The Realm Sea, the Su Imperial Clan!
In the main hall, things were different from before. Now that they no longer had the duty of guarding against the Devil Race, the Su Clan's Great Emperors had all gathered there.
In the square outside the hall, virtually every clan member had found an open spot and sat upright, waiting for their ancestor Su Chen to speak.
Back when the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings and the other devils had been routed, word had already been sent back to the Su Clan.
At this moment, it was no exaggeration to say the entire clan was celebrating.
The Devil Race had broken free of the seal, but the Su Imperial Clan had likewise been liberated.
From now on, they would no longer have to worry about their husbands, wives, and children dying in battles with the Devil Race.
"Is everyone here?"
Seated in the place of honor, Su Chen slowly spoke.
"Everyone is here!"
Su Ting replied.
Su Chen nodded. "Good!"
But he did not immediately reveal his next plan.
Unable to hold back, Su Ting asked, "Father, can we move the whole clan back to our ancestral land now? Two Forms Continent has been vacant for far too long. I think the other ancestors would also want to return to their roots, like fallen leaves!"
This was not the Su Imperial Clan's ancestral land, after all!
One Origin Continent, where the Liu Imperial Clan resided, was the center of the entire Black-Yellow Realm.
And Two Forms Continent, where the Su Imperial Clan had resided, was the place closest to the center.
They had moved here back then mainly to make it easier to keep the Devil Race in check.
Now the seal was gone and the Devil Race had fled. There seemed to be little point in their staying here.
"Ancestral land?" Hearing this, Su Chen smiled, a trace of self-mockery in his smile. "Do you think that place still belongs to the Su Imperial Clan as its ancestral land?"
"What do you mean?"
At those words, everyone present froze, unable to understand what Su Chen meant.
Su Ting said, "The first-generation ancestor said that the Liu Imperial Clan's ancestor promised him that Two Forms Continent would always belong to our Su Imperial Clan. As long as we returned, it would always be our Su Imperial Clan's first home!"
Su Chen smiled. "Heh! As you said, that was a promise between their first-generation ancestors. How long has it been since then?"
"But they promised..."
"They promised plenty of things. Which one have they ever fulfilled?" Before Su Ting could finish, Su Chen said bluntly, "Just look. Not long ago, they even issued an imperial decree, intending to put our Su Imperial Clan on trial. Was that... also something they promised back then?"
When he finished, Su Ting had no answer.
There seemed to be some truth to that!
In fact, the Liu Imperial Clan had not only promised to reserve the ancestral land in Two Forms Continent for the Su Imperial Clan forever, but had also promised the resources that should have been allocated to them.
The Liu Imperial Clan's ancestor could not have been unaware of how many resources were needed to suppress the Devil Race.
Yet in the past hundred thousand years, they had not fulfilled their promise once. If the Su Imperial Clan had not been running short on resources, they would not have sent people to ask for them in person.
Even so, they had been turned away at the door and had not brought back so much as a single hair.
"Next, I'll speak, and you'll listen!"
Looking at Su Ting and the others, who were exchanging glances and did not know what to say, Su Chen continued.
"Yes, Father!"
"Yes, Ancestor!"
Though unwilling to accept it, Su Ting could say nothing with the facts before him.
Now, Su Chen was the Su Imperial Clan's heaven, the person with the greatest seniority and the highest cultivation in the clan.
At this moment, even if Su Chen told them to die, they would not hesitate in the slightest.
Su Chen raised one finger and said slowly, "First, the Liu Imperial Clan has grand schemes. You'll find that out soon enough."
With his current cultivation, no person or matter in the entire Black-Yellow Realm could escape his perception.
The Liu Imperial Clan's imperial decree was merely a smokescreen. Their real plot was to lure the Su Imperial Clan back to Two Forms Continent, the so-called ancestral land.
For the plan the Liu Imperial Clan had prepared for a hundred thousand years had already been set in motion!
"The Liu Imperial Clan has other schemes?"
Below, Su Ya found it somewhat hard to believe and muttered to himself.
The others felt the same, but in just a single breath, they came to believe Su Chen's words completely and unconditionally.
"Second, your main goal now is to improve your cultivation!"
As he spoke, Su Chen swept his gaze over everyone and said slowly, "Those at the Minor Perfection Peak Emperor Realm should strive to break through to the Great Perfection Peak Emperor Realm. Ordinary Peak Great Emperors should strive to break through to the Minor Perfection Emperor Realm, and those at the Quasi-Emperor level should break through to the Great Emperor Realm, and so on!"
He had only one month of life left. For someone like Su Ting, a single seclusion could take hundreds or even a thousand years.
By comparison, a month was but the snap of a finger!
Only by raising the cultivation of the Su Imperial Clan's members could he, Su Chen, gain more lifespan!
At these words, the whole hall fell silent, and everyone wore an awkward expression.
Clearly, this demand had put them in a difficult position!
Leaving aside the realms below the Emperor Realm, breaking through a minor realm within the Great Emperor Realm could readily take hundreds or even thousands of years.
This was not something that could be accomplished with resources alone, and the Su Imperial Clan did not have many cultivation resources at present.
Otherwise, Quasi-Emperor Realm experts like Su Ya should have been able to break through to the Great Emperor Realm.
Or rather, if they were now in their ancestral land in Two Forms Continent, Su Ya and the others would already be true Emperor Realm experts!
Seeing the expressions on their faces, Su Chen naturally understood. He reassured them, "You don't need to worry about resources. And I'll personally impart the Dao to you!"
According to the system, he could not directly raise the Su clansmen's cultivation, but he could skirt the rules and tread along their edge.
That way, surely there would be no problem?
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone drew a sharp breath, and the whole place erupted!
What was Su Chen's cultivation now?
He was an immortal!
An immortal, the likes of which had not appeared again in the Black-Yellow Realm for hundreds of thousands of years!
And now, an immortal would personally impart the Dao to them. Surely the Su Imperial Clan was the only one in the entire Black-Yellow Realm to enjoy such an honor at present?
To receive even a single word of guidance from a being of that level was worth a hundred or even a thousand years of arduous cultivation!
"Ancestor! Ancestor! Ancestor!"
Inside and outside the hall, countless people cheered. They had clearly come to regard Su Chen as the object of their faith!
After the crowd had calmed down somewhat, Su Chen waved his hand, then reached into the void and grasped it.
Countless profound runes lit up at his fingertips and on his hand.
The runes detached from his hand and shot outside toward the Su Imperial Clan's protective grand formation.
At the same time, the formation's foundations, which had originally combined offense and defense, began to change. In addition to their original offensive and defensive capabilities, they gained another... gathering Spiritual Qi!
That was right!
The grand formation now possessed all three capabilities: offense, defense, and gathering Spiritual Qi.
And just as the runes finished transforming the grand formation, a terrifying suction force erupted from it.
The formation patterns intertwined into a colossal pillar that reached the heavens. One end connected to the Su Imperial Clan's grand formation, while the other pierced the sky, tore open a rift, and extended inside.
The next second, endless Heaven and Earth energy was sucked out of the rift as if its life depended on it and funneled back into the grand formation.
In just over ten breaths, the once-thin Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within the grand formation began to liquefy, condensing into droplets of spiritual liquid that floated throughout it.
"Spiritual Qi turned to rain!"
This sight left every member of the Su Clan dumbstruck.
They did not even need to absorb the spiritual liquid themselves. Boundless energy had already begun to seep into their bodies.
"Mmm... so full, so swollen. Is this energy too powerful?"
"Is this a Spirit Gathering Formation? The ancestor changed the protective emperor formation? Could this be an immortal-grade Spirit Gathering Formation?"