Meanwhile.
The northern frontier of Great Xia.
The Abyss-Suppressing Great Wall.
The sky was a despairing shade of dead gray.
Heavy leaden clouds hung low over the wall, as though they might collapse at any moment. Even the air was saturated with a dense, suffocating stench of blood and decay.
Below.
Upon the black wall stretching for tens of thousands of miles, millions of soldiers of the Abyss-Suppressing Army stood like silent statues of steel, gripping their weapons with all their might.
But at this moment, everyone was breathing with extraordinary difficulty. Even the circulation of their vital energy and blood had become sluggish to the extreme.
Because—
High above, in the Ninth Heaven,
five pillars of terrifying vitality, each powerful enough to destroy the heavens and earth, stood locked in a deadly confrontation like supports holding up the sky!
The might of Martial Emperors!
Under the collision of these five forces, even the laws of the world let out waves of anguished, overwhelmed cries.
At the very front of the human defensive line,
two towering figures stood suspended in midair.
The man on the left wore deep-blue heavy armor, while phantoms of laws resembling raging seas swirled around him.
The Overturning-Seas Martial Emperor, Qin Fuhai.
The man on the right wore silver armor, and the surrounding space constantly shattered and reformed like a broken mirror.
The Space-Rending Martial Emperor, Chu Zhan.
At this moment, however, the expressions of these two pillars of Great Xia were grave beyond measure.
They were facing an unprecedented enemy.
Several hundred miles away, in the void,
three terrifying demonic shadows, each reaching ten thousand zhang in height and radiating the pure aura of the Abyss’s origin, looked down upon them from above.
The Black Heaven Demon Emperor.
The Blood Prison Demon Emperor.
The Bone-Refining Demon Emperor.
Three Abyssal Sovereigns in all!
Three Demon Emperors had descended upon the battlefield!
“Old Qin.”
Chu Zhan stared fixedly at the three colossal shadows before him. His voice was hoarse, carrying an undisguised resolve.
“It looks like there’ll be no peaceful end to this battle.”
Qin Fuhai said nothing.
Reflected in his deep eyes was the overwhelming demonic aura of the Abyss.
The pressure was simply too great.
First, the Abyss possessed one more Emperor-level combatant than humanity.
Second,
in battles between equals, the bodies and origins of the Abyssal Demon Emperors were inherently stronger than those of human Martial Emperors!
Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan both possessed around one hundred and twenty billion points of vitality.
Yet even the weakest of the three Demon Emperors, the Bone-Refining Demon Emperor, had reached one hundred and fifty billion!
As for the Black Heaven Demon Emperor, the leader of the three, his vitality was approaching the terrifying threshold of two hundred billion!
If the three Demon Emperors launched an all-out assault without regard for the consequences, the two of them would not be able to hold out for long.
The human defensive line would inevitably collapse!
Fortunately,
the Abyssal side was not united.
The three Demon Emperors each had their own schemes. None of them wanted to charge at the front and expend their origins for nothing while attacking the human defenses.
After all, in a place like the Abyss, where the strong prey upon the weak, once you were seriously injured, the ones most likely to devour you were often the very companions standing beside you.
Moreover,
behind Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan, each of them had a national-protector-class battle mech lying in wait, radiating astonishing pressure.
Although they were not the legendary mythic-class battle mechs, with the amplification provided by their national-protector-class modules, the two men could still self-destruct their machines if they truly fought with their lives on the line.
They were absolutely confident that they could drag one of the Demon Emperors down with them.
It was precisely this fear that had created the tenuous balance before them.
But—
this balance was like walking a tightrope.
It could snap at any moment.
“Heh heh heh…”
A spine-chilling, grotesque laugh came from the massive shadow of the Black Heaven Demon Emperor.
The laughter transformed into tangible sound waves, shaking the eardrums of countless soldiers below until they burst. Blood sprayed from their mouths.
“Qin Fuhai. Chu Zhan.”
The Black Heaven Demon Emperor looked down at the two men, his voice filled with utter arrogance and contempt.
“Your human race’s destiny has run its course.”
“You really think two piles of scrap metal can stop me?”
