312: Chapter 312 Inheritance of the Jade Seal, Lord of the Heavenly Court

The brilliant golden radiance filling the sky slowly receded over the white jade plaza.

Like a joyful golden butterfly, Ji Luanxi was enveloped by that dazzling golden light and precisely teleported in front of everyone.

Her delicate and beautiful face was filled with unconcealable ecstasy. As soon as she landed, she launched herself like a cannonball into Chang Xiyue's embrace.

"Big Sister Xiyue! Did you see that! Golden Dragon Disciple! This Young Miss is a core Golden Dragon Disciple now!"

Ji Luanxi danced with excitement, clutching Chang Xiyue's arm tightly with one hand while holding the golden token emitting supreme imperial might high in the air, shouting gleefully like a child who had just received candy.

Looking at Ji Luanxi, whose face was flushed with excitement in her arms, a gentle smile appeared in Chang Xiyue's cold eyes. She reached out with a jade hand and gently rubbed her head: "I saw it. Little Sister Lianxi has outstanding talent; achieving the Golden Dragon rating is well-deserved."

Upon hearing Chang Xiyue's praise, Ji Luanxi proudly lifted her snow-white chin.

For a long time, she had been harboring a strong sense of annoyance and frustration in her heart.

Ever since she followed Su Xuanchen, she always felt her strength was too low. Every time she encountered danger, she could only hide behind Su Xuanchen like a useless burden, watching her husband fight on the front lines.

This feeling of powerlessness made the always proud and arrogant her feel miserable.

But now, it was different!

With the status of a Golden Dragon Disciple, she had completely surpassed Gu Hongchen of the True Immortal Realm!

This Heaven-Defying talent rating finally allowed her to hold her head high, sweeping away the last bit of inferiority in her heart and regaining absolute confidence!

"Hmph! This Young Miss is not some burden!"

Ji Luanxi gripped the Golden Dragon token tightly, her large, watery eyes flashing with unprecedented determination. She secretly swore in her heart, "From now on, this Young Miss will definitely Cultivate with all her might and will never let down this status as a Golden Dragon Disciple! Sooner or later, this Young Miss will catch up to my husband's footsteps and protect him instead!"

Watching Ji Luanxi's spirited, almost floating-on-air appearance, Su Xuanchen, standing to the side, crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow mischievously.

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at you getting all full of yourself."

Su Xuanchen pursed his lips in feigned disdain, his tone filled with infuriating teasing, "It's just a Golden Dragon Disciple, yet your tail is almost pointing to the sky. Someone who didn't know better would think you'd already Ascended to become an Immortal King."

Hearing this provoking mockery, Ji Luanxi's originally excited face puffed up instantly. Like a little tiger guarding its food, she turned her head and glared fiercely at Su Xuanchen.

"Blehh! Mind your own business! This Young Miss is just amazing!"

Ji Luanxi made a face at Su Xuanchen in a tsundere manner, then turned around, giving him the back of her head haughtily. She continued to chatter and share her joy while holding Chang Xiyue's hand, completely treating Su Xuanchen as air.

"Big Sister Xiyue, let me tell you, that damn staircase was so heavy, but this Young Miss gritted her teeth..."

Watching Ji Luanxi blatantly ignore him, Su Xuanchen rubbed his nose helplessly and let out a wry smile.

However, in his deep eyes, a flash of doting tenderness appeared.

That this girl could resolve her heart's knot and regain self-confidence made him, as her husband, genuinely happy for her.

Just as the atmosphere here was harmonious and joyful.

Gu Hongchen, who had been standing on the side and had just accepted reality, swept her gaze across the group with complex emotions, finally fixing it abruptly on Su Xuanchen.

A flash of extreme confusion crossed her beautiful eyes.

"Wait..." Gu Hongchen frowned slightly, interrupting the group's merrymaking in confusion, "Old Ancestor Su, where is your rating?"

As soon as these words were spoken.

The atmosphere on the white jade plaza instantly quieted down.

Everyone's gaze focused simultaneously on Su Xuanchen.

Ji Luanxi stopped her showing off, turned her head to look Su Xuanchen up and down, and her large, watery eyes instantly flashed with intense schadenfreude.

"That's right! Husband, where is your token? Why didn't the Heavenly Staircase's announcement call your name?"

Ji Luanxi put her hands on her hips and strutted arrogantly up to Su Xuanchen, "Could it be that you climbed halfway and fell off, failing the trial? Oh my, the dignified Old Ancestor Su actually doesn't even have a rating; how embarrassing!"

Chang Xiyue was also full of confusion, her ice-blue beautiful eyes filled with bewilderment.

She had personally witnessed Su Xuanchen violently crush Empress Yun Lingxiao's Immortal King spirit avatar in the Outer Domain Starry Sky. With such Heaven-Defying combat power that broke ancient ironclad laws, let alone a Golden Dragon Disciple, even being directly conferred as a Child of the Heavenly Dao would be more than enough.

But why did the Formation of the Heavenly Staircase not have any rating announcement regarding Su Xuanchen?

Facing the crowd's scrutiny and Ji Luanxi's teasing, Su Xuanchen himself felt a wave of helpless frustration.

"How would I know."

Su Xuanchen rolled his eyes speechlessly and complained inwardly, "That crazy woman Yun Lingxiao ran away halfway through the fight, forcing the trial to end early. I almost smashed that damn Heavenly Staircase to pieces; logically, I should at least be a Golden Dragon Disciple, yet this broken Formation just went black on me and didn't give me a single thing!"

Just as Su Xuanchen was feeling annoyed and preparing to curse out this Ancient Heavenly Court's broken mechanism.

A sudden change occurred!

"Hum—!!!"

