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Inside Heaven's Gate's HQ, all the Demigods were amidst a fierce argument. They were discussing how to kill Jiang Luoxia. The biggest problem in this was related to Long Yingqing. The Long family still cared about this girl. She had outstanding looks and was also a talented genius. No matter whether she remained in the Long family, she'd still have worth as a marriage tool in the future.

Long family's Demigod, Long Zaizong was doing his best to oppose the plan to kill Long Yingqing along with Jiang Xiu. The destructive power when Demigods battled was too immense, so he was requesting them to first rescue Long Yingqing.

Korea's Demigod narrowed his eyes, "She should feel honored to sacrifice her life for Heaven's Gate. My family's Jae-Ki is already dead. As his fiancée, shouldn't she also follow him into death?"

Long Zaizong roared, "Shut your bitching mouth. My great-granddaughter was merely engaged with your Lee family's descendant, not married. Even if she had married him, you don't have the right to bury my great-granddaughter together with him."

The old Korean man got infuriated, "Long Zaizong, Long Yingqing has fallen into Jiang Luoxia's hands. Do you think he'll let her go? I fear she's already been violated by him. This isn't just a disgrace to my Lee family but also to your Long family. Death is the best ending for her and also the only way to maintain our families' prestige."

Long Zaizong sneered back at him, "What era are you living in? Only an obstinate old fogey like you would care about this matter. Even if something really happened, Long Yingqing is the victim. Moreover, you're just reaching about this."

"I think you just want to take revenge for Lee Jae-Ki and don't care about my great-granddaughter's life, am I right?"

A redheaded woman took this rare opportunity to cut into the conversation, "The two of you, Jiang Luoxia is strong, and everyone knows about this clearly. First, he killed Buzhi Ming then killed the monk from far away. We don't even know how big a price we'll have to pay to kill him, and we're still quarreling here. We must first formulate a plan to kill him in a single attack. We can't let him escape to China."

"Long Zaizong, just what does your great-granddaughter's life alone amount to?"

"You…" Long Zaizong's face was entirely flushed from anger.

"Alright, everyone, calm down." An old European man commented. "Jiang Luoxia has killed two Demigods of my Heaven's Gate. If we don't settle this hatred by killing him, the prestige of Heaven's Gate will take a huge hit."

"It's just as Selena says. We can't let him escape to China and have to kill him!"

"Only if Long Zaizong renounces that great-granddaughter of his can a few of us can bring out our power as much as we wish. Even if Jiang Luoxia is strong, we can crush him down!" A wild looking stubble-bearded European man mocked in a cold tone.

Boom!

A fierce wave rushed in from outside, resulting in the windows' glass to explode. The people inside the hall were all jolted. The Korean Demigod voiced out his doubts, "What happened?"

A European man rushed inside with a terrified look on his face, screaming with all his might. "That Jiang Luoxia is raiding the place!"

"What?!"

The members inside the hall were stunned. This place was the HQ of Heaven's Gate, and ever since it was established several hundred years ago, no one had dared to forcefully invade this place.

"He really dared to come here?"

"Does he think he can challenge 23 Demigods of my Heaven's Gate alone?"

They all rushed out and saw dense black clouds covering the entire sky above the grass mountain. Rumbles of thunder resounded from the horizon as lighting flashed inside the dark clouds. "China's Jiang Luoxia has arrived as planned!"

As he walked in with swag, the warhorses neighed in shock, and the birds fled in disarray.

Currently, Jiang Luoxia's long hair was waving in the air like flames, and his clothes fluttered due to the wind. Lightning seemed to flash within his eyes, and the entire world quaked in fear due to his descent. That powerful aura was terrifying to the heart as the black clouds covering the whole sky seemed to wail in anguish under that aura. His apathetic gaze was full of an imposing attitude which looked down over the entire world with disdain.

"Y-You really dare…"

The one who rebuked him was the Lee family's Demigod. His face was full of shock as he confronted Deity Xiu's aura which was covering the heavens. He even stuttered while speaking and lacked his previous vigor.

A Demigod who wasn't even 20, a person who had risen to fame from killing Ji Wudao and become China's No.1 Super Demigod.

Though Heaven's Gate was based in Europe, since Jiang Xiu had killed Buzhi Ming, they were paying close attention to him, so they had photos of his deified appearance.

But only when they saw the scene in person did they sense how astonishing Jiang Xiu's aura was.

"You really dared to come to my Heaven's Gate!"

"I, Jiang Luoxia, always do what I say. Since I said I'll exterminate your Heaven's Gate, I definitely won't disappoint you."

"Arrogant brat!"

Long Zaizong snarled at him, "Naïve child, Heaven's Gate isn't a place where you can behave so atrociously. Just who is your master? I really wish to ask him just how did he raise up an apprentice like you."

Jiang Xiu's expression turned grim, "You're not qualified to ask my master's name!"

Long Zaizong was also Chinese. Though he didn't dare to say he knew the names of all the experts in China's martial arts world as he had left that place many years ago, he knew almost all of them and believed he might recognize the name.

"You…"

Long Zaizong saw Long Yingqing walk forward with a pale face. She felt as if she were having an out-of-body experience and had a lifeless look in her eyes as she stepped forward mechanically.

She was really terrified!

No one knew just what she had witnessed as Jiang Xiu invaded the Holy Land. Only now did she truly realize what the name 'Jiang Luoxia' represented.

Long Zaizong shouted at her, "Yingqing, are you alright?"

"Ancestor, I'm fine."

"Did he do anything to you? A-Are you still…" He felt a little embarrassed while asking this question. Although he didn't mind saying it, he was, after all, a person from a hundred years ago and was concerned about such things.

Long Yingqing understood what the ancestor was asking and shook her head.

Korea's Demigod barged in at this moment, "Long Zaizong, looks like you've gone senile along with time. Do you think your great-granddaughter will admit what happened to her in front of everyone here?"

He ignored Long Zaizong's angry expression and said, "Jiang Luoxia, since you dared to kill my Lee family's people, how do you plan to repay this debt of blood?"

Jiang Xiu sneered at him, "What? You think your Lee family's people are more precious than others? They're no better than pigs waiting to be slaughtered…"

"Just take a look behind me…"

There wasn't even a single person remaining standing behind him. Mountains of corpses laid on the ground and blood flowed like seas. The entire place was a mess. Especially the Lee family's members, none of them had an intact corpse.

It was similar to that of a battlefield overrun by an Asura, filled with dead bodies of Heaven's Gate's disciples. The expressions of all the Demigods of Heaven's Gate warped when they saw this.

Korea's Demigod trembled all over. "Good. Very good. Since you dared to come to my Heaven's Gate, don't blame us for fighting together against you."

"Everyone, let's kill this evil person to take revenge for the dead Buzhi Ming, the black-robed monk as well as the disciples."

Jiang Xiu scoffed back at him, "Useless trash!"

"You're courting death!"

The redhead, Selena, suddenly grabbed towards his direction. Her fingernails were also scarlet, just like blood, and as she went through the motion of grasping, a flame spurted out from her hand.

She wasn't a natural esper. When she was 6 years old, her house had caught fire, and her parents burned to death. She had seen a shadow within the fire, and when she grabbed it, she gained the power to control fire.

Soon after that, she was taken in by a convent of Gaulle and discovered a method to control and increase her power in their scriptures. She became the youngest witch of Europe at the age of 18 and gained the moniker of Goddess of Fire.

"Too weak!"

"This kind of flame will stop burning without external help to keep it burning." He waved his hand with ease, releasing a cool breeze towards the flame. The flame's color turned dull, and along with a rumble, the flame appeared to lose its power slowly before disappearing.

"This is…"

The expressions of Heaven's Gate's Demigods distorted in shock.

This was Selena who was praised as the Goddess of Fire in Europe yet her attack was broken so easily. This attack of hers could easily blast a colossal tree which required at least 4-5 people to surround it entirely, but it was nothing to Jiang Xiu.

All of them were utterly shocked.

With such power, it was no wonder that he was able to reach till here and kill so many disciples. In front of him, those ordinary people were equivalent to ants.

Long Yingqing's eyes grew wide open in shock as well.

He's able to deal with a Demigod's attack with such ease?

"Everyone, let's attack together!"

Korea's Demigod immediately realized that the circumstances didn't look good. Jiang Xiu was too powerful, and it'd be difficult to defeat him if they attacked one by one. It'll need all of them to attack together to avoid getting killed by him one by one.

All the Demigods attacked in an instant. There was an intense light as well as thunder, flame as well as poison…

BOOM!

The Demigods' attacks were very astonishing, and among them, many of them had revealed their deified state, each one possessing a bizarre look, as they burst out with a decimating force.

All of them desired to destroy this monster which had descended into this world, so they released all the power they had suppressed all these years.

One of them flew towards a far away tree like a bird and landed on top of it, looking over the place from high ground.

"Keep at it! Attack him!"

A huge hole 3-4 m deep was created at the place Jiang Xiu was standing due to the explosions.

"Hahaha…"

"Jiang Luoxia has turned into du…"

But he couldn't finish his words.

A formless power crazily converged at the place Jiang Xiu was standing, and a shadow slowly walked out from inside. A hidden aura soared up behind him which seemed to be formed of flames and thunder, issuing a deep rumbling sound.

The Demigods revealed a look of shock and despair when they saw the person clearly.

"Just how…""Divine force manifestation?" Their eyes almost popped out. They absolutely hadn't mistaken what they saw. Their attacks were all dissolved into nihility by the thunder-flame-like aura covering Jiang Xiu's body. This definitely wasn't a manifestation of inner strength and also wasn't a magic spell.

