When Gu Changge lowered his hand, all that remained before the Drunken Immortal Pavilion were several empty human-shaped pits.
And all along the street stood ordinary cultivators and commoners, bewildered and at a loss, still unable to recover from the terrifying chain of events that had unfolded one after another.
Within Sunset City, everyone connected to the core of the Chengyun Immortal Palace and the Four Seas Trading Company had vanished.
Reduced to dust!
The wind gently swept through the empty streets, lifting a few fallen leaves and skimming over the spots where the Immortal Palace cultivators had once stood, now utterly vacant.
Those who had been talking and interacting with them merely felt a cool breeze brush past. They looked around in confusion, only to discover that the familiar adults had disappeared.
Everyone stood frozen in place, their minds a complete blank. They could not understand what had just happened.
Nor could they comprehend the scene they had witnessed with their own eyes—one that felt almost like an illusion.
“Let’s go, Little White. The flies here have been swatted clean.”
Gu Changge turned toward Little White beside him.
Little White seemed to be still immersed in the shock of watching an entire city’s enemies erased with a casual wave of the hand. It was only when Gu Changge looked at him that he suddenly jolted back to his senses.
“Oh, oh, right!” Little White hurriedly answered, though his heart was already churning like a stormy sea.
“Master is way too powerful! It was already outrageous enough that he was impossibly strong in the Great Xuanhuang World.
“I thought that after arriving in this so-called Immortal Realm, where experts are supposedly everywhere, he would at least restrain himself a little.
“But as it turns out, he’s even stronger! And this kind of strength is completely beyond my understanding!”
Gu Changge raised his eyes and looked toward the distant horizon, where a towering mountain gate was faintly shrouded in auspicious clouds and immortal radiance.
“It’s time to deal with the larger nest as well.”
With that, he took a single step forward. By the time the two of them realized it, their figures had already vanished from the window of the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
Only after the master and servant had completely disappeared into the world did the frozen time and space inside and outside the Drunken Immortal Pavilion begin to flow again—more than ten breaths later.
“Terrifying! They were all gone with a single wave of his hand!”
“What realm must someone reach to possess such power?! A Heavenly Immortal? No, I’m afraid even an Immortal Lord couldn’t erase them so cleanly!”
The crowd erupted into complete chaos. Fear, lingering dread, and disbelief became tangled together, filling the area with uproar.
“What did he say before he left?”
Someone suddenly recalled Gu Changge’s final words, and his voice rose sharply.
“‘It’s time to deal with the larger nest as well’?!”
Those words were like a ladle of ice water poured into a boiling cauldron of oil, instantly silencing the entire crowd.
A larger nest?
An answer that made their scalps prickle and their souls tremble surfaced in everyone’s minds.
Countless gazes instinctively lifted toward the distance, turning toward the highest point of the continent—the place shrouded in auspicious clouds and immortal radiance, the symbol of supreme authority.
The Chengyun Heavenly Palace!
“Could he be planning to go there?”
Someone’s lips trembled so badly that he could barely finish his sentence.
“The Chengyun Immortal Palace?!”
At last, someone shakily uttered that suffocating name.
“Hiss—!”
The sound of people drawing in cold breaths rose one after another, merging into a single chorus. Even the temperature inside the Drunken Immortal Pavilion seemed to drop several degrees.
He was going to wipe out the Chengyun Immortal Palace?
If someone had said a quarter of an hour ago that they intended to provoke the Chengyun Immortal Palace, everyone would have sneered at them and assumed they were insane.
But after personally witnessing that white-robed young master erase Elder Gu He, a mid-stage Earth Immortal; the Fat Shopkeeper, a ninth-level True Immortal; and everyone connected to them from Sunset City as effortlessly as dust being brushed away—
That insane notion suddenly seemed to possess a sliver of possibility.
“Can he really do it?” someone asked weakly.
No one answered.
Yet within every heart, enormous waves had already begun to surge.
If what he had said was true…
“The sky of this fragment of the Chengyun Immortal Domain…”
The old cultivator gazed toward the Chengyun Heavenly Palace. His voice was long and tremulous, carrying the awe and insignificance of one witnessing the tide of history sweeping across the world.
“It really may be about to change…”
……
At the highest peak of this fragmentary continent stood an immortal palace forged from immortal gold and divine jade.
This was the Chengyun Heavenly Palace—the headquarters of the Chengyun Immortal Palace, nominal ruler of this fragment of the Chengyun Immortal Domain!
Almost the instant the two figures solidified—
“Boom—!”
