"You... you're dreaming..."
"Even if I die... I'll never... take you to our Domain Lord..."
Chiyan knew he wouldn't survive this ordeal.
A flash of resolve crossed his eyes before he suddenly bit down on his tongue.
The next second—
A blazing radiance erupted from his body, scorching heat surging outward.
"You two won’t succeed!"
Chiyan roared, his voice filled with boundless fury and unwillingness: "Even in death, I’ll drag you down with me!"
His body trembled violently as flames raged around him.
Was he... about to self-destruct?!
Seeing this, the other Flame Generals of the Blazing Flame Domain also activated their inner fire energy, preparing to self-destruct alongside Chiyan.
Eight Supreme Realm cultivators detonating at once—even their own Domain Lord wouldn’t dare underestimate such power!
Let alone these newly ascended Domain Lords!
Chiyan closed his eyes. Forgive me, Domain Lord... We can only accompany you this far—
Slap!
Before he could finish, Qin Luo silenced him with another backhand.
Chiyan: ? I... can’t move?
"Self-destruct?"
Qin Luo raised an eyebrow, a mocking smirk curling his lips. "How loyal. But you don’t get to decide that."
Before the words faded, the Ten Thousand Demon Banner in his hand unfurled.
Countless ghastly faces emerged on the pitch-black banner.
With a single sweep, an icy, malevolent aura instantly engulfed Chiyan and his men.
"This—! You’re refining us?!"
Chiyan’s pupils trembled as he stared past Qin Luo... at Su Muwan.
His voice seethed with hatred: "You venomous witch!! How cruel!! You’d even rob us of our chance to reincarnate—"
Slap!
"Shut your noise." Qin Luo struck him again. "Stay quiet and behave."
"No!!"
With that, Chiyan and his eight generals were fully refined into tormented souls within the banner.
Silence fell over the battlefield.
Su Muwan, belatedly registering the accusation, twitched at the corner of her eye.
Huh?
Seriously?!
You’re blaming ME for this?!
She nearly fumed on the spot. Are you all insane?!
I’ve been taking the fall since the lower realms!
Meanwhile—
The remaining Blazing Flame cultivators stood frozen in shock.
Chiyan... had lost?
Wait—
Who the hell opens a fight by throwing two royal flushes?!
How are you this broken?!
With all eight Flame Generals annihilated, what were they—mere low-level cultivators—supposed to do?!
Terror-stricken, the Blazing Flame forces scattered in panic.
"Run! Get out of here!!"
"Warn the Domain Lord!"
"That woman’s a monster!"
Su Muwan coldly watched the fleeing enemies. With a flick of her wrist, glacial energy surged forth.
"Too late."
Crack! Crack!
Wherever the frost spread, Blazing Flame cultivators froze into ice sculptures before shattering into dust.
She shook her wrist lightly and snorted. "Let’s go. I want to see what this so-called Blazing Flame Domain is really made of."
......
......
Blazing Flame Domain, Incinerating Heaven Pavilion.
The Flame Phoenix Empress stood at the center of the altar, her gaze fixed on the distance.
A faint unease lingered between her brows.
Chiyan, dispatched earlier, had been silent for too long—an unsettling sign.
"Why hasn’t Chiyan reported back yet?" she murmured, her frown deepening.
A nearby Flame General stepped forward to reassure her. "Your Majesty, there’s no need to worry. Lord Chiyan’s strength is peerless. He must have been delayed while excavating the River of Fortune."
"The Frostbound Sacred Domain is merely a newborn realm, lacking in foundation. Lord Chiyan surely has the situation under control."
The Flame Phoenix Empress nodded slightly, her tension easing.
True. Chiyan, chief of the Eight Flame Generals, had long since reached the Supreme Realm.
The Frostbound Sacred Domain was just an upstart, freshly ascended. No matter how strong its Domain Lord Su Muwan was, how formidable could she truly be?
"Perhaps I overthought it."
Just as she turned back toward the altar—
Boom!
A thunderous explosion shook the heavens.
A panicked voice screamed from outside the hall: "D-Disaster! The Frostbound Sacred Domain—they’ve breached our defenses!"
What?!
The Flame Phoenix Empress’s pupils constricted. She whirled around—
A half-frozen Blazing Flame cultivator stumbled in, his face twisted in horror.
"Domain Lord... The Frostbound Sacred Domain... they... they—"
"SPEAK!" she demanded, her dread surging.
Before he could answer, another deafening roar erupted outside, as if the world itself were crumbling.
Her heart plummeted. In a flash, she dashed past the doors—
And what she saw left her utterly stunned.
Outside the Incinerating Heaven Pavilion...
Countless golden pillars of destiny soared into the heavens, each one representing a chosen one of fate. At this moment, these pillars densely covered the sky, as if enveloping the entire Fire Domain in a golden ocean.
The Flame Phoenix Empress was stunned. How could there be so many chosen ones?
At the forefront of these chosen ones, two figures stood in mid-air.
Su Muwan’s eyes gleamed with an arrogance that looked down upon the world. Beside her, Qin Luo held the Ten Thousand Demon Banner, a faint smirk playing at the corners of his lips.
