The strongest cultivation method of the Great Qi imperial family, known as the Supreme Purple Micro Central Heaven Canon, is considered one of the most powerful cultivation methods in the present age.

The Supreme Purple Micro Central Heaven Canon comprises twenty-four sections, all-encompassing in their profoundness. Among them, the two most potent sections are named the Heavenly Classic and the Earth Warp.

The Classic signifies the vertical; the Warp, the horizontal.

The Heavenly Classic and the Earth Warp embody the most natural and undeniable principles between heaven and earth.

The verticality of heaven, the horizontality of earth.

Horizontal flatness, vertical straightness – they plan all things, taking heaven and earth as their law, governing the myriad realms.

For generations within the Great Qi Jiang family, only the Crown Prince was permitted to cultivate these two sections, the Heavenly Classic and the Earth Warp.

Yet, in this current era, an exception has arisen.

And not just one, but three exceptions!

The Third Imperial Princess Jiang Wuyou, the Ninth Imperial Prince Jiang Wuxie, and the Eleventh Imperial Prince Jiang Wuqi.

All were considered strong contenders for the imperial throne.

However, both Jiang Wuyou and Jiang Wuqi had obtained divine ability seeds within their Divine Ability Inner Mansions. The current Crown Prince, Jiang Wuhua, while not possessing a divine ability, had a stable Outer Building realm, his cultivation deep.

What then, did Jiang Wuxie, whose cultivation was merely at the Dragon Ascending realm, rely upon to stand alongside them?

Upon what did he rely to become the master of the Nourishing Heart Palace?

This single spear strike, perhaps, was the answer!

Before this moment, Lei Zhanqian had flashed past Jiang Wuxie with astonishing speed, then met Li Fengyao’s arrow with a fist, and then turned again, once more avoiding Jiang Wuxie, to decisively kill Fang Chong on the spot.

Li Fengyao had seized the perfect timing, a Frost Heart Arrow forcing a conclusion to the situation.

And Jiang Wuxie, whom Lei Zhanqian had brushed past, seemed unable to keep up with the speed, always just missing Lei Zhanqian. Yet, he leisurely turned his long spear.

His actions appeared so clear, so casual.

He even only turned his head halfway, facing Lei Zhanqian with but one side of his face.

That side of his face was distinctly feminine, yet carried a kind of suffocating sharpness.

These two seemingly contradictory words achieved unity in the gorgeous red hue.

His person had not yet fully turned.

His spear had already turned back.

Red Luan is a spear of resplendent red.

This long spear was magnificent to the extreme, from the red tassel to the spear tail, every detail noble. However, when the spear thrust out, the bystanders’ vision remained focused only on the spear tip.

Extreme gorgeous red condensed into a single point.

This single point of red stunned the world.

It overshadowed a hundred colors, dividing heaven and earth.

When it emerged, it was dazzling; when it struck, it was law.

The monarch desires the minister to die, and the minister must die.

Natural, beyond any doubt!

The horizontality of heaven, the verticality of earth, Jiang Wuxie’s Red Luan Spear!

Even the warriors of the Red Thunder Department, who had merely watched from beginning to end, seeing this spear, felt that Lei Zhanqian was undoubtedly destined to die.

Red Thunder Yan herself possessed extraordinary strength. Though her superhuman powers were suppressed, her eyesight remained keen, and she had full confidence in Lei Zhanqian. But upon seeing this spear, her beautiful face also lost its color!

This was a spear embodying the Heavenly Classic and Earthly Warp, a spear of dividing rule. Merely based on this single spear, Jiang Wuxie’s understanding of the Supreme Purple Micro Central Heaven Canon’s Heavenly Classic and Earth Warp was in no way inferior to any imperial prince or princess of the Great Qi.

He already displayed the posture of a king!

The Frost Heart Arrow, the Red Luan single spear.

Never rehearsed, yet so tacitly coordinated, instantly forcing Lei Zhanqian to a dead end.

And Fang Chong, after being defeated once, still dared to show up. How could he truly be weak?

As Li Fengyao and Jiang Wuxie’s offensives were unleashed, Lei Zhanqian’s killing momentum was slightly affected, and he already perceived an opportunity. From within his bosom, he took out a Qi Knife Coin, pressing it towards Lei Zhanqian with a single finger.

Unlike the knife coin he had previously used to achieve “Money and Goods Both Settled,” that one was condensed from Dao Yuan, a technique manifested, thick with purple qi, dissipating after a single use.

This one, however, was a true, physical knife coin.

And it was one of the most widely collected, circulated, and handled knife coins since the establishment of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance.

The knife coin was pushed forward from Fang Chong’s fingertip.

