Chapter 3602 - Time to Close the Gates and Corner the Prey

To live like this was a colossal failure as a person. Suishen Hongtian was already a lost cause, destined to be remembered in infamy after choosing to play the clown.

As for Suishen Ranxing, once House Suishen's beacon of hope.... He had followed the same path as Qitian Xiao. If he won, no one would have criticized him. But once he lost, even the smallest crack in his image would lead to complete condemnation.

That was reality.

Myriadpath Valley was engulfed in chaos as House Qitian and Yumo were plunged into destruction. Only the old patriarch stood apart, utterly detached from the carnage.

He muttered the names of his three children as his trembling gaze fell on Suishen Jiguang. In the end, it was his daughter, the one with the softest temperament, who had carved out a path that overturned everything he believed in. "I’ve lost. I admit defeat." With a heavy thud, he knelt on the battlefield. Tears of blood streamed from his eyes as he bitterly wept.

***

"Second Senior Sister!" Amidst the grief-stricken gazes of a group of alluring women, their leader fell to a single strike.

And the one wielding the sword was none other than Suishen Ling, a minor-zenith expert of House Suishen.

"The emperor has decreed: all of Fallengrace Peak must be executed with extreme prejudice!"

"Yes!" More than ten eminents of House Suishen advanced with their swords.

"Li Tianming fucked Lan—"

The speaker was obliterated before she could finish her words.

Fallengrace Peak was mostly composed of weaker cultivators and rapidly fell under the assault of the eminents.

After the slaughter of Fallengrace Peak, Suishen Ling surveyed the battlefield.

Her husband, Suishen Cang, joined her, voicing his thoughts. "Qitian and Yumo are almost completely wiped out. Now it’s up to him to deal with the wonderians."

The two looked to the other side of the battlefield, where the radiant figure of Tianming was charging toward the wonderian battlefront. Despite fewer participants, the devastation from that battle dwarfed the rest, erasing entire landscapes, rivers, and seas.

"Not only must he drive them out, but he must also destroy them. Otherwise, peace will never come," Suishen Ling declared.

"You think the wonderians have more hidden forces?" Suishen Cang asked.

"Highly likely. I’ve studied the ancestors' records about them, and their descriptions are... otherworldly."

"Understood," Suishen Cang sighed.

"Qitian and Yumo truly met a grim fate," he mused.

"It’s their just punishment. We should be thankful that our house didn’t lack a bottom line like them. Otherwise it wouldn’t just be two houses facing extinction today, but the entire Three Exalted Houses!" Suishen Ling retorted.

"Not to mention, we have Suishen Jiguang," Suishen Cang added, glancing at the desolate old patriarch. "What’s he crying about? No matter who leads House Suishen after today, our victory is inevitable. He should be grateful that he fathered both Suishen Ranxing and Eminent Jiguang, securing his position regardless of the outcome!"

"True...." It had always been clear that House Suishen was destined to prevail.

"Now all that remains is the life-or-death showdown with the wonderians!"

As they spoke, a deafening boom erupted as the Midsky Myriadpath Stele at the entrance of Myriadpath Valley suddenly slammed shut. Simultaneously, a massive storm began churning within Myriadpath Valley as the Grand Myriadpath Ruins and the Blissful Union stirred the midsky essence into a frenzy.

"What’re they doing now?" Suishen Ling asked.

"I heard the wonderians can open xenogates to escape. A storm might make it harder for them to create such pathways," Suishen Cang speculated.

"And with the gates closed...."

The two exchanged a glance. "They’re planning to corner the prey!"

***

A radiant figure was hurled through thousands of palaces, shattering multiple floating continents along the way before slamming into the ground with an earth-shattering crash, raising a cloud of smoke and dust.

"Seems like you’re reaching your limit," a voice mocked. "Your wonders far exceed your control, but you’re able to use an astralship’s nova source to power them?"

Eighteen figures descended through the dust. Their leader, Zhoutian Shenhai, was a towering ten meters tall. His body shone with divine brilliance and his eyes burned like holy torches. His mouth was set in a thin line, exuding an icy disdain.

"I advise you to behave. If it wasn’t for the value of your precious body, you’d already be dead," he coldly said.

Before his words could settle, the figure in the dust rose again, ascending into the air. The woman’s inky hair wildly fluttered and her eyes shone with unyielding resolve. Her pentaphase heaven wonder clung to her body. Apart from the swords in her hands, another eight high-maniverse-class artifacts hovered around her like a precursor to destruction.

Her defiance and unbreakable determination stirred Zhoutian Shenhai’s ire. "Foolishness!" His glowing eyes narrowed.

"Zhoutian Shenhai, the valley lord’s been defeated! Her goal must be to stall for time until that white-haired man arrives to help her!" a wonderian warned.

Laughter erupted from the group.

"Ridiculous! She’s stalling for someone in the minor zenith? Who does she think we are? We have several at my level, super-zenith cultivators on the brink of entering the Overflow stage!" Zhoutian Shenhai sneered.

Before he could finish, two black-and-gold sword beams streaked across the sky!

"Sir, watch out!"

Zhoutian Shenhai instinctively raised his gaze, but the sword beams were already upon him. His wonder-shaped massive hands of starlight blocked the incoming strike.

"Audacious!" he roared, ready to crush the swords. But the power within those blades far surpassed his expectations.

Though he had managed to intercept the twin swords, the starlight hands shattered and his massive form hurtled into the ocean below.

Waves splashed, merging with the storm to create a torrential rain that drenched Myriadpath Valley.

"So strong!" The remaining seventeen wonderians were stunned.

"This isn’t just the super zenith! But it isn’t the power of the Overflow stage either. What kind of power

is

it?"

"An endlessly growing foundationeer cosmoforce? It’s overwhelming even Sir Zhoutian!"

The unkillable Weisheng Moran had already startled them, but the white-haired man with infinite foundationeer cosmoforce was straight up unbelievable.

As they processed that terrifying revelation, a ten-meter-tall man emerged from the depths of the water. His eyes burned like suns as his fiery gaze pierced through the tempest toward his enemy.