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"This Seat walks between heaven and earth and has never concerned Myself with the affairs of the Mortal World."

Su Changge's voice echoed throughout the venue.

Every word was clearly transmitted into the ears of everyone present.

The System's passive special effects were running at full capacity.

The Phenomenon of Words Following the Law.

Every word he spoke triggered a resonance between heaven and earth.

The dark purple burning realm demonic fire retreated on its own within a ten-zhang radius of Su Changge.

It was not forced back by spiritual power.

It was the Dao Rhyme created by the special effects that suppressed the fluctuations of Law in that area.

The burning realm demonic fire dared not approach.

At least, that was how it appeared.

In everyone's eyes, the place where Su Changge stood was the only pure land in this purgatory.

His white robes were spotless.

Untainted by even a trace of the burning realm demonic fire's aura.

Xiao Huang saw this scene, and his pupils constricted.

The Purple Mansion Saint Master saw this scene, and her lips trembled.

Zhao Tian saw this scene, and his eyes widened.

Ye Qingyao saw this scene, and her heart steadied.

Everyone else saw this scene as well.

The burning realm demonic fire had burned through the Magic Treasure of a Tribulation Transcendence Stage Elder and dissolved the protective shields of all Cultivators below the Mahayana Stage, yet in front of this man in white, it could not even get close.

For the first time, a look of genuine vigilance flashed within Red Ember's dragon eyes.

The charging of his dragon breath paused temporarily.

"Who exactly are you?" Red Ember's voice dropped low.

Su Changge did not answer this question.

His gaze moved away from Red Ember and swept over the four demonic dragons circling in the sky.

Earth Collapse. Black Armor. Mo Yuan. Red Ember. Four dragons.

The corners of Su Changge's mouth twitched slightly, and his expression carried a subtle nuance.

To everyone watching, that expression was one of compassion.

It was the faint pity revealed by an existence that transcended all things, watching four ants who did not know the immensity of heaven and earth causing a ruckus.

In reality, what Su Changge was thinking was:

【Four dragons at the Peak of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage. I am at the Qi Refining First Layer. The gap is probably as far as one hundred and eight galaxies away. Damn it.】

"This Seat has said before." Su Changge spoke. His voice was still as calm as ever, calm to the extreme.

"Your paths have already reached their end."

Red Ember's dragon eyes narrowed.

"That was outside the venue." Red Ember's voice carried suppressed anger. "Now, you are in my formation. Within the Dragon Vein Detonation Array, I am heaven. Spiritual Void Desolate Dao Master, tell me, whose path has truly reached its end?"

Su Changge looked at Red Ember. Red Ember looked at Su Changge. The two stared at each other for three breaths.

Su Changge did two things during these three breaths. The first was to adjust his expression. He suppressed the uncontrollable wry smile at the corner of his mouth and replaced it with an air of indifference that was calm to the extreme.

The second was to silently recite the name of the Eternal Vault Suppression in his heart. The System gave a response once again. It could be released.

Su Changge's heart steadied by half a point. Then, he did something no one had expected. He sat back down. He sat back on that jade chair. He slowly and methodically smoothed his sleeves. He tidied the few strands of hair blown messy by the wind. Then he leaned back against the chair. He rested his right hand on the armrest. His index finger tapped lightly and unconsciously.

"Thump. Thump." Two soft sounds. In everyone's ears, those two taps were more deafening than the roar of the burning realm demonic fire.

At the moment those two soft sounds arrived, Red Ember's dragon body involuntarily took a step back. He did not know why he retreated. But his instinct was warning him. Every movement of this man in white made him feel uneasy.

Su Changge leaned against the back of the chair, lifted his eyelids, and glanced at the dark purple Dragon Vein cage in the sky. Then, he withdrew his gaze and looked at Xiao Huang, who was kneeling on the ground.

"You say you request This Seat to save the world?"

Xiao Huang's lips were trembling. "Yes."

"The affairs of the world have their own Karma." Su Changge's voice was slow and leisurely, with perfectly timed pauses between every word. "The calamity of your Blazing Dragon War Continent should be crossed by the people of your Blazing Dragon War Continent. This Seat is an outsider."

A look of despair appeared on Xiao Huang's face. "Dao Revered Master..."

Su Changge raised his hand, stopping what he was about to say next. Then, Su Changge looked at Ye Qingyao.

"Qingyao." Ye Qingyao immediately bowed. "Revered Master."

"Do you think This Seat should intervene in this matter?"

Ye Qingyao was silent for a breath. Then she spoke, her voice steady and earnest.

"This Disciple believes that the Great Dao is selfless and covers all things. Since Revered Master has arrived here, it is the result of Karma. If thousands of living beings were to be annihilated because of this, it would not be the wish of the Great Dao. Revered Master's Dao has never been to watch coldly from the sidelines."

