A sudden burst of laughter ripped through the heavy silence.Kaelen Viremont stood at the edge of the Skyhammer Tribe’s frozen formation, laughing as he had just heard the funniest thing in the world. It echoed everywhere, bouncing off the tense air. And honestly… the faces around him were something else. Shock. Disbelief. A bit of fear, too. All tangled together in those powerful tribal experts who always thought they were untouchable.Kaelen didn’t even try to hide how pleased he was.Then, without saying another word, he turned his back on them and started walking. Straight ahead, toward that distant horizon where the land seemed to dip into something unknown… something vast and strange.Behind him, a demon suddenly shouted, voice tight with urgency.“The Grand Commander is heading toward a basin suspected to contain the ruins of the Ancient Saints! Everyone move—follow him now!”That was all it took.Like a dam breaking, the demons surged forward. One after another, they snapped i

The moment Kaelen Viremont finished speaking, the Giant Demon Grand Commander went quiet.Just like that. Whatever he was about to say got swallowed back down. No reply. No anger. Nothing. He just stood there, staring at Kaelen like something about him had suddenly become very… wrong.And honestly, he wasn’t wrong to feel that way.Something didn’t add up.This so-called “newly promoted” Grand Commander? He didn’t feel new at all. Not even close.Yeah, his voice sounded young, sure. But the pressure he gave off… that was a different story. That kind of presence doesn’t belong to someone fresh. And on top of that, he was already holding the Skyhammer Tribe’s ancestral treasure—the Nine Heavens Stellar Hammer.That alone changed everything.Because only one thing made sense now.This guy wasn’t normal.Not even a little.Far more dangerous than he looked.For the first time, even the Giant Demon Grand Commander hesitated. You could almost see it in his stillness. Instinct screaming at h

The moment Chu Changsheng finished speaking, the entire ruin went quiet.For a split second—just a split second—he actually thought all eyes were on him. Like he’d stepped into the spotlight or something.That illusion didn’t last.Not even a heartbeat.Buzz—A heavy, suffocating wave of demonic pressure dropped from above like the sky itself was collapsing.Chu Changsheng’s face changed immediately.“This pressure…”He didn’t even get to finish.Around him, the super clan experts started backing away. Fast. Not careful, not polite—more like they were trying to get out of a burning building.And the worst part?They weren’t backing him up.They were leaving him there.Alone.“What…?”His expression froze. That confident look? Gone in an instant.This wasn’t how it was supposed to go.He stepped forward, expecting attention. Respect. Maybe even a bit of admiration. At the very least, he thought his identity as the Chu Clan young master would mean something.He even… kind of imagined Sh

Silence.A heavy, suffocating kind of silence spread across the entire ancient basin.Nobody moved. Nobody even dared to breathe properly.All eyes were fixed on the same thing.The Crystal Saint Sphere—the Chu Clan’s ancestral Saint Weapon—was just… floating quietly in Kaelen Viremont’s hand.No resistance. No struggle. No rage anymore.It was calm.Strangely calm, actually. Like it had accepted him or something.And that one moment?It broke everyone’s expectations completely.A wave of shock rolled through the battlefield.Even the wind felt like it had stopped for a second.The super clan experts just stared, completely stunned. You could tell they were trying to make sense of it, but it just didn’t fit anything they knew.A Saint Weapon.Willingly submitting to a Demon Grand Commander?That kind of thing… shouldn’t happen. Not in any normal world.Kaelen Viremont stood there quietly, the sphere resting in his palm.Inside it, he could feel it clearly now.That endless Saint-level

The demon lord’s body loomed over everything.Huge—easily over ten meters tall. Just standing there, it felt like the air itself was getting crushed down. Every word it spoke carried this heavy authority, like the world had no choice but to listen.For a moment, the thousands of demon soldiers beneath it hesitated.You could feel it. That split-second uncertainty.Because in their world, hierarchy wasn’t a suggestion—it was law. Strength decided everything. A demon lord sat way above a Grand Commander. So normally… There wouldn’t even be a question about who they should follow.And yet.Kaelen Viremont had led them for a long time.Through battles. Blood. Endless silent orders that somehow kept them alive.To them, he wasn’t just “a commander.” He was something else. Hard to explain. Dangerous in his own quiet way.So now they were stuck.Not sure what to do.Meanwhile, the super great clans were anything but calm.Their expressions turned sharp, cold, almost furious.They felt tricke