Chapter 534: Chapter 58: The World’s Number One_2

He stood still, his eyes flickering with silver-white starlight.

A few minutes later, he raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction:

“Where is that?”

The train conductor who had also disembarked hurriedly responded:

“Reporting to State Preceptor, that is Chong City!”

“How far is it from here to Chong City?”

“Approximately more than two hundred kilometers in a straight line, and we need to cross a mountain in between.”

Yun Shu turned and said to Li Fei and others: “Everyone, move at full speed!”

As his voice fell, he waved his sleeve, and a violent wind formed on the plains, engulfing everyone within it.

Everyone involuntarily followed the direction of the wind, sprinting with all their might.

Soon, a storm swept across the plains!

As the storm blazed across the land at an astonishing speed, it swept away the weeds and dirt, leaving a straight path toward Chong City.

Except for Li Fei and Luo Shi, this team consisted of twenty-nine officials from Zhi Ge Pavilion.

In addition to them, there were the two heads of the Imperial Guards brought by Yun Shu, both Martial Arts Masters!

Yun Shu’s outing this time was light and simple; apart from the two heads of the Imperial Guards, he had brought no other guards.

Yun Shu had also brought along the train conductor as a guide.

So, the storm enveloped a total of thirty-five people.

Li Fei moved swiftly within the storm, discovering that the gusting wind adjusted its direction and strength according to his movement technique, making him even faster!

Not only him, but apart from the three Martial Arts Masters, the other Martial Artists received the same treatment.

With the aid of the fierce wind, the entire team moved at a speed far surpassing ordinary Tao Foundation Stage powerhouses!

Their speed was many times faster than the automobiles of this era.

And so, Yun Shu led the group almost in a straight line towards Chong City.

Halfway there, when they encountered a mountain, Yun Shu did not choose to detour and instead led everyone straight up the mountain.

Since there were no paths on this mountain, Yun Shu used the wind to assist everyone to soar upward, reaching the summit quickly, then speeding down at an even faster pace.

In just over an hour, the group had reached Chong City under Yun Shu’s lead.

At that time, in Chong City, over eighty thousand people had been forced out of their homes!

“You all…”

As Yun Shu and his group approached the West City Gate of Chong City, he was about to give orders when he suddenly felt something.

He quickly looked up at the sky and then pointed upward.

First, a spark of starlight likcandle appeared, which then spread outwards to form a huge disk with a diameter exceeding fifty meters.

This disk glittered with countless light-emitting runes. These runes joined together into circles, rapidly rotating on the disk.

At first glance, the disk looked like a rapidly spinning nebula, covering the sky above everyone’s heads.

Boom!

A thunderous roar sounded, and a thick purple thunderbolt materialized out of nowhere, striking with majestic heavenly might!

The purple thunderbolt eventually hit the magic unleashed by Yun Shu True Monarch, the purple lightning blending with the silver starlight. The thunder poured down like a flood, finally merging completely into the starlight disk and dissipating.

A storm formed in the sky, sweeping over Chong City!

It was only at this moment that everyone realized someone had made a move against them.

“Qingxu True Monarch!”

Li Fei recognized that the thunderbolt was the Supreme Technique of the Daluo Sect — the Nine Heavens Cave Ghost Thunder Skill.

The only one who could produce such formidable might in this world was Qingxu True Monarch alone!

But Qingxu True Monarch was not present; the one who made the move was more than a hundred kilometers away inside Jinshan Prefecture City, that bright white Dharma Form.

Qingxu True Monarch had sensed Yun Shu’s Qi and so brought his power to descend upon Jinshan Prefecture City.

Despite being over a hundred kilometers away, Qingxu True Monarch still harnessed the Emperor’s Dragon Qi and the power of the Array, allowing him to strike at Yun Shu from a distance.

However, his Tao Country had not yet been established, so his power’s descent in Jinshan Prefecture City was weaker than inside the Daluo Sect. Transmitting his power across space another time, making a move against Yun Shu at Chong City, further weakened his strength.

Therefore, Yun Shu relatively easily caught the strike.

“Luo Shi, you go to Taining City!”

“Chang Pengfei, you head to Bado City!”

“Mu Kairen, you take Shangtang City!”

“Li Fei, lead the rest to defend Chong City. You must destroy the Array in the city and ensure its safety at all costs; the people and the city must endure!”

Yun Shu’s voice exploded in everyone’s ears.

“Understood!”

Three Martial Arts Masters, Li Fei, and the remaining cabinet officials of Zhi Ge Pavilion all paid their respects to Yun Shu.

During this process, two more bolts of thunder struck down from the sky, hitting that Starlight Disk above.

