One Thought to Comprehend Divine Abilities—So What If One Has the Talent of a Great Emperor?

The moment those words were spoken, the entire crowd erupted in uproar!

No one had expected Ancestor Changqing to be so "overconfident"!

One had to know that Chen Yuanba and the other two had all reached the Saint Realm.

Yet Ancestor Changqing was merely at the peak of the Transcendent Realm.

Even if Ancestor Changqing had been a Great Emperor prodigy who swept through an entire era a million years ago, Chen Yuanba and the other two possessed talents that could likewise be called top-tier!

Could he really win three against one?

Chen Lingfeng's expression changed drastically. It was not that he worried Chen Changqing would lose, but that, given Chen Changqing's seniority, how could these juniors possibly be qualified to make a move against him?

He anxiously advised, "Ancestor, they are merely juniors. How are they qualified to fight you? Would that not be an inferior offending a superior, with no understanding of rank and propriety?"

"Yes, Ancestor!" another Supreme Elder hurriedly added. "These three juniors do not know the height of heaven or the depth of earth, like frogs at the bottom of a well. How could they possibly understand your greatness?"

As for old ancestor Chen Haotian, he merely stroked his beard and smiled. His eyes were filled with the look of someone enjoying a good show, and he made no move to stop them.

He knew Chen Changqing far too well. The boy appeared mild and courteous, but deep in his bones, he was proud to the extreme.

"Heh heh heh, there's a good show to watch now!"

Chen Haotian was thoroughly delighted inside.

Since these three little fellows had come knocking on his door themselves, Chen Changqing would certainly give them a proper "lesson," making them wake up to just how valuable the Chen Family's sole Divine Son truly was!

Chen Yuanba and the other two exchanged glances, unable to help hesitating.

In truth, according to their original plan, they had intended to fight one-on-one.

After all, Chen Changqing's cultivation was only at the peak of the Transcendent Realm, a full major realm below theirs.

With such a realm gap between them, he might not even defeat any one of them alone, much less fight three at once.

But now that Chen Changqing had personally said it, they could hardly refuse in front of the entire Chen Family and insist on one-on-one fights, could they?

Would that not be slighting their ancestor?

Then, upon further thought, the three felt that this was not necessarily unacceptable. At worst, they could suppress their own cultivation to the peak of the Transcendent Realm as well.

If Ancestor Changqing could truly defeat all three of them at the same realm, then they would be completely convinced by his position as the sole Divine Son.

As their gazes met, the three already understood one another's thoughts.

Thus—

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The three leaped onto the arena together and stood in the air. At the same time, they cupped their hands toward Chen Changqing and bowed. "We ask Ancestor to impart your guidance without reservation!"

Immediately after that.

Chen Yuanba was the first to strike.

"Overlord Fist!"

He resembled an ancient ferocious beast, his entire body overflowing with robust blood energy.

The instant his right fist shot forth, a Tyrant Body phantom several hundred zhang tall abruptly manifested behind him.

That punch carried an unstoppable, towering battle intent. Wherever its fist force passed, the void cracked apart inch by inch, and even the purple sun condensed by the formation above Purple Sun Peak dimmed.

Though he had already suppressed his cultivation to the peak of the Transcendent Realm, the power of this punch was still enough to make ordinary Saint Realm experts turn pale in shock.

"Five Elements Annihilation Seal!"

"Flower-Picking Hand!"

"Nine Heavens Light-Splitting Sword!"

Chen Musen's expression turned grave, his hands nearly becoming afterimages.

The five true essences of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth rotated and alternated between his palms. The five seals merged into one, transforming into a Five-Elements Millstone capable of grinding all things into nothingness as it crushed down.

Right after it came a crystalline jade hand formed from countless spell runes, descending while picking a flower. It was soundless and traceless, yet contained terrifying power sufficient to shatter the soul.

