Chapter 158: This Night, A Deity Descended

Inside the villa in Jiangnan, Ouyang Yuluo was filled with deep anxiety.

"Miss Gu, will Mr. Ling be able to rescue my younger brother?"

Gu Mingyan smiled calmly.

"Rest assured. With him taking charge, even if your brother were dead, he could bring him back to life."

Mu Yiren asked, somewhat doubtfully:

"Is the opponent extremely powerful?"

Gu Mingyan lit a cigarette, narrowed her eyes, and maintained an indifferent expression.

"Not particularly. As for the Absolute God Palace, they probably have around one hundred and twenty thousand troops. Factor in all those miscellaneous sects and factions, and three to four hundred thousand troops is a safe estimate!"

"What? How can there be so many?"

Mu Yiren was struck with terror and her expression drastically changed.

Ouyang Yuluo's face also turned pale as death.

"With so many people, can Mr. Ling possibly defeat them?"

Gu Mingyan smiled faintly, exhaling a plume of smoke with indescribable elegance and confidence.

"Instead of asking whether he can defeat them, you should ask whether there are enough of them for him to slaughter to his heart's content!"

...

On the mountain in Jiangnan, Ouyang Xiaobai had completely lost his combat capability, and the Absolute God Palace had secured ultimate victory!

"Young Master Guo, Ouyang Xiaobai is now entirely at your disposal."

"Kill him, and the prestige of both yourself and the Absolute God Palace will reach new heights! Our influence in the Hegemony of the Hundred Sects will grow even greater! Hahaha..."

The crowd laughed triumphantly, and Guo Quan could not help the triumphant curl of his lips.

He, Guo Quan, was finally going to make his name resound throughout the martial world!

By killing Ouyang Xiaobai and eliminating one of the Four Young Masters of the Martial World, who would ever dare say again that the Young Master of the Absolute God Palace was inferior to the Four Young Masters?

If not for the sake of maintaining his poise in front of so many people, he would have already burst into roaring laughter!

Taking a sharp saber from the hands of an elder beside him, Guo Quan slowly descended before Ouyang Xiaobai.

He smiled savagely.

"Who would have thought that the proud successor of the Saber Emperor would be executed by my hand! And even less could I imagine that you would die beneath the blade! Hahahaha... I must say, this is truly ironic!"

Ouyang Xiaobai clenched his teeth.

"To the victor go the spoils, and to the vanquished go the captives. Why waste your breath on so much nonsense?"

Guo Quan's expression turned slightly chilly.

"Humph, death is at your doorstep, yet you still dare to be defiant! You are courting death!"

With those words, he raised his hand and lifted the saber high into the air!

Ouyang Xiaobai seemed to resign himself to his fate and let out a sigh.

"Elder sister, I am sorry, I can no longer protect you!"

Just at the moment when the blade was about to fall, suddenly, a streak of lightning descended from the heavens, striking precisely and squarely upon the blade in Guo Quan's hand.

"Bang."

In the mere span of a thunderbolt, the saber in Guo Quan's grasp was shattered into countless fragments.

"Who goes there?"

Everyone turned their heads in unison, fixing their gazes upon the clouds, their expressions instantly tightening.

"Ling Xiao! It's actually you!"

Guo Quan's expression turned unsightly in an instant.

Ouyang Xiaobai wore a complicated expression.

"Young Master Ling, what is the meaning of this...?"

Ling Xiao replied with an indifferent expression:

"Don't misunderstand. I merely struck a deal with your sister, which is why I came to rescue you!"

Ouyang Xiaobai was startled, and his expression instantly darkened.

"What did you do to my sister?"

"What are you panicking about? She is fine! I, Ling Xiao, am not that kind of despicable villain."

Ouyang Xiaobai looked somewhat awkward. He had foolishly assumed that Ling Xiao had done something unspeakable or disgraceful to his sister just moments ago!

He gave two light coughs and said:

"My apologies."

Standing between the two of them, Guo Quan's expression had turned ashen to the extreme.

"You two bastards, do not ignore me!"

