Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

The Ice Emperor was about to fully awaken and return to the Eastern Continent.

He had already obtained the Mystic Sect Sword Order and was making his final preparations to reappear in the world.

When he descended upon the Eastern Continent once more, the entire continent would be shaken, and those slumbering old fossils would also emerge.

The Ice Emperor needed to make a stunning debut!

To intimidate the world!

And so...

He had to use this final period to quickly accumulate energy, which meant he had to close the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm.

Under the control of the Ice Emperor’s will, all the experts inside the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm were teleported out.

As the experts exited the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm one by one, they immediately drew the attention of the many powerhouses who had been waiting outside for a long time.

"Are they finally out? I wonder how many prodigies managed to seize great opportunities this time!"

"Gai Shi and Long Jingyun must have gained the most!"

"Song Jiuxiao did pretty well, too!"

"Huh? How come we haven’t seen geniuses like Long Jingyun, Song Jiuxiao, or Zhuo Bufan?"

"What about our Zhang Ruhai? He’s an expert ranked in the twenties on the Human Venerable List. There’s no way he could have fallen..."

Countless experts were gathered at the exit of the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm.

These experts were all top masters from the major nations and Sects of the Eastern Continent. Among them were over a hundred in the Human Emperor Realm, and they could distinguish everyone with a single glance.

But they didn’t see Long Jingyun, Song Jiuxiao, Zhuo Bufan, Zhang Ruhai, Bing Long, or the others.

This truly puzzled them.

"Gai Shi is out, and he actually broke through to the Human King realm?"

"As expected of the heaven-blessed prodigy ranked first on the Human Venerable List. It seems Gai Shi’s gains from this trip to the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm were the greatest of all!"

"But why haven’t Long Jingyun and the others emerged? It’s strange. Logically, Gai Shi should have been the last one out. Where did they go?"

The contemporary Emperor of the Dragon Emperor Ancient Country, Long Chan, widened his eyes, a cold glint flashing within them. ’Something’s not right. Yun’Er still hasn’t come out. Something is very wrong.’

’Jiuxiao hasn’t come out either...’

Lightning seemed to crackle between the brows of Song Tiancheng from the Great Yuan Dynasty.

Fierce flames surged around Yuyang Liekong, the Sect Leader of the Celestial Fire Sect from the Fengyang Ancient Country. An invisible, murderous aura radiated from him, causing the Spiritual Qi in the air to roil. "What the hell is going on? Why isn’t Little Hai out yet?"

Yue Qianshan of the Six Mountains Dynasty also wore a grim expression.

Bing Qianchi, Clan Leader of the Icefield Race’s Royal Family, and Wang Shangwu of the Ice King Race were both silent, not uttering a single word.

The Ice King Race had sent a total of eight hundred people into the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm, but only a scattered two or three hundred had emerged. As for top prodigies like Luoyu Chuan and Xia Shang, not a single one had returned.

The Royal Family’s fate was even more tragic.

Tens of thousands of people had already returned, but not a single expert from the Royal Family was among them!

"What on earth happened?"

"Where did they all go?"

All the powerful cultivators looked utterly bewildered.

Even some experts ranked below ninety-thousand on the Human Venerable List had already emerged from the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm, yet top-ten masters like Bing Long and Long Jingyun were mostly unaccounted for.

What in the world had happened?

Under the questioning gazes of the assembled powerhouses, one of the survivors spoke up. "What? You’re asking about Zhang Ruhai? He was killed!"

"Zhuo Bufan? I think he was killed, too!"

"The Icefield Race Royal Family? All the Icefield Race experts inside the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm were wiped out!"

"Those powerhouses from the Ice King Race, Luoyu Chuan and Xia Shang? Their bodies were blasted to smithereens. How do you expect them to return?"

"Bing Long was torn to pieces..."

"Song Jiuxiao is dead, too!"

"Long Jingyun? He didn’t escape his fate, either. He’s been left behind in the Profound Celestial Ancestor Realm forever..."

The news of each expert’s death spread like wildfire.

It was madness!

