377: I refuse!

Xiao Shi's words were like a sharp blade, piercing deep into the Great Wu Crown Prince's mind.

His forehead instantly bulged with veins, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Xiao Shi's words...

Seemed to tear open a scar in his heart.

Making him recall a past he didn't want to face, a nightmare from long ago, the greatest humiliation of his life.

The Great Wu Crown Prince instantly went mad under Xiao Shi's words, roaring hysterically.

"Shut up!!! Shut up!!! Shut up!!!"

"You shut up!!!"

Xiao Shi looked down coldly at the Great Wu Crown Prince, who had been provoked by his single sentence.

He wasn't just simply insulting him.

He genuinely believed it.

In Xiao Shi's view...

As the ruler of the Great Wu Dynasty, under the current circumstances facing the Great Wu Dynasty, any normal person would be single-mindedly focused on how to develop and strengthen the Great Wu Dynasty.

Their thoughts would be on external matters.

Not on internal power struggles and balancing forces.

If it were a prosperous era...

If the current Tianwu Continent was ruled by the Great Wu Dynasty...

Then the Great Wu Crown Prince's actions would be understandable.

But now it was a chaotic era!

The Great Wu Dynasty's imperial power had already collapsed due to the Emperor's demise.

The three Demigod Heavenly Kings were even eyeing the Great Wu Dynasty covetously.

Under such circumstances...

To still be single-mindedly engaged in internal strife and playing Emperor's political games, even when facing someone who had rendered immense service to the Great Wu Dynasty, and to completely disregard their contributions for the sake of so-called balancing forces...

What else could this be but brain damage?

However, Xiao Shi hadn't expected his words to elicit such a strong reaction from the Great Wu Crown Prince.

Now, as he condensed the Imperial Sword through the Emperor's aura...

The killing intent in his eyes instantly surged out like a torrent.

He directly swung the Imperial Sword he held in his hand towards the Great Wu Crown Prince below!

Boom!!!

The entire Imperial Sword's strike caused the entire Imperial Palace to shake violently.

Cracks spread across the entire Imperial Palace ground with the Imperial Sword's strike.

It was far more terrifying and astonishing than the Great Wu Crown Prince's Imperial Sword from before.

Facing the descending Imperial Sword, the Great Wu Crown Prince's eyes were bloodshot.

With red eyes...

He mimicked Xiao Shi's previous method, raised his hand and pointed at the Imperial Sword, roaring.

"Disperse!!!"

However, the descending Imperial Sword only paused slightly.

Then it continued to descend.

It showed no signs of dissipating or disintegrating because of the Great Wu Crown Prince's words.

Whoosh!

In an instant...

This massive Imperial Sword had already reached the Great Wu Crown Prince.

But just as the Imperial Sword was about to strike the Great Wu Crown Prince...

A large golden light suddenly emanated from the Great Wu Crown Prince, and at the same time, the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny converged upon the Great Wu Crown Prince, causing him to be bathed in countless golden lights.

These golden lights carried a strange power.

When the descending Imperial Sword touched the golden light, it seemed to be solidified by the golden light, unable to continue its descent, and was frozen in mid-air.

However, the Great Wu Crown Prince also formed a stalemate with the descending Imperial Sword, having to constantly maintain the golden light on his body.

Xiao Shi narrowed his eyes at this.

He didn't find it surprising.

He knew that even if he had some authority in the Imperial Domain through the Emperor's aura, allowing him to condense the Imperial Sword, it wouldn't be easy to kill the Great Wu Crown Prince.

After all...

The Great Wu Crown Prince was still the current ruler of the Great Wu Dynasty.

If he didn't possess the Emperors Armor, even if Xiao Shi became a Dao Lord, he wouldn't be able to kill the Great Wu Crown Prince in the Imperial Domain.

However, at this moment, the Great Wu Crown Prince, facing the descending Imperial Sword, could only desperately resist with the golden light on his body.

He couldn't do anything else.

Xiao Shi thought for a moment.

He wasn't in a hurry to launch more attacks on the Great Wu Crown Prince.

He knew...

His other attack methods would be difficult to be effective against the Great Wu Crown Prince.

Currently, he needed to first use the Imperial Sword to consume the golden light on the Great Wu Crown Prince's body as much as possible. Only when these golden lights were consumed to a certain extent would he have a chance to kill him.

Thinking of this...

Xiao Shi immediately ignored the Great Wu Crown Prince.

His figure flashed.

He easily penetrated the barrier that the Great Wu Crown Prince had previously formed and bypassed the battlefield where the Saints were fighting, appearing before Xiang Zizhen and the members of the Red Tiger Sect.

