Chapter 1: If There Is Another Life, I Shall Lean on My Sword Again, Slaughter All Evil, and Laugh at the Heavens

With a thunderous boom, the entire world trembled.

Amidst the swirling mists, a great mountain suddenly shattered completely, endless fragments of rock shooting skyward, countless clouds of dust rising up in an instant, blotting out the sky and earth, rolling forth!

Within the dust, a long howl rang out, and a figure burst through the air, his whole body radiating lightning-like brilliance, speeding away so fast that the clouds and smoke behind him were dragged into a long dragon of dust, surging forward.

Immediately after, countless figures broke through the dust behind him, each trailing a dragon of smoke, soaring through the air in frenzied pursuit!

“The three great sects have joined forces, a total of three thousand four hundred and ninety-six experts, chasing me for thirty-seven thousand miles! Hahaha... What a grand gesture indeed!”

With a thunderous crash, Ethan Brooks, who was flying at high speed, suddenly halted atop a boulder without warning. With a wild laugh, he spun around, and a sword light as sharp as lightning cleaved through the sky, slashing out in an instant!

His final strength!

The sword light swept out like a silver ribbon, accompanied by several agonized screams. A few people, spraying blood from the sky, flailed helplessly as they plummeted to the ground!

Having unleashed his last burst of power, Ethan Brooks himself was now covered in blood, unable to maintain flight any longer.

Sitting as steady as a mountain,

Standing like a rainbow piercing the sky;

In motion, the winds and clouds surge,

In action, thunder follows at his side!

Sit, stand, move, act—these four phrases describe a master of the Dao Origin Realm.

Although Ethan Brooks had long since reached the peak of the Dao Origin Realm, after unleashing that dazzling sword strike, he was like an arrow at the end of its flight. Now, utterly spent, he had no strength left to remain airborne. As soon as he landed, the rock beneath him was stained with the blood that spurted from his wounds!

Ethan Brooks panted heavily, but his eyes were still full of mockery and disdain. With a cold laugh, he said, “Heh, even if I am at the end of my rope today, doomed with no escape, even if I die, how many of you will actually survive in the end?”

The boulder where he stood was the highest point of the entire mountain—Eagle’s Turn.

At this moment, as Ethan Brooks turned his head, he was like a king in the sky glancing back. Though his situation was dire and perilous, he still exuded an aura of boundless majesty and dominance!

Behind him, hundreds of pursuing experts halted in unison under his fierce gaze! Their eyes were filled with complex emotions as they looked at Ethan Brooks. Further back, stretching beyond the limits of sight, was a path of flesh and blood paved with countless mangled corpses. A sudden, whistling wind swept by, spinning a few heads of the dead who had died with their eyes open.

The most obvious price of this relentless pursuit was this road of carnage stretching across mountains and rivers!

Facing this clearly cornered and desperate Lord Xiao, even knowing he was doomed and spent, at this moment, no one dared to take a single step forward!

Everyone understood one thing: at this juncture, if you rashly approached him, you would be dragged down with him into the underworld!

No one was an exception!

This was beyond doubt.

Because the man before them was Lord Xiao!

Laugh at all the heroes under heaven, for I alone am the sovereign of the world!

This legendary figure of the Heavenly Domain!

The three great sects had gathered three thousand four hundred and ninety-six experts, set up a massive trap, used every means, and joined forces to hunt down Ethan Brooks. For thirty-seven thousand miles, the pursuit had raged, leaving countless mountains in ruins. Yet Ethan Brooks, fighting alone, had slaughtered his way through, leaving the three thousand four hundred and ninety-six experts in utter disarray. Everywhere he passed, there was nothing but devastation and the remains of legendary masters!

Who would dare take him lightly?

Even now, with Ethan Brooks’s decline obvious, no one dared to challenge his edge!

“Lord Brooks; if you hadn’t insisted on cutting off our path to survival, we wouldn’t have joined forces against you like this.” Opposite him, an immortal-looking white-bearded elder sighed and said, “I just don’t understand... You, the renowned Lord Xiao, why did you suddenly declare war on our three great sects? Why did you drive us to the brink at every turn? Your merciless killing has led to this situation where both sides are wounded, harming others and yourself—was it worth it?”