The skies above New Tianxuan had been completely shrouded in gray mist. Most of the once-continuous mountains of the Forbidden Grounds had vanished, while the surrounding space continued to collapse.
The Forbidden Grounds had expanded by tens of thousands of miles since Ye Chuan’s departure. The formations around its perimeter had long since ceased operating, and all the cultivators had withdrawn as he instructed.
Ye Chuan raised his head and looked toward the depths of the Forbidden Grounds. The gray, chaotic Great Dao had already extended to the feet of the group, and at its far end, a shattered imperial palace could be seen faintly.
“Return…”
That low voice echoed from the darkness once more. The Reincarnation Immortal Body within Ye Chuan trembled, and his soul was drawn forward by an unseen force.
Bai Qianshuang took Ye Chuan’s hand. After recovering her cultivation as a Great Emperor, her aura had grown even quieter; only a faint coolness remained in her palm.
“You are Ye Chuan.”
“Mm.”
Luo Xi slipped her arm around his other arm, a faint smile on her face. “If Chuan Chuan changes after going in, Qian Shuang and I won’t agree to it.”
Ye Chuan glanced at her. “Was I really that bad before?”
“You were certainly strong.”
Luo Xi thought for a moment before seriously adding, “It’s just that you wore a stern expression all day, as if everyone owed you several immortal realms.”
Bai Qianshuang nodded lightly.
It seemed that was indeed the case.
Lilith stood behind them with her arms crossed. Hearing this, she snorted softly. “And you still have time to flirt.”
“Auntie, didn’t you used to praise me all the time?”
“Did I?”
Ye Chuan did not continue discussing his past self. He led everyone onto the Chaotic Great Dao, and the scenery of New Tianxuan rapidly receded around them.
Darkness surged in from every direction. Shattered stars gradually appeared above them, each one dozens of times larger than the continent of New Tianxuan!
This was the true battlefield of the Imperial Realm!
If the Ascension Realm experts of New Tianxuan came here, they probably would not last even a single breath. The lingering might of the Great Emperors alone could crush them, souls and all.
Lan Xiaoke walked at the rear of the group. She gazed up at the shattered imperial palace stretching across the galaxy, and bright light gradually filled her eyes.
“Are the things here worth anything?”
“They’re all junk.”
“Even junk that big should sell for something, right?”
Ye Chuan turned back to look at her. “If you can carry it away, it’s all yours.”
Lan Xiaoke was just about to celebrate when a broken stone pillar slowly toppled in the distance. Along the way, it smashed through three intact galaxies in succession.
Never mind.
There would be plenty of chances to make money in the future.
The group continued onward along the Great Dao. Suddenly, the stars that had been extinguished for billions of years lit up simultaneously, dark-red radiance slowly seeping out from the depths of their cores.
One enormous eye after another opened on the surfaces of the stars. Their pupils reflected the figures of the group, before finally settling on Ye Chuan, who walked at the very front.
“Welcome back, Heavenly Emperor.”
The same voice rang out across the entire sea of stars. Tens of thousands of stars trembled together, and the immortal emperor corpses buried within them slowly raised their heads.
An imperial corpse rose beside the shattered palace. Its body stretched across hundreds of thousands of miles, while a long-extinguished imperial sun behind it reignited with a dark-red glow.
Both of the corpse’s arms had long since been severed, yet its chest was filled with freshly regrown flesh. Thousands of deformed hands sprouted wildly from within the mass of flesh.
It took one step forward.
The nearby galaxies were instantly crushed into two beneath its foot, and terrifying imperial might surged toward the group head-on!
Bai Qianshuang raised her eyes. The Luo Xuan Imperial Seal lit up between her brows, and an extreme chill instantly spread along the Chaotic Great Dao, covering the imperial corpse.
The dark-red imperial sun burning within the corpse quickly went out. Together with thousands of surrounding stars, it was frozen deep within the void.
Bai Qianshuang gently clenched her slender fingers.
Cracks appeared throughout the frozen galaxies at the same time, and the enormous imperial corpse shattered into a sky full of ice crystals!
Boom!
The shattered galaxies collapsed in all directions. The shock wave overturned dozens of nearby continental remnants, revealing even more immortal emperor corpses buried beneath them.
Bai Qianshuang had already lowered her hand. Her expression remained calm, as if she had merely crushed a thin sheet of ice.
She had frozen an entire galaxy with a single thought.
With one palm, she had crushed an imperial corpse!
Yet before the ice crystals could completely disperse, dark-red flesh began growing anew from the void, attempting to reconstruct that enormous body.
