Free Web NovelChapter 183: Chapter 180: An Emerging Renown
Amidst the mountains,
BZZZT!
Ripples in the air, visible to the naked eye, vibrated outward.
Shen Changchuan formed a hand sign, completing the circulation of his Magical Power in an instant.
Three-Thunder Shadow-Annihilating Sword!
As his Magical Power gathered,
With a piercing CRACKLE,
Three bolts of thunderous light swept out like lasers, illuminating everything. They let out a continuous, violent roar, slashing toward the enemy ahead with an unstoppable edge!
Everywhere they passed, the air seemed to have been pierced, leaving a channel in their wake!
The attack was incomparably swift, arriving in an instant.
The aura it gave off was enough to make one’s heart pound in terror!
The black-clothed figure opposite him had a look of terror on his face.
With a flick of his hand, a palm-sized Golden Wheel materialized. It flashed with a dazzling golden light, spinning at incredible speed as it rapidly expanded to several yards across. Whistling as it tore through the air, it shot straight toward the azure bolts of thunderous light!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
A series of deafening explosions shook the ground violently. Spiderweb-like cracks spread across the earth, and a terrifying shockwave of Magical Power swept out, easily obliterating all trees and rocks within a radius of dozens of yards, turning them to dust!
The Golden Wheel seemed to have taken a heavy blow.
Its glow faded.
It rapidly shrank from several yards back to the size of a palm.
At the same time, it was sent flying by the overwhelming force.
Not far away,
The black-clothed man’s figure suddenly shuddered.
As if struck by a heavy blow, he stumbled back a dozen steps, spitting out a large mouthful of blood.
But at almost the same moment,
"Die!"
On Shen Changchuan’s other side, a figure seemed to leap out of the shadows.
A sliver of shadow transformed into a pitch-black blade, giving off an impression of an unstoppable edge as it stabbed toward Shen Changchuan’s waist!
The fluctuations of dark Magical Power were so intense they would strike terror into the heart of any Qi Introduction Ninth Layer Cultivator!
The man was so fast that he left only a series of afterimages in his wake!
A savage, triumphant grin could faintly be seen on the face of the figure who leaped from the shadows, certain his sneak attack had succeeded.
This was a deathblow!
An ordinary person, having cast a High Tier Technique like the Three-Thunder Shadow-Annihilating Sword, would have consumed most of their Magical Power. For a brief moment, they would be trapped in a vulnerable state, their old strength spent and new strength yet to be generated. In that split second, they would be utterly unable to react.
They could only watch helplessly as the follow-up attack descended upon them.
But unfortunately for the ambusher, he didn’t realize his target, Shen Changchuan, was no ordinary person!
Rapid Light Movie!
With no Spellcasting Warm-up, the Perfection Level Body Technique was activated almost as soon as the thought occurred.
At almost the same time,
the ambusher’s black blade became a pitch-black line, piercing through Shen Changchuan’s figure and seemingly cutting his entire body in two!
However, the savage, triumphant glee on the man’s face froze in that instant!
The hair on his body stood on end!
The figure he had sliced in two slowly shattered and faded away.
The figure he had severed...
was merely an afterimage!
Shen Changchuan’s figure had somehow already appeared dozens of yards away!
Giant Sword Technique!
Shen Changchuan once again formed a hand sign.
Immense Magical Power gathered rapidly as winds and clouds stirred high above.
One after another, brilliant, enormous longswords materialized in an instant.
With a point of Shen Changchuan’s finger,
the giant swords fell like meteors,
slashing down toward the masked man whose Golden Wheel had been knocked away and whose aura had weakened!
All of this takes time to describe, but it happened in the blink of an eye.
RUMBLE!!!
Under the descent of the Triple Giant Sword Skill, the masked figure couldn’t muster the slightest resistance and was directly sliced in two, obliterated on the spot.
The terrifying Sword Momentum even carved a deep fissure into the ground!
Seeing this, the ambusher from before turned pale with fright.
’A companion at the Ninth Layer Realm... dead just like that?’
’Wasn’t this guy supposed to be at the Seventh or Eighth Layer of Qi Introduction?’
’So are you the one at the Qi Introduction Ninth Layer, or am I?!’
But there was no time for him to think.
Seeing his companion die so easily,
he didn’t dare to linger.
He immediately became an afterimage and fled for his life, desperately trying to escape.
The other Tribulation Cultivators who had come to attack the trade team and were coordinating nearby saw this and were terrified. They scattered in all directions, no longer daring to fight.
But how could Shen Changchuan let them get away with it?
Cyan Wood Sword Light!
A brilliant, azure-cyan sword light poured from the void, its terrible power seeming to obliterate sound itself. The ambient light dimmed, leaving only a single streak of cyan light—a fusion of destruction and Vitality—that filled their entire vision!
Time and space seemed to freeze in that instant.
The fleeing figure had no chance to react before the sweep of that sword light passed through him.
His body was sliced in two at the waist, and he died on the spot!
Within moments, he had killed both leaders, each at the Ninth Layer Realm.
At the same time,
Farther away, the Eighth and Seventh Layer leaders were busy attacking the trade team and plundering its goods, reaping a huge windfall. Feeling the powerful fluctuations, they turned to look.
Only to discover with horror,
that in the blink of an eye, their two bosses were lying on the ground, sliced in half!
The sight scared them witless.
Forgetting everything else, they scattered in terror and fled.
But though they were fast,
Shen Changchuan was faster!
Rapid Light Movie!
The Perfection Level Body Technique allowed Shen Changchuan to activate it instantly, with almost no Spellcasting Warm-up.
In that moment, his movements were practically like Instant Teleportation.
In an instant, he crossed a distance of several dozen yards, charging into the group of Tribulation Cultivators who were fleeing in disarray...
In a flash,
it was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. Almost no one could withstand a single blow from Shen Changchuan!
「Half an incense stick later,」
Shen Changchuan had slaughtered the entire gang of Tribulation Cultivators who had dared to attack; almost none escaped.
And when the battle, the slaughter, was over,
looking at the ground littered with the bodies of Tribulation Cultivators, and then seeing the figure return, seemingly without a single drop of blood on him, a tsunami of cheers erupted from the trade team...
Seeing this, Shen Changchuan’s pace faltered slightly.
But he paid it no further mind and returned directly to his own carriage.
Having dealt with this incredibly powerful gang of Tribulation Cultivators, and after the trade team had cleaned up the battlefield, the United Trade Team continued on its way, slowly disappearing into the depths of the mountain forest...
However,
not long after they had left,
someone discovered the devastated battlefield and the numerous corpses left strewn across the wilderness.
Upon examining the bodies, they recognized the identities of the dead.
And so,
the name of Zhang Qingyuan,
began to spread rapidly throughout the nearby Immortal Cultivation Area.
