184: Another child

The true Kunpeng Nest had never been a place of auspiciousness.

The so-called immortal blessed land was nothing more than a layer of rouge smeared over a rotting corpse.

As those dozens of Skeleton True Spirits at the Saint King level knelt in unison, that layer of brilliant disguise was finally torn away.

The riverbeds where spiritual springs once flowed now surged with thick black blood, emitting a sickeningly sweet stench; the swaying divine herbs transformed in the blink of an eye into twisted human faces, letting out shrill shrieks in the wind.

That massive nest floating high in the sky—how was it a Jianmu Divine Nest?

It was clearly a deep black hole spanning the Void Realm, like an eye socket with its eyeball gouged out, staring fixedly at the ants below.

This was the true face of the Kunpeng Burial Ground.

A Demonic Land.

“Is this... the Immortal King Legacy?”

A Prodigy from the Crimson Blood Imperial Court felt his legs go weak and almost collapsed to the ground. Looking at the place beneath his feet that was once 'immortal land' now turned into a wasteland paved with bleached bones, his stomach churned.

There was no auspiciousness, only deathly silence.

However, fear could not override greed.

For a Cultivator, as long as the temptation was great enough, they would dare to jump into the boiling oil of Hell to fish for something.

“Wealth is found in danger!”

“Charge in! Once we obtain the Kunpeng Treasure Art, what does this bit of corpse Qi matter!”

Someone shouted, and the previously frozen crowd became restless once again.

The Successor of the Immortal Palace was at the very front of the crowd, a faint, imperceptible cold smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

His hand, hidden in his sleeve, was tightly clutching a pitch-black Bone Talisman. The Bone Talisman was burning hot, inscribed with complex and obscure patterns, greedily devouring the surrounding Death Qi.

“A bunch of fools.”

He sneered inwardly.

This was indeed the Kunpeng Nest, but it was also indeed a trap.

However, for him, this was the best 'signal tower'.

“Buzz—”

As he applied pressure with his fingertips, the Bone Talisman shattered silently.

An obscure fluctuation, invisible to the naked eye, instantly penetrated the boundary wall of the Kunpeng Nest and vanished into that bottomless black hole.

Those were the coordinates connecting the Dark Great Realm and the Chaos Divine Realm.

In an instant.

Deep within the Kunpeng Nest, the previously deathly darkness suddenly surged violently like boiling water.

An ancient, decaying, yet supremely majestic and terrifying aura cast a blurry projection across endless time and space.

It was the figure of an Ancient Immortal King.

Though it was only a fleeting glimpse, lasting less than a ten-thousandth of a second.

But in that moment, the Law of the Dao of the entire Kunxu Divine Domain seemed to be frozen.

The Emperors and True Immortals watching from the outside felt as if their hearts were suddenly seized, and they even forgot to breathe.

“What... was that?”

The old principal of Hun Kun Academy's eyelids twitched wildly as he stared fixedly at the fleeting black shadow in the water mirror, his hair standing on end.

That was a forbidden existence that surpassed the True Immortal and touched the realm of a 'King'!

The Successor of the Immortal Palace felt that aura, and the killing intent in his eyes grew even more intense.

The net has been cast.

Next, he just had to wait for those little fish from the Su Family to swim into it themselves... Meanwhile.

Yongyao Heaven Realm, Su Family ancestral land.

This place did not have the gloom and eeriness of the Kunpeng Nest, but it held another kind of suffocating tension.

Above the Purple Heaven Palace, the previously clear sky was now covered by a layer of thick golden clouds.

Those were no ordinary clouds, but 'Dao Clouds' condensed from materialized Laws of the Dao.

Su Xuanchen brought the Dragon Girl back to the ancestral land almost instantaneously.

The moment he landed, he felt the earth beneath his feet vibrating slightly.

This vibration was not an earthquake, but a resonance from the leyline Dragon Qi being overly excited.

“Husband!”

Gu Lingshuang had already been waiting outside the palace. Seeing Su Xuanchen return, this usually unflappable First Wife now had fine beads of sweat on her forehead.

As Su Xuanchen walked to the Delivery Room, an aura of extreme oppression hit him square in the face.

“Rumble—”

From within the Delivery Room, a thunderous boom actually rang out.

That was not thunder, but the sound of blood surging and the Dao washing through the bodies of Lu Qingchan and Chu Yue.

The next moment.

A sudden vision occurred.

