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"What is this!?" Xi Guang's face dropped. A supreme divine ability!? Yet even if it were a supreme divine ability, shattering it would not be difficult for him. The real issue was that he was in the very heart of the Xi family compound. If he forcefully broke this supreme divine ability, the spatial ripples it produced would reduce every surrounding courtyard, pavilion, and palace to dust, leaving an untold number of Xi family members dead. With that thought, Xi Guang pushed his divine ability to the limit, relying on the power of his primal cavern to withstand Yaoguang's Sky-Cleaving Strike head-on. At the same time, he leaped into the air, warping space to pull the battlefield straight into the firmament. "So... as a Void Piercing Battle Immortal, are you truly that confident your cavern's frequency wouldn't be seen through the moment you acted?" Yaoguang unleashed the full force of his divine mind. In that instant, he activated a mind-type supreme divine ability—Taishang Emotion Severing! This supreme divine ability stripped away every external influence, placing the cultivator into a state devoid of emotion or desire, akin to supreme enlightenment. A cultivator in this state saw their battle perception and sharpness elevated to the absolute peak. Like a mechanical mind, they could arrive at the most advantageous combat decision in the shortest possible time. Just as now, every detail in his memory regarding the variations of a Void Piercing Realm primal cavern was reviewed in a single instant. He precisely seized upon the Battle Immortal's black hole frequency, immediately determining how to shatter his primal cavern. The moment he identified the method, his Swimming Dragon Sword tore through the void as a second Sky-Cleaving Strike began to coalesce. "He possesses a supreme treasure!? And a supreme divine ability!?" Xi Hai and Xi Hong, whose combined strike had just been evaded by Yaoguang's Nine Heavenly Transformations, were swept with shock, joy, and fury. Shock at Yaoguang's strength. Joy at Yaoguang's wealth. Fury at Yaoguang's insolence. Yet as Yaoguang swung the Swimming Dragon Sword to deliver his second Sky-Cleaving Strike, their divine abilities struck once more. This time, Xi Hai unleashed the Great Qiankun Hand, aiming to lock down all the space surrounding Yaoguang. Xi Hong unleashed another ordinary divine ability—the Great Sun Rainbow Ray. Under the state of Taishang Emotion Severing, Yaoguang's mind was like a mirror, clearly reflecting every variation in the divine abilities of the three experts around him. Reflecting those changes while remaining stripped of emotion and desire, he chose the optimal way to break through in an instant. His body barely moved. The Great Qiankun Hand and the Great Sun Rainbow Ray were treated as if they did not exist. Instead, the condensation of spatial power within the Swimming Dragon Sword reached its absolute peak. Channeled by a spatial force far more violent than before, the Sky-Cleaving Strike slammed into the body of Void Piercing Battle Immortal Xi Guang without the slightest hesitation, crashing directly into the warped spatial force he had hastily gathered. The instant the two spatial forces collided, three visible ripples surged violently outward. The first swept across, disrupting the spatial distortion Xi Guang had raised against the Sky-Cleaving Strike. The impact of the two spatial forces even weakened the power of Xi Hai's Great Qiankun Hand and Xi Hong's Great Sun Rainbow Ray. The second ripple took advantage of that disrupted spatial distortion to slam into Xi Guang's primal cavern. Aligning with the cavern's frequency, the impact caused the Void Piercing Battle Immortal's face to pale, his already unstable primal cavern shaken to the core. By the time the third spatial ripple swept in immediately behind it, the unstable primal cavern went completely out of control... Under his terrified, despairing, and... Incredulous gaze, it began to collapse. Like Xi Lie and the other Void Piercing Battle Immortals, he could not believe anyone could precisely decipher their primal cavern's frequency in just one or two exchanges. If Void Piercing Battle Immortals were truly that fragile, why would true disciples of great sects with Azure Blue Golden Cores still treat them with utmost deference on the surface, no matter how resentful they felt inside? In theory, any cultivator who could survive a single blow from a Void Piercing Battle Immortal had a chance of triggering the collapse and demise of their primal cavern. In reality, however... Out of a hundred Azure Blue Golden Cores, perhaps only one or two posed an actual threat to a Void Piercing Battle Immortal. And those one or two were bound to be personal disciples of Void Refining or Void Shattering experts, having trained specifically in supreme divine abilities designed to shatter primal caverns and undergone focused combat training against unstable caverns. That was why Xi Hai had asked Xi Lie to step in when he lacked the confidence to deal with Yaoguang himself. That Void Piercing Battle Immortals were far stronger than Azure Blue Golden Cores was common knowledge. Yet before Yaoguang, that common knowledge had been thoroughly shattered. "No!" A divine mind filled with terror and fury shook the void. Seeing his ancestor's void cavern shattered in an instant, Xi Hong, the head of the Xi family, erupted with boundless rage. The Great Sun Rainbow Ray he fired struck Yaoguang squarely. *Buzz! Buzz!