68: Starry Sky Thunder Tribulation Shakes Eternity

Inside the Purple Heaven Palace, red waves were rolling.

The Yin and Yang essence that had been accumulating all night finally reached its critical point the moment dawn broke.

"Boom—!"

Su Xuanchen felt his spinal dragon burning hot, as a pink current of air, unprecedented in its intensity, surged from his tailbone straight to the crown of his head.

That was... the Heavenly Desire Divine Body Origin!

An Wanrou, that enchantress, not only possessed seductive bones but also hid this top-tier Origin that was legendary for helping one break through the shackles of life.

The Bottleneck that had originally kept him at the Half-step Great Sage shattered instantly before this domineering yet gentle power.

"Ugh..."

Su Xuanchen let out a muffled groan as all the pores on his body opened up, gushing out billions of brilliant rays of starlight.

He was about to explode.

The spiritual energy within his body was like an active volcano about to erupt; if he didn't vent it out soon, not just the Purple Heaven Palace, but the entire Wanbao City would be leveled to the ground.

"Wait for me to come back."

Su Xuanchen lowered his head and kissed that beautiful face, which was already fast asleep but still wore a satisfied smile.

The next second.

He took a step forward.

The void shattered.

His entire being transformed into a ten-thousand-foot starry rainbow, piercing through the sky of the Sacred Ruins Continent and entering the vast, boundless outer starry sky... The outer starry sky was desolate and cold.

There was no air here, no signs of life, only countless floating meteorites and astral winds capable of freezing and cracking the Divine Soul.

But at this moment.

This dead Star Domain began to boil.

"Rumble—!"

Tribulation clouds gathered.

Those were no ordinary dark clouds, but a Chaos Lightning Sea condensed from the Laws of the Great Dao.

The entire Star Domain was dyed a despairing ink-black, and countless stars trembled under this pressure, appearing as if they might disintegrate at any moment.

A Great Sage Tribulation!

Moreover, it was a world-destroying Lightning Tribulation that was hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful than a normal Great Sage's!

"Come!"

Su Xuanchen stood at the center of the lightning sea, his robes fluttering and his black hair dancing wildly.

He did not sacrifice any Magic Treasures.

He simply opened his arms, as if embracing the heaven and earth that were about to destroy him.

"Crack!"

The first bolt of tribulation lightning fell.

It was a purple lightning dragon, a thousand miles long, with thick scales, each scale inscribed with Destruction Dao Runes.

An attack sufficient to instantly kill a Half-step Great Sage!

"Too weak."

Su Xuanchen laughed arrogantly.

He neither dodged nor avoided it, allowing the lightning dragon to slam violently into his chest.

"Bang!"

Sparks flew in all directions.

The lightning dragon shattered, turning into electrical arcs that filled the sky.

Yet on Su Xuanchen's chest, not even a white mark was left behind.

Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Primordial Demon Body!

This body was born for tribulations and fed upon them.

"Is this all you've got?"

Su Xuanchen roared toward the heavens, his voice shattering thousands of surrounding meteorites.

"It's not even enough... to scratch an itch for me!"

"Again!"

His provocation enraged the lightning sea.

Boom!

The lightning sea rioted.

Eighty-one bolts of tribulation lightning fell simultaneously.

Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple... Five Elements Divine Lightning, Yin-Yang Annihilation Divine Lightning, Nine Heavens Chaos Divine Lightning... How was this undergoing a tribulation?

This was clearly the Heavenly Dao deciding that this cheater was too game-breaking and wanting to wipe him out directly on a physical level!

"That's more like it."

Su Xuanchen smiled.

The hot blood in his body was burning, and every cell was cheering.

"Stars of the universe, obey my command!"

Buzz!

His hands formed seals.

Stars within a million-mile radius lit up simultaneously, as billions of rays of starlight converged, condensing into a ten-thousand-foot Star Emperor Shadow behind him.

The emperor shadow wore a crown, stepped on the star river, and pointed a finger.

"Shatter!"

Boom—!

Under that single finger, the sky full of tribulation lightning was actually blasted back!

Su Xuanchen bathed in the lightning liquid and opened his mouth to inhale.

Like a great whale drinking water.

That tribulation Origin, which was enough to destroy heaven and earth, was actually swallowed into his stomach by force!

Refine!

Since it was a tribulation, it was also a supplement!

In the Sacred Ruins Continent, at the ancestral grounds of the Taishi Sect.

The White-Bearded Old Man, who was in seclusion meditating on the Heavenly Dao, suddenly opened his eyes.

"Pfft!"

He spat a mouthful of old blood onto the chessboard in front of him, looking up at the sky with a face full of horror.

His Dharma Eye, which could perceive things from ten thousand miles away, was actually stung by that terrifying flash of lightning.

"This is..."

The old man's entire body trembled, and the chess piece in his hand was crushed into powder.

"A Great Sage Tribulation?!"

