Tai Lingxuan listened to Chen Yuyang’s words in a daze.
His voice was calm, but every word struck her heart with precision, stirring up massive waves within her soul.
She looked at the youth’s back; it wasn’t particularly imposing and even carried a hint of boyishness.
Yet, it was this small back that currently held up the entire sky before her eyes.
“Yuyang…”
Tai Lingxuan called out instinctively in a soft whisper.
Her voice carried a tremble that even she hadn’t noticed.
Chen Yuyang did not turn around; he simply kept his back to her.
He could feel that his master’s soul had completely accepted him now.
There was no more hostility, no more rejection…
This meant that his soul power could be fully unleashed within this dream world of hers.
The power of the golden laws erupted slowly and steadily, like the rising morning sun.
The light expanded, enveloping the entire area.
The power of the golden laws was pure and magnificent, reigning over all things.
For a moment, it caused the very heavens and earth to lose their color.
In the sky, the dozens of Great Ascension Realm experts and the two Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts—who had previously been aggressive and overbearing—all turned pale.
Their eyes were filled with extreme horror and disbelief.
The power of the laws enveloped and locked onto them entirely.
It actually rendered them unable to move even a single inch.
At the same time, they could clearly feel the terrifying might contained within that law.
The sheer strength of that law was something they had never touched, a level they couldn’t even begin to comprehend.
‘This boy… just what kind of monster is he!’
Chen Yuyang’s expression remained indifferent, but his body slowly floated up into the air.
Tai Lingxuan tilted her head back, gazing at the youth’s silhouette bathed in golden light for a long, long time.
The look in the woman’s eyes shifted from initial shock and confusion to clarity and understanding.
Finally, it transformed into a deep sense of complexity and tenderness.
At this moment, as if she had reached an epiphany, she murmured softly, “Yuyang, your master… understands now…”
Chen Yuyang seemed to hear her, but he still didn’t turn back.
He didn’t ask what she understood because it wasn’t important.
He simply reached out and made a grasping motion toward the crowd of experts in the sky!
Everything shattered.
Chen Yuyang opened his eyes.
What greeted his vision were the familiar stone walls of the cave and the Spirit Gathering Array he had set up before his secluded cultivation.
The dream was over.
Chen Yuyang returned to his senses with some surprise.
Immediately, the youth looked toward the beautiful figure lying quietly beside him.
Tai Lingxuan remained there, her eyes still tightly closed.
Although her face still appeared somewhat pale, her breathing was steady and long.
At this moment, her body was emitting a faint trace of law power.
That law power was exceptionally pure, flowing around her body and continuously nourishing her damaged frame.
This was… a sign of condensing her own laws!
Chen Yuyang’s heart completely settled at this moment.
He could feel that the injuries inside Tai Lingxuan’s body were rapidly repairing under the influence of the law power.
Simultaneously, her cultivation realm began to become more stable and solid under the push of this energy.
Chen Yuyang stood guard quietly to the side, not daring to disturb her in the slightest.
Tai Lingxuan’s aura was still steadily rising.
As long as she completely finished condensing her own laws, she would become a genuine Great Ascension Realm expert!
He just didn’t know what his master had chosen as the core of her laws.
However, that didn’t matter anymore.
All he needed to know was that when the time came, she would truly wake up.
And once she woke up, she would be completely transformed, becoming a truly top-tier powerhouse.
‘Master, when that time comes, it won’t be difficult to realize your dream,’ Chen Yuyang thought secretly.
Right then, Chen Yuyang suddenly felt a slight but clear vibration.
The vibration didn’t come from inside the cave but originated from the formation he had laid outside the sect before his seclusion.
“Hmm?”
Chen Yuyang’s brows furrowed, and alarm bells immediately rang in his mind.
The formation was under attack!
Chen Yuyang’s pupils narrowed, and he immediately leaped out of the cave!
Without any preamble or warning, an attack terrifying to the extreme—like a divine punishment descending from the nine heavens—suddenly arrived!
Boom—
A deafening explosion erupted, piercing through the heavens and earth.
A violent surge of spiritual energy spread out in all directions like a tsunami, sending out visible ripples of energy across the sky outside the sect.
Inside the Hehuan Sect, Gu Qiushui was instantly startled by this horrific impact.
“What’s going on?”
Gu Qiushui immediately rushed out of the Great Hall and looked up at the sky outside the sect gates.
She saw a massive, crimson flying boat hovering in the distant sky.
There were no flags or markings on the boat, making it impossible to determine the identity of the visitors.
But that wasn’t the most frightening part.
The most terrifying thing happened in the next instant: a purple-red giant hand, measuring 100-foot-large, manifested.
It tore through the clouds and crushed down toward the Hehuan Sect’s gates with immense force!
“That… what kind of power is that!”
Gu Qiushui’s pupils shrank violently, and her heart shook.
Although she wasn’t facing it directly, the terrifying might made her legs go weak instantly.
Just watching that giant hand fall made her feel as if her blood were flowing backward.
Her entire body felt cold, and even breathing became difficult!
What level of power was that?
Soul Transformation?
Body Integration?
