Under One Person, your rebellious life has reached the heavens?

Just as the four were still basking in the joy of their success, a streak of blazing silver lightning appeared in the distant sky, tearing through the dark night and arriving at the royal palace on Nathan Island from tens of thousands of meters away in an instant.

Three figures in white and one in black appeared together in the sky above the clouds, their frosty hair billowing. In just a few seconds, they were already close to the palace.

Qu Tong, who possessed the ability to perceive the entire island, felt a chill run down her spine when she saw the leader's face. The fear that had been dormant in her heart was now wildly resurrected.

Jiang Mo is here!

Upon seeing each other again after many years, Duanmu Ying, disguised as Qu Tong, underwent a dramatic change in expression, before she could even make a further move.

With a "hum!" sound, two layers of barriers appeared within a five-kilometer radius of the royal palace.

First, there was the Ten Directions Gu Barrier that instantly unfolded, displaying a deep crimson color. Second, there was the white barrier formed by Jiang Mo's true qi, which was even more indestructible, firmly sealing off all personnel within the palace.

"He...he's here!!"

Duanmu Ying screamed shrilly, all her former composure and wisdom vanished.

"what?!"

Thirty-four and Seventeen were struck dumb by the terrible news, their souls nearly leaving their bodies. When they looked up, they saw a semi-transparent red barrier above the sacred forest, appearing suddenly from all directions, vast and seemingly without end.

Currently, the only person in the world whose magical abilities can reach this level is Jiang Mo of the Sanyi Sect.

As remnants of the Jia Shen rebellion and the three who orchestrated the recent Eight Extraordinary Skills incident, they were utterly despondent at this moment.

"Boom!!!"

Jiang Mo stepped forward, and the palace, unable to withstand his power, suddenly shattered its walls and steps.

The elites of Biyou Village, the Nasen Guard, and the islanders and strange people dared not make a move. They were stunned and stood there, as if they had lost their souls, watching helplessly as he broke into the palace.

Chapter 284 First Slay the Three Demons, Then Battle the Ancient King

Jiang Mo arrived at the palace, his eyes flashing with an uncertain crimson-gold light.

Within his field of vision, all the islanders and strange people he saw along the way were in a state of Qi transformation. From their skin and flesh to their bones and organs, he could see them clearly. Their brains showed signs of modification, similar to the effect of the Lü family's Minghun Technique.

"......"

Without needing any further deduction, Jiang Mo knew the identity of the mastermind with just a glance. To his surprise, the number of parasites on Nathan Island was no less than that of the Lü family.

Qu Tong, who was hiding in the sacred forest, felt her heart rate increase a thousandfold. When she saw the evil star outside, she hurriedly led Seventeen, Thirty-Four, and Ma Xianhong to escape. She took the opportunity to control Nasen Guard and a group of elites to launch an attack on Jiang Mo, thus restraining and delaying him.

"Unauthorized...trespassing into the royal palace? Seize him!"

"kill."

With a sharp shout, the parasites swarmed forward, but Jiang Mo ignored them and unleashed the ninth level of the Soul-Breaking Curse. Using his thoughts as swords, he instantly locked onto the more than one hundred superhumans present. Crimson lightning bolts crisscrossed the void, easily piercing their brows despite their lack of physical form, unleashing a torrent of mental pain.

"?"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

"Pfft! Bang!"

Those figures rushing towards them froze instantly, like amber crystals falling into the river of time and solidifying completely. Their souls were blasted into fragments, and their bodies dissolved into a pool of rotten flesh.

Blood trickled down, staining the palace. Faced with Jiang Mo's serious attack, they couldn't even stand in his way for a moment.

Qu Tong, inside the sacred forest, looked pained and suddenly let out a shrill wail. More than a hundred of her spiritual consciousnesses had been erased. Her head was throbbing with pain, and she staggered and fell to the ground, panting heavily, her face deathly pale.

"twenty?!"

"Sister, what's wrong with you?"

"what!!!"

A strange golden flame ignited on the king's corpse's chest, and a section of tree was growing inside.

"He...made his move. It's not dead; it's refining me!"

Qu Tong was terrified. Her previously stable clone suddenly began to mutate, with countless roots sprouting inside her brain, gradually eroding her will and causing her unbearable pain.

"Pfft!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, tree branches sprouted from the king's forehead and joints of his hands and feet. They pierced through the flesh and tissue, each one dripping with blood, and began to resist the possession.

"Thirty-four, think of something quickly!"

