My teacher is a deity.

Chapter 58 The Destroyer of the Altar, Shi Qing

The instant the Starry Sky Escape was automatically activated.

Shi Qing took in all the situations on the battlefield.

He wielded the Reverse Time Technique and trod upon the Blood River. Despite being in a lower position, he gave Candice a sense of oppressive dominance from above.

The vampire's eyes alone had changed drastically.

They see themselves as nothing more than a pig or an ant.

Candice had experienced this feeling before, at the Imperial investiture ceremony, when the First Prince was glanced at by the Lord of Law and became his divine messenger.

What exactly is going on?

Could it be that some ancient god has awakened and chosen her as the vessel for divine intervention?

Before Candice could utter a single word...

He suddenly felt an unprecedented pressure! It was the terror of facing death head-on!

Vishi made a sword finger gesture, and a celestial sword as huge as a mountain suddenly appeared in the void!

That sword was even larger than the giant sword used by the giants, and it exuded an unparalleled aura!

Seventh rank.

This is the power of the seventh rank.

Candace roared inwardly, frantically pulling out various scrolls from his pocket.

They transformed into shields, and then twisted the laws of space, combining to form defensive arrays.

However, all his life-saving measures were useless against this Heavenly Sword.

boom!

The greatsword fell, instantly severing all defenses and pinning Candice firmly to the bone forest.

This change came too suddenly.

Hegesius and Idis, who were standing nearby, were stunned.

Candace is no weakling.

He is a professor at the Imperial University, highly trusted by the Imperial Diet, and a high-ranking mage with the potential to become a member of parliament.

He possessed countless life-saving spells, but how could a single sword strike shatter all of them?

They slowly turned to look at Vichy, only to find that Vichy's face was quite different from before.

If the Vichy of the past was merely a child striving to prove right from wrong, then the Vichy of today is like a deep, unfathomable pool of water.

Shi Qing looked at Candice indifferently.

With one step forward, he traversed thousands of miles and appeared before him in an instant.

"I've heard that you barbarian mages all possess your own mage towers, and that summoning them is your strongest power."

"I'll give you one minute now. Don't let others say that I'm bullying the weak with my Golden Core realm, or that I'm using my strength to oppress a Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivator like you."

After saying that, Shi Qing raised his hand and sheathed the giant sword, his gaze cold.

Although Candice didn't quite understand what Shi Qing was saying.

But he fully understood the contempt in it.

In an instant, his face turned pale and then flushed, contorted in pain. When had he, a great mage, ever suffered such humiliation?

"I am a professor from the Empire! Who are you? Do you intend to be an enemy of the Empire? Do you know the consequences of sheltering these vampires?!"

Vichy remained unmoved, and an hourglass appeared in his hand.

His attitude was clearly obvious.

It gives you a chance to fight back like a cornered beast, and lets you dance on the edge of a knife.

"Damn it!"

Candice felt a chill run down his spine and hurriedly activated his spell, but not to summon the mage tower; he wanted to escape.

"Teleport!"

In an instant, a golden light flashed, and intricate runes appeared.

But before Candice could even begin, the teleportation spell was instantly extinguished.

Candice was stunned. Only now did he realize that the space around Night City seemed to have frozen, as if at some point.

No spatial magic can tear open this solid veil.

"thirty."

Shi Qing's countdown continued, relentlessly hammering at Candice's heart.

Can't escape.

There's absolutely no way to escape.

His opponent's strength far surpassed his.

Despair spread through my heart, and then turned into anger.

His eyes reddened as he finally faced reality.

"Okay, okay!"

"Then I'll show you what a mage tower really is!"

Candice roared, raising his hands above his head, and a solitary tower gradually appeared from the teleportation array.

He stood atop the tower, and the various magic arrays previously inscribed on it suddenly lit up, layer upon layer of shields protecting him.

On the mage tower, his strength suddenly increased dramatically, and at this moment, he had already reached the peak of the fifth rank.

