"First Elder!!"
"Second Elder!!"
"Third Elder!!"
"No!!!"
Within the Su Imperial Clan's formation, many watched Wang Teng strike to kill Su Ya and the others, their eyes bloodshot as they roared.
"Uncle Qing, hurry and open the protective formation! We have to get out there and help the First Elder and the others!"
Some had even reached the edge of the formation and turned back to look at the burly man.
Seeing that his clansmen were close to losing their senses, the burly man called Uncle Qing said nothing.
Nor did he open the barrier!
With the Su Clan's Great Emperors absent, Su Ya and the other elders were its strongest members.
If even they were no match for Wang Teng, then once the clan-protecting formation was opened, the Su Imperial Clan might even be massacred.
Of course, the one who had actually forbidden him from opening the protective formation was none other than First Elder Su Ya!
With an imperial edict in hand, Wang Teng dared to kill even Quasi-Emperor Realm experts like them outright. Once the formation was opened, the consequences would be unthinkable!
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
Before the attack even landed, the pressure from the imperial edict made Su Ya and the others spew blood, their bodies sinking deep into the ground.
Crack! Crack!
The bones throughout their bodies ground and broke with a series of sounds!
"Wang Teng, you dare try to kill us without authorization? The Su Clan's Great Emperors will never let you off! Don't think your Wang Clan can do whatever it pleases just because it has produced a Great Emperor!"
Su Ya clenched his teeth, blood dripping from the corners of his mouth onto the ground. Cracks had even begun to spread across his body.
He looked utterly dreadful and wretched!
Below the Emperor Realm, all were ants!
Even experts at the Quasi-Emperor level were no exception!
"Oh? Is that so? Then why don't you bring out your Su Clan's Great Emperors? I, Wang Teng, am waiting right here!"
Wang Teng smiled disdainfully, his hawk-like eyes looking down at Su Ya and the others as though they were ants about to be crushed.
"After being stationed near the Realm Sea for a hundred thousand years, could it be that your Su Clan no longer has any Great Emperors? How pitiful!"
With that, Wang Teng stopped looking at Su Ya and turned to the golden imperial edict in the void. His eyes filled with fascination as he murmured to himself, "So this is the power of the Emperor Realm? It's truly intoxicating!"
"I, Wang Teng, can also attain the Dao and become an Emperor someday!"
He was only in his prime, yet he had already reached the Ninth Heaven of the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
Moreover, the Wang Clan had produced a Great Emperor, and the bloodline within their bodies had begun to transform into "Emperor Blood."
With an Emperor-level bloodline, how could he not attempt to break through to the Emperor Realm someday?
At that thought, his eyes burned with fervor!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Just as the blades formed from the imperial might of the edict were about to pierce the space between Su Ya's and the others' brows,
In the next second, more than ten blades froze in the void.
By then, the blades were less than three inches from the space between Su Ya's and the others' brows!
"Uh..."
In an instant, everyone froze.
"Wh-what's going on?"
Su Ya was the first to recover. He turned to the Second Elder, who was nearest to him, and asked.
"I-I don't know!"
The Second Elder shook his head, clearly just as bewildered.
"Could it be that the clan leader or another Great Emperor intervened?"
The Third Elder glanced around, a puzzled look on his face.
Wang Teng clearly hadn't had a change of heart, or he wouldn't have attacked them in the first place.
Although the power in the imperial edict wasn't a true Great Emperor descending in person, probably only another Great Emperor could withstand it.
But they knew what state the Su Clan's Great Emperors were in, which was why they found it hard to believe!
In the void, Wang Teng also froze for a moment. Then his expression darkened. "They had something else up their sleeve? Could it be that a Great Emperor of the Su Clan intervened?"
But Wang Teng looked around and found nothing amiss.
So he waved his hand again, trying to control the power contained in the imperial edict and kill Su Ya and the others.
"Activate!"
"Open!"
"Mami mami hong!"
"Lady Empress, aid me!"
But no matter what Wang Teng tried, the imperial edict didn't so much as stir.
In an instant, Wang Teng's face began to pale, and an ominous feeling rose in his heart.
Before he could think further about what was happening,
The next moment, the hairs all over his body stood on end, and cold sweat streamed down his back!
For at some point, a young man had appeared directly opposite him.
The young man wore blue robes, and his waist-length hair fluttered in the wind. A single glance from those godlike eyes made Wang Teng feel small and ashamed of his own inferiority.
He had never felt this way even when facing his own clan's Great Emperor!
"Wh-who are you?"
Even Wang Teng himself didn't notice that his voice was trembling!
The young man who had suddenly appeared was simply too young.
He didn't merely look young; his very bones gave the impression that he was only around twenty years old.
Wang Teng was no fool. Being able to block the power in the imperial edict meant that the other party was at least a true Great Emperor!
When had the Su Clan acquired such a young Great Emperor?
They hadn't known much about the Su Clan's circumstances over the past hundred thousand years, since virtually no one from the other imperial clans came here.
The Su Clan could have Great Emperors.
But they absolutely shouldn't have had one this young!
"You called for me, so I came. Do you have any last words?"
The young man was naturally Su Chen.
He had come out as soon as the system finished binding, and fortunately, he had made it in time. (The system silently grumbled: Actually, Su Chen had arrived ages ago. He just wanted to show off!)
"Who is that?"
"I don't know! But it looks like he's here to help us!"
"Thank you for saving my life, Senior. I, Su Hong, will remember this kindness!"
"..."
The moment the man appeared, the Su Clan elders felt the pressure bearing down on them vanish completely.
They got to their feet one after another and studied Su Chen with great curiosity, gratitude in their eyes.
Only Su Ya stared blankly at the young man in blue in the void. "Th-this is..."
Then, his face filled with excitement and his eyes brimming with tears, he trembled all over and said, "Su Ya of the Su Clan greets the Ancestor!!!"
Smack!
Su Ya dropped cleanly to his knees and kowtowed in Su Chen's direction.
"What did you say? That's... the Ancestor?"
Hearing Su Ya's words, the other elders looked at Su Chen again, then matched his figure with the person in their memories.
The same words popped into their heads.
A return to youth!
That was it!
They had all seen portraits of the Ancestor in his youth. Wasn't the young man before them identical to the one in those portraits?
It was just that the Su Clan's Ancestor had been in seclusion for far too long, and the portraits had been put away long ago.
That was why they hadn't recognized him at once.
Once they realized this, the elders who were still standing dropped to their knees one after another with a series of thuds, as if competing, and called out in unison.
"Greetings, Ancestor!!!"
"Greetings, Ancestor!!!"