"Do you really want to die that badly?"
If anyone else had heard those words, their heart and courage would have shattered, their soul scattered to the winds.
That was the Asura Emperor, an invincible emperor who could decide the life and death of billions with a single thought, the true ruler of the Asura Domain. Even across the entire Ancient Eight Domains, the Asura Emperor stood at the pinnacle.
Who dared speak to him like that? Who was qualified to do so?
The Five Great Blood Clans coveted the throne, but that was the tradition of the Asura Domain, as it had been for generations.
But as for challenging the Asura Emperor himself, they would never dare.
Within the rules, they could compete and fight for it, but provoke the Asura Emperor? That was courting death.
Yet now, a youth not yet twenty dared demand to the Asura Emperor's face, "Do you really want to die that badly?"
"Every new emperor ascends the throne by stepping over the bones of the old one. That is the rule of the Asura Domain." The Asura Emperor looked at Ning Xuanyuan, no anger appearing on his face. "Since I made you an imperial prince back then, I naturally hoped you would become the next emperor of the Asura Domain."
"But before that, you must first become the Asura Blood Scion."
Ning Xuanyuan curled his lip and tilted his head at the Asura Emperor. "It's just the Asura Blood Scion. What's so hard about that? Honestly, there's no challenge in it. Those five pieces of trash? One slap is all it takes."
The corner of the Asura Emperor's eye seemed to twitch slightly on his usually tranquil face. "If you hadn't been stuck in the Flesh Realm for the past ten years, I might actually believe you."
"And that's my fault? It's because this lousy place of yours doesn't have enough Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been unable to break through all this time." Ning Xuanyuan dug his right pinky into his ear as he spoke with considerable disdain.
"Lousy place?" The corner of the Asura Emperor's eye twitched even harder as he fought down the urge to kill. This was the Ancestral Land of the Asura Domain! There was no better place to cultivate in the entire Asura Domain!
The Ancestral Land was filled not with ordinary Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, but Innate Spiritual Qi! Anyone who tempered their body and established their foundation with Innate Spiritual Qi could become a saint at the very least!
Why did the Five Great Blood Clans covet the throne? Not merely because of the power and status, but because only members of the imperial family were qualified to cultivate in the Ancestral Land.
The Asura Emperor had children of his own, but for Ning Xuanyuan's sake, he had strictly forbidden anyone else from entering the Ancestral Land for the past ten years, letting him have its Innate Spiritual Qi all to himself.
And yet this damned brat called it a lousy place? Had it been anyone else, the Asura Emperor could have slapped them to death!
"Control your temper. At your age, you should know how to cultivate your character." Ning Xuanyuan waved a hand at the Asura Emperor, who looked ready to go berserk. "By the way, did you bring what I asked for?"
"Here." The Asura Emperor squeezed the word through his teeth and flicked his hand. A fist-sized ball of translucent white light landed in front of Ning Xuanyuan.
A powerful wave of soul force instantly swept through the entire cave abode. That ball of light was actually the essence spirit of a Divine Beast!
"Just one? That's all?" Ning Xuanyuan caught the essence spirit and glanced at the Asura Emperor, clearly less than satisfied.
"That's a Divine Beast! Not a demonic beast!" Veins throbbed on the Asura Emperor's forehead as he teetered on the edge of losing control. To obtain this Sacred Spirit Beast's essence spirit, he had charged into the Demon Domain alone and slain a divine general right under the Heavenly Demon Divine Court's nose, and this brat still wasn't satisfied?
"All right, all right, I know it wasn't easy. Thanks for the effort." Ning Xuanyuan shrugged and hurriedly soothed the Asura Emperor.
"What do you want this Divine Beast's essence spirit for?" The Asura Emperor suppressed the emotions churning in his heart and asked in a low voice.
"Take a guess~" Ning Xuanyuan tossed the essence spirit in his hand and grinned at the Asura Emperor.
The Asura Emperor nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood. He promptly turned and left, afraid that if he stayed another moment, this damned brat would drive him mad.
Ning Xuanyuan was probably the only person in the Ancient Eight Domains capable of making the dignified Asura Emperor lose his composure like that.
"Ten days left? Good thing there's still time." After the Asura Emperor left, the smile faded from Ning Xuanyuan's face, and he let out a long breath.
He was a transmigrator.
When he transmigrated, he had been a child of only six, and the place he had arrived was the Battlefield of the Heavens in the Ancient Eight Domains! After his transmigration, he had found a Chaos Origin within his body!
To be precise, it was a seed of Chaos Origin!
In the ten years since the Asura Emperor brought him back, he had cultivated in the Ancestral Land without ever leaving it.
The reason was that he had been nurturing the Chaos Origin seed within him. It was also why he had never broken through to the next realm.
For ten years, he had absorbed the Innate Spiritual Qi in the Asura Ancestral Land without a moment's pause. As for heavenly materials and earthly treasures, he had lost count of how many he had consumed.
Finally, half a month ago, the Chaos Origin seed had matured! It broke out of its shell and became a Chaos Void!
The moment the Chaos Void appeared, Ning Xuanyuan also received a vast amount of information.
This Chaos Void was only an embryonic form. Once it truly grew, it would evolve into a great world!
In other words, Ning Xuanyuan would then be the master of that great world!
A ruler of a world!
Of course, it was still too early to speak of that. To turn the Chaos Origin into a true great world, Ning Xuanyuan needed to keep feeding it nutrients, nurturing it and helping it grow.
