Facing the invisible pressure jointly unleashed by the Twelve Golden Immortals, Yang Chen strolled forward as if nothing were wrong.
He did not even raise his eyelids in the slightest.
Was this all?
He found it rather amusing.
What did this so-called pressure of a saint's lineage, this so-called resplendent order of the Heavenly Dao, amount to when compared to the resentful obsessions of the three races' departed souls that howled and shrieked day and night deep within his Divine Soul, enough to drag even saints into eternal damnation?
And what did it amount to when compared to the karma of the Immeasurable Tribulation, capable of returning the entire primordial world to chaos and crushing even the Heavenly Dao until it could not breathe?
Would someone accustomed to walking beneath the weight of an entire starry sky care about a pebble underfoot?
That terrifying aura, capable of crushing ancient divine mountains and shattering a Quasi-Saint's Dao Heart, was automatically erased the moment it came within three feet of him by an invisible aura of annihilation originating from the source of his life.
It was neither resistance nor cancellation.
It was complete, unreasonable devouring and disregard.
Like a drop of water falling onto red-hot iron, it evaporated completely without even a wisp of smoke rising.
How could this be possible?!
Before the gates of the Jade Void Palace, the plaza paved with immortal jade fell into an eerie silence.
Guang Chengzi, Chi Jingzi, True Person Taiyi...
At that instant, the pupils of every Chan Sect Golden Immortal contracted ever so slightly.
For the first time, a crack appeared in the eternal solemnity and majesty on their faces.
This was the "Heavenly Law" domain formed by the combined efforts of us Chan Sect Twelve Golden Immortals, drawing upon Kunlun Mountain's eternal earth veins and harmonizing with the principles of the Heavenly Dao's operation!
This domain enforced the Dao in Heaven's stead and judged heretics!
Even a Quasi-Saint trapped within it would have their Dao Heart scoured full of holes by the power of order, unable to take a single step!
Yet he... he treated it as though it were nothing?
He had not even used any magic power!
With nothing but his physical body, nothing but his very existence, he treated this "Heavenly Law" domain as his own backyard!
They had imagined countless possibilities.
They had imagined Yang Chen bringing out magical treasures to resist, imagined him using divine abilities to force his way through, and even imagined him being crushed to his knees in a pathetic display.
But they had never imagined the scene before them.
He walked slowly, his steps casual, as though he were not setting foot upon a saint's sacred grounds but taking an afternoon stroll.
Not even the hem of that plain azure Daoist robe stirred.
This fiend truly was strange!
There was indeed profound meaning behind Master having us lay this formation here!
Thoughts raced through the Golden Immortals' minds. The contempt in their gazes toward Yang Chen had already turned into deep wariness and gravity.
As the senior disciple, Guang Chengzi felt his cheeks burning with pain.
This was no longer a show of force. This was a blatant slap in the face!
He could not let Yang Chen keep walking like this.
If he truly allowed this man to stroll into the Jade Void Palace so effortlessly, where would that leave the Chan Sect's dignity? Where would that leave Master's majesty?
"Fellow Daoist!"
Guang Chengzi stepped forward again. This time, his voice carried a trace of magic power from a saintly lineage. Each word caused the surrounding space to tremble faintly.
"The Jade Void Palace is a place where a saint cultivates in seclusion. Please compose yourself and maintain reverence before entering!"
I must make him stop!
I want to see whether you can withstand words containing the Dao essence of Master's lineage!
This was no longer a reminder. It was a warning.
The invisible pressure suddenly condensed into a single point along with Guang Chengzi's words, viciously stabbing toward Yang Chen's Divine Soul!
Yet Yang Chen finally stopped.
He lifted his eyelids, and those eyes that had remained calm and undisturbed lazily glanced at Guang Chengzi for the first time.
There was no anger or provocation in that gaze, only a pure, lofty boredom.
Like a divine dragon looking down upon ants fighting, without even the interest to yawn.
Then, beneath the frozen gazes of every Chan Sect disciple, Yang Chen made a gesture that rendered all of Kunlun Mountain speechless.
He faced Guang Chengzi.
Gently.
"Ha..."
A breath.
Just one breath left his mouth, casual and utterly devoid of any worldly flare.
That breath seemed ordinary, yet the instant it left his lips, it carried a faint trace of the true meaning of the Law of Strength—imperceptible, yet tyrannical enough to crush the myriad heavens of eternity!
Guang Chengzi's pupils dilated to the utmost in an instant!
He did not even have time to react!
He only felt an indescribable, incomprehensible, irresistible terrifying force bearing down on him!
It was not magic power, not a divine ability, nor any force he recognized!
It was an origin, the beginning of all laws and the end of all Daos!
It was the absolute, unreasonable "strength" Great God Pangu had wielded when he swung his giant axe and split open chaos!
The immortal protective robe personally refined by his master, its countless runes flowing across its surface, did not even have the chance to flicker before instantly collapsing into ash before that power!
His Grand Unity Golden Immortal Dao body, harder than divine iron and once his greatest pride, was now as fragile as paper.
Pfft!
His protective immortal radiance vanished soundlessly like a burst bubble.
His entire body flew backward uncontrollably like a tattered puppet with all its bones removed.
Boom!!!
A tremendous crash echoed across the silent summit of Kunlun.
Guang Chengzi's immortal, sage-like body slammed brutally into the mountain wall of Kunlun's divine peak. The unbreakable mountain was smashed into a human-shaped crater, spiderweb cracks spreading in every direction.
A mouthful of golden immortal blood sprayed wildly from his mouth, drawing a dazzling arc through the air.
The entire scene fell silent!
Time seemed forcibly frozen at that instant.
The shock on True Person Taiyi's face froze in place.
The treasure sword in Chi Jingzi's hand trembled faintly.
True Person Huang Long's honest-looking face was filled with disbelief.
Every Chan Sect disciple stood rigidly in place as though struck by an immobilization spell, their minds completely blank.
They stared at their senior brother embedded in the mountain wall, his immortal radiance dim and his aura weakened to the extreme, then looked at the young man still standing where he was, as if he had done nothing at all.
A bone-deep chill surged from the soles of their feet straight to the crowns of their heads!
O-one breath?
He had blown away Senior Brother Guang Chengzi, the wielder of the Fan Tian Seal?
W-what kind of monster was this?!
Yang Chen slowly withdrew his gaze, as if he had just done something insignificant.
He even raised a hand and blew at his fingertips, where no dust existed.
Then, in an extremely flat tone, so flat it was nearly cruel, he softly said to Guang Chengzi, who was embedded in the mountain wall and unable to move even a finger.
"Too noisy."
His voice was not loud, yet it entered the ears of every Golden Immortal present with perfect clarity.
"Do you believe that with my next breath, I can blow you to death outright?"
There was no killing intent or anger in those words.
Yet they were filled with absolute contempt and tyranny.
In the simplest, crudest, most unreasonable manner, he answered the Chan Sect's self-righteous show of force, viciously tearing apart the dignity they took such pride in before grinding it beneath his feet!
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