"You must be the ruler of this sacred domain..."
Su Muwan’s voice was cold and haughty. When her gaze swept over the Flame Phoenix Empress, a trace of disdain flickered in her eyes. "Some empress you are. You don’t seem all that impressive."
As she spoke, Su Muwan stepped forward, hovering through the air. With every step she took, the flames nurtured over millennia in the Fire Domain dimmed slightly.
The way she tilted her head and smiled sent tremors through the Flame Phoenix Empress’s body.
This pressure... this power!
Could she also be at the Half-Step Dominator Realm?!
The Flame Phoenix Empress dug her nails into her palms, staring incredulously at the arrogant Su Muwan in the sky.
"Impossible... just two days ago, you were only at the Supreme Realm..."
The Flame Phoenix Empress was utterly shocked.
How could the ruler of a newly risen sacred domain break through to the Half-Step Dominator Realm in just a few days?
"Oh, you mean this?"
Su Muwan curled her lips. "Just broke through for fun."
It was just a matter of a little kiss. Why was everyone making such a big deal out of it?
"Broke through... for fun?"
The Flame Phoenix Empress froze in place. A deep sense of humiliation surged from within her heart.
If you broke through just for fun...
Then what was I? For the Fire Domain, I pushed myself to the limit to grow stronger. For the Fire Domain, I made ruthless choices—sacrificing the few for the many. For the Fire Domain... I became a merciless executioner...
But now?
This newly risen ruler... treated breaking through as a game?
It was like when she was still in a minor world, and her master had told her, "This is as far as you’ll ever go. You can’t compare to a true genius."
She had gritted her teeth, holding onto that stubborn pride, just to prove that she was no different from a genius!
Yet this new ruler’s words felt like a denial of all her past efforts, as if her struggles were nothing more than a child’s babble.
Unforgivable. Absolutely unforgivable!!
Meanwhile, Qin Luo glanced at the Flame Phoenix Empress and chuckled. "Before we arrived, all the members of your domain were already refined into my Ten Thousand Demon Banner. Just surrender. You’re no match for my young mistress."
Su Muwan was pleased by his words. She gave a light hum. "Hmph, that’s only natural. The sooner you surrender, the sooner this ends. I still want to go back and eat some chips."
"Eat... eat chips?!"
"Surrender?!"
The Flame Phoenix Empress’s rationality completely shattered. She raised her head and roared, "How dare you!"
BOOM!!
Blazing flames erupted around her as dozens of golden fire phoenixes surged from the sky. She leaped into the air, glaring furiously at Su Muwan and Qin Luo.
"Your highest cultivation is only at the Half-Step Dominator Realm! So is mine! And this is the home ground of Fire Domain cultivators! What gives you the confidence to claim victory?!"
As her voice fell—
SCREECH!!
The golden fire phoenixes shrieked as they lunged at Su Muwan and Qin Luo. The Flame Phoenix Empress poured all her power into the attack.
"I am the descendant of the ancient Phoenix bloodline! How dare you insignificant ants—"
CRACK.
Her voice was abruptly cut off.
Everything in the world around them came to a sudden standstill.
Everyone’s expressions froze in place. Objects below hovered mid-air. The crowd remained motionless, locked in the same posture.
Only the Flame Phoenix Empress’s thoughts still raced.
Her pupils constricted. This is... the power of laws?
But what kind of law is this?
Stillness... is this... the Law of Time?!
But why is it so cold?
Can a person... wield two types of laws?
"How laughable."
Then, in the next second—
Su Muwan moved. She took a step forward, and a staircase of ice materialized beneath her feet.
With a flick of her finger—
The fire phoenixes frozen in mid-air instantly turned to ice. The frost surged upward along their feathers, racing toward the immobilized Flame Phoenix Empress.
CRACKLE!!
In the blink of an eye, half of the Flame Phoenix Empress’s body was encased in ice.
Her mind went blank.
I... can’t move...
Then—
Su Muwan raised her hand. A frigid power surged like an inverted river, condensing into a colossal ice spear that spanned thousands of miles across the Fire Domain’s sky.
"You know what?"
"I hate two things the most—"
Su Muwan slowly advanced, stepping on the icy stairs. With each step, the Fire Domain’s earth shattered beneath her.
"First, when someone acts more pretentious than me."
"Second..."
She flicked her wrist with an icy expression.
"When someone interrupts my leisure time."
"You just happened to do both. You should’ve just surrendered."
As her words faded—
BOOM——!!!
In an instant.
The ice spear pierced through the heavens, shattering Chiyan's ten-thousand-year destiny like fragile glass.
The towering volcanic ranges collapsed into an icy wasteland in mere moments.
The Flame Phoenix Empress gazed upward in despair, her final sight the cold, dismissive eyes of Su Muwan looking down upon her as if she were mere vermin.
"With this strike, I erase your Chiyan’s ten-thousand-year legacy."
HUM——!!
All fell silent.
The roar of the ice explosion swallowed everything, and the blazing Chiyan…
Was no more.
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?!
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?
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?!
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!
