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Chapter 425: Player of the Fourth Scourge (Part 5)

Long Zhou could not understand why Su Chen had appeared here. His mind went completely blank.

It was over... everything was over.

The Long Family possessed not the slightest power to resist. Before that person, even if the clan-suppressing sacred artifact emerged, it would only be casually pointed at and completely erased.

Long Zhou's legs gave out, and he collapsed onto the ground.

The scene from his memories replayed once more. Even after returning to the past, all that remained at this moment was profound helplessness.

In a single exchange, the Long Family was destroyed. Only Long Zhou remained, and the youth who had annihilated the Long Family now stood before him.

A soft murmur reached Long Zhou's ears.

"Another rebirth."

His pupils contracted sharply.

He completely lost consciousness.

After casually erasing Long Zhou, Su Chen noticed something. The number of rebirths he had encountered seemed a little high.

Since recovering his memories, he had run into two rebirths in a short span of time. This was clearly no ordinary matter.

"Did something major happen in the future?"

Su Chen wondered.

Yet he immediately cast those thoughts aside.

It was simple.

Whether someone was a rebirth or not, he could not be bothered to care. As long as these fellows lacked sense and dared to set their sights on him, he would kill one if one came and kill a pair if a pair came.

Su Chen casually tore open space and returned to Darao City.

Butler Xiao saw the scene and understood that the Young Master had resolved everything.

The two returned to the Xiao family.

...

If the Long Family was the strongest clan on Tiancheng Star, then the strongest sect was the Heavenly Will Sect.

At that moment, within the Heavenly Will Sect, a handsome and outstanding young man opened his eyes.

"The Long Family is gone... how is this possible? In my memories, the Long Family was also destroyed, yet it absolutely was not wiped out at this point in time!"

The young man frowned tightly. He vaguely sensed that certain matters did not quite match the scenes in his memories.

His name was Yun Qing, the strongest successor the Heavenly Will Sect had produced in ten thousand years. In this era, he and Long Zhou had been called the peerless dual prodigies.

Yet only he knew that the title of peerless dual prodigies had become a complete joke after that man's appearance.

In his memories, the destruction of the Long Family should still have been five months away. Now it had been advanced by five months, causing a possibility to surface in Yun Qing's mind.

"Could it be that Long Zhou, like me, is also a rebirth?"

Indeed. Yun Qing was also a rebirth. He had returned from the future to the present. He had originally believed he was the only rebirth. Now, with the premature destruction of the Long Family, he vaguely realized he might not be the only one.

Upon learning that the Long Family had been wiped out overnight by a mysterious person, Yun Qing understood.

"Long Zhou must have gone and provoked that monster again, causing the Long Family to be erased ahead of schedule."

After grasping the entire sequence of events, Yun Qing still felt lingering fear.

The same idea had once arisen in his own heart, yet he had quickly extinguished it.

That man was simply too terrifying... so terrifying that even after living a second life, Yun Qing did not dare harbor the slightest disrespectful thought toward him. He only wished to stay far away from that terrifying man!

Facts proved his decision had been correct. Otherwise, the Long Family would have served as a warning example for the Heavenly Will Sect.

Su Chen had already returned to the Xiao family villa.

Three days later, he received a message from his birth father in this life.

The refined, scholarly middle-aged man before him was Xiao Hongyuan, Su Chen's birth father in this life.

"Son, you absolutely must help your old man this time. This is your grandfather's lifelong wish."

The middle-aged man completely disregarded his image and looked ready to kneel on the ground.

Everyone believed that being born into the Xiao Group was a life of wealth and privilege for Xiao Chen.

Yet the middle-aged man knew it was all an illusion. The Xiao Group's present success was not due to any great ability of his own... well, there was a little, but far more of it came from having an excellent son!

From the moment of his birth, while other children still played in the mud, his own child had already begun contemplating the changes of heaven, earth, sun, moon, and stars, as well as the principles of all things.

He had even created cultivation methods that could be practiced in the real world. It was nothing short of a miracle, no different from an ignorant person suddenly attaining enlightenment and, without any foundation, creating every advanced mathematical formula.

Even the Xiao Group's current prosperity largely stemmed from a prescription his son had casually improved at the age of ten, allowing the group to rise like the midday sun. If the person before him were not his own son, kneeling to one's child would have been inappropriate, yet he still felt the urge to kowtow.

What geniuses, what monsters, what number one of the Starry Sky Alliance... before his own child, they were no different from three-year-old toddlers. If Xiao Chen had not preferred to keep a low profile, the history of the Alliance would already have been overturned!

Looking at his desperately pleading father, Su Chen felt rather helpless.

