Chapter 564: Entering the Land Immortal Realm, Stirring Up Celestial Phenomena!
Clang, clang!
In the alley, blades and swords clashed, cold light glinting. Suddenly, a point of cold light appeared in the Void Realm, tearing through the sun and moon, bringing forth blossoms of crimson, enchanting blood. Amidst the pervasive scent of blood, screams of agony echoed, and bodies fell to the ground.
"Please spare me, Sister Bai Bing, please spare me..." A young girl with a pure and pitiful face knelt on the ground, her voice trembling as she pleaded for her life. She was Bai Bing's own cousin, Bai Qingqing.
Bai Bing's eyes were arctic voids. She sneered internally, her heart a frozen stone untouched by the girl's fabricated tears. She remembered this same cousin smiling sweetly as her grandfather's enforcers dragged her mother away. She remembered Bai Qingqing whispering cruel jests behind her back for years. Pity was a luxury she had burned away long ago. Without a word, without a flicker of hesitation, her sharp blade swept across the girl's throat in a graceful, chilling arc. The steel was a whisper of death.
A fountain of hot blood erupted, painting the grimy alley wall in a fresh coat of crimson. Bai Bing sidestepped the spray with practiced ease, her white clothes remaining immaculate. She was about to turn and vanish back into the shadows.
This was the seventh wave. The seventh group of assassins the Bai family had sent to hunt her down since her betrayal. Her own kin.
The memory that fueled her every kill was seared into her soul: the image of her birth mother, frail and defiant, being beaten to death by her own grandfather's order. And her father… her father had stood by, his face a mask of cold indifference, watching as the life was extinguished from the woman who loved him. On that day, Bai Bing's hatred for the Bai family had soared to the heavens, a vow of vengeance sworn in blood and tears. But she was powerless then, a mere child.
So she embraced the darkness they cultivated. She trained with a desperation that bordered on madness, pushing her body and spirit past every conceivable limit. She bled, she suffered, she endured. Gradually, her talent for killing blossomed, and she rose through the ranks, distinguishing herself until she became the sharpest, deadliest blade among the Bai family's younger generation. Her power grew so formidable that even among the elders, few could stand against her.
In the ten years since she first stepped into the underworld, the name 'Ice Phoenix' had become a legend, a chilling whisper that shook the international Dark World. Countless tycoons, warlords, and powerful figures had fallen before her sword, each kill bringing immense prestige and wealth back to the Bai family—the very family she swore to destroy.
But her public persona was a lie. In the shadows, the Ice Phoenix was not a protector of the Bai family, but its secret executioner. For years, she had been systematically assassinating its core members, using her position and knowledge to strike with lethal precision. The family's elite assassins suffered staggering losses, one after another, yet no one ever suspected their most prized weapon, their celebrated genius, was the one culling their ranks.
That changed not long ago. During the assassination of her uncle, a formidable Great Grandmaster, she left behind a subtle clue, a fractional mistake born from a moment of overconfidence. The family's investigators were skilled, and the trail began to lead back to her. Sensing the tightening noose, Bai Bing made her move. She broke away decisively, severing all ties. The Old Master of the Bai family flew into a thunderous rage, the patriarch's fury shaking the entire organization as he dispatched wave after wave of his best killers to bring her back, dead or alive.
This time, Bai Bing had been tracking a different target. She'd received intelligence that the Wan Fa Sect was transporting a shipment of rare treasures. Her plan was simple: ambush the convoy, enact a little 'black-eats-black' justice, and seize any medicinal herbs or artifacts that could accelerate her breakthrough.
Instead, she had walked into a trap not meant for her. She had encountered Shen Anyu. In an instant, her life's trajectory was shattered. Her pride, her freedom, her very soul were seized and enslaved by that man. The legendary Ice Phoenix, the untamable assassin, had her wings brutally clipped.
Taking a deep, steadying breath, Bai Bing let the metallic tang of blood fill her lungs. It was a familiar scent, a comforting one. Her clear, cold phoenix eyes gazed toward the distant farmhouse courtyard where her new Master resided. Her gaze then fell to her hand, where a single, perfect golden pill rested in her palm, radiating a gentle warmth. It was the Heavenly Human Breakthrough Pill. A treasure she would have killed for, now given to her freely by her captor. A soft, complex hum escaped her lips.
'Respected Master,' she thought with a cold, biting sarcasm that was hers alone. 'I will use this power you've given me. I will fulfill my vow. And I will await the day I am strong enough to make you my slave.'
Her inner fire rekindled, she declared to the night, "And the Bai family… the day I break through to the Heavenly Human realm will be the day your lineage ends!"
As the last word echoed in the silent alley, Bai Bing's phoenix eyes darted toward the street entrance. With another soft hum, her graceful figure flickered, dissolving into the deepest shadows. She moved like a phantom, a whisper in the dark, leaving behind only the dead and the dying.
Not long after she departed, a new set of figures materialized in the alley. They moved with quiet efficiency, their purpose clear: to erase all evidence. Bodies were collected, bloodstains were scrubbed away, and every trace of the battle was meticulously removed.
The man leading the cleanup crew was none other than Du Zhao, the newly appointed Sect Leader of the Wan Fa Sect.
"As expected of the Young Lord," Du Zhao marveled, his voice a hushed whisper of awe. "To think he even subdued the Ice Phoenix…"
His professional gaze swept over the scene, analyzing the carnage before it was erased. He saw the razor-thin cracks spiderwebbing across the brick walls, the clean, precise wounds on the corpses. These were not the marks of a brutish struggle, but the art of a master assassin. Among the dead, he recognized a gold-medal assassin from the Bai family, a warrior at the peak of the Great Grandmaster realm, along with several silver-medal Grandmasters. All of them, cut down as if they were nothing.
