Chapter 361: Main God Space (17)

Winds and clouds surged violently.

With a single step from Su Chen, the endless shackles binding him shattered in an instant.

"Great Saint peak!"

The Zhao Clan elders sensed the suddenly erupting powerful aura and their expressions turned to shock.

Su Chen's small figure hovering above the Zhao Clan seemed to grow rapidly... It was a method they could not comprehend. Su Chen's body showed no physical change, yet when they looked at him now, it felt like ants gazing up at an elephant or mayflies contemplating the vast sky.

The sky darkened!

A massive, sharp-edged palm print descended. Its five fingers spread apart as it pressed down fiercely upon the Zhao Clan below.

Countless formations collapsed. Massive islands larger than stars within the Zhao Clan territory shattered. Great rivers and lakes evaporated. Zhao Clan disciples with weaker cultivations turned into blood mist in an instant, and even the elders gradually followed in their footsteps.

No matter how they fled or struggled, they could not escape the reach of those five fingers.

One palm had destroyed more than half of the Zhao Clan's territory. The aura of destruction spread like expanding flames in all directions, alerting the major orthodoxies of Heavenly Eastern Dao Province to the crisis. They all turned their gazes toward the Zhao Clan.

The Zhao Clan, one of the Emperor Clans of Heavenly Eastern Dao Province, had declined but still possessed an Emperor weapon. Moreover, more than a decade ago, the Zhao Clan had undergone earth-shaking changes. They now had more than one Quasi-Emperor, and they had even produced a terrifying genius whose talent surpassed the ages. He was hailed as someone destined to become an Emperor. Countless orthodoxies had vied to curry favor and invest in them.

"The Zhao Clan's grand formation has been destroyed..."

"No, it's not just the grand formation. The Zhao Clan territory itself is facing a terrible crisis!"

"The Zhao Clan territory is gone!"

This sudden event caused the major orthodoxies to awaken their own ancestors in an attempt to investigate what had happened to the Zhao Clan.

The answer they all received was the same.

The Zhao Clan was in peril!

Above the Zhao Clan.

Uncle Chen stared at the devastated landscape in shock. The Zhao Clan had been wiped out with a single palm?

The destruction of the Zhao Clan territory was not the end for Su Chen.

An Emperor Clan like this had multiple hidden lairs. It was impossible to destroy them so easily. In other words... the ones he had killed with that palm were merely insignificant people.

The Zhao Clan's true foundations still remained.

Su Chen looked in one direction.

"Enough. Stop."

A gentle breeze dispersed the smoke and haze. A wrinkled man emerged and sighed softly at Su Chen. "You are ultimately a member of my Zhao Clan, with the blood of the Zhao Clan flowing in your veins. I know the hatred in your heart for what happened back then. Now you have destroyed the clan grounds, and those who harmed you in the past are already dead. Continuing further serves no purpose."

Though the newcomer showed no aura, he seemed to merge with heaven and earth.

This was a Quasi-Emperor realm powerhouse!

The Fifth Ancestor of the Zhao Clan!

He looked at Su Chen with a complicated expression.

As the ancestor closest to Su Chen's branch back then, he naturally recognized both Su Chen and the old man beside him.

The surviving orphan of that branch had come knocking.

The strength Su Chen displayed filled him with both surprise and fear. Peak Great Saint, yet his combat power was in no way inferior to his own!

Su Chen's face remained calm, as if he had merely crushed a group of ants. There was no joy of revenge in his expression.

"No purpose?"

Su Chen spoke softly, "Are you saying that stealing my aptitude in exchange for protection from the upper realm was meaningful?"

The Fifth Ancestor of the Zhao Clan trembled. His calm demeanor vanished as he cried out in horror, "How do you know..."

He did not finish the sentence.

But Su Chen had already received the answer he sought.

The disappearance of his aptitude in this life had not been an accident.

Everything traced back to profit.

The Fifth Ancestor realized he had lost composure. He quickly regained it and sighed. "You have made a grave mistake. Surrender and I will treat you with leniency."

Su Chen felt that this old man must have lost his mind. Did he still see him as a junior he could handle at will?

The Fifth Ancestor suddenly noticed that the power of heaven and earth had, at some point, turned into a binding force.

Bang!

With a single slap, the Fifth Ancestor's physical body exploded. Blood qi filled the sky alongside a translucent soul body. The soul stared in terror at the scene. "I am your ancestor!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, vast black currents transformed into a terrifying ferocious beast that swallowed the blood qi and the Fifth Ancestor's soul in one gulp. Boundless black light erupted from Su Chen's body, sweeping across the nine heavens and ten lands and piercing through the Dao Province in an instant!

Su Chen's cultivation had reached the Quasi-Emperor realm, yet his aura resembled that of a reborn ancient Emperor!

Behind Su Chen, a terrifying Taotie phantom appeared. It reached into a certain space, then lowered its head. Its two blood-moon-like pupils stared down at the "ants" below with brutal ferocity.

This was the Zhao Clan's true ancestral land—their real foundation.

"You... how dare you!"

The Zhao Clan ancestors sensed the crisis and began to awaken. One of them looked up and saw a massive head staring at them through a huge hole. The terrifying beast's eyes locked onto them as if regarding them as... snacks?

"No!"

The Fourth Ancestor, who spoke first, was directly swallowed when the giant head reached into the hole. Accompanied by echoing screams, the remaining Zhao Clan ancestors felt their bodies turn ice-cold. In that instant, they had lost consciousness and could not muster any resistance. They could only watch helplessly as the Fourth Ancestor was devoured in one bite.

A Quasi-Emperor had died just like that.

The terrifying beast seemed unsatisfied. It looked at the remaining Zhao Clan ancestors and began devouring them one by one with great relish.

The scene was bloody and brutal.

"We must awaken the Emperor weapon!"

A silhouette slowly unfurled. It was a painting scroll that contained extreme Dao power. This was the Emperor weapon left behind by the Zhao Clan's Great Emperor, now revealing its full might!

The remaining Zhao Clan ancestors awakened the Emperor weapon. Its Emperor might surged forth.

"The Zhao Clan has even deployed their Emperor weapon."

"Could it be that some supreme being has emerged regardless of the consequences and is attacking the Zhao Clan?"

News of the Zhao Clan's Emperor weapon appearing could not be concealed. Its terrifying aura was strong enough to easily sink the Central Province. More forces grew alarmed, wondering whether an Emperor-level war was about to erupt.