Human Clan Defender

Chapter 1134: Chapter 165-166: Exposed

At the highest seat of the Divine Kingdom, the Bai Emperor sat upright there, and Power of Faith, solid as if made manifest, surged in from all directions, continuously pouring into his body.

The injuries he had suffered in the Netherworld were now, under the replenishment of faith, slowly recovering bit by bit.

But this process of recovery was slow.

To truly make a complete recovery, it would take at least a hundred years.

"I absolutely cannot allow the Zhongshan Clan to give rise to a Divine Lord. Otherwise, with the might of that Peerless Dao Arms, if a Divine Lord were to wield it—"

While drawing on faith to heal, he was also thinking of other matters.

There was no doubt.

The Zhongshan Divine Clan of the past had been like a centipede that would not stiffen even in death; though now fallen to the level of a clan, its foundations were still incomparably formidable.

At the moment.

A Zhongshan Clan that possessed a Peerless Dao Arms was still within a controllable range of threat to him.

But if a Divine Lord were to be born in the future, the problem would become severe.

Therefore.

The Bai Emperor absolutely would not permit a Divine Lord to emerge from the Zhongshan Clan.

He gazed at the Rule Long River flowing above the Divine Kingdom; in his golden eyes, countless scenes flashed past.

A mighty figure used a Bronze Ancient Lamp to open the Netherworld Gate, and a terrifying existence emerged from within, thereby plunging the Heavens into upheaval.

Immediately after, the scene shifted again.

A dreadful existence struck down with a single punch, suppressing a Divine Lord of a Divine Clan and making him cough up blood.

There was even—

In a corner of the vision, a scene of the Huanshan Divine Clan being annihilated.

After a long while.

The Bai Emperor withdrew his gaze.

The scenes he had just witnessed were a fragment of the future.

Strictly speaking.

They were but some among the countless possibilities of the future.

Being able to see them.

Did not mean the future would definitely unfold that way.

"As expected—"

"The Zhongshan Clan poses an immense threat to my clan. That mighty figure holding the Bronze Ancient Lamp should be the future Divine Lord of the Zhongshan Clan.

This also indirectly proves that the Zhongshan Clan may indeed produce a Divine Lord in the future."

"However..."

"That existence who can, with a single punch, make a Divine Lord cough blood—just who could that be?"

The Bai Emperor’s expression shifted unpredictably.

The possibility that the Huanshan Divine Clan might be wiped out in the future was something he did not particularly care about.

Any race.

Could face annihilation in the future.

What he had seen was merely a possibility, nothing decisive.

What truly concerned the Bai Emperor was that towering figure holding the Bronze Ancient Lamp, and that existence who could, with one punch, make a Divine Lord bleed.

That indicated.

That such powerhouses might appear in the future.

The only thing he regretted was.

He could not fully make out the features of such powerhouses, and could only vaguely discern a hazy outline.

Then.

The Bai Emperor again looked up toward the space above the Divine Kingdom, his gaze seemingly able to pierce through it and behold the scene within the Rule Long River.

Within the seven-colored current, that streak of gold had already grown considerably.

Seeing this.

The Bai Emperor’s face grew a few shades darker.

"Compared to when it first appeared, the Annihilation Rule has grown several times stronger. The cultivators who walk the path of the Annihilation Rule have already become much more powerful. If this continues, it will also become no small trouble."

He could wait no longer.

If he continued to wait, the Annihilation Rule would only grow stronger.

By that time.

Even if they managed to single out the Annihilation Rule, they might not be able to restrain it.

With this thought.

The Bai Emperor no longer cared about his own recovery and directly entered the Rule Long River.

——

The void tore open.

Where the Rules of the Myriad Paths Paths flowed, the Bai Emperor’s towering figure had already appeared.

He gazed down upon the Rule Long River beneath; the golden Annihilation Rule now wantonly coursed through the river’s waters—neither merging with them, nor being repelled by them.

Suddenly.

The void split open once more.

One mighty figure after another stepped out from behind the void.

"I did not expect to meet the Bai Emperor here. I had thought you were already trapped within the Netherworld. Then again, with the Bai Emperor’s strength, how could mere Netherworld ever imprison you?"

A Divine Lord remarked mockingly.

At these words.

The Bai Emperor’s face darkened.

"Ancient Emperor, there is no need for that snide tone. If it were you entering the Netherworld, you might not have been able to walk back out."

A堂堂 Divine Lord.

Dragged into the Netherworld by a clan’s Dao Arms.

This matter had already cost him all face.

Now that the other party still chose to mock him, a surge of anger welled up in his heart.

If not for the strength of the Ancient Emperor Divine Clan and the fact that, for now, they stood on the same front, the Bai Emperor would already have fallen out with him on the spot.

At this, the Ancient Emperor only chuckled and said nothing more.

He had merely spoken on a whim, taking a jab at the other’s dignity; he had not truly intended to break relations.

It was not that the Ancient Emperor Divine Clan feared the Huanshan Divine Clan.

But that there was no benefit in two Divine Clans turning against each other.

At their level, they weighed profit and loss in all matters; they would almost never do a losing deal.

The Lei Emperor lightly coughed, smoothing things over: "Although, since the Candle Master’s fall, the strength of the Zhongshan Clan has been greatly diminished, that Peerless Dao Arms once wielded by the Candle Master has, after all, remained.

I believe many here have experienced the power of that Dao Arms.

Back when the Candle Master rampaged across the Heavens, there were Divine Lords who fell in the Netherworld. Although the Candle Master has since perished, the power of that Dao Arms is in no way inferior to an ordinary Divine Lord."

At this.

The other Divine Lords all fell silent.

After a long pause.

A Divine Lord sighed: "The Zhongshan Clan truly is like a hundred-legged insect that does not stiffen even in death. In those years, with the rise of a single Candle Master, the Zhongshan Clan leapt from a minor Power Clan to become a Divine Clan in its own right.