Jiang Wuming’s image, holding Anthony @ Roman with one hand, appeared before the global audience.
Time stopped at this moment.
The image froze at this moment.
Was the battle about to end?
The sudden scene made almost everyone’s eyes widen. They stared intently at the live combat feed, asking themselves in their hearts.
“Jiang Wuming seemed to be in a bad situation just now, but in an instant, he counterattacked and reversed it. It’s simply unbelievable! However, the battle isn’t over yet. According to the detectors on the drones, there are still energy fluctuations at the half-step Heavenly God realm at the battle scene. This means that Jiang Wuming and Anthony @ Roman are still fighting in the mental realm!”
As if to clarify for the audience, the special guest in the Divine Net live broadcast suddenly spoke, stating the current combat situation.
This was indeed the case.
Anthony @ Roman was a cunning old fox and a ruthless man who would never give up until the last moment.
Years ago, when he was possessed by an extraterrestrial mental power expert, he feigned weakness and did not resist with his mental will. Then, at the moment of soul fusion, he self-destructed his soul, choosing mutual destruction.
However, after the soul self-destruction, a fragment of his soul contained Anthony @ Roman’s mental consciousness. Relying on his powerful and tenacious mental will, he slowly absorbed mental energy and merged with other soul fragments, eventually becoming the victor.
At this moment, even though he was being held by the neck by Jiang Wuming, he did not give up. Instead, he desperately launched a mental attack.
However, because he had used a forbidden technique earlier, consuming his primordial mental energy and suffering a backlash, which injured his soul, the power of his current attacks was greatly reduced. He was unable to pose any threat to Jiang Wuming.
Soon, Jiang Wuming completely neutralized Anthony @ Roman’s mental attack. However, he did not immediately crush Anthony @ Roman’s neck. Instead, a white light flashed in his eyes, and he launched a mental attack on Anthony @ Roman!
This was the first time Jiang Wuming had actively used his mental domain to attack Anthony @ Roman today.
In an instant, a terrifying mental power entered Anthony @ Roman’s mental space, evolving into a Yin-Yang grinding mill. It contained the supreme Yin-Yang laws of heaven and earth, rotating and attacking Anthony @ Roman’s soul.
Anthony @ Roman desperately defended and neutralized Jiang Wuming’s mental grinding mill attack, but ultimately it was futile. His soul was cut and destroyed by more than half, suffering unimaginable heavy blows, and he withered away.
“Your soul aura had clearly disappeared before, why did it reappear, and your soul is not damaged at all? How did you avoid the time storm?!”
After his counterattack failed and his soul was heavily damaged, Anthony @ Roman discovered that Jiang Wuming had not let down his guard and had kept the mental grinding mill in his mental space. He understood at that moment that his life was over. He stopped struggling and stared with wide, ghost-like eyes at Jiang Wuming, who was within arm’s reach.
Previously, he had used Saint Lun @ Roman as a cannon fodder. Seizing the opportunity when Jiang Wuming killed Saint Lun @ Roman, he launched a forbidden technique against Jiang Wuming. This was his trump card, and he thought he had killed Jiang Wuming. In the end, however, he discovered that he had not caused any harm to Jiang Wuming.
This made him incredulous and overturned his understanding of the mental domain!
At this moment, he wanted to know what had happened.
“Anthony @ Roman, twenty years ago, in order to fulfill your ambition for power, you attempted to defile my mother and have a child with her, but failed. After your actions were exposed, you colluded with the entire hunting squad of the War God Hall to cover up the truth and cruelly killed my parents. Yet, you were not brought to justice, which led to the first major schism between the War God Hall and the global martial arts world!
And after my identity was exposed, your Roman family, led by you and your father, launched assassination attempts against me again and again, even coercing and enticing other major powers to eliminate me…”
Jiang Wuming did not satisfy Anthony @ Roman’s curiosity. Instead, he held Anthony @ Roman’s neck and, in front of global martial artists and many secular people, listed the crimes of Anthony @ Roman, Saint Lun @ Roman, and the Roman family.
However—
When Jiang Wuming was halfway through his speech, Anthony @ Roman suddenly roared emotionally:
“You… how did you do it?!”
“Anthony @ Roman deserves to be executed! The Roman family deserves to be annihilated!”
Jiang Wuming said coldly, as if responding to Anthony @ Roman, and even more like passing judgment.
“Tell… tell me…”
Anthony @ Roman was unwilling. He still wanted to say something.
However, this time, Jiang Wuming gave him no opportunity.
“Pfft—
Blood splattered. Jiang Wuming crushed Anthony @ Roman’s neck on the spot, in front of global audiences!
“Bang!”
Immediately, Anthony @ Roman’s blood-stained head fell to the ground.
In the morning light, it was clear that his eyes were wide open, filled with an unwillingness to die!
He never dreamed that he, who was infinitely close to the true Heavenly God realm, would eventually die at Jiang Wuming’s hands, and without even knowing how he was defeated!
He could only leave this world with anger, unwillingness, and confusion, and go to hell to repent!
“Well killed!”
“The maggots of the Roman family have corrupted the War God Hall for too long!”
“Yes, they have long forgotten the original intention of the War God Hall’s establishment – to protect this world!”
“I support Master Jiang Wuming to become the Hall Master of the War God Hall and lead humanity to resist extraterrestrial enemies!”
