Chapter 226 Jiang Lan has become one of the strongest people in the world. The Jade Emperor's ring will naturally break through the eighth realm.
The sky above the clan mansion was silent for a moment, and the collapsed clouds were scattered. Jiang Lan stood in the middle, his robes fluttering, his eyes bright and shining, and the mist around him was hazy. His face was blurred, as if he was standing on the top of the fairyland, overlooking billions of people.
"Meet Feng Jun."
The commander-in-chief of the Tianjian Division was shocked. Looking at Jiang Lan standing in front of him, he could not help but bow deeply with a very respectful attitude.
"Jiang Lan?"
“It’s you.”
The elder from the clan house's facial expression changed, and then he stared at him intently, with surprise, fear and disbelief in his eyes.
Although he had been in seclusion in the clan residence and did not ask about what was happening outside, how could he not recognize Jiang Lan, who was famous all over the world.
Moreover, he never expected that Jiang Lan only stretched out a palm from the palace and damaged the sword that had cost him his life.
To what extent has this boy's cultivation strength reached?
At this moment, the entire imperial capital was in shock and uproar. Ever since Jiang Lan was listed as the Holy Son of Taiyi Sect, he has not appeared in the imperial capital.
Various rumors about him spread everywhere, causing various major earthquakes.
However, there are very few people who have actually witnessed him in action and know his current strength and cultivation.
However, his reputation in the imperial capital back then was not good. I wonder how many girls from decent families still grit their teeth in shame and anger when they mention him today.
Now seeing him appear in the imperial capital again, defeating the influential figure of the clan affairs office with a single palm strike, countless people were shocked and incredulous, feeling that this was just a fairy tale.
In some mansions' boudoirs, many women's eyes were still dazed and incredulous. It was hard to connect the now otherworldly Jiang Lan, who seemed like a banished immortal, with the dissolute second-generation rich kid back then.
“Is this his true strength?”
Inside the Zhao residence, Zhao Dieyi pursed her red lips tightly, her eyes were almost dull, and finally the corners of her mouth were filled with bitterness.
"Why can't it be me?" Jiang Lan stood quietly in the void with his hands behind his back, his eyes shining brightly, very extraordinary.
"As the saying goes, a father will have a son. Jiang Lintian has been covering up for you all these years, right?"
The elder from the clan house had cold eyes and blood surging from his cheekbones. A long blood-red dragon penetrated between heaven and earth and covered him. Faintly, there seemed to be the shadow of a real dragon falling from the sky and merging into his body.
His aura rose again, and his originally old body seemed even taller, giving people a terrifying sense of oppression as majestic as a mountain.
"So what if it is? So what if it isn't?"
"If you disobey the Holy Order, no one can save you today."
Jiang Lan uttered a faint laugh and slowly extended a hand. His movements were not fast and in the eyes of the world, they even seemed very casual. However, in the eyes of the clan elder from the clan house, the scene changed, as if the sky had collapsed and was falling down in front of him.
"Young man, don't humiliate me."
He roared angrily, and his body rose up like a mountain. He swung his big hands like a palm-leaf fan into fists, and the power of heaven and earth converged. He shone brightly, like a meteor, and struck away with a bang. To withstand Jiang Lan's palm, he had to be a person who had survived four heavenly tribulations. He was by no means comparable to ordinary powerful people.
In his perception, Jiang Lan was still at the seventh level of cultivation, and he didn't believe that Jiang Lan could really suppress him.
"Third brother, don't be careless. This boy is extremely powerful. You are no match for him."
At this time, another elder from the clan house took action. He stared at Jiang Lan with a sharp gaze, very solemn and not daring to be careless.
As he raised his old hand, the void split open, and a long red sword fell out and was held in his hand. As he drew the sword from the scabbard, a blood-red light flew out first, and then the light became vast and blazing, like a big sun emerging under his sword. The glow was dazzling and shocking, becoming bright red, enchanting and terrifying, and suddenly submerged half of the sky.
