Supreme Emptiness

Jiang Fan turned a deaf ear, coldly staring at Xue Wanzhong, whose face was filled with terror.

He charged to kill!

Xue Wanzhong's scalp tingled with numbness.

He quickly opened his mouth and spat out a jade pendant, biting down on it hard.

Instantly, an earth-yellow halo with a tortoiseshell pattern enveloped him.

As a body technique cultivator, using a protective jade pendant meant for a magic user was somewhat disgraceful.

But to save his life, he couldn't care about such things.

With the halo, Xue Wanzhong felt much safer.

This was a protective magical treasure at the fifth level of core formation; no matter how strong Jiang Fan was, he wouldn't be able to break through it.

Once his master returned.

Jiang Fan would be finished!

But who would have known.

Jiang Fan threw aside the ancient zither, coming on even more fiercely.

At the same time, lightning surrounded his legs as he stomped hard on the light barrier.

**Bang—**

Two thunder dragons cascaded down.

In an instant, they pierced through the light barrier that Xue Wanzhong had thought was safe.

"What...?"

**Bang—**

Xue Wanzhong could only let out a startled cry.

A pair of feet slammed against his chest, kicking him heavily to the ground!

Before he could lift his head.

A foot stomped hard on his head, pressing his face tightly against the cold ground.

What made him feel even colder all over was.

Jiang Fan raised his hand in a motion, and the Sorrow Frost Sword, embedded in the palace wall, instantly flew back and landed in his grasp.

Then, the cold blade was placed against Xue Wanzhong's thick neck.

"I said, today no one can protect you!"

Jiang Fan said coldly.

This scene.

Utterly shocked You Yunzi and Gu Huaxi.

Even with Kong Yuanba personally taking action, he couldn't protect his own disciple.

Was this something that a new disciple could do?

Xue Wanzhong's entire body quivered violently.

The uncontrollable fear spread frantically from the depths of his heart.

Even in a life and death struggle with Big Senior Brother Jin Zhongming, he didn't feel he was in as much danger.

But in the face of Jiang Fan.

He found himself in a desperate situation where neither heaven nor earth could save him. Even his master couldn't save him from this terror.

Before Jiang Fan, he felt like a bug, crushed at will.

Totally defenseless!

"Now, do you still want to kill my family and friends, and my fellow disciples?"

Jiang Fan pressed harder, the blade cutting into Xue Wanzhong's neck.

Blood immediately started to flow.

Xue Wanzhong was scared, screaming out: "No, no, no, I was just joking earlier."

"Junior Brother Jiang, please show mercy, show mercy!"

Even with his master in front of him, he didn't dare provoke the fierce deity that was Jiang Fan.

If he truly angered him, things would not end with just a blade at his neck.

It would end with his head separated from his body!

Bullying the weak and fearing the strong had always been the tradition of the Giant Sect.

Xue Wanzhong was no exception.

Jiang Fan snorted heavily through his nose, "Where is Liu Qingxian?"

Xue Wanzhong quickly replied, "She and Wang Chengjian, along with a few other outer sect disciples, went on a patrol mission at Taihu Lake five days ago."

"But none of them returned."

"You, you can go to Taihu Lake and check."

Taihu Lake?

Jiang Fan's expression became grim.

Could they have encountered a powerful water demon?

He recalled the dangerous encounter with the Red-Scaled Evil Flood Dragon that day.

Even the Great Elder of the Heavenly Sound Sect had lost an arm.

If Liu Qingxian encountered a very powerful water demon, indeed, it would be very dangerous for her.

Seeing the situation calm down.

You Yunzi reminded him, "Jiang Fan, let him go."

"I heard about the Taihu Lake incident; I didn't expect that your friend was among the missing disciples."

"You should hurry to the Task Hall and accept a first-level mission."

"The mission content is to investigate and rescue them."

The Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion also took this matter seriously.

Because the disciples executing this mission were top elites of the Nine Sects.

If something happened to them, it would be a great loss for the Nine Sects.

"Yes!" Jiang Fan did not dare delay.

He was about to set off immediately.

"Wait!"

Kong Yuanba coldly shouted.

A murderous intent flashed in his eyes, his entire body exuding a suffocating aura; his voice was incomparably icy.

