A Sage Strikes, Reduced to Ashes

Ten Thousand Mountains.

Above an ancient mountain range, divine light intertwined, immortal mist billowed, and auspicious radiance stretched for miles, illuminating the entire Ten Thousand Mountains.

Especially within the ancient mountains at the center of the divine light, vast and boundless auras gathered, like a small world formed by nature itself.

The desolate, ancient aura within it was enough to make one's heart tremble.

Countless ancient warships and arks had already gathered in this region. Among them were many Venerable Realm cultivators, and even several Great Power Realm experts.

These people all came from the Heaven River Realm's foremost ancient factions.

The strongest among them could even burn mountains and seas, overturn yin and yang!

"Even those ancient aristocratic clans that have secluded themselves from the world have come!"

"Great Power Realm experts! They're probably the strongest beings in the Heaven River Realm, aren't they? Even they've arrived. It seems this has nothing much to do with us anymore."

"At this point, we can only pray that we might still pick up a scrap."

"There's no helping it. The Great Emperor's Tomb is simply too tempting!"

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Many cultivators looked somewhat dejected. The emergence of the Great Emperor Relic should have been something exciting.

But as more and more great figures descended, they had begun to despair.

Trying to snatch food from the mouths of these great figures was nothing but dreaming in broad daylight.

"Do you think there might be a Become Emperor Dao Method inside?"

"I think there's a very good chance."

Great Emperors suppressed the universe and looked down upon the boundless starry sky. The ultimate goal of countless cultivators was to become a Great Emperor.

Without becoming a Great Emperor, one would ultimately remain an ant.

Yet what the world did not know was that becoming a Great Emperor was merely the beginning. In the eyes of the Immortals of legend, they were only slightly larger ants.

Rumble!

At that moment, a tremendous roar sounded from the horizon. Immediately afterward, a gigantic Flying Ship emitting divine light appeared before everyone's eyes.

"Gasp! Isn't that Flying Ship far too enormous? The Palaces atop it are carved beams and painted rafters, and divine light even coils around them!"

"Such exquisite craftsmanship is simply unheard of!"

"The formation on that Flying Ship is too profound, isn't it? Wait—there's even Dao resonance!"

The moment those words were spoken, many people's expressions changed drastically. Dao resonance was something only supreme experts could comprehend!

Moreover, integrating it into a formation required an extraordinarily deep understanding of the Dao! Such a person was truly the strongest among the strong!

A flag woven from golden threads flew from the Flying Ship, bearing two large characters: Returning Origin.

Returning Origin?

Many people were utterly baffled. What supreme faction was this?

The Flying Ship slowly sailed forward and hovered above all the factions, carrying itself like a monarch surveying heaven and earth.

"Arrogant!"

"Does Your Excellency truly think nothing of us with this move?"

"I'd like to see what gives you the nerve to suspend your Flying Ship above our heads!"

A Sealed Emperor Realm cultivator snorted coldly, gathering spiritual energy in his palm as he charged straight at Su Changge's Flying Ship!

Yet before he could even approach, a divine voice as vast as the Great Dao rang out from within the Flying Ship. "Scram!"

The terrifying aura made heaven and earth tremble, while the void roared!

Looking again at that Sealed Emperor expert, he was already vomiting mouthfuls of blood!

The protective divine light around him shattered like a mirror, while the wave of air rushing toward him showed no sign of weakening.

Rumble!

It directly sent him flying, his body crashing heavily into a mountain peak. Dust billowed into the sky, and the mountain shattered.

Everyone around them watched this scene in horror. That Sealed Emperor Realm expert lay amid the ruins like a dead dog.

His aura was in chaos, and his Dantian had shattered!

"Gulp." Quite a few people unconsciously swallowed.

A single word had instantly suppressed a Sealed Emperor expert! Terrifying beyond measure!

"Am I seeing things?"

"A Sealed Emperor expert was finished just like that?"

"No way, right? That person was considered an inheritor of a lineage. How could he be so weak and useless?"

"You've got it wrong. It isn't that he's too weak—it's that the other person is too strong!"

The cultivators of the Heaven River Realm stared fearfully at the Flying Ship in the sky. What had happened today had completely overturned their understanding!

At that moment, a woman walked out from the Palace aboard the Flying Ship.

She was breathtakingly beautiful, like a fairy fallen into the mortal world—transcendent and peerless.

The woman's cold voice rang out. "This Great Emperor's Tomb belongs to the Divine Son."

"The Divine Son has said that you have ten breaths' time to leave."

Yun Xinyan gazed coldly at the many figures below and said indifferently, "If you refuse to listen, bear the consequences yourselves."

The crowd drew sharp breaths, their pupils contracting. The other side was actually this domineering, intending to swallow the Great Emperor's inheritance all by himself?!

"Courting death!"

"Arrogant to the extreme! You're digging your own grave!"

"All the factions of the Heaven River Realm are gathered here. Aren't you afraid the wind will twist your tongue for making such outrageous claims?!"

"Hmph! No need to waste words with him. Let's go up there and slaughter him now!"

The Great Power Realm experts from the many ancient factions were all enraged. They did not know what kind of faction the Returning Origin Holy Land was.

They merely assumed it was a reclusive faction like their own. Since the other party was so arrogant, they would make him pay the price!

Venerable Realm experts, and even Great Power Realm experts, all erupted with terrifying auras!

All kinds of divine light descended upon this world. The void shook, and spiritual energy roared and surged!

As more and more experts erupted, even the many mountain ranges of the Ten Thousand Mountains rumbled and trembled, as though some great terror was brewing!

But at that moment, another profound voice sounded from the heavens.

"The Divine Son already gave you a chance."

"Since you have chosen to bully the few with the many, then don't blame me for bullying the small with the great!"

Boom!

A vast and terrifying pressure suddenly descended, divine might surging forth and blanketing heaven and earth!

The power of laws across the sky merged with runes shimmering in holy light, forming a vast, raging ocean of spiritual energy. Even the void was cracking apart inch by inch!

As the ocean of spiritual energy churned, countless bolts of lightning gathered above the firmament!

The heavens shook, and mountains and rivers shattered!

The pressure of a Sage descended, making all things between heaven and earth tremble and change color!

"T-This is?!"

All living beings in the Heaven River Realm sensed that incomparably powerful Sage's might. Their faces turned pale as they prostrated themselves upon the ground. The terrifying pressure did not even grant them the qualification to raise their heads and look up.

It was none other than Gui Ying, the peak Sage secretly protecting Su Changge, who had made his move!

"How dare ants of the lower realm threaten the Divine Son of my Returning Origin Holy Land?"

"You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit!"

"Then take one palm strike from me!"

Sage Gui Ying raised his hand and unleashed a palm formed from Golden Runes, destructive lightning spreading within it!

The enormous palm seemed to blot out the heavens and cover the earth, its terrifying pressure sweeping in all directions.

"Quick!"

"Bring out your natal treasures, or we'll all die!"

The terrified crowd finally came to their senses and brought forth one magical treasure and divine weapon after another!

Dazzling divine lights bloomed with all their might beneath that terrifying pressure. Treasure light burst forth, creating a truly spectacular sight.

"Nothing more than the struggles of the dying."

Rumble!

But as that palm descended without mercy—

The void twisted, mountains crumbled, and streak after streak of divine light gradually vanished. Great Dao Runes exploded across the sky, while the terrifying shockwave leveled a vast region to the ground!

Heaven and earth fell into deathly silence, everyone as quiet as cicadas in winter.

So many Venerable experts and Great Power experts had possessed auras powerful enough to warp the void!

Yet beneath this single palm, they were reduced to ash and scattered to the wind!