Just as Su Chen drove the Three Great Cosmic Treasures into the Zhan Cang Sword Array, Di Jie trembled violently, as if struck by divine thunder, his voice hoarse, breath frantic, eyes filled with extreme fear. Suddenly, he roared, "Retreat!!!"

Although he wished to tear Su Chen to pieces, to grind his bones into dust, his hatred for Su Chen turned his eyes purple-red and caused him to lose his senses.

Yet when Su Chen’s Three Great Cosmic Treasures instantly joined the Zhan Cang Sword Array, the overwhelming aura of death, annihilation, invincible might emanating from it shocked him back into calmness.

Even if he couldn’t believe what was happening before him, the truth was undeniable. The Zhan Cang Sword Array, empowered by the Three Great Cosmic Treasures, felt insurmountable, despair-inducing, revealing an inherent disparity.

His Emperor’s Heavenly Punishment wasn’t a match, Di Kuang’s Nine Deaths Withered Wood Palm was also no match, and neither was Di You and Di Ge’s Emperor Divine Sword. Even if all four were attacking simultaneously, four versus one, four moves against one, they still couldn’t rival it.

This was Di Jie’s instantaneous judgment.

The realization eradicated all the resentment, hatred, fury, killing intent from Di Jie’s mind in an instant, leaving only one thought: survival.

Indeed.

Now, it wasn’t a matter of revenge or his hatred towards Su Chen; it was about whether he could survive!

He stared intently at the Zhan Cang Sword Array, feeling a coldness that penetrated his marrow; this sword array, in Su Chen’s hands, might even directly kill someone at the Human Lord Ninth Peak Realm?

In fact, at this moment, Di Jie sensed the danger, terror, and insurmountability of the Zhan Cang Sword Array with the added Cosmic Treasures; Di Kuang and the others were not oblivious to it, though they reacted slightly slower than Di Jie.

In the flash of a moment. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

The hair-raising scene was...

Hiss.

Only a faint, subtle, almost inaudible sound wave, then the Zhan Cang Sword Array suddenly surged with black light, executing an Extremely Heavenly Slash, sweeping over Emperor’s Heavenly Punishment, Nine Deaths Withered Wood Palm, Emperor Divine Sword...

These ultimate moves, most famous in the Di Family, seemed like the world’s softest, weakest paper, without the slightest ability to resist, breaking apart directly, the light dissipating instantly, darkened by five colors, reduced to powder of death and killing aura, becoming void.

The Di Family’s best hidden cards, wielded by the family’s greatest old monsters, couldn’t even withstand a single breath under the Zhan Cang Sword Array.

This scene was truly chilling.

Even though Di Jie foresaw it a moment ago, witnessing it firsthand still chilled him from head to toe, aging him ten million years.

However, after all, Di Jie is Di Jie, as the head of the Di Family, he still had a means to save his life.

"Heavens-Earth Shuttle!!!"

He acted entirely by instinct, directly activating the Heavens-Earth Shuttle.

Then vanished.

He disappeared like a hallucination, not only from Su Chen’s sight but also from the entire front section of the Mother River.

The Heavens-Earth Shuttle is a space treasure.

It was acquired by the Di Family’s first ancestor in the martial arts holy land of the Grand Cosmos World, and the reason why that ancestor could single-handedly establish the Di Family was largely due to obtaining the Heavens-Earth Shuttle.

The Heavens-Earth Shuttle isn’t an imperial weapon; it’s just a treasure, but this treasure is too unique, one in billions, a space treasure.

The rarity of space treasures is second only to time treasures.

To refine a space treasure, a necessary condition is that the refiner must comprehend highly advanced space laws.

Across the entire Grand Cosmos World, there are currently no more than two old monsters who have refined space laws to an extremely high level.

Under such circumstances, the Heavens-Earth Shuttle is incredibly rare and has always been a legacy treasure of the Di Family’s heads.

The Heavens-Earth Shuttle is also the identity certification of the Di Family head.

Whenever the head of the family passes on the position, the Heavens-Earth Shuttle is transferred to the next head.

Like an imperial jade seal, it holds great symbolic significance.

The Heavens-Earth Shuttle saved Di Jie’s life.

However, at the very instant Di Jie vanished thanks to the Heavens-Earth Shuttle, the three Great Elders, Di Kuang, Di You, and Di Ge, had already become spirits under the Zhan Cang Sword Array, turned to fragments.

Thus, aside from Di Deijin, the family’s ancestress, and Di Jie himself, all other martial cultivators above the Human Lord Realm within the Di Family were dead!!! Completely annihilated! Not a single one left!

All thirty-six Human Lord Realm experts dispatched into the front segment of the Mother River by Di Jie were annihilated.

"Damn!" Su Chen’s face looked rather grim. His plan was to destroy Di Jie as well.

Unexpectedly...

Completely unexpected.

"Iceflame, how did he do it?" Su Chen asked the Iceflame Vermilion Bird.

"A space treasure," replied the Iceflame Vermilion Bird. "However, your strength still isn’t strong enough. If it were, when the Zhan Cang Sword Array could directly sever space completely, then even space treasures would be rendered useless."

"Is that so? Seems like I’m still not strong enough," Su Chen murmured to himself. "Iceflame, next up, to the middle section of the Mother River, right?"

"Yes!"

"Really looking forward to it!" Su Chen grinned.

Iceflame Vermilion Bird watched, speechless. Heading for the middle section of the Mother River ensures strength enhancement but is also extremely painful. Using the terrifying storm of the middle section to temper the physical body is agony beyond death incomparable. Su Chen tasted it once in the front segment, didn’t he? Why does he still anticipate it so much? Can the feeling of agony beyond death become addictive?

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"Ancestor!!! Ancestor! Ancestor!!! All of the Di Family’s Human Lord Realm cultivators are virtually dead at that little bastard’s hands! Ancestor!" In the deepest part of the back mountains of the Imperial Realm, Di Jie knelt before a cave, crying bitterly, continuously bowing.

Di Jie ultimately escaped death.

But after leaving the Mother River, he wished he were dead.

Really dying would be fine, but since he wasn’t dead, he had to resolve the mess in the Di Family now!

The entirety of the Human Lord Realm cultivators in the Di Family was nearly wiped out, completely obsolete. He could only go seek the ancestor.

"Come in." It was only after Di Jie had bowed a dozen times that a voice, elderly and filled with death energy, came through.

Di Jie quickly got up and walked into the cave.