“Lord! You’ve returned?”
The Great Emperor of Annihilation and Little Black blurted out the words almost simultaneously.
There was not the slightest hint of doubt in their voices—only heartfelt reverence and relief.
Xing Tian’ao bowed deeply as well. “Lord!”
Yet, in stark contrast to their reaction—
“M-Master?! Lord?!!!”
The thirteen besieged Supremes, along with their captured companions, felt as though an invisible hammer had viciously smashed into their souls. Their thoughts went blank for an instant.
The remaining consciousnesses of the Golden Crow Ancient Emperor and Ancient Emperor Lei Peng trembled violently.
They would rather believe that their bodies and souls had already been annihilated than face the absurd and terrifying reality before them—one so horrifying that even the foundations of their Imperial Paths were on the verge of collapse!
Those few murderous fiends, whose very presence made even the restricted-area Emperors shudder, actually called this man their master?!
Even the Golden-Winged Roc, arrogant and unrestrained, with battle prowess that shook the heavens, acknowledged him as its master?!
And those eight terrifying puppets, each possessing the true battle power of a Great Emperor and having beaten them into utter defeat—could they all have been crafted by this man’s hand?!
A cold, absurd, and horrifying thought that connected every impossibility began to take root and spread uncontrollably in the hearts of every surviving Supreme, like the deepest nightmare imaginable.
Then it exploded.
They were wrong!
They had been wrong about everything!
Wrong beyond all measure—wrong in a way that left no hope!
They had always assumed that the so-called War Asura lineage was backed by nothing more than the Great Emperor of Annihilation, or perhaps the newly emerged Golden-Winged Peng Emperor.
At most, they had believed it might be some ancient orthodoxy hidden so deeply that it had nurtured those two Great Emperors.
Never had they imagined that three Great Emperors of the current age might merely be subordinates!
Servants! Blades wielded by another!
And the existence capable of wielding such blades, casually refining puppets with the battle power of Great Emperors, and forcing the Great Emperors of this age to bow their heads—what realm must he himself have reached?!
What manner of existence had they provoked?!!!
All their schemes, alliances, and struggles now appeared to be nothing more than a ridiculous farce performed by ants before an abyssal dragon!
They had thought they were fighting over Emperor Source and hunting blood prey, never realizing that they had long since become fish struggling in someone else’s net—or perhaps even the plumpest “prey” in that person’s eyes!
“Ascend to the pinnacle!”
Without the slightest hesitation, without exchanging a single word, the extreme fear and despair within them gave birth to a madness bent on mutual destruction, replacing their instinct to survive.
Rather than be crushed to death like chicks by that terrifying existence, they would burn the final brilliance of their lives!
“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!…”
Thirteen terrifying auras erupted through the void.
Their bodies began to burn. Their Imperial Path origins boiled, while their decaying auras were driven away.
For a brief moment, they returned to the supreme realm of Great Emperors who looked down upon an entire era and stood invincible across the heavens!
Thirteen restricted-area Supremes who had ascended to the pinnacle!
Their might nearly overturned this entire starry sky, causing the Myriad Dao to wail and making the distant Xuanhuang Great World tremble violently!
This was their final counterattack—the most brilliant, and the most desperate.
At this moment, every living being throughout the Xuanhuang Great World, no matter where they were, felt something stir within them. Countless billions of beings looked up in terror.
It was as though the apocalypse had truly arrived.
Thirteen Great Emperor auras that stood above all living beings erupted like volcanoes, shaking the very foundation of the world.
The heavens wailed, the earth cracked, and the souls of all living things trembled beneath that boundless pressure.
“It’s over… It’s completely over!”
An elder from a sacred land collapsed to the ground, his face ashen.
“More than a dozen restricted-area Supremes have ascended to the pinnacle. Are they planning to drag the entire Xuanhuang Great World down with them?”
An ancient existence let out a despairing sigh.
Xiao Ruobai, Ling Xi, and the others also underwent a drastic change in expression. They looked up at the sky, their eyes filled with boundless worry.
