Chapter 95: Two Great Masters

Qianjing, the core imperial capital of the Great Yuan Dynasty, was now completely shrouded in the flames of war and smoke.

The hundred-zhang-high black iron city walls collapsed with a thunderous roar, and dust billowed out like a giant wave.

At the city gate, the ten-thousand-jin bronze doors were twisted and deformed by a single punch from Sect Master Lin Wuwen, collapsing helplessly into the ruins.

"Charge in! Capture Qianyuanzi alive!"

"Divine Sword Sect Disciples, heed my command! Seal the Void Realm; do not let a single remnant of the royal family escape!"

Tens of thousands of Divine Sword Sect Disciples flew through the air on their swords, forming a dense web of flowing light that tightly locked down the sky above Qianjing.

On the ground, over seventy thousand Jianghu Loose Cultivators and defecting rebel soldiers, clutching their weapons with bloodshot eyes, surged like a breached flood along the imperial roads and main thoroughfares, sweeping toward the imperial palace with the force of a landslide.

The streets of the Great Yuan Dynasty capital were extremely wide, usually wide enough to accommodate eight carriages side by side.

However, at this moment, this imperial road paved with white marble was covered in a layer of viscous blood, and every step taken emitted a chilling, "sticky" sound.

"Kill!"

Thousands of rebel soldiers responsible for clearing the path held up their shields, frantically charging at the final line of defense on the outskirts of the imperial palace.

In front of them were twenty thousand Great Yuan Dynasty Imperial Guard troops retreating to the Qianqing Gate.

These Imperial Guard troops were all composed of Disciples from noble families and loyalists to the royal family; each was well-equipped, their talisman-infused spears flashing with a cold light as they fought frantically with the rebel soldiers.

"These rebels! Do they really think my Great Yuan Dynasty has no one left?!"

On the city tower, Qianyuanzi watched the Imperial Guard troops retreating steadily, trembling with rage.

However, a scene that made him feel even more desperate and incredulous occurred.

Inside Qianjing, countless doors that had originally been tightly shut suddenly burst open.

Those ordinary citizens and Mortal Loose Cultivators who had always been regarded as "blood food" and "ants" by the Great Yuan Dynasty royal family were now rushing out of the alleys, clutching wood axes, shovels, and even some crude, low-grade talisman weapons.

"Kill these blood-sucking dog emperors!"

"The Great Yuan Dynasty royal family doesn't treat us like people; every year they snatch away our children to be sent into the underground! Today, I'll fight you to the death!"

"Long live Grand Elder Chu! Long live the Divine Sword Sect!"

Hundreds of thousands of Qianjing commoners and low-grade Loose Cultivators surged out from behind the rebel army like a tide, but not to help the royal family; instead, they spontaneously gathered into a monstrous torrent, slamming fiercely into the flank and rear of the Imperial Guard defense line.

"What?!"

Qianyuanzi's eyes widened, and he nearly gasped for breath.

He never imagined that these lowly people, who usually wouldn't fight back or curse when struck, would actually turn their blades against him at this moment!

The Great Yuan Dynasty had been established for three thousand years. To maintain the purity of their Bloodline and the supply of cultivation resources, the royal family had secretly farmed and consumed countless Mortals and Loose Cultivators. The maintenance of that underground Sword Immortal ruin required thousands of living people's vital blood to be filled every year.

This resentment and hatred, accumulated over thousands of years, erupted like a volcano at this very moment, the instant Chu Chang breached the city walls.

"Your Majesty! The situation is lost! These lowly people have gone mad!"

The Grand Supplicant's face turned deathly pale, and he dragged Qianyuanzi back repeatedly.

Under the frantic charge of hundreds of thousands of commoners and rebel soldiers, the twenty thousand Imperial Guard troops, despite being well-equipped, were instantly submerged by this vast ocean of people. The defense line was shattered, severed limbs flew, and blood even flowed backwards into the imperial palace's moat.

The edge of the blade pointed straight at the Golden Throne Hall!

Before the Meridian Gate of the imperial palace, the Void Realm suddenly rippled violently.

"You rebels, how dare you commit treason?!"

A roar like thunder exploded in mid-air.

Immediately after, three incomparably powerful beams of light shot over from the depths of the imperial palace, landing on the white marble plaza of the Meridian Gate.

