Chapter 733: Genius Of The Sword (1/2)

Shanhai City had become uninhabitable. After taking care of the details regarding Ming Zhaoshu’s funeral, Ming Yan and many other ministers moved out and headed towards Mingdu so that they could start preparing for her to officially ascend to the throne.

When Lu Yin arrived in Mingdu, he found that the busiest city on Shenwu Continent had already recovered a tremendous amount. During the last battle there, the entirety of Mingdu had been destroyed. Ming Zhaoshu had ordered a group of cultivators to aid in its reconstruction, which allowed it to quickly return to its former appearance.

Although Mingdu’s appearance had been restored, the people who had died during that battle could not be revived, and it would remain in history as Mingdu’s darkest day.

Lu Yin felt apologetic towards the people of Mingdu, but even if he went back in time, he would not change a thing. If they had not taken care of the Neohuman Alliance at that moment, more than a billion people on Shenwu Continent would have eventually been turned into zombies, and the continent would have ultimately been completely destroyed by the Hall of Honor, and that would have been a truly miserable affair.

After escorting Ming Yan to Mingdu, Lu Yin roamed across Shenwu Continent once again, determined to ferret out any remnant Corpse Kings from the Neohuman Alliance.

Half a month later, multiple sh.i.p.s all arrived at a single isolated island that lay outside Shenwu Continent, and each ship was filled with crude pirates. They had kidnapped many people, who they were bringing to the island. Cries were occasionally heard from the group of captives, which incited angry rebukes from the pirates.

The entire island was under the control of the pirates, and there were probably a few thousand of them there.

The leader of the pirates was a cultivator who had reached the Martial King realm, which was the equivalent of the Limiteer realm.

At this moment, a figure trod over the waves, walking across the ocean at a leisurely pace.

Some pirates noticed the person’s arrival, and they immediately shouted, “Heads up!”

During this era when cultivators reigned supreme, there were times where just a single cultivator was enough to destroy an entire troop of soldiers, and this was even a somewhat normal occurrence. The pirates were also afraid of encountering such an expert.

The pirates closely observed the approaching person, and they quickly saw that it was a young male carrying a long sword on his back. He walked towards the isolated island, crossing the waves step by step.

A few pirates exchanged glances before stepping forward and shouting, “Who are you?”

The youth looked ahead as his eyes ran across the coast, covering an immense distance to focus in on the Martial King realm pirate leader. At that moment, the leader felt a chill run down his spine, and he even pushed the woman in his embrace away. He pulled out his warblade and then stared out at the ocean.

“Hey, brat, we’re talking to you. Who are you?” a pirate shouted.

The youth shifted his focus and grabbed the hilt of his sword. Nobody saw him make a single movement, but the pirate standing in front of the youth slowly crumbled to the ground. In the distance, many of the pirates’ expressions suddenly changed. “Ambush!”

In just a few breaths, all of the pirates who had been on the shore fell to the ground, not a single one able to withstand the youth’s sword qi. Meanwhile, the girls who had been kidnapped by the pirates were screaming at the youth to save them.

The sight of the pirate leader’s death shocked everyone, as just one sword had almost split the entire island in two. What powerful strength.

The remaining pirates quickly fled.

The youth did not pursue any of them, and he simply sheathed his sword. He then looked up. “It’s time to break through.”

The sky had dimmed without anyone noticing, and the wind whistled as the waves churned back and forth.

The people who had been kidnapped and dragged to the island by the pirates all hid in the center of the island, and they stared outwards in fear. The entire region was being buffeted by strong winds, and anything more than a hundred meters away became fuzzy.

From a commoner’s point of view, these winds were just gales, and only cultivators would be able to recognize these gusts of winds as martial power. Someone was breaking through.

There was another island that was relatively close to the isolated island, and it was similarly occupied by pirates. The pirates who had fled from the island sought shelter at this neighboring island, and they also tried to coerce the owner of this island to seek revenge for them.

That island’s pirate leader was arrogant to begin with, and after he heard just a few sentences from the refugee pirates who were trying to convince him to help, he immediately gathered a group of pirates and a naval fleet to mount an invasion. However, they were quickly frightened away by the strange phenomenon. The pirate leader was not a fool; such drastic changes in the sky could only be caused by someone who was breaking through to the Martial Emperor realm at the minimum. At that time, a cultivator would be able to freely explore outer space, and mortal cultivators like the pirates could not compare to such powerhouses.

This entire area was filled with martial power. There were some Martial Emperor experts exploring above the ocean, and they were able to feel the sharpness of this aura when they approached the island, nearly being injured in the process. They were shocked by this, as a breakthrough at this level indicated that the person was definitely not just any ordinary Martial Emperor.

After a few hours, one final strand of sword qi ripped the sky apart and released a gas that dispersed in all directions before the area returned to normal. Aside from the completely ruined state of the island, nobody could tell that there had just been a martial power phenomenon sweeping across the heavens and earth in this place.

The youth let out a slow breath and looked up at the sky. He had finally broken through after being stuck in the Martial King realm for so long. In fact, some of the people who had stepped into the List of Tempering at the same time as him had long since broken through. Meanwhile, he had been ranked second on the List of Tempering, but it had taken him this long to break through.

The youth was Li Zimo, second on the List of Tempering and commander of the Ming Vanguard.

Ever since that battle in Mingdu, a new regime had been born. The Ming Constables’ master, Ming Zhaocai, had been forced to commit suicide, and the Ming Constables themselves had been forced to disband. Li Zimo could have joined the Demon Hunters Society or the Reverent King’s Residence to work for Ming Zhaoshu, but he had declined both. Instead, he had decided to roam the continent and focus on his cultivation.

He had taken this trip to the ocean when he felt like his breakthrough was. He had then followed the natural order of things and become a Martial Emperor expert, which was an Explorer.

If it was before, he definitely would have been elated upon breaking through to the Martial Emperor realm. But now, after Ming Zhaoshu cooperated with the outsiders, foreign civilizations had brought their culture into Shenwu Continent, which had made Li Zimo realize just how insignificant his view of the universe actually was.