As a State Preceptor, Yun Shu had the authority to command everyone present.

After issuing a life-or-death order to the crowd, his body was whisked away by a ferocious wind, soaring directly into the sky!

Then, shielding himself with the immense Starlight Disk, he controlled the fierce winds and rapidly flew towards Jinshan Prefecture City.

During this flight, one after another, purple bolts of thunder fell, striking the Starlight Disk above Yun Shu’s head!

Qing Xu True Monarch had to ensure that his power was poured into Yun Shu continuously to contain him.

Otherwise, Yun Shu would be able to disrupt the Array he had set up, hindering the formation of his Tao Country.

And Yun Shu could have chosen to run in the direction far from Jinshan Prefecture City; the farther away he got, the weaker Qing Xu True Monarch’s transferred power would become.

But the farther he moved away from Jinshan Prefecture City, the more inconsequential the Arrays he could disrupt would become.

Upon seeing the Dharma Form of Qing Xu True Monarch and the golden dragon formed from the Emperor’s Dragon Qi, he understood what Qing Xu True Monarch intended to do.

He immediately identified the nearest critical node and led his people to Chong City.

He dispatched the three Martial Arts Masters, including Luo Shi, to three different cities, which were also critical nodes.

As for himself, he was heading to Jinshan Prefecture City!

He was determined to personally destroy the most vital node!

Enduring the assault of thunder, Yun Shu arrived outside Jinshan Prefecture City in just over ten minutes.

Compared to Qing Xu True Monarch’s Dharma Form, towering kilometers high, Yun Shu was like an ant.

Qing Xu True Monarch’s Dharma Form looked down at Yun Shu, observing the Starlight Disk above his head.

“No wonder that day on Cloud Sea Plateau, you could silently discern where my True Body was.”

Qing Xu True Monarch’s booming voice echoed between heaven and earth.

He had suspected Yun Shu of secretly assisting Tai Yu during their battle that day and now could finally confirm it.

The Taoism principles contained within Yun Shu’s Lifebound Magical Treasure could ‘analyze’ all things, which could be regarded as an upgraded version of the ‘Insight’ Divine Skills!

It was because of such Taoism principles that Yun Shu could discern where Qing Xu True Monarch’s True Body was on Cloud Sea Plateau and inform Tai Yu.

Similarly, it was due to these principles that Yun Shu could immediately detect the key nodes of the Big Array set by Qing Xu True Monarch and then sent Luo Shi and others to disrupt them.

Whether True Monarchs or Martial Saints, the Taoism principles they command are the foundation of their attainment, their most fundamental and most crucial means.

Therefore, True Monarchs and Martial Saints rarely expose their own Taoism principles to avoid being targeted by the scheming.

In front of Qing Xu True Monarch, Yun Shu activated his Lifebound Magical Treasure, the ‘Luotian Star Plate’, at Full Power and analyzed the Array set up by Qing Xu True Monarch.

Only then did Qing Xu True Monarch catch a glimpse of the clue.

“The world only knows you as the foremost in Thunder Skill, yet they didn’t expect your mastery over Array to be just as terrifying!”

Yun Shu’s eyes flickered with silver light as he looked at the Dharma Form before him:

“Even Xuan Xin would have to bow down before you. How laughable that the Upper Pure Sect still dreams of competing with Daluo Sect for supremacy.”

Xuan Xin, the Master of Upper Pure Sect, was an expert in Array and revered as the present’s foremost authority on Array.

But now, through analyzing Qing Xu True Monarch’s Big Array with the ‘Luotian Star Plate’, Yun Shu reached a different conclusion:

Even considering just the mastery of Array alone, Qing Xu True Monarch was stronger than Xuan Xin True Monarch.

Qing Xu True Monarch was indeed the deserved number one in Array of the current age!

And it was only such an Array that could possibly establish a Tao Country.

Not outperforming him in his strongest aspect, that was why Yun Shu thought the notion of Upper Pure Sect competing with Daluo Sect for the top spot was a joke!

Number one in Thunder Skill, and also number one in Array.

Qing Xu True Monarch, acknowledged by the State Preceptor of the Da Lan Dynasty, did not become complacent because of this.

He had not yet publicly shown his technique of altering others’ memories with Illusion Technique, a secret still known only to Li Fei.

Li Fei did not understand the significance of casually altering the memory of a Tao Foundation Stage Martial Artist; only magicians who truly mastered Illusion Technique understood the true horror of this.

Hence, Qing Xu True Monarch might also be regarded as number one in Illusion Technique of the present age!

But what he sought was never the title of first in Thunder Skill, first in Array, or first in Illusion Technique.

He yearned for the supreme, incomparable, genuine number one of the current age!

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