Zhao Wuqian followed behind them and could not help asking,
“Who’s paying?”
The Longevity Earth Immortal looked toward the First Peak.
“The Great Chieftain.”
When Duan Tiantu heard this, the dozens of faces on his chest all erupted in fury.
“Looking for death!”
He swung his enormous axe.
A black arc of axe-light swept across Black Mountain.
The Supreme Profound Heavenly Immortal and the Withered Glory Heavenly Immortal simultaneously unfurled their Immortal Domains.
The Northern Dark Immortal Domain devoured the axe-light.
The Withered Glory Immortal Domain corrupted the power of Black Mountain.
The two Immortal Domains lasted only one breath.
Then they collapsed at the same time.
The Supreme Profound Heavenly Immortal and the Withered Glory Heavenly Immortal vomited blood and staggered backward.
But that single breath was enough.
Wang Hao’s fifth palm descended.
Domain Suppression!
The Black Mountain Immortal Domain behind Duan Tiantu suddenly collapsed inward.
The Dao-Fruit Eater worms inside his body began to writhe violently.
The several chieftains locked in combat all cried out in agony at once.
Second Chieftain Yin Jiuzhu was surrounded and attacked by three Heavenly Immortals from the Ascension Bureau. Six of his nine fingers had already been severed.
Suddenly, he felt his Dao Fruit beginning to crack.
He immediately understood what was happening.
“Duan Tiantu!”
“You’re devouring us!”
Duan Tiantu laughed uproariously.
“You’ve been this king’s food from the very beginning!”
The Dao-Fruit Eater worms erupted completely.
The source of Yin Jiuzhu’s Dao Fruit vanished by more than half in an instant.
Duan Tiantu’s aura surged once again.
With a single swing of his axe, he cleaved apart the palm seal of Domain Suppression.
“Wang Xiaobai!”
“This king is about to become a Golden Immortal!”
“What can you possibly use to stop me?”
Wang Hao merely looked toward Yin Jiuzhu.
“Do you still intend to surrender to the Ascension Bureau?”
Yin Jiuzhu roared while fending off the three Heavenly Immortals.
“Kill Duan Tiantu first!”
The three Heavenly Immortals from the Ascension Bureau also realized that something was wrong.
One of the Immortal Officials in charge of the seals shouted sternly,
“Duan Tiantu has colluded with the anomalous entities and is devouring the Dao Fruits of Immortal Officials!”
“Destroy him first!”
Yin Jiuzhu said furiously,
“You were trying to kill me just now!”
The Immortal Official replied,
“An adjustment in official duties.”
“What about my pardon?”
“We’ll discuss it after Duan Tiantu is dead!”
“I don’t believe you!”
“The Ascension Bureau never deceives those who surrender!”
The moment his voice fell, another Immortal Official thrust a sword through Yin Jiuzhu’s back.
Yin Jiuzhu lowered his head and stared at the sword tip protruding from his chest.
“What do you call this?”
The Immortal Official’s expression remained impassive.
“Preemptive judgment.”
Yin Jiuzhu erupted in complete fury.
The Nine-Yin Immortal Domain detonated with a thunderous roar.
The three Heavenly Immortals from the Ascension Bureau were blasted away simultaneously.
At that very moment, one of the faces on Duan Tiantu’s chest shattered completely.
The source of Yin Jiuzhu’s Dao Fruit flowed along the Dao-Fruit Eater worms and surged toward Duan Tiantu.
Wang Hao had been waiting for this very moment.
His sixth palm.
Dao Imprisonment!
The palm seal descended.
The connection between all the Dao-Fruit Eater worms and Duan Tiantu was forcibly frozen in place.
The Dao Fruit essence that had been flowing ceased moving all at once.
The savage grin on Duan Tiantu’s face stiffened.
“You can imprison a Dao Fruit?”
“Only for a moment,” Wang Hao said.
“But that’s enough.”
“Thunder Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda!”
Boom!
A nine-story ancient pagoda descended from the heavens.
Endless lightning coiled around its body.
The doors to the first through eighth levels opened simultaneously.
Thunder serpents, thunder tigers, thunder dragons, and thunder phoenixes soared into the sky.
The air above Black Mountain transformed into a sea of lightning.
Countless Tribulation Immortals fled in terror.
Duan Tiantu raised his head.
For the first time, genuine fear appeared in his eyes.
“The fifty-sixth-ranked anomalous artifact…”
“The Thunder Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda!”
Wang Hao raised his hand.
The door to the ninth level of the pagoda slowly opened.
At present, the pagoda could unleash the full-force strike of the Ninth Realm only twice.
Each use was a life-saving trump card.
Wang Hao had not originally intended to use it.
But Duan Tiantu was using the Black Mountain Stronghold Seal to charge toward Golden Immortality.
If this dragged on, everyone would die.
The door to the ninth level opened completely.
Within the darkness, a pair of enormous violet eyes opened.