"No... that's not right! How could an ordinary Great Sage Tribulation have such power?!"

"This fluctuation... has already touched that level!"

Quasi-Emperor!

That was the supreme realm infinitely close to a Great Emperor!

"Could it be a peerless hegemon from the top thirty of the Great Sage Ranking passing through here and undergoing their tribulation?!"

The old man swallowed hard, as several names that shook the heavens flashed through his mind.

"Too terrifying..."

"If such a figure were to descend upon the Sacred Ruins Continent, I'm afraid they could crush my Taishi Sect with a single finger."

"Pass down the order!"

The old man roared toward the door, his voice cracking.

"Seal the mountain! Seal it completely!"

"No Disciples are allowed to go out! Activate the Sect-Protecting Divine Array!"

"Whatever you do... do not provoke that Senior passing by!"

How could he have known?

That "Senior" who had scared him so much he almost wet his pants was the very same "upstart" who had extorted a huge sum from his Taishi Sect just a few days ago... Deep in the starry sky.

The lightning sea dispersed.

Su Xuanchen stood shirtless in the void.

His skin possessed a perfect jade-like quality, and every inch of his muscle contained the power to blow up stars.

And on his forehead.

A purple-gold star mark slowly emerged.

Great Sage!

And not just an ordinary Great Sage.

He had directly bypassed the early and middle stages, reaching the level of a Great Sage Hegemon in a single leap!

The feeling was as if he had been carrying a mountain on his back, and now not only was the mountain gone, but he had also been given a pair of wings.

"So this is a Great Sage..."

Su Xuanchen clenched his fist.

Between his fingers, the space cracked with fine black lines.

"If I encounter that fellow Crimson Venerable again now."

"I suppose... a single look would be enough?"

He glanced down at his body.

His face, which was already devastatingly handsome, now possessed an even stronger sense of ethereal Immortal Qi.

His skin was more delicate than a woman's, yet his aura was more domineering than a demon god's.

This contrast was simply a walking hormone bomb.

"Tsk."

Su Xuanchen rubbed his chin, looking somewhat troubled.

"From now on, I'll have to wear a mask when I go out."

"Otherwise, just with this face, I'll have Saintesses and Fairies queuing up to throw themselves at me."

"Being too excellent is also a sin."

He humblebragged for a moment.

With a thought, Su Xuanchen casually tore through the void and stepped back into Wanbao City... Purple Heaven Palace.

The moment Su Xuanchen returned.

All the women of the Su Family were stunned.

"Hus... Husband?"

Gu Lingshuang was holding the baby, her beautiful eyes wide and round, not even noticing when the rattle in her hand fell to the ground.

The man before her clearly still had the same face.

But that aura, which seemed as if he were about to ascend to immortality, made even her, his bedmate, feel a surge of palpitations.

Too perfect.

Perfect to the point of making one feel inferior.

"What is it?"

Su Xuanchen walked over, naturally took the child from her arms, and casually scratched the bridge of her perky nose.

"I was only out for one night, and you don't recognize your man anymore?"

The familiar actions, the familiar rogue charm.

Only then did Gu Lingshuang snap out of it, her pretty face turning slightly red.

"You... you broke through?"

"Yeah."

Su Xuanchen nodded, as if speaking of a trivial matter.

"I just underwent a tribulation and leveled up a few times."

"I should be a... Great Sage Hegemon now."

"Pfft—!"

Yu Xin, who had just walked in, slipped and almost fell, sword and all.

Great Sage... Hegemon?!

That was an existence standing at the very top of the pyramid!

Even in the entire Yongyao Heaven Realm, he would be a giant who could occupy a territory and make Imperial Clans show him respect!

He... became one just by casually undergoing a tribulation?

In the corner.

An Wanrou, who had just woken up, looked at the man surrounded like a star by the moon, her eyes full of infatuation.

This was her man.

Her god... As Su Xuanchen became a Great Sage Hegemon.

The Su Family's war machine was now running at full throttle.

Expansion!

Frantic expansion!

The territory of Wanbao City tripled in just one month, and dozens of surrounding Sects and families either submitted or were destroyed.

Those who follow me shall prosper, those who oppose me shall perish.

Before this terrifying flood, the original layout of the Sacred Ruins Continent was washed into pieces.

Everyone was in a state of constant fear.

In the ancestral land of the Wang Family, inside the meeting hall.

The atmosphere was so oppressive it was suffocating.

"The Old Ancestor has fallen..."

The Wang Family Head slumped in his chair, his voice hoarse, appearing ten years older in an instant.

The Wang Family's Old Saint, in the battle of the Demon Suppressing Abyss, although he didn't directly participate in the ambush of the Ninth Princess, died in the aftermath of the Secret Realm's collapse because of his greed for opportunities.

Without a Saint to preside over them.

The Wang Family was like a piece of fat meat that had lost its protective shell.

