Supreme Emptiness

Chapter 2254 -2298: Slaying Feng Lingxiao

Jiang Fan’s expression shifted slightly.

It was already an open secret that Nanqian was about to launch a war across the heavens to restore the Daqian Divine Kingdom. The capture and imprisonment of all the Seven Swords by Nanqian likely meant they had intercepted highly concrete intelligence. Now that they had all escaped, the news was bound to leak. Nanqian’s war plans would only be moved up, not delayed.

Central Earth and Nanqian were both minor worlds located in the southern part of the heavens, with Central Earth being one of the closest to Nanqian. Once the war started, could Central Earth stay out of it?

He needed the exact inside story!

Staring at Feng Lingxiao, who was retreating, Jiang Fan coldly snorted, “I won’t kill you!”

In the next instant, he used the Void Feather Robe for Instantaneous Movement and vanished.

A massive cloud of swords crashed down like a tsunami, hurtling straight toward Feng Lingxiao. Scared out of his wits, Feng Lingxiao hurriedly shouted, “Sage, save me!”

The Bone Struggle Sage’s gaze flickered, but he made no further move. For one, Feng Lingxiao deserved to die. Secondly, Jiang Fan was definitely aiming the Tai Chu Prison Sky Gourd at him right now. If he dared to act rashly, he would inevitably be sucked in. Therefore, Feng Lingxiao had to face this alone.

Clenching his teeth, Feng Lingxiao threw out several terrifyingly powerful talismans in succession. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Following a series of deafening explosions, the overwhelming cloud of swords was forcibly blown open, creating a massive gaping hole. At the same time, a bizarre black hammer and awl appeared in his hands.

“Ant, even if I die, don’t think you’ll have it easy!”

As he squeezed his hands, the black coating on the surface of this set of Magic Artifacts shattered bit by bit, revealing a pair of blood-red true forms. An indescribable, terrifying aura of pressure caused the heavens and earth to surge madly.

The Bone Struggle Sage’s pupils shrank. “You infused a trace of the Thunder God’s aura into the imitated Hammer of Thunder God?”

The Thunder God’s aura? Jiang Fan remembered the Divine Head in the Soul Refining Hall. That was a terrifying existence that could reduce a Saint Level soul to dust with a single breath. Considering that the Hammer of Thunder God could attack a person’s soul, he was certain that the head in the Soul Refining Hall—the one that had crashed into the Daqian Divine Kingdom tens of thousands of years ago—was exactly the Thunder God’s head!

“Hmph! I was originally saving this to deal with a Great Sage, but now, I might as well use it to finish the two of you off!” He gripped the blood hammer tightly and smashed it fiercely against the awl.

The Bone Struggle Sage’s expression drastically changed, and he retreated frantically. He had no intention of enduring this unknown strike! Jiang Fan’s heart also pounded violently as a bone-chilling sense of death flooded his entire body! He couldn’t let him activate the Hammer of Thunder God! Otherwise, his soul would surely be reduced to dust!

In this critical moment, he decisively shouted, “I wish, Steal the Sky and Replace the Sun!”

The Vast Energy contained within his body instantly erupted, but that pair of imitated Hammer of Thunder God was exceptionally special. The Vast Energy he had spent several days accumulating anew was insufficient to activate this wish. Without a second thought, Jiang Fan mobilized the life force within his body, continuing to power the wish at his own expense. In an instant, he shriveled up into a dried corpse. Almost ninety percent of his life force had been drained away!

And this was only after he took out a vat of the Water of Life and frantically absorbed it. If he had been a second slower, he would have died on the spot. In the blink of an eye, the Water of Life decreased by twenty percent. This amounted to at least a thousand years of life force! Merely stealing a single item had consumed such a massive amount of life force, far exceeding Jiang Fan’s expectations.

Fortunately, the wish succeeded.

The Hammer of Thunder God in Feng Lingxiao’s hands vanished into thin air, replaced by two broken top-grade Spirit Swords. Conversely, Jiang Fan’s hands felt heavy as an icy hammer and awl fell into his grasp.

“Confucian Taoist Skill?” Caught completely off guard, Feng Lingxiao cried out in alarm.

