After divorcing my celebrity wife, I became the world's richest person

Duo Geli didn't expect so many people were still willing to follow him, and his face showed a touch of emotion.

Chen Yu didn't say much else, just walked toward the inner depths of the underground palace on his own.

Duo Geli immediately became nervous, as the depths of the underground palace were riddled with traps—Chen Yu walking into it alone would undoubtedly lead to death.

"Wait a minute, outsiders are not allowed to enter there willy-nilly!"

But Chen Yu didn't care about that, his figure flashed, and he went directly into the depths of the underground palace.

Duo Geli was scared witless, Chen Yu was their savior; he absolutely couldn't let him die in the underground palace like this.

He quickly called on the people around him, and they rushed into the underground palace.

But when they entered, they found Chen Yu standing unharmed atop a pile of gold.

"You people are really too conservative! The empire that your ancestors guarded has long since perished, and the treasures they left behind belong to no one. If I were you, I would move everything out of here instead of guarding it like beggars."

Duo Geli sighed helplessly, they were living by the promises handed down from their ancestors, and they wouldn't abandon those promises unless they were killed.

Just as he was about to speak, the entire underground palace suddenly began to shake.

Chen Yu's face showed no surprise at all; when he entered the underground palace, he had detected that more than a dozen forces were moving in this direction, seemingly for the gold and gemstones here.

The reason he had sent the palace's guardians away was that he didn't want them to make meaningless sacrifices.

Duo Geli also became tense, the piercing alarm sounding made it hard for him to breathe.

The eight people who stayed behind also instinctively drew the weapons they carried.

"Why can't these guys just leave us alone?"

Duo Geli's teeth clenched with a crunching sound; now, just with these people, it was impossible to resist the dozen or so outside forces.

Chen Yu shook his wrist, "Men die in pursuit of wealth, as birds perish in quest for food; these people are after riches, and the items here are enough to make them pay any price."

Duo Geli felt somewhat helpless, and he suddenly felt relieved that those people had left, or else they would have only one path—death.

"Mr. Chen, you should go too, we can't let you lose your life here!"

Chen Yu, however, appeared indifferent.

"How about a bet? If I can get rid of those guys outside, you all have to leave with me. And you also have to take all the gold, gemstones, and treasures from the underground palace!"

Duo Geli hesitated; he looked at the mountain of gold and silver treasures in front of him, then at the eight scruffily dressed brothers behind him.

They had paid too much for these external things, and staying here was just a waste of time.

"Alright, I agree! But how could you possibly..."
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Before he could finish speaking, Chen Yu's figure suddenly vanished like lightning from the spot.

Duo Geli's eyes widened in shock.

"Could this Mr. Chen be a deity sent by the heavens to save us?"

The eight beside him were also dumbfounded, having never seen anyone move so quickly before.

Not long after, several people came to their senses and quickly chased out of the underground palace.

By this time, Chen Yu had already reached the Gobi Desert outside the underground palace.

Dozens of teams from more than ten towns converged here, driving hundreds of modified off-road vehicles, among which were several dozen large trucks.

From the look of it, they seemed determined to obtain the treasures hidden within the underground palace.

"Hey, when did the guardian of the underground palace change? Where did Duo Geli go? Why did they leave such a pretty boy in charge?"

Chen Yu slightly adjusted his breathing, took a few slow steps forward, and then retrieved the Sect Leader's Token from the Xuanqing Sect.

"I am Chen Yu, Sect Leader of the Xuanqing Sect! Those who leave now, I can offer you a chance to live, but if you choose to stay, then you'll be buried in these yellow sands forever."

The domineering voice mixed with the magnetic field spread rapidly, quickly reaching everyone's ears.

The previously noisy Gobi Desert suddenly became quiet.

"My God, the Sect Leader of the Xuanqing Sect! That's someone we can't afford to provoke, shouldn't we retreat?"

"We've been chasing this treasure for so many years; we can't just give up because of his one sentence."

"The Xuanqing Sect is just a branch of the Daoist schools, not such a powerful force in this world. I don't believe he can do anything to us!"

"If you ask me, we might as well take this kid out now, to prevent news of this from spreading!"

...

The scene suddenly burst into discussion, but every word they said was collected into Chen Yu's mind.

It seemed that most people here were unwilling to leave. After all, there was a fortune buried under the ground; who would want to give up on that?

Chen Yu took a deep breath, then raised his palm and placed it on the ground.

The overpowering blue-white electric light instantly spread out, causing the people who had been discussing animatedly just moments ago to faint, and even their vehicles lost power under the strong flashes of electric light.

However, among these people, there were some naturally born superpower users who were not affected by the blue-white electric light, and they stood perfectly fine.

One particularly burly middle-aged man jumped down from his vehicle.

"To possess such formidable power, you are indeed the Sect Leader of the Xuanqing Sect! However, I'm not a vegetarian either. Today, I must take a portion of this treasure."

The middle-aged man took out a special metal rod from his waist, then yelled and charged at Chen Yu.

A tremendous amount of magnetic field energy emitted from his body and converged on the metal rod, forming an extraordinary power that spread out.

[Detecting Dark Matter Energy]

[Giant Light Energy Ion Synthesis in Progress]

[Detecting Black Hole Substance]

Chen Yu's pupils suddenly dilated; he'd seen many naturally born superpowered individuals display their abilities, which were nothing more than natural forces.

But the man before him was actually able to create a black hole out of thin air, and the power generated from his magnetic field was the extremely rare Dark Matter Energy.

This was no longer within the realm of the supernatural, but purely Cosmic Energy.

Chen Yu refused to be outdone, concentrating all the power in his body into his hands, and a gigantic blue-white light sphere appeared instantaneously, which he then hurled fiercely.

A terrifying explosion rippled between the two of them, with desert sands soaring into the air, a large number of sand grains having their molecular structures shattered and recombined.

When the powers of the two men had completely canceled each other out, the once desolate desert surprisingly revealed a multitude of colorful crystals emitting strange glows.

Those were actually gemstones!