You Say My Cultivation Is Fake? Emperor, It Was All a Misunderstanding

Rumble—

Auspicious signs descended from the heavens, golden lotuses surged from the earth, and blood-red lightning came cleaving across the sky!

The manifestations roiled, making the entire Star Sea tremble and seethe!

At that moment, Su Linxian's body...

Instantly grew billions of times larger in everyone's eyes.

Like a lofty god, he gazed down upon all living beings across the myriad worlds!

"What do you think?"

Th-this was...?!

An Emperor?!

That terrifying power made every Quasi-Emperor present turn deathly pale!

Ancestor Tai'a felt his entire body go weak. Fighting the instinct to prostrate himself, he rasped.

"N-no, impossible..."

"You're only in the Supreme Realm... how could you possess an Emperor's pressure?!"

Wanjun Quasi-Emperor blazed with light and roared.

"Impossible!!"

"This little bastard was clearly only a Supreme before he entered the forbidden zone!"

"There are two whole major realms between a Supreme and an Emperor! How could anyone ascend to heaven in a single step?!"

"Everyone! Don't let this little bastard fool you!"

"Chiyang's death must have been caused by that Ultimate Emperor Sword in this little bastard's hand! Or some Soul-Burning Forbidden Art!"

At those words, the Quasi-Emperors whose resolve had begun to waver suddenly saw the light.

"That must be it!"

"Su Linxian! An Emperor Weapon may be powerful, but with your cultivation... how many more strikes can you unleash?"

Su Linxian gazed down at them from on high.

His calm face betrayed not a ripple of emotion as he spoke indifferently.

"You hunted me for thirteen years."

"Now, I'll give you a chance too."

"You..."

"Have only thirteen breaths."

The game of cat and mouse...

Had changed players.

"You're bluffing!"

Wanjun Quasi-Emperor abruptly raised his head, a contemptuous sneer flashing in his eyes.

"Everyone, attack together!"

"Myriad Dreadful Barren Elephant Suppression!"

"Roar—"

A colossal Primordial Barren Elephant rose to prop up the heavens. Quasi-Emperor laws erupted around Wanjun Quasi-Emperor as he charged toward Su Linxian, trampling the void with sheer savage power that crushed everything like rotten wood!

Crack, crack...

With every step the ten-thousand-zhang elephant took, the void shattered!

Su Linxian sighed.

"I mean..."

"Why won't you believe me?"

This time, Su Linxian did not even use his Emperor sword.

He slowly raised his hand.

Then...

Delivered a slap.

Pure physical strength!

Boom!!

The elephant phantom let out a piercing wail and instantly exploded into fragments!

Wanjun Quasi-Emperor's breath caught. With a furious roar, he instinctively summoned countless defensive treasures!

But before the overwhelming, terrifying power of the peak Emperor realm, those treasures shattered in the void one after another. Wanjun Quasi-Emperor let out a roar of utter defiance, then exploded into a sky full of bloody mist and perished!

"No—!!"

Bang!!

[Ding! Congratulations, Master, on killing Wanjun Quasi-Emperor. You received 100,000 Villain Points!]

Su Linxian lightly swept his hand.

Two Quasi-Emperor Storage Rings floated out of the void and into his palm.

Without even lifting his eyelids, Su Linxian said coldly.

"You..."

"Have ten breaths left."

If...

What had happened earlier could still be called a coincidence...

Then this blow instantly erased the last shred of wishful thinking in the remaining Quasi-Emperors' hearts!

Run!!

Without the slightest hesitation, Ancestor Tai'a burned his soul!

He turned and vanished in a streak of light, moving at the utmost speed!

"Tai'a?!"

Seeing Ancestor Tai'a flee, the remaining Quasi-Emperors felt their hearts and lungs seize.

"Run!"

"This fellow... really became an Emperor!"

"Hurry! Split up!"

"He can't catch everyone!"

Bang, bang, bang...

Explosions rang through the void.

Dozens of streaks of light scattered in different directions. They all unleashed secret arts, wringing out every last ounce of strength they possessed.

Su Linxian's Emperor sense spread outward, dividing into ten streams.