"People from the Ling Family came yesterday, demanding we hand over that top-grade Spiritual Vein, or they'll flatten the Wang Family."

"The Blood God Cult also issued a final ultimatum, telling us to either submit or die."

"And then there's the White Bone Divine Cult..."

The Elders were all deathly pale, their eyes filled with despair.

Surrounded by wolves.

The Wang Family was finished.

"Family Head!"

Just then, an Elder suddenly stood up, a ruthless look in his eyes.

"Instead of being devoured by these jackals, why don't we... take a gamble!"

"Gamble? With what?"

The Wang Family Head laughed bitterly.

"With our lives?"

"No! With people!"

The Elder pointed toward the back mountain.

"That girl Xi'er possesses the Heavenly Maiden Fate, and her beauty is unparalleled in the Sacred Ruins Continent."

"And then there's Chu Yue; although she's a foster daughter, her figure and Aptitude are also one in ten thousand."

"If we send them to the Su Family..."

"The Su Family?"

The Wang Family Head's eyes lit up, then dimmed again.

"Su Xuanchen's standards are terrifyingly high now; would he even look at someone from our Wang Family?"

"It's worth a try!"

The Elder gnashed his teeth.

"I've heard that Su Xuanchen is extremely fond of women, especially beauties with special Physiques."

"If Xi'er and Chu Yue can catch his eye, even if they're just concubines..."

"Then our Wang Family will not only be preserved but can also use the Su Family's power to soar to the heavens!"

This was selling one's daughter for glory.

But in the face of the crisis of clan extermination, what did a little face matter?

"Fine!"

The Wang Family Head slapped the table and made a decision.

"Prepare generous gifts!"

"Call both Xi'er and Chu Yue here!"

"For the sake of the Family, we can only wrong them!"

Wanbao City, Su Family.

"A marriage alliance?"

Su Xuanchen sat in his armchair, looking at the gold-embossed gift list in his hand with a playful smile.

"The Wang Family is certainly willing to spend."

"Two virgins, just like that?"

Below him.

The Wang Family's Grand Elder was kneeling on the ground, cold sweat already soaking his back, not even daring to lift his head.

"Old... Old Ancestor Su."

"Xi'er and Chu Yue have both admired your style for a long time and are willing to serve you."

"We only ask that you... provide some protection for the Wang Family."

Su Xuanchen's finger lightly tapped the armrest.

Accept? Or not?

Did he even need to ask?

If meat was delivered to his door, not eating it would mean his brain was addled.

Moreover... his Divine Thought swept over the woman standing behind the Grand Elder.

Wang Xi was dressed in a white gown, her aura as clear and cold as a lotus, with a natural sense of nobility between her brows.

"Fine."

Su Xuanchen waved his hand.

"Leave the people."

"Go back and tell those bastards who want to move against the Wang Family."

"The Wang Family is under my, Su Xuanchen's, protection."

"Anyone who dares to touch a single finger of the Wang Family, I'll chop off their claws."

The Grand Elder was overjoyed, kowtowing repeatedly.

"Thank you, Old Ancestor! Thank you, Old Ancestor!"

However.

The affairs of this world are often full of drama.

On the very day the Wang Family sent the women.

A green flying boat emitting terrifying Sword Qi, accompanied by rolling thunder, forcibly intruded into Wanbao City's airspace.

"Boom!"

Sword Qi spanned three thousand miles.

A cold and glamorous woman dressed in green, with an ancient sword on her back, stood at the bow, her entire body radiating a heart-palpitating Saint King pressure.

Shenxiao Holy Land, Flying Feather Sword Saint, Lu Qingchan!

"Su Xuanchen!"

Lu Qingchan's voice echoed through the heavens and earth, her tone domineering and brook no argument.

"Get out here!"

In the city, countless Cultivators looked up in shock.

"Holy crap? Who is this? So brave?"

"That's... the Flying Feather Sword Saint of the Shenxiao Holy Land? A Saint King expert!"

"What is she here for? To find trouble with Old Ancestor Su?"

Inside the Purple Heaven Palace.

Hearing this angry shout, Su Xuanchen frowned.

"Where did this crazy woman come from?"

"Ruining my good time."

Right at that moment.

『Ding! Peerless Opportunity detected!』

The System notification suddenly sounded.

『Target 1: Chu Yue (Grand Beginning Sword Physique - Unawakened)』

『Target 2: Lu Qingchan (Finality Sword Physique - Unawakened)』

『Special Bond: Grand Beginning Finality, Myriad Swords Return to Source!』

『Evaluation: These two are the Reincarnations of the ancient "Twin Sword Immortals," two souls in one body, with their Luck intertwined.』

『Suggested: Buy one get one free! A master-Disciple feast! This kind of Opportunity is rare even in ten thousand years, what is the host still waiting for?!』

Su Xuanchen was stunned.

Master and Disciple?

Twin Sword Immortals?

Buy one get one?

What kind of god-tier script is this?!"