Who Else To Seek Revenge From, But To Provoke the Human Emperor?

He had long since reached a conclusion: within the Three Realms, aside from the Several Saint Venerables in Lingxiao Palace, the old ancestors in Closed Door Meditation beyond the heavens, and the Earth Veins colossus that had just awakened, no one else was worth fearing!

But this man before him...

With a single sword strike, he had made even his true body at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm feel like an ant gazing up at a mountain!

The shock was even greater than when he had first attained the Great Dao—not confusion, but the shaking of his very foundations!

"Just who is this man?! The patterns on that sword... the Agriculture Map, the Map of the Nine Provinces... and that unquestionable imperial bearing..."

His gaze abruptly sharpened, locking onto the relief carved along the sword's spine, and his mind boomed into clarity!

"Human Emperor Xuanyuan!!"

Torrential waves churned through his sea of consciousness as thoughts flashed like lightning—

Wasn't he guarding Huoyun Cave, quietly contemplating the ultimate principles of the Human Dao? Even if he had emerged from Closed Door Meditation, how could he have crossed the Three Realms in an instant?!

But how could he afford to dwell on it now?

The sword light was already at his brow!

"Black Tortoise True Form, protect my divine body!"

A bone-piercing chill drilled into his marrow. Even his Quasi-Saint body, tougher than an Innate Spiritual Treasure, bristled with every hair standing on end!

Alarm bells shrieked madly in his heart: Can't evade it! Can't evade it! Half a breath slower, and both body and soul would be wiped out!

His face darkened like iron as he retreated wildly—only to see space frozen like glazed tile, the phantom beneath his feet cracking inch by inch!

The might of the Xuanyuan Sword