Investigation

This shout completely stunned the thousands of cultivators in front of the city gate.

This is insane!

An Early Nascent Soul stage cultivator from the Southern Region actually dared to draw his sword, point it at the nose of the Divine City's patrol commander, and curse him?!

The triangular-eyed commander's smile froze completely, then transformed into boundless gloom and ferocity.

"You're asking for it."

The commander's eyes revealed a murderous intent, and his half-step into the Deity Transformation realm no longer held back, transforming into a tangible deep blue gale that swept across the entire arena.

He didn't even bother to draw his full heavy sword. Instead, he raised his right hand, covered in dragon scale armor, and with the force to shatter mountains and split rocks, slapped Chen Changqing hard across the face!

"Smack!"

If this palm strike lands firmly, not only will Chen Changqing's facial bones be shattered, but his Nascent Soul in his Sea of Consciousness will also be shattered!

Mo Wendao was so terrified that his soul almost left his body, and he screamed in anguish.

"Sect Leader, quickly hide!"

Chen Changqing gritted his teeth, a desperate madness flashing in his eyes. Instead of retreating, he advanced, mobilizing all his True Essence to prepare to self-destruct his Golden Core Nascent Soul to take the slap head-on!

However, the giant, armored hand that covered half the sky stopped abruptly just three inches from Chen Changqing's face.

It wasn't that the commander was holding back.

Instead, the entire Void suddenly froze in a strange way.

The flowing wind stopped, the falling dust froze in mid-air, and even the array runes flowing on the city gate paused for a moment.

Chen Fan, whose hand was being held tightly by Chen Changqing, slowly released his father's fingers.

He spat the tasteless grass he had been chewing onto the ground, patted off non-existent dust from his sleeves, and calmly stepped half a step out from behind Chen Changqing's broad body.

The eleven-year-old boy was slender and had delicate features, but his clear black and white eyes were as deep as a bottomless Abyss that could devour billions of Stars.

"The old man is right."

Chen Fan raised his head and stared directly at the triangular-eyed commander whose face gradually changed from ferocious to terrified. His voice was childish, but his tone was so calm that it sent chills down one's spine.

"A mongrel dog used for guarding the house, who gave you the audacity to lay a hand on my father?"

The triangular-eyed commander's pupils dilated wildly. He wanted to open his mouth and shout angrily, wanting to unleash his inner True Essence to smash this brat in front of him into mincemeat.

But to his horror, he discovered that his blood, True Essence Sea of Consciousness, and even his Divine Soul were forcibly welded shut by a terrifying will so vast that it defied description!

That's a power that cultivators simply cannot possess!

That was... a wisp of gaze descending upon the mortal realm from the supreme ruler who sits atop the starry sky and holds the reins of Ten Thousand Dao and death!

"Snap!"

There was no dazzling true Primordial Spirit, nor any earth-shattering roar.

Chen Fan simply raised his right hand, flicked his sleeve, and pressed down lightly with his palm facing down.

"Boom!!"

The entire area of Heaven-Piercing Gate of the Divine City, spanning a thousand zhang in radius, suddenly sank three zhang!

The ancient Obsidian slabs covering the city gate were instantly crushed into dust, and the seemingly indestructible defensive pillars cracked open like a spiderweb.

The patrol commander, who was half a step into the Deity Transformation stage, didn't even have time to scream. His entire body, along with his priceless Earth-rank gilded armor, was slammed into the bottom of the deep pit like a fly struck by an invisible giant hammer!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Immediately following was a series of rapid cracking sounds as the eleven golden-armored patrol guards accompanying him all had their knees shattered, bones piercing their flesh, blood gushing out, and they knelt neatly at the edge of the pit, unable to move!

The smoke and dust cleared.

The area within a radius of a hundred feet was transformed into a flat, deep, palm-print-like pit.

