241: Why should we return what we stole through our own skill? We should offer it as a sacrifice, of course!

"Thanks."

Su Chen's voice was light, with a hint of raspy sleepiness.

"I was just worrying about not having something to test my hand on."

This voice drifted in the deathly silent Qiankun Hall, yet it was more chilling than the most vicious curse.

Every word was like an invisible ice pick, stabbing deep into Xiao Tiance's Soul.

Test his hand?

He took the life-bound great sage weapon that he had spent decades of blood and effort refining to... test his hand?!

Humiliation!

A profound disgrace a hundred times more intense than being toyed with in public just now instantly consumed his last shred of sanity!

"You... give it back to me!"

Xiao Tiance's eyes were bloodshot, his voice as hoarse as a broken bellows, staring fixedly at the ancient vajra bracelet on Su Chen's wrist.

"Give it back to you?"

Su Chen smiled, a smile as bright as a child who had received a favorite toy.

"Why should I return something I snatched with my own ability?"

[What a joke! You want me to spit out a treasure that's already in my mouth? You're dreaming! I, Su, am the type to pluck feathers from a passing goose and skin a passing beast!]

[Although this soul shattering demon bell is a bit wicked, it's still a great sage weapon. Selling it on the black market would be worth at least tens of billions of High-Grade Spirit Stones. That's a huge amount of pocket money!]

Su Chen calculated happily in his heart.

But on second thought, he felt it was a bit of a waste to sell it directly, not making the best use of it.

[Wait, don't I still have the Great Sacrifice Technique?]

[I haven't had a chance to use it. Today is the perfect day to break it in with this crappy bell and see how powerful this Divine Ability actually is!]

[Besides, doesn't this Marquis of Champion like to smash people with this crappy bell? Then let him taste the feeling of being smashed to death by his own treasure. Hmm, Karma cycles, retribution is swift; I really am a messenger of justice acting on behalf of heaven!]

Thinking of this, the way Su Chen looked at Xiao Tiance became increasingly playful and... compassionate.

[Brother, I'm sorry.]

[For my KPI, and to test my new skill, I can only trouble you to be a consumable.]

[In your next life, remember to keep a low profile and don't be so arrogant. The higher you jump, the harder you fall—that's common sense.]

This thought flashed through Su Chen's mind.

He no longer hesitated, his gaze falling on the vajra bracelet on his wrist.

"Since you like this bell so much, then I'll... let you two reunite."

He gave Xiao Tiance an incredibly "kind" smile.

Then, the power of Law at his fingertips began to operate in a mysterious way, directly connecting to that incomparably overbearing Divine Ability.

"Great Sacrifice Technique."

"Sacrifice!"

With a silent chant in his heart.

Inside the vajra bracelet, the soul shattering demon bell, which had been struggling violently, suddenly let out a silent yet Soul-tearing shriek!

The next second.

Under the unrivaled suppressing power of the vajra bracelet, this notoriously fierce great sage weapon's indestructible body actually began to show spider-web-like cracks from the inside!

The Demonic Path runes engraved on it dimmed and broke one by one!

The vast energy and Laws it contained were forcibly extracted, compressed, and transformed by a force even more tyrannical and unreasonable!

Burn!

A complete great sage weapon was treated as a disposable fuel and burned completely under Su Chen's will!

A terrifying fluctuation that made hearts palpitate, suffocated breaths, and even froze the Divine Soul suddenly erupted from Su Chen's palm!

That was not the power of the Saint King Realm!

That was... pure destruction, unique to the Great Saint Realm!

A black light sphere, only the size of a fist but seemingly able to swallow all light, slowly condensed in Su Chen's palm.

Its power had steadily reached... the full-strength strike of a Fifth Heaven of Great Saint realm expert!

The moment this sphere of destruction appeared.

In the entire Qiankun Hall, all experts who had reached the Saint King Realm changed expression drastically, their Souls nearly departing their bodies!

"A Great Saint strike! This is a true Great Saint strike!"

"How can he possibly unleash an attack at the Great Saint level?! He's clearly only at the Second Heaven of Saint King realm!"

"What Divine Ability is that? Sacrificing Magic Treasures? How can there be such an overbearing, such a... wasteful Divine Ability in this world?!"

The civil and military officials were once again forced to redefine their understanding.

They felt their brains had completely turned into mush.

How many more trump cards did this Divine Son of the Su Family have hidden?!

On the Dragon throne, Ji Hongxue was so shocked that she stood up again.

Her hands unconsciously clenched, her knuckles turning white.

She stared fixedly at the black light sphere in Su Chen's palm that even made her feel a hint of palpitation; in her Phoenix eyes, besides shock, there was more of a... pride.

[This bastard... how many more secrets is he hiding?!]

Su Chen didn't care what others thought.

Feeling the surging power within the destruction sphere in his palm, a distorted expression of both pleasure and pain appeared on his face.

[Refreshing! This is so damn refreshing!]

[Exchanging someone else's great sage weapon for a single strike from the Fifth Heaven of Great Saint realm—this deal is a massive profit!]

[It's just... so damn expensive! This isn't a Divine Ability; it's clearly a money shredder! Tens of billions of Spirit Stones, just for one big bang! My heart is bleeding!]

Su Chen lamented, but his actions didn't hesitate in the slightest.

He looked up across the Barrier at Xiao Tiance, who was already pale with fright from this terrifying aura, shaking like a sieve and unable to even stand steadily.

"Marquis of Champion, right?"

"This 'treasure', I'm giving it back to you."

A devilish smile appeared on Su Chen's face.

With a flick of his wrist, as if throwing away useless trash, he casually tossed the black light sphere—which condensed the destructive power of the entire great sage weapon—lightly toward Xiao Tiance.

The sphere didn't fly very fast.

One could even say it was quite slow.

But wherever it passed, space silently annihilated, leaving a pitch-black Void Realm trail that seemed as if it could never heal.

The Laws within the entire Barrier were wailing and crumbling.

Xiao Tiance was completely stunned.

He looked at the black sphere slowly drifting toward him like the eye of the God of Death, feeling the aura of death that was enough to completely erase him from Divine Soul to Physical Body.

His mind went blank.

Run?

Where to?

The entire Barrier was locked by that destructive aura; he felt as if his entire body was filled with Divine Gold, making even moving a finger a luxury.

Block?

Block with what?

His greatest trump card had just been set off as fireworks by the opponent!

At this moment, Xiao Tiance finally felt what true... despair was.

That was a Great Saint level strike!

It was simply not something a mere Third Heaven of Saint King realm like him could withstand!

The shadow of death completely enveloped him.

Survival instinct forced a most shrill and desperate roar from the depths of his throat.

"Old Ancestor—! Save me—!!!"