The mountain-protecting formation surrounding the Chengyun Heavenly Palace activated in response, guarding the entire palace as securely as an iron fortress!
A terrifying pressure, powerful enough to make True Immortals tremble and Earth Immortals halt in their tracks, erupted and spread in all directions!
“Which reckless madman dares trespass upon the sacred grounds of the Immortal Palace?!”
“Stop! Ahead lies the Chengyun Heavenly Palace! All unauthorized persons are to withdraw immediately. Otherwise, you will be killed without exception!”
Shouts rang out from every direction like rolling thunder.
Immediately afterward, the sound of objects tearing through the air erupted. Dozens of streaks of light shot forth at high speed.
The newcomers all wore the standard robes of the Immortal Palace. Even the weakest among them was at the peak of the Void Immortal realm.
The three old men at the front possessed auras as heavy and steady as mountains. All three were shockingly early-stage Earth Immortals.
They were the elders taking turns guarding the outer mountain gate.
The three Earth Immortal elders instantly saw the intruders clearly: a white-robed young man whose aura was as calm as that of an ordinary mortal, and a black-clothed attendant with faint killing intent leaking from him.
Just these two dared to charge into the Heavenly Palace—and had even triggered the highest-level alarm?
“What are your names?” the Red-Brow Elder in the center demanded sternly.
His Earth Immortal pressure, combined with the faint reinforcement of the Immortal Palace’s formation, surged forward like a tide, attempting to intimidate or even crush the newcomers.
Under ordinary circumstances, even a mid-stage Earth Immortal would have to weigh the situation carefully when facing such an array of forces and the pressure of the enemy’s home ground.
However, when that boundless pressure reached within three feet of Gu Changge, it vanished without a trace, like a mud ox sinking into the sea.
Gu Changge could not even be bothered to look at the people blocking his way.
His gaze passed over them, over the layers of immortal mountains, and landed directly upon the main hall at the very center—the most majestic place, where the greatest concentration of fortune had gathered.
Several auras there were even more obscure, yet far more powerful, and were slowly awakening.
One of them had already reached the Heavenly Immortal realm. That was presumably the palace master.
Three or four others were firmly in the late Earth Immortal realm, likely elders of the palace.
“How dare you!”
The Red-Brow Elder saw that his opponent had completely ignored him and flew into a rage.
“Stop pretending and playing tricks! No matter who you are, you trespassed into the palace and then showed contempt for the Immortal Palace. Today, you will—”
Before he could finish speaking, Gu Changge moved.
His lips parted slightly, and he gently uttered a single word toward the dozens upon dozens of Immortal Palace cultivators blocking the way.
“Disperse.”
The word was spoken without sound or light.
But when the words were uttered, the law itself obeyed!
In that instant, the dozens of Immortal Palace cultivators—whether Void Immortals, True Immortals, or the three early-stage Earth Immortal elders—vanished without a trace, as though they had never existed.
“……”
Everyone who witnessed the scene—the Immortal Palace disciples, stewards, and even the elders deeper within—stood frozen.
A chill exploded from the depths of their souls, instantly freezing their limbs and bones.
With a single word, “Disperse,” dozens of high-level cultivators, including three Earth Immortals, had simply ceased to exist?
What kind of divine ability was this?!
What kind of realm did he possess?!
“Enemy attack—!! It’s an unparalleled enemy! Activate the formation! Quickly!!”
From the direction of the main hall, a roar finally rang out—filled with shock and fury, and even a trace of trembling.
“Rumble—!!”
The countless years of accumulated foundations within the Chengyun Heavenly Palace were finally roused in their entirety.
The immortal mountains simultaneously burst into dazzling radiance. Countless formation inscriptions, long since engraved into the mountains, the earth veins, and the void, suddenly lit up, linking heaven and earth!
The Star Formation!
The Immortal Palace’s most powerful defensive formation. It was said that, at its peak, it had been strong enough to withstand the attacks of a late-stage Heavenly Immortal for a brief time!
At the same time, four terrifying auras that seemed to merge with heaven and earth erupted from the main hall, stirring the winds and clouds across ten thousand miles!
Four figures took a single step and instantly arrived within the formation’s barrier, facing Gu Changge from across the curtain of light.
The man at the center had an ancient, solemn countenance. Whenever his eyes opened and closed, it seemed as though the sun and moon rose and fell within them.
He was the current master of the Chengyun Immortal Palace.
Behind him stood three elders, all at the peak of the Earth Immortal realm!
The Immortal Palace had deployed its full might!
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