Phoenix

Li Mong's two bodies fell down as they both rotted at a speed great enough to be visible to the naked eye.

Unfortunately for him, Wang had taken his lesson from Li Yan and applied extra power behind his strike to make sure Li Hong's soul would be too damaged to fly out safely.

Seeing their relative and close friend die so suddenly, silence occurred for a second, before everyone flashed their auras to their full extent and stared murderously at Wang, ready to pounce at him like starving wolves.

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''It's so strange to see beings at their levels die so suddenly and quickly.''

''Doesn't the battles in those levels usually last like... 30 minutes or something?''

''Hero is the hero, after all, he will one shot when he wants to one shot.''

''Imagine cultivating for years, become one of the most powerful beings in the universe, and then just die in a single shot, not even 5 seconds, and you just die.''

Cultivators and beasts from myriad races were already somewhat numb to the extraordinary feats they kept seeing on the screen. Even though something like this would have been a topic of discussion in any other time, it wasn't anything special to talk about right now. They were too tired to extensively talk about such things at this point.

'He will probably show something more amazing in a few minutes, I don't want to waste my breath on a matter like this.'

Things were similar to this everywhere including above them. The Empresses didn't even bother talking about it. Killing a Peak Dao level cultivator in under a second was an extraordinary feat that even they couldn't do if they were in Wang's place, yet it still wasn't interesting enough to start a conversation.

However, a voice changed that.

''Hmm, interesting.'' a sweet voice hummed behind them and came closer.

Soon, a new figure appeared next to the Space Empress.

The figure was tall and thin, and wore a luxurious red robe with golden Phoneix inscriptions on it. Her deep black hair was colored by a crimson red at its end. Her silky hair was held together by a golden Phoneix hair clip.

Her red robe barely covered above her kneecaps, showing off her jade white legs and chest, leaving quite the cleavage for anyone who could dare to look.

''So this is the so famed 'Heavenly Merit Acquisition', huh?'' she mumbled to herself.

''Hi, Lin Er, it's been a while.'' she greeted the Space Empress with a faint smile using her actual name, ''It's nice to see you as well, Ice Empress'' she nodded to Li Jing and finally, ''Little Ghost.'' she merely nodded at her and left it at that.

''Oh, our famed 'Phoenix Empress' finally showed herself.'' Space Empress nudged her with unconcealed joy as she finally had someone to talk to that didn't have a gigantic stick up her ass.

Phoenix Empress chuckled, ''Yeah, that joke is getting old. Call me Huang An.''

She turned her head to the screen after getting silent greetings from the other Empresses there.

''I'm pretty much up to the most recent event thanks to my disciple there,'' she waved her hand to a cute girl in a red dress that was sitting on a comfortable seat guarded by several disciples. ''But something caught my eye that nobody seems to talk about.'' she grinned as she looked at the Ice Empress as if she was trying to rope a reaction out of her, completely ignoring the Space Empress that was signaling her to stop by crossing her hands.

''Hey, 'Little Jing' w-'' her mocking words were cut short by Li Jing's killing intent flaring up with a deep edge.

''You don't get to call me that. Only my elder brother can call me Little Jing.'' she said before taking back her aura and killing intent, and acting like none of this just happened.

Space Empress who was happy simply from the cheerful personality of Huang An sent a telepathic message to her, ''It is kind of a sensitive topic, don't wander into it.''

Huang An slowly nodded with a pained smile as she truly meant nothing of it and turned her focus into the Heavenly Merit Acquisition screen.

''100 lives full of good karma eh?'' she seemed to have a deep interest in Wang.

''Yeah I know, what a sucker. If he was a little bit more selfish maybe he could be among us right now.'' Space Empress transmitted to her head, not wanting to mock Wang in front of Li Jing for obvious reasons.

Besides her words, she actually admired him a little as well.

''According to the Legends, acquiring the acknowledgment of the Heavens like this means the person in question has already ascended to a higher realm.'' she said, half to herself, half to the Ice Empress to mend her heart.

''Maybe he is already in a higher dimension, looking at us like ants.''

''Well, I guess he deserved it after 100 lives full of suffering and self sacrifice.''

Unknown to them, the person in question was listening to their conversation.

His sense of self was kind of detached from the life on the screen at this moment, perhaps because it was nearing its death, and he could listen to the happenings outside the screen.

''They turned my death into quite a spectacle.'' he didn't know what to say.

Being related to an Empress?

His death receiving so much attention?

They were nothing compared to what he learned at the start of his Heavenly Merit Acquisition.

''At this rate, it should take me a few weeks to go through all my 100 lives and gain all of their powers. What an insane technique. I don't know if my first incarnation was crazy or a genius, possibly both.''

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'Now, I'm grievously injured, running out of stamina and my enemies know most of my tricks... The said enemies are two Peak Dao level beings who both have amazing artifacts, especially the Emperor with his legendary Emperor level artifact...'

'It would be still fine if my dear little sister wasn't COMATOSE!' Wang thought as he dodged a set of golden chains coming his way and kicked his sister to the other way to save her from the same chains.