Chapter 1243 - 1243: Celestial Emperor of War

"You can't kill me!"

"If you kill me, my imperial father will never let you off!"

Yu Liu Daoist Venerable didn't even have any will to fight left.

Right now he only wanted to survive.

Step by step, he backed up to the edge of the Gold and Silver Sword Hedge, and even started calling for help from outside.

"King Shi, save me!"

"King Jing, Prince Yi… hurry up and kill this rebel already!"

Just a moment ago, when he brought out the Gold and Silver Sword Hedge, he had thought he'd played a winning move.

You people can't interfere with me killing Jiang Cheng anymore.

Now it was his turn to be the one about to be killed, and he himself couldn't get out either.

Once this thing is summoned, it can't be opened at all for at least half an Hour.

This was really awkward.

Yu Liu Daoist Venerable was about to go insane as he furiously swung the sword in his hand, trying to block Jiang Cheng.

At the same time, he roared loudly toward the outside.

"Hurry up and attack this Gold and Silver Sword Hedge!"

"Break this damned cage!"

"King Lv, aren't you the Chief of the Law Enforcement Department? This rebel is trying to kill me, an Official Immortal Official, and you're still not executing him?!"

Outside, King Lv, who was busy attacking the Gold and Silver Sword Hedge, silently curled his lip when he heard that.

Could you stop shouting so loud?

This brat isn't killing an Official Immortal Official for the first time, why are you acting like it's some huge shock?

Besides, this thing of yours is a Celestial Dao Secret Treasure. Unless a Celestial Emperor comes in person and uses the Power of the Celestial Dao to dissolve and neutralize it, there's really no breaking it.

All they could do was shout into the inside.

"Jiang Cheng, you stop too!"

"Don't be impulsive!"

"Yu Liu is Emperor Xiu's only son, he cannot be killed!"

"If you kill him, that really will be poking a hole in the sky, and no one will be able to save you!"

"Even that agreement won't be able to protect your life!"

Brother Cheng felt like laughing when he heard that.

"He can kill me, but I can't kill him?"

"Besides, I just dared to erase even his father's projection. What could be more serious than that?"

The Divine Monarchs were almost driven mad by him.

So you do know that taking out a Celestial Emperor's projection is a big deal, huh?

Since you know it's serious, you still dared to do it?

"Calm down!"

The ten Divine Monarchs felt they had never spoken so earnestly in their lives.

Yu Liu might just be a spoiled second-generation rich kid, but he was the Celestial Emperor's only son.

Because of the Heavenly Dao's restraints, it was already very hard for a Celestial Emperor to have offspring.

If he was killed, Emperor Xiu would definitely go crazy.

"Jiang Cheng, listen to me, it's still not too late to stop now!"

"Don't do something irreparable!"

"You erased Emperor Xiu's projection; as long as you beg for mercy and show good remorse, maybe he'll still spare you…"

"If you kill Yu Liu, then there really won't be any room for maneuver left!"

"You're trying to fool a ghost!"

When Brother Cheng erased Emperor Xiu's projection, he'd already decided he wasn't going to stay in the Celestial Palace anymore.

Beg for mercy and confess? What a joke.

He didn't hesitate anymore. Raising the Dao Sword in his hand, under Yu Liu's venomous glare, he once again unleashed a Thirteen Layer Sword Dao Realm.

Boom!

Right before dying, Yu Liu Daoist Venerable frantically threw out all sorts of Treasures and trump cards, but he couldn't block this strike at all.

In the end, he was blasted into ash without any suspense.

And this time, he never revived again.

After all the smoke dispersed, the ten Divine Monarchs all stopped as well, no longer attacking the Gold and Silver Sword Hedge.

Now that only Jiang Cheng was left inside, there was no need.

"You complete and utter lunatic!"

"You're finished, this time you're really finished."

"No one can protect you, I'm telling you!"

All they could do was keep roaring, to vent their anger and breakdown.

Brother Cheng didn't take offense.

