Chapter 126: Chapter 126
“Who is speaking!! Come out!!” the Heavenly-Fire commander shouted harshly.
“Did you just say you were going to annihilate the Su family…?” That tender, childish voice sounded again.
“Hmph! The Su family!! Having dared to provoke the Wang family, the Su family has already chosen the path of annihilation!”
“Not a single soul shall remain—exterminated to the last!!” The leader of the Heavenly-Fire forces spoke with an icy, ruthless tone, murderous intent flashing in his eyes.
The moment these words left his lips, that childish voice grew colder: “You want to destroy Hao’er’s home?? You want to destroy Hao’er’s family…”
“You are not just foolish, you deserve to die!”
The childish voice drew nearer.
A small figure suddenly burst out from the void.
The child looked only seven or eight years old, adorably youthful in appearance, yet his entire body erupted with terrifying power.
Before anyone could react, one of the Heavenly-Fire guards was struck squarely in the chest by his fist.
A chilling shattering sound rang out. The chest of that Heavenly-Fire guard, who possessed the cultivation of the Star Holding Realm, caved in; blood spurted from his mouth, his life or death unknown.
The Heavenly-Fire guards on either side were stunned, only to have their hair seized by that brat, and their heads smashed together with brutal force.
Another dull crash, both of their skulls burst apart instantly, blood splattering across the skies.
In the blink of an eye, three cultivators of the Star-Holding realm were dead and gone.
Everyone finally turned back in shock, dumbfounded by this brat.
Only seven or eight years old, yet his true essence surged like an ocean, his body was incomparably strong, and dazzling divine light flickered around him, radiating terrifying laws.
Even the two commanders of Heavenly-Fire and Netherfire, who had fought countless battles for ten thousand years, had never seen such a terrifying prodigy.
“I finally have a family!”
“And you dare try to touch them, you all deserve to die!!” Su Hao glared angrily at the two armies before him.
Even though every one of them was of the same cultivation realm as him, even though they numbered in the thousands, he felt no fear!!
Since childhood, he had lived in loneliness. Nearly killed when the aunt he trusted most dug out his bones, Su Hao had always been neglected, like a discarded doll tossed in a corner.
Until he arrived at the Su family.
He followed the clan patriarch grandfather to learn the Dao, practiced techniques, slept beside his sword-cultivator aunt, and had countless family members to play with.
He could climb Burning Heaven Peak to watch the flames, draw swords at Swordmaster Peak, stir up trouble with Su Nan at God-Demon Peak, or lie on Su Chensha’s back asking if cultivation was tiring.
He could even go into the little wooden hut and freely take dolls to play with.
Everyone in the Su family doted upon this pitiful child to the extreme. It was here that Su Hao finally learned, he was not unwanted after all…
And now… these people wanted to destroy it all!!
How could he not be furious!
In that instant, terrifying light burst from Su Hao’s chest.
Unimaginable Dao-patterns emerged madly.
It was the pure power of the Great Dao itself, its mere aura made everyone tremble in fear!
“What a monstrous freak!! Everyone together, eradicate him!!” The two commanders exchanged a glance.
Their thoughts were the same!
The armies of Netherfire and Heavenly-Fire quickly formed their battle formations.
In that instant, two horrifying law-manifestations of strange flames rose in the void.
One was thick as ink and bone-chillingly cold; under its shroud, the eyes of soldiers turned icy, like emotionless war machines.
The other blazed brilliantly, domineering to the extreme; those under it had their true essence and aura elevated, yet their eyes grew frenzied, like they had lost all reason.
This brat was far too strange, if they did not kill him swiftly with full force, they risked disaster.
At the very moment the armies’ formations completed, one small boy after another walked out from behind Su Hao.
One looked even younger than Su Hao.
His two little hands barely managed to hold a book. His appearance was refined and scholarly, like a young Confucian student.
His gaze never left the book for even a moment, yet his delicate lips uttered softly:
“The Master… does not speak of strange phenomena.”*
[*From The Analects of Confucius. Literally: “The Master (Confucius) does not speak of strange phenomena, feats of strength, disorder, or spirits.”]
In that instant, an indescribable rule descended.
The mighty flame-manifestations of the formations faltered, flaws appearing.
Su Hao seized the moment and charged in like a primordial war beast, terrifying beyond belief. Every punch he threw made a guard vomit blood.
The laws rippling behind him disrupted the flow of rules, causing those with shallow comprehension to suffer injuries even before they could act!
