84: Smash your spines

Wanbao City, Purple Heaven Palace.

Warm jade emitted mist, and the fragrance of medicine permeated the air.

Su Xuanchen withdrew his finger from the silver dragon girl's brow and let out a long breath of turbid air.

This girl was too heavily injured.

Her Origin was depleted, and her dragon pearl was cracked; if he had been half a carve later, even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal would have found it difficult to save her.

Fortunately, he had a deep foundation.

With the leaves of three undying divine medicines and half a jar of the Divine Spring of Creation, he had forcibly dragged this little dragon back from the Gates of Hell.

“Mmm...”

On the bed, the girl's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and she let out an extremely faint moan.

She slowly opened her eyes.

What met her eyes was a strange yet breathtakingly handsome face.

“You're awake?”

Su Xuanchen casually tucked in the corner of the quilt, his tone indifferent.

“Your life is saved, but your cultivation is temporarily crippled.”

“If you want to recover, you'll have to nurse yourself back to health slowly.”

The girl's gaze was dazed, but then she remembered something terrifying; her body suddenly curled up, and she began to tremble uncontrollably.

“Don't be afraid.”

Before Su Xuanchen could offer any comfort—

“Boom!”

A soaring Aura of bloodlust shattered the peace of the Purple Heaven Palace without warning.

It was resentment coming from the north.

It was so thick it almost became physical, dyeing half the sky a gruesome crimson.

Su Xuanchen's expression changed abruptly.

He stepped out of the hall and looked up toward the north.

His Divine Thought spread out like a tide, crossing hundreds of millions of miles of mountains and rivers in an instant.

In the next second—

His pupils shrank to the size of pinpricks.

Rage.

A sky-high fury, like a volcanic eruption, ignited his reason.

“Beasts!”

“How dare you?!”

In his perception—

The once prosperous northern part of the True Saint Continent had turned into a living hell.

Four Great Sages of the Sea Race, as massive as mountains, were unscrupulously devouring living beings.

Cities were shattered, and corpses were piled like mountains.

Sky-high floods submerged countless fertile fields and villages.

A full thirty billion Mortals!

Those were thirty billion fresh lives, yet now they had become blood food in the mouths of these four beasts!

“Courting death!”

Killing Intent surged in Su Xuanchen's eyes, and starlight burst from around his body.

“Watch the house.”

He tossed a sentence to Gu Lingshuang, who had just rushed over.

“I'm going to kill.”

Before his voice had even faded—

Space shattered.

Su Xuanchen's figure had already disappeared from the spot... Inside the sleeping quarters.

Gu Lingshuang looked in the direction Su Xuanchen had disappeared, her beautiful eyes narrowing slightly, then she turned and walked back to the bedside.

The silver dragon girl on the bed was looking at her in terror.

“Who... who are you?”

The girl's voice was hoarse and tearful.

“I am the mistress of this place.”

Gu Lingshuang looked down at her with a cold and elegant expression, carrying an irresistible majesty of an empress.

“And also the legal wife of that man just now.”

She reached out her slender finger and gently lifted the girl's exquisite but pale chin.

“Little girl, listen clearly.”

“To save you, my husband spent three divine medicines and half a jar of divine spring.”

“This is a debt the Sea God Palace cannot afford to repay.”

The girl was stunned, tears welling up in her eyes.

“Then... what should I do?”

“It's simple.”

A meaningful smile curled at the corner of Gu Lingshuang's mouth as her fingertip brushed across the girl's broken dragon horn.

“A life-saving debt cannot be repaid with words.”

“Then use yourself to pay the debt.”

“From today on, you are a member of the Su Family, and my husband's... private property.”

...In the north of the True Saint Continent, the cold wind howled.

There was no longer any wind or snow here.

Because even the clouds had been dispersed by the soaring blood Aura.

“Hahaha! How exhilarating!”

The Black Shark Great Sage crushed a city with one foot and took a deep breath.

Millions of terrified Mortals fleeing were sucked into his bloody maw like ants.

The sound of chewing was hair-raising.

“The taste of the Human Race is indeed the most delicious blood food in the world!”

Another Great Sage carrying a turtle shell grinned savagely:

“The people of this True Saint Continent are about to be eaten clean by us!”

Just then—

“Vile beasts! Do not be so arrogant!”

An aged roar resounded through the world.

A white rainbow pierced the sun.

The White-Bearded Old Man of the Taishi Sect, burning his final Lifespan, crashed toward the four Great Sages like a meteor.

Behind him was a battered dharma idol.

It was the foundational heritage of the Taishi Sect, yet before four Peak Great Sages, it appeared so small and tragic.

“Oh, the main person hasn't arrived, but an old thing has come to die.”

The Black Shark Great Sage stopped chewing, his eyes full of mockery.

“A Half-step Great Sage?”

“Not even enough to fill the gaps between our teeth.”

