Chapter 43: Give Up Everything

Kai Kou Xiao relied on his immortal body and recklessly used his divine artifacts for self-destruction, even targeting himself, thereby neutralizing Qiu Guanling’s fierce attacks.
“I’m so angry!”
Qiu Guanling volunteered to be the first to fight, hoping to showcase his strength and establish his authority in front of the Qiu clan’s disciples. But who would have thought he’d encounter someone as reckless as Kai Kou Xiao, who used his divine artifacts to counter all of his attacks.
After eight divine artifacts at the Divine General level exploded, Qiu Guanling also attacked eight times using a Divine King-level artifact. Naturally, his divine essence was severely depleted, leaving less than 40% left.
At this point, Kai Kou Xiao was covered in blood, looking like a bloody figure, yet he still grinned.
“Qiu Guanling, I still have two more divine artifacts,” Kai Kou Xiao said loudly, pulling out two more artifacts.
Qiu Guanling was speechless, his eyes filled with fury, but he felt too weak to even attack Kai Kou Xiao. After several rounds, he realized that Kai Kou Xiao had a special constitution—perhaps even a sword thrust into him might not be enough to kill him. Thus, Qiu Guanling could only feel helplessness and didn’t want to waste more of his divine essence.
“Huh? You’re not attacking me?” Kai Kou Xiao wiped the blood from his face and showed a seemingly innocent smile, asking strangely.
Qiu Guanling’s anger flared up again.
“If you want to die, I’ll accompany you to the end,” Qiu Guanling decided fiercely and shouted loudly.
Suddenly, Qiu Guanling moved like lightning, appearing right in front of Kai Kou Xiao. With a sword thrust, a spatial rift appeared, like a thread of silk, shooting straight at Kai Kou Xiao.
“I’m scared to death!” Kai Kou Xiao shouted.
At the same time, Kai Kou Xiao threw the two artifacts in his hands—one to the left and one to the right—both of which exploded. The violent energy tore through the space ahead, creating a spatial rift resembling a wall. Countless chaotic energies surged out, devouring everything in their path.
Zizzz.
Qiu Guanling was shocked. He hadn’t even managed to strike Kai Kou Xiao when he was attacked by the spatial rift. He had to retreat quickly.
But as Qiu Guanling stepped back, his sword slipped through the spatial wall. The chaotic energies eroded the Divine King-level sword, devouring a layer of it and rendering the divine artifact useless.
The spatial wall disappeared soon after.
“I surrender,” Kai Kou Xiao suddenly shouted, still smiling as he wiped the blood from his body.

Qiu Guanling was furious. His earlier strike, intended to instantly kill Kai Kou Xiao, had consumed 20% of his divine essence, and now it had served no purpose at all—instead, it had ruined a divine king-level artifact. The losses this time were simply too severe.
“In the divine realm in the future, as long as I encounter you, I will tear you to pieces,” Qiu Guanling shouted coldly.
Kai Kou Xiao shrugged indifferently, laughing as he flew away from the combat platform.
Although Qiu Guanling won this fight, he now only had 10% of his divine essence left, leaving him with little hope in future battles.
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The more than fifty Qiu clan disciples on the other combat platforms also looked troubled after seeing Qiu Guanling’s performance. If even he, wielding a divine king artifact, had to fight so hard, the cultivator from Tianfeng Fort they were about to face must be equally strong. They might indeed have to endure a tough battle.
Naturally, those Qiu clan disciples who were not strong enough began to consider giving up.
At that moment, the more than fifty Divine Marshal-level cultivators from Tianfeng Fort were all smiling.
“Brothers, stop competing with me. Let me fight first this time,” said a plump man from Tianfeng Fort.
Hearing this, everyone burst into laughter. “Chong Qianshan, if you want to go, of course we’ll let you.”
Immediately, Chong Qianshan jumped onto the center of the combat platform like a moving boulder, quite quickly.
Qiu Guanxiao of the Qiu clan, seeing Chong Qianshan go up, couldn’t say anything. He was Chong Qianshan’s opponent, so he couldn’t show weakness in front of everyone.
“Chong Qianshan, huh? You’re quite fat. Since you want to fight me, I, Qiu Guanxiao, won’t show you any mercy. If you lose some flesh, don’t come to me later,” Qiu Guanxiao said with a smile as he flew onto the combat platform.
Chong Qianshan immediately took out a ten-meter-long yellow stick, exuding a heavy and intimidating aura.
Qiu Guanxiao took out a two-meter-long yellow spear, its tip glowing with a cold light, as if it could pierce the heavens and divide the five elements at any moment. It was actually a divine king-level artifact.
The royal Qiu clan of the Shan Gen Divine Realm had already brought out their strongest assets for the position of city lord—the top ten disciples in the clan each possessed a divine king artifact. Naturally, Qiu Guanxiao, who was second only to Qiu Guanling in strength, also received one.
“Look at the stick!”
“Look at the spear!”
The two spoke and moved at the same time—one with a heavy stick shadow, forming stars that condensed and shattered; the other with a spear like a divine dragon, piercing through space with fierce momentum.