“Swish—”

Lotus Blooming in the Void.

Palm-sized golden lotuses emerged without warning from the cracks in the floor tiles, the patterns on the pillars, and even the air.

They were not physical entities but were interwoven from pure Laws of the Dao, with profound runes inscribed on every petal.

Immediately following.

Dragon roars and Phoenix cries.

Illusory images of True Dragons, Immortal Phoenixes, Qilins, White Tigers... countless Auspicious Beasts manifested above the Delivery Room. They surrounded the two rooms, bowing their heads in a posture of worship.

“Crack—”

A crisp sound.

The Su Family's Clan-Protecting Array, which was strong enough to withstand a full-strength blow from a Great Sage at the Peak, actually developed a crack.

It wasn't broken by external force.

It was forced open by the internal power of Laws that was too vast and too overbearing!

Like a balloon filled with water that could no longer hold any more.

“Not good! The Formation is going to collapse!”

The clan elders responsible for maintaining the Formation turned pale, and blood seeped from their noses and mouths.

How was this giving birth?

This was clearly nurturing two Innate Divine Demons!

That vision was still growing wildly, and it looked like it was about to break through the Su Family's blockade and affect the entire Yongyao Heaven Realm.

Once it fully erupted, it would inevitably attract the scrutiny of the entire Xuanhuang Great World.

The current Su Family, though powerful, was not yet at the point where it could ignore the gaze of the entire world.

“Hmph.”

Su Xuanchen snorted coldly, a sharp light flashing in his eyes.

“On Su Family territory, even the Lord of Heaven has to stay put for me.”

He took a step forward, his figure instantly rising high.

“Sacrifice!”

With his low shout.

A primitive and ancient grinding disk flew out from behind him.

The Heaven and Earth Grinding Disk!

As soon as this supreme treasure appeared, it emitted a heavy aura that suppressed the myriad worlds of the heavens.

It turned slowly, making a tooth-grinding sound as it crushed those golden lotuses of Laws trying to rush out of the Su Family's range, turning them back into pure Origin Qi to feed back into the Delivery Room.

“Still not enough.”

Su Xuanchen narrowed his eyes slightly.

The commotion these two little fellows were making was even larger than he had anticipated.

“Cauldron, come!”

He waved his hand again.

The myriad things mother qi cauldron descended with a crash.

The cauldron was inverted, like a massive golden bell, tightly covering the courtyard where the Delivery Room was located.

Myriad things mother Qi cascaded down, each strand as heavy as ten thousand catties, forcibly suppressing the boiling space.

“Lingshuang! Long'er!”

Su Xuanchen shouted without looking back.

“Help me!”

“Alright!”

Gu Lingshuang and the Dragon Girl exchanged a look, not hesitating for a second.

“immortal suppressing emperor jar!”

Gu Lingshuang sacrificed that supreme weapon of slaughter that once belonged to the Ruthless Great Emperor.

The jar lid opened slightly, and a terrifying suction power that could swallow heaven and earth erupted, drawing in all those scattered illusory images of Auspicious Beasts to prevent their aura from leaking out.

“Green Lotus Emperor Weapon!”

The Dragon Girl also gave a soft shout as a chaos green lotus swayed behind her, shedding billions of strands of clear light to reinforce the crumbling void.

Three Emperor Weapons were deployed together!

Coupled with the full suppression of Su Xuanchen, a powerhouse at the Half-Saint level.

That vision, which was enough to alarm the entire world, was finally barely contained within the Su Family's ancestral land.

Even so.

A faint trace of Qi still leaked out through the leylines.

In the Yongyao Heaven Realm, the Old Ancestors of various major forces were awakened at the same time.

They looked toward the Su Family with suspicion and uncertainty.

“This aura...”

“Emperor's Might? Could someone in the Su Family have attained the Dao and become an Immortal Emperor?”

“No, this aura is too immature, it's like... a newborn being?”

Everyone speculated, but no one dared to investigate lightly.

The Su Family's current prestige was too overwhelming; no one wanted to court trouble at this critical juncture.

Inside the Delivery Room.

“Waa—!”

“Waa—!”

Two extremely loud cries rang out almost simultaneously.

At this moment, heaven and earth fell silent.

All the visions froze in an instant and then exploded like fireworks, turning into a sky full of light rain that merged into the two newborn lives.

Su Xuanchen breathed a long sigh of relief, his tense nerves finally relaxing.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, the corners of his mouth unable to stop curling upward.

