Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

Cuiwei Pavilion.

This was where the Core Disciples lived, neighboring the Earth Spirit Pavilion.

By dawn, a sea of Outer Sect Disciples had already gathered in front of Cuiwei Pavilion. They arrived one after another, a dense black mass of people stretching as far as the eye could see.

At the entrance to Cuiwei Pavilion, a hundred-zhang-tall stone monument stood on the back of a Profound Iron Turtle.

Pinned beneath the Profound Iron Turtle’s belly was Wangg Tianyi, his face pale and filled with despair.

He had been suppressed here by Jiang Chen for a full ten days. During this time, the Celestial Alliance had sent experts to try and rescue him. But those Celestial Alliance experts all returned empty-handed, because whenever they tried to shatter the Profound Iron Turtle, all the force of their attacks would be redirected onto Wangg Tianyi, subjecting him to an agony worse than death.

Eventually, the Celestial Alliance sent a Second Grade Junior Level Refiner. After some study, the Celestial Alliance’s Artifact Refiner helplessly stated that unless Jiang Chen himself acted, no one could possibly save Wangg Tianyi!

If they tried to destroy the Profound Iron Turtle by force, Wangg Tianyi would die with it!

The Celestial Alliance had no choice but to give up!

At this moment, neither Jiang Chen nor the Celestial Alliance experts had arrived at Cuiwei Pavilion, so everyone’s attention was drawn to Wangg Tianyi and the Profound Iron Turtle.

”So this is the Inner Sect True Inheritor Disciple, Wangg Tianyi? Tsk, tsk, actually pinned under a turtle. Even if he gets out, he’ll never be able to hold his head high again!”

”Jiang Chen is ruthless! By suppressing Wangg Tianyi here, he’s basically slapped the Celestial Alliance right across the face!”

”Hmph, you call this ruthless? The Celestial Alliance has always bullied the weak. You didn’t see how cruel they were to Nalan Qiantian. They strung up his corpse on a pillar even after he was dead. What Jiang Chen did is already very merciful!”

”Keep your voice down! There are plenty of Celestial Alliance members here. Be careful or they’ll make you pay if they overhear you!”

The whispers from the crowd made Cuiwei Pavilion exceptionally noisy.

Even though his cultivation had been crippled, Wangg Tianyi was still a former Heavenly Destiny Realm expert with sharp senses. Every single whisper reached his ears without fail.

Wangg Tianyi wished he could bury his head in the ground.

His pale face was twisted in a savage snarl, his eyes filled with hatred and venom. ’Jiang Chen, it’s all your fault I’ve ended up like this. Just you wait. Today, my Celestial Alliance will dispatch an expert from the Inner Sect’s Celestial Pride List. You’re a dead man! Today is the day you die!’

Time slowly passed. Before long, the sun had climbed high into the sky.

Just then, Jiang Chen’s figure finally appeared, strolling over from Earth Spirit Pavilion. The crowd automatically parted, forming a long, narrow path.

Jiang Chen walked with a leisurely gait, heading toward Wangg Tianyi!

”Jiang Chen is here!”

”I heard he’s going to establish his own faction today. How many people do you think... will join later?”

”How many? I bet not a single one. Don’t forget, the Celestial Alliance won’t allow him to create a faction!”

”Yeah, I thought about joining Jiang Chen too, but the Celestial Alliance is just too strong...”

”Making an enemy of the Celestial Alliance is suicide!”

As he walked, a constant stream of critical voices reached his ears.

Most were filled with mockery and schadenfreude.

After all, the Celestial Alliance’s power in the Saint Martial Sword Sect was simply too immense; no one could possibly challenge its authority!

With a leap, Jiang Chen landed on top of the Profound Iron Turtle’s head, standing over both the turtle and Wangg Tianyi. His calm eyes radiated a tangible, sharp light as he scanned the crowd. With a slight smile, he said, ”I truly didn’t expect that my, Jiang Chen’s, decision to create my own faction would attract so many fellow disciples. This is my honor!”

”I’ve said it before: when I establish my own faction, I will use Wangg Tianyi’s head as a sacrifice for the banner.”

He opened his palm to the air, and a sharp longsword condensed from True Essence materialized above it, pulsing with a cold light. Jiang Chen announced in a clear voice, ”I declare that from this day forward, my Heaven-Soaring Alliance is formally established! I sincerely invite all ambitious individuals to join the Heaven-Soaring Alliance. Now, I will christen the banner with blood...”

With a sweep of the longsword, he moved to cut off Wangg Tianyi’s head.

However, just at that critical moment, an arrow of True Essence flew from the heavens, striking Jiang Chen’s True Essence sword with a WHOOSH.