Or perhaps… Great Ascension?
Gu Qiushui’s heart went cold as she felt a distinct sense of impending death.
‘Is it over? Is my Hehuan Sect going to be destroyed today?’
However, just as that purple-red hand—carrying an overbearing aura of destruction—was about to crush down, and just as Gu Qiushui felt that death was certain…
Buzz—
Accompanied by a low, humming sound, a massive, pale blue spiritual energy barrier shielded the entire sect!
Boom—
The purple-red hand slammed heavily against the spiritual energy barrier, producing a world-shaking explosion!
The violent shockwave of energy raged like a tide, yet that blue barrier only swayed slightly.
After a circle of blue ripples spread out, it forcefully blocked the terrifying strike!
“Huh?”
Gu Qiushui was stunned on the spot, her eyes filled with shock and confusion.
‘This is… the sect’s mountain-protecting array?’
But the Hehuan Sect’s mountain-protecting array had been destroyed long ago when her master broke through to the Body Integration Realm.
Or had her master asked someone to repair it at some point?
Why did she have no memory of it at all?
Furthermore, Gu Qiushui didn’t recall going to activate the array just now.
Full of doubt, Gu Qiushui looked up at the crimson flying boat in the sky.
Meanwhile, on the crimson flying boat, Mo Chen stood at the bow with his hands behind his back.
His handsome face was clouded with gloom, his brows locked, and his eyes filled with a trace of surprise and suspicion.
Beside him, Long Yu, dressed in fire-red robes, was also full of bewilderment as she stared fixedly at the massive spiritual energy barrier below.
“This makes no sense,” Long Yu couldn’t help but speak.
“How could a tiny sect like the Hehuan Sect have a mountain-protecting array of this caliber? Is this… a Grade 9 defensive array?”
After a pause, Long Yu continued, “My two palm strikes just now only consumed a tiny bit of its spiritual energy?”
Mo Chen frowned.
Long Yu felt even more incredulous.
She knew better than anyone how overbearing her “Heaven-Piercing Hand” was.
It was one of the most powerful techniques in the sect’s Qiankun Formula, with few rivals in the same stage.
Although she hadn’t given it her all in those two strikes, even some medium-sized sects would have turned to ash under them.
She never expected that she wouldn’t even be able to break the mountain-protecting array of the Hehuan Sect!
Mo Chen’s eyes flickered as he said slowly, “There is something strange about this Hehuan Sect!”
Then, as if suddenly realizing something, he continued, “Could it be that Uncle Long discovered some secret hidden within this Hehuan Sect, which is why he acted against them?”
At this thought, a cold light flashed in Mo Chen’s eyes.
He immediately spoke to Long Yu in a cold voice, “Elder Long, do not hold back any longer! Use your full power to break this formation quickly and destroy the Hehuan Sect! Regardless of what they are hiding, they must be eliminated as quickly as possible today!”
Long Yu was secretly speechless. ‘Hold back?’
Where had she held back just now?
Those two palm strikes were already the strongest attacks she could launch in a short amount of time!
Did he think she didn’t know the importance of working cleanly?
Especially when it came to exterminating a sect.
But Mo Chen was the Sect Master.
As an elder, she couldn’t argue.
Taking a deep breath, Long Yu operated her cultivation technique to its limit.
The terrifying spiritual energy belonging to her Stage 2 Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivation erupted without reservation!
In an instant, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered frantically in front of the flying boat, forming a massive vortex.
Within the vortex, a purple-gold giant hand—several times larger than the previous purple-red one—began to take shape.
This giant hand covered a wider area, looming over several mountain peaks where the Hehuan Sect was located.
The pressure it emitted was enough to shock and kill weaker individuals.
“Break!”
A sharp glint flashed in Long Yu’s eyes, and a low shout escaped her throat.
As her voice fell, the purple-gold giant hand that blotted out the sun carried a supreme momentum, slamming down toward the Hehuan Sect’s mountain-protecting array like Mount Tai crushing down!
This strike condensed all of Long Yu’s strength; it was the strongest blow she could currently deliver!
She refused to believe that the mountain-protecting array of this tiny Hehuan Sect could still withstand this!
However…
Boom—
The purple-gold giant hand collided with the pale blue spiritual energy shield, once again producing a thunderous roar that echoed through the clouds.
Large patches of space collapsed, and violent energy diffused in all directions, tearing the clouds in the sky to shreds.
Yet, the expected scene of the formation shattering and the mountains being leveled did not appear.
Although the mountain-protecting array shook violently under the impact, and several mountain peaks outside the Hehuan Sect were pulverized by the spiritual energy aftershocks… both the array itself and the various buildings within the Hehuan Sect remained standing firmly, completely unharmed.
“This…”
Long Yu looked at the still-intact mountain-protecting array and was completely at a loss for words.
It turned out that when a person is truly speechless, they really do feel the urge to laugh.
“Sect Master… this…”
Long Yu looked at Mo Chen, caught between laughter and tears.
Mo Chen gnashed his teeth fiercely.
“Everyone, attack together! Do not stop! Even if we have to exhaust its spiritual energy, we must break it!”