At the bottom center of the pit, the once arrogant triangular-eyed commander coughed up blood from all seven orifices, his limbs and bones were shattered, and his half-step Deity Transformation Dao Fruit was crushed and cracked all over his body. He lay paralyzed in the pool of blood like a dead dog, convulsing violently, with only boundless horror and despair in his eyes.

One palm strike.

Without even a slight fluctuation of spiritual energy, the invisible pressure alone crippled a commander of twelve elite soldiers!

Tens of thousands of cultivators stood completely silent before and after the city gates.

The wind stopped, and breathing ceased.

The rogue cultivators queuing to enter the city were trembling, too weak to even muster the strength to run away.

On the left side of the Vermilion Bird Road, the top sect warships that were speeding along suddenly came to an abrupt halt in mid-air. Several powerful Deity Transformation Divine Sense suddenly emerged from the carriages, locking onto the composed young man in front of the pit, their expressions filled with disbelief.

Mo Wendao his mouth wide, his jaw nearly dislocated.

Chen Changqing remained in the posture of drawing his sword and fighting desperately, staring blankly at the commander spitting blood in the deep pit, then looked down at his youngest son who was less than chest-high in front of him, his whole body as still as a clay or wooden sculpture.

"Fan... Fan'er? You..."

Chen Changqing's mind was buzzing, and his tongue was completely tied in knots.

Chen Fan clapped his hands, his expression completely calm, as if he had just casually swatted a passing mosquito.

He walked back to Chen Changqing's side, took his father's rough and sweaty hand again, looked up and smiled, his eyes full of innocent harmlessness.

"Father, what are you staring at? The road is open, let's go into town."

Chen Changqing nodded mechanically, feeling dizzy as his son pulled him forward.

As he stepped across the threshold of the Heaven-Piercing Gate, which was covered in blood and rubble, Mo Wendao even instinctively held his breath, fearing that he might trigger the city wall's great formation and be killed.

Surprisingly, the city-protecting killing array above, which had dominated the Central Region for thousands of years, emitted a faint mournful cry the moment the young man stepped in. All the dark golden killing array patterns withdrew and retreated, as if they were giving way to some unapproachable supreme deity.

Chen Fan, holding Chen Changqing's hand, stepped through the mess on the ground and into the deathly silence of the trembling crowd, and entered the Southern Nation Immortal Alliance Divine City with dignity.

And at the highest point of Heaven-Piercing Gate, at the very top of the shadow of the towering city tower.

A Black Jade Ancient Sword floating in the Void trembled slightly. A late-stage Deity Transformation Inspector wearing a Nine Luminaries Star Robe slowly opened his eyes, staring intently at the small figure on the street.

"Lacking spiritual roots and without magical power, yet it has triggered the laws of gravity of heaven and earth..."

"What kind of monster comes from the Southern Region?"

Inspector Lu Jiuyuan gripped the Black Jade Ancient Sword at his waist, his wide Nine Luminaries robe fluttering in the fierce wind.

As a late-stage Deity Transformation cultivator directly under the Immortal Alliance, he had held the power of patrolling the Heaven-Piercing Gate for two hundred years. Had he ever witnessed such a bizarre scene before?

Without the slightest fluctuation of magical power, and without even causing a tremor in the surrounding spiritual energy, with just a light press of his palm, a half-step Nascent Deity Transformation and twelve elite warriors clad in Earth-rank heavy armor were nailed into the depths of the earth's veins like mud.

"How could such a physical body be cultivated in the desolate Southern Region?"

Lu Jiuyuan's eyes were gloomy as he brushed two fingers together across his eyes.

"Nine Luminaries Void-Gazing, Imperial Decree!"

Two pale white lights suddenly appeared in his eyes, and nine illusory, rotating Stars were reflected deep within his pupils.

This is his innate secret technique, capable of penetrating the physical body and Divine Soul barrier of cultivators, directly observing lifespan, Dao Fruit, and even the river of destiny.

Even the concealment techniques of a peak Nascent Deity Transformation cultivator would be torn open by these eyes.