Seventeen lines of Qi are held in the hand, unleashing the Six Treasuries of Immortal Power. [The remaining text appears to be a series of seemingly random characters and symbols, possibly a corrupted or incomplete sentence. A direct translation is not possible without further context.]

"......"

Just as Thirty-Four was about to answer, the atmosphere around him suddenly became as heavy as if a mountain had descended. His gray pupils revealed a deep fear. The outer wall of the sacred forest collapsed with a crash, and from the dust of the ruins, a figure that was both strange and familiar walked out.

Jiang Mo walked to the Sacred Forest and saw the King's Corpse in its transformed state, along with Chen Duo, Thirty-Four, Seventeen, and Ma Xianhong, whose bodies were possessed by Qu Tong.

"Duanmu, how have you been?"

"Your recent work is a little lacking in skill."

"Who are you?!"

Ma Xianhong exclaimed in alarm, as if facing a formidable enemy, every inch of his skin contracting and trembling uncontrollably.

"Gu Liang?"

Lu Jinwangqi, who was accompanying him, frowned slightly. Even though their appearances were completely different, he still recognized Ma Xianhong as the dark horse contestant who had infiltrated the Luo Tian Tournament.

"call out--!"

Jiang Mo did not answer Ma Xianhong's question, but instead attacked directly. A blazing chain like a silver dragon shot out into the air at a speed of Mach 12, so fast that a sonic boom suddenly sounded. Thirty-four and Seventeen hurriedly dodged, but their protective qi on one side was still shattered.

Ma Xianhong tried to resist with the red rope and three precious beads around his neck. He fully recovered and summoned a protective light shield, but it was no match for it. The silver chain swept over and the light shield and the three precious beads shattered instantly.

"boom!!"

With his body bound, Ma Xianhong didn't even have time to react before the chains dragged him like a falling meteor as they slammed into the crimson barrier with terrifying force.

With a deafening 'thud,' his limbs shattered, and half of Ma Xianhong's body was destroyed. He lay in a pool of blood, his eyes dim and his breath faint.

This cruel scene terrified Thirty-Four and Seventeen. Unlike Qu Tong, who possessed puppet bodies all over the world and could be resurrected, they would have surely died if they had been hit.

"You actually found your way here?!"

Qu Tong's blood pressure soared with anger. She was now deeply mired in a quagmire, having completely lost control of the King Corpse, which had been taken back by that evil tree. With only the cultivation of her original Gu body, she could not leave alive.

"Hand over Li Muxuan."

A dazzling bolt of lightning swirled around Jiang Mo's fingertips, containing astonishing energy fluctuations.

"Li Muxuan? Let us leave, I..."

"Boom!"

Seeing that she wanted to negotiate, Jiang Mo opened his palm and, without any politeness, unleashed a lightning bolt as fast as a streak of light, traversing dozens of meters and striking Qu Tong directly.

Thunder raged, blood and flesh splattered, and the original Gu body was reduced to ashes.

Where is Li Muxuan?

Jiang Mo questioned the remaining thirty-four and seventeen again. The two were not weak, but in his eyes, they were no different from ants. If they did not want to explain, he would send them away as well.

"He...he was worried you'd be coming over soon, so he left early!"

"Where to?" Jiang Mo asked again.

Ruan Feng and Gu Jiting trembled violently. They were terrified. If the other party knew Qu Tong's true identity, did he also know their identities?

The grudge left by Fourth Brother alone, once it involves them, will surely lead to their utter ruin.

"I don't know... he left in a hurry."

Gu Qiting secretly cast a divination for himself, which revealed a near-death experience, and he decided to seek survival amidst the danger.

However, he made the wrong gamble. By ending up on the same side as Qu Tong, the only difference was whether he would die sooner or later.

"Boom!"

Within the barrier's coverage area, the white ground beneath Ruan Feng and Gu Qiting's feet suddenly rippled like lake water, causing them to fall weightlessly into it. The softened, loose soil instantly transformed into something as hard as steel, firmly imprisoning them.

"We've never met before, why do you want to kill us two?"

Gu Qiting loudly refuted him, only to discover to his horror that his Qi Palace was completely empty, and his true Qi had been plundered in a matter of seconds. It was too late for him to transform into a Qi formation and break free from the binding force.

Ruan Feng was the same. He struggled frantically, and the speed at which his acquired true qi and innate qi disappeared horrified him. His fat began to wither and decay.

"Boom!!"

The two were reduced to fish on a chopping board. Jiang Mo was too lazy to pay attention to them. He simply accelerated the operation of the true method. Ruan Feng and Gu Qiting, whose identities were unknown to him, were refined to death. In less than a few breaths, they became white bones and melted into the dust.

