An azure streak of light tore through the sky.
The moment Lao Huang set hoof on the battlefield, the fury in his suppressed blood and qi could no longer be contained!
He glanced at the horrifying sight of the Ancient Demon Court’s army slaughtering living beings, and his enormous bull’s eyes instantly turned blood-red.
Two streams of thick white vapor blasted from his nostrils, drawing in the surrounding blood and qi like a dragon sucking up water.
“Damn it! You bastards from the Ancient Demon Court actually dare to run wild in the Southern Domain?!”
A furious bellow shook the heavens and earth. Lao Huang’s massive body suddenly swelled, transforming into his hundred-zhang-tall true form—the Azure Heaven Bull!
His scales seemed to have been cast from black jade, while chaotic lightning coiled around his horns. His four hooves stamped into the scorched earth, crushing four bottomless pits into the ground.
The blood and qi surrounding his body condensed into a tangible azure torrent, surging like a great river around him.
“Who is that? How can his aura be so powerful?”
“Is… is that the Azure Heaven Bull King of the Canglan Mountain Range?!”
“My heavens! He’s still alive?! Didn’t the entire mountain range vanish more than a decade ago?!”
At the edge of the battlefield, several surviving veteran demon generals first stood frozen in shock before erupting into thunderous cries of astonishment!
They had all seen Lao Huang back then. Although the old bull had only been a Saint King, his tyrannical physical body had allowed him to run rampant throughout the Southern Domain. Even the Demon Emperors had shown him a measure of respect.
But the aura he was giving off now…
“A Quasi-Emperor! That’s the might of a Quasi-Emperor!”
An old demon general trembled from head to toe, his eyes filled with disbelief.
“More than a decade ago, he was clearly still in the Saint King Realm! How could he have become a Quasi-Emperor in such a short time?!”
“This is insane! The Southern Domain is about to change! That mad bull is back—and he’s a Quasi-Emperor now!”
“Am I seeing things? That’s a Quasi-Emperor!”
The soldiers of the present-day demon race erupted into an uproar. Their originally dispirited morale was instantly ignited by this earth-shaking turn of events.
Cries of shock and exultation rose one after another, and they even forgot the pain of their wounds.
They stared at the hundred-zhang-tall bull, their eyes filled with awe and fervor.
Yuan Tiangang’s pupils contracted sharply, and a storm raged in his heart.
“A Quasi-Emperor?! This old bull was clearly a Saint King just like me back then. I’ve only just broken through to the Great Saint Realm, yet he actually ascended straight to the Quasi-Emperor Realm?!”
A complicated mix of emotions surged within him: shock, jealousy, and an overwhelming sense of defeat at being completely surpassed.
“When I, this old bull, was running the Southern Domain back then, you were still hiding underground like turtles in their shells!
“And now you dare crawl out and strut around? Do you really think the Southern Domain has no one left?!”
Lao Huang could not be bothered to waste words. He abruptly lowered his head, and his hundred-zhang-long horns let out a sharp whistle as they tore through the void, charging straight toward the densest formation in the center of the Ancient Demon army!
There was no flashy divine art behind this charge—only the purest, most brutal physical strength, coupled with the might of a Quasi-Emperor!
“Boom—!”
The center of the Ancient Demon army was crushed as if by a primordial behemoth. Dozens of Ancient Demon generals were smashed into blood mist by his horns before they could even cry out.
Their sturdy demon-bone armor shattered like paper. Even the defensive formation behind them was sent flying by the tremendous force before collapsing with a thunderous crash!
The azure torrent of blood and qi spread outward like a tsunami, sending the Ancient Demon soldiers flying in swathes like leaves caught in a gale.
The sound of breaking bones rose without end. The army’s originally tight formation was instantly torn open, leaving behind a massive gap several miles long!
“Long live the Ox King!”
“Kill! Follow the Ox King and drive them back!”
The present-day demon race was completely roused. Lao Huang’s overbearing, peerless strike had fully ignited their bloodlust!
The soldiers roared as they launched a counterattack. Even the wounded struggled to their feet and charged alongside Lao Huang’s torrent of blood and qi. The defensive line, which had been on the verge of collapse, instantly regrouped.
“What?!”
