Chapter 236 : Chapter 236
Chapter 236: The Bai Family Counter-Accuses Him!
When Chen Shu saw Su Ming charge into Heavenly Emperor City without the slightest hesitation, she had wanted to stop him. Who would have thought that she had underestimated just how determined Su Ming was to enter the city?
Left with no choice, Chen Shu gritted her teeth and followed behind Su Ming into Heavenly Emperor City.
“Su Ming, wait!”
As she shouted after him from behind, Chen Shu chased after him with all her strength.
Up ahead!
Su Ming quickly arrived at the central district of Heavenly Emperor City. Looking down at that luxurious pavilion, his gaze gradually turned cold.
“You joined hands with the Eldritch Race, so don’t blame me for this!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Su Ming extended a finger toward the pavilion below him.
“Great Desolate Sky-Imprisoning Finger!”
Immediately afterward, a gigantic finger condensed into being above the pavilion.
In an instant, a terrifying aura spread outward in all directions with Su Ming at its center.
“No!!!”
Not far away, Chen Shu’s pupils contracted when she saw that scene.
She could not believe that Su Ming had come to Heavenly Emperor City with the intention of causing trouble outright.
If she had known, she never would have brought Su Ming here.
But now, anything she said would be too late.
She knew that once Su Ming unleashed this move, there would be no room left for reconciliation.
The number of Heavenly Venerables in Heavenly Emperor City was more than double the number in their Hope Zone.
In the face of such a situation, the only solution Chen Shu could think of was to go back and ask her elder brother, Chen Tian, to find a way to mediate and see whether Heavenly Emperor City could spare Su Ming’s life.
Crack!
Su Ming frowned as he looked at the pavilion beneath him. In the next moment, a voice rang out from within the pavilion.
Immediately after, the Great Desolate Sky-Imprisoning Finger that Su Ming had unleashed was directly dissolved in an instant.
“Boy, you’ve got some nerve, coming to cause trouble in my Heavenly Emperor City!”
“What, you don’t dare face the Eldritch Race, so you only dare come make trouble on your own people’s territory?”
A Heavenly Venerable of the Bai Family slowly appeared before Su Ming. When he saw that Su Ming’s cultivation was only at the Eighth Tribulation Realm, the mockery on his face deepened even further.
“The Eldritch Race?”
When Su Ming heard those four words, he was so infuriated by the man’s shamelessness that he laughed instead.
“What are you laughing at?”
“Could it be that I said something wrong?”
“This old man sees that reaching the Eighth Tribulation Realm could not have been easy for you, yet not only do you refuse to do your part for the Qingxuan Realm, you’ve even come to my Heavenly Emperor City to stir up trouble!”
The Bai Family Heavenly Venerable became more and more worked up as he spoke, and by the end, he was practically pointing at Su Ming’s nose and shouting insults.
Before long, the commotion caused by the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable and Su Ming drew quite a crowd from the Bai Family.
By this time, Chen Shu had also arrived near the pavilion and was looking up at Su Ming above it.
Just moments earlier, she had already sent word of what was happening here to her brother, Chen Tian.
At first, when Chen Tian heard that Su Ming had come to Heavenly Emperor City to cause trouble, his instinctive reaction had been to abandon Su Ming.
After all, offending the entire Bai Family for Su Ming’s sake was a terrible bargain.
However, when Chen Shu told Chen Tian that Su Ming’s cultivation was at the Great Perfection of the Eighth Tribulation Realm and that he could break through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm at any time, Chen Tian hesitated.
In the end, Chen Tian decided to protect Su Ming.
In Chen Tian’s eyes, Su Ming would soon break through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm, and a Heavenly Venerable was an indispensable force for the human race.
Moreover, this was a force belonging to their Hope Zone. Chen Tian did not want to lose Su Ming just like that.
Thus, Chen Tian left the Hope Zone and rushed toward Heavenly Emperor City. Deep down, he still hoped he could preserve Su Ming if at all possible.
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“Hahaha!!!”