His strength was even greater than that of the clan elder just now. When he chopped with his sword, a red light covered the world, and it was so powerful that even ghosts and gods were scared away, and it had the power to split mountains and seas.
Not to mention the cultivators in the seventh realm, even an ordinary powerful person in the eighth realm would be cut in half by this sword.
He was very decisive and did not hold back at all. He came with a fierce murderous intent from the beginning, wanting to kill Jiang Lan with one blow.
"puff……"
The elder who took the first move didn't believe that Jiang Lan's strength was above his, but with a punch he tried to break the palm that Jiang Lan was slowly slapping at him.
The next moment, a surging shock force like a river rolling back came, as if it had collided with a towering and immortal sacred mountain. His arm exploded in an instant, and a blood mist dissipated in the sky, accompanied by white bone fragments. The scene was horrifying.
"ah……"
He screamed miserably, his face changed suddenly, and then his facial features turned pale and twisted in pain.
Realizing that something was wrong, he wanted to retreat, but the big hand that Jiang Lan stretched out showed no signs of stopping. It continued to fall towards him with a rumbling sound.
The sky and the earth became pitch black in an instant, as if an upside-down sky was covering them. Jiang Lan's palms at this moment became the four poles of the complete sky. The palm lines were clear, with endless lines interweaving in them, and they looked like a sky full of stars, shining with endless brilliance.
In comparison, the elder from the clan house was like a fly fluttering around in the air, with only trembling and fear left.
"Second brother, save me..."
He tried to shout and turned into a stream of light, trying to escape, but the huge hand behind him continued to extend, covering the sky, blocking the sun and the moon. It was so huge that it grabbed him directly.
"kill."
At this time, another elder's killing move also arrived. His sword energy was vast, filling every inch of the void, and he slashed towards Jiang Lan with an extremely sharp murderous intent, which made people's skin feel like it was about to crack and explode.
"Certainly."
Jiang Lan still had his other hand behind his back. Facing the endless red knife light that was drowning in front of his eyes, he just raised his eyelids and shouted, like chanting the mantra, like the ultimate truth of heaven and earth, the supreme wonderful sound, and the law of heaven in his mouth, judging everything.
The next moment, amidst everyone's stunned and shocked gazes, the power of heaven and earth rumbled, and endless divine chains of rules and order flew out from the invisible and unknown space and time, entwining themselves with the endless sword energy.
It seemed as if there was an ancient fairy palace in the sky, and a towering and boundless figure sat high above the nine heavens, shrouded in infinite light, overlooking trillions of universes and countless time and space.
"impossible……"
The elder from the clan who was about to kill him had a drastic change of expression, his eyes were filled with disbelief, and his voice trembled, "You are speaking the law of heaven?"
He reacted quickly and did not choose to attack again. He turned around and ran away, but chains of order appeared in the void and quickly wrapped around his hands and legs like a spider web, firmly fixing him in the void.
The blood-red sword that he had tightly grasped in his hand suddenly fell and was about to hit the ground.
Jiang Lan's expression remained the same, and he shouted again, "Go."
With a hiss, a blood-red glow bloomed, and the blood-red sky sword changed direction, from falling to flying, and turned into a glowing red light, which pierced through the chest of the elder in an instant, and went straight through. A terrible blood hole appeared, and blood gushed out like a fountain. The scene was horrifying.
As his eyes opened wide in disbelief, the blood-red sky sword flew over to him, and with a "whoosh" sound, the terrible sword energy spread out, tearing his body into pieces in an instant.
His soul, filled with fear and wrapped in divine light, was about to escape into the void, but the blood-colored sky sword, stained with his aura, chased after him and was completely out of his control.
Then, in the look of despair, he pierced through his eyebrows and destroyed his soul as well.
A person in the eighth realm who had survived at least four heavenly tribulations died in this way, and the sky was stained with blood.
Such a scene plunged the entire imperial capital into a daze and deathly silence. Countless people stared at it all in a daze, unable to believe it and feeling as if they were in a dream.
Many monks in the clan palace looked at the falling blood rain, and their eyes could not help but show a look of misery and despair.
