179: Their debut was their peak!!!

Huang Yu's voice, as cold as the Laws of the Universe, echoed through the solidified space-time:

"Another ten billion! This is all because of you!"

His will, like an invisible butcher's knife, once again locked onto another group of ignorant 'Ze'-generation young children on Kunlun Star.

These children didn't even understand what was happening; they instinctively nestled in their parents' arms, gazing at the sky with pure eyes.

However—

Just as Huang Yu's will was about to execute 'erasure' again!!!

"Om—"

An extremely faint tremor, yet one that seemed to originate from the Universe's Origin, suddenly sounded.

That will, capable of annihilating galaxies, seemed to collide with an invisible, insubstantial, yet absolutely insurmountable barrier, and was forcefully... bounced back?!

Huang Yu's will showed a clear fluctuation for the first time, tinged with disbelief and astonishment.

His 'gaze' instantly swept across the entire Kunlun Galaxy, across the space-time he had imprisoned, across the ants below who remained like sculptures... everything seemed unchanged.

Space-time remained solidified, Laws still submitted, and those minuscule beings still maintained their desperate postures.

But, his will simply couldn't drop that destructive butcher's knife again!

It wasn't a lack of power, but rather... as if this Star Domain, this space, suddenly possessed some kind of... 'qualification' to reject his will?!

"What's going on?" Venerable Hui Guang and the other ten Galaxy Level high-tiers also noticed the anomaly; they felt that the Dominator's always-victorious will seemed to have encountered a subtle yet incredibly tough obstruction?

In this one-hundred-billionth of a second of stagnation—

Deep within the hall of Chen Jun Manor, the Pillar of Leaders... the dark red pool of blood spat out by Chen Jun, containing the pain of ten billion cycles of death and Reincarnation, began to... flow backward, as if alive!!!

Seemingly 'one mouthful,' it was actually one drop, two drops... billions of blood beads, defying gravity, defying physical Laws, and even seemingly defying the space-time fixed by Huang Yu's will, like tired birds returning to their nests, precisely and silently re-entering Chen Jun's body, which was bleeding from seven orifices and slumped in the lounge chair!

These blood beads were all 'overflowing' as he inherited Multiple Benefits, his strength increased, his memories cycled, and his pain deepened!

Immediately after, Chen Jun's body, which had been curled and convulsing from extreme pain, in an extremely slow yet undeniable posture, with a grand rhythm as if a Star River was being born... 'slowly' and 'with extreme difficulty'... raised his head!

Just this one simple act of raising his head!

"Crack—!!!"

Centered on him, the space-time forcefully solidified by Huang Yu's Star River Level will, like glazed glass struck by a heavy hammer, emitted an unbearable, crystal-clear sound of shattering!!!

Cracks, starting from the side hall where Chen Jun was, instantly spread like a spiderweb, engulfing the entire Kunlun Galaxy!!!

Solidified time began to flow again!

Frozen space resumed its expansion!

Suppressed energy surged anew!

All Federal citizens frozen in moments of despair finally shed their solidified tears, and their rigid roars finally burst from their throats!

Chu Yueyao, Shi Yue, Li Qingshan, Mo Heng... all Federal high-ranking officials suddenly felt the mountain-like heavy pressure on them lighten dramatically!

They were horrified, and involuntarily, their gazes turned to the source of the cracks—Chen Jun Manor!

Huang Yu's will, cast across the Star Sea, experienced a violent tremor for the first time!

No longer amusement, no longer indifference, but... genuine shock and... a trace of unbelievable solemnity?!

"Impossible!" His thought, like a thunderclap, exploded in the flowing space-time: "This trash Star Domain... actually has an existence capable of breaking free from this Venerable's will's imprisonment?!"

His 'gaze' instantly penetrated all obstacles, firmly locking onto the 'Mortal' figure who had just raised his head in his perception—

Chen Jun!

Still wearing that spotless, seemingly ordinary casual attire.

Still slumped in that lounge chair, as if he had merged with it.

But!

It was different!

Completely different!!!

All the bloodstains and expressions on his face, which had been twisted and covered in blood from pain, had vanished... replaced by... an extreme... emptiness?

No!

Not emptiness!!!

It was an absolute, cold dead silence... that had transcended all pain, all anger, all emotions, after having contained over ten billion cycles of death and Reincarnation!!

His eyes were no longer crimson, no longer burning with rage.

Instead, they were like two cosmic black holes devouring all light, bottomless!!!

What shocked Huang Yu's mind the most was—

He couldn't perceive anything!

He, a dignified Star River Level existence, actually couldn't perceive any energy fluctuations on Chen Jun!