* Almost the moment the Great Sun Rainbow Ray struck, the primary stars within all 1,080 of Yaoguang's acupoints flared in unison. Their light interwove and shifted, making his body resemble the embodiment of chaos, steadily grinding away, dispersing, and unraveling the blistering heat and destructive power of the ray. The Chaos Body of Countless Stars. At the same time, the Two Realms Ruler activated. With a single step of the Nine Heavenly Transformations, he appeared a hundred li away, seemingly ignoring the Great Qiankun Hand's spatial lockdown. This time, Yaoguang held nothing back, tanking the attacks of two Azure Blue Golden Cores to forcefully execute a Void Piercing Battle Immortal, displaying his overwhelming might to the fullest. Watching Yaoguang, who had appeared a hundred li away in an instant, a trace of unreconciled indignation flashed in the eyes of Xi Guang, whose primal cavern was collapsing. "Alas." He cast a longing glance down at his family estate in the provincial capital. Then, mustering his last ounce of strength, he tried to ascend higher into the sky. Yet with his primal cavern already collapsing, the moment he moved, it lost control entirely. A brilliant, dazzling seven-colored rainbow blossomed once more above the provincial capital. "Ancestor!" "Third Great-Uncle!" At that moment, the two Azure Blue Golden Cores, Xi Hai and Xi Hong, along with countless Xi family members, cried out in anguish. Xi Hai in particular was consumed by deep regret and hatred. He regretted not using the Demon Subduing Hall's grand formation to execute Yaoguang on the spot. He hated that Yaoguang had dared to strike back and kill a Void Piercing Battle Immortal of their family. "Not good! Fall back!" "The Xi family's Void Piercing Battle Immortal has fallen!? And so quickly—how is that possible!? Could there be a traitor who leaked the ancestor's secrets!?" "Quick! Activate the formation! Protect the family!" "Yaoguang!? An inner disciple of the Heavenly Dao Sect!? Since when are Heavenly Dao Sect inner disciples this powerful!? Not even true disciples of the Sanqing Sacred Hall have such capability, do they!?" The onlookers finally snapped back to their senses. They retreated at full speed to escape the burst of energy and spatial tsunami caused by the Battle Immortal's death. Cultivators whose compounds lay near the Xi family immediately ordered their defensive formations raised. In an instant, dazzling light radiated throughout the provincial capital. Countless emergency formations were brought online. Even the city-guarding grand formation entered an emergency state, a massive, visible stream of flowing light appearing in the sky, cloaking the entire city. Yet because the formation was activated in such haste, and because Xi Guang's primal cavern had essentially collapsed within the city's airspace, the torrential energy and spatial tsunami overwhelmed the city-guarding formation in less than a single breath, inflicting severe damage on it. Even so, that single breath of resistance allowed the bulk of the lingering energy from the collapse to dissipate. Even what remained caused considerable destruction within the city. Fortunately, the point of collapse lay directly above the Xi family compound, so the family absorbed the majority of the remaining force. Innumerable buildings and pavilions were flattened or damaged. Countless Xi family disciples were wiped out in the aftermath. As for the rest of the shockwave... The Xi family was bordered by other prominent clans. Every pavilion and palace had protective formations, with Radiant Sun Golden Core and Incandescent White Golden Core cultivators guarding the various courtyards. With those formations and cultivators holding the line, the shockwave was prevented from spreading across the entire city. Even so, a catastrophe of this scale—one that crippled the city-guarding formation—left countless people gripped with terror. "Two Void Piercing Battle Immortals! One fell outside the city just moments ago, and now another has fallen here!? How long has it been, and two have already perished? The sky is truly changing over Haizhou!" "Speaking of which, could the one who died outside the city have been the Xi family's Sixteenth Master? Otherwise, with the family facing extermination, why hasn't he appeared?" "Does that even need to be asked? That Heavenly Dao Sect expert killed Xi Lie, and unsatisfied, charged straight into the Xi family's main compound... He's out to wipe them out entirely!" "Over the years, the Xi family controlled the Demon Subduing Hall, medicinal herb sales, divine beast rearing, and so many other industries—how many people have they wronged? This time, they kicked an iron plate! Embezzling the bounty of someone capable of wiping out the Black Dragon Pirates—how did they dare!? Did they lose their minds? Truly blinded by greed!" All manner of talk spread through the circle of high-ranking cultivators in the Haizhou provincial capital. Some were stunned by the Heavenly Dao Sect disciple's strength, while others took pleasure in the Xi family's downfall. The rise of any great clan inevitably stepped on the interests of others. In a crisis where the Xi family faced annihilation, plenty of factions were glad to see it happen. Of course, some of the Xi family's allies did not want to see them fall. Yet after witnessing the terrifying spectacle of a Heavenly Dao Sect expert slaying two Void Piercing Battle Immortals, none dared step forward to be buried alongside them. There were also a few voices of condemnation. "How utterly reckless and arrogant! For such a madman to fight above the provincial capital and slaughter a prominent clan within the city—is Lord Defense Envoy simply going to ignore this?" "Lord Defense Envoy went away to seek pills and is not in the provincial capital." "Uh... I spoke too loudly just now. Forget I said anything." The few voices of criticism were quickly drowned out and silenced. Meanwhile, Yaoguang... Turned his gaze back toward Xi Hai and Xi Hong. "Xi Hai, you remain stubbornly obstinate, refusing to return the 460,000 Pure Yang Great Pills that belong to me. In that case, I will take them myself." Matters having come to this, there was nothing left to say. He could only abide by the rules of Beihai Star. Destroy the clan, exterminate the house.