Crack!
A crisp shattering sound suddenly rang out as Su Yao ruthlessly crushed the translucent white jade pendant in her hand.
The moment the jade pendant exploded, a blinding pillar of golden light shot up into the sky, instantly tearing the entire heavens apart!
The originally clear firmament suddenly churned. Winds and clouds rolled backward, and the sun and moon lost their light. A terrifying coercive pressure that transcended the rules of heaven and earth poured down from the pillar of light like the collapse of the nine heavens, enveloping an area of ten thousand miles!
This coercive pressure was in a completely different dimension from the Tribulation Transcendence realm!
No matter how strong the pressure of the Tribulation Transcendence realm was, it only mobilized the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. However, this aura directly controlled the rules of heaven and earth!
The surrounding space completely solidified, spiritual energy was tightly locked, and even time seemed to slow down.
Below, whether it was the disciples of the Wutong Sacred Land, or the cultivators of the Yuxu Sect and the Absolute Beginning Sacred Land, everyone was ruthlessly pressed to the ground by this pressure. Their legs bent uncontrollably, their bones creaking under the overwhelming weight, and they didn't even have the courage to lift their heads.
Mo Chen and Xuan Feng instantly knelt on the ground, their foreheads pressed tightly against the earth. Not daring to breathe heavily, they shouted with trembling voices:
Respectfully welcoming the Patriarch!
Su Yao's eyes also turned red. She bowed deeply toward the pillar of light, her voice thick with tears:
Patriarch! I beg you to seek justice for the Wutong Sacred Land! Avenge the dead elders and disciples!
Even Ji Lingxuan on the distant flying ship turned deathly pale. She had to push her spiritual power to its absolute limits just to barely resist the pressure and keep herself from kneeling.
Beside her, Elder Ling and Elder Zhao were already trembling all over, cold sweat seeping from their foreheads, their eyes filled with extreme awe and terror.
Ascension realm... Is this the power of the Ascension realm? Just a wisp of aura is actually terrifying to such an extent...
A chasm! This is the insurmountable chasm between the Tribulation Transcendence realm and the Ascension realm!
Within the pillar of light, an aged phantom slowly condensed.
It was a white-haired old man wearing a golden robe embroidered with parasol tree patterns. His face was ancient, his eyes closed, and faint golden Dao principles lingered around his body.
Even if it was just a phantom condensed from a wisp of aura, it was still as majestic as an eternal divine mountain. Every breath he took caused the rules of heaven and earth to tremble along with it.
He merely stood there quietly, yet the spiritual energy of the entire world submitted to him. Even the chaotic black mist around Ye Chuan involuntarily surged violently under this pressure.
For the first time, Ye Chuan's brows furrowed tightly.
Just a single wisp of an Ascension realm aura caused his Chaotic Indestructible Body to automatically operate at its peak, and the spiritual power within his body was slightly trembling.
This is the Ascension realm?
Just a wisp of aura from a remnant soul was countless times stronger than the combined might of four Tribulation Transcendence realm elders. It was like an uncrossable ravine.
The Ascension realm was equivalent to an earthly immortal; Ye Chuan only now had a rough concept of it.
It was indeed very strong.
Speaking of which, could this thing be sucked into the Human Emperor Banner?
The old man slowly opened his eyes. There was no emotion in his gaze, only the indifference of looking down upon all living beings. His eyes swept over the kneeling Su Yao and the elders as he spoke faintly, his voice seeming to come from eons ago:
Yao'er, speak.
Patriarch! Su Yao immediately replied.
This boy, Huang Haotian, killed a Tribulation Transcendence realm elder and hundreds of core disciples of our Sacred Land. He ruined our Sacred Land's reputation and even threatened to trample the Wutong Sacred Land flat! I beg the Patriarch to take action, slay this villain, and protect our Sacred Land's legacy!
The old man's gaze finally fell upon Ye Chuan.