After hearing the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable’s words, the smile on Su Ming’s face only grew wider.
That abnormal reaction made the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable frown deeply.
He could not understand what Su Ming was laughing about. Could it be that he had said something wrong?
“What are you laughing at?”
The Bai Family Heavenly Venerable was in no hurry to attack. In his eyes, Su Ming was already a turtle in a jar, with no possibility of escape.
That was not just because his realm was higher than Su Ming’s, but also because this was Heavenly Emperor City, the Bai Family’s headquarters.
After a long while, Su Ming finally stopped laughing and looked at the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable with open contempt.
“I’m laughing because you thieves are crying thief!”
“Isn’t your Bai Family preparing to cooperate with the Eldritch Race?”
“A family that has abandoned the human race and is planning to defect to the Eldritch Race actually has the nerve to say that I’m not doing my part?”
Whoosh—The moment those words came out, everyone in Heavenly Emperor City apart from the Bai Family began discussing it in disbelief.
Even Chen Shu, standing among the crowd, looked at Su Ming in shock.
She had not expected Su Ming to state his suspicions so openly when the matter had not even been verified yet.
On the other side, the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable’s face darkened instantly when he heard that. Gritting his teeth, he said, “Boy, don’t spout nonsense without evidence!”
“Our Bai Family has always led Heavenly Emperor City in resisting the Eldritch Race. We have made immeasurable contributions to the Qingxuan Realm.”
“I’d say you’re the traitor who has defected to the Eldritch Race. Otherwise, why would you come to my Heavenly Emperor City to cause trouble?”
“In that case, today I’ll act on behalf of Heaven and kill you, you traitor to the human race!”
As soon as his words fell, the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable launched his attack and charged straight at Su Ming.
At the same time, the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable was deeply shaken inside.
He had never expected that the Bai Family’s secret contact with the Eldritch Race would be discovered.
What was more, Su Ming even knew that they intended to cooperate with the Eldritch Race.
Only the Bai Family’s upper-echelon Heavenly Venerables knew of this matter. He could not understand how Su Ming had learned of it.
But after hearing Su Ming speak of it, he knew Su Ming was already a dead man.
Neither he nor the entire Bai Family would ever allow Su Ming to leave alive.
Even though, for now, the Bai Family had only reached the stage of secretly contacting the Eldritch Race.
Still, he understood the current situation in the Qingxuan Realm very clearly. Only if the Eldritch Race acted according to the Bai Family’s plan could things continue in the long term.
And the Bai Family, in turn, would be able to break through to the Immortal Realm and become the sole supreme power in the Qingxuan Realm.
Seeing the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable fly into a rage out of humiliation and try to silence him, Su Ming snorted coldly.
Su Ming raised his hand, gripped the Taixu Immortal Sword, and casually slashed out a strand of sword qi. The Bai Family Heavenly Venerable’s Divine Power was instantly neutralized.
“You want to kill me? With just you?”
“As I see it, even if everyone in your Bai Family attacked together, you still wouldn’t be able to kill me!”
Su Ming deliberately raised his voice, wanting to draw the attention of everyone around him.
Then, a cold gleam flashed through his eyes, and Heavenslaying was unleashed in an instant.
“You brat, you—”
Before the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable could finish speaking, Heavenslaying struck him head-on.
Its speed was too fast, so fast that before he could even react, he had already lost consciousness.
Looking at the unconscious Bai Family Heavenly Venerable collapsed on top of the pavilion, Su Ming did not hesitate to plant a foot on him.
“What? Still not coming out?”
“If you don’t come out soon, he’s going to die!”
As soon as he said that, Su Ming pressed down harder with his foot. The Bai Family Heavenly Venerable immediately jolted awake and spat out a mouthful of blood.
“How is this possible?”
“Urgh...”
Right after that, the Bai Family Heavenly Venerable spat out another mouthful of essence blood, and his face instantly turned deathly pale.
Just as Su Ming lifted his foot and was about to press down again, a voice rang out.
“Please stay your hand, Fellow Daoist.”