The Xiao Group had been built single-handedly by his father.

His father was a grassroots success story.

Yet his father's father, Su Chen's grandfather in this life, Xiao Wen, had an extraordinary background. He came from the Xiao family within the Starry Sky Alliance, a colossal force that could easily crush Tiancheng Star. Unfortunately, Xiao Wen had once committed a grave error, resulting in his expulsion from the Xiao family, the abolishment of his cultivation, and exile to Tiancheng Star, where he eventually died of depression.

According to his father Xiao Hongyuan, on his deathbed Xiao Wen had clutched Xiao Hongyuan's hand with tears in his eyes and instructed, "Hongyuan, your father has no other wish in this life... I only hope to return to the Xiao family genealogy so that our branch of the lineage will not be cut off. That way I can face the ancestors without shame."

Xiao Hongyuan had tearfully agreed.

Before Su Chen recovered his memories, he had once again improved a prescription for the Xiao Group. Relying on that prescription, the group released a new product.

The value of the new product came to the attention of an important figure within the Xiao family, who wished to cooperate with the Xiao Group.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Hongyuan immediately realized the opportunity had arrived and brought up Xiao Wen's dying wish.

To reopen the family genealogy and allow the fallen leaves to return to their roots.

Yet the person Xiao Wen had offended still held a high position within the Alliance's Xiao family. That person found the matter difficult and stated outright that the prescription alone was insufficient... additional payment was required.

Thus the present scene had unfolded.

Rewriting a prescription was a trivial matter for Su Chen. His mind contained not only King-rank prescriptions but Emperor-rank ones, and even so-called Super Emperor-rank prescriptions sufficient to fill an entire universe.

Looking at his desperately pleading father, Su Chen still agreed to the request and casually wrote down a Venerable-rank prescription.

Its value would make restoring their branch to the Xiao family no difficult task.

Xiao Hongyuan was overjoyed. He took the prescription and hurried away.

Chapter 426: Player of the Fourth Scourge (Part 6)

After Xiao Hongyuan left, Su Chen waited for the cooldown period to end and logged into the game to continue killing monsters and leveling up.

Such peaceful days did not last long.

Not long after Su Chen had ground his game level to King-rank, he once again met his father in this life, Xiao Hongyuan.

"Son... that... your father wants to ask you for one more favor."

Su Chen felt helpless.

"Speak."

Xiao Hongyuan hurriedly said, "Thanks to that prescription, the Xiao family has already agreed to restore your grandfather to the family genealogy. Our branch can now be considered to have returned to the Xiao family."

Joy was visible on Xiao Hongyuan's face.

Su Chen showed no change in expression.

Whether or not they returned to the Xiao family made no difference to him.

"That is good news. What else could bring Father to seek me out?"

At those words, Xiao Hongyuan looked awkward. "That... in order to return to the genealogy, we also need to make a trip to the main clan..."

Su Chen understood. "So you want me to go with you?"

Xiao Hongyuan nodded. "As expected, nothing can be hidden from my clever, intelligent, and dashing son."

"That... the main clan only displays the rank shown in the 'Mandate of Heaven.' Although they have agreed to restore your grandfather's branch to the genealogy, the descendants still need to demonstrate sufficient talent... your father knows his own talent is lacking, merely an ordinary King-rank. It counts as decent in this small place, but within the Xiao family it is rock bottom."

As a colossal force within the Alliance, the Xiao family was a clan with Quasi-Emperor experts in residence. A King-rank talent might not even measure up to the gatekeepers.

Xiao Hongyuan wore a bitter expression. "This is your grandfather's lifelong wish. Your father does not want any complications to arise. Just help your father this once..."

Only one step remained. Xiao Hongyuan naturally refused to give up so easily.

His son was such a genius that the talent he had awakened could not be poor. Perhaps it would even shock the entire Xiao family and earn him heavy cultivation support.

Xiao Hongyuan did not know.

The reason Su Chen was so formidable had little to do with his talent. His initial talent had been nothing more than an ordinary King-rank, and only thanks to a certain treasure-delivery boy had it risen from King-rank to Venerable-rank.

Nevertheless, Su Chen still chose to agree.

Before the next day arrived, an excited Xiao Hongyuan hurriedly pulled Su Chen to a spatial wormhole and began leaping toward the Xiao family.

...

A vast continent formed from the cores of countless stars.

This continent was the ancestral land of the Xiao family, where countless members of the clan lived.

Xiao Hongyuan brought Su Chen to the core region of the Xiao family.

Xiao City!

