Strongest War Emperor

Helian Qingshan let out a wicked laugh. "I don’t know if the Feather Wood Race can suppress Supreme Yin Qi; I’ve never heard of such a thing. However... the Feather Wood Race are plant-based lifeforms in human form—they’re nature’s elves. The possibility of them possessing such an Exotic Treasure is extremely high. Compared to these rustic villagers, the thing suppressing the Supreme Yin Qi is far more likely to be on this Feather Wood Race woman."

Shangguan Yunmeng frowned, her gaze sweeping over the other factions watching from the perimeter. She lowered her voice and said, "But there are people from the Imperial Dragon Sect nearby. If we kill these dozens of villagers and the Imperial Dragon Sect comes looking for trouble, it might get a little..."

Helian Qingshan scoffed. "Yunmeng, this isn’t like you. So what if it’s the Imperial Dragon Sect? My White Bone Hall is one of the two titans of the Celestial Defying Demon Realm. Are you telling me we should be afraid of them? Even if this is their territory, do we need their permission to kill a few people?"

"Alright, alright, don’t look at me like that. I, Helian Qingshan, always plan before I act; I’m not one to be reckless. Didn’t you see me throw the people in that mountain village to those other factions? Even if the Imperial Dragon Sect really comes sniffing around, we can just use them as scapegoats. A few words and it’ll all be taken care of. What’s there to worry about?"

"Besides, these villagers colluded with the Feather Wood Race, harboring an Alien Race. For the sake of the Human Race, the White Bone Hall killing them is a great service! They should be treating me, Helian Qingshan, as a great hero! Hahahaha!"

The moment Helian Qingshan finished speaking, a voice suddenly echoed from the jungle. "Are you Helian Qingshan?"

"Who’s there!"

The auras of the fifty-odd experts from the White Bone Hall surged as their Divine Thoughts instantly locked onto the source of the voice.

As the Grand Commander, Shangguan Yunmeng’s gaze turned frigid, her Killing Intent soaring. The blood-red Armor she wore shimmered, actually emitting a crimson mist that looked like spraying blood.

The Celestial Defying Demon Realm was a vast region where Demon Martial Artists gathered.

To survive in a place like this, one needed not only immense strength but also the cunning of a fox and the ferocity of a Wild Beast.

For the White Bone Hall to become one of the two titans of this region was a testament to its formidable power.

Every single person here, even the Young Hall Master who might seem pampered to outsiders, was born in blood and raised in slaughter.

They could smell the scent of danger.

And as their leader, Shangguan Yunmeng’s perception of such crises was even more acute.

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, a black-clad youth carrying a Single Saber on his back and a little girl in his arms slowly walked out of the woods.

"Holy crap, it’s that kid!" Ling Shaoyi, the Vice Leader of the Jifeng Mercenary Corps, cried out in shock from the crowd of onlookers.

"Damn it, that kid is like a ghost that won’t go away... Did he actually manage to escape? All those Demon Beasts couldn’t finish him off?"

"Well, he didn’t have to protect anyone else, and he has a Flying Spiritual Artifact. It’s not surprising he got away."

"But he didn’t bring that Bone Demon of his. Why is he carrying a little girl instead? And he actually dares to approach the White Bone Hall? Does he have a death wish?"

"That damn bastard left us to die. It’d serve him right if the White Bone Hall slaughtered him!"

Like Ling Shaoyi, the members of the Jifeng Mercenary Corps still harbored resentment towards Shen Lang.

Seeing him suddenly appear and act hostile towards the White Bone Hall, they all began to feel a sense of schadenfreude.

Even if he had a powerful Bone Demon, the people from the Celestial Defying Demon Realm weren’t like those brainless Demon Beasts.

Moreover, more than half of these fifty people were Xuanwu Realm powerhouses. This was a force that no ordinary person could hope to handle!

"Halt!" Shangguan Yunmeng pointed her serpentine Longsword at Shen Lang and snapped coldly, "One more step, and you die!"

Shangguan Yunmeng was extremely tense.

She didn’t even understand why.

She hadn’t been this nervous even on the day she was surrounded by dozens of powerhouses from the Celestial Demon Sect in the Celestial Defying Demon Realm.

Yet now, facing this one unfamiliar youth, she felt a bone-chilling cold spread through her entire body.

The youth was clearly not old, but his gaze was icy and profound, as if it could see through everything.

He exuded a terrifying Magic Power, and he showed no fear in the face of the combined Momentum of the White Bone Hall’s experts, his steps never faltering as he advanced, one step at a time.

His steps were light but incredibly steady, the distance of each stride almost exactly the same.

He seemed completely unaffected by the imposing presence of the White Bone Hall’s powerhouses, his gaze unnervingly calm.

"I’ll say it again. Stay right there and don’t move. Otherwise..."

Before Shangguan Yunmeng could finish, Shen Lang actually stopped.

He turned his head and asked, "Little Crystal, tell your big brother, which one of them killed Grandpa?"

Little Crystal’s lips were pressed tightly together. Her left arm was hooked around Shen Lang’s neck as she slowly raised her right hand and pointed at Helian Qingshan. "It was the one in the white clothes. He’s the one who killed Grandpa... He led these people and destroyed our home."

Shen Lang turned his head back and asked again, "Are you Helian Qingshan?"

Helian Qingshan smiled coldly. "That’s right, Helian Qingshan is my name. In the Celestial Defying Demon Realm, everyone knows it. Since you’re here, you should remember it well. When you’re reincarnated, pray that you never meet me again in your next life."