Any Law aura!

Any sign of life!

As if it were just an empty shell, an illusion, a 'Mortal' that shouldn't exist in reality at all?!

But precisely this 'Mortal' possessed a mighty power unlike a Mortal! The act of raising his head alone shattered the space-time solidified by his Star River Level will?!

This defied the common sense of the Universe!

It overturned the Foundation of his understanding of power!!!

"Who are you?!" Huang Yu's will, with unprecedented solemnity, like billions of stars questioning simultaneously, boomed directly into Chen Jun's Sea of Consciousness!

Chen Jun did not answer.

He didn't even look in the direction of Huang Yu's will.

He simply slowly, very slowly, turned his black hole-like eyes towards the Void Realm—

First, there were the ten Galaxy Level high-tier Venerables, shining like stars.

His gaze calmly swept over the faces of Brilliant Light, Thunder Punishment, An Ying, Ice Soul... everyone.

However, it was just this indifferent glance!

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"... Ten faint thuds, like exploding star cores, burst almost simultaneously!

The brilliant starlight surrounding Venerable Hui Guang instantly dimmed and extinguished!

He discovered, in horror, that his connection to the Law of Light had been forcibly severed by an invisible, absolute 'authority'?!

The destructive thunder and lightning roaring around Venerable Lei Fa, like a thunder Dragon choked by the neck, silently annihilated!

His renowned Thunder Punishment Origin seemed as if it had never existed!

Venerable An Ying's boundless dark domain, like snow and ice under sunlight, instantly melted away, revealing his horrified true form!

Ice Soul, Thick Earth, Wind Howl, Wood Spirit, Metal Spear, Water Bloom... the remaining six Venerables, no matter what Laws they controlled, no matter how vast their cultivation!

Under Chen Jun's indifferent glance, their connections to their respective Law Origins were simultaneously, and inexplicably... completely stripped away!!!

"No!! My Laws!!!" Venerable Hui Guang let out a desperate roar; he felt himself plummet from a deity wielding light to a... cripple with only Galaxy Level energy, but unable to call upon any Laws?!

"What kind of power is this?! Who exactly are you?!" Venerable Lei Fa roared frantically, attempting to re-condense thunder, but found he couldn't even spark the tiniest electric flicker!

The ten Galaxy Level high-tier Venerables, at Chen Jun's first glance after raising his head, had already... lost all their Laws!

Reduced to cripples!!!

This bizarre and terrifying scene left the Federal beings who had just regained consciousness dumbfounded, and the survivors watching through the virtual universe with blank minds!

Ancestor Chen... made a move?

No! He didn't move at all! He just... looked?!

One glance crippling ten Galaxy Level Venerables?!

However... this was just the beginning!

Chen Jun's empty, dead gaze finally fell upon Yun Qinglan, who was bound by light chains and held in a humiliating posture.

When his gaze touched his daughter's forcibly bent spine, her unwillingly submissive expression, and her dress branded with a slave mark... in the deepest part of Chen Jun's dead, black hole-like eyes, a faint, crimson flame, as if capable of burning out star seas, suddenly flashed and vanished!

No words, no movement.

"Om—!"

The light chains wrapped around Yun Qinglan's limbs and neck, fully unleashed by Venerable Hui Guang and inscribed with countless suppression runes, like ice and snow near the sun's core, couldn't even last a billionth of a second before silently... vaporizing and dissipating!

Not just the chains!

Yun Qinglan's forcibly bent spine instantly straightened, like an unyielding divine spear!

Her forcibly molded submissive expression instantly melted away, restoring her original cold, immortal-like, and inherently proud demeanor!

Her twisted, branded dress instantly reverted to its spotless, pure white form!

Even the malicious torrent of information forcefully poured into her Sea of Consciousness, attempting to distort her cognition, was directly... 'grabbed' out by an invisible large hand, condensing before her into a constantly twisting black energy mass emanating Huang Yu's aura, then... "Puff!"

With a gentle touch of Chen Jun's gaze, it completely annihilated like a bubble, leaving no trace behind!

Yun Qinglan suddenly opened her eyes!

In her clear, starlight-spring eyes, a trace of bewilderment first flashed, then was replaced by boundless shock, disbelief, and... the immense impact of surviving a catastrophe, as if a lifetime had passed!

She looked at her body, now free, at the vanished chains and brands, feeling the cleansed pollution... then, she abruptly turned her head and looked at the figure slumped in the lounge chair, slowly raising his head—

"Father...?" Her voice carried a tremor and a sob she hadn't even noticed.

Chen Jun did not respond to her.

His gaze moved again, falling upon the massive 'Prison Star' composed of countless Chen family women once more.