"You killed my disciple in front of me and think you can just walk away like that?"

The Giant Sect had always bullied others.

When had it ever been humiliated like this?

Jiang Fan looked at him indifferently: "What do you want to do?"

He subtly shook his sleeve, releasing the invisible, formless Heavenly Mountain Silk.

Kong Yuanba said sinisterly, "Do I need to spell it out?"

"You, don't think you can leave!!!"

At that moment, he no longer hid his overwhelming murderous intent!

He shouted, "Let's use your own words!"

"Today, no one can protect you!"

Upon hearing this, You Yunzi's face turned cold, "Kong Yuanba, what do you mean?"

Kong Yuanba also went all out.

He shouted angrily, "Vice Pavilion Master You, today I've shown you enough respect."

"If it weren't for your sake, he would have died a hundred times over already!"

"But he has been lawless, killing my disciples indiscriminately under your protection!"

"Don't blame the Giant Sect for being ruthless!"

"Use his blood to warn those outer sect people who don't know their place!"

You Yunzi laughed.

His robe billowed, moving without wind.

A terrifying aura swept across the place.

Gone was his usual gentle demeanor, replaced by unimaginable authority.

"It seems that because I've been staying out of the spotlight, people have forgotten how I became a Vice Pavilion Master."

Although he was smiling, he gave off a terrifying pressure as if the sky was collapsing and the earth splitting.

Even Kong Yuanba couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

In the vast Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion, there were only four vice pavilion masters.

Each one not only had the absolute strength to suppress the Nine-Sect Land.

They also had awe-inspiring, thunderous methods.

Despite his daoist robe and transcendent demeanor, when You Yunzi fought against the powerful enemies from the Outer Domain back in the day.

He had heaped up a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, slaughtering thousands of powerful enemies.

The blood on his hands could flood half of the Giant Sect.

He was truly an Asura of the current age!

Kong Yuanba felt his scalp tingle, realizing he might have been too impulsive.

But thinking of Jiang Fan's terrifying strength, he could already see the future of the Green Cloud Sect.

If this prodigy were given a chance to grow, he would definitely take over the Green Cloud Sect one day.

Under his leadership, the Green Cloud Sect would undoubtedly become the foremost among the Nine Sects.

The Giant Sect would never rise again.

Such a prodigy, if not killed in the cradle, would be to the detriment of the Giant Sect.

So, steadying his resolve, his murderous intent surged again.

He shouted, "Vice Pavilion Master Gu, please hold off Vice Pavilion Master You for a moment!"

"Once it's done, the Giant Sect will be forever grateful!"

Of course, he was far from being a match for You Yunzi.

But Gu Huaxi was.

And Gu Huaxi stood on the side of the Giant Sect!

She only needed to hold off You Yunzi for a moment, and he could kill Jiang Fan, eliminating the threat forever.

As for any retaliation from You Yunzi afterward...

Even if Jiang Fan was dead.

Would You Yunzi kill a sect master for the sake of a junior disciple?

At most, he'd get injured to vent his anger.

Trading his injuries for Jiang Fan's life was more than worth it!

Upon finishing his words.

He surged towards Jiang Fan with a murderous aura, "Little beast! Your death is at hand!"

Yet.

He had just taken half a step.

A fierce shadow came crashing head-on.

The power of it stunned Kong Yuanba; wasn't Gu Huaxi supposed to block You Yunzi?

Why did he still make a move himself?

At the critical moment, he gathered all his body technique power, trying to block the attack.

But what terrifying power would a strike from a vice pavilion master possess?

Kong Yuanba immediately felt his body was almost shattered, his internal organs being jolted out of place.

Had it been a martial artist of the same realm, this strike would have killed them instantly!

You Yunzi had struck to kill!

**Bang—**

Unable to control himself, he spewed a mouthful of blood upwards, flying heavily backwards, crashing through the wall of the Sect Master Hall, leaving a big hole.

He struggled to get up, complaining, "Vice Pavilion Master Gu, why didn't you block him..."

Halfway through his words, he could say no more.

Because.

You Yunzi stood still, not having moved.

It was Gu Huaxi, holding a Dragon-Coiling Staff, glaring icily at him!