Ancestor, Just How Strong Are You?!

From the moment he attacked to the moment it ended, only three breaths had passed.

The three current Chen Family prodigies, each blessed with the potential of a Great Emperor, had all been defeated.

And from beginning to end, the youth in azure robes had not even moved a single step.

Purple Sun Peak was silent, with tens of thousands holding their breath.

Chen Lingfeng stood with his mouth open, yet could not utter a single word.

The Chen Family disciples who had just been marveling at the methods of the three prodigies now looked as though their souls had been snatched away, staring blankly at the azure-robed figure on the ceremonial platform.

At this moment, the Chen Family clansmen who had still doubted the strength of Chen Changqing, the "sole Divine Son," only felt their cheeks burning with shame.

One against three, and he had dealt with them in mere seconds—against three prodigies with the potential of Great Emperors, no less.

Such an unfathomable level of strength had completely proven that Ancestor Changqing was unquestionably the Chen Family's number one prodigy!

Meanwhile, amid the mountain ruins, Chen Yuanba struggled out of the deep crater. Looking up at the azure-robed figure, confusion and reverence appeared in those tiger-like eyes that had never admitted defeat.

He simply could not understand why Chen Changqing had defeated him in a single move!

He was a prodigy with the potential of a Great Emperor!

Just how monstrous was this Ancestor Changqing's talent?

And it was not only him.

At this moment!

Chen Musen and Chen Qingshuang were equally bewildered, wearing expressions as though they doubted themselves.

Granted, they had suppressed their cultivation and had not displayed their full strength.

But Chen Changqing, a Transcendent Realm cultivator, had defeated all three of them—the Chen Family's foremost young prodigies of this generation—at once. Was that not far too absurd?

Most crucially—

They had not sensed even the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy from Chen Changqing.

"That terrifying power did not cause even a trace of spiritual energy to stir..."

"Could it be that Ancestor Changqing's Divine Ability Method truly exists, and was not just fooling people?"

As that thought arose.

Chen Musen and the other two shuddered involuntarily. Having personally experienced the "might of divine abilities," they finally understood just how terrifying this Divine Ability Method was.

Not only was its power far beyond their Saint-grade arts, it did not even consume true essence or spiritual power, required no casting conditions, and could be unleashed instantly?

This... was simply too terrifying!

"You three, attack with everything you have!"

"Oh, and remember to activate all your defensive treasures!"

Chen Changqing smiled faintly as he spoke to Chen Musen and the other two.

He was fairly satisfied with the power displayed by the Divine Ability Method. That had merely been a casual attack, and he had not used much destructive force at all.

Now, he wanted to see how long Chen Musen and the other two could last against these Divine Ability Methods if they attacked with their full strength.

Could the power of divine abilities be raised again by combining them with one another? Could his cultivation realm enhance the destructive force of divine abilities?

"Huh?"

Chen Qingshuang and the other two were immediately somewhat at a loss, but they still nodded. After swallowing pills to heal their injuries, they rose into the air once more.

"Ancestor, your strength truly exceeds our imagination!"

"But next!"

"You must be careful!"

Boom—

A terrifying surge of blood energy suddenly erupted from Chen Yuanba's body. The muscles all over him swelled violently, while a layer of crimson blood-energy armor formed across his body, radiating a domineering aura that made hearts tremble and souls quake.

"Battle Combat Formula, tenfold battle intent, activate!"

In that instant, Chen Yuanba directly unleashed the full power of his Azure Heaven Tyrant Body and raised the battle-intent amplification of the innate treasure art, the Battle Combat Formula, to tenfold.

The effect of this Battle Combat Formula was incredibly astonishing. So long as the battle intent in his heart remained, his physical strength could stay in a state of tenfold combat-power enhancement. If he completely lost his reason, it would stack up to a hundredfold!

It could be said that in his current state, Chen Yuanba's strength had long surpassed that of an ordinary Saint Realm cultivator. Even some Great Sage Realm experts without much foundation would have to avoid his edge.

Not only that, a dark-golden staff appeared out of thin air in Chen Yuanba's hand. It was clearly a top-grade Saint artifact.

"Infinite Battle Staff Technique!"

Ordinary cultivators only knew that Chen Yuanba was a body cultivator who relied entirely on his fists in battle. They did not know that staff techniques were his true trump card!

Yet from beginning to end, no one had ever forced him to use this staff technique.

Chen Changqing was the first!

"Damn, Chen Yuanba actually had another card hidden up his sleeve?"

"Too strong!"

"Don't let the fact that I'm also in the Saint Realm fool you. Before Chen Yuanba, I'm afraid I couldn't even withstand one move!"

"Against a Chen Yuanba fighting at full strength, can Ancestor Changqing still defeat him?"

The Chen Family clansmen could not help growing curious.

No one had expected Chen Yuanba to have concealed his strength all along, only revealing it now.

