Chapter 6120 Strange Thread
The masked man watched in disbelief as the space around him collapsed. His spatial domain was torn apart, reduced to fragments flying in the air.
“How is this possible?!”
He was astonished. How could a Human Emperor lock down a third Heavenstage Sovereign Lord?
“Split the Heavens, First Form!” Long Chen shouted.
Starlight flared across Evilmoon, weaving into a celestial river that surged down from the nine heavens.
In desperation, the man summoned his zither. Divine runes lit up along its ancient body, and a resonant melody surged out as he poured his full power into it. With his domain in ruins, defense was his only hope.
BOOM!
Evilmoon descended like a heavenly blade. The zither’s strings snapped in an instant, and then it detonated.
The explosion ripped through the air. The man’s arms were torn apart, and his mask cracked, revealing a blood-soaked face twisted in agony.
“How?!” he roared.
That saber strike was absolutely terrifying. Even at full strength, he couldn’t hold it back. What kind of Human Emperor was this?!
But before Long Chen could follow up, the woman launched her own attack. Her own zither blazed to life, and with the weight of a Sovereign Lord’s might, she hurled it toward Long Chen like a divine hammer.
Yet, Long Chen didn’t even look her way. A star-forged hand shot up and intercepted the blow.
A thunderous ripple tore through the air. When it reached the city’s barrier, the entire protective formation quaked violently.
“Is this all you’ve got?”
Long Chen snorted. Light flared at his fingertips—
BOOM!
The ancient zither exploded in his grip.
“He crushed a Sovereign weapon with his bare hands?!”
Inside the city, the experts watching were dumbfounded. Just touching a Sovereign weapon barehanded would have been an unthinkable act. But destroying one outright?
It defied logic.
However, what they didn’t know was that the weapon hadn’t broken from brute force. There was no way Long Chen could do such a thing with his current power.
He had channeled astral energy from the Life Gate into the zither, overloading it and causing it to implode. After all, not every divine weapon was like Evilmoon, capable of enduring such power.
Blood sprayed from the woman’s mouth. This zither was his core divine weapon, so its destruction injured her soul.
Long Chen rested Evilmoon on his shoulder and looked down on the two of them.
“Why did you guide so many devil creatures to attack the Four Cardinal Alliance?”
These third Heavenstage Sovereign Lords had gone to such lengths to draw over these devil creatures to trap this city. It reeked of deeper motives.
If all they wanted was blood, they could have wiped the city clean in moments. There would be no need to go to such trouble.
The Zither Sect duo were seething. Long Chen was speaking as if he were the victor—as if he had already claimed dominance over them.
“You little brat, die!”
The man’s arms regenerated in a flash, and the two Sovereigns formed intricate hand seals in unison.
The ground trembled violently.
Suddenly, Long Chen’s heart lurched.
BOOM!
A fracture split the earth. From it emerged a thread—a multicolored filament, no thicker than a pinkie, but stretching endlessly across the city.
It was like a thread that could cut through the fabric of reality itself.
“Get out of the way!” shouted Long Chen.
It was too late...
The thread burst forth, cleaving the city in two. Even the city’s barrier split cleanly down the middle. Anyone caught along its path was sliced in half—clean and merciless.
That thread... it seemed capable of severing all things between heaven and earth. As it turned toward Long Chen, its aura made his soul tremble.
Without hesitation, Long Chen summoned the Earth Cauldron and ducked behind it.
BOOM!
The thread slammed into the Earth Cauldron. The impact sent it flying—and nearly made Long Chen cough blood.
He was stunned. He had expected some hidden trump card, but this... this was something else. Even the Earth Cauldron couldn’t fully block it.
Without the cauldron, he would be dead.
Then something strange happened. As the thread struck the Earth Cauldron, its divine light flickered, and it started to twist in on itself. By the next breath, the thread vanished, tearing through the void as if fleeing.
“Die!”
Long Chen’s fury ignited. He opened the Life Gate and swung Evilmoon toward the man.
The Sovereign Lord was obliterated instantly.
The woman tried to retreat toward the city, aiming to use its civilians to blackmail Long Chen. But she had barely moved before a crescent-shaped fang of light swept out from Evilmoon, reducing her to a mist of blood.
Two third Heavenstage Sovereign Lords were dead. However, the surviving experts of the Four Cardinal Alliance didn’t feel any joy.
The hidden strange thread had cut their city in half, slashing through the most populated area of their city. Countless people had just died.
Fear and grief hung heavy in the air.
Su Yu stood trembling. The thread had passed within inches of her. If she had stood even a hair's breadth to the side, she would’ve been among the dead.
That mysterious thread gave her a sense of boundless terror. It was a kind of power none of them was familiar with. In front of it, all of them were as insignificant as ants.
Fortunately, this thread’s power was highly concentrated. There was a ditch several miles thick running through the city now. If its power had dispersed outward instead of remaining so concentrated, the entire city would have been erased.
From beneath the earth, wails of grief echoed. Survivors screamed for loved ones who would never answer. Parents searched for their children. Children wept for their parents.
In the face of such destruction, life felt unbearably fragile.
There was no revenge to be had. No justice to cling to. Just silence—and the agony of loss.
“Zither Sect...”
Su Yu clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. Her hatred had crystallized into something cold and permanent. She had once revered the Zither Sect. Now, she saw them for what they were—sanctimonious monsters.
Long Chen approached her. Her proud figure now trembled with quiet sobs.
All he could offer was the truth.
Long Chen said, “Train hard. Only power can protect you. Only power can give you vengeance. But even then, one person’s strength isn’t enough. Remember that.”
Su Yu bit her lip until it bled. She wiped her tears away and stared at Long Chen, her eyes burning with resolve.
“I swear on my soul—I’ll train like my life depends on it. I’ll make the Four Cardinal Alliance the strongest force in the nine heavens and ten lands.”
Seeing her determination, Long Chen smiled faintly. He ruffled her hair and nodded before turning to leave.
As she watched him walk away, Su Yu's fists trembled at her sides.
“Long Chen... I know I’ll never be your equal. But I swear—I’ll follow in your footsteps for as long as I live!”