14: The Shi family patriarch was terrified: This is the Core Formation Realm?

Purple Qi comes from the east for thirty thousand miles.

This wasn't just a figure of speech, but the most realistic depiction of the sky above the Shi Family manor at this moment.

The child once declared a waste was now like a young overlord stepping out of ancient times. With every step forward, the bluestone slabs beneath his feet shattered silently, turning into dust.

That sense of pressure was too strong.

So strong that even the Spiritual Qi in the surrounding air was fleeing, as if afraid to approach that purple figure.

Upon the high platform.

Shi Yi's expression had turned incredibly ugly.

The Heavy Pupils he took pride in were trembling, and the stolen Supreme Bone in his chest grew dim, shivering like a mouse encountering its natural enemy.

He wanted to move.

He wanted to fight back.

But the Bloodline suppression originating from the "Heavenly Tyrant Blood" made even lifting a finger feel incredibly difficult.

"No... this is impossible..."

The Shi Family Head watched this scene, his eyes nearly popping out of his head. The wine cup in his hand fell to the ground with a "clatter," shattering into pieces.

"That's the Supreme Bone! A natural-born Saint! How could he be suppressed by a cripple?"

"This little beast... what kind of demonic art has he cultivated?!"

Panic.

An emotion called panic quickly spread among the Shi Family's upper echelons.

If Shi Yi lost today to Shi Tian—the one whose bone they had personally dug out and whose body they had discarded—where would the Shi Family's face go? Wouldn't their dream of dominating the Eastern Wastelands in the future become a complete joke?

"No!"

"Yi'er absolutely cannot lose! This little beast must die!"

The Shi Family Old Ancestor, who had been sitting in the main seat with his eyes closed, suddenly snapped them open.

They were a pair of cloudy yet sinister old eyes.

As the Shi Family's pillar and a half-step Soul Transformation Realm old monster (top-tier combat power in this starting area), he would never allow any variables to appear in the Shi Family's future.

"Boom!"

A cold and terrifying Aura suddenly erupted from the Old Ancestor.

He showed no trace of a master's grace, not even offering a word of warning.

Taking advantage of the moment when Shi Tian was fully focused on dealing with Shi Yi and had his back turned.

The Old Ancestor moved.

"Vile creature! Die!"

His figure was like a ghost, his withered palm turning into a pitch-black eagle claw that carried a wind capable of tearing through the Void Realm, aiming straight for the back of Shi Tian's heart!

Fast!

Accurate!

Ruthless!

He was going for a one-hit kill!

The guests broke into an uproar.

"Heavens! The Shi Family Old Ancestor is actually making a move himself?"

"And a sneak attack? Against a child only a few years old?"

"This is too shameless!"

Although the cultivation world followed the law of the jungle, this kind of behavior—bullying the weak and attacking from behind—was still despicable.

However.

The Shi Family Old Ancestor didn't care at all.

Face?

Could that stuff put food on the table? As long as he killed this little beast, the dead wouldn't talk!

Seeing that the lethal poisonous claw was about to crush Shi Tian's spine.

Shi Tian seemed completely unaware, still dragging his hoe and walking toward Shi Yi step by step.

"Die!!"

A cruel ecstasy flickered in the Shi Family Old Ancestor's eyes.

Just as his fingertips were only 0.01 centimeters away from Shi Tian's clothes.

"Heh."

A light chuckle abruptly sounded in his ear.

The voice was very soft.

As soft as a lover's whisper.

But to the Shi Family Old Ancestor, it sounded as if the gates of the Hell had swung open, and an endless chill instantly froze his Soul.

"Old geezer."

"I gave you face, didn't I?"

Li Daoxuan stood where he was, not even lifting a hand.

He only slightly tilted his head, his eyes as deep as the starry sky casting a faint glance at the Shi Family Old Ancestor in mid-air.

It was truly just a single glance.

There were no Spiritual Qi fluctuations, nor any Divine Ability light or shadows.

But in the Shi Family Old Ancestor's vision, the world changed.

The originally noisy banquet disappeared.

The brightly lit manor vanished.

Even the heavens and earth, the stars, the sun, and the moon all disappeared.

