"A Great Emperor! The Holy Lord really broke through to Great Emperor and attained the Dao!"
"Wonderful! Our Tianyuan Holy Land has a Great Emperor protecting it again!"
"The Holy Lord is peerless!"
"Hahaha, the Five Poisons Holy Land lifted a rock only to smash its own feet!"
"They're probably scared to tears! The Holy Lord was already powerful. Now that he's attained the Dao as a Great Emperor and has Great Dao Fortune protecting him, slaughtering them will be child's play!"
And that was indeed the case.
The disciples of the Five Poisons Holy Land were gripped by panic, their hearts filled with unease.
"Did the Tianyuan Holy Lord really break through to Great Emperor?"
"Isn't that obvious? What else could cause these phenomena across heaven and earth?"
"Even without looking at the sky, can't you tell from the expressions on the Holy Lord's and elders' faces?"
"So what do we do now? Run?"
"Run? Heh, if a Great Emperor wants you dead, do you think you can escape?"
"Then... surrender?"
Talk of surrendering and switching sides spread freely through the ranks, without the slightest regard for him, their Holy Lord.
"..." Huo Yicheng felt both furious and helpless.
The facts proved that he had indeed gambled on the wrong move.
The Five Poisons Holy Land's allotted days were over!
Given what he knew of Chen Tianlin and the Tianyuan Holy Land, they would never let this matter slide so easily.
Escape was certainly impossible.
"What audacity! You dare come to my Tianyuan Holy Land and run wild!" Chen Tianlin's voice resounded throughout the cosmos.
Like thunder, it forced its way into everyone's ears!
Their ears rang from the shock.
Imperial might!
An irresistible, overwhelming imperial might swept through their bodies.
Their already unsteady Dao hearts collapsed completely.
Those at the rear simply fled on the spot.
Those who could not escape watched Chen Tianlin approach through the air, auspicious clouds beneath his feet and supreme divine might surrounding him. All they could do was kneel and beg for mercy...
"We never meant to make an enemy of the Tianyuan Holy Land! Please spare our lives, Holy Lord!"
"Spare me, Holy Lord! I'm willing to serve Tianyuan as an ox or a horse!"
"Spare us, Holy Lord! Please spare us!"
Pleas for mercy rose one after another.
Only Huo Yicheng and the elders remained trapped between advancing and retreating.
As a Holy Lord and elders of a holy land, how could they kneel and beg before so many juniors?
If word got out, they would be laughed to death.
As Chen Tianlin drew closer and closer, their hearts rose into their throats.
"Chen Tianlin! You stole my Great Dao Fortune and destroyed my chance to attain the Dao! I want you dead!" An ethereal, aged voice reached everyone's ears once more.
They looked toward its source and saw billowing, eerily green poisonous clouds and mist crashing toward them like ocean waves.
They surged with tremendous force!
"Ancestor! The Ancestor is here!" an elder cried in delight.
Although the Five Poisons Ancestor had failed to attain the Dao as a Great Emperor, his own strength still could not be underestimated. Their chance of victory was not entirely gone.
Chen Tianlin stopped.
He raised his hand and waved.
BOOM!!!
A boundless sea of fire rose behind him and swept toward the poisonous clouds and mist.
It seemed to set even the sky ablaze, painting it an eerie orange.
Its scorching heat rivaled the blazing sun overhead.
Under such intense heat, the poisonous mist and clouds instantly ignited and vanished into nothing!
They had no power to resist.
"No! I refuse to accept this! Why? Why?!" Within the last wisp of poisonous cloud, the hideous figure of an old man could be seen.
He fought desperately to emerge, stretching out his large hands in an attempt to contend with the sky-burning sea of fire.
In the end, it was all futile. The flames engulfed him and devoured him completely.
"..." Huo Yicheng and the others had never imagined this outcome.
Their Ancestor, such a powerful Ancestor, a half-step Great Emperor, had been utterly helpless before Chen Tianlin!
Most terrifying of all was how casual Chen Tianlin's attack had seemed.
There was no sign whatsoever that he had been fighting seriously.
He seemed far stronger than others had been upon first attaining the Dao as Great Emperors! More than several times stronger!
Why?
"He's too strong! Our Holy Lord is truly too strong!"
"May the Tianyuan Holy Land endure for all eternity!"
"The Holy Lord is invincible!"
"All hail the mighty Holy Lord!"
The disciples of the Tianyuan Holy Land raised their arms and cheered.
Their cries threatened to overturn the sky.
At that very moment.
Inside Qingyun Prefecture.
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The instant the system's voice faded, a golden pillar of light containing tremendous spiritual energy and fortune shot straight into the heavens! Into the cosmos!
It pierced the sky itself!
It even allowed people to see a brilliant, star-filled night sky in broad daylight!
They could not help thinking that this was what a true phenomenon of heaven and earth looked like!
"What's going on?"
"Don't look at me. How would I know?"
"The lingering might of the Holy Lord's breakthrough to Great Emperor?"
"Why would that lingering might come from the Young Lord's Qingyun Prefecture?"
"Uh... could it be! Has the Young Lord attained the Dao as a Great Emperor too?"
"But wasn't he still in the Grandmaster realm before?"
"Then let me ask you: how many days did it take him to reach Grandmaster?"
"..."
"But isn't a world only supposed to produce one Great Emperor? Our Southern Region already has one. Can it produce a second?"
"If this happens to the Young Lord, I won't find it strange. Rather, this is exactly what he ought to do—break the rules!"
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!!!
Even fiercer tremors of heaven and earth spread throughout the entire Southern Region.
Visibility diminished. Looking up, they could clearly see a sky full of extraordinarily brilliant stars!
The blue sky, white clouds, and blazing sun all disappeared, leaving no trace.
It was a strange sight none of them, not even Chen Tianlin, had ever witnessed.
They could think of no possibility other than successfully attaining the Dao as a Great Emperor.
Even if there was another explanation, it would involve an existence far beyond a Great Emperor!
"H-how could this happen?"
"Two Great Emperors? Doesn't that violate the heavenly dao order?"
"No matter how much Great Dao Fortune favors the Tianyuan Holy Land, surely it doesn't need to go this far?"
"Two Great Emperors! Unprecedented! Utterly unprecedented!"
"I'd long heard that the Tianyuan Holy Land's Young Lord was an extraordinary monster, but I never imagined he could be monstrous to this degree. He's practically defying heaven!"
"Two Great Emperors. Our hope of survival is completely gone."
Huo Yicheng and the others all felt as though they had fallen to the bottom of an abyss. Their hearts were half cold? No, frozen through.
They had never felt such despair.
Indeed, neither the whole of Great Cang nor the Southern Region had ever experienced such despair. In a single world, within a single holy land, two Great Emperors had appeared one after another!
How were they supposed to contend with that?
"Ha, hahaha, hahahaha!" Huo Yicheng covered his entire face with his hand and let out an eerie laugh, less human than beast.
Then he took out a bottle of pills and poured them all into his mouth.
"Holy Lord!" An elder recognized them as the Five Poisons Holy Land's deadliest pills.
A single pill could take a life, let alone an entire bottle!
"Holy Lord Chen, this was my rash decision alone. I am willing to exchange my life for the survival of the people of the Five Poisons Holy Land. That is all I as..."
He never finished the word.
"Cough!" Huo Yicheng's expression suddenly changed. Unable to conceal his agony, he coughed up a great mouthful of blood.
Then his body plummeted like a shooting star.
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