Shi Zhongtian and the others soon fell into a disadvantage. The crisis took a sharp turn for the worse, leaving them in grave danger.
"Shi Yuanshan, your strength amounts to no more than this."
The Rain Emperor's face was filled with disdain.
Smack! Smack!
As his words fell, his crescent-bladed halberd swept across, sending both men flying backward.
The might of a Supreme was utterly beyond what Shi Zhongtian and the others could withstand.
Shi Yuanshan's cultivation was only at the middle stage of the Great Sage Realm to begin with. Trying to fight an opponent across realm boundaries was simply asking for a beating.
Pfft!
"Shi Zhongtian, if this is all the strength you have, it's time for your Shi Clan to perish."
The Rain Emperor was very excited. The Rain Clan's experts slaughtered wildly; it could be said that they had it very easy.
Without pills or divine weapons and sharp blades, the Shi Clan's disciples and elders relied purely on their own strength. Faced with divine weapons and sharp blades, they soon fell into a disadvantage.
Rumble!
Smack! Smack!
"Ancestor, we don't want to die! We don't want to die! Why is this happening?"
"Ancestor, hurry and have the clan head come back to save us and teach the Rain Clan a lesson!"
"Ah! Ancestor, I don't want to die!"
Throughout the disciples' roaring cries, the Shi Clan's head never appeared.
Shi Yu, who had plotted to frame Shi Hao, never appeared either.
The Shi Clan's double-pupiled prodigy had not appeared even at this moment when the Lineage's survival hung in the balance.
"Hahaha! Shi Zhongtian, doesn't your Shi Clan have a double-pupiled one? Why don't I see him anywhere?"
The Rain Emperor's face was filled with mockery.
But the next moment, an icy voice rang out.
"Rain Emperor, you have some nerve! Is my Shi Clan yours to bully?"
As the voice fell, Shi Zilin and the others appeared.
Six people followed behind them, clearly Ye Changge and the others.
They had emerged from the Shi Clan's ancestral grounds.
Shi Zilin and his wife had also broken through to peak Sage.
Even so, in the current situation, that was still of no help.
"Zilin, are you all right?"
"Father, we're fine."
"Grandfather, are you all right?"
Shi Hao stepped forward and asked, his face pale.
What had he seen? Someone as powerful as his grandfather was now covered in blood.
He had clearly suffered severe injuries.
"Are you little Shi Hao?"
"It's me, Grandfather."
Hearing this, Shi Yuanshan's expression turned bitter.
He had never expected grandfather and grandson to reunite under such circumstances.
"Grandfather, don't worry. With Master here, no one can bully us."
Hearing this, before Ye Changge could speak, Xiongba stepped forward.
"A Supreme Realm ant. Will you take your own life, or must I act?"
As his words fell, the winds and clouds changed color. Terrifying imperial might swept across the nine heavens and ten lands, dreadful beyond measure.
"How is this possible? You... you... you're a Quasi-Emperor?"
Pinned down by the imperial might, the Rain Emperor could not move. His heart was shaken beyond measure. A Quasi-Emperor.
On the present-day Heavenly Spirit Continent, even a peak Supreme had not been seen for countless years, let alone a Quasi-Emperor.
Now that imperial might had actually appeared, one could imagine how shocking it was.
"Heavenly Frost Fist!"
Xiongba threw a punch directly. Terrifying cold shot into the sky, and in an instant, everyone felt as though they had plunged into an endless abyss.
The Rain Emperor was blasted to pieces by that single punch.
Seeing this, Shi Zhongtian's face turned ashen.
Shi Yuanshan, however, laughed heartily. "Grandson, you've done very well. Remember to listen to your master from now on."
"Master, can my grandfather, father, and mother go cultivate in the forbidden zone?"
Ye Changge paused slightly. He had not expected Shi Hao to make such a request.
But to let him cultivate in peace, he ultimately agreed.
With the Rain Emperor dead, Shi Zilin looked at Shi Zhongtian without any expression. "Ancestor, you'd best look out for yourself."
With that, everyone vanished.
