284: A period of intense seclusion and frenzied study! A celestial ship from the upper realm has arrived!

Qiu Yue's efficiency was an instinct branded into her very bones.

The moment Su Chen's command was issued, she had already crushed a transmission jade talisman.

Buzz—!

A muffled, thunderous roar descended from the Nine Heavens, shaking the Universe.

The clouds and mist shrouding Divine Son Peak instantly surged and solidified, turning into a sheet of white so thick one couldn't see their own hand!

One after another, golden divine patterns invisible to the Mortal eye manifested out of thin air in the Void Realm. They moved and intertwined like living creatures, eventually forming a celestial net that sealed off the past and future, completely erasing Divine Son Peak from the map of the Xuan Yuan Continent.

The aura emanating from the countless ancient runes was enough to cause any Great Saint who stepped into this place to have their Dao Heart shatter and their Divine Soul perish instantly.

The Xuan Yuan Su Family's highest-level protective formation—the Nine Dragons Heaven-Locking Array!

Once this array was activated, even an Emperor would be a prisoner!

Having finished this, Qiu Yue turned around and, together with Spring Flower, one on each side, carefully supported the "weakened" Su Chen toward the secret chamber located at the core of Divine Son Peak's underground.

[These two girls' strength... they still don't know their own limits...]

[Forget it, being carried is better than walking myself.]

Su Chen allowed them to support him, a final trace of laziness flashing through his mind before the coming storm.

This secret chamber was a dojo he had specifically forged, spending a fortune that could have bought an entire Holy Land.

The walls were cast from the Emperor-grade material "Taiyi Divine Gold," which isolated all Divine Thought, while the floor was a single piece of Myriad-Year Warm Jade that had been soaked in Spiritual Qi for a million years.

A single breath of cultivation here was better than months of bitter Cultivation in the outside world!

"Your Highness, please rest well. We will handle the outside."

"Whoever comes, dies."

Spring Flower's eyes were still red as she was pulled out of the secret chamber by Qiu Yue, her small face full of determination.

The heavy stone door slowly closed, completely separating light from darkness.

Inside the secret chamber, an eternal silence fell.

Sitting cross-legged on the Warm Jade, Su Chen suddenly opened his eyes.

The previous state of lethargy and exhaustion receded like a tide, replaced by an icy coldness and madness that burned away all reason!

Under the effects of a large number of Medicinal Pills, the injuries on his body had already mostly healed.

Now, only one thing remained in his mind—Cultivate. It wasn't that he hadn't thought about directly writing in his diary!

But he had tested the diary's rewards before; only when the written entries triggered a massive Karma would high-level rewards be granted.

Usually, trivial matters only gave things like Spirit Stones, which was why he could give his father-in-Law so many High-Grade Spirit Stones.

[Cultivate!]

[Cultivate like a madman!]

[Second Heaven of Saint King realm? Laughable! So weak I can't even protect my own woman! I don't want to stay in this trash Realm for even one more day!]

[From today on, there is no more salted fish Shenzi, only the King of Overachievers, Su Chen!]

[I'm going to out-work this entire world! I'll grind until those so-called Netherworld Laws don't even have the right to look up at me!]

Su Chen's face was expressionless, but a sea of blood surged in the depths of his eyes.

He no longer gently guided his Spiritual Qi; instead, in the most brutal fashion, he instantly detonated the vast ocean of Qi within his body!

The Spiritual Qi was no longer a stream, but had transformed into billions of the sharpest bone-scraping steel knives, frantically washing, tearing, and reshaping every inch of his Meridians, every bone, and every cell!

His cultivation aura began to grow savagely at a speed that defied all logic!

...Time has no meaning in the world of a secluded Cultivator.

While Su Chen was isolated beneath Divine Son Peak, undergoing a mad transformation that burned away his past...

The myriad living beings of the entire Xuan Yuan Continent had not yet noticed that a terrifying storm capable of rewriting the era had already taken shape at the end of the firmament... Xuan Yuan Continent, Northernmost Central Province.

Heavenly Pillar Mountain.

This mountain was the roof of the continent, its peak piercing straight into the extraterrestrial starry river, connecting the Human Realm with the unknown.

This was a forbidden zone for life, with only eternal astral winds and ancient, unmelting ice and snow.

However, today, this eternal silence was shredded.

Crack—!

A sharp, ear-piercing sound of cracking exploded without warning on the highest canopy of Heavenly Pillar Mountain!

That azure sky had actually split open!

A massive, hideous, pitch-black rift, like a scar on the heavens, spanned from east to west!

The other end of the rift was the cold, silent, dark Universe, dotted with countless dim stars.

A terrifying pressure, far exceeding the sum of the Xuan Yuan Continent's Laws and filled with supreme indifference and disdain, poured down from that rift like a burst dam!

Just the escaping aura caused the ten-thousand-year-old glaciers of Heavenly Pillar Mountain to evaporate instantly!

The surging torrent roared like a white dragon as it rushed down the mountain—it was the wailing of the melting snow!

The next second.

A golden warship, its entire body cast from unknown immortal gold and covered in mysterious divine runes, emitting an aura of eternal immortality, crushed the spatial Laws and slowly sailed out from that pitch-black rift!

On the bow deck stood several Cultivators wearing silver robes.

Their expressions were arrogant, their auras as deep as an abyss, and the indifference in their eyes that viewed all living beings as dust was an instinct branded deep within their Souls.

One handsome young man frowned slightly, waving two fingers in front of his nose with a face full of disgust.

"Heh, this foul air of the Lower Realm truly makes my Divine Soul feel nauseous. That the creatures here can survive in such a pigsty is quite a feat."

In front of them, a middle-aged man with an aura as deep as the sea was bowing.

His cultivation was First Heaven of the Great Emperor Realm!

A supreme existence who could make millions of miles of mountains and rivers collapse with a stomp of his foot in the Xuan Yuan Continent!

At this moment, in front of these silver-robed Cultivators whose cultivation was at most the Great Saint Realm, he was filled with a fawning smile that was humble to the bone, like a dog wagging its tail while waiting for its master's reward.

Because he knew very well where these silver-robed Cultivators came from!

The Laws on their bodies were the manifestation of a higher dimension!

The warship slowly descended, hovering at the ridge of a side peak of Heavenly Pillar Mountain.

That Great Emperor Realm "guide" straightened his back, his gaze looking down at the vast Central Province below, his lips curling into a cruel sneer of someone riding on another's coattails.

He cleared his throat, and his voice, through the amplification array on the warship, transformed into a brilliant heavenly majesty that judged the world, instantly spreading across the entire Central Province and even half of the Xuan Yuan Continent!

"Ants of the Lower Realm, hear my command!"