Zeng Tianzheng's cries were heart-wrenching!

Filled with humiliation and rage—a Great Grandmaster at the pinnacle of the Innate realm, the Family Head of a thousand-year-old clan, was actually being suppressed by an eighteen-year-old youth to the point of kneeling on the ground, unable to rise, left with no choice but to call upon the ancestor to awaken!!

Shame! A humiliation of epic proportions!!

However, given the current situation, Zeng Tianzheng could no longer think of any other way to deal with Qin Heng; he was simply too strong, his strength far surpassing anything Zeng Tianzheng could have imagined. Even stronger than any Martial Artist Zeng Tianzheng had ever encountered!! He had never seen anyone who could toy with a peak Innate Martial Artist wielding Saintly Arms in the palm of their hand; it was unbelievable! It went completely against all reason!!

"Ancestor! I beg you to awaken! Please return!!" Zeng Tianzheng kept shouting, trying to awaken the Zeng Family's ancestor.

As long as the ancestor awoke, Qin Xuantian would undoubtedly die!! That was a Semi-Saint from a millennium ago, the direct offspring of the Saintly ancestor of the Zeng Family. In that ancient era, he was even known as the Saint Heir, rumored to have bare-handedly fought and slain a true Saint with his Semi-Saintly cultivation, shocking the entire world! The gap between a Saint and a non-Saint was like an immeasurable chasm, wider than the heavens, perhaps even countless times greater than the gap between an ordinary person and a Semi-Saint!! A Semi-Saint challenging a Saint was an almost unheard-of feat since the end of the Mythological Era; if anyone accomplished this, their name would resound throughout the world, recorded in various esteemed texts. This was a matter that shook heavens and earth!! Zeng Tianzheng had grown up on the stories of this ancestor; in his eyes, even if a true Saint were to strike, just by awakening their ancestor and utilizing the family's inherited Saintly Arms, they could repel them! Not to mention a mere Qin Xuantian!!

Hope ignited in the eyes of the other Zeng Family members as well. Their previous expressions of despair were wiped clean, and all of them became excited.

That's right! We are a Martial Dao family with a thousand-year heritage, and we have an ancestor with earth-defying strength in slumber!! As long as we awaken this ancestor!! No matter what crisis the Zeng Family faces, it will surely be resolved with ease.

Thus, the other members of the Zeng Family also began to shout desperately.

"Ancestor! We beseech the ancestor to awaken! We beg the ancestor to return!! The Zeng Family is in trouble!!"

"Ancestor! We beseech the ancestor to awaken! We beg the ancestor to return!! The Zeng Family is in trouble!!"

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Their cries soared to the heavens, as if they were about to overturn the sky itself.

"Qin Heng, hurry! Stop them!!"

"We can't let them awaken their ancestor, stop them!!"

Just then, Su Mingli and Su Yiyi suddenly ran out, shouting at the top of their voices to warn Qin Heng.

The eyes of the Zeng Family members instantly turned venomous as they looked at them.

Qin Heng was slightly stunned, yet not surprised; his Divine Sense was incredibly powerful. He had detected Su Mingli and Su Yiyi the moment he arrived. Moreover, from their emotional fluctuations and their attitude towards Su Zhengyang, he had roughly surmised that Su Zhengyang had forcibly brought them here and that they did not side with the Su Family, much less the Zeng Family. He just hadn't expected them to step out and warn him at this moment.

"Thank you." Qin Heng nodded slightly and, with a wave of his hand, pulled Su Mingli and Su Yiyi behind him, shielding them from the enraged Zeng Family members.

However, he remained standing there, his gaze as calm as a deep ancient well, showing no intention of stopping the Zeng Family members from awakening their ancestor.

Because he was here to annihilate the entire Zeng Family! Merely killing the current members of the Zeng Family wouldn't suffice; the members who had been slumbering for a millennium mustn't be spared either. He intended to kill them all, to thoroughly eradicate them, leaving none behind! Only then would future troubles be forever eliminated!

"Qin Heng! What are you waiting for?! Hurry and stop them!! The ancestor of the Zeng Family was once capable of slaying a Saint with his bare hands!!"

Seeing Qin Heng completely unmoved, Su Mingli and Su Yiyi grew even more anxious. They hadn't been with the Su Family for long, but they had heard tales of the Zeng Family's ancestor.

He was an absolutely invincible Semi-Saint whose strength was renowned through the ages!! A Saint-slayer! A Semi-Saint challenging a Saint!! Among all Semi-Saints, past and present, he could almost be called the foremost!! Such a powerful being! Once he awakens, it would be too terrifying!!