The pupils of the Ancient Demon Great Saint wielding a massive axe shrank sharply as he stared at the old bull who had suddenly burst onto the scene.
“A Quasi-Emperor?! His blood and qi are actually so vigorous and boundless?! This is impossible!”
He shouted in disbelief, voicing the thoughts of every powerful figure on the side of the Ancient Demon Court.
“According to confirmed intelligence, the surviving Quasi-Emperor ancestor of the present-day demon race in the Southern Domain has long since suffered a decline in blood and qi and fallen into slumber.
“At most, he can unleash his full strength only one more time before his life fades and his Dao is destroyed! Where did this bull come from?!”
Yuan Tiangang’s heart was bitter. His clan did indeed possess a Quasi-Emperor ancestor, but that ancestor’s blood and qi had already withered.
Like a candle flickering in the wind, he was their final means of perishing together with the enemy. How could they dare to deploy him lightly?
At this moment, Lao Huang had already smashed through the center of the army, yet he showed no sign of stopping. His four hooves thundered across the ground as he charged recklessly onward like a moving mountain!
He specifically targeted those Ancient Demons whose auras were heavy and stagnant, carrying the decayed stench of long years.
The Ancient Demon army, which had seemed unstoppable, was actually thrown into complete disarray by a single old bull. The pressure on the left flank instantly eased.
“Enough!”
A furious shout exploded from the sky like a thunderclap from the ninth heaven!
On the side of the Ancient Demon Court, a golden-robed figure whose aura was as unfathomable as an abyss slowly emerged.
He could no longer remain seated. These were all peak battle generals whom the Ancient Demon Court had preserved through immense quantities of origin essence liquid and secret freezing techniques.
They were the Demon Court’s trump-card forces—the reason they could sweep across the Southern Domain with so few troops.
Now, Lao Huang was slaughtering them wholesale, which was tantamount to digging out the foundation of the Ancient Demon Court itself!
The instant he rose to his feet, the demon qi that had been restrained around his body erupted with a roar!
It began to pour forth in a vast and mighty tide, carrying the terrifying aura of the ages. It stood as an equal against Lao Huang’s vibrant, life-filled blood and qi.
“Boom—!”
Two terrifying Quasi-Emperor auras collided violently high above, like two boundless seas of laws crashing into one another!
There was no physical contact. It was merely a clash of auras!
“Buzz—!”
The void let out an agonized whine under the strain. Centered around the two Quasi-Emperors, the space within a radius of a million miles rippled like a surface struck by a stone, forming enormous, visible distortions that twisted everything in their path!
Light bent and shattered within the ripples. Brightness and darkness flickered erratically between heaven and earth, as if the entire world might be annihilated at any moment.
On the battlefield below, whether they belonged to the Ancient Demon Court’s army or the remnants of the present-day demon race, every living being held its breath at that instant!
The demon soldiers and generals below the Saint Realm collapsed in heaps, as if invisible mountains were pressing down upon them. Their bones creaked, and they could not even raise their heads.
Even the Great Saints felt as though their souls were splitting apart. The circulation of demon power within their bodies had become sluggish, forcing them to circulate their techniques with all their might just to remain standing within that terrifying storm of pressure.
Yuan Tiangang let out a muffled groan, and his ten-thousand-zhang demonic ape manifestation shuddered violently.
The pressure he felt far exceeded that of anyone else, because the point where the two auras collided seemed to hover directly above his head!
He gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with shock and unwillingness.
Was this the might of a Quasi-Emperor?
A mere collision of auras already possessed the power to destroy heaven and earth!
The entire brutal battlefield had actually fallen into a strange, hair-raising stillness because of the opposing auras of the two Quasi-Emperors.
The fighting stopped. The shouting vanished. Only the low roar of rampaging energy and the countless heavy, fearful breaths of living beings remained.
This was the might of a Quasi-Emperor!
With a single word, he could decide the fate of countless beings across millions upon millions of miles. With a single thought, he could determine the rise or fall of an entire race!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
At that moment, several streaks of light quietly passed through the chaotic void and descended upon a relatively intact cliff at the edge of the battlefield.
As the light faded, the figures of Xiao Ruobai, Fang Hanyu, Ling Xi, Fatty Wang, and the anxious Mo Yu were revealed.
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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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y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