"How is this possible?" Korea's Demigod cried out in alarm.

The other Demigods were all stunned as well.

Divine force manifestation was the same as inner strength manifestation but this was only something that existed in theory. Just like how the latter could be accomplished by accumulating inner strength to the peak, the former could also be achieved similarly.

Jiang Luoxia hadn't even become a Demigod for long but had already achieved the legendary divine force manifestation.

"W-What deification form have you reached?"

It was already quite difficult for Korea's Demigod to stay calm. According to what he knew, it wasn't possible to manifest divine force even after reaching the 4th form. If divine force manifestation were compared to an entirely filled cup of water, currently, his strength wasn't even equivalent to a cup with a single drop of water. It was impossible for him to stay unperturbed when facing such a massive disparity in strength.

"Who cares which form he has achieved. Kill him!"

One of the Demigods yelled angrily. His body soared up, breaking out with an intense light as if he were the incarnation of the Sun. Followed by a rumble, he slashed at Jiang Xiu with the sword in his hand.

He was known as the Son of Sun, Swordmaster Alpha.

"All of you, don't hold back! Let's attack together!"

Jiang Xiu smirked in response. He floated up to the sky, followed by a silver light flickering on his forehead. An astonishing amount of saber intent appeared in the area. He formed a hand seal to control it, making the countless golden glyphs lights gather and form a void blade similar to the saber pill.

"Behead!"

The silvery light increased sharply as if it desired to cut open the skies as it zoomed ahead.

Sword Intent Manifestation Arts, Supreme Conqueror!

Before becoming a God, Jiang Xiu couldn't release saber intent, but now, after gaining access to divine intent, he could draw power from the void and form a blade from it using manifestation arts. Even a God would have to withdraw in the face of its strength, let alone a mere Demigod of the 3rd form.

"AAA-!"

Son of Sun, Swordmaster Alpha's sinister expression turned into a frightened one. He couldn't even scream before the famous Sun God Sword of Europe got cut into two pieces, followed by the same happening to him, after which his body exploded.

He was destroyed as if he were tofu!

"ALPHA!"

A few of the Demigods were blinded by rage. These people had gone through fire and water with him. Since they weren't able to become a God, they set out to conquest together and spent over 100 years with each other's company. They clenched their jaws hard with hate as they saw Alpha get killed so cruelly.

"Angry Slaying Punch!"

A short European man suddenly soared to the skies, urging all the inner breath inside his body, resulting in a rattling sound from it as strength filled him. He punched out just like an angry dragon soaring towards the sky, his fist flashing with a pale light which had faintly taken the form of a sharp dagger.

"A superb fist style which condenses divine force into the shape of a dagger. This move isn't that far from divine force manifestation, right? It should be enough to withstand his attack." Long Zaizong exclaimed.

"King of Assassinations, kill him!"

Korea's Demigod roared with bloodshot eyes.

"Brothers, aid him!"

The King of Assassinations had enough confidence in his Angry Slaying Punch. The reason for this confidence was that even China's past Demigod representative, Si Wuxie, couldn't withstand more than a few blows from his powerful fist style. Moreover, there were many Demigods beside him lying in wait to attack.

Jiang Xiu spoke out dully, "Behead again!"

His indifferent eyes had no trace of emotions. The shadow blade zapped past, diffusing saber intent around it, taking a proper form. The air chirred wherever it passed by, making it seem as if the void was being split open. The combination of light and shadow seemed to displace the void.

Splitch!

The King of Assassination was sliced from head to toe perfectly as if he were made of tofu. At that moment, only a ray of light was left behind in his mind.

"AAAAHH!"

The King of Assassination could only look one as his body was sliced into two halves. He immediately issued an alarmed scream. "MY BODY," before falling from the sky, becoming deader than dead.

Everyone was shocked!

Jiang Xiu had acted twice, and each slash had killed a Demigod. It was as if he were chopping vegetables. Under his saber light, Demigods were no stronger than ants.

Even the King of Assassination couldn't endure a single hit… Terrifying, it was really too terrifying.

The Demigods of Heaven's Gate were filled with fear. They came to an agreement to act together and make a move at the right opportunity. None of them were idiots. They clearly understood now that whoever went up was only walking to their death.

China's No.1 Demigod was that powerful!

China's satellite obtained the feed of Heaven's Gate's Holy Land through a link-up signal from Gaulle and the personnel inside the satellite were utterly dumbfounded by what they saw.

"I-Is he even human?"

The highest administrative officer gave the command, "Send the video feed to our country immediately and also set up a connection with the Department of Defense."

An elderly officer appeared on the video from China's Department of Defense, "Maintain the satellite signal properly, no matter what happens, don't allow the feed to cut off."

The officer replied, "As we are getting the signal from Gaulle, what if they…"

Before he could finish speaking, that elderly Chinese man countered in a harsh tone, "The situation is different this time. Use our satellite system to look over Heaven's Gate's Holy Land directly. I'll handle the diplomatic pressure which arises due to this."

"Understood!"

He continued speaking, "Also notify the special agents at Gaulle to assist Adviser Jiang with all their strength. No matter what price they have to pay, they must ensure his safe return to our country."

Heaven's Gate's Holy Land had their own defense satellite as well as shielding equipment. Calls couldn't get through inside, and it was only possible to link to the satellite directly.

Countless experts had begun to flock inside at this moment. An Long was also within the crowd. He was currently disguised as an elderly European man. All he could see were dead bodies of Heaven's Gate's disciples lying on the ground, some even headless. The land was dyed in blood and mountains of corpses filled the area, giving it the look of a battlefield overrun by an Asura.

"T-They were all killed by Jiang Luoxia single-handedly?"

The count of dead bodies reached over a thousand as he went deeper and there were even many famous experts of Europe among them, yet they were killed ruthlessly as if they were tiny bandits, filled with melancholy as they died so shamefully.

These so-called European experts and bigshots were just a joke in front of Jiang Luoxia.

"This will set a deep hatred with Heaven's Gate."

"They won't rest until one of them perishes."

An Long's expression was solemn. Even for him, it was rare to see someone as ruthless and decisive as Jiang Luoxia, there was no mercy shown at all. The Europeans beside him were entirely dumbfounded as well.

"Oh my God! Did a huge war happen here?"

In Europe, the death of a ten to a hundred people due to a terrorist attack was already astonishing, and the death count on this grass mountain had already reached a thousand people. It was enough to be considered a mid-scale war in Europe.

Kill one, and you become a sinner, kill ten, and you become a hero, kill a hundred and… you become a battle god!

"Behead!"

Lightning flashed inside Jiang Xiu's eyes, following which he raised his hands up as if he were holding sabers in them. There was no shape of saber present there, but when his hands fell downwards, everyone could see huge 30 m saber light descend from the skies. The saber light flickered, and everything seemed to squeeze in at its saber edge, forming a vacuum where formless saber intent wreaked havoc.

The void was full of saber intent, not a single inch left uncovered.

Saber Domain!

BOOOOMMM!

Every part of the saber intent was a formless edge. The endless saber intent burst forth, and those edges sparkled with light, releasing a terrifying destructive force which decimated the entire place, devastating everything they touched inside the hemispherical shape the domain took the form of.

"Evade quickly!"

Jiang Xiu spoke out in a soft tone, "Chapter One of the Soul Scripture - Arcane Saber Light Style, destroy the spirit in an instant; it is all but a delusion!"

"KILL! KILL! KILL!"

BOOM!

As the Saber Domain's saber intent's devastation reached an extreme point, it all exploded with a bang. No matter whether it was the castle, the rocks, the trees, or the lawn, all if it was utterly shredded. As for the Demigods inside it, they wailed like ghosts and howled like wolves as the countless saber edges formed from the saber intent pierced into their body, sending their limbs flying away in the sky in an instant, blood splashing all over.

Descend, the nine mythical arts, cleanse the heavens, a thousand years of karma, an artless heart yet romantic.

A ray of light zoomed past, and Jiang Xiu had arrived there at high speed in front of Korea's Demigod who had rushed out from the light. The Demigod was terrified out of his wits when he saw Jiang Luoxia's long hair float with lighting flashing inside his eyes. "Old Man Lee, hand over your life."

"You…"

Korea's Demigod was terror-stricken. Jiang Xiu's strength was too shocking. This was no magic spell or martial arts. Its power was simply unsurpassable.

Shplort!

Before he could even react, he felt a cold sensation at his throat. It was as if the wind was blowing inside his throat from there and only then did he realize that his throat might've been cut.

The fear in his eyes slowly turned into rancor, but immediately after that, that rancor turned into remorse. He covered his throat with his hand, coughing blood as he spoke out with a distorted voice, "Lee Jae-Ki, just what kind of an enemy have you brought upon my Lee family?"Blood seeped out through his fingers, and he couldn't hear anything at all except for the sound of blood flowing. His gaze slowly blurred.

Through the satellites, it wasn't just China watching the place but also the critical political game makers of Korea's Lee family who were watching the place. As they saw Korea's Demigod cover his throat, blood continuously flowing from it, each and every one of the staffs inside Korea's satellite tensed up.

"He'll be fine, right?"

There were many legends of Korea's Demigod passed down in Korea. He was a godly person who gave them a boost in confidence and courage.

His great name was Lee Jae-Soo!

"Senior Jae-Soo!"

A Korean astronaut cried out in alarm.

They all believed Lee Jae-Soo had died long ago but never thought he was able to live till now and supported the elite Korean chaebol family, the Lee family, from the shadows.