Seeing this, Chen Qingshuang and Chen Musen, standing nearby, both revealed a trace of resolve in their eyes.

"This time, are you finally getting serious?"

Boom!

Bang!

Almost at the same time.

Two earth-shaking auras, not in the least weaker than Chen Yuanba's, erupted in succession from Chen Qingshuang and Chen Musen.

The Innate Sword Dao Treasure Art, with its ultimate killing power!

A grand spell formation that fused together numerous arts!

At this moment—

The Chen Family's three foremost prodigies of this generation all revealed their strongest states. Their trump cards differed, yet each was outrageously powerful.

They knew very well how strong Chen Changqing was!

Today, only by fighting with everything they had could they have even a sliver of hope at victory!

"Not bad! Not bad!"

Chen Changqing stood in the air, his robes fluttering in the wind. Looking at the three figures below whose auras soared into the heavens, his eyes were filled with sincere approval.

"You three are far more outstanding than that bunch who called themselves prodigies a million years ago."

He spoke those words lightly, but to the ears of the Chen Family, they were no different from a thunderclap.

They had never expected Ancestor Changqing to give Chen Yuanba and the other two such high praise.

"Is this the grand spectacle brought about by the Golden Age?"

Chen Changqing sighed inwardly.

Prodigies who had originally appeared only once in a million years had now emerged three at once in the Chen Family, and every one of them possessed genuine potential to become a Great Emperor.

This was only one Chen Family. Looking across the entire Great Desolate Realm, what a dazzling panorama of stars must it be?

No wonder the old ancestor had said that this era was an unprecedented age of great contention, unlike any in all eternity.

"Ancestor, forgive our offense!"

Chen Qingshuang and the other two shouted in unison. Three utterly different yet equally earth-shaking auras erupted, enveloping the entirety of Purple Sun Peak.

The watching Chen Family disciples retreated one after another. Many younger clansmen with weaker cultivation were forced back repeatedly by that pressure, their faces turning pale.

"Infinite Battle Staff Technique—Heaven-Splitting Form!"

Chen Yuanba attacked first. Under the enhancement of tenfold battle intent, the dark-golden staff in his hand erupted with dazzling golden radiance.

With one sweeping strike, the void shattered inch by inch like a mirror.

A staff force a thousand zhang long, carrying the momentum to destroy heaven and earth, smashed toward Chen Changqing. Before it even arrived, the bluestone ground atop Purple Sun Peak had already been crushed open with countless cracks by the terrifying pressure.

"Ten Thousand Arts Return to the Source—Spell Art Heavenly Net!"

Chen Musen formed seals with both hands. Behind him appeared a full seventy-two spell formations, every one of them a Saint-Tier Art cultivated to great completion.

The seventy-two formations intertwined and wound around one another, transforming into a Spell Art Heavenly Net that blotted out the sky and covered the earth, sealing all of Chen Changqing's paths of retreat from every direction.

This was the trump card he had kept hidden at the bottom of his chest. With the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, he controlled seventy-two arts simultaneously, making them resonate and stack upon one another. Their power had increased by far more than a mere multiple.

"Innate Sword Dao Treasure Art—Ten Directions Annihilation!"

The long sword in Chen Qingshuang's hand let out a clear, ringing cry. The supreme treasure art contained within her Innate Sword Bone was fully activated.

A frost-white Sword Qi shot into the heavens, carving a sword scar a thousand li long through even the clouds above the nine heavens.

Her entire body merged with her sword, becoming one with it. She transformed into a beam of sword light that pierced through heaven and earth, thrusting straight toward Chen Changqing.

Three attacks came at him simultaneously from three different directions!

Every one of them was enough to make a Great Sage Realm expert take it seriously.

Even more commendably, the coordination between the three had vaguely formed a certain tacit understanding.

Chen Musen's Spell Art Heavenly Net sealed off all paths of retreat, Chen Qingshuang's sword light stabbed directly from the front, and Chen Yuanba's Heaven-Splitting Staff Strike blocked the space above, sealing off every last avenue for Chen Changqing to evade.

"Hahaha... well come!"

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

Facing this terrifying encirclement that would make even ordinary Great Sage Realm cultivators change color, he advanced instead of retreating. A brilliant light burst from his deep, chaotic eyes.

In that lightning-flash instant, the trump-card killing moves unleashed by the three were once more completely grasped by his comprehension accumulated over a million years.

Thus—

At the very moment the three attacks were about to reach him, Chen Changqing moved.

He clenched his right hand across the air, and a long staff condensed entirely from pure battle intent appeared in his palm.

The staff was wholly chaotic in color, without a trace of dazzling radiance, yet it emitted an aura that made Chen Yuanba's mind quake violently.

Damn?

Battle intent could actually be used like this? Turned into a physical form?

This instantly overturned Chen Yuanba's entire understanding of the world.