A dazzling beam of starlight slashed directly out from the eerie blood-colored Heaven Slaying.

Ji Donggu, at the absolute peak of the Great Saint Realm, exuding faint ancestral realm aura, revealed a look of terror on his face. He still had to deal with the terrifying attacks of the old emperor and the imminent ancestral realm Heavenly Tribulation!

Under such madness from the old emperor, no one on the battlefield could avoid it!

In other words, enemy and ally alike would be enveloped by this ancestral realm Heavenly Tribulation!

Thus, this was the most shocking aspect for Ji Donggu and his cohorts. They felt the old emperor had gone completely insane!

The ancestral realm Heavenly Tribulation's clouds formed slowly, so everyone in this group had already conceived thoughts of retreating, wanting to leave the battlefield before the clouds fully converged.

But battles of this level, once started, were not so easily escaped.

At least, Chu Mo would definitely not let them leave easily!

Ji Donggu was on the verge of madness, roaring, "You old fool, you're insane!"

Chu Mo chuckled lightly and swept his blade forward.

Caught off guard, Ji Donggu had no time to evade and could only raise his longsword to block.

Crack!

The longsword snapped under the blow!

The sharpness of Heaven Slaying combined with the power of Starlight Kill directly severed Ji Donggu's sword.

Following that, Chu Mo's blade struck against Ji Donggu's impossibly hardened arm.

A crisp sound of bone being severed—

With one stroke, Chu Mo severed Ji Donggu's arm.

The mighty arm of this near-giant immediately fell downward, only to be snatched away by a multicolored figure!

The great rooster!

Even at such crucial moments, the great rooster still had the audacity to plunder spoils.

Such madness nearly drove the invaders insane and left countless spectators below stupefied, murmuring inwardly: Is this truly the legendary phoenix? Why does it behave like a street ruffian?

The great rooster laughed heartily, leaving a multicolored imprint in the void.

Chu Mo then shouted in a deep voice, "Master, grandfather, retreat into the City Protection Array! Everyone, retreat! Except for the seven Great Saints—all others must withdraw! Quickly retreat!"

Neither the Demon Lord nor Chu Lao hesitated. They understood well the impending catastrophe and knew Chu Mo's fearlessness against tribulations. Without delay, they descended toward the City Protection Array.

The great rooster also shot inside in an instant, clutching Ji Donggu's severed arm in its talons, and smugly said, "This thing can be forged into a holy artifact, right? It's worth something…"

"…" Everyone's faces were covered with speechless expressions.

At this moment, Chu Mo shouted again, "Uncle, push the City Protection Array to its utmost! Deploy all the Imperial Clan's qi movement!"

The current emperor responded affirmatively, letting the imperial seal fall directly into the core of the array within the city. The accumulated qi movement of Luotian Imperial City, gathered through countless epochs, exploded violently!

This power instantly stunned everyone.

Although people had reevaluated the Imperial Clan's foundation again and again, only now did they realize they had still underestimated its strength!

The kind of force wielded by a family that controlled Luotian's vast cosmic qi movement for ten thousand ages was unimaginable. When this array was activated at full power, even a giant—within a short time—could do nothing against it!

The current emperor, however, remained somewhat puzzled, thinking how Chu Mo seemed to know so many things. For some matters, even Ji Qingyu and the crown prince Ji Qi were unaware. Only consecutive emperors were privy to such knowledge.

Still, he could only shake his head privately, marveling at his nephew's monstrosity.

After losing an arm, Ji Donggu then saw Chu Mo calmly directing the battlefield, and he was enraged to the point of near lunacy, screaming, "You little bastard, come and die!"

Chu Mo chuckled lightly, "Old fool, I was about to say the same thing to you!"

A venerable elder with Daoist demeanor stood from afar, coldly intoning, "Chu Mo…!"

Chu Mo didn't even need to look. He could ascertain merely from the aura and voice—it was Patriarch Beidou!

"Old coot, where's my star chart?" Chu Mo said, slashing his blade toward Ji Donggu.

Another strike of Starlight Kill!

It seemed as though he was deliberately performing for Patriarch Beidou!

Patriarch Beidou indeed showed a face full of indignation. Originally, such a terrifying attack should've belonged to him!

As Chu Mo's sword struck, he manifested the thousand-script divine text from the star mnemonic, condensing it into a battle robe. Wearing it, his magnificence overwhelmed reason; his strength suffocated the senses!

The peak combat power at the absolute height of the Great Saint stage drew near that of a giant, instantly suppressing Ji Donggu to the point where he could nearly no longer breathe. Ji Donggu was utterly horrified; though he had heard rumors of Chu Mo's overwhelming might, he hadn't witnessed it firsthand.

Now that they met, he realized the rumors were not only true but grossly underestimated Chu Mo!

This was no mere cultivator dominating the Great Saint stage; this was a terrifying young powerhouse who likely had the strength to challenge giants!

How long had he been cultivating? At most… less than a hundred years!

How could such a monster exist in this world?

