Chapter 373: Should Be Killed

God‑Demon Immortal Lord!

Battle‑intent avatar!

Ye Shizu's words, like the final puzzle piece, instantly resolved every doubt in Ye Wuque's heart!

Obviously, the God‑Demon Immortal Lord is the supreme being who previously aided Ye Wuque… Shenzun!

And this terrifying fact also caused countless surrounding beings to fall once again into an indescribable shock!

"God‑Demon Immortal Lord?! The legendary supreme being who entered the Space‑Time River to seek the Ultimate Leap?!"

"His battle‑intent avatar has been lingering inside the Reincarnation Demon Cave all this time?!"

"So… the supreme being inside the Reincarnation Demon Cave… is actually connected to the God‑Demon Immortal Lord!"

"It is rumored that he bears a Shenmo Dati, cultivates One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, and possesses at least three major avatars: Shenzun, Demon Lord, and Immortal Lord! Each avatar has once been famed through the ages, shaking the heavens!"

"And a casually created battle‑intent avatar of a Demon Lord avatar directly forged the forbidden zone that shakes Nine Heavens Ten Lands… the Reincarnation Demon Cave! What an inconceivable, defiant technique and Great Power!!"

"No wonder… no wonder this Demon Shadow would act against Wu Qian Jue and the others! The God‑Demon Immortal Lord… the person he favors, or rather the junior he admires… is none other than Ye Wuque?!"

"My god! The God‑Demon Immortal Lord had already intervened from afar to protect Ye Wuque! So he left such a powerful battle‑intent avatar in the Reincarnation Demon Cave!"

"That fool Ye Jiuyuan! He thought he summoned the ruler of the Reincarnation Demon Cave who was helping Ye Langya, but in fact they were coming straight for Ye Wuque! They came to back Ye Wuque up!"

A roar of astonishment swept over again!

This shock was even more intense than the earlier revelation that Ye Wuque was the Saint Son of Great Thousand Divine Universe!

To receive the favor and protection of such a being, Ye Wuque's fortune and potential drive people to jealous madness!

Ye Zhenyue, Ye Jiuyuan, and Ye Qiankun were utterly bewildered, like three statues of clay that had lost their souls, collapsed in the Void, their gazes hollow, left only with boundless confusion and despair.

All their scheming, all their reliance, all their self‑righteous trump cards appeared laughably feeble and utterly vulnerable before Ye Wuque's layered, ever‑more terrifying background and backing!

The Saint Son of Great Thousand Divine Universe has Seven Yu Elder personally guarding the Dao!

Within the Ye Clan, the Clan Leader backs them, the Seventh Ancestor gives explicit support, and even the Fourth Ancestor silently consents!

Now, even the legendary God‑Demon Immortal Lord has left a battle‑intent avatar to escort and protect it!

How can one fight now? How can one kill? Despair! Utter despair!

Having already fallen into the Border Wasteland of the universe, Wu Qian Jue and Zi Wei Dao Ancestor were nearly slain by the WorldShattering Demon Shadow; when they heard the words "God‑Demon Immortal Lord battle‑intent avatar," their already pallid faces turned to ash, and the last spark of resentment and malice in their eyes transformed into profound fear and remorse.

They realized they had hit a dead end—no, they had struck the Eternal Divine Mountain!

Offending the person favored by the God‑Demon Immortal Lord, even if only a battle‑intent avatar, brings consequences they cannot easily bear!

Their forms flickered as they tried to flee completely!

But it was already too late!

"You two worthless ants, mere peaks of the Dao Ancestor Realm, never having set foot in the Supreme Realm… yet you dare to move against me?? Who gave you such dogged audacity!"

The WorldShattering Demon Shadow's cold voice rang out!

Then, it pointed a finger again!

Boom—

Heaven and earth changed color! The universe shivered!

Infinite Void trembled all over!

Above the Nine Heavens, deep within the endless Void, a terrifying demon finger radiating WorldShattering pressure emerged, pointing toward the direction of the Wu Clan's ancestor and Zi Wei Dao Ancestor!

Sensing the life‑or‑death peril, Wu Qian Jue and Zi Wei Dao Ancestor turned pale with horror, their scalp tingling, letting out high‑pitched howls as they strained to resist!

However, it was useless!

Bang! Bang!

