The Su Lineage's Destruction and an Invitation to the Heavenly Prodigy Gathering

Inside the Su Lineage's grounds.

The sudden, astonishing upheaval in the world.

Filled many people's hearts with a sense of foreboding.

Quite a few Su Lineage members in secluded cultivation rushed out as well.

They looked toward the dark clouds bearing down on the horizon, glancing around in all directions.

A sizable crowd had already gathered at the Su Lineage's martial training ground.

"What happened? Why am I suddenly so scared for no reason?"

"I don't know! Something suddenly went wrong around here. It feels like a storm is coming!"

"Look, there are so many people over there!"

Suddenly, someone spotted Gu Beimo and the others in the void.

Before long.

The sleeping Su Lineage ancestors.

Seemed to sense that the Su Lineage was facing the danger of total annihilation.

One after another, they crawled out of their coffins.

Some were at the peak of the Supreme Realm, and some were even at the first or second heaven of the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

They saw the figures standing in the void.

And their hearts trembled, especially at the sight of the stooped old man leading them.

Gu Beimo also saw the group of Su Lineage ancestors, but paid them no mind.

Looking down at the vast, magnificent complex of buildings below.

Gu Beimo slowly raised his hand.

In the blink of an eye.

Boundless, mysterious, and mighty power surged.

Condensing before him into a gigantic gray palm imprint that seemed as vast as the heavens!

Countless runes covered it.

It also rippled with a chilling presence capable of destroying heaven and earth.

Then the enormous gray palm imprint unleashed overwhelming might in an instant.

And came howling down toward the Su Lineage.

Crushing layer upon layer of the void and destroying the world in this place!

The Su Lineage ancestors were horrified and hurriedly brought out an ancient bronze cauldron.

Its presence was vast and ancient, profound and terrifying.

Dense power of laws flowed over it, and it gave off a faint azure divine light.

On the cauldron's walls.

The phantom of a majestic and domineering divine beast was so lifelike that it seemed alive.

This was a pseudo-Emperor weapon, a grade above a supreme-grade divine weapon!

Though it was not a true Emperor weapon.

It was still one of the world's finest defensive treasures, with exceptionally formidable power.

The next moment.

The palm imprint descended in an instant, as though the heavens were falling!

The Su Lineage ancestors joined forces to activate the ancient cauldron.

Hoping to block the palm strike.

But even the ancient cauldron, a pseudo-Emperor weapon.

Still could not withstand the palm imprint's power to annihilate everything.

It was smashed into fragments that scattered across the sky in an instant.

And even those Su Lineage ancestors in the Quasi-Emperor Realm perished on the spot, their bodies and Daos destroyed!

A moment later.

Rumble-

Amid a tremendous crash that shook the clouds.

Mountain ridges burst apart, heaven and earth shook, and the cosmos trembled!

The Su Lineage, which had dominated the far south and flourished for countless years, vanished.

Where the Su Lineage had once stood.

In its place.

Was a vast wasteland in the shape of a palm imprint, with no trace of life left within it.

"Ji Song, I'll leave the rest here to you."

Before Gu Beimo.

A passage through the void appeared, and he stepped into it and left.

Immediately afterward.

Ji Song brought out what Gu Xuanjin had given him.

A sinister banner said to be the Human Emperor Banner, yet emitting icy black Qi.

At once.

Ghostly figures filled the sky, and Ghost Qi surged in boundless waves!

From the Su Lineage grounds, now reduced to wasteland.

Countless ghosts filled with soaring resentment drifted out.

They were sucked into the Human Emperor Banner and refined into part of it in an instant!

After letting the Human Emperor Banner feast its fill.

Ji Song did not return.

Instead, he led the Divine Martial Guards behind him.

And used a secret technique to find and exterminate the Su Lineage remnants still clinging to life elsewhere.

Even those of the Xiao Clan in Linfeng City who had previously escaped disaster by luck.

Failed to escape this final purge.

After dealing with everything properly.

Ji Song finally led the Divine Martial Guards to Xuzhou City to meet up with Gu Xuanjin.

Inside the traveling palace.

Gu Xuanjin slowly opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing in them before vanishing.

He had completely refined that source of the Law of the Sword Dao.

His mastery of the Law of the Sword Dao had reached 60%.

