I, a spoiled young master, conquered the Crown Princess right from the start!

Just as Chu Feng was feeling agitated, the Master, who had been standing with his hands behind his back, finally spoke again.

His gaze remained gentle as he looked at the still-shaken Emperor Tianxu, and slowly said, "Fellow Daoist, could you please let this matter drop for my sake?"

"I must save him, old man."

The words were simple, yet carried an undeniable weight.

Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Void Emperor's expression shifted dramatically, becoming unpredictable.

Should we just let Chu Feng go like this?

He can't do it!

The Holy Lord was killed, the Quasi-Emperor Ancestor perished, the entire Heavenly Ruins Holy Land was turned upside down, its ancient foundation was destroyed in an instant, and its dignity was trampled underfoot and crushed to pieces!

If we let this go today, how will the Heavenly Ruins Holy Land maintain its standing in the Heavenly Realm in the future? Wouldn't this Great Emperor, who has returned from slumber for countless ages, become a laughing stock in all the heavens and myriad realms?

You can choose not to release it...

He was facing the Master!

A legend that even he had to respectfully address as "senior"!

The Heavenly Ruins Emperor's gaze shifted back and forth between the Master's gentle and peaceful face and Chu Feng's cold and arrogant face, his eyes flashing wildly as he struggled internally.

Finally, he took a deep breath, as if he had made a decision.

He bowed slightly to the Master, his tone conveying a sense of respect, but even more so, a firm resolve.

"Senior, it's not that I'm being disrespectful to you."

"This brat killed my Holy Land's Lord, slaughtered my Holy Land's elders, trampled the eternal dignity of my Heavenly Ruins Holy Land under his feet, and even unleashed abyssal demons, nearly causing a catastrophe!"

"If we let him leave peacefully today, how can my Heavenly Ruins Holy Land maintain its standing in the Heavenly Realm? How can I face the thousands of disciples who died in the Holy Land?!"

The Master listened quietly, his smile unchanged, and simply asked, "So, you mean you won't agree?"

Emperor Tianxu shook his head.

"This junior respects the senior and would never dare to be an enemy of the senior."

"But today, this boy must pay the price for his actions!"

His gaze shifted to Chu Feng, carrying a hint of condescending judgment, and he said coldly, "Out of respect for the Master, I can spare your life."

"However, your once-proud cultivation must be abolished! From now on, live as a mortal to atone for your sins!"

"Cease my cultivation?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Feng sneered before the teacher could speak, his eyes full of mockery.

"You old codger, you dare to challenge me?"

One sentence instantly plunged the atmosphere, which had just eased, into freezing point.

The Heavenly Void Emperor's face instantly turned extremely ugly, and his eyes surged with murderous intent.

He abruptly looked up at the Master, his voice icy: "Senior, you saw it too! I gave him a chance, but he didn't cherish it!"

"Since that's the case, then please don't blame this junior for being disrespectful!"

In his view, the Master is now just a remnant soul that has managed to survive for so long by some unknown means. Being able to say a few words and frighten people is already the limit.

If it really comes down to a fight, how could I, a genuine Great Emperor, be afraid of a mere remnant soul?

The smile on the Master's face finally faded a bit.

"I said I would protect him."

"If you insist on taking action..."

The Master paused, and for the first time, a heart-stirring ripple appeared in his gentle eyes.

"You can give it a try."

"good!"

Emperor Tianxu roared angrily, no longer holding back!

"Then this junior will come today to see just how much divine might the legendary Imperial Tutor still retains!"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his hand and struck out with a palm towards Master Fu and Chu Feng!

Rumble!

The entire world groaned violently under the force of this single palm strike!

The endless imperial laws transformed into gray chains of divine order, intertwining to form a gigantic gray hand that blotted out the sky, carrying terrifying power capable of obliterating stars and recreating chaos, and pressed down on the two of them!

This is a true strike from an emperor!

It was more than a hundred times more powerful than the finger that had been pointed at Chu Feng before!

Faced with this power, Chu Feng felt his very soul trembling, as if it would be completely crushed in the next second.

However, the master standing in front of him remained as calm and composed as ever.

Faced with that earth-shattering palm strike, he simply raised his right hand slowly and extended one finger.

He gently touched the colossal gray hand that had crushed countless ages.

There was no earth-shattering noise.

There was no devastating energy storm.

There wasn't even a trace of cooking firework.

Just as that colossal gray hand was about to fall and crush Chu Feng and the Master into dust.

The Master's lightly pointed finger landed in the palm of the giant hand.

then……

That giant gray hand, woven from endless imperial laws and powerful enough to shatter galaxies, just... stopped.

It just hovered there stiffly in mid-air, completely still.

Immediately afterwards, in the horrified gaze of the Heavenly Ruins Emperor, the giant hand, starting from the spot pointed by the Master's finger, melted away inch by inch like weathered sand, transforming into the most primordial spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and dissipated into nothingness.

It all happened in the time it takes to breathe.

It was as if that earth-shattering palm strike just now was merely an illusion.

"puff!"

Emperor Tianxu was struck as if by a heavy blow. He spat out a mouthful of golden imperial blood and staggered back thousands of meters, his eyes filled with indescribable shock and fear.

"This...how is this possible?!"

He screamed, his voice sharp and distorted with extreme fear.

He couldn't understand!

He simply couldn't understand it!

That palm strike just now was the result of his full power; it was a true strike from a Great Emperor! It contained the Great Dao of Returning to Nothingness, which he had mastered!

But why... why was it resolved so easily?

That wasn't a contest of power; it was more like... a higher level of erasure!

It was as if his Dao did not exist at all in front of the other party!

"You've gone astray."

The Master withdrew his finger, looked at the horrified Emperor Tianxu, and gently shook his head, his tone tinged with regret.

"Borrowing the power of the Void, yet failing to grasp its essence. Only obtaining its form, not its spirit. In the end, it is merely a castle in the air, a mirage."

Every word the Master said was like a heavy hammer, striking the heart of the Heavenly Ruins Emperor.

He... he actually saw through the foundation and flaws of his own Dao at a glance?!

At this moment, the last glimmer of hope in Emperor Tianxu's heart was completely shattered.

What he was facing was not some weak, remnant soul at all!

Instead, it was a monster that he could not comprehend or contend with at all!

"Senior...Junior...Junior knows his mistake!"

The Heavenly Ruins Emperor was utterly terrified. He no longer cared about the dignity of an emperor and bowed his noble head deeply before the Master, his voice trembling.

The Master looked at him but said nothing.

However, his originally solid figure flickered slightly at this moment, becoming somewhat illusory.

Clearly, deflecting the attack from the Heavenly Ruins Emperor did not come without a price for him.

"Alas, my body is truly beyond saving."

The Master sighed self-deprecatingly.

Chu Feng's heart was in turmoil.

Looking at the somewhat illusory figure of the Master, he gained a vague yet terrifying understanding of the true strength of the beings within the Burial Coffin for the first time.

A mere remnant soul can suppress a true emperor with a single word!

What kind of splendor must they have had at their peak?

When will I be able to possess such power?

Chu Feng gripped the Human Emperor Sword tightly, his desire to become stronger stronger than ever before.

However, at that moment...

Mutation, rebirth!