With a soft shout, Chen Zheng pushed his right hand forward. With a muffled THUD, the blood cloud shattered, instantly suppressing the blood demon that had just awoken from its slumber!

"This…"

The Chen clan members were dumbfounded!

It was only at this moment that they realized their ancestor, Chen Zheng, despite being at the Nascent Soul Stage, still exuded a profound and unfathomable aura, as if he could crush them to death with a casual strike. The once weakest direct descendant of the Chen family seemed to have become unimaginably terrifying and lofty, an existence completely beyond their reach!

"I remember now! You are that little beast from the Chen ancestral hall!" the ferocious voice of the blood demon rang out again from within the blood cloud.

BOOM!

The blood cloud trembled.

WHOOSH!

A burst of blood-light emerged, transforming into an illusory blood dragon. This dragon was brutal and fierce, as if it could devour everything in existence!

HISS!

Upon seeing this blood dragon, all the Chen cultivators gasped, feeling as though their very souls were about to be torn from their bodies!

"Hmph! A mere lingering remnant!" Chen Zheng's voice, cold to the extreme, suddenly sounded. "Since you dare set foot in my Chen ancestral hall, you will leave your life behind in this realm!"

As his words fell, he raised his hand and grabbed at the blood dragon!

AWOO!

The blood dragon roared, but before it could even react, it was torn to shreds!

WHOOSH!

Chen Zheng opened his mouth and inhaled. The fragmented remnants of the blood dragon flew into his mouth!

"AH—"

From within the blood mist, a scream of utter horror echoed!

"It's over so quickly?"

"What just happened?"

"What kind of power was that?"

The Chen clan members stared, wide-eyed and slack-jawed, at their Ancestor!

Their Ancestor had truly grown stronger. He was terrifying!

"Master… something seems off about him again…" a Chen clan member whispered uneasily. This clan member could feel that, although Chen Zheng had killed the blood demon's remnant, he hadn't immediately ended the battle!

What?

The other clan members were stunned and quickly looked toward their Ancestor. They saw his eyes flicker with a dark light as his aura suddenly surged. Moreover!

ROAR!

A fierce howl echoed in all directions!

Immediately after, an overpowering and ferocious aura swept through the area!

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

In an instant, the Chen ancestral grounds began to shake and sway!

CRACK! CRACK!

Dozens of miles away, ancient cities began to collapse!

This scene filled all the Chen clan members with absolute terror!

Their Ancestor! This overpowering, fierce aura was their Ancestor's manifestation! At this moment, one could say his manifestation had surpassed the Golden Core Stage! Just how terrifying was their Ancestor's strength?

"No!"

Just then, a wretched scream arose from deep within the earth!

BOOM!

Suddenly, the ground beneath the Chen ancestral lands cracked open, and a massive blood shadow shot up into the sky!

"Ha ha! HA HA! You can't kill me! You can't kill me! Once I reconstruct my physical body and return to my peak, I will slaughter my way through the nine heavens, annihilate all the races in the Immortal Realm, and consume you all! Ha ha! HA HA HA!" the massive blood shadow laughed with crazed shrillness.

SWOOSH!

Almost simultaneously, a dark light flashed between Chen Zheng's eyebrows.

BOOM!

The gigantic blood shadow instantly exploded into dust!

"Ah?"

"Is… is it over?"

"Did we… see that wrong?"

"The Ancestor obliterated that blood demon's remnant with a single move!"

A deathly silence fell over the Chen clan.

"Hmph!" Chen Zheng snorted faintly in midair.

WHOOSH!

The next second, his figure flickered and vanished from sight.

"The Ancestor is gone!"

"Where did he go?"

"Where has the Ancestor gone?"

The Chen clan members looked around in bewilderment.

BOOM!

Suddenly, an overwhelming killing intent enveloped the entire Chen ancestral grounds!

THUD! THUD! THUD!

The members of the Chen clan were so frightened they collapsed to the ground. This murderous intent, this deathly aura! If it had been directed at them just a moment ago, they never would have been able to withstand it!

"Ah—"

After an unknown amount of time, someone finally let out a scream of agony and fainted.

"No!"

"Spare us, Ancestor Chen!"

"Help us!"

The remaining clan members cried out in panic, begging for help.

"Out of the way!"

