"The Liu Imperial Clan has a powerhouse like that?"
Shock appeared on the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' face as he stared in surprise at the golden figure standing before the Liu Imperial Clan.
"A puppet?" The Source of All Evil's voice also rang out from within the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings. "That Liu Wuyou has some tricks up her sleeve. I didn't expect her to be able to use that quarter of my source to absorb the evil thoughts of all living beings."
"How interesting. And they call themselves the number one imperial clan? They're the greatest killers in the Black-Yellow Realm!"
"A puppet infinitely close to the Immortal Realm, hehe..."
Others couldn't tell, but he saw through the puppet's true nature at a glance.
The puppet looked sacred on the outside, but at its core lay an interweaving of countless evil thoughts, slaughter, and resentful souls.
If he was right, the Liu Imperial Clan had absorbed those evil thoughts through that quarter of his source.
The slaughter and resentful souls came from beings of the Black-Yellow Realm who had died unjustly.
In other words, the Liu Imperial Clan had slaughtered countless living beings with their own hands to forcibly create this puppet!
Even so, the Source of All Evil saw nothing about the Liu Imperial Clan worth fearing.
They had spent a hundred thousand years tinkering with this piece of junk. If he had been the one absorbing evil thoughts, he would have needed only a hundred years to return to the Immortal Realm.
"From what you're saying, Liu Wuyou isn't dead? How is that possible?"
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings asked.
He knew Liu Wuyou too. She was the first-generation ancestor of the Liu Imperial Clan and the only woman among the patriarchs of the twelve great imperial clans.
Without surpassing the Emperor Realm, even a Great Perfection Emperor Realm powerhouse had a lifespan of at most around ten thousand years.
Of course, those with certain lifespan-extending methods were exceptions.
But no matter how much they could extend their lives, they couldn't possibly live for a hundred thousand years.
"Even a vicious tiger won't eat its own cubs. I sensed Liu Wuyou's presence on that young girl. This is interesting. That old witch must have been playing a grand game."
The Source of All Evil's gaze fell on Liu Ruyan, who was fighting Su Ting. "This puppet has one-eighth of my source in it. Fight her first, and I'll take the opportunity to reclaim my source."
"Good!"
As the two conversed, the golden puppet charged at the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings!
In an instant, it was like the end of the world outside the Liu Imperial Clan.
The aftershocks of boundless energy continued to ripple outward.
At that moment, someone from the Liu Imperial Clan hurriedly raised the clan-protecting grand array again. Otherwise, the energy leaking out alone would have been enough to give them a hard time.
And that was with the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings and the puppet having moved their battlefield into the sky.
Even the surface of the Liu Imperial Clan's protective grand array, which could withstand a Half-Immortal, was now constantly warping.
"Is that the empress's twin sister? Heavens, she's so strong! Could she have already reached the Immortal Realm?"
"Good! Wonderful! Long live Her Majesty the Empress! Long live the Liu Imperial Clan!"
"With the Liu Imperial Clan here, the Devil Race villains and Su Clan traitors will surely be struck dead, their bodies and souls destroyed!"
Within the grand array, those who had just wandered before death's door all wept tears of joy as they watched the golden figure hold back the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings, who was close to the Immortal Realm.
As for the patriarchs of the other ten great imperial clans, they had been badly frightened when they saw the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings break through the grand array and display power that could crush them.
Fortunately, the Liu Imperial Clan had its own methods.
They wouldn't be like the others and assume that the figure was Liu Ruyan's twin sister!
This was perhaps one of the Liu Imperial Clan's greatest trump cards!
With that and an ancestor of the Liu Imperial Clan who was about to break through to the true Immortal Realm, they were certain to win this battle!
Yet just as everyone on the Liu Imperial Clan's side was immersed in joy, a figure plummeted from the void and slammed heavily into the clan's protective grand array.
Boom!
The sound was so loud that everyone turned to look at the figure.
That person was... Liu Ruyan!
Liu Ruyan looked to be in a sorry state. Blood stained both her long dress and her long golden hair.
A gruesome, bloody hole gaped in her chest.
If it had been a little further to the side, it could probably have pierced straight through Liu Ruyan's heart.
Liu Ruyan was wreathed in a layer of seven-colored divine thunder.
The crackling of leaping arcs of lightning could be faintly heard.
"Her Majesty the Empress actually lost? How is that possible? How could Su Ting be so strong?"
"He must have used some underhanded trick. How despicable!"
Many in the crowd were filled with righteous indignation. Liu Ruyan, a Great Emperor, had never suffered a defeat in her life.
Now that they saw she had actually lost to Su Ting, almost none of them believed it.
Even Yuwen Shendu and the others were astonished.
As for the underhanded tricks those people spoke of, they knew even better that such a thing was impossible.
After all, even now, the eight of them at the Great Perfection Peak Emperor Realm had failed to take down Su Yun and his three companions, whose cultivation was only at the Minor Perfection Peak Emperor Realm.
This showed that the true combat strength of the Su Imperial Clan's members exceeded their cultivation levels!
"You're actually this strong!"
Liu Ruyan looked up. In the void, Su Ting had almost turned into a man of lightning.
At that moment, Su Ting seemed to be the incarnation of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder.
That final spear strike had been far too powerful. Even she, the strongest Great Emperor, who had already touched upon a trace of immortal might, had been completely unable to withstand it.
If she hadn't used the power of space to deflect Su Ting's spear at the last moment, she would have been crippled by now, if not dead.
Crackle!
The Purple Firmament Divine Thunder around Su Ting gradually dispersed, revealing his body.
He did not choose to attack again. Instead, he lowered his gaze to Liu Ruyan, then looked at the beings from the various major factions of the One Origin Continent gathered within the Liu Imperial Clan's grand array.
"We Great Emperors of the Su Imperial Clan have come here today to seek justice!"
As he spoke, a number of image-recording stones appeared in Su Ting's hand.
He tossed them straight into the void, and soon, scene after scene slowly unfolded in the air.
"Liu Ruyan, your Liu Imperial Clan claimed that my Su Imperial Clan drew pay without doing its duty and sought to put us on trial. Is this your reason for putting us on trial?"
As Su Ting spoke, he pointed at one of the scenes.
It showed the moment Su Yi had come to the Liu Imperial Clan to request support in the form of personnel and resources.
At that moment, everyone could clearly see that the members of the Liu Imperial Clan had not only refused Su Yi, but also mocked him repeatedly.
The scene shifted elsewhere.
It was the Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array in the Realm Sea.
The Devil Race was relentlessly assaulting the grand array, trying to break it open from within.
Each time the energy of the grand array weakened, members of the Su Imperial Clan poured countless spirit stones into it to strengthen it.
Fortunately, the Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array itself could absorb spiritual power from heaven and earth on its own. Otherwise, even if the Su Imperial Clan had exhausted all its reserves, it could never have sustained it for a hundred thousand years!
Watching this, even those within the grand array who had previously loathed the Su Imperial Clan were momentarily stunned.
"Huh? Didn't the Liu Imperial Clan say they sent people to deliver resources to the Su Imperial Clan every ten thousand years? Why did the Su Imperial Clan have to come and ask for them themselves? And it's one thing not to give them anything, but to speak to them like that too?"
"Could this be fake? Something the Su Imperial Clan made up!"
"It should be real. If it were faked, someone would be able to tell once the image-recording stone displayed the scenes. The Huangfu Imperial Clan is best at that, and look, even their patriarch hasn't said anything!"