That gaze was calm and rippleless, yet it seemed able to pierce through the soul and see through the past and future. However, as his gaze swept over Ye Chuan's body, his brows slowly furrowed, and his tone carried a trace of imperceptible doubt:
Hmm? Strange... I actually cannot see through you.
When did a figure like you appear on the Profound Sky Continent? Your physique, your cultivation method, your soul, none of them are within the rules of this realm. Who exactly are you?
Ye Chuan suppressed the shock in his heart and said indifferently, Who I am, you are not worthy to know.
As soon as these words came out, the entire scene fell dead silent.
Everyone was dumbfounded. Even Ji Lingxuan gasped. That was the Ascension realm Patriarch of the Wutong Sacred Land!
The most pinnacle existence on the Profound Sky Continent! Ye Chuan actually dared to speak to him like that?!
Mo Chen and Xuan Feng were frightened out of their wits and roared:
Huang Haotian! You are presumptuous! How dare you disrespect the Patriarch! You are courting death!
The old man's expression instantly turned cold.
The golden Dao principles around his body suddenly surged, and the coercive pressure multiplied several times over. The entire world began to tremble violently, and the ground cracked open with densely packed ravines.
Presumptuous!
The old man's voice carried anger, exploding like a clap of thunder. My Wutong Sacred Land has a legacy of one hundred and twenty thousand years. It is an orthodox Sacred Land of the Profound Sky Continent!
You, a mere junior, slaughter the innocent, commit boundless sins of murder, and disrupt the order of the Eastern Brilliance Divine State. Yet you still dare to spout arrogant words at me. You truly have no regard for law and heaven!
He looked down at Ye Chuan from above, his tone carrying an unquestionable arrogance, as if pronouncing the life or death of an ant:
Considering that your cultivation was not easy and that you possess extraordinary talent, I will give you a chance.
Hand over your cultivation methods and secret techniques, surrender without resistance, and follow me back to the Wutong Sacred Land to receive punishment.
If you do so, I can spare your life, leaving you a wisp of a remnant soul to enter our Sacred Land's Repentance Cliff to face the wall for ten thousand years. Otherwise, today, I will destroy your body and soul, ensuring you never reincarnate for all eternity!
In his eyes, his willingness to give a chance was already a monumental blessing.
Crippling one's own cultivation and handing over the origin of one's cultivation methods was, in his view, the greatest leniency toward Ye Chuan.
But when Ye Chuan heard this, it was as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, and he laughed out loud right there.
Old thing, did your brain go stupid from being in secluded cultivation?
Ye Chuan stopped laughing, his eyes suddenly turning icy cold as he pointed at the old man's phantom.
Sins of murder? When the people of your Wutong Sacred Land marched grandly to the gates of my Yuxu Sect, shouting about trampling the sect and leaving neither man nor beast alive, why didn't you come out and talk about sins of murder? Now that they can't win, they call you, this old thing, out to pretend to be a saint?
After passing down a legacy for so many years, you just taught a bunch of trash who call for backup when they can't win? You've completely thrown away your face!
And you want me to cripple my own cultivation? Hand over my cultivation methods? I think you've lived too long and become a senile fool! Let alone the fact that you're just a wisp of a remnant soul phantom, even if your true body came in person, if you want to touch me, you'd have to see if you have the teeth for it!
The chaotic power around Ye Chuan instantly surged, forcefully withstanding the old man's Ascension realm pressure. The demonic sword Beiyana suddenly appeared in his hand. The power of the soul on the blade churned madly, pointing straight at the old man's phantom in midair.
Everyone present was scared out of their wits by Ye Chuan's words.
Arrogant!
Truly too arrogant!
He actually dared to say such things to the face of an Ascension realm Patriarch!
He actually dared to challenge the Ascension realm!
The golden Dao principles on the old man's phantom flickered madly, and the killing intent in his eyes skyrocketed:
Good! What a junior who does not know the immensity of heaven and earth! I have lived for hundreds of thousands of years and have never seen such an arrogant fool as you!
Die!
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s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