Ji Donggu burned with true wrath, harboring deadly intent as he forgot entirely about the ancestral realm tribulation clouds building overhead and focused singularly on killing Chu Mo.

He knew well that if Chu Mo survived, the Imperial Clan's side branches would someday be annihilated by him alone!

Patriarch Beidou charged directly at Chu Mo, accompanied by over ten peak Great Saint cultivators.

Of these, some hailed from primordial families, others from Imperial Clan side branches.

To Chu Mo, their hatred was bone-deep. Every move they made was a fatal strike.

All of this transpired in the blink of an eye.

Their voices manifested through divine thought across the sky, making the space seem disordered.

To most observers below, the sound was overwhelmingly chaotic, to the point where no comprehension was possible.

Only a few saints of high cultivation—and those Great Saints—could discern the exchanges between figures in the heavens.

At this moment, the old emperor appeared beside Chu Mo, together facing the assault from the top-tier cultivators. Although he was Chu Mo's maternal grandfather, the two hardly communicated. Yet now, their eyes met briefly, and each instantly grasped the other's intent.

Chu Mo swept his blade horizontally, its light spanning billions of miles!

Two Great Saint cultivators were sliced cleanly in two, their remains plummeting toward the City Protection Array below.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Four explosive echoes followed. The two Great Saints, now quartered, were crushed completely by the Great Dao's suppression within the array, reduced to dust!

Transforming into boundless essence energy, their remains were absorbed by the array.

The pace of this battle unfolded too rapidly!

It was so fast that the spectators below couldn't discern the events clearly; by the time something was noticed, it was already "history."

Chu Mo slashed and punched, with the divine text battle robe roaring with the Great Dao. He appeared to embody a true war deity.

Sweeping through all opposition!

Even Ji Donggu and Patriarch Beidou felt immense pressure.

They struggled to believe, were unwilling to accept, and refused to yield!

Why would a young man, having cultivated for less than a century, inflict such unimaginable pressure on them—elders who had cultivated for immeasurable ages? It defied logic; it was inconceivable!

The old emperor launched an attack, obliterating a peak Great Saint from a primordial family. Before his death, the Great Saint cried out bitterly, "Why… you should've perished after suffering such grave injuries back then?"

While this question was uttered, his body was already destroyed by the old emperor, and he dissipated entirely.

Still, the old emperor responded faintly, "Because the ancestor transferred all hope of survival to me!"

Even as he spoke, the skies now, spanning a hundred billion miles, were enveloped entirely by infinite tribulation clouds!

The monkey and the seven Great Saints had already fought with the primordial ancestor's avatar far beyond a hundred billion miles' radius into deeper voids of the universe!

No one wished to encounter a tribulation of this level; the further, the better!

Upon hearing the old emperor's words, Ji Donggu and the others felt icy dread coursing through their veins.

At last, they understood the source of the old emperor's dominating strength!

It turned out the Imperial Clan's ancestor truly had fallen, thoroughly transforming into Dao. During the thirty-six-epoch calamity, he was ambushed but chose not to save himself, instead transferring all "life" and "Dao" to his descendants!

Such sacrifice granted the old emperor an opportunity for a second breakthrough into the ancestral realm!

This was the true protection of forebears!

This was genuine lineage inheritance!

This was… unconditional selflessness!

As the old emperor finished, he couldn't help but roar into the sky, "Now… who dares to block my ascension to the ancestral realm?"

No one!

None could resist!

Among the few living giants remaining in this world, fewer than ten existed. Two or three of them—who had previously plotted against the Imperial Clan's ancestor and the old emperor—were deeply wounded, endlessly plagued by Great Dao backlash!

Of the remaining six or seven, the Jiang Family's patriarch was in the early ancestral realm, while Old Vine had once entered the ancestral realm but later fell to the peak of the Great Saint Realm due to certain factors. They were allied with the Imperial Clan and would not interfere.

The Xue Family's old patriarch rarely appeared and cared little for worldly affairs; one Patriarch Zi… and another Patriarch Zi had similarly retreated from the world long ago; their whereabouts were unknown. The Imperial Clan couldn't even locate definitive information about them. They were utterly unlikely to act against them.

Those with motivation and audacity, such as Zhong Caiyun, Blackfish, and the rat-like Patriarch Zi, had all perished. The remaining two or three wouldn't have time to intervene!

Therefore, in the current era, no one could stop the old emperor's ascension to the ancestral realm!

Seated atop a cloud below, the Jiang Family patriarch looked up at the old emperor, a smile spreading across his face. "One more Dao companion!"

Old Vine beside him sighed softly. It too had once been a giant in the ancestral realm but now had no opportunity. Glancing at Jiang Caiyue within the crowd below, it offered a faint smile. While it lacked hope, that young girl could inherit its mantle and pursue the ancestral realm in the future!

Ji Donggu and his comrades, having gone feral in battle, roared, "We must not let that old fool step into the ancestral realm—fight to the death!"

The remaining peak Great Saints echoed his cries, "Stop him!"

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