"Second brother..."
The elder who had never taken any action from beginning to end had a look of grief and misery on his face.
The difference in strength between the three of them was not that big. Even if he was strong, he was not that strong. Facing such a terrifying Jiang Lan, there was no possibility for him to contend with him.
It was not until this moment that he clearly realized how terrifying Jiang Lan's strength was.
Even Prime Minister Jiang Lintian would probably be surpassed by him soon. Killing an eighth-level powerful being so cleanly and efficiently has already made him one of the strongest men in the world.
The most terrifying thing is that Jiang Lan’s current cultivation level is not even at the eighth level.
"Is the future Heavenly Emperor so invincible and incredible..."
The elder from the clan house smiled bitterly and gave up resisting.
"Second brother..."
Another elder who was held in the giant hand looked at the blood mist in the sky with only despair and trembling in his eyes. His face quickly turned pale and he knew he was powerless to resist.
"Why do you insist on seeking death? If you surrender, and let the Heavenly Guards conduct a thorough investigation, perhaps you can have a chance to enjoy your old age and expand the territory for Daxia."
Jiang Lan withdrew his hand, stood quietly in the void, sighed slightly, and had some regret in his tone.
The two elders from the clan house didn't say anything else. The winner will be the king and the loser will be the bandit. If their cultivation strength was higher than Jiang Lan, they would definitely not let Jiang Lan go.
The next moment, Jiang Lan casually flicked his finger, and chains of order flew out from the void, binding and wrapping around the two men, sealing their limbs and bones.
He could easily deal with an almighty being like the Jade Green Sword Immortal, let alone these three people.
As the number of actual combats increased, he found that his understanding of the power of heaven and earth was becoming deeper and clearer. Perhaps he would soon face his own bridge disaster and successfully enter the eighth realm.
The body of an immortal will not be trapped in shackles and unable to break through even if it encounters a major bottleneck.
Moreover, during this process, Daoguo of the Realm was constantly absorbing nutrients from the dark void, strengthening his body and consolidating his foundation.
For him, a breakthrough in realm was a natural outcome.
"This is too... too strong."
The commander-in-chief of the Tianjian Division swallowed his saliva, his heart still filled with shock and trembling. The invincible eighth-level powerful man in his eyes was killed so easily in front of Jiang Lan, without any ability to fight back.
Even though he witnessed all this, he still felt it was very dreamy, like a fairy tale.
The entire imperial capital was still in silence and shock at this moment. The spies of various immortal sects came to their senses and quickly reported what had happened today back to their sects behind them.
This is definitely a shocking event that will cause a sensation everywhere.
Many people thought that Jiang Lan was assassinated by Yuqing Sword Immortal and was seriously injured. No one knew where he was recovering. But from the current situation, not only is he fine, his cultivation strength is even better than before.
The younger generation in Zhongtianzhou no longer has the qualifications to even dream of meeting him.
Today's battle is enough to show that Jiang Lan, at a young age, has become one of the strongest people in the world.
The elders and disciples of the various immortal sects and holy places in Dongyuan Prefecture who were hiding in the imperial capital were also shocked by this scene and turned pale and panicked.
"This is impossible..."
"Why is he so strong..."
Inside the Zhao Residence, Zhao Dieyi bit her lips tightly, her face turned pale, and she didn't even notice that she was bleeding from using too much force.
"Jiang Lan is here..."
"Even the elders of the tribe are no match for him. What should we do..."
At this time, the clan house was in chaos. As the golden-armored knights of the Heavenly Supervision Department poured in to conduct a search, the royal relatives who were in the meeting hall turned pale and were terrified.
"How come this kid's strength has grown to this point?"
Xia Guheng, the only great master of the eighth realm in the hall, no longer had the calm and indifferent look he had in the past in Dao Cang Sword Sect. His face was pale and he slumped down in a chair.
"Master Xia Hao, didn't you say you were the future Heavenly Emperor?"
