1 If Only I Had an Afterlife to Wield My Sword Again, I Would Slaughter All Evil and Laugh out Loud to the Firmamen (1/2)
BOOOOM!!! It sounded as if the entire world was shaking.
A large mountain was crushed into pieces as countless broken rocks flew into the air, creating clouds of dust obscuring everything.
Suddenly, with a shout, a figure broke out from the dust clouds. This figure, who was emitting a dazzling light like thunder and lightning in a stormy night, was quickly flying forward. His tremendous speed produced a long streak of dust trailing him with the shape of a Chinese Dragon crawling forward.
Behind this figure, a crowd of people flew through the clouds, creating countless long streaks of dust. They were madly chasing after the person in front, as if they have lost their minds!
”The three largest factions had ganged together. A total of 3496 cultivators chasing me through thirty-seven thousand miles! Aha... You guys are really taking great efforts to eliminate me!”
A loud explosion echoed out as Ye Xiao - the man flying in front, suddenly stopped on an enormous rock, before quickly turning around with a wild laughter. An extremely sharp sword light flew out of his hand at full speed, like a flashing streak of lightning in the firmament.
It was the last of the power he had!
The light flew into the crowd like a lightning strike, causing pitiful cries to burst out. But as one fell, another rose. Some of them bled in the skies before falling to the ground, all the while swinging their hands and feet!
Ye Xiao, who was now bleeding profusely, was rendered unable to fly because of his previous strike.
”Sitting like a lofty mountain, standing like a great rainbow; acting like a storm surging, moving like a thunderbolt.”
Sitting, standing, acting, moving, the four lines are excellent descriptions about the cultivators who have reached the Dao Origin Stage.
Although Ye Xiao was among the most powerful Dao Origin cultivators, after this last amazing sword strike, he had become nothing but a spent bullet. At the moment, he was like a lamp out of oil - he had no energy left for flight. When he landed, the rocks under his feet were quickly stained with his blood!
Panting heavily, Ye Xiao's eyes were still filled with scorn as he sneered, ”Humph, even if I have reached the end of my life today, even if this Monarch is doomed to fall, do you really think that there will be many of you who will survive here?”
The rock where he stood was on the peak of a huge mountain.
When Ye Xiao looked back, he was like a king in the sky, looking down with imperceptible stateliness even in this imminent predicament!
Fearing Ye Xiao's aggression, the hundreds of cultivators chasing him stood still in front of him! They were looking at him with misgivings in their eyes. Far behind them, beyond the limits of one's eyesight, there was a path. It was the path they had travelled along which was currently made of countless corpses. Suddenly, an unexpected howling wind came over, and a few decapitated heads with open eyes were blown and sent rolling.
The cost they paid for Ye Xiao's death was obviously shown by this path of carnage which was built of flesh and blood, covering thousands of miles over mountains and rivers!
Although the Xiao Monarch was clearly at the end of his rope, and although the surrounding people knew that the Xiao Monarch would find it impossible to get away, for the moment, none of them still dared to take a step forward!
All of them clearly knew that, at this moment, whoever dared to take a step forward, would instantly get killed, get buried along with the dead, and go to hell with Ye Xiao!
No matter who, there would be no exception!
It was a clear point with no room for any doubt.
Because the guy standing in front of them, was the Xiao Monarch!
Laughing out loud at all the heroes under the firmament, he was the monarch of the universe!
The Xiao Monarch was a legend in the realms of the firmament!
The 3496 cultivators from the three factions had set up huge traps and used countless approaches to hunt him down, travelled thirty-seven thousand miles and destroyed nearly every mountain and river they had passed, however, Ye Xiao, on his own, had unexpectedly killed almost all the 3496 cultivators behind him, leaving countless broken lands and piles of dead cultivators' bodies wherever he went!
Who could dare to look down upon such a formidable man?
Even when he had reached his end, nobody would dare to challenge his sword!
”Xiao Monarch! We wouldn't have ganged together to hunt you down like this if it were not for your perverseness against us.” A sage-like old man in the crowd sighed, completely exhausted, ”I just don't understand why... our well known Xiao Monarch... would suddenly declare war against us and try to kill us. What you did has led to losses on both sides. Since it won't do you any good, why are you doing this?”
Although the three factions finally had the chance to slaughter their shared enemy, Ye Xiao, the cost they had paid for it was totally unbearable. They had lost almost ninety percent of their warriors in this battle. The losses they had suffered were so massive, to the point where they would find it impossible to revitalize themselves within the next one thousand years.
The three factions would lose their top faction status in the Qing-Yun Realm once other factions begin to rise - it must be the worst situation for them. Besides, there were still the Palaces and the Temples aiming for their heads like tigers stalking their prey!
After everything that occurred, they were still muddle-headed. They still couldn't understand what the problem was with this horrible Xiao Monarch?! This was truly harming others without benefiting oneself!
Had the domineering Xiao Monarch, who persisted his old ways and had never cared about anything, gone crazy?
Ye Xiao sneered, ”So you don't get it? You really don't get it? Aha...”
He looked down at the huge pit on his chest through which his entrails could be seen and actually stretched his wounded body. He chillingly said, ”No matter what dirty business you three factions did, I didn't give a damn about it. Except you forcibly occupied all the cultivation resources, changed the energy sources and monopolized all valuable practice materials! You kept other people from cultivating themselves so that only you three factions could practice in the Qing-Yun Realm... Your actions are so overbearing, even going as far as breaking people's futures. I just detested this! Since I detested it, I must discipline it!”
”No, Xiao Monarch! You are wrong! Only the virtuous should own the treasures in this world. Those who want to cultivate themselves should follow the law of the jungle. We did nothing wrong!”
”What -hah!” Ye Xiao laughed out as he coughed, ”The virtuous you were saying? That is right. The treasures in the world belong to anyone. No matter who, the one who seizes them has the right to own them. On that I agree. However, you slaughtered millions of innocent people just because you wanted to control the miraculous mountains, using those souls of the dead as sacrificial offerings to build the power vein! You made large wealthy towns turn into wastelands filled with death and coldness. Then you would cover up your crime with a claim that those places were suffering with pestilences, and you had to do that to save the rest of the realm... How many times did you mindlessly murder a whole town and distort facts in these years? How dare you claim to be virtuous? Such bloody virtuous! HAHAHAHA!!”
He wildly laughed as he spoke. He had an undisguised tone that was full of provocation.
”All cultivation resources are yours. Anyone who dares to take some will get no mercy, and all his relatives will also be killed - no one lives! You guys acted excessively first, I am just fighting back the same way. How difficult could it be to understand?”
He bended his mouth and smiled sarcastically.
After Ye Xiao spoke, the three leaders of the crowd - the heads of the three factions, had hideous expressions.
”So that's it... The reason you fought against us is simply to fight for justice... to defend cultivators against our injustice? Aha, what a noble man, Xiao Monarch! Even so, after your death today, who on earth would stand up and face us? We three factions may have suffered a great loss, but we are not destroyed. After no more than a thousand years, we will fully recover! What a pity. After today, there will no longer be a famous Xiao Monarch!” The sage-like old man sneered.
”As long as I am still alive, I will never let you proceed with it! If I die... the world would have nothing to do with me.” Ye Xiao smiled indifferently, ”As long as I can still breathe, the only thing I would like to do, is to wipe all of you bastards out!”
Even though he was speaking with disdain, he still felt sorry in his heart because he couldn't wipe out the three factions to avenge his brother!