Chapter 64

Chapter 64

Compared to Ji Chang’s delight, Liu Chang, who was lying prostrate on the ground, felt nothing but soul-wrenching dread.

His entire body began to tremble uncontrollably, and the celestial river phenomenon behind him grew dimmer by the second.

His face turned deathly pale.

“This is impossible… how could the Divine Xia Empire possess someone like you!!”

He let out hoarse, guttural roars of fury.

But even though he used every ounce of strength he had, he couldn’t move an inch under Su Zhou’s oppressive aura.

It seemed that even a so-called “Perfection of Star-Holding” meant no more to him than pigs or dogs.

“Tianhan Empire… interesting… I’ll pay a personal visit soon…”

Su Zhou’s voice rang out softly, like a ghost’s whisper.

Liu Chang’s eyes suddenly flew wide open.

Despair, helplessness, fury—all those emotions erupted in him at once.

Buzz!!

Then, at that moment, the dim starlight behind him suddenly burst forth with unimaginable brilliance.

Shards of laws emerged from the stars, merging into one. The law of frost appeared across the skies, and a shadow of the moon took form from within the stars!

Under Su Zhou’s terrifying suppression, Liu Chang actually broke through into the Moon-Grasping Realm.

Everyone’s faces changed dramatically!

No one had expected him to break through at such a moment.

Liu Chang suddenly stood up, the power of laws emanating from him. His previously aged face turned youthful.

“Hahahaha!! I really should thank you!”

“If not for you, I would’ve never had this breakthrough!!”

“So this is the Moon-Grasping Realm—transforming a sea of stars into a moon, wielding the laws… this feeling… it’s like being a god!!”

Liu Chang could feel the power of the laws coursing through him, and all the divine techniques and spells he had mastered began undergoing an astonishing transformation.

Even Su Zhou, who had seemed overwhelmingly powerful just a moment ago, now seemed like someone he could contend with.

He rose into the sky, and behind him, a massive grey wolf stood above the moon’s shadow—the technique Celestial Wolf Howling at the Sky, its presence chilling and lethal.

“You’re not Moon-Grasping!!” Liu Chang’s eyes lit up with joy. Although Su Zhou’s strength was unimaginably vast, there were no laws encircling his body.

To enter the Moon-Grasping Realm, one must transform the sea of stars into a moon, become encircled by laws, and master at least one of them. Yet despite Su Zhou’s terrifying aura, he showed no sign of being surrounded by any law.

“I never said I was Moon-Grasping,” Su Zhou replied calmly, even when facing a Moon-Grasping cultivator.

“Hmph! I admit that within the Star Holding Realm, I couldn’t match you. But now that I’ve entered Moon-Grasping—today, you die!”

Liu Chang’s face twisted into a cold smile.

His Celestial Wolf Howling at the Moon erupted—the grey wolf stepped through the void and descended upon the mortal world!!

Wherever the wolf passed, space froze and wailed.

All laws solidified, all spells froze.

“Die!! Become the first sacrifice of my Moon-Grasping ascension!” Liu Chang laughed triumphantly.

But as the frost spread, the smile on his face abruptly vanished, replaced by an expression of indescribable terror…

In his eyes, the laws he had just awakened suddenly stopped moving.

Next, a star appeared—its violent aura erasing all things. It was a force that transcended even the laws, imbued with the breath of the Dao.

In an instant, that star reversed its course, annihilating all creation, shattering the Crescent Moon!

The moon Liu Chang had just condensed was destroyed under the might of that star, and along with it, the aura of his entire being dimmed like a candle in the wind.

Liu Chang spat out blood. The star within him was annihilated. His moon collapsed.

Boom boom boom!!

In the skies above, myriad thunderbolts roared in fury.

Su Zhou stood in his dark robes, his expression cold and unmoved, as if even the overturning of the heavens would not make him blink.

“A star infused with the aura of the Dao… what kind of being are you…?”

Dao—it is the supreme origin of heaven and earth, transcending even the laws, a force that only those in the Venerable Realm can so much as touch.

And yet, Su Zhou was clearly still in the Star Holding Realm, but had already been tainted by the breath of the Dao.

Throughout all the heavens and realms, such a thing was unheard of…

But Su Zhou didn’t even spare him a glance.

Instead, he turned toward the gathering tribulation thunder above the peaks.

“Even the heavens… are far too insignificant…” he muttered.

He had come here to save a heaven-grade prodigy of his family. Killing Liu Chang was just a trivial detour—he hadn’t forgotten his true goal.

In his hand, the heavenly-rank artifact—the Tai’a Sword—gleamed.

Boom boom boom!!

Countless bolts of tribulation lightning were born in the sky, raining down from the thunder pool to annihilate the one who defied the heavens.

All creation trembled beneath the thunder’s wrath.

But in that instant—

Screeech!!

A flash of sword light split the world apart, like heaven and earth being peeled open.

The Sword Dao inverted itself from the sky down to the world of mortals. That sword’s grace left all beings dumbstruck.

The world fell into a complete, deathlike silence.

It was like a scene from a painting—and that sword, slashed the painting in half!

Buzz buzz buzz!!!!

Under the sword light, all returned to silence.

Within that sword light was the cycle of heavens, the end of all things.

Even the myriad thunderclouds of tribulation were shattered by a single strike.

And the entire Secret Realm was also sliced open.

Everyone was stunned beyond words. Even the powerful cultivators in the Star Holding Realm collapsed to the ground in awe.

“Sword fruit… the Su Family Patriarch is a true Sword King!!!”

“He has completed his sword fruit—if he does not fall, he already holds the ticket to the Supreme Dao!”

“There really exists such a heaven-defying person in this world!!”

Compared to everyone else’s shock, Liu Chang saw even more.

He stood there frozen, powerless, the light in his eyes already dim.

A trace of self-mocking laughter appeared on his lips.

In that brief instant just now, he had seen Su Zhou’s star sea—endless stars spanning the heavens.

And every single star was already infused with the breath of the Dao.

Just one such star was more than he could bear—and Su Zhou had countless of them!

Such a heaven-defying being was not someone they could possibly provoke.

Plop!!

This time, Liu Chang knelt down of his own accord in the heavens, his voice reverent:

“Patriarch Su, you are a being that can pierce the heavens. Opposing the Su Family was never our intent… I only ask that with my death, you give the Liu Family a chance…”

As soon as he finished, he extinguished his own life force and fell from the sky.

A Moon-Grasping Realm powerhouse—committing suicide just to appease Su Zhou’s wrath, begging only for a sliver of mercy—yet even so, Su Zhou didn’t spare him another glance.

His eyes turned instead to the horizon above Qingfeng Mountain.

From the rift carved by his sword, a young man in green slowly floated out.

That youth looked at Su Zhou with a hint of confusion, then tentatively asked— “Are you… the Su Family Patriarch?”

“I am,” Su Zhou replied, lips pressed into a thin line.

“Greetings, Patriarch. I am Su Nan.” Su Nan bowed respectfully.

Su Zhou was a little curious. “How did you recognize me?”

“As one who carries the Su Family’s bloodline, I can naturally sense the pressure of the Patriarch,” Su Nan replied.

Everyone below felt their throats go dry.

This was a being who had awoken from within a divine origin—and now he was bowing to the Su Family Patriarch.

Could it be? Could it be?!

The Su Family was a terrifying family passed down from the ancient, even chaotic eras!?

Yes! Only then could the Su Family be so overwhelmingly powerful!!

But Su Zhou didn’t care what others thought.

As he looked at Su Nan, a water-like screen appeared in his eyes—visible only to him.

“Divine Demon of the Great Dao… Descendant of the Su Family…”