In their place was a boundless, despairingly deep dark Void Realm.

At the end of that void.

An ancient god-fiend, billions of times larger than a galaxy, was slowly opening its eyes.

In those eyes, there was no emotion whatsoever.

Only the indifference of looking down at an ant.

"Buzz—"

An indescribable terror instantly pierced through the Shi Family Old Ancestor's Sea of Consciousness.

His proud half-step Soul Transformation cultivation was as fragile as a candle in a gale before this will, extinguished instantly!

That was a wisp of a Great Emperor's pressure.

Even if it was only one-billionth, it wasn't something an ant of this Lower Realm could look directly at!

"What... is this..."

The Shi Family Old Ancestor's thoughts came to a halt.

He felt his Soul disintegrating, every cell in his body screaming to "run," but his body was so stiff he couldn't even move a finger.

He saw mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

He saw the collapse of ten thousand worlds.

He saw that god-fiend stretch out a finger, about to crush him like a bedbug.

"No... No!!!"

In reality.

From the perspective of the crowd, they saw the originally aggressive and murderous Shi Family Old Ancestor suddenly freeze in mid-air.

Immediately after.

As if all the bones in his body had been removed, he fell straight down from the air.

"Thud!"

A muffled sound.

The Old Ancestor, who had just been insufferably arrogant, was now kneeling on both knees before Li Daoxuan, his posture as perfect as if he were paying respects at an ancestor's grave.

The entire venue fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone was stunned.

What kind of act was this now?

How did he suddenly kneel in the middle of a fight?

Could this be some new kneeling-kill tactic developed by the Shi Family?

"Old Ancestor? You are..."

The Shi Family Head was completely bewildered and was about to step forward to help him up.

"Drip... drop..."

A pitter-patter of liquid suddenly sounded in the quiet night.

Immediately after, a foul stench of urine wafted through the air.

Everyone looked closely and saw that the Shi Family Old Ancestor's crotch... was wet.

A large puddle of yellow liquid flowed down his pant leg onto the ground, quickly soaking the expensive carpet.

He pissed himself?

A dignified half-step Soul Transformation powerhouse, the Shi Family's pillar.

Glanced at by that Youth in White Robes.

And he was... scared into pissing himself?!

"This... this..."

The guests' jaws nearly hit the floor.

Just what kind of terrifying thing did he see to scare an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years like this?

Li Daoxuan stepped back in disgust, covering his nose.

"Tsk."

"As one gets older, incontinence really does become an issue."

"With such little courage, you still try to play at sneak attacks? Who gave you the nerve?"

At this moment, the Shi Family Old Ancestor was in no state to hear any mockery.

His whole body trembled violently, his teeth chattered with a "clatter" sound, and his old face was as white as freshly applied putty.

His eyes were unfocused, the reflection of that god-fiend from before still lingering in his pupils.

It was too terrifying.

That was definitely not a power of this world!

What Core Condensation Realm? What small Sect?

It was all a damn lie!

This was clearly a True God playing in the Mortal World! A Supreme figure descended from the Upper Realm!

"Se... Senior..."

The Shi Family Old Ancestor lay prostrate on the ground, frantically kowtowing until his head was bloodied, yet he didn't dare stop.

"Spare me... Senior, spare my life!!"

"I was blind! I am a beast! I shouldn't have sneak-attacked!"

"You aren't human... no, no, no, you are a god! You are a True God descended to earth!"

"How the Hell is this the Core Condensation Realm... this is clearly the Heavens themselves!!"

Seeing their own Old Ancestor kowtowing and begging for mercy like a mad dog, the Shi Family Head and the Elders completely broke down.

Their faith had collapsed.

The Old Ancestor, who usually stood high above and held the power of life and death, was now as lowly as a worm.

Li Daoxuan shook his head, unable to muster even a hint of killing intent toward such a spineless coward.

It was too beneath him.

He turned around and looked at Shi Tian, who had already reached Shi Yi, and spoke in a flat tone:

"Disciple."

"I've already swatted the fly for you."

"The rest is for you to handle yourself."

"Go, tell them."

"Who is the true... natural-born Supreme."