174: Elegy of the Starry Sea

Perhaps finding the 'mother-daughter flower' collection quite interesting, the Divine Sense of the ten Venerables swept meticulously over the Chen Clan's core area once more, like a comb.

"Oh? Here... there are so many women with similar Bloodlines and excellent Aptitude?"

A Venerable who controlled the Law of Hurricane let out a soft exclamation, his gaze locking onto the nearly thousand unmarried 'Yuan' generation women, such as Chen Yuanmeng and Chen Yuanxue, who were full of grief and indignation!

They were the Chen Clan's pearls, the Federation's Prodigies, each shining brightly in different fields.

At this moment, they watched their elders, imprisoned in the sky, their beautiful eyes burning with fury, yet they also felt that despair-inducing gap.

"Many sisters, each with unique charm, good, good," Venerable Bing Po commented coldly, as if selecting goods.

"Take them all! Add some color to the Dominator's celebration!" Venerable Hui Guang ordered indifferently, as if instructing servants to pick flowers from a garden.

"Sisters! Let's fight them!" Chen Yuan Yan, with her fiery temper, had just ignited the raging flames around her when—

"Buzz—!"

An invisible cold wave swept through, and the nearly thousand 'Yuan' generation Chen Clan pearls, along with the faint light of their attempted resistance, were instantly sealed together within an even larger composite ice crystal cage!

Their faces were frozen in expressions of anger, unwillingness, and deep humiliation!

..."Yuanmeng—!!!"

Luo Mie let out a beast-like roar, his Stellar Level Peak energy burning and erupting recklessly, trying to break through the invisible suppression!

He was a soldier! The Federation's Blaze Army Lord! A tough guy who had fought powerful enemies in the Star Sea!

At this moment, he couldn't even stand up and rush to his wife's side!

He could only watch, watch as the woman who held all his tenderness and warmth... was sealed in a cold cage like the most exquisite work of art, along with her sisters' ice sculptures, and pulled up into the sky by an invisible force!

"No! Let her go! You bastards! Come at me! Come at me!!!"

Veins bulged on his forehead, his eyeballs were bloodshot, and his fingernails tore and fell off from frantically scratching the metal ground, bleeding profusely, yet he felt no pain.

Only the pain of his heart being torn and crushed threatened to consume his sanity!

Humiliation!

As a husband, he couldn't protect his wife!

As a soldier, he could only watch as enemies trampled his home and abducted his beloved!

This feeling of powerlessness was ten thousand times more painful than death!!!

..."Mother—!!!"

Luo Xing let out a piercing, distorted shriek!

What four thousand quotas! What lumbar muscle strain! At this moment, all were thrown to the back of his mind!

All that remained in his mind was his mother's gentle smile on weekdays, her concerned eyes when she secretly slipped him 'Solidifying Origin and Cultivating Essence Pills,' her helplessness and tolerance for his 'unpromising' self... And now, his mother was being frozen and abducted like an object by the enemy!

The reason was actually to 'liven up' some damned Dominator's celebration?!

"Let go of my mother! Let them go!!!"

Luo Xing went mad, his Planet-level Peak power frantically impacting the invisible shackles on his body, his skin cracking, blood seeping out, yet he couldn't move them in the slightest!

He watched helplessly as his mother's ice sculpture swept past the Star Brilliance Three Thousand Palace, watching her frozen gaze, still holding a trace of worry as she looked towards his palace... At that moment, Luo Xing felt his world collapse... What dashing charm, what Casanova tactics, what Family mission... all were nonsense!

He couldn't even protect his own mother!!!

This was not enough!

Greedy gazes turned to more places... That was Chen Zhaojing's residence. Venerable An Ying's Divine Sense penetrated the Bai Xi Palace's layers of Formations, seeing the hundreds of beautiful women of varying temperaments inside, huddling together in terror—Chen Zhaojing's hundred wives!

"Although their Aptitude is generally ordinary, their number is considerable, and they are all mothers of the nearly thousand Innate Aptitude individuals we just took," Venerable Hui Guang nodded slightly. "Take them all as well, to serve as maids, it will also show the Dominator's might."

Venerable Lei Fa laughed heartily, and the lightning net expanded again, like a giant sky-covering claw, reaching directly into Bai Xi Palace!

