Hearing that the other party wanted to possess her body, Xia Lingxi was so frightened that her voice trembled:
"Y-you, stay away! I'm warning you, I am a disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect. My master is the sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, the number one expert in the Southern Region! If you dare to touch me, he won't let you off."
Upon hearing this, not only did the woman not stop her actions, but she also laughed uproariously:
"Heavenly Sword Sect? The number one expert in the Southern Region?"
The woman acted as if she had heard the greatest joke in the world, letting out a piercing laugh:
"Hahaha, let alone the Southern Region, even if it were the number one expert of the Lower Three Heavens, why would I fear them? That so-called sect master of yours is at most in the Immortal Realm. Even though I am now nothing but a remnant soul, he still isn't even worthy to carry my shoes!"
Chen Wan's face was full of superiority as she said this. Who was she? At her peak, she was an Immortal King cultivator. How could she possibly care about the number one expert of the Southern Region in the Lower Three Heavens?
Xia Lingxi's face paled. She bit her lip, and seeing that her first threat didn't work, she hastily brought out her second:
"I still have my Brother Qin Hao! He has a massive background; even the sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect has to listen to him. If he finds out you possessed me, he definitely won't let you get away with it."
Looking at Xia Lingxi's frightened yet stubborn appearance, Chen Wan couldn't help but smile, a smile laced with thick mockery and disdain:
"A massive background? Just how massive could it be?"
Chen Wan walked up to Xia Lingxi, looking down at her from above, her illusory face filled with arrogance:
"Little girl, do you know who I am?"
"The world calls me Immortal King Yuehua. In my youth, I obtained the inheritance of Fairy Miejue from the Immortal Ancient Era, the one who ventured into the foreign realm all by herself, in a secret realm!"
"Relying on my status as the nominal disciple of Fairy Miejue, the Jiang and Ye families among the Desolate Ancient Families were both on good terms with me. No matter how massive your Brother Qin Hao's background is, could it be greater than mine?"
Chen Wan reached out her hand, pressing a finger against Xia Lingxi's forehead:
"Little girl, I'll give you one last chance. Cultivate my Dao of Ruthlessness, and I will pass on everything I have learned in my life to you. If you remain stubbornly obstinate, then I will have no choice but to possess you."
Seeing that Xia Lingxi was trembling with fear but still refused to change her mind, Chen Wan couldn't help but coldly snort:
"What? Are you still hoping that your Brother Qin Hao will come to save you? Don't be foolish. Not to mention that he doesn't even have the qualifications to stand before me, the baleful aura I left at the bottom of this cliff is not something he can resist."
Before she could finish her sentence, Chen Wan's voice abruptly stopped.
She froze.
Something was wrong!
She suddenly looked up. The darkness above, which was originally shrouded in a dense baleful aura, had unexpectedly become much thinner.
The baleful aura she had set up was currently disappearing at an astonishing speed.
"What is happening?"
Chen Wan's expression changed. This baleful aura was formed from her Immortal King corpse and shared the same origin as her. But now, this aura was being frantically devoured by something at a speed that made even her heart palpitate.
"What is it? What could possibly devour the baleful aura I left behind?"
Chen Wan muttered to herself, then expanded her perception. She then saw a pitch-black banner.
It hovered within the baleful aura, its flag fluttering without any wind, emitting a faint black light. The baleful aura that had gathered for who knew how many tens of thousands of years was now being forcefully sucked into the banner, as if it had met its natural enemy.
On the flagpole, ninety-nine Emperor Patterns were flashing with a gloomy light.
Chen Wan's eyes instantly widened:
"An, an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon?"
Her voice was trembling. Having once been an Immortal King, she naturally knew what an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon meant. That was a supreme treasure that would tempt even an Immortal Emperor!
Across the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens, those who could possess an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon were all existences standing at the very pinnacle. Even she had only ever used an Emperor Weapon with over seventy Emperor Patterns.