“Since you want to die, we'll grant your wish!”

Boom!

The four Great Sages attacked simultaneously.

Terrifying demonic power gathered into a giant black palm that blotted out the sun, carrying a poison that could corrode all things, and slammed down hard toward the White-Bearded Old Man.

Despair.

The White-Bearded Old Man looked at the descending giant palm and smiled bitterly.

Even by burning his life, he could not block this strike.

“Su Xuanchen... this old man has done his best.”

“I hope you can lead the Human Race... to survive.”

He closed his eyes, preparing to detonate his Primordial Spirit for one final desperate struggle.

However—

The expected death did not arrive.

“Buzz—!”

A clear sword chime abruptly resounded through the world.

Immediately after—

That giant black palm was imprisoned by an invisible force, suspended in mid-air, unable to advance an inch.

“Who?!”

The Black Shark Great Sage's expression changed.

“Who gave you the courage.”

A cold voice, as if coming from the Nine Nether Hell, caused the temperature for ten thousand miles around to plummet to the freezing point.

“To dare touch my people on my territory?”

The Void Realm split open.

Su Xuanchen, dressed in a robe of stars, walked out with his hands behind his back.

He didn't look at the four Great Sages.

Instead, he looked down at the land beneath his feet, submerged by floods and littered with corpses.

Thousands of miles of barren land, bones exposed in the open fields.

The dense resentment wailed in his ears.

Su Xuanchen closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was not a trace of human emotion in his gaze.

Only the ultimate Killing Intent.

“Thirty billion...”

He muttered to himself.

“You all deserve to die.”

“Su... Su Xuanchen?!”

The White-Bearded Old Man opened his eyes and looked at the back standing in front of him, his whole body shaking violently.

“What are you doing here?! Run! They are four Peak Great Sages!”

“Run?”

Su Xuanchen turned his head and gave the old man a ferocious smile.

“Senior, please rest.”

“The following scenes might be a bit bloody.”

After saying that—

He turned around to face the four Sea Race Great Sages who were like demon gods.

“Su Xuanchen?”

The Black Shark Great Sage sized up the tiny human before him, his eyes showing contempt.

“Are you the one who killed that trash Baigu?”

“You don't look like much.”

“Your skin is tender and your flesh is fine; you should be quite chewy.”

“Hahaha!”

The other three Great Sages also burst into wild laughter.

In their view, Su Xuanchen was just an upstart who had killed a dao body by relying on external power.

Now, facing their four true bodies in person, there was only the path of death.

“Have you laughed enough?”

Su Xuanchen looked up, his gaze indifferent.

“If you've laughed enough, then be on your way.”

Boom!

The words fell.

The world changed color.

The sky, which was still broad daylight, suddenly darkened.

It wasn't dark clouds.

It was the starry sky!

Behind Su Xuanchen, billions of stars emerged, and a brilliant galaxy hung upside down from the Nine Heavens, completely enveloping this world.

Zhou Tian Star Emperor Scripture— Galaxy Reverse Roll!

“What is this?!”

The smile on the Black Shark Great Sage's face froze.

He felt a terrifying sense of oppression.

That was... power beyond the level of a Great Sage!

“Tricks and illusions!”

“Attack together! Tear him apart!”

The four Great Sages roared simultaneously, manifesting their ten-thousand-foot true forms.

A black shark, a giant turtle, a sea snake, and a demon crab.

Four massive creatures, carrying an Aura that could destroy heaven and earth, charged toward Su Xuanchen.

“Ants.”

Su Xuanchen stood where he was, not moving at all.

He simply raised his right hand and made a fierce grabbing motion toward the firmament.

“Stars, Fall!”

Rumble—!

From above the Nine Heavens, four giant star phantoms were forcibly dragged down by him.

That was the true power of the stars!

Heavy as hundreds of millions of tons!

“No!!!”

The Black Shark Great Sage, who was at the front, let out a scream of terror.

He felt as if the sky had collapsed.

That falling star was slamming right onto his back.

“Crack!”

A tooth-aching crack resounded.

That indestructible Great Sage body immediately folded in half under the impact of the star.

His backbone was shattered!

“Bang!”

The Black Shark Great Sage was smashed into the depths of the earth like a dead dog.

Immediately after—

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

There were three more loud bangs.

The giant turtle's shell exploded, the sea snake was smashed into two, and the demon crab was directly crushed into a pile of meat paste.

Instant kill!

A complete and total crushing!

At this moment, how could the combat power Su Xuanchen displayed be that of a Great Sage?

This was clearly a Quasi-Emperor in person!

“Ah—!”

The Black Shark Great Sage was not yet dead, wailing in pain within the deep pit.

“Quasi-Emperor?! You are a Quasi-Emperor?!”

“Impossible! How could the Human Race still have such a powerhouse?!”

Fear.

