"Yours?"
Luo Yu sneered disdainfully.
"You seem to have forgotten that this Secret Realm was the space left behind by Emperor Qin Shi Huang to suppress you. You tell me, whose should it be?"
The Imperial Jade Seal pressed towards the void; with a boom, the Grand Seal fixed the heaven and earth.
The restless power of the Secret Realm stabilized.
Despite Black Tiger's efforts to stimulate it, there was no response.
"No!"
The panic in Black Tiger's sole eye was evident, as it had never expected such a turn of events.
"Had we met outside, you might have been reduced to this wretched state. But here, heh." At this moment, Luo Yu himself wanted to laugh.
Was it that Black Tiger's plan wasn't meticulous enough?
It had successfully sacrificed a city's worth of citizens and then fled into the Secret Realm, helping its own body to break the seal.
The green corpse, the village head, Xue Can, the one-eyed moon in the sky, all were enough to toy with the Martial University elites like Cao Ritian and bring about the total destruction of this place, becoming the first rich blood meal to nourish it after the seal was lifted.
Even if a First-grade Strong Person arrived here, they would end up hating the outcome.
Sadly for it, it encountered me, the inheritor of the First Emperor's Spirit, able to activate all the means left here by Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
Whether it's the gigantic statues or the power of heaven and earth in this Secret Realm.
"Swoosh!"
Luo Yu struck with his sword, and Black Tiger already had the intention to retreat. Luo Yu's various techniques made it experience the kind of fear it felt two thousand years ago when it was dominated.
It used its divine powers to resist.
"Clang! Clang! Clang—"
The Ancient Zhuxian Sword showed its terrifying sharpness that could pierce through anything, leaving bloodstains on Black Tiger's body.
"Roar—"
The Mountain Lord kept issuing painful roars because Luo Yu clearly had the ability to cut through its body, but like the most vicious executioner, he stripped the flesh little by little, cutting off its flesh and blood in fresh, bloody strips.
"Devil, you're a devil!" The Mountain Lord wanted to teleport and flee, but found that the power of heaven and earth had been fixed. It had no chance of outspeeding Luo Yu; just as it turned around, its entire tail was chopped off cleanly at the root.
"Ah!"
Cao Ritian and others looked up to the sky, their mouths agape in shock, utterly dumbfounded.
"I... I... Damn!" Zhu Qing was stunned.
Pan Ren was so terrified that it was beyond words: "This fierce?"
Song Bida, Yuan Guangwu, and other Martial University elites watched as Luo Yu struck with his sword, crippling the previously unstoppable Tiger Lord. They felt as if it was an unreal dream.
"Fierce... Too fierce."
"Fierceness beyond compare."
This was a First Rank Summit, on par with the top-notch bigwigs of Huaxia, and yet being slaughtered like pigs and dogs?
Even though it was harnessing the power of tens of thousands of fierce souls and the power of this realm, it shouldn't be this terrifying.
Luo Yu was covered in fresh blood, his expression indifferent and unmoved, like a bloodthirsty war god.
"This sword, for the hundreds of thousands of citizens who have died."
Dazzling sword light sliced into the belly of the Tiger Lord, flesh rolling over, organs shattered.
"Swoosh!"
"This sword, for your two thousand years of unrepentance."
The Tiger Lord's remaining legs were forcefully severed, and at this point, it was a bloody mess, all four legs gone, and only one eye left in its sockets. One had to marvel at the tenacity of life; even now, it still had enough strength to struggle and roar.
No wonder it could stay alive under two thousand years of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's suppression.
"Enough!"
The Tiger Lord sacrificed most of its body and hastily moved towards the exit of the Secret Realm, desperately charging towards the outside.
Luo Yu laughed.
"Want to leave?"
"Do you think you can?"
"Not to mention I won't allow it, ask the tens of thousands of Great Xia citizens here if they agree."
Raising the Ancient Zhuxian Sword, a magnificent sword light swept out, this strike gathering all his strength, along with all the hatred and murderous intent of the tens of thousands of departed souls.
The blood-colored sword light tore through the sky, chasing after the Mountain Lord.
...
Outside the Secret Realm, Shi Kai led a group of First-grade Strong Persons, attacking the temple gates with all their might to break the barrier and enter the Secret Realm.
"Principal Shi, it's been so long, the children inside the Secret Realm... I fear they..." One of the First-graders said hesitantly.
"Enough talk, we need to see them alive or see their bodies if they are dead." Shi Kai barked angrily.