But right now, it was possible Lee Jae-Soo might get killed by a Chinese youth, this really was a bit difficult for them to accept. They'd have instead preferred that Lee Jae-Soo died on the battlefield and not in such a ridiculous way.

In the next moment, however, their expressions warped as they came close to the big screen nervously. Lee Jae-Soo's fear-filled eyes slowly turned golden, just like a beast's, along with pretty golden fur growing on his face.

The wound on his throat began to quickly heal as well.

Deification!

Moreover, in the deified form, he had a powerful healing ability.

Simultaneously, Lee Jae-Soo's body became larger at speed visible to the naked eye. His hair came off, replaced by golden fur growing in place of it. His teeth became sharp and body full of vitality, possessing a dense, formidable power.

"This is…"

The people who were watching the feed from the Korean satellite were frightened as they were witnessing this kind of thing for the first time ever.

"Deification! Senior Lee Jae-Soo can deify!"

One of the Korean officers shouted excitedly.

"Deify?"

"Yes!"

The officer explained proudly, "Do you know who Demigods are? True Demigods are ordinary people who are evolving towards becoming a God, so they have a different form from humans. Deification gives them incomparable power."

"Just like Senior Lee Jae-Soo, even if his throat was cut, he was able to recover from the injury."

Korea had many legends relating to Gods, and most of those Gods had all kinds of appearances, some looking like spirits and others like monsters, so they adapted to Lee Jae-Soo's transformation quite rapidly.

The astonishment in their eyes gradually turned into fanaticism, "Senior Lee Jae-Soo will surely kill him."

They wished for Lee Jae-Soo to attack Jiang Xiu.

"Make that Chinese monkey experience our Korean manly might!"

Lee Jae-Soo's expression also twisted. The sounds of broken bones healing came out from his throat as he yelled with a beastly voice. "Jiang Luoxia, you've infuriated me!"

His voice only seemed like a howl when it came out.

Jiang Xiu, however, could understand it. It was a low-level divine language, but he only held contempt in his eyes as this person was yet another one who had walked down the wrong path in divinity cultivation and would just end up as a monster if he continued evolving.

"2nd Deification Form!"

Long Zaizong was stunned. In their impression, Lee Jae-Soo had only achieved the 1stform. It seemed like he had actually hidden his strength. The difference in power between each form was enough to crush the opponent as it was as vast as the difference in levels of martial artists.

"He was able to survive Jiang Luoxia's attack."

After seeing that Lee Jae-Soo was able to survive against Jiang Luoxia's attack, they were filled with confidence as well. He had broken off Jiang Luoxia's one-hit-kill momentum and made them realize that Jiang Luoxia wasn't that powerful at all.

Lee Jae-Soo said, "Jiang Luoxia, you really aren't weak, but you've chosen the wrong opponent. Today is the day of your death!"

Rooooaaarrr!

A faint gaseous, giant ape-like image formed behind him, which released a furious roar.

"Wild Punch!"

Along with the beastly roar, Lee Jae-Soo rose high into the air and punched out with fierce power. Following his actions, the 10 m tall ape behind him also punched out.

The punch seemed to possess an immeasurable force as heavy as Mt. Tai.

"So powerful!"

The people in Korea watching this scene on the monitor cheered excitedly. That Korean officer also nodded as well. The power behind this punch gave the impression that it could destroy a tiny mountain with ease.

"Really amazing!"

"Ancient God Race…" Jiang Xiu's apathetic gaze swept past him as he laughed lightly, "Useless trash like you also dares to make a fuss here."

He chirped, "Arcane Saber Light Style, destroy the spirit in an instant; it is all but a delusion!"

"Kill…"

"How can you all even come close to figuring out my Saber Dao?"

Jiang Xiu turned a blind eye to Lee Jae-Soo's fury filled punch. His voice suddenly changed from Chinese to a divine language which was full of mysterious profundities. Those who heard it would only feel an endless shock as well as a chill in their hearts.

"Soul Return!"

Lee Jae-Soo's gaze turned blank mid-air.

"Freeze."

Lee Jae-Soo's body issued a crackling sound as it turned into ice condensed on top of his body at speed visible to the naked eye.

"Soul Breakdown!"

Saber intent rushed out from Lee Jae-Soo's body and along with a bang, that ice-body exploded on the scene, along with several saber lights rushing out from inside.

His body was utterly smashed!

Everyone who witnessed this scene was shocked.

China's elderly military officer who saw this jumped up excitedly, "Good, good, good…"

Though he didn't know what was good, being able to kill a powerful enemy was something good after all.

As for those Koreans who saw this scene on the monitor, they wore a grief-stricken as well as a stupefied look on their faces. Each one of them was thunderstruck by the fact that Senior Lee Jae-Soo whom they viewed as a God was killed. As for the guy who commented that Senior Lee Jae-Soo will make Jiang Xiu experience Korean's many might, his mouth had turned into a complete oval shape, his lips trembling with shock.

"That Chinese man, can no one survive against him?"

It was really too shocking!

It made his heart beat faster.

It wasn't just him, all the Demigods present on the scene, and the others were also shocked.

Even the nine-python robed man was stunned.

"Hmph!" Jiang Xiu withdrew his gaze which was filled with disdain, killing an enemy like this was the same as slaughtering a pig to him. His gaze fell on the other Demigods, "What will you do now?"

"If all of us act together, we can definitely kill him."

"Everyone, coordinate with each other and surround him!"

As soon as someone said this, the Demigods leaped ahead and surrounded Jiang Xiu to besiege him.

"Damn it!" The elderly officer's expression warped, "They aren't going to act so shamelessly, right?"

"Are Demigods like them going to not even live up to their name?"

A small voice came from a distance from where Jiang Xiu was surrounded.

"Looks like they are ahead!"

The first martial artist who rushed ahead saw the scene of Jiang Xiu being surrounded by 20 Demigods. The situation was exceptionally intense. Many of the people who had rushed over here were filled with excitation as they wished to witness this shocking battle with their own eyes.

"This is too shameless. 20 Demigods are planning to attack Jiang Luoxia?"

"Does Heaven's Gate have any face left?"

The one who said this was a Chinese Demigod, the leader of the Copper Trigram Sect, Liu Yunhai.

"Hahaha! Your words are mistaken!" A thin-lipped man beside him commented. He had an eastern face and spoke awkward-sounding Chinese. From his voice, he seemed to be a Japanese person. "Anything goes during a battle of life and death. Wasn't it China's Sun Tzu who said these words - All's fair in war."

An Long had also rushed over here. His face was full of worry.

1 versus 20, is there a chance of winning?

An Long believed that no person of Heaven's Gate was Jiang Luoxia's opponent if they were fighting one versus one, but this wasn't a battle for ranking, but to kill each other.

"Jiang Luoxia is too arrogant and crazy. He barged into Heaven's Gate alone but in the end, got besieged by them."

"Ever since the ancient times, heroes have always acted alone!"

Currently, Jiang Luoxia's long hair was floating up, and lightning seemed to flash inside his eyes. His aura appeared to cover the entire heavens. In this instant, everyone's gazes were fixed on him, his bold attitude giving them a deep shock.

However…

"Jiang Luoxia is quite amazing but, in the end, he is heavily outnumbered!" A foreigner of unknown origin commented, feeling pity for Jiang Luoxia.

Just having the guts to barge into Heaven's Gate alone was enough to make them respect him.

The elderly officer's mood turned heavier after watching the scene on the monitor. "Tell our people there to get ready to provide support. They must finish their jobs. Even if there's a one-trillionth chance of succeeding, we must grab it!

"Understood!"

…

"Jiang Luoxia, you're indeed quite strong and your methods equally surprising, but you underestimate my Heaven's Gate too much. We have over 20 Demigods, and among them, there are several who cultivate arcane and mysterious skills."

"Everyone, attack with all your strength!"

The Demigods felt a considerable pressure. If they didn't rush to kill Jiang Luoxia, they might become the next Lee Jae-Soo.

"Crimson Flame!"

"Law of Darkness!"

"Ying-Yang Dragons Amulet!"

"…"

Countless formidable spells shot towards Jiang Xiu. Dazzling lights filled the entire sky, taking obscure paths or shooting right at him.

All the lights fused into a multi-colored light and charged at Jiang Xiu.

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

Jiang Xiu laughed contemptuously, like the last boss of a game. An intense light appeared in front of his forehead as the saber pill rushed out along with his divine intent, followed by his voice resounding in the area.

"Chapter Two of the Soul Scripture - The universe plunders the void eternally; the irrational desolation makes its descent!"

"Freezing Wind Wave!"

Whoosh!

A cold light flashed past, and when it did, the dead leaves falling from the sky stopped mid-air, the grass on the ground stopped waving, the Demigods who had all assumed different attack postures in the air as well as the masses who were watching from afar all stopped.

Time seemed to have stopped in this instant.

With only that glittering light moving.

That silvery, sparkling light looked incredibly bright and also possessed an unfathomable sharpness. It seemed as if no matter how hard a substance was, it'd still get destroyed by it.

It disappeared into the horizons after flashing by!

Time began to flow again, the wind started to blow, and the dead leaves also resumed falling. Everything recovered to its former state. It felt as if nothing had changed, but also felt like everything had changed.

Boom!

Suddenly, a huge explosion resounded in the area without any omen. The time which had stopped seemed to recover, and everything seemed to have sped up by a notch. The saber intent which was released by the light exploded with a bang!

It was total mayhem!

Those who were watching the scene from a distance only saw a light flash by, followed by the entire area exploding. All they could see was a white light which left them in utter shock.

The entire world seemed to turn white in an instant, yet again seemed to have been cut into two halves by that light, making it appear as if space had displaced.