As he spoke, Helian Qingshan raised his right hand and made a grabbing motion toward Shen Lang from a distance.

A shrill howl suddenly rang out as five streams of inky-black, Gloomy and Terrifying qi shot out from Helian Qingshan’s five fingers, sweeping toward Shen Lang!

Within the black qi, one could vaguely see skulls tumbling about, a horrifyingly dreadful sight.

The attack of a Xuanwu Realm Fifth Heaven Demon Dao powerhouse was truly formidable.

With just that one casual move, a ghostly aura filled the area a hundred zhang in every direction, the air turning bone-chillingly cold!

The people from the watching factions cried out in alarm and, without a second thought, immediately retreated further back.

Almost at the same instant the five streams of black qi shot out, a small pagoda materialized in Helian Qingshan’s left hand. He thrust his hand forward, and the small pagoda soared into the air, seeming to cross space itself as it instantly appeared above Shen Lang’s head.

Countless Locking Chains made of rapidly spinning Wind Blades descended, instantly enveloping Shen Lang...

The very moment the dozens of Locking Chains fell, the five streams of black qi also reached Shen Lang, passing through the chains to shred his head!

At that very moment...

A brilliant golden light erupted from Shen Lang’s body. An incomparably powerful Buddha Light radiated from him, forcing everyone to instinctively turn their heads, unable to look directly at it.

"REEE!"

The five streams of black qi slammed into the golden barrier with a BANG, and shrill screams echoed from within them.

The five streams of black qi were instantly enveloped by the golden light, unable to escape.

They thrashed about madly like five giant black pythons, yet the more they struggled, the harder it was to break free.

In the blink of an eye, the roiling black qi was completely covered by the Buddha Light, then entirely refined and vanquished!

Not even a trace was left behind!

"The White Bone Hall of the Celestial Defying Demon Realm, is it?"

Shen Lang stood trapped within the cage of Locking Chains, yet facing Helian Qingshan’s bizarre attack, he hadn’t moved a muscle, and his gaze remained as calm as before.

"You slaughtered innocent villagers like pigs and dogs. Today, I will slaughter you like pigs and dogs."

He rubbed his nose, then pointed at the group from the White Bone Hall and said grimly, "Every single one of you here today will die!"

"Haha, what an arrogant brat! You think you can be so insolent just because you have a treasure from the Buddhist Sect? If you knew what kind of existence the White Bone Hall is, you wouldn’t dare say such things even if you had a hundred times the nerve!"

Helian Qingshan laughed in fury, the corners of his eyes twitching uncontrollably.

Killing Intent surged in his eyes. He no longer just wanted to kill Shen Lang; he wanted to perform Soul Extraction and Refining on him for several hundred years!

Only by performing Soul Extraction and Refining on this person for centuries could he possibly quell the hatred in his heart!

As the most talented genius among the three sons of the White Bone Hall’s Hall Master, renowned throughout the Celestial Defying Demon Realm and known as a killing machine...

He had never heard such arrogant words!

No one had ever dared to be so insolent as to declare they would kill them all, right in front of so many White Bone Hall powerhouses, right in front of him!

Those were words he had only ever said to others!

A brat who still reeked of his mother’s milk, a nobody who came out of nowhere, had just used a tone so calm it drove him mad to say that all of them... were going to die.

This feeling of humiliation was more unbearable than having his woman stolen!

It was so unbearable it almost drove him insane!

But while Helian Qingshan was mad with rage, wanting to tear the boy before him to shreds, Shangguan Yunmeng, whose Cultivation and experience far surpassed his, did not dare to feel the same...

When Shen Lang had walked out of the woods earlier, Shangguan Yunmeng had sensed an indescribable aura of danger.

It was an intuition she had honed by crawling back from the brink of death countless times!

This intuition defied logic; it was simply a feeling.

And now, Helian Qingshan had brought out the Demon-Trapping Pagoda and trapped their opponent in an instant without any resistance... This should have been the moment for Shangguan Yunmeng to breathe a huge sigh of relief, but instead, she grew even more tense!

That earlier sense of crisis was intensifying.

The "Demon-Trapping Pagoda" was a Third Grade Profound Artifact. Even she, Shangguan Yunmeng, would find it difficult to escape if trapped inside.

But her opponent hadn’t even blinked. He clearly didn’t give a damn about the Demon-Trapping Pagoda!

Anyone who dared to act this way was either an idiot or possessed immense confidence!

This youth with the profound, bone-chilling gaze was clearly not an idiot...

And that kind of confidence could only come from incomparably immense strength!

At this moment, Shangguan Yunmeng felt she had never been so close to death.

She was the only one who believed that what Shen Lang had just said... was not a joke!

"Everyone, listen to my command! Protect the Young Hall Master!" Shangguan Yunmeng had never been so nervous.

An unspeakable fear coiled around her heart, turning her body cold and her face pale. Even the sound of her own shout... seemed somewhat unfamiliar to the other members of the White Bone Hall.

However, just as Shangguan Yunmeng shouted her command, before anyone could act, the Young Hall Master Helian Qingshan, standing beside her, let out a cold snort and said indifferently, "Kill him. And the little girl."

SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!

Eight figures shot forward, surrounding the cage formed by the Wind Blade Chains with astonishing speed!

"You!" Shangguan Yunmeng was so furious she almost blacked out.

’Has he still not sensed the danger at a time like this? He still wants to kill him? He’s still acting like a damn fool and posturing here? This is the time to send people to cover our retreat and scatter immediately!’