At the same time—
Eastern Domain, Yaochi Sacred Land. The current Sovereign withdrew her worried gaze from the Southern Domain.
“All members of Yaochi Sacred Land, heed my command!”
Her clear, icy voice rang through every corner of the sacred land.
Behind her, the statues of Yaochi’s sages of generations past seemed to awaken at this very moment, radiating hazy brilliance.
“Activate the Western Emperor Tower! Protect the Eastern Domain—preserve the flame of humanity!”
“Buzz!”
A soft hum, as though it had traveled from the primordial ages, resounded through the heavens.
The Western Emperor Tower shot into the sky, instantly expanding into a colossal tower ten thousand zhang high as it flew to meet the supreme hand reaching down toward the great city below.
Almost at the same moment, at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion—
Master Tianji formed seals with his hands. The massive altar beneath his feet, engraved with stars and trigrams, suddenly blazed to life.
“Zhou Tian Star Array, heed my command! Protect!”
“Clang!”
A crisp sword cry, clear as a dragon’s roar, rang out from an unknowable space at the center of the altar.
The supreme Imperial weapon, the Heaven-Calculating Sword, soared into the heavens.
The awakening of two supreme Imperial auras was like lighting two lamps in the pitch-black canopy above the Eastern Domain.
Though their radiance seemed so faint beneath the pressure of twenty-two Supreme auras, it remained unwavering.
“Hmph. The glow of insects dares contend with the brilliance of the moon?”
The mountain-like, indistinct figure from the God-Burial Abyss gave a disdainful snort. His hand, vast enough to blot out the sky, came crashing down upon Yaochi Sacred Land!
At the same time, the Supreme One from the Fallen God Ruins set the devouring vortex spinning, transforming it into a black torrent that could annihilate all things as it surged toward the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion!
“Suppress!”
The Yaochi Sovereign and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master each spat out a mouthful of heart’s blood almost simultaneously, merging it into their respective Imperial weapons.
The Western Emperor Tower flared with dazzling light. Streams of mystic yellow energy condensed into a tangible barrier, resisting the sky-covering baleful hand head-on!
The phantom of the Heaven-Calculating Sword erupted with starlight, becoming a brilliant curtain of radiance that severed fate itself and cut off all devouring power, meeting the black torrent head-on!
“BOOM—!!!”
A collision beyond the power of words to describe erupted.
The Imperial weapons wailed in grief!
The Western Emperor Tower shuddered violently, its radiance instantly dimming by more than half.
The Heaven-Calculating Sword was hurled backward.
“Pfft—!”
The Yaochi Sovereign and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master were struck as if by lightning. Their faces turned pale as paper in an instant, while behind them, elders and disciples fell in great numbers, dead or wounded.
Yet after clashing with the Imperial weapons, the two Supreme Ones also faltered. Their attacks had been stopped.
Their auras visibly flickered and weakened for a brief moment.
The crimson light in their eyes flashed, revealing a trace of surprise—and an even deeper fury.
“You actually dare damage the marks of my Dao?”
The Supreme One of the God-Burial Abyss spoke in an icy voice.
“You delayed me for but a moment. I shall make your entire clan pay with its blood!”
The Supreme One of the Fallen God Ruins radiated boundless killing intent.
Though it had lasted only an instant, Yaochi Sacred Land and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had paid an enormous price to win this sliver of respite for the billions of living beings of the Eastern Domain!
And that unexpected delay only made the murderous glint in the two Supreme Ones’ eyes burn brighter.
The storm of destruction abruptly intensified across the Eastern Domain!
Just as the ruinous auras of the two Supreme Ones were about to utterly crush every living being below into despair—
The void over the Eastern Domain suddenly began to tremble violently!
“BOOM—!!!”
More than a dozen entirely different, yet equally supreme Imperial mights—each transcending the myriad Daos—erupted without warning from the farthest edge of the horizon!
Streaks of light tore through the sky as Xuanyangzi led the charge, with Shi Wanshan, Ye Guying, and a host of other peak masters and elders close behind. Fifteen people in total came speeding over!
They had deliberately blurred their auras and concealed their sect insignias, making it impossible to determine their origins.
Among them, only Xuanyangzi had reached the Quasi-Emperor realm. The rest were all at the peak of the Great Saint realm—ordinarily no more than ants before a Supreme.
But the instant they raised their hands in unison and revealed the weapons they held—
The entire Eastern Domain fell deathly silent!
“Those are... Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons?!”
