Let’s rewind time a bit.
Right as Reneedol volunteered to stand out and stop the assailants by herself, Gu Qing Shan had already noticed something amiss.
“Shannu, use [Ghostly Shadow of Night] to take a look at what’s happening” he sent his voice.
“Understood, gongzi”
A fluffy small orange cat landed on the ground, then started running rapidly after Reneedol.
Thanks to her ability [Living’s Wisdom], Shannu was able to utilize Huang Quan Origin power without being affected by the Laws of this world.
In just a few moments, she had caught up with Reneedol.
Only to see Reneedol carrying a corpse while running away with several men chasing after her.
The orange cat pondered for a short moment before deciding to run at the same pace as Reneedol while staying close to her.
The two groups of people and one cat arrived at a military camp.
A man in a robe and wielding a scepter was being protected by a large number of people, standing in the middle of the camp.
Reneedol tossed the corpse to the ground, coldly looking at the other party and asked: “Wizard Rodri? You are the strongest person here?”
The man also observed her and said in surprised: “That’s me, but I couldn’t imagine that the one who was able to call upon me despite being such a long distance away was a young girl like yourself”
The men who were chasing after Reneedol also stopped.
They stood at the gate of the camp without attacking Reneedol, but they appeared to be clearly angry.
“Boss, we followed your orders and brought her here, but she killed one of ours”
“That’s right, she was too cruel, Fourth only joked around with her a bit and she already killed him”
“Boss—–”
Wizard Rodri waved his hand to signal his subordinates to stop talking.
He bowed to Reneedol, then asked: “For what reason did your excellency summon me?”
Reneedol told him: “Do something for me first, send your strongest men to kill the young men and women who were with me earlier”
“Understood” Wizard Rodri looked around at his men and pointed out several of them.
“All of you head out and kill them”
He ordered.
One of these men had been chasing Reneedol so he angrily said: “Boss, this little brat immediately demanded things right as she just arrived, I think——–”
Fwoom!
A purple burst of flames enveloped his body, letting out a light crackling noise.
The man uttered a long painful howl as he tried to douse the flames by rolling on the ground.
He looked like a moving ball of fire.
But he didn’t die right away.
This technique was accurately controlled by Reneedol to torture the man for 7-8 breaths’ worth of time before burning him alive.
Wizard Rodri’s pupils dilated.
“This is… my Law technique. The Laws have already rejected everyone, so how could you still utilize my powers?” he muttered in shock.
Reneedol coldly looked at him and softly spoke: “Wizard Rodri, you sure know quite a few things, but over half of them are recovery-type spells, even your offensive spells weren’t really powerful… What a piece of trash, if you can’t even do what I ask of you…”
Wizard Rodri felt a chill, then shouted at his subordinates: “Hurry and go! Kill those brats!”
His men hurriedly went on their way and left the camp.
After those men had left, Reneedol asked: “I heard that wizards are all well-learnt scholars, and since I had been too single-mindedly focused on a certain pitiful fool, I lack an understanding of this world, so I want to ask you a question”
“Please go ahead, your excellency” Wizard Rodri replied.
“Who is the most powerful individual on this continent?” Reneedol asked.
“The most powerful?” Wizard Rodri fell into thought.
He pondered a bit, then replied: “The people of the World Valley are the most powerful”
Reneedol appeared hateful, then continued: “I once thought the same as well, but now that the Law Behemoths had given up on the living beings of the world, the more favored those from the World Valley were in the past, the more hardship they would have to endure now. Don’t speak of them, tell me who is the most powerful under our current circumstances”
Wizard Rodri replied: “In the current circumstances where no one could utilize the power of Laws, those who practiced martial arts, trained knights, guns and explosive experts, as well as weapon-type Professionists should be the most powerful, they generally don’t rely on the power of the Laws”
“What about wizards like you” Reneedol asked.
“Before, wizards were powerful, but now that the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind could no longer be summoned only leaving us with mundane spells; our strength had been greatly reduced” Wizard Rodri meticulously explained.
As Reneedol looked at him, her gaze now contained a bit more disdain.
Wizard Rodri instantly realized something ominous and hurriedly said: “Your excellency has the power of Fate, so naturally, your excellency is the strongest being of this era!”
Reneedol completely ignored his flattering, then scanned with her eyes through all the Professionists in the camp and declared:
“So it turns out all of you here were actually weaklings”
An indiscernible fluctuation appeared from her body, manifesting into magical power.
Flames illuminated the darkness of the night while emanating scorching temperatures.
Standing within the flames, Reneedol muttered: “Worms, you all deserve to die”
Boom!
Flames began to erupt from her body, shooting in every direction.
“No! Your excellency, please spare me, I can be your servant!” Wizard Rodri shouted in despair.
Reneedol didn’t say anything else and just left the countless men to scream in desperation.
The orange cat didn’t bother watching any longer, she turned around and swiftly headed back.
…
At another location.
Gu Qing Shan’s group was surrounded by those Professionists.
“What did you do to Reneedol?” the young man shouted.
“What did we do? Hehe, care to guess?” a man with a fierce appearance laughingly mocked him, but his gaze was displaying some sort of fear instead.
All of them exuded killing intent, they raised their weapons, and swiftly rushed towards the young men and women.
“Halt, this is a misunderstanding” Gu Qing Shan suddenly shouted.
