The Two Old Liars of the Void God Realm? Beat Them to Death!

Inside the hall, those soul masters who had been kneeling on the ground and shouting were now all agape, having lost even the ability to make a sound.

It was broken.

The divine punishment personally descended by the Sea God had been effortlessly shattered by a single leaf!

Bibi Dong, sitting in the front row, gripped the armrests of her chair tightly, her chest heaving violently.

Di Tian stood up abruptly, his golden pupils filled with an unprecedented fervor.

A willow leaf!

That was the power of that Charred Lightning-Struck Wood!

On the high platform, Su Chen slowly withdrew his finger.

He glanced at Bo Saixi and the others lying incapacitated outside the door, then swept his gaze over the soul masters kneeling in the hall before picking up the Gavel on the table.

Clack!

A crisp sound pulled everyone back from their extreme terror.

"With such meager tricks, you dare to call yourselves gods?"

Su Chen sat back down in his grand armchair and lifted his teacup.

"The storytelling continues!"

The sound of the Gavel echoed throughout the hall.

The crowd immediately withdrew their gazes from the doorway, sat up straight, and focused their attention back on the high platform.

Outside, Bo Saixi and the seven Title Douluo from Sea God Island remained on the ground; no one went to help them up, and no one dared to take another look.

Su Chen took a sip of tea and placed the cup gently back onto the table.

"The storytelling continues."

His tone was calm, showing no ripples of emotion despite having casually shattered a divine punishment just moments ago.

"Yesterday, we spoke of how Shi Hao reversed yin and yang within the Kitsuchi, reshaping his physical body. He had come back to life."

"But upon waking, he discovered that the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm had completely changed."

Su Chen picked up his Folding Fan and toyed with it gently in his hand.

"The giants of the Upper Realm issued decrees and harvested the Lower Realm. Those ancient traditions and powerful Venerables were almost entirely slaughtered."

"The laws of heaven and earth became fractured, and the path to the Three Thousand Provinces of the Upper Realm was completely severed."

"Shi Hao wanted to go to the Upper Realm; he wanted to find his parents and settle the score with those Upper Realm traditions that viewed the lives of the Lower Realm as mere grass."

"However, the road was broken."

The listeners in the hall hung on every word with rapt attention.

Emperor Xue Ye leaned back against his chair, frowning slightly.

The road being broken was the most desperate situation for someone seeking revenge. It was like an ordinary person standing at the bottom of a cliff, looking up at their enemy on the summit, yet having no vines to climb.

"Shi Hao traveled across the Great Wilderness."

Su Chen's voice echoed through the hall.

"He went to those destroyed ancient sacred mountains and the nests of those once-arrogant Primordial Remnants."

"He searched through ruins, looking for any potentially remaining ancient teleportation arrays."

"He even crossed the vast oceans, visiting isolated islands where no human had set foot."

"But it was useless. All cross-realm arrays had been deliberately destroyed by the people of the Upper Realm. Even if a fragment of an array remained, it could not support a person in crossing the boundary wall."

Dai Tianfeng, sitting in the front row, heard this and asked, "Mr. Su, since the arrays in reality were all destroyed, how else could he go up? Could he rely on his own power to fly up?"

Su Chen glanced at Dai Tianfeng and shook his head.

"Between the Upper Realm and the Lower Realm lies an infinite turbulence of the void. Without precise coordinates and a channel, even a god who has ignited their divine fire would be lost in the void and eventually torn apart by spatial storms."

"Since Shi Hao could not find a path in reality, he turned his gaze toward another place."

Su Chen paused for a moment.

"The Void God Realm."

Upon hearing this name, many in the hall wore expressions of confusion.

"The Void God Realm is a world constructed of spirit."

Su Chen explained.

"As long as one's cultivation reaches a certain level, they can project their spirit out of their body and enter this world. The events that occur within and the insights gained there will be reflected back into one's physical body in reality."

"Shi Hao found a quiet place and sat down cross-legged. His spirit transformed into a stream of light and entered the Void God Realm."

As Su Chen spoke, the scene slowly unfolded in the air above.

The crowd saw Shi Hao's spirit body arrive in a strange space.

Here, there were ancient cities, rolling mountain ranges, and many cultivators trading and sparring with one another.

"Shi Hao entered the Void God Realm and arrived at the starting ground."

Su Chen pointed at the screen with his folding fan.

"As soon as he appeared, he encountered two acquaintances."

Two old men appeared on the screen.

One old man wore a tattered Taoist robe, with a featherless bird perched on his shoulder.

The bird looked listless, and the old man also appeared half-asleep.

The other old man's eyes gleamed, holding a crystal-clear bone coin in his hand. He was vigorously wiping it with his sleeve, chuckling as he did so.

"These two old men are called Bird Master and Essence Wall Master."

Su Chen watched the screen, a hint of teasing in his voice.

"They are notorious old swindlers in the starting ground of the Void God Realm."

"When Shi Hao first entered the Void God Realm as a child, he was pestered by these two old men."

"They dragged Shi Hao along, trying to sell him so-called ancient treasure maps and the precious bones of ferocious beasts."

