Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

Zhendong City was a major city within the Six Mountains Dynasty.

Even though the elite armies of the Six Mountains Dynasty had all been dispatched to conquer distant lands, the military force stationed in Zhendong City still numbered more than ten thousand.

This force of over ten thousand included two Human Kings, ten individuals in the Union Palace Realm, and thirteen thousand regular soldiers.

The appearance of a youth with hundreds of thousands of severed heads floating behind him, looking like a peerless Killing God, naturally drew the immediate attention of Zhendong City’s garrison.

What’s more, Jiang Chen had not bothered to conceal his aura in the slightest when he shattered the Beast Fighting Arena with a single palm strike.

He intended to use the most domineering display possible to announce his arrival to the Six Mountains Dynasty, and indeed, to all the powers of the Eastern Continent.

RUMBLE!

Over ten thousand experts took to the sky, their blades, spears, and halberds glinting with sharp light. They appeared, vast and mighty, above the Martial Arts Arena.

A few moments earlier.

When they received the report from their subordinates about a demon who had killed hundreds of thousands of people arriving in Zhendong City, they had all scoffed. ’It must be an exaggeration,’ they thought. ’He probably just killed a few hundred people, and the number grew to hundreds of thousands through rumors.’

However, when they finally arrived at the Martial Arts Arena and saw Jiang Chen for themselves, the color drained from all their faces.

”H-Holy shit... T-That’s got to be hundreds of thousands of heads, right? Who the hell is this guy?”

”Look at the Beast Fighting Arena! I heard tens of thousands of nobles were here today watching the beast fights. They’re probably all dead...”

”Dammit! If the Imperial Capital finds out about this, they’ll blame us! We have to capture this demon!”

”Kill him!”

The two Human King Realm powerhouses exchanged a look.

Their faces were grim, and their cold gazes, filled with a desire to devour him, fell upon Jiang Chen. One of them spoke icily, ”Brat, do you have any idea where you are? How dare you cause trouble here! You must be tired of living!”

”If you don’t want to die, surrender obediently!”

Facing two Human Kings and over ten thousand experts, Jiang Chen showed no fear. His calm gaze swept over them as he muttered to himself, ”The Black Demon Army killed hundreds of thousands of my Heaven-Soaring Saint Sect’s disciples and slaughtered tens of millions of innocent citizens of my Saint Martial Dynasty. But I, Jiang Chen, am not one to kill the innocent. So, I will slaughter your ten million elite soldiers and one million nobles instead!”

As he spoke, the hundreds of thousands of heads behind him flew forward. With his current Divine Thought Power, controlling them to follow him was effortlessly easy.

A blue-gold light suddenly flared in his eyes. Cradling Xiaoyou in one arm, he raised his other hand and slowly pointed forward.

SWISH!

A Sword Finger materialized in the air.

It pulsed with a brilliant golden light, lying across the sky like a pillar holding up the heavens, radiating terrifying waves of energy.

And then, a second, a third, a fourth appeared around the first Sword Finger...

A hundred Sword Fingers in total, forming a Sword Finger Array.

”Go!”

Jiang Chen flicked his finger.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

A series of ear-piercing whooshes ripped through the air as the hundred True Essence Fingers shot out, a dense barrage that rained down on the soldiers. The more than ten thousand soldiers of the Six Mountains Dynasty faced this as if it were a formidable enemy, summoning their Profound Weapons and forming a Battle Array in an attempt to defend against Jiang Chen’s attack.

However, Jiang Chen had already advanced to the Fourth Stage of the Human King Realm. The power of a single finger was enough to kill an ordinary Human King, so how could these common soldiers possibly stand a chance?

PFFT! PFFT! PFFT!

Wherever the fingers of light passed, nothing survived. Everything was annihilated.

”No!”

”We can’t stop it! We can’t stop it at all...”

One after another, the experts died.

A moment later, only the two Human King Realm powerhouses remained, their clothes tattered and their bodies covered in wounds. They stared at Jiang Chen in utter horror.

They had exhausted all their strength just to survive that single, casual attack!