His gaze, like warm sunlight, gently brushed over everyone...

Lin Wei, Yun Xi, Yue Hua, Liu Ruyan,... Su Wan, Qin Qingxuan, Chen Xi, Chen Yao, Chen Lu,... Yue Xi, Xuan Sha, Su Yuan,... Chen Yuanmeng, Chen Yuan Yan... All the women who had been frozen, regardless of seniority or cultivation... at the moment Chen Jun's gaze swept over them, the absolute confinement that was enough to freeze Star River Level powerhouses, melted and evaporated instantly like snowflakes encountering a cosmic furnace!

They regained their freedom and consciousness, their faces still bearing the terror, anger, and despair from before being frozen. They looked around blankly, then at each other, and finally... without prior arrangement, their gazes turned towards the figure who had saved them!

"Brother Jun!"

"Chen Jun!"

"Ancestor Chen!"

"Father!"

"Great-Grandfather!"

"Grand-Ancestor!"

...Countless cries, filled with sobs, endless grievances, and lingering fear, echoed in the starry sky, converging into a torrent of emotion!

Chen Jun still did not respond.

He didn't even glance at them.

His gaze finally... slowly, fixed on a certain spot in the Void Realm.

That was the most condensed core of Huang Yu's will!

Only at this moment did Chen Jun finally... speak.

His voice was no longer the usual lazy and teasing tone.

Instead, it was extremely hoarse, extremely slow, as if every word carried the weight of ten billion cycles of Reincarnation, imbued with a chilling dead silence that froze the Soul:

"You..." He paused, as if recalling, confirming.

"Just now..."

"Said you wanted to..."

"Kill another ten billion of my descendants?"

"And also said..."

"It was all because of my daughter?"

His voice was not loud, yet it strangely suppressed all the crying, shouting, and the desperate roars of the ten Venerables in the starry sky, clearly and completely, entering Huang Yu's will and the depths of every living being's Soul!

As he spoke, Chen Jun's body, which had been slumped in the lounge chair, finally... moved!

He didn't stand up.

Instead, like a puppet on strings, he slowly... "slid" down from the chair in an extremely strange and uncoordinated posture.

His feet landed on the cold floor of the hall.

The moment his feet touched the ground—

"Rumble rumble rumble—!!!"

The entire Kunlun Galaxy, no! It was the entire Liuli System!

Hundreds of billions of stars simultaneously emitted violent tremors and hums!

As if the entire Star System felt fear and... submission because of his rising!

Chen Jun lowered his head, looking at his hands as if admiring a work of art.

Then, he slowly... raised his right hand.

His five fingers slightly spread... pointing towards the Void Realm, where the ten Galaxy Level High Venerables, now devoid of all Law and filled with terror, stood.

There was no surge of energy, no Law fluctuations.

But the next moment—

An invisible force, as if originating from the highest authority of the Universe, like billions of invisible shackles, instantly pierced through the Physical Body and Soul of Venerable Hui Guang, Venerable Lei Fa, Venerable An Ying, Venerable Bing Po, and the other ten Venerables!

They horrifyingly discovered that they had not only lost all their power, but even the most basic control over their bodies had been completely stripped away!

They were like manipulated puppets, forcibly dragged by that irresistible force, like ten falling meteors, streaking across the newly flowing starry sky!

With a "boom," they heavily crashed onto the plaza in front of the Pillar of Leaders on Kunlun Star, precisely kneeling in a row!

"Dong!"

The dull thud of knees colliding with the hard "Immortal Steel" alloy echoed like a death knell, striking the hearts of every living being witnessing this scene.

These ten supreme beings who once wielded Law, awed billions of spiral arms, and were worshipped by trillions of Zhao Jing... of citizens!

Now, they were like the lowliest prisoners, forced into the most humiliating posture, kneeling on this land they considered an "ant's nest"!

Their heads were forcibly pressed down by the invisible force, their foreheads repeatedly hitting the cold ground with audible "thump thump" sounds.

"Thump!" "Thump!" "Thump!"... But this!

Was merely physical humiliation!

The true punishment came from their "voices."

Their mouths opened uncontrollably, and segments of their confessions were forcibly extracted, amplified, and transformed into magnificent and clear Dao sounds!

Resounding throughout Kunlun Star, and even transmitted through the virtual universe to the ears of every Federal citizen:

"I, Venerable Hui Guang... the Illustrious Venerable of Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom... have wielded the Law of Light for nine hundred seventy thousand years... once decided the rise and fall of three hundred sixty million civilizations with a single thought... regarded all beings as mere grass... only today do I realize... I myself am... am truly... grass... a lowly maggot!!!"

