Beyond the Nine Heavens, fragments of stars surged and roiled like dust storms.
The Azure Heaven Wild Bull that Lao Huang had transformed into rose onto its hind legs and let out a roar that shattered the void for thousands of miles.
Every collision from its massive body carried the most primitive, primordial force. The Golden-Robed Quasi-Emperor was sent reeling again and again, his figure flickering in and out like a wavering flame.
The Golden-Robed Quasi-Emperor’s face was as dark as stagnant water. The ancient battle shield in his hand, engraved with an image of myriad demons paying homage, was already covered in cracks.
Every time he blocked those terrifying horns, an earth-shaking boom erupted. The rebound left his blood and qi churning, while his arms went numb.
“Damnable brute!”
He was both shocked and furious.
His opponent’s strength and defense were absurdly powerful. All his various divine abilities and laws struck the mountain-like hide of the Azure Heaven Wild Bull, yet could barely leave behind any fatal wounds.
Although the battle had not yet reached the point of collapse, he had already been thoroughly suppressed.
The Golden-Robed Quasi-Emperor could only rely on his exquisite movement techniques and battle shield to struggle desperately. Defeat seemed to be merely a matter of time.
Meanwhile, the situation on the Southern Domain battlefield below suddenly changed.
Perhaps because Ling Yue and the Azure Flood Dragon had suffered setbacks, or perhaps because the Quasi-Emperor from beyond the heavens had failed to secure victory after so long, the army of the Ancient Demon Court seemed to have completely lost its last shred of patience.
“His Highness has given the order! Intensify the assault! Crush them!”
A cold command swept across the battlefield like a frigid wind.
The next moment, several ancient and savage auras erupted from deep within the bronze ancient city!
Three colossal war beasts shaped like mountains and covered in bone armor were awakened. They trampled the earth beneath their feet and charged toward the modern demon race’s defensive line like moving fortresses!
Dozens of Ancient Demon Saints, who had remained silent until now with obscure, hidden auras, opened their eyes in unison. Cruel blood light shot from their pupils as they joined the battle!
The offensive instantly grew several times more ferocious!
“Hold the line!”
Demon Emperor Yuan Tiangang’s eyes were bloodshot. He swung his massive staff and sent one of the war beasts flying, only to be ambushed by an Ancient Demon Great Saint concealed nearby. A spray of blood burst from his shoulder.
Although Xiao Ruobai, Fang Hanyu, and the others had heavily wounded several Ancient Demon Saints, it was still of no avail.
The entire defensive line was being compressed, torn apart, and dismantled at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Even several demon Great Saints had suffered severe injuries and were no longer able to fight.
Corpses piled up like mountains, blood dyed the earth red, and the modern demon race’s casualties surged. An aura of despair spread like a plague.
Yuan Tiangang looked at the clansmen falling one after another and at the retreating defensive line. The last trace of hesitation in his eyes was replaced by frenzied resolve.
They could not wait for the outcome of the battle beyond the heavens any longer.
If they waited any further, their entire race would be wiped out!
He threw back his head and roared. The ten-thousand-zhang demonic ape avatar began to burn with dazzling golden imperial blood, directly activating the Supreme Dao Emperor Weapon!
The Demon Emperor Bell descended upon the Southern Domain!
It arrived wrapped in a destructive Emperor’s might!
Almost at the exact moment the Demon Emperor Bell appeared—
“Hmph! A dying struggle!”
A cold snort filled with disdain came from the deepest reaches of the bronze ancient city.
The phantom of a primordial ancient war stele, seemingly bearing the entire history of ancient campaigns, shot into the sky. A terrifying Emperor’s might erupted from it, in no way inferior to that of the Demon Emperor Bell!
The two Emperor’s mights collided in the air and locked into a stalemate. The void was crushed into constant collapse, and absolute silence descended upon the world.
Both sides were restraining themselves. If the Emperor weapons collided with their full might, the entire Southern Domain would be reduced to ruins, and even those taking part in the battle would be reduced to ashes.
Just as the two destructive Emperor weapons on the ground pressed down upon the void, leaving it wailing endlessly as their might remained locked in a stalemate—
the situation beyond the Nine Heavens suddenly changed!
“Moo—!!!”
A primordial bellow, as though it had existed since the very dawn of creation, suddenly exploded through the sky!
