Appetizer

Chen Changqing quickly stepped forward, took out an oil paper package from his pocket, and stuffed it into Chen Fan's hand.

"Xiao Fan, these are freshly baked Thousand-Layer Spirit Pancake. Eat them on the way..."

Chen Fan took a bite, the crispy and fragrant taste filling his mouth, and the corners of his mouth curved into a smile.

"Good."

He tucked the oil paper package into his clothes, just about to give the order to set off.

"Snap!!"

Without warning, the Firmament above let out a shrill, deafening roar.

The vast sky was like a mirror struck by a giant hammer, instantly cracking into Ten Thousand Dao dark Spatial Rift!

Dense, impenetrable Crimson Blood Fiend Clouds poured wildly into the crack, instantly turning the clear blue sky of the Southern Nation blood red. Immediately afterward, one after another, Crimson Blood Dragon Boats as large as mountains smashed through the World Barrier and soared into the sky!

One, ten, a hundred... a full three thousand!

The warships obscured the Sun and Moon, casting a dark shadow that completely enveloped the entire Southern Nation continent.

"Boom!!"

A vast divine might, surpassing even the Void Refinement realm, crashed down like an invisible, Great Thousand World. The 30,000 cultivators arrayed in the Void all coughed up blood, and the protective mountain formation shattered inch by inch!

At the very center, on the prow of the flagship ship, which stretched for tens of thousands of feet, stood the Heaven-Suppressing King Tian Wang, looking down upon the tiny divine Divine Mountain below, which resembled an anthill.

The rolling sounds of killing intent caused a desperate tremor in the very essence of the Heavenly Dao Origin Source of the Cangwu Realm:

"You traitorous rebels of the Southern Nation, today we will slaughter your entire realm, leaving not a single chicken or dog alive!"

Han Mo collapsed to the ground, while the old woman's face turned ashen.

Desperate times have arrived.

However, amidst the overwhelming wails and unparalleled ferocity of the Dao Integration, the eleven-year-old child merely chewed the last bite of the spirit cake in his mouth before slowly raising his head.

He raised his right hand and casually pressed it against the rusty Broken Saber behind his back.

Deep within his pitch-black eyes, the greyish-white Tai Chi Millstone subtly reversed, and a cruelly curved smile spread across his lips.

"I find the journey to the Star Sea too tiring."

"This nourishment... has practically come to us of its own accord."

Three thousand Crimson Blood Dragon Boats, blotting out the sky, stretched across the heavens, their dark crimson aura completely devouring the light of the Cangwu Realm.

"Ants huddled in their nest, they dare to even glance at me, Your Majesty."

On the prow of the flagship, tens of thousands of feet high, the Heaven-Suppressing King didn't even lower a wisp of his Divine Thought; he merely flicked two fingers of his right hand, and an extremely ruthless royal decree pierced through the Void:

"Vanguard Battalion, listen to my command!"

"Activate the God-Slaying Crystal Cannon! Melt this entire million-mile-wide area of the Divine Mountains into Death Abyss."

"This humble general obeys the imperial decree!"

Before the Void rift, twelve early-stage Void Refinement deputy generals, clad in dark gold chainmail and exuding Qi and Blood like the blazing sun, stepped forward in unison.

"Boom!!"

Three hundred massive vanguard Crimson Blood Dragon Boats simultaneously turned to the side, their hulls surfacing with breathtaking crimson divine patterns.

Thousands of dark, gaping cannon muzzles emerged from the depths of the ship. The four violent energies of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind were compressed by the great array inside the ship, transforming into rolling red and white flames that surged wildly at the core of the array.

At this moment, the Heavenly Laws of the entire Cangwu Realm let out a mournful wail, and the sky was burned through with holes by the scorching heat, like a withered piece of cloth.

The Divine Mountain below collapsed inch by inch under the immense pressure, and the lapis lazuli steps shattered into dust one after another.

"Xiao Fan... quickly retreat to the Rear Mountain Vein-Guarding Stone Grotto!"

Chen Changqing's weathered face was as white as paper, but instead of taking a step back, his eyes turned bloodshot, and he suddenly bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of his Lifeblood Essence onto the Yi Wood Green Vine Sword.

The broken sword blade emitted a faint blue light. He stretched out his arms, trying to use his meager body, which had just broken through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul, to completely shield the infant behind him.

