the two opposing forces of cold and heat suddenly burst forth, sweeping across the sky above the entire Hun City, causing the baleful aura to shatter abruptly and the moonlight to shine brightly.

Master Fan stared in utter stupefaction.

The cultivators and martial artists who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion witnessed that scene.

Their expressions were identical to Master Fan's.

Chai Bi reacted the fastest and shouted, "It must be Mr. Jiang who has made a move!"

"Such baleful aura is horrifying; even from afar, one feels suffocated. I suppose only Mr. Jiang could shatter it!"

Xiao Shinian was a sword user. Among saber users capable of creating such a spectacle, the only powerhouse was Jiang Wang.

Because of this, their awe toward Jiang Wang deepened further.

Ning Shisi leaped across roofs and walls, glanced at the cultivators speeding through the sky, and said to Shu Ni, who was flying through the air and maintaining the same speed as him, "Hun City always has an endless stream of various incidents, and with a powerhouse like Jiang Wang hidden here, perhaps this city is not as simple as it appears on the surface."

First, a mirage hung high in the sky, followed by demons appearing out of thin air on Qixia Street on a large scale, and then demons attacking the city. At this moment, baleful aura filled the sky—no city in the entire Sui State had suffered such consecutive events. Things that go against the normal order must have demons behind them!

Shu Ni did not speak.

She directly shook off Ning Shisi, and amidst an extremely ear-piercing sound of breaking air, she landed at the intersection of Qixia Street.

The immortal seekers followed closely behind, paying their respects to Jiang Wang at the very first moment.

Master Fan lay prone on the rock, flushing red as he frantically drew talismans, but no matter what he did, the rock no longer responded in the slightest.

With a face full of despair, he slumped to the ground. "Impossible, absolutely impossible..."

Jiang Wang said indomitably, "Although you didn't directly offend me, the bloody aura on your body is enough reason for me to kill you."

Master Fan looked at Jiang Wang in terror.

Any object or place where baleful aura condensed inevitably harbored demons. If his conjecture was correct, it could only prove that Jiang Wang's strength had exceeded imagination, forcing the suppressed demon to not even dare show its face with just two saber strikes!

This person truly possessed the qualifications to be arrogant and conceited.

Indecisively letting an enemy go had an essential difference from being confident that the enemy could never stir up any waves.

What kind of terrifying existence had he provoked?!

Looking again at the cultivators gathered before Qixia Street, Master Fan's heart turned to ash.

It was over, completely finished.

If he could have taken the whole of Hun City down with him, his death would have been somewhat meaningful, but now... he did not want to die.

Clutching at the last straw, he said harshly, "The Talisman Dao honors Master Zhang as supreme, but it is not unique. There are Masters of Talismans who can draw extremely powerful divine talismans, before which even cultivators must give wide berth!"

"I have no ability whatsoever to draw divine talismans; it is because I have a backing. He uses talismans to tie into my blood. If you dare to kill me, that lord will know of it, and can use talismanic methods to make Hun City accompany me in death without a sound. You had better think carefully!"

Jiang Wang raised an eyebrow.

Shu Ni spoke up, "Even for Master Zhang, his abilities at most only touch the threshold of the Bathing Snow Realm. Talismans mostly display wondrous divine methods and cannot be compared with true grand cultivators. There are dozens of Meditation Realm cultivators in Hun City; how could the Master of Talismans you speak of threaten this city?"

Master Fan sneered, "You all underestimate the capabilities of a Master of Talismans."

Jiang Wang said, "Hearing you say that, I am indeed looking forward to your backing. I really want to meet him soon."

Master Fan frowned. "You are indeed very strong, but the true formidable aspect of a Master of Talismans is by no means head-on combat. I am not alarmist; no matter how strong a person is, they have weaknesses and cannot withstand a Master of Talismans' secret calculations."

Jiang Wang smiled and said "Oh," and immediately thrust his saber through Master Fan's chest.

His eyes widened, and he reached out a trembling hand toward Jiang Wang. Before a single curse word could escape his mouth, as Jiang Wang sheathed his saber, his head drooped and he fell sideways to the ground.

"It's late. Everyone, stop rubbernecking and head back."

Jiang Wang said nonchalantly, waved at the cultivators, and flew straight away.

The cultivators looked at each other in dismay; they hadn't even figured out what had actually happened.

However, Shu Ni gave chase.

Just as she left, Ning Shisi arrived fashionably late.

Looking at Master Fan lying there, he was utterly bewildered. Did I arrive too late?

The elderly steward, who had arrived the earliest yet chose not to show himself, witnessed the entire scene and inwardly sighed with emotion. The young master seemed to even more formidable now.

Even though he had guessed the young master might have encountered some fortuitous encounters, wasn't the strength he displayed a bit too exaggerated?

Instead, he grew deeply worried.

...

Jiang Wang flew near the Chunyi Pavilion and descended.

Shu Ni assumed he was waiting for her and landed as well. Before she could speak, she heard Jiang Wang say, "Hun City might face trouble again soon. Go and explain to those immortal seekers; whether they leave or stay is entirely up to them."

Shu Ni was puzzled. "Are you worried about the Master of Talismans that person mentioned?"

Jiang Wang shook his head. Gazing into the endless night and thinking of the deity that would appear in a day at most, he said, "It's a bigger trouble than demons attacking the city. I am already prepared to slay gods and immortals..."

"Slay gods and immortals?"

Shu Ni was stunned for a moment.

She tiptoed slightly, clenched her fist, and fiercely hammered Jiang Wang on the forehead.

"It hurts!" Jiang Wang shrieked, clutching his head and squatting on the ground.

Shu Ni said, "You look fine, so why are you spouting nonsense? Your head really needs to be cured. Do you want me to go back to the Divine Capital and find a divine doctor for you?"

Jiang Wang was choked with anger. If the power of the divine kingdom hadn't already dissipated, I would make you know why flowers are so red!

Looking at the Chunyi Pavilion right before her, Shu Ni asked with great curiosity, "What kind of place is this? Why are you in such a hurry to come here?"

Jiang Wang raised an eyebrow slightly, looked up, and smiled, "Didn't Ning Shisi tell you?"

Shu Ni was puzzled. "Tell me what?"

Jiang Wang stood up and whispered into Shu Ni's ear.

Suddenly, Shu Ni's cheeks flushed red.

She launched a heavy counter-attack directly, and Jiang Wang shrieked once again.