Lin Yan's "Word is Law"!

Ancestor God Secret Realm, Purple Thorn Island.

Green bamboo stood quiet, streams murmured softly, and amid drifting hazy light, a figure clad in cyan-gold armor appeared out of thin air on the bluestone path beside a pond and artificial hill.

Lin Yan looked around.

This scenic mountain-and-water estate was the palace he had built when he first became an inheritor of the Ancestor God Cult.

Though more than a hundred thousand years had passed, nothing had changed.

Whoosh!

With a single step, he instantly teleported out of the palace. Standing in the void, he looked down upon the entire island.

"It has indeed been a long time since I last came to Purple Thorn Island." Lin Yan gazed at the countless palaces below, feeling slightly nostalgic.

He could not help recalling the scene of his first arrival in the Ancestor God Secret Realm, when Venerable Ficang had led him onto Purple Thorn Island.

He still remembered that when he went to pay respects to the Purple Thorn Island Lord, the gatekeeper had been the lord's soul servant—a human at the Universe Venerable level!

However, after Lin Yan became the "Origin Divine Lord," the Purple Thorn Island Lord no longer dared to use a human soul servant to guard his palace.

Lin Yan strolled through the void above Purple Thorn Island as scenes from the past surfaced in his mind.

The three greatest treasures opening consecutively in the Treasure Land... spending thousands of years in secluded cultivation within the Initial Star and merging with the "Undying Day"... nearly killing King Fei Jing and Venerable Zi Ya outside Nine Nether Space-Time, only for Venerable Wan Feng's timely rescue to let them narrowly survive...

With so much time having passed, those memories now carried a lingering flavor.

"Still, it seems there have been