“They're born.”

“I have more children.”

However.

Before he could be happy for long.

“Rumble—!!!”

A thunderclap more terrifying than any before exploded directly above the Su Family.

Su Xuanchen snapped his head up.

The previously golden clouds had instantly turned into Tribulation Clouds as black as ink.

Within those Tribulation Clouds, there were no silver snakes dancing, only a deathly black.

And at the center of that black vortex, a massive, indifferent eye slowly opened.

The Eye of Heavenly Punishment!

This was no ordinary Lightning Tribulation.

This was Heaven's Envy!

The Heavenly Dao had sensed the birth of some balance-breaking, Heaven-Defying Prodigies and wanted to strangle them in the cradle!

“Damn old Heavens.”

The smile on Su Xuanchen's face vanished.

He looked at that tribulation eye, a violent cold light surging in his gaze.

“You won't even let newborn children go?”

“You, Heavenly Dao, are a bit too narrow-minded.”

“Crack!”

Without any preparation.

A bolt of lightning, so purple it was almost black, fell silently.

It ignored the Su Family's Clan-Protecting Array and the defense of the myriad things mother qi cauldron, striking straight toward the Delivery Room!

The target was clear.

It was meant to obliterate those two infants!

“You're looking for death!”

Su Xuanchen was enraged.

He did not use any Magic Treasures.

At this distance, the aftershocks of any Magic Treasure could harm the children.

He chose the most direct and brutal method.

Clashing with his Physical Body!

“Jie! Bing! Dou! Zhe! Jie! Zhen! Lie! Qian! Xing!”

The Nine-Character Mantra exploded from his mouth.

The Nine Secrets as one!

Su Xuanchen's body instantly became crystal clear, as if cast from Divine Gold.

He stepped into the void, rising against the current, and simply threw a punch at that World-Destroying Thunder.

Heavenly Emperor Fist!

“Bang—!!!”

Fist and thunder collided in mid-air.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only an extremely heavy, dull thud.

It was like a heavy hammer hitting worn-out leather.

That Zixiao Divine Thunder, which was enough to instantly kill a Great Sage, was smashed into a sky full of electric arcs by Su Xuanchen's single punch!

“Zzzt...”

Residual currents traveled along Su Xuanchen's arm, instantly turning his sleeve to ashes.

His entire right arm took on a charred black color, the skin cracking and oozing golden blood.

Numb.

A piercing numbness.

Even his bones were in faint pain.

“Interesting.”

Su Xuanchen shook his somewhat senseless arm, but the fierce light in his eyes grew even stronger.

“To be able to injure my Sacred Body, it seems this Lightning Tribulation is getting serious.”

Above the sky.

The Eye of Heavenly Punishment seemed to be infuriated.

The Tribulation Clouds rolled, and this time, nine even more terrifying bolts of lightning were brewed, transforming into nine ferocious thunder dragons that pounced down with bared fangs and claws.

This posture was meant to level Su Xuanchen along with the entire Su Family ancestral land!

Su Xuanchen took a deep breath, the golden Bitter Sea within him boiling.

He was prepared to fight for his life.

Just then.

Two extremely faint but crystal-clear thoughts entered his mind.

They were two tender, affectionate calls filled with a hint of fear.

Su Xuanchen's body jolted.

In that instant.

The sharp pain in his arm vanished.

The thunder dragons before him were no longer scary.

Even that Eye of Heavenly Dao, in his view, was nothing more than an eyeball that needed a beating.

An instinct called 'father' burned in his chest like wildfire.

He grinned, revealing a row of white teeth, smiling ferociously and arrogantly.

“Don't be afraid.”

He spoke softly toward the Delivery Room below.

Then.

He snapped his head up, pointed at the Tribulation Clouds in the sky, and let out a roar that shattered the firmament.

“Get—lost!!!”

Boom!

He was no longer passively defending.

His entire being turned into a streak of golden light, actively charging into that sky full of lightning.

What Heavenly Dao?

What rules?

If you dare to touch my children, I will punch a hole in this heaven!

On this day.

Countless beings in the Yongyao Heaven Realm witnessed a scene they would never forget.

A man.

With his bare hands, high above the Nine Heavens, was chasing and beating the Heavenly Tribulation.

That overbearingly peerless figure, like a God of War, beat that once-unbeatable Eye of Heavenly Punishment until it literally exploded!