Amidst Chen Zhaojing's furious roars, his hundred wives were forcibly abducted as if scooping up fish and shrimp!

"No! Let them go! You beasts!!" Chen Zhaojing's entire body, at Stellar Level Peak, furiously burned with energy, instantly bursting forth! He recklessly shot into the sky, attempting to block them... "How dare an ant try to shake the heavens?" Venerable Hou Tu merely glared, and a solid, earthy-yellow Law barrier appeared out of thin air.

"Bang!"

Chen Zhaojing flew back even faster than he had charged forward, spewing blood, and slammed heavily onto the Pillar of Leaders plaza, creating a deep pit. His life or death was unknown!

Chen Jun's precious grandson, the precious grandson who had always taken the revitalization of the chen clan bloodline as his mission, the precious grandson who, no matter how hard or tiring, insisted on 'fighting' until his sons came of age!

He could only watch helplessly as his wives and daughters were abducted, yet he didn't even have the right to approach!

This humiliation was ten thousand times more painful than killing him!!!

In the Void Realm, ice sculptures stood in rows, and lightning nets flickered.

Within Kunlun Star, cries of sorrow rose, and curses soared to the sky, yet they could not change the reality in the slightest.

Chu Yueyao, Mo Heng, Shi Yue, Li Qingshan, and other Federation high-ranking officials gritted their teeth, their gums bleeding, their fingernails digging into their flesh, yet they could only stand rooted to the spot like nails.

They wanted to rush forward like moths to a flame, but they couldn't move; the Galaxy Level pressure held them firmly down!

Extreme anger brewed in silence, almost exploding everyone's Soul!

However, this was not over yet!!!

"Oh? Why are there still so many related females? All with Innate Aptitude?"

The ten Galaxy Level high-level Venerables acted simultaneously!

They no longer held back, no longer jested.

Because the 'grand spectacle' before them made even them feel an unprecedented shock and... greed!

Over a trillion Innate Aptitude females!!!

And all from one Family!!!!!!

Venerable Hui Guang's body glowed with billions of rays of light, transforming into billions of light threads, like living spirit snakes, precisely penetrating buildings and spatial barriers, wrapping around every target.

Venerable Bing Po's cold wave was no longer limited to freezing; it formed countless miniature, transparent 'Bloodline-sensing ice crystals' that, upon resonating with the Chen Clan female Bloodline, automatically enveloped and sealed them, like countless blue stars suddenly lighting up in the Star Sea.

Venerable Lei Fa's massive lightning net covered the entire firmament of Kunlun Star, filtering all life aura like a sieve, forcibly capturing all marked targets.

Venerable An Ying's shadow spread like a plague, infiltrating every corner of the planet, pulling out Chen Clan women one by one!

Venerable Hou Tu, Venerable Feng Xiao, Venerable Mu Ling, Venerable Jin Ge, Venerable Shui Hua... each employed their methods!

At this moment, the sky of Kunlun Star was filled with countless crying, struggling figures being forcibly abducted!

Mothers watched helplessly as their daughters were taken, daughters screamed their mothers' names, sisters pulled at each other but couldn't resist the mighty Law, grandmothers shielded their grandchildren, only to be frozen together the next moment... Several generations under one roof, mothers and daughters, sisters, mothers-in-Law and daughters-in-Law, grandmothers and grandchildren... layers upon layers of blood relations, now became the most cruel exhibition!

In Yuanhai Mountain Villa, Chen Yuanhai, relying on his newly comprehended 'Dream Clone Cultivation Method,' had finally found a moment of respite from the 'encirclement' of his eight hundred wives and was consolidating his cultivation in a secret chamber.

The moment disaster struck, he awoke with a start, rushed out of the secret chamber, only to see his mother, wives, daughters, and those Chen Clan women and in-Laws whose names he might not even know, being forcibly sealed into shadow cages by shadowy tentacles!

He tried to interfere with Dream Law, but his meager trick was child's play before the Galaxy Level high-level Venerable An Ying. The backlash caused his Divine Soul to tremble violently, and blood flowed from his seven orifices!

"No—!" He watched his mother cast him a glance filled with worry and farewell, watched his wives and daughters cry out his name as they were dragged away, and he collapsed to the ground as if his spine had been pulled out!

