A Saint Emperor Ancestor Forces the Use of an Imperial Weapon!

The entire starry sky fell into a deathly silence at that moment.

Blood Sea Ancestor knelt in the void, his head buzzing.

He felt an inexplicable force pressing down upon him, leaving him utterly unable to resist. His eyes could not help but flash with bewilderment and confusion.

After cultivating for so many years, he had reached the ninth level of the Saint Emperor Realm, just one step away from the Quasi-Emperor Realm. Even in the Great Desolate Realm, his combat power ranked among the finest.

Yet in that instant just now, he had felt as though the entire heavens and earth were pressing down upon his shoulders. That inexplicable force was so powerful that it was simply impossible to resist.

And it was not just him.

Xue Wuyou was dumbfounded as well.

The three Saint King Realm elders who had been severely wounded and sent flying were equally stunned.

So too were all the cultivators of the Blood God Palace aboard the seven warships. Not one of them was an exception; every last one was utterly stupefied.

At this moment!

The entire starry sky was silent as the grave!

Everyone present widened their eyes, staring fixedly at that figure in green robes as though they had seen a ghost.

"You—"

Blood Sea Ancestor finally came back to his senses, and a look of humiliation and fury rose upon his withered face.

He was a mighty ninth-level Saint Emperor Realm expert, the ancestor of the Blood God Palace whose name shook an entire starfield, yet a single sentence from some wet-behind-the-ears brat had forced him to kneel before so many people?

What humiliation was this!

Though he did not know what was happening, he absolutely could not accept such humiliation!

Blood Sea Ancestor struggled to rise. The sea of blood around him surged, and the terrifying aura of the ninth level of the Saint Emperor Realm erupted without reservation.

"You little wretch!"

"How dare you humiliate me like this!"

"Today, I will make you die—"

"Too noisy."

Chen Changqing did not even raise his eyelids. He merely uttered two words calmly: "Slap yourself."

The next instant!

A scene that sent chills down everyone's spines unfolded once more.

Slap!

Blood Sea Ancestor's right hand rose beyond his control and viciously struck his own left cheek.

That slap was so powerful that it directly caved in his facial bones, sending him flying sideways like a meteor.

Before he could steady himself, his left hand rose beyond his control as well and delivered an even louder slap across his right cheek.

Slap!

Slap! Slap! Slap!

The dignified ninth-level Saint Emperor Realm ancestor of the Blood God Palace was now like a puppet controlled by strings, slapping himself left and right in midair.

That old, withered face quickly swelled beyond recognition. Even his two blood-moon-like eyes were squeezed into narrow slits by his swollen eyelids.

Th-this... what exactly was going on?

Watching this scene, Xue Wuyou felt a chill shoot from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head.

Without the slightest hesitation, and without bothering with the three severely wounded Saint King Realm elders, he bit the tip of his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood essence into his palm, activating the Blood God Palace's exclusive escape art—the Blood Escape Technique.

Whoosh!

A streak of bloody light exploded beneath his feet, wrapping around him as he prepared to tear through the void and flee.

"Damned Lin Yue Ru, why do you always have such luck?!"

Just before the escaping light vanished, he turned back to glance at the green-robed figure, his eyes filled with savagery and unwillingness.

Having suffered great losses at Lin Yue Ru's hands time and again in his previous life, he knew clearly that he would probably fail again this time.

Though he did not want to believe that a Saint Emperor Realm ancestor would fail, the powerful instinct born from being tormented by Lin Yue Ru in his previous life told him to run for his life.

That bitch was still the same as in his previous life. Every time she was driven into a desperate corner, some "big shot" would appear to help her.

"Damn it!"

Xue Wuyou was filled with such unwillingness and stifled rage. He had not expected that even after being reborn, he still could not kill Lin Yue Ru.

"Just you wait. I refuse to accept this! I refuse to believe you can stay this lucky forever!"

Xue Wuyou glared viciously at Lin Yue Ru once again.

As a reborn cultivator, he possessed the advantage of knowing the future's great tides. He knew where heaven-defying opportunities lay, and he knew how to rise rapidly.

As long as he kept a low profile and developed steadily, one day he would enter the Quasi-Emperor Realm and perhaps even attain the Dao and become an Emperor!

When that day came, he would repay today's grudge a thousandfold, ten thousandfold.

As for the ancestor and everyone else—

He could no longer care about them.