The Professionists didn’t bother to stop and instead sped up.
“Kill the boys, leave the girls. We’re going to use them first, then kill them!”
“Got it!”
The Professionists exchanged such a conversation.
An abrupt hint of killing intent flashed through Gu Qing Shan’s calm eyes.
He stood still, his hand turning into a blurred image as he struck the back of his three companions.
Before they even realized what happened, all three of them had fallen unconscious and collapsed.
At this point, Gu Qing Shan drew the Chao Yin sword, muttering as he looked at the charging Professionists: “I need an unprecedented manner of death…”
His sword gleamed.
The Professionists were sent flying.
Gu Qing Shan abruptly pulled his sword back.
—–Chao Yin Thaumaturgy, [All Crossing Sea of Bitterness]!
While the men were still flying through the air, their sword wounds abruptly burst open as all the blood in their bodies was instantly drained.
All the blood gathered in mid-air before coalescing into a large sphere of blood.
The corpses fell to the ground.
“Go” Gu Qing Shan declared.
The sphere of blood turned into a bloody flash of light and hurriedly flew across the night sky, swiftly disappearing without a trace.
Only a single drop of blood was left for Gu Qing Shan to touch with his hand.
He instantly took that Professionist’s appearance then took out his Samsara Wicked Mask and said:
“Shannu, stay here to guard Shroud and these people, I’m going to take care of Reneedol”
“Understood. Be careful gongzi, her ability is very unusual” Shannu said.
“That’s why I’m going to see it for myself” Gu Qing Shan replied.
He fully unleashed the might of a Star River Saint realm cultivator and abruptly shot into the sky, flying into the distance.
The wind was howling through the night sky, the scenery on the ground rapidly receding as he flew forward. After a few breaths’ worth of time, Gu Qing Shan had already found Reneedol.
He descended to the ground before nimbly landing in front of Reneedol.
Reneedol stopped.
She had never seen someone like this before.
The other party wore a pure-white mask painted with a pair of thinly opened eyes using black shade, other than that, it was blank.
The pair of slightly reddish glowing eyes appeared to be considerably eerie.
“Huh? You sure are powerful!”
Reneedol suddenly appeared interested.
Gu Qing Shan didn’t say a single word and drew the Earth sword.
Sensing his killing intent, Reneedol’s expression changed.
“Want to kill me?”
She abruptly disappeared without a trace.
Even when Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight, he still couldn’t find her no matter how he tried.
“…The Orange Sovereign’s [Ghostly Shadow of Night], how strange”
He muttered.
Reneedol didn’t have the jade gourd pendant Adorable, but could still utilize its power.
This is going to be much harder than I thought.
Gu Qing Shan raised his sword.
With a single thought, he erupted with immense sword qi, manifesting as countless bolts of lightning that lit up his surroundings like it was daytime.
This sword strike contained the power of [Earth’s Choice], prepared to completely destroy everything within the radius of a few hundred miles.
Reneedol’s voice suddenly resounded:
“I heard that the strongest group of Professionists are those who use weapons, and sure enough”
She reappeared, her iris glowing brightly.
Gu Qing Shan’s heart felt heavy and instantly parried it with his sword.
Clang clang clang clang clang!
Numerous sword images appeared around his body, slashing a total of 36 times.
At the very next moment, Gu Qing Shan continued to parry another 72 strikes, his left hand then drew the Heaven sword, using both swords to stop another 144 strikes, up until it reached 1000 strikes.
——[Forgetting River Severance]!
Reneedol was able to unleash this Huang Quan Divine Skill!
Gu Qing Shan stood still with swords in hand, swinging the twin swords to parry the entire [Forgetting River Severance].
While parrying it, he was silently shocked.
She could even use a Huang Quan Divine Skill without any restrictions, this is a bit like Shannu, as long as I’m able to use something, she would also be able to.
But [Ghostly Shadow of Night] during [Orange Sovereign Transformation] will need to borrow Adorable’s [Spotless Jade] in order to achieve complete obscurement.
Without Adorable’s permission, even Shannu wouldn’t be able to borrow [Spotless Jade]
And yet Reneedol was able to ignore Adorable’s will and use it without issues.
This is a bit terrifying.
After the Mind Sword Divine Skill was finished, it vanished without a trace.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly noticed a crimson thread appearing on his left hand, the other end coiling around Reneedol’s hand.
—–the thread of death.
Reneedol has resolved to kill me!
But unlike other Professionists who had lost their ability to use the Laws, I’m currently at my peak strength.
The most Reneedol could have would be a similar level of strength to me, so why is she so sure about being able to kill me?
Could it be that she’s only been probing so far?
Her ability…
Might not necessarily be just to borrow others’ powers.
As these thoughts continuously flashed through his mind, his spirit sense was giving off an increasingly stronger alarm.
“I knew it, you are the most powerful person I’ve seen in my entire life” Reneedol smiled.
Her single smile was so beautiful that it could turn a country on its head.
Endless darkness continuously spread behind her back, almost like the ocean depths.
She began walking towards Gu Qing Shan step by step, before casually telling him:
“Sword wielder, you’ve really opened my eyes”
“And now, I’m going to devour you”
At the very next instant, she abruptly crossed the dozen-meter distance between them to appear immediately in front of Gu Qing Shan.
——Divine Skill, [Ground Shrink]!
