Modern World's Martial Dao Human Immortal

"Ji Society..."

As soon as these words came out, Jiang Shengtian was both shocked and furious.

What shocked him was that this mysterious expert really was a member of the Ji Society.

What angered him was the fact that the Ji Society possessed such a terrifyingly powerful figure, yet Qi Renjie, the head of this intelligence organization, had not received any hint of this beforehand.

Had they known that the Ji Society was still hiding such a character, they would have never treated the Ji Society as small fry. Instead, many powerful figures would have joined forces, attacking with the might of a lion pouncing on a rabbit to ensure that all the Ji Society's high-level Martial Saint Realm members were caught in one fell swoop before making a move.

"Issue the order, I'll issue the order right now!"

Jiang Shengtian shouted to the thunder outside, "Quick! Release all Ji Society members!"

Lei Yun immediately made a hand gesture to the Martial Saints and Divine Intent Martial Saints who were rapidly surrounding them.

A moment later, this Hall Master of the Stellar Sanctum spoke again, "I have already issued the command to release them. Now, it is time for you to show your sincerity. Let go of His Majesty, and we may still have something to discuss. After all, we don't want to fight a powerhouse like you to the death. But if you truly are delusional..."

Three figures clad in humanoid mechas suddenly appeared.

This...

Turned out to be the Middle Rank Battle Armor mentioned in the Ji Society's records.

Every piece of Middle Rank Battle Armor worn by a Divine Intent Martial Saint would transform into the most terrifying killing machine.

Equipped with such weapons, one of them could break through an entire modern Mechanist's station on their own.

However, Alkaid did not regard the Divine Intent Martial Saints clad in this mecha-like attire.

Thanks to the seal and sturdiness of the Safe House, he did not have to worry about being targeted by a sniper.

His voice transmitted from inside the building, "No one is to enter this structure, including the True Cultivation Hall outside... Of course, unless some prince wishes to ascend the Imperial Throne early and can't wait for your Emperor to die sooner, then by all means, try."

Upon hearing this, some of the Divine Intent Martial Saints and princes, who indeed had some thoughts, suppressed those ideas.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

After glancing at Jiang Shengtian, they slowly retreated and went outside the villa.

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"Withdraw. Everyone out there is one of ours."

Jiang Shengtian's complexion was somewhat pale due to excessive blood loss, "You can't escape. Our Red Star is in need of people right now, and I promise you, as long as you are willing to change your and your Ji Society's stance, from now on, you and your Ji Society will be a power structure on par with the Stellar Sanctum in our Red Star."

Alkaid remained silent, simply listening to the reports coming through his earpiece.

Shortly after, Lei Yun sent a message: the Red Star's military base in Dayu had released Ji Pingtian and others from the military base and were directly escorting them to the Ji Society's Dayu branch.

Once out of the military base...

The situation was essentially safe.

Yet, Alkaid did not act hastily; instead, he waited patiently.

This wait only lasted a few minutes before Jiang Shengtian, now weakened, spoke, "I… I need to receive treatment."

Whether it was due to the worsening of his wounds or the excessive loss of blood, at this moment, his aura had significantly weakened.

Although he was not yet at the brink of death, it was only a matter of time before he would be.

"Don't play tricks. A Martial Saint's vitality is not so fragile," Alkaid said calmly.

"If I do not receive treatment for my injury soon, even if my life is eventually saved, I will end up disabled. At the very least... my cultivation will certainly not be preserved. The Jiang Family will never allow a clan member who lacks Martial Saint Realm strength to sit on the Family Head and Emperor's throne of Red Star. Without this status, I'm just an ordinary member of the Jiang Family.

They will definitely not compromise with you for just an ordinary member of the Jiang Family..."

Jiang Shengtian said weakly, "So, at most a few minutes... Once they confirm that I am beyond saving, they will immediately launch an attack, and even... perhaps they already have numerous weapons targeting this building, ready to bury me and you together in these ruins to protect the prestige of the Jiang Imperial Family...

Afterwards, they will proclaim that I, the Emperor of Red Star, fought bravely against the invader until the very end..."

Alkaid glanced at Jiang Shengtian, pondered for a moment, and then nodded, "You make sense."

A deep sense of relief immediately appeared in Jiang Shengtian's eyes.

"Tch!"

The next second, under the Emperor of Red Star's incredulous gaze, his neck was cleanly slit by the Divine Shadow Sword.

Blood...

Spurted out.

"Since you are of no value, I can only accompany you on your final journey, lest your Jiang Family tear themselves apart in grief later," Alkaid said.

Instantly, Jiang Shengtian's eyes widened immensely, nearly splitting apart, staring dead at Alkaid.

His mouth opening and closing, he desperately tried to say something, but since his neck had been cut, he could not utter a single word.

Yet, the resentment, regret, anger, and despair in his eyes were deeply embedded in the bone marrow.

A few seconds later...

Jiang Shengtian's breath faded away.

Alkaid took out the Soul Capturing Orb and captured his Remnant Soul.

Almost simultaneously, there was Lei Yun's shout from outside, "We have already released the people, where is His Majesty? Can we release him now?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Alkaid's "Perception" secret technique clearly "saw" two indicators representing at least Martial Saint Level vitality rapidly approaching from another direction.