Currently, both Xiang Zizhen and the Red Tiger Sect members were bound by a special chain. Under the restraint of these chains, even with Xiang Zizhen's Saint cultivation, he couldn't move.

Xiao Shi flicked his finger.

Crack!

Numerous chains instantly snapped.

Then Xiao Shi extended his index finger and pointed it at Xiang Zizhen's glabella.

Hiss!

A mass of black viscous substance immediately appeared on Xiang Zizhen's glabella, constantly pulsating.

Xiao Shi looked at Xiang Zizhen with a solemn expression and asked.

"Xiang Zizhen, are you willing to join the Tianji Hall and become a part of the Tianji Hall?"

Xiang Zizhen stared blankly at Xiao Shi.

He could clearly feel that Xiao Shi seemed to be performing a special ritual at this moment.

Out of trust in Xiao Shi, even though he had doubts, he didn't ask any questions.

He directly nodded and said.

"I am willing."

As his words came out...

The black viscous substance on his glabella immediately flowed down his facial skin like flowing mercury, instantly filling his entire face, and then, through continuous outlining, transformed into a black mask that covered Xiang Zizhen's entire face.

It was... the heavens secret mask!

...At the same time...

The confrontation above the Imperial Domain had also entered a fierce stage.

In the struggle against the gray light pillar projected by the petrified face...

The white light beam emitted by the eye of imperial judgment had gained an absolute advantage, pushing the gray light pillar projected by the petrified face closer and closer to the petrified face.

This made all the Dao Lords breathe a sigh of relief.

Among them, except for Cheng Riyou...

Everyone else knew the origin of this petrified face, so from the very beginning when they saw this petrified face, they felt a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, their joint efforts successfully resisted this petrified face.

Next, as long as the white light beam emitted by the eye of imperial judgment struck the petrified face, the crisis would be completely resolved.

However, just as the white light beam emitted by the eye of imperial judgment was about to impact the petrified face...

Boom!

Suddenly...

A powerful energy fluctuation suddenly came from outside the Imperial Domain.

Even after passing through the numerous obstructions and weakening of the Imperial Domain, making these powers less than one-tenth of their original strength...

But when this power surged from outside the Imperial Domain, entered the Imperial Domain, and was applied to the petrified face...

The entire petrified face immediately gained a significant enhancement.

Making the gray light pillar, which was originally being pushed back, instantly surge in power.

Directly suppressing the white light beam, causing the entire white light beam to fall back completely.

This sudden scene...

Startled everyone.

"It's those three guys!!!"

These Dao Lords instantly realized that this sudden power originated from the three Demigod Heavenly Kings outside.

Although these three Demigod Heavenly Kings couldn't see the situation inside the Imperial Domain at this moment...

But when they detected the appearance of this petrified face in the Imperial Domain, they immediately had the idea of using this petrified face to further severely damage the Great Wu Dynasty!

For them...

This petrified face was like a weapon extending into the Imperial Domain.

They naturally wouldn't miss such a rare opportunity.

They immediately used their own power transmission to enhance the petrified face in the Imperial Domain, intending to use the petrified face as a "weapon" to deal with the Great Wu Dynasty!

Although their power couldn't be fully transmitted into the Imperial Domain...

A large part of it would dissipate due to the Imperial Domain's obstruction.

However, with the combined strength of the three, they still successfully applied a portion of their power to the petrified face, thereby bringing a huge enhancement to the petrified face.

This instantly reversed the situation.

"Damn it!"

All the Dao Lords looked solemn.

At this moment, they had all exerted their full strength.

They had no more strength to resist the petrified face, which had been enhanced by the three Demigod Heavenly Kings.

An extremely strong sense of crisis filled the hearts of each of them.

Chen Yuan sighed.

There was determination in his eyes.

"Senior, use your full strength."

He knew...

The eye of imperial judgment still had a large part of its power yet to be unleashed.

"If I use my full strength, your body will definitely not be able to bear it. By then... you will die!"

The spirit of the eye of imperial judgment said.

"It doesn't matter, this is my destiny anyway."

Chen Yuan smiled, a deep weariness in his eyes.

"I should have died with my master long ago. My master chose to let me live because he wanted to entrust the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect to me, so that I could continue to lead the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect and protect the Great Wu Dynasty."

"But master overlooked one thing..."

"Not every ruler is worth us risking our lives for."

"If the one ruling the Great Wu Dynasty was that person from back then, our Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect would naturally serve him wholeheartedly, even to death."

"But this current one..."

Chen Yuan lowered his head.

He glanced at the Great Wu Crown Prince in the Imperial Palace below, and for the first time, his eyes revealed disappointment and... disgust towards the Great Wu Crown Prince!