The remaining corpse of King Nathan quietly underwent a complete transformation; her eyes shone like the starry sky yet were eerily empty.

The ancient king buried at the source of the Forest Kingdom's history, his remaining consciousness, after years of sedimentation and merging with countless successors, completed his final revival, spanning more than two thousand years, and lived a second life.

That sacred tree was the pinnacle of sorcery, imbued with His life's blood and sweat. It was also the tool for His consciousness to continue after His physical death, allowing the gears of fate to turn once more.

Soon, He discovered the anomaly within Him: the resurrected being was not the original ancient king, but a replacement that had emerged after absorbing countless consciousnesses.

After a brief silence, anger and hatred took over his mind.

He did not see this as his own failure, but instead blamed King Nathan and Wei for their incompetence, as well as the interference of Qu Tong and his group, which caused disastrous problems for His transformation.

The original ancient king's consciousness did not dissipate, but was subtly influenced and distorted by countless other consciousnesses. The monster before them was now filled with cold and terrifying killing intent. Jiang Mo and his companions were regarded as intruders by it, and a great battle broke out.

"boom!!!"

Nasengu King's second-tier evolved form unleashed a powerful surge of Qi, accompanied by howling hurricanes. In an instant, he made his move, his figure vanishing from the spot.

"boom!"

Jiang Mo caught sight of the phantom figure rushing towards him and charged forward as well, his right hand flashing with silver light as he threw a punch.

"Boom!"

The earth trembled, shattering dozens of jagged cracks. The energy generated by the violent impact radiated in all directions, completely destroying the walls.

Chengzhen, Lu Jin, and Zhuge Yu were all shocked. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would have found it hard to believe that there was still a strong person in the world who could rival their martial uncle.

Nasenguwang and Jiang Mo exchanged blows, but their arms did not explode. In fact, they were locked in a stalemate. This level of strength alone was enough to make Chengzhen, who was at the second level of the third stage of reverse rebirth, feel wary.

The opponent before him posed a subtle but significant threat to Jiang Mo. Considering the potential danger to his juniors, he couldn't help but shout:

"Get away from me, I'm going to deal with it!"

"Now that we're here, and we feel like old friends, why rush to leave?"

Nasengu King's laughter was sinister. He disappeared again and attacked Lu Jin and the others. Since he couldn't devour that powerful figure, other prey with vigorous blood energy were also good targets.

"Walk."

Zhuge Yu's expression was solemn. He made a hand gesture and chanted an incantation. A magic array appeared beneath his feet, intending to teleport Chengzhen and Lu Jin several kilometers away.

"A little trick, ha! Stay here!"

As the ruler of the island, the ancient king is the tree, and the tree is the island. He commands the power of this world. With a single word, the magic array beneath Zhuge Yu's feet collapses and shatters, losing its miraculous effect.

"You dare to harm my disciples?"

"If I don't slaughter you, I will be unworthy of being a teacher."

Jiang Mo appeared as if teleporting to intercept him, knocking Nasengu King back hundreds of meters with a single palm strike, sending him crashing into the ruins.

His killing intent burned fiercely, and golden ancient Dao true fire ignited around his body. Twelve enormous and dazzling divine rings, arranged from smallest to largest, appeared behind him, as if a god had descended to earth.

Chengzhen and his companions sped away from the palace, retreating to a place several miles away.

Just then, a canyon fissure stretching hundreds of meters in the distance and a deep pit covering nearly a thousand meters came into view of the three of them. They then understood why the woman had been able to withstand their martial uncle's attack.

Everything comes at a price!

Although the Ancient King's physical strength was clearly inferior to Jiang Mo's, he was the ruler of this island and used his own laws to transfer the attacks he received to other parts of the island.

In just a moment, Chengzhen's expression turned solemn. He realized the seriousness of the situation. Two unparalleled powerhouses were fighting here, and Nasen was at risk of being sunk.

"Zhuge, Xiao Lu, save them! Move the surviving islanders out of the island! Keep an eye on them!!!"

Chapter 285 Shaking the Heavens and Earth, Tearing the Island Apart

The explosion's brilliance erupted in the royal palace at the center of the island, causing the millennia-old palace to collapse. Two beams of light clashed fiercely, creating a scene resembling a battlefield within a kilometer radius, with dense, swirling gales.

"Thousands of thunder!!!"

The ancient king, who had been at a disadvantage for a long time, roared in anger, his voice echoing through the sky. Continuous thunderbolts converged into a sword hundreds of meters long, which descended from the sky to suppress the ethereal figure.