He'd wound them up this much, you can't forbid people from venting with words, can you?

He was happily rummaging through the loot already.

Seeing his delighted expression, many Star Lords and Immortal Officials outside were collectively speechless.

You just did something that poked a hole in the sky, and you're still in the mood to be this happy?

Bro, how is your mentality this good?

Besides that, they were actually puzzled by another thing.

Why hadn't Emperor Xiu come to kill yet?

Normally speaking, when his projection was destroyed, his true body could sense it.

With the Power of a Celestial Emperor, getting here would be a matter of an instant.

Not to mention, afterward this guy even went on to kill his only son; he had no reason not to come and stop it.

This was just too abnormal.

Even if his true body was in seclusion, he should have broken seclusion by now, right?

What they didn't know was that, high up in the distant sky, Emperor Xiu, carrying a whole body of Heavenly Dao Destruction aura, had actually arrived.

It was just that he was blocked by someone.

If Jiang Cheng were here, he would definitely be very surprised.

Because the one blocking Emperor Xiu was someone he was quite familiar with.

It was Ling, the one who'd covered for him for many years in the Celestial Dao Sword Sea, whom he'd always treated as a cheerleader.

Back then, Jiang Cheng had actually noticed that Ling's identity was anything but simple.

She might be a Daoist Venerable, or even a hidden Divine Monarch; otherwise there was no way she could make Venerable Ren Hui bow his head like that.

Or maybe she was some Celestial Emperor's daughter, with a status similar to Yu Liu Daoist Venerable's.

At the time, he had deliberately played dumb while understanding perfectly well.

You're intentionally hiding your identity? Then I'll just pretend I don't know either, and treat you as a little girl to mess with, annoy you to death.

However, right now, Emperor Xiu's true body, which had been stopped, was burning with impatience yet didn't have the slightest bit of arrogance.

"War Emperor, you want to stop me?"

Ling's outfit was still the same fresh, youthful style, but compared to that day, her expression was a lot more serious.

To the point that she gave off a natural sense of authority without anger.

And if other Immortal Officials heard this title, they probably still wouldn't be able to associate her with the War Emperor.

The Celestial Emperor of War was said to be the one with the greatest Power among the Ten Celestial Emperors…

And at the same time, the guarantor of the Celestial Palace's combat strength.

That day, when she said she came from the Celestial Battle Bureau, she hadn't been lying.

It was just that Jiang Cheng had mistakenly thought she was some Commander among the thirty-three Celestial Armies under the Celestial Battle Bureau.

That was already giving her a pretty high estimate.

After all, many of those Armies' Main Generals were straight-up Divine Monarchs.

Who would have thought that she was actually the Chief of the Celestial Battle Bureau, the direct superior over all thirty-three Celestial Armies.

In charge of the Celestial Palace's most powerful war machine!

Back when the Celestial Palace was first founded, it had run into all kinds of obstacles and outside enemies.

Those giants later obediently hid themselves away in the Land of Dao Extinction and stopped rampaging in the Primordial Immortal Realm largely because they'd been beaten up by her.

After that, the Ten Celestial Emperors took turns on the throne, and she was the only exception.

She had never stepped into the spotlight.

So much so that even now, many Immortal Officials didn't recognize her even if they saw her.

"Xue Yang, you cannot kill Jiang Cheng right now."

In the whole Celestial Palace, she might be the only one who dared call Emperor Xiu by his old real name.

Emperor Xiu's face was icy cold. "He destroyed my thought, and wants to kill my only son. If you block me, you are my enemy!"

The corners of Ling's small mouth curled into a faint, light smile.

With a hint of disdain.

"And then?"

"I'm standing here blocking you. What can you do about it?"

"You!"

Emperor Xiu's fury burned, wishing he could incinerate the nine heavens.

The only place he didn't dare burn was toward the 'young girl' opposite him.

Because even with a Celestial Dao Supreme Treasure and so-called Mastery of all Rules, he still couldn't beat Ling.