Feng Zhiming sighed as the veil he cast so perfectly was torn apart like a piece of paper.

The three divine senses along with his art of Demonic Suppression had been undone like a loose knot.

Aaron took another step and appeared before Feng Zhiming.

“You’re a tainted one.” he spoke.

“Quite rude for a holy man.” Feng Zhiming replied, an annoyed expression present on his face.

He knew it was just one step back and he would be pushed into the heart, just one measly step.

Anissa, Ellia and Lyra were already on the floor, pinned and unable to withstand Aaron's pressure.

Madam Hua was facing a backlash, blood started to spurt from her mouth.

She had been violating an oath she made to protect Feng Zhiming and the Dao was punishing her.

However it was something she could do nothing about, if she attacked Arron it was equivalent to dooming the Elysium guild. Even if the oath killed her she would not move to protect Feng Zhiming, in fact she knew that if Feng Zhiming died she would as well.”

Feng Zhiming knew that if he made a singular wrong move, he would die.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t prepared for death, he just felt that as long as he could resist he should.

“Holy knight was it?”

Aaron ignored him while grasping onto the sigil on his neck and praying. It was something he would do before taking a life.

To him Feng Zhiming was already dead, he was just the harvester of his soul.

“Should I be given a chance to confess my sins? Seek salvation?”

Aaron sighed.

“There is no salvation for the tainted.” He said as he reached for the golden hilted sword that hung from his waist.

Feng Zhiming did not seem worried.

“You would kill me, without telling me why I deserve to die.”

Aaron hesitated for a moment and he stopped drawing his sword.

“You are to be executed because you are tainted, and I am ordained to extinguish such filth.”

Feng Zhiming did what he did best, put on a show. He amplified his voice using Qi and began to speak to every party present.

“And what faith is it, that ordains you with such a task.”

Aaron replied in a dignified tone.

“Followers of the Maiden, that is the common name but we have many others, arbiters of luminosity, seekers of the Everbright.”

“And your religion tells you to execute someone you found unclean? It seems very violent, not to mention unjust and barbaric.”

As he finished his last word Aaron’s sword cut Feng Zhiming’s head so cleanly that for a few seconds, he did not realize it had been cut.

Only when he felt some blood trickle down his neck did he understand that he had been decapitated.

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He was fine as the injury regenerated before he even noticed it, but he became more vigilant, talking this knight down was no longer an option. He didn’t seem as easily swayed with words as Dolly was.

Anissa began to shout profanities at Aaron.

“BASTARD! Bullying juniors, go battle the elders of his Heavenly Divine Demon Sect!”

She kept trying to stand but the pressure was too great, in her head the image of Aaron and Dao Lord Fury began to overlap in her head.

Even when she half got up her bones would snap under the pressure, yet the moment they healed she would try to stand again, to others she looked like she was going insane.

But in her heart she couldn't permit the weakness she felt before, she couldn't sit there and be pushed to powerlessness again.

Ellia and Lyra were also bleeding out from their mouths, the oath was holding them to their promise.

Aaron ignored Anissa’s insults and did not take his eyes off Feng Zhiming for even a moment, he was not one to get careless.

“Do not insult my religion by calling it barbaric, all you have to blame is your ignorance.”

Feng Zhiming rubbed his neck, wiping the blood from it, he felt a sense of deja vu, his neck had become a popular cutting board these days.

“You’re right I am ignorant, so educate me, like a proper judge and executioner tell me what I am guilty of and I will comply.”

Aaron paused for a moment and looked at Feng Zhiming.

He sighed.

“It seems the maiden grants me mercy yet.” He thought to himself as he stabbed his sword into the ground.

“You tainted one, you are charged with the crime of conspiracy against order, against the goddess and against the Eternal Throne.”

There was a brief silence, Feng Zhiming took this chance to get a word in.

“I plead n-”

“You plead guilty.” Aaron interrupted his not guilty plea.

Feng Zhiming looked at him with a half amused half intrigued face.

Aaron picked up his sword again.

“That’s it, no proof, no evidence and no justification?” Feng Zhiming said as the sword rested on his abdomen, mere inches from his core.

The blade pierced his abdomen as Aaron spoke.

“You still don’t get it? It's you, you’re the proof.”

Anissa forced herself up from the pressure, despite the impossible odds.

"DON'T YOU DARE!" She screamed.

Her aura erupted and her divine sense took a quantitative leap, she had taken the pressure from Aaron's divine sense and used it as a catalyst to condense her own soul.

She had broken into the condensed stage of Spiritual Awakening.

Aaron turned his head to look at her.

"A breakthrough at this point, lay down lest you shatter your own foundation girl, he's not who you think he is."

Somehow she managed to stand when she should not have been able to.

Feng Zhiming looked at her with a pleasantly surprised expression.

She unsheathed her sword and got into a fighting stance.

*Crack*

*Shatter*

Under the pressure of Aaron's Divine sense the sword shattered.

"Stay down, I have no desire to slay innocents and the deceived." Aaron spoke as he turned his gaze back to Feng Zhiming.

The pressure increased threefold and Anissa not only fell to the ground but began to sink.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" She continued to scream as she was crushed into the ground

Daiyu looked down at scene, her hands were tingling from anticipation.

“Is it possible that the monster will be cut from the stem, unable to grow?” she thought to herself as she saw the sword penetrate his stomach.

She quickly snapped out of her thoughts as she clutched her head in pain, suddenly without warning images flashed by in her mind, her anticipatory expression quickly changed to panic, She jumped from the ship and began to desperately fly to the Holy Knight.

Feng Zhiming smirked, despite death being a hair's breadth away.

“Where exactly is that proof zealot, why don’t you take a closer look?!”

As he said this his left hand reached for his blindfold and tore it off, revealing the swirling abyss that existed in his left eye.

Aaron was speechless, how had this tainted one managed to move under the pressure of his Divine Sense

He was definitely paralyzed, but the one thing had not accounted for was the fact that Feng Zhiming’s tainted left arm was resistant to Divine sense like his eye and thus it was able to move despite the pressure. A fact that only Feng Zhiming was aware of up to this point.

“NO SIR HOLY KNIGHT! DON'T LET HIM!” A shout came from Daiyu who had been flying towards them.

However it was too late.

The Holy Knight’s Divine sense that had been encompassing Feng Zhiming was involuntarily sucked into the eye for a moment.

“If your goddess were truly divine, she would have struck me down where I stand.” Feng Zhiming said as he walked backwards.

He was only free of the Holy knight’s divine sense for a moment but that was enough. He touched the boundary with the back of his heel.

A woman’s voice echoed from the mountain as a white light engulfed all of them.

“Enter and fulfill your morbid greed.”