Inside and outside the Chu Family estate, an uproar erupted. The head of the Chu Family had actually been beaten to death with a single punch? Whispers and discussions immediately filled the air.
"Impossible! How could you be this strong? This power is practically on par with our Patriarch. Who on earth are you?" the First Elder of the Chu Family demanded."Yishan District, Chen Martial Arts, Chen Huai'an's grandson, Chen Beixuan," Chen Fan said.
"Chen Martial Arts? Even if you were a genius from Lin Yang's family, you wouldn't necessarily be this powerful. Chen Huai'an, the master of Chen Martial Arts, is only at the early-stage Nascent Soul."
"I have no time to waste with you. You imprisoned my friends and refuse to hand them over. If they are hurt, don't blame me for wiping out your entire clan."
"Chen Beixuan, don't think you're invincible. Our Patriarch has stepped into the realm of a Half-Step Great Power. If you leave now, I can ask the Patriarch to forgive you," Chu Xuanji stepped forward to say. Even he hadn't expected Chen Beixuan to be so strong, but after all, the man was only at the early-stage Nascent Soul.
Yet his only answer was four words:
"Nothing more than an ant," Chen Beixuan said. Neither the Chu Family Patriarch nor any Half-Step Great Power from the Lin Yang Star Domain was worth taking seriously in his eyes.
Chu Xuanji could only feel that Chen Fan was far too arrogant. *Sigh, and to think he even saved my life once.*
"Chen Beixuan, you don't know what's good for you! Summon the Patriarch out of seclusion!" Chu Changfeng shouted. Thousands of Chu Family disciples fell to their knees in unison.
"Sigh, enough. Let me see what kind of bold figure dares to storm into my Chu Family," a voice came from the empty air.
The voice arrived before the person did.
The newcomer had a pair of brown eyes and a head of unkempt hair. He did not exude the oppressive might that Chu Changfeng had, but instead felt ethereal and illusory.
"Chen Beixuan, you are merely at the Nascent Soul stage, whereas I have already stepped into the realm of a Half-Step Great Power, standing on equal footing with Lin Yang of the Lin Yang Star Domain. As for your friends, I will not hand them out. Leave now, and I can pretend nothing ever happened—after all, you saved the life of our Chu Family's eldest young miss." He didn't care about Chu Changfeng's death. Though every word she uttered sounded polite, she didn't put Chen Fan in her eyes at all.
Hand them over? Those were immortal-grade fist techniques; even as a Half-Step Great Power, she was deeply tempted.
"Patriarch, capture this brat at once!" The Chu Family members knelt one after another.
Chen Fan remained silent. A Half-Step Great Power ultimately lacked divine grace and could not borrow the power of Tiannan Star Province.
He threw a punch. With the power of his current minor-completion Immortal Body, it was fully a match for the physical bodies of Buddhas and demons.
Faced with a fist momentum akin to Mount Tai, the Chu Family Patriarch did not dare to be the slightest bit careless, striking back with a punch of her own. The terrifying shockwave erupted by the two of them instantly carved a vacuum zone out of the sky, while the Chu Family elders and disciples had already retreated thousands of miles away.
Seeing that the Chu Family elder could actually block this punch of his, Chen Fan raised an eyebrow and finally stopped holding back, directly unleashing half-origin power.
A full origin of power amounted to 129,600 units, corresponding to the cosmic magnitude.
Nine origins of power amounted to 1,166,400,000 units, corresponding to the ultimate limit of all things in the heavens and earth of the Immortal Realm.
With just half-origin power, Chen Beixuan could suppress a Half-Step Deity Transformation.
Chen Fan directly threw this divine fist infused with "half-origin power."
Watching this fist hurtle toward her, the Chu Family Patriarch also threw a punch, expecting to beat Chen Fan to death in a single blow. But at that moment, she realized she was wrong. Chen Beixuan's fist grew infinitely larger in her eyes, blasting straight out of Tiannan Star Province and all the way into the Lin Yang Star Domain, with Chen Beixuan arriving in the Lin Yang Star Domain in the span of a single breath.
By this point, they had fought all the way from Tiannan Star Province to the Lin Yang Star Domain.
The Chu Family Patriarch's body was on the verge of shattering, completely stripped of her previous proud and ethereal disposition. She roared, "How is this possible? How can this be? You are merely at the Nascent Soul stage—such a fist technique is not something belonging to the mortal realm! Could it be that you too have cultivated an immortal sect's fist technique?" The Chu Family Patriarch fired off three consecutive questions, her brows furrowing tighter and tighter.
"How hard is it to kill you?" Chen Fan said.
"How can you possibly be this strong? I don't believe it. You must be using some kind of secret art. Again!" She conjured a sword out of thin air and slashed toward Chen Fan.
Chen Fan narrowed his eyes. "Courting death." He prepared to unleash his full-origin power without holding anything back. A single punch of this caliber would be enough to reduce the Chu Family Patriarch and the meteorites behind her into crushed dust.
"Divine Lord, please stay your hand," a voice echoed from the depths of the starry sky.
"Hm? Lin Yang?" Chen Beixuan said.
"Divine Lord, the Chu Family Patriarch committed a grave error out of temporary confusion. I beg for your forgiveness," Lin Yang also arrived here in the blink of an eye and bowed to Chen Fan. She was completely clear on everything that had transpired in the Lesser South Heaven Realm.
"How can this be? I can still fight! How could he possibly be a Divine Lord?"
Only a genuine Deity Transformation could be called a Divine Lord.
"Old friend, you are utterly foolish, *sigh*. He is the man who suppressed the Seven Great Religions single-handedly and slaughtered divine scions like dogs, and furthermore..." Lin Yang said.
"Even the Treading-Heaven Divine Lord was slain by him!" Lin Yang said, trembling all over. Although he was now a Half-Step Deity Transformation, he stood completely powerless in the face of a genuine Deity Transformation. There was no need for the other party to even make a move—a Deity Transformation could kill him as easily as crushing an ant.
The Treading-Heaven Divine Lord possessed power blessed by the "Deity Transformation realm," borrowing the power of the entire Abandoned Star Region. Though it was only a ten-thousandth part, it was still enough to suppress all ants below the Deity Transformation stage, no matter how powerful one might be. In the end, Chen Fan had still been forced to bring out his Indestructible Primordial Spirit.
"But this path ultimately turns one into a puppet and vassal of 'Heaven and Earth.' 'Heaven and Earth' lends its power to you, bestowing upon you a portion of its authority and might, treating you like its own beloved son. Yet when one day you suddenly wish to break free from Heaven and Earth and leap beyond this universe, how could 'Heaven and Earth' ever tolerate you?"
"Only by forging one's own power can one remain unbound by the laws of the cultivation world and the laws of Heaven and Earth." Chen Fan had cultivated the Immortal Realm's origin power precisely so he would never be shackled by the mortal realm.