Chapter 1487: The Storms Beneath Heaven Rise with Our Generation

Red light flickered amid the black mist on every side. Countless fire swords suddenly shot toward Wu Chang from all directions at once.

Wu Chang swept out one arm, flinging his cloak. Vast black qi erupted from within it, and his body appeared inside an enormous palm.

The air filled with dense whistling. Fire swords struck the giant palm like arrows sinking into wood, each one stopping where it landed. They hissed as they burned at the condensed black mist, yet could not advance another inch.

Kunlin Shu swung both arms.

Boom!

Every fire sword erupted at once, instantly swallowing the enormous palm in a sea of flame.

Kunlin Shu’s arms moved with blinding speed—one hand pointing toward Heaven, another pressing toward earth, thrusting forward, arching backward, then driving wildly left and right.

In an instant, all the black mist throughout the Boundless Demon Domain began to tremble.

Inside the giant palm, Wu Chang’s expression changed sharply.

He swept out both arms and shot free from within it.

At that same instant, ten thousand sparks ignited at once.

A violent wave of flame surged straight toward him.

Wu Chang swung his cloak like a shield and forced his way through.

He rushed to the place where Kunlin Shu had been standing—only to find him gone.

...

On the meadow below, Yin Ji looked upward.

The rolling black cloud in the sky boomed as red light burst through it. Then raging flames expanded from within, stirring the cloud apart and swallowing it in fire.

The moment Yin Ji saw that, she understood.

Kunlin Shu had crossed hands with Wu Chang.

Her heart immediately tightened.

A figure suddenly shot from the sea of fire in the sky and arrived in an instant.

Kunlin Shu.

He had escaped the Boundless Demon Domain.

Yin Ji was overjoyed. “Go!”

She flashed forward and caught his hand.

It was both guidance and cooperation.

Together they broke through the surface of the swamp and disappeared beneath it, Yin Ji using her own ability to lead Kunlin Shu underground.

The sea of flame above churned violently.

A figure burst from it.

Wu Chang.

His eyes blazed with fury as he shot directly toward the place where the two had vanished.

Boom!

Monstrous tentacles of Corpse-Rot Vines erupted from the swamp and clawed toward him.

Wu Chang tore the cloak from his body and lashed it outward.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The blows fell like vicious slaps.

The tentacles reaching for him were smashed flat in an instant; some were directly shattered into pieces.

Wu Chang continued descending like a falling meteor.

Boom!

A fire dragon suddenly erupted from the swamp and soared into the sky, smashing straight toward him.

Black demonic mist poured from Wu Chang’s entire body and instantly formed an enormous palm.

The Demon-Flame Extinguish-Life Palm came crashing down, blotting out Heaven and Earth.

Amid a deafening roar, the fire dragon collapsed.

Flames scattered everywhere.

The swamp exploded into towering waves of mud, layer after layer rolling outward in every direction.

A gigantic palm print was stamped deep into the marsh.

The sea of fire overhead transformed into ten thousand blazing swords.

They came raining down with a dense whistling sound.

After destroying the fire dragon with one palm, Wu Chang ignored them completely. He forcibly drove the mud apart with spiritual power and plunged underground in pursuit.

The fire swords struck the swamp like ten thousand blossoms of flame.

They accomplished nothing.

The enormous palm print carved into the earth gradually filled again as the swamp flowed back into it.

For a while, muffled explosions and tremors came from underground.

Then a figure burst from the earth.

Wu Chang.

He hovered in midair and stared down with an icy expression.

He could no longer determine where the two who had fled underground had gone.

When he raised his head again, only tattered remnants of black cloud and mist drifted through the sky.

Gone was the vast, surging darkness that had covered Heaven moments before.

One fire.

That was all it had taken.

Wu Chang had never expected that man to ignite the entire space in an instant and burn away his demonic mist, directly breaking the Boundless Demon Domain with a single blaze.

What did that mean?

He had only just managed to kill Granny Xue, the one person able to break his Boundless Demon Domain.

And now someone else had appeared who could break it.

Worse, this man could destroy the Domain far faster than Granny Xue ever could.

