Chapter 1005: Chapter 544: Piaomiao Star Alliance, Come Fight! (2)

When she came back to her senses again, Jiang Shu’s fists, wrapped in Order Chains, were already right in front of her, carrying an incomparably terrifying power as they smashed toward her abdomen.

"Soul Law!"

Bei Jue’s face showed a look of dread. She opened her mouth and spat out a large swath of cold air that coiled around Jiang Shu’s arm. The Soft Sword in her hand flicked like a spirit snake spitting its tongue, stabbing toward the position of Jiang Shu’s heart.

"Clang!"

The sound of metal striking stone rang out. An invisible barrier appeared first and directly blocked Bei Jue’s Soft Sword, while the ice wrapped around Jiang Shu’s arm didn’t have the slightest effect and was shaken into dust. Then his fist slammed onto the Ice Shield that had condensed over Bei Jue’s body.

Even with an Ice Shield to block it, the tremendous force still transmitted into Bei Jue’s abdomen, making her feel as if her insides were churning like a storm-tossed sea, unbearably uncomfortable.

Just how far has this guy cultivated the Law of Power?

I absolutely can’t let him get close, or I’ll definitely be beaten to death on the spot!

When Bei Jue emerged into the world, she had gotten to know nearly all the powerful geniuses currently in the Cosmic, and Jiang Shu’s name was among them. However, there were no concrete battle records to prove that Jiang Shu possessed such terrifying strength.

He seemed to have been cultivating in the Eternal Tower the whole time. No one knew when he’d advanced to the Tenth Realm, much less when he’d broken through to the Middle Stage.

What left Bei Jue even more incredulous was that Jiang Shu had actually cultivated his various Order Origins to an extremely high level, already integrating them thoroughly.

The speed of cultivation is important, but whether you can draw out the combat power of your Realm—be invincible among your peers or even fight across Realms—that is the most important metric in judging a genius.

Bei Jue’s snake tail swayed and merged into the Void, churning all the anchors into a tangled mess, making it impossible to tell where exactly she was.

"So this is Lord Jiang’s strength?"

The other geniuses of the Jiuyu Commerce Alliance hid off to the side, lest they be caught up as collateral damage.

Among them, quite a few had yet to break through to the Tenth Realm and couldn’t withstand the washing impact of the Order aftermath. They couldn’t even clearly see the battle between Jiang Shu and Bei Jue. They only saw Bei Jue escape into the Void, and so clicked their tongues in amazement.

"Lord Jiang is already a Tenth Realm Middle Stage powerhouse."

"Look at the Order Origins behind him. Every single strand is thick and brilliantly bright. You can’t see at all which one is his fundamental Order."

"Hiss... Say, you don’t think Lord Jiang is cultivating all those dozen-plus Orders at the same time, do you?"

"Cultivating simultaneously, that’s impossible!"

That person subconsciously wanted to refute, but after thinking for a moment, he added,

"But if it’s Lord Jiang... maybe he really could pull it off."

The race he belonged to held a high position within the Jiuyu Commerce Alliance and even had an ancestor sitting in the Alliance’s top leadership, so he knew many secrets.

One of them was that after Jiang Shu advanced to the Tenth Realm, he had progressed by leaps and bounds and was already working on conquering the Eighth Floor of the Eternal Tower—completely beyond their ability to compare.

Thus he decided on the spot to stand in Jiang Shu’s camp, helping him compete for that supreme position. To rope this genius over, he simply lied with eyes wide open, claiming Jiang Shu could cultivate over a dozen Order Origins at once.

"But... why is there one Order Origin behind Lord Jiang that doesn’t look like the others, kind of dim and without luster?"

This genius’s Realm was only at the Ninth Realm Middle Stage and had only just begun to come into contact with Order Origins, so he didn’t quite understand.

The genius who had been speaking up for Jiang Shu lifted his head to look at that Desolate Dao strand. Rubbing his chin and pondering for a moment, he finally said, "I can’t tell what Dao that is, but judging by the aura alone, it ranks extremely high and is filled with a panic-inducing presence."

Daos have higher and lower grades.

Therefore, the vast majority of geniuses choose one, or at most two, very high-grade Order Origins as their fundamental Order, and then supplement themselves with multiple other Orders.

There are also those who cultivate a not-so-high-grade Dao to an extremely profound level, but in that case, you can only say that the person cultivating this Dao is strong, not that the Dao itself is strong—they can’t be lumped together.

