166: Fourth Generation: Overlord (Sixty-two)

High in the sky, the roar of energy collisions and the sharp whistle of blades cutting through the air were incessant!

Light of three different colors crazily intertwined and exploded!

The entire sky seemed as if it were about to be torn apart!

Xu Yuan's expression was grave. He pushed the Purple Zenith Imperial Fate Art to its limit, his entire body radiating brilliant purple-gold light. It was tightly connected to the National Fortune canopy of the Great Shang army formation below. The Imperial Mountain and River Shield flickered in and out of existence, struggling to resist the desperate, fierce attacks from the front and the ubiquitous, fatal harassment from the sides.

His figure constantly flickered and moved under the two men's frantic attacks. It looked precarious, yet every time he thrillingly avoided or blocked the attacks. Several new wounds had even appeared on his Black Armor, and his Aura had become slightly disordered.

Although Xu Yuan had condensed the rare Perfect Dao Foundation, the "Purple Extremity Vast Heaven Foundation," and his Spiritual Qi was far purer and more vigorous than others of the same level, he was, after all, only at the Mid-Foundation Establishment Stage, and his Foundation accumulation was still shallow.

At this moment, facing the desperate siege of two Foundation Establishment Perfection powerhouses, even with the support of the massive Evil Qi of the one-hundred-thousand-strong army and the Dynasty's National Fortune, the burden on him was immense!

The Spiritual Qi within his body was being consumed rapidly like water from an opened sluice gate, and his Meridians even felt a faint, swelling pain.

Every time the Imperial Mountain and River Shield was condensed, it required a massive amount of Spiritual Qi and mental effort to trigger and harmonize the National Fortune.

If not for the infinite wonders of the Purple Extremity Vast Heaven Foundation, which had brought his control over Spiritual Qi to the Transcendent Realm, he would have likely been unable to hold on long ago!

"Hahaha! He's almost unable to hold on!" Boljin appeared like a mad demon, coughing up blood, but still crazily waving his saber in a fierce attack. He could clearly feel Xu Yuan's Aura gradually weakening, and his defense was not as flawless as before. "Put in more effort! Exhaust him to death!"

In the shadows, although Xietu was seriously injured and his movements were not as mysterious and unpredictable as before, every strike remained tricky and ruthless. The Blood-Drinking Dagger specifically targeted Xu Yuan's nodes where old strength had faded and new strength had not yet arisen, or where his Spiritual Qi was circulating, constantly exacerbating Xu Yuan's consumption and pressure.

Cold light flickered in his scarlet eyes, like the most patient hunter waiting for the moment his prey was completely exhausted.

The situation seemed to be tilting in favor of Boljin and Xietu!

However, Xu Yuan, who was at the center of the storm and appeared to be in imminent danger, had eyes that remained as cold as ice. His deep gaze constantly scanned the crazed Boljin and the ghostly, flickering Xietu.

He was indeed consuming a huge amount, but he was far from reaching the end of his rope!

The recovery speed of the Purple Extremity Vast Heaven Foundation was far beyond ordinary imagination. With every breath, he was crazily absorbing and refining Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and the dissipated power of Luck.

The "weakness" and "disorder" he displayed were three parts true, and seven parts... a deliberate disguise!

He was waiting for an opportunity!

An opportunity to break the deadlock, or even to decide the outcome in one strike!

And at this moment, Xu Yuan keenly sensed that this opportunity... was about to appear!

Boljin had been unable to win for a long time, and the impatience and madness in his heart grew stronger. Coupled with the backlash of secret techniques and worsening injuries, his attacks, while still fierce, lacked structure and were more chaotic. The flaws... were gradually enlarging!

On the other side, because of his serious injuries and the erosion of Imperial Qi, Xietu's hiding and movement trajectories were becoming clearer and clearer in Xu Yuan's perception, which was connected to the National Fortune!

It's now!

A sharp light suddenly burst from Xu Yuan's eyes!

The Aura he had been hiding suddenly erupted like a dormant volcano!

"It is this moment!"

But this time, what surged around his body was no longer that magnificent Imperial power, that brilliant purple-gold National Fortune Spiritual Qi!

A completely different, long-suppressed power, like a Vicious Beast breaking free from its shackles, suddenly awakened from the deepest part of his body and roared out!

Bloody! Domineering! Tragic!

