Is This the Legendary Mary

The time has come, Liu Ruyan. You have brought so many disasters to our Liu family and to Starfall City. Today, everything ends!

Liu Chen, the Patriarch of the Liu family, stepped onto the altar wielding a large broadsword. Liu Ruyan looked at him numbly. She had already accepted her fate; the only thing left for her to do was to wait for death's arrival.

Do not blame your uncle for being ruthless, Liu Chen said, his voice ice-cold as he stopped in front of her.

If you must blame someone, blame your own terrible fate. You were born a jinx. Death is your only option.

With that, Liu Chen raised the large broadsword high into the air. The blade exuded a chilling gleam. To prevent any accidents, he even channeled his Golden Core realm spiritual energy, infusing it into the blade.

The crowd in the plaza held their breath, countless pairs of eyes fixated on the descending edge of the sword. They seemed convinced that as long as this jinx, Liu Ruyan, died, all the misfortunes in their lives would be resolved.

The broadsword fell, accompanied by the sharp sound of tearing through the air.

However...

Just as the blade was less than three inches from Liu Ruyan's neck, a slender, clean, and distinctively jointed hand appeared out of thin air, blocking the space between the blade and her neck.

Damned system! Couldn't you have sent me a bit earlier? One second later and she would have been dead!

Looking at Liu Ruyan's thin clothing, the filth covering her body, and the horrifying wounds all over her, Qin Hao felt as if his heart had been ruthlessly gripped by an invisible hand.

Is this the future Fairy Miejue? That legendary mighty figure who would charge into the foreign realms alone, fight bloody battles for three thousand years, and suppress an entire era of the foreign realms? To think she was in such a miserable state right now!

A surge of heartache spread through Qin Hao's chest. With a casual wave of his hand, he released the bindings on Liu Ruyan.

The anticipated pain never came; instead, the ropes binding her were untied. Liu Ruyan opened her eyes in bewilderment. The first thing she saw was a young man in white, who had appeared in front of her at some unknown moment.

Using only two fingers, he effortlessly caught the broadsword that was powerful enough to cleave mountains and shatter stones. The young man stood tall and straight, completely unblemished by the filth and mess of the altar.

His face was extraordinarily handsome, almost unfairly so. His deep eyes seemed capable of devouring a person's soul. He exuded no powerful spiritual pressure or intimidating aura.

Yet, simply by standing there, he seemed to become the center of the universe.

Who... is he? Is he saving me? Why?

Liu Chen, seeing someone obstruct his execution, could not help but shout angrily:

Bastard! Where did you come from, you little beast, daring to meddle in the affairs of the Liu family! You're courting death!

Both shocked and furious, Liu Chen withdrew his broadsword, and his peak Golden Core realm cultivation instantly erupted.

Qin Hao's pupils constricted. The feeling this Golden Core realm cultivator, Liu Chen, gave him was actually more oppressive than the Nascent Soul realm cultivators of the future!

It wasn't just Liu Chen; everyone present gave Qin Hao a sense of pressure that far exceeded their respective realms.

The cultivators of this era are generally stronger than those in the future! Is it because the Great Dao in the future is flawed?

While Qin Hao was momentarily stunned, Liu Chen swung his broadsword, injecting all of his spiritual energy into the blade, and charged at Qin Hao.

Little beast, you want to save this jinx, right? Then I'll kill you along with her today!

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately drew the agreement of the crowd below:

That's right, kill him! What kind of good person would associate with a jinx? Killing him is ridding the three realms and nine heavens of a menace!

Kill! Kill! Kill!

Qin Hao's eyes narrowed slightly. Had Liu Ruyan always lived in such an environment? At this thought, an inexplicable wave of irritation washed over him.

He simply raised his left hand and, under Liu Chen's shocked gaze, caught the full-force strike with his bare flesh.

What! I used my full strength! How could he block it so effortlessly!

Liu Chen's mouth twitched uncontrollably. It was one thing for this guy to take his attack head-on with his physical body, but his full-strength strike could not even scratch the young man's skin!

Scram!

Qin Hao let out an explosive shout, pouring his sixth-level Soul Formation realm cultivation unreservedly onto Liu Chen.

Although Qin Hao lived in an era where the Great Dao was flawed, he possessed multiple supreme physiques. With the help of these supreme physiques, the quality of his spiritual energy had reached a terrifying level.

That single word burst forth like thunder from the highest heavens, roaring like an ancient god or demon.

A terrifying wave of spiritual energy was injected directly into Liu Chen's body. Before he could even react to what was happening, his body and soul instantly evaporated under the impact of this extremely pure spiritual energy.

The spot where Liu Chen stood seemed to have been erased in the most violent manner by an invisible hand. Only a charred, outwardly expanding circular blast mark remained to prove that Liu Chen had been a living person just a second ago.

Although the crowd below the altar was not directly hit by Qin Hao's spiritual energy, they were thrown off their feet by the terrifying shockwave. The few people closest to the altar had their flesh directly stripped away on the spot, leaving only empty skeletons.

In an instant, the entire plaza fell into dead silence. Everyone seemed as if they had been petrified, frozen in place with dull eyes and blank minds, completely losing the ability to think.

What had they just witnessed?

The Patriarch of the Liu family, Liu Chen at the peak of the Golden Core realm, was directly... roared out of existence by this young man's shout? And those standing closest, they were all Golden Core realm cultivators, right! The mere shockwave killed them all?

What level of power was this?

Someone snapped out of it and tried to flee, but after seeing that horrifying scene, their legs shook like leaves in the wind the moment they took a step, causing them to collapse onto the ground before they could even move away.

You all deserve to die too!

Qin Hao looked coldly at the people below the altar, raising his hand to obliterate them all.

Please, let them go.

Liu Ruyan, kneeling on the ground, grabbed the hem of Qin Hao's pants. It's all my fault. If you want to kill someone, just kill me.

Hearing this, Qin Hao couldn't help but reveal a complex expression. These people had treated her like this, yet she was still pleading for them? Is this the legendary ultimate saint?

This thought was thrown out of his mind as soon as it appeared. He absolutely did not believe that someone crowned with the title of extinction by future generations would be a naive saint.

Looking again at Liu Ruyan's breathtakingly beautiful face, Qin Hao noticed that her eyes were hollow. The look of despair and the desire for death within them made Qin Hao's heart tremble.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Seeing Qin Hao staring at her, Liu Ruyan thought her action of grabbing his pants had made him unhappy. After all, everyone hated her, believing she was an omen of bad luck and that being near her would bring misfortune.

Liu Ruyan figured that Qin Hao was probably just like everyone else, thinking she was filthy and brought bad luck, so she apologized to him again and again.