Limitless fear swallowed their reason.

This wasn't a battle at all.

This was a one-sided slaughter!

“Quasi-Emperor?”

Su Xuanchen walked step by step to the edge of the pit, looking down at these four dying giant beasts.

“To kill you, does one even need the cultivation of a Quasi-Emperor?”

He reached out his hand, his five fingers closing into a void grip.

“You enjoyed eating just now, didn't you?”

“You were happy devouring living beings, weren't you?”

“Buzz!”

The four star phantoms slowly rotated, turning into four giant millstones.

“Since you love eating so much, then have a good taste of being crushed.”

“Star Millstone — Crush!”

“Ah!!!”

The shrill screams resounded through the clouds.

The four Great Sages were crushed little by little, inch by inch, by the Star Millstones.

Bones shattered, and flesh turned to mud.

Su Xuanchen did not give them a quick death.

He was using this most cruel method to pay tribute to those thirty billion dead Souls.

“Please... I beg you... kill me...”

The Black Shark Great Sage had only one head left, still pleading in despair.

It was too painful.

This pain of having even one's Soul crushed was ten thousand times more terrifying than death.

“You want to die?”

Su Xuanchen looked at him coldly.

“In your next life, don't be a demon.”

“Bang!”

He stepped down.

The Black Shark Great Sage's head burst open like a watermelon.

The four Peak Great Sages were all executed.

Su Xuanchen stood atop the sea of blood and mountain of corpses, waving his wide sleeve.

“Disperse!”

The starlight across the sky turned into soft rain and dew, falling upon the earth.

The sky-high floods were evaporated, and the piles of corpses were purified.

The tragic scene of thousands of miles of barren land was covered by a layer of starlight; although still desolate, it held a hint of peace.

Having done all this—

Su Xuanchen turned around and looked at the White-Bearded Old Man, who was already dumbfounded.

“Senior.”

The Killing Intent on him completely vanished, and he returned to his gentle and elegant appearance.

“Are you alright?”

“I... I'm fine...”

The White-Bearded Old Man swallowed hard, looking at this young man with a gaze that was complex to the extreme.

Shock, awe, and wild joy.

“Su... Little Friend Su.”

The old man's voice trembled as he pointed at the four bottomless pits.

“Are you... truly the Reincarnation of an Emperor?”

If not for being an Emperor's Reincarnation, how could he possess such Heaven-Defying combat power while still in the Great Sage realm?

Plucking stars with a raised hand and suppressing Great Sages with a flip of the palm!

Such methods were unheard of!

“Reincarnation of an Emperor?”

Su Xuanchen was stunned for a moment, then he smiled.

“You could say that.”

He was too lazy to explain the existence of the System.

Since everyone thought so, then let them think so.

In any case, the bigger this facade was, the better.

“Good! Good! Good!”

The White-Bearded Old Man was so excited that tears of joy flowed down his face, and he said 'good' three times in a row.

“Heaven bless the Human Race! Heaven bless the True Saint Continent!”

“Back then, this old man pushed through all objections to marry the Saintess to you; it was indeed the most correct decision I've made in my life!”

He looked at Su Xuanchen as if looking at a mountain of gold.

This wasn't just a potential stock—

This was clearly a leading stock that had already hit the price limit!

“Senior overpraises me.”

Su Xuanchen cupped his hands.

“Since the matter here is settled, I must return to coax... cough, handle some family matters.”

“I will visit the Taishi Sect another day.”

After saying that—

He took a step and disappeared into the void.

Only the White-Bearded Old Man was left standing there, dazed in the wind.

A moment later.

The old man came to his senses and hurriedly took out a transmission Jade Slip.

“Taixu! You bastard!”

“Where have you run off to with the Disciples?!”

“Get your ass back here right now!”

“Our Taishi Sect... is about to prosper!”

...Deep within the endless sea.

In a pitch-black abyss on the seabed.

This was the Forbidden Ground of the Sea God Domain, and also the place where that black dragon was in secluded cultivation.

“Crack!”

Four Soul-life Jade Slips shattered simultaneously.

The massive black dragon coiled in the abyss opened its eyes, which were like red lanterns.

“Dead?”

The black dragon's voice was low, making the seawater churn.

“Four pieces of trash.”

There was not a hint of sadness in his tone, only contempt and disdain.

“They couldn't even handle such a small matter; they deserve to die.”

“However...”

The black dragon began to move, its massive body stirring up ten-thousand-foot tsunamis.

“Does that Su Xuanchen actually have such combat power?”

“It seems that wench has found herself a good backer.”

“No matter.”

The black dragon closed its eyes again, black Dragon Qi surging around its body as it was striking at that critical threshold.

“Wait until I step into the Quasi-Emperor realm.”

“Whether it's Su Xuanchen or that wench, they must all die.”

“In this Sea God Domain, there can only be one Dominator.”