But very quickly, a furious shout rang out! A child who looked to be about three or four years old charged in! The child had a menacing expression and held a short knife. After dashing into the ancestral hall, he began swinging the knife at the Chen clan members lying on the ground!

SHLICK! SHLICK!

In the blink of an eye, only a pile of corpses remained in the ancestral hall!

"Heh heh!"

The child licked his lips, revealing a set of ghastly white teeth.

This child was none other than Chen Hao, but his appearance was now completely different. The old Chen Hao had been an ordinary person, but the aura now emanating from him felt sinister and ice-cold!

"CACKLE! CACKLE! HA HA! I'm back! I've returned!"

Suddenly, a bizarre laugh erupted from outside the ancestral hall!

"What devilry is this?!" Chen Hao's brow furrowed as he shouted toward the outside.

BOOM!

A man in a black robe swooped in!

This… could it be that demon's disciple? After that demon escaped its seal back then, it hid in the Blood Abyss beneath the ancestral grounds! This time, the Ancestor must have used a secret technique to open the Blood Abyss's restrictions, allowing the demon to escape! Heh heh! The demon's cultivation must have dropped to the Foundation Establishment Stage! This time, I will definitely kill this demon and seize its cultivation secrets!

The black-robed man scanned the area, sneering wickedly.

"Oh! The Foundation Establishment Realm!"

"A demon at the Foundation Establishment Stage!"

"Foundation Establishment cultivators are worthless!"

The Chen clan members trembled, then their expressions turned to mockery. In a place like the Chen ancestral grounds, Foundation Establishment cultivators amounted to nothing!

"CACKLE!" The man in the black robe let out a strange cry. His figure vanished in an instant, and the next moment, he lunged at Chen Zheng. "I am a Foundation Establishment cultivator! Killing you, a Golden Core Realm cultivator, will be effortless!"

"Hmph!"

Chen Zheng snorted contemptuously. As he raised his right hand, with a WHOOSH, a person suddenly appeared beside Chen Hao!

The person wore a wide-brimmed bamboo hat that concealed their face.

However, with just one look, Chen Zheng immediately understood that this person was the reincarnation of Chen Hao's Primordial Spirit!

BOOM!

Chen Hao raised his hand and threw a punch!

RUMBLE!

With a loud explosion, blood-colored runes converged to form a pillar of blood that charged toward the black-robed man!

With a sinister smile, the black-robed man exuded a thick demonic aura, withstanding the pillar of blood as he rushed in front of Chen Zheng and slapped a claw toward his chest!

"Courting death!"

However, the mysterious man in the bamboo hat beside Chen Zheng muttered softly. With a casual flick of his hand, he sent out a ray of divine light that instantly crushed the black-robed man!

THUD!

The man in the black robe fell to the ground.

"You… who are you…?" he stammered, staring at the man in the bamboo hat beside Chen Zheng. He was trembling all over, his killing intent completely gone, leaving only boundless fear. He could feel it. The person before him was even more terrifying than Chen Zheng!

"Who is your master?" Chen Zheng asked with a smile that was not quite a smile.

"Disciple pays his respects to Master!" the man in the bamboo hat pondered for a moment before bowing slightly.

Chen Zheng was taken aback for a moment, then chuckled lightly.

"So that's how it is!"

"Master, you…" Chen Hao was a bit confused, but seeing the smile on Chen Zheng's face, he instantly understood. His eyes lit up, and he followed suit, also calling out, "Master!"

"You… you two wastes actually acknowledged this fellow as your master!" Hearing them, the man in the black robe growled through clenched teeth. The next moment, he sneered coldly. "Within the Chen ancestral grounds lie the remnants of the Chen ancestors' bloodline. I am the inheritor of the undying blood! I am the young master of the Immortal Blood Demon Clan, a member of the direct Chen bloodline! You lowly bloodlines, kneel and kowtow before this young master!"

"Heh!" Chen Hao sneered.

BANG!

Chen Zheng flicked his finger. A bright red flame appeared on the center of the man in the black robe's forehead!

"No! You can't harm me!" the man in the black robe wailed.

SIZZLE!

Chen Zheng flicked his finger again!

WHOOSH!

A stunningly vibrant fire lotus flew out from his fingertips, instantly drilling into the black-robed man's forehead. The man's eyes bulged to their absolute limit!

THUD!

The man in the black robe collapsed, turning to ash.

HISS!

The remaining Chen clan members trembled

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