These were three royal Elders wearing bright yellow Daoist robes. Their bodies radiated the powerful pressure of the Purple Mansion Realm (commonly known as the Tongyou Realm in the Great Yuan Dynasty). Although their faces were withered and their hair was white, the magic power fluctuations unique to strong practitioners of the Purple Mansion Realm still caused the Void Realm to distort slightly.

These three were the Great Yuan Dynasty royal family's final trump card, aside from the Grand Emperor who was in secluded cultivation.

Two of the Elders had reached the Early Stage of the Tongyou Realm, but their Lifespan was nearly exhausted, and their bodies emitted a thick Death Qi; the one in the center was at the Peak of the Middle Stage of the Tongyou Realm and was the Great Yuan Dynasty royal family's Second Grand Elder.

"It's the Grand Elders!" "The Grand Elders have taken action! Die, you traitors!"

The surviving Imperial Guard troops seemed to have found their saviors and roared wildly.

The Second Grand Elder looked at the overwhelming rebel army and commoners ahead, a trace of tyranny and coldness flashing in his eyes: "A bunch of ants, daring to offend the might of heaven? All of you, go to hell!"

He suddenly raised his right hand, and a crimson feathered fan Magic Treasure appeared out of thin air.

"Blazing fire across the plains, burn!"

He swung the feathered fan violently, and the sky full of crimson Nanming Li Fire transformed into a hundred-zhang-long fire dragon, carrying the terrifying temperature capable of burning mountains and boiling seas, roaring as it charged toward the rebel soldiers and commoners in the front.

Before the fire dragon could land, the terrifying temperature melted the white marble bricks below. If it were to fall into the crowd, at least tens of thousands of people would turn to ash in an instant!

"Old man, your opponent is me."

An indifferent and calm voice suddenly rang in the Second Grand Elder's ear.

Before he could react, a black and white Taiji Sword Qi had already torn through the Void Realm and struck the seven-inch vital point of the crimson fire dragon without warning.

Boom!

The seemingly incomparably violent fire dragon, upon touching the Taiji Sword Qi, could not even withstand half a breath; it was instantly sliced neatly in two, turning into a rain of fire that scattered across the sky.

"Who?!"

The Second Grand Elder was shocked and retreated rapidly.

The Void Realm rippled, and Chu Chang, dressed in black and holding the duanchen ancient sword, stepped out from the nothingness with an indifferent expression.

Behind him, fourteen Heavenly Demon Puppets lined up, their monstrous Death Qi and demonic intent instantly sweeping away the heat waves on the Meridian Gate plaza, replacing them with a bone-chilling cold as if falling into an ice cellar.

"You are Chu Chang?"

The Second Grand Elder stared intently at Chu Chang, feeling the bottomless, terrifying Aura on him, and the corner of his eye twitched violently.

"Tongyou Peak… you have actually reached this stage!"

The two royal Elders at the Early Stage of the Tongyou Realm beside him were filled with horror.

They had cultivated bitterly their whole lives, and now that their end was approaching, they had only reached the Early Stage of the Tongyou Realm. Yet, this young man before them, whose bone age appeared to be no more than a hundred years, had actually reached the Peak of the Tongyou Realm, a level no one in the Great Yuan Dynasty had reached in a thousand years!

"Enough nonsense." Chu Chang stroked the duanchen ancient sword and said calmly, "Considering your cultivation was not easy, I will send you on your way with dignity."

"Arrogant brat! When I was cultivating, your ancestors hadn't even been born! Set up the Three Sovereigns Dragon-Locking Formation!"

The Second Grand Elder roared.

The three royal Tongyou Realm experts moved instantly, vaguely surrounding Chu Chang in a triangular Formation. They simultaneously summoned their Lifebound Treasure: the crimson feathered fan, a mysterious ice treasure mirror, and a purple-gold spear.

The three Magic Treasures shone in the air, outlining a huge bright yellow Formation diagram, attempting to lock Chu Chang within it.

However, facing the combined strike of the three Tongyou Realm experts, Chu Chang's expression did not even fluctuate.

"In the face of absolute power, the Formation is nothing but a delusion."

Chu Chang closed his eyes slightly, then suddenly opened them. "Chaos Domain, destroy all realms!"

Hum! A gray halo centered on Chu Chang instantly expanded in all directions.

The "Three Sovereigns Dragon-Locking Formation," condensed by the three Tongyou Realm experts with their lifelong True Essence, seemed like boiling water poured onto snow the moment it touched the gray halo; the runes on the Formation instantly dimmed and melted.

