Su Chen and Li Xinnian entered the Peerless Hall.
The Heavenly Venerate Xuan'er from sixty thousand years ago returned to the Peerless Hall.
Like the Peerless War God returning to his throne after sinking into oblivion for sixty thousand years, he slaughtered his way through.
Whether it was the formidable array formations of the Peerless Hall capable of killing Body Integration realm experts, or the half-immortals who had prepared in advance within the hall, none could stop Su Chen's advance.
It seemed that all obstacles in Su Chen's eyes were nothing but paper.
He quietly fought his way toward Mu Xueqing's location, determined to end their past grievances, his gaze unwavering.
Li Xinnian, hiding in the shadows, remained concealed.
He found Su Chen's current, overwhelming display of power hard to believe.
But more than that, he felt anxiety over their current predicament, along with a degree of dissatisfaction toward Su Chen's reckless actions!
No matter how formidable Su Chen was at this moment, they were currently in the Imperial Capital.
"Eldest Brother!"
Li Xinnian clenched his fists and appeared beside Su Chen without hesitation, suppressing the anger in his heart.
He had wasted many years in the small village, waiting to change Nangong Qingya's reincarnated memories. He had even pinned his hopes on Su Chen.
But he never expected that the present Su Chen, having completed his mortal transformation and gained tremendous strength, still hadn't changed his centuries-old habit of acting entirely on his own whims.
He could even foresee that the Imperial Capital had already dispatched experts to rescue the Peerless Hall, and that he and Su Chen were already trapped in an encirclement.
A glimmer of hope still lingered in Li Xinnian's eyes.
He hoped that Su Chen's centuries of mortal transformation had given him more than just recklessness, but rather the complete preparation of having carefully strategized before coming to the Peerless Hall.
However, he saw Su Chen silently turn his face toward him. That face showed not the slightest surprise at Li Xinnian's appearance.
It seemed that during the process of his mortal transformation, Su Chen had already discovered Li Xinnian's arrival.
Nevertheless, Su Chen still displayed a bit of joy at their reunion after a long separation, as well as a hint of reproach toward Li Xinnian for acting too clever for his own good.
"Xinnian, you shouldn't have followed me."
Li Xinnian had a thousand words he wanted to say, yet at this single sentence, he was left utterly speechless.
On the path forward, dangerous and dazzling techniques attempted to breach the hundred-meter radius around Su Chen, but no one in the Peerless Hall could violate that zone.
Su Chen killed a person with every step, advancing toward the very center of the Peerless Hall.
His voice was light and slow, "Past grievances will be erased today. Xinnian, return to the clan and wait for me. Before long, I will go to Azure Cloud Prefecture."
Li Xinnian's mind went blank as he watched his eldest brother's god-like figure moving through as if in an uninhabited land.
The disdain he had felt in his youth toward Su Chen's obsession with romantic entanglements, and his reckless actions that caused massive disasters, suddenly welled up in his heart.
Even today, centuries later, this eldest brother of his still couldn't distinguish what was truly important.
The family's real danger lay in the Southern Frontier, yet he dared to trespass in a place of near-certain death like the Imperial Capital!
"I truly am crazy. I actually pinned my hopes on someone else."
In this Peerless Hall filled with the sounds of slaughter, even with his eldest brother fighting right in front of him, he felt incredibly lonely and helpless.
A dark gloom gradually crept over his face.
He silently turned and stood up, blocking a white-robed cultivator attempting to flee the Peerless Hall. Amidst the other's terrified gaze, he placed his hand on the cultivator's head.
"Who... who are you?!!" the cultivator cried out in panic.
Under Li Xinnian's hand, his body seemed to no longer belong to him. His soul and life force were rapidly draining away through the hand Li Xinnian had placed on his head!
Yet the gentle and refined demon before him was left with only a numb expression and vacant eyes, murmuring to himself.
"The Old Ancestor told me to do good deeds, to be a good person. Eating people is ultimately wrong, but I have gradually discovered that human nature is inherently evil."
"The evil lies in stupidity, in being overly cautious and indecisive, in futile compassion and cowardice."
The cultivator's eyes widened more and more, filled with bloodshot veins. "What are you talking about?!! Let me go, let me go!!!"
But no matter how he screamed, he could not stop the drain of his life force and Spiritual power.
Everything that was his gradually entered Li Xinnian's body, granting Li Xinnian an icy and indifferent gaze.
This gaze, rather than being chillingly sinister, became increasingly pure and clear.
He then shifted his gaze toward the back of the invincible Su Chen, his tone flat.
"Evil lies in pinning one's hopes on useless people."
"Life is born into a harsh journey, and all 'evils' are but stumbling blocks before riding the wind and breaking the waves. Perhaps I should just..."
"Eat you all."
The cultivator turned into a mummified corpse.
Feeling the abundant Spiritual power surging through his body after not devouring a cultivator for many years, as the mummified corpse crashed to the ground—leaving only terrified, contorted limbs and a twisted face—Li Xinnian's flesh and soul felt an unprecedented sense of comfort.
A profound realization blossomed in his heart.
He silently descended upon the Peerless Hall, unscrupulously utilizing demonic cultivation methods with an utterly pure original heart.
Devouring heaven and earth.
......
In the Imperial Capital.
Regarding Su Chen's recklessness and arrogance, it almost made the two people curse out loud.
One was Zishu Feng.
Upon hearing Li Kuanghua's request, she had already intercepted them in the cloudy sky above the Imperial Capital.
As Su Chen slaughtered his way into the Peerless Hall, countless divine senses from experts hidden within the Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands in the clouds above the Imperial Capital pried into the situation.
She even heard the divine sense of the Imperial Empress issuing orders to the experts of all factions: eradicate Su Chen, and capture Li Xinnian.
Regarding this blatant intrusion into the Peerless Hall, Zishu Feng had only one word for Su Chen and the younger generation of the Li Clan: stupid.
The other person was the arriving Li Wei.
"Fucking idiots!"
Li Wei never dreamed that the very first thing Su Chen would do after successfully completing his mortal transformation would be to barge into the Peerless Hall all by himself.
It would have been fine if he had made preparations, but the current situation was that experts from the entire Imperial Capital were closing in, alongside omnipresent prying eyes!
This kid Su Chen hadn't even scouted ahead or prepared a means of escape.
He didn't even realize that Li Xinnian was also plunging into a desperate situation.
In the Imperial Capital, there was the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
Although this faction was constantly caught in unprovoked disasters of being 'framed' or 'wrongly accused', no one in the entire Imperial Dynasty considered the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion weak.
Their spies were embedded in all major factions of the world, and their ability to calculate heavenly secrets was something even Li Yaowen struggled to cope with.
Having already entered the Imperial Capital, Li Xinnian and Su Chen had nowhere to run!
Thus, the ultimate pressure fell upon him, the Old Ancestor, and Zishu Feng, who was constantly rolling her eyes beside him.
This woman with many identities was surely swinging wildly between distress and her promise to Li Kuanghua.