Chapter 140

This woman is too arrogant, daring to make Chen Zheng hand over that talisman, and even threatening him that if he doesn't hand it over he'll die—doesn't she know him?

Hard to say, I estimate this woman and her companions have extraordinary backgrounds, possibly not fearing Chen Zheng.

The man on the throne is even more extraordinary, with forty-eight Ancient Giants in his retinue, the spectacle is huge—he might be a world-shaking great figure.

Below Five Finger Mountain, everyone was shocked by the tall woman's words, communicating with each other via divine sense.

What kind of person is Chen Zheng?

Yet he is a killing god who even fears not the Taiyi Sect, his ferocious reputation widespread, almost no one dares provoke him.

Yet the tall woman spoke insolently to Chen Zheng—is it blind arrogance, or does she have enough confidence to suppress him?

Many people lean toward the latter.

After all, the lofty, contemptuous demeanor of the forty-nine above shows at a glance that it's cultivated from long-term high position.

Just don't know where they come from.

These people's aura feels very familiar, seeming to share the same origin as my Star Sect's Stellar Divine Ability?

Star Cloud Baby's eyes were doubtful, looking up at the crowd above, guessing their origin.

Indeed, somewhat familiar.

Many true disciples of the Star Sect are likewise, all feeling doubtful and uncertain.

The stellar robes worn by those above, including the aura they emit, are very similar to theirs, even more orthodox than the Star Sect's Stellar Divine Ability.

Ah, why do some people always think highly of themselves, not taking their lives seriously? A soft sigh interrupted everyone's thoughts.

It was Chen Zheng.

His face no longer bore the joy of obtaining the Six-Character True Words Talisman, becoming expressionless.

Although he sighed softly, his voice was cold and eerie, making many people's hearts go cold.

Kid, what are you saying?

The tall woman above raised her eyebrows, pointed at Chen Zheng and shouted sternly: 'I told you to hand over the Six-Character True Words Talisman, yet you keep changing the subject—are you deaf?'

Noisy.

Chen Zheng's expression turned cold; he extended his long arm upward, his arm stretching like thunder piercing the void, incredibly fast, reaching the tall woman's headtop, his five fingers clutching her celestial cap and yanking, forcibly tearing her fine head from her neck.

Pfft!

Her lower half remained suspended in midair, blood gushing from the severed neck, her entrails and intestines spraying out, splattering the several people around her.

At that moment, her head finally reacted, opening her mouth to emit a 'he he he' sound of pain, her divine sense screaming wildly: 'You actually killed me……'

As a Golden Core cultivator, her physique was strong; even after Chen Zheng severed her head, she did not die immediately and could still emit divine sense.

But she was nearly dead.

A cultivator who has not cultivated the Heavenly Earth Dharma Aspect, when encountering an opponent whose strength cannot be matched by magical power, can easily be erased from the flesh.

So noisy.

Chen Zheng frowned, casually flicked, and flung her head a thousand li away, landing in the great mountain where his seventh senior brother was buried after it collapsed.

Only now did the cultivators below Five Elements Mountain awaken as from a dream, a chill rising within their bodies.

Although everyone knew Chen Zheng was strong—even able to swat away his seventh senior brother with a casual slap—they hadn't imagined he could be this strong.

Just now, when he tore off the tall woman's head, it was so fast that people's thoughts couldn't keep up, and neither their eyes nor divine sense could catch the motion's trajectory.

Such strength probably rivals that of a cultivator at the ninth level of Shentong, right?

Junior Sister Qin……dead?

In the midair above, many young men and women were stunned by this sudden change, staring blankly at the headless body of the tall woman falling down, some unable to react.

No one expected Chen Zheng to be so ferocious—just a disagreement and he beheaded the tall woman.

He didn't even ask about their background.

Aren't you afraid of provoking someone you shouldn't, and wiping out their entire clan in the Xuanhuang Grand World?

Moreover, Chen Zheng appears to be only at the Unity stage of the sixth level of Shentong, yet he can kill an Ancient Giant with a single strike?

The Xuanhuang Grand World actually has such a heavenly-talented youth, able to go against the flow and attack upward—could he be a reincarnation of an ancient natural deity?

You killed my dao companion—you're dead for sure!

A horse-faced man came to his senses from the shock, his eyes about to burst, pointing at Chen Zheng and roaring in grief.

You're in such a hurry? Then go keep her company. Chen Zheng replied with a cold smile.

He grabbed again with his arm, so fast that no one could see clearly, snatching the horse-faced man's head from his neck, letting him follow the tall woman's fate.

Another Ancient Giant died.

Countless cultivators below felt their scalps go numb, instinctively stepping back a few paces.

Chen Zheng is too overbearing.

That horse-faced man had just lost his wife, and in his grief he shouted at him once—resulting in his being killed by Chen Zheng.

