“Yeah, you can return to the Primeval Divine Hall for now.” Jian Chen nodded. Having lost the two strands of Profound Sword Qi that he had recently recovered, the familiar sensation of dizziness overwhelmed him again, which filled his face with some exhaustion.
However, he had to use the two strands of Profound Sword Qi to kill a Second Heavenly Layer Immortal Exalt like the Seven Antelope Ancestor swiftly.
With the Thousand Soul Demon Exalt’s current strength, he could crush the Seven Antelope Ancestor, but he definitely could not kill him swiftly. In fact, a slight lapse in judgment might even result in him escaping.
As such, Jian Chen could not afford to save the two strands of Profound Sword Qi.
The Thousand Soul Demon Exalt returned to the Primeval Divine Hall in satisfaction. Jian Chen did not waste the Seven Antelope Ancestor’s corpse either, stowing it away.
With the Seven Antelope Ancestor’s death, Jian Chen’s path had opened up again.
By now, the Immortal Exalt behind him was only a thousand kilometres away.
The Immortal Exalt had clearly sensed something. He accelerated, rushing over.
Jian Chen was reluctant to become caught up with him, so he planned to use the concealment ability of the Divine Armour of Heavenflight.
However, right when he was about to leave, his expression suddenly changed. After a moment of thought, he cancelled the Divine Armour of Heavenflight’s concealment ability. He simply stood there, waiting for the Immortal Exalt to arrive.
Virtually moments later, powerful sword intent filled the space there. The Heavenloss Master of the Sword Sect of Yang Soul appeared before Jian Chen.
Jian Chen stood there calmly, staring at the Heavenloss Master. He looked at him like he was gazing at one of his peers. There were no signs of additional respect.
The Heavenloss Master immediately beamed with joy when the person he had been searching for arduously finally appeared before him. Subconsciously, he started to move to trap Jian Chen.
However, when he saw Jian Chen simply standing there, out in the open and taking it easy, a hint of surprise flashed through his eyes. He held back his urge to strike and called out, “Yang Yutian, why are you not hiding?”
“Heavenloss Master, must you get yourself killed over a Spiritual Fruit of Sword Nurturing that doesn’t belong to you?” Jian Chen said. His voice remained extremely calm.
“Get myself killed? Hahaha, Yang Yutian, I admit that you are a genius. You’re already capable of clashing with me as a mid Immortal Emperor. However, if you want to kill me, you’d be overestimating yourself a little too much.” The Heavenloss Master laughed aloud. He snorted in contempt at Jian Chen’s words. “I know you have some connection with the daughter of the heavenly emperor from the Heavenly Star Palace. However, do you think the Heavenly Star Palace will proactively provoke the Heavenly Palace of Great Radiance?”
“Yang Yutian, it’s as I said before. Hand over the Spiritual Fruit of Sword Nurturing, or I definitely won’t spare you!”
Jian Chen shook his head and said, “I have no connection to the Heavenly Star Palace. My matters have nothing to do with the Heavenly Star Palace either. If I really wanted to kill you, would you believe me if I said you definitely would not be leaving the Skyscraping World?”
“Hahahaha, now that I don’t believe. Yang Yutian, if you really were capable of that, why don’t you show me then?” The Heavenloss Master laughed at the absurdity of his statement. He had never seen such a cocky Immortal Emperor before.
With a wave of his hand, the corpse of the ancestor of the Wind clan appeared. His still radiated with the faint pressure of an Immortal Exalt.
Seeing Chen Feng’s corpse, the Heavenloss Master’s expression immediately changed. He had already identified it. He was very shocked.
Shortly afterwards, Jian Chen swung his hand again. Another Immortal Exalt’s corpse was thrown onto the ground. He radiated with even greater might.
“F-fellow Seven Antelope…” This time, the Heavenloss Master directly cried out. His eyes were filled with disbelief.
Just a few hours ago, he had come across the Seven Antelope Ancestor along the way. He had never thought that when they met again, the Seven Antelope Ancestor would already be a corpse.