He didn't know what the Dao Integration Divine Dynasty was; he only knew that the killing array falling from above was enough to completely erase the entire Divine Mountain along with its Divine Soul.

Even if it meant using his bones to shield his son from flying sparks, he would stand here.

"Buzz!!"

Pure cause and effect transformed once again into rolling milky-white divine light, ignoring the overwhelming pressure, and poured straight into Chen Fan's Ancestral Aperture between his eyebrows.

Deep within the Sea of Consciousness, the golden light of the "Myriad Realms Red Dust Scripture" shone brightly, and the white array eye at the core of the Divine Kingdom seemed to receive sweet dew, causing the ocean of life to suddenly surge with monstrous waves.

Chen Fan lowered his gaze to the hunched, trembling figure in front of him, who stubbornly refused to retreat. The chilling coldness deep in his eyes finally softened into a gentle warmth.

He raised his small, delicate hand and casually placed it on Chen Changqing's trembling Sword Hilt.

A surge of overwhelming True Essence flowed into Chen Changqing's body through the sword, instantly calming his rampaging nascent Nascent Soul and even smoothing out the meridians shattered by the oppressive force.

"Father, take a rest."

With a slight flick of his wrist, Chen Fan used an invisible, gentle force to propel Chen Changqing backward dozens of feet, allowing him to land steadily in the center of the defensive array of the Divine Mountain's earth veins.

"The mille-feuille was delicious."

Chen Fan swallowed the last crumb in his mouth, patted the hem of his plain white linen robe, and said calmly.

"Let's see our son kill the enemy, using their blood and marrow as fertilizer for the Southern Nation."

Before he finished speaking, he was already standing barefoot in the Void.

Step.

The raging winds between heaven and earth eerily ceased for a moment.

Two steps.

The hundreds of thousands of Southern Nation cultivators who were trembling below the Divine Mountain suddenly felt the mountain on their shoulders being lifted off the ground by an indescribable force.

With three steps, the eleven-year-old boy in plain clothes stood alone atop the fierce winds of the heavens, facing directly at the three hundred enormous dragon boats poised to set sail.

"Immortal Feather Divine Dynasty?"

Chen Fan raised an eyebrow, looked at the cold, aloof faces of those people, and chuckled.

"You only brought these few pieces of broken wood? Even I find the smoke too much to chop up as firewood."

"How dare you, you wicked creature from the Lower Realm!"

The vanguard commander roared in fury, slashing down fiercely with his heavy sword.

"Unleash! Blast him into a bloody pulp!"

"Boom!!"

The sky collapsed and the earth cracked.

Thousands of God-Slaying Crystal Cannons unleashed destructive light in the same instant.

Countless crimson beams, each over a hundred feet thick, converged into a Heaven-Burning torrent that pierced the heavens and earth. Wherever it passed, fragments of space turned to dust, and the Void was plowed with a scorched mark stretching for thousands of miles.

That was a devastating force powerful enough to wipe out the entire Middle Thousand World in one fell swoop, completely engulfing Chen Fan's small figure!

"Xiao Fan!"

Chen Changqing, inside the array, let out a heart-wrenching scream as he crashed into the Light Screen, drawing blood from his ten fingers.

Han Mo and the Old Woman of the Taiyin Demon Sect closed their eyes in despair. Faced with such a torrent that could instantly vaporize even a Great Perfection of the Void Refinement, all resistance seemed pale and laughable.

However, the expected explosion of the mountain collapsing did not occur in the next instant.

In the very center of the sky, deep within the crimson-white spot of light powerful enough to melt the Sun and Moon, a point of deathly blackness suddenly appeared.

Immediately afterwards, the black light suddenly spread out, transforming into a gigantic, grayish-white Millstone phantom stretching for thousands of miles!

"Click, click!!"

A grand, thunderous roar, as if the teeth of heaven and earth were grinding together, reverberated from the void.

The torrent of crystal cannons, which combined the full force of three hundred Divine Dynasty dragon boats, vanished without a trace the moment it touched the edge of the gray-white Millstone, as if a mud ox had entered the sea.

The raging Earthfire Fiend Qi was forcibly dismantled and stripped away by the irresistible Life-and-Death Dao Resonance. Under the reversal of this Millstone, the destructive divine energy in the sky was rapidly restored to the most original and pure source of fire attribute laws.