He was Xuan Qing, the Criminal Law Elder of the Tian Shu Sect. He was in charge of the sect’s punishments, dealt with rebels and heretics, was ruthless and impartial, and had a great reputation in the Twenty-Six Heavens. Ordinary cultivators trembled at the mere mention of his name.
Xuan Qing’s gaze was cold and sharp as he stared intently at Chen Ping. His tone was arrogant, cold, and condescending: “Why should the Master waste his breath on this sharp-tongued and ignorant junior?”
A mere lowly cultivator dares to act so presumptuously in the sacred land of my Tian Shu Sect.
“I will personally capture him, rip out his tongue and tendons, and destroy his foundation of cultivation. Let’s see how he dares to spout nonsense and insult the dignity of my orthodox lineage then!”
Chen Ping glanced at him indifferently, his expression lazy and casual, with a hint of nonchalant mockery: “Who are you? Are you lining up to sign up for a play?”
Xuan Qing’s face darkened, and he said coldly, “I am Xuan Qing, the Elder of the Criminal Law of the Tian Shu Sect!”
Specializing in punishing rebellion and dealing with heretics! I’ve seen countless arrogant and rebellious scoundrels like you in my life, and without exception, they all ended up being—”
“Alright, alright, stop reciting your lines.”
Chen Ping waved his hand impatiently to interrupt, his tone dismissive yet arrogant, “Can’t you bunch of old fogies change your ways?”
If you’re going to fight, then fight; if you’re going to make a move, then make a move. Why do you have to announce your official rank, reveal your name, and recite a bunch of nonsense lines first, just like a theatrical performance that drags on and on?
If you’re going to fight, let’s finish this quickly and decisively, don’t delay my rent collection.”
Xuanqing was so choked by the public rebuke that his face turned red, his blood surged, and he was consumed by rage. In his tens of thousands of years of life, he had never been so disrespected and humiliated by any junior.
He laughed in fury, his eyes revealing a murderous intent: “Fine! What an arrogant brat!”
Today, I will show you with your own eyes what the power of a true Immortal Lord is! What the majesty of the Heavenly Pivot Sect’s punishments truly are!
Before he finished speaking, the divine light of order surged around him, and the silvery-white spiritual power roared and clamored, with countless fine and sharp Dao patterns of order condensing and intertwining in front of him.
Transforming into layers of killing restrictions, the peak combat power of a fifth-grade Immortal Lord was unleashed without reservation, and he raised his hand to activate the killing technique to suppress Chen Ping.
But just as his spiritual power was fully charged and his killing technique was about to be completed—
call out!
Chen Ping’s figure suddenly became ethereal and vanished in an instant!
There was no sign of teleportation, no fluctuation of spiritual energy, no ripples in the void, and even the traces of the flow of spatial laws were completely concealed.
Before everyone’s eyes, Chen Ping’s figure seemed to vanish into thin air, disappearing without a trace. His speed was so fast that it broke through dimensions and exceeded cognition, making him an unsolvable ghost.
The next instant, Chen Ping’s figure suddenly materialized three feet away in the void.
He was less than three feet away from Xuan Qing, so close that he could hear her breathing, and he still had a casual smile on his face.
However, in the palm of his hand, a seemingly ordinary, extremely restrained gray-black sphere of light had quietly condensed.
This is the pure, primordial core of chaos, fused with the ultimate Daoist essence of devouring.
It does not unleash earth-shattering phenomena or radiate overwhelming pressure, yet it contains terrifying power capable of dismantling all laws, devouring order, and annihilating the foundation of one’s Dao. The more condensed and restrained it is, the more terrifying and intractable its destructive power becomes.
Xuan Qing’s pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints, his heart sank, and an extreme chill of death instantly swept over his entire body!
Throughout his life, he fought countless battles and killed countless people, but he had never felt such a bizarre, oppressive, and intractable deadly threat.
There was no time for shock, no time for thought, no time for dodge. He used all his spiritual power and activated all his Dao foundation to gather all the order divine light of the fifth-grade Immortal Lord in front of him.
Buzz!
A thick, solid, silver-white shield of order instantly took shape, its surface densely covered with ancient Dao patterns of order, layer upon layer, incredibly sturdy.
Bearing the ultimate defense of a fifth-grade Immortal Lord, it is strong enough to withstand the full-force bombardment of cultivators of the same level and resist the killing power of high-level divine abilities.
“You think your mere tricks can break my orthodox Aegis? Wishful thinking!”
Xuan Qing shouted sharply, his eyes filled with certainty and contempt.
But the next second, a scene that defied all expectations suddenly unfolded.
Chen Ping gently pushed out the chaotic light sphere from his palm, unhurried and calm, without any earth-shattering power or violent impact.
laugh–!!!
Like boiling water dripping onto thin ice, the hard and heavy shield of order was instantly touched by the source of chaos, and the surface Dao patterns instantly melted, cracked, and annihilated.
The sturdy shield crumbled and shattered at a visible speed, offering no resistance and leaving no room for stalemate.
The chaotic light sphere swept through with unstoppable force, tearing through the fabric of the divine robe, piercing through the body’s meridians, and penetrating the sternum and internal organs, before finally sinking precisely into the core of the Xuanqing Dantian Dao Foundation.