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Seeing Anthony @ Roman killed, the previously silent Divine Net live broadcast instantly erupted. Barrages of messages appeared one after another, from Dragon Country martial artists and martial artists from other countries. Almost everyone chose to believe the evidence previously presented by Jiang Wuming, supporting Jiang Wuming in eliminating the scourge of the Roman family. Some even suggested that Jiang Wuming lead the War God Hall.
Jiang Wuming was unaware of all this, nor could he see it.
While global martial artists were furiously discussing in the comments, Jiang Wuming flashed and left the square, entering the ancient castle.
He clearly sensed that there were still some martial artists and mental power cultivators within the ancient castle.
Those were all reserve forces secretly cultivated by Anthony @ Roman, and they had all witnessed the battle just now.
They chose to escape immediately, but in the end, none of them managed to escape. With Jiang Wuming’s current strength, even half-step Heavenly God realm powerhouses like Long Qi Sheng and Saint Lun @ Roman could not escape from his grasp!
After Jiang Wuming killed the reserve forces secretly cultivated by Anthony @ Roman, he sensed four auras appearing in the square.
He went to the square and found four elderly men kneeling in a row.
The patriarchs of the four great families of Europa!
The powerhouses of their families had all participated in the hijacking of Li Lianyi and the conspiracy against Jiang Wuming.
Previously, Jiang Wuming had retaliated against the five great families of the North American Alliance, the country of Nannao, the country of Ren, and the country of Tianzhu. He had not gone to Europa to seek revenge on the other four great families.
Before Jiang Wuming’s battle with Saint Lun @ Roman and Anthony @ Roman on Heavenly King Mountain, the patriarchs of the four great families of Europa had arrived around Sak Castle in advance.
They had witnessed the battle on Heavenly King Mountain, personally seen Jiang Wuming’s invincible demeanor, and now they came to kneel and apologize.
“Master Jiang Wuming, we four, along with the members of our four great families, will be loyal to you for eternity. Please spare our lives!”
Seeing Jiang Wuming appear, the patriarchs of the four great families unanimously begged for mercy.
As their voices fell, they all kowtowed with great effort. The sound of their heads hitting the ground was incessant, and their foreheads instantly became bloody.
“I do not need your loyalty.”
Jiang Wuming coldly rejected the overtures of allegiance from the patriarchs of the four great families, causing their hearts to plummet. He then gave them hope, saying, “If you want me to spare you and your clansmen, you must do two things.”
“Please tell us!”
The patriarchs of the four great families felt as if they had returned to heaven from hell. They trembled with excitement, their voices quaking.
“First, annihilate the Roman family!
Second, participate fully in the war against extraterrestrial forces!”
Jiang Wuming said with a blank expression.
“Yes!”
The patriarchs of the four great families responded immediately, as if receiving orders.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Wuming stopped talking and vanished with a flash of his figure.
“Whew…”
Seeing this, the patriarchs of the four great families exchanged a look of lingering fear and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, they also quickly left the Sak Castle square to carry out the tasks assigned by Jiang Wuming.
On that day, the Roman family manor was bloodied. Everyone in the manor was killed by the allied forces formed by the four great families. Some Roman family members who had escaped in advance also did not survive.
Following Jiang Wuming’s battle on Heavenly King Mountain at Sak Castle, the extermination of the Roman family by the four great families once again shocked the global martial arts world.
However—
Before the global martial artists could recover from their shock, another piece of news that shook the global martial arts world spread.
The Underworld Hall issued an announcement on the dark web and Divine Net forums: All members of the Underworld Hall have joined the Battle Dragon Hall, recognizing Jiang Wuming as their king!
“Is Jiang Wuming unwilling to rejoin the War God Hall, and instead wants to replace the War God Hall with the Battle Dragon Hall?”
The joining of the Underworld Hall to the Battle Dragon Hall shocked the global martial artists, and also caused concern. Many people discussed this on the Divine Net forums.
However, before they could reach a conclusion, the War God Hall officially issued an announcement: After careful consideration and decision by the Elder Council of the War God Hall, Long Qi Sheng of Dragon Country has been appointed as the Hall Master of the War God Hall, and he will lead all members of the War God Hall to strenuously resist the invasion of extraterrestrial enemies!
Long Qi Sheng, who had become the new Hall Master of the War God Hall, immediately posted a message on the Divine Net forums in his capacity as the Hall Master: On behalf of myself and the War God Hall, I apologize to Jiang Wuming and the couple Jiang Zhan and Ye Jinmei for all that the Roman family has done. I apologize to all members of the War God Hall, to all global martial artists and citizens! I guarantee that similar incidents will absolutely not occur in the War God Hall in the future! The War God Hall will also never forget its original intention and will fully protect this world!
After Long Qi Sheng published the post, Jiang Wuming also issued a statement on the dark web forums.
“There is an old saying in Dragon Country: 'Every wrong has its source, every debt has its owner.' Everything I have done is only directed at the Roman family, not at the War God Hall! I will no longer join the War God Hall, but I guarantee that the Battle Dragon Hall will not replace the War God Hall – the Battle Dragon Hall, along with the War God Hall, will jointly resist the invasion of extraterrestrial enemies and protect this world!”
As soon as this statement was published, it was reposted by the Divine Net forums and secular media, causing those who were worried to breathe a long sigh of relief.
Many years later, the global martial arts history records:
On that day.
Jiang Wuming of Dragon Country ascended to the pinnacle of martial arts, pacified internal strife with one battle, and laid the foundation for victory in the extraterrestrial war!
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