166: The Li family's downfall [Thanks to the inspiration capsule 'No Sugar Needed']
Back then, the ones who had indeed moved to encircle and suppress the Su Family were the Black Armor Army.
But the Black Armor Army was merely the blade on the surface.
The ones who truly issued the orders and tacitly permitted it all from behind the scenes were several giants of the Federation Council, and... the highest level of the Martial Arts Alliance!
One could say that the destruction of the Su Family back then was a feast of plunder orchestrated by the top-tier clans and the military, with the tacit consent of the highest levels of the Federation!
A chill emanated from Su Jue's body that caused the entire starry sky to freeze.
Good.
Very good.
Federation Council... Martial Arts Alliance... Chen Family... and the Black Armor Army... all of you are doing very well.
Don't any of you be in a hurry.
Once I finish dealing with the matters at hand, I will pay each of you... a visit.
Su Jue's gaze fell once again upon Luo Zhen, who had already become an idiot in his hands.
For a lackey like this, he didn't even have the interest to spare a second glance.
With a thought,
A surge of Power of Decay instantly reduced Luo Zhen's body, along with his soul, to flying ash.
Having done all this, Su Jue was in no hurry to leave.
He controlled human emperor no. 1 to slowly descend, arriving in the airspace above the ruins of Star River City.
His gaze swept over the Li Family ancestral land below, which had completely turned into a dead land.
Although Li Wuji had already been dealt with by him,
This was still not enough.
To pull up the weeds, one must remove the roots!
From Luo Zhen's memories, he had already obtained the access password for the Black Armor Army's internal top-secret database.
Combined with Capybara's god-like hacking skills... the corners of Su Jue's mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly.
He was going to have the surname "Li" completely erased from the household registration system of the entire Lanxia Universe Federation!
...Meanwhile.
Lanxia Universe Federation, Blue Star.
Inside a magnificent palace suspended ten thousand meters in the air, constructed from pure energy crystals.
This was the core of the Federation Council, the very pinnacle of power.
An old man with white hair and beard, wearing a luxurious robe and emitting the pressure of the Saint Realm, was frowning as he looked at an emergency report that had just arrived.
[Emergency Situation Report: Lihuo Star No. 3 has encountered an over-specification strike; the financial system has collapsed, the Li Group has declared bankruptcy, and the Li Family's Great Saint Realm ancestor, Li Wuji... is suspected to have fallen.]
[The Black Armor Army's Third Fleet dispatched there... has lost contact.]
"Li Wuji... has fallen?"
A flash of surprise crossed the old man's eyes.
"The Black Armor Army's fleet has also lost contact?"
"What on earth happened at Lihuo Star No. 3?"
He was just about to use his authority to connect to the 'Heavenly Eye' system to check the real-time situation.
Suddenly!
Sharp alarm sounds echoed throughout the entire Council Hall!
"Warning! Warning!"
"The Federation Central Database is under a Law-level attack from an unknown source!"
"The household registration system module... is being tampered with!"
"Warning! Bloodline Data related to the surname 'Li' is being... deleted in bulk!"
What?!
The old man suddenly stood up from his seat, his face filled with disbelief!
A Law-level attack?
Tampering with the Central Database?
How is this possible?!
The Federation's Central Database was managed by the Federation's greatest artificial intelligence, 'pangu'. Its defense level was such that even a Saint King Realm expert could not easily shake it!
Who exactly was it?!
Who had such audacity and such terrifying methods?!
He didn't have time to think and immediately rushed toward the control center.
However, it was already too late.
In less than a minute,
The alarm sounds stopped.
On the screen of the Central Database, a line of cold system prompts slowly refreshed.
[Data cleanup complete.]
[Upon detection, there are no longer any legal citizens with the surname 'Li' within the borders of the Lanxia Universe Federation.]
"..."
The old man stared blankly at those words, as if struck by lightning, his entire being frozen in place.
A top-tier martial arts clan that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, with clansmen spread across hundreds of star systems and a population exceeding a hundred billion... just like that... at the household registration level... had been exterminated?!
He realized.
The Federation... might have provoked a... terrifying existence that they absolutely should not have provoked!
...Lihuo Star No. 3.
This once incredibly prosperous Li Family home star had now completely turned into a ruin.
The wreckage of the Black Armor Army's Third Fleet, like silent tombstones, floated quietly in the dark universe, wordlessly recounting the one-sided slaughter from not long ago.
Su Jue put away that ten-thousand-meter-tall human emperor no. 1, his small body once again suspended in the air above the ruined city.
He glanced down below.
The Li Family, a top-tier clan that once called the shots in the Federation and had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, had been completely wiped out from this universe by him, both on a physical and Data level.
For the blood feud of the Su Family's destruction twenty years ago, he had personally reclaimed a portion of it today.
An indescribable feeling of clarity and resolution welled up from the depths of his soul.
Right at this moment,
A cold thought crossed endless time and space, sounding directly within his sea of consciousness.
"Well done."
It was Elizabeth.
Su Jue curled his lip; he had long since grown accustomed to this cheap mom's 'harsh words but soft heart' style of praise.
This mother dragon kept saying humans were trash, but who knew how much she was secretly enjoying this in her heart.
"It was a bit cleaner and more efficient than I imagined."
Elizabeth's voice continued to sound, seemingly carrying a trace of faint scrutiny.
"It seems you, little fellow, finally have a bit of our Dragon Clan's style."
"Knowing to pull up the roots, instead of leaving future troubles like those foolish humans."
"The sixth trial, you have passed."
Elizabeth's voice gradually became solemn.
"Now, be prepared to face the final..."
"Seventh trial?"
The final trial?
Su Jue's heart stirred slightly.
According to what Elizabeth had said before, as long as he passed this final trial, he could obtain the Dragon Clan's most ancient origin title and become a Dragon Clan Prince in every sense of the word.
Although he wasn't particularly interested in some prince title, completing the task was always a good thing.
More importantly, he really wanted to know what kind of new tricks this cheap mom would cook up for him in this final stage.
"I'm ready."
Su Jue answered without hesitation.
"Tell me, where are we going this time?"
"Are we going to dismantle that Chen Family too? Or just kill our way straight to the Federation Council?"
On the other side of the sea of consciousness, Elizabeth fell silent for a moment.
She seemed somewhat speechless at Su Jue's matter-of-fact attitude of treating house-dismantling and clan-extermination as daily tasks.
After several seconds, her cold voice sounded again.
"No."
"The location of this trial is somewhat special."
"Your mission isn't destruction either."
"But... to join."
Join?
Su Jue was stunned for a moment; this was indeed a bit unexpected.
"Go where?"
"What kind of place could make a proud great mother dragon like you feel is worthy for me to join?"