# Chapter 1573: Miserable Beyond Words
Beihan Chu's body finally stopped moving, flopping limply to the ground.
Countless jaws hit the floor in the same instant, even the eyes of the various Divine Sovereigns nearly popped out of their sockets.
Bu Bai Shangren's body sank sharply, but immediately halted. He stared at the scene before him, his face showing deep shock for the first time.
What had they seen?
Beihan Chu... Beihan Chu, who had achieved the Divine Sovereign realm, was actually...
Punched flying by Yun Che!?
In the dreadful silence, Beihan Chu slowly stood up from the ground. His eyes were dilated to the maximum, trembling and twitching wildly. His Divine Sovereign body ached terribly, his energy flow was chaotic, and his internal organs felt as if they had been ground to pieces...
A mouthful of bloody saliva surged into his throat, which he forcibly swallowed back. He barely managed to stand, but the moment his energy stirred, blood far more violent than before erupted from his mouth in torrents, one stream after another... His body, which had just risen, suddenly fell to its knees, spitting over a dozen bloody spurts, each carrying chunks of teeth.
Nearly eighty percent of his teeth were shattered. For a Divine Sovereign body, this was naturally not caused by impact, but by the force from Yun Che that instantly flooded his entire body and cruelly broke them...
Clearly, Yun Che had done it maliciously.
These dozen or so mouthfuls of blood had nearly taken half of Beihan Chu's life. The blood flow finally stopped, and his breathing seemed to ease somewhat, but he remained kneeling and collapsed, unable to rise for a long time, his pupils twitching exaggeratedly, as if he had suddenly fallen into a bizarre nightmare.
Yes... a nightmare... this must be a nightmare...
Yun Che slowly lowered his arm and said indifferently: "Still want me to yield?"
These three cold words, like three steel needles piercing his heart and soul, caused Beihan Chu's pupils to freeze. He suddenly snapped awake from the nightmare, rolled over in an instant, and stared straight at Yun Che... His hand unconsciously reached toward his face, only to come back covered in blood.
His face... was ruined.
A moment ago, he had been so imposing and proud. He was one of the young palace masters of the Jiu Yao Heavenly Palace, a peerless genius on the Northern Domain Heavenly Lord List, and the supervisor of the Central Ruins Battle. The realm kings of the You Xu Five Realms, including his own father, had to treat him with utmost respect. The eyes that looked up to him all did so as if admiring the son of a god.
Facing Yun Che, he had displayed the full majesty of a Divine Sovereign, standing with his hands behind his back, as if facing an ant.
But Yun Che had punched him into a limp dog lying on the ground.
His face was covered in blood, his teeth were broken, his features were twisted... His pathetic state was pitiful and hard to look at.
"Chu... Chu'er!?"
Only now did the Beihan Divine Sovereign finally manage to speak... He was dumbfounded, completely dumbfounded.
Everyone was dumbfounded. Every face in the entire scene bore the expression of "stunned."
"..." The corners of Beihan Chu's eyes and mouth twitched violently. His vision blurred and spun, not because of an optical illusion, but because the unprecedented humiliation and disgrace were tearing at his soul.
"You..." He opened his mouth, but the sound that came out was as hoarse as a duck whose neck had been twisted.
"Ah!" A chaotic black light suddenly flashed in his bulging eyeballs. Beihan Chu let out a strange howl and lunged at Yun Che.
In an instant, his entire body was shrouded in black light, and even his skin turned dark gray. A somewhat chaotic Divine Sovereign pressure erupted violently, and a foot-long dark sword aura burst from his right arm.
What proof? What letting him have seven moves first? His face had already been utterly lost; why would he care about face anymore! Now he only wanted to tear Yun Che into pieces in the most brutal way possible.
The entire battlefield's air waves were pushed aside in an instant. Amidst a large chorus of exclamations, the dark sword aura stabbed straight at Yun Che's throat.
Yun Che remained motionless. In countless pairs of eyes that contracted to the extreme once again, he raised his arm and directly grabbed the approaching dark sword light with his bare hand.
Under the humiliation and rage of Beihan Chu, that was his unreserved Divine Sovereign power!