The entire vicinity of Ancestor Mountain was plunged into a frenzied atmosphere.

Soaring waves of killing intent, fury, and hatred enveloped the very heavens!

A Human Emperor Powerhouse roared in anguish, "Who? Who in the hell killed my son?"

Long Qianqiu clenched his fists. The aura of his Human Emperor Realm surged forth like a vast ocean, shattering the clouds in the distant Celestial Vault. "Who killed my Yun’Er?!"

"Jiuxiao, your death was so tragic..."

"No matter who killed Bufan, I will have their life in return!"

"If I find out who the killer is, I’ll annihilate his entire clan and slaughter everyone in his nation..."

All the powerful experts went berserk!

The heaven-blessed prodigies their clans, kingdoms, and Sects had poured all their resources into cultivating had met their end in the Profound Celestial Secret Realm. How could they not be enraged?

"The killer... who is it?!"

Countless people were questioning the survivors.

The killer!

Who was the killer?

Who could possibly kill so many young Venerables from the Human Venerable List?

All eyes turned to Gai Shi. As far as they were concerned, no one besides him possessed such capability.

However...

Gai Shi was quickly cleared of suspicion.

One of the survivors revealed the killer’s identity. "Jiang Chen! It was Jiang Chen who killed Long Jingyun and the others! And Song Jiuxiao, Zhang Ruhai, Zhuo Bufan, Bing Long, Bing Xu, Luoyu Chuan, and Xia Shang—Jiang Chen killed them all! I saw it with my own eyes! It was really him!"

Jiang Chen!

Those two words were instantly seared into everyone’s memory.

"Who is Jiang Chen?"

"Get out here!"

"I’ll tear you limb from limb..."

"I’ll bind your very soul to my Celestial Fire Sect’s Celestial Fire Peak, to be seared by the Celestial Fire day and night, until you’re begging for a death that will never come..."

The roars for his death thundered across the Celestial Vault like great bells.

Countless experts were baying for his blood.

Even the Human Emperors’ eyes were icy cold and filled with killing intent.

In the crowd, Zhao Hongluan’s face was pale with worry as she looked at Gai Shi. "Gai Shi, what are we going to do?"

Purple Wind Frost looked nervous, her hands clasped before her chest as she prayed silently, ’Azure Heaven above, I beg you, please protect young Jiang Chen. He must not come out!’

Gai Shi’s face was grim. ’This is bad. Brother Jiang Chen killed too many people. Even if I asked His Majesty to intervene, there’s no way he could suppress all these furious Human Emperors! What can we possibly do?’

The experts Jiang Chen had killed were innumerable.

Among his victims were members of powers ranked in the top ten of the entire Eastern Continent, including the Dragon Emperor Ancient Country, the Great Yuan Dynasty, the Fengyang Ancient Country, and the Six Mountains Dynasty.

Every single one was a behemoth capable of shaking the Eastern Continent to its core!

Yet Jiang Chen had offended all of them in one fell swoop.

Seeing the dozens of Human Emperors with ravenous, murderous glints in their eyes made everyone’s heart pound with fear. Even someone as powerful as Gai Shi felt a surge of despair.

If Jiang Chen were to appear now, he would have to face dozens of Human Emperors!

What chance of survival would he have?

"Brother Jiang Chen, whatever you do, don’t come out... ugh..." As Gai Shi was speaking, his expression suddenly froze. A spatial passage had abruptly appeared in the void.

A slender figure slowly walked out from the spatial passage.

This person—was it not Jiang Chen himself?

The moment Jiang Chen appeared, someone recognized him and shouted, "Esteemed Human Emperor Seniors, that’s Jiang Chen!"

"Jiang Chen?"

"You’ve finally shown yourself!"

"Time to die!"

One by one, the Human Emperors and Human Kings turned their gazes to Jiang Chen, surrounding him completely.

Dozens of Human Emperors, hundreds of Human Kings.

A crushing mass of experts surrounded Jiang Chen, trapping him in a situation of certain death.

Unless a miracle occurred.

Otherwise...

This day, next year, would be the anniversary of Jiang Chen’s death!