Above the Great Dao
Chapter 178 - 100 The Mighty Lord of the Blue Sky_2

Chapter 178: Chapter 100 The Mighty Lord of the Blue Sky_2

While the imperial guards held Bird Guns, which were even more powerful than the Three-eyed Fire Guns, even a single hit from a Bird Gun could mean losing half one’s life if it didn’t kill outright. Therefore, they too needed to be taken out in advance.

Most of these imperial guards were in the Divine Embryo Realm and had not yet cultivated a Golden Core. Barely emerging, they had lifted their guns to fire when suddenly, a flash of blue light appeared. A bamboo spear pierced through both the Bird Gun and their heads, leaving them dead without understanding why.

A house servant of the Li Family stood on the treetops, his figure swaying uncertainly with the branches, preparing his spell. Seeing Chen Shi direct a sword technique towards him, then a flash of blue, he knew disaster was imminent. Taking the risk of being struck dead by Heavenly Thunder, he immediately sacrificed his Golden Core.

His Golden Core was of a fiery nature, and the Golden Core Field around him was blisteringly hot. The tree under his feet caught fire from the Golden Core Field, and the moment the bamboo entered the Golden Core Field, it was incinerated into ash.

Yet the Sword Qi hidden within the ash still flickered by, plunging into his chest.

The rear of the servant burst open, and the front of his chest cracked open the size of a finger, while the back had a bowl-sized hole, clear from front to back.

At the same time, a thunderbolt struck from the sky, hitting his Golden Core!

His body burst into flames and fell, thumping down right at Fu Leisheng’s feet, nearly tripping him.

As the body fell, Chen Shi was head-down feet-up in the air, stepping through the stars with a firewood knife slashing across another Li Family servant’s throat.

Fu Leisheng steadied himself, planning another spear thrust, but the man had already lost his life.

Chen Shi’s movements were bizarre and incomparable. The starlight of the Big Dipper burst continuously under his feet, flowing through his body, letting him move formlessly along the riverside road—sometimes walking on the wall, sometimes hanging upside down in mid-air, moving in all directions.

Small in stature and astonishingly quick, from his start to confront, it often happened in an instant. Neither the Li Family’s servants nor the imperial guards often had enough time to prepare their spells before Chen Shi’s firewood knife was already at their faces, cutting through them like vegetables!

Fu Leisheng had to sprint with all his might just to catch an enemy Chen Shi missed.

"This kid must have learned his quirks from some master, no wonder he wrote such a stellar essay!"

As Fu Leisheng reached out with his spear, another Li Family servant’s body suddenly swelled, surrounded by a dazzling golden light — he had used a Yellow Turban Warrior Talisman, turning into a Golden Armored God. Despite being pointed at the throat by Fu Leisheng’s bamboo pole, it remained intact.

Fu Leisheng shook his spear vigorously, knocking the man down to the ground. His Golden Core spun nine times; his force penetrated through the bamboo, smacking down on the man’s crown, pounding his head broken with several strikes.

Meanwhile, Chen Shi had already killed three men, advancing thirty feet.

"His speed is too fast!"

Fu Leisheng hurriedly caught up; he had read the two hundred or so words of Chen Shi’s strategic dissertation, which was a book of contrarian views that misrepresented various strange doctrines and Confucian sayings.

He didn’t know where Chen Shi, at such a young age, had learned such crooked and heterodox knowledge, yet he spoke it logically and coherently.

He had thought Chen Shi’s learning was simply eccentric, but didn’t expect that the youngster would actually put it into practice!

According to Chen Shi’s odd theories—one should always practice what is studied. Having learned killing skills, they must be used frequently lest they go to waste.

The imperial guards with Bird Guns of the Li Family had been suppressed by Chen Shi to a point where they hid behind walls, unable to show their heads, and those Li Family servants on trees and roofs were universally shot down without exception. In a short moment, the twenty or thirty bamboo spears in Chen Shi’s fish basket dwindled to just three or four.

"What a bunch of rubbish!"

Mr. Zeng snorted coldly, stepping out beside his fine horse, traversed past several Li Family servants, and the oppressive aura rolled forward.

"Nascent Soul Realm!"

Fu Leisheng’s face paled, as he charged forward with all his might, surpassing Chen Shi, thrusting his bamboo with all his strength towards Mr. Zeng, shouting loudly, "Chen Shi, go! You’ve done enough, no need to throw your life away!"

His Golden Core spun nine times, refining to a Chu color, just a step away from transforming the Golden Core into an infant, called a Nascent Soul. Yet, he could never make this crucial step, feeling constantly deficient in Qi-Blood, unable to accumulate enough to break through this mystical gateway.

Thus he knew well the power of the Nascent Soul, so upon seeing Mr. Zeng make a move, he threw caution to the wind and dashed forward, shielding Chen Shi from Mr. Zeng.

As Mr. Zeng raised his hand, the bamboo hadn’t even touched his palm before it crackled and burst!

Fu Leisheng’s face changed dramatically; the gap was too vast, yet he continued thrusting forward, the bamboo continuously exploding until it reached his palm!

At that moment, with ghostly steps, Chen Shi flickered to his side and swung his firewood knife towards Mr. Zeng’s wrist!

"Snap!"

The knife exploded, Chen Shi’s hand gushing with blood, about to swing his fist when suddenly he felt a tightness behind him—Fu Leisheng had grabbed him and was rapidly retreating.

Fu Leisheng felt a chill in his heart; the difference between the Golden Core Realm and the Nascent Soul Realm was like heaven and earth.

Mr. Zeng was like the heavens, and they were merely mortals!

In the face of heaven, common men could be eliminated with a single move!

Although there were Nine Yang Heavenly Thunder Guide Talismans in the sky preventing Mr. Zeng from using his Nascent Soul, the gap between their realms was too vast, leaving them without a fighting chance.

"Does the master give you your monthly salary, keep you fed, and this is how you repay the master?"

Mr. Zeng looked around imperiously, glanced at those Li Family servants, and chillingly said, "Paid to do a job. Taking money and not even able to do the job, what’s the use of the master keeping you? You’re supposed to cultivate every day; where has your cultivation gone?"

He scolded the Li Family servants, not once looking at Chen Shi and Fu Leisheng, as if they were already fish on the chopping block, ready for his slaughter.