Bang!
An unknown void reflected reality, and the Gate of Heaven and Earth materialized.
Amidst the five-thousand-strong army formation, Jiang Wang used his soul power to lift the Gate of Heaven and Earth and smashed it down, crushing Shi Jing's skull.
The man was not dead yet. He still gathered the army's aura and stirred his Dao essence, forcibly propping up this incredibly heavy gate.
Jiang Wang's sword did not stop. He responded to the Yin-Yang Roaming Kill Array's assault with swift sword strikes.
And his soul power lifted the Gate of Heaven and Earth again, smashing it down once more!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
After this repeated three times, Shi Jing's Dao essence and will finally collapsed completely. His entire body was smashed from top to bottom into a puddle of meat!
After this sound, there was a long silence.
Even the perpetually dejected Xiang Qian showed a look of shock.
He had traveled far and wide since childhood and had seen many things, but he had never seen anyone use the Gate of Heaven and Earth as a weapon!
Even in the long river of history, this was an unprecedented feat.
Steward Qian rubbed his eyes vigorously, wondering if he was being deceived by an illusion. Wasn't he supposed to find an opportunity to break through the gate? How could he lift the Gate of Heaven and Earth directly?
Zhu Biqiong's heart surged with emotion, and Zhang Hai was shocked into silence.
Dugu Xiao clenched her pink fists in excitement, biting her lip.
The entire Yin-Yang Roaming Kill Array stalled for a moment because of this.
And Jiang Wang sheathed his sword decisively. His sleeves were torn apart by the erupting force, revealing his streamlined, bulging muscles. He grabbed the Gate of Heaven and Earth with both hands and strode forward!
Like a fierce beast charging, he smashed left and right.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Initially, there was some scattered resistance. Under the organization of several city guard generals, the army formation reformed.
But with Jiang Wang's furious charge...
The fierce soldiers formed from murderous aura shattered in large numbers, and the two giant Yin-Yang fish actually collapsed on the spot.
During this process...
Jiang Wang's aura rose higher and higher, becoming more and more solid.
A clear cracking sound echoed in everyone's ears.
Then came the second, the third.
Crack, crack, crack!
The stone gate he held in his hands had its horizontal lines snapped one after another.
Heavenly pattern opened.
Earthly pattern opened.
Human pattern opened.
Boom!
As if infinite vitality surged into it.
The Gate of Heaven and Earth opened!
Within the Celestial Palace, the nine Star River Dao Vortexes spun frantically, and countless round Dao essences poured out like springs. The Twining Star Spirit Snake, which represented the Dao meridian's true spirit, leaped up, its body increasing in size more than tenfold, transforming into a Twining Star Strange Python that soared through the dome of the Celestial Palace.
At this moment, there came the chant of an ancient dragon.
Jiang Wang felt his entire spinal dragon being pulled from his body. His essence, energy, and spirit formed the spine, while his flesh body was like dead skin, as if he would shed it at any moment—of course, this was just an illusion.
What left was not the spine, but the Celestial Palace, which had been almost coincident with the spine before the breakthrough!
The Dao meridian thus soared like a dragon, turned within his body, and leaped into the Sea of the Body.
Jiang Wang could now glimpse his Sea of the Body—it was a boundless, vast sea with surging waves that seemed to never cease.
Above the sea surface, white, misty fog obscured the sky. That was the innate Fog of Ignorance. Damaging souls and grinding spirits was trivial for it. How many Soaring Dragon realm cultivators' Dao meridian true dragons had been lost within it, dissolved by this fog, leading to their death and the dissipation of their Dao.
The entire Sea of the Body contained only the sea and the fog, with nothing else visible.
Heaven and earth were vast and boundless.
Jiang Wang's Dao meridian true dragon, which had soared here, was so lonely.
But at this moment...
In that vast and boundless ocean, a solitary reef emerged from the seabed and gradually protruded above the sea surface.
And near this reef, the surging sea surface gradually calmed down.
The reef expanded at an incredibly fast speed.
This speed was insane, because too much force from heaven and earth was feeding back, almost surging in.
When it stopped expanding, a territory covering a full hundred li appeared as an island.
Before Jiang Wang could control it, the true dragon formed by the Dao meridian had already leaped onto the island, finally escaping the entanglement of the Fog of Ignorance.
This was Jiang Wang's Solitary Island of Heaven and Earth!