"As a result, Shi Hao spent a lot of money to buy them, only to find that the treasure map was drawn by themselves, and the precious bone was actually just a polished wild boar bone."

"These two old fellows swindle and deceive in the Void God Realm, specifically targeting young people who have just entered."

"Selling fake medicine, selling fake maps, they'll do anything to cheat money."

Hearing this, the tense atmosphere in the hall was instantly broken.

A soul master from the Star Luo Empire couldn't help but laugh.

He looked at the two untrustworthy old men on the screen, who lacked any air of masters, and said loudly, "Aren't these just two street rascals? Even in that Perfect World, there are such swindlers?"

Beside him, a sect elder from the Tiandou Empire stroked his chin with disdain.

"If such incompetent swindlers were in our Douluo Continent, they would have had their legs broken and been thrown on the street long ago."

"Exactly."

A rogue cultivator in the back row chimed in.

"In the world of soul masters, strength is paramount. These two old men dare to cheat young geniuses with backgrounds? They truly don't know their limits. Did that Shi Hao not kill them later for offending him?"

The soul masters in the hall spoke one after another.

In their opinion, Shi Hao was a decisive person who dared to defy even gods. How could he tolerate two old swindlers acting so brazenly in front of him?

"Mr. Su, when Shi Hao entered the Void God Realm this time, did he happen to kill these two old swindlers?"

Prince Xue Xing, sitting next to Emperor Xue Ye, couldn't help but ask.

He detested such unruly commoners the most.

Listening to the mocking and questioning voices in the hall.

Su Chen did not get angry; he merely found it somewhat amusing.

He picked up the folding fan on the table and tapped it lightly twice.

The hall immediately fell silent.

"Kill them?"

Su Chen looked at the soul masters below with mocking expressions, a curve forming at the corner of his mouth.

"You think these two old men are very weak?"

Prince Xue Xing was taken aback and said, "Aren't they? They live by cheating people out of money, how could they be powerful figures? True powerhouses don't need to resort to such despicable tricks."

Su Chen's smile faded, and his gaze gradually deepened.

"I said earlier."

"The Void God Realm is a world constructed by the spirit."

"But have you ever considered who constructed such a vast world that can accommodate the spirits of billions of beings?"

As this question was posed, the people in the hall looked at each other.

Bibi Dong and Di Tian's expressions turned serious.

They knew that since Su Chen asked this, the identities of these two old men were definitely not simple.

Su Chen slowly stood up.

He looked at the two old men on the screen who were still counting money and teasing a bird.

"They lost their memories of the past, and their spirits became incomplete, which is why they act like two old mischievous children, swindling and deceiving in the starting ground of the Void God Realm."

"But if we trace back to that extremely distant Immortal Ancient Era."

"When the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were not yet shattered, and the rules of heaven and earth were still complete."

Su Chen's voice echoed clearly throughout the hall.

"The old man with the bird on his shoulder."

"His true form is an incredibly ancient, mutated True Dragon."

"He once vied for the title of First Under Heaven against the most elite True Dragons; though he narrowly lost, he was revered by all races as the Second Under Heaven."

Second Under Heaven!

As these four words fell, Di Tian, who had been sitting in the corner, suddenly straightened his body.

As the Black Dragon King himself, he possessed a natural sensitivity toward the bloodline of the Dragon race.

He knew deep down just how terrifying the bloodline and combat power required to dare to contend for the title of First Under Heaven in the form of a True Dragon must be.

Su Chen ignored Di Tian's shock and pointed at the old man counting money in the projection.

"And that greedy Essence Wall Master."

"His true form is a living being birthed from a piece of sentient supreme Immortal Gold."

"He is known as the Immortal Gold Daoist."

"Both of their realms stand among the ranks of the lofty Immortal Kings."

Immortal King!

The air in the great hall seemed to cease its flow.

The Spirit Masters who had just been mocking these two as common scoundrels now stood with their mouths agape, unable to utter a single word.

Prince Xue Xing's face flushed a deep red; he felt as if a ball of cotton were lodged in his throat.

Two Immortal Kings?

Two beings who stood at the very pinnacle of the universe in the Perfect World?

Selling fake maps in the Void God Realm?

"Since they are Immortal Kings, why have they become like this?" Dai Tianfeng could not help but ask.

Su Chen glanced at him.

"Because at the end of the Immortal Ancient era, the Foreign Realm invaded."

"As the top combat powers of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the two of them stood at the very front."

"That battle caused the heavens to collapse and the earth to shatter."

"Their physical bodies were destroyed in the fighting, leaving only fragmented spiritual bodies."

"Yet, even so, they did not leave."

Su Chen turned to look at the projection hanging in mid-air.

"Deep within the Void God Realm, terrifying dark matter and fallen beings are imprisoned."

"The two of them left their fragmented spiritual bodies here, transforming into the two old men of the Initial Land."

"In truth, they are using their final strength to suppress the darkness at the deepest part of the Void God Realm, preventing those things from emerging to wreak havoc upon the world."

Su Chen turned his head to look at those in the audience who had just spoken so insolently.