"Beasts! You beasts!!" A 'Yan' generation female, with an Innate Star Body and cultivation already at Stellar Level Peak, she was Chen Zhaojing's granddaughter. She burned her life Origin, trying to protect a group of trembling 'Si' generation and 'Fu' generation descendants behind her.

"An ant trying to stop a chariot." Venerable Feng Xiao merely blew softly, and an invisible hurricane swept her and everyone she was protecting together, throwing them into the massive torrent of cages.

"Let go of my sister!" A 'Chang' generation youth, ignoring his weak War God Level cultivation, rushed towards Venerable Mu Ling, who was capturing his sister, his eyes red.

"Puff!"

A verdant vine appeared out of thin air, instantly piercing his chest, flinging him away like a broken rag doll, his life aura rapidly dissipating... "Brother—!!!" The girl entangled by the vine let out a heart-wrenching cry.

Tragedy unfolded on every inch of land... Chu Yueyao and other Stellar Level high-ranking officials were firmly pressed onto the Pillar of Leaders plaza, unable to move.

They could only watch, their eyes splitting with rage, as the foundation of the Federation, the Ancestor Chen's Bloodline, was thus trampled and plundered!

Shi Yue's fists pounded on the cold ground, turning bloody and mangled, yet he felt no pain, only the agony of his heart being torn apart.

Li Qingshan's longsword wailed in its sheath, but its Sword Qi could not leave it by a hair's breadth before absolute power.

Mo Heng's glasses shattered, his eyes bloodshot, frantically calculating all possibilities, but only receiving a data set of despair.

Chu Yueyao's lips bled, her beautiful eyes filled only with endless sorrow and anger... Powerlessness!

Extreme powerlessness!!!

They were once the pillars of the Federation, yet at this moment, they couldn't even protect their own people!!!

In the Void Realm, the collection of 'trophies' composed of countless ice crystal cages, light prisons, shadow restraints, and lightning shackles had become as vast as a large planet!

Sealed within were over a trillion Chen Clan women, their expressions either angry, desperate, or terrified, forming a tragic and shocking tableau across the Star Sea.

Even more appalling were the layers upon layers of intricate mother-daughter and grandmother-grandchild relationships!

A 'Yan' generation woman might simultaneously be a 'Si' generation mother and a 'Chang' generation grandmother!

She was sealed in a cage, watching helplessly as her daughter, daughter-in-Law, granddaughter, great-granddaughter... and even great-great-granddaughter, were captured and sealed together in another cage not far from her!

Four generations under one roof, five generations under one roof... and even more!

This continuation and bond of Bloodline now became the most 'interesting' and 'precious' collection in the eyes of the enemy!

When the last female of the Chen Clan was forcibly stripped away by an invisible force and sealed, screaming, into that massive composite cage, the plunder against the chen clan bloodline finally came to an end.

Spanning several generations, plus wives from other families, the number exceeded two trillion!

In the entire Chen Clan, all direct female Bloodline members, none were spared!

"Unbelievable... truly unbelievable!" Venerable Shui Hua looked at this enormous 'collection' containing countless mother-daughter and grandmother-granddaughter relationships, his eyes gleaming with an unusual light:

"Such a pure and vast network of high-quality Bloodline, concentrated in one Family in a barren civilization?!... The Dominator will surely be ecstatic upon seeing this!"

"More than just ecstatic!" Venerable Lei Fa sneered, "This is simply a gift from the Universe! Imagine, at the Dominator's banquet, great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, daughters, granddaughters... and even great-great-granddaughters appearing simultaneously! And all of them with Innate Aptitude! What kind of Perfection is that! What kind of Concept!"

Their words, like the most malicious curses, clearly spread through Divine Sense in all directions, reaching the ears of every citizen of the Federation, and also reaching Yun Qinglan's ears.

Yun Qinglan's body trembled violently... She looked at the enormous cage, like a star, formed by countless relatives, seeing those familiar and pained faces inside, and listening to the Venerables' blasphemous and cruel discussions... "Pfft—!"

She spat out another mouthful of pale golden blood; extreme anger and humiliation, like poisonous fire, burned her internal organs and eroded her Radiant Body Origin.

Yun Qinglan looked at the hellish scene before her, watching her relatives displayed like goods, her heart bleeding, her Soul trembling.

She slowly raised her head, her eyes, once as clear as a star spring, now held only a deathly coldness.

