Chapter 1 When the Gods Explode

When Su Zhou exerted his full power to neatly blast the divine bird Peacock and picked up the dazzling, five-colored, wheel-shaped, soul-stirring shard that overflowed from its corpse, like a firework…

Honestly, no one present reacted to the fact that the Peacock was already dead.

Almost a dozen seconds passed, and even Su Zhou tilted his head in wonder, glancing back to see where the cheers were, when Tang Yuan, who had been hiding in the corner in spirit form, belatedly raised his hand, trembling. One hand clutched his chest, the other pointed in the direction of the Peacock: "It's dead!"

--No kidding. I just stomped its head in twenty seconds, and even collected the evil soul. Your reaction is too slow, Tang bro.

Su Zhou, turning his back to the crowd again, frowned slightly, feeling that they were a bit slow.

Bai Canglang gasped for the xth time--he couldn't help but be shocked. Just now he was wondering how to deal with this Peacock, which was so strong; how to kill this Peacock, which was suppressed... Before he could finish thinking, the Peacock was dead: "Professor Su is terrifying!"

--That line is a bit old, and it feels like something a villain would say. Canglang bro, your language skills aren't very good.

Su Zhou, squatting down to examine the Peacock's corpse, kept his expression unchanged, feeling that it lacked flavor.

"He, he actually did it in less than thirty seconds... When he fought me, he didn't use his full strength... I was actually defeated by a fellow practitioner's Liushou..." Garuda, after the shock, began to sob softly: "Wuwuwuwu, the outside world is so scary, humans are so scary..."

--Of course. If I had to use my full strength to deal with you, I would really be letting down Yala's training. Speaking of which, why are you crying? You're not a good bird either!

After quickly setting up a small preservation ritual and collecting some of the Peacock's body tissue, Su Zhou placed it back in its original spot for official recovery later.

After doing all this, hearing Garuda's sigh, his face darkened, and he felt his reputation was being damaged.

After that, common praises and exclamations finally came: "Professor Su is so strong?!"

"Could it be a hidden secret trump card? Speaking of which, what exactly is Professor Su's bloodline?!" This was normal, clueless amazement.

"Uh, Five Emperors Dragon?" Someone exposed himself as an old-school gamer.

"But the awakening of the Five Emperors Dragon isn't earth, water, fire, wind, and darkness?" Someone else was exposed.

"Don't worry about the bloodline, I'm just saying, Professor Su's dragon eyes are purple-blue, his spiritual power should be the same color!" A logical genius appeared.

"The mystery is solved!" This was an old-school fighting manga enthusiast.

--That's more like it.

Only then, looking up at the vicious beasts lying on the ground, did Su Zhou's face turn from cloudy to clear. Things were looking up! These were normal exclamations!

Of course, although he had many inner fluctuations, Su Zhou actually just coldly stomped on the Peacock's head, then coldly examined its corpse, collected some body tissue, and then intimidated the surrounding vicious beasts with his cold aura.

It really was cold. The vicious beasts were trembling, and many of them near Su Zhou died on the spot because they couldn't bear the inexplicable fear and terror, and were directly crushed by the spiritual pressure.

"I'll go and solve the portal inside first." Now that he had exposed his fire-attribute spiritual power, Su Zhou really didn't have to pretend anymore. He greeted the crowd behind him, then ignored all the vicious beasts around him, and walked into the sealed palace alone--and this time, no one thought Su Zhou's behavior was risky, but admired how decisive and efficient Professor Su was.

Su Zhou had actually considered exposing his fire-attribute spiritual power when he was fighting Garuda, after all, it might take all of Garuda's spiritual power to make him cry with just wind and thunder, which would be a waste of time.

But considering that he hadn't completed the ultimate goal yet, and it was best to keep a hand no matter who he faced, Su Zhou endured the thought until the Peacock forcibly sealed his wind and thunder, and he had no choice but to use his true power to blast it.

As for what problems would arise from the exposure... of course, there would be no problems.

"First of all, my fire-attribute spiritual power is for enhancement and burst, and it is very different from the burning golden fire displayed by the Blade of Extinction. Even if the Zheng Nation people from the Extinction Tang family connect me to it, so what? Maybe an award order will come down. At most, I'll waste some time putting on a medal."

Even in the beginning, Su Zhou wasn't afraid of being discovered by Zheng Nation. After all, he was a reliable pillar of the nation while the Tang family wasn't a good person. Even without any background, doing such a thing and showing his talent, at most, he would be criticized and educated.

And now, he had become Zheng Nation's No. 1 and even a professor in Zheng Nation's official system's academy. Then his occasional punishment of evil and promotion of good was no longer disrupting public order, but actively maintaining order and stability, a virtue.

--If you want to punish evil and promote good, the best way is to stand at a high place, on the side of the majority.

Thinking of this, Su Zhou was actually not worried that his fire-attribute spiritual power would cause other forces to be wary. Now they were in the Kunlun Secret Realm. The students who might be talkative had been dismissed before the battle started. And now the people present were all professors. To say nothing else, to be chosen to explore the Kunlun Secret Realm, they were at least core pillars, and their mouths would definitely be tight.

The point was, if he was dealing with foreign enemies, he could continue to play the "You thought I was a wind and thunder mage? Actually, I'm a melee fighter!" routine several more times!