"Now you are the only one who can take action. Please help and suppress Jiang Lan..." There was a hint of fear in the depths of Chong Xiuyuan's eyes. At this moment, like everyone else, he looked at Xia Hao with panic, begging him to take action.
Xia Hao's face no longer had the arrogance and rebelliousness of that day, and looked a little pale. He kept turning the white jade Qilin ring and paced back and forth in the hall.
"Do you want me to die?"
"Although I am the future Heavenly Emperor, I have not yet fully grown up. When I have reached the eighth level of cultivation, I will naturally suppress Jiang Lan."
When he saw Chong Xiuyuan asking him for help, his face became gloomy and he wished he could slap him on the head.
Xia Guheng and others no longer have any hope for Xia Hao. Let alone the future Emperor of Heaven at this time, even if the Jade Emperor came, there would be nothing they could do.
The sense of oppression that Jiang Lan gave them was too strong. He was not even like Prime Minister Jiang Lintian, who had to abide by some rules. He would even kill the elders of the clan house without mercy.
"There is an underground palace behind the clan residence, connected to the mountains outside. Perhaps we can escape there..."
"Only by leaving the imperial capital first can we seek refuge in Hulong Mountain."
Xia Guheng didn't want to sit and wait for death. Hulong Mountain was also a small world hidden in time and space. It was left by the founding emperor of Daxia, but it was not in the imperial capital. If one wanted to go there, he could only ask the people of Hulong Mountain to guide him.
"Jiang Lan came too quickly. We can only leave from the back mountain first."
Upon hearing this, Xia Hao did not hesitate at all and was about to set off, letting Xia Guheng lead the way. He had not yet fully grown up, so how could anything possibly happen to him in the imperial capital.
Chong Xiuyuan's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he said hurriedly, "Uncle Gu Heng is right. The most urgent thing is to seek refuge in Hulong Mountain first."
The clan house is very large, covering a thousand miles. It will take some time for the people from the Heavenly Supervision Department to search it. As long as Jiang Lan doesn't come to stop them personally, they still have a great chance of escaping.
Soon, Xia Guheng led the way, and Xia Hao and Chong Xiuyuan followed closely behind, rushing to the back mountain of the clan house.
Behind them, there were several masters from the royal family who followed, who also did not want to be searched and thrown into jail by the people from the Heavenly Monitoring Department.
"I am the one who has inherited the Heavenly Emperor's legacy, so why is my cultivation strength so different from Jiang Lan's?"
Xia Hao's face was gloomy, and the white jade Qilin ring in his hand turned faster.
He really couldn't figure it out. According to the inheritance he had received, he was the orthodox descendant of the Emperor of Heaven. Why could Jiang Lan, who spoke the Heavenly Law, easily suppress the Eight Realms? Soon, everyone passed through several pavilions and corridors in front of them and entered the underground palace. The dim corridor was lit with oil lamps on both sides. It was winding and rugged. After half a quarter of an hour, they went left and right in the underground palace and finally pushed through a stone door. Finally, the view in front of them was suddenly clear. A lush green forest and steep mountains appeared in front of them.
After surviving the disaster, everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but before they could even smile, they saw a man in white standing quietly with his hands behind his back on a square blue stone not far ahead. He looked otherworldly, as if he had been waiting for them for a long time.
"Jiang...Jiang Lan..."
The moment he saw the figure clearly, Xia Guheng's eyes widened and his face suddenly turned pale, full of disbelief and horror.
As a powerful being in the eighth realm, he had no intention of resisting at this moment. He turned around and transformed into divine light, ready to tear open the void and escape.
However, what was faster than him was a sword light. The sword light flickered like the sun and the moon, piercing through the void with a hissing sound, and then tearing his abdomen apart.
The sword energy easily penetrated his Dantian and spiritual sea, and he fell directly from the air with a look of misery on his face.
He had just survived his first heavenly tribulation, and his cultivation strength was far inferior to that of the other elders. In the hands of Jiang Lan, he couldn't even withstand a single blow.
"Are you the Xia Hao?"
Jiang Lan turned around slowly and ignored Xia Guheng who fell to the ground.
