Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

"Executing Heaven’s Will!"

Mo Bai roared, a white light pulsing around him as he swept his silver Long Spear across the air.

SWISH...

A fan-shaped spear aura swept forth.

Wherever the spear aura passed, it stirred up monstrous waves of rolling True Essence Power. The wind and snow themselves retreated before it as it shot straight for Jiang Chen, aiming to cut him in half at the waist.

Jiang Chen roared in fury, "Get lost!"

The light of True Essence flared between his palms.

Forming a hand of what looked like wrought iron, he swatted it through the air, shattering the spear aura.

True Essence rippled across his body.

In the howling blizzard, Jiang Chen’s robes fluttered wildly, his eyes blazing with fury. "You’d kill me without a second thought, based on nothing but their word?"

"Hmph," Mo Bai snorted, his expression one of stern righteousness. "Geng Qin and the others are my fellow disciples. Why would they lie to me? No one is allowed to bully a disciple of our Jing Country Celestial Sect! If I, Mo Bai, don’t eliminate a wicked villain like you today, then I’ll renounce my name!"

As he spoke,

Mo Bai held his spear in one hand and formed a palm with the other.

"Great Bright Palm!"

A brilliant light pulsed from his palm.

His hand blurred into a series of afterimages, continuously unleashing powerful palm strikes.

Each strike blazed with a blinding light.

Jiang Chen’s expression turned grim as he jabbed his fingers forward several times in quick succession.

Star-Breaking!

Picking the Moon!

The True Essence Giant Finger collided with the gleaming Hand Seals, unleashing a series of terrifying roars that echoed between heaven and earth. The thunderous din shook the very ground, obliterating the wind and snow within this small pocket of the world.

Only the giant palms and the finger auras remained!

"Such powerful cultivation... With your level of cultivation, those wolf packs should have been no threat to you. Yet you still led them to my Celestial Sect’s disciples! That was clearly a malicious attempt to borrow a knife to kill someone. You vile wretch, what do you have to say for yourself?" Mo Bai demanded righteously.

Jiang Chen: "..."

’Are you fucking kidding me?’

’I’ve seen people twist the truth, but never this shamelessly!’

"Celestial Flame Sun-Devouring Slash!"

A sphere of Sword Qi, burning like a Blazing Sun, burst forth.

"Bright Celestial Dragon Slash!"

Mo Bai thrust his Long Spear, and it transformed into a winding, life-like white dragon.

The dragon-shaped spear aura crashed into the spherical Sword Qi.

HSSS...

The two immense energies canceled each other out, collapsing into a point of light no bigger than a grain of rice. In the next instant, that point of light swelled, erupting into a hundred-meter-wide sphere. BOOM! The two powerful attacks detonated at once, sending a terrifying shockwave rolling out in every direction.

Jiang Chen’s figure shot back. He stared at Mo Bai and said, "I told you, what they said isn’t the truth. You can ask Jiao Yan, and you’ll know what really happened. If you keep pushing, don’t blame me for what happens next!"

Jiao Yan, at the side, also said with a face full of anxiety, "Senior Brother Mo, things really aren’t what you think..."

"Hm?"

Mo Bai was stunned, frowning at Jiao Yan with a trace of disappointment in his eyes. "Jiao Yan, when Geng Qin and the others said you offered yourself to this guy to save your own life, I didn’t quite believe it. But now, I have no choice but to believe it! How long have you known him, and you’re already lying to protect him? The Celestial Sect has no place for a disciple like you. On behalf of our Master, I hereby expel you from the Sect!"

"What?"

Jiao Yan’s body trembled, her face a mask of disbelief.

Behind Mo Bai, Geng Qin and the others wore smug expressions, casting provocative glances at Jiang Chen.

"Sigh!"

Jiang Chen sighed softly, gazing at Mo Bai with a hint of pity and sorrow. "You’re truly pathetic. You’re being used as a pawn and you don’t even realize it. And you still have the gall to call it justice? How laughable. Someone like you dares call himself a gentleman? From your actions today, I’m certain you’ve killed plenty of innocent people you wrongly judged. Gentleman Bai? You’re nothing more than a hypocrite!"

Hypocrite!

That one word was like the sharpest steel needle, piercing Mo Bai to the core.

