With Wuji—that thorn in his side—plucked out, the group of Golden Immortals and Taiyi who descended from the Immortal Realm... became Chen Yi’s feast!
Yet, as the saying goes, every grain on the plate comes from hard labor!
To drive away that troublemaker Wuji, Chen Yi had paid no small price!
After all, it was the current Immortal Emperor taking the reins—achieving a flawless victory was nearly impossible!
His five-star avatar, pushed beyond its limits for too long, was left severely damaged, its origin essence depleted by more than half. Along with it, the eighty-one Chaos-Colored Pearls teetered on the brink of destruction, requiring re-forging and nurturing before they could be used again.
And then there were the forty-nine Chaos-Colored Pearls used to drag Wuji out of the treasure secret realm. In the struggle, they had been tainted by Wuji’s aura, rendered useless, and could only be melted down and reforged.
All in all, Chen Yi had lost enough Chaos Essence to craft another four-star avatar.
Fortunately, compared to his gains, these losses were trivial.
From the six ancient clans—1,138 Golden Immortals, 96 Taiyi, one persuadable Great Luo, and the three Great Luo snatched from Wuji’s grasp—these top-tier talents, he would take them all!
With the thorn removed, the grand banquet could finally begin!
Treasure Secret Realm, Second Trial: The Five Elements Mountain Range.
Feng Jinhuang stood proudly atop the mountain peak, her cold gaze sweeping over the neatly assembled members of the other five ancient clans below. A storm of emotions churned within her.
The moment she witnessed those forty-nine Chaos-Colored Pearls yank the Great Luo elders of the other clans out of the treasure secret realm, she realized she had been deceived!
He was no guardian spirit of the Five Elements Mountain Range—he was a challenger!
And most likely the one who left those encrypted runes on the entrance stele!
Fang Fan, the Ninth-Rank Wealth Attendant of the Ziwei Celestial Court’s Treasury Division!
What fate could possibly await her clansmen in his hands?
With only one treasure to claim, fewer competitors meant greater odds of success.
Were her people even still alive?
Feng Jinhuang’s composure shattered entirely. She didn’t dare dwell on it—as long as there was no confirmation, there was still hope.
But hope was far too slim...
She was the sinner here. She should have trusted her instincts and ordered her clansmen to retreat at the stele’s instructions!
Even empty-handed, it would have been better than total annihilation!
Overwhelmed by guilt, she stood frozen on the mountaintop, unsure where to turn.
"Elder Ancestor, those bastards bullied our clan earlier. Now that their greatest backer is gone, shouldn’t we...?"
At this moment, the eight remaining Taiyi of the Taichu Heart-Soul Clan stepped forward, their eyes dark as they glared at the Golden Immortals of the five clans lining the mountainside—and the Taiyi, now leaderless after losing their Great Luo elder, forming defensive formations in alarm.
After all, they had lost so many clansmen and gained nothing in return. Was that fair?
Meanwhile, the other clans remained intact, missing only a Great Luo elder. Why should they monopolize the rare ores of the Five Elements Mountain Range?
If they didn’t seize this chance, what did the fate of their missing clansmen even mean?
To make up for their losses, the Taichu Heart-Soul Clan had to strike—force them into mining and bar them from the treasure contest!
Such was the way of treasure contention. Leaving them alive was mercy enough!
Faced with her clansmen’s plea, Feng Jinhuang fell silent for a moment before shaking her head. "The situation remains unclear. We wait."
Though the eight Taiyi burned with the urge to act, they ultimately obeyed their elder’s command, forcing themselves to calm down.
After all, back at the entrance stele, their elder had hesitated—yet they had eagerly pushed for action, leading to this disastrous outcome.
Truly, they had learned the hard way: ignore the elder’s words, and suffer the consequences.
So, having learned their lesson, they would wait as instructed.
But this very hesitation cost them their last chance to escape the clutches of doom. From then on, they would never again stand aloft as immortals of the upper realm, free and untroubled. Instead, they would devote their lives to the grand cause of the Ziwei Celestial Court’s rise!
Because Chen Yi, after regrouping, sent another five-star avatar into the fray. Speed-running the first trial, it arrived once more at the second—the Five Elements Mountain Range.
Plop—
A ripple spread across the entrance membrane as the one-star Chen Yi, willingly bearing the Seal of Spirit-Severance, squeezed his way inside.
When Feng Jinhuang’s sharp eyes caught sight of the eighty-one Chaos-Colored Pearls rapidly ascending from the foot of the mountain...
Her last flicker of hope—
Was utterly extinguished.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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!
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