"Die... die!!" Beihan Chu roared ferociously.
Crack—
That clang was as piercing as countless blades shattering deep within the heart. Beihan Chu's dark sword aura met Yun Che's five fingers, and blood exploded...
But it was not Yun Che's blood that burst.
Beihan Chu's dark sword aura, along with his five fingers, shattered in an instant, exploding into a shower of black light, flesh scraps, and blood plasma.
Yun Che's hand continued forward, instantly locking onto Beihan Chu's throat, strangling his impending scream. As his five fingers tightened, Beihan Chu's throat bones and windpipe rapidly contracted, deformed, and shattered.
"Young Palace Master? Northern Domain Heavenly Lord List?" Staring into Beihan Chu's terrified and cracking eyes, Yun Che muttered coldly: "You were shouting so happily, I thought you had some real ability. Turns out you're just a useless dog that only knows how to bark!"
"Uh... ah... ahh..." Beihan Chu's face turned from black to blue. His mutilated hand, missing five fingers, flailed wildly, but that terrifying hand locked not only his throat but also his profound energy...
His once proud Divine Sovereign power, which had seemed so strong, was like a larva trampled underfoot, unable to break free no matter what.
"Chu'er!"
"Stop!!"
Two deafening roars came from different directions at the same time, followed by two earth-shattering explosions... and a large number of screams.
The Beihan Divine Sovereign and Bu Bai Shangren both erupted with profound energy simultaneously, charging straight at Yun Che.
As the number one figure of the You Xu Five Realms, the Beihan Realm King was not only a Divine Sovereign but also a fourth-level Divine Sovereign approaching the mid-stage! Bu Bai Shangren was also a fourth-level Divine Sovereign, slightly stronger than the Beihan Divine Sovereign. The power of two fourth-level Divine Sovereigns erupted on the Central Ruins battlefield. Just the airwaves and pressure alone knocked over thousands of people, even sending some flying.
And these two forces, which seemed divine to the You Xu Five Realms, were both aimed at one person... a person they had just regarded as a mere "participating profound practitioner in the Central Ruins Battle."
The simultaneous envelopment of two Divine Sovereign powers suppressed Yun Che's body for an instant, and his brows sank sharply.
Boom!!
A rather cold and sinister force struck Yun Che's left rib. Yun Che's body flipped, blasted hundreds of zhang away, and the ground beneath his feet completely cracked.
Beihan Chu in his hand was also thrown away. The Beihan Divine Sovereign spun his body, caught Beihan Chu, and looked at his severely mutilated hand, his eyes already splitting.
"..." Yun Che stood upright, reached out, and lightly brushed the dust off his left rib.
The Central Ruins battlefield was in complete chaos. Fear, stupor, shock, trembling... No, they couldn't find any words to describe their feelings or the scene they had witnessed.
Beihan Chu, heavily injured by Yun Che with a single punch! His furious counterattack had shattered like a joke, and he was easily overpowered by Yun Che.
He was a genius Divine Sovereign on the Northern Domain Heavenly Lord List, the miracle and pride of the You Xu Five Realms!
And Yun Che was clearly only a fifth-level Divine King!
Could it be that his earlier defeat of the two Divine Kings was not through some special method? That he had heavily injured the ten Divine Kings in a few breaths was also not relying on some demonic artifact!?
Before this, no one would have believed that a fifth-level Divine King could possess such strength. His defeat of the ten Divine Kings was almost certainly through some method like a demonic artifact...
But what they had now witnessed... what was this!
A fifth-level Divine King completely crushing Beihan Chu, who had just become a first-level Divine Sovereign, like smashing a mud dog... Even a madman couldn't make up such a joke, yet today it was vividly presented before their eyes.
"He... he... he..." Nan Huang Jian stared at Yun Che, so shocked that he could barely speak: "Who... exactly... is he..."
"Ah..." Nan Huang Mofeng's throat kept convulsing, unable to utter a word.
"Not good!" A Nan Huang Divine King suddenly said: "Beihan Chu has been injured and suffered such great humiliation in public. The Jiu Yao Heavenly Palace will never let this go easily... And Yun Che is fighting on behalf of our Nan Huang today!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the stunned Nan Huang crowd all turned their heads, their faces showing horror.