In moments, dozens had already fallen to his fists.
“Damn it!! Kill that little scholar!!” the Heavenly-Fire commander roared. The source of this content ɪs NoveI-Fire.ɴet
He and the Netherfire commander served as the formation’s cores and could not move.
Dozens rushed at the young scholar. Strange as he was, he had no cultivation aura, seemingly just an ordinary child.
Their cold blades were about to slash him but the little scholar never lifted his eyes from the book.
“The Gentleman’s Six Arts · Archery!”
At once, countless golden arrows manifested behind him, covering the heavens and the earth with terrifying might.
The guards roared in despair but their vaunted true essence shattered like paper, pierced through instantly.
Bodies and souls alike were swept away in the golden rain of arrows.
Seeing this bizarre sight, the two commanders’ hearts sank.
“Confucian Dao techniques!!”
“Impossible!! The Confucian Dao was destroyed two epochs ago. Ever since Master Kong opened the heavens, the fortune of the Confucian path declined, it has long been a dead Dao!” The Heavenly-Fire commander’s face changed drastically.
“Confucian Dao, words become reality, speech carries law, invincible within one’s realm.” The Netherfire commander stared deathly at the young scholar.
“Damn it! What’s going on, one monstrous brat, and one little Confucian cultivator!”
“Attack together! Forget the formation!! If we don’t act, our soldiers will be wiped out!”
Blue flames erupted from the Heavenly-Fire commander’s body.
The Netherfire commander nodded grimly.
If they persisted with the formation, even if their men could kill those two strange brats, the losses would be catastrophic, something neither could allow.
The two scattered the formation, four bright moons appearing behind them.
Without hesitation, one charged at the brat, the other at the little scholar—intent on killing them both.
Just as their killing moves were about to strike.
“Kneel! Watch them die… and then it will be your turn!!”
A cold, indifferent voice reverberated through the skies, echoing directly within their hearts.
Unimaginable law, Great Dao power crashed down.
In their eyes, it was as if the heavens themselves were collapsing.
The mere aura of that single sentence nearly shattered their Dao-hearts; the bright moons behind them instantly dimmed.
Both collapsed to their knees, bones cracking apart.
And all of this came from nothing more than one person’s words…
The Netherfire and Heavenly-Fire commanders’ eyes filled with despair.
What kind of being possessed such terrifying might?
Wasn’t the Su family just a minor clan on the frontier?! How could such dreadful power exist here!!
To cripple them with only a sentence, not even a Venerable realm cultivator could do such a thing!
With great difficulty, they raised their heads.
Through the vast skies, they glimpsed a black-robed figure.
He stood with his back to all living beings, and the terrifying Dao around him behaved like obedient pets.
“The Wang family… has provoked something they cannot afford to.”
Looking at that figure, towering across the heavens, this thought surfaced in their hearts.
At this time, the brat fought on like a madman, his entire body drenched in blood.
Behind him, a blazing Great Sun manifestation rose slowly.
Where the Great Sun shone, it was as if it was the sole existence for all eternity. Any whose hearts wavered in fear found their cultivation reduced by ninety percent!
With each battle strike, his cultivation surged madly.
Star-Holding Fourth Level!
Star-Holding Seventh Level!!
Star-Holding Perfection!!!
When his fist pulled out of the last Heavenly-Fire guard’s chest, Su Hao had already stepped into Half-Step Moon-Holding realm.
At that moment, he felt no sadness or joy, not even joy at breaking through.
He stood there, gazing up at the heavens, then slowly walked toward the two commanders.
The battle had lasted a full day and his voice was hoarse.
“Whoever dares touch even a single hair of the Su family, I will not spare them…”
“If gods come, I will kill gods; if venerables come, I will destroy venerables…”
“One day, I will slaughter until across the heavens, none dare call themselves supreme, none dare look my clan in the eye!”
Little Su Hao spoke with utmost seriousness.
At this moment, terror filled the Heavenly-Fire commander’s eyes. He had personally witnessed the rise of a terrifying prodigy.
A mere seven- or eight-year-old child had single-handedly slaughtered thousands of warriors, what kind of monster was this?
If even a junior of the clan was so terrifying… then what of the Su family as a whole?!
By now, the mountains were drenched in blood, shattered corpses strewn everywhere.
With blood as sacrifice, the Young Heavenly Emperor revealed his first edge!