She took a deep breath, as if using all her strength, suppressing all her anger and killing intent, her voice hoarse and clear as she spoke:

"Stop."

The ten Venerables' gazes refocused on her.

"Release them." Yun Qinglan said each word distinctly, her voice not loud, but carrying an undeniable resolve, "Everyone."

"Oh?" Venerable Hui Guang raised an eyebrow, "Are you ordering us?"

"No, it's a trade." Yun Qinglan's gaze was like ancient ice, looking directly at Venerable Hui Guang, "I will willingly go with you, abandoning all resistance. But the condition is that you immediately, right now, release everyone you've captured, not a single one left behind."

She paused, and an extremely dangerous, highly unstable spatial fluctuation began to emanate from her body, a sign that the Law Origin was about to be activated!

"Otherwise," her voice was decisive, carrying the madness of taking her enemies down with her, "I will immediately self-detonate my Innate Radiant Body Origin! You can try to stop me, but can I drag one of you down with me before you do?... Who do you guess it will be?"

Using herself as the ultimate bargaining chip, with self-detonation as the ultimate threat!

The ten Venerables' expressions finally changed.

They had no doubt that an Innate Radiant Body, especially one pushed to desperation, had the ability to self-detonate in an instant!

A self-detonation of a Galaxy Level primary Innate Radiant Body would be powerful enough to severely injure or even annihilate any one of them!

The distance was too close!

No one would have time to stop it!

Venerable Hui Guang's eyes flickered intensely; their primary goal was to capture a living Innate Radiant Body to offer to the Dominator.

These 'extras' were certainly good, but if it caused the target to self-destruct and displease the Dominator, that would be an unforgivable crime!

After quickly exchanging glances with the other nine Venerables, Venerable Hui Guang made a decision.

"Alright." He said in a deep voice, "You abandon resistance and willingly submit to being bound, and we will release these... irrelevant people."

"Qinglan, no!"

"Sister, don't!"

"Her Highness Qinglan!"

"Great-aunt, no!"

"Great-grandmother, no!"

...The imprisoned people let out piercing cries of protest. They would rather die than have Yun Qinglan surrender for them!

Yun Qinglan, however, seemed not to hear. She just stared fixedly at Venerable Hui Guang: "Swear a Law Oath!"

Venerable Hui Guang frowned slightly, but ultimately complied, making an oath with his own Law Origin:

"We hereby swear that if you willingly submit to being bound and abandon resistance, we will immediately release all living beings captured from this star. Should we violate this, the Law will backlash, and our Origin will dissipate!"

"All of you, make a Law Oath!" Yun Qinglan added.

The other nine looked at each other and complied!

The ripple of the Law Oath forming spread out, and Yun Qinglan's last trace of hesitation vanished.

She took a deep look at the land below that had given birth to her and raised her, and at the direction of the manor hidden in the Formation, a complex emotion flashing in her eyes that was hard to describe: determination, reluctance, and a deep, hidden attachment.

Immediately, she completely retracted all energy and Law fluctuations from her body, like a powerless Mortal, quietly floating in the air, closing her eyes.

"Bind!"

Venerable Hui Guang dared not be careless. He personally acted, and golden chains, condensed from pure Light Law, instantly wrapped around Yun Qinglan's limbs, torso, and even her neck like living venomous snakes!

Innumerable suppression runes were inscribed on the chains, frantically devouring and suppressing her Radiant Body Origin and Law of Space within her body!

Yun Qinglan's body trembled slightly, her face grew even paler, but she did not resist, allowing the humiliating shackles to bind her tightly.

"Release them!" Venerable Hui Guang confirmed the chains were effective, then commanded in a deep voice.

Yun Xi, Xuan Sha, Lin Wei, Chen Yuan Yan, and all other captured Chen Clan women and wives from other families, fell from their restraints, hastily caught by the Federal powerhouses below... The survivors, having escaped death, felt no joy, only endless heartache and humiliation. They looked at the figure in the air, bound by golden chains like a broken-winged angel, and tears streamed down their faces.

However—

Just when everyone thought the nightmare had temporarily ended!

"Om!"

Another unexpected turn of events!

The ten Venerables who had just sworn the Law Oath curved their lips into an extremely sinister and mocking arc!

"The oath only stated that we would 'release' the captured individuals." He spoke slowly, his voice like an ice pick, piercing everyone's heart, "But it didn't say... we couldn't recapture them!"