Xia Lingxi followed Chen Wan's gaze, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
She saw a familiar figure holding the Soul Devouring Banner, stepping through the thinning baleful aura, walking toward the bottom of the cliff step by step.
"Brother Qin Hao!"
Xia Lingxi shouted out in excitement. Seeing Qin Hao, the fear in her heart vanished in an instant, replaced by an arrogant bravado akin to a dog relying on its master's power.
Hearing Xia Lingxi's voice, Chen Wan's expression shifted. What! This person was the Qin Hao the girl had just mentioned? Surnamed Qin, and holding an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon... could he be a direct descendant of the Desolate Ancient Qin Family?
While Chen Wan was pondering, Xia Lingxi crossed her arms over her chest, her chin slightly raised, her small face written all over with smugness:
"Hey, didn't you just say that my Brother Qin Hao didn't even have the qualifications to stand in front of you?"
"Also, you said you were some Immortal King Yuehua, that you knew the Jiang and Ye families, and had a massive background that my Brother Qin Hao couldn't compare to, right?"
"You also said that no one could break the baleful aura you left behind, telling me not to expect anyone to save me, right?"
At this point, Xia Lingxi smiled so broadly her eyes curved into crescents, her entire being exuding a sense of vindicated exhilaration:
"Take a close look now, who is it that just collected your baleful aura?"
Chen Wan's face alternated between green and pale. She silently cursed the girl for gloating over her success, then ignored Xia Lingxi, fixing her gaze deadly upon Qin Hao.
Qin Hao landed at the bottom of the cliff. He casually planted the Soul Devouring Banner into the ground, then raised his eyes, his gaze lightly sweeping past Chen Wan before finally landing on Xia Lingxi behind her.
"Come here."
Hearing Qin Hao call her, Xia Lingxi immediately wanted to throw herself into his arms.
Seeing this, Chen Wan instantly snorted coldly: "Just you try!"
Frightened by Chen Wan, Xia Lingxi paused her steps. You bullied me when Qin Hao wasn't here, and now that Qin Hao is here, you're still bullying me. Doesn't that mean Qin Hao came for nothing?
"Come here!" Qin Hao spoke again. His dual-pupils stared at Chen Wan, shockingly discovering that the illusory figure of the woman before him wasn't even a divine sense, but merely a remnant soul. Presumably, this was the fallen Immortal King that Qin Yuanqing had spoken of.
"Oh," Xia Lingxi obediently replied. Then, ignoring Chen Wan's obstruction, she trotted over to Qin Hao's side and naturally hid behind him.
She poked half her head out and made a face at Chen Wan. Chen Wan had no time to bother with her; right now, all of her attention was focused on Qin Hao.
To be precise, it was focused on the Soul Devouring Banner. The aura emanating from Qin Hao was merely at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm. Even though she was just a remnant soul, a cultivator of this level was completely insignificant to her.
But an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon was a different story altogether. Moreover, she could feel that this Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon was a natural nemesis to souls! To a remnant soul like herself, it possessed an unparalleled lethality.
Furthermore, for an insignificant Void Refinement Realm cultivator to be able to bring out a supreme treasure like an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, the faction behind him must be extraordinary. If she were to fight him and draw out the major figures behind him, this wisp of her remnant soul would likely dissipate completely.
Chen Wan felt that if she dissipated, the end of her own inheritance was a small matter. However, she still held the inheritance left by her master. If it ended in her hands, what face would she have to meet her master in the underworld?
The only reason she managed to prove her Dao and ascend to the realm of Immortal King was entirely due to the vast network of connections her master, Fairy Miejue, had accumulated. Even though she was merely an in-name disciple, those supreme factions still treated her with the utmost courtesy and provided her with a great deal of assistance.
If the legacy her master left behind were to be severed in her hands, Chen Wan believed that even dying ten times over would not be enough to absolve her of the blame.
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
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."
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?!
