Chapter 137: Chapter 137

“Otherwise, what do you think should be done?”

Su Zhou looked at Wang Tianfang, a faint trace of amusement rising in his eyes.

From the very first moment Su Zhou appeared, Wang Tianfang had chosen submission, even willing to hand over half of the Wang family.

Judging from his combat style, the man feared no death.

The reason he did not join those few old undying ones in besieging Su Zhou was not out of fear, but to carve out a path of survival for his family’s descendants.

This man is not bad… but… that’s the best evaluation he can get.

He still has to die. Having provoked the Su family, the existence of the Wang family has already lost all justification.

The Su family’s instinct to protect its own has always been etched into their very bones!

Yet even at this moment, the other party can still say such words, he must certainly have a trump card.

“Otherwise… we all perish together!!”

Wang Tianfang roared, and in his palm suddenly appeared a formation disk.

“Activate the formation!!”

In the next instant, his cultivation realm began collapsing madly, one strand after another of extremely pure Dao-force pouring into the disk.

Immediately, the entire Wang family seemed to transform into an enormous formation core, all the power of its descendants flooding into the array.

The flesh and blood of those “Sun-Veiling” experts, slain by Su Zhou, began to crawl and squirm toward the formation’s eye.

Extremely complex formation patterns surged across the heavens, each etched with the tempering of countless ages.

The aura of those runes was continuously linked with the entire Tianhuo Domain, as though all sharing one origin.

With the Wang family’s mutation, it was as if a dire omen had been unleashed!

On the borders of the Tianhuo Domain, cultivators who saw this scene felt their throats go dry.

Those with weaker cultivation directly collapsed to the ground.

“Th-this… what in the world is this!!!”

All around the Tianhuo Domain, pillars of light shot up into the heavens.

Straight to the firmament.

Then, countless Dao-patterns densely wove themselves between the light pillars.

As though turning the entire Tianhuo Domain into a massive prison.

Beneath the crust, continuous roars erupted, as though some terrifying existence was awakening bit by bit.

The sky was dyed a despairing crimson.

Cracks spread across the earth, surging with unimaginable heat.

“What!! Wang Tianfang, you’re insane!!”

“The Heaven-Vault Fiendfire Grand Formation!!”

“With the entire domain as its runes, with the Wang family as its core, with the realm of a half-step Venerable as the guide—”

“With the flesh and blood of ten Sun-Veiling Great Perfection experts as the sacrifice, this array can burn every living being of the Tianhuo Domain into ash!”

“Wang Tianfang!! Let me go! I am the young master of the Tianming Li family!!”

“I am of the Lingfeng Liu family—”

One after another, the prodigies recognized the formation and panicked completely.

They knew this terrifying grand array, it was one of the legendary Hundred Killing Arrays.

It drew on the endless flames within the earth’s crust, incinerating all.

And since the Tianhuo Domain produced exotic flames, once this array was triggered, its power would be all the more dreadful.

Once the grand array fully activated, no living being here could possibly survive!

At this moment, many prodigies who had followed Su Nan finally panicked.

Each one invoked the power of their families, hoping to threaten Wang Tianfang.

But no matter how mighty or terrifying the names they invoked, they could not draw even a glance from Wang Tianfang.

Now, Wang Tianfang’s eyes were fixed on Su Zhou before him.

Trying to discern something.

But… even after unveiling such means, he could not provoke the slightest ripple of emotion in this man’s eyes.

The Heaven-Vault Fiendfire Grand Formation was Wang Tianfang’s final card. He had allowed no resistance across the Tianhuo Domain, only to compress all strength into this.

Only by drawing on all Wang family cultivators as conduits could such a horrifying array be created.

Beneath the firmament, all things perish; within the Fiendfire, all eight wilds are burned to nothingness!

Even a true Venerable would be reduced to dust within this array.

“Patriarch Su, I know the Wang family cannot match your Su family!”

“All that belongs to the Wang family is already your spoils of war, I have no right to bargain with you!”

“But… as family lord, I must exhaust myself for my people. I only beg Patriarch Su to grant the Wang family one path of survival!”

“Leave these descendants one life. Even if I, Wang Tianfang, must die and fall into the Netherworld, I would still gladly chant praises for you every day!”

Wang Tianfang’s tone was earnest.

Worthy of a hegemon, at such a moment, he still sought a way for his family to live.

“Of course, if Patriarch Su insists on destroying my family…”

“Your cultivation is heaven-shaking, your methods infinite—you may well protect yourself, but…”

“Under the Heaven-Vault Fiendfire Grand Formation, there are Great Qin emperors, invincible geniuses, sword prodigies, even the future sovereign of flame…”

“If all these prodigies are buried with me, my Wang family does not lose!!”

In Wang Tianfang’s eyes flickered boundless madness intertwined with cold clarity.

Two utterly opposite emotions entangled within him.

“To kill you and seize the formation disk takes me less than a breath.”

Su Zhou spoke with indifference.

And Wang Tianfang did not doubt it in the slightest. The ten great ancestors of the Wang family had all struck together, yet had not even glimpsed Su Zhou’s dharmic avatar before being annihilated.

He already understood Su Zhou’s power.

It was a disparity of utter despair.

Wang Tianfang’s face revealed a hopeless smile.

“Indeed… for Patriarch Su, killing me is no different from slaughtering chickens or dogs. But my life is already bound to the formation!”

“The instant I face mortal peril, the array will erupt!”

Bitterness filled his heart.

He, the mighty head of the Tianhuo Wang family, a half-step Venerable, had first had his Dao-heart shattered by a group of youths…

And now was forced to such desperate measures just to preserve his family’s bloodline.

Who could understand his grief?

Hearing this, Su Zhou had yet to respond.

But Su Yang and the others were already glaring in fury.

For them, sharing their patriarch’s burdens was their foremost duty.

Yet now, they had become hostages, bargaining chips to threaten their family lord.

As for the prodigies unwillingly dragged into this, each was praying desperately for Su Zhou to agree.

Otherwise… they would truly perish in this calamity not of their making.

At this time, Su Zhou gazed at the terrifying Heaven-Vault Fiendfire Grand Formation, his eyes locking on Wang Tianfang.

No one knew what he was thinking.

At last, a faint smile curled his lips.

“You threaten me because you believe that an array fueled by the power of an entire domain could make me hesitate?”

“That it could leave me helpless?”

“Ah…” Su Zhou sighed softly, then continued, “Your strength is far too shallow now. Having such thoughts is normal. But—”

“If you ever one day gained the right to truly battle me, then you would know just how much a mere ant dreams of the moon, how dust aspires to the great sun!!”

Su Zhou’s voice was quiet.

At his waist, that pale, arcane sword-scabbard flickered with ghostly light.

The black longsword trembled faintly, as if thirsting for something.

In Wang Tianfang’s heart surged sudden dread.

To have come this far, he was naturally resolute beyond compare.

He hesitated not a whit.

“I have done right by the Wang family!”

“So be it, let these countless prodigies, along with the tens of millions of lives of the Tianhuo Domain, be buried with my Wang family!!”

A savage light rose in Wang Tianfang’s eyes. His palm thrust through his own heart!

Boundless agony poured in!

For my Wang family—let them all be entombed!!