He wasn't unaware of the Great Wu Crown Prince's actions over the years.

It was just that his duty... forced him to completely bury those feelings.

He was tired.

He didn't want to be bound by duty anymore.

He wanted to do some... things he wanted to do.

Chen Yuan raised his head.

He refocused his gaze on the petrified face above.

He had no fear of death.

It seemed that death, to him, was not something to be feared, but rather a liberation.

"Since you insist..."

After the eye of imperial judgment understood Chen Yuan's intentions...

Buzz!

The entire deep, starry-sky-like eyeball suddenly glowed with a dazzling light, and layers of spatial folds appeared within the eyeball.

A terrifying and unparalleled aura instantly surged from Chen Yuan's body.

At this moment, not only did the eye of imperial judgment, which had split open on his glabella, show spatial folds...

But also, terrifying spatial folds appeared within his own eye sockets.

Streaks of power, as if capable of destroying heaven and earth, crackled and leaped like electric arcs on his body surface.

The pressure of a Demigod spread out overwhelmingly.

Making the heavens and earth change color!

Making the void twist!

Making the Imperial Domain tremble!

At this moment, Chen Yuan was like a revived God of War.

He directly possessed the power of a Demigod under the enhancement of the eye of imperial judgment!

Just a single glance from him...

Directly caused the gray light pillar projected by the petrified face to shatter into nothingness amidst distortion.

This terrifying scene...

Made everyone who witnessed it gasp in cold air.

One must know...

The gray light pillar projected by this petrified face had become extremely powerful with the enhancement of the three Demigod Heavenly Kings outside.

But now, Chen Yuan, with just a glance, directly caused this light pillar to shatter into nothingness.

This gave everyone a deeper understanding of the power of a Demigod.

And after destroying the gray light pillar projected by the petrified face...

Chen Yuan's gaze remained fixed on the petrified face in the sky.

He raised his hand and grabbed around him.

Immediately, all the power of several Dao Lords beside him was absorbed by Chen Yuan, causing the figures of these Dao Lords to instantly fall from the sky, feeling as if their entire bodies had been hollowed out, losing even the strength to fly, completely "drained."

And after absorbing all the power of these Dao Lords...

The aura emanating from Chen Yuan's body also became even more astonishing.

His figure flashed.

He instantly appeared in front of the petrified face.

His palms came together.

Puff!

Like a sharp knife, it suddenly pierced into the bridge of the petrified face's nose.

Easily breaking through the surface of the petrified face.

Then Chen Yuan's left and right hands simultaneously propped open the two broken ends of the petrified face.

At this moment, the entire petrified face trembled, and the pierced part frantically converged towards the center, trying to heal.

At the same time, gray patterns continuously extended along Chen Yuan's hands, attempting to petrify him.

But these patterns hadn't even had time to form before they were evaporated and dispelled by the stronger power on Chen Yuan's body.

They simply couldn't petrify him.

"Break for me!!!"

Chen Yuan roared.

He pulled his hands apart with all his might.

Puff!

He actually directly tore the entire massive petrified face in half from the middle!!

This shocking scene caused a monstrous wave in the hearts of everyone who witnessed it.

After all, the enormity of this petrified face almost occupied the entire sky.

In front of it, Chen Yuan was as tiny as an ant.

However, now Chen Yuan had torn it open with his bare hands.

Visually, this gave people a strong impression that Chen Yuan had torn open a piece of the sky.

And the entire petrified face, torn apart by Chen Yuan, also collapsed with a roar, turning into countless fragments that scattered from the sky.

Chen Yuan floated high in the sky.

A terrifying and astonishingly powerful aura still emanated from him.

However, a crack appeared on his glabella, extending downwards, instantly spreading across his entire body.

The power of a Demigod was far beyond what a Dao Lord could bear.

Chen Yuan, while gaining the power of a Demigod, would also face the price of his body shattering.

At this time, although the Great Wu Crown Prince was desperately resisting the Imperial Sword that Xiao Shi had struck down...

He had always been paying attention to the situation above.

When he saw Chen Yuan, with Demigod power, destroy the petrified face above the Imperial Domain...

He immediately shouted with joy.

"Immediately suppress him for me! Suppress him!!!"

Although Chen Yuan's body was already on the verge of shattering at this time...

Before he completely shattered, he could completely suppress Xiao Shi.

After all, for Chen Yuan, who possessed Demigod power at this moment...

Suppressing a Saint was just a thought away.

Facing the Great Wu Crown Prince's command...

Chen Yuan lowered his head slightly.

His cracked face could no longer show any expression.

However, a voice like thunder came from his mouth, echoing throughout the Imperial Domain, forming three words.

"I refuse!"