"You said that if this were the Douluo Continent, you would have beaten them to death long ago?"

Su Chen's tone was very flat.

"Even if they stood there without moving, allowing every Spirit Master on the Douluo Continent, along with the gods you worship, to hack at them with weapons for ten thousand years."

"You wouldn't be able to harm a single hair on their spiritual bodies."

Hearing this, not a single person in the hall dared to speak.

Everyone felt a burning sensation on their faces.

With their narrow perspectives, they had mocked two supreme Immortal Kings who had once fought to the death to protect the world and were still suppressing darkness to this day.

This was not just ignorance; it was laughable.

Su Chen returned to his armchair and sat down.

"Shi Hao entered the Void God Realm and found these two old men."

"He brought out some items that piqued their interest in exchange for intelligence."

"From their lips, Shi Hao finally learned of a way to reach the Upper Realm."

Su Chen picked up the Gavel from the table.

"At the end of the Void God Realm, there is a path."

"It is an abandoned ancient road, filled with all manner of unknown dangers and ancient killing formations."

"To traverse this path to the Upper Realm is a journey of nine deaths and one life."

"But this was Shi Hao's only choice."

Su Chen looked at the listeners below, who were holding their breath in concentration.

"Shi Hao stepped onto this ancient road."

"But no sooner had he set foot on it than a phantom appeared to block his path."

Su Chen gripped the Gavel and slammed it down heavily.

Clack!

"This phantom radiated the aura of a titan from the Upper Realm. Looking at Shi Hao, he spoke coldly."

"A descendant of the Sinful Blood of the Lower Realm, yet you dare to dream of ascending to the heavens?"

The corners of Su Chen's mouth curled upward slightly.

"If you wish to know who this phantom blocking the path is, and how Shi Hao will clear this road to the heavens..."

"We shall..."

"Continue tomorrow."

As Su Chen's voice faded, the audience in the hall was stunned for a moment before erupting into a chorus of frustrated wails.

"Mr. Su, are you leaving already?"

An elderly Sect Master slapped his thigh in desperation.

"Who exactly is that phantom blocking the way! Even if you just give us a name, that would be enough!"

"Exactly! Can Shi Hao defeat him? Leaving us hanging like this means no one will be able to sleep tonight!"

The crowd in the hall pleaded bitterly.

Some even pulled out handfuls of gold coins and threw them onto the stage, begging Su Chen to speak for just half an incense stick longer.

Yet, faced with this agitated scene, Su Chen remained unmoved on the high platform.

He closed his Folding Fan with a casual flick and tucked it into his waistband.

Without even glancing at the crowd below, he turned and walked toward the backstage area.

"Sir, please wait..."

Emperor Xue Ye hurried forward, still hoping to curry favor.

But the young servant in green robes, possessing a keen eye for the situation, stepped forward and politely blocked their path.

"Esteemed guests, the time is up for today; the proprietor needs to rest."

"If you wish to hear more, please arrive early tomorrow."

Looking at the servant's immovable, smiling face.

Dai Tianfeng, Bibi Dong, and the others all frowned, yet none dared to lash out.

Are you joking?

The image of that single willow leaf shredding the Sea God Trident was still fresh in their minds.

Who would dare to provoke this master at a time like this?

The crowd could only sigh in helplessness, turning to leave with great reluctance.

On the top floor of the Listening Rain Pavilion, in the lounge.

Su Chen pushed open the door, walked to the table, and poured himself a cup of cold tea.

As the crowd in the hall finally dispersed completely.

The mechanical system prompt in his mind sounded right on cue.

[Ding! Today's storytelling has concluded, popularity points have been calculated!]

[Congratulations to the Host, today's storytelling has once again caused a sensation across the entire continent!]

[Successfully revealed the identity of an Immortal King, shattered the Sea God's divine punishment, and shocked the Star Luo Emperor, Di Tian, and others!]

[Total popularity points earned this time: 12 million!]

Hearing this number, Su Chen nodded slightly.

Twelve million points.

With the deepening of the storytelling content, plus the fact that the people from Sea God Island rushed over to throw their lives away, the growth rate of these popularity points was indeed impressive.

"System, open the system panel."

Su Chen did not rush to draw prizes; instead, he focused his thoughts.

He directly summoned his Unique Cave Heaven.

Hum.

A deep, black halo slowly emerged behind his head.

Su Chen cast his gaze into the depths of the Cave Heaven.

In the center of the dense, concentrated essence of heaven and earth.

That giant egg of the pure-blooded Green-Scaled Eagle, covered in cyan scale patterns, was floating silently.

Compared to when it was first drawn.

At this moment, the cyan runes upon the giant egg had become exceptionally bright.

With every flicker, it seemed to be inhaling and exhaling the massive amounts of spiritual energy within the grotto-heaven.

Thump.

Thump.

Powerful, rhythmic heartbeats resonated from within the eggshell.

Even through the thick shell, Su Chen could clearly sense the primordial creature gestating rapidly inside.

"Having absorbed the aura overflowing from the Thunder Emperor True Blood, has its bloodline even begun to undergo a mutation?"