His expression turned utterly grim.

A vicious light flickered in his eyes as he said coldly, "What right do you have to judge me? Everything I, Mo Bai, do is in the name of justice. If I say you’re guilty, then you are guilty. I, Gentleman Bai, never wrong the innocent. As for deranged people like you, I’ll kill every single one I see!"

"Justice? I’m guilty just because you say so?"

Jiang Chen laughed out loud.

It was as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.

Staring at Mo Bai with a mocking gaze, Jiang Chen’s expression turned solemn, and he said, word by word, "Mo Bai, today I will teach you what true justice is, and what it means to be a gentleman!"

BOOM!

A gale of True Essence erupted from Jiang Chen’s body, and the Spirit-Slaying Sword in his hand pulsed with a sharp light.

When Jiang Chen spoke, his voice was like rolling thunder, filled with stern righteousness. "A gentleman must distinguish right from wrong and understand the truth. He must know the path of benevolence and righteousness. And you..."

"From beginning to end, you listened only to their one-sided story and decided I was a villain to be put to death. This is failing to distinguish right from wrong..."

"You refuse to hear my explanation, always believing yourself to be righteous. This is failing to understand the truth!"

"Even if someone is wrong, you should give them a chance to defend themselves. But from start to finish, you never allowed me to explain the truth. This is a lack of benevolence!"

"You only believe Geng Qin, but you won’t listen to Jiao Yan’s explanation. This is a lack of righteousness."

A sharp glint suddenly shot from Jiang Chen’s eyes.

A Vast Righteous Qi emanated from him. Each word was like a resonant clap of thunder striking Mo Bai, causing his face to shift through several ugly shades. "Someone like you, who cannot distinguish right from wrong, who does not understand the truth, who lacks both benevolence and righteousness... what face do you have to call yourself a gentleman?"

"Though my hands are stained with blood and I have killed countless people, I have never once wrongly killed an innocent person. All those I kill deserve to die."

"But you, Mo Bai, are neither benevolent nor righteous, yet you dare to call yourself a gentleman!"

Jiang Chen suddenly let out a deafening roar that shook the heavens. Mo Bai’s face instantly turned deathly pale. "A true villain isn’t scary. What’s scary is a hypocrite like you. Today, I will execute Heaven’s will and eliminate a hypocrite like you, one full of false benevolence and empty righteousness!"

SWOOSH—

Jiang Chen immediately unleashed a sword strike.

The light of the Spirit-Slaying Sword pulsed, dazzlingly brilliant, drawing an incredibly bright and piercing Sword Aura across the void!

"Creation of Heaven and Earth!"

It was the First Technique of the All Heaven Stars Sword Manual!

Wherever the Sword Aura passed, Mo Bai felt the world before him turn pitch black, a field of chaos.

And then...

A brilliant light tore through the chaos, cleaving open the heavens and the earth.

BOOM!

An incomparably dazzling sword light surged to the heavens.

"No..."

Mo Bai let out a miserable scream. Under the assault of the endless Sword Qi, his entire body was torn into a rain of flesh and blood that mixed with the wind and snow as it drifted down.

GASP!

Geng Qin and the others sucked in a cold breath.

"Senior... Senior Brother Mo was killed?"

"He was an expert ranked 215th on the Human Venerable List! He... he couldn’t even block a single one of his opponent’s sword strikes?"

"Wait, I recognize him now. He’s Jiang Chen, the one who killed Bing Xiao..." Songg Yike’s eyes suddenly widened as he recognized Jiang Chen and exclaimed in shock.

"What?"

"Jiang Chen?"

Geng Qin and the others trembled in fear, their legs giving way. They fell to their knees and began kowtowing frantically, their foreheads hitting the ground with loud thuds. "We didn’t know it was you, Young Master Jiang! Mercy, please have mercy! We’ll never do it again..."

Jiang Chen’s gaze was ice-cold, without a trace of pity. "If I weren’t stronger than Mo Bai today, I would already be dead, thanks to you twisting the truth. You scum don’t deserve to live in this world!"

A sweep of his longsword.

Four heads flew high into the air, landing on the snowy ground.

Their eyes were filled with deep despair and regret, unable to rest in peace...