This battle shook the entire Divine Land and shattered the invincible aura of the Ten Great Families.

Chen Guan single-handedly crushed and annihilated the coalition of the Ten Great Families and the Ancestral Court, severely damaging the power of both the Ancestral Court and the Gong Family within the Grotto Heaven, to the point of being fundamentally weakened.

The name Chen Guan is now known by everyone throughout the Divine Land.

Even other families did not expect that Chen Guan did not head to the Great Cave Heaven, making it seem like a trap set for the Ancestral Court and the Gong Family.

The end result was that the Ancestral Court and the Gong Family walked right into it, and the losses they incurred this time shocked the other families.

Those families that didn’t truly contribute breathed a sigh of relief, thankful they weren’t truly involved in this battle.

All the families were quickly recalling their people from Demon King City and Abyss City. There was hardly any fighting at Abyss City, while Demon King City saw bloody conflict, but was locked in a standstill, with neither side gaining an advantage.

Now, with a swift retreat, these families are trying to minimize their losses.

"The Gong Family and the Ancestral Court have been crippled by this," Zhang Chunman sighed. "Last time the Celestial Court Army attacked the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, Chen Guan must have been sentimental towards his Celestial Court Army origins and restrained himself, leading them to believe he wasn’t decisive in killing. But this time, Chen Guan has literally broken their legs, and for at least the next decade, they will have no competitive edge within the Grotto Heaven."

"It might be more than ten years. Now that cracks have appeared all over the Secret Realms, the cultivators of small families and ordinary households no longer need to defer to them. The Gong Family has lost so many of its people in the Grotto Heaven that they’re likely unable to defend many of their resource points," Zhang Huacai commented.

Zhang Chunxiang laughed, "To destroy nearly two hundred thousand troops with a single strike, Chen Guan is just so cool."

Zhang Chunman shook his head, "Cool he may be, but that was two hundred thousand people."

"They chose to oppose Chen Guan, so how can they blame him? Besides, if they broke through the Southern Heavenly Kingdom and Purple Sun City, would they have shown mercy to the people there? Are the people of the Southern Heavenly Kingdom and Purple Sun City not people too?" Zhang Chunxiang retorted.

"I don’t blame Chen Guan, I just feel that warfare is sometimes too cruel," Zhang Chunman replied.

This battle instilled dread of Chen Guan in the Ten Great Families.

This person was fiercer than they imagined. The previous battle with the Southern Heavenly Kingdom made them believe Chen Guan would have reservations and not deal harsh blows.

But with this battle, Chen Guan showed everyone just how ruthless he could be when he chose.

The Feng Family and Shang Family, who truly contributed in this battle, also suffered some losses. Though not as severe as the Gong Family and Ancestral Court, they still lost many elites.

Chen Guan had just returned from within the Grotto Heaven. He altered his Secret Law to ignore the rules of the Secret Realms, returning to the Grotto Heaven with the power of a Seventh Awakening to wreak havoc.

Initially, he merely intended to kill the invading forces of the Gong Family and Ancestral Court, as hunting them down in other Grotto Heavens wasn’t easy.

The entrances to those Grotto Heavens were guarded by Ninth Awakening masters, and he couldn’t just enter at will.

But Chen Guan realized there were passages to the Secret Realms popping up all over the Divine Land, negating the need to use traditional locations to enter any of the Secret Realms.

Chen Guan didn’t initially understand what was going on; when he asked others, they simply said these Secret Realm cracks appeared suddenly.

Nobody knew how they came to be.

"Since it’s started, then follow through completely," Chen Guan went to the Grotto Heaven fully controlled by the Gong Family.

He didn’t just want to cripple the Gong Family; he wanted to make sure they could never rise again.

You may have many experts in the Gong Family, but without fresh blood from the Grotto Heaven, let’s see how long your Ninth Awakening cultivators in the Great Cave Heaven can hold out.

Celestial Void Palace, subordinate palace.

"Halt, this is a restricted area of the Celestial Void Palace. Outsiders are not permitted entry," the guards of the Celestial Void Palace blocked the visitor.

The visitor merely glanced at them coldly and spoke in a soft voice, "You have three minutes to leave the Celestial Void Palace. In three minutes, the Celestial Void Palace will be destroyed." 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Though his voice wasn’t loud, it reverberated throughout the Celestial Void Palace.

The people inside the Celestial Void Palace thought a great enemy was coming and rushed out, only to see one man with a dog standing before the palace.

They thought, "Is this person mad? Daring to provoke the Celestial Void Palace alone, unaware of the abundance of experts within?"

"Who are you? Daring to cause trouble before the Celestial Void Palace, do you have a death wish?" the person in charge of the Celestial Void Palace’s subordinate palace asked the man.

"You have two minutes left," Chen Guan said calmly.

"No need for that long, you want to die, I’ll grant your wish now," a Celestial Void Palace expert charged toward Chen Guan.

"Seems like it won’t take three minutes," Chen Guan didn’t budge, merely remarked casually.

The next second, the creature at Chen Guan’s side, the Warring States, charged forward.

The already enormous-looking Warring States grew even larger in an instant, turning into a gigantic beast seemingly capable of devouring the heavens, standing before the Celestial Void Palace.

The Celestial Void Palace, resembling a city, looked like a child’s toy buildings compared to the colossal Warring States, pitifully small.

The attack from the Celestial Void Palace expert merely ruffled the fur on Warring States.

Boom!

A single hoof from Warring States stomped out, demolishing the main hall and gates of the Celestial Void Palace, as well as nearby buildings, scattering people and structures alike.

The people of the Celestial Void Palace were stupefied until Warring States rampaged through the palace, pulling them from their daze.

Yet against such a terrifying beast, their counterattacks were utterly ineffective, unable to even penetrate Warring States’ defenses.

Most were scrambling for their lives, with only Warring States ravaging the Celestial Void Palace, reducing it to ruins in an instant.

Chen Guan turned with Warring States to head for other subordinate palaces of the Celestial Void Palace.

In a matter of days, Chen Guan, with Warring States, challenged the Celestial Void Palace’s thirty-one significant subordinate palaces in the Grotto Heaven, nearly shattering the power of the Celestial Void Palace there.

The Celestial Void Palace, which once had a glimmer of hope to recover in a decade, had its strength in the Grotto Heaven completely dissipated.

"The Gong Family is utterly finished within the Grotto Heaven," other families had complex expressions when they learned of this news.

Never had such a thing occurred before; a member of the Ten Great Families, the Gong Family, had been reduced to such a state.

Even in the era of the Great Demon Qing Bai, such a thing hadn’t happened.

At that time, the Ten Great Families did not actively move against the Great Demon, merely sitting idly by, watching the Great Demon and the Ancestral Court battle to the death.

At that time, they suffered no significant losses; the Ancestral Court truly bore the brunt.

But this time, one of the Ten Great Families was pinned down and utterly defeated, with no means of retaliation.

In the Grotto Heaven, you simply couldn’t defeat them, what could you do?