Heavenly Dao vs. the System: The Protagonist Xiao Han Falls

However.

Those few brief exchanges just now.

Left Xiao Han slightly stunned, gradually sinking into thought.

Although Xiao Han did not want to believe his enemy, Gu Xuanjin.

He could not seem to find any evidence to refute him, either.

After all.

The dignified divine maiden of the Su Lineage.

Had deliberately entered the Xiao Clan.

Other than having an ulterior motive, there was probably no other reason!

For a moment.

Xiao Han felt bitterness, anger, and a host of other emotions.

He could never have imagined.

That Xiao Xueying, the girl who had grown up with him and whom he had come to love.

Had approached him with a purpose from the very beginning!

Seeing that something was wrong with Xiao Han's expression.

Xiao Xueying's heart trembled, and her face turned pale and anxious.

"Brother Xiao Han, it's not what you think! Calm down! Will you listen to my explanation?"

"Xiao Xueying... or should I call you Su Xueying? Are you going to keep lying to me?"

Xiao Han gave a miserable smile.

First, the Xiao Clan had been wiped out and his father killed, and now even the one person he trusted most had an ulterior motive!

The successive blows drove his Dao heart toward collapse and despair.

Glancing at Xiao Han, who was beginning to go mad.

Su Xinghe said in a low voice:

"Divine Son, the Su Lineage will not interfere in the Xiao Clan's affairs. We will leave now."

"Patriarch Su, don't be in such a hurry. None of you will be leaving today."

Gu Xuanjin said calmly.

As soon as he finished speaking.

In the void.

An old man in plain clothes, with no fluctuations of cultivation whatsoever.

Slowly appeared, his back hunched as he leaned on an ordinary walking stick.

He looked ancient and feeble.

The helper Gu Xuanjin had called in.

A peerless powerhouse at Peak Quasi-Emperor, the Gu Clan's Ninth Elder, Gu Beimo!

Su Xinghe's pupils shrank sharply.

This ordinary-looking old man, who seemed to have no cultivation, made him feel utterly suffocated!

The next moment.

Su Xinghe decisively tore open the void.

He fled into it with Su Xueying, hoping to escape.

But Gu Beimo merely gave his walking stick a gentle wave.

And Su Xinghe and his daughter were seized by an invisible, mysterious force.

And forcibly dragged back out of the void!

Even the shattered void was restored to its original state in an instant.

Su Xinghe could not help showing his horror, and fell into utter despair.

Melding with heaven and earth, rebuilding laws-this old man was a Quasi-Emperor Realm mighty figure!

Just then.

Gu Beimo reached out and grasped at the void.

A mysterious, vast force emerged.

It wiped out Su Xinghe and Xiao Xueying on the spot, destroying body and soul alike and leaving only a little blood Qi drifting through the air!

Gu Xuanjin came before Xiao Han.

He looked coldly at the young man's anguished, despairing face, killing intent swirling in his eyes.

"This Divine Son will send you down to reunite with those people from the Xiao Clan!"

Just as Gu Xuanjin was about to finish Xiao Han off.

The world suddenly fell into a bizarre state!

Time paused, space froze, and heaven and earth fell silent.

It was as if someone had suddenly pressed pause on a video!

Gu Xuanjin felt an extremely dangerous presence lock onto him.

It came from beyond the boundless void.

There.

A giant golden eye loomed in and out of sight, utterly indifferent.

Countless laws surrounded it.

Divine light surged around it, majestic and sacred, radiating a supreme, mysterious, and terrifying presence!

It was an existence beyond all things.

The maintainer of the world's order, the supreme and impartial creator, and the ruler who stood above everything.

The Heavenly Dao!

It watched Gu Xuanjin in silence.

Gu Xuanjin felt as though the entire Xuanhuan Great World were watching him.

The incomparably vast pressure made his heart pound with alarm, and he could scarcely breathe!

Gu Xuanjin hurriedly contacted the system.

"System, at a time like this, why aren't you coming out? Are you waiting to collect my corpse?"

[Rest assured, Host.

A mere Heavenly Dao. This system need only make the slightest move to annihilate it into nothingness!]

The system's icy voice was brimming with confidence.

Then.

