Chapter 165

The golden core that flew out from the ancient war chariot surged its brilliance straight up to the Ninefold Heavens, and there is no doubt that it is Chen Zheng's destined golden core.

His golden core finally manifested in the world at this moment, and its first target was Young Master Chu Nan.

Young Master Chu Nan is outrageously daring, daring to covet Fang Qingxue, which truly angered Chen Zheng.

He must kill that person!

Thus he directly unleashed twenty‑four Primordial Celestial Dragon forces, driving the golden core's potency to its utmost, activating within it the nine great calamity characters—"Chao", "Pao", "Da", "Bian", "Ming", "Yi", "Lian", etc. —as well as the Great Five Elements Technique, Great Origin Technique, Great Severing Technique, Great Collapse Technique, and a total of four hundred and eighty divine abilities, all raging wildly and emitting countless golden radiances.

This was not ordinary golden radiance, but a mixture of platinum‑like, gold‑like, violet‑gold, and even crimson‑gold hues, as if all the myriad golds of the heavens were fused into one, flashing violently across the sky, obscuring the countless blazing suns that poured down from the firmament, turning the mountains, rivers, lakes, city walls, and the tens of billions of lives of the Great Virtue Dynasty below—indeed any object of any other color—into pure gold.

Even the six Wújí Star Palace disciples—Fang Qingying, Si Ma Chong, Hua Tiandu, and including Young Master Chu Nan—felt their bodies inside and out bathed in golden brilliance, their hearts filled with a golden haze, as if they had become eternal, incorruptible golden beings, never to run out of lifespan or worry about bodily decay.

But what the crowd felt was not joy, but a chilling dread, like a lone ant shrouded by the shadow of death, no matter how it struggled or how it roared within its heart, it could not breathe, could not move a fraction, and could only wait for annihilation in place.

Moreover, the golden core moved at an incomprehensible speed, and under the boost of the "Chao" character, it surpassed the limits of time and space with a strange power, no longer bound by the laws of heaven and earth.

Even Young Master Chu Nan, who had reached the Second Tier of Immortal Longevity—an undying body—could not evade it for a moment.

Boom!

There was no surprise; the golden core descended, pressing down on Young Master Chu Nan's body, erupting a thunderous roar that shook heaven and earth, as if an ancient colossal deity had forged a vast sky in the chaos, or like a cosmic Big Bang spreading endless shockwaves that swept all living beings.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Fang Qingying, Si Ma Chong and the others were struck by the shockwave, causing blood to gush from their seven orifices, their internal organs rupturing, and they were flung outward like kites whose strings had been cut.

Especially the six Wújí Star Palace disciples who had brought Fang Qingying back; they didn't even have time to let out a wail before their bodies were reduced to void by the shockwave, their primordial spirits extinguished.

As for Young Master Chu Nan, who was pinned by the golden core, his entire being exploded into a sky‑filled blood mist, drifting between heaven and earth.

"What... what exactly is this golden core? How can such a terrifying golden core exist in the world? It actually contains four hundred and eighty divine abilities—four hundred and eighty of them! Since the ancient era, after the great war with the divine race ended, the Hongmeng Daoist and the Wheel‑of‑Rebirth Daoist vanished, the three heavenly emperors of heaven, earth, and humanity fell, the nine great immortal masters perished, the disappeared disappeared, and wasn't the Xuanhuang Great World left with only a few big and small cats? How can such a dreadful existence still be here? With a single golden core it can annihilate Young Master Chu Nan? He is the First Hall Master of my Wújí Star Palace, the North Dipper Star Lord!"

Si Ma Chong was blasted to the edge of the sky, coughing up blood in large gulps, spitting out chunks of entrails, yet ignoring his injuries, his eyeballs bulging and rolling, he stared fixedly at the ancient war chariot as if he were seeing a ghost in broad daylight.

At this very moment, everyone else was stunned, plunged into existential doubt.

It should be noted that his Wújí Star Palace possesses a Minor Immortality List, similar to the Immortality Candidate List of the Xuanhuang Great World, which records many outstanding individuals from the Shen Tong Mi Jing.

Moreover, the geniuses listed on it far outnumber those of the Xuanhuang Great World.

On the Minor Immortality List, prodigies who have cultivated fifty to sixty divine abilities are commonplace.

There are also many individuals who have mastered sixty to seventy divine abilities.

Si Ma Chong himself ranks second on that list, having cultivated a full eighty‑one divine abilities.

Such a quantity of divine abilities is exceedingly rare across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, truly a feat that shakes antiquity and dazzles the present.

Si Ma Chong often takes pride in this, looking down on everything, caring for no one.

Even before Young Master Chu Nan, whose realm is higher than his, he remains neither humble nor arrogant, calm as clouds and breezy as wind.

Because his reserves are immensely strong, once he breaks through, he can directly strike the Second Tier Immortal Longevity—undying body realm, not inferior to Chu Nan's.

His potential may even surpass Chu Nan's, making it possible for his cultivation to exceed the other's in the future.

But…

When Si Ma Chong saw Chen Zheng's golden core, which contained four hundred and eighty divine abilities, all his pride and self‑respect vanished in an instant.

The eighty‑one divine abilities he once boasted about are in a completely different tier compared to Chen Zheng's golden core.

No!

His divine abilities are nothing more than a common pile of dog excrement in the lower realms, whereas Chen Zheng's golden core is a dazzling, radiant celestial sun.

The two have not the slightest comparability.

Such an incalculable gap naturally makes the usually proud Si Ma Chong question his existence.

Moreover, the golden core's potency is terrifying; it is not a mortal's golden core at all, but a world‑shaking weapon capable of overturning the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

"How could this happen, how could this happen..."

Fang Qingying was also gravely wounded, drenched in blood, also questioning her existence, her pallid face full of desolation, muttering repeatedly.

She recognized the Che Yuan war chariot as a premium Dao artifact of the Che Yuan Divine Son, which fell into Chen Zheng's hands when it was sealed beneath Fengmo Ridge; the person inside the chariot was clearly Chen Zheng, who had come to hunt her.

She originally thought that, with Young Master Chu Nan's backing, Chen Zheng could no longer trouble her.

She even imagined that if Chen Zheng caught up, Chu Nan would beat him into a head‑cowering retreat, perhaps even slay him.

In that case she wouldn't have to worry.

Later, she only needed to find a way to get rid of Young Master Chu Nan.

But she never imagined that Chen Zheng's terrifying power far exceeded her expectations; in a single instant, it shattered all her hopes.

How could she still escape?

She was literally with no road to heaven, no gate to the earth.

She was on the brink of despair, her body trembling, nearly falling from the sky.

"Impossible... impossible!"

Hua Tiandu heard Chen Zheng's voice and was on the verge of despair from Chen Zheng's overwhelming power, nearly fainting to death.

Indeed, he was not killed by the earlier shockwave; whether it was that massive chair‑bed that shielded him or some other reason, he survived.

However, there was not a hint of joy in his heart for being alive, only a bone‑deep despair.

The enemy is simply too powerful.

Let alone that he now only has a Tenfold mortal body; even if he recovered all his cultivation before Rou Shen Shi Chong of Fang Qingwei, instantly advanced to the Immortal Secret Realm, and then cultivated to the Second Tier Undying Body, he would still not escape a death sentence when facing Chen Zheng.

Moreover, Chen Zheng advances realms extremely quickly; by the time he reaches the Undying Body realm, he might be even stronger.

How could one take revenge on such a figure?

Only by gathering the full strength of the entire Feather Ascension Sect could there be hope of slaying Chen Zheng.

(End of chapter)