The rod shadows of Chong Qianshan were swiftly attacked by Qiu Guanxiao’s divine spear. Space rifts formed rapidly, shattering the hundreds of millions of spiritual entities unleashed by Tong Qianshan and sending them into nothingness, while also forcing Chong Qianshan to dodge continuously under the pressure.
“A Divine King’s weapon is truly formidable; I’m no match,” Chong Qianshan shouted loudly, as if being at a disadvantage didn’t matter at all.
Qiu Guanxiao remained unfazed. His divine spear continued to move, stabbing and swaying, causing the entire void to tremble. The primordial energies of the five elements formed tornado-like storms, slicing through space with terrifying force.
Seeing this, Chong Qianshan sighed and immediately took out ten divine artifacts.
“I originally wanted to test my strength, but with your Divine King’s weapon, I can’t gain any advantage. Let’s end this quickly,” he said with a smile as he dodged.
Qiu Guanxiao was shocked. Then he noticed that Chong Qianshan had thrown the divine artifacts in ten directions, using his spiritual consciousness to control them as they circled around, gradually encircling him.
“Do you want to blow me up? No way!” Qiu Guanxiao yelled upon realizing Chong Qianshan’s plan.
His divine spear spun violently, creating a transparent disc that instantly formed a huge space rift—like an insurmountable chasm—that blocked the ten divine artifacts from approaching.
“Strong… You’re really strong,” Chong Qianshan admitted reluctantly before retracting the ten artifacts.
With the space rift blocking Qiu Guanxiao, the artifacts couldn’t fly over and thus couldn’t explode in front of him, preventing any harm.
Qiu Guanxiao put away his spear, his face filled with resentment. Although he had successfully blocked the explosion of the ten artifacts, it had cost him a great deal of divine energy, which was extremely frustrating.
Seeing Qiu Guanxiao put away his spear, Chong Qianshan quickly threw out the ten artifacts again, shouting with a smile, “I’ll do it again—let’s see if you dare to take them.”
Furious, Qiu Guanxiao had no choice but to spin his spear once more. A spear-shaped illusion appeared, creating another space rift that stopped the artifacts from approaching.
“I take them back,” Chong Qianshan said with a smile, his plump body trembling.
Qiu Guanxiao retracted his spear, looking extremely frustrated yet helpless against Chong Qianshan.
Seeing Qiu Guanxiao put away his spear again, Chong Qianshan suddenly sent the ten artifacts flying forward, all arriving right in front of him with a whoosh.
“I hate you to death!” Qiu Guanxiao shouted. He clearly understood Chong Qianshan’s intention: to exhaust his divine energy and force him to surrender.

The Divine Gun created another spatial rift. This time, Qiu Guanxiao stopped rotating the Divine Gun; instead, while continuing to spin it, he flew toward Chong Qianshan, aiming to corner him. Unless Chong Qianshan admitted defeat, he would be killed outright. Seeing Qiu Guanxiao willing to expend his divine essence to this extent, Chong Qianshan realized he had made up his mind and laughed as he retreated. At the same time, a divine artifact flew from Chong Qianshan’s hand and exploded right in front of the spatial rift created by Qiu Guanxiao, triggering a new spatial rift that caused Qiu Guanxiao’s rift to shatter and scatter, disappearing instantly. Then, Chong Qianshan threw all nine divine artifacts he had at him. Taking advantage of Qiu Guanxiao’s panic, he arrived right in front of him. “I surrender,” Qiu Guanxiao shouted instinctively, knowing he had no time to react. With a thought, Chong Qianshan prevented the nine artifacts from exploding and retrieved them immediately. “Haha, I won! Now I can brag to my brothers from Tianfeng Camp,” Chong Qianshan exclaimed happily upon hearing Qiu Guanxiao’s voice. With a gloomy expression, Qiu Guanxiao flew away from the combat platform without saying a word. The remaining fifty-plus Qiu clan disciples, facing their fifty-plus opponents from Tianfeng Camp, could hardly stay calm, filled with fear and worry. After all, with the two strongest Qiu clan disciples either barely winning or losing, their own fates seemed doomed. The four Divine Kings of the Qiu clan—Qiu Yan, Qiu Meng, Qiu Qi, and Gou Fang—also witnessed what was happening on the combat platform and immediately exchanged thoughts before making a decision. “All Qiu clan disciples, give up completely,” Qiu Meng’s somewhat shrill voice rang out, reaching the ears of the Qiu clan disciples on the platform as well as those of the cultivators at the Divine Marshal stage across the eight regions. The Qiu clan actually gave up on the position of city lord of Genyuan City. Of course, the Divine Marshal cultivators understood why the four Divine Kings had made this decision. Since Qu Yi didn’t want to seize the city lord position and sent the cultivators from Tianfeng Camp merely to prevent the Qiu clan disciples from taking it, it was best for the Qiu clan disciples to give up outright, allowing a Divine Marshal cultivator from the Shanggen Divine Domain to take control—while still keeping Genyuan City under the Qiu clan’s influence. Soon, all fifty-plus Qiu clan Divine Marshal cultivators flew away from the combat platform. Sure enough, the fifty-plus Divine Marshal cultivators from Tianfeng Camp also left the platform.

As the host, Divine King Zong Jing said nothing to stop them, allowing these two groups to leave. Instead, his gaze fell on the remaining two hundred or so cultivators from the Mountain Gen Divine Realm, signaling that they could continue fighting.