382: Chapter 382 Your wife ascended to heaven!

"Old Seven."

Su Chen's voice carried a hint of impatience from having his sweet dreams disturbed; he didn't even bother to lift an eyelid.

"What kind of act are you putting on? Your face is so green it looks like a prairie. Anyone who didn't know better would think someone dug up your ancestral grave."

What he hated most was this kind of dawdling—having something to say but refusing to speak, holding it all in.

Hearing Su Chen's words, Seventh Elder Su Qi's body shook like a leaf in the wind, as if he might fall apart at any second.

He looked up, and on his face—which looked worse than if he had eaten a ten-thousand-year-old bitter melon—he forced out a smile more twisted than a sob.

"Your... Your Highness..."

His voice was trembling, every word thick with a sob, his teeth chattering with a "clatter-clatter" sound.

"This... that... I... I..."

He stammered "I" for a long while without managing a complete sentence, only staring at Su Chen with eyes filled with terror and despair.

"If you have something to say, say it! Stop beating around the bush!"

Su Chen's face darkened completely. The lazy aura that had just dissipated from Ji Hongxue was gone, replaced by a heart-stopping majesty.

He slowly sat upright, and an invisible field of pressure spread out, causing the sea of clouds around the entire Divine Ship to come to a standstill.

"If you dare to keep hesitating before This Divine Son, believe it or not, I'll throw you right off this ship?!"

Jolted by the roar, Seventh Elder Su Qi shuddered, his Soul nearly flying out of his body.

He took a sharp, deep breath like a death row prisoner about to be executed. Closing his eyes, he roared in a tone bordering on mourning, "Your Highness! Something terrible has happened!"

"What is it?" Su Chen's heart sank instantly. That ominous premonition surged like a bursting dam, completely overwhelming him.

"The... the Yaochi Holy Land just sent a top-tier, blood-red urgent secret report!"

Due to fear and agitation, Seventh Elder Su Qi's voice became sharp and distorted, like a drake being strangled.

Yaochi?

Hearing those two words, Su Chen's pupils abruptly contracted into dangerous needlepoints!

At that moment, the ominous premonition in his heart reached its peak, turning into a physical chill!

*Whoosh!*

Su Chen's figure vanished from the couch instantly. In the next moment, he appeared before Seventh Elder Su Qi like a ghost.

He snatched the Jade Slip—which was flashing with a bloody light—from Seventh Elder Su Qi's hand. With a slight squeeze of his fingers, fine cracks appeared on the hard surface of the Jade Slip.

"What happened to that girl Qingzhu?!"

Su Chen's voice was as cold as a gale blowing from the depths of the Nine Nether Abyss, devoid of any emotion.

"Was she bullied? Or is she injured?!"

In his subconscious, for the Yaochi Holy Land to send a report of this level, the most likely reason was that something had happened to Ling Qingzhu!

Could it be... that someone truly blind had dared to run wild in Yaochi?

A killing intent of extreme intensity flashed through the depths of his eyes.

Seeing Su Chen's eyes turn bone-chillingly cold, Seventh Elder Su Qi's legs gave way, and he collapsed onto the deck with a "thud."

He swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty. "Your Highness... Her Highness the Saintess... she wasn't bullied, nor is she injured..."

"Then what on earth is going on?!" Su Chen barked, his voice like a clap of thunder.

With a mournful face, Seventh Elder Su Qi closed his eyes and, as if using every ounce of his strength, roared the contents of the Jade Slip in a heart-wrenching burst!

"The Yaochi Holy Master just sent word personally! Just half an hour ago, in order to catch up to your pace, Saintess Ling Qingzhu forcibly opened the Yaochi Forbidden Ground, the 'Forbidden Zone of Time,' to Cultivate! As a result... as a result, it triggered a world-shaking anomaly in the Yaochi Heart Sea!"

"In the end... in the end..."

"What happened in the end?!" Su Chen's heart was in his throat; he could even hear his own violent heartbeat.

Seventh Elder Su Qi's voice took on a tremor of endless despair and absurdity.

"In the end, Her Highness the Saintess... she and the entire Yaochi Heart Sea turned into a beam of light, tore through the Void Realm..."

"And Ascended!!!"

"It's said... she likely Ascended directly to the Upper Realm!!!"

*Boom—!!!*

Those words were like a bolt of Chaos Divine Thunder containing world-destroying Divine Might, exploding violently in Su Chen's mind!

As... Ascended?

She and the Holy Land's Foundation were packaged together and Ascended?!

*Crack—!!!*

A faint sound of shattering rang out.

The communication Jade Slip in Su Chen's hand was silently crushed into the finest powder by his out-of-control Divine Thought and power!

The white jade-like powder fell from between his fingers like shifting sand, scattered by the high-altitude wind.

Time seemed to freeze completely at that moment.

A deathly silence fell over the entire deck.

The wind stopped, the clouds stalled, and even the light seemed to solidify.

Spring Flower and Autumn Moon were already dumbfounded by this utterly absurd news, their mouths slightly agape, completely dazed.

As for Su Chen, he just stood there stiffly, motionless.

His handsome face, which usually wore a lazy smile, was now a complete blank, devoid of any expression, like an exquisite statue without a Soul.

His brain, his Sea of Consciousness, and his inner world—which was usually filled with a barrage of thoughts—all fell into an unprecedented... crashed state.