Chapter 235: One Punch

Chapter 235: One Punch

“Master, is something bothering you?” Ming Xingyun asked, her large doe eyes staring at Tianyi innocently.

Tianyi didn’t answer his disciple and just looked around. His eyes trailed the garden of the side palace he had been allocated. Moments earlier, he had been advising Ming Xingyun’s cultivation of the Nine-Five Scripture but stopped midway when he felt a chilling sensation creeping up his spine.

Tears glimmered at the edge of Ming Xingyun’s eyes as she looked down. “Is it because I’m too stupid? You gave me the Nine-Five Scripture, but I can’t cultivate it at all. I’m sorry. Please don’t leave me.”

“Wait, that’s not it, Xingyun,” Tianyi quickly said. “The Nine-Five Scripture is not suited for you, but you can cultivate to build a good foundation.”

He also had a headache concerning Ming Xingyun’s awkward situation. Almost all the cultivation method Tianyi knew was either too low-level or could not easily be passed on without his disciple becoming a member of the Buzhou Immortal Sect. In his plans, they would’ve already returned to the sect, but the soul cultivator who possessed his Emperor-Uncle’s soul put a stop to that.

Tianyi didn’t explain the grave situation to Ming Xingyun or Yayun. One was still a qi gathering pupil, and the other was a mortal with the barest qualifications to cultivate. Telling either of them will only worry them without any real benefits.

Ming Xingyun stopped her tears as she felt Tianyi’s hand on her hand. She looked at Tianyi’s gentle expression.

“If you really want to cultivate, I can teach you the Earth Book of the Five Element Method now, but you have to make sure not to break through in a hurry. Unlike the one back at the sect, this is a simplified version.” Tianyi comforted. “So don’t cry anymore, okay?”

“Mm!” Ming Xingyun nodded and quickly wiped her unshed tears using the sleeves of her robe. The little girl’s eyes then drifted towards Tianyi’s other hand that was hanging on his side. “Master, what’s that?”

“What’s what?” Tianyi asked as he stared at where Ming Xingyun was pointed. His face when he saw what was hanging off his hand. It was a spider-like beast with a spherical crystal abdomen that seemed to contain the starry sky within.

“SPIDER!” Tianyi screamed and flung his arm as hard and fast as he could.

Daoyi’s spiritual beast, Shuijing, was a Dreamsilk Weaver Beast, a rare beast only mentioned in the Buzhou Immortal Sect’s records. Despite its tiny size, just enough to fill out a palm, Shuijing was capable of tearing a soul nourishing grandmaster apart with her legs.

However, Tianyi was special. His very existence could be called a singularity, an anomaly among anomalies. His very body was a whole cosmos in the process of compression, and any careless strikes would result in disaster. Strikes, say like flinging his arm as fast as he can.

BAAAAAAMMMMMM!!!!!!!

The aftershocks from the wind pressure of Tianyi’s swipe could not be described in any other way than calamitous. It appeared as if someone had compressed a tornado into a single sword slash and swung it. The tiles were uprooted, and there was a long fissure starting near Tianyi and stretching as far as the eye could see.

It was as if there was an invisible line from where Tianyi stood. Anything that blocked the way of his swing was crushed, leaving nothing in its wake. From the palace walls, the artificial mountains in the imperial garden, and even the clouds seemed to have sliced in two.

What did Tianyi say in light of his destruction? “Whoops...”

The disaster caused by Tianyi could not be hidden at all. You’d have to be locked in an isolation chamber not to notice the damage Tianyi caused. Thankfully, the barrier Ba Shifang had set up beforehand mitigated the damage somewhat, but not all of it.

Tianyi had to pacify the eunuch who was sent to inquire as to what exactly occurred. Tianyi only said that he was practicing a technique that went out of control and didn’t say anything else. The eunuch could only be satisfied with that response, not that he dared to condemn Tianyi in any way and left.

Thankfully, Ming Yayun was on the other side of Tianyi’s swing, so aside from a few scratches from the turbulence, she was fine. Ming Xingyun was much the same. Although she was much closer to Tianyi, she was not in the direct line of effect in addition to her Condensed Mountain Physique, she also only had a few scratches.

After Ba Shifang erected a new formation, Tianyi scratched his head as he saw the half-ruined palace. His group of four didn’t need a whole palace, so what was left was sufficient for Tianyi and them to live in, but he was frowning because of another matter. “Ah, I probably killed a few people accidentally.”

Tianyi wasn’t a person who killed for no reason. Even those he wanted to kill underwent a strict round of elimination before he decided to take action. Generally, the requirements were whether his targets wanted to kill or harm those close to him. So, he was quite a bit discomforted by the number of deaths by his hands earlier.

The deaths of the innocent people only weighed a little bit on Tianyi’s mind. After all, the people who died had little to no relationship to him. What stunned Tianyi was the realization of how much power he held within his body. Just a little mishap at the wrong place could cause an extinction event.

Okay, so that was an exaggeration, but the point still stands. Any casual mishaps from Tianyi could kill thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, at the wrong place.

Unknown to Tianyi, the possessed Xi Emperor, Jiang Chunye, and Hun Jusang were meticulously monitoring him due to his previous actions. They couldn’t help but ponder the meaning of Tianyi’s attack. Was it a probe or something else? If so, why now of all times? Was this attack the start of something?

“I didn’t expect you to react like ‘that,’”

“Daoyi?” Tianyi instantly recognized Daoyi’s distinctive voice. In his pondering, he had forgotten that the spider was Daoyi’s spiritual beast. He looked towards the voice and instantly froze.