"Whoever killed the good sons of our Martial University will pay with his life, even if I die in the process," suddenly spoke a First-rank elder, who turned out to be Yang Cang from Sichuan Province Martial University.
Suddenly, a heaven-shaking tiger's roar erupted from within the temple gates.
"Be careful, something is about to come out," Shi Kai felt something in his heart and immediately voiced a warning.
"Boom!"
A surge of blood-red light shot towards the sky, and a massive red monster burst out, its crazed might instantly pushing past Shi Kai and a group of First Grade, slamming them aside.
"What a terrifying monster."
"Prepare for battle!!"
Shi Kai and the other First Grade Strong Persons were shockingly surprised and were just about to join together to counterattack when they realized that the blood-red monster didn't mean to fight them at all and was desperately flying towards the sky.
At that moment, both they and the Second Rank standing atop the mountain could clearly see the true form of the blood-red monster—it was actually a huge ferocious tiger with flesh and fur mangled beyond recognition. Its limbs were completely sever along with half its torso, exposing ghastly white bones, and only one eye remained in its sockets, its tail lost.
But even as such, the seriously injured tiger exuded an aura that made everyone present shiver uncontrollably.
It gave everyone quite a scare.
"This... this is definitely a First Rank Summit demon."
"Who is it!"
"What kind of terrifying monsters exist within the Secret Realm for even such a powerful demon to desperately flee?"
A series of astonished voices rang out. Shi Kai no longer cared about the monster fleeing; all he wanted to do was to enter the Secret Realm to see if the children were still alive. There were perhaps even more terrifying creatures inside, but as the principal, he had to go in regardless of the danger.
But the moment he stepped into the temple gate, Shi Kai's strong sixth sense went off, and a thick sense of a life-and-death crisis overwhelmed him.
"Dodge, quickly dodge!"
He shouted immediately, leading the other First Graders to dodge.
"Swish!"
A dazzling sword light flew out of the temple gate, cutting through the air, and in an instant caught up with the horrific blood-red tiger that was rapidly fleeing.
"Boom!"
The moment the sword light hit the tiger, it exploded, turning into countless sword beams, wildly slashing at its body.
In just a few breaths, it seemed as if 108,000 Swords were slashed out.
It represented the hatred of hundreds of thousands of lost souls.
"Ah!!! I refuse to accept this, I have survived for two thousand years; how could I fall in such a place?" The tiger spirit roared up to the heavens, but ultimately, it was torn apart by the storm of sword lights.
All the Second Rank, First Rank, and strong individuals from Sichuan Province Martial University present, including Shi Kai, were horrified and overawed.
"Two thousand years?"
"A terrifying existence that revived two thousand years ago, just got hacked to pieces like this?"
"What kind of terrifying strong person possesses such power!!!"
Several First-grade were scared out of their wits, trembling softly they said, "Principal Shi, are we... are we still going into this Secret Realm..."
"We're not rescuing people, we're courting death."
"I am an academy instructor, a moral role model. Even in death, I must die together with the children." Yang Cang didn't care about the others, he immediately rushed in.
At the same time, Shi Kai did not hesitate either; he even entered the Secret Realm a step ahead of Yang Cang.
The others clenched their teeth, their expressions shifting before they all rushed in as well.
Just then, from a distance, powerful streams of light flew towards them, each carrying the momentum of First Rank Summit, all reinforcements sent by the provinces of Great Xia.
When the powerful outsiders saw the person leading them, they immediately became exhilarated.
"Director Luo!"
"The Da Xia Guardian God has arrived."
Luo Tiance and the other four First Rank Summit elders furrowed their brows, "Where is Shi Kai, and what exactly was that tiger and the sword light all about?"
They had seen that striking sword light from afar, and Luo Tiance couldn't think of when Da Xia had produced such a Sword Dao master.
Qian Han reported back swiftly and succinctly, "Elder Luo, the children are trapped in the Secret Realm, and the tiger was being chased out by the sword light; Principal Shi has led people in."
"Understood."
Luo Tiance transformed into a streak of sword light and entered the Tiger-Dwelling Mountain Secret Realm, with the other four top-ranked strong persons quickly following.
...
As soon as Shi Kai, Yang Cang, and the others entered the Secret Realm, they saw a space full of devastation, the remnants of battle fluctuations trembling their hearts and souls.
They immediately activated their Spiritual Power to its fullest, the Heroic Spirits possessed them, and they took up a defensive stance.
Moving forward to scout.
Just as they flew out, they saw a towering figure of a young man above the sky, bathed in blood, aura terrifying, slowly sheathing his sword...
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