Chapter 2651: Desperation

The elder who spoke was the old City Lord of Tianyan, and he was an old monster-level existence. When he first made his name, Donghuang the Great might not have been born yet.

After he had handed Tianyan City over to the younger generations, he had been devoting himself to cultivation, trying to break the shackles and enter the imperial realm. However, that step proved too challenging to reach, so he had some ideas about alternative methods. It was a road that had never been taken by anyone else before, so he had been randomly moving about, not knowing whether it would be successful or how many years it might take.

However, he had never expected that one day, Tianyan City would face a great catastrophe that would require his intervention to help Tianyan City to survive.

"Wang Zhan!" the old City Lord of Tianyan called out to him. Wang Zhan was the name of the current City Lord of Tianyan.

"Get the Grand Matrix of Tianyan ready. Even if the old ancestor is no longer, we will kill as many as we can. I haven't had to do this myself for a very long time." The old City Lord's eyes were full of terrible light, and murderous intent was burning within them.

"Yes." Wang Zhan took the order and then made all the arrangements.

The cultivators of Tianyan City had received the news, and cultivators from all sides began to gather in Tianyan City. For a time, an invisible pressure shrouded Tianyan City, making it extremely tense.

This situation was similar to when the six Ancient God Clans had descended upon Ziwei Segmentum. Only now had the situation had reversed; it was Tianyan City that was facing this tremendous crisis.

No one had imagined that Tianyan City, once flourishing and prosperous, would have a day like this.

Time passed little by little, and Tianyan City began to put various countermeasures in place.

Finally, in the sky above Tianyan City, a group of cultivators descended with horrific coercion as they passed over Tianyan City.

"They are here!"

Within the bounds of Tianyan City, countless cultivators raised their heads to look at the group that had appeared in the sky. Their hearts were beating wildly. Ye Futian and the others had arrived, coming for Tianyan City.

There were not many of them who came, but everyone was an existence that had survived the Divine Tribulation of the Great Path.

The man in the lead was Ye Futian.

They were moving extremely fast, and it did not take long before they appeared in the sky above the City Lord's Office. The City Lord's Office was so vast that it was akin to a massive and magnificent golden city, showing a metallic luster under the sun.

Wang Zhan, the City Lord of Tianyan, looked up at the sky above and saw Ye Futian and the others standing above the City Lord's Office. A strong murderous intent swept over the city as everyone who stood in the void was full of murder.

Feeling the aura from them, Wang Zhan's eyes sharpened. He saw that Ye Futian was flanked on both sides by the Supreme Elder of Ziwei Segmentum, Lord Chen, and Ye Futian's wife, Hua Jieyu. They were both cultivators who had survived the Second Divine Tribulation of the Great Path.

Coupled with Ye Futian's terrifying strength, there were three peak-level cultivators with the Ziwei Segmentum.

In addition, some more powerful cultivators had survived the first Divine Tribulation of the Great Path, like Daoist Monk Mu, Murong Yu, Emperor Xi, Blind Tie, Gu Dongliu, Yang Wuqi, Fang Cun, as well as the mysterious Hua Qingqing, and the Millet Emperor with Wangshen Watchtower in tow.

Such a powerful group of cultivators instilled great fear in the cultivators' hearts from the City Lord's Office of Tianyan City, and all of them trembled with fear.

The makeup of the group in front of them was not something that any one Ancient God Clan could contend with by itself. Even with all the forces summoned by Tianyan City remained something beyond their reach.

Could there still be any hope for Tianyan City?

Outside the City Lord's Office, the hearts of the cultivators from Tianyan City were beating fiercely. This group was too incredible to be believed. Who would have thought that once upon a time Lord Chen was the only cultivator in Ziwei Segmentum who had survived the Divine Tribulation of the Great Path? He had been the one person who was able to do anything. Within a hundred years, the Ziwei Segmentum, which was unsealed and inherited by Ye Futian, had become such a powerful force. What fantastic growth this was!

This was the first time that the Ziwei Segmentum had mobilized so many of its top cultivators. And their first battle was to take place in Tianyan City.

"Launch the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix!" the City Lord gave an icy command, and suddenly, golden divine lights shot out from the City Lord's Office, heading higher into the sky. Countless divine lights converged and intersected above the firmament like pillars that passed beyond the sky.

Soon, a boundless and massive divine pattern formed above the firmament, covering the entire Tianyan City Lord's Office. It was the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix—a most terrifying divine matrix. Inside the City Lord's Office, all the divine lights were gathering towards the sky as if to temper everything in the world.

Buzz! The old City Lord's figure flashed and reappeared high above the sky. His Great Path domain and the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix had merged into one. His whole body was radiant and surrounded by divine light, as it continued to expand until he resembled a mighty god from heaven who could not be denied.

"Since you came here to die, don't bother going back," the old City Lord of Tianyan said loudly and clearly so that everyone inside and outside the City Lord's Office could hear his unmistakably overbearing voice.

The divine light from the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix had integrated with his body and his Great Path so that one could not be without the other. He was a part of the divine matrix and could directly control it.

