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As soon as he finished speaking, Su Hao released the True Dragon Holy Power that had been sealed within his body!

A pure and flawless golden holy power soared into the sky, illuminating the entire Western Mountain!

That golden light was more dazzling than the sun and more brilliant than the stars!

An even larger phantom of a golden holy dragon hovered high in the sky, its dragon might overwhelming and suppressing all directions!

Although both are at the Saint Master realm, Su Hao's original power is more than a hundred times more powerful than the superficial power that Shi Lezhi obtained through pills.

Shi Lezhi's face instantly turned deathly pale. He roared, "Impossible! I've cultivated diligently for decades, and even with forbidden drugs, I barely managed to reach the Saint Master level! How could you, at only twenty years old, possibly have a foundation far surpassing mine?"

Su Hao didn't answer him, but instead took action.

Under the clash of equal holy power, the illusory power that Shi Lezhi obtained through the elixir dissipated rapidly, like ice and snow under the scorching sun.

Each of Su Hao's punches carried the pure and flawless power of the True Dragon Saint, like the majestic might of heaven, unstoppable.

Shi Lezhi's defenses were as fragile as paper in front of Su Hao, collapsing at the slightest touch!

In less than three minutes, Shi Lezhi's meridians began to rupture on a large scale.

The blood-red aura emanating from his body dissipated rapidly, and he slumped down like a deflated balloon.

Finally, Shi Lezhi, completely exhausted, collapsed to his knees on the white jade platform with a thud.

His dark purple brocade robe was tattered, his body was covered in wounds, and blood stained the ground beneath him. His internal energy had dissipated completely, and he was too weak to get up.

He lost!

A complete and utter defeat!

On the main peak, the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the white jade platform, turning the entire platform into a golden-red hue.

Shi Lezhi collapsed to the ground, covered in wounds, no longer displaying any of his former charisma.

He raised his head and looked at Su Hao standing in front of him, his eyes filled with resentment, anger and disbelief.

Having dominated China for decades, I never imagined I would be defeated by a twenty-year-old.

On the viewing platform at the foot of the mountain, Shi Yiqun witnessed her brother's crushing defeat.

Her legs gave way, and she collapsed onto the cold, bluestone floor, her face ashen. She muttered to herself, "How could this happen..."

The reactions of the various factions differed.

Gui Haiyi breathed a long sigh of relief and said to Wu Xiaoming, "Wu Si is safe."

Ma Fei also revealed a long-lost smile, saying to his daughter Ma Xinran, "With the Shi family down, the spring of our Ma family has finally arrived." The neutral martial arts masters and civil officials looked solemn, immediately rethinking their future allegiance to the court and the martial arts world.

Everyone knows that from this day forward, the landscape of China will be completely rewritten.

All the merchants and warriors who were dependent on the Shi family were trembling with grief, as if they had lost their parents.

They knew that the Military Command would soon launch a full-scale purge.

Industry, status, and everything else will vanish.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the leader of the Thousand Hands Ninjas took advantage of the chaos and quietly fled from the dense forest behind the mountain, planning to cross the border into China that night to escape accountability.

Su Hao stood on the high platform of the main peak, and the golden holy energy slowly receded.

He looked down at the thousands of bigwigs at the foot of the Western Hills, his gaze calm as still water.

With this battle concluded, the Shi family's long-standing hegemony in the Chinese imperial court and the supernatural world has completely collapsed.

Shi Lezhi looked at Su Hao, his eyes filled with fear and resentment.

He suddenly burst into laughter, a laugh tinged with madness: "Su Hao! You think you've won?! You think killing me will end everything?!"

Su Hao's gaze sharpened slightly: "What do you mean?"

A sinister smile crept across Shi Lezhi's lips: "There's something I've never told you. You're not my son at all."

These words shocked the entire audience.

No one expected that the father-son battle was actually a hoax.

Su Hao frowned: "What do you mean?"

