Chapter 973
Why do you always have to be so eager to die!
On the land of Maha Hell, Fang Qing's figure moved like a ghost.
As soon as his domain opened, the holy light reached it, easily purifying the dense demonic energy, as if opening up a small patch of light and solitude in this dark land.
As soon as the various ores fell into Fang Qing's palm, the stubborn demonic energy and deep demonic intent on their surfaces quickly melted away under the wash of holy light. In just a few breaths, the originally ferocious and terrifying demonic stones were transformed.
Heavenly Grade Spirit Stone, Immortal Grade Spirit Stone.
Maha Hell is a great place; you can find countless treasures there.
The total value of collecting just a few spirit stones would probably far exceed the entire fortune of an ordinary Great Sage, and might even be enough to support his cultivation to the Heavenly Realm.
On this day, as he followed an exceptionally pure and unique energy fluctuation and tracked it to a wasteland shrouded in gray mist, his divine sense detected an extremely special existence.
Deep within the mist, a towering, dark golden figure, thousands of feet tall, stood silently like a small mountain.
It presents a near-perfect humanoid silhouette, with smooth lines that exude power. Its dark gold skin flows with a cold, noble metallic luster, exactly the same color as the "Spear of the Underworld God".
The Underworld Clan!
This is one of the noblest races in Hell, an ancient race said to be close to the origin of Hell, whose status in Hell is like that of the royal family in a human empire.
They are naturally powerful, with few rivals among those of the same level. Even in the Maha Hell, the Netherworld Clan is extremely rare.
The Netherworld Clan member before them possessed a powerful aura, having reached the sixth level of the Great Saint realm, the Heavenly Mystery stage. This was already a high-level expert within the Great Saint realm, enough to be considered an elder or a powerful figure in the Suspended Mountain.
However, this Netherworld creature's eyes lacked the arrogant and domineering air of the legendary Netherworld race. Instead, they conveyed a sense of loneliness and repression, as if it had been rejected and left out in the cold.
"Wanderers among the underworld? Disillusioned individuals banished or exiled to the edge of the Maha Hell?"
Fang Qing recognized the identity of this Netherworld Clan member at a glance.
"Then kill them."
Fang Qing's figure appeared silently a hundred miles in front of the Great Saint of the Underworld. For a Great Saint, this distance was almost instantaneous.
The Great Sage of the Underworld immediately sensed Fang Qing's presence. Its dark golden, flame-like eyes suddenly lit up, and a mental wave mixed with surprise, vigilance, and anger swept over it: "Human? Ant... How dare you trespass into my resting place! You're courting death!"
It seemed to disregard Fang Qing, but out of instinctive caution, it still raised a giant dark gold hand and shook hands with Fang Qing from afar.
boom.
The gray mist within a thousand miles instantly boiled over, and countless dark golden death chains, like venomous snakes growing from the void, carrying terrifying laws that corroded souls and ended lives, strangled Fang Qing from all directions.
This attack, seemingly casual, contained the Netherworld Clan's profound understanding of the laws of death, and its power was enough to easily annihilate an ordinary fifth-order Great Saint!
However, Fang Qing merely glanced indifferently at the death chains that were sweeping in from all directions.
"The light of the Pure Land purifies all evil."
He whispered the eight characters.
hum!
Centered on him, boundless, brilliant, and pure platinum holy light, seemingly containing the divine blessings and the origin of order from all the heavens, erupted like a tsunami.
Those incredibly powerful dark gold death chains, upon contact with this ocean of holy light, were like ice and snow thrown into a furnace, emitting a violent hissing sound, failing to create even the slightest obstruction.
"what?!"
The contempt in the eyes of the Great Sage of the Underworld was instantly replaced by horror. It felt that its own laws were completely suppressed in the face of that holy light.
Before it could react, Fang Qing's figure appeared as if by teleportation directly in front of its thousand-foot-tall body.
The two were vastly different in size, but the grand and sacred aura emanating from Fang Qing, which seemed capable of bearing the terrifying power of the eternal blue sky, made this Great Saint of the Underworld feel a suffocating pressure.
"die!"
At Fang Qing's fingertip, a tiny, almost imperceptible point of chaotic light lit up. Immediately afterward, endless power of the five elements' birth and death, chaotic destruction energy, and divine purification intent erupted from that point of light.
The Great Sage of the Underworld felt an indescribable and irresistible destructive force, like the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe, explode within his chest. His proud dark gold demonic body, capable of withstanding the bombardment of a holy weapon of the same level, was now easily pierced as if made of paper.
A terrifying power instantly swept over its entire body, and its internal organs, meridians, bones, and even the core of its soul rapidly disintegrated under this attack that combined multiple supreme powers.
"No...it's impossible..."
The Great Sage of the Underworld let out a final spiritual roar filled with fear and resentment. His thousand-foot-tall body stiffened abruptly, then, like a sand sculpture weathered over millions of years, it transformed into the finest dark golden specks of light, dissipating into the gray mist of the Maha Hell.
Only a ball of pure, dark golden energy and a few personal belongings of this Netherworld Clan remained on the spot.
