Never-Ending (5000)

The Heavenly Evil God had a gloomy face, as if Lin Dong owed him tens of millions of Lower Plane that he hadn't repaid.

To make matters worse, these tens of millions of Lower Plane are the Heavenly Evil God's life-saving money and his coffin money. He urgently needs them now, but Lin Dong is stubbornly refusing to return them.

In desperation, the Heavenly Evil God, despite his illness, resorted to force, but was no match for him due to his weakened state.

"Call..."

The Heavenly Evil God was breathing heavily, his Nine Eyes revealing traces of bloodlust. The suppressive power brought by the array plate was negligible to a powerhouse of his level, only slightly hindering his movements.

However, it was precisely this slight restraint that gave Lin Dong time to react, allowing him to influence and restrict the Heavenly Evil God whenever the Heavenly Evil God broke through the array and attempted to seek Blood Food.

Whenever this happens, Xiao Yan will throw out another array plate to continue the battle of attrition with Heavenly Evil God, seemingly determined to wear Heavenly Evil God down.

After another violent collision, space shattered, and the figures of the Heavenly Evil God and Lin Dong reappeared. Lin Dong subconsciously wanted to stop the Heavenly Evil God from eating, but found that the Heavenly Evil God was just standing motionless in the void.

"I have to admit, I was completely led by the nose." Heavenly Evil God's face was gloomy and his voice was low. "However, this was something I was going to do anyway. In the end, it was just a contest of raw strength to see who could prevail."

"After fighting for so long, we have passed dozens of the Super Continent. The surrounding continents are all in sight, and the great formations in the center of each continent have the methods of the Flame Emperor."

"It's hard to imagine that the Flame Emperor rose to power in just a few hundred years, has already made the Great Thousand World so impenetrable, like an iron barrel."

The Heavenly Evil God let out a long sigh and looked back in Xiao Yan's direction. He could sense that this rising star seemed to be fully prepared.

"It is extremely difficult to take anything out of your Flame Emperor's 'back garden'."

"Perhaps you learned of one of my deadly moves against the world through some means. If I hadn't fought the Martial Ancestor for so long and noticed some of your arrangements, I might have truly transformed into countless forms and wreaked havoc on the Great Thousand World, only to be divided into pieces by you, sealed in continents, and then become nourishment for the Great Thousand World?"

The Heavenly Evil God stared at Xiao Yan, who had appeared before him without him noticing. Even though Xiao Yan was his mortal Great Enemy and considered him prey, he still managed to win Xiao Yan's admiration.

For this appreciation, Heavenly Evil God was willing to abandon his previous "wise judgment of character" and decided to pay any price to completely kill Xiao Yan to eliminate any future trouble.

Heavenly Evil God rubbed his face, then lowered his eyes and said, "I won't say anything about how unfair it is to win. I'm not in full condition and I'm not familiar with using Spiritual Power to activate my previous methods, but you two are just children under a thousand years old, so it can be considered a fair fight."

As he spoke, the Heavenly Evil God chuckled again and said, "In the end, it's just a matter of different positions. It's all about who wins and who loses. If I win, the two of you will live on in my memory forever."

After uttering his final words, Heavenly Evil God stretched out his finger, put it in his mouth, and his sharp teeth bit down hard, drawing blood from the fingertip.

Originally, the blood of the Outer Realm Evil Clan was pitch black, emanating a repulsive and ominous aura. However, this was actually the result of the rejection by the World Will of the Great Thousand World. At this moment, the blood of the Heavenly Evil God was bright red, revealing a few brilliant golden divine lights.

Seeing the divine blood flowing from his fingertips, the Heavenly Evil God was slightly taken aback. He then stretched out his finger and smeared it on his normal eyes, the three eyes between his eyebrows, and then down to form a conspicuous bloodline that passed over the two eyes in his palms, the eye in his heart, and finally landed on the evil eye in his navel.

At this point, all nine pitch-black, evil eyes were connected by shimmering red bloodlines, linking the sacred and the demonic together to form a bizarre scene.

After doing all this, the Heavenly Evil God clasped his hands together, forming a strange hand seal, and slowly revealed a crazy and ferocious smile with a slight upturn of his lips.

"Demon sacrifice, Nine Eyes!"

At that very moment, the Heavenly Evil God's nine evil eyes simultaneously ignited with raging Saint Demon Flame —as a member of the Saint Demon Clan, the Heavenly Evil God naturally also possessed Saint Demon Flame, but he didn't use them as a core technique like the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor.