It was as if it came from a boundless sea of blood battlefield, condensing the killing Evil Qi of mountains of corpses and seas of blood!

This power was incompatible with his current identity as a king, yet it seemed to fit him perfectly!

"Hum—!"

An illusory long saber, with a primitive shape and a dark red blade that seemed to be soaked in countless blood, appeared out of thin air from Xu Yuan's palm!

This was the fierce, bloody Saber Intent that Xu Yuan had honed in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood while fighting in the Elite Battle of the Southern Region when he was the Dao Child of the Overlord Blade Sect in his previous life, touching a trace of Golden Essence!

Although he had undergone Rebirth, this Saber Dao insight that went deep into his Soul had not disappeared, but had become his deepest hidden trump card, like the accumulation of saber force from his previous life!

Before this, when he went south to quell the chaos and destroyed the Xiao Family, the gathered blood-evil resentment was also used by Xu Yuan to nourish this saber!

At this moment, facing the seriously injured but still deadly Xietu, and facing the situation of his own rapidly depleting Spiritual Qi, Xu Yuan did not hesitate to use this strongest killing move!

Using the Purple Extreme Imperial Fortune as the Foundation, he drove this extremely fierce and domineering blood-evil Saber Intent!

"Slash!"

Xu Yuan gripped his right hand in the air and slashed forward violently!

That dark red blood-evil phantom saber let out a heart-shaking hum, tearing through the sky, carrying the tragic Aura of slaughtering all living things and cutting down everything, and slashed directly at Xietu, who had just struggled out of the blood-evil shock and had not yet had time to hide again!

This slash had no magnificence of National Fortune, no ruling dignity of Imperial Dao; it only had the purest, most extreme slaughter and destruction!

Wherever the blade passed, the space seemed to be stained dark red by the thick bloody Evil Qi, and even the howling black wind wailed and avoided it!

"What?!"

Xietu's scarlet pupils suddenly shrank to pinpricks!

As a top assassin of the Shadow Tower, he had been immersed in the Dao of slaughter his whole life, and his perception of Killing Intent and Evil Qi had long reached the Transcendent Realm.

The Killing Intent of ordinary Cultivators was as weak as candle fire in his eyes; even for those at the same Foundation Establishment Perfection level, their Killing Intent was mostly sharp, domineering, or insidious and treacherous.

But at this moment, the killing Aura rushing toward him from this bloody saber glow made him feel an unprecedented trembling from the depths of his Soul!

This was not a gap in quantity, but a gap in quality and status!

The degree of its purity and terror, the high status it contained, Xietu had only felt it on one person in his life—

That was the Shadow Tower's master, who was elusive and had already stepped into the Golden Core Path!

Only a Golden Core True Person, whose power essence began to touch the Laws of Heaven and Earth, could have such pure Killing Intent, bordering on the "Dao"!

"Golden Essence?! How is this possible?!" Xietu was terrified, as if a monstrous wave had been set off in his heart. "He is clearly only at the Mid-Foundation Establishment Stage! Even with the support of National Fortune, it is impossible for his power essence to undergo such a transformation!"

"Unless... unless this terrifying killing Saber Intent is something he possesses himself! It has nothing to do with National Fortune or the Realm of cultivation!"

This thought exploded like thunder in Xietu's mind, making him instantly cold all over!

He could not understand at all: how could a king who Cultivated the magnificent Imperial Dao and carried the Luck of a country—whose power source should be grand and majestic, ruling over all directions—simultaneously possess such an extreme, terrifying blood-evil killing Saber Intent that seemed to have crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood?!

These two types of power were simply incompatible!

If one were to practice both forcibly, it would inevitably lead to conflict in the Dao Foundation and Qi Deviation!

Unless...

Xietu stared fixedly at Xu Yuan, and a more terrifying, more absurd conjecture uncontrollably emerged:

Unless this seemingly young Shang King before him was not some benevolent and virtuous monarch at all!

That magnificent Imperial Dao might just be a tool and disguise he used to rule the country and gather Luck!

Deep in his bones, deep in his Soul, he was fundamentally... a peerless fierce person who believed in "I am the only one supreme," and "those who submit prosper, those who resist perish"!

An Overlord who attained the Dao through slaughter and ascended the Imperial throne by stepping on piles of bones!