Then, a violet thunder dragon slowly poked its head out.
Its horns pierced through the clouds.
Its body coiled around seven black mountains.
Every scale seemed to contain an entire world of sealed lightning.
The violet thunder dragon looked down at Duan Tiantu.
It let out a roar that shook immortal souls.
Roar!
The thunder dragon dove downward.
Duan Tiantu frantically urged the Black Mountain Stronghold Seal into motion.
The seven black peaks rose from the earth simultaneously.
Above his head, they formed a gigantic shield of bone.
“This king has the Black Mountain protecting his body!”
“You can’t kill me!”
Wang Hao raised the Black Mountain Token in his hand.
The palm seal of an Immortal Emperor within the token suddenly blazed with light.
Among the seven black mountains, one suddenly shifted out of position.
A gap appeared in the bone shield.
Duan Tiantu abruptly lowered his head.
“You seized control of ten percent of the stronghold seal?”
“Borrowed it temporarily.”
“I’m returning it to you.”
Wang Hao clenched all five fingers.
The Black Mountain Token exploded with a thunderous boom.
The Immortal Emperor’s palm seal contained within it surged entirely into the Black Mountain Stronghold Seal.
The connection between Duan Tiantu and the stronghold seal was severed for a brief moment.
The violet thunder dragon pierced through the bone shield.
It struck Duan Tiantu head-on.
Boom!
Violet lightning illuminated the entire Black Mountain Range.
All the darkness between heaven and earth was forcibly torn apart at that moment.
The black trees in the distance, each covered in humanoid fruit, caught fire simultaneously.
Deep within the mountain range,
one sleeping anomalous entity after another opened its eyes.
Duan Tiantu’s enormous immortal body continued to crack apart amid the lightning.
The dozens of faces on his body were burned to ash.
The Black Mountain Stronghold Seal tore free from his chest.
Wang Hao stepped into the sea of lightning.
Immaculate Kindling enveloped his entire body.
His flesh was charred black by the lightning as well.
But he did not stop.
His seventh palm!
Heaven Overturning!
The sky above Duan Tiantu suddenly flipped upside down.
His Immortal Domain collapsed completely.
His eighth palm!
Earth Burial!
The seven black mountains pressed downward simultaneously.
Duan Tiantu dropped to one knee.
His immortal body was nearly crushed into a mass of flesh.
Yet he still did not die.
The core formed from countless pieced-together Dao Fruits continued to throb within his chest.
“This king cannot die!”
“This king is about to become a Golden Immortal!”
“You’re only an Earth Immortal!”
“What gives you the right to kill me?”
Wang Hao stood in the center of the lightning sea.
Half his body had already become charred bones.
His Earth Immortal Dao Fruit was covered in cracks.
No power of belief repaired him.
No imperial dynasty’s fortune bore the damage for him.
Every wound
landed on his body for real.
Wang Hao coughed up a mouthful of blood streaked with lightning.
“You’re right.”
“I am an Earth Immortal.”
“So…”
“I never intended to fight you fairly.”
Duan Tiantu’s pupils contracted sharply.
Behind Wang Hao,
the Dao Fruit essences of Yin Jiuzhu, Bai Wusuan, the One-Eyed Daoist, and all those devoured by the Dao-Fruit Eater worms manifested simultaneously.
They had not been resurrected.
Rather, the sixth palm of the Heaven-Imprisoning Earth-Covering Palm had imprisoned the Dao connections formed by the Dao-Fruit Eater worms.
The more people Duan Tiantu devoured,
the more connections the ninth palm would suppress at once.
He had used the Dao Fruits of the masses to make himself stronger.
Now,
all those Dao Fruits had become his shackles.
Wang Hao raised his hand.
The heavens and earth fell silent at the same time.
“Ninth Palm.”
“Heaven Imprisonment.”
“Earth Covering.”
The palm seal did not descend from the sky.
Instead, it rose from within Duan Tiantu’s body.
The first eight Heaven-Imprisoning Seals erupted simultaneously.
His flesh.
His bones.
His immortal power.
His soul.
His Immortal Domain.
His Dao Fruit.
The power of Black Mountain.
And his connections with every Dao-Fruit Eater worm.
Everything was sealed within a single golden palm seal.
Duan Tiantu’s body rapidly shrank.
From three zhang tall,
to the size of an ordinary man,
then from the size of an ordinary man to the size of a palm.
In the end, he became a bead of blood within Wang Hao’s palm.
Inside the bead,
Duan Tiantu continued to roar.
“This king refuses to accept this!”
“This king has spent tens of thousands of years building Black Mountain!”
“This king was only one step away from becoming a Golden Immortal!”
“What gives you the right?”
Wang Hao closed his five fingers.
“Because I have more tricks up my sleeve than you.”
Crack!
The bead of blood shattered.
Duan Tiantu’s immortal body, soul, and assembled Dao Fruit all transformed into countless fragments.
Immaculate Kindling descended.
The contamination was burned away.