Su Changge looked at Ye Qingyao. 【Good grief, look at the massive hat you've placed on me. What selfless Great Dao, what covering all things, what Karma. I am just a trash at the Qi Refining First Layer, forced into a corner and having to act.】

But on the surface, Su Changge only nodded slightly. To everyone watching, that nod was a decision made by an existence that transcended all things after careful consideration.

Su Changge slowly raised his head. His gaze passed over Ye Qingyao, over the tens of thousands of Cultivators kneeling on the ground, over the surging burning realm demonic fire, over the four demonic dragons, and landed on the dark purple cage in the sky.

His lips parted. Only four words. Four light, fluttering words. Four words calm to the extreme.

"This Seat, grants it."

The moment the voice fell, heaven and earth changed color. The moment Su Changge triggered his thought, the System's active special effects were fully activated.

Eternal Vault Suppression.

Above the firmament, outside the dark purple cage, the entire sky was covered in a radiance that could not be described in words. That radiance was golden. It was not the gold-red of Red Ember's dragon fire. It was not the gold of Xiao Huang's Burning Heaven Dragon Dao. It was a gold that was pure to the extreme, carrying the aura of the Laws of the Great Dao, descending from the Nine Heavens.

The golden light pierced through the dark purple cage. It pierced through. The blockade constructed by the Dragon Vein Detonation Array, a cage that even Xiao Huang at the Peak of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage could not break, was pierced through by that golden light without any obstruction. It was not broken. It was pierced.

The golden light fell straight from above the cage onto Su Changge. A golden pillar of light descended from heaven, enveloping Su Changge's entire body.

Su Changge sat on the jade chair, shrouded in golden light. His white robes became almost transparent in the golden light. His black hair shimmered with starlike fragments of light in the golden light. Under the illumination of the golden light, that peerless face was so beautiful it did not seem like something of the Mortal World.

Everyone was stunned. Including Red Ember.

The moment the golden light descended, Red Ember's dragon body experienced a trembling that originated from the marrow of his bones. That trembling came from the depths of his Bloodline. From the primitive memories of the Dragon Clan. It was the instinctive fear and submission of a low-level lifeform facing a higher-level existence.

"This is..." For the first time, Red Ember's voice trembled.

The golden light lasted for three breaths. After three breaths, the golden pillar of light slowly contracted, eventually condensing into a golden ball of light the size of a fist, floating at the tip of Su Changge's right index finger.

Su Changge raised his right hand. On his index finger, that golden ball of light rotated quietly. Special effects. Pure special effects. It had no actual attack power. But the aura emitted by that ball of light, under the blessing of the System, presented to everyone's Divine Sense was as follows: Great Dao returning to one. Immunity to Ten Thousand Laws. Supreme. Unrivaled.

Red Ember's dragon body was trembling. Earth Collapse's rock dragon lowered its body. Black Armor's poison dragon stopped spitting poisonous mist. The soul bodies around Mo Yuan's soul dragon emitted shrill wails—not wails of attack, but wails of fear.

Su Changge looked at the golden ball of light on his index finger. Only one voice played on a loop in his heart. 【It's quite handsome. But the damage of this thing when fired is zero. Zero. One hundred percent zero. What am I supposed to use to kill those four dragons?】

Su Changge's finger paused. Then, the corners of his mouth curved into an extremely slight arc. To others, that arc was a calm smile of someone holding victory in their grasp. In reality, it was because his tense nerves had relaxed slightly after he thought of an idea.

【Damage is zero, but that doesn't mean it's useless. Special effects can't kill people. But special effects can scare people. Red Ember has already been scared. I don't need to actually defeat him. I just need to make him believe that I can defeat him. And then make him run away on his own. Or make him give up on his own. Or drag it out until some other miracle happens.】

Su Changge raised his right hand, and the golden ball of light on his index finger slowly rose to above his head. The ball of light was rotating. It spun faster and faster. It grew larger and larger. It went from the size of a fist to the size of a washbasin, and from the size of a washbasin to the size of a millstone. The golden light illuminated the entire venue.

The burning realm demonic fire in the area illuminated by the golden light began to shrink. It was not destroyed. It was suppressed by the Dao Rhyme created by the special effects and could not spread temporarily. Temporarily.

Su Changge knew this was only temporary. But everyone present did not know. In their eyes, this was the Spiritual Void Desolate Dao Master making a move. With one move, he suppressed the burning realm demonic fire. Light and effortless. Lifting heavy things as if they were light.

Xiao Huang knelt on the ground, looking up at that golden ball of light, every pore on his body trembling. It was not fear. It was excitement. It was the ecstasy of having survived a disaster.

"The Dao Revered Master has made a move!" I don't know who was the first to shout this. Then everyone was shouting. "The Dao Revered Master has made a move!" "We are saved!"

Cries turned into cheers. Despair turned into ecstasy. Su Changge sat on the jade chair, the ever-growing golden ball of light suspended above his head, the expression on his face as calm as still water.