“Don’t worry about it. In terms of physique, I’m afraid I’m even stronger than most true immortals. I can run away,” Tianyi said as he patted his chest.

“Run away? On your legs?” Daoyi said, skeptically lacing her words.

“Well, I also have other trump cards,” Tianyi said as he pointed at his forehead where the red mark was.

Daoyi sunk into silence before nodding. “If you’re sure. We still have to contact Senior Jiang to coordinate.”

Her words revealed the distance she held towards the Jiang Family. She did not view them as her family much, if at all.

“Can’t believe I’m doing this,” Tianyi said as he walked out of the side palace allocated to him. Next to him, there was a tiny sphere, and inside the sphere were nine floating islands.

Space became a significant problem for the immortal boat. There were simply too many people to fit on his immortal boat, the one that could use immortal stones to exhibit the speed of an immortal monarch. Thankfully, Daoyi solved that problem or, at least, pointed towards a solution.

Tianyi couldn’t control the Vast Heaven Islands, but what about Dandan? After all, Dandan shared similar origins to Tianyi and could possibly control the Vast Heaven Islands if he possessed the Realm Merge innate ability as well.

When Dandan did indeed possess Realm Merge and could control the Vast Heaven Islands through that, Tianyi was struck speechless. He felt like a bride, who had diligently sewn her bridal gowns, only for someone else to wear it.

‘Forget it, at least someone can use it now, and it won’t be collecting dust in the spatial ring,’ Tianyi had thought.

But this wasn’t caused Tianyi to say those earlier words. He had already collected the Jiang Family into the Vast Heaven Islands, and Jiang Ziya was already cooperating with Daoyi to gather all the imperial family. No, what caused Tianyi to say those words was the fact that Shuijing was hiding in his robes!

He had vehemently rejected the idea, arguing that Shuijing should hide in the Vast Heaven Islands, but Daoyi rejected his rejection. Shuijing was Daoyi’s medium linking her to Tianyi’s extended family that were and were not controlled by soul leaches. If Shuijing were inside the Vast Heaven Islands, then Daoyi would not be able to control them. Thus Tianyi had to cope with a giant-ass spider in his clothes.

Because Shuijing was hiding in his clothes, Tianyi’s expression was extremely stiff, making him seem severe...or constipated, but he preferred the former.

“Stop!” As Tianyi entered the core of the imperial palace, the Immortal Dragon Palace, two guards armed with copper armor barred his way. It took a moment for them to recognize Tianyi, but their expression only turned more severe. One of them was even hostile. “Even if you’re Sword Empress Xi’s son, you cannot enter here. If you walk forward one more step, don’t blame us for punishing you!”

Tianyi stopped and partially opened the Truth-Seeking Eye. The red dot turned golden while two wisps of flame remained red. Once the eye was opened, Tianyi could detect the cultivation of the two guards. ‘I can sense that their soul is slowly disintegrating. They must be earth immortals. Daoyi was right. There are hidden experts above the Unity Realm.’

The guard, with the hostile expression, sneered. “That’s right, be a good little boy and go away.”

The corners of Tianyi’s lips twitched. ‘Do you think I stopped because I was scared of you two?’

Tianyi took another step and only a single step. It was a blatant provocation to the two guards. “Boy, do you know what you’re doing?”

“What, that I’m provoking two false immortals?” Tianyi asked. His expression was leisurely, and he even narrowed his eyes as if he was enjoying a world-class massage.

Both of the two guards’ expressions turned frosty. Earth immortal hated being called false immortals because it reminded them that they failed the Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribulation and were forever without hope of immortality. An earth immortal’s soul slowly dissipated and was absorbed by the world, preventing them from entering the cycle of reincarnation.

“Hmpf, do you think that you can take us on just because you mastered that technique?” The hostile guard said. He had linked Tianyi’s confidence to Tianyi’s blunder and the excuse given.

Tianyi just wagged his finger. “Come and find out.”

“You asked for it. After I’m done with you, the Sword Empress won’t even find a remnant soul!” The hostile guard shouted and then opened his mouth as wide as possible.

Under Tianyi’s disgusted eyes, he inserted his hand into his throat and pulled out a bronze saber. The saber gleamed with saber intent, each ray seemingly wanting to split everything it came in contact with. “Before you die, I’ll illuminate you as to who it was that killed you! Listen well, with a saber in hand. I crushed all my rivals and geniuses of my generation. Those defeated by me call me Sabercrusher!”

“Still the words of a failed mutt,” Tianyi replied with a sneer.

Earth Immortal Sabercrusher’s eyes filled with killing intent. He didn’t say any more meaningless words and condensed all the saber intent on the edge of his bronze saber. With a leap, he charged at Tianyi, saber in midswing.

Tianyi also reared his fist back. He didn’t plan on unsheathing his sword just yet. For now, he wanted to test the durability of his physical body, so he planned to meet Sabercrusher’s attack head-on. Despite this, he didn’t lower his guard, and his fully opened third eye was analyzing Sabercrusher’s attack nonstop.

“Hah!” Tianyi shouted as he released a punch. It was just a simple punch, but it was a perfect punch using all the force in Tianyi’s body. The brute force and speed behind it could not be estimated. Even before clashing against the saber, a sonic boom was unleashed from the sheer speed.

BOOOOMMM!

Tianyi’s eyes widened in shock as he witnessed the aftermath of his attack. Sabercrusher’s saber was broken in half, and his right half completely disappeared, revealing his leaking entrails and bone whites. Blood spurted out of his mouth as his expression was a near copy of Tianyi’s, but for different reasons.