This was no longer a simple roar. It contained the berserk will of Lao Huang, who had been completely enraged by the devastation below and was no longer holding anything back!
It had sensed the despair of its descendants below. It had sensed the two Emperor’s mights that were on the verge of destroying everything!
This Azure Heaven Wild Bull, which had lorded over the Southern Domain for countless years and had later been summoned by Gu Changge to work the fields, had been holding in a bellyful of rage.
Now, it had finally gone berserk!
“You really think I, Lao Huang, am a pushover?!”
Amid that furious roar, the vitality and blood surrounding Lao Huang, already blazing like a furnace, suddenly began to burn!
It was not flame, but the boiling of the purest and most primitive energy!
Its already enormous body swelled once again. Beneath its four hooves, what shattered was no longer merely the void. Instead, it directly manifested a terrifying vision of the elements—earth, water, fire, and wind—being reborn and reshaped!
“Wild Bull Tramples the Heavens—break for me!”
It was no longer satisfied with merely suppressing its opponent. It unleashed its true killing move!
A light brighter than the stars suddenly burst from its horns, transforming into two divine rays that tore through chaos. They locked firmly onto the Golden-Robed Quasi-Emperor and crashed toward him with irresistible force!
This strike contained all of Lao Huang’s comprehension of the ultimate realm of strength after stepping into the Quasi-Emperor Realm. It was also an outlet for the fury burning within its chest!
Its speed had surpassed the limits of space and time!
The Golden-Robed Quasi-Emperor’s pupils contracted sharply, and warning bells screamed in his heart!
He frantically urged his battle shield to its limit. He even burned his source essence and blood in an attempt to withstand this world-destroying blow.
“Protection of the Myriad Demons, Imperial Dao Eternal—”
“Rumble—!!!”
Before he could finish chanting the divine incantation, the divine rays had already arrived!
Crack!
The ancient battle shield, already covered in cracks, was like glass struck head-on by a primordial divine mountain. It instantly exploded into billions upon billions of fragments!
The divine rays continued forward without losing momentum, striking the Golden-Robed Quasi-Emperor’s crossed arms head-on!
“Pfft—!”
Dark golden Quasi-Emperor blood gushed out like a fountain, mingling with the horrifying sound of shattering bones!
The Golden-Robed Quasi-Emperor let out a shriek of unimaginable anguish. His entire body was sent flying like a battered sandbag.
He tumbled for who knew how many tens of thousands of miles. Wherever he passed, stars exploded!
One of his arms had been twisted into a grotesque shape, while his chest was deeply caved in. His aura, like a candle flickering in a violent storm, instantly weakened to the extreme!
He had lost!
He had been utterly and completely defeated!
On the ground, all the experts above the Saint Realm—whether from the Ancient Demon Court or the modern demon race—sensed what had happened and looked up in horror!
They clearly felt that among the two Quasi-Emperor auras beyond the heavens, one had become like a dragon with its spine broken.
Carrying endless unwillingness and agony, it was plummeting toward the Southern Domain at an astonishing speed!
“Boom—!!!”
A dark golden streak of light, like a burning meteor, wrapped in shattered laws and scattered Quasi-Emperor blood, crashed into a mountain range at the edge of the battlefield!
In an instant, the mountains split apart and the earth shook violently, while smoke and dust surged into the heavens.
A bottomless crater formed. The sorrowful and decaying aura emanating from it caused every living creature that sensed it to tremble in terror!
It was that Golden-Robed Quasi-Emperor!
He had actually been defeated so miserably, blasted down from the Nine Heavens into the mortal world!
Almost at the same time, an even more majestic and violent aura descended upon the battlefield. It seemed to carry the weight of an entire primordial wilderness!
Lao Huang’s mountain-like Azure Heaven Wild Bull true body tore through the void and stepped into the battlefield. Earth, fire, wind, and water swirled beneath its four hooves, while its boiling vitality and blood dyed the sky azure.
It lowered its head. Its pair of molten-red bull eyes swept coldly across the battlefield, which had fallen into deathly silence below, before finally locking onto the bronze ancient city and the primordial ancient war stele still locked in confrontation with the Demon Emperor Bell.
An invisible pressure, even more suffocating than the clash between the Emperor weapons, enveloped the heavens and earth.
This was the might of the victor.
It was an absolute declaration of power!
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?”
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