For many years, he had been searching for ways to break through the shackles to become a great emperor. He tried for many years, and in the end, he embarked on the path that used tempering methods to temper himself and made himself a sharp weapon of divine arms. This was where Tianyan the Great had pointed him to, and he had been following his instructions.

Ye Futian raised his head and glanced at the ancestor of Tianyan City. His expression couldn't be colder, and the murderous intent remained fervent.

"Up!" the old City Lord spat. And suddenly, from the hidden armory of the City Lord's Office inside Tianyan City, implements flew out and merged directly into the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix, absorbing the light from the matrix itself. It puffed out an incomparable aura. The entire City Lord's Office was shrouded in that aura of destruction.

This kind of strength had pleasantly surprised all the cultivators in the City Lord's Office of Tianyan City enough to wipe out their previous worries and anxiety.

Their old City Lord was in possession of such terrifying power to control the divine matrix and incorporate other divine arms. What power was this exactly?

He must have already been at the Second Tribulation Plane. At this level of existence, no one could survive the divine matrix he urged.

"You don't walk the path to heaven but insist on knocking on hell's door." The old City Lord of Tianyan looked down below. His voice was more dominant than ever. "Even if Tianyan City no longer has a Great Emperor, Tianyan City remains, and it is not something that the likes of you may covet."

When his voice fell, the divine arms puffed out incomparable light of the world that aimed directly at Ye Futian and his party.

Ye Futian held the imperial arms, and it was not missed by the cultivators from Tianyan City; this was an imperial arm that belonged to them initially. However, without the will of the great emperor, Ye Futian couldn't exert the full power of the imperial arms, and the increase in his power was greatly limited.

At this moment, wisps of aura poured into the imperial arms. In an instant, the Sky Tremoring released an unparalleled divine glory and emitted an astonishing aura. He raised his head to look at the old City Lord above the firmament and stepped up into the sky. A might figure materialized, a supernatural vision almost like a deity.

At the same time, an immensely heavy force permeated from the Sky Tremoring in his hand. Ye Futian was not well-versed in the ways of the Sky Tremoring, but he was an expert at the Divine Hammer of the Protector, one of the seven divine methods from Four Corner Village.

Bang! Ye Futian stepped forward again, and with just a single step, the void vibrated. At the same time, his figure disappeared from where he was.

When he reappeared again, he was right in front of the old City Lord. Sky Tremoring, the imperial arms blasted down like a god in heaven had unleashed the divine hammer. Its might suppressed this corner of the sky, and heaven and earth were awed into silence.

The old City Lord's face quickly changed to one with immense shock. He willed the divine arms inside the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix to slaughter forward with madness. However, like a celestial god descending on earth, Ye Futian shattered every attack simply with the Sky Tremoring as it slammed on the stalwart body of the old City Lord, right onto his chest.

In an instant, countless destructive shockwaves blasted on him, and the old City Lord's body exploded and pulverized. His soul and spirit scattered, disappeared in an instant, and died tragically on the spot.

Before he died, he had not even had a chance to let a scream before he was killed.

All the cultivators from the City Lord's Office of Tianyan City were stunned as they stared blankly at everything happening in front of them.

Did he die just like that?

Their old City Lord, who was invincible and mighty, who had claimed to keep Ye Futian and the others here forever, had died?

That was it?

They had gone from the uncertainty to hope, now, to despair once again.

The old City Lord was killed with one blow. What else could the City Lord's Office of Tianyan City use to contend with Ye Futian?

"Kill!" the City Lord of Tianyan commanded, a horrible look on his face. As soon as his voice fell, the attack from the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix was unleashed, but Ye Futian merely gave it a look before his figure flashed. The Sky Tremoring sent another strike directly at the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix. In an instant, cracks appeared on the divine matrix before it collapsed and shattered.

Outside the City Lord's Office, when all the cultivators saw that the divine matrix in front of them had been neutralized, they trembled.

Where was the old City Lord of Tianyan?

Ye Futian lowered his head to survey the area below, and the murderous intent was still strong in his cold eyes. The eyes of the City Lord of Tianyan showed hopelessness and a true sense of desperation.

Ye Futian was holding their imperial arms, the Sky Tremoring, from Tianyan City, which they knew to be unstoppable. Whether it was the old City Lord or the Heaven Tempering Divine Matrix, both were crushed by a single blow.

Was this the end of Tianyan City?

"I can give you anything you want." The City Lord of Tianyan looked at Ye Futian and said, "Although Tianyan City has gone to Ziwei Segmentum several times before, it has never been breached."

When these words were spoken, everyone understood that he had given up, knowing that he could never win. He wanted to compromise and submit to Ye Futian.

"Kneel down!" Ye Futian looked down below and said coldly to the City Lord of Tianyan. With this command, the face of the City Lord of Tianyan turned unsightly.

Asking him to kneel down?

Inside and outside the City Lord's Office, the hearts of all the cultivators palpitated.

Ye Futian was asking the City Lord of Tianyan to kneel.

The clan lord of the Ancient God Clans, the City Lord of Tianyan City, was humiliated!