"Oh my God!"

"This must be a missile's explosion, right?"

Cold sweat formed on the foreheads of people who were watching this scene through the video feed. They could see it more clearly as they were watching from above. The explosion area covered a total of over several hundred meters. Besides a nuclear warhead, only large-caliber missiles could achieve such destruction, and that too with great difficulty.

And this was the result of just a light which Jiang Luoxia had released, that's all.

"J-Just what the hell is this?"

"Is it Saber Dao?"

"Or a spell?"

The people witnessing the scene were utterly shocked, trembling in fear. That elderly officer's face was dumbstruck as well, his heart filled with astonishment. Such a thing was possible?

A foreigner flaunted his knowledge at this moment, "I met a Grand Wizard who was good at spirit telekinesis once. He could condense his spirit power into substance and cut the void using it. Nothing can stop such an attack. I feel this attack is similar to it."

The light scattered away gradually, dust falling down from the sky.

In the shadow, each one of the bodies was cut by the silvery light, resulting in blood splashing all over, creating a scene just like that of rose petals floating in the night sky.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The bodies fell to the ground. Water God Bodan, Swordmaster Yusen, Crimson Winged…. All those famous personages had fallen under this light. It was unknown where it was coming from and where it was going, possessing no locus at all and thus there was no chance for them to defend. They could only wait in despair as their life got snatched away in a split second.

"Oh my God!"

Dead bodies fell from the sky as if they were raining dumplings.

"They got killed?"

"All those Demigods?"

Everyone was stunned. They couldn't believe their eyes. Jiang Luoxia had killed 20 Demigods with a single move. This… was too shocking!

A foreigner among onlookers held his head, walking here and there with an exaggerated expression on his face. He glanced back at the scene and stamped his foot as it was all motherfucking real.

The Chinese Demigod, Liu Yunhai, was dumbfounded as well.

That Japanese man's eyes had turned expressionless. His soul had already left him.

The leaders of each country who saw this scene through the satellite couldn't remain calm anymore. They got up from their seats and came in front of the monitor.

"T-They are all dead?"

Bodies laid on the ground, the land dyed in crimson blood. These people weren't some cannon fodder, they were Demigods!

An Long was utterly stupefied as well. He always believed Jiang Luoxia was too extreme and that his arrogance would make him suffer a bitter ending, but it seemed like the ignorant one was himself. 20 Demigods had acted together but were killed by Jiang Luoxia instead. This slap to the face was too painful, yet it couldn't be denied that it was equally if not more exhilarating. His blood boiled with excitation, "Jiang Luoxia, you're too awesome!"

The entire underworld was shocked in this instant!

A 3-inch long light-saber flickered with a bright radiance in front of Jiang Luoxia's forehead. It seemed to possess a spiritual nature and looked incomparably dazzling and mysterious.

This was the saber knife he used just now!

The saber had slaughtered all those Demigods of Heaven's Gate.

"Jiang Luoxia, it looks like you really aren't just a Demigod…" a voice came through from a distance. A man wearing a robe stood there. He had black hair, black eyes and had nine pythons embroidered on his robe.

Everyone was shocked, and those watching the video feed were stunned as well.

"A nine-python robe. Is he the…"

"Heaven's Gate's Gatemaster?"

Jiang Xiu's sight fell on the Longevity Stone in his hands, "So the Longevity Stone was in your hands. You intentionally lured me to Europe?"

This was also no wonder. Jiang Xiu had killed Buzhi Ming, and China was forbidden ground to Heaven's Gate so they could only dupe him into entering Europe if they wanted to take revenge.

Jiang Xiu asked curiously, "You know I'm not just a Demigod?"

The man replied, "It's because I know Ji Wudao isn't just a Demigod. Since you were able to kill him, there's no way you are a Demigod. You ought to be a newly ascended God!"

Shock! The onlookers who heard these words were filled with shock.

"Jiang Luoxia is a God!!"

This explained why he dared to barge into Heaven's Gate alone and how he could kill 20 Demigods with a single attack. He was actually a God, an existence which could crush Demigods with ease.

Gods really exist in this world?

Jiang Xiu felt the man in front of him looked familiar as if he had seen his somewhere. "Since you knew I am a God, it's surprising you still dared to provoke me."

"Hahaha. Jiang Luoxia, you're too arrogant." Heaven's Gate's Gatemaster laughed, "If this were China or someplace else, I'd have been afraid of you, but this is the Holy Land of Heaven's Gate. I have operated here for several hundred years. How can I let someone like you do as you wish?"

"What if you're a God? Am I not one?"

Boom!

His aura soared up as a fierce breath engulfed the area like a gale. A thunder-flame-like breath condensed behind him and his entire temperament seemed to have changed completely.

"Divine Force Manifestation!"

The two of them possessed the same power.

"What do you think, Jiang Luoxia?"

Jiang Xiu looked at him indifferently with a grin on his face. He knew who this man was. He had gained an inkling of it when he saw him for the first time but didn't realize it immediately. However, after taking the Longevity Stone into the equation, he realized it instantly. Based on his standard Han face, it was clear he wasn't someone from the countries surrounding the Ancient City. He wore clothes which were worn by noblemen of the Ming Dynasty, and also possessed a Longevity Stone. His identity was pretty obvious, it was the commander of the Western Region's Garrison who had poisoned the Ancient Desert City, General Wang Chonglin.

"Useless trash!

Wang Chonglin's expression warped. He stamped the ground with his right foot suddenly. His stamp possessed a terrifying power and caused the entire land to tremble, resulting in cracks forming on the ground with him as the center. The ground ruptured along with rumbling sounds.

An intense light radiated from below the ground.

"Array - Initiate!"

At the same time, a mist appeared in the sky. It didn't feel much odd in the beginning as this place was a moist grass mountain land, but after that, the mist covered the entire sky. As far as the eyes went, only this layer of mist was visible, making it seem like there was another sky.

He had spent a lot of effort, gathering innumerable heavenly treasures to arrange such a grand array underground, all for the day when a powerful enemy would come dropping in.

This array could only be used thrice, and he had already used it once before. This was the second time he was using it.

"An array?" Jiang Xiu wasn't expecting this. "Interesting!"

"Interesting?"

Fury flashed through Wang Chonglin's eyes, "Jiang Luoxia, you're too crazy. Death is near at hand, and you still haven't realized it."

Jiang Xiu replied, "Haha. Gathering energy by linking with the heaven and earth to using the worldly energy of the land. Indeed, it's possible to kill a God using this method."

"Since you know that, why aren't you doing anything? Do you think you can resist the worldly energy of this land which spans a 100 km with just your body?" Wang Chonglin snarled at him, trying to wake Jiang Xiu up to reality.

As he said this, the entire mountain range began to tremble, and terrible, explosive sounds erupted from the array. The onlookers could feel the land under them tremble. The whole mountain range seemed to shake, appearing as if it was about to collapse.

"I-Is this an earthquake?"

The expressions of many people changed. Several of them retreated from the place with pale faces. If an earthquake really occurred here, they'd lose their lives. After all, their own lives were more important than watching the battle.

"Idiots! This is an array passed down in China!" Liu Yunhai commented.

Array?

The Japanese martial artist muttered in a low voice. This word wasn't strange to him. They were also passed down in Japan, but of course, they had obtained it from China.

"Space-Swallowing Tiger Soul Suppression Array!"

Silence took over the control room of China's army base, a repressive mood shrouding over the place. They believed Jiang Xiu had already won but didn't expect another hiccup to pop up. Heaven's Gate's Gatemaster turned out to be a God as well, and he even had an array prepared to boot.

Long Zaizong, who hadn't attacked due to the resentment he felt towards the others for abandoning Long Yingqing, and also because she was in Jiang Xiu's hands, spoke out in a trembling voice, "Jiang Luoxia, don't resist so much. You won't be able to withstand the worldly energy. Why don't you surrender? We're all Chinese people so the Gatemaster will surely pass down a lenient judgment. You can even become a leader of the ten thousand people under Heaven's Gate."

Wang Chonglin nodded, "Long Zaizong is right. It'd be a real pity to kill a talented hero like you. If only you surrender, you can have the 2nd throne of Heaven's Gate."

Though he was fully aware Jiang Xiu was a God, he still tried to rope Jiang Xiu into Heaven's Gate. He wasn't attempting to swallow more than what he can chew. In fact, he had the intentions of subduing Jiang Xiu long ago so he could use him. If only Jiang Xiu surrendered, he had no lesser than a hundred methods to control him.

Jiang Xiu revealed a strange smile, "Do you think you've won?"

Deity Xiu was no ordinary man. He was an ultimate expert who had made his name on the Immortal Martial Continent, a place where each person tried to exploit the other, a world full of scheming and sinning. He quickly saw through Wang Chonglin's cheap trick. In case he did surrender, he'd be drugged or poisoned, perhaps even controlled using a Gu. For a God, it was an easy task to control other people.

"Do you believe you can luck out of this situation?" Wang Chonglin continued, "Although a God can draw void force for self-use, the amount which can be taken isn't infinite. Since you're a God like me, you ought to know this better than anyone else. The fact that Gods can use void force are just words to scare others, the amount which can be used is always constant, and this depends on the strength. The stronger a God, the more void force can be drawn from the void. Our strength is still insufficient to resist the world."

As he spoke, he changed the hand seal to operate the array, immediately after which the mist in the sky converged together to form a huge cyclone, silver lightning seemingly flashing inside it. Wang Chonglin was like a God who had control over this section of the world. "Jiang Luoxia, do you want to live or die?"

A lot of the onlookers who were observing from a distance went weak on their knees after witnessing Wang Chonglin's imposing aura.