When they appeared again, they were above the Rain Clan.
"Rain Clan, you attacked my Shi Clan. The Rain Emperor is dead. You may be spared death, but you cannot escape punishment. Hand over all your cultivation resources."
As he spoke, Xiongba released his imperial might, leaving the entire Rain Clan dumbfounded.
Amid everyone's shock, the Rain Clan's treasury and cultivation resources were plundered clean. Even the women's clothes and trousers were not spared, leaving them with only a pair of briefs. Wherever they passed, not a blade of grass remained.
Once everything was done, everyone returned to the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
"Such dense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Is this the faction little Shi Hao has joined? How terrifying."
Shi Yuanshan and the others sensed everything around them, their expressions extremely solemn.
"The elders haven't returned yet, and there aren't many people here, so there's nothing much to do. Find yourselves rooms in the outer area and settle in."
"Master, we can just show them around."
Lei Qianshan spoke with a kindly expression.
After sending everyone off, Ye Changge brought Shi Hao to the great hall.
"Master, are you going to awaken my physique?"
Ye Changge nodded.
The strongest Battle Saint Physique in history-he did not know what heavenly and earthly phenomena its awakening would produce.
He looked forward to it greatly.
"Congratulations, host, on successfully taking your third disciple. Rewards: Battle Art, imperial weapon Chaotic Heaven Staff, Sand Character Sword Art-one grain of sand to cut down myriad universes-and two Great Emperor Summoning Cards."
Hearing the voice, Ye Changge finally smiled.
Then he began widening Shi Hao's meridians. With a Great Emperor's help, the meridians throughout his body soon widened considerably, no longer suffering from the blockages or inability to circulate that had occurred before.
Once everything was ready, he imparted the Battle Art to Shi Hao.
"Take your time comprehending it and cultivating. No one will disturb you."
One hour, two hours, three hours later, a terrifying phantom appeared between heaven and earth.
Its terrifying presence seemed ready to battle heaven and earth, dreadful to the extreme.
"Heavens, what's going on? What a frightening presence! Has some peerless expert broken through?"
"No, that phantom looks like the awakening of some kind of physique."
"A physique resembling a giant purple ape? I've never heard of such a physique."
"Could this be the awakening of the Battle Saint Physique, one of the ten strongest physiques?"
"No, even the awakening of the Battle Saint Physique shouldn't produce such terrifying heavenly and earthly phenomena, should it?"
As everyone finished speaking, the terrifying ape between heaven and earth threw back its head and roared, as though it would battle heaven and earth, radiating terrifying, supreme pressure.
Then ten thousand beasts bowed in worship, followed by the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise appearing one after another, throwing heaven and earth into chaos and battling heaven and earth. The terrifying phantoms were dreadful to the extreme and lingered for a long time. Gradually, even the sounds of slaughter and roaring echoed between heaven and earth.
One peerless prodigy after another, possessing all manner of powerful physiques, began to grow uneasy upon sensing this presence. Some even felt fear.
"What's going on? Why is my Supreme Bone trembling? This must be the first time something like this has happened in tens of millions of years."
Within the Sword Sect, having just returned to the sect-
"Junior Brother Feng Chen, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Seeing Feng Chen's solemn expression, Jian Wuji hurriedly asked.
"Senior Brother, I feel as though my Supreme Bone is being suppressed by some power, as if an extremely terrifying physique has been born between heaven and earth."
As Feng Chen's words fell, the elders and sect master were all taken aback.
A physique that suppressed the Supreme Bone? How was that possible?
How could something like this occur in the world?
"Sect Master! Sect Master! Mysterious heavenly and earthly phenomena have appeared! Hurry outside and look!"
Someone shouted, and everyone rushed out of the great hall. Looking at the terrifying phenomena that battled heaven and earth and threw heaven and earth into chaos, they all fell silent, their faces filled with disbelief.
"These are heavenly and earthly phenomena produced by the awakening of a special physique. How is this possible?"
Everyone in the Sword Sect wore stunned expressions. This was their first encounter with anything like it.