BANG—

The True Essence sword and the arrow’s light exploded simultaneously.

At the same time, a cold voice echoed from the horizon: ”The Heaven-Soaring Alliance? What arrogance. You want to establish this so-called Heaven-Soaring Alliance, but have you received my Celestial Alliance’s permission?”

This sentence struck like a thunderclap, setting off a wave of gasps among the crowd.

”Holy shit, the Celestial Alliance experts are here!”

”Look, that’s Divine Arrow Zuo Qing, ranked one hundredth on the Inner Sect’s Celestial Pride List!”

”Zuo Qing is a Heavenly Destiny Realm Fifth Stage expert, even stronger than a typical Outer Sect Elder! The Celestial Alliance actually sent him? It looks like Jiang Chen’s dream of creating the Heaven-Soaring Alliance is destined to become a joke!”

”It’s not just Zuo Qing, look...”

A series of gasps erupted as hundreds of thousands of people raised their heads in unison to look at the sky.

ROAR—

The clear, beastly roar was like the beating of war drums, deafening. The unparalleled ferocity made some Outer Sect Disciples with weaker cultivation tremble all over.

This was a ferocious Demon Beast with two pairs of golden wings, the head of a Profound Bird, and the body of a lion. As it trod upon the air, four balls of fire wreathed its hooves.

A Tier Three Medium Demon Beast, the Golden Griffin!

Standing on the Golden Griffin’s back was a bald young man. His gaze was like a torch, and a single look from him seemed to make the temperature of the world suddenly rise.

”Magic Beast Tian Kun, ranked eighty-sixth on the Inner Sect’s Celestial Pride List!”

Immediately following was a heaven-shattering axe light that tore through the sky, as if to cleave the very heavens asunder.

A terrifying young man clad in Cyan Armor, with a unibrow, eyes as large as fists, a face full of scars, and exuding a brutal aura, flew through the air, riding a Cyan Light Battle Axe. The moment he appeared, even the Golden Griffin trembled in fear. This was none other than a top expert ranked fifty-first on the Inner Sect’s Celestial Pride List.

Yanm Tianjue, known as the Heaven-Severing Axe!

Led by Yanm Tianjue, a full hundred Inner Sect experts came tearing through the sky.

When they descended upon Cuiwei Pavilion, countless experts among the hundreds of thousands of Outer Sect Disciples spontaneously moved to assemble behind the hundred newcomers, numbering more than half of all the Outer Sect Disciples present!

Behind these one hundred Celestial Alliance experts was a dense black mass of Outer Sect Disciples, all glaring at Jiang Chen like tigers watching their prey.

An oppressive Evil Qi coalesced into a tangible black cloud, weighing down on everyone present.

The leader, Yanm Tianjue, shot Jiang Chen a cold glance, a look of disdain on his face, and said flatly, ”Where did this little punk come from? You think you can clamor about fighting the Celestial Alliance just because you have a bit of strength? The Heaven-Soaring Alliance? Utterly ridiculous!” He threw his arm out and declared, ”The Celestial Alliance is the invincible Celestial Alliance! Anyone who dares to challenge the Celestial Alliance’s authority—will be shown no mercy!”

”Celestial Alliance, invincible!”

”Those who provoke the Celestial Alliance will be shown no mercy!”

”Show no mercy...”

In an instant, the hundreds of thousands of Outer Sect disciples from the Celestial Alliance standing behind them roared in unison.

The roar shook the heavens, like thunder rolling across the sky, intimidating all in its path!

Jiang Chen’s eyes were half-closed. From beginning to end, his expression hadn’t changed in the slightest.

It was as if the Celestial Alliance experts before him were nothing more than ants.

Yanm Tianjue’s fierce eyes glinted with a biting cold light. The corner of his mouth curled into a sneer. ”Jiang Chen, you see now, don’t you? Your so-called Heaven-Soaring Alliance is nothing but a joke. Even if you did manage to create it, not a single person would join. What’s more, after today, the name Jiang Chen will no longer exist in this world!”

Jiang Chen shrugged, smiling nonchalantly. ”Yanm Tianjue, are you so sure no one dares to join my Heaven-Soaring Alliance?”

”Of course!”

Yanm Tianjue said confidently, ”Anyone who dares to join your Heaven-Soaring Alliance becomes an enemy of my Celestial Alliance. I refuse to believe anyone would dare to defy the world like that!”

And yet, just as the words left his mouth, a hearty laugh echoed from the distant sky: ”HAHAHA, I’ve finally broken through! Jiang Chen, where are you? I want to join the Heaven-Soaring Alliance!”

At these words, absolute silence fell over Cuiwei Pavilion. Yanm Tianjue’s scar-covered face turned blacker than charcoal...