Heaven's Gate's Gatemaster was too frightening!

Only now did they genuinely comprehend why Heaven's Gate had lorded over others in Europe for several hundred years, surviving through two world wars, and even gaining the moniker of 'Holy Land,' becoming a forbidden land for each country's government.

It was because there was a God there!

Many people already found it difficult to breathe as that world mist descended down, feeling as if the winds shooting off from the cyclone were akin to sharp blades which could even cut through a mountain and slice them up.

And they felt like this when they were outside the array, so the kind of pressure Jiang Xiu, who was at the center of the array, faced was pretty unimaginable.

"Is this your array's power?"

Jiang Xiu was as carefree as always.

"Its power is sufficient to kill you. Jiang Luoxia, I'm asking you one final time. Do you want to live or die?"

"Of course, I want to live… but you have no control over my fate while yours is in my grasp!"

"Egotistical!"

Wang Chonglin didn't have much hope for Jiang Xiu to join Heaven's Gate. After all, any human who had ascended to become a God possessed a lot of pride, so the possibility of making someone like that surrender was quite less. "Since it's like this, let today be the day I slaughter a God!"

BOOM!

Black clouds covered the sky above the cyclone, a hissing sound covering the entire place as it sunk down from the top. The hundred-year-old trees got crushed instantly, and the hilltops on the terrain ruptured.

"Jiang Luoxia!"

"These are the consequences of your actions. Let this place become your burial ground."

The onlookers were all ashen-faced, their legs trembling. They had never seen such a heavenly suppression. Even a tsunami and an earthquake didn't possess such power which could break mountain rock into pieces.

In this instant, those witnessing this scene were extremely shocked. The Chinese people who were paying attention to Jiang Luoxia felt their heart leap up to their throats. Is he going to die?

He had walked till the final step, massacred over a thousand disciples of Heaven's Gate, slaughtered around 20 Demigods, but hadn't been able to bring down the huge mountain known as Heaven's Gate.

It was a pity for such a monarch to fall before the last stretch.

…

At this moment, Jiang Xiu's forehead flickered with a bright light again. The saber pill emerged out from the divinity source once again, and along with the spell he chanted, several characters converged towards the saber pill, resulting in it turning from a 3-inch knife to a 4-foot saber. It shone with a saber light all of a sudden as Jiang Xiu raised his head, "Heaven Splitter!"

The saber light at his forehead soared up, becoming 10 times longer.

Boom!

The large saber light shot up towards the sky and suddenly burst forth with an extremely dazzling bright white line. In this split second, space, time and matter seemed to vanish; it was as if that white line had split the world into two.

A split opened up in the descending sky!

Boom!

The saber light shone brighter, forcefully cutting through the sky. The winds wreaked havoc inside it, lightning flashed along with thunder booming endlessly. It felt as if the heavens had been split open as that cyclone got cut into two halves before dissipating completely.

"Oh my God!"

Long Zaizong's eyes almost popped out.

"How is this possible?!"

Wang Chonglin's expression warped as well. This array had gathered the worldly energy of an area of 100 km. Jiang Xiu shouldn't have been able to resist it even if he were a God as there was a limit to divine force he possessed and he'd run out of it sooner or later.

According to how he had cultivated, the divine force he possessed could roughly gather the worldly energy of an area of 500 m, and the array he had placed here could actually gather the worldly energy from an area of 100 km. It was too unbelievable that Jiang Luoxia had forcefully split open such an array's attack.

In other words, this meant that the power behind this one attack of Jiang Xiu was hundred times stronger than the power Wang Chonglin possessed. In fact, the difference between the worldly energy of an area of 500 m and 100 km wasn't just hundredfold, just like how the power of a 30mph tornado was nothing compared to that of a 300mph tornado.

Assessing the numerical stats was hard.

Yet what had happened before him was true.

Wang Chonglin couldn't remain collected. He cried out in alarm, "What kind of saber art is this?"

"My methods aren't something you can comprehend."

Wang Chonglin looked at the split sky rigidly with a pale expression on his face. His heart had sunk to the bottom. If the array got broken through, Jiang Luoxia would no doubt send that sword light towards him. His hair stood up just thinking of this possibility. He gritted his teeth bitterly. "Jiang Luoxia, you will die!"

He pinched the Longevity Stone in his hand, causing the symbols on it to break out with an intense light as he chanted a spell at a quick speed. A rumbling sound echoed up above in the skies again, and the rend which had opened up in the sky began to heal.

At the same time, Wang Chonglin's black hair turned completely white as it danced in the wind madly.

Jiang Xiu shook his head helplessly.

"What? Are you scared now? But it's too late!"

Wang Chonglin's appearance became abnormally demonic, making him appear like a demonic god.

Naturally, Jiang Xiu hadn't shaken his head due to fear but rather due to disappointment. Heaven Splitter was a sword art he had comprehended and barely executed used it using a saber. Though he was able to split open the array, in the end, there was a difference between a sword and a saber. They appeared not much different at first glance, but along with time, he'd run out of the power required to follow-up on the next attack and Wang Chonglin's array would recover by then.

"Afraid?" Jiang Xiu shook his head, "Wang Chonglin, in those days, the people of Sahagan had saved you yet you slaughtered them. Today, this land shall become your burial ground."

Wang Chonglin was startled, "You know me? And about Sahagan?"

"W-Who are you?"

"I'm a Demon from Hell who has especially come to take you to Hell."

"Wang Chonglin, receive death!"

Wang Chonglin laughed out loudly, "Jiang Luoxia, don't try to scare me with your words. You're already a spent force. Your psychological warfare tactics won't work against me. I'm the one who will be sending you to Hell."

"Are you ready to die?!"

Wang Chonglin taunted. However, the smile on his face suddenly went rigid.

Jiang Xiu's pupils slowly expanded, his eyes turning pitch-black. At the same time, the divine regalia symbol on his left arm illumined.

BOOM!

An intense light burst forth from his body, forming a light beam which soared towards the sky.

"What is this?"

Wang Chonglin quaked in fear as he witnessed the entire scene. Jiang Xiu's hair waved like flames, his body glowing as a gale devastated his surroundings. He slowly rose up into the sky, making him look like a demonic god who had descended into this world.

A voice seemed to surge through the entire place, sounding as if it had originated from the ancient times.

"Infinity!"

Deity Xiu's pupils returned to normal, lightning flashing through his eyes as he spoke out the word, the Divine Regalia Character Note.

At the moment this never-before-seen divine regalia character note took form in this world, this entire world seemed to return to its primordial state, desolation all over, no man, no plant, no beast - solely that primeval sound marking the world's beginning.

Boom! Boom!

Rumbles akin to thunder surged across the skies, from the far to the near, followed by an omnipotent pressure descending on the place. The thick mist which had formed from the array was suppressed immediately along with divine golden light flashing inside it. The scorching light spread like wildfire, making the mist explode in an instant.

"What is that?"

Wang Chonglin was extremely frightened as the fiery light was too hot. A huge hole had burnt open up in the mist due to it.

"Aaaaahhhh!"

When that fiery light fell on Wang Chonglin's body, he began to scream loudly. Everyone looked towards him in surprise. In the instant that divine golden light fell on him, the flesh on his face, his body, as well as his arms, began to burn up, revealing the bones under his flesh.

"Gatemaster!"

Long Zaizong cried out in fear. The man who he viewed as the strongest had been defeated, that too using such a mysterious note spoken by Jiang Xiu.

"Strike at my divinity source!"

Wang Chonglin roared back at him. Long Zaizong naturally knew where the divinity source was. After all, it was the most vital part for a cultivator. Striking there was akin to death, but he didn't have much time to ponder right now. He immediately drew his sword out and struck.

However, when the tip of the sword stabbed towards the Yin Palace, the divine golden light burnt it into ashes, and the flame followed up along the blade towards him. Long Zaizong got scared and abandoned his sword in a rush.

His sword was a famous sword which could behead a demigod's body with ease yet it was destroyed with a single touch.

This was too terrifying!

"Aaaaahhhhhh!!"

At this moment, Wang Chonglin's flesh was no more, only a skeleton was left behind, bones utterly devoid of life. Sounds of disintegration came from the skeleton's soles as it broke and collapsed into a pile of bones.

"Jiang Luoxia, I'll take you with me to my grave!"

Looking at this scene, everyone's faces turned pale.

They were scared witless by Jiang Xiu's methods.

Just what is happening?

Jiang Xiu was also astonished, no, it was more proper to say he was jubilant from the shock. The divine regalia character's first note which he had awakened turned out to be the First Primeval Note. Its might far exceeded his imagination.

There were 33 Worldly Notes: The Five Phases Characters - Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, the Six-Syllables of the Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva mantra - Na Mo A Mi Tuo Fo, the Nine Secret Characters, the Twelve Constellation Characters, and the First Primeval Note, altogether forming 33 of them.

Clearly, the power of the First Primeval Note was abnormal. Most regretfully, this First Primeval Note was merely this lower world's First Primeval Note. If it were used on the Immortal Martial Continent, its power was bound to be on the same rank as that of an Immortal Monarch.

"Hahahaha…."

He too couldn't help but laugh in joy faced with such a development.

"Useless trash…"

He immediately looked towards the sky. That mist was still descending downwards. Though the array's master was dead, the array was already initiated successfully. Just like a tornado, its origin might've been a flap of a tiny butterfly, and its death had no effect on the tornado.

The worldly energy of an area of 100 km was enough to crush this entire mountain range.

"Hmph!"

