"Ancestor Blesses Me? Could this brat... have a Quasi-Emperor Realm ancestor protecting him?"
The Quasi-Emperor Realm elder's expression changed drastically.
He had cultivated for thousands of years and presided over a divine dynasty, considering his experience vast enough to encompass the heavens.
He could sense that Chen Yuanba's roar contained anything but the delirious ramblings of a dying man. It held an inexplicable confidence... welling up from the depths of his soul.
An unease unlike anything he had ever felt rose within the elder's heart.
He had no time to think further. The beam from his finger, condensed from his lifetime of Quasi-Emperor Realm power and strong enough to pulverize stars, had already shot forth!
Rumble!!!
And yet!
That beam did not pierce Chen Yuanba's brow as expected.
Just three inches from Chen Yuanba's brow.
An illusory figure so enormous that he blotted out the sky and sun rose thunderously behind Chen Yuanba without the slightest warning.
Wisps of mistlike, smokelike chaos qi wreathed the figure's entire body. His features were indistinct, but his eyes shone like the sun, moon, and stars, seemingly reflecting the rise, fall, and vicissitudes of countless ages.
He simply stood silently behind Chen Yuanba, without an earth-shaking roar or an overwhelming release of aura.
Yet merely by standing there.
He seemed to dwarf heaven and earth.
Even the void seemed to freeze for an instant.
The Quasi-Emperor Realm finger beam, powerful enough to reduce an ordinary Saint Emperor Realm cultivator to ashes, vanished silently the instant it came within three feet of the figure. Like a clay ox entering the sea, it disappeared without stirring so much as a ripple.
"What?"
The Quasi-Emperor Realm elder's pupils abruptly shrank to pinpoints.
That strike had contained thirty percent of his power of laws. Even another Quasi-Emperor Realm