Under the scorching heat of the Saint Demon Flame, the power of the nine evil eyes erupted continuously, emitting piercing sounds. At this moment, a series of shrill and painful screams also came from the mouth of the Heavenly Evil God.

Burning the Origin Evil Eyes and consuming the Life Origin can bring great power to the Heavenly Evil God, but it also makes the Heavenly Evil God suffer extreme pain.

The nine evil eyes quickly burned away, instantly incinerating them into nothingness, leaving only withered, empty holes as proof of their existence.

However, just as the nine evil eyes vanished into nothingness, nine black lines appeared, passing through the skin of the Heavenly Evil God and converging at the center of his brow, tearing the flesh there apart.

Seeing that the Heavenly Evil God was using his final move, Lin Dong and Xiao Yan did not just stand by and watch.

Lin Dong's expression turned solemn. He closed his eyes and let out a low growl:

"One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones — Return to One Realm!"

Just as that voice rang out, the two figures that Lin Dong had unleashed also burst into flames, just like the evil eyes of the Heavenly Evil God.

The two figures of Lin Dong quickly burned away, finally turning into two pure beams of light. They carried terrifying Spiritual Power that seemed capable of creating vast worlds, and directly rushed into Lin Dong's body.

As the three merged into one, Lin Dong's Spiritual Power also began to increase rapidly, faintly touching or even surpassing the aura of the Nine Eyes of the Heavenly Evil God.

Xiao Yan also closed his eyes, but unlike Lin Dong, he did not try to advance the One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones to the Return to One Realm. Instead, he summoned the Sky Ranking once again.

By leaving one's name on the Sky Ranking, one can draw upon the power of the Great Thousand World. With a single thought, boundless spiritual Spiritual Power will form a tide of Spiritual Power, which can instantly tear even Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign apart.

If we draw an analogy with the Dou Qi Continent, we can find a problem— the Ruler Realm in the Great Thousand World and the Dou Emperor in the Dou Qi Continent have subtle similarities.

The Sky Ranking represents the World Will of the Great Thousand World, and the Plane Embryo also represents the World Will of the Dou Qi Continent. Being able to leave a name on the Sky Ranking grants one a certain degree of "management rights" over the Great Thousand World, and being able to refine Origin Qi empowered by the Plane Embryo also grants one a certain degree of "management rights" over the Dou Qi Continent.

At the same time, the Ruler Realm has completely transcended the cultivation system of Spiritual Power. Without a place on the Sky Ranking, even Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign cannot break through even if they risk their lives. The Dou Emperor has also completely transcended the cultivation system of Dou Qi. Without Origin Qi, even Peak Dou Saint can never step into the Dou Emperor realm.

After breaking through to the Dou Emperor, Xiao Yan refined the Plane Embryo of the Dou Qi Continent, further enhancing his strength and allowing him to transcend the realm of a half-step Heavenly Sovereign, directly becoming comparable to Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

Now that Xiao Yan has made his name on the Sky Ranking and broken through to the Ruler Realm, he actually has the potential to refine the Sky Ranking and advance even further...

Xiao Yan took a deep breath and looked at the continuously descending light screen. Xiao Yan had seen this scene countless times before, but even now, Xiao Yan only had the ability to manipulate that supreme power, not to completely control it.

As the light screen descended, Xiao Yan's arrangements began to be revealed.

Because Xiao Yan mastered the advancement channels to break through to the Sovereign Realm and even the Heavenly Sovereign using several kinds of divine fire, there was no need for publicity. All the living beings in the Great Thousand World chose the Endless Fire Domain, which was relatively safe, reliable, and had a high success rate and good effect, for body tempering.

Therefore, after hundreds of years of development, almost every continent capable of producing Sovereign would incur some cost to "invite" a divine fire to be placed on the continent for sustenance...

At this moment, those divine flames located in the prosperous continent began to continuously radiate their divine light.

Multicolored flames shot into the sky, changing the color of the entire heavens of the Great Thousand World.

"In the name of Flame Emperor Yan, I command Wan Huo in the world to condense!"

Xiao Yan suddenly opened his eyes, reached out and clenched his fist. At that moment, the divine fire that had been blooming everywhere returned to its original core. The dazzling flames gathered in Xiao Yan's palm and finally transformed into a pen about half a foot long.

