77: Chapter 77 At the Summit of the Eastern Wilderness, Li Xuan of the Great Xia Dynasty

Above Tianjiao City.

The spatial rift had closed.

The scar of the heavens, which the Great Saints had previously joined forces and exhausted their efforts to patch up, had now quietly sealed, leaving no trace.

That giant golden hand and that divine decree had all vanished into nothingness.

It was as if it had been a hallucination.

Yet, within Tianjiao City, there was dead silence.

Everyone was frozen in place.

Stiff and immobile.

Forgetting to breathe.

Sunlight spilled onto the glazed tiles of the divine city, yet it only made people feel a chill.

On the arena, the Grand Elder with the cultivation level of a Great Saint was trembling.

He lowered his head to look at his empty hands.

Cold sweat seeped from his palms.

What just happened?

A voice had torn through his Great Saint barrier.

A hand had scooped the person away right from under his nose.

What the hell... was this a joke?

His Great Saint cultivation, of which he was so proud, shattered at a single touch before that giant golden hand.

No, it didn't even have the qualification to be shattered upon contact.

It was pure suppression of power.

Having lived for tens of thousands of years, his Dao Heart nearly collapsed.

On the other side of the arena.

The Chaos Holy Son still maintained his attacking posture.

Like a statue.

His face was deathly pale, his eyes dull.

Utterly dejected.

His strongest strike, a blow sufficient to shake a Saint, had shattered with a mere wave of the child's hand when he was displeased.

Without even a sound.

The real master had arrived.

He hadn't seen what the real master looked like.

Only a hand, and a single sentence.

And the matter was concluded.

He was a joke.

A huge joke.

No.

He didn't even have the qualifications to be a joke.

From beginning to end, their target was merely that broken clay figurine and that crying child.

In the spectator stands, there was not a sound.

Those Holy Lords, Imperial Lords, and Old Ancestors, who had been talking loudly before, were now slumped in their seats.

Some gripped the armrests of their seats tightly.

Some had dry throats, unable to speak.

They were all thinking the same question in their hearts.

What was that?

What kind of power was that exactly?

In the crowd, the Holy Maiden of Yaochi gazed at the sky, her eyes dazed.

She remembered the nursing baby who had given her an Undying Saint Medicine as if it were candy, and she remembered his innocent smile.

Did a child with such a terrifying guardian need her pity?

It was likely that even if the entire Yaochi Holy Land were moved here, it wouldn't be enough for the other party to press with a single finger.

Subconsciously, she whispered a few words.

"Great Xia... Li Xuan..."

These words were soft, yet they caused the titans present to tremble.

A Holy Land Lord nearest to her turned his head abruptly, staring at her intently:

"What did you say? Great Xia? Which Great Xia?"

"That Mortal Divine Dynasty, Great Xia!"

"Li Xuan? The child's father? That mysterious Great Xia Human Emperor?"

"It's him! It must be him! I should have guessed it earlier! Aside from such a monster, who could give birth to such a Prodigy of a son!"

"A three-and-a-half-year-old toddler, wearing an Imperial Weapon as a collar, eating Undying Medicine as snacks, nearly piercing a hole in the sky with a single sword... Heavens, it all matches up now!"

The spectator stands immediately erupted into discussion.

After a brief silence, exclamations rose one after another in the crowd.

Before, they only feared that unknown great power.

Now, this power had a name.

And an origin.

That fear immediately intensified.

"My heavens... has such a terrifying existence been hidden within a Mortal Divine Dynasty?"

"Mortal Divine Dynasty? You call this a Mortal Divine Dynasty? This is simply a desperate place, a Forbidden Ground of gods and demons!"

The Holy Lord of the Chaos Holy Land turned deathly pale.

As a top expert of the Eastern Wasteland, he knew better than anyone what that giant golden hand signified.

"Words becoming Law, treating Great Saint arrays as nothing... This kind of power completely exceeds the scope of the Saint Realm... Could it be the legendary Great Emperor?"

An old antique beside him said in a trembling voice:

"Holy Lord, even a Great Emperor wouldn't be this outrageous! When the Emperor's Might is released, all Daos submit; that has a traceable path! But that hand just now, it... it was creating Law out of thin air, modifying Law! This is beyond the scope of what we can understand!"

The Chaos Holy Lord's lips trembled as he spoke a guess he himself could not believe.

"This person... I fear he has long surpassed the Great Emperor and reached an unprecedented Realm!"

Hearing this, the several big shots around were all shocked.

An existence surpassing the Great Emperor?

What kind of concept was that?

An Immortal?!

The Heavenly Pride Battle ended hastily; the results had no meaning anymore.

The champion was Li Changsheng.

But these three words had now become a taboo that no one dared to mention.

Everyone had one thought.

Run!

Run quickly!

Spread this news that could overturn the Eastern Wasteland back to their Sect with the fastest speed!

For a time, within the entire Tianjiao City, countless Jade Slips turned into streams of light and shot off in all directions.

The Eastern Wasteland, all the Immortal Holy Lands, Supreme Imperial Dynasties, and Ancient Clans.

Those Old Ancestors who were in seclusion were all alarmed.

"Old Ancestor! Something big has happened!"

"Why the panic?"

"The Eastern Wasteland... has produced a God!"

The four words "Li Xuan of Great Xia" spread throughout the entire Eastern Wasteland within a single day.

In the Yuhua Dynasty, the Imperial Lord listened to the envoy's report and broke out in a cold sweat.

In the Myriad Sword Holy Land, the Sword Master immediately swore a sword oath that for the next thousand years, no Disciple of the Myriad Sword Holy Land would be allowed to step into the territory of Great Xia.

Inside the Butian Sect, the Sect Master urgently ordered the treasure, a drop of blood said to be from an Immortal, to be taken out, placed in a jade box, and sent to Great Xia overnight.

Named:

"Atonement"

Because their Saint had once mocked that child in Tianjiao City.

One highest-level order after another was issued from the core halls of all the top forces in the Eastern Wasteland.

"Immediately list the Great Xia Divine Dynasty as the highest-level 'Absolute Forbidden Ground'! Mark it with red cinnabar on the map; a radius of one hundred thousand li shall all be a Forbidden Ground!"

"Open the treasury immediately! Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Grass, Void Realm Divine Crystals, Ten-Thousand-Year Stone Milk—load up everything presentable! Send the Grand Elder with the highest status as an envoy to go to Great Xia... to pay homage!"

"Remember, it is to pay homage! Not to visit! Whoever dares to put on airs in front of Great Xia shall be executed without mercy!"

The landscape of the Eastern Wasteland changed from this moment on.

Countless figures flew out from the various Holy Lands and Imperial Dynasties.

Their direction was only one.

That corner which was once inconspicuous on the map and even ignored by many.

The Great Xia Divine Dynasty.

Once, Great Xia was just an insignificant kingdom on the Eastern Wasteland continent.

From today on, it became the Dominator of this land.

A Mortal Divine Dynasty, using only the time of a single hand, had come to dominate the Eastern Wasteland.

This era belongs to Great Xia.

This era belongs to Li Xuan.