Finally, a Light-Splitting Sword shadow tore through the air. One became nine, nine became ten thousand, and an overwhelming curtain of swords enveloped the entirety of Purple Sun Peak.

This was his terrifying ability. With a Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, he had cultivated all manner of spells to the great completion realm, and with a single thought, he could unleash countless techniques.

"Limitless Sword Dao!"

Chen Qingshuang was equally unwilling to yield. With a sharp cry, the longsword in her hand finally left its sheath.

In an instant, every color between heaven and earth was devoured by that sword light, leaving behind only a freezing, bone-piercing frost-white expanse.

Ten thousand swords fell like the Milky Way pouring down from the Ninth Heaven. Every blade of sword light contained the supreme sword intent unique to an Innate Sword Bone, as though it would sever heaven, earth, and all things beneath this one strike.

At this moment—

The three current Chen Family prodigies joined hands and unleashed their ultimate moves at once. The scene was nothing short of magnificent.

It was as though all of Purple Sun Peak had become their stage!

"They suppressed their cultivation?"

The corners of Chen Changqing's lips rose slightly. With one glance, he saw that the three had suppressed themselves to the peak of the Transcendent Realm.

He shook his head but said nothing further.

Facing that overwhelming and terrifying onslaught, he neither retreated nor dodged. He merely slowly lifted his eyes.

Within those profound eyes, deep as chaos itself, fist force, spells, and sword light filled the heavens in an instant.

Yet in his eyes, these mighty Saint-grade ultimate arts no longer held any secrets.

The tyrant's intent contained within the Overlord Fist, the principles of mutual generation and restraint cycling within the Five Elements Annihilation Seal, the artistic conception of picking a flower with one thought and causing ten thousand laws to arise within the Flower-Picking Hand, the Sword Dao laws of dividing into myriad forms within the Nine Heavens Light-Splitting Sword, as well as the supreme sword intent brought forth by Chen Qingshuang's Innate Sword Bone...

These "mysteries," unattainable in the eyes of others, were completely comprehended in but a thought before his terrifying enlightenment accumulated over a million years.

More than that—

Within that split second of lightning and flint, he even used them as a foundation to cast off the old and bring forth the new, instantly comprehending corresponding Divine Ability Methods.

"Excellent!"

Chen Changqing laughed heartily, his azure robes fluttering in the wind.

He raised his hand and clenched his five fingers into a fist. A fist shadow silently condensed.

"Today—"

"I shall show you what a Divine Ability Method truly is!"

As his words fell.

Chen Changqing threw a punch!

"Divine Ability—Gods and Devils Open Heaven."

That punch carried no fluctuation of true essence, stirred not the slightest bit of heaven and earth spiritual energy, and did not even raise a wisp of fist wind.

Yet at the instant he punched, a towering giant phantom three thousand zhang tall abruptly rose from the ground behind him. Its entire body was wreathed in Chaos Qi, like an ancient God or Devil that had opened heaven and split earth.

The giant's features were indistinct. Only its eyes shone brilliantly like the sun and moon, looking down upon all living beings as though they were ants.

Chen Yuanba's Tyrant Body phantom, several hundred zhang tall, looked as small as a child's toy before this chaos giant.

The fist had yet to arrive, but its momentum was already upon him.

Chen Yuanba's pupils suddenly contracted. An unprecedented sense of fatal danger exploded from the depths of his soul.

He did not even have time to think. Instinctively, he drove his Azure Heaven Tyrant Body to its limit, crossing his arms before his chest. Blood energy erupted around him like a volcano, condensing into a blood-red shield a hundred zhang thick before him.

However, the chaos giant's punch was unstoppable, like bamboo splitting beneath a blade.

Crack—

The hundred-zhang blood shield shattered inch by inch like glass. The several-hundred-zhang Tyrant Body phantom was pierced through by the punch, exploding into a rain of light.

Chen Yuanba only felt an irresistible force crush down upon him from every direction, as though the entire world were collapsing onto him beneath that fist.