Merely a single knife coin, light as nothing, yet he seemed to exert his full force, all three Inner Mansions within his body rumbling and activating.

The Shang family technique, “One coin can stump a heroic man!”

A single coin is insignificant, but when truly needed, it is indispensable.

It carried the bustling spirit of humanity, wrapping the rolling red dust.

And with this human spirit, this dust spirit, this turbid spirit, it aimed to limit Lei Zhanqian here, to “stump” this hero. To make Lei Zhanqian unable to move an inch, to receive death while alive!

Only at this moment did Fang Chong display the strength of a first-class executive of the Four Seas Merchant Alliance, a formidable Three Mansions expert.

These three top experts in this life-and-death chess game joined hands, a combined attack solely to strike down Lei Zhanqian.

In such an intense moment, suddenly, thunder light dazzled!

Lei Zhanqian himself took no action, but thunder light exploded from within him, yet gathered with extreme speed in front of him.

Because it was too fast, too intense.

The electric light crackled incessantly.

And finally, in a moment of quietude, all the dazzling thunder light converged.

Thus, the Frost Heart Arrow, thus, the Red Luan single strike, thus, the coin to stump the hero, all temporarily stagnated.

In front of Lei Zhanqian, floated a seal gathered from thunder light.

Below were the four sides of the earth; above was the shape of lightning.

Overbearing, majestic.

Making one have an immediate impulse to prostrate and worship upon sight.

This was Lei Zhanqian’s renowned divine ability—

Thunder Seal!

This divine ability was claimed to “print heaven and earth with one seal, I am the master of thunder and lightning.”

The Lei family’s highest canon is the “Nine Heavens Thunder Evolution Decision.” Legend has it that cultivating it to the end allows one to “substitute the image of heaven with the image of thunder, and perform myriad laws with the law of thunder.”

However, even the ancestor of the Lei family who created this merit law never cultivated to this realm.

Legend says that to achieve this highest realm, the prerequisite is to master the Thunder Seal divine ability.

This is also why Lei Zhanqian is the undisputed heir of the Lei family.

The Lei family is the maternal clan of the Eleventh Imperial Prince Jiang Wuqi, yet Jiang Wuqi cannot control all of the Lei family’s resources.

The Lei family’s resources are first controlled by Lei Zhanqian. Under Lei Zhanqian’s control, they then greatly support Jiang Wuqi. His relationship with Jiang Wuqi is more like cooperation than that of monarch and minister.

Jiang Wuqi has always addressed him only as cousin, not using official titles, to show respect.

Lei Zhanqian himself is a Two Mansions realm expert, one mansion less than Fang Chong. However, because of this single Thunder Seal, he is many times stronger than Fang Chong!

As the Thunder Seal appeared, Lei Zhanqian directly unleashed a fist towards the heavens!

The sky of the Life and Death Chess Game was originally a blue sky, no different from the outside world, save for the high-hanging Tian Shu.

But with this single fist from Lei Zhanqian, a vast area above the blue sky instantly became dotted with thunder light like stars. For a time, it was impossible to distinguish whether it was thunder light or starlight.

Li Fengyao’s Frost Heart Arrow clearly flew towards him, yet Lei Zhanqian remained motionless, only a single point of thunder light star falling from the sky.

Jiang Wuxie urged Red Luan to deliver a finishing strike, and similarly, only exchanged for a single point of thunder light star streaking across the sky.

Fang Chong wanted to stump the heroic man with a single coin. Lei Zhanqian himself advanced, only a single point of thunder light star fixed in the sky.

This one fist, heaven sent killing intent, stars shifted!

The three offensives were already resolved, yet there were still hundreds and thousands of thunder light stars.

Under the illumination of the thunder light stars, numbering in the thousands, Lei Zhanqian again unleashed a fist towards the earth.

The rule fog that originally permeated the Life and Death Chess Game obscured vision. But surging thunder light suddenly manifested concrete light within that rule fog!

The “water” of thunder and lightning surged from the earth, suddenly several hectares of thunder light, like a lake or sea of thunder light!

The thunder sea divided, and dragon or snake thunder shapes leaped out, tearing and biting at each person.

Earth sent killing intent, dragons and snakes rose on the land!

In Seven Stars Valley, Lei Zhanqian had already used this method of killing.

However, with or without the blessing of the Thunder Seal, the might differed by a vast gulf!

As this one fist fell, Li Fengyao, Jiang Wuxie, and Fang Chong were all surrounded by thunder light.

Amidst the exploding thunder light, Lei Zhanqian appeared like a god or a demon.

One fist resolved the enemy siege, one fist broke the enemy momentum.

And he raised his fist, unleashing a third strike—

Man sent killing intent, heaven and earth reversed!