"That was a message the cult leader told me to spread." Shi Lezhi's voice became hoarse.

"Hahaha! You think you're so great at fighting? You think you're a genius? Do you even know where your biological mother is right now?"

Su Hao stopped in his tracks.

He looked down at Shi Lezhi, his gaze becoming deep: "Go on."

Shi Lezhi opened his mouth, about to speak, when an invisible force suddenly shot out from the void and accurately pierced through his brow!

Shi Lezhi's eyes were wide open, his mouth was still agape, but he had lost all life and slowly collapsed to the ground.

"Who?!" Su Hao turned his head sharply, looking in the direction from which the energy had come.

A blurry figure flashed past in the distant woods at incredible speed, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Su Hao wanted to give chase, but the aura had completely disappeared.

He sensed that the other person's strength was no less than his own.

Su Hao's expression became extremely solemn.

Shi Lezhi is dead.

The whereabouts of his mother were no longer known.

Hua Xia Chang Ouyang Tianxia stood up from the boulder, looked at this scene, and slowly spoke, his voice echoing throughout the mountaintop: "Su Hao has won, Shi Lezhi is dead, the grudges are settled, and no one shall seek revenge against Su Hao."

No one dared to object.

Afterwards, Ouyang Tianxia found Su Hao and apologized to him: "Su Hao, it was wrong of me to send someone to test you last time. To express my apology, from now on I will stand firmly by your side."

Su Hao looked at him, remained silent for a moment, and then nodded.

You can't hit someone who's smiling.

Since Ouyang Tianxia has taken the initiative to show goodwill, he has no need to turn him away.

......

News of the Battle of Xishan spread like wildfire throughout China in just a few hours.

From the south to the north of the Yangtze River, from the imperial court to the common people, from the martial arts world to the business world, everyone is talking about the same thing.

Stone lost!

The head of the Shi family, who had held sway in the Chinese imperial court and martial arts world for decades and was one of the strongest figures in the capital, was actually defeated by a young man in his early twenties.

What's even more astonishing is that Su Hao not only defeated Shi Lezhi, but also crushed him with absolute power after Shi Lezhi forcibly broke through to the Saint Master level by taking the Berserk Pill.

The moment the news spread, the entire landscape of China began to shake violently.

The first to take action were the various forces that Su Hao had arranged in advance.

With Yang Bao in charge of the provincial capital, he gave an order, and thousands of his men were mobilized simultaneously, taking control of all of the Shi family's underground businesses in the Jiangnan region with lightning speed.

Casinos, bars, nightclubs, underground banks... all the gray businesses associated with the Shi family were shut down or taken over overnight.

Those Shi family subordinates who had tried to resist all gave up.

Even Shi Lezhi has failed, so what are they still struggling for?

In the business world, Ma Fei and Qin Shou made their moves simultaneously.

Ma Fei used the business channels and connections accumulated by the Ma family over the years, and joined forces with more than a dozen companies that had been suppressed by the Shi family for many years to launch a full-scale attack on the Shi family's business empire.

The stock prices of Shijiazhuang's listed companies plummeted, suppliers cut off supplies one after another, distributors defected en masse, and banks tightened lending for various reasons.

Qin Shou then took Chen Li and visited the business tycoons who had once relied on the Shi family, presenting them with two paths.

Either sever ties with the Shi family and submit to Su Hao!

Either wait to be completely purged and utterly disgraced!

The vast majority of people chose the former, and several bigwigs even expressed on the spot that they were willing to donate half of their family fortune, just asking Su Hao to spare their lives.

The changes in the martial arts world are even more dramatic.

Gui Haiyi and Wu Xiaoming led the elite troops of the Jiangnan branch of the Martial Arts Department, in coordination with the Zhang family experts sent by Zhang Quan, to sweep away the Shi family's influence in the martial arts world.