That was precisely why Wu Chang had abandoned all thought of Yin Ji and launched a ruthless pursuit.

But Yin Ji had exploited the Demon Fox Clan’s advantage within the Desolate Marsh Deadlands and escaped together with that man.

Wu Chang hovered in the air, his face grave, his gaze dark.

The Nine Saints had always refused to allow a second Wu Chang to appear.

From what he had just witnessed, the thing they had always feared seemed to have become reality.

The unknown man’s cultivation was still somewhat weak, but his art was extraordinary.

Given enough time, once his cultivation became sufficient to contend at their level, once the offensive power of that art underwent a qualitative change, he would become an extremely troublesome opponent.

The remaining Sacred Venerables might be forced to accept one more person into the balance among them.

Wu Chang could sense it.

Just as he himself had once appeared out of nowhere and shaken the world, a second Wu Chang had emerged!

The satisfaction he had felt after eliminating Granny Xue disappeared.

A heavy pressure settled over his heart instead.

“Elder Sister, I’ve already seen your strength. We can discuss cooperation properly now.”

Wu Chang suddenly circulated his cultivation and shouted into the distance.

He looked around and called out again and again.

But the surroundings remained deathly quiet.

There was no response.

It seemed that his sudden attempt to kill the other man had frightened them away so thoroughly that they no longer dared show themselves.

Wu Chang began to regret it.

He should not have acted so hastily.

In a sense, Granny Xue’s final words had proven accurate.

After killing her, Wu Chang really had turned on Kunlin Shu.

And it was hardly only Granny Xue who had anticipated that.

Niu Youdao, Lü Wushuang, and Yin Ji had all expected it as well.

That was why every one of them understood how enormous a risk Kunlin Shu had taken this time.

After repeatedly calling out without receiving an answer, Wu Chang knew they were gone and that another meeting would probably be difficult.

He tossed away the cloak in his hand.

There was no longer any need to conceal himself.

With a sharp rush of air, he shot into the sky and vanished.

...

Fire descended from Heaven upon Ice and Snow Sacred Land.

The entire place fell into a sea of flames.

Amid thunderous crashes, the Ice Palace collapsed.

The snow-covered cliffs gave way like avalanches and came roaring down.

Once Granny Xue was dead, Ao Feng and Kunlin Shu attacked.

No one there could stop them.

The result was easy enough to predict.

Even so, the two did not carry out a massacre.

Restrained and struggling, Bai Wuya roared furiously, “Ao Feng, the Sacred Venerable will never let you off!”

Ao Feng smiled faintly.

He reached out, removed Bai Wuya’s restrictions, and released him.

“Bai Wuya, since we dared come here, naturally we aren’t afraid of revenge.”

“I didn’t come to kill you.”

“I came to tell you that Granny Xue is already dead.”

“She died at Wu Chang’s hands.”

“The remaining Four Sacred Venerables will probably begin purging your people next.”

“Hurry and flee for your lives.”

“Notify the people of Ice and Snow Sacred Land in the mortal world as well. Tell them to run while they still can.”

Bai Wuya’s expression shifted uncertainly. He shouted angrily, “Nonsense!”

Ao Feng replied, “I’ve delivered the message. Whether you believe it is your affair.”

“As for how you should prepare for whatever danger may come, I’m sure you can arrange that yourself. There’s no need for me to say more.”

He glanced back.

Kunlin Shu, his true face hidden beneath a gaudy smear of colors, had found the people they were looking for.

Ao Feng immediately flashed over and landed beside him.

The targets were Chuan Ying and his wife, who had been temporarily detained.

Xue Luo’er was holding their child in her arms.

The husband and wife looked around at the devastated Ice and Snow Sacred Land, obviously stunned.

From time to time, the thunder of another avalanche rolled through the mountains.

The noise frightened the child into wailing loudly.

But at a moment like this, no one had attention to spare for whether a child was crying.

“Ao Feng!” Xue Luo’er cried when she saw him. “What are you trying to do?”

Ao Feng reached out and removed the restrictions on both of them.

“Granny Xue is dead.”

“What?” Xue Luo’er stared at him. “You’re lying!”

Chuan Ying’s gaze flickered.