But he had no time to mourn his ultimate treasure falling into Jiang Fan’s hands. He hurriedly took out a Life-saving Talisman that had a formidable Escape Technique sealed within it.

Jiang Fan’s expression turned slightly cold. This guy really had a lot of life-saving methods! He took a step forward, and the Power of Time from the Yuhua Divine Boots radiated outward once again. Feng Lingxiao immediately froze, suspended in the posture of crushing the talisman.

“No, no!” Feng Lingxiao roared in terror in his mind.

If he still had a choice, he absolutely wouldn’t have provoked Jiang Fan. Who could have thought that the kid outside the Central Earth Realm, who only had the strength of the Heavenly Human Five Declines, would possess such terrifying power just a few months later? But it was too late for regrets.

When the time freeze wore off, a searing, intense pain assaulted him. His physical body was cleaved from top to bottom by a long Black Sword, leaving only his soul intact! Without thinking, he grabbed his Space Storage Device and tried to flee.

However, following an eerie RING of a bell, his soul body suddenly stiffened.

Struggling to turn his head, he saw Jiang Fan holding a red-and-black bell. The red side of the bell was facing him directly. As Jiang Fan shook it again, CLINK-CLANK! Several red chains flew out from within, piercing through space to appear right in front of him. Before he could react, his soul was tightly bound and dragged toward the Hell Soul Bell.

“No! No! Jiang Fan, I am a Viscount of Nanqian! If you kill me, you will bring a world of trouble upon yourself!”

Jiang Fan grabbed at the air, snatching up the Space Storage Device dropped by his soul. Only then did he coldly say, “Does anyone know that I killed you?”

In the next instant.

Feng Lingxiao’s soul was dragged into the Hell Soul Bell, imprisoned together with a wisp of the Big Black Dog’s soul and the Remnant Soul of the Heavenly Realm’s Nine-winged Great Angel.

Having dealt with him, Jiang Fan looked toward the Bone Struggle Sage hiding in the distance, his eyes narrowing slowly. The capture of Feng Lingxiao’s soul had been completed smoothly. The only flaw was that the Bone Struggle Sage had intercepted halfway and learned his identity. Although he could always change his name and identity again, it would still be somewhat of a hassle.

The Bone Struggle Sage also narrowed his eyes. This time, it was no longer about scheming to steal treasures, but deep apprehension! He had originally thought that Jiang Fan’s biggest trump card was just that gourd. He never expected the other party to also possess a World Artifact that could suppress souls! On top of that, the imitated Hammer of Thunder God, which contained the aura of a deity, had fallen into his hands.

Just thinking about it sent shivers down the Bone Struggle Sage’s spine. If they truly fought to the death, it was highly likely that he would be the one to perish! He needed to plan carefully; at the very least, he couldn’t face Jiang Fan alone.

“Kid, we’ll meet again!” The Bone Struggle Sage hurriedly used Instantaneous Movement and fled.

Jiang Fan hesitated for a moment but still held back from wasting a precious opportunity to use the Tai Chu Prison Sky Gourd. On the day he left Nanqian, he would once again face the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s pursuit. And this time, a battle against the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis would be inevitable. He couldn’t afford to waste any life-saving trump cards.

Glancing around, he collected the remaining top-grade Spirit Swords and recalled the Immortal King’s Undying Bell, which had been suppressing the Bone Blade. To prevent his location from being locked onto, he immediately cleansed all traces of aura from the Bone Blade. After doing all this, he swiftly retreated to Nanqian’s world barrier, blasted a crack open, and slipped through.

Not long after the two left.

A group of Sages rushed over. They were precisely the Nanqian experts who had been fruitlessly hunting down Jian Sankuang.

A Three Calamities Realm expert looked bewildered. “What happened here? Why are there several lingering auras that make even my heart palpitate?”

At this moment, an old Sage from the Feng family rushed to Feng Lingxiao’s corpse with an alarmed gasp, letting out a roar of grief and indignation:

“Lingxiao! Who killed our Lingxiao!

“He is a Viscount! A Viscount of our Nanqian! I demand to see the Prime Minister! I must seek justice for the Feng family!”