As the Chaos World grew, it would also improve Ning Xuanyuan himself. The two complemented each other, sharing one body and one fate!
"After ten years of tempering, my physical body has reached perfection. It's strong enough to withstand the Chaos Origin." Ning Xuanyuan understood that the Chaos Origin seed had failed to mature before because his body had not been strong enough to withstand the embryonic Chaos World.
After ten years of being nourished and tempered by Innate Spiritual Qi, Ning Xuanyuan's body had reached the level of an Indestructible Golden Body. Of course, that was only the foundation.
As the Chaos World grew, he would have to keep strengthening his body. Otherwise, how could it contain an entire great world?
"It's time to make this world tremble." Ning Xuanyuan licked the corner of his mouth, settled his mind, and connected with the Chaos World within him.
In that instant, dazzling divine light of chaos burst from Ning Xuanyuan's body. The Chaos World expanded rapidly and merged with him.
At that moment, Ning Xuanyuan felt as though he had become an illusory existence, one with heaven and earth. He could even sense the omnipresent origins of spiritual power, rules, and the Great Dao!
The origins of all things came from chaos! Ning Xuanyuan, who possessed the origin of chaos, could naturally perceive the various powers of origin with ease and comprehend them for himself.
"Whoosh!"
Immediately afterward, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi swept in from all directions like roaring mountains and howling seas, pouring madly into Ning Xuanyuan's body.
Outside the cave abode in the Ancestral Land, the Asura Emperor abruptly stopped and looked up. The next moment, his eyes widened!
High in the sky, an enormous vortex storm of Spiritual Qi, ten thousand zhang across, had appeared. Boundless Spiritual Qi poured down like a torrent of raging waves, rushing into the cave abode in the Ancestral Land.
The Asura Emperor stared at the Ancestral Land in shock, his gaze rigid. "Could it be..."
At that moment, not only the Asura Emperor but countless people throughout Blood Prison City and even the vast Asura Domain were alarmed by the phenomenon in heaven and earth, their faces filled with shock.
Some powerful cultivators, experts on the level of the heads of the Five Great Blood Clans, could also sense that it was not just Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Even the invisible order of laws and power of rules seemed to be drawn continuously in the same direction.
"That direction—it's the Ancestral Land!"
Inside the Asura Imperial Palace, figures shot into the sky one after another, looking toward the Ancestral Land with shocked expressions.
"No one is to approach the Ancestral Land. Attend to your duties. Anyone who approaches will be killed without mercy!"
A voice rang across the sky. Everyone's expression changed at once, and they hurriedly bowed in acknowledgment before retreating.
"What is that brat doing? How did he make such a commotion?" The Asura Emperor turned toward the Ancestral Land, his robes snapping around him as blood mist spread through the air. As an emperor-level expert standing just outside the Ancestral Land, he felt it more strongly than anyone.
The rules of heaven and earth, the order of laws, and the power of origin were all pouring madly into the Ancestral Land. Even the various powers he had mastered and comprehended showed signs of escaping his body.
He kept the others away partly to avoid disturbing Ning Xuanyuan, and partly to protect them.
Under such violent devouring power, no one but the Asura Emperor could control the loss of power from their bodies.
"He awakens in a single day, and heaven and earth change color." A sharp light flashed wildly in the Asura Emperor's eyes, his shock plain to see. "That brat really is favored by heavenly fortune, a son of destiny!"
The next moment, the Asura Emperor seemed to sense something. He looked up at the sky, and his expression abruptly changed!
Thunderclouds rolled across the heavens. Within the black clouds, like raging waves, dazzling bolts of lightning could be seen weaving and surging. Like thunder dragons running rampant, they were a world-shaking sight.
"This is... a Soul Tribulation! Just what level has that brat broken through to?" The Asura Emperor's face went rigid, his shock beyond measure.
Flesh Realm, Spirit Awakening, Aspect Condensation, Soul Sea, Life Palace, Heaven and Earth Realm, Saint Realm, Human Emperor!
Cultivation began with tempering and strengthening the body, then drawing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into it, which was Spirit Awakening. After that came condensing a soul aspect, turning the soul into a sea, and opening a Life Palace.
A spark of true spirit entered the Life Palace, connecting with heaven and earth. One became one with heaven and earth, transcended the ordinary to become a saint, and ascended as a Human Emperor!
These were the eight great realms of cultivation.
Beginning with the Soul Sea, every advance to a new realm would bring a lightning tribulation: the Soul Tribulation, Fate Tribulation, Heavenly Tribulation, Saint Tribulation, and Emperor Tribulation!
As a Human Emperor, the Asura Emperor could naturally tell what level of lightning tribulation was gathering in the sky.
A Soul Tribulation meant Ning Xuanyuan had entered the Soul Sea in a single step!
"Rumble!" Tribulation clouds churned overhead, and thunder shook the heavens. The bolts of lightning, like coiling dragons, were extraordinarily violent and radiated waves of destruction. Yet just then, a cold shout rang out from the Ancestral Land, resounding through heaven and earth!
"Scram!"
As the cold shout rang out, the Asura Emperor stood outside the Ancestral Land and watched in astonishment as the rolling tribulation clouds raging overhead actually began to disperse rapidly.
In just a few breaths, the thunderclouds filling the sky vanished without a trace.
The Asura Emperor abruptly stumbled back a step. Even with his shrewdness and composure, he was so shocked by the sight that he could hardly control himself.
One word, and the lightning tribulation retreated! My word is the law of heaven and earth; who dares disobey!