Before his words even finished!

"Law: Prison of Light!"

"Law: Shadow Restraint!"

"Law: Thunder Sky Net!"

...The ten Venerables acted simultaneously!

And this time, it was a full-power, no-holds-barred attack!

A terrifying Law torrent, far more intense than before, instantly engulfed all the newly rescued women who had not yet had time to catch their breath!

This time, it was no longer ice Seals or thunder nets, but the direct use of the strongest confinement methods!

Light transformed into eternal cages, shadows into all-consuming tentacles, thunder into dazzling shackles... instantly re-confining all of them tightly!

"No—!!! You broke your promise!!!"

"Ants, do you even deserve to speak of honor?" Venerable Hui Guang looked down at the hellish scene below, his tone filled with aloof indifference, "To become the Dominator's playthings is the supreme glory for you low-level civilization ants."

"Pfft—!"

Yun Qinglan, tightly bound by golden chains, witnessed this ultimate shamelessness. Her Qi and blood surged, and she violently spat out a large mouthful of pale golden Origin blood!

Her eyes instantly became hollow, then were replaced by a world-destroying madness!

"You... are seeking death!!!"

She suddenly looked up, her originally clear eyes now like burning stars!

The Innate Radiant Body Origin suppressed within her began to burn, compress, and expand frantically at an unprecedented speed!

A destructive energy capable of collapsing galaxies and changing the expressions of even the ten Venerables, began to rapidly brew, centered around her!

"No good! She's going to self-detonate! Under our Restrictions! How can she still activate her Origin power to self-detonate?!!!" Venerable Lei Fa cried out in horror.

"Stop her! An Innate Radiant Body must have special means we don't know about!!!" Venerable An Ying roared.

The ten Venerables acted simultaneously. Ten streams of Galaxy Level advanced Law power, like a net cast from heaven and earth, frantically suppressed Yun Qinglan, attempting to forcibly interrupt her self-detonation process!

However, the resolute self-detonation of an Innate Radiant Body, how could it be so easily stopped?

Especially with Yun Qinglan's mastery of the Law of Space reaching Perfection, she compressed most of the destructive energy into her own Origin core. The external suppression force was like a clay ox entering the sea, with minimal effect!

The destructive fluctuations grew stronger and more terrifying!

A tragic and resolute smile appeared on Yun Qinglan's face. She looked at the ten flustered, even slightly terrified Venerables, and roared with her last bit of strength:

"Release them! Otherwise—we perish together!!! Which one of you wants to try first?!!!"

Venerable Hui Guang's face was ashen. He hadn't expected Yun Qinglan to be so unyielding!

Nor had he expected her self-detonation to be so difficult to stop!

He could feel that if he forcibly suppressed her, it would likely backfire, not only failing the mission but also causing a lot of trouble!

He stared fixedly at the undeniable madness in Yun Qinglan's eyes, knowing this was not a threat, but an ultimatum!

The captor was instead forced into a disadvantage by the 'captive' in the most extreme way!

Cold sweat seeped from Venerable Hui Guang's forehead as he quickly communicated with the other nine Venerables... They dared not gamble!

Especially since he might be the target of the self-detonation!!

The self-detonation of an Innate Radiant Body had too severe consequences!

Finally, Venerable Hui Guang gritted his teeth and swore again: "Stop! We will release them immediately! And we guarantee with a Law Oath that we will never capture them again! Otherwise, our forms and Souls will be annihilated!"

Then the strict oath took effect... This time, the oath had no loopholes!

Yun Qinglan's burning Origin paused slightly, and the destructive fluctuations slowed somewhat but did not stop. She looked at them coldly: "Immediately!"

Venerable Hui Guang dared not play any more tricks and shouted sternly: "Release them!"

The nine Venerables immediately removed all confinements.

The light cage dissipated, the shadows receded, the thunder net disintegrated... All the women fell again, caught by the Federal powerhouses who rushed up desperately, and were swiftly escorted towards the interior of the planet.

Yun Qinglan confirmed that everyone was safe, and only then did her frantically burning Origin slowly calm down, but her aura was extremely weak, her face as pale as paper, like a candle flickering in the wind.

She looked at the ten Venerables, whose faces were extremely grim, and a tragic and beautiful arc appeared on her lips...