Those martial arts families and sects that had once relied on the Shi family, upon learning of Shi Lezhi's defeat, some took the initiative to apologize, some disbanded their sects overnight, and some even turned against him, betraying the Shi family's secret stronghold to the Martial Division.

Within just three days, the Shi family's network of influence in the martial arts world collapsed.

In the imperial court, the winds of change shifted even faster.

Those civil and military officials who had once had close ties with the Shi family were like frightened birds, and they all issued statements to sever ties with the Shi family.

Some people voluntarily handed over the gifts given to them by the Shi family, some publicly apologized and admitted that they had been deceived by the Shi family, and some even turned around and accused the Shi family of various crimes in an attempt to exchange for their own safety.

Even among the trusted confidants whom the Shi family had personally promoted, many chose to betray them.

After all, when a tree falls, its monkeys scatter; no one wants to be buried with a tree that has already fallen.

In just one week, the once prominent Shi family fell from grace and became a pariah, hated by everyone.

.......

The old Shi family residence, the meeting hall.

Shi Yiqun stood in the hall, looking at the letters that had been delivered to her, her face ashen and her whole body trembling.

Among those letters were letters of severing ties from former allies who had sworn brotherhood with the Shi family, resignations from officials whom the Shi family had supported for many years, and resignation reports from heads of Shi family-owned companies.

Each letter felt like a knife to her heart.

"Bastards! A bunch of ungrateful bastards!" Shi Yiqun slammed the letter in her hand to the ground, her voice filled with anger and despair.

"Back when my brother promoted them, they fawned over him like dogs! Now that my brother has fallen, they've turned their backs on him! What a bunch of beasts!"

An elderly steward from the Shi family, standing nearby, spoke tremblingly, "Miss... now people all over the country are distancing themselves from us. Yang Bao has taken control of all our businesses in Jiangnan, and the Wu Division has seized our branch offices in Beijing, and..."

"Enough!" Shi Yiqun slammed her hand on the table, cracking the hard mahogany surface with her blow.

"I won't listen to any of that! I refuse to believe that my Shi family's business, built up over decades, is just going to end like this!"

She took a deep breath, a mad, resolute glint in her eyes: "Gather all the people we can still mobilize! I'm going to fight Su Hao to the death! Even if I die, I'll take him down with me!"

The words had barely left his mouth when a cold voice came from the doorway: "Oh? Who are you going to fight?"

Shi Yiqun suddenly turned her head, her pupils contracting sharply.

The doors to the council chamber were wide open, and Su Hao stood outside the threshold, dressed in a simple, close-fitting outfit, with his hands behind his back.

Behind him stood Zhan Xier, Gui Haiyidao, and Wu Xiaoming. Further out were dozens of elite warriors from the Martial Division, completely surrounding the Shi family's old residence.

Su Hao stepped across the threshold and slowly walked into the council hall. His gaze calmly swept over the furnishings in the hall before finally landing on Shi Yiqun.

"The Shi family is finished."

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable air of authority.

"Shi Lezhi was defeated by me, and the Shi family's power has been completely uprooted. Those who once relied on you have all turned against you. Shi Yiqun, what trump cards do you have left?"

Shi Yiqun gritted her teeth, staring intently at Su Hao, her eyes filled with hatred and resentment: "Su Hao, don't be so arrogant! As long as I, Shi Yiqun, have a breath left, I will not let you succeed! The Shi family will not perish!"

Su Hao looked at her, remained silent for a moment, and then slowly spoke, his voice calm but carrying an irresistible power: "I can give your Shi family a way out. All members of the Shi family, as long as you voluntarily give up your Shi family identity and sever ties with the Shi family, I can spare your lives."

Upon hearing this, the Shi family members inside and outside the council hall were all stunned.

Then, a commotion began to break out in the crowd.

A member of a collateral branch of the Shi family was the first to step forward, head bowed, his voice filled with guilt and fear: "I...I am willing to give up my Shi family identity..."

Once someone takes the lead, others follow suit.

"I'd like to too!"

