Sizzle!
A pitch-black sword energy pierced through countless spaces, carrying out the assassination, aiming directly at the woman dressed in scholar's robes.
"Bang bang bang…" Bang bang… Countless edges of the sword tore outwards, sword energy running rampant. A bloody storm instantly swept across the square. Those Void Immortals and True Immortals could not block even a single ray of sword light before being completely obliterated; their whole bodies burned furiously, actually turning into a power of holy sacrifice.
"Great Holy Sacrifice Immortal Magic!"
Fang Han was shocked. This was a secret method; after killing someone, it plundered their essence qi and transformed it into the power of holy sacrifice, making the attack increasingly fierce and sharp.
He himself was most proficient in this move.
The person carrying out the assassination was an absolute expert, extremely dangerous. Fang Han even saw that his body contained Great Luo laws and thick Great Luo true fire burning. Stabbing with one sword, delivering a life's worth of attacks concentrated onto a single point. This was a Half-Step Golden Immortal almighty.
On the square, not to mention Void Immortals and True Immortals, even many Heavenly Immortals were instantly torn apart, flesh and blood flying. Numerous holes appeared on the bodies of those Divine Immortal guards, letting out miserable screams. The essence qi from their bodies was continuously plundered and turned into the power of holy sacrifice.
The opponent's assassination sword technique seized the creations of heaven and earth, gathering the essence of the killing dao across the ages, forcing immortals and buddhas to retreat. A single sword strike aimed to kill, condemning the assassinated target to sink away for all eternity.
"Miss, look out!"
A Divine Immortal next to the woman stepped forward, turning into a stream of light to block the woman. However, the ferocious sword light directly vaporized his body, failing to obstruct it even a bit.
The astral qi on the woman's body tore apart one after another, her pretty face growing slightly pale. The clothes on her body were abruptly pierced through, exploding inch by inch. At the same time, the numerous protective magical treasures on her body all exploded, completely destroyed in an instant, utterly unable to block the sharp edge of the sword stance.
In the blink of an eye, even if this woman had an army of thousands to protect her, it would be difficult to withstand this fatal sword strike.
The one wielding the sword was unprecedentedly fierce, venomous, and completely devoid of humanity, born solely for assassination, surpassing those Children of the Void from the covert assassin God Race. Of course, if those Children of the Void cultivated to Half-Step Golden Immortal almighties, their power would also be unimaginably formidable.
Fang Han was even caught in the area of effect of the sword stance.
This sword strike from the black-clad assassin aimed to total destruction, annihilating all existences. In the sky, countless murderous intents consolidated into demon gods, covering the area densely. Everyone was stimulated by this murderous intent into bleeding from their seven orifices, even some Mystic Immortals were no exception.
This sword strike finally broke through all the magical treasures on the woman's body and was about to pierce into her body, directly destroying her inner universe divine kingdom and all her will.
The ordinary face of that killer assassin revealed a ghost-like smile.
"Clang!"
But his smile stopped.
At the very instant before finally killing the woman, two fingers flashed like a rhinoceros horn's spirit, unexpectedly appearing on the edge of the sword. With a pinch, they stopped the depth of the sword stance. That majestic, coiled power and peerless murderous intent all blasted into a towering figure.
That towering figure was the finger's owner, Fang Han.
At this split second when life and death hung by a thread, Fang Han caught the sword tip with his fingers, simultaneously forcefully enduring the peerless strike and eternal murderous intent surging over from the body of the sword.
Boom!
That murderous intent and power rushed into his body, instantly knocking the Eight-部 Floating Pagoda and Thirty-Three Heavens supreme treasures into a spinning frenzy, causing the countless Great Luo textures within to shake.
Fang Han took a deep breath, golden light shooting out from his eyes as he looked deeply into the assassin's eyes. The boundless true origin within his body churned, and his tough physical body abruptly released its might. His natal world rotated like a great sun, spinning swiftly, forcefully dissolving that strand of peerless murderous intent.
"Hmm?"
The assassin seemed startled. He absolutely never expected that his fatal sword strike would be blocked by someone, and even the power contained within the sword was forcibly suppressed. Just how tyrannically strong had this person become? A Golden Immortal?
Yet his opponent had no Golden Immortal aura; like himself, he was a Half-Step Golden Immortal almighty. Although this kind of cultivator was exceptionally rare and could be considered half a grand figure, it should not have been possible for him to withstand his fatal sword strike.
"Kill!"
This assassin was, after all, a peerless expert, a maddened strongman. Missing with one sword strike, he suddenly pulled back the sword and swept it across the sky. Instantly, thousands of people across the whole square died under the sword; even a Mystic Immortal expert who couldn't dodge in time was cleaved to death by a single strike.
That sword energy absorbed a lot of power and ignited once more. This stealthy assassin transformed into a wisp of green smoke, escaping toward the outside of the city. In the blink of an eye, countless restrictions were abruptly slashed apart.
"Stay right here for me!"
How could Fang Han allow this assassin to leave? He made a grab in the air, executing the Heaven's Will Grappling Hand, which also implicitly contained the Dao of Stealing Heaven, the Method of Capturing Heaven, and various supreme great immortal magics like the Barrier of the Gods.
A massive hand burst through the void, like a billion wild dragons emerging from the sea, stirring up wind and clouds. That giant palm blotted out the sky, covering the universe and shaking the eight directions; even the massive square began to crack, and the posted notices shattered into dust.
Countless immortals felt the immense fluctuations of true qi sweeping over the ancient city of Quanzhou, and numerous grand figures within the ancient city sensed the extraordinary aura.