Deep within the center of Su Xuanchen's brows, a violent roar erupted without warning!

Within his Sea of Consciousness, a mysterious ball of light, golden all over and brilliant to the extreme, suddenly appeared!

The aura emitted by this ball of light was ancient, vast, and even carried the absolute Dominator pressure that transcended the Heavenly Dao of the heavens!

"What the hell is this?"

Su Xuanchen's heart jolted, and he decisively poured his Divine Sense into his Sea of Consciousness instantly.

When his Divine Sense penetrated that layer of blinding golden light and saw the scene inside the ball of light.

Su Xuanchen, who was always wild and uninhibited, and whose expression would not change even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, froze suddenly—a rare occurrence—and unprecedented stormy waves surged within his deep eyes!

At the very center of the ball of light, an ancient Legacy Seal emitting endless imperial might was floating!

This seal was carved entirely from rare glazed ancient jade, four inches square, and crystal clear.

On top of the seal, complex and vivid flying Dragon and Phoenix totems were carved; every Dragon scale and every Phoenix feather flowed with pure Immortal Dao aurora.

What made one's scalp tingle even more was that inside this square-inch seal, the entire miniature panoramic view of the vast and boundless Ancient Heavenly Palace was miraculously engraved!

Every blade of grass, every tree, every brick, and every tile was flowing and breathing within it!

And at the very bottom of this seal, eight ancient divine characters emitting terrifying pressure were domineeringly branded:

"Lord of the Heavenly Palace, commanding the heavens"!

Each of these eight characters was as heavy as billions of stars, and the extreme oppression they emitted was a hundred times more terrifying than that Immortal King spirit avatar of Yun Lingxiao!

"Holy crap... is this crazy woman for real?!"

Su Xuanchen cursed loudly in his heart.

He finally understood why Yun Lingxiao had said those entrusted words before leaving.

She wasn't joking at all; she had decisively and forcibly stuffed this Legacy Seal, which represented the highest power of the Ancient Heavenly Court, into his Sea of Consciousness!

The very moment Su Xuanchen's Divine Sense cautiously touched that Legacy Seal!

"Rumble—!!!"

A surge of majestic golden light, indescribable in words, erupted from Su Xuanchen's body like a bursting cosmic torrent!

This golden light was domineering, directly breaking through the clouds of the Chaos realm and completely dyeing the sky of the entire Xuanhuang Great World into a magnificent, pure golden color!

Immediately after!

"Roar—!"

"Screech—!"

Accompanied by terrifying roars that shattered the Nine Heavens and Ten Domains.

A five-clawed golden Dragon millions of feet long, a fire-bathing Phoenix covering the sky and sun, a giant Black Tortoise carrying a Primordial Divine Mountain... countless phantoms of Divine Beasts and fierce birds that only existed in ancient myths surged crazily out from that Legacy Seal!

These Divine Beast phantoms were like reality, carrying supreme pressure that crushed everything, shooting straight into the sky!

They circled and danced above the Heavenly Palace, emitting pious roars of worship!

Under such terrifying Heaven-Defying phenomena.

The entire Ancient Heavenly Court, which had been silent for several epochs, shook violently!

"Clang—!!!"

"Clang—!!!"

"Clang—!!!"

Grand, ancient, and filled with endless vicissitudes, the sound of bell ringing suddenly resounded from the deepest part of the Heavenly Palace without warning!

The bell tolls were continuous, turning into tangible golden sound waves, domineeringly piercing through the Void Realm barriers, resounding throughout the eight directions of the Star Domain, and spreading to every corner of the entire Xuanhuang Great World!

Ten thousand Immortals worshipped, the Heavenly Court bell rang!

On the white jade plaza.

Under the gaze of Chang Xiyue, Gu Hongchen, and Ji Luanxi, who were extremely horrified—their breathing even completely stalled.

Su Xuanchen's majestic figure slowly floated into mid-air.

Brilliant Immortal Dao aurora crazily intertwined and evolved around his body.

In the blink of an eye, the white gold-gilded Immortal robe on his body miraculously transformed into a luxurious, supreme imperial robe embroidered with nine vivid five-clawed golden Dragons!

A purple-gold crown emitting the majesty of suppressing the ages was steadily tied to the top of his head!

At this moment, Su Xuanchen stood with his hands behind his back in the Void Realm, surrounded by phantoms of Divine Beasts filling the sky.

His handsome face revealed an absolute dominance that looked down upon the ages and stood supreme!

The monstrous pressure emitted from his body directly and domineeringly trampled the entire vast and boundless Ancient Heavenly Palace beneath his feet!

"This... this is..."

Gu Hongchen's legs went soft, and she collapsed directly to the ground, her beautiful face filled with extreme dullness and complete shock.

The Golden Dragon token in Ji Luanxi's hand, which was originally dazzling, instantly dimmed in the face of Su Xuanchen's world-destroying pressure, scaring her so much that she couldn't even speak.

As for Chang Xiyue, she gazed piously and excitedly at the figure in mid-air who looked like a god, hot tears welling up in her ice-blue beautiful eyes.

They finally understood completely.

They understood why Su Xuanchen did not receive any Heavenly Staircase rating!

Because those so-called Outer Sect Disciples, Inner Sect Disciples, and even the most core Golden Dragon Disciples were not even worthy of carrying his shoes in front of this man!

He did not need any judgment from the trial Formation at all; he had directly and domineeringly inherited the supreme Legacy Seal of the Ancient Heavenly Court!

Becoming the new Lord of the Heavenly Court after the Ancient Heavenly Emperor and Empress Yun Lingxiao, possessing supreme power within this Ancient Heavenly Court, ruling over the heavens, and commanding everything in the Heavenly Palace!