"Mr. Su, please spare my life! I'll sever all ties with the Shi family!"

"Me too! I've been fed up with Shi Louzhi's behavior for a long time!"

Within minutes, more than half of the Shi family members present had left.

Those who didn't leave, after hesitating and struggling, ultimately chose to give in.

It's better to live a life of dishonor than to die in vain.

As Shi Yiqun watched those clansmen who had once treated her with utmost respect walk past her with their heads bowed, abandoning her and the Shi family, her face went from ashen to deathly pale, and then from deathly pale to ashen as death.

She suddenly burst into laughter, a laugh filled with madness and desolation: "Hahaha! Good! Very good! This is the Shi family! A bunch of cowardly cowards who fear death!"

There was no pity in Su Hao's eyes, only calmness: "Shi Yiqun, do you still choose to persist?"

Shi Yiqun's laughter stopped abruptly.

She raised her head, staring intently at Su Hao, her eyes burning with the last flame of hope: "Su Hao, you think you've won? You think everything is over now that the Shi family has fallen? Let me tell you, you're wrong! You'll never know the truth! You'll never find your mother! Your whole life will be shrouded in mystery!"

Su Hao's gaze sharpened slightly, but he quickly regained his composure: "Are you finished?"

Shi Yiqun did not answer.

She slowly took out a short dagger from her bosom, a sorrowful smile playing on her lips: "Su Hao, I will haunt you even as a ghost."

As soon as she finished speaking, she flicked her wrist, and the short dagger flashed with a cold light, piercing her own heart.

Blood gushed out, staining her clothes red.

Shi Yiqun's body swayed, then slowly fell backward, crashing heavily to the ground. Her eyes were wide open, staring at the ceiling, completely lifeless.

The council chamber was deathly silent.

Su Hao looked down at Shi Yiqun's body, remained silent for a moment, and then said to the Shi family members beside him, "Give her a proper burial. No matter what she did in life, the dead should be respected."

The Shi family members nodded in agreement and hurriedly carried Shi Yiqun's body away.

Su Hao turned and walked out of the council hall, instructing Yang Bao at the door: "From today onwards, the Shi family is under your control. All Shi family assets and personnel must be registered and investigated one by one. Those with problems will be dealt with according to the law; those without problems can be retained. I do not want to see any indiscriminate killing of innocent people."

Yang Bao clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Mr. Su, rest assured, I will handle it well."

Su Hao nodded and looked up at the distant sky.

As the sun sets, the sky is tinged with a golden-red afterglow.

The era of the Shi family has finally come to an end.

But he knew this was just the beginning.

The words Shi Lezhi uttered before his death, the mysterious cult leader, and the whereabouts of his mother—all these mysteries need to be unraveled by him.

Su Hao clenched his fists, his gaze hardening.

No matter how treacherous the road ahead, he will not back down.

......

After settling everything in the capital, Su Hao led everyone back to Jinling.

Li Qiuchan, Song Xiaoxiao, Shen Qingci, Ming Jing'er... everyone gathered together for a proper celebration.

Everyone was happy, as if all their troubles had vanished.

But Su Hao knew that the real storm had only just begun.

Sure enough, he received a message from Anse the next day.

The message was very short, just one line.

Princess Elisa has been captured by the cult leader. He asked me to tell you that if you want to know your mother's whereabouts, come to the Dark Church to find him.

Su Hao held his phone and remained silent for a long time.

After hearing the news, everyone tried to dissuade him from going.

Li Qiuchan grabbed his hand, her eyes red-rimmed: "Su Hao, you can't go! It's a trap!"

Su Hao looked at her, gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said softly, "I have to go."

He bid farewell to everyone and boarded a flight to a foreign country alone.

The plane pierced through the clouds and flew towards the unknown distance.

Su Hao leaned against the porthole, gazing at the receding landscape of China outside the window, a resolute glint in his eyes.

mom......

Elisa...

Wait for me!!!