Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor

In response to Jian Ran's repeated reminder, Shi Feng only gave a brief "Oh," and said nothing more.

His eyes began sweeping over the various spectator stands.

On the Jian Family stand sat quite a number of Jian Family experts, and on the Ying Family stand in front, there were also many experts and geniuses from the Ying Family seated.

Aside from the Jian Family and Ying Family, the stands in the other directions were likewise packed with towering experts.

It was said that for this Martial Arts battle jointly held by the Five Major Factions—Taiwu Sacred Land, Lingxiao Sacred Land, the Jian Family, the Ying Family, and the Cao Family—forces from every side of the Small World had rushed here from all directions, in addition to the Five Major Factions themselves.

All just to witness a single battle between the young geniuses nurtured by these Five Major Factions!

After Shi Feng's eyes slowly swept around once, the Martial Arts battle still had yet to officially begin. His eyes quietly closed, his back resting against the stone wall behind him, as though he had entered Meditation.

Seeing Shi Feng like this, Jian Ran did not speak up to say anything more to him.

...

On the Tianheng Continent, in the Eastern Domain, there was an extremely remote small country—the Flowing Cloud Empire.

Above the Imperial City, in the Void!

"Ah!"

"Urgh ah!"

"Ah!"

...

At this very moment, the Void was packed dense with countless figures, each of these figures covered head to toe in scales of all different colors.

And those extremely shrill screams were continuously erupting in agony from the mouths of these scaled beings of the Alien Race.

"Th-that person, who is he? How can he be so powerful!"

"He—he's using the sword in his hand to protect our Imperial City!"

"So… so strong! These beings of the Alien Race, every single one of them is incredibly powerful, but that person… is even stronger!"

...

The Imperial City of the Flowing Cloud Empire was filled with people standing shoulder to shoulder, each one lifting their head to look to the sky, to gaze upon the utterly shocking scene unfolding in the Void.

In the Flowing Cloud Empire, the strongest person was the Grand Uncle of the Emperor, Lius Mu, whose Martial Arts Realm had stepped into the Two-star Martial Sect.

Yet even he, Lius Mu, and the many experts of the Flowing Cloud Empire beside him, facing the densely packed beings of the Alien Race in the Void, all felt as tiny as ants.

Seeing those Aliens sweeping over them like a swarm of locusts, originally they had thought that their entire Flowing Cloud Empire, along with all of them, were finished!

But unexpectedly, a single figure appeared in the Void—a man dressed in a long blue robe, wielding a "sword" shrouded in black mist, relentlessly slaughtering those Aliens in the Void.

Those Aliens who made the number one expert, Lius Mu, tremble in body and soul were being cut down by that man as though he were harvesting grain. With each sword slash, Sword Light flashed, and one scaled head after another soared into the sky. With a single glance, there were easily several thousand heads.

"H-heavens!" At this moment, even the Grand Uncle of the Emperor, the foremost expert of the Flowing Cloud Empire, could not help but cry out in shock.

"Since when did my Flowing Cloud Empire have such a powerful being? Th-this person is simply too terrifying! What… what kind of man is this? I have never seen such a figure before in my life!"

"Indeed, who in the world is this person?" As soon as Lius Mu's words fell, even the Emperor of the Flowing Cloud Empire, Lius Ye, spoke in astonishment from the palace tower.

Every member of the Imperial Family, every civil and Martial General, every expert of the Flowing Cloud Empire, was exclaiming in awe.

Yet none of them had ever seen that blue-robed man before.

"He! Him! It's him! It's really him!" And just then, from within the crowd, someone suddenly let out a cry of disbelief: "Your Majesty, your Imperial Nephew knows who this man is—your Imperial Nephew has met him!"

As that voice rang out, everyone immediately turned their gaze toward the speaker. The one who had spoken was none other than the son of King Liao of the Flowing Cloud Empire, Lius Lei!

King Liao, Lius Xian, was renowned for his illustrious battle merits, his might shaking the entire Flowing Cloud Empire.

