Space-time stood still, a Divine Crystal Vein was buried, a protective formation was raised, and Chen Fan departed

Su Chanyue felt bitter inside.

Chen Fan had agreed to break off the engagement, but why would a Great Emperor like him sign a divorce letter?

Hearing this,

Yun Lan looked slightly stunned. "Chanyue, don't talk nonsense."

Chen Fan, a Great Emperor? Absolutely impossible.

Besides,

how could a Great Emperor agree to a stain on his reputation like signing a divorce letter?

"It's true!" Su Chanyue shook her head. "Master, I wouldn't dare joke about this. Chen Fan really is a Great Emperor. I saw it with my own eyes. There's no mistake."

Yun Lan's beautiful eyes flickered with emotion. This had to be a joke!

Chen Fan's cultivation was higher than hers?

"Do you have any proof?" She didn't believe it. There couldn't possibly be an Emperor Realm expert that young!

At any rate, she had never heard of one.

Su Chanyue knew her master found it unbelievable. She herself felt as though she were dreaming.

"Master, Bai Fengyao, the Ancient Phoenix Clan's divine maiden, personally came to ask Chen Fan to take her as his disciple."

"Also, two elders of the Ancient Phoenix Clan, Chen Fengnian and Gu Fengsheng, appeared as well. Chen Fan suppressed them with a single hand!"

Even now, she was questioning her life. I actually succeeded in breaking off my engagement to a Great Emperor? She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Boom.

Yun Lan couldn't help letting her aura spill out. "It was actually those two..."

Those two old fellows from the Ancient Phoenix Clan were veteran experts. Regardless of how much older they were than her, they were genuine Saint Realm cultivators.

Chen Fan had casually suppressed them? A trace of fear entered her eyes.

In that case, Chen Fan really was a Great Emperor!

And her Falling Cloud Sect had somehow offended an expert! One even stronger than her-this truly was taboo.

Su Chanyue fell silent. She knew her master believed her now.

"Master, why do you think Chen Fan signed the divorce letter?"

She couldn't understand why a Great Emperor would accept such a stain on his reputation, without even making things too difficult for her.

Yun Lan couldn't recover for a long time.

It was hard to accept that her disciple's fiancé, barely into his twenties, was already in the Great Emperor Realm! It was truly shocking, enough to make one tremble in horror.

And this was the Falling Cloud Sect's loss, her disciple's loss!

But cause and effect came full circle, and there was no medicine for regret in this world.

She sighed. "Chanyue, Chen Fan wanted to sever all ties with you. After all, the hardest thing to repay in this world is a debt of gratitude..."

There were debts of gratitude between the Su Lineage and the Chen Lineage.

Such indifference to fame and fortune, such a disposition, truly befitted imperial might! They weren't on the same level, so to him, a small matter like this was far easier to resolve than future entanglements over debts of gratitude.

Why bother with a moment's satisfaction when he could cut everything off forever?

That was vision-clean and decisive!

Boom.

It struck Su Chanyue like thunder from a clear sky, stunning her.

Two trails of clear tears flowed down her face. Chen Fan had actually scorned her as a burden, which was why he had simply gone with the current...

Yun Lan shook her head. "Chanyue, since it has already happened, let things take their natural course."

"In a few days, I will personally visit Chen Fan." A Great Emperor so young interested her.

Anyone would probably be interested.

"By the way, what happened to the disciples who accompanied you?"

Su Chanyue's defenses crumbled again. "Master, Senior Brother Wang Zhen died. Senior Brother Meng is a member of the Chen Lineage, and Uncle Fu is also a member of the Chen Lineage. I returned alone!"

Yun Lan: "..."

The Chen Lineage now encompassed an entire city.

Naturally, the common people within it were also under the Chen Lineage's protection.

No matter how large the Chen Lineage grew, it couldn't separate itself from the common people. It was the same for other ancient lineages and imperial clans: however vast their territory, their direct blood relatives would always make up only a small portion.

The common people made up the bulk, and could never be bypassed.

At that moment, on the streets of the Chen Lineage's city,

seas had turned into mulberry fields; the changes were immense. In just a few days, Langya City had changed its name and allegiance, passing to another owner.

No, rather, the Chen Lineage had reclaimed the foundation that belonged to it.

"Ah, it feels like a dream. Everything was fine, and now even the city lord's estate is gone."

"Tell me about it. Could the Chen Lineage have had a hidden expert who decided to lay his cards on the table after breaking through?"

"Heh, if I knew, would I be standing here?"

"Mother, I told you to marry into their family, but you refused. Otherwise, we'd be proper members of the Chen Lineage now, living in a grand mansion with lots of guards protecting us."

"I wish I could too... You little brat, what nonsense are you talking about! I don't want to be the pig rooting up someone else's cabbage."

Ordinary people still didn't know what had happened. They knew only the principle that those who submitted prospered, and those who resisted perished.

At that moment,

inside the Chen Lineage estate, Chen Fan gathered his teammates.

He announced directly, "Today, I will drive a crystal vein into the ground throughout the Chen Lineage's entire territory, with this place as its center!"

There weren't many teammates, but every face was filled with excitement as they witnessed the laying of the Chen Lineage's foundation.

With that, Chen Fan flipped his hand and took out the enormous Divine Crystal Vein... one end of it. The other end remained in the system space.

