Chen Zheng stopped, his gaze locking onto Su Kunan like a hunter on its prey.

Su Kunan's face flushed crimson, a fierce flame burning deep within his heart.

"Grandmaster Chen! You barge into my Su Family's home, kill three of my family members, and think you can just walk away?"

Su Kunan's voice was filled with a crazed fury. The Su Family was a top-tier noble family in Magic Capital. Wielding immense power, when had they ever suffered such a humiliating blow? Even a Grandmaster shouldn't be able to disregard them.

Chen Zheng's expression remained calm, seemingly indifferent to Su Kunan's accusations.

At that moment, several Mercedes-Benz vans pulled to a halt outside the gates of the Su Family estate. The doors swung open, and a group of experts led by Li Cangyun and Liu Daoyi leaped out. They immediately noticed two guards lying on the ground, their fates unknown.

Li Cangyun's and Liu Daoyi's gazes met, an unspoken understanding passing between them, as sharp as two clashing swords. They stopped in the grand hall, the entire scene unfolding before them like a massive scroll. The pupils of everyone who had just arrived constricted, their expressions freezing over. Yet, they remained silent.

Suddenly, a system notification rang out, as melodious as heavenly music.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for triggering a choice mission.]

[Choice One: Overthrow the Su Family. Reward: The loyalty of the Liu and Li Families.]

[Choice Two: Punish Su Kunan alone. Reward: The loyalty of the Su Family.]

At this moment, Chen Zheng's voice sounded. "What do you want?"

"I want you dead!" Su Kunan's voice was low, each word seeming to echo from an abyss, carrying an undeniable weight. "Blood debts must be paid in blood!"

The moment the words left his lips, he seemed to transform into a raging inferno as a violent aura erupted from him. His complexion shifted from pale to fiery red, like a spirit born of flame.

"Grandmaster?" Chen Zheng narrowed his eyes, sensing something.

Li Cangyun and Liu Daoyi exchanged a shocked glance. "That's... potential burning!"

They knew it was a powerful secret technique that allowed National Art Practitioners to draw upon all their strength in an instant. However, it was a dangerous gamble; losing control meant burning away one's very life essence.

Su Kunan was in the twilight of his years, and watching his daughter die before his very eyes had driven him to madness. He was in unbearable anguish, his heart feeling as if it were being torn apart. He had made his decision. He would use his last ounce of strength to fight this demon.

His raspy, low voice commanded, "Men of the Su Family, join me! We hunt Chen Zheng!"

His aura surged unstoppably, like a tiger descending a mountain.

A member of the Su Family cried out in shock, "Old Patriarch, you've broken through to the Grandmaster realm!"

The rest of the family roared in agreement, their eyes glittering with manic fervor. "Let's attack together! There's nothing to fear!"

But Su Yunduan's lone voice cut through the din. "Wait! Don't be rash!"

However, his warning was swallowed by the enraged roars of his kinsmen.

In the next instant, Su Kunan lunged at Chen Zheng like a maddened beast. The crowds on either side of the hall surged forward like twin infernos.

System, I choose one.

Chen Zheng finally made his decision.

"The Su Family will be erased from the scrolls of history." His voice was as cold and resolute as the winter wind.

Then, he alone faced the surging tide of the Su clan and gently raised his hand. The mystical energy in his Dantian gushed forth like a spring. In an instant, ten threads of energy, each as sharp as a sword's edge, coalesced at his fingertips.

He swept his arm as if wielding an invisible sword.

THUD! THUD! THUD!

The Su family members charging at him were swatted back as if by an invisible hand, sent flying like discarded sacks as their blood arced through the air. The moment they landed, their strength vanished, leaving them completely limp and unable to move another inch. Their gazes fell to their own limbs. The powerful muscles within had been completely severed. Their fate was sealed, the same as Chen Buwei's: a lifetime of disability.

In the blink of an eye, everyone in the hall had fallen, save for Su Kunan, the still-unmoving Su Yunduan, and Su Hunyun in his wheelchair.

"Die!" At that moment, Su Kunan's voice was icy and decisive, like a summons from death itself. He raised his hand. An invisible energy flashed in his palm before solidifying into a Tai Chi pattern in the air, which then pressed down on Chen Zheng.

The formidable power kicked up a gale in the hall, sending tables and chairs skittering as if the very world trembled under the force.

"Top Heart Elbow!"

Chen Zheng's footing was firm. The energy threads around him vanished. The miraculous power from his Dantian began to condense, focusing on his elbow.

SWOOSH!

The air seemed to tear as streaks of white light swirled around Chen Zheng. His figure shot through the void like an arrow, breaking the sound barrier and entering a new realm of speed.

A thunderous crash echoed through the air. Chen Zheng's attack, like a meteor streaking across the night sky, slammed directly into Su Kunan's chest.

Su Kunan coughed up a mouthful of crimson blood as his body flew backward like it had been struck by a boulder, finally crashing violently into the far wall of the hall.

BOOM!

A heaven-shaking roar ripped through the night! The solid stone wall cracked like a spiderweb, fissures spreading in all directions. Su Kunan's body was swallowed by the impact, embedded in the ruined wall. His eyes were wide and vacant, his life already extinguished.

The members of the Li and Liu families stared, dumbfounded. They had just gained a profound and terrifying understanding of a Grandmaster's might.

Beneath a Grandmaster, all living things are but grass and trees. The thought reverberated in their minds, a shocking and thrilling realization.

Then, Su Yunduan collapsed, his strength completely gone.

The Su Family was finished.

"Why? Why wouldn't anyone listen to me?" Su Yunduan's voice was filled with despair as he sat on the floor, all his strength gone.

Su Hunyun sat quietly in his wheelchair, his eyelids drooped, burying all hope deep within him. I once held out hope, believing the Su Family still had a chance, but reality, like a sharp sword, has pierced that dream. A Grandmaster... an insurmountable existence. One cannot hope to match a true Grandmaster by simply burning away one's own life to forcibly reach the realm.

"The Su Family is destroyed!" Chen Zheng's voice roared like an ancient dragon, snapping everyone out of their shock. "The glory of the Su Family is extinguished. Everything that was theirs now belongs to the Li and Liu families." His words fell like icy winter snow, quenching all passion.

At the same time, the system notification arrived like a gentle, heavenly chorus.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for completing the choice. Reward received: The loyalty of the Li and Liu Families.]

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