Even Blood Sea Ancestor, at the ninth level of the Saint Emperor Realm, had been forced to kneel and slap himself by a single sentence from Chen Changqing!

He had never heard of such an eerie method.

His intuition told him that he had to get away immediately!

"Oh?"

"This fellow... is rather decisive, isn't he?"

Chen Changqing watched Xue Wuyou's reaction with considerable curiosity.

The moment the situation turned unfavorable, the man had directly chosen to flee for his life. He was quite adept at judging the times, already smarter than many so-called "heavenly geniuses."

"However—"

"Did I permit you to flee?"

Chen Changqing shook his head and chuckled softly.

Immediately after.

He once again used the Greater Divine Ability, Words Become Law, and said lightly, "Come back."

Buzz—

An invisible power of laws silently emerged from Chen Changqing's body, as though it had stirred some supreme law hidden in the unseen, causing the entire starry sky to freeze.

At the same time!

Tens of thousands of miles away.

The streak of bloody light fleeing at high speed through the void suddenly came to a halt.

Xue Wuyou only felt as though his entire body had been seized by an invisible giant hand, completely losing all control over himself.

His true essence was clearly still circulating frantically, and the Blood Escape Technique was still active, yet his body began flying backward entirely against his will.

Like a fish caught on a hook, no matter how it struggled, it could only be dragged back inch by inch by that invisible line.

"NO!!!"

Xue Wuyou's pupils abruptly contracted, and incomparable terror flooded his eyes.

Throughout his cultivation, he had seen countless secret arts, yet he had never heard of any method capable of forcibly intercepting someone in the midst of using the Blood Escape Technique and dragging them back from the void.

"This is absolutely impossible!"

He roared hoarsely, frantically driving the true essence within his body in an attempt to ignite the light of the Blood Escape Technique once more.

Yet no matter how he struggled, the force binding him never loosened in the slightest.

All resistance was futile.

The next instant.

He returned in a thoroughly miserable state to the very spot where he had activated the Blood Escape Technique moments earlier.

Xue Wuyou raised his head and looked at Chen Changqing before him. A chill spread from the depths of his soul, making his entire body tremble uncontrollably.

Even when he had died in his previous life, he had never feared anyone as deeply as he feared this man now!

"Y-you... what method did you use?"

Xue Wuyou's voice was hoarse and trembling, and intense terror surfaced in his eyes.

"This is simply impossible!"

"You are clearly only in the Great Sage Realm. How could you possibly achieve something like this..."

At this moment, Xue Wuyou was incomparably regretful.

It was all because, in his previous life, his mind had been entirely focused on dealing with Lin Yue Ru, and he had not paid much attention to this Evergreen Divine Son.

Had he known earlier that the other party possessed such terrifying strength, then even if he had been given ten thousand times the courage, he would not have dared to set foot in this starfield.

Chen Changqing did not answer him. He merely cast him a calm glance.

Then.

Chen Changqing turned around and looked at the young woman beside him.

"How do you wish to deal with the enemy who exterminated your family?"

Hearing Chen Changqing's question, Lin Yue Ru finally recovered from her successive shocks.

She looked at Chen Changqing's calm face, then at Xue Wuyou kneeling on the ground with terror written all over his face. Scenes of the Lin Family's brutal destruction rose uncontrollably in her mind.

It was this bastard.

He had led the Blood God Palace's experts to flatten the Lin Family's ancestral grounds and slaughter every one of her clansmen.

She had fled all the way, coming close to death several times. Had her ancestor's remnant soul not protected her at the cost of its life, she would have long since died during the pursuit.

With such a blood-deep hatred, how could she let him die so easily?

The hatred in Lin Yue Ru's eyes seemed on the verge of becoming tangible.

She opened her mouth, about to speak.

Suddenly—

Boom!

An incomparably tyrannical pressure erupted from Blood Sea Ancestor's body without warning.

That pressure was completely different from before.

If Blood Sea Ancestor had previously been a vast sea of blood, then at this moment, he was a blood-drenched demon god awakening from slumber.

His eyes turned crimson as blood. Blinding bloody light burst forth from every inch of his skin, and his entire body seemed to be burning.

"Blood God Palace, Blood Sea!"

Blood Sea Ancestor formed an ancient hand seal with both hands, his movements so swift that they dazzled the eye.

"Here, I sacrifice my natal blood essence and beseech the ancestral Imperial Weapon to aid me in slaying the enemy!"