It instantly locked onto every figure.

Within the perception of his peak Emperor realm divine sense, nothing could hide.

However far they fled, they remained only a single step away.

"So this is the power of the Emperor realm..."

Su Linxian's Emperor Eyes flickered as he murmured softly.

"Truly something to marvel at."

"Nine."

"Eight."

He spoke unhurriedly. His voice was quiet, yet it reached the ears of every fleeing Quasi-Emperor with perfect precision.

Like a sword of Damocles hanging high above all their heads.

Ready to fall at any moment!

"Damn it!"

Ancestor Tai'a was drenched in sweat, his whole body trembling as he fled.

"Why can I still hear his voice after fleeing hundreds of millions of miles, across countless Dao Domains?!"

That meant he had never escaped the other man's grasp from the very beginning!

"Burst!"

He burned his soul a second time!

A ruthless expression crossed Ancestor Tai'a's face as he burned his lifetime of cultivation to escape!

His figure flickered wildly through the void!

He said thirteen breaths... there are still eight breaths left!

Eight breaths...

That's enough!!

All Ancestor Tai'a could do now was curse how far and how long they had pursued Su Linxian!

So far that even a Quasi-Emperor like him could not return to the Tai'e Sword Sect anytime soon!

An Emperor guarded the sect!

As long as he could flee back there.

As long as...

Then...

The space before Ancestor Tai'a rippled slightly.

At some unknown moment, Su Linxian had appeared directly in front of him.

His voice was cold, devoid of even the slightest emotion.

"Ancestor Tai'a."

"Time's up."

Boom!

"S-Su Linxian?..."

Ancestor Tai'a went cold all over. As though plunged into an ice cellar, he froze in place, his face ashen.

"N-no, Emperor Su."

"You... you said thirteen breaths..."

Su Linxian grinned.

"I lied."

"You actually believed me?"

Ancestor Tai'a dropped to his knees with a thud. Tears streamed down his aged face, and a patch of his trousers was soaked as he cried out.

"E-Your Majesty!"

"This old man had eyes yet failed to recognize Mount Tai! I was blind! Please spare my life, Your Majesty!"

"I offer you my soul and Storage Ring! I am willing to be your slave, to serve you like an ox or a horse!"

"I ask only that you spare this old man's life!"

Faced with utterly overwhelming strength and the choice between life and death...

Ancestor Tai'a chose to submit without hesitation!

Su Linxian lowered his eyes and spoke.

"Ancestor Tai'a, throughout these thirteen years, you were the one who clung to my heels most relentlessly."

"You destroyed my cave abode seven times. Even when I fled into secret realms, you still found me..."

Several times, this wretch had wounded him so severely that he had nearly died!

Ancestor Tai'a shuddered.

Beads of sweat dripped down, and for a long while, he could not utter a word.

"A misunderstanding... Your Majesty, it was all a misunderstanding..."

"A misunderstanding?" Su Linxian raised his hand.

"Quite the misunderstanding!"

Boom!

An Emperor's pressure crashed down!

The void around Ancestor Tai'a collapsed inch by inch, pinning him in place so tightly that he could not move.

"Pugh!" Ancestor Tai'a's face contorted as he spat out a great mouthful of blood essence.

The aura of a peak Emperor...

Even the faintest wisp was more than he could withstand!

Su Linxian gently pressed his index finger down.

Golden imperial Dao laws shimmered beneath his fingertip, forming a vast golden finger that descended toward Ancestor Tai'a with a rumble.

Ancestor Tai'a's pupils shrank to pinpoints. He kept summoning the treasures he had accumulated throughout his life, begging only that Su Linxian spare his miserable life.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!!"

Su Linxian said, "Too late!"

Ancestor Tai'a cried, "No... I belong to the Tai'e Sword Sect. You can't kill me..."

"You can't kill me!!"

Rumble—

The golden finger descended.

Ancestor Tai'a looked up in abject terror. His entire body began to crumble from the point between his brows, dissolving into golden motes that drifted through the void!

Boom, rumble!!

It was effortless.

Just like crushing an ant!