At the same time, the hair on every surviving member of the Devil Race stood on end.
An urge from the depths of their hearts told them to flee this place as fast as they could.
Yet their bodies remained motionless, as though rooted to the spot.
"Father?"
"Father!"
"Father!"
As Su Shuang'er and the others came to their senses and felt the presence of the young man in azure robes not far away, their eyes brimmed with tears!
This man really was their father, Su Chen.
From the looks of it, their father had truly succeeded, reaching a height none of the Su Imperial Clan's ancestors had ever attained!
The devils restraining them had long since been reduced to ashes by that attack.
With a flash, they arrived before Su Chen and knelt down.
"Stand back. We'll talk about everything else later!"
Su Chen glanced at Su Shuang'er and the others. Several strands of spiritual power swept from his fingertips and vanished into their bodies.
Su Shuang'er and the others then felt their injuries heal completely in an instant.
Not only that, but Su Yun's vertical third eye, which had only ever been able to open halfway, could now open fully.
Through this eye, it seemed that no ghosts or monsters could hide.
The ice-attribute spiritual power Su Shuang'er cultivated had surpassed the limits of what she had once been able to wield.
Although her cultivation had not increased, she was now confident she could defeat a lesser-perfection peak Emperor Realm expert of the same level in a short time.
The same was true of the other two!
"Yes!"
With that, they retreated behind Su Chen and began asking Su Ting, Su Ya, and the others what had happened.
When Su Ya and the others told them how Su Chen had killed Wang Teng with one finger, and how the residual power had carved a continuous ravine all the way to the Realm Sea,
Su Shuang'er and the others finally realized that the impact point on the Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array, with its spiderweb-like cracks, was their father's handiwork.
Before this, they would have been shocked.
But after seeing Su Chen wipe out half the Devil Race with one finger, that commotion seemed little more than an appetizer to them.
"What's wrong? I came at your request, yet now you're hiding from me?"
A serene smile on his face, Su Chen looked toward the Devil Race.
"Who is Father talking to?"
Hearing Su Chen speak, Su Shuang'er was puzzled.
"Could it be the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings? But didn't that attack destroy both his body and soul?"
Su Yun spoke as the vertical eye on his forehead opened fully and swept over the entire scene.
"Whatever Father says goes. He's certainly right, so that can only mean the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings isn't dead yet!"
Su Ting curled his lip, his eyes full of admiration.
If he had once been able to see Su Chen's back, now he could no longer even see that.
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' attack, which was powerful enough to wipe him out completely, had failed to break through even the energy of the protective barrier his father had set up. In Su Ting's eyes, Su Ting was now a true immortal.
"You... how on earth did you do it?"
After a long while, an incomparably weak voice came from below.
A moment later, a corpse fragment the size of an adult shot out of the seawater below. It slowly changed in midair, finally taking the form of a gaunt, pale man with sunken eyes.
"Have you... truly reached the immortal realm?"
This man was none other than the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' incarnation.
But the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings, who had originally reached the Half-Immortal realm, had now fallen to the ninth heaven of an ordinary Great Emperor.
"An immortal? What the hell is that? I could blow eight or ten thousand of them to death with one breath!"
Su Chen looked at the wretched Devil Emperor of All Living Beings with a warm smile.
"Arrogant!"
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings gritted his teeth. Clearly, he did not believe Su Chen and thought he was merely boasting.
Becoming a true immortal in the Black-Yellow Realm would be a miracle among miracles.
And he was claiming he could blow eight or ten thousand immortals to death with one breath?
Had he drunk fake liquor before he fucking came here?
Utter nonsense!
Even so, the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings had to admit that Su Chen was absurdly powerful now.
For him to have survived, Su Chen must have held back!
"So what if you've become an immortal? Under the Immortal Domain Prohibition, immortals can't interfere in the lower realm's affairs unless they possess an Immortal Domain decree. You don't have one, so you've broken the rules. You're dead for sure! Heh heh!"
Suddenly, the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings seemed to remember something and grinned at Su Chen.
He had lived longer than every human and devil present.
So he also knew more.
Once someone truly stepped into the immortal realm, they would inevitably be summoned to the upper realm.
But the Su Imperial Clan was so close to the Realm Sea that if Su Chen had ascended to the Immortal Realm, the commotion would have been too great for him not to know.
Su Chen had never been to the Immortal Realm, so he surely knew nothing of the Immortal Domain Prohibition.
Using immortal-level power without authorization would cause him to be erased outright by this realm's Heavenly Dao!
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings thought that Su Chen must have used some method to conceal his immortal presence and escape the Heavenly Dao's notice.
But that finger strike just now had definitely reached the level of an immortal.
This realm's Heavenly Dao must have sensed it!
Sure enough, just as the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings finished speaking, the heavens underwent a sudden, drastic change!
Hearing the sound, everyone looked up to see a rift appear without warning in the cloudless blue sky overhead.
The rift was vertical, its edges jagged like torn silk.
Looking inside, they could faintly see golden light, bloody light, and countless surging bolts of lightning.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The next second, tens of thousands of rusty chains, each as thick as an infant's arm, burst from the rift.
Ancient runes densely covered the surface of the chains.
The chains moved at incredible speed, and wherever they passed, the surrounding void made a sound like glass clashing and shattering.
Whenever the chains struck one another, they sent dazzling blue-white lightning fire flying. The lightning fire gave off no heat, yet the humans and devils present felt a searing pain from the depths of their souls.
Before the chains even arrived, the souls of many weaker devils were burned into nothingness on the spot.
Their bodies plunged straight into the sea!
"Immortals... may not descend to the mortal realm! Those who defy this shall never be reborn!"
A voice like that of an ancient immortal god rang out from the rift, vast and icy, devoid of joy or sorrow!
All the ancient immortal chains pointed at the same target.
Su Chen!
"The immortal Dao laws of this realm! Su Chen, you're dead for sure now. You dared to act without knowing a thing. Bet you're dumbfounded now."
"Too bad you won't get a chance to regret it!"
Only when he saw the Heavenly Dao take action personally did a smile return to the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' face.
He was still alive, but Su Chen was dead.
With Su Chen no longer in his way, he would soon be able to devour the corpses of all living beings and return to the Half-Immortal realm.
When that time came, no one would be able to stop him!
"Hahaha... haha... ha..."
The smile had only just formed on the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' face, and he had barely begun to rejoice, when the sight before him made it freeze.
"Begone!"
A quiet rebuke left Su Chen's lips.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Then everyone watched in horror as the tens of thousands of ancient immortal chains broke inch by inch, less than an inch from Su Chen.
In an instant, the chains rapidly withdrew.
They did not seem to be retracting of their own accord; rather, they were being forcibly pushed back.
Once all the ancient immortal chains had returned to the rift in the heavens, a thunderous explosion came from within, followed by a mournful cry that did not sound human.
"Boohoohoo~~~"
At the same time, the rift in the heavens instantly sealed itself, leaving a cloudless sky!