Published at 13th of September 2026 6:08 am

Chapter 7230 The Power of the Flag Bearers

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“Kill!”

Zhao Yue, Du Xinhe, Long Ziwei, and the others roared like one and bolted forward like eight shooting stars, each locked onto their own target.

This was their first time challenging half-step Heavenly Sovereigns. Furthermore, it was in the middle of a massive army. One mistake and there would be no recovering from it. However, the more dangerous it was, the more their fighting spirits blazed.

Ever since following Long Chen, they had come to understand a certain principle: Experts were only born from adversity. Every life-and-death battle was also a precious opportunity to grow. The reason Long Chen was so strong was that he had gone through an unimaginable number of battles just like this. Thus, facing a half-step Heavenly Sovereign was perhaps the best trial for them right now. They had no fear towards this trial, only an unyielding desire to fight.

He who wishes to become strong must keep challenging the strong; that is all. There is no shortcut, and there are no tricks to it.

“Arrogant human ants, get out of my way!”

Zhao Yue’s opponent was a giant outsider devil. This outsider devil wielded a large battle-axe with lightning runes on top of it. He roared and swung his battle-axe at her.

Although this attack looked ordinary and straightforward, it was anything but. He had just called her an ant, yet the attack that was supposed to crush this ant contained Grand Dao power and was strong enough to shatter mountains!

In the face of a half-step Heavenly Sovereign’s attack, Zhao Yue did not retreat or dodge. She merely tightened her grip on the hilt of her sword. Sharp sword-intent suddenly erupted.

Zhao Yue’s figure shifted. She looked like multiple afterimages layered on top of each other. The next instant, those afterimages returned to her original position, but by that time, her sword-intent was already unleashed.

“White Scale—Edgesplitter!”

A white sword-image slashed through the air, shocking the spectators.

This outsider devil was clearly a paragon of brute strength; his Blood Qi was like that of a dragon’s. Zhao Yue was a sword cultivator, but instead of choosing to move like the wind and launch sharp attacks, she chose to face him head-on. She was facing her enemy’s strong point with her weak point!

BOOM!

Just as everyone was baffled by what Zhao Yue was doing, her sword slashed into the battle-axe. With an explosive sound, she was sent flying back like a kite whose string was cut. A terrifying qi wave spread.

Zhao Yue spat out blood. Scarlet drops dyed her robes like peach blossom petals. Yet despite her obvious injury, she remained expressionless. She merely flicked her sword, as if to shake some nonexistent blood off the blade, then once more flew towards that outsider devil.

What shocked everyone was that this half-step Heavenly Sovereign was still standing there. He was just… frozen there, with his battle-axe unmoving in his hands. Even when Zhao Yue walked right up to him, he remained a statue.

Zhao Yue suddenly reached out a hand, grabbed his hair, and pulled. Devil blood erupted as his head separated from the rest of his body without the slightest resistance.

“What just happened…?” Countless people were baffled.

Just then, the battle-axe shattered and fell apart into thousands of pieces, while the giant devil’s headless corpse fell to the ground along with the fragments.

A half-step Heavenly Sovereign had been killed in one blow. In fact, Zhao Yue had not even used her High Firmament Flag. Even the academy’s elites were stunned by this sight.

“Sister Zhao Yue is mighty!” the disciples under her banner roared in support. They had yet to be allowed to join in, so they could only cheer on her from the side.

Meanwhile, Yumo’s broadsword blew apart the head of a half-step Heavenly Sovereign, while his own arm turned to shreds. If he had been the slightest bit slower, it wouldn’t have been an arm, but a head that he lost. Despite that, however, he was perfectly calm. He showed no joy in victory, nor fear caused by the close brush with death. That calm was frightening.

“Die!”

Long Ziwei let out a thunderous roar. Becoming one with his spear, he used a similar method to kill another half-step Heavenly Sovereign. Ye Qiuhong, Du Xinhe, and the others also quickly killed their targets.

Naturally, of the eight Flag Bearers, Zhao Yue’s attack was the sharpest. There was no way around it—that was the terrifying aspect of sword cultivators. She was the only one to kill her opponent in one attack.

In truth, Zhao Yue had also been gambling with her life; the gamble was on whether her Sword Dao could shatter her opponent’s Grand Dao power. Sword cultivators gambled like this all the time, and if they were wrong, they died. But there was no other choice for them. Sword cultivators had to have absolute confidence in their Sword Dao. If they didn’t have this confidence, they were not qualified to be true sword cultivators.

After killing the first half-step Heavenly Sovereign, Zhao Yue did not pause. She continued towards a second.

The new opponent had naturally figured out that Zhao Yue was a terrifying sword cultivator. He was surprisingly gutless, and chose to switch to defense. But the moment he felt afraid, Zhao Yue’s sword seemed to lock onto the weakness in his heart. Her second attack was sharper than the first, and the third simply cut him in half.

By the time that Zhao Yue killed a second half-step Heavenly Sovereign, the other Flag Bearers had all finished killing their targets. All of them had paid a price, but despite that, they did not hesitate to move on to other half-step Heavenly Sovereigns. That fearlessness caused even these outsider devils to shudder.

The eight Flag Bearers were not worried. They were all injured, but it was still within the realm of what they could endure. If they really were about to die, they could summon the High Firmament Flag; that was their true trump card. They weren’t using the flags just yet because they wanted to challenge half-step Heavenly Sovereigns with their own personal power first.

In that respect, Zhao Yue was actually the one in the most danger. As a sword cultivator, her faith was in her sword. If her sword was unable to protect her, then the High Firmament Flag wouldn’t be able to either.

“Heavens, are they all monsters? Those eight disciples are able to fight half-step Heavenly Sovereigns on their own…”

The experts of the nine heavens were stunned by this sight. This completely toppled their understanding of what power was. Half-step Heavenly Sovereigns were able to control a trace of the Grand Dao’s power. This bit of power was enough for them to crush all experts beneath their realm. Yet today, a number of younger-generation disciples were killing these supposedly unmatched half-step Heavenly Sovereigns. That Long Chen was able to do it was one thing, but Miao Yin could do it too, and now even these eight High Firmament Academy disciples?

If these people didn’t personally witness it, they wouldn’t believe it.

Most shocking of all was that the eight Flag Bearers were actually still only at the middle stage of the Sovereign Lord realm. They hadn’t reached the late stage. Even the heavenly geniuses of the new era could only sense the power of the Grand Dao once they reached the late stage; this was practically a law. But if they didn’t have Grand Dao power, how were they killing half-step Heavenly Sovereigns?

All these experts were baffled. When the eight Flag Bearers reached the late stage, would half-step Heavenly Sovereigns even be able to face them?

“Don’t get tricked! They have an enormous amount of karmic luck around them; that is what lets them resist the Grand Dao power. But their karmic luck is being exhausted, and they’ll run out of power very quickly!”

This sudden shout caused countless expressions to change. That was not due to the critical piece of information it had just revealed, but because… the speaker was in the human race’s camp!

Long Chen slowly turned towards the source of that shout. His gaze was like a sharp sword.

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