Chapter 101 - 93: Showing Mercy, Peerless Grace

Chapter 101: Chapter 93: Showing Mercy, Peerless Grace

From the very beginning, these people unleashed killing moves, deploying martial skills one after another. It was clear they wanted him dead.

"Let me see just how freakish a so-called peerless freak can be!"

Facing the enemies who had found an opening to strike, Jiang Hao showed no fear. Instead, his fighting spirit surged, and he immediately swung his sword.

A thousand-foot burst of Sword Qi swept in all directions, instantly forcing back a large crowd. Even a peerless freak was blasted hundreds of meters away, his eyes filled with shock.

"Not good! This guy is highly likely at the very peak of the first-tier existences. Everyone, hold nothing back! Suppress and kill him at once!"

"How can the power of the Spirit Transformation Fifth Stage be this strong?"

"Impossible! We’re both first-tier existences. How can he be this powerful?"

After exchanging just a few dozen blows, monstrous waves of shock crashed through the hearts of all the top-tier peerless geniuses and freaks. Their first reaction at this moment was that he was simply too strong—absurdly strong.

Gradually, the slaughter reached a fever pitch, and countless Cultivators were consumed by bloodlust.

"No matter how strong he is, the Imperial Extreme Technique is mine! It’s mine!"

"As long as I obtain that Cultivation Technique, the vast world will be mine to roam! All enemies will become dead souls under my sword! No one can stop me from taking it!"

"I am the invincible one! Whoever dares to block my path, I will kill!"

Clearly, the Imperial Extreme inheritance was enough to make countless Cultivators lose themselves. If they hadn’t been qualified to fight for it, it would have been one thing. But since there was a sliver of hope, an obsession had slowly taken root in their minds.

Looking at the countless peerless geniuses who had succumbed to their demonic obsessions, Jiang Hao couldn’t afford to care anymore.

"You forced my hand."

BOOM!

Sensing the threat, Jiang Hao unleashed his full firepower, initiating an absolute massacre.

For a time, the battle atop the Divine Mountain became a fight to the bitter end. Under the Five Veins Second Transformation, even without using Cultivation Techniques and martial skills like the *Heavenly Spirit 72 Swords*, the Sword Qi Jiang Hao unleashed was unimaginably terrifying. And when facing the attacks of those peerless freaks, he countered with the *Eighteen Heavenly Hands*.

In just a quarter of an hour, the entire void seemed to shatter, collapsing endlessly. Blood dyed the night sky red in a slaughter that was shocking to the core.

As time passed, the number of heavily injured people atop the Divine Mountain grew, eventually piling up into a mountain of bodies as wails echoed everywhere. Countless Cultivators watched from afar, gasping for breath. The pungent stench of blood permeated the world, signaling a struggle of unimaginable brutality.

Even more terrifying was that the figure in the ghost mask showed no signs of defeat. In fact, he grew more invigorated as he fought, manifesting massive hands that constantly tore through the sea of people. Before long, the fallen Cultivators on the Divine Mountain had literally formed a hill, plunging everyone into an abyss of despair.

The crowd fought from the ground to the void, then from the void back to the ground. In order to maximize the use of his internal Spiritual Power, Jiang Hao ultimately chose to fight on the ground.

Half an hour passed. Then an hour.

The brutal slaughter dragged on for a full hour. By now, the Cultivators atop the Divine Mountain were piled into a small mountain. Trampled beneath the feet of the figure hidden in the black robe, they let out countless cries of agony.

This sight completely dumbfounded everyone. All the Cultivators who had entered the Ancient Emperor Sect ruins stood frozen in place. It was safe to say that this batch of Cultivators would never forget what they witnessed today for the rest of their lives.

That figure was just like a Hell Asura, his killing intent so overwhelming that the sky and earth changed color.

At this moment, even the peerless freaks on the other eight mountains couldn’t help but look over, their eyes turbulent with shock.

"Impossible... this is simply impossible!"

"Could it be... the Five Veins Second Transformation?"

"A chosen one of the Five Veins Second Transformation?"

One by one, the peerless freaks who had finished their own battles and were now watching gasped for air, as if they had seen their natural predator, absolutely terrified. Yet, even at this stage, countless peerless geniuses had lost their reason, charging forward in endless waves to suppress him.

Suddenly, BOOM!

Jiang Hao slashed out with his sword, closing in on a graceful silhouette in the crowd. However, the ancient sword in his hand seemed to pause for a fraction of a second, because what entered his sight was a delicate figure wearing a bamboo hat.

He thought to himself, "Ji Qingxue?" His brows furrowed tightly. But in the end, he still swept his sword forward.

"Qingxue, watch out!"

Hidden in the crowd nearby, Ji Wufeng turned pale with fright and cried out. If this sword strike landed, his sister would be heavily injured, if not dead.

Originally, the siblings hadn’t planned on participating in the struggle. However, seeing that the figure had been fighting fiercely for so long, they calculated that his internal Spiritual Power should be nearly depleted, so Ji Qingxue wanted to give it a try. Unable to dissuade his sister, Ji Wufeng was naturally forced to join in. Although he held little hope of obtaining the Imperial Extreme Technique, secretly protecting Ji Qingxue was his instinctual duty as an older brother.

In the instant Ji Wufeng cried out, the ancient sword swept across. The terrifying Sword Qi blasted Ji Qingxue away, yet it did not take her life.

Clearly, Jiang Hao had shown mercy at the very end.

However, although the blow only knocked Ji Qingxue back, the shockwave of the Sword Qi slashed across her veil.

WHOOSH!

In a flash, the bamboo hat on the young woman’s head was sent flying, instantly revealing a face of peerless beauty. That face was actually a few degrees more stunning than even Gu Qingyan and Ye Qingxian.

But what caused Jiang Hao to freeze slightly was the blood-red mark exposed between Ji Qingxue’s brows the moment her veil fell. It was a lifelike mark shaped like a flame.

"An Innate Sacred Body?"

The moment he saw that flame mark, Jiang Hao understood why she wore the bamboo hat. It was to hide the truth that she possessed an Innate Sacred Body. Although Jiang Hao had never encountered a Sacred Body before, he knew what that mark represented. The only thing he didn’t know was what grade of Sacred Body she had.

Rumor had it that Sacred Bodies were extremely terrifying, considered the highest echelons in the Cultivation Realm, but most required transcending mortality before they could awaken. Of course, an Innate Sacred Body like Ji Qingxue’s was something she was born with, though she would still need to transcend mortality before she could utilize the Sacred Body’s innate talents.

"Qingxue?"

The moment Ji Qingxue flew backward, Ji Wufeng dashed over and instantly placed the fallen bamboo hat back on her head. Seeing his sister completely unharmed, Ji Wufeng instinctively looked toward the figure in the black robe and ghost mask, his eyes filled with extreme surprise.

Waves of confusion and strange emotion also rippled through Ji Qingxue’s beautiful eyes.

"He showed mercy?"

Upon saying this, the siblings were both utterly bewildered. If that sword strike had truly landed, the young woman would have been on the brink of death. But recalling the scene just now, thousands of ripples surged in Ji Qingxue’s heart. The other party had indeed held back, even retracting the sword at the critical moment.

This sudden turn of events left both siblings completely baffled and shaken.

Could it be that this invincible figure in the black robe and ghost mask had some past connection with them?

For a time, the expressions in their eyes underwent an earth-shattering change—filled with bewilderment, gratitude, confusion, and shock. But more than anything, they were overwhelmed by sheer astonishment and profound emotional impact!