Chapter 73: Do You Even Deserve It? Powerful Suppression

"Step down? Do you even deserve to say that?"

Zhou Chen paced slowly, stepping into the square.

Zhou Chen's gaze swept over the main seat on the high platform, his lips curling into a cold arc.

"I would like to ask everyone, who gave you the courage to sit in my father's seat? And who gave you the courage to dare discuss deposing and appointing a Family Head?"

Zhou Chen's gaze finally rested on Zhou Ming's face.

"Is it you? A piece of trash at the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, acting all high and mighty here, trying to depose my father?"

"Presumptuous!"

Being humiliated in public, Zhou Ming was both shocked and furious, his caution burned away completely by his rage.

"Zhou Chen! You think you are still the Genius of back then? A mere waste, kneel down for me!"

Zhou Ming's entire body's Spiritual Qi surged frantically, and his Qi Refining Tenth Layer pressure erupted without reservation!

One must know that although Zhou Ming at the Qi Refining Tenth Layer had not reached Foundation Establishment, he was already the ceiling among the younger generation in Luo City.

His hands formed a seal, and a phantom of a fire python condensed in front of him, bringing a scorching heat wave and making a hissing sound as it tore through the air, pouncing toward Zhou Chen!

This was the strongest technique he had learned after joining the Qinglan Sect—the Yellow Rank Medium Grade Crimson Python Art!

He wanted to use this strike to completely trample Zhou Chen under his feet and let everyone see who was the true future of the Zhou Family!

"Ming'er! Cripple him!"

A cruel smile appeared on Lady Chen's lips.

"Watch out!"

The Sixth Elder and Zhou Yuanshan cried out in alarm at the same time, but it was too late; the two were held back firmly by several other Elders.

Facing the howling fire python, Zhou Chen's expression did not change in the slightest.

He didn't even make a move to dodge.

Boom!

The hideous fire python instantly swallowed Zhou Chen!

"Zhou Chen!!!"

The Sixth Elder and Zhou Yuanshan tried their best to rush over to protect Zhou Chen, but they were still pinned in place by several Elders.

"Hahahaha, a waste is indeed a waste!" Lady Chen couldn't help but laugh out loud.

However, her laughter came to an abrupt halt. As the thick smoke dissipated, Zhou Chen appeared in his original spot, completely unharmed.

That aggressive Crimson Flame Python had struck Zhou Chen's body with full force, yet it had silently… disappeared!

It hadn't even managed to dirty the corner of Zhou Chen's clothes, as if it had never existed!

Zhou Chen looked at Zhou Ming and Lady Chen expressionlessly, as if he were looking at dead people.

"Noisy."

Zhou Chen raised his hand and lightly flicked his finger.

Swoosh!

A faint sound rang out.

Immediately following.

Without any earth-shattering explosion, a golden thread of Spiritual Qi as thin as a gossamer flashed by like lightning!

It shot with incomparable precision into the forehead of Lady Chen, who was just clapping and cheering!

Time seemed to freeze.

The smile on Lady Chen's face instantly stiffened, a strange "he-he" sound came from her throat, and the light in her eyes quickly faded.

A tiny charred hole appeared in the center of her forehead, yet no blood flowed out. Then, her body fell straight back, crashing heavily onto the bluestone floor, silent forevermore.

Dead?!

The entire field was deathly silent!

Everyone was like they were under a binding spell, their faces filled only with fear and disbelief!

The full-force strike of Zhou Ming at the Qi Refining Tenth Layer not only failed to hurt Zhou Chen, but even Lady Chen at the Foundation Establishment First Layer was instantly killed!

The methods were mysterious and unpredictable; those present couldn't even see a trace of the Spiritual Qi's trajectory!

Zhou Chen… what exactly did he do?!

How is this the rumored waste? Could the rumors of Zhou Chen being crippled be fake?!

Looking at Lady Chen, who had fallen at his feet and died with her eyes open, the fear on Zhou Ming's face was instantly replaced by terror, and he immediately lost control of his bladder!