The Great Chieftain of Black Mountain,
a generation of tyrant,
had fallen completely.
The Black Mountain Stronghold Seal floated in midair.
After losing its master,
the seven mountain peaks began to spiral out of control.
Countless black bone spines erupted from the earth.
More than three thousand Tribulation Immortals fled in terror.
“Duan Tiantu is dead!”
“The Great Chieftain was killed by an Earth Immortal!”
“Black Mountain is collapsing!”
“Run!”
“The mountain gate is sealed!”
“Who sealed it?”
“The Longevity Earth Immortal!”
The Longevity Earth Immortal stood before the mountain gate, the ledger in his hand already filled to the brim.
“Your debts remain unpaid.”
“No one is permitted to leave the stronghold.”
The Tribulation Immortals roared angrily:
“What does Duan Tiantu’s debt have to do with us?”
The Longevity Earth Immortal opened the ledger of the Tribulation Immortal Stronghold.
“You are all members of the stronghold.”
“You will bear the debt together.”
“We’re leaving the stronghold right now!”
“Too late.”
Just as Black Mountain was about to collapse completely—
a charred hand seized the stronghold seal in midair.
Wang Hao used the Flawless Kindling Flame to burn away the Fruit-Eating Parasites covering the seal.
Then he poured his own immortal power into it.
There was no Imperial Mandate.
No power of faith.
No imperial dynasty’s fortune.
Only the mark of a first-level Earth Immortal.
The Black Mountain Stronghold Seal struggled violently.
Wang Hao’s immortal body cracked open once more.
Blood dripped continuously down his arm.
Yet he did not let go.
“Duan Tiantu is dead.”
“From this moment on—”
“I… am the one who decides.”
The aura of the Emperor-level Heaven-Imprisoning and Earth-Covering Palm spread through the stronghold seal, enveloping all seven Black Mountains.
The peaks, which had been shaking out of control, gradually came to a halt.
The Black Mountain Maze closed once more.
One bone spine after another sank back into the earth.
Several thousand Tribulation Immortals raised their heads at the same time.
They looked toward Wang Hao, standing atop the First Peak.
The Third Chieftain Liu Hongyi stood amid the ruins of the Hall of Brotherhood, holding her dead husband’s head.
The Fourth Chieftain Iron Buddha pulled the last Fruit-Eating Parasite from his body and dropped to one knee.
The Seventh Chieftain Tong Wuji sat at the edge of a cliff, clutching his heart.
The three exchanged glances.
Liu Hongyi was the first to lower her head.
“Greetings, Great Chieftain.”
Iron Buddha gritted his teeth.
Although he was unwilling to submit,
Duan Tiantu was already dead.
Wang Hao still held the Thunder Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.
What was more, Iron Buddha had already lost to him once before.
Iron Buddha had no choice but to kneel.
“Greetings, Great Chieftain.”
The heart in Tong Wuji’s arms whispered:
“Kneel.”
“If you don’t, you’ll die.”
Tong Wuji readily complied.
“Greetings, Great Chieftain.”
The remaining thousands of Tribulation Immortals gradually knelt as well.
Their voices traveled from the First Peak to the Seventh Peak.
In the end, they resounded throughout Black Mountain.
“Greetings, Great Chieftain!”
“Greetings, Great Chieftain!”
“Greetings, Great Chieftain!”
Wang Hao gripped the Black Mountain Stronghold Seal.
He stood above the heads of several thousand Tribulation Immortals.
He had no imperial robes.
No crown.
No Imperial Mandate.
His body was even still smoking.
The silver-haired youth crawled out of the New Heavenly Son Sword.
Looking at the immortals kneeling below, he suddenly felt a little emotional.
“Master.”
“After you stopped being the emperor…”
“How did you become the chief of a bandit stronghold again?”
Wang Hao replied:
“Occupational habit.”
The Longevity Earth Immortal walked onto the First Peak.
“Great Chieftain.”
“What are we going to do about the debts Duan Tiantu left behind?”
“Write off the dead man’s debt.”
“What about everyone else?”
“Keep paying.”
The faces of several thousand Tribulation Immortals stiffened in unison.
Wang Hao strode into the Hall of Brotherhood.
With one kick, he sent the shattered chair left behind by Duan Tiantu flying.
Then he placed the Black Mountain Stronghold Seal on the table.
“From this day forward…”
“Black Mountain will have new rules.”
Every Tribulation Immortal pricked up their ears.
Wang Hao took his seat as Great Chieftain.
“First.”
“Any immortal vessels belonging to the Ascension Office, the Demon Suppression Office, or the Reception Office that pass through Black Mountain must be left behind.”
“Second.”
“Anyone who dares betray the stronghold will have their home confiscated before they are killed.”
“Third.”
“The chief is always right.”
Iron Buddha could not help asking:
“Wasn’t that the old rule too?”
Wang Hao looked at him.
“Now…”
“The chief has changed.”
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