Clearly, they had noticed the anomaly inside the Safe House, but they had not launched an immediate attack since they were unsure if Jiang Shengtian was truly dead yet.

Alkaid took out his cell phone, took another picture of the deceased Emperor, and then searched his body, finding a jade amulet similar to the Protective Magical Weapon Shangguan Jinlong had.

Gathering the spoils of battle, Alkaid no longer hesitated as he felt the red light spot closing in on him, suddenly bursting out from the safe house.

A Martial Saint who had silently approached the outside of the safe house, hiding his presence to the extreme, was about to make a move when he saw a point of cold light rapidly expanding in front of him.

Where the sword light passed, it seemed to stir up a visible ripple in the void.

Even...

The ripples arrived before the sword.

Even though the alert Martial Saint quickly realized something was wrong, he still felt an unprecedented palpitation surging into his heart, the intensity of the sensation affecting his physiological functions to the point of making his entire body weaken.

"Not good!"

The Martial Saint sensed something amiss, but by the time he thought to counterattack, it was already too late.

The piercing sword light ran through his body, taking with it a deep red glow without the slightest hesitation, and continued out through the window he had entered by.

"The assassin is escaping!"

Another infiltrator shouted loudly upon witnessing this scene.

"Can he really escape?"

Stellar Sanctum Hall Master Lei Yun, who was waiting outside and keeping an eye on the battlefield at all times, quickly intercepted in the direction where Alkaid had leapt.

Almost the moment Alkaid burst through the window, Lei Yun's figure had already appeared in his path, a 1.6-meter-long giant sword carrying a terrifying gale and lightning, slashing through the space where he was.

As long as Lei Yun could delay him momentarily, with the net cast by the many Martial Saints and Divine Intent Martial Saints surrounding him, what awaited him was surely a dead end.

Alkaid understood this too.

Even at his strongest, he could not possibly contend alone against the dozen Divine Intent Martial Saints and hundreds of ordinary Martial Saints of the Red Star Imperial Family.

Still under the influence of Heavenly Demon Disintegration, he took a deep breath, his Divine Intent, though not particularly strong, penetrating heaven and earth.

Using his own heart in place of the heavens'.

Assisted by the integration of Earth Furnace with the terrain of mountains and rivers...

In this moment, he seemed to transform into the spirit of Star-plucking Mountain. With a thrust of his sword, the terrain of the entire Star-plucking Mountain was drawn upon, infused into the blade.

While Lei Yun's 1.6-meter-long giant sword seemed several sizes larger than his Divine Shadow Sword, when Alkaid swung his sword, the light from it seemed to swell with the wind, eventually morphing into a towering divine mountain, crashing down with the force of a mountain's overwhelming pressure, as if to crush everything in its path to smithereens.

"Such power..."

Lei Yun's pupils shrank sharply.

Feeling the terrifying sword might on Alkaid's blade, akin to the earth shattering, he had the urge to turn and flee as far as possible.

But as the Hall Master of the Stellar Sanctum...

As a Primordial Chaos Martial Saint...

As one of the true supreme beings of this era, he absolutely would not allow himself to be scared off by the opponent's mere presence without a fight.

Moreover...

He did not believe that there truly was someone who could develop their sword might to such an extent!

"It's an illusion! You can't scare me!"

Lei Yun roared with rage, activating his secret technique, his Battle Garment amplifying his power, so that the giant sword he lifted high seemed to tear through the air, creating a visible wave of white Qi, the violent wind swirling around the sword blade. With this sword...

Even just passing by a common person, the wind it carried could shred any Martial Artist to pieces.

This was the pinnacle sword strike of this Primordial Chaos Martial Saint.

With a fearless fighting spirit, he swung his sword at the land!

"Give me..."

"Boom!"

The earth shook violently!

The two Divine Swords collided head-on, a thunderous force exploding from the center of where the swords met, instantly causing the sword qi to shatter, turning into Sword Gang, tearing apart the ground where Lei Yun stood.

What was also destroyed were the many plants within a radius of several tens of meters.

Everything material in this area was almost completely destroyed by the indiscriminately slicing sword qi.

Some of the sword qi, as it swept over the ground, even cut trenches over a foot deep.

Between the two swords, though the Divine Shadow Sword seemed of a different league to Lei Yun's giant sword, the outcome was that the sword might contained within Divine Shadow Sword devastated Lei Yun's blade as if it was rotten wood.

If Lei Yun hadn't abandoned his sword and retreated in a critical moment, it's likely that both his arms would have been crushed by the overpowering force in Divine Shadow Sword.

Even so, this mighty being—one of Stellar Sanctum's Hall Masters, a Primordial Chaos Martial Saint, one of the strongest of the Red Star—was still blasted backward by the exploding sword qi at a speed not much slower than when he had lunged forward. Even clad in an exoskeleton armor, he was still engulfed in the leaked sparks torn by the sword qi.

If not for a flash of deep blue light distinctive to a Protective Magical Weapon immediately covering him...

No one knew what the outcome of this head-on collision might have been.

Looking at his Divine Shadow Sword, now covered with cracks, and sensing another powerful presence rapidly approaching from another direction, Alkaid didn't pursue.

His assassination was complete.

His figure leaped, bursting through the already breached and torn encirclement at full speed, plunging into the night, and quickly vanishing without a trace.