"No… no… Mother… a devil… you are a devil! You aren't Zhou Chen! You clearly drank the Demon Boiling Powder my mother gave you, how can you be this strong?!!!"

Zhou Ming screamed, trembling like a sieve, no longer possessing even half of his previous arrogance.

Whoosh!

As soon as Zhou Ming's words fell, the square instantly boiled over.

"Giving Zhou Chen Demon Boiling Powder? The second branch's lineage is too malicious!"

"So that's how it is. No wonder there were rumors that Zhou Chen lost all his cultivation; it was all Lady Chen's doing!"

"I said long ago that the three members of the second branch's Family were not good people!"

"Harming our Zhou Family's Genius, they truly deserve to die!"

"I agree! This act is equivalent to betraying the Family. I suggest invoking the Family rules and executing them immediately!"

Zhou Chen glanced coldly at Zhou Ming, and the golden thread of Spiritual Qi flashed past once more.

"Ah—!"

Zhou Ming let out an incredibly shrill scream, his Dantian instantly becoming a charred mess.

In the next moment, his entire body was as if his spine had been removed, collapsing limply to the ground as blood and fragments continuously poured from his mouth.

His eyes were wide, filled with endless fear and hatred. After a few twitches, he was silent.

The entire process was so fast that people couldn't react. Zhou Chen looked at all this indifferently, as if he had swatted two flies.

"Ah! Murder!"

"Zhou Chen is a Demonic Cultivator!"

"Help!"

After a brief deathly silence, the square instantly exploded into chaos again!

Especially those clansmen who had previously supported Zhou Ming; they were scared out of their wits, screaming and retreating, wishing they could crawl into the cracks in the ground.

The several clan Elders who had been clamoring to depose the Family Head Zhou Yuanming now had ashen faces.

Grand Elder Zhou Yuanze, Second Elder Zhou Yuanfeng, Third Elder Zhou Yuanhai, and others had faces that turned between blue and white, lowering their heads in shame, not daring to look at Zhou Yuanming or Zhou Chen.

"Vile creature! How dare you!!"

A roar of rage came from the back of the crowd!

A middle-aged Cultivator with a sinister face, wearing the robes of a Deacon Elder of the Qinglan Sect, strode forward.

It was precisely Zhou Ming's backer, Qinglan Sect Elder Zhang Wu!

When he saw Zhou Ming and Lady Chen, mother and son, lying on the ground with no breath left and in a terrible state of death, his pupils shrank violently.

The powerful Aura of the Nascent Soul Six Layer erupted with a bang!

Zhou Ming was a Disciple he thought quite highly of. He had only stepped out for a bit, and they were actually slaughtered like this?!

His gaze was like a blade, locking onto Zhou Chen as he questioned sternly.

"What madman is this?! To dare publicly murder a Disciple of my Qinglan Sect and his Family! I see you are tired of living! State your name! This Elder will surely make you pay in blood today and exterminate your entire Family!"

"Zhou Chen, leave first in a moment. We old fellows will block him."

Zhou Yuanming quietly sent a voice transmission to Zhou Chen.

Exterminate my entire Family?

Hearing those words, Zhou Chen finally lifted his eyelids, his indifferent gaze looking at Zhang Wu as if he were a dead man.

The cold killing intent contained in that gaze made even Zhang Wu, a Nascent Soul Six Layer expert, feel his breathing hitch!

"Pay in blood?"

The corners of Zhou Chen's mouth curled into a cold arc again.

"Qinglan Sect, is it? Such great prestige."

He paused, his voice not loud, but every word clearly reached everyone's ears.

"I am a Core Disciple of the Wenxian Sect, a personal Disciple under Sect Leader Liu Qingtian, Zhou Chen."

Buzz!

Zhang Wu felt as if a bolt of thunder from the Nine Heavens had rung in his head, and his mind instantly went blank!

"Wenxian Sect?! Sect Leader's personal Disciple?! Core Disciple?!"

Every word was like a thousand-pound hammer, smashing ruthlessly against Zhang Wu's heart!