Stronger by Killing

Chapter 589: Chapter 323: Martial Arts Versus Cultivation (4)

That is the pinnacle of martial arts in the human world,

The martial arts legend—Gu Zhan!

The figure standing on the city wall seemed very small, yet behind him, no one in the full city felt insignificance, only a sense of awe and grandeur. Especially those martial artists with profound cultivation, they felt the grandeur was infinite and unending.

"He is truly lofty!"

This was Bai Ye, the expert of the Beiwei Royal Family, who had once fought Grotto Heaven Realm cultivators with supreme grandmaster cultivation. Based solely on this achievement, Gu Zhan had never reached such heights. Throughout martial arts history, only a few had achieved this, with Bai Ye being one of them.

Back then, Gu Zhan was hailed as one of the world’s top grandmasters. Bai Ye had let out a slight chuckle, for he was not convinced. Although Bai Ye’s achievement was fighting Grotto Heaven Realm cultivators, his opponent was a royal cultivator with some exaggeration involved. In contrast, Gu Zhan had alone fought tens of thousands of martial world experts with supreme grandmaster cultivation in Yunxi, achieving what even Grotto Heaven cultivators could not, surpassing Bai Ye.

However, at that time, Bai Ye had thought of challenging Gu Zhan in the Xia Kingdom. Yet, as Gu Zhan continued to slay land immortals and grew rapidly, he abandoned the title of the world’s top grandmaster and became unquestionably the world’s number one.

Nevertheless, though the thought of challenging Gu Zhan waned,

as a top martial artist, who wouldn’t want to meet the world’s number one?

Today, he finally met him,

To meet Gu Zhan, Bai Ye braved the risk of being hunted by the Immortal Sect and fled to Yun City.

In the end, he wasn’t disappointed,

"He is a god, the god of all martial artists!"

That was Bai Ye’s second statement today.

"He truly is a god!"

By Bai Ye’s side was a woman of exceptionally high charm, whose reputation was not far behind his. She was the once number one swordsman of Liangzhou, the Sword Fool Qin Hongyi, known for dismissing the worldly land immortals as a unique woman.

At this moment, Qin Hongyi respectfully gazed at the city wall of Yun City, but she was not looking at Gu Zhan, rather at the empty sky above him.

"Only a god can be that magnificent, right?" Qin Hongyi sighed.

What they saw differed from most martial artists; while most could only see Gu Zhan’s figure, they could see his martial arts will, a will that stood with its back to the world, challenging the heavens.

At this moment, a figure silently appeared behind Qin Hongyi and Bai Ye, the second person today to break the limits of martial arts—Sword One.

"Therefore, he is undefeatable, he will not be defeated!" Sword One declared.

Qin Hongyi and Bai Ye turned to look at Sword One.

Bai Ye softly asked, "How many steps did you take?"

"Three steps!" Sword One replied.

"I envy you," Bai Ye remarked, "I wonder if King Wu is still recruiting people, well, I’m currently under the warrant of the Immortal Sect!"

Sword One chuckled lightly, "As long as King Wu takes a fancy to you, the Immortal Sect is nothing, right?"

Qin Hongyi scrutinized Sword One for a while, then slowly said, "If I obtain King Wu’s method of divine sight, I would surpass you in both speed and distance."

"I believe it." Sword One replied, "If not for the innate King Wu, the most likely person in the world to break the limits of martial arts would either be you or Qi Baiyu!"

Qin Hongyi looked again at Gu Zhan, slowly saying, "He will not be defeated, will he?"

"He will not," Sword One answered confidently.

"They’re coming!"

Suddenly, Bai Ye gripped his sword hilt, his expression turning solemn.

In that instant,

The whole city was in an uproar,

for many saw, in the distant sky, dozens of streams of light streaking towards them, numerous Immortal Sect cultivators riding spiritual artifacts,

Even those who could not see them felt the terrifying pressure coming from outside the city, as if the heavens were collapsing and the earth was splitting, and reminiscent of ocean waves overwhelming the land.

On the city wall,

Gu Zhan remained seated quietly at the top. As those forty-plus Immortal Sect cultivators flew in, he slowly stood up and calmly said, "This is Martial Emperor City, cultivators are prohibited!"

Gu Zhan’s tone was calm, yet it resounded like thunder across the heavens and earth, reaching all directions and landing in everyone’s ears.

And at that moment,

The ground outside the city wall suddenly shook, splitting open into a massive chasm like an abyss. A towering stele emerged from beneath the earth, standing taller than the city wall, and its surface was full of cracks, stone chips flying, revealing three words imbued with martial arts will:

Martial Emperor City!

At that instance, despite the manifestation of those three words,

The world suddenly fell silent, powerful and eerie wills surged across the heavens and earth. In the city, many martial artists broke through realms at that moment. Even someone as formidable as Sword Fool Qin Hongyi exclaimed, "I found the direction, that is the method of divine sight," subsequently breaking through on the spot, entering the Divine Sight Realm.

"A cheap ploy!"

Above the sky, among the dozens of flying cultivators, a middle-aged cultivator sneered, as his flying sword erupted with a glow, first among them to fly towards Martial Emperor City!

"Damn Martial Emperor City, how dare it obstruct when immortals arrive?"

The middle-aged cultivator roared, amassing a formidable magical power in his hands, pressing down towards Gu Zhan, intending to crush him with lightning-fast methods and destroy the last shred of faith within all mortal martial artists.

At this moment, the hearts of all martial artists in the city were tense.

On the city wall of Martial Emperor City,

Gu Zhan slightly raised his head, glimpsed at the oncoming middle-aged cultivator, who was a Fifth Realm Grotto Heaven cultivator, nearing the Golden Core, and with a slight snort, he slowly extended his hand,