Xiao Yan's expression remained expressionless. He pointed his finger, and the Flame Emperor Brush shot towards the light screen. The boundless Spiritual Power that had been wrapped around the Sky Ranking and contained the World Will not only did not hinder it, but also recognized the power of this flame.

It seems that over the past few hundred years, divine flames have helped the Great Thousand World break through their limitations, moving even the World Will and earth, and causing them to be affected by some inexplicable influence.

Each stroke landed smoothly on the Sky Ranking, and finally, after the original "Xiao Yan", the words "Flame Emperor" were formed.

The moment the words "Flame Emperor" were formed, all those who possessed fire-attribute Spiritual Power in the Great Thousand World sensed Xiao Yan's aura that suppressed all flames. From this moment on, all flames in the Great Thousand World would be under Xiao Yan's control.

Even the all-powerful Heavenly Evil God seemed to be somewhat affected, as the blazing Saint Demon Flame dimmed slightly, causing his "Sacrifice Nine Eyes" to slow down a little.

But this was just the beginning. Torrents of Spiritual Power surged forth from various strongholds in the Endless Fire Domain, Volcanic Eruption, and were once again stirred up by Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan's gaze settled on the Emperor Pill of the Dou Qi Continent. During this period, he had been in charge of managing the Pills in the Endless Fire Domain. Although he would occasionally take some Divine Pill for cultivation, it was all within Xiao Yan's permission.

Those Pills that have been stored with the Emperor Pill for a long time often experience a significant increase in spirituality, thus advancing in rank—in the Dou Qi Continent, Pills can even condense into human form, but the Laws of Heaven and Earth in the Great Thousand World are different, and the spirituality of Pills is not as exaggerated.

"Compared to the divine fire blooming everywhere, the Pills are ultimately lacking..."

Xiao Yan murmured softly, then reached out and summoned hundreds of millions of Pills.

Among these Pills, only a few thousand Divine Pill are effective against those at the Heavenly Sovereign realm. In the entire Endless Fire Domain, only Xiao Yan, Old Yao, and Han Shanshan can refine Pills of this level, so even after hundreds of years, there aren't many.

Xiao Yan clasped his hands together, and the divine fire that had gathered transformed into a furnace about ten feet in size.

As the Space Power surged, a massive amount of Pills, piled up like a small mountain, were simultaneously stuffed into this small alchemy furnace.

All the fluctuations of the Pills and the refreshing fragrance of the elixir were completely isolated inside the cauldron formed by the divine fire.

The medicinal power of each Pills was fused together under the terrifying high temperatures that could burn mountains and boil seas, and the terrifying high pressure that could shatter gold and split rocks.

"Boom!"

Just a moment later, the alchemy furnace suddenly exploded, and a blurry Light Sphere shot into the sky from the furnace, landing on the light screen.

Strictly speaking, the medicinal power contained in this Pills is not very strong, at least not as strong as the Spiritual Power contained in Xiao Yan's body, but the Pills itself has additional significance.

Originally, only the Pill God Clan and the Ancient Myriad Grassland were the two great forces of Medicine Saint in the Great Thousand World. However, the Endless Fire Domain later surpassed them and easily overthrew the two great Medicine Saint with its annual production of Heavenly Sovereign Pill.

Since then, there have remained only two Medicine Saints in the Great Thousand World, but above them, there is now the Endless Fire Domain, which can overpower them.

This Pills was refined and fused by Xiao Yan a second time, reaching a completely new level. Even a powerful expert at the Ruler Realm could still obtain remarkable effects from consuming this Divine Pill.

A thin barrier prevented the Divine Pill from falling through the light screen, but as Xiao Yan reached out and conjured a wisp of flame, the medicinal power within the Divine Pill began to rapidly dissipate.

This is Xiao Yan's own Nine Divine Meridians' divine power, which can release the power contained in himself and everything the flame is attached to by burning. With this flame, everything in the world can be nuclear-exploded.

The energy contained in a pill that can be effective against a Sovereign Realm expert is naturally unimaginable. Under this burst of energy, it broke through the obstacles effortlessly, leaving behind the three words "Alchemist" after "Emperor Xiao Yan".

The Divine Pill was completely consumed, but Xiao Yan didn't feel any heartache. With the "Alchemist" certification from the Sky Ranking, Xiao Yan could clearly feel that in the future, turning decay into magic and refining Divine Pill would be just a matter of a thought.