He stared at the handsome man next to Chong Xiuyuan, whose face looked very strange and a little frightened, and smiled faintly.
"Jiang Lan..."
"You know me?"
Xia Hao forced himself to calm down and tried to look Jiang Lan in the eye, but he found that no matter how he looked, Jiang Lan seemed to be looking down on him.
This made him feel humiliated and angry, but at this moment he could only endure it and not dare to lose his temper.
"There's even a Jade Emperor's ring. It seems like you've been to the Jade Emperor's Palace."
Jiang Lan glanced over and noticed the white jade Qilin ring between his fingers, showing great interest.
Hearing the words "Jade Emperor Ring", Xia Hao was immediately stimulated. He hid his hand behind his back and looked at Jiang Lan with suspicion.
"This is not something you should hold. Hand it over. I have always been magnanimous and will spare your life." Jiang Lan smiled faintly.
Xia Hao tightly grasped his ring and shouted coldly, "This is mine, don't even think about taking it for yourself."
"He is just a petty thief who stole the treasures of the Jade Emperor's Palace, yet he dares to claim these things as his own. The Jade Emperor's Ancient Clothes, the Alchemy Amber, the Heaven Sealing Seal, the Haotian Tower, the Jade Emperor's Bell..."
"What did you see? None of these things belong to you. You were just lucky enough to take the Jade Emperor's Ring with you."
Jiang Lan's eyes seemed to see through all of Xia Hao's secrets.
Xia Hao's expression changed and he stared at Jiang Lan.
"I am the future Heavenly Emperor, and you are just a thief who deceives the world and steals the name, trying to divide up the Heavenly Emperor's Dao fruit..."
He shouted angrily, turned the white jade Qilin ring in his hand, and said, "Jade Emperor, appear in the world and lead the heavenly soldiers to capture this man."
As he finished speaking, the white jade Qilin ring in his hand suddenly emitted a faint light, and a hazy door seemed to emerge in the middle.
Then, the ripples spread, and a divine general with golden armor and a spear in his hand appeared in a mighty and domineering manner. Behind him were teams of heavenly soldiers holding various weapons and surrounded by clouds. They rushed over, wrapped in smoke and clouds, and killed Jiang Lan.
"How dare you offend the gods and heavenly soldiers?"
Jiang Lan stood where he was, his robe not moving, his eyes like lightning, with a majestic aura. He spoke the divine law, like thunder rolling in the sky, with a loud sound that was so silent that it shook the sky in all directions.
"Which demon dares to impersonate the Emperor of Heaven?"
In front of him, light flowed, mist and haze dissipated, a turtle and a snake appeared, the turtle and snake spirits appeared, the light of earth, fire, thunder and lightning swirled, floating around them, as if they had descended from heaven, riding on clouds and mist, to judge the demons.
Xia Hao's face changed drastically when he looked at the divine generals and heavenly soldiers who were unable to move due to the shock of Jiang Lan's words.
His cultivation was not sufficient, and he was unable to allow these divine generals and heavenly soldiers to display their full divine power.
Moreover, Jiang Lan actually had the turtle and snake generals to protect him, so he didn't need to worry about the divine generals and heavenly soldiers at all.
"I am the Emperor of Heaven."
"If you see this palm, it's like the Emperor of Heaven has descended."
The next moment, Xia Hao shook his robe, raised his hand and turned it into a palm, evolving the strongest secret. The void suddenly twisted, and immortal marks shone brightly, with magical light flashing.
A huge handprint that seemed to be bright and solid, and carried some kind of supreme will, emerged from it, and then slapped towards Jiang Lan.
In a trance, there were clouds rising, the sky was high and the earth was vast, a magnificent immortal gate was looming, and a vague and majestic figure was sitting above the ninth heaven, overlooking all living beings. As his palm fell, it seemed as if he represented God and was going to punish the world.
When the people here saw this scene, they were filled with fear and panic, and could not help but bow their heads and worship him.
Jiang Lan's expression remained the same, his eyes were deep and indifferent, and he shouted, "You little thief, you dare to call yourself the Emperor of Heaven, kneel down."