Yun Che's strength was terrifying and completely unbelievable. But his methods were extremely vicious and ruthless—breaking his teeth, destroying his face, shattering his hand... Even worse, it was the complete loss of dignity and endless humiliation!
Given Beihan Chu's status in the Jiu Yao Heavenly Palace, this was no longer just a matter of provocation... Their retaliation would be unimaginable.
With such astonishing strength, if Yun Che wanted to simply walk away, it was likely that no one could stop him. The wrath of the Jiu Yao Heavenly Palace would undoubtedly be vented on the Nan Huang Divine Kingdom... How could the Nan Huang Divine Kingdom bear that?
"No need to panic about this." The Nan Huang Divine Sovereign spoke, but his tone was unusually firm.
He looked at Yun Che, then at Nan Huang Chanyi, recalling his daughter's strange words and actions today, and his heart surged with waves of shock.
He knew well about Nan Huang Chanyi's "other identity."
For her to act like this... Just what kind of person was this man named Yun Che!
Qianye Ying'er, who had been quiet all along, slowly stood up at this moment... At the same instant, Nan Huang Chanyi slightly turned her head.
Qianye Ying'er stepped forward slowly, walking into the battlefield under countless astonished gazes, and stopped beside Yun Che.
"You don't need to come out," Yun Che said. "As long as they have any sense, they won't make a move."
"Hmph, the one who never has any sense is you!" Qianye Ying'er said coldly.
Ahead of them, the Beihan Divine Sovereign supported Beihan Chu with one hand, his eyes fixed on Yun Che like eagle hooks. His shock and fury were like raging waves, but he held back with difficulty and did not strike: "Who... exactly are you!"
Even though he had heavily injured Beihan Chu with one blow and easily reversed his finger-breaking move, the profound energy he released was always at the fifth level of the Divine King realm.
He had never seen anything so bizarre, so terrifying, nor had he ever heard of it.
Even among all the legends and rumors of the distant king realms, there was nothing so incredible.
"Is my proof sufficient?" Yun Che said, directly ignoring the Beihan Divine Sovereign's question.
"..." The Beihan Divine Sovereign's face twisted.
Bang!
Beihan Chu, having shaken off the suppression of his profound energy, broke free from his father's arm and charged forward, but after taking two steps, he stopped dead in his tracks. His pupils were a chaotic mix of hatred and fear. He began to retreat, trembling as he roared: "Father... kill him... kill him!!"
"Shut up!"
Bu Bai Shangren descended from the sky, uttering two harsh words—but they were directed at Beihan Chu.
Beihan Chu was stunned: "Uncle Master..."
"Haven't you shut up yet!" Lu Bubo shouted again, then turned to face Yun Che. There was no anger on his face, only calmness: "Yun Che, your exchange with the Young Palace Master has proven that your victory over those ten Divine Kings was not through the use of forbidden demonic artifacts, but entirely by your own strength."
"Therefore, in the battle between Nan Huang and the three sects, Nan Huang wins."
This declaration should have been made by Beihan Chu as the supervisor, but now it was Lu Bubo who announced it: "According to the agreement, for the next five hundred years, the Central Ruins Realm will belong to the Nan Huang Divine Kingdom. No other star realms of the You Xu may set foot in it without permission."
In the Central Ruins Battle, even the top-ranked participant only received a quarter of the Central Ruins Realm, and only for fifty years.
But this time... it was the entire Central Ruins Realm, and for a full five hundred years!
Unprecedented!
Because before offering such a stake, they had never imagined this would actually happen.
The faces of the Beihan Divine Sovereign, the Eastern Ruins Divine Sovereign, and the Western Ruins Divine Sovereign all twitched violently... but not one of them spoke.
The Nan Huang Divine Kingdom also did not cheer excitedly.
"And there's more," Yun Che said, extending his hand. "The Cangtian Sword."
"Young Palace Master, give it to him." Lu Bubo took a heavy breath and spoke five words that no one could believe.