And this legendary female assassin, a figure of terror in the international Dark World, was now a servant to their Young Lord.
'Just what level has the Young Lord's strength reached?' The question echoed in Du Zhao's mind, sending a tremor of fear and reverence through him.
He soon returned to the farmhouse courtyard. As he approached, he felt it—a terrifying, world-crushing pressure radiating from the underground secret chamber. The aura was so immense, so ancient and powerful, that he began to tremble uncontrollably.
"What… what level is this?" he stammered, his face pale with shock. "This pressure… even the legendary dragons of old would be nothing before this! Could it be… is the Young Lord breaking through to the Heavenly Human realm?"
After being personally elevated by Shen Anyu, Du Zhao was now an expert at the Artificer True Person level. Yet, even standing here, separated by tens of meters of reinforced earth and solid alloy walls, the power leaking from the secret chamber was overwhelming. It seeped into his bones, an instinctual dread that made him want to fall to his knees and prostrate himself.
Du Zhao didn't dare to even try and imagine the true extent of the Young Lord's power.
Rumble!
At that very moment, deep beneath the earth, a cataclysm was unfolding within Shen Anyu's body. Vast, impossibly pure Martial Path True Essence surged through his limbs and meridians, no longer a river but a roaring, world-spanning ocean. A terrifying aura saturated the entire secret chamber. The raw pressure was so intense that a mere wisp of it, a stray leakage of his power, caused the hardest titanium alloy walls to groan and fracture, hairline cracks spreading across their surface like spiderwebs.
Outside, Du Zhao had already scrambled back another hundred meters, his face a mask of fanatical adoration.
"The Young Lord is breaking through! He must be ascending to the Heavenly Human realm! The Young Lord is invincible!"
He then witnessed a scene that defied all logic and reason. All around him, the flowers, plants, and trees began to bend, bowing in the direction of the underground chamber as if paying homage to an enthroned monarch. Countless motes of azure light, pure life essence, condensed from the very air. They gathered like droplets of water, forming streams, then rivers, all flowing toward a single point—converging into a massive vortex of energy that plunged deep into the earth, feeding the transformation within the secret chamber.
High above, the clouds in the night sky began to churn violently. They twisted and swirled, forming a colossal tornado that connected the heavens and the earth, with the farmhouse as its epicenter.
Such a startling phenomenon was not only noticed by Du Zhao. Within a radius of a dozen miles, people stared at the sky, their phones out, exclaiming in wonder and flooding the internet with frantic discussions:
"Holy cow, this is insane! What's going on? Is some Daoist master ascending to immortality?"
"We have to believe in science, people. Let's just wait for the experts' explanation. It's probably just… some kind of Tyndall effect on a massive scale."
"Don't believe the rumors, don't spread the rumors. That's obviously the Ancestral Dragon awakening! I am the ninety-ninth generation descendant of the Ancestral Dragon. Venmo me fifty bucks, and I'll teach you cultivation and make you a Great General!"
"That's bullshit! Why would the Ancestral Dragon be in Hangzhou? It's got to be Bai Suzhen finally breaking out of Leifeng Pagoda!"
"You sound more like a descendant of a con artist!"
"..."
The astonishing phenomenon raged for three full days and nights. Soon enough, a parade of official experts appeared on news channels to debunk the wild speculation. They offered incomprehensible theoretical explanations involving "Kármán vortex street effects" and "abnormal atmospheric current fluctuations." The site of the incident was quickly sealed off by authorities, and all related videos and photos were scrubbed from the internet. Conveniently, a major entertainment story broke at the same time—a top-tier young idol was caught in a massive dating scandal—and the fickle attention of the netizens immediately shifted.
"This commotion was a bit much. A breakthrough to Land Immortal is already this grand. What will happen when I break through to the Martial God realm? Or even to Golden Core and Nascent Soul?"
Shen Anyu mused to himself, a broad, satisfied smile stretching across his handsome face. He was in an excellent mood.
He had embarked on the path of cultivation less than two months ago, and he had already ascended to the rank of Land Immortal. Who else in history could boast such heaven-defying speed? This wasn't just genius; this was unprecedented. A martial arts prodigy the likes of which the world had never seen.
'People like Lin Xuanyan and Ye Linyuan?' he thought with a dismissive smirk. 'They're nothing but trash.'
"System, show me my status."
As Shen Anyu willed it, a familiar stream of information, unseen for some time, cascaded before his eyes like a digital waterfall…
[Name: Shen Anyu]
[Age: 25]
[Cultivation: Qi Refinement Stage Tenth Level, Land Immortal]
[Cultivation Technique: Nascent Soul True Scripture, Two-Aspects Life-Death Medical Scripture, Martial God Art, Tianjian Nineteen Styles, Hunyuan Taiji Fist Scripture...]
[Abilities: Divine-Tier Infinite Teleportation, Divine-Tier Sharing...]
[Items: God-Tier Storage Ring, Divine Resurrection Stone, Divine-Tier Soul Ring, 1 Divine-Tier Heavenly Human Breakthrough Pill, Son of Destiny Identifier, Seven-foot Sword, Yinming Thunder Pearl, various cannons...]
[Destiny Points: 12,988,990]
[Title: Great Villain of Destiny]
[System Mall]
[Cashback]
[Supernatural Draw Accumulation]...
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