And his son, the Young Prince Lius Lei, was infamous as a spoiled rich kid. No one had expected that he would actually recognize that blue-robed powerhouse in the Void.

"You know him? Who is he?" King Liao, Lius Xian, spoke at once, somewhat incredulous as he questioned his own son.

Lius Lei replied, "Many years ago, Your Majesty once sent envoys to the Yunlai Empire. At that time, I was greedy for fun and wanted to sneak out and have a look, so I went along with the envoys to the Yunlai Empire.

Back then, the Golden Peng King of the Yunlai Empire was still alive. Knowing that my father was King Liao, he kept me at the Golden Peng Royal Mansion to play for a few days.

At that time, in the Golden Peng Royal Mansion, I became acquainted with the Young Prince of Golden Peng, Jin Lin, and also with that man. H-he—if I recall correctly, his name was… Li Liuxin!"

"Li Liuxin!"

"Li Liuxin?"

"Li Liuxin?"

...

Hearing those three words, everyone in the Flowing Cloud Empire cried out those three syllables in astonishment—this unfamiliar name.

"The Yunlai Empire has such a powerhouse?" The Grand Uncle of the Emperor, Lius Mu, furrowed his old brows, muttering under his breath.

"Li Liuxin! I have never heard of him either!" Lius Xian, King Liao, shook his head lightly.

"This Yunlai Empire has not been simple these past years!" Emperor Lius Ye spoke.

A few years ago, the Yunlai Empire, like the Flowing Cloud Empire, was merely an inconspicuous small country in the Eastern Domain. But after Long Ao's death and the new emperor, Long Chen, ascended the throne, the Yunlai Empire's territory expanded at once—they even devoured a colossal entity like the Heavenly Mist Empire.

As the neighboring country to the Yunlai Empire, the people of the Flowing Cloud Empire had long understood that the Yunlai Empire had produced a peerless Evil Demon. In recent years, the entire Eastern Domain had been rife with legends of that Evil Demon.

Now, they had never expected that besides that Evil Demon, the Yunlai Empire would have such a Hidden World powerhouse as well—Li Liuxin!

At this moment, the Young Prince Lius Lei lifted his eyes toward the Void once more, toward that peerless blue figure, silently marveling again:

"Back then, from what I could gather, Li Liuxin's Martial Arts Realm was merely at the Martial King Realm! How can he be… so overwhelmingly strong now!"

The man was the same man, the face was the same face, yet the Li Liuxin of this moment gave Lius Lei a completely different feeling. Though it was still that person, it was as if he had become someone else entirely!

As for Lius Lei's words, the crowd naturally no longer paid them any heed. The Martial Arts Realm of that man in the Void was far beyond just the Martial King!

To say nothing else—how could one in the Martial King Realm possibly break through space?

"Li Liuxin!"

At this moment, the three words "Li Liuxin" were already seared directly into the hearts of everyone in the Flowing Cloud Empire.

They would never be able to forget this scene: powerful beings of the Alien Race descending upon the Flowing Cloud Empire, and a mysterious young powerhouse bursting forth from the heavens, slaughtering everything with the sword in his hand.

With every swing of his sword, countless Aliens fell dead.

Across this stretch of sky, severed limbs and broken arms flew in all directions as a multicolored rain of blood poured down, along with one mutilated Alien corpse after another.

"Residual Flower Sword, Li Liuxin!" The Young Prince Lius Lei was still quietly uttering those six words under his breath, as the scene of their first meeting gradually resurfaced in his mind.

At that time, as the son of King Liao, Lius Xian, the Young Prince of the Flowing Cloud Empire, he had been proud at heart and arrogant in his gaze, looking down on others. He rather despised that so-called Residual Flower Sword, never imagining that that man… would be such a powerhouse hiding his true strength.

In this instant, Lius Lei even felt a twinge of regret in his heart—regret that he had not properly befriended this man back then, that he had missed such a golden opportunity.

With someone so powerful, by now he had probably forgotten that there even existed such a person as Lius Lei in this world.

Back then, the one who truly disdained the other should have been him instead.

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