The Wu Clan ancestor and Zi Wei Dao Ancestor, these two supreme powers famed across Nine Heavens Ten Lands, who had ascended Beyond Immortal and stood but one step from the Supreme Realm as WorldShattering Existences, were utterly slain by that WorldShattering Demon Shadow with a single finger!

Heaven and earth fell silent! They sank into a dead silence!

After completing all this, the WorldShattering Demon Shadow—or the God‑Demon Immortal Lord's battle‑intent avatar—its vague visage seemed to turn toward the direction of Ye Shizu's manifestation, and a detached, ancient, yet faintly benevolent Divine Sense voice echoed across the starry sky:

"Ye fellow cultivator, congratulations. The Ye Clan… this time has indeed produced an extraordinary seedling."

Having spoken, the towering Demon Shadow ceased lingering, gradually becoming ethereal and transparent.

Its dissipating direction was not toward the Reincarnation Demon Cave but toward the shadowy flow of the Space‑Time River that threads through Zhutian Wanjie past and future, eventually merging completely and vanishing.

As if its mission were fulfilled, this battle‑intent would return to its source, or continue drifting and awaiting within the Space‑Time River.

Above the Ye Clan's ancestral star, the towering silhouette—Ye Shizu's manifestation—bathed in endless sacred radiance and indistinct in form, twitched slightly, and, toward the direction of the Demon Shadow's dissipating Space‑Time River, gave a faint, almost imperceptible nod in response.

Then, Ye Shizu's silhouette, cloaked in endless brilliance, slowly turned, facing the Ye Clan's Star Domain below, facing the countless clan members gazing up at him, as well as the limp, desperate Ye Zhenyue trio, and the composed Ye Wuque.

An indescribable aura, as if born from the opening of Heaven and splitting of Earth, a supreme dignity and ancient indifference that towered above all paths, spread like a tide, causing every member of the Ye Clan—including the Fourth Ancestor, Seventh Ancestor, and Ye Jinghong—to stand solemnly, involuntarily holding their breath.

Ye Shizu did not speak immediately, yet the invisible pressure he exuded seemed to freeze the starry sky itself.

Finally, his emotionless voice, as if the Heavenly Dao itself were passing judgment, rose slowly, each word striking everyone's hearts like heavy stars:

"Murdering kin of the same clan, harboring vile thoughts, treating clan rules and ancestral teachings as nothing…"

"For personal grudges, colluding with external foes, inviting wolves into the house, nearly causing a great disaster that would disgrace our Ye Clan, stripping us of all honor…"

His voice suddenly sharpened, like Nine Heavens thunder exploding, bearing boundless murderous intent and millennial indifference:

"Such conduct… must be killed!"

"Our Ye Clan… has no such scum!!"

The voice shook the universe, the starry sky trembled!

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

The already limp, near‑dead Ye Zhenyue, Ye Jiuyuan, and Ye Qiankun, under this roar infused with the founder's supreme will and murderous intent, saw the last spark of life extinguish like a candle in the wind; their bodies stiffened abruptly, then collapsed completely, their gazes scattered, their breath… utterly cut off!

One word from the founder decides their fate!

Ye Zhenyue, Ye Jiuyuan, Ye Qiankun, utterly fall!

Along with their gravely wounded, comatose, now ruined offspring Ye Xuanji, Ye Langya, Ye Miaoxin, their fates are also sealed now.

Then, the Ye Shizu's gaze, vast as a sea of stars, slowly turned and finally settled on Ye Wuque.

The coldness and murderous intent in that gaze quietly faded, replaced by a gentle, complex feeling, even tinged with a faint, barely perceptible remorse and satisfaction.

"Wuque…"

Ye Shizu's voice also became much calmer, carrying a depth forged by countless ages of change:

"All these years… we have wronged you."

"The clan… has failed this line of yours."

He paused briefly, his tone becoming firm and authoritative again:

"All past injustices, all grievances, all filthy Causality… today, I, the founding ancestor, will personally uphold justice for you!"

"All the monsters and demons, petty scoundrels who are involved in this matter, have harmed our kin, or betrayed the clan's interests…"

Ye Shizu's voice turned icy and grim again, like a cold wind from Nine Nether, sweeping across the entire Ye Clan Star Domain, even spreading toward the distant forces that conspired with Ye Zhenyue and the others:

"Not a single one… can escape!"

"Ye Clan… it's time… to cleanse it completely!"