Damn, this native still dares to commit violence, killing our two great Ancient Giants of the Tai Xu Hall! If we return to the sect, we'll be punished by the hall master; we must join forces to kill him to make amends.

All the natives here must die, all sent down to accompany Junior Sister Qin and Martial Brother Ma in burial! Then we'll go to the Xuanhuang Grand World to slaughter their kin, sect, leaving not a chicken or dog.

Good, set up the Tai Xu Myriad Stars Grand Formation!

The many star-robed men and women above completely came to their senses after the series of shocks, jumping with rage, like an emperor incognito being offended by a beggar.

However, the man seated calmly on the splendid throne, godlike, made no move.

Strangely, the man's face showed not a trace of anger over his two fellow sect members being killed.

This child, able to slay Qin Sister and Martial Brother Ma with a body of the sixth level of Shentong, is a rare Heavenly Talent; if he can endure a single breath under the Tai Xu Myriad Stars Grand Formation without dying, I wouldn't mind pardoning his death sentence and giving him a chance to follow me.

The godlike man lowered his head to look down at Chen Zheng; his pupils flowed with myriad divine lights, wondrous and extraordinary, revealing a hint of interested color.

Meanwhile, as the star-robed men and women around him shouted, each had their heavenly gate open wide atop their heads, spewing out golden, radiant natal Golden Cores.

A full forty-six Golden Cores.

They spun round and round, bursting forth myriad rays of golden light, bathing this expanse of heaven and earth, mountains and rivers in pure gold.

This scene was extremely spectacular.

Moreover, each person's Golden Core contained at least fifteen kinds of divine abilities.

Some had twenty or more.

But instead of bombarding Chen Zheng below with their Golden Cores, they linked the Golden Cores into several lines, forming a huge star map spanning over a thousand li, which pressed down on the ten directions like a galaxy.

The huge star map exuded a vast aura that covered the heavens and earth, its surface covered with countless stars, shining brilliantly, pouring down like a meteor shower of fire, indiscriminately striking those below.

"What a powerful star formation diagram!"

"Oh no, these people are utterly unreasonable; their enemy is Chen Zheng, yet they want to kill all of us—run!"

The cultivators below all felt a chill run down their spines, turning into streaks of light and fleeing desperately into the distance.

Even Ying Tianqing sensed a mortal danger amidst the sky-full meteor fire rain and turned to flee.

Chen Zheng merely shook his head and chuckled: "Just a few sparks—what's there to fear?"

Boom—

He extended a huge hand, his palm and fingers instantly expanding countless times, forming a giant palm that grabbed at the heavens, as if trying to tear a great hole in the sky.

Then everyone saw that the Grand Void Myriad Stars Formation, as fragile as tofu, exploded when Chen Zheng's huge hand clenched it.

"What?"

"This... how is this possible?"

Forty-six men and women in star robes suffered a backlash from the formation, each vomiting blood repeatedly, horrified and pale, their eyeballs nearly popping out of their sockets.

The Grand Void Myriad Stars Formation they jointly set up was extremely powerful; it was a secret art passed down by the Grand Elder, its might far exceeding a simple one-plus-one-equals-two.

Even the Ultimate Star Palace's top-tier geniuses could not, at the Shentong Liu Chong level, shatter the myriad-star formation forged by so many Ancient Giants working together.

And yet Chen Zheng shattered it so effortlessly?

"Just what kind of being is this person—human or ghost?"

But at this moment they had no time to think further.

Because after Chen Zheng's huge hand shattered the Grand Void Myriad Stars Formation, it had already reversed direction, as if reaching to grab them and crush them all.

"Senior Brother Simaten, this native is too ferocious—please, Senior Brother, strike and kill him!"

"Please, Senior Brother Simaten, act!"

Everyone bowed deeply before that godlike man.

At that moment, the godlike man named Simaten rose abruptly from his throne, his pupils constricting; he had lost his earlier nonchalance, clearly shocked by Chen Zheng's displayed formidable combat power.

"Stop; you have already killed two of my Ultimate Star Palace. If you do not cease, you will become my mortal enemy and lose the sole chance to follow me."

"Ultimate Star Palace?"

Many of the surviving Free Cultivators and minor powers below, hearing this, showed looks of bewilderment.

In the Profound Yellow Great World, and even among the major stars beyond, what power is called the Ultimate Star Palace?

"They're actually from the Ultimate Star Palace!"

"Did they come here merely because they obtained news of the Five Elements Realm, or do they intend to make a comeback and invade our Profound Yellow Great World?"

Ying Tianqing and many other major powers' representatives all changed expression, dreading the Ultimate Star Palace.

They had either heard about the Ultimate Star Palace from their sect's superiors or seen records of it in their sect's scriptures.

"It really is them!"

Upon hearing the four words "Ultimate Star Palace," all the disciples of the Starry Sect trembled head to toe, like mice seeing a cat—a fear that rose from their very bones.