Venerable Hui Guang's voice was filled with endless pain and self-negation. With each kowtow, he crushed nearly a million years of accumulated pride from ruling billions of Star System spiral arms!

"I, Venerable Lei Fa... delighted in destruction... slaughtered countless stars... prided myself on wielding divine punishment... today, I am reduced to a prisoner... only now do I realize... I am the one who deserves divine retribution!!!"

Venerable Lei Fa roared, but the content of his roar was a complete self-critique, his thunderous voice now filled with desperate sobs!

"I, Venerable An Ying... hid behind the scenes... manipulated schemes... subverted civilizations... thought myself the Dominator of the dark night... today exposed in broad daylight... only now do I feel... my own Soul... as filthy as mud!!!"

Venerable An Ying's voice was like the hiss of a poisonous snake, but it was biting his own Soul!

Venerable Bing Po, Venerable Hou Tu, Venerable Feng Xiao... every Venerable, with the clearest, most profound, and most heartbreaking words, dissected the arrogance, cruelty, indifference, and sins of their long lives!!!

They were forced to personally admit that their nearly million years of cultivation, their supreme status, their mentality of viewing all beings as ants... in all aspects, were entirely sinful!

What made their Souls bleed the most was—

The direction they knelt and confessed was directly facing the two trillion Chen family women they had personally sealed and captured!

Those who they considered mere "playthings" and "collections"!

Lin Wei, Yun Xi, Su Yuan, Chen Yuanmeng... all the women who had just been freed from the ice and were still shaken... now clearly saw this scene and heard those confessions filled with endless shame!

They watched these arrogant Galaxy Level High Venerables, like the most devout penitents, kowtowing and kneeling to them again and again, cursing themselves with the most malicious words... This was a million times more cruel than directly killing them!

Extremely satisfying!

Heart-piercing!

This was the ultimate heart-piercing punishment!!!

To strip them of all their power, dignity, and pride, making them personally admit their baseness and insignificance before the "ants" and "playthings" they most despised, and to endlessly repeat this process!

In the deepest part of every Venerable's eyes, those eyes forcibly pressed down, burned endless shame, collapsing madness, and a trace of... an instinctive fear from the Soul itself, which even they were unwilling to admit, towards the existence who wielded such methods!

Chen Jun didn't even give them another glance.

As if he had casually dealt with ten ants and arranged them in a penitent posture... all his attention had already crossed the endless starry sky, locking onto the stronger aura that was raging towards him—Huang Yu!

The extreme humiliation of these ten Venerables was merely the beginning of an appetizer for his feast of revenge.

The true judgment had just begun... Silence!

Aside from the confessing voices of the ten Galaxy Level beasts!

Everywhere else was a deathly silence!

But this time, the silence contained not just pure shock and fear, but a complex emotion mixed with satisfaction, bewilderment, and deep reverence.

The Federal citizens watched the ten figures continuously kowtowing and confessing in the plaza, listening to the self-criticism that echoed through the clouds, and finally clearly realized—

Their Ancestor Chen possessed not only destructive power.

But also... the supreme authority to wield rules, define reality, and even... judge Souls!

If Chen Jun stripping the Law from ten Galaxy Level Venerables with a glance was shocking.

Then now, his casual grasp, forcing ten Galaxy Level High Venerables to kneel and confess, was... absolute terror!

An incomprehensible great power!!!

The Federal citizens stared blankly, their brains completely shut down.

Yun Qinglan, Lin Wei, Yun Xi, and all the other recently rescued women covered their mouths, their beautiful eyes filled with extreme shock and... a trace of unfamiliar fear?

Is this... really the Chen Jun (Father/Husband/...Grand-Ancestor) they knew, who always slumped in a chair, liked to play games, and seemed lazy and harmless?!

"Bastard!!!"

Huang Yu's will finally recovered from its extreme shock, letting out an unprecedented, furious roar!!!

Ten Galaxy Level High Venerables!

They were the strongest Foundation of his Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom besides himself!

They were his left and right arms in ruling billions of spiral arms!

Yet... right before his eyes, they were lined up... kneeling in confession?!

Utter humiliation!

Unprecedented utter humiliation!!!

"No matter who you are! No matter what bizarre methods you used! This Dominator will make you... die!!!"

Huang Yu's true body, located at the core of the Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom, having just broken through to the Star River Level and enjoying a celebration, suddenly opened his eyes!

In his eyes, there was no longer the majesty of rotating galaxies, but endless killing intent and fury!

He would no longer just project his will!

He would... descend in person!!!

To personally crush this... ant that dared to challenge his authority!!!