Ling Xiao merely glanced at him indifferently, and that look of utter contempt made Guo Quan so furious he nearly vomited blood.

"Ling Xiao, why have you come to ruin the good matters of the Absolute God Palace? The Absolute God Palace has never offended you, has it?"

Ling Xiao stood with his hands clasped behind his back.

"I said before, his sister has paid the price."

"How much money did she give you? I will pay you double—no, ten times!"

"Oh~."

Ling Xiao smiled faintly, half-mocking:

"Too bad, you cannot afford it."

Guo Quan gritted his teeth and said:

"Ling Xiao, it seems you are determined to muddy these murky waters? In that case, there is no need for further idle talk. Summon your troops and let us see whether the Absolute God Palace is stronger or your Ghost Valley is superior!"

Ling Xiao shrugged.

"There is no need for such trouble. I didn't bring anyone with me."

"You didn't bring anyone?"

A moment of absolute silence hung in the air, instantly followed by an eruption of violent, uproarious laughter!

Laughter echoed across the mountains and plains, leaving even Ouyang Xiaobai dumbfounded.

If you brought no one, how the hell did you come to rescue me? There are nearly four hundred thousand martial artists here, not four hundred thousand ordinary mortals!

After laughing heartily for quite a while, Guo Quan and the others nearly choked on their breath before gradually reigning in their mirth.

"Ling Xiao, have you lost your mind? Huh? If you had arrived with the army of the Ghost Valley to provide reinforcement, I might actually have believed you came to save someone! But you actually came entirely by yourself—are you here to play the fool?"

"Indeed, we have an army of four hundred thousand. Do you take us for thin air? To come here without a single soul accompanying you—you are utterly ridiculous beyond belief!"

Even Ouyang Xiaobai himself could not help but shake his head and sigh softly:

"Young Master Ling, you shouldn't have bothered about me. Just leave quickly. They cannot stop you right now. Once you get out safely, please take good care of her for me—I beg of you! Your immense kindness, Xiaobai will repay in the next life!"

Ling Xiao lit a cigarette, his expression indifferent.

"Go take care of her yourself. I am only responsible for getting you out of here completely unscathed!"

Ouyang Xiaobai was so infuriated that he almost coughed up a mouthful of old blood!

I told you to leave, why must you be so obstinate? Do you really think a single person can resist an army of four hundred thousand? Do you think you are an immortal deity?

Guo Quan's gaze turned icy.

"It seems tonight you are truly bent on sending yourself to your death! Since that is the case, do not blame me for being merciless! As it happens, tonight I will eliminate both the successor of the Saber Emperor and the successor of the Ghost Valley in one stroke! Of the Four Young Masters of the Martial World, I will destroy two. In the entire martial realm, who would ever dare disobey me? Take him down!"

At his command, countless martial experts around him charged forward rapidly.

Swish, swish, swish... figure after figure rushed upward like flying arrows, heading straight for the solitary figure of Ling Xiao.

Ling Xiao flicked the ash from his cigarette, exhaled a cloud of smoke, and his eyes remained entirely without a ripple.

"Although you are all a bunch of trash, consider this... a little warmup to stretch my limbs."

With that, he placed the cigarette back between his lips and stamped his foot down. In that very instant, several raging dragons of lightning tore through the void, crashing down with ferocious intensity. In the blink of an eye, the foremost thousand men were reduced to flying dust right on the spot!

A single move! Annihilating a thousand men instantly!

"What?"

"How is this possible?"

Everyone below was struck dumb with horror, their jaws dropping to the ground!

Mind you, those were one thousand martial artists! Not a thousand chickens, nor a thousand ducks!

Even Ouyang Xiaobai, who was also one of the Four Young Masters of the Martial World and stood at the fifth tier of the Martial Sovereign realm, could only obliterate a few dozen—at most a hundred—with a single strike! Yet Ling Xiao had slaughtered over ten times the number Ouyang Xiaobai could manage in one go!

And the most fatal part was that he had merely stomped his foot casually!

"Good heavens, is this fellow human, or is he a god?"