Just like how Flame Emperor could control all the Wan Huo under heaven at will.

As the suffixes "Flame Emperor" and "Alchemist" appeared after the name "Xiao Yan," this self-introduction-like signature was moved to the center of the light screen, making Xiao Yan's name visible to everyone at first glance.

Next, the Formation that occupied the continents and the Super Divine Beast Bloodline Power that was at the top of all living beings in the Great Thousand World were revealed one after another, leaving the words "Spirit Array Master" and "Beast God" on the Sky Ranking.

Five different phrases are linked together. The first one is Xiao Yan's real name, and the last four are different titles, all representing one person, the ruler of a Great Thousand World.

Xiao Yan waved his hand, and the light screen dissipated in mid-air. The originally normal ending process seemed to appear and disappear with Xiao Yan's Sky Ranking.

Beside Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, who had finally reached the Unity Return to One Realm, glanced at the somewhat ordinary Xiao Yan, and then at the Heavenly Evil God, who had opened his ten eyes at some point, exuding a fierce aura, yet stood "arrogantly" in place without making a sound. He figured that there was nothing more for him to do, so he flashed away and disappeared to go into seclusion to consolidate his realm.

Ignoring the vanished Lin Dong, Heavenly Evil God Shen had already fully opened all ten eyes when Xiao Yan inscribed the words "Alchemist." As his strength surged, Heavenly Evil God also sensed Xiao Yan's aura locking onto him.

To be fair, Heavenly Evil God felt that things had come to this point, and it was better to back down than to die for no reason. However, Heavenly Evil God could also sense Xiao Yan's murderous intent. If he dared to run away, Xiao Yan would immediately abandon the Sky Ranking and subdue him first.

There was absolutely no way to win by fighting, and even running away was a pipe dream. Therefore, the Heavenly Evil God's mind raced as he began to think of a way to break the deadlock.

"We can cooperate." Heavenly Evil God was slightly out of breath, as the Ten Eyes had put too much pressure on him. "I also know the coordinates of a world that is in no way inferior to the Great Thousand World, and may even be slightly better. However, the strongest person there is not as strong as you. If we can annex that world, it will be of great benefit to the Great Thousand World."

"I have switched to cultivating Spiritual Power. In the future, the Outer Realm Evil Clan can also switch to cultivating Spiritual Power and live peacefully in the Great Thousand World."

Xiao Yan listened intently, then nodded to the Heavenly Evil God and shook his hand.

In an instant, the world changed color, and the entire sky of the Great Thousand World was in turmoil. The surging Spiritual Power, like a lid, pressed down on the head of the Heavenly Evil God.

The Heavenly Evil God felt an unbearable weight crushing his spine. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't resist it and was forced to the ground, unable to even fly.

"It seems you're unwilling to cooperate with me..."

The Heavenly Evil God murmured something in a low voice. In his perception, the originally heavy earth was like a blazing fire, about to be refined into pure Spiritual Power, becoming a supplement to the Great Thousand World.

"To die at the hands of a powerhouse like you would not be an insult to the Nine-Eyed Evil God."

Heavenly Evil God took a breath. He could feel his power draining away, and his consciousness was becoming increasingly blurred, but he still had a few words to say.

"The world where we Outer Realm Evil Clan originally lived was called the Tian Yuan Realm. We were expelled from the Tian Yuan Realm 50,000 years ago. Back then, there was a young man named Zhou Yuan who made rapid progress and defeated my Sacred Clan."

"Fifty thousand years later, I wonder what realm Zhou Yuan has reached in his cultivation..."

The consciousness of the Heavenly Evil God grew increasingly blurred, yet he revealed a maniacal smile, "I wonder which one of you will come down to join me..."

Xiao Yan remained unmoved, only adding fuel to the fire for the Heavenly Evil God.

Zhou Yuan is also a "protagonist" in the works of Potato, but unlike Xiao Yan, he is generally considered a good person.

With the Heavenly Evil God as a common enemy to mediate, Xiao Yan and Zhou Yuan are unlikely to start fighting as soon as they meet. Even if they do have a conflict, it will likely happen many years later when the world is in decline.

Before that, Xiao Yan was confident that he could protect the Great Thousand World in his own way and break through to a completely new realm step by step.

Spiritual practice is a never-ending journey.