Inside the cave dwelling, all was silent.
The laziness and comfort Yang Chen had enjoyed for days had completely vanished from his eyes.
In its place was a chill like the surface of a frozen lake.
Annoying.
Too annoying.
I had just forced the Heavenly Dao and the Six Sages, my biggest creditors, into submission and taught them what rules were. And now these ancient ghosts that could not even scrape together a full set of ashes dared to point fingers at me?
These three lingering wills were like three suicidal mosquitoes, buzzing ceaselessly by his ears and deep within his primordial spirit, day and night.
Dragon's Roar, Phoenix Cry, and the wails of qilin.
Again and again, they repeated the dirge of their previous calamity, trying to shake his now unbreakable Dao Heart with grievances long past their time.
Truly... absurd.
Yang Chen slowly opened his eyes, and even the Luminous Pearls embedded in the cave walls dimmed.
He had intended to enjoy a few more peaceful days and thoroughly fuse the Heavenly Dao's merit with himself.
But it seemed these failures would not even grant him that small measure of peace.
Since that was the case, there was nothing more to say.
Defense?
That was the choice of the weak.
Passively enduring this spiritual harassment was not his style.
Yang Chen only ever did one thing.
He took the initiative and crushed every source that dared provoke him!
He did not rise, nor did he even change his posture.
With a thought from his divine sense,
his entire body and mind sank downward.
He abandoned the protection of the Golden Light of Merit, allowing his consciousness to plunge like a meteor into the boundless abyss of karmic force forcibly suppressed in the deepest part of his primordial spirit!
This Sea of Karmic Force was Rahula's legacy, and also my trump card. Since it has become mine, I decide what happens here. It is time to see who is shouting so loudly on my territory.
Boom!
It was as though he had crossed an invisible barrier.
The world before him was instantly overturned.
There was no light here, no sound, no concept of time or space.
There was only a boundless ocean of darkness, thick as ink.
This was Rahula's legacy, a sea of karmic force enough to make even Saints keep their distance.
The countless souls that had fallen in the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity had become twisted black shadows filled with venomous resentment, floating, roaring, and struggling within this sea.
They sensed the aura of the living.
It was what they craved most, and hated most!
In an instant, the entire sea of karmic force boiled.
"Return my life!"
"Why did you destroy my clan?!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Countless black shadows, like sharks that had caught the scent of blood, charged from every direction and frantically tore at Yang Chen's divine-sense body.
Any one of these dead souls, taken alone, possessed resentment enough to shatter a Golden Immortal's Dao Heart and send them into the demonic path.
Yet now, they were endless.
Yang Chen's divine-sense body merely hovered quietly in the heart of the darkness.
They are nothing but trash. They do not even deserve a second glance.
Hum—
The phantom of a nine-tiered pagoda emerged above his divine sense.
Myriad streams of incomparably heavy Profound Yellow energy descended, forming an absolute barrier that appeared thin, yet was indestructible.
The Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda!
With it above one's head, one was innately undefeated!
No matter how the dead souls attacked, howled, or battered the curtain of light with their most vicious curses, the Profound Yellow energy did not even ripple.
Yang Chen did not spare these scraps another glance.
His goal was clear.
Following that most domineering and most grating Dragon's Roar, his divine sense transformed into a sharp arrow, ignoring every obstacle as it surged upstream toward the deepest reaches of the Sea of Karmic Force!
The deeper he went, the purer the surrounding resentment became, while the pressure increased geometrically.
At last, after descending for an unknown length of time,
an eerie vacuum appeared in the chaotic sea of dead souls ahead.
Here, every black shadow of the dead kept far away, as though they feared some supreme being.
And at the center of that vacuum,
Yang Chen saw the source of that resentful Dragon's Roar.
Found you. You are the one leading this disturbance.
It was a giant dragon.
A colossal Ancestral Dragon Remnant Soul too vast to describe in words.
Its body lay sprawled across the bottom of the Sea of Karmic Force, stretching beyond sight, as if it were the dark abyss itself.
Its dragon body was already shattered beyond recognition. Ninety-nine percent of the scales that should have gleamed with golden light had fallen away, and unquenchable black karmic flames burned across the exposed sinews and bones.
Those eyes that had once looked down upon the primordial world and ruled all waters were now only two bottomless voids.
Yet even so, that supreme majesty which made the entire Sea of Karmic Force submit merely through its presence, that imperial dominance rooted in the deepest part of its bloodline and belonging to the first dragon between Heaven and Earth, was still enough to make the Divine Souls of any Quasi-Saint Great Power tremble.
The former lord of the dragon clan.
The overlord of Heaven and Earth.
Ancestral Dragon!
The instant Yang Chen's divine sense arrived here,
that colossal remnant soul, which seemed to have been dead for endless ages, suddenly shuddered.
Without warning, two ghastly green flames filled with boundless resentment and fury ignited within its two black, hollow eye sockets!
At that moment, the entire Sea of Karmic Force completely froze.
A vast, cold divine sense devoid of all emotion yet containing towering fury exploded through Yang Chen's Sea of Consciousness like countless chaotic divine thunderbolts!
"Junior who inherited Rahula's karma!"
Every syllable of that divine-sense voice carried the texture of grinding metal, scraping against Yang Chen's primordial spirit.
"You finally dare face us!"
The Ancestral Dragon Remnant Soul slowly raised its enormous head, and the two ghostly flames locked onto Yang Chen's divine-sense body, which was no larger than a speck of dust before it.
"I am the ancestor of the dragon clan!"
"You bear the monstrous karma of destroying my clan. Today, you must repay it!"
Its voice was filled with an unquestionable command, as though its demand were a decree of the Heavenly Dao, the most natural truth in this world.
Repay it?
Why should I?
Yang Chen's divine-sense body did not waver in the slightest beneath that terrifying dragon might. Even the Profound Yellow energy around him did not intensify by the smallest degree.
He merely watched quietly.
He watched this former overlord unleash its most powerless roar at him within the Sea of Karmic Force.
How laughable. You lost the war, your clansmen died, and now you are settling the debt with an entirely unrelated inheritor. When your dragon clan fought for dominance over the primordial world, why did you not consider this day would come? The winner becomes king, the loser becomes prey. It is the simplest truth, yet after dying for so long, you still have not understood it.
The Ancestral Dragon's will was clearly utterly enraged by Yang Chen's indifferent attitude.
"Offer up your True Spirit!"
"Use your Divine Soul!"
"To quell the endless resentful flames of my countless dragon descendants!"
The instant those words fell,
a dragon might of ultimate terror, mixed with the boundless resentment born from the dragon clan's annihilation, ceased to be a mere assault of divine sense.
It became a tangible spiritual tempest, stirring the entire Sea of Karmic Force as it swept toward Yang Chen's divine-sense body!
Wherever the tempest passed, countless weaker dead souls were instantly ground into dust.
It had only one purpose.
To crush Yang Chen's divine sense on the spot, forcibly extract his origin, and turn him into the newest nourishment of this Sea of Karmic Force!
So you are lashing out in shame already? Fine. Since the system called you a Treasure Delivering Boy, you should at least bring a worthwhile delivery. Let me see what surprise you, the former overlord, can send me.
Before you continue