Chapter 0163

Chapter 163: From Now On, I Will Stand in the Sky!

Boom! The array ran with a terrible roar. Boundless light surged up and lit the stars of the All Heavens, bright to the extreme. The rolling mountains seemed to stretch without end, rippling like waves, each ripple carrying hidden power.

The All Heavens Star Array was an eighth level Array Arts formation. At full power it could wound a Samsara Realm. But with Emperor Realm spirit and the Right of Dominion boosting him, the situation was very different.

A Supreme Elder, afraid that Zhou Tong would trigger the baleful seeds, gripped a control token and stirred up a rain of stars: “Die, brat!” Killing intent filled the sky as he tried to erase Zhou Tong.

With a pop, flames of terror burst inside the elder’s mind. Reversal and chaos baleful qi were too much even for a Half Saint. He screamed as he fell from the sky.

People cried out in shock: “Supreme Elder!” They could do nothing.

Zhou Tong spread terrifying mental power that covered a hundred miles around. He said with a snap: “Hand it over.” All the control tokens shattered at once. Authority over the array shifted into his palm.

He strode through the air and called the move: “East Wind Looses a Thousand Blossoms at Night!” A rainbow of light ran through heaven and earth as if an emperor were traveling, and even the sun, moon, and stars had to revolve around him.

He followed with: “Blown even harder, stars fall like rain.” The stars exploded. Endless light poured down and bombarded that Supreme Elder. The elder stared in terror, unable to resist, and was killed in an instant, leaving only broken bones.

The onlookers finally understood: a Half Saint had died, killed by baleful qi and by their own array. A cold fear ran through them. Zhou Tong looked like the god of death. If he could kill even that level, did he now hold all their lives in his hand?

Someone dared to ask: “What do you want?” Zhou Tong opened and closed his hand: “To kill you all. Any objections?” The ground split with a roar. Giant cracks spread and ripped Jade Purity Sect apart. Halls collapsed, towers fell to dust, and the place no longer looked like a grand upper sect. It was worse than a refugee camp.

Zhou Tong’s chest rose and fell. Calling such power drained him fast, and even he felt it was heavy to bear. He said coldly: “You should be glad. If I didn’t have urgent business, I would make you pay a lot more today.”

He had clear goals. First, he would take away the disciples and elders who stood with him. Second, he would take the sect’s three earth veins. As for the rest, he could come back next time.

He pressed his fingers together and pointed down: “Rise.” The array’s power gathered into a giant hand that reached into the earth and tore through it.

Bang, bang, bang. The hand shattered, and three pale blue dragons burst from the deep. Zhou Tong bound them at once and made them coil around him. They were the earth veins.

Wu Zhan’s eyes went blood red at the sight. Of all the things he could endure, this he could not. Zhou Tong was stealing Jade Purity Sect’s fate itself. It was like cutting their flesh and letting their blood. It was banditry at its worst.

He roared as he flew up: “Brat, put down our earth veins!” Zhou Tong mocked him: “You calamity ridden old waste, you’re like a late autumn grasshopper on its last legs. Instead of preparing your coffin, why are you still jumping around?”

He raised his hand and called: “All Heavens Star Handprint!” One palm came down. Wu Zhan could not move forward a single step and was slapped into a mountain. The peak exploded and dust billowed.

Zhou Tong was still not satisfied. He slashed again: “Sixfold World Breaking Sword, Metal: Severance.” A razor aura fell from the sky and split the earth in two. Wu Zhan’s scream rang out. Blood of a Half Saint shot out, mixed with the breath of calamity. It made people shiver.

With the Sect Master crushed, who could stop him?

A trembling Elder tried to threaten him: “Keep this up and we will report you to the Enforcer. You’ll pay for this.” Zhou Tong flicked his finger and burst the man into scraps. He said coldly: “Old geezer, you dare play the thief crying thief. I am not that gentle Enforcer. I can judge you in less than a second.”

Another voice shouted: “I advise you to stop and look who we have.” Someone had grabbed his weak spot.

In a flash, the disciples who sided with Zhou Tong, led by Immortal Maiden White Crane, were all restrained and held as hostages by Jade Purity Sect to use against him.

A captor yelled: “Be smart and come down to accept punishment. Otherwise, we will kill one person every five seconds.”

Zhou Tong’s eyes went cold as he whispered: “Balance of Life and Death.” Before a blink could pass, the speaker became ash. Zhou Tong said lightly: “I don’t even need five seconds to kill all of you. Try getting near them again.” The hostage takers jerked back as if shocked by lightning.

One of the remaining three Supreme Elders tried to make peace: “We should sit down and talk. This won’t solve anything. With the array, you can leave easily, but the people you care about would have to stay. You don’t want them to suffer, do you?” Before he could finish, Zhou Tong slammed him headfirst into the ground.

Zhou Tong scoffed: “Sit down and talk? Why didn’t you say that earlier?” He added: “Just because you can’t do something doesn’t mean I can’t. Open your dog eyes and watch.”

The great array exploded and turned into pure energy that poured into the talisman in Zhou Tong’s hand. He called: “Talisman Eighty Eight: Spatial Shift.” The void split into countless cracks. From each crack a beam of light shot out and wrapped around each person he had chosen.

In the next moment, those people rose along the beams and left the ground of Jade Purity Sect. Zhou Tong was relocating them all.

An Elder below shouted in anger and despair: “You dare? Doing something so domineering, aren’t you afraid that the gods will punish you?”

Zhou Tong laughed and looked down: “Foolish and low old geezer, in this world no one starts at the top, not even gods. But the empty throne of the heavens is about to stop being empty. From now on, I will stand in the sky.”