His body shot backward like a meteor, smashing viciously into a barren mountain outside Purple Sun Peak. A crater several hundred zhang deep was blasted into the mountain, and dust soared into the sky.

When the dust settled slightly, everyone finally saw the scene at the bottom of the crater.

Chen Yuanba's battle armor had shattered completely, and the skin on both arms was cracked inch by inch. Blood dripped from his fingertips.

An Azure Heaven Tyrant Body, famed for its powerful physique, had actually been injured into such a state by a single punch.

The entire venue fell deathly silent.

However—

Before anyone could recover their senses, Chen Changqing's right hand had already changed into another hand seal.

"Divine Ability—Five Elements Seal."

With one palm strike, five-colored radiance surged from his palm. Yet it was not a spell like Chen Musen's, formed by merging five seals into one. Instead, the power of the Five Elements Origin directly intertwined and twisted together, forming a Five-Elements Millstone that covered heaven and obscured the sun.

Chen Musen's expression changed drastically.

Born with a Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, his perception of all kinds of spells far surpassed that of ordinary people. Precisely because of this, he understood better than anyone the terror contained within that Five-Elements Millstone.

The difference between the two was like a firefly compared to a bright moon.

"Myriad Laws Returning Origin Shield!"

"Immovable Wisdom King Barrier!"

"All-Heavens Star-Dipper Formation!"

Chen Musen almost instinctively unleashed seven defensive spells in succession. Layer upon layer of light barriers protected him within.

But when the Five-Elements Millstone crushed down, the seven defensive spells capable of blocking a Saint King's strike shattered layer by layer as though made of paper.

Immediately afterward.

Chen Changqing flicked out another finger.

"Divine Ability—One Thought, Flower-Picking."

A green lotus bloomed at his fingertip. Its petals drifted down, transforming into crystalline fragments that filled the sky.

Chen Musen felt his sea of consciousness go blank, as though an invisible hand had gently plucked away every one of his thoughts, leaving him rooted in place.

"Bang!"

His entire body was sent flying on the spot. He rolled across the ground dozens of times before barely coming to a stop.

He struggled to rise to one knee, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. His blue-gray robe was in tatters, and he looked utterly miserable.

"Divine Ability—Nine Light-Splitting Swords."

Chen Changqing's voice remained calm as water. He pointed into the air with a bent finger.

Nine streaks of sword light shot from his fingertips. Myriad sword intents transformed into a vast river of Sword Qi, surging mightily as it swallowed the space where Chen Musen had just stood.

Countless bottomless fissures were carved into the ground. Even the Great Saint-grade formation runes protecting the arena swayed on the verge of collapse under this strike.

At almost the same moment—

"Divine Ability—Sword Shattering the Firmament."

He held two fingers together as a sword and slashed through the air toward Chen Qingshuang.

This sword was a Sword Dao Divine Ability he had created after thoroughly comprehending every Sword Dao law contained within Chen Qingshuang's earlier move, "Limitless Sword Dao," then casting off the old and bringing forth the new.

The sword light stretched across the heavens. It did not possess the overwhelming deluge of ten thousand sword rains, nor did it carry the fierce momentum of frost filling the sky.

There was only a sword ray sharp to the absolute extreme!

One sword emerged, and heaven's gate opened.

Chen Qingshuang gave a muffled groan. The not-insignificant Saint weapon longsword in her hand let out a wail of unbearable strain, and cracks spread across its blade.

The protective treasures on her body exploded one after another. One, two, three... a full seven protective treasures were reduced to dust in the same instant.

Her body flew backward like a kite with its string cut. Just before she struck the ground, she drove her longsword fiercely into the earth, forcibly halting her retreat.

She knelt on one knee, her sword-gripping hand trembling slightly. The web between her thumb and forefinger had split open, and blood dripped down the hilt.

Yet she stubbornly raised her head, her cold eyes filled with utter disbelief.

"How is this possible?"