28: Your Highness: She's grumpy when she wakes up, so I persuaded her to go back home!

The Su Family Forbidden Ground was a mess.

The massive hole created by the Fallen Immortal of the Mortal World was like a hideous scar, weighing heavily on the hearts of everyone in the Su Family.

Seventh Elder Su Qi and the other Elders were all pale, their aura weak, leaning on their knees and heavily panting.

They watched the dark red stream of light disappear into the horizon, and the fear of having narrowly escaped death lingered in everyone's eyes.

"That... that name she said at the end..." an Elder stammered, his eyes full of terror, "Was it... was it Su Chen?"

"His Highness the Divine Son?!" Su Qi's mind exploded with a 'buzz,' and a chill more terrifying than the Demoness escaping suddenly shot up from his tailbone to the crown of his head!

Chener!

How could he be related to that madwoman?!

"Quick! Go look!" Su Qi was burning with anxiety, ignoring his injuries, and was the first to transform into a streak of light, rushing desperately toward the shattered stone chamber!

The other Elders' expressions changed drastically, and they quickly followed.

Everyone's heart sank to the bottom.

His Highness the Divine Son was the future hope of their Su Family!

If anything happened under their noses, even ten thousand deaths wouldn't absolve them of blame!

However, when the group rushed frantically outside the stone chamber, the sight they beheld made them collectively freeze in place.

Inside the stone chamber with the massive hole, His Highness the Divine Son—Su Chen—was standing there completely unharmed.

He brushed off non-existent dust from his sleeve, his face showing the slight laziness of someone who had just woken up and the impatience of being disturbed.

Aside from his clothes being slightly dusty and him looking a bit disheveled, he was not only uninjured but hadn't even lost a single strand of hair.

This composed and unconcerned demeanor formed an extremely absurd contrast with the surrounding residual demonic might, which nearly crushed the space, and the Elders' tension as if facing a formidable enemy.

"Chener!" Su Qi rushed over first, scrutinizing Su Chen up and down, his voice trembling, "Are you alright?! Where... where is that Demoness?"

Su Chen lifted his eyelids, glanced at Seventh Elder and the group of extremely anxious old men behind him, and frowned impatiently.

"What's all the shouting about? Making a fuss."

He yawned and slowly said, "It's nothing. Just a Senior who hadn't fully woken up after sleeping for tens of thousands of years. She had a bit of morning sickness, but I kindly advised her, and she went back to sleep."

"..."

Outside the stone chamber, an eerie silence descended.

All the Elders, including Su Qi, widened their eyes and gaped, staring foolishly at Su Chen like a group of toads struck by lightning.

Wh... What the hell?

Morning sickness?

Kindly advised?

Convinced to go back to sleep?!

You call that world-destroying Demoness who almost poked a hole in the sky... a Senior with morning sickness?!

Su Qi's mind completely crashed!

The Third Ancestor, who was the oldest in seniority and whose cultivation had reached Great Sage Peak, stared intently at Su Chen.

He saw that Su Chen was indeed completely unharmed, his aura steady and profound, even stronger than theirs, the old fellows who had suffered backlash from the Qi mechanism.

He then recalled that when the Demoness left just now, she didn't go on a killing spree but directly tore through space and departed... "So that's it..." The Third Ancestor took a deep breath, and the look in his eyes when gazing at Su Chen instantly changed.

In the Third Ancestor's mind, billions of stars seemed to collide and explode in that instant, finally converging into a conclusion that excited him so much his Dao Heart nearly fractured.

His cloudy eyes, which had witnessed the changes of eternity and were usually calm as an ancient well, were now fixed intently on Su Chen, filled not with scrutiny, but with endless shock, ecstasy, and a sense of... reverence that originated from the depths of his Soul!

He understood!

He completely understood!

The ultimate mystery regarding His Highness the Divine Son's "lack of ambition," which had troubled the high-level members of the Su Family for eighteen years, finally had an answer at this moment!

What enjoyment seeking!

What an irredeemable failure!

It was all a disguise! It was a blindfold trick!

It was all a simple, unadorned protective color His Highness the Divine Son put on himself in order to temper his Dao Heart and experience the myriad forms of the Mortal World!

He wasn't failing to Cultivate!

He was undergoing a higher level of cultivation in a way that ordinary people like them, who were long confined by worldly Laws, simply could not comprehend or imagine!

His seemingly salted fish-like slacking was actually merging with Heaven and Earth, aligning with the Great Dao! He was comprehending the creation and destruction of the Universe in silence!

His seemingly frivolous actions were actually tempering himself in the Mortal World, discerning the natural order of all Laws amidst the clamor!

A master!

This was the true demeanor of a peerless master: playing in the world, returning to simplicity, and possessing great wisdom that seems like folly!

The more the Third Ancestor thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. The more he thought, the more he felt that all of Su Chen's previous illogical behavior now had the most perfect explanation!

[Divine Thought Communication]

A withered Old Ancestor transmitted his voice, filled with doubt and shock: "Third Brother, is this... truly real? His Highness the Divine Son, does he possess such heaven-defying ability?"

Another Old Ancestor said excitedly: "It must be true! You and I both know the terror of that Demoness. An ordinary Great Sage would have their Dao Heart collapse in one breath before her! Look at His Highness the Divine Son; not only is he completely unharmed, but his aura isn't even slightly disturbed. How could someone in the Saint Realm achieve this?!"

The Third Ancestor Su Wangu asserted in a deep voice: "More than that! I just used the 'Myriad Eternity Tracing Eye' to observe and found that His Highness the Divine Son's Dao Foundation is as stable as a divine prison, and his Divine Soul is vast as a sea of smoke, utterly unfathomable! His current Realm is far beyond what we can estimate! That Saint Realm First Heaven cultivation is merely a facade he uses to confuse the world! I knew that the Qilin Son who descended from the Upper Realm main lineage couldn't possibly be as simple as he appeared!"

[Divine Thought Communication Ends]

Hearing the Third Ancestor's conclusion, the Divine Thoughts of all the Old Ancestors fell silent for a moment, then erupted with shock and shame like crashing waves.

They prided themselves on being the guardians and foundation of the Su Family.

Yet for the past eighteen years, not a single one of them had managed to see through His Highness the Divine Son's painstaking efforts!

They had even sighed in private over His Highness the Divine Son's "lack of ambition," just like Su Qi.

Thinking about it now, they were simply shortsighted and incredibly foolish!

Having eyes but failing to recognize a true Dragon!