Jiang Xiu sneered, "Do you think you can take me to the grave along with you?" He recalled the wicked smile Wang Chonglin showed him before dying.

He soared up into the sky.

"You're too naïve!"

"You'll never be able to see the scene of me getting crushed by the worldly energy you gathered, not even in your death…"

The dazzling saber pill at his forehead pulled him up into the sky and rushed into the hole which was opened by his divine regalia character note, passing through the reddish-white mist, gradually rising up and up, just like an immortal god.

Boom!

1st strike!

It was as if a 10-ton bomb had exploded in there, the boundless energy waves charging towards the horizons. The onlookers below only saw a huge white scar appear and vaguely saw a several hundred meters huge saber.

2nd Strike!

Another white scar appeared in the sky.

3rd Strike!

Although they didn't know what Jiang Xiu was doing, the domineering scene of a person brandishing such a huge saber in the sky appeared really godly and left them in utter shock.

4th Strike…

His shadow flickered, followed by a saber light filling the sky. From the satellite feed, it could be vaguely seen that the sword light formed some kind of massive design inside the mist.

This design was extraordinarily complicated and linked internally, making it even more profound and difficult to comprehend.

"Break!"

Jiang Xiu didn't even take a glance back and flew upper in the skies being pulled by the sword pill and watched on as the sword light inside the mist exploded fiercely.

Boom!

The entire sky trembled as that sword light gave rise to a mighty destructive force, leaving everything in devastation.

Space, time and matter, nothing was spared.

Saber intent forming an array, converting the boundlessness into intent!

A saber array to break the magic array!

The whole sky trembled violently as the mist got twisted due to the countless tiny saber lights, giving rise to crackling and rattling sounds of explosions.

Those witnessing the scene from below felt as if the heavens were collapsing.

"T-This is heavenly suppression!"

China's demigod, Liu Yunhai was utterly shocked.

"I have no more regrets left in life after witnessing today's battle."

His wizened face was already covered in tears.

The Japanese martial artist had gone weak on the knees and knelt down on the ground like a pious believer, looking at the heavens. The foreigner besides him had already lost his sanity.

"This child is so powerful?"

Long Zaizong muttered to himself.

Using one's own power to resist against the worldly energy of an area of 100 km was too inhuman, such an ability was similar to a god's descent on this world.

Bzzzttt!

Boom!

The countless saber light formed due to the saber array cut apart the mist. The mist had already grown thinner and light had slowly begun to penetrate the mist and lighten the sky.

Boom!

Followed by the final explosion, the fog disappeared baselessly after losing the power to sustain itself.

The calamity was finally gone.

In case the array detonated, no organism in the 100 km range would've survived, let alone these onlookers. Even Jiang Xiu might've fallen.

The mist dispersed, and the world lit up again.

A silhouette appeared beside Wang Chonglin. It was Jiang Xiu. He picked up the Longevity Stone which had fallen on the ground.

"Hmmm?"

There was actually another one inside the pile of bones.

"You schemed to draw me here using the Longevity Stone so you must be satisfied, right?" These two Longevity Stones would definitely increase his sword pill's strength after they were refined.

This trip to Europe hadn't been in vain.

"What will you do now?"

Jiang Xiu's gaze fell on the sole surviving demigod of Heaven's Gate, Long Zaizong.

"I… I pay my respects to Mr. Jiang."

Long Zaizong rushed to offer a salute.

Jiang Xiu placed his hands behind him, "Don't you know I always exterminate all the enemy?"

Long Zaizong's expression warped, fear filling his eyes, "Mr. Jiang, please spare my life… You've already wiped out all of Heaven's Gate and even killed the Gatemaster. My Long family won't dare to make ourselves your enemy."

Long Yingqing, standing at a distance, also felt her heart stop.

She wanted to go beg him to let her ancestor go free, but she knew it'd have no effect.

Jiang Xiu gazed at him apathetically then muttered, "Go."

"The reason I'm letting you go isn't that I'm benevolent but rather because even though I had invaded Heaven's Gate, you've never attacked me even all the while."

Long Zaizong became jubilant, "Thank you, Mr. Jiang!"

"Phew!"

The old officer, as well as the other workers watching the China satellite feed, relaxed their breath then went high with ecstasy. Jiang Luoxia had won. They had won. This battle had an extraordinary significance for China.

"Mr. Jiang really annihilated Heaven's Gate by himself."

An Long sighed as he looked at the mountains of corpses. An organization which had lorded over others for several hundred years, a power which had given a headache to each country, was utterly annihilated.

Descend, the nine mythical arts, cleanse the heavens, a thousand years of karma, an artless heart yet romantic!

Today, Jiang Luoxia's name had shocked the entire world.

"My face was smacked again, hehe…"

The shock An Long felt hadn't settled down even after a long time. The escape measures he had prepared were of no use and a complete waste.

Though he felt he was useless, he felt happier.

From now on, Jiang Luoxia's name wasn't there on the Demigod Ranking, as he was an existence which surpassed demigods.

The news of Jiang Luoxia annihilating the entire Heaven's Gate spread across the underworld and had even given rise to a discussion in China's martial arts forum.

Everyone knew Heaven's Gate. It had 23 branches, and their nodes were spread all over the world. Each branch had a demigod keeping watch over it. Especially in Europe's underworld, Heaven's Gate was a legendary existence there. The words spoken by the Heaven's Gate's Gatemaster held more power than the EU's president. It was such a colossal monster!

And such a colossal monster was annihilated by Jiang Luoxia. The martial artists of China found it hard to contain their excitation after learning about this news. The might of their China was in no way small.

Someone even said Jiang Luoxia's name deserved to be placed at the top of the Demigod Ranking.

But the news which had come immediately after that had left everyone shocked.

Jiang Luoxia was a God!

This news was too unbelievable. What was a god? It was a species standing on an entirely different dimension. Could someone like that exist in this world?

Someone even called it into question and asked whether there was any real evidence that Jiang Luoxia was a God.

His face got smacked back hard. Wasn't a single person killing 23 demigods the best proof?

The post immediately got over 300 likes.

That person counterattacked: Isn't it possible Jiang Luoxia has achieved a higher form of Deification?"

This post got 53 likes and 123 dislikes. Although his reasoning made sense, but the populace wished that Jiang Xiu were a god.

The people's desire was always beautiful.

Somewhere in China, an old man also joined the forum discussion with the help of his grandson, "Heaven's Gate has several demigods of the 4th form, let alone the 3rd and 2ndform. It isn't possible to handle all of them just with a higher form, it's only achievable through suppression of rank. It's very likely that Jiang Luoxia is a God."

"Nice, Grandpa!"

OP: It's already confirmed that Jiang Luoxia is a God and the Heaven's Gate's Gatemaster who he killed was also a God.

Someone asked: Where did you obtain this information from?

Who are you?

How do you know so many things?

The OP went offline!

This didn't tone down the discussion on the forum but slightly livened it up even more.

As the martial arts forum of China were amidst this fierce discussion, the affiliated branches of Heaven's Gate were all going crazy. On the top floor of a skyscraper in Korea's capital, the Lee family's family head felt light-headed after receiving the news. The Lee family had countless enemies in Korea, and they were relying on their family's Demigod as well as Heaven's Gate's power to resist them, but both had collapsed now so he didn't even dare imagine how they would end up.

"Family Head, what happened to you?" A subordinate rushed to support him when he saw the usually tough family head suddenly collapse.

"We're finished. Our Lee family is finished."

Lee family had acted rampant in Korea for a long time and taken out several opponents. Without Heaven's Gate backing them, the Lee family couldn't contend against all those people.

Similar to the Lee family, the other elite families in Korea, SEA, EU, and other countries which were a part of Heaven's Gate… a total of 23 elite families were about to face destruction.

"Hmm?"

Jiang Xiu was about to leave the place when he discovered a peculiar ghastly energy. His gaze swept his gaze across the place and saw a shadow which was escaping from the place.

"What's that?"

Jiang Xiu's gaze fell on the pile bodies of the demigods. Although they were demigods, they had already begun to evolve towards becoming gods so they might possess some kind of unimaginable power.

Excluding Long Zaizong, all bodies were present here, including Wang Chonglin's skeleton in them.

"Hmm?"

Jiang Xiu took note of a European man's dead body which was complete and not dismembered by the saber light. This man had a handsome appearance and had blonde hair.

He slowly walked towards the body and reached out to touch it, but a fierce wind suddenly blew over and caused that body to ignite. Jiang Xiu was stunned by this. From the way the body was burning, the interior was visible, and it was completely hollow. The body quickly turned into ashes which drifted into the air.

"Yin God Escape Body?"

"Yin-Yang Dual Life?"

Jiang Xiu was quite shocked. This man was a mere demigod yet he had awakened such a noble bloodline. This bloodline's nobility wasn't those so-called noble bloodlines on Earth. It didn't appear in the royal family or in the body. On the Immortal Martial Continent, a noble bloodline pointed towards those whose bloodline gave them a strength which set them a thousand years ahead of others regarding cultivation. For example, just a drop of blood from someone like this could allow the lowest tiered god to ascend instantly.

And the Yin-Yang Dual Life was one kind of powerful divine bloodline. At the moment when day and night changed, the person could resurrect. It was a primordial divine race and possessed top-tier divine bloodline, thus being called noble.

Jiang Xiu also used to envy the Yin-Yang Divine race. Their strength would increase each time day and night changed. Even those members of their race which didn't put in much effort into cultivation possessed a terrifying strength.

Only, it was difficult for this race to pass down their bloodline. Just like the other powerful races, the stronger it was, the harder it became to give offspring.

"I wasn't expecting to encounter the Yin-Yang Divine Race here!"