Luo Xi stepped forward half a pace. The Nine Splendors Imperial Seal between her brows fully unfolded, and an imperial sword wreathed in nine-colored radiance appeared in her hand.
She did not strike at the flesh that had already regrown. Instead, the edge of her sword swept across the span of time in which the imperial corpse had once existed.
A nine-colored sword ray flashed silently. Every possible outcome of the flesh’s resurrection was severed at once, and the body that had just begun to take shape rapidly withered from its very core.
“You’ve been dead for so many years. Stop crawling back up and frightening people.”
A smile once again appeared on Luo Xi’s face.
Lilith, however, looked farther into the distance. The withered flesh was following an invisible connection, rapidly retreating toward the depths of the Forbidden Grounds.
“I’ve found the trail.”
Lilith raised one finger. Dozens of layers of magic formations instantly overlapped at her fingertip, and a point of pale flame ignited at their center.
“Super-tier Magic: Annihilation at the Source.”
A pale beam burst from the magic formations. It passed over the imperial palace and stars blocking its path, following the traces left by the contamination straight into the darkness!
The next moment, an enraged roar echoed from the depths of the Forbidden Grounds. Countless masses of dark-red flesh ignited at once, and pale flames illuminated half of the shattered immortal world!
Lilith stood before the sea of flames. Her long black hair was lifted by the immense magical power, yet there was no joy in her eyes.
The Seven Witches had once burned through all their strength, but they had only managed to destroy part of the Outer Gods’ descended body in the continent of Aether.
This time, she would make the flames of wrath burn back along the contamination, striking directly at the true body the Outer Gods had hidden beyond the myriad heavens!
More and more imperial corpses rose from the galaxies. Every one of them had once suppressed an immortal realm in life, but now they had all become puppets of the contamination.
One of the imperial corpses raised its right hand. Hundreds of stars in its palm rapidly compressed, eventually forming a crimson spear that illuminated the Forbidden Grounds.
Before the spear was even thrown, the surrounding space could no longer withstand its power. Countless black cracks frantically spread in every direction.
The imperial corpse took a step forward. The crimson spear pierced through the sea of stars and came crashing down toward the group standing on the Chaotic Great Dao!
The regions passed through by its spearhead evaporated outright, and the shattered immortal world was torn open by a fissure with no visible end!
Lan Xiaoke’s body was immediately enveloped in dazzling starlight.
“I’m on it!”
A beast so enormous that its full form could not be seen slowly rose from the boundless sea of stars. Billions upon billions of stars flowed through its deep-blue fur.
The Starry Sky Beast Emperor opened its golden eyes. The entire Forbidden Grounds seemed to light up in an instant, and its enormous claw slammed down against the crimson imperial spear!
Boom!
The imperial spear and the beast’s claw collided head-on. Tens of thousands of stars exploded simultaneously in the shock wave, and searing light swallowed the group’s vision in an instant!
Lan Xiaoke’s enormous body slid backward for tens of thousands of miles, her four claws carving immense, bottomless cracks into the Chaotic Great Dao.
The imperial spear, powerful enough to pierce through an entire immortal realm, snapped beneath her claw. Its remaining force transformed into countless flaming meteors that rained down wildly!
The Starry Sky Beast Emperor opened its enormous maw. A deep-blue beam of light blasted from within, driving the imperial corpse before it, along with the galaxy behind it, into the darkness!
Countless continents evaporated inside the beam, and more than a dozen imperial corpses that had just awakened were forcibly torn apart by the Beast Emperor’s power!
“I really am invincible!”
Lan Xiaoke’s excited voice rang across the sea of stars, but the moment she finished speaking, a dark-red giant palm silently emerged behind her.
Its five fingers covered the entire galaxy. When they suddenly closed, they seized the Starry Sky Beast Emperor in their grasp, while billions upon billions of stars around them went dark one after another.
“Me?!”
Lan Xiaoke struggled frantically. The power of the Beast Emperor, at the Great Emperor realm, battered the fleshly palm, yet could only leave tiny cracks between its five fingers.
Ke Ning raised a hand and tapped the space before him. The Magic Cube V3 hovering beside him spun rapidly, and blue light instantly covered the entire river of stars.
The surrounding stretch of time rewound to before the dark-red giant palm had appeared. Lan Xiaoke returned to her original position, while the giant palm closed around nothing.
The shockwave created when its five fingers collided swept across the forbidden zone. In the distance, the ruined Imperial Palace that pierced through the stars was crushed into dust on the spot!
“Was I almost killed just now?”
“By a hair.”
Ke Ning pushed up his glasses, his tone as calm as ever. “Next time, don’t stand still celebrating. Your enemies won’t wait for you to finish speaking.”
“Okay!”
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."
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