This was power infinitely close to that of a Golden Immortal.
"Clang!"
Fang Han's giant palm directly struck the assassin's back. Shaking mid-air, the assassin turned around, launching three thousand consecutive stabs against the giant palm. Each strike contained murderous intent and a fatal immortal magic, puncturing the giant palm with a thousand holes.
"Pity, it's not convenient for me to use my thirty-three times combat power, otherwise this blow could bludgeon the assassin to death outright." Fang Han was hesitating whether to use his ultimate thirty-three times combat power.
In that moment of hesitation, a voice echoed out from the center of the ancient city of Quanzhou: "Beast, you dare assassinate my daughter!"
Limitless golden light exploded outwards, completely freezing all of space and time. A person carrying intense golden flames and boundless majesty appeared mid-air. Almost all immortals and experts in the city uncontrollably wanted to kneel down and bow before him.
"Ah!"
The assassin was greatly shocked and was about to flee. However, the person burning with golden flames slapped out a palm from mid-air, blasting him out of space and time. Afterwards, stepping upon the astral stars with a profound footwork, he launched a majestic killer move against the assassin.
Streaks of heavenly scars leaped upon this figure's hands; even the blue sky was torn apart, turning into a shattered picture. He wove his hands, transforming into various complex and vast smoke ripples, striking out mid-air.
"This is! This is the Sinking Sacred Method!"
Amidst his screams, the assassin was blasted by the person with golden flames into an explosion mid-air, instantly destroyed. Finally, he turned into a golden pill that landed in the palm. Within that golden pill, a miniature figure of the assassin clashed left and right; it was a soul brand.
"Golden Immortal! This is a Golden Immortal!"
Fang Han felt a shock in his heart, knowing the person who appeared was a Golden Immortal. Only a Golden Immortal could possess such prestige and mana to instantly slay a peerless assassin, a Half-Step Golden Immortal almighty mid-air.
Boom!
This Golden Immortal descended, and the whole area fell into a dead silence.
The roaring golden flames retracted, turning into an imposing middle-aged man wearing high crowns and ancient garments, resembling an ancient emperor. Golden light shimmered in his massive hand, gripping the power to shatter everything. This was the prestige of a Golden Immortal.
"The master of the Heavenly Spring Sect has come out!"
"The true master of this ancient city of Quanzhou. Rumor has it he has already reached the peak of Golden Immortal and could at any time break through into another realm, the Ancestor realm, achieving Dao and becoming an ancestor."
"Killing the assassin in one move, truly formidable."
"I wonder what background that assassin has?"
"The man who rescued the Miss of the Heavenly Spring Sect is also a formidable character, managing to block the killer at a critical moment. He also stopped his escape, otherwise, if the assassin fled out of the ancient city of Quanzhou, he would very likely have vanished entirely."
The scene settled down. Many immortal experts hurried over from the distance, having felt the fluctuations of true qi. At the same time, in the center of the ancient city, some grand figures also descended upon the square like meteors.
"Daughter, are you alright?"
This peerless Golden Immortal walked up to the woman. Covering her with his large hand, an extra golden garment appeared on her. Then looking at Fang Han, he said: "Your strength is not bad, to actually be able to rescue my daughter at the most perilous moment. If you hadn't intervened, my daughter would have been killed. Where are you a cultivator from? I want to reward you heavily!"
"Sect Master, you should first inquire into the background of this assassin." Fang Han said in a cold and hoarse voice, "This assassin bears the dao of absolute execution, supreme assassination profound skills. If another comes to assassinate the Miss, she will be plunged into danger. After all, the Sect Master cannot protect her side every single moment."
"Hmm?" A trace of astonishment leaked out of this peerless Golden Immortal's eyes. "Young man, you handle matters flawlessly. Extremely steady, carrying the demeanor of a grand figure."
He silently clicked his tongue in wonder in his heart. With his cultivation and status, generally, whoever saw him would have to act submissively; this was the pressure of his aura. But the person before him seemed used to seeing grand figures, remaining completely unfazed and calm in front of him.
"Speak, which assassin organization are you from!"
This peerless Golden Immortal pinched the pill in his hand and spoke to the assassin's soul brand: "Otherwise, your spirit and form will be entirely extinguished."
"Vacuum Hometown…"
Suddenly, the assassin uttered those words. The entire soul brand trembled mid-air and actually turned into nothingness, as if returning dead to its home.
The expression of the peerless Golden Immortal flickered. It was already too late to execute the Dao of Soul Searching to acquire memories.
"What a pity!" Fang Han shook his head. If it were him, he simply wouldn't have done something so superfluous; he would have directly swept the soul and taken its memories with the speed of lightning, wasting no words.
"There is nothing pitiful about it. This is a peerless and mysterious organization that has recently emerged. This organization is precisely called the 'Vacuum Hometown'. Previously, a few mysterious figures came to my Heavenly Spring Sect wanting us to join that organization. I refused, severely injured those figures, and drove them out of the ancient city. Who knew they would come back for revenge today, trying to assassinate my daughter," said the peerless Golden Immortal, Sect Master of Heavenly Spring.
"Senior Heavenly Spring, this expert's background is extraordinary. However, as an inspector of the Heavenly Court, I have never seen him." At this moment, several people walked over with the strides of dragons and tigers.
Fang Han took an eye and saw several magnificently elegant young men.
"These are… the other inspecting envoys stationed by the Heavenly Court in Quanzhou." Shang Ziluo's memories in Fang Han's head played their part.