A brilliant stream of unfathomably mysterious light flew out of Gu Xuanjin's body.

It crossed time and the ages, pierced through the void and laws, and shot straight toward the Heavenly Dao!

The Heavenly Dao seemed enraged by this act of provocation.

In an instant.

Three thousand laws surged like a tide, raising boundless, monstrous waves.

The terrifying power of the Heavenly Dao churned and roiled, sending out ripples full of destructive force.

These overwhelmingly powerful forces could easily bring death and the destruction of the Dao to Quasi-Emperors and even Great Emperors.

In an instant, they condensed into a bolt of golden lightning, imbued with vast heavenly might and incomparable sanctity.

It descended with a thunderous roar that shattered ten thousand layers of void!

The next moment.

Rumble-

The brilliant stream of light slammed into the golden lightning.

However.

The golden heavenly lightning, so powerful that even a Great Emperor could not withstand it, was routed in a single clash!

The majestic, sacred giant eye of the Heavenly Dao was pierced clean through by the brilliant stream of light right before Gu Xuanjin.

Then.

It shattered with a thunderous crash, turning into golden divine light that filled the sky and slowly dissipated!

At once, Gu Xuanjin could not help feeling utterly astonished!

So the system was this powerful!

Although that golden eye was only an avatar of the Heavenly Dao, not the true Heavenly Dao.

It still represented the Heavenly Dao's dignity.

Now that the system had defeated it, the Heavenly Dao would undoubtedly be furious.

Yet Gu Xuanjin waited for quite a while.

And the Heavenly Dao made no move.

Could it be... wary of the system?!

Then, the entire world returned to normal.

In the void.

Gu Beimo frowned.

He had just felt as though his thoughts had stalled for an instant, but he could not find the reason.

Gu Xuanjin looked calmly at Xiao Han.

He pointed a finger through the air.

A streak of exceptionally sharp Sword Qi shot down.

It pierced Xiao Han between the brows in an instant.

His divine soul was also absorbed and refined by the Human Emperor Banner nearby.

The system's notification sounded immediately afterward.

[Congratulations to the host for killing the protagonist Xiao Han!]

[Rewards obtained:

Haotian Creation Art (supreme-grade heaven-tier cultivation technique), Sword Dao Pagoda (forbidden divine ability)

Law of the Sword Dao 9%, Evil Thought Avatar (Divine Bridge Realm), 90 million Villain Points

Rewards dropped by the protagonist:

Heaven-Burning Divine Art (growth-type low-grade profound-tier cultivation technique), the secret of a Great Emperor's ruins.]

[The host has drastically changed the future plot!]

[Additional reward obtained: Nine-Bend Hell-Burying Sword Formation Diagram (supreme-grade divine weapon)]

As the system's notifications continued to sound.

Divine radiance shone, and wondrous, mysterious sources of light appeared one after another in the system space.

Gu Xuanjin was somewhat surprised.

He had not expected the rewards for dealing with one protagonist to be so generous.

And Xiao Han's cultivation technique had dropped as well.

That was an unexpected delight.

As for the Great Emperor's secret, it was probably why Su Xinghe had placed his daughter in the Xiao Clan.

However.

Gu Xuanjin suppressed his curiosity.

He did not check the details of those things for now.

Gu Xuanjin raised his eyes to Gu Beimo.

"Ninth Elder, sorry to trouble you, but I need you to make a trip to the Su Lineage."

"You're too courteous, Divine Son."

Gu Beimo nodded slightly.

A void passage appeared before him, and he stepped into it and vanished.

After pondering for a moment.

Gu Xuanjin looked at Ji Song, who stood respectfully at his side.

He handed him the Human Emperor Banner, wreathed in black Qi and sinister and eerie in every way.

"Uncle Ji, take my Human Emperor Banner and these Divine Martial Guards, and go along as well."

"Whether old or young, leave not a single one alive!"

Gu Xuanjin knew well that if you cut the grass without pulling out its roots, it would grow again when the spring breeze blew.

So naturally, he would not spare the Su Lineage.

At Gu Xuanjin's instructions, Ji Song nodded calmly and asked no further questions.

He accepted the black Human Emperor Banner.

Then he led the Divine Martial Guards into the void passage Gu Beimo had created.