Bai Fengyao's eyes immediately widened. "Such concentrated power! Master, what kind of crystal vein is this?"

Everyone else was also intensely curious and utterly shaken inside. Could it be an Emperor Crystal Vein?

Chen Fan said, "A Divine Crystal Vein. It ranks above an Emperor Crystal Vein!"

"A Divine Crystal Vein!" Bai Fengyao's eyes immediately lit up. "Does something like that really exist..."

Then she immediately took a slurp.

At the same time, Chen Luoyu and the others cried out, "My... my cultivation broke through?"

"I broke through too!"

So terrifying.

It was unbelievable. They had merely stood near it. This truly defied the heavens!

They had no idea where their ancestor had obtained a crystal vein of such terrifying quality!

Chen Fan offered no further explanation.

The next moment, he rose into the air.

His gaze blazed like a torch as he released his imperial might.

At the same time, the entire Chen Lineage city seemed to fall into frozen space-time.

Everyone froze in place along with time.

At that moment, he was the sovereign.

He didn't want to cause too much of a commotion.

Immediately afterward, he controlled the Divine Crystal Vein and broke open the earth.

"Go!"

He drove it straight underground.

At the same time, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky.

Rumble.

As a legendary crystal vein, the Divine Crystal Vein likewise triggered celestial phenomena upon appearing in the world.

For such a forbidden thing to cause such a disturbance, perhaps it was itself a resource closest to the Heavenly Dao.

Bai Fengyao had long since stared herself silly. "Master is so amazing..."

A Divine Crystal Vein that stirred the Heavenly Dao-with such concentrated energy, even chickens and dogs could probably ascend to heaven.

She really had been clever. She hadn't chosen the wrong master.

...But it turned out her master had no interest in her clan's Emperor Crystal Vein.

Chen Luoyu, Si Fu, Chen Tianya, and the others felt their hearts surge. Even the Heavenly Dao served as their ancestor's backdrop. With this, why worry that the Chen Lineage couldn't regain its glory?

No, it would surely surpass that glory!

Some time passed.

"What an enormous vein!" Everyone was even more shocked.

Such a huge Divine Crystal Vein was utterly beyond valuation. Their hearts trembled without stopping as they watched.

At the same time, they discovered that in just this short while, the power of the Divine Crystal Vein had already transformed the level of their lives, elevating them enormously.

This also meant that their future achievements would rise without limit!

Soon, Chen Fan drove the entire Divine Crystal Vein underground, with this place as its core.

Everything returned to calm.

He murmured, "This is only the beginning..."

This was still far from enough. They needed more facilities and resources, such as training grounds, heavenly treasure trees, heavenly spirit springs, and the like. Of course, that was all for later.

And,

to become a top-tier lineage, they also needed the support and allegiance of other forces-a union, in a certain sense.

It sounded somewhat troublesome. As a socially anxious Great Emperor, creating his own subordinate forces would be more reasonable, and he could use them with peace of mind.

Then Chen Fan waved his hand.

An ancient formation rose from the ground like an inverted glazed bowl, shining with brilliant light before slowly covering the entire city.

The Heaven and Earth Demon-Subduing Barrier was a defensive shield formed by a formation.

Even a Great Emperor couldn't break it!

Chen Fan was very satisfied. "With the Divine Crystal Vein as the formation's main foundation, heaven and earth will unite and reinforce one another. No one can get through."

This thing was perfect for guarding his home in his stead, leaving him free to go gallivanting.

The glazed barrier gradually faded away, as though it didn't exist.

"Master, is this a formation?" Bai Fengyao looked up and exclaimed.

What an amazing formation. She could sense that its defensive power was exceptionally formidable.

Chen Fan nodded. "This formation can keep our Chen Lineage safe."

Then he took out the Order Heavenly Dao Art and handed it to Bai Fengyao.

"Girl, I'll be away for a while. Study this cultivation art carefully." There was no helping it; she was his disciple.

Besides, among them, only Bai Fengyao's talent was sufficient to attempt cultivating a divine-grade cultivation art. The others hadn't reached that level yet.

"Master, why won't you take me along?" Bai Fengyao was unconvinced. She didn't particularly care about cultivation arts. Taking a master was one thing; studying was another matter entirely.

Yet after casually catching the cultivation art her master gave her, a single glance drew her deeply into it.

"Master, take care on your way."

Everyone nearly wrenched their backs at the abrupt turn, instantly bewildered.

Chen Fan paid it no mind.

"Everyone, I'll be away for a few days. Within a year at most, the Chen Lineage will be able to reveal itself to the continent!"

That was the mission deadline. If things went quickly, it would be very soon.

With that, Chen Fan's figure vanished into thin air. At the same time, freedom returned to the city. Everyone in the streets and houses looked bewildered. What happened to me... huh? I broke through???

"Farewell, Ancestor." Naturally, no one said anything unnecessary.

One year-only one year at most before the Chen Lineage could reveal itself to the continent again!

Afterward, they gathered around Bai Fengyao.

"Feng'er, what cultivation art is that?" Chen Luoyu asked curiously.

Si Fu and Chen Tianya also craned their necks to look.

Bai Fengyao laid her ponytail against her chest, unable to put down the cultivation art her master had given her. She hugged it tightly. She knew her master doted on her.

She giggled. "Sister Luoyu, this is a treasure. At the very least, it's a top-tier emperor-grade cultivation art..."

She couldn't imagine anything higher.