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At this time, there were no outsiders within a ten-kilometer radius of the Zhang family.

A great battle in the Shattered Realm is powerful enough to destroy a city.

"Ancestor, you mustn't!"

When they saw their ancestor preparing to meet this attack by perishing together with his own flesh,

The powerful members of the Zhang family couldn't help but shout anxiously.

True essence reversed, offering up the divine soul.

This world has a long history of cultivation, with countless battles between living beings.

The great battle between living beings and the Heavenly Dao has long since deduced various secret methods of mutual destruction.

Reversing one's true essence can instantly boost one's strength.

However, the foundation within the body will be destroyed; in other words, this outbreak comes at the cost of the destruction of the foundation.

If the foundation is destroyed, even if one survives, one will be crippled; if one is lucky enough to live, one will become a useless person.

But sacrificing the soul of a deity—that's where the real cruelty lies.

As everyone knows, the Heavenly Dao harvests the powerful beings of the Desolate Heaven by devouring their divine souls.

It is unknown which "divine being" researched this secret method during a certain period of reincarnation.

They sacrificed their own souls to the Heavenly Dao in exchange for a sliver of its power!

It can only be said that cultivators are indeed a rather peculiar group.

Most of them preferred to die fighting rather than beg their opponents to surrender.

At that moment, a transparent divine soul above the head of the Zhang family patriarch merged into the surrounding flames.

In an instant, the flames suddenly surged.

At this moment, the Zhang family patriarch felt that his strength was several times greater than before.

"Heavenly fire descends!"

With a wave of his hands, a long sword formed of condensed flames slowly appeared.

The law of fire appeared out of thin air in the sky, and a burning chain of the law could be seen.

It traversed the void and descended upon this flaming longsword.

"Witch, today I will exchange my life for yours."

Having said that, the long sword in his hand suddenly rose into the air.

The next moment, it pierced through space and rushed towards the stone Guanyin.

That faint aura of the Heavenly Dao suppressed all living beings within a thousand miles.

Shi Guanyin suddenly smiled, "External forces are ultimately just external forces, and besides, they are only a trace of the power of the Heavenly Dao."

"My combat power is unparalleled and invincible; how could you possibly understand it?"

"The gods worship me, spatial strangulation!"

As soon as the voice fell, countless phantom images seemed to appear around her.

A magical seal shot into the sky and instantly merged into the void.

The flaming longsword that had originally pierced through space was suddenly forced out of the space.

The next moment, the space seemed to shrink.

Chains of laws emerged from the void and wrapped around the flaming longsword.

At this moment, the Zhang family patriarch communicated with his divine soul, attempting to break through the constraints of space and laws.

However, it had absolutely no effect.

Suddenly, a spatial rift appeared above the longsword.

Click!

The longsword made a crisp sound, and the surrounding flames dimmed considerably in an instant.

The Zhang family patriarch, who was in the distance, couldn't help but groan and spit out a large amount of blood.

The next moment, another spatial rift appeared.

This time, the longsword finally gave way and let out a mournful cry.

Click!

The longsword broke in half, completely dissipating into pure energy.

The demise of the longsword also signifies the impending decline of the Zhang family patriarch.

"Witch, hahaha..."

"So this is how fragile a prestigious family is!"

Click, click...

Cracks began to appear on the body of the Zhang family patriarch.

All the clansmen looked terrified and knelt down, looking at their ancestor.

The next moment, the Zhang family patriarch's body exploded, turning into a ball of burning flames.

No one in the clan could believe that their ancestor had fallen!

Rumble!!

A red curtain of light covered the sky, and a chain of laws stretched across the sky.

All living beings in the entire Phoenix Cry Prefecture looked up at the void!

The Shattered Realm has fallen!

Some truly powerful individuals stared blankly at the shattering chain of laws that stretched across the sky.

"Isn't this the unwritten rule of the Zhang family's 'eternal immortality'..."

...

"Has the Zhang family patriarch fallen?"

Instantly, powerful figures from various factions ordered an immediate investigation into the specific circumstances.

All they knew was that today was the Zhang family's funeral for their elder!

Little did they expect that the funeral would lead to the death of their ancestor.

Does funeral service carry a curse?

Outside the city, the Stone Guanyin looked down at the Zhang family mansion.

A cold voice echoed across the sky.

"The Zhang family must be wiped out!"

A white light enveloped the entire Zhang family compound, with chains of laws weaving through it.

Each time it travels through time, it takes the life of a cultivator.

Those two experts at the early stage of the Shattered Realm couldn't even last a single move.

His head was pierced by the chains of law, and he was suspended high in the void.

Some people forgot their family's pride at this moment and wanted to run away.

Unfortunately, the entire mansion was sealed off, and no one could break through the white light.

The countless cultivators in the distance were unusually quiet at this moment.

Who could have imagined that the powerful clan that had suppressed Fengming Prefecture for tens of thousands of years would be wiped out like this today?

Throughout the history of the Great Xia Dynasty, there were indeed some aristocratic families that disappeared.

However, that was because the family was facing a generational gap and gradually fell from its former status as a prominent family.

However, no aristocratic family has ever been completely wiped out.

Today, this sets a precedent for the Great Xia Dynasty.

This unprecedented move sent chills down the spines of countless cultivators!

When the stone Guanyin waved her hand again, the light that enveloped the Zhang family mansion dissipated.

A strong, pungent smell of blood instantly spread throughout the mansion that housed hundreds of thousands of Zhang family members.

And just like that, it became a completely dead city!

At this moment, people outside noticed the sky above the Zhang family mansion.

More than a dozen figures were pinned to the void by the laws, their blood dripping down.

A chilling feeling instantly rose in the hearts of the cultivators outside.

A femme fatale!

"Mom wasn't lying to me after all; the more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is!"

...

"My sister is so beautiful! I love femme fatales like her..."

...

"You're such a pervert..."

At this moment, Shi Guanyin suddenly turned her gaze toward the outside world.

Instantly, countless cultivators instinctively retreated. Just moments ago, they had been shouting that they liked this kind of person, but now they were terrified and their faces turned ashen!

Unexpectedly, Shi Guanyin simply smiled.

In an instant, everyone couldn't help but smile, a typical lecherous grin!

"Heavenly Punishment Bureau, heed my command: Begin the confiscation of property!"

Upon hearing this, Sheng Yayu bowed respectfully.

He then waved his hand, and hundreds of figures behind him quickly landed at the Zhang family mansion.

"Hiss... So the Heavenly Punishment Division came here just to confiscate our property!"

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"The Heavenly Punishment Division has really made something of itself; now they're even going so far as to confiscate the property of powerful families..."

Even at their most glorious moment, they never seized the power of the aristocratic families.

At this moment, the figure of Stone Guanyin gradually became illusory.

A clear, cold voice rang out.

"This is His Highness's explanation to the Zhang family!"

...

As the storm raged, news of the Zhang family's extermination spread like wildfire.

The governor was the first to arrive, watching the Heavenly Punishment Division members still ransacking the property.

A tremendous storm raged within him, and his face was solemn with a hint of paleness.

The Zhang family, such a prestigious clan, has been wiped out in the very territory they govern!

He didn't know what to do at that moment!

"Sir, please report this news immediately!"

His subordinate reminded him, and he immediately gave the order.

"Yes, report this to the imperial court immediately!"

After all, the current prime minister also perished along with his family!