Chapter 470 The Great Change of the Times

This Martial Saint stormed a city in his region and slaughtered a prominent family, leaving a river of blood in his wake.

An entire city’s forces frantically besieged him, but they were completely helpless and could not harm him in the slightest.

Everyone was shocked, filled with despair at his power.

Worse yet, this Martial Saint Level expert hailed from a local Noble Family.

The Great Kang Royal Family didn’t even have a chance to recruit him.

If he were a commoner, the Great Kang Royal Family could have married a Princess to him. A marriage alliance to make him one of their own would have still been on the table.

As long as he wasn’t an incredibly ambitious man, there would be room for negotiation.

But he was from a local Noble Family, which made things difficult.

Noble Families, by their very nature, were backed by significant resources, soldiers, and influence.

Now, with the advent of Martial Arts, the ambitions of the local Noble Families had exploded, making them impossible to recruit easily.

Furthermore, this Martial Saint did not come from an ordinary local Noble Family.

If he were from an ordinary Noble Family, there would still be a chance for peace talks.

Even more troubling, this Martial Saint was a descendant of one of the old, powerful Ancient Immortal Martial Arts families.

Initially, this family had tried to secede from the Court’s rule and establish its own kingdom.

But they had been crushed by the Great Kang Royal Family’s firearm-equipped army.

Who would have thought that now, a remnant of that family would produce a Martial Saint Level expert.

His Majesty the Emperor of Great Kang had been closely monitoring the situation across the land, so he had discovered the Martial Saint the moment the man appeared and responded in time. However, since there was no room for recruitment, battle was the only option.

Although the Emperor of Great Kang had mobilized a massive army to mount a heavy defense, they ultimately failed to stop him.

The Martial Saint Level expert flew straight for the Capital City, intending to storm the Imperial Palace.

He sought to avenge his family members, who had been killed by the army’s firearms.

As the Martial Saint Level expert descended from the sky, the countless citizens of the Capital City watched in shock.

“Emperor of Great Kang, you’re a dead man! Come out and face your death!”

The Martial Saint was a middle-aged man of about forty.

He had a stocky build but was rather short.

He was also rather ugly, with a large mole on his face.

At this moment, however, no one dared to underestimate the short, stocky man.

This short, stocky man possessed an aura of absolute superiority.

Then, the short, stocky Martial Saint stormed the Imperial Palace.

But the Emperor of Great Kang, Xu Lei, and the others had, of course, already evacuated. They would never have just waited there for him.

After all, the power of a legendary Martial Saint had long since been partially understood through the records in the Ancient Immortal Martial Secret Collection.

Therefore, all that awaited him in the Imperial Palace was a swarming army and countless explosives.

Meanwhile, Xu Lei, the Emperor of Great Kang, Xu Lei’s mother, his second brother, his Thirteenth Sister, and the other members of the Royal Family were hidden somewhere far away.

They were observing through a telescope, a device Xu Lei had introduced to this world long ago.

Of course, the telescope wasn’t something the Xu Lei of this lifetime had produced.

It was something the original Xu Lei had introduced, and it had been passed down to the present day.

Through the telescope, Xu Lei watched as the Martial Saint master charged directly into the army, single-handedly tearing through their ranks.

Not even firearms and cannons could stop him.

The huge amount of explosives planted beneath the Imperial Palace was detonated.

But the Martial Saint was extremely perceptive and vigilant; he never fully landed on the ground.

He spent most of his time flying in mid-air.

Thus, the massive quantity of explosives erupted upwards.

But they barely harmed the Martial Saint at all.

As the massive explosions turned the entire Imperial Palace into a field of rubble and ruins, the Martial Saint hovered above it all, completely unharmed, looking down upon his handiwork.

Fearless soldiers fired at him with machine guns and bombarded him with cannons, but nothing could harm the Martial Saint.

His evasive maneuvers in the air were simply too agile.

Once the explosions ceased, the Martial Saint flew down again, carving a path of destruction through the army.

He was like a tiger among sheep.

He was unstoppable.

Finally, he flew over and seized the Royal Guard Commander by the neck.

Hoisting him into the air, he demanded to know the whereabouts of the Emperor of Great Kang.

However, the Commander was a trusted confidant of the Emperor of Great Kang and naturally said nothing. The Martial Saint flew into a rage, shattering the Commander’s skull with a single strike. He then slammed the corpse to the ground with such force that it was reduced to pulp.

“His Majesty the Emperor of Great Kang, you coward! Some Emperor you are. I come here alone, and you run and hide. What kind of man are you?”

The short, stocky man then clasped his hands behind his back and laughed boisterously. “Your Majesty, you can’t escape! I’ll kill you no matter where you run, even to the ends of the earth. And I will be back. The times have changed. This is my era now.”

The Martial Saint did not linger at the Imperial Palace.

After such an assault, he had consumed a great deal of his Inner Strength.

Although it would only take him a few hours to recover, he still needed to find a place to rest and replenish his Inner Strength.

In truth, his recent flurry of attacks had consumed less than half of his Inner Strength.

But he prioritized caution. He decided to find a place to restore his Inner Strength to Perfection before coming out to continue his rampage.

‘We had thought this Martial Saint would be more reckless.’

‘If that had been the case, we might have had a sliver of a chance of using the army to wear him down and kill him.’

But now, seeing how unbelievably cautious the man was, Xu Lei and the others fell into despair.