Jiang Xiu's gaze went cold, "I can't let you live." Since the man got killed by him today, he'd no doubt return to take revenge after gaining more strength.

"Who is this man?"

Long Zaizong said, "King Alex! What about it?"

Jiang Xiu said, "He isn't dead!"

Long Zaizong hesitated for a moment before speaking, "It's said that King Alex has a defensive divine artifact on him called the Yin-Yang Twin Dragons. No one can break through his defense."

"Yin-Yang Twin Dragons?"

So it was just a divine artifact. I almost through I ran into the Yin-Yang Divine Race. That makes sense as well. If he were the of the Yin-Yang Divine Race, he'd have already become a God.

"Where's King Alex's base located?"

He speculated that the Yin-Yang Twin Dragon artifact must've allowed King Alex to break free from his body and enter a new body. However, such a heaven-defying act would inevitably affect his strength so he'd have to look for a place to recuperate. As human instinct directs, in one's weakest time, a person was more likely to return to the place they were most familiar with, which was their base.

"Southern Europe!" Long Zaizong asked like a lackey, "Do you need me to accompany you, Mister?"

"No need, I'll go alone."

King Alex had hardly escaped from here. Jiang Xiu was confident that he could overtake him if he knew the direction. He took a step forward and covered several meters as he chased after that ghastly power.

He walked past mountains, trees, and rivers. Under Jiang Xiu's feet, everything was the same as flat ground. The fishes scuttled away in fear when they saw Jiang Xiu walked on top of the water surface. Even ravines were nothing to him as he just flew across them.

At the same time, China received a call from the U.S. and requested strongly to stop Jiang Luoxia from chasing King Alex. The reason for this was obvious, it was because King Alex had offered the U.S. a lot of benefits in exchange.

His only chance to survive was to make the U.S. govt. put political pressure on the Chinese govt. to make them appear personally and make Jiang Luoxia back down.

China was still quite vulnerable in this respect, especially when they were facing the U.S., they had no choice but to surrender several times. This wasn't without cause. The country's economy was still developing so they couldn't make an enemy out of them.

If you can't defeat the other party, the only choice left is to compromise.

However, China had immediately refused this time. It wasn't that they were unwilling, they would agree if the U.S. gave enough benefits in exchange, but the problem was that they had no means to contact Jiang Luoxia and since it was like this, they might as well refuse it.

Moreover, they even used this chance to express their hardiness.

The reason for it was simple. China had something amazing, a God.

Inside an office within the U.S., a crazy as well an outrageous notion began to take form. "We can't let those Chinese act so arrogantly!"

"Right!"

"We should punish them!"

On top of a glacier in Eastern Europe, King Alex felt powerless under the relentless pursuit, "Respected Mister, please let me go. At the moment I died, I comprehended a secret, I'll tell that to you in return."

King Alex before him looked just as pretty as before, but his skin was quite pale and even appeared transparent. "I'm not interested. I only need you to die."

King Alex touched the Yin-Yang Twin Dragons artifact, which only had a single dragon on it now. If Jiang Xiu hadn't killed him, he'd have never known the real use of this necklace.

"The Holy Woman hibernates in the river; Divine punishment descends on Heaven's Gate. At the moment the Twin Dragons crumble, a world of neither Yin nor Yang…"

The cold wind blowing on the ice-cold glacier was akin to blades. Frost covered King Alex's face, and at the moment he spoke the 4th verse, he baselessly collapsed. The Yin-Yang Twin Dragon necklace in his hands fell into the cold river, sinking towards the bottom while releasing a weak glow.

"Such a pity!"

Jiang Xiu shook his head with a sigh while looking at King Alex's dead body. Since fate had allowed him to gain a secret method to seize the luck of the world, if he had used it correctly, there wouldn't have been a limit to what he could've achieved, and it was also an omen of becoming a God. However, he had committed the most taboo affair, which was divulging the secrets of heaven and thus incurred divine wrath.

"However, that Yin-Yang Twin Dragons necklace is really amazing. It allowed him to peep at the mysteries of heaven after death. Though damaged, it's an unusual artifact." Jiang Xiu's gaze moved towards the river.

"Hmm?"

It was easy to find the necklace in the river as it was releasing a pale glow. He planned to go underwater but the glow suddenly dimmed down, and that necklace vanished as well. It had disappeared right in front of Jiang Xiu's eyes.

"That's strange."

Jiang Xiu naturally hadn't hallucinated. He could see underwater with ease, and that necklace had indeed disappeared. It was as if that necklace didn't belong to this world and had now returned to its world.

It was also a pity that such a magical thing was gone.

After curbing his mood, Jiang Xiu discovered that he was lost. Since he was in pursuit all along, he didn't know where he was right now. From the foreigners he had seen while he was pursuing, he concluded that this place might be near to Siberia.

In the battle, it didn't take much of his strength to kill those 23 demigods. The saber array was the most crucial. It had almost taken all of his divine force to create it, and after pursuing all the way here, he felt a little tired.

However, he couldn't see any villages or establishments where he could rest, so he planned to look for a place to take rest and recover.

He walked for a good amount of distance but met no one on the road. At the riverfront, he noticed an igloo. It was a place to live made using ice-cubes in extremely cold regions and a life-saving measure to the inhabitants. Since it'd allow Jiang Xiu to resist the cold a little, he went inside.

He sat cross-legged and took out the two Longevity Stones he had gained this time, held each in his hands and began to refine them.

The first step of saber cultivation was to form the saber pill, the next step was to nurture the saber pill using heavenly materials like the Longevity Stone.

Since he was already a God now, the refining process was much faster and safer.

To a saber cultivator, the might of the saber pill depended on the user's fighting strength. Only by having a solid foundation could one achieve high accomplishments in saber cultivation.

"I hope that one day, a saber soul is born which will, in turn, lead to soul variation!"

This was something Jiang Xiu longed for. In his previous life, he had cultivated the sword, and though he had extremely high accomplishments in sword cultivation, reached a stage which made others gasp in amazement and could even defeat a sword soul variation sword cultivator of the same rank, he had never formed a sword soul and never undergone soul variation. This was something which he regretted. His friends all said to him that the time hasn't come yet and it wasn't that he'd never form a sword soul, after all, his accomplishments in sword cultivation proved his talent. However, Jiang Xiu knew that the minuscule percent of incompatibility with the sword had become his heart devil and kept him from passing through to the next step.

Now that he was using the saber, he felt everything was harmonious, feeling carefree and unrestrained. In the future, he planned to visit the Star-Pearl Rock in the Immortal Martial Continent to check his compatibility with the saber.

He sat there for an unknown amount of time, right until the two Longevity Stones were entirely refined by him. The saber pill inside his divinity source had enlarged by two times and glowed with a clearer radiance.

"Let's test it!"

A white light flickered at his forehead, followed by a sword light flashing past. It rushed out of the igloo and pulled him along towards the skies.

He had turned into a white beam of light soaring towards the sky.

"Whooooo!"

"Awesome!"

It gave him a thrilling feel. To compare, it was as if he were driving a little Alto before and now going crazy on a Ferrari. That feeling of flying in the wind made him feel as if he had recovered a bit of his style with which he had carried himself in the Immortal Martial Continent.

Only, this still made his body feel a little burdened, so he dropped down again.

"It looks like now that the four Longevity Stones are together, there's some kind of mystical response between them." Although there weren't any other substances which could give rise to a variation or upgrade the saber pill, there were a total of six slots at the base of the Holy Woman's statue. It was possible that the unique function all of these Longevity Stones possessed unique abilities and the way to use them was to gather all six together.

"It looks like the Godhead's strength has also increased a bit!"

Although he had nourished the saber pill, the saber pill was also a part of his body. Since it had grown stronger, his Godhead had also strengthened, but there was no change in the divine regalia.

The path of divinity cultivation consisted of many stages - Fractual God, Earth God, Heavenly God, Godking…

Fractual God was in turn divided into three grades - Low God, Mid God, and High God.

Now, his power was already close reaching the peak of the Low God stage.

Jiang Xiu's current target was to reach the Earth God stage and break free from the fetters of this earth and enter the universe, so he can set foot on the path towards returning to the Immortal Martial Continent. This path was too long and difficult to achieve in the short term.

As for Heavenly Gods, they were extremely powerful and could travel in the universe freely. He was still far from reaching such a stage, so he planned to become an Earth God first then return to the Immortal Martial Continent where he could prepare to attack the barrier of the Heavenly God stage.

As for the Godking stage, it was far from his reach.

Gods awakened their bloodlines by fusing with the world's laws and Immortals relied on comprehending the grand dao of the world. The two paths were entirely different yet their destination one and the same.

"It's really troublesome to raise my strength!"

On the Immortal Martial Continent, if only a person had enough talent and puts in the effort to cultivate while seizing a few suitable opportunities, the chances of becoming an Earth God were pretty high. But on Earth, the spiritual energy had depleted, and if he only relied on his divine bloodline to awaken, he'd sooner or later hit a roadblock and even die.

Though it wouldn't reach such a stage where he'd die as his disciple, Jian Yi (Sword One) had sent him the necessary cultivation materials, it'd take around over 300 years to reach him, and this was no better than death to him.

Do I sit in wait and become a fossil?

He was actually looking forward to the shocking prediction which King Alex had divined, but he died by divine wrath before he could finish speaking the entire thing.

