System Mission, Enemy Attack

The six star pirates turned around with ugly expressions to look at Zhou Kuang. "Senior, is there anything else?"

Zhou Kuang sneered. "You think attacking This Emperor can simply be forgotten? Leave behind one arm, and we'll call it even."

The star pirates' faces darkened. "Senior, aren't you being too overbearing?"

"Overbearing? Hahaha." Zhou Kuang suddenly burst into laughter. The next moment, his gaze turned sharp as a sword. "This Emperor is overbearing. What can you do about it? If you want to blame someone, blame yourselves for being weaker than This Emperor. Weakness is the original sin!"

Zhou Kuang suddenly attacked. Lightning transformed into swords that slashed down without warning, instantly severing the right arms of all six star pirates. Blood streamed everywhere.

The star pirates clutched their severed arms and wailed in agony. This was the power of the Origin of Lightning, suppressing the recovery of their wounds.

Unless they received healing from a Great Emperor-level expert, their six right arms would never regrow. These six star pirates had suffered a massive drop in strength.

Not only that, if these six star pirates did not treat their injuries quickly, they might even bleed to death.

"Senior, may we leave now?" The leading star pirate did not stop his bleeding, instead asking Zhou Kuang at once.

"Scram!" Zhou Kuang said coldly. The six star pirates hurriedly fled as though running for their lives.

Zhou Kuang sat cross-legged in the center of the Star Disk and began recovering from his injuries. Zhou Ling and the other two looked at him with reverence. So this was the power of a Great Emperor! All three revealed looks of longing.

Especially Zhou Ling. She was already at Supreme Great Perfection, only one step away from becoming a Great Emperor. Yet that single step had trapped her for centuries, and she had never dared to take it. But now, she had made up her mind.

Zhou Ling and the other two hurriedly repaired the Star Disk. Shortly afterward, the repairs were complete, and the Star Disk turned into a streak of light, carrying Zhou Kuang and the others toward Qingling Star.

Zhou Clan.

As times changed and the years flowed by, seven days passed in the blink of an eye, like a white colt flashing through a crack.

Over these seven days, Zhou Qiongtian used the Time Cabin to cultivate against the clock. The Time Cabin now had a time-flow ratio of one to fifty, which meant Zhou Qiongtian had cultivated inside it for three hundred and fifty days!

Even so, Zhou Qiongtian's cultivation had only risen from the Saint Early Stage to the late Saint Stage.

Such cultivation speed could already be called monstrous. Even in Azure World, few could compare to him.

But compared to Zhou Qiongtian's previous advancement speed, it was already very slow. Most of Zhou Qiongtian's realms after the Cycle Realm had been raised by the system, from the Cycle Mid Stage to the early Ascension Stage, then from the early Ascension Stage to Ascension Great Perfection.

The system's cultivation boosts were truly exhilarating. He wondered when the next system mission would come.

Suddenly, the system's voice rang out in Zhou Qiongtian's mind. Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao arrived.

Ding! System mission issued: Repel the Anti-Zhou Alliance and defend the Zhou Clan.

Mission reward: 500,000 Destiny Points and an increase of three minor cultivation realms!

Ding! System mission issued: Kill Anti-Zhou Alliance experts at the Saint King Realm and above.

Mission reward: 10,000 Destiny Points for every Saint King killed, and 100,000 Destiny Points for every Supreme expert killed!

Zhou Qiongtian's eyes immediately lit up, even gleaming green, like a lustful old bachelor seeing a delicate beauty lying on a bed.

Zhou Qiongtian licked his lips, his face filled with excitement and exhilaration. The Anti-Zhou Alliance had come at just the right time. Each and every one of them was an experience-point baby! Come quickly!

Zhou Qiongtian waited eagerly in his heart. He did not know whether Heaven had answered his anticipation or what, but a tremendous bell suddenly rang out within the Zhou Clan.

"Dong! Dong! Dong..."

The bell rang nine times in total. Every Zhou Clan disciple's expression changed drastically. No matter what they were doing, they rushed out and looked into the sky.

"This is the Zhou Family's Nine Bell Chime. Nine chimes mean the Zhou Clan has reached the moment of life and death. Has the Anti-Zhou Alliance finally come?" Zhou Qiongtian emerged from the Time Cabin, his gaze sharp as he looked into the sky alongside the other Zhou Clan members.

At this moment, countless cultivators stood densely packed outside the Zhou Clan's Family Protection Array, like vicious wolves baring their fangs, about to launch a bloodthirsty slaughter.

Zhou Qiongtian could sense at least fifty Saint Kings and five Supremes in the sky, while cultivators at the Saint Realm and below were too numerous to count.

Where were the others? Zhou Qiongtian knew the Anti-Zhou Alliance definitely had more forces than this.

Suddenly, a sense of foreboding arose in Zhou Qiongtian's heart. A cultivator's intuition was even more accurate than a woman's sixth sense. Aside from Zhou Qiongtian, every cultivator at the Saint Realm and above sensed that something was amiss.

"Zhou Clan, you have monopolized most of Azure World's resources, harming the interests of countless living beings across Azure World. The Savage Great Emperor has even bloodily suppressed countless races and factions, leaving living beings to suffer and Heaven and Earth damaged. Today is the day your Zhou Clan dies!"

Mo Xuantian spoke from the sky, his voice infused with a Divine Soul technique that allowed countless cultivators to hear him clearly. Mo Xuantian occupied the moral high ground, making the Zhou Clan seem like some heinous, unforgivable lineage.

"Hmph! Mo Xuantian, if you want to fight, then fight. Why so much nonsense? You sound like a woman!" Fifth Grand Elder roared at once. He was already hot-tempered and battle-crazed, and now he rubbed his fists and stamped his feet, looking utterly impatient.

Fifth Grand Elder's interruption left Mo Xuantian deeply displeased. He had only gotten through a small part of the ten-thousand-word speech he had written.

But forget it. None of that mattered. They only needed to drape themselves in the cloak of righteousness. As for what the truth was, that was no longer important.

The next moment, following Mo Xuantian's command, countless Anti-Zhou Alliance cultivators began attacking the Zhou Clan's Family Protection Array.

The Zhou Clan's Family Protection Array could withstand attacks from Supreme experts. Even a Supreme expert could not break it in a short time.

But the Anti-Zhou Alliance now had five Supremes and over fifty Saint Kings. Even this Family Protection Array could only hold out for a short while.

Under Grand Elder's command, the Zhou Clan members took up their assigned positions according to the tactics prepared beforehand. Some unripe prodigies of the Zhou Clan had already been gathered together atop the teleportation array, ready to teleport away at any moment.

Clearly, the Zhou Clan's Supreme Elders were not entirely confident in this battle either.

The Zhou Clan members stood ready in battle formation, prepared to unleash their strongest power and strike the Anti-Zhou Alliance a head-on blow the instant the Family Protection Array broke.

Just then, an unexpected change occurred.

A teleportation array somewhere in the Zhou Clan was suddenly activated. The Zhou Clan disciples nearby were utterly dumbfounded. What was going on?

The next moment, an endless sea of fire spread outward from the teleportation array at terrifying speed. The flames churned violently like a fire Magic Beast, opening its bloody maw to devour everything before it.

Before the nearby Zhou Clan disciples could react, they were swallowed by the sea of fire. Apart from clan members at the Saint Realm and above, every other clan member perished in the flames.