"Entering Xiao City requires a talent assessment... only Xiao family descendants with outstanding talent may enter the city."

Nearby, another portly, well-fed middle-aged man explained to Xiao Hongyuan and Su Chen.

The middle-aged man was named Xiao Song.

He was an important figure of the Xiao family with whom Xiao Hongyuan had said he was cooperating, a steward of the clan. Su Chen sensed that his strength was at Rank Eight Nirvana, slightly weaker than the Long Family's old ancestors he had casually crushed.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Hongyuan stepped forward first.

"King-rank talent, unqualified."

Xiao Hongyuan gave a bitter smile at the announcement.

He had known it would be so!

Yet it was fine.

After his desperate pleas, he still had a backup plan!

Seeing this, Xiao Song sighed. "Brother Xiao... I forgot to mention. The rules of our Xiao family require at least Emperor-rank talent to qualify for entry into Xiao City. Although this elder brother of yours helped you open connections, the requirement remains."

Xiao Hongyuan was not flustered. He smiled and said, "Steward, do not be anxious yet. This is my descendant Xiao Chen. His talent surpasses King-rank and will certainly allow him to enter."

A trace of surprise flashed through Xiao Song's eyes, followed by a cold glint.

Su Chen glanced at Xiao Song.

He stepped forward. The city wall displayed:

"Venerable-rank talent, qualified."

Joy flashed across Xiao Hongyuan's face.

Qualified meant they could enter Xiao City.

Yet Xiao Song's face remained expressionless. He lightly sighed. "Brother Xiao truly hides his abilities well, to actually possess a son of such outstanding talent."

"Why did a piece of trash not come instead and simply stay obediently on Tiancheng Star? Does a trash branch also wish to return to the family?"

Xiao Song tore off all pretense at once.

The prompt on the city wall rapidly turned red as waves of bell tones rang out.

Facing Xiao Hongyuan's astonished expression, Xiao Song stated directly, "With nothing more than a Venerable-rank prescription, you wish to return to the genealogy... heh, the genealogy of our Xiao family is not so easily rejoined!"

Xiao Tianyun was the young clan leader of the Xiao family. At a young age, he possessed an Emperor-rank talent.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Within them lay a depth of vicissitude that clashed starkly with his youthful appearance, though he was no longer truly young.

"I have been reborn?"

Xiao Tianyun found the scenes before him so familiar.

Yes, he had returned to the time before the Xiao family was destroyed!

The realization filled him with wild joy.

Living a second life... he, Xiao Tianyun, would definitely... exact revenge?

Wrong!

He, Xiao Tianyun, would definitely cling tightly to the thickest and strongest thigh!

What a joke.

A mere Emperor-rank talent like him wanting to oppose that man?

Was he an idiot?

Xiao Tianyun was no idiot.

"I remember that existence originally belonged to our Xiao family... and nearly returned to the family genealogy."

Xiao Tianyun rapidly recalled past events in his mind, searching for a way to seize that thigh.

They had come so close to grasping it and soaring... yet at the thought Xiao Tianyun's heart convulsed, and he nearly spat blood.

Because of one insignificant person's greed, not only had the Xiao family failed to grasp the thigh, the entire clan had been destroyed instead.

Xiao Tianyun did not hate the man who had destroyed the Xiao family. He hated far more the short-sighted sinner who had caused the destruction... Xiao Song.

"The Xiao family has not yet been destroyed, nor has it provoked that man. There is still a chance for everything."

Xiao Tianyun decided to first eliminate that sinner of the Xiao family, Xiao Song. No... simply letting him die would be too lenient.

Afterward, he would carefully make amends and begin his career of thigh-clinging.

Just as Xiao Tianyun was about to send people to summon Xiao Song, a long and murderous toll of bells reached his ears.

His entire body stiffened. The sound of those bells seemed somewhat familiar.

"Fuck! That goddamn idiot Xiao Song!"

Xiao Tianyun cursed furiously and at that moment erupted with the greatest speed of his entire life, a speed he would never display again.

...

"The bloodline of the criminal Xiao Wen still has the face to return to the family!"

At that moment, the law-enforcement guards had already surrounded Xiao Hongyuan and Su Chen.

Their gazes were cold and greedy.

The bloodline of Xiao Wen had offended a powerful elder within the family. That elder had recently broken through to the Saint realm and now reigned supreme over the Saint clan.

If they captured the bloodline of Xiao Wen and delivered them to that elder, would it not be an immediate merit?

Just as they prepared to act,

"The young clan leader! It is the young clan leader! To think this matter has actually startled the young clan leader from his seclusion!"

"The young clan leader must also wish to curry favor with that elder!"