"It's the captain's voice!"

The two heard and were overjoyed, glared at Wang Xu as a warning for him to come out immediately, and hurriedly left Ya Sang's house.

Wang Xu's face was calm now, but his gaze was terrifyingly sinister.

Just a phrase: "I'll kill your entire village" completely awakened Wang Xu's killing intent.

Walking out of Ya Sang's house, Wang Xu could see from a distance that a thousand villagers of Qingfeng Village were gathered at the village entrance.

"Captain, Vice Captain, and you all, why are you all here?"

Aside from the initial three people, several more white-clothed figures appeared in Qingfeng Village.

Moreover, each had an extremely powerful and robust aura, and the man called the captain had a realm that reached the Mortal Level Ninth Layer.

"The Tax Collector has ordered us to come and search Qingfeng Village."

The captain's sharp gaze swept over the villagers of Qingfeng Village below, "According to reports, Ao Tian, one of the overseers of the arena, came to your Qingfeng Village about a month ago and is now missing. The Tax Collector ordered me to search for him. If you're smart, obediently tell us about Ao Tian's whereabouts, and I'll be lenient."

"If no one responds, and I find any evidence, Qingfeng Village will disappear from the world forever!"

"Did you hear that clearly?"

The villagers of Qingfeng Village, upon hearing this, all appeared tense.

They had witnessed with their own eyes Wang Xu cleaving Ao Tian into two with a single strike, a memory so clear it was impossible to forget.

Although every villager knew it was Wang Xu who killed Ao Tian, what was surprising was that not a single one stepped forward to report Wang Xu.

"You, come out for me!"

Suddenly, the captain pointed to one of the villagers who was averting his gaze.

Seeing the Tax Collector pointing at him, the villager was dumbstruck with fear, panicked and petrified, helpless.

"Tell me, did Ao Tian come to your Qingfeng Village!"

The captain shouted, his voice thunderous, making the villager feel a wave of fear.

All the villagers seeing this felt a tightness in their hearts.

"N...no..."

The villager stammered, forcibly suppressing the fear in his heart.

The captain frowned, his expression displeased.

"You, come out for me!"

The captain pointed to another villager and pulled him out.

"Is Ao Tian already dead?"

This time, the captain changed his question.

This villager very calmly shook his head, deepening the captain's frown.

"You, you, you, all three of you come out for me!"

The captain called out three people at once, asking them different questions.

Yet no matter how the captain questioned, all the villagers' answers were surprisingly consistent.

"Fine, very good, your Qingfeng Village is indeed beyond my expectations."

The captain's face was grim, and without another word, his hand shot out like lightning, snatching a three-year-old child from a woman's grasp.

"Sir! Sir! I beg you, let our child go, sir! I beg you! Please!"

The woman cried out in terror, kneeling on the ground and knocking her head repeatedly.

"If you want your child back, it's simple, tell me if Ao Tian came to Qingfeng Village, tell the truth, and I'll release your child, but if you don't speak the truth, humph!"

The captain's hand was gripping the child's neck, and with just a little force, this child would perish right then and there!

"The person you're looking for is me."

Suddenly, an indifferent voice came from behind the villagers.

The captain looked over, his pupils slightly contracting.

Mortal Level Ninth Layer!

And this person's aura was thick and absolute, their strength clearly surpassing his own.

How could such a strong individual appear in an out-of-the-way village like Qingfeng Village?

"Was it you who killed Ao Tian?"

The captain squinted his eyes and asked.

"That's right."

The captain no longer doubted.

When Ao Tian left, he only took a Sixth Layer Martial Artist with him. Encountering a Mortal Level Ninth Layer, there was only a path to death.

"Good!"

The captain's eyes burst with killing intent, "Daring to kill Ao Tian, everyone in Qingfeng Village will be buried here today along with Ao Tian!"

"As for this little one..."

The captain revealed a cruel smile, "He'll serve as the first to be buried."

Crack!

A crisp sound of bones breaking was heard, and the woman fainted on the spot.

"Ah!!!"

Yet unexpectedly, it was the captain who let out a pained wail!

It turned out that the captain's large hand that was gripping the child hung feebly down, the bones from his fingers to his arm all crushed into powder!

"Die on my command!"

The captain roared, his other large hand striking towards the child's head.

A furious strike from a Mortal Level Ninth Layer would surely smash the child to a pulp!

The villagers present were shocked into silence, yet they were unable to prevent the tragedy from occurring.

"Boom!"

Unexpectedly, a loud explosion sounded, and blood and rain scattered in all directions.

"C...captain..."

The few tax officials standing nearby watched in shock as the captain's body inexplicably exploded into a mass of shattered flesh and blood, stunned on the spot.

"Careful!"

At this moment, a black shadow wielding a long blade charged in, and the first white-clothed person to react shouted, but his reaction, however fast, could it be faster than the attack from a Mortal Level Ninth Layer?

"Splat!"

A torrent of blood sprang forth, and one white-clothed person stood there dazed, surprised at how the captain suddenly exploded, when his head flew off directly.

The strongest captain among these tax officials was already dead, and the remaining white-clothed ones were no match for Wang Xu.

This kind of overwhelmingly imbalanced battle had no suspense at all.

The tax officials who came to Qingfeng Village all died on the spot.

"This..."

The village chief, seeing this scene, nearly dropped to his knees.

To kill a tax official?

Such a crime, yet Qingfeng Village's annihilation ten times over wouldn't suffice!

It's over... This time it's really over... The tax officials were killed, and both the Tax Collector and the City Lord would surely be alarmed, where could Qingfeng Village possibly hide?

Woosh!

A burst of flames swept over, devouring all the corpses of the tax officials entirely.

Bang~~

The corpse of a Mortal Level Ninth Layer caused Wang Xu's realm to climb continuously.

At this moment, Wang Xu's flesh, bones, skin, and even his mind were undergoing a qualitative transformation.

Simultaneously, in Wang Xu's dantian, a dim, unlit star appeared.

In the absence of a "core," a star was born.

Although the reason behind it was unknown, at least Wang Xu hadn't become a faux Star Level.

Moments later, as a roar echoed within Wang Xu's body, his muscles and bones trembled, his flesh boiled, and he shot into the skies from his seated position on the ground.

A vast, abyss-like aura spread out.

All of Qingfeng Village's villagers knelt down in terror, worshipping Wang Xu with reverence.

"A deity! He is a deity!"

The villagers were awestruck by Wang Xu's aura; in his presence, they seemed as insignificant as ants.

Wang Xu slowly stood up, positioned in mid-air.

A mental spiritual consciousness suddenly spread out, covering hundreds of miles.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

The surging Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi also frantically poured into Wang Xu's body.

Wang Xu had remarkably crossed beyond the Mortal Level, stepping into the ranks of Earth Level Martial Artists.

"Between Heaven and Earth, there is oppression."

Wang Xu raised his head towards the sky, and upon becoming an Earth Level Martial Artist and connecting with Heaven and Earth, he was able to clearly feel an oppressive force in the world.

This invisible force restricted his spiritual consciousness.

During his time in the Ancient Luo Cosmos, once he became Star Level, his spiritual consciousness could easily cover the entire Earth.

However, here, it could only cover hundreds of miles.

This showed how formidable the oppression was.

But these were no longer important; what mattered was that he had taken the first step towards rebirth, and truly sensed the existence of chaos! (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you're welcome to vote and recommend it on Qidian (qidian.com), your support will be my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)

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