Far ahead of other peerless monstrous talents.

Ji Song stood respectfully to one side.

And briefly recounted how he had dealt with the Su Lineage and the Xiao Clan.

Then he returned the Human Emperor Banner to Gu Xuanjin.

Gu Xuanjin sensed the Ghost Qi still boiling within it.

The mystic weapon had advanced to supreme-grade mystic weapon.

"Uncle Ji, thank you for your efforts on this trip.

I remember you've been stuck at the ninth heaven of the Supreme Realm for ten years, haven't you?

Don't worry.

Once we return, I'll have an ancestor help you break your shackles and step into the half-step Quasi-Emperor level."

"You're too kind, Divine Son!"

A flicker of excitement passed through Ji Song's eyes.

The further one progressed in cultivation, the harder it became to improve.

He had cultivated for several decades after entering the Supreme Realm before reaching the ninth heaven.

Yet he had never been able to advance another step.

Now, merely for completing a few small tasks of no great difficulty, Gu Xuanjin was willing to help him.

This filled his heart with gratitude.

"All right, Uncle Ji, you may go out first."

After Ji Song left.

Gu Xuanjin summoned his embodiment of evil intent.

He found several supreme-grade heaven-level demonic cultivation arts.

Along with some formidable demonic divine abilities and several demonic treasures of no low grade.

Even the Haotian Creation Art and the Human Emperor Banner.

He gave them all to the embodiment.

"From now on, your name is Dugu Yunyan.

You're a peerless genius who appeared out of nowhere.

Blessed with abundant luck and in possession of the inheritance of an ancient demonic expert."

In a few words, Gu Xuanjin fleshed out the embodiment's identity.

"I understand."

Dugu Yunyan nodded slightly, accepted the items, and put them into his storage ring.

Gu Xuanjin said calmly:

"For now, stay in the Youxuan Dao Domain.

There's no need to deliberately keep a low profile in your usual affairs.

If you encounter mortal danger, I'll naturally step in to help you."

Dugu Yunyan nodded in understanding, and then his figure abruptly vanished.

The next moment.

Nine enormous, fearsome black dragons pulled the traveling palace into the cross-domain teleportation array.

In an instant.

The array activated.

A supremely profound, vast and thick beam of divine light pierced heaven and earth.

The mighty Law of Space spread outward.

The void shattered.

A massive black hole slowly took shape, and the nine black dragons pulled the traveling palace swiftly into it and disappeared.

Meanwhile, news of the Gu Clan's forbidden Divine Son emerging.

And forcefully destroying the Su Lineage and the Xiao Clan in the Youxuan Dao Domain.

Gradually spread across the three thousand Dao domains.

Northern Nether Dao Domain.

Gu Clan, Dao Evolution Hall.

Gu Xuanjin had only just returned.

When a steward with a look of respect and admiration brought him a message.

"Lord Divine Son.

The Holy Maiden of the Jade Pool Holy Land in the Azure Radiance Dao Domain has sent an invitation.

Inviting you to attend their Heavenly Prodigy Gathering.

She said she has long admired you.

And wishes to witness your peerless bearing for herself."

Having spoken.

The steward handed the exquisitely packaged invitation to Gu Xuanjin.

The Heavenly Prodigy Gathering of the Azure Radiance Dao Domain.

Was jointly held by nine hegemonic powers, including the Jade Pool Holy Land, and several other top-tier powers.

It brought together the heavenly prodigies and monstrous talents of their entire Dao domain.

Even top heavenly prodigies from other Dao domains came, drawn by its reputation.

For it was not merely a place where countless heavenly prodigies sparred and exchanged insights.

It was also a place where they could make their names known throughout the world.

Moreover, for some Rogue Cultivator heavenly prodigies without powerful backgrounds.

Being noticed and recruited by one of those major powers meant gaining a backer.

"All right, I understand. Go tell the Jade Pool Holy Maiden that I'll accept the invitation."

Gu Xuanjin gave the invitation a casual glance.

After receiving Gu Xuanjin's response.

The Jade Pool Holy Land spread word that the Gu Clan's forbidden Divine Son would also attend the Heavenly Prodigy Gathering.

This time.

Many top powers across the three thousand Dao domains became interested.

Their successors set out for the Azure Radiance Dao Domain one after another.