Chapter 56 - 54: Tonight, a Funeral for Great Liang
Chapter 56: Chapter 54: Tonight, a Funeral for Great Liang
"Is this the path beyond Grandmaster?"
Su Chen subconsciously held his breath.
’Too powerful!’
This pressure alone made Grandmasters tremble and Peak cultivators submit. It turned the Human World into a death zone. This was a different level of life, one that transcended Great Liang.
The Giant Whale had not yet appeared.
Yet the entire Imperial Palace was already frozen over. The Imperial City was covered in frost. A blizzard of snow and wind erupted from the abyssal chasm, instantly turning the once-warm, blooming spring into a world of ice and snow.
A mournful cry.
The Giant Whale cried out.
It had appeared!
BOOM!
Now, the reason for the unusually harsh, snowy winters and the frozen earth of Great Liang since the Tenth Year of Jianwu was finally found.
The fortune of Great Liang had grown thin, and the Giant Whale rose from beneath the earth, changing the climate across the hundred-thousand-li territory of Great Liang.
This Longevity Exotic Beast was a hundred zhang tall, its body immense—several thousand meters long. It was crystal clear, as if carved from azure ice crystals. It swam through the sky as a blizzard of snow and wind swirled around it, falling upon the Human World.
On its body, seven hundred-meter-long Soul-Stabilizing Nails, after three hundred years, had long since turned the color of ice-blue blood.
It came from the dark depths of the earth, swimming unconsciously above the Imperial City.
"Heavens!"
"What in the world is happening?"
Outside the Imperial City, some First-Grade cultivators cried out in terror. They saw the Giant Whale swimming across the heavens like an Immortal Beast, and they saw the Imperial City, which had been frozen in an instant.
Could this truly be something achievable by human power?
"The Immortal Treasure!"
"I understand now! This is the Immortal Treasure the Grand Ancestor of Liang was rumored to have obtained..."
A First-Grade cultivator, eyes burning with greed, tried to step into the Imperial City, only to turn into an ice sculpture, all signs of life gone.
The crowd was horrified.
The Imperial City had become a land of certain death.
Even an ordinary First Grade would die upon setting foot inside.
"Hahaha!"
"I’m still one move ahead, am I not?"
A wild laugh rang out.
Beneath the Giant Whale.
Amidst the ruins of the Tianwu Tower, the demonized Emperor Jianwu was bleeding from all seven orifices, his flesh and blood withered. But even so, he was still laughing.
For his hand had pierced the chest of the White-robed Chu Master, tearing out a heart that was still fresh and beating.
"This last strike... was not your power..."
"You!"
"You’ve awakened Great Yu..."
The White-robed Chu Master felt a wave of weakness, the world spinning around him as he spat out blood. The blood flowing from the wound in his chest was not the crimson of a human, nor the black of a demon, but the same ice-blue demon blood as the Giant Whale in the sky.
"So what?"
Emperor Jianwu sneered.
The battle was over!
He was the final victor.
After today, he would continue to master the Immortal Treasure, rule Great Liang, intimidate Great Zhou, and live a long life by devouring his children. He would still be the one and only Emperor of Great Liang.
Everything that happened today would fade with the passing of one, two, three generations, disappearing into the annals of time. No one would remember. It would become nothing more than a legend in ancient texts.
"Oh, Exotic Beast, Exotic Beast, your soul was scattered, yet it reformed within the body of my only son with a Spiritual Root."
"What does it matter that you opposed me for three hundred years? In the end, you still died by my hand today."
"Rest assured, I won’t make the same mistake again and let a child with a Spiritual Root consume your Longevity Blood!"
"Now, you can dissipate completely."
Emperor Jianwu laughed wantonly.
"You ungrateful, evil spawn! You will not come to a good end."
The White-robed Chu Master—or rather, the Soul Spirit of the thousand-year-old Exotic Beast—let out an unwilling roar. Blood poured from his mouth and nose, his body grew cold, and he collapsed to the ground.
"Now, it’s time to deal with the riffraff."
Emperor Jianwu’s chilling gaze swept across the surroundings.
VMMMM!
The two First-Grade Demon Fiends felt their scalps tingle as if plunged into an icy cavern. Without hesitation, they turned and fled.
Their courage was completely shattered.
They would likely never dare to walk the Human World again.
"Father, spare me."
The Little Emperor knelt and kowtowed, held by a white-haired man in a Purple Robe. Tears streamed down his face, his eyes filled with regret.
"Good son, you are my future Crown Prince. Why would I kill you? I don’t have enough time to dote on you as it is."
Emperor Jianwu patted his shoulder and said with a smile.
He didn’t kill him.
’It’s not that I feel sorry for my son, but that he’s needed for my longevity. He must be killed, but not now.’
"Thank you, Imperial Father!"
The Little Emperor was overcome with gratitude, tears streaming down his face as he kowtowed repeatedly. But beneath his sleeve, the veins on his hand bulged as he gripped an iron tablet ever tighter.
Nearby, amidst the ruins of the Tianwu Tower, a figure in a black robe raised its decaying head, revealing a Yellow Paper Talisman stuck to its face. It stared at Emperor Jianwu, poised to strike.
A touching scene of a loving father and a filial son.
But, he was a Grandmaster, after all. Even a weakened Grandmaster was still a Grandmaster. The Little Emperor hesitated, not daring to take that final step.
"There’s still one little minnow left."
Emperor Jianwu’s smile vanished, his chilling gaze turning to the figure in the Big Red Python Robe.
’Looks like I’m finished...’
Xu Han was laughing, a wild, unbridled laugh.
His blood-soaked Big Red Python Robe snapped in the wind and snow.
Was he afraid?
He was.
Facing a Grandmaster, his abundant Qi and blood, his dark blue True Essence, all trembled violently. He didn’t even have the courage to fight.
But, deep down, he felt happy.
’Thank goodness... I didn’t drag Master Su into this.’
’Luring Master Su away was probably the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.’
’This blizzard from the Giant Whale... even a Peak First Grade couldn’t withstand it. It’s a good thing Master Su isn’t in the Imperial Palace...’
’Godfather, I’ve done what you couldn’t. I’ve gone even further than you ever did!’
Xu Han began to laugh, louder and louder, tears of joy streaming from his eyes. He had never felt so exhilarated.
’So, I, Xu Xiaohan, can also become such an incredible person!’