Starcloud Baby also jumped in fright, hastily shrinking its head and hiding behind Chen Zheng, never daring to show its head again.

Only Chen Zheng remained composed amidst the scene.

With one hand behind his back and the other reaching toward the Ultimate Star Palace's crowd, he sneered: "Follow you? Grandiose nonsense—you're just a jumping clown, unworthy even to apologize by suicide before me."

He knew well that the Ultimate Star Palace did not belong to the Profound Yellow Great World but was a colossal sect from the Ultimate Great World, possessing the immortal artifact "Hunyuan Ultimate Diagram".

In the Profound Yellow Great World there are the Ten Immortal Dao Sects, Seven Demonic Dao Lines, Five Monster Dao Sects, the Great Xuan Dynasty, and countless minor powers like Little Yue Mountain.

The Ultimate Great World is entirely different: its surface has no miscellaneous big or small sects at all—only the Ultimate Star Palace.

Perhaps the Ultimate Great World once had many big and minor powers, but they were all ruled by the Ultimate Star Palace.

Even the countless star systems surrounding the Ultimate Great World were conquered by this sect.

This shows how powerful this sect is.

Moreover, the Ultimate Star Palace's wealth far surpasses that of any major sect in the Profound Yellow Great World.

Not even the Supreme Unity Sect can compare.

This can be seen from the Ultimate Star Palace disciples above.

Each of them possesses several, even up to ten, supreme treasures.

As for disciples like Starcloud Baby of the Starry Sect, their fear of the Ultimate Star Palace stems from the fact that their sect was once one of the 360 halls of the Ultimate Star Palace ten thousand years ago, having defected and been established in the Profound Yellow Great World.

Both sides harbor deep grudges.

Were it not for the Profound Yellow Great World's Supreme Unity Sect and Exquisite Bliss Land holding the line, along with the phoenix-knight Feng Baiyu meddling, the Starry Sect would have been annihilated by the Ultimate Star Palace's army three thousand years ago.

As for why this group of Ultimate Star Palace people suddenly came here, they likely obtained the news from the Nine Cauldron Pavilion.

For years, the Ultimate Star Palace has never given up its designs on the Profound Yellow Great World, surely having placed many spies.

Those spies, upon obtaining news of the Five Elements Realm, would certainly relay it to the Ultimate Star Palace.

Then the Ultimate Star Palace's Grand Elder opened a spacetime channel, sending these disciples from the distant Ultimate Great World here.

Back to the main story.

As Chen Zheng's words were spoken, those of the Profound Yellow Great World who somewhat understood his character felt nothing unusual, while the Ultimate Star Palace's myriad Ancient Giants were stunned, almost thinking their ears had malfunctioned.

"They couldn't have misheard, could they?"

Chen Zheng actually said Sima Teng doesn't even have the qualification to commit suicide and apologize in front of him?

Who is Sima Teng?

He is one of the peerless geniuses of their Tai Xu Palace, ranking within the top fifty on the Xiao Changsheng List.

Moreover, he is the younger brother of Tai Xu Palace's Senior Elder Brother Sima Chong.

Although Sima Teng is not as formidable as Sima Chong, capable of cultivating ninety-nine eighty-one kinds of divine abilities, he has also cultivated thirty-eight kinds.

Moreover, he cultivated the Tai Chi Supreme Yang Body transmitted by Sima Chong; his flesh body is unmatched in strength, able to tear heaven and split earth at will, roar moving mountains and rivers.

Even once, when Sima Teng was waging war in extraterritorial regions, he encountered an Ancient Giant; although he was no match, he successfully escaped pursuit, returned to Tai Xu Palace, and caused a sensation throughout the Wuji Star Palace.

From then on, Sima Teng was acclaimed as an existence that even Ancient Giants cannot kill.

But now, Chen Zheng looks down on Sima Teng like this, which is outright humiliation.

How arrogant is this?

No, this is no longer arrogance, but madness, insane!

The Ancient Giants of the Wuji Star Palace are all angry.

Sima Teng also finally became enraged, his eyes blazing with fury, about to erupt, resembling a demon god.

He stared at Chen Zheng, speaking word by word: "Native, you have successfully angered me; as a price, you have no need to exist in this world."

Boom—

The massive divine halo behind him spun violently, erupting with radiance a thousand times greater than before, like the son of the great sun standing at the center of the universe, stepping on myriad planes, illuminating heaven and earth, shining upon everyone below.

Everyone suddenly felt a scorching heat wave approaching, causing a burnt smell to rise from their bodies, as if they were about to melt, terrifying them to the point of their livers and gallbladders feeling split.

They wanted to flee, but under the radiance of the great sun, their bodies were as if stuck in a quagmire, unable to move an inch.

It's over.

Everyone was about to despair.

(End of chapter)