”Who... Who... Who are you?”

The two stared at Jiang Chen in terror.

A cold smile touched the corner of Jiang Chen’s mouth as he slowly enunciated two words: ”Jiang! Chen!”

SWISH! SWISH!

Two flashes of sword-light later, the heads of the two Human Kings flew high into the air, joining the ’army’ of heads trailing behind Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen raised his palm to the sky, condensing his True Essence into two massive hands. He grabbed the headless corpses of the two Human Kings and used their blood to write several large, gory words on the walls of Zhendong City—THE KILLER: JIANG CHEN OF THE HEAVEN-SOARING SAINT SECT!

RUSTLE! RUSTLE!

The cold wind howled, carrying the thick, pungent stench of blood. The banners fluttered loudly. A glint flashed in Jiang Chen’s eyes. ’Zhendong City? Heh...’

With a flicker, Jiang Chen’s form vanished. Azure wings materialized on his back, and he shot into the clouds, heading west.

The gale-force wind from his departure whipped up and tore the banner emblazoned with the name ’Zhendong City’ from its pole.

It fluttered down from the high city wall and landed in the dust on the ground below.

「One double-hour later.」

Wan’an City—a city with a population of over a hundred million, a garrison of a hundred thousand soldiers, and five Human King Realm powerhouses standing guard—was set ablaze, the flames turning half the sky red.

Before the gates of Wan’an City, the hundred thousand soldiers of the Six Mountains Dynasty and sixty thousand nobles were all slain.

Their bodies were piled into mountains.

On the walls of Wan’an City, nine bloody words were left behind—THE KILLER: JIANG CHEN OF THE HEAVEN-SOARING SAINT SECT!

That day, the entire city of Wan’an rejoiced. The common people, who had long suffered under the oppression of the nobles, took to the streets, cheering and celebrating with lanterns and decorations as if it were a grand festival!

「Half a double-hour later.」

A world-shaking battle erupted in Sea Dragon City, one of the ten major cities of the Six Mountains Dynasty.

Sea Dragon City was the domain of the Sea Dragon King, a High-level noble of the Six Mountains Dynasty. He commanded a force of five hundred thousand soldiers and was personally ranked thirty-sixth on the Earth Venerable List.

The battle lasted for a full three double-hours.

In the end, the Sea Dragon King was killed in battle!

The entire five-hundred-thousand-strong army was slaughtered by the combined forces of a youth carrying hundreds of thousands of gruesome heads and the common Martial Artists who, having suffered long enough, had finally risen in rebellion.

Their bodies were piled up before the city gates.

Atop the mountain of corpses, a youth used blood to write nine large words on the city wall—THE KILLER: JIANG CHEN OF THE HEAVEN-SOARING SAINT SECT!

Within Sea Dragon City, the people celebrated as one!

West King City...

Cold Moon City...

Venerable Wings City...

Bluestone City...

And so on...

On the path from Zhendong City to the Six Mountains Dynasty’s Imperial Capital, every city was ruthlessly destroyed. Not a single noble or soldier of the Six Mountains Dynasty’s armies was spared; all were slain.

In the aftermath.

According to the Celestial Secret Pavilion’s records, a total of ninety-eight major cities were affected. This included thirty-six tier-one main cities with populations over a hundred million, tier-two main cities with populations over fifty million, tier-three main cities with populations over ten million, and cities with populations under ten million. In these cities, every noble and army that had ever bullied the weak or committed evil was annihilated.

The casualties numbered over ten million from the armies alone.

And over a million nobles!

Nearly thirty percent of the Six Mountains Dynasty’s nobility was slaughtered!

THE KILLER: JIANG CHEN OF THE HEAVEN-SOARING SAINT SECT!

These nine words became a mantra that could stop children from crying at night and strike terror into the hearts of evildoers.

Of course, that all came later.

At this very moment...

The number of heads trailing behind Jiang Chen had already surpassed one million. He traveled through the sky, heading ever westward, until he finally arrived at the Imperial Capital of the Six Mountains Dynasty...