As the words resounded, the void suddenly made a rumbling sound, as if a great avenue was resonating, and auspicious colors bloomed and rays of light converged.
"impossible……"
The scene in front of him collapsed in an instant, and Xia Hao's eyes were full of disbelief. He was the first to be hit, his figure trembled, and blood spurted out of his mouth.
Then, it was as if an immortal and towering mountain was pressing down on his head. His legs softened uncontrollably and he fell to the ground, with even his head hitting the ground with a bang.
As Xia Hao kowtowed and knelt in front of him, Jiang Lan could clearly feel a certain aura on his body dissipating, and a vast and boundless breath from the unknown ocean gathered and poured into his body.
Inside the Niwan Palace, the energy is rising like a raging sea, with raging waves hitting the sky.
The mysterious ancient vine continued to tremble, and its leaves became greener and greener. Different changes also occurred on the surface of the Dao Fruit of Years, Dao Fruit of Life, and Dao Fruit of Realm, as if a deeper color was lingering.
In the darkness, in the deep level of time and space, more nutrients were absorbed by the Fruit of the Way of the Realm. The small world that Jiang Lan had been nurturing and the free Dharma image were more integrated. In the originally vast and boundless small world, a life-like breath also evolved.
"The essence of the small world is changing and starting to breed life. This is the transformation of the small world into the middle thousand world..."
Jiang Lan was slightly surprised, and then it was as if something had suddenly dawned on him. In his sea of consciousness, he heard a loud bang like the creation of the world, and a sound like a violent earthquake came from his body. His cultivation level naturally broke through.
However, he did not choose to break through here, but suppressed it for the time being.
If he breaks through, the Eight Realms Heavenly Tribulation will surely come. His foundation is far beyond anyone else, and the heavenly tribulation he will face will be beyond imagination.
"Something has changed in him..."
"It's even more terrifying and unfathomable than before."
Chong Xiuyuan looked at Jiang Lan and was shocked. He felt that Jiang Lan had changed a lot again, and his demeanor and majesty were even more than before.
Now I really feel like bowing down to him and kowtowing to him when I see him.
The next moment, Jiang Lan made a move with his hand, and Xia Hao, who was kneeling on the ground with an angry and unwilling face, felt the white jade Qilin ring in his hand flying out uncontrollably, and then turned into a stream of light and flew into Jiang Lan's hand.
"You...you return the ring to me..."
Xia Hao roared.
Snap...
However, before he could finish his words, he was slapped hard in the face. Chong Xiuyuan came to him with a gloomy look, and slapped him again in the face in his incredible and unbelievable gaze.
"What's your ring?"
"Master Jiang Lan is the future Heavenly Emperor. You are just a lucky thief. You stole the things of the Heavenly Emperor. How dare you make such a fuss? You really don't know how to write the word death?"
Chong Xiuyuan had disliked this guy for a long time, and this time he showed no mercy at all.
Xia Hao's apparently handsome face immediately swelled up like a pig's head.
"Chong Xiuyuan, you, a slave, actually betrayed me, you are looking for death..." He was even more angry. He didn't expect that Chong Xiuyuan, a slave, would dare to attack him.
And Jiang Lan didn't even stop him.
Chong Xiuyuan sneered, "Even if I am a servant, I am also Master Jiang Lan's servant. Who are you? I am only pretending to follow you in order to keep you steady. You, a boy lover, really take yourself seriously..."
"You are looking for death..."
Hearing the word "male libertine", Xia Hao was obviously hurt. His eyes were almost spitting fire. He struggled to stand up and fight with Chong Xiuyuan.
Chong Xiuyuan obviously wanted to vent all the frustration and anger of the past few days on him, and he showed no mercy at all.
At this time, Jiang Lan was just looking at the white jade Qilin ring in his hand and ignored Chong Xiuyuan. In his memory, this thing came from the Jade Emperor Palace, which was the Taoist palace left behind by the Emperor of Heaven before he attained enlightenment.
(End of this chapter)
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