Chapter 301: Crushing Defeat

"What is this?!" Xi Guang’s expression changed dramatically. A supreme divine ability?!

Alone, that wouldn't have him worried. A supreme divine ability was something he could break apart without much difficulty.

The real issue was that he was currently within the very heart of the Xi family estate. If he forcefully shattered this supreme divine ability, the shockwaves produced by the clash would reduce the surrounding courtyards, towers, and palaces to dust, and countless members of the Xi family would die as a result.

With that thought in mind, Xi Guang pushed his divine ability to its limit and relied on the power of his Primordial Void to forcibly withstand Yaoguang’s Space-Splitting Strike.

At the same time, his body shot upward, twisting space itself as he dragged the battlefield high into the heavens.

"So as a Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal, you’re really that confident no one can instantly discern the frequency of your Primordial Void?" Yaoguang fully unleashed his psychic thought.

He directly activated a mental supreme divine ability: Supreme Emotional Detachment!

This supreme divine ability cast aside all external influences, allowing the cultivator to enter a state devoid of emotion and desire, one akin to supreme enlightenment.

In that state, his combat perception and sensitivity rose to their peak. His mind became like a machine, able to make the most advantageous decisions in the shortest possible time.

Every piece of information in his mind concerning the changes within the Primordial Void of the Void-Piercing Realm was reviewed in an instant. He precisely captured the frequency of Xi Guang’s Primordial Void and immediately derived the exact method needed to shatter it.

And the moment he found that method, the Wandering Dragon Sword cut through the void, already gathering power for a second Space-Splitting Strike.

"He has a supreme treasure?! And a supreme divine ability?!" After Yaoguang had escaped their first joint attack using Nine Heavenly Transformations, Xi Hai and Xi Hong were shocked, delighted, and enraged all at once.

Shocked by Yaoguang’s strength, delighted by his wealth, and enraged by his sheer audacity.

The moment Yaoguang’s Wandering Dragon Sword slashed out, preparing to unleash a second Space-Splitting Strike, the two men’s divine abilities struck once more.

This time, Xi Hai used the Great Universe Hand, seeking to completely seal the space around Yaoguang.

Meanwhile, Xi Hong unleashed another ordinary divine ability, Great Sun Rainbow Light.

Under the state of Supreme Emotional Detachment, Yaoguang’s mind operated like a computer, clearly analyzing every change in the divine abilities of the three experts around him.

And after analyzing the changes, he instantly chose the optimal method to break the situation.

He barely moved at all. Whether it was the Great Universe Hand or the Great Sun Rainbow Light, he treated them as though they did not exist.

Instead, the power of the void gathered in his Wandering Dragon Sword rose to its absolute peak.

Powered by even more void force than before, the Space-Splitting Strike crashed down without the slightest delay, striking Xi Guang’s body and colliding head-on with the twisted void power he had hastily raised.

The moment the two void forces collided, three visible rings of spatial ripples exploded outward.

The first ring swept across the battlefield, disrupting the twisted void Xi Guang had raised to defend against the Space-Splitting Strike. During the collision of those two forces, the power of Xi Hai’s Great Universe Hand and Xi Hong’s Great Sun Rainbow Light weakened sharply.

The second ring, taking advantage of that disruption, slammed directly into Xi Guang’s Primordial Void. Tuned to the exact frequency of Xi Guang’s Primordial Void, the impact immediately made the already unstable Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal’s face distort with horror.

Then the third ring of spatial ripples followed close behind and swept into his Primordial Void once again. At that instant, he completely lost control of his Primordial Void...

Xi Guang’s eyes were full of horror, fear, despair and astonishment as it began to collapse.

Just like Xi Lie and every other Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal, he simply could not believe that someone could precisely analyze the frequency of their Primordial Void in only one or two exchanges.

If Void-Piercing Realm battle immortals were truly so weak, why would the true disciples of great sects, even those who had formed Azure Golden Cores, still treat battle immortals respectfully despite inwardly looking down on them?

In theory, any cultivator who could survive a single strike from a Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal had a chance of triggering the collapse of that battle immortal’s Primordial Void and killing them.

But in reality, out of a hundred Azure Golden Core cultivators, perhaps only one or two could truly threaten a Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal.

And those one or two would absolutely be true disciples groomed for the Void-Refining Realm, or even direct disciples destined for the Void-Shattering Realm. They would have specifically practiced supreme divine abilities designed to shatter Primordial Voids and undergone specialized training to combat unstable Primordial Voids.

That was also why Xi Hai had not dared to personally deal with Yaoguang and instead invited Xi Lie to act.

Void-Piercing Realm battle immortals were stronger than Azure Golden Core cultivators, and vastly so. That was common knowledge.

But before Yaoguang, that common knowledge had clearly been shattered.

"No!" A shocked and furious psychic thought shook the void.

After witnessing his ancestor’s Void-Piercing Realm collapse in an instant, the head of the Xi family erupted with boundless rage. The Great Sun Rainbow Light he had launched struck Yaoguang’s body with perfect accuracy.

Just before the Great Sun Rainbow Light hit him, the Primary Star starlight within all 1080 acupoints in Yaoguang’s body shone at once. The starlight continuously intertwined and transformed, making his body seem to become primordial chaos itself, endlessly grinding away, dispersing, and dissolving the blazing heat and destructive force contained within the Great Sun Rainbow Light.

It was the Myriad Stars Chaotic Body.