“One, two, three... fifteen in total?!”
Someone screamed in shock, their voice twisted by the sheer magnitude of their astonishment.
Xuanyangzi held an Emperor Sword wreathed in Chaotic flames. Shi Wanshan carried an Emperor Seal capable of suppressing Heaven and Earth, while an Emperor Blade that could cleave the void hung at Ye Guying’s waist.
The remaining twelve peak masters and elders held Emperor Towers, Emperor Cauldrons, or Emperor Banners. Every weapon radiated such vast pressure that Heaven and Earth seemed to lose their color!
Fifteen Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons stood in formation above the Eastern Domain like fifteen newborn suns, their dazzling brilliance causing even the stars to fade into insignificance!
“Attack!”
Xuanyangzi gave a low shout. Quasi-Emperor pressure erupted from him as he was the first to activate his Emperor Sword.
The fifteen Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons roared simultaneously. Their Dao rhymes intertwined and resonated, transforming into a destructive torrent that stretched across Heaven and Earth.
Ignoring the distance between them, it thundered toward the Supreme of the God-Burying Abyss and the Supreme of the Godfall Ruins!
These were the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons that Gu Changge had scattered throughout the Myriad Tribulations Battlefield while clearing out his inventory. The members of the Qingxuan Sect had discovered them during their trial.
A few more Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons were currently being taken by four Quasi-Emperor ancestors to support Little Black and the others in the Southern Domain.
At this moment, these supreme treasures that had once lain dormant erupted in the hands of Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors, forming a terrifying combat force that even Supremes had to fear!
“Rumble—!!!”
The torrent collided violently with the heaven-shrouding baleful hand and the black devouring torrent!
The massive palm of the Supreme of the God-Burying Abyss was instantly torn apart by the torrent of Emperor Weapons. Baleful energy gushed out like floodwater from a breached dam, while the sword mark across his palm rapidly widened until it reached the bone. Decaying Dao laws shattered and scattered in all directions!
The black torrent of the Supreme of the Godfall Ruins was suppressed by the Emperor Seal, cleaved apart by the Emperor Blade, and incinerated by Emperor Flame. Most of it collapsed in an instant, and its devouring power vanished completely!
“Pfft—!”
The two Supremes groaned simultaneously. Their bodies trembled violently, and the decaying aura surrounding them dimmed by more than half. Caught off guard by the sudden attack, their auras became unstable as they were forced backward again and again!
“This... This is impossible!”
The scarlet eyes of the Supreme of the God-Burying Abyss widened to their limit, filled with incredulous fury and horror.
“A bunch of Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors—how could you possibly wield so many Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons?!”
“Where did these wretches come from?!”
The Supreme of the Godfall Ruins roared furiously. The devouring vortex spun madly, yet it could no longer gather the might it had displayed before.
“Fifteen Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons! When has Xuanhuang ever possessed such a foundation?!”
They had lived for countless ages and had seen no small number of Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons throughout their lives.
But they had never heard of any faction possessing so many Emperor Weapons at the same time.
Now, fifteen had appeared all at once—and they were being controlled by a group of cultivators with “low cultivation.” This completely overturned everything they knew!
Across the Eastern Region, every surviving person had gone mad!
“Fifteen! There really are fifteen Imperial Weapons!”
A cultivator curled up amid the ruins babbled incoherently, both hands clawing desperately at the ground.
“Am I dreaming?!”
“Heavens! What kind of faction is this?! How can they possess such terrifying reserves?!”
“An Imperial Weapon for every person—who would have ever dared imagine such a thing?!”
At the Yaochi Sacred Land, the Yaochi Sovereign, who had just coughed up blood, stared wide-eyed, utterly forgetting her injuries as she murmured:
“Fifteen ultimate Imperial Weapons... Such a force has been hidden in the Eastern Region all this time, and we never even noticed!”
The master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes filled with shock and apprehension.
“Their aura is obscured, their origins unknown—yet they can produce so many Imperial Weapons. Whatever stands behind them may be even more terrifying than the Forbidden Zone Supremes!”
“To wield more than a dozen Imperial Weapons... Terrifying! Simply terrifying! With a force like this, perhaps the Eastern Region can hold!”
The ordinary cultivators, meanwhile, fell into a frenzy of joy and fervor.
“We’re saved! We’re saved!”
“With more than a dozen Imperial Weapons unleashed at once, even a Supreme won’t be able to withstand them!”
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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?”
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."
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