But Candace still felt fear.

Not enough, not enough.

He raised a black knife and plunged it into his heart. In that instant, he made a pact with a certain being, exchanging half of his lifespan for temporary power.

boom!

A surge of magic.

Candice has broken through to the sixth rank!

"You forced me to do this!"

"You forced me to do this!"

However, Shi Qing simply waited.

He made his move after the last grain of sand had fallen from the hourglass.

He raised his hand, and hundreds of flying sword lights appeared behind him, manifesting a giant bird ablaze.

Zhu Guangyu's Sword Formation.

This is a killing move that Shi Qing often used in the early stages of the Golden Core stage.

Based on a feather sword forged from 3,600 Vermilion Bird feathers, and combined with Golden Core cultivation techniques, its power can even kill those in the late Golden Core stage.

Now that Shi Qing no longer has a magic weapon forged from the Feather Sword, he relies entirely on his minor supernatural power, the Reverse Time Technique, to reappear, which weakens the power of this killing move by half.

But that's enough.

As the sword flashed, a blazing sun illuminated the entire city at night.

Children of Shadows, adventurers—everyone looked up at the newly risen sun, completely mesmerized.

It seems that this is what true transcendence should be like.

With a wave of his hand, the sun, moon, stars, and constellations begin to revolve.

Candace stared blankly as the blazing sun hurtled toward him.

He wanted to do something, but he couldn't do anything.

boom!

The flames fell instantly, engulfing the entire night in a raging inferno, completely sweeping away the blood and filth. As the daylight faded, everyone finally witnessed the final outcome of this war.

The towering mage tower was burned to ashes by the Zhu Guang fire, and the arrogant and overbearing mage lay at its base, his face ashen.

He was still muttering to himself.

"You can't kill me. If you kill me, the Empire will never let you get away with it."

Shi Qing looked at him and suddenly spoke.

"I used to be called a rogue cultivator, and later I was called a demonic cultivator."

"When I became a deity, I became an immortal lord."

"You guys always think that the sect can protect you from doing evil, it's ridiculous."

With that, Shi Qing raised his hand and swung his sword. The sword light flashed, and Candice's head slid to the ground, his life force instantly dissipating.

He turned to look at the towering mage tower, and with a slight movement of his fingers, he pocketed it.

When he turned around, the entire room fell silent.

Edith stared in astonishment at 'Vichy'.

She understood everything, but Candice's death horrified her even more.

That person is the imperial envoy, representing the will of the empire.

If things continue like this, the vampires will probably be plunged into war again, right?

At this moment, Shi Qing took another step forward and arrived in front of the altar.

He pulled a severed arm from the void, and the blood inside was extracted and transformed into a sharp spear.

This was brought out by a nun who worked tirelessly.

But she collapsed on the road; her undead body could not allow her to overcome the numerous obstacles.

So Shi Qing accepted her last wish—to free Vishi from the curse of her bloodline and end this malevolent blessing.

He raised his spear high and thrust it into the altar.

In an instant, the underground city erupted in a violent roar, as if it were about to collapse!

The altar developed cracks, and a pool of blood gushed out.

Everyone looked up and were shocked to see countless black wisps being released. These were the vengeful spirits of those who had been sacrificed, including vampires, demi-humans, and humans.

The sheer number of them is enough to make your scalp crawl!

Finally, with a deafening roar, the altar exploded completely, and all the Shadow Children felt a certain power draining away from their bodies.

Blessings, blessings!

Their flesh and blood are rapidly decaying; whatever they gained before, they are now losing just as much.

In no time, all the recipients in the city were reduced to bones, creating a spectacular scene.

"Sir, may I not know your name?"

At that moment, Hegeus was overjoyed; he had witnessed a miracle.

The law became his enemy, but a truly benevolent person stepped in to help him erase this evil.

Shi Qing did not answer.

He simply carved a few words on the altar with his sword.

"The one who destroyed the altar was Shi Qing."