At the same time, the Two-Realm Ruler activated. As he stepped forward with Nine Heavenly Transformations, he seemed to completely ignore the spatial seal of the Great Universe Hand, and he reappeared fifty kilometers away.

This time, Yaoguang had gone all out. He had endured the attacks of two Azure Golden Core experts head-on and killed a Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal, holding nothing back as he displayed all of his power.

Watching Yaoguang instantly appear fifty kilometers away, Xi Guang, whose Primordial Void was collapsing, couldn't help but show unwillingness in his eyes.

He sighed and cast one last look toward his family estate below, then gathered the last of his strength, seemingly trying to rise even higher into the sky.

But his Primordial Void was already collapsing. The moment his body moved, it completely lost control.

Brilliant seven-colored light bloomed once again above the state capital.

"Ancestor!"

"Third Granduncle!"

Xi Hai, Xi Hong, the two Azure Golden Core experts, along with countless members of the Xi family, all cried out in grief.

Especially Xi Hai. Regret was immediately visible in his eyes.

Regret that he had failed to use the Demon Hunting Hall’s grand array to suppress and kill Yaoguang back at the Demon Hunting Hall.

And hatred toward the fact that Yaoguang had actually dared strike back and kill a Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal of the Xi family.

"Crap! Retreat!"

"The Xi family’s Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal actually fell?! And so quickly? How is that possible?! Is there a traitor in the Xi family who leaked their ancestor’s secrets?!"

"Quick! Activate the array art! Protect the family!"

"Is that truly an inner sect disciple of the Heavenly Dao Sect?! Since when were the Heavenly Dao Sect’s inner sect disciples this powerful?! Even the true disciples of the Three-Qing Temple aren't this strong, are they?!"

The watching cultivators also snapped out of it.

One after another, they retreated at full speed, avoiding the energy release caused by the fall of a Void-Piercing Realm expert.

Some cultivators whose family estates were near the Xi family's estate immediately issued orders to activate their array arts.

In an instant, the entire state capital blazed with brilliant light.

Countless emergency array arts were activated one after another.

Even the city's protective array entered an emergency activation state. A massive, visible ring of flowing light appeared above the state capital, enveloping the entire city.

However, because the array had been activated too hastily, and because Xi Guang’s Primordial Void had collapsed almost directly above the city within the state capital, the surging torrent of energy and void still shattered the array in less than a breath, damaging it in the process.

Still, after that single breath of resistance, most of the energy released by the collapse of Xi Guang’s Primordial Void had already dissipated.

Even so, the shockwaves caused considerable destruction throughout the city.

Fortunately, the place where Xi Guang’s Primordial Void lost control was directly above the Xi family, so most of the remaining force was borne by the Xi family itself.

Countless buildings collapsed or were destroyed. Countless Xi family disciples were killed in the aftermath.

As for the remaining energy waves...

The areas around the Xi family were also occupied by top families. Every pavilion and palace was protected by array arts, and each courtyard had Radiant Sun Golden Core or Blazing White Golden Core cultivators guarding it.

With these array arts and the cultivators helping to block the impact, the shockwave ultimately failed to spread across the entire city.

Even so, such a massive disturbance, one that had even heavily damaged the city-protecting array and forced it to stop operating, left countless people horrified.

"Two Void-Piercing Realm battle immortals have already died! One Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal fell outside the city just now, and now another one has fallen here?! How long has it been? Two Void-Piercing Realm battle immortals have already died? Haizhou's capital is about to change completely!"

"Speaking of which, was the Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal who fell outside the city just now the Xi family’s sixteenth master? Otherwise, with the Xi family facing the danger of extermination, why hasn’t he appeared yet?"

"Do you even need to ask? It must be this Heavenly Dao Sect expert who killed Xi Lie, then still wasn’t satisfied and came straight to the Xi family’s main estate... He’s here to wipe them out!"

"The Xi family has controlled the Demon Hunting Hall, medicinal herb sales, divine beast rearing, and other industries for years. How many people have they cheated? This time, they ran into a brick wall. Xi Hai even dared embezzle the bounty of a powerhouse capable of exterminating the Black Dragon Pirates! How dare he?! Where was his brain? Truly blinded by greed!"

All kinds of discussions resounded throughout the high-tier cultivator circles of Haizhou's capital.

Some were horrified by the strength of Yaoguang, while others gloated over the Xi family’s misfortune.

The rise of a great family inevitably touched the interests of all sides. Under such circumstances, now that the Xi family faced extermination, many powers were naturally happy to see it happen.

Of course, some of the Xi family’s allies did not wish to see the Xi family fall just like this.

But with the terrifying might of that Heavenly Dao Sect expert, who had already slain two Void-Piercing Realm battle immortals right before their eyes, none of them dared step forward at this moment and accompany the Xi family to its grave.

Naturally, there were also a few voices of condemnation.

"How reckless and arrogant. This madman dared to fight above the state capital and even slaughter a great family within the city. Is the guardian envoy not going to intervene?"

"The guardian envoy is away looking for pills and isn’t in the state capital."

"Uh... I spoke too loudly. I’m not getting involved in this."

The few voices of condemnation were quickly drowned out.

Yaoguang turned his gaze back toward Xi Hai and Xi Hong. "Xi Hai, since you are stubborn and refuse to return the 460,000 Pure Yang Grand Pills that rightfully belong to me, I can only take them myself."

At this point, there was nothing more to say. He could only follow the rules of North Sea Star and exterminate the entire family.