As Shanshui Quasi-Emperor battled fiercely outside, Chen Xia was sneaking into the Forbidden Zone.
His main goal was to rescue the heart demon of Big Yellow Dog, as he had previously aided Big Yellow Dog and could not turn a blind eye.
Moreover, since the Eye of Formation was the master of the Forbidden Zone, destroying this place would undoubtedly harm them.
He shifted his gaze, searching through his memories to find where Big Yellow Dog's heart demon was sealed and suppressed.
The Forbidden Zone had some isolating formations, but this was no obstacle for Chen Xia, who could travel freely through time, unbounded by any formations.
After all, he could seek entry through formations that vanished in the future, then return to the present.
The entire process might only take ten breaths before Chen Xia entered the Forbidden Zone.
His comprehension of the Great Dao of Time and Epochs was now at the pinnacle, and few cultivators in the myriad realms could surpass him in this domain.
Chen Xia crossed four locations in the Forbidden Zone, guided by his memories, until he finally arrived at his destination.
Ahead stood a grand formation reaching up to the heavens, and within it was suppressed the heart demon of Big Yellow Dog, a former master of the Forbidden Zone.
Chen Xia raised his half-spiritual sword, displaying its four ultimates, flashing to the top of the grand formation and gazing down, preparing to forcibly break the formation with his four ultimates.
He charged from the heavens, entering the river of time midway, then emerging within the grand formation, beginning to break it from the inside.
Any grand formation has an eye, and Chen Xia sought to find the true eye, then shatter the formation with a single sword strike.
Outside the Forbidden Zone.
The battle between Shanshui Quasi-Emperor and Emperor Witch continued, the two clashing fiercely under the dim heavens, their fight so intense that even the Heavenly Dao Reckoning was delayed.
Old Dragon and Red Dress Girl also engaged in combat, their battle unfolding on the ground, displaying divine abilities and causing the entire realm's surface to shatter, with the shockwaves even killing countless cultivators.
The two Zhun Di hidden in the Heavenly Rain Realm had also appeared, but did not join the fight. Instead, they worked together to find a way to sever the connection between the Heavenly Rain Realm and this realm.
This was the most crucial task for the Heavenly Rain Realm, for even if they killed all the masters of the Forbidden Zone, the Heavenly Dao Reckoning would still purge the cultivators of the Heavenly Rain Realm in this realm.
The Zhun Di were unaffected, but the rest of the Heavenly Rain Realm cultivators would perish, severely diminishing their destiny and opportunities, crippling the Heavenly Rain Realm. Even the Zhun Di, as cultivators of the Heavenly Rain Realm, would be impacted.
At best, they might fall in cultivation level, but worse, they could be barred from the Great Dao, unable to reach the Great Emperor realm or comprehend the second Dao.
The Zhun Di of the Heavenly Rain Realm naturally did not want this outcome, so they could only confront this realm head-on.
Shanshui Quasi-Emperor, as the leader of the Heavenly Rain Realm, battled fiercely with Emperor Witch while enduring the tribulation of the Great Emperor, but he was starting to show signs of exhaustion and waning strength.
Emperor Witch, on the other hand, had not revealed their true form, with only a dim, slender silhouette visible under the dark heavens as they clashed with Shanshui Quasi-Emperor.
Sensing Emperor Witch still had reserves, Shanshui Quasi-Emperor directly resorted to the essence of the Great Dao as his divine ability, channeling the power of heaven and earth to collide with the shadowy figure and the dim heavens!
Boom!
The already tilted heavens shattered, raining fragments down on the Great Emperor, crashing into mountains and rivers, revealing the dim void beyond.
The cultivators of the realm gazed out in awe.
From the shattered heavens, a drop of fresh blood fell, landing on the earth and instantly transforming into dense spiritual energy, nourishing the mountains and rivers.
After that first drop, a torrent of blood rained down unceasingly.
The crowd followed the blood upwards.
Shanshui Quasi-Emperor stood tall above, but a slender, shadowy arm had pierced his chest at some point.
The arm dripped with blood, and tracing it back revealed a slender, unremarkable figure.
Yet this nondescript, slender figure had pierced the Quasi-Emperor's chest.
A chilling voice finally spoke from the figure, devoid of emotion, stating plainly:
"I was imprisoned for twenty-three million years, over two great eons, when I should have ascended to Great Emperor. Instead, I became this Eye of Formation, my life's limit visible at a glance."
"How boring."
He glanced up at the heavens, his chilling voice tinged with a hint of complaint, softly asking:
"Are you Supremes satisfied now?"
Evidently, there would be no response.
Emperor Witch lowered his gaze to Shanshui Quasi-Emperor and continued:
"When I could see my limit at a glance, I began seeking other paths of cultivation. But no matter what, I could not break the restrictions of this grand formation, unable to transcend the Great Sage Realm no matter how I cultivated."
"I was already a Great Sage twenty-two million years ago. Do you know how agonizing it is to have your cultivation stagnate? I could not die, nor could I live, only existing as a ghost in this realm."
"I came to detest all of existence, including myself."
"Until later, when I comprehended another Great Dao."
"The External Avatar Dao."
"Now, in this realm's twelve Eyes of Formation, seven are merely my external avatars."
Emperor Witch raised his placid gaze, as if looking into the distance, releasing the arm that pierced Shanshui Quasi-Emperor and calling out:
"Now..."
"Merge."
Brilliant light burst forth from various Forbidden Zones, converging into Emperor Witch's body, becoming his physical form, soul, divine abilities, techniques, treasures, and more.
His eyes shone brighter, suddenly turning his head and glancing towards a Forbidden Zone that flickered with faint light.
It seemed one of his avatars had encountered some unexpected trouble.
Within this Forbidden Zone.
Chen Xia's sword pierced a massive figure, tilting his head as he observed the flickering light emanating from its body, asking in confusion:
"What's going on, are you about to transform?"
He truly was skilled at stealing, and had indeed succeeded in stealing.
But it seemed he had been caught.
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!
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."
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.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
