"Stay behind obediently. I'll deal with this guy."
Anyone who dared lay a hand on his daughter had clearly grown tired of living, in Xiao Chen's eyes.
"Mm! Be careful, then. I'll support you from the side."
As she spoke, Xiao Qingyan agreed in an incomparably obedient and gentle voice.
Afterward, she pulled Mu Chen, whose face was full of confusion and slight jealousy, and sealed off Fang Yi's retreat.
"Courting death."
Hearing this, Fang Yi's expression instantly turned gloomy.
As the top-ranked person on the Dragon Phoenix Ranking, this was the first time in all these years that someone had looked down on him so much.
A First Grade Sovereign he could crush with one hand actually dared say he would deal with him.
"Since you want to die, I'll send you on your way."
The moment he finished speaking, boom!
Ten thousand swords shot forth at once. Terrifying sword qi soared into the sky, carrying a force that seemed capable of splitting heaven and earth as it tore through the void and shot toward Xiao Chen.
Seeing this, Mu Chen gripped the Great Sumeru Pillar and was about to act, but a pair of jade-like hands blocked him.
"Stay put. Don't cause trouble, or he'll have to save you too."
As the cold voice fell, several black lines appeared on Mu Chen's forehead.
He truly could not figure out the relationship between Chen Xiao and Xiao Qingyan.
And who was she looking down on, anyway, sis?
While the two spoke, Xiao Chen had already made his move.
He merely extended a finger and gave a light tap. Buzz! Buzz! Boundless golden light gathered behind him, and a million rays of golden light shone in every direction. Under the gazes of countless people, a massive violet-gold figure stood behind him within that golden radiance, carrying an aura of mystery and immortality.
Then, he sat cross-legged on the shoulder of the Immortal Golden Body. His hands suddenly formed seals, and as they shifted, violet-gold light began gathering on the Immortal Golden Body. Soon after, a profound violet-gold rune, like a winding python, appeared before the Immortal Golden Body. This violet-gold rune was naturally one of the Immortal Golden Body's divine abilities—the Immortal Divine Rune!
With his current cultivation and strength, forming a single Immortal Divine Rune was already his limit.
As he poured all his spiritual energy into it, the violet-gold light on the Immortal Golden Body grew increasingly powerful. Immediately after, the condensed Immortal Divine Rune became even more dazzling.
"Immortal Divine Rune, endless transformations." Xiao Chen's expression remained calm as he flicked a finger. The Immortal Divine Rune erupted with violet-gold light. A few breaths later, it swiftly transformed into a massive violet-gold axe, then became a streak of violet-gold light that shot into the sky. With unstoppable force, it shattered Fang Yi's attack before charging forward to kill him.
Sensing the aura of death carried by that violet-gold light, Fang Yi's expression turned extremely ugly.
His eyes flickered rapidly. In the next moment, his hands formed seals, and brilliant spiritual light bloomed around him. Faint, profound, and obscure fluctuations spread outward.
"Heavenly God Art, Heavenly God Lotus!" Fang Yi's shout echoed through the heavens as spiritual light gathered beneath his feet. It finally transformed into a lotus divine throne dozens of feet wide. The lotus throne was dark cyan, and upon its petals—
ancient light patterns covered every surface. Obscure fluctuations rippled outward, revealing extremely powerful spiritual energy. Clearly, Fang Yi had pushed his defensive methods to their limit.
The lotus divine throne appeared beneath Fang Yi. Its petals slowly rose and formed a barrier, protecting him within. That defense seemed as though even if heaven and earth collapsed, the lotus divine throne would remain unbroken. And with the appearance of that lotus divine throne—
With the appearance of the lotus divine throne, it released a strange power that blocked the violet-gold divine light. The two forces collided, twisting even space itself without end.
"The Heavenly God Lotus? Damn, isn't that Fang Yi's life-saving art? Who has such incredible ability that they forced Fang Yi into this state?"
At this moment, those who recognized the Heavenly God Lotus cried out in shock and rushed toward it.
Crack!
A sound like shattering glass rang out from the Heavenly God Lotus.
At this moment, the Heavenly God Lotus was covered in dense, spiderweb-like cracks that made people's hearts tremble.
"My god, what a terrifying divine ability. A First Grade Sovereign actually managed to break Fang Yi's Heavenly God Lotus with this."
Seeing this scene, everyone could not help but exclaim.
In their eyes, the Immortal Divine Rune deserved far more credit than Xiao Chen himself.
With a roar, boundless sword qi erupted, and vast spiritual energy poured into the Heavenly God Lotus. In the blink of an eye, the cracks on the Heavenly God Lotus repaired themselves at a visible speed. Clearly, Fang Yi had pushed his defense to the utmost limit. Hiss! Hiss!
The Immortal Divine Rune, transformed into a violet-gold axe, flared brightly once more. Streams of destructive power spread from it and shattered the Heavenly God Lotus again. Thus, after only a few breaths, when the violet-gold axe was about to cleave through the final layer of lotus petals, Fang Yi sensed death approaching. His eyes turned bloodshot as he stared at the violet-gold divine light still piercing through despite his full efforts, and he finally gritted his teeth.
