Nine Heavens Martial Emperor

As Marquis Mo spread his hands, the heads of two spears—each about a hundred meters away from him—detached from their shafts without warning and flew toward him.

In an instant, Marquis Mo had caught the spearheads in his hands.

Then, the wicked smile on his face deepened.

The next moment, Marquis Mo flung his hands forward, and the two spearheads shot straight for Lin Hao’s body.

A powerful gale locked onto Lin Hao, pinning him in place. He found he couldn’t break free and could only watch helplessly as the spearheads rushed toward him.

The situation was clearly under Marquis Mo’s complete control, a fact made obvious by the undisguised mockery on his face.

So what if he knew about Marquis Mo’s constitution and his Cultivation Technique? In the face of absolute power, all else would crumble to dust.

"Lin Hao, you have two paths before you: submit to me, or die," Marquis Mo said, continuing to advance. His voice was filled with immense confidence.

Moreover, Marquis Mo projected his voice with True Essence, so his words echoed across the entire Cangyun Battlefield.

He wanted everyone in the Cangnan Kingdom to know that the hero in their hearts was nothing in his hands.

For Lin Hao to have reached the Eighth Layer of the Elemental Realm at his age, he could indeed be called a genius.

But so what? Too many geniuses had fallen on the Celestial Yang Continent.

Marquis Mo savored this feeling of controlling another’s life and death with a mere wave of his hand. His enjoyment was amplified infinitely when he saw the countless soldiers of the Cangnan Kingdom looking over, their eyes filled with despair.

"How dare you!" a furious roar erupted. A massive boulder suddenly flew through the air, hurtling toward the two spearheads.

It was Shenshan. After seeing the predicament, he had broken free from a giant he was fighting, hoisted a boulder weighing over a thousand jin, and hurled it in an attempt to save Lin Hao from the crisis.

The boulder flew with incredible speed, like a falling meteorite, and instantly appeared between Lin Hao and Marquis Mo. However, the two spearheads were completely unaffected. They pierced through the massive rock, their speed undiminished.

In that same moment, the boulder exploded, turning to dust under the force of the terrifying gale!

The faces of everyone on the Cangnan Kingdom’s side paled at this sight. If even that couldn’t stop the attack, they feared the only person on the entire Cangyun Battlefield who could save Lin Hao was himself.

But those who knew the truth wore expressions of utter despair.

Marquis Mo’s cultivation was simply too high. The gap between his power and Lin Hao’s was immense.

Some looked off into the distance, hoping Duan Mushuang would appear soon.

But all they could see were mountains collapsing one after another in the distance, with no sign of Duan Mushuang at all. A great battle was raging over there, too; Duan Mushuang was tied down by two mutated Devil Beasts.

"Lin Hao, the only one who can save you now is yourself. Submit to me, and I will spare your life." Marquis Mo’s voice rang out again, giving Lin Hao his final ultimatum.

"Actually, there’s a third path," Lin Hao suddenly replied.

The moment his words fell, the two spearheads were already upon him.

BOOM!

The two spearheads slammed into Lin Hao’s body, letting out a deafening, explosive sound.

The impact sent Lin Hao flying backward at an even greater speed.

With that, Lin Hao instantly broke free of Marquis Mo’s control.

Marquis Mo, however, froze, his eyes wide with disbelief.

He had seen it clearly just now. The moment the two spearheads struck Lin Hao, they had instantly dissolved. At that moment, Lin Hao’s body had turned to stone, while the two indestructible spearheads—the very same that had effortlessly pierced a massive boulder—had become as fragile as eggs.

The spearheads striking Lin Hao’s body was like an egg striking a stone.

If the immense impact hadn’t been what freed Lin Hao from his control, Marquis Mo might have suspected he’d somehow thrown actual eggs.

In the moment it took for Marquis Mo to process this, Lin Hao’s body was instantly in front of him.

He had covered a distance of a thousand meters in the blink of an eye. The speed was staggering.

Lin Hao arrived in a flash and unleashed a sudden punch.

He immediately used the Thousand Hands Phantom Fist. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Moreover, the Thousand Hands Phantom Fist was currently manifesting the form of a dragon!

Short of simulating the Emperor’s Fist, this was the strongest attack in Lin Hao’s arsenal.

As the punch was thrown, Marquis Mo’s figure shot backward.

But the draconic form followed him like a shadow, blotting out the sky as the sound of an enraged dragon’s roar echoed.

From a distance, it looked as though great dragons were streaking across the sky.

Lin Hao was at the Eighth Layer of the Elemental Realm, and with him unleashing his full power, the might of this punch was heaven-shaking.

Gouges spread across the hard ground one after another, twisting and winding like dragons.

This terrifying scene was caused by merely the gale that swept across the ground.

Everything on the ground’s surface disintegrated.

The power of this punch was in no way inferior to Marquis Mo’s earlier attack!

Marquis Mo was also forced back. Despite his cultivation being at the First Layer of the Soul Gathering Realm, this punch was difficult to neutralize without using his Divine Soul or Bloodline Power.

Seeing this, someone among the ranks of the Cangnan Empire burst out laughing.

Marquis Mo’s expression was already ugly, but upon hearing the grating laughter, it turned utterly savage.

’Lin Hao, you’re forcing my hand!’ Marquis Mo took a deep breath, speaking to himself.

He had a way to neutralize the attack without using his Divine Soul or Bloodline Power, but doing so would expose his Cultivation Technique.

This was Marquis Mo’s secret, one he had never intended to use on the battlefield. But if he didn’t use it now, his reputation would suffer—something he would not allow.

Marquis Mo spread his hands to his sides once more, and something horrifying happened.

Within a hundred-meter radius around him, blood began to erupt from all the corpses.

Blood gushed wildly from the dead, all of it converging on Marquis Mo.

No, it wasn’t just the corpses!

Even the living who were nearby and wounded were not spared.

Marquis Mo’s hands were like terrifying siphons; those whose blood was drained were instantly turned into desiccated husks!

The next moment, Marquis Mo clapped his hands together, and a massive, circular shield made of blood materialized before him.

No, perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a pool of blood.

The blood in its center swirled inward from the edges, like a crimson vortex.

At that, Marquis Mo’s figure halted; he was no longer retreating.

Lin Hao’s fist struck the pool of blood and then vanished without a trace.

"The legacy of the Ten Thousand Blood Demon Emperor!" Lin Hao cried out in terror.

The cry was filled with utter terror, and the sound carried far, echoing across the entire Cangyun Battlefield.

Marquis Mo was momentarily stunned, but his face soon broke into a smug grin.

He didn’t know who the Ten Thousand Blood Demon Emperor was, but hearing Lin Hao’s terrified cry brought him a great deal of satisfaction.

The next moment, Marquis Mo pulled back his power, and the terrifying phenomenon vanished. He was about to strike Lin Hao when, out of the corner of his eye, he saw several hundred soldiers break through the defensive lines and charge toward him, as if they’d been injected with stimulants.

A quick glance revealed that the hundreds of men were looking at him with eyes full of excitement and lust, as if he were a peerless, naked beauty.

’What’s going on?’

The scene left Marquis Mo bewildered and disoriented.

"Charge! The legacy of a near-emperor is on him!" At that moment, a young man at the head of the charging group of several hundred shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Kill him and take the legacy!" With that, the young man suddenly hurled his spear at Marquis Mo and roared again.

Marquis Mo tilted his head to dodge, only to find a hundred more spears hurtling toward him.