Ye Qingyao stood by his side, and the hand gripping her sword finally relaxed. She looked at her Revered Master's profile. There was no aura of slaughter on that face, only a detachment and compassion that had seen through the birth and death of all things. Revered Master is indeed Revered Master. From beginning to end, he had never panicked.

What Ye Qingyao did not know was that Su Changge's inner monologue at this moment was like this.

【Red Ember, don't come over. You absolutely must not come over. If you come over and find out that this ball of light hitting you is like scratching an itch, I, Su Changge, will really be done for here today. I beg you, look at this special effect, get scared, and turn around and run away, okay?】

Red Ember stared at the golden ball of light above Su Changge's head. His dragon body was still trembling. But his eyes were changing. From fear to hesitation. From hesitation to testing. From testing to... a trace of uncertainty.

Red Ember opened his dragon mouth. A burst of dark purple burning realm demonic fire dragon breath spewed from his mouth. The direction was not Su Changge. It was the ground three zhang away from the golden ball of light. He was testing. Testing the reaction of the golden ball of light.

Su Changge's heart rose to his throat. The burning realm demonic fire dragon breath landed on the ground next to the golden ball of light. The ground instantly turned into nothingness. The golden ball of light had no reaction. Because it was just a special effect. It would not automatically defend. It would not counterattack. It would do nothing.

Su Changge's heart was sinking. Red Ember saw that the golden ball of light had no reaction. In his dragon eyes, that trace of uncertainty began to turn into suspicion. Su Changge saw the change in Red Ember's eyes. He knew that if he didn't do something, Red Ember would soon see through him.

Su Changge's lips moved. "Red Ember." He called Red Ember's name. His voice was very soft. But the System's special effects amplified this voice to a level sufficient to pierce through the dragon's roar.

Red Ember's dragon body trembled involuntarily. "Are you testing This Seat?"

There was no anger, no threat, and even no emotion in Su Changge's tone. There was only an extremely natural statement. It was as if Red Ember testing him was, in his view, an extremely ridiculous, unworthy of mention, and childish thing to the extreme.

Red Ember's dragon eyes stared fixedly at Su Changge's face. He was judging. Whether this man in white really didn't care, or was just bluffing. Su Changge knew he couldn't give Red Ember time to judge.

His right hand lifted, and his index finger pointed forward. It pointed at Red Ember. The golden ball of light above his head, at the moment of that pointing, shot out a golden beam of light. The beam was extremely thin. Only the thickness of a hair. But when that beam of light passed through space, space itself emitted a slight moan.

The System's special effects were pushed to the limit at this moment. The visual effect was: a golden Sword Qi capable of severing the firmament. The auditory effect was: the humming of the ten thousand Daos resonating between heaven and earth. The Divine Sense perception effect was: the power of the Great Dao descending, all Laws returning to nothingness. But the actual lethality was: zero.

The golden beam shot towards Red Ember. Red Ember's pupils had already constricted extremely before the beam arrived. His dragon body rolled with a completely instinctive reaction to avoid that golden beam. The beam passed through the position where Red Ember had just been and hit a huge rock behind him.

A thumb-sized spot of light appeared on the huge rock. The golden spot of light flashed twice. Then it disappeared. The huge rock was intact. There was not a single bit of damage.

Su Changge's heart skipped a beat. 【It's over. No damage. If Red Ember turns back and sees the rock is still fine, I'll be exposed.】

But Red Ember did not turn back. Because at the moment the golden beam passed by his body, he felt an aura that made his hair stand on end.

The System's passive special effect, Myriad Laws Immunity (Pseudo), transmitted a signal to his Divine Sense when that beam passed by Red Ember: the level of the Laws of this attack far exceeded the scope of Red Ember's cognition.

Red Ember did not dare to turn back to look at the result. Because his instinct told him: if that beam had actually hit him, not even his dregs would be left.

Red Ember's dragon body stopped in mid-air. He looked at Su Changge. Su Changge looked at him. The golden ball of light was still suspended above Su Changge's head. Su Changge's index finger still maintained the posture of pointing at Red Ember. His face carried a very faint, very faint smile. To Red Ember, that smile was the expression a hunter who had already lost interest in his prey would have when giving one last chance.

Red Ember's throat bobbed. Su Changge withdrew his finger. He leaned back against the chair. He closed his eyes. It was as if that finger just now was done casually, not worth him spending even a shred of energy.

Then he spoke. His voice was very soft. But every word was clear.

"This Seat gives you three breaths of time. Withdraw the formation. Disperse the Dragon Vein. Seal back the Devilish Qi. Then take your people and disappear from before This Seat. If This Seat can still see you after three breaths." Su Changge opened his eyes and looked at Red Ember. "Then the result will not be what it is today."

Red Ember's dragon body was trembling. In his dragon eyes, fear and unwillingness were fighting madly. One breath. Two breaths. The third breath was about to end. Su Changge's index finger rose again. The golden ball of light hummed above his head. Red Ember made a decision.