Not only that, but the two Tongyou Early Stage Elders whose Lifespan was nearly exhausted, the moment they were swept by the gray Chaos Qi, felt their life force beginning to drain away at a terrifying speed.

"This… what is this power?! My Lifespan! My magic power!"

One Elder screamed in horror, discovering that his already meager Lifespan had been stripped of a hundred years in just two breaths, and his whole person instantly became skin and bones, like a withered skeleton.

"Taiyin God-Slaughter!" Chu Chang's figure flickered, leaving an afterimage in place.

The next moment, he had appeared behind the dying Elder, and the duanchen ancient sword transformed into a pitch-black gleam of light, gently sweeping across.

Puchi! A head soared into the sky, and the Tongyou Golden Core inside his body was shattered directly by the Chaos True Essence attached to the duanchen ancient sword before it could self-destruct.

The first Tongyou Realm expert, fallen!

"Third brother!" The Second Grand Elder's eyes were splitting with rage, but before he could grieve, Chu Chang's ghostly voice sounded in his ear again.

"Next, it's your turn."

Chu Chang struck out with a palm. "Great Wilderness Heaven-Imprisoning Palm!"

A black demonic palm that blotted out the sky condensed in the Void Realm, wrapped in countless nether chains, and with an overbearing Aura that suppressed everything, it slammed fiercely toward the Second Grand Elder.

The Second Grand Elder had nowhere to hide, so he could only bite the tip of his tongue and spray a mouthful of vital blood onto the crimson feathered fan in front of him, desperately driving the Magic Treasure to resist.

Boom! The demonic palm fell, and the crimson feathered fan Magic Treasure let out a mournful cry; the spiritual light on it was instantly wiped away, turning into fragments that scattered and flew off.

The Second Grand Elder was struck hard, vomiting blood as he flew back, his Meridians broken by seven or eight parts under this palm strike.

"Go." Chu Chang flicked his finger.

Sect Master Lin Wuwen behind him let out a silent roar, his massive dark golden demonic body instantly crossing space, punching the chest of the remaining Tongyou Early Stage Elder.

Bang! The terrifying power directly blasted the Elder's Physical Body into a mist of blood.

In just a few dozen breaths, the three Tongyou Realm Old Ancestors that the Great Yuan Dynasty royal family was proud of were already two dead and one seriously injured.

The Second Grand Elder collapsed on the ground, disheveled, his face full of despair and misery.

He looked at Chu Chang, who was walking toward him step by step, and said in a hoarse voice: "Chu Chang… do not be proud. The Grand Emperor is about to make a Breakthrough to Tongyou! The day His Majesty comes out of seclusion will be the time when not even a chicken or dog will be left in your Divine Sword Sect!"

"Then I will send him on his way under the Heavenly Tribulation of Tongyou."

Chu Chang was expressionless, the duanchen ancient sword gently thrusting forward, instantly piercing the center of the Second Grand Elder's brow.

The violent Chaos True Essence instantly destroyed his Divine Soul completely.

Thus, the Great Yuan Dynasty royal family's final Tongyou Realm experts were all wiped out!

"The Grand Old Ancestors… are all dead…"

The Great Yuan Dynasty Emperor Qianyuanzi, hiding behind the Meridian Gate observing the battle, collapsed onto the ground the moment he saw the Second Grand Elder pierced through the heart by the sword, his lower body soaking wet.

He looked at Chu Chang, who was stepping through the air like a demonic god, and only despair remained in his mind.

"Your Majesty! Hurry to the Forbidden Land! The Grand Emperor is the only hope left!"

The Grand Supplicant was also scared out of his wits, pulling Qianyuanzi and fleeing frantically toward the Ancestral Temple Forbidden Land in the deepest part of the imperial palace.

At this moment, the one hundred thousand rebel soldiers and commoners behind had already surged into the Meridian Gate of the imperial palace like a tide. The three thousand years of glory of the Great Yuan Dynasty, at this moment, had completely become a ruin under Chu Chang's feet.

Chu Chang stood in the center of the white marble plaza, watching the pitch-black thunderclouds gathering in the depths of the imperial palace, and the ancient Sword Intent underground that was becoming increasingly violent, as if about to break through the Seal, the corners of his mouth slightly lifted.

"Tongyou Realm, is it… I have been waiting for a long time."