And so, under the gaze of the Su Imperial Clan, the devils scattered and fled, practically scrambling on their hands and knees.
Every one of them feared that if they ran too slowly, Su Chen would change his mind and wipe them out!
Only after the last devil vanished from sight did Su Chen wave his hand.
The next second, nine spatial rifts appeared a short distance in front of them.
The nine other Great Emperors of the Su Clan, who had been trapped in the Realm Sea, fell out of them.
"What happened?"
"The Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array has been broken, and all the devils have escaped!"
"The Black-Yellow Realm is doomed!"
"Damn it! Were we still too weak? Were we still unable to do it?"
For the moment, the nine Su Clan Great Emperors still did not know exactly what had happened.
They only knew that the grand array had been broken and the devils had escaped!
Seeing this, Su Ya tactfully stepped forward and told the nine Great Emperors the whole story.
Sure enough, when the nine Great Emperors learned what had happened, they were struck dumb.
Their ancestor... had become an immortal?
Even the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings, mighty as he was in the Half-Immortal Realm, could only prostrate himself before their ancestor and acknowledge him as his master?
He had wiped out forty Devil Emperors and an army of several million devils with a single move?
They recognized every word, but when those words were strung together, they could not make sense of them.
"Father! Why did you let those devils go? With your current strength, you could have wiped them out and been done with them once and for all!"
Su Shuang'er was outspoken. She promptly shooed the nine Great Emperors behind the others to let them come to grips with the news on their own, then looked at Su Chen.
"Su Ya!"
Instead of answering her, Su Chen called out to Su Ya.
"Ancestor!"
Su Ya scurried over to Su Chen, looking like an adoring little fan.
"Show them those recording stones!"
"Yes, Ancestor!"
Without hesitation, Su Ya casually pulled over a hundred recording stones from his storage ring and handed them out to Su Shuang'er and the others who did not yet know about these matters.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Crack, crack!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Su Shuang'er froze the recording stones in her hands solid. They burst apart the next moment, turning into white powder that fell through her fingers.
Frost formed on her eyebrows and hair.
She had not done it deliberately; her turbulent emotions had caused it.
"How could these people... This is simply intolerable!"
"Our Su Imperial Clan has done so much. It would be one thing if they gave us no credit, but why did they have to drag our name through the dirt?"
"Leaving the imperial clans aside, how could those common people..."
She was truly furious.
Even when fighting the Devil Race, she had never been this angry.
She could understand the other imperial clans. After all, none of the other eleven imperial clans had come to help over the years, so they could already guess what they thought.
But how could the sects and families of every size in the Black-Yellow Realm, even ordinary people, all see the Su Clan this way?
Amid her anger, Su Shuang'er also realized why her father had not killed all the devils outright, but had spared half of them. "So, Father, you deliberately let those devils go?"
It was not just Su Shuang'er. Su Yun, Su Hao, Su Yi, and the nine Great Emperors behind them were equally enraged.
Everything their Su Imperial Clan had sacrificed felt as though it had been fed to dogs.
Even dogs knew to wag their tails and beg for favor. The living beings of the Black-Yellow Realm and the eleven imperial clans were the true white-eyed wolves!
"Killing the devils would be easy for me. It would take no more than a turn of my hand!"
Unlike Su Shuang'er, he was not a living being of this world to begin with. What did the lives and deaths of others have to do with him?
As for the Su Clan, truth be told, for now he only had some connection to them because of the body he inhabited and the system mission.
As for the supposed family bonds, it was simply impossible for him to treat the Su Clan members the way the original owner had, at least for now.
He could only say it was half and half.
Who knew what would happen in the future?
If there were any of those so-called holy mothers in the Su Clan, he would erase them with his own hands without the slightest hesitation.
He would never allow such a person to exist right under his nose.
Su Chen asked tentatively, "Do you think this is cruel to the living beings of the Black-Yellow Realm?"
Everyone hesitated for a moment when he finished speaking, and Su Chen's gaze grew a little cold.
The next second, however, Su Shuang'er spoke. "If I hadn't known about the recording stones the great elder and the others made, I would indeed have thought this was very cruel to the people of the Black-Yellow Realm!"
"Our Su Imperial Clan has guarded against the Devil Race for a hundred thousand years. When all is said and done, we have been protecting every living being in the Black-Yellow Realm, yet I never imagined that this was how they saw our Su Imperial Clan!"
"We have done all that duty and kindness demand. This is not the Su Clan's Black-Yellow Realm, but the Black-Yellow Realm of all its living beings!"
"That's right!" Su Ting, as the clan leader, stepped forward and agreed, his gaze resolute:
"If not for our Su Imperial Clan, the Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array would have broken tens of thousands of years ago. You could say that our Su Imperial Clan forcibly delayed this disaster, which should have come long ago, for tens of thousands of years on their behalf!"
"Who has the right to judge our Su Imperial Clan? Not even the Liu Imperial Clan!"
Behind Su Ting, the other Great Emperors and Su Ya and the other Quasi-Emperors all nodded. "We think so too!"
Su Chen nodded slightly. "Good! At least you're still clearheaded!"
The fact that they could say such things proved that they were not beyond saving.
Their perseverance over the years had much to do with the will left behind by the first-generation ancestor.
"As for those minor sects, families, and ordinary mortals, you only need to consider things from another angle!"
Su Chen continued, "They naturally came to hold these views because they were influenced by the views of the imperial clans ruling their respective continents!"
"Even if it was only a rumor, as long as someone came to the vicinity of the Realm Sea to investigate for themselves, they would have been able to discover the real truth."
"But they didn't. They simply believed the ideas those imperial clans instilled in them, because in their minds, they were the beneficiaries, and no matter what happened, they wouldn't be affected in the slightest!"
"Perhaps some did have doubts, but those people were like bystanders. Our Su Imperial Clan was the one being bullied, and the eleven imperial clans were the bullies. To avoid being bullied themselves, they would naturally choose to join the bullies."
"Of course, the most, most, most important reason was that the Devil Race was still trapped in the Realm Sea!"
"And now, we're merely doing the same as them, washing our hands of the matter. What does it have to do with our Su Clan where the devils go?"
"Our Su Clan owes no one anything!"
"Whatever happens in the Black-Yellow Realm next is what they deserve, isn't that right?"
Su Chen smiled, his vast spiritual sense covering almost the entire Black-Yellow Realm.
Not a single devil's movement escaped his perception.
The Devil Race's feast... had begun!
"That's right!"
"That's right!"
"That's right!"
"..."
"Come on, back to the clan!"
As his words fell, a spatial passage tore open before Su Chen.
On the other side of the passage was the Su Clan's current location.
The group passed straight through the spatial passage and vanished from the sky above the Realm Sea!