"The Holy Woman slumbers in the river; Divine punishment descends on Heaven's Gate. At the moment the Twin Dragons crumble, a world of neither Yin nor Yang…"

Jiang Xiu wasn't an ordinary person. As someone who was living his second life, he knew what would happen in the future. He recalled that in his previous life, there were rumors that 2012 was the end of the world and these rumors had scared a lot of people. Many believed this rumor, but in the end, the world hadn't ended, and though it wasn't clear why so many people were saying the world would end, the outcome was the only thing that mattered.

But now, the future had already changed. King Alex's death was precisely proof of it. The words he had spoken ought to be true or else he wouldn't have died due to divine wrath.

"A world of neither Yin nor Yang…"

Jiang Xiu really looked forward to it. He wished for this world to return to how it was during the ancient era and give birth to spiritual energy again. On the Immortal Martial Continent, he had read in a book about how a hole had opened up in the Heavens of a similar low-level planet which led to spiritual energy rushing inside and transforming that science and technology-oriented world into a world of cultivation.

He felt that it'd be good if something like that happened.

If so, he'd have the assurance to become an Earth God before 400 years passed and break through the fetters of this earth so he could return to the Immortal Martial Continent.

"Life is indeed unpredictable…"

"Seizing the present is the right path!"

After saying this, this guy shamelessly sat down to cultivate again. He didn't know how long he cultivated this time. Currently, even if he did cultivate, the progress he made was slow so it was better to purify his divine force which would lay down a strong foundation for the higher stages.

The foundation was of utmost importance for cultivation. If the foundation was unstable, it was possible to fall down a stage when injured. The same stands true when an extremely powerful divine skill was used or if there was an incompatibility with the body.

To sum it up, he was looking for a pretext to cultivate.

A month passed by just like that. On this day, a couple came to the river bank and bore a hole into the ice to fish, but actually saw a frosted shadow slowly moving underneath. That elderly lady got frightened immediately, "O'Mother. Old man, see what's below."

The old man stared at it in a daze then shouted, "It's a human, a dead body!"

The old man called a few people to smash open the ice layer and fish up the frozen dead body outside. It was none other than our cultivation madman, Jiang Xiu. His had actually plunged into the river and enabled the free drift mode. Even he was unclear about how many places he had gone through.

They somehow fished up Jiang Xiu out of the river. The villagers naturally wouldn't have known that this shameless guy had drifted over here from Eastern Europe and believed he must've lost his footing somewhere nearby and fallen into the river.

"Is he breathing?"

"How is that even possible? God knows how long he stayed inside the river. He must've already stopped breathing."

"Such a pity for a handsome child like him to die."

The group of people looked at each other. A middle-aged man among them asked, "Let's call the police and let them handle it."

"Wait a second…"

The elderly lady reached out to grope Jiang Xiu, following which her eyes grew wide open, "The body is still warm, he's alive…" She believed it was a pity for Jiang Xiu to die and held one last hope. That's why she tested it, and as it turned out, his body was indeed warm.

"Stop kidding. He's been inside the river for so long that he has turned into a block of ice!"

"It's really warm. Touch the body yourself if you don't believe me."

A few of them realized that she was serious and went to grope him. Their expressions warped immediately. Keeping aside the fact whether the body was warm or not, his body wasn't stiff at all, but somewhat soft.

In such cold weather, anyone would absolutely freeze stiff in 1-2 hours after falling into the river.

"He's really alive. Quickly carry him…"

The party of villagers carried Jiang Xiu to the village, and when they reached the entrance, someone went to call for the doctor so a saline drip could be injected into him. But that shameless guy opened his eyes right at this moment and discovered he was being carried into a house by a group of wild men who then stripped off his clothes. He was immediately enraged, "What are you doing?!"

Fudge!

The people inside the house were all scared witless. An old man sitting on the wooden chair and munching on melon seeds slipped down the chair.

"Aiyah, you woke up? We saved you."

Only now did Jiang Xiu realize these people didn't have any malice towards him and that they might've discovered him while he was drifting inside the water then taken ashore. He wore a kinder expression on his face, "I-I'm fine."

He quickly stood up.

The elderly lady said, "Your clothes are wet so better change into something else, or you might catch a cold."

Now that she had mentioned this, Jiang Xiu really felt chilly. Even a God required heat to resist the cold, just like humans, but this level of cold was far from injuring Jiang Xiu, so he asked, "Is there any food?"

"Of course, there is…."

Jiang Xiu took off his outer garment and placed it beside the heater. The elderly lady brought him a bowl of bloated noodles and looked at Jiang Xiu with worry, "Are you really okay?"

After having that bowl of noodles, Jiang Xiu felt warmer, and there was the heater nearby as well, so the clothes had dried quickly. It was just that the coat was a British windbreaker which was quite absorbent, so it didn't dry yet. "I'm fine. Is there anything else?"

"There is, but eat first…"

An old man standing beside asked him, "Young man, how did you fall into the river?"

Jiang Xiu was about to say he drifted over from Eastern Europe or from Siberia, but he didn't do that lest he scared the old man. "I got careless and fell inside the river."

The old man asked, "You need to be careful. The river surface isn't that hard."

"Right, where are you from?"

As the two of them were chatting idly, Jiang Xiu took note of the calendar on the wall, it was already December. Including the time he had spent cultivating, over a month had passed by.

He asked, "Uncle, did anything strange happen recently?"

The uncle replied, "Nothing strange happened. We stay in the village most of the time and don't know much about what happens outside. What we know mostly comes from the news. Shall I turn on the TV for you?"

Jiang Xiu nodded.

The uncle's TV was really something, it was a 20-inch color TV and had many channels. Jiang Xiu chose an international news channel. Since a month had already passed, there wasn't much news about the Heaven's Gate battle now. In fact, this kind of news would never appear on TV, and even the upper-class elites didn't know about it as these were classified as the highest level secrets of the country.

After looking at the international news for 30 mins, the current situation could be surmised in a few words - Mayhem due to natural disasters.

In the U.S., meteorites had fallen in several places, and there were many earthquakes as well. Several meteorites had landed in China's Yunhai province as well while earthquakes had occurred in Western Sichuan. There was even a particular segment about how the land of a place called Wulin in China had uplifted 10 km higher after the earthquake. The specialists all said that this was the result of movements in Earth's crust.

"Young man, do you want to call your family?"

Jiang Xiu finally realized his situation. He couldn't just live here. "Oh. Uncle, is it possible to make a phone call here? I'll need to make a call."

The elder replied, "There's a phone at the shop near the village's entrance."

The issue was settled, but the other party had saved him, and he had even eaten their food. It wasn't his style to leave after they had done so much. At the very least, he wanted to thank them so placed his hand inside his pocket, but there was not a single cent inside. His cell phone was also dead due to getting wet in the river.

"What is it? Is something missing?"

"My purse is gone…"

"Maybe it fell into the river."

"It doesn't matter. There wasn't anything precious inside anyways. How about this? Uncle, I'll give this cell phone to you, and you can accompany me to the shop."

The uncle waved his hands when he saw the phone, "No need for that. I'll take you there."

After his outer garments had dried, Jiang Xiu went to the shop while being accompanied by the uncle. He ran into another problem here. All the numbers were stored on his phone, and he didn't remember them. The only number he remembered was his Jiang City's home number. But now that his parents had gone to Annan, that number was already canceled.

He still remembered another number, which was Nangong Kou'er's number. Since he had personally called her that day and even received an SMS from it, the number was left behind in his memory.

But he couldn't just call her like that!

Their relationship was quite complicated, and if he called her, she might think something else. Now that he remembered about this, he recalled that wild afternoon he spent with her.

"What happened?"

The uncle saw Jiang Xiu hesitate while holding the receiver.

"The numbers are all inside the cell phone."

The store lady boss said to him, "Give me the phone, I'll take a look."

Jiang Xiu handed the phone over. The lady boss tinkered with it a little then said, "It's completely dead. It'll take 200 RMB to repair it, and it's even uncertain whether the numbers are still inside or not…"

The uncle was a good person, but he had accompanied Jiang Xiu till here already, even Jiang Xiu didn't have the face to ask the uncle for the money.

He furrowed his brows, "Let me try calling once."

He called Nangong Kou'er's number. The phone rung four times after which it was picked up. Nangong Kou'er's sweet-sounding voice came through from the other side, "Hello, who is this?"

Jiang Xiu spoke with a cramped voice, "T-That… It's me!"

Nangong Kou'er paused for a few moments, "Who are you?"

This was a bit hard for Jiang Xiu to take, his face went red. It looked like she wasn't even bothered by what had happened. "It's Jiang Xiu. I… need your help with something."

"Aaah, you!"

Nangong Kou'ers tone turned ice-cold, "We aren't that close."

A few days after she returned home, she heard some astonishing news. The Jiang family had committed a crime which led to chaos in Jiangnan and was thus judged by the Diaoyutai. That elite family had fallen down.

To avoid getting implicated into it, the Nangong family immediately broke ties with the Jiang family and didn't even recognize the so-called engagement between her and Jiang Xiu.

Jiang Xiu was no longer a child of an elite family but instead a penniless brat.

Naturally, she didn't care who he was. Besides that time, the both of them had never had any interaction.

"Yes, we are indeed not close. I ran into trouble over here and I only remembered your number."

Nangong Kou'er said, "What did you remember my number for?"

I also didn't want to remember it. You wrote it down for me in Jiang City, and I called you later as well. What can I do about that?

"How do you want me to help you?"

Nangong Kou'er didn't end the call.

"Think of some means to help me. I'm currently at Liaodong peninsula's Yalu river. I'm alone here. I lost my purse along with my I.D and my phone is dead as well."

Nangong Kou'er replied, "You were the one who called me, and you want me to think of some means to help you?" Her tone was quite harsh, almost as if she might hang the call any second.