Bei Jue was hidden in the Void, summoning a sky full of ice. Wherever it passed, even space itself froze over, turning the world into an expanse of ice and snow, with countless ice spikes shooting in from all directions.

"Is that all you’ve got?"

Jiang Shu’s expression didn’t change. One invisible barrier after another rose up, blocking every ice spike.

Jiang Shu walked forward, then suddenly struck out, thrusting his palm into the Void as if grabbing something, and yanked it out.

Bei Jue’s race was not naturally close to the fleshly body, and now she’d been seized by Jiang Shu, who was proficient in the Power Dao. She had no strength to resist at all and was directly dragged out of the Void. Then she saw Jiang Shu’s eyes flicker with light, clearly brewing a Great Technique.

They were both at the Tenth Realm Middle Stage, so how could he have such terrifying battle power?

Bei Jue’s beautiful face paled. The sky-filling ice and snow instantly turned into blades, piercing through Jiang Shu’s protective barriers like splitting bamboo and forcing him to give up his attack. The Void Soul Splitting Void Pupil Light shot out from Jiang Shu’s eyes, shattering the blades, but then he noticed that his palm had actually begun to turn into flowing water, while Bei Jue had already fled thousands of miles away.

"What a fine Water Law."

Jiang Shu praised, giving his palm a shake, restoring it in an instant.

"And the Poison Law too. The two are twined together, possessing extremely strong, invisible lethality."

"But this is still far from enough. Too stingy—it makes me feel very unsatisfied. I’ll let you see what a true Slaughter Technique is!"

He possessed the Devouring Law, so these trifling toxins had absolutely no effect on him.

Under Bei Jue’s horrified gaze, Jiang Shu clenched his right fist. The Law of Power and Cutting Law melded together, and he smashed his fist viciously onto her shoulder.

Qi Swallowing Vientiane Fist.

Bei Jue’s arm snapped in an instant and hung down limply. She used this chance to break free of Jiang Shu’s control, and the sky full of Flying Swords fused into an incomparably gigantic Flying Sword that seemed to split heaven and earth as it cleaved toward Jiang Shu’s head.

The chaotic Space Turbulence seemed to receive guidance, rapidly condensing together and shaping into a slash that radiated equally immense might, colliding with the Flying Sword.

The Flying Sword held out for only an instant before exploding with a boom, leaving only a somewhat bedraggled Bei Jue standing stiffly in place.

"I... am not your match."

This was Bei Jue’s first battle after being unsealed, yet she’d been defeated at Jiang Shu’s hands.

Jiang Shu frowned but didn’t say anything. He simply turned around and left, not wanting to linger here.

But he had only taken a few steps when Bei Jue called out from behind him.

"I want to talk to you."

Jiang Shu stopped, turned back, nodded, and said, "Let’s find a place then."

Bei Jue pointed up at the sky. There floated a tall palace, rising and falling in the air, shrouded in a layer of mist and looking very exquisite.

"Let’s go there."

With that, the two of them shot into the sky and disappeared.

This... that’s it?

Both the people from Bei Lu and the Jiuyu Commerce Alliance were a bit dazed.

That was a bit too simple, wasn’t it?

Bei Lu’s expression was extremely ugly. He gave a cold snort and turned to leave, while the Jiuyu Commerce Alliance crowd remained at ease, waiting there.

The palace wasn’t large on the outside, but inside it was a whole other Grotto Heaven—an enormous space with simple decorations, though still not as beautiful as Bei Jue herself.

"How long are you planning to keep that arm broken?"

Jiang Shu looked with some amusement at the arm Bei Jue had had broken by him.

Bei Jue rolled her eyes at him irritably before saying, "You really don’t know how to pity the fairer sex. The Law of Power and Cutting Law in that punch are too dense—I can’t dispel them."

She truly wasn’t putting on an act of weakness; it was just that the might contained in Jiang Shu’s earlier punch had been far too great.

"Then tell me why you were holding back."

Jiang Shu raised an eyebrow and asked directly.

It looked like he and Bei Jue had exchanged a few moves, but from the start he had noticed that Bei Jue had suppressed seven or eight tenths of her full strength—she’d been obviously pulling her punches.

So he had also reined in some of his own power.

"That genius of your Jiuyu Commerce Alliance was not wounded to near death by someone from my Piaomiao Star Alliance."