171: Chapter 171 I am the Heavenly Emperor, my words are law!

[Ding!]

[Immortal King-level Cultivation Experience Card activated.]

The System's notification sounded in Li Xuan's mind like celestial music.

But in the outside world, at this moment, the entire world seemed to have been muted by an invisible giant hand.

Arhat Fatian, who had been laughing maniacally, saw the expression on his face freeze like a sculpture, fixed at its most hideous and distorted moment.

The Immortal King Dharma Body behind him, which suppressed all eternity with overwhelming power, saw its sky-propping finger—which was slowly descending—stop stiffly and abruptly in mid-air, defying all common sense of physics and Laws in the world.

Then, like a sandcastle meeting the tide, it began to silently disintegrate and dissipate.

It wasn't being attacked.

Rather, the foundational Law upon which its existence relied had been stripped away from this world.

The "World-Suppressing Bodhi Beads" in Arhat Fatian's hand, already covered in cracks, dimmed instantly. The ancient fractures on the string of beads expanded rapidly, emitting a tooth-gritting "crack, crack" sound.

It was wailing.

It was more like it was feeling fear.

This damaged Immortal King Buddhist treasure was offering its own... fear for the birth of a truly living, supreme Immortal King who reigned over this world!

Inside the zhou tian star boat, the terrifying pressure that had almost crushed Ao Qingxue's Divine Soul receded like a tide.

In its place was a warm, vast sense of absolute control, as if it could encompass all things in the Universe.

Ao Qingxue slumped to the ground, her massive dragon head lifting blankly to gaze at the figure in the distance, who wasn't particularly tall.

At this moment, she felt that what she was protecting was not a person, but the sole Dominator of this world and this Universe.

Li Qingyue held onto the ship's railing, her usually cold eyes filled with shock.

She knew her father was strong, but she never imagined he could be this powerful.

If the Immortal King Dharma Body summoned by Arhat Fatian was a towering, steep mountain ten thousand feet high that one had to look up to...

...then her father at this moment was the vast, boundless earth upon which that mountain relied.

The two were simply not in the same dimension.

The one who felt the most incredulous was the Wraith Queen, whose mind was in Chaos.

The resentment around her stopped churning. The hatred and obsession that had driven her to fight for countless eons were forcibly suppressed before this new, supreme aura, allowing her to briefly regain a sliver of dazed "clarity."

She stared blankly at Li Xuan, and for the first time, there was a flicker of emotion in her hollow eye sockets.

And at the core of all these changes, Li Xuan just stood there quietly.

His appearance hadn't changed at all.

He was still in those ordinary black robes, still with that handsome face that looked a bit too young.

But his presence was already completely different.

His eyes were deep, as if hiding billions of star Systems.

There was no joy, no anger, only a kind of indifference that looked down upon the birth and death of eras, treating the ten thousand paths as mere straw dogs.

This was an Immortal King.

A true Dominator of an immortal realm, a supreme existence that rarely appeared even once in an era!

[Experience Card time remaining: One stick of incense.]

The System's countdown rang out.

Li Xuan, however, felt no sense of urgency.

One stick of incense?

Enough.

To deal with this kind of "pseudo-king" who relied on external objects to act powerful, he even felt it was a bit of a waste.

His gaze finally moved away from the completely dissipated Immortal King Dharma Body and landed gently on Arhat Fatian's face, which was filled with terror and disbelief.

Arhat Fatian, this Grand Unity Golden Immortal from the Ten Thousand Buddhas Holy Land of the Western Heavens, felt as if his Divine Soul, Dao Fruit, and even the very concept of his existence were locked down by an irresistible mighty power.

He wanted to move, but even moving a single finger had become a pipe dream.

He wanted to open his mouth to beg for mercy, but his throat could make no sound.

Everything he had was stripped away.

Before the other man, he was no longer some Grand Unity Golden Immortal, but just a pathetic insect pinned to a spiderweb, without even the right to struggle.

Then, he saw Li Xuan move.

Li Xuan simply took a light step forward.

It was this one step that seemed to tread upon the heart of the entire Yaochi Ruins.

"Boom!"

In this broken, chaotic, and ancient immortal realm that had been silent for countless eons, its remaining Laws of heaven and earth were forcibly twisted, straightened, and reshaped by this single step!

Violent resentment was soothed, chaotic space-time turbulence was smoothed out, and even the widespread ruins and debris stopped collapsing further under this will.

These ruins had a new "King."

Li Xuan lifted his eyelids, looking at the sculpture-like, stiff Arhat Fatian across from him, as well as the tens of thousands of monks behind him who were also frozen in place.

His lips moved slightly.

A flat voice, devoid of any emotion, resounded through the world.

"Kneel."

Two simple words.

Not a Divine Ability, not a Law, and certainly not some soul-shaking mental attack.

It was just a statement.

A statement of fact.

A declaration of a result.

I am the Heavenly Emperor; my words are Law!

"Dong!"

A uniform, heavy thud that made the earth tremble!

Arhat Fatian, this overbearing Grand Unity Golden Immortal, saw his knees crash heavily onto the hard ground uncontrollably.

His Buddha Golden Body cracked inch by inch under this irresistible power of Law.

Beneath his knees, the earth shattered directly, revealing two bottomless pits!

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Next were the tens of thousands of monks from the Ten Thousand Buddhas Holy Land of the Western Heavens behind him.

Whether they were True Immortals or Golden Immortals, no matter how much shock and unwillingness they felt in their hearts...

...at this moment, all of their bodies betrayed their wills.

Tens of thousands of legs, tens of thousands of pairs of knees, knelt down heavily in unison!

Dust flew.

Buddhist light shattered.

This Buddhist army, which a moment ago was so powerful and claimed to be acting on behalf of heaven, was now like a swarm of ants, offering all their dignity to their newborn deity.

No one screamed, no one roared.

Because their Divine Souls and their Dao Hearts were shattered under this incomprehensible, irresistible kneel, falling into an endless state of fear and blankness.

In the world, only Li Xuan's robes fluttered gently in the wind.