At this time, it seemed that something had been sensed. No more vicious beasts were涌来 from the other side of the portal. In fact, many of the vicious beasts that had just walked outward hurriedly ran back, as if trying to return to the world on the other side of the portal.

Su Zhou walked in this ancient palace, looked around, and nodded slightly: "This palace is very new... at least compared to those ancient palaces with at least ten thousand years of history, this one is estimated to be only four or five thousand years old."

Like Garuda, he could also see the difference in this palace. At the same time, Su Zhou also felt a faint, strong sense of space-time distortion coming from the distance. Presumably, the Peacock and the others came from the world on the other side to invade the Kunlun Secret Realm.

"Speaking of which, this Peacock Divine Bird is actually quite strong."

After a slight recollection, Su Zhou wasn't forcibly raising his opponent, but it was true that the opponent wasn't weak--as for why it was blown up by him in twenty-three seconds, there were many reasons, the most important of which was that this guy was too arrogant. He thought he was all set with the Five-Colored Divine Light Divine Power and didn't even fly.

If it had flown in the air, not too high, just a few hundred meters, and then blocked Su Zhou's wind and thunder, so that Su Zhou couldn't fly and could only jump and fight it, while it was an aerial bomber releasing various five-element spells, then the outcome would really be hard to say--maybe Su Zhou would have exhausted the other party's spiritual power, and the Peacock would still have the strength to escape?

So, a bird, not flying, brawling with other creatures on the ground... Did this Peacock think it was an ostrich? Able to kick a lion to death?

This was probably the Peacock's cause of death--underestimating the heroes of the world and violating its natural ecological habits.

"I must absorb its lessons and never underestimate others."

Thinking of the Peacock's fate of being blasted by him, Su Zhou couldn't help but be vigilant in his heart: "If I go to another world in the future and encounter opponents with unknown situations, I must never assume that the enemy is weaker than myself. No matter what kind of person, I must go all out, like a lion hunting a rabbit!"

"Su Zhou, ah, Su Zhou, you are still very weak, this world is still very dangerous!"

Yala, poking her head out of his hair, said with a strange expression: "...You're being too forceful, aren't you? I wasn't so cautious back then. Sometimes you should show your majesty when you should."

"That's why you were sealed."

"Shut up!"

Not intending to repeat the same mistake, Su Zhou glanced sideways at her, and with just one sentence, he made Yala scream and shrink back.

Of course, both Su Zhou and Yala were just joking. After all, Yala had already run out. Yala had won against the seal! And the victor naturally didn't mind such teasing. After a while, Yala reappeared. She sniffed the distant smell and shook her head: "There's no aura of a Great Existence. The world over there is probably just an ordinary world."

"But the beastly smell of that world is very strong. It feels like there's no civilization, and it's all wild beasts."

"Is that so." This was in line with the deduction Su Zhou had discussed with Yala before. A world with the aura of a Great Existence couldn't be directly connected to the universe where Earth was located. To go to such a world, you must rely on the Mark of the Celestial God to pass through.

Otherwise, just opening a gap, the remnant thoughts of the Great Existence would probably have passed directly through--you must rely on the Mark of the Celestial God, which is related to the Great Seal, to ensure that the remnant thoughts of the Great Existence don't dare to move.

At this time, Su Zhou had arrived at the very center of the Sealed Palace.

This was a huge, empty hall. Under the circular dome, a huge Tiger Claw Formation was suppressing the spot. Underneath it was a deep, extreme black cave, which was rising and falling as if it were alive, as if it led to the distant depths of the Nine Hells.

Now, the Tiger Claw Formation was almost completely eroded, and the activity of the black cave was even greater than before. Su Zhou could see many vicious beasts, afraid of him, rushing into the giant cave, pushing back the vicious beasts that originally wanted to come out. Some vicious beasts came out to poke their heads, and after seeing that Su Zhou was also staring at them, they quietly shrunk back.

--Sorry, opened the wrong door.

"How to destroy it and prevent monsters from another world from invading our world?"

Without nonsense, seeing this rather active alien spacetime door, Su Zhou really didn't know what to do--he was only Super-凡級, and he was still too far away from manipulating space-time. Even if he was stronger than his peers, he wouldn't be able to shatter space with hundreds of thousands of pounds of force, right? Although with his arm strength, he already had nearly a million pounds of force in both arms.

"It's very simple. You sit here and scare them all back."

Hanging on Su Zhou's ear and swinging, Yala's simple and unadorned answer made big doubts pop out in Su Zhou's big eyes, but soon, she added: "You kill any of the slightly stronger ones that show their heads, and when your Zheng Nation officials come over, let them blast a hydrogen bomb in this place and it'll be over."

"Is a hydrogen bomb that omnipotent?" The doubts on Su Zhou's head increased even more: "If it's really that simple, why didn't the Western Mother Great Celestial Venerable shatter this passage back then? Talking about the demon gods alone, their size is thousands of meters long. Crashing into Earth from outer space can cause biological extinction. It's not surprising that a full blow is far more powerful than a hydrogen bomb."

"Do you think spacetime passages are that stable? A hydrogen bomb certainly can't destroy it, but it can make it chaotic for a long time." Yala shook her head and sighed: "As for why your celestial gods have this technology but don't destroy it, it's simple, because the celestial gods don't want to completely destroy it."

"Haven't you seen it yet, Su Zhou? This Beast God Realm is also a legacy left to you by the celestial gods!"