Most importantly, the Seven Antelope Ancestor had died far too quickly. With his strength as a Second Heavenly Layer Immortal Exalt, he could last some time even if he encountered Third Heavenly Layer experts. Even if he was not their opponent, he could have escaped.
Yet, the Seven Antelope Ancestor had directly perished!
“Yang Yutian, y-y-you killed the Seven Antelope Ancestor?” The way that the Heavenloss Master looked at Jian Chen changed overwhelmingly. His gaze now contained shock, surprise, deep wariness, and caution.
The Seven Antelope Ancestor’s death had indeed shocked him.
“If it weren’t for the sake of the elder princess, I wouldn’t have spared you either. Through your connection with the Heavenly Palace of Great Radiance, you do indeed have some influence in the Skyscraping World. A lot of Immortal Exalts show you respect,” said Jian Chen.
When he heard that, the Heavenloss Master eased up slightly inside. He sneered and said, “Yang Yutian, I thought you were truly fearless. Looks like you also fear the elder princess.”
“You’re wrong. I’m doing this for the sake of the elder princess because I treat her as my friend; it is not because I fear her,” said Jian Chen.
“What? You say you treat the elder princess as a friend?” When he heard that, the Heavenloss Master’s expression immediately became extremely strange. Shortly afterwards, as if he had just heard the funniest joke in the world, he could not help but tilt his head backwards and laugh aloud. “Yang Yutian, oh Yang Yutian. Aren’t you even going to consider what kind of lofty figure the elder princess is? She’s a paramount existence that even countless leaders of clans and sects in the Immortals’ World wish to have a connection with. You’re just a mere Immortal Emperor, so what gives you the right to treat the elder princess as a friend?”
“I understand that your friendship with the elder princess is purely one-sided and that the elder princess might not even know that a person like you exists in the Immortals’ World, but I really do look down on you for having a thought like that, Yang Yutian.”
“When I heard about your past chronicles, I wasn’t optimistic about your future, but your fearless spirit did earn some of my respect. But looking at it now, that’s all you are.”
The Heavenloss Master shook his head with a gentle sigh as if he was greatly disappointed.
“Heavenloss Master, do you recognise this?” With a flip of his hand, a tablet appeared in Jian Chen’s hand. It was the same tablet that Fang Jing had personally handed over to him when he first bade farewell to her.
“T-that’s a tablet from the Heavenly Palace of Great Radiance?” When the Heavenloss Master saw the tablet in Jian Chen’s hand, he shuddered inside. His pupils contracted violently.
He really did possess a tablet from the Heavenly Palace of Great Radiance?
“Yang Yutian, where did you obtain your tablet from?” The Heavenloss Master gradually became stern. As long as they came from the Heavenly Palace of Great Radiance, they would all possess an identity tablet. Meanwhile, tablets given away by people of different statuses would bear different levels of significance.
Of course, there were many ways to obtain a tablet. It did not have to be a gift. For example, killing a descendant of the Heavenly Palace of Great Radiance could also lead to a tablet.
“The owner of this tablet left behind a wisp of her presence. You’ll know once you sense it.” Jian Chen looked at the Heavenloss Master like he was looking at a joke.
The Heavenloss Master frowned as if he disliked the way that Jian Chen looked at him very much, but he could not be bothered with haggling over these details. With some caution, he released a wisp of the senses of his soul, carefully approaching the tablet in Jian Chen’s hand.
However, when the wisp of the senses of his soul came into contact with the tablet, an extremely terrifying presence immediately filled the Heavenloss Master’s senses. It was like an invisible hammer, slamming down heavily in the Heavenloss Master’s mind. He felt like he had just been struck by lightning. He directly blanked out on the spot. Disbelief filled his face.
Under the influence of the presence, he seemed to see a beautiful figure hovering beyond the nine heavens, looking down at him quietly with a cold and emotionless gaze.
The identity of the figure made the Heavenloss Master’s heart tremble. As a matter of fact, prompted by his instincts, he almost prostrated on the ground.