Countless living beings closed their eyes, preparing to welcome the end.
Thirteen terrifying attacks, each capable of piercing the universe and annihilating the ages, erupted with all their resentment, fear, and madness.
Yet they did not strike at Little Black, the Great Emperor of Annihilation, or Xing Tian’ao.
Instead, they locked onto the figure standing quietly in the void, seemingly oblivious to everything around him!
“Let’s die together!”
The instant the thirteen attacks of destruction were unleashed—
“Changge! Look out!”
Xuanyangzi’s pupils contracted violently as he let out a hoarse roar.
He had no time to think. Acting almost entirely on instinct, he frantically urged the Great Emperor puppet before him to block the attacks in front of Gu Changge!
At the same time, the five Qingxuan Sect Ancestors widened their eyes until they nearly split. Without regard for anything else, they burned their vital essence and poured all their spiritual power into the Imperial Weapons in their hands.
The five supreme Imperial Weapons erupted with unprecedented brilliance, forming a barrier.
The five Ancestors transformed into streaks of light, intending to use their own bodies to shield Gu Changge from the destructive torrent!
They did not know how powerful Gu Changge truly was. They only knew that this was the desperate strike of thirteen ancient Supremes who had ascended to the pinnacle!
It was a killing blow powerful enough to pierce the universe and make even a Great Emperor fall!
They could not simply watch Gu Changge withstand it alone!
However—
Faced with this earth-shattering united attack, one powerful enough to make any Great Emperor pale, Gu Changge’s expression did not change in the slightest.
He did not even look at the thirteen streams of destructive light rushing toward him. He merely raised his hand and casually pressed it downward in the direction of the frenzied eruption.
Time seemed to stretch infinitely, yet also to freeze in an instant.
The thirteen terrifying attacks, which had ascended to the pinnacle and burned everything in their path, collided with an invisible, intangible, yet unbreakable barrier just as they reached Gu Changge.
Without making the slightest sound, they disintegrated inch by inch, dispersed, and vanished into the void.
The Imperial Path laws contained within them, their burning origins, and their boundless resentment were all erased together.
Then came the thirteen Supremes who had just returned to the absolute peak, their momentum soaring to the heavens.
They remained frozen in their snarling, attacking poses, like insects trapped in amber.
The brilliant flames of their ascension rapidly dimmed and went out before their very eyes.
Their expanded and restored Imperial bodies deflated like punctured balloons, once more covered in decaying cracks.
The madness in their eyes was replaced by an endless, profound deathly stillness.
They felt their connection with the heavens and earth severed. Their boiling origins were forcibly cooled and sealed.
Even the process of ascending to the pinnacle itself had been reversed by an incomprehensible power.
Gu Changge’s palm pressed lightly downward.
“Thud.” “Thud.” “Thud.”…
One after another, the thirteen restricted-area Supremes, now so feeble that they were in an even worse state than before their ascension, dropped helplessly through the void like dumplings falling into a pot.
Having lost all their strength, they collapsed in midair, unable even to struggle.
Only endless bewilderment and emptiness remained in their eyes.
Yet beneath that emptiness churned an indescribable, ultimate shock.
Their ascension to the pinnacle, in which they had exhausted everything and burned their origins, had not even been able to shake a single finger of their opponent.
With a casual press of his hand, he had reversed everything and erased their attacks of destruction.
That power overturned everything they had believed about the Imperial Path throughout their entire lives.
Ancient Emperor Lei Peng’s cracked lips moved soundlessly. Deep in his eyes, alongside the deepest regret, lay a profound terror.
How could he be this strong?
The other Supremes were trembling as well, utterly dazed.
Even at the very end, they could not understand why their opponent had become so overwhelmingly powerful, or why all-out counterattacks fueled by everything they had were nothing more than a futile farce.
Now, not a single thought of resistance remained, nor any unwilling roar of defiance.
There was only a deathly silence so heavy that even breathing felt difficult—a silence that bore witness to the wretched end of their upheaval.
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?”
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!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