His eyes swept across the ruined Sacred Land.

He was probably the person here who understood the situation most clearly.

Even so, he was secretly shaken.

He had not expected that side to truly succeed.

They had actually killed Granny Xue.

Nor had he expected Ao Feng to be involved.

And even less had he expected them to keep their word.

They had truly sent someone to rescue him.

Before, he had possessed no choice.

If he refused, there had been only death.

If he cooperated, perhaps there would still be one thread of survival.

He had gambled.

Now it seemed he had gambled correctly.

Ao Feng looked at him and smiled. “Whether I’m lying or not, you know better than anyone.”

“That gentleman asked me to pass on a message.”

“He keeps his word.”

“You husband and wife should leave together with Bai Wuya and the others.”

“With people to rely on, you’ll be safer.”

Keeping the promise was only one part of it.

Ao Feng and Kunlin Shu had not attacked Ice and Snow Sacred Land merely to rescue Chuan Ying and his wife.

According to the original plan, the more important purpose was to warn everyone here.

Niu Youdao did not want Ice and Snow Sacred Land caught completely unaware.

He did not want its people wiped out in one sweep.

Nor did he want them absorbed by the remaining Four Sacred Venerables.

Under circumstances like these, this was precisely the opportunity to further cut away the Four Sacred Venerables’ wings.

The weaker their forces became, the more stretched their ability to control the world would be.

For Ao Feng personally, the fact that Niu Youdao still remembered to save Chuan Ying even now only reinforced the impression he had already formed.

Just as with the agreement back in Wuliang Garden, Niu Youdao truly was a man who kept his word.

Working with someone like that was genuinely reassuring.

Zhangsun Mi and Mu Lianze were dead.

Something had happened to Lü Wushuang and Yuan Se.

Now Granny Xue was dead as well.

More than half of the Nine Saints had actually been removed.

Once, Ao Feng could never have imagined a scene like this.

It filled him with even greater confidence in the future.

He increasingly felt that taking the risk back then had been worth it.

He had made the right choice.

If the Nine Saints were eventually annihilated, then with his strength, he would stand among the very finest experts beneath Heaven.

What glory would await him then?

Truly, the storms beneath Heaven rise with our generation!

Just thinking about it left him in an excellent mood.

Chuan Ying asked nervously, “Leave with them?”

Ao Feng chuckled. “Relax. Granny Xue is already dead. When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. As far as the people of Ice and Snow Sacred Land are concerned, what happened before has already passed.”

“The fact that we acted here represents that gentleman’s position.”

“With his face behind you, they won’t make things difficult for you.”

“Going together with them will be better than the two of you being all alone, and it will also make future contact easier. Don’t you think?”

“Of course, if you insist on leaving the group, we won’t force you. Decide for yourselves.”

He did not wait for an answer.

Turning toward Kunlin Shu, he said, “Let’s go.”

Kunlin Shu nodded slightly.

The two rose into the air one after another and quickly disappeared into the distant sky.

Only after they were gone did Chuan Ying swallow the words he had been about to say.

He had wanted to ask about the Youthful-Countenance Pills.

Now it seemed he would have to make contact again later.

The pills already in his possession were enough for a year in any case.

When he turned back, he saw Xue Luo’er silently weeping.

She choked out, “Chuan Ying, what exactly have you been doing behind my back?”

“Were you involved in plotting Grandmother’s death?”

Chuan Ying’s face filled with bitterness.

“Luo’er, you yourself said before that living beneath the Nine Saints was like accompanying a tiger beside the throne. You were always secretly worried about what the future might bring.”

“Now you’re free.”

“Isn’t that good?”

Xue Luo’er wept. “But she was still the grandmother who raised me!”

Chuan Ying sighed again and again.

“Things have already reached this point.”

“If she didn’t die, she would have killed me.”

“She might even have killed you and the child.”

“What did you want me to do?”

“If you want to kill me to avenge her, I have nothing to say.”

“I’ll leave myself in your hands.”

Xue Luo’er could do nothing except cry.

Such an enormous upheaval had descended without warning.

Her mind was in chaos.

She no longer knew what she should do.

[End of Chapter 1487]