"I concede."
The instant those words fell, an uproar broke out. The many experts between heaven and earth were horrified. None of them had expected even someone as formidable as Fang Yi to be forced into such a state by a First Grade Sovereign.
"Sorry. Too late."
As that killing intent-filled voice fell, the Heavenly God Lotus exploded apart.
At this moment, Xiao Chen looked at the utterly bedraggled Fang Yi before him, his face bearing an eternal chill. Toward someone who had dared attack his daughter, the killing intent in his heart had long since reached its peak.
In an instant,
his finger seemed to pass through space. In the next moment, it struck Fang Yi's chest with incomparable precision, piercing a bloody hole through it.
Pale pink flames that burned everything spread out from Fang Yi's body, directly turning him into a blazing human torch.
After dealing with Fang Yi, Xiao Chen looked around, intending to leave with Mu Chen and his daughter first. However, just as that thought arose, his expression suddenly changed. He sensed a terrifying spiritual pressure spreading throughout heaven and earth.
Moreover, that spiritual pressure was aimed directly at him! As that terrifying spiritual pressure descended, a furious voice filled with killing intent suddenly resounded across the heavens, changing the expressions of countless experts.
"How dare you kill my beloved disciple!"
The thunderous roar of fury boomed throughout heaven and earth, instantly stirring up a terrifying spiritual storm that caused every expert in the city to drastically change expression. Terrifying spiritual pressure blanketed the world, making the spiritual energy within countless experts seem to circulate more slowly.
A white-robed man stood with his hands behind his back. His appearance was exceptionally ordinary, save for his pair of fiery red eyes, which looked as though flames burned within them. There were no powerful spiritual energy fluctuations around him; he seemed utterly unremarkable. Yet this ordinary man made countless hearts pound violently. For this white-robed man was the current master of the Divine Pavilion! He was also hailed as the super expert within the Northern Realm most likely to be the first to enter the rank of Upper Earthly Sovereign! Among the masters of the Northern Realm's many top powers, the master of the Divine Pavilion possessed a reputation even slightly greater than Mandala's! Even Mandala did not dare treat such a figure lightly.
The terrifying pressure made Mu Chen's muscles twitch all over. Although cold sweat had already seeped down his back, not a trace of the turmoil in his heart showed on his handsome face. He raised his head and looked directly at Liu Tiandao. His clear voice echoed through heaven and earth. "Pavilion Master, within Dragon Phoenix Heaven, everyone bears the consequences of their own actions. That is the rule. Are you going to disregard your status and forcibly take revenge on us juniors?"
"Rules?" Beneath the Divine Pavilion Master's lowered eyelids, endless cold light seemed to surge. His gaze, capable of piercing through a person's soul, stared at Mu Chen without the slightest emotion. He said indifferently, "Do you not know that the rules of the Northern Realm are made by us? To speak of rules before me—you are truly laughable."
"Heh, just a local tyrant of the Northern Realm, yet your boasting is enough to scare people to death."
As Mu Chen's eyes flickered while he considered how to escape, a cold mocking voice suddenly sounded behind him. It was Xiao Qingyan's voice.
The young girl with flowing black hair stood quietly behind Mu Chen. A cold smile hung on her stunning face, and her bewitching eyes held not the slightest fear because of the Divine Pavilion Master's presence. Instead, they were filled with mockery.
The countless experts throughout heaven and earth were dumbfounded. It was likely their first time seeing someone dare speak this way when facing a super expert at the Earthly Sovereign level.
"Ignorant junior!" The Divine Pavilion Master cast Cai Xiao a cold glance, then extended his hand and clenched it fiercely.
Boom!
The space ahead collapsed instantly. A massive hand of spiritual energy formed from thin air, its radiance brilliant, resembling a hand sculpted from dazzling gemstones. This was a sign that spiritual energy had been condensed to a terrifying degree, something ordinary Sovereigns could absolutely never accomplish. Naturally, once spiritual energy had been condensed to such a level, its power would become terrifying as well. The dazzling spiritual hand moved with incredible speed. In a flash, it pierced through the void and appeared directly above Mu Chen and the other two. Seeing this, Xiao Chen's expression changed drastically. He pulled Mu Chen and his daughter behind him, and violet-gold light surged from his body into the sky.
"A mayfly trying to shake a tree."
With a cold rebuke, the Divine Pavilion Master showed no mercy.
Suddenly, wisps of gorgeous flame emerged from the spiritual hand. Under those flames, the golden hand melted away at an astonishing speed. This sudden scene caused the Divine Pavilion Master's expression to change sharply, and he could not help crying out, "How is that possible?!" Even Ninth Grade Sovereigns could not shake his technique in the slightest, so how could it be melted by those flames now? The countless experts between heaven and earth also stared in dumbfounded shock. The gorgeous flames curled upward, and after only a few breaths, the spiritual hand had completely melted away. Countless horrified gazes shot toward the scene.
Within the area once enveloped by the spiritual hand, Mu Chen, Xiao Chen, and Xiao Qingyan still stood unharmed in midair. However, countless experts' pupils constricted as they saw that, at some unknown moment, an unfamiliar man had appeared before Mu Chen.