BOOM!

At that very moment, the ground suddenly trembled, as if something colossal was stirring beneath the earth, or perhaps a primordial beast was turning over in its subterranean lair!

HUM! HUM! HUM!!

The Yuan Qi between heaven and earth emitted a high-pitched whine. The omnipresent sea of Yuan Qi surged as if a gigantic whale was slowly rising, disturbing the surface! Although for the entire ocean this disturbance was negligible, perhaps even non-existent, for this particular area it was nothing less than earth-shattering!

Terrifying fluctuations of Yuan Qi blanketed every corner within a ten-kilometer radius. Voids of Yuan Qi burst open in the sky above, each like a massive bomb, their resounding booms alarming all creatures!

Above the firmament, layers of ice and snow suddenly began to fall. Within a five-kilometer radius centered on the Zeng Family, the temperature abruptly plummeted below zero! In just a few short seconds, the area was covered with ice and snow, as if the mighty power of a Heavenly God had altered the natural climate, plunging this early September realm into a fierce snowstorm, encasing the area in ice and snow!!

At that moment, Martial Artists above the half-step Innate level within a hundred-mile radius all sensed these terrifying Yuan Qi fluctuations and the extraordinary celestial phenomena! They all turned to look in the direction of the Zeng Family, their expressions filled with utter shock.

A Saint's phenomenon!? Nearly a complete Saint's phenomenon!? How, how is this possible!?

Snow filling the sky, ice sealing ten miles! Such a terrifying phenomenon! Is a Saint gracing Youzhou with their presence??

No, it's coming from the Zeng Family's direction! My Heavens, could it be the Zeng Family Semi-Saint from a thousand years ago, the one who bare-handedly defied and slew a Saint!?

Has the Zeng Family's ancestor awakened!? First Su Zhengyang activated the Saintly Arms, and now the Zeng Family's ancestor has awakened—what happened? Could some treasure have emerged!?

Many were filled with uncertainty. The events currently unfolding at the Zeng Family were truly too intriguing. A good number of Martial Artists who considered themselves strong actually began rushing towards the Zeng Family!

「At the same time!」

The Zeng Family's mansion, now a ruin, had transformed into a world of ice and snow. Bone-chilling winds howled and goose-feather-like snow fell, turning the outskirts of Youzhou in September into a scene resembling the depths of winter!

The Zeng Family members were all stunned; even Zeng Tianzheng was dumbfounded. The weather had been reversed, the season changed—What kind of mighty power was this? It was truly inconceivable!!

In that instant, a dead silence fell, everyone reeling from the shock of this unseasonal transformation.

HUM!

Suddenly, the space beside Zeng Tianzheng twisted slightly, like ripples spreading across a placid lake. Soon after, a young man who appeared to be in his twenties materialized out of thin air. He wore a snowy white feathered robe, stood around 1.9 meters tall, and possessed an incredibly handsome face. His hair was also snow-white, long and draped over his shoulders, falling to his waist. He casually picked up the Saintly Arms wrapped in black cloth by Zeng Tianzheng and began to walk out.

He tore off the black cloth wrapping the Holy Weapon, revealing an oil-paper umbrella with a white jade handle. It was adorned with beautiful landscapes and inscribed with calligraphy, resembling an art piece more than a weapon.

"The ancestor! It really is the ancestor!!" Zeng Tianzheng looked at the man with immense joy, prostrating on the ground, and cried out through gritted teeth, "Ancestor, please kill Qin Xuantian! Please!!"

His eyes were bloodshot and filled with hatred; for Qin Heng, his resentment had reached its absolute peak!!

However, that young man didn't even glance at Zeng Tianzheng. With a simple flick of his sleeve, a terrifying Internal Force surged forth like a landslide, striking Zeng Tianzheng with a BOOM!

Zeng Tianzheng, like a battered rag doll, was sent flying dozens of meters by that single flick of the sleeve. He crashed to the ground, plowing a furrow more than ten meters long before coming to a halt!

"Waste!" the man said indifferently, paying no further attention to Zeng Tianzheng.

He casually opened the oil-paper umbrella and, holding it, walked out of the hall. His demeanor was pure and detached to an extreme degree, as if an Immortal had stepped right out of a painting.

CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

The man stepped onto the ice and snow. He looked at Qin Heng casually, sized him up, and instead of showing anger, he nodded slightly. A satisfied smile appeared on his face as he said, "So, you're the one who wants to destroy my Zeng Family? I see a bit of my younger self in you, full of high spirits. I appreciate that kind of spirit. You're not bad, truly not bad. Kneel down and change your surname to Zeng. Become my son."