A powerful Netherworld expert at the sixth level of the Great Saint realm was like a clay chicken or a clay dog in front of Fang Qing, and was instantly killed with a single blow, without even being able to put up a decent resistance!
Fang Qing reached out and grabbed the mass of Netherworld essence and items, putting them into his pocket.
He could feel that, in the darkness, the connection with the Immortal Ranking instantly became incredibly strong, and a vast torrent of points surged into his "account".
As expected, the merit of slaying a Netherworld being far exceeds that of slaying a demon of the same level. According to the rules of the Immortal Ranking, it is probably worth at least the points of slaying a thousand demons of the same level.
Almost at the same time that Fang Qing killed the Netherworld Clan and his points skyrocketed.
Suspended Mountain, in front of the main peak of Mount Sumeru.
The Trial Ranking, hanging high in the void and radiating golden light, suddenly trembled violently.
Around the notice, ripples made of pure immortal energy even appeared out of thin air, like a boulder thrown into a calm lake.
On the list, the name that was originally ranked first was suddenly pushed aside by an invisible force. A name, Fang Qing, shone brightly like the rising sun. The characters expanded instantly, covering all the other names!
And after the name "Fang Qing," the number representing the points jumped and soared at an astonishing speed, as if it had gone mad.
In the blink of an eye, they left the second-place team far behind, creating a huge and despairing gap!
"What's going on?!"
"The Heavenly Ranking has changed! Fang Qing... Who is Fang Qing? And his points!"
"This is insane! The points are increasing like this... What on earth did he kill?! Could it be that he slew a ninth-tier epic Great Saint Demon? Impossible!"
"Cheating? Absolutely impossible! The Celestial Realm is under surveillance; no one can cheat! The only explanation... is that he truly accomplished some earth-shattering feat, such as... slaying a legendary Netherworld Clan member or some other supreme bloodline hellish being?!"
A commotion erupted in front of Mount Sumeru, with countless eyes fixed on the radiant name on the Heavenly Ranking, filled with shock and disbelief.
Fang Qing's points were far ahead of everyone else, making it clear to everyone that as long as he didn't fall prematurely, the first place in this trial was practically a foregone conclusion.
This outcome is something that many proud and ambitious geniuses would absolutely find unacceptable—it's like being inside the Maha Hell.
In a volcano burning with eternal demonic fire, a muscular young man, shirtless with muscles as tough as steel and wielding an ancient bronze halberd, suddenly raised his head and looked into the depths of the void, his eyes flashing with a terrifying light and chilling killing intent.
He was none other than Jing Xing, the peerless genius who was originally ranked third, came from a powerful ancient human continent, and whose cultivation had reached the seventh level of the Great Saint realm.
"Fang Qing..."
Jing Xing's voice was like the scraping of metal, icy and chilling, "You're dead. I, Jing Xing, am not from Suspended Mountain, but I am determined to win first place in this trial! Only with the help of the Immortal Realm's empowerment can I break through my bottleneck and step into the eighth level of the Great Saint, the Boundless Realm! A brat who appeared out of nowhere dares to step on my head? I will kill you, take your points, and cut off your opportunities!"
Elsewhere, a young man dressed in a bright yellow robe, surrounded by countless tiny magical runes, also looked towards the Heavenly Ranking with a gloomy expression.
“Interesting. It seems that this trial has produced some remarkable dark horses besides us. However, a dark horse is just a dark horse after all. In the face of absolute strength, it can't make waves. I, Fa Wuyi, am determined to take first place.”
Jing Xing and Fa Wuyi, these two top geniuses from the outer regions who were originally favorites to win the championship, almost simultaneously gave up continuing to hunt demons and began to use secret techniques or special items to search for Fang Qing's whereabouts with all their might. They wanted to completely stifle this "dark horse" that suddenly appeared on the road to rise!
Meanwhile, the hostile forces on the mainland of Suspended Mountain reacted even more fiercely and swiftly.
With Elephant Force at its core, the geniuses of the Shark Clan, Horse Clan, Leopard Clan, Rhinoceros Clan, and other demon clans who were at odds with the Holy Mother's lineage had already secretly conspired. Originally intending to kill Yang Qi, they were now even more eager to kill him when they saw Fang Qing's points soaring to the sky!
Kill Fang Qing first!
Soon, a multi-race joint plan to kill Fang Qing quickly took shape. They gathered all their strength together, with Elephant Force as the core and Shark Devouring Sea and others assisting. They began to frantically burn their essence blood, activate secret treasures, and even risk self-destructing several precious magic weapons, gathering everyone's will, power, and tracking marks into a long river of blood-red and demonic energy that stretched across the void.
"Bloodline Resonance, Ten Thousand Demons Slay Immortals! Open for me!"
With bloodshot eyes, Xiangli roared and pushed the power of his ancient elephant bloodline to its limit, merging with the energy river that had gathered the power of everyone. He then unleashed a powerful punch at the area in front of him, where demonic energy was churning and even the space itself seemed to be solidified by some kind of power.
Rumble!
The space in that area shattered like a mirror, and an unstable, temporary spacetime wormhole with dangerous electric flashes at its edges was forcibly bombarded by them in such a brutal manner.
