Chapter 250: with translation of chapter title

A purplish-black heavenly rift split down from the highest point of the Heavenly Dome.

It was not lightning. Lightning has curvature, a path, and a fading resonance.

This rift is straight.

A perfectly straight line, it sliced from the top of the azure heavens down to the surface of the Boundary Wall of Sanqian Zhou.

The Boundary Wall shattered at a corner.

Gu Cangsheng's cross-legged figure sitting in the void was lifted half a foot by that shockwave; the old man pressed one hand on his knee to steady himself, and with the other hand he took out the half-eaten malt sugar from his mouth, then, as if disliking the dirt, rubbed it on his lapel.

"He's here."

Three beams of light entered the rift in single file.

The first, purplish-black lightning.

The moment it landed, the electric arc filled the void within a radius of one hundred thousand li. The air was permeated with the scorching smell of ozone and the violent Law Wave of heaven‑shattering, earth‑destroying fury.

Thunder Emperor.

His entire body was enveloped in purplish-black lightning law; each strand of hair was a tiny bolt of lightning, and in each eye socket sat a slowly rotating lightning ball.

He was not particularly tall, but standing there he was a walking heavenly punishment.

The second, gray‑white whirlwind.

Upon landing there was no sound, not even a breeze, yet the spatial laws within a radius of one million li lost their stability in the instant he appeared.

Light bent along curves, sound was delayed, and even causality produced a displacement.

Wind Empress.

His gray‑white hair floated in the windless air, his form appearing and disappearing like a wisp of smoke that could scatter at any moment.

He stood half a step to the right of the Thunder Emperor, his face expressionless.

The third was soundless and silent. There was no law‑light effect, no deliberate release of Immortal King pressure.

A middle‑aged man in coarse short clothes and barefoot seemed to step out from some corner, appearing to the left of the Thunder Emperor.

Martial Sovereign.

The space within three zhang of his body was compressed to the extreme.

Even light could not travel straight, being badly distorted.

But beyond three zhang, everything was normal—clean and orderly, with not a trace of law leakage.

Three Jue Dian Immortal Kings!

At that moment.

Gu Cangsheng rose to his feet.

He shoved the malt sugar back into his mouth, patted the nonexistent dust off his gray‑cloth short jacket, tilted his head, and sized up the three visitors.

The Thunder Emperor's lightning balls spun up a beat faster.

His gaze swept over Gu Cangsheng, from head to toe, then from toe to head.

"Are you Gu Cangsheng?"

The Thunder Emperor's voice carried an arc sound; each word he uttered was accompanied by a crackling discharge.

Gu Cangsheng answered vaguely with an "En."

The Thunder Emperor frowned slightly.

This was not the scene he had anticipated.

An object of a joint siege by four Immortal Kings should be tense, on guard, even fearful.

But this old man looked… simply too lazy to bother with him.

"Gu Cangsheng."

The Thunder Emperor suppressed his displeasure, raised his voice by two degrees, and the purplish‑black lightning law rolled outward in all directions,

"The Grand Supreme Immortal King has issued an order—Sanqian Zhou is a territory under the Immortal Realm; you have anchored the world's origin and relocated the great province, which amounts to rebellion. I have come by command to give you a chance."

He extended one hand, palm up.

"Hand over the fragments of the Chaos Spirit Stone, release the origin of Sanqian Zhou, and disband your formations and armies."

The Thunder Emperor's tone was like that of someone reading a verdict.

"If you accomplish these three points, I can spare your life, merely apprehending you and sending you back to the Immortal Realm for trial."

He paused, then the lightning balls spun up another half‑beat.

"If you refuse—"

"Are you done?" Gu Cangsheng interrupted him.

The Thunder Emperor's words caught in his throat.

Gu Cangsheng tilted his head, glanced at him twice, moved the malt sugar from the left cheek to the right, and spat out a mouthful of sugar dregs with a puff.

"Young man, what's your rank?"

The Thunder Emperor's cheek twitched.

"What's his rank?"

Nineteenth on the Immortal Realm Immortal King ranking.

Yet to be called "young man" by an old fellow… the last time he had been addressed that way was two million years ago, when he had just become an Immortal King.

"Nineteenth on the Immortal King list," the Thunder Emperor said in a deep voice.

"Nineteen." Gu Cangsheng murmured, shook his head, "The ranking is too low."

One of the Thunder Emperor's lightning balls exploded.

After all, he is a Jue Dian Immortal King.

Top twenty!

"You—"

"I'll ask you one more time."

Gu Cangsheng raised one hand, lifted his index finger, and shook it.

"You supreme Immortal Kings, what rank are you?"

Martial Sovereign's cloudy eyes also narrowed slightly.

This wild cultivator is a bit strange.

Since you know the Immortal King rankings.

And how would you know.

This ranking only records those below Colossus.

Above the Colossus……

That is a brand-new realm!

"Forget it, if you don't want to answer, then don't."

Gu Cangsheng wiped off his smile, his hand that was playing with walnuts stopped, "I won't give you any of the things you want."

"As for the opportunity you mentioned——"

He lifted his foot.

Chaotic qi surged from the soles of his feet, not a sky-covering explosion but a fine thread, seeping through the straw shoe soles into the void, spreading silently in all directions.

The three Immortal Kings felt it simultaneously.

That thread of chaotic qi was not attacking.

It was announcing.

Like a beast urinating at the edge of its territory to tell all passing beings.

This territory is mine!

……

Thunder Emperor's thunder ball simultaneously shattered, then instantly recondensed.

Wind Empress's form fully solidified, her gray-white hair no longer fluttering.

Martial Sovereign barefoot stepped forward half a pace, the extremely compressed space within three zhang around him, under the erosion of that thread of chaotic qi, showed the first crack.

The three peak Immortal Kings' expressions changed simultaneously.

Not fear.

It was disbelief.

"The purity of this chaotic origin——" Wind Empress finally spoke, her voice ethereal but unable to hide shock, "Half-step Colossus."

Three words.

The temperature of the entire battlefield plummeted by 100,000 degrees.

Half-step Colossus!!

This term's meaning in the Immortal Realm is extremely clear, already touching the ceiling of the Immortal King system.

One step further is a Colossus Immortal King!

It is an existence that, when the Supreme Immortal King does not appear, can pacify all heavens and divide the benefits of the Immortal Realm of all heavens.

Even if one scans the Immortal Realm.

Such existences are few!

The information transmitted by Zhenyuan Immortal King before his death was "an injured peak Immortal King".

But this old man before us…… his aura is rock solid.

"Injured?"

Thunder Emperor's voice sank.

He is not stupid.

Being misjudged in strength by low-level cultivators of Sanqian Zhou is one thing; being misjudged by fellow Immortal King Zhenyuan is another.

Zhenyuan indeed saw the stagnation of the laws.

But that was several days ago.

In just a few days, breaking through from peak to half-step Colossus?

Absolutely impossible!

Then that shows……

The opponent is actually a peak Immortal King close to Colossus Immortal King!

Moreover…… possessing super strong recovery power, skilled in combat and killing, a half-step Colossus!