Qin Fuhai let out a cold snort, and his vitality—worth a hundred billion—erupted into a furious blaze.
“Black Heaven, anyone can make grand claims.”
“If you have the guts, take one step forward and see for yourself!”
“Let’s find out whether I can dig your demon core out today!”
Faced with Qin Fuhai’s defiance,
the Black Heaven Demon Emperor did not grow angry. Instead, his laughter became even more rampant.
“Take one step forward?”
“Why would I need to take a step?”
The Black Heaven Demon Emperor raised a black hand that blotted out the sky and pointed toward the heartland of humanity.
“Just moments ago,
I sent a sliver of my origin through the sacrificial altar passage opened by your cult.”
“It should have descended upon your capital by now.”
“By my calculations,
that so-called peerless genius of your human race should already have been crushed into a pool of flesh by me.”
“Soon, I will turn your capital into a dead land!”
“I will destroy you from within!”
The moment he finished speaking,
the expressions of Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan changed dramatically!
He had descended upon the capital?!
Even a mere sliver of a Martial Emperor’s origin was far beyond what the Martial Saints in the capital could withstand!
A diversion?!
“You’re courting death!”
Chu Zhan flew into a rage. With his hot temper, he instantly prepared to activate the Space-Rending battle mech and charge toward the Black Heaven Demon Emperor without regard for the consequences.
“Don’t act rashly!”
Qin Fuhai grabbed Chu Zhan by the arm, his teeth clenched in fury.
“He’s trying to provoke us!”
“The moment we lose our formation, the defensive line will collapse!”
Watching the two men’s expressions twist with shock and fury,
the amusement in the Black Heaven Demon Emperor’s eyes grew even more pronounced.
Beside him, the Blood Prison Demon Emperor and the Bone-Refining Demon Emperor also let out gleeful, mocking laughter.
“Despair.”
“Struggle.”
The Black Heaven Demon Emperor spread his arms, preparing to savor the sight of the human Martial Emperors breaking down.
However—
the instant his words fell,
a sudden change occurred!
Without the slightest warning,
the Black Heaven Demon Emperor’s colossal, mountain-like body abruptly froze!
In those eyes, which resembled two blood-red suns, there suddenly appeared a terror so unprecedented—and so absurd—that it was almost impossible to believe!
“What is this?!”
The Black Heaven Demon Emperor roared in disbelief within his mind.
At that very moment,
he clearly sensed that the sliver of his origin left in the underground city of the capital’s Darknet had been instantly erased by an extremely domineering, utterly deathly force!
Not only that—
that force was actually flowing upstream through the Abyssal passage he had opened!
It crossed endless spatial barriers!
It crossed a distance of tens of millions of miles!
And locked directly onto his true body!
A spear-ray of pure gray-black energy, laced with tyrannical, dark-golden vitality, suddenly appeared above the head of the Black Heaven Demon Emperor!
There had been no spatial fluctuations.
No warning whatsoever.
It appeared with such abruptness, as though it had crossed the dimension of time itself, and came crashing down!
“Impudent!”
The Black Heaven Demon Emperor let out a furious roar. His nearly two hundred billion vitality erupted in an instant!
Pure Abyssal demonic energy transformed into layer upon layer of indestructible black shields, blocking his path.
At the same time, he raised his sky-covering giant hand, attempting to crush the spear-ray that knew neither the height of the heavens nor the depth of the earth.
However—
the instant that giant hand touched the gray-black spear-ray,
whoosh!
Like a red-hot blade slicing through butter,
the Abyssal demonic-energy shields, which could withstand a full-power strike from a Martial Emperor, failed to impede it in the slightest.
They were pierced straight through!
The spear radiance contained an annihilating force, carrying a terrifying will that sought to reduce all things to nothingness. In an instant, it tore through the palm of the Black Heaven Demon Emperor!
“Arrgh!!!”
A low growl, suppressed beneath overwhelming pain and fury, rumbled from the Black Heaven Demon Emperor’s throat.
After piercing through his palm, the spear radiance was gradually weakened until its power was completely exhausted. It then transformed into specks of dark golden light and vanished into the void.
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