In the future, when exploring the Sea of the Body, this island would be the resting place for the Soaring Dragon Dao meridian. It was also the base, the stronghold, for cultivators to fight against the Ignorant things.
The so-called hundred-li distance naturally had nothing to do with the present world; it was a measurement that existed only within the Sea of the Body. But this did not diminish its terror.
In the notes Jiang Wang had read, the Solitary Island of Heaven and Earth had never exceeded ten li in territory.
And at the instant the Solitary Island of Heaven and Earth was officially established, in the sky, the Fog of Ignorance receded a hundred li in an instant.
Jiang Wang could clearly sense it.
Amidst that vast and endless Fog of Ignorance, a strong calling was emitting. That was the location of the first Inner Palace, and that calling originated from the divine skill seed within the Inner Palace.
He had already reserved the divine skill back in the Heavenly Secret Realm.
That meant, if Jiang Wang was willing, he could now directly knock on the Inner Palace, pluck the divine skill, and emerge with the power of a divine skill Inner Palace!
The gap between a divine skill Inner Palace and an ordinary Inner Palace was like a realm apart. What Yin-Yang Roaming Kill Array, what Rizhao Prefecture Governor—all could be annihilated with a flick!
But was the divine skill the ultimate path?
Although this temptation was powerful, for Jiang Wang, it was so insignificant.
The changes within his body sounded complicated, but in reality, they were completed in just a few breaths in the present world.
The Gate of Heaven and Earth was pushed open and vanished from the present world. And Jiang Wang, who had officially achieved Dao meridian soaring and established himself on the Solitary Island of Heaven and Earth, was now a genuine Soaring Dragon realm cultivator!
Chirp chirp chirp!
And at this very moment, within the Yin-Yang Roaming Kill Array, sharp bird calls suddenly rang out.
Chirp chirp chirp!
Flame Sparrows, entirely crimson, flew up from around Jiang Wang, densely packed and chattering, crashing in all directions!
This was the Exploding Flame Sparrows, a Grade-A Lower-tier Dao technique that Jiang Wang had won from Prince Jiang Wuyong of Qi.
Jiang Wang had been familiar with it for a long time and had pondered it for a long time, but it was only when he officially stepped into the Soaring Dragon realm that he could finally unleash it.
Once it appeared, it shocked everyone!
The violent Flame Sparrows pecked and killed soldiers, bringing waves of flame rolling.
The Yin-Yang Roaming Kill Array, composed of a full five thousand city guard soldiers, first had its commander physically smashed to death, then was swept by the brutal and ruthless Gate of Heaven and Earth, and now was internally detonated by a premium, secret Grade-A Dao technique.
The army formation fell into chaos.
Xiang Qian, Zhu Biqiong, and Zhang Hai took this opportunity to lead three hundred warriors from the Green Goat Town hall, like three sharp blades, piercing straight and cleanly into the Yin-Yang Roaming Kill Array. This was the timing Jiang Wang had instructed beforehand.
Without the blessing of a military formation, the warriors of Green Goat Town would inevitably collapse upon contact when facing the Yin-Yang Roaming Kill Array with five thousand soldiers.
But at this moment, it was the perfect time.
The army formation collapsed almost instantly!
The five-thousand-strong army formation scattered. The Jiacheng city guard soldiers ran around like headless flies. Some fled, some charged, all without any order.
And under the targeted killing by the extraordinary cultivators led by Jiang Wang, those generals who could organize counterattacks were instantly eliminated.
They could only passively accept the massacre.
A defeated army is worse than chickens and dogs!
"Drop your weapons, kneel and surrender! You may be spared!"
Jiang Wang held his long sword, walked through the air, and roared loudly!
In an instant, the sound of weapons dropping to the ground was incessant, and those kneeling were densely packed.
Even the dejected Xiang Qian and the innocent Zhu Biqiong couldn't help but show looks of joy.
Victory!
...
Just then, a voice sounded in the distance.
"That show was quite entertaining!"
The voice seemed mighty and resonant. At first it was extremely far, but when it sounded again, it was already in the field.
"But if you kneel and beg for mercy now, you still can't be spared!"
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PS: One wave hasn't settled when another rises. This climax is endless. Sigh, if only subscriptions and recommendation tickets could be like this too... Of course, I'm just suggesting.
Le Wen