The end of the wormhole pointed directly to the area where Fang Qing was located, which they had vaguely pinpointed using secret methods and burning their life essence.
The view at the end of the wormhole gradually became clear.
It was a relatively peaceful wasteland of demonic energy. Fang Qing's figure was sitting cross-legged in the void, his body shrouded in rich five-colored light and chaotic energy, as if he was condensing something. His aura was as deep as the sea, and he seemed completely unaware of the violent spatial fluctuations outside.
"kill!"
Elephant Force's eyes erupted with wild joy and ferocity, and it was the first to transform into a golden light, rushing into the space-time wormhole like a meteor!
Shark Devourer, the young master of the Horse Clan, the prodigy of the Leopard Clan, the strongman of the Rhinoceros Clan... Nearly thirty great saint geniuses from various clans, brimming with murderous intent, followed closely behind like hungry wolves smelling blood, swarming in!
As soon as they appeared in the sky above the wasteland where Fang Qing was, they unleashed their strongest killing moves without any mercy.
"Thousand Sharks Devour Souls!"
The sharks swallowed the sea, creating countless ferocious shark shadows that tore at the void.
"Ten thousand horses galloping!"
Behind the young master of the horse clan, the phantom image of ten thousand horses appeared, their iron hooves thundering.
"Shadow Leopard Sky-Splitting Strike!"
The leopard prodigy's figure blended into the shadows, his claws tearing through space.
"Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros Horn Charge!"
The powerful rhinoceros bowed his head, his single horn gathering a beam of destructive energy.
Other great saints, each displaying their supernatural powers, with demonic light, magical arts, and the brilliance of magical treasures... converged into a destructive torrent powerful enough to pierce the sky and cause stars to fall, sweeping across the sky and bombarding Fang Qing below, who seemed to be completely unprepared.
Xiangli, on the other hand, pushed his own bloodline and power to an extreme.
His body suddenly grew taller, and ancient pictographic totems appeared on his skin, spreading a terrifying aura of "following the laws of heaven and earth"!
A huge dark gold battle axe appeared in his hand, and faint immortal marks even flickered on the axe blade. It was obviously a semi-immortal weapon with great power!
"Die! Ancient Divine Elephant, cleave the heavens and split the earth!"
Elephant Force's eyes shot out a dazzling golden light, and with a roar, the dark gold battle axe, carrying the terrifying power to freeze time and destroy all things, slashed fiercely down towards Fang Qing's head.
Faced with this deadly attack that could instantly turn any cultivator of the same level into dust, Fang Qing, who had been sitting cross-legged below, seemingly immersed in his own cultivation, remained completely still and did not even open his eyes.
The five-colored chaotic aura surrounding him rippled only slightly, like breathing.
when!
A deafening roar, like the sound of a great bell, reverberated across the wilderness.
Xiangli's mighty battle axe, imbued with divine marks, struck solidly against the seemingly thin "Pure Land of Gods" light barrier surrounding Fang Qing.
A horrifying scene unfolded: the giant axe, powerful enough to cleave mountains and cleave stars, failed to even break through the outermost layer of the light shield. It merely stirred up a violent energy ripple and emitted a deafening roar before being firmly held back by a gentle yet incredibly resilient force, unable to advance even an inch further.
The sneer on Xiangli's face froze instantly, turning into utter astonishment and disbelief. He felt as if his battle axe had struck not an energy shield, but a solidified, sacred barrier that bore the weight of the entire universe.
Just then, Fang Qing, who had been keeping his eyes closed, finally slowly opened them.
There was no anger, no panic, not even a ripple in his eyes, only a detached indifference that looked down on the struggling ants, and a faint... pity.
Fang Qing let out a breath.
This breath fell into the void, and thus heaven and earth fell into chaos.
"you you……"
Xiangli stared intently at Fang Qing, who remained standing calmly, his eyes filled with endless resentment, fear, and unwillingness.
His body began to develop countless fine cracks, like weathered porcelain, from which dark golden blood gushed forth.
Immediately afterwards, under the horrified gazes of Shark Devourer and the others around him, Elephant Force's tall body, along with his unwilling soul, disintegrated with a bang, turning into countless fragments of flesh and soul in the air.
A fifth-order Great Saint, possessing the bloodline of an ancient giant elephant and wielding a semi-immortal artifact, was instantly killed by Fang Qing in a single exchange!
"Run! Run now!"
"He's not human! He's a monster!"
Shark Devourer, the young master of the Horse Clan, and the others no longer cared about joining forces or surrounding and killing each other. They were terrified and only wanted to escape this deathly wasteland, which felt like a divine punishment, as quickly as possible.
However, Fang Qing sighed softly, her voice carrying a hint of helplessness and regret, as if she had merely crushed a few unsightly insects:
"Sigh...why do you always have to come...to die?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly turned cold.
It was the same breath, and wherever it passed, countless Great Sages died instantly.
The piercing screams echoed for a while before finally fading into silence.
Fang Qing stood alone, his robes fluttering slightly, as if the deadly attack launched by dozens of Great Sage geniuses was merely an insignificant breeze. (End of Chapter)