novelraw Chapter 145
Chapter 145
Chapter 145
Zhao’s voice rang out crisp and clear, carrying with it the resonance of the Great Dao.
As her words fell, the blazing sun above the heavens grew violently restless.
Immediately after, a terrifying scene unfolded.
The eternal, indestructible sun in the firmament began to tremble violently.
Beams of sunlight fell like the wrath of the sun descending upon the mortal world!!
In an instant, all the retainers who stood beside that man were reduced to dust under the sunlight, body and soul obliterated!
…
Nothing remained!!
Within the void, countless watching eyes suddenly constricted.
“Venerable!”
“Not just a Venerable, her grasp of the Dao is terrifying beyond words!”
“The Dao of the Sun? Could she be from the Golden Crow Family??”
“More importantly… this Venerable-level existence is addressing Su Zhou as Honored Lord!!”
Those who observed in secret all felt their hearts violently quake.
“Disrespectful toward the Honored Lord!”
“Come forth, kneel and die, or else… your entire family shall be exterminated!!”
Zhao’s voice was neither sad nor joyful, but the murderous aura in her tone seemed almost tangible.
The Barbaric War Lord threw back his head and let out a sky-shaking roar.
Boom!!
Behind him, a colossal beastly apparition emerged, blotting out the heavens, an astral form never before witnessed.
Its form towered over all, as though tens of thousands of savage beasts bowed beneath its might, with a single awe-inspiring figure reigning over them all.
Pure, unadulterated battle intent fused seamlessly with the apparition, rendering it lifelike, as if a battle-Venerable himself stood upon the skies!
“The seed of blazing will, the divine form of manifestation!!”
“Another Venerable-level existence!!”
“What!! The Su Family actually has two Venerables!!”
The hidden observers could not help but cry out in shock.
“To skulk in the shadows like ants, and dare to spy?” Zhao’s voice sounded again, drifting like a whisper.
She made no visible movement.
The next moment, strands of sunlight gently descended.
This light, which ordinarily nourished the heavens and nurtured all living things, now concealed within it an inexhaustible, crushing might.
Then—
Crack!
Crack!
Rare treasures, capable of reflecting this very scene, shattered one after another.
“Ah!! My eyes!!”
“No!! My Celestial Sight!!”
“I can’t hear!! My Divine Hearing is gone!!”
One after another, mighty cultivators howled in despair.
Beneath that warm sunlight, every sinister spy was utterly wiped out.
And yet, throughout it all, Zhao had revealed no astral form, had not even lifted a hand.
Everything before them was but the result of a single thought!
“Wait!!! Misunderstanding! This is a misunderstanding!!”
“This is all a colossal misunderstanding!!”
An elder stumbled forth, weeping and wailing.
He bowed with utmost reverence to Zhao and the Barbaric War Lord.
His eyes brimmed with fear and dread:
“Exalted Ones, our Liu Family sincerely wishes to form an alliance with the Su Family!”
“It was only that arrogant fool who caused this misunderstanding upon learning of it!”
“Exalted One’s strike was just! Perfectly executed!!”
“Our Liu Family is willing to offer a thousand spiritual veins, four entire treasure mountains…”
The elder’s tongue was like a lotus in bloom, spilling forth a flood of resources, as though long prepared.
He raised a storage ring high above his head with trembling hands.
Zhao glanced at the Barbaric War Lord, who immediately stepped forward and accepted the ring.
“Your sincerity is not bad…” Zhao’s voice drifted, ethereal and omnipresent.
Hearing this, the elder forced a flattering smile, though inwardly his heart bled bitterly.
After the Battle of Tianhuo, all of Northern Wilderness knew the Su Family’s Patriarch wielded peerless slaughter, and that their family held countless prodigies.
If he had the choice, he would never dare provoke the Su Family.
It was only because a great figure wished to test the Su Family’s depths, and the Liu Family, having lost its peak experts in the Endless Sea, was cast forth as a sacrificial pawn.
But no one expected that, with just a single move, the Su Family would reveal not one, but two Venerables!!
Venerable Realm!!
What kind of existence is that?
Even the Northern Wilderness Alliance, formed from over a hundred great powers, possessed fewer than a handful of such beings. Each one is incomparably noble, rarely ever acting.
Yet the Su Family revealed two at once, both addressing Su Zhou as Honored Lord.
Unimaginable… What kind of hidden foundation did such a family truly possess?
If even Venerables are mere subordinates, then what terrifying heights had their ancestors and elders attained?
The thought alone surpassed all imagination.
“May the Honored Ones be satisfied…” the elder said obsequiously, but his words were cut short.
Zhao’s airy, detached voice carried no trace of emotion:
“Your sincerity is not bad. Therefore, I shall grant your Liu Family the mercy of, complete annihilation.”
“Originally, I intended for the Liu Family to suffer under the Sun’s torment. But since you’ve shown sincerity, let it be quick.”
“In your next life, be careful… do not provoke the wrong person again.”
Her voice was cold and indifferent, as though narrating a simple truth.
“No!!”
The elder tried to speak, but no sound emerged.
He could no longer feel his body.
His vision soared skyward, as though his spirit had drifted away.
Buzz!!
The elder’s figure dissolved into a shaft of sunlight.
A painless death, this was Zhao’s final mercy.
He turned into a light that streaked toward a direction.
“Go on! Do not disappoint the Honored Lord!”
At her words, the Barbaric War Lord grinned cruelly, like a beast baring its fangs.
“Understood…”
With that, his colossal figure surged forth, trailing bloodlust as he vanished in pursuit of the fleeing light.
Wherever he passed, blood qi spread in torrents.
Zhao turned, preparing to return to the small world.
But her expression suddenly shifted.
Her once dignified, noble features twisted into something unspeakably enchanting, dangerously captivating.
“What are you doing?”
“So many ants spied upon us just now, why did you not kill them all!!”
Her voice dripped with seductive charm.
“The Honored Lord did not command it. I cannot act without orders!”
Her voice then shifted, lofty and ethereal.
“Hehe! Hypocritical sun! Release me! I am the one truly fit to serve the Honored Lord!”
“What the Honored Lord needs is guidance, not a mindless butcher!!”
“And how do you know the Honored Lord prefers you, and not me?”
“Silence!!”
Zhao muttered like one possessed, her face shifting between regal majesty and bewitching allure.
Her left eye blazed with the corona of the sun, her right eye glimmered with the cold light of the moon.
Within her gaze, sun and moon coexisted, the two Daos intertwining.
Though it was high noon, with the sun blazing overhead, opposite it rose a crescent moon glowing with silvery radiance.
Half the sky plunged into eerie darkness, as if night had fallen, while the other half remained bright under the sun.
At this moment, sun and moon shared the heavens.
Zhao’s gaze deepened, murmuring softly:
“The one who shall serve the Honored Lord… is me!”
“It is me!!”
On Lingxiao Peak, Su Zhou observed everything from afar, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his lips.
As expected of one who had mastered both the Dao of Sun and Moon.
With but a thought, she raised sun and moon together.
Her power was terrifying, even among Venerables.
Moreover, her cultivation was clearly shackled by some restriction.
Otherwise, how could a being born divine stand at merely the Venerable Realm?
One must know, in these Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, only a handful of existences could bear the title Innately Divine.
At birth, they stood above all life.
Born sacred, born godlike!!
With Zhao and the Barbaric War Lord at his side, the Su Family’s lack of peak-level power was no longer an issue.
From now on, he could devote himself fully to cultivation.
“Although… this god’s personality might pose a problem…”