Guilt

Boom, boom, boom…

Accompanied by brilliant explosions of light, high in the sky tens of thousands of miles above the Jiang Family's territory, four Cold Flood Dragons of almost identical size, differing only in their scale patterns, appeared out of nowhere once again.

With bodies over a thousand kilometers long, they could destroy stars with their physical movements alone, distort space to travel interstellar distances at superluminal speeds.

Merely with a subconscious, gentle sway of their bodies after their initial birth, they once again bombarded the atmosphere, obliterating it and creating a destructive near-light-speed shockwave capable of killing powerful cultivators at the Immortal Platform Triple Heaven, Dao Slaying realm.

"Hmm?" Jiang Wen, who had just retracted his arm and was feeling pleased with his harvest, suddenly froze.

"What the hell?"

He immediately extended his arm again, casually erased the shockwave in the sky, and grabbed the four Cold Flood Dragons, all of whom possessed Great Sage level power but showed no signs of cultivation.

Looking at the four dragons in his palm, all of roughly the same length, with equally pure bloodline auras and no traces of cultivation, only differing in scale patterns.

Jiang Wen mumbled in confusion, "Am I still dreaming? Where did these guys pop out from this time?"

He glanced at the incomplete Imperial Formation in the sky, which was fully activated and had long sealed off the void, prohibiting all spatial transfers. He frowned. "Could it be that the Jiang Family has a mole!"

His Divine Sense flowed, and Jiang Wen immediately intended to thoroughly inspect the current situation of the Jiang Family, trying to find traces of the void passage these dragons had used to bypass the formation's external defenses and enter directly.

But as his Divine Sense was about to scan, his expression changed. Seeing the phantom image of the Hengyu Furnace appear before him, he immediately stopped his actions.

Listening to the transmission, he respectfully bowed to the phantom image of the Hengyu Furnace that appeared and said, "Yes, I understand."

"This matter involves a great secret. I will thoroughly search the Jiang Family to prevent any leaks."

The phantom image of the Hengyu Furnace dissipated. Jiang Wen frowned and looked at the five dragons he held in his hand.

Although he understood that the Hengyu Furnace would not deceive him, the tenth-generation descendant of the Hengyu Great Emperor, he still found it hard to believe what he had heard.

Divine light shot from his eyes. Except for one area, he vigilantly scanned the entire Jiang Family, only daring to murmur in his heart, "The Taiyin Sacred Emperor has been resurrected and brought a friend to the Jiang Family. The chosen successor of the Taiyin Sacred Emperor in the Jiang Family is currently entertaining that friend?"

"The legendary Taiyin Sacred Emperor has a successor in the Jiang Family, and it's related to the pacification of the Dark Turmoil?"

He looked at the five dragons in his hand again, hesitating. "Are these the pets of the Taiyin Sacred Emperor's friend?"

"Should I let them go?"

"Hey!" He turned his head and roared at the old man standing respectfully beside him, cursing, "Kid, quickly give me a good explanation of the current situation of the Jiang Family."

"Also, go call the current head of the Jiang Family over. I want to see him."

The old man bowed respectfully, "Yes, Old Ancestor…"

Fang Zheng stared blankly at the sky, his gaze shifting between the giant hands that had captured the colossal figures in the distant sky and the Monster Spawner in front of him. Only then did he realize.

"These giant monsters, I just spawned them from the Monster Spawner?!"

Fang Zheng suddenly exclaimed, shouting loudly, "Why are they so big!"

Roughly estimating in his mind, Fang Zheng realized that although the size of those flood dragons wasn't as terrifying as the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird he had seen on the Immortal Ascension Road a few days ago, they were still quite frightening.

"They're over 1500 kilometers long…"

Fang Zheng felt a chill run down his spine. He quickly waved his blocky hands and shattered the Monster Spawner in front of him, preventing it from spawning more monsters after the 10-40 second cooldown.

Originally, he had thought that although this Cold Flood Dragon Egg could fit an elephant, proportionally, the flood dragon that laid it would only be a few hundred meters long at most, and probably not very powerful. He thought he could try to kill it and get some drops.

Like some flood dragon meat, flood dragon leather, flood dragon bones, and so on.

If possible, he might be able to use them to synthesize leather armor or a pickaxe, a sword, or something similar.

But the situation just now was truly outrageous.

Anyone with a bit of common sense in physics would understand that an entity with a size of thousands of kilometers, even if it moved slightly, would cause devastating destructive power.

Things like Earth wouldn't be much more solid than air in the hands of such a creature.

"Was the area I'm in almost destroyed just now?" Fang Zheng didn't have time to pay attention to the silent Jiang Tingting beside him. He quickly ascended into the sky and looked around.

Using a telescope, he saw that the highest peaks of the Qingming Mountain Range, which he had just explored, had disappeared. The ice peaks formed by ten thousand years of accumulated ice were nowhere to be seen, leaving only a smooth, flat surface as if cut by a knife.

Moreover, the clouds that had shrouded the mountainside had also vanished, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to see the mountaintop so clearly.

"This… this…" A sudden fear surged in Fang Zheng's heart. "Are there any people on the mountain? Did someone die just now?"

"If the flood dragons that just spawned caused casualties, wouldn't that mean I killed people?"

"If people really died, with flood dragons this large, a slight movement could destroy the surface of the Earth with its residual shockwaves. If people died, how many lives would that be?"

An intense sense of guilt erupted from the bottom of Fang Zheng's heart, making him feel miserable.

"What… what have I done…" Guilt washed over him like a tide, almost paralyzing his thoughts.

After flying around anxiously for a while, Fang Zheng suddenly woke up. "Right, I need to quickly see if there are any survivors. I need to see if I can save them!"

He hurriedly flew down, found Jiang Tingting waiting where she was, and stammered in a panic, "Um, I… I'm sorry, I didn't know it would cause such a big commotion."

"You're a cultivator, right? Can you use your Divine Sense to check how many people were killed just now, how many survived, how many were injured, and where they are? I need to see if I can save them…"

Listening to Fang Zheng's panicked voice, Jiang Tingting suddenly felt something strange.

Although she had heard that Fang Zheng only had the heart of a youth, his current behavior was truly nothing like that of a cultivator…

Suppressing the strange emotions in her heart, Jiang Tingting spoke to comfort him, "Senior Fang Zheng, you don't need to worry. No one died just now. Some of the higher mountain peaks simply had their tops burned off."

"Really?"

Fang Zheng was still uneasy, anxiously pressing, "But the flood dragons that appeared just now were so enormous. Did the shockwaves from their movements truly cause no casualties?"

Jiang Tingting nodded, then pointed to the formation patterns constantly circulating in the sky. She then touched the Taiyin Moon Blade at her waist and said with certainty, "Don't worry, there really weren't any."

"The defensive formation of my Jiang Family is an incomplete Imperial Formation. It blocked the attack as soon as it happened."

"Furthermore, Senior Fang Zheng, the deity within the Taiyin Moon Blade just informed me. It is also constantly awake and observing your actions, ready to strike at any moment."

"As soon as you call out, it will immediately come to your aid."

"But..." Fang Zheng looked at the Taiyin Moon Blade at Jiang Tingting's waist, still full of doubt.

"Those flood dragons were so massive just now. A casual flick of their tails felt like it could shatter a planet. Can the Taiyin Moon Blade really block something like that?"