The Ten Thousand Mountains.
Above a stretch of ancient mountains, divine light intertwined, immortal mist billowed, and auspicious radiance blazed for ten thousand spans, dazzling the entire Ten Thousand Mountains.
Within the ancient mountain at the center of the divine light in particular, a boundless aura gathered, like a small world formed by nature itself.
The vast, ancient aura within it left hearts trembling.
Countless ancient warships and arks had already gathered in this region, with many Venerable Realm experts among them, 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 and overturn yin and yang!
"Even the ancient aristocratic clans that remain hidden from the world have come!"
"Great Power Realm experts! They're probably the strongest beings in the Heaven River Realm. With even them here, it looks like this won't have much to do with us."
"At this point, we can only pray we'll still pick up something they overlook..."
"It can't be helped. A Great Emperor's Tomb is simply too tempting!"
"..."
Many cultivators felt somewhat dejected. The emergence of a Great Emperor Relic had originally been something to get excited about.
But as more and more important figures arrived, they had begun to despair.
Trying to snatch food from these figures' mouths was truly dreaming in broad daylight.
"Do you think there might be a Become Emperor Dao Method in there?"
"I think there's a very good chance."
Great Emperors subdued the cosmos and looked down proudly upon the boundless starry sky. Becoming a Great Emperor was the ultimate goal of countless cultivators.
Without becoming a Great Emperor, one remained nothing but an ant.
But what the world did not know was that becoming a Great Emperor was merely the beginning. In the eyes of the legendary immortals, they were only slightly larger ants.
Rumble!
Just then, a tremendous rumbling sounded at the horizon, followed by an enormous flying vessel radiating divine light appearing before everyone's eyes.
"Gasp! Isn't that flying vessel enormous? The palaces aboard it have such carved beams and painted rafters! There's even divine light swirling around them!"
"Such exquisite craftsmanship is simply unheard of!"
"Aren't the formations on that flying vessel far too profound? Wait... there's even Dao rhythm!"
These words made many people's expressions change. Dao rhythm was something only supremely powerful experts could comprehend!
Moreover, incorporating it into a formation required an extremely profound understanding of the Dao! That made its creator an expert among experts!
The flag woven from gold thread aboard the flying vessel bore two large characters: Returning Origin.
Returning Origin?
Many people were utterly bewildered. What supreme power was this?
The flying vessel approached slowly and hovered above all the other powers, looking for all the world like a monarch gazing down upon heaven and earth.
"Arrogant!"
"Your Excellency, do you think nothing of us, acting like this?"
"I'd like to see what gives you the right to suspend your flying vessel over our heads!"
A Sealed Emperor Realm expert snorted coldly, gathered spiritual energy in his large hand, and struck straight at Su Changge's flying vessel!
But before he could approach, a divine voice like the Great Dao itself rang out from within the flying vessel. "Scram!"
The terrifying aura made heaven and earth tremble, and the void thundered!
When they looked again at that Emperor-Sealing Realm expert, he was vomiting great mouthfuls of blood!
The protective divine light around him shattered like a mirror, while the wave of force surging toward him lost none of its momentum.
Rumble!
It hurled him away outright, smashing his body heavily into a mountain peak. Dust billowed, and the mountain shattered.
Everyone around watched the scene in horror. That Sealed Emperor Realm expert lay amid the rubble like a dead dog.
His aura was in chaos, his dantian shattered!
"Gulp." Quite a few people swallowed involuntarily.
A single word had instantly suppressed an Emperor-Sealing Realm expert! Such terror!
"Are my eyes playing tricks on me?"
"An Emperor-Sealing Realm expert was finished just like that?"
"No way. That man is a successor to a Dao lineage, after all. How could he be so pathetically weak?"
"You've got it wrong. It isn't that he's too weak. It's that the other man is too strong!"
The Heaven River Realm's cultivators looked fearfully at the flying vessel in the sky. What had happened today had thoroughly overturned their understanding!
Just then, a woman emerged from the palace aboard the flying vessel.
She was beautiful, like an immortal maiden descended into the mortal world, transcendent and peerless.
Her cool voice rang out. "This Great Emperor's Tomb belongs to the Divine Son."
"The Divine Son has said that you have ten breaths to leave."
Yun Xinyan gazed coldly at the many figures below and said indifferently, "If you refuse to listen, bear the consequences yourselves."
Everyone sucked in cold breaths at her words, their pupils contracting. They were actually so overbearing as to dream of monopolizing the Great Emperor's inheritance?!
"You're courting death!"
"Utter arrogance! You're digging your own grave!"
"All the powers of the Heaven River Realm are here. Your Excellency, aren't you afraid the wind will wrench your tongue, making such wild boasts?!"
"Hmph! There's no need to waste words with him. Let's go up there and slaughter him now!"
The Mighty One Realm experts of the many Ancient Factions were all enraged. They did not know what sort of power the Returning Origin Holy Land was.
They merely took it for a hidden power like themselves. Since the other side was so arrogant, they would make them pay!
Venerable Realm experts, and even Great Power Realm experts, unleashed terrifying auras in unison!
All manner of divine light descended upon this world. The void shook, and spiritual energy roared and thundered!
As more and more experts unleashed their power, even the many mountain ranges of the Ten Thousand Mountains rumbled and trembled, as though some great terror were brewing!
Yet at that moment, another profound voice rang out in the sky.
"The Divine Son already gave you a chance."
"Since you've chosen to bully the few with the many, don't blame me for bullying the weak with the strong!"
Boom!
Vast, terrifying pressure descended abruptly, its divine might surging and blanketing heaven and earth!
The power of Laws filling the sky mingled with runes shimmering with sacred light, forming a vast, raging ocean of spiritual energy. The void shattered relentlessly!
As the ocean of spiritual energy churned, countless bolts of lightning gathered above the firmament!
The heavens shook, and mountains and rivers shattered!
A Sage's pressure descended, making all things beneath heaven tremble and change color!
"This... this is?!"
Every living being in the Heaven River Realm felt that incomparably overwhelming Sage's might. Pale-faced, they prostrated themselves on the ground. That terrifying pressure denied them even the right to lift their heads and look up.
It was none other than Gui Ying, the peak Sage secretly protecting Su Changge, who had struck!
"Ants of the lower realm dare threaten the Divine Son of our Returning Origin Holy Land?"
"You refuse the offered toast, only to drink the wine of punishment!"
"Then take this palm strike!"
With a raise of his hand, Sage Gui Ying unleashed a palm formed from golden runes, filled with destructive lightning!
The enormous palm seemed to blot out the sky and cleave the earth, its terrifying pressure sweeping in every direction.
"Quick!"
"Bring out your life-bound Dharma Treasures, or we'll all die!"
The terrified crowd finally reacted, bringing forth Dharma Treasures and divine weapons one after another!
Brilliant streams of divine light blazed with all their strength beneath that terrifying pressure. Treasure light erupted in a truly magnificent spectacle.
"Nothing but a dying struggle."
Rumble!
Yet as that palm descended mercilessly.
The void twisted, mountains crumbled, and the divine light was gradually extinguished inch by inch. Great Dao runes exploded across the sky, and the terrifying shock wave razed a vast region to the ground!
Heaven and earth fell into deathly silence, everyone mute as cicadas in winter.
So many Venerable Realm experts and Mighty One Realm experts, whose might had distorted the void moments before!
Yet beneath that single palm strike, they turned to ash and scattered like smoke!
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