Everyone Departed

Yun Xi's eyes shimmered with astonishment. She had thought Brats was merely a somewhat talented little troublemaker, never expecting him to achieve the rare feat of Ten Heavenly Passages right before her eyes.

"Your Highness, it would be best if we can win over such a prodigy. If not, we must still befriend him," one of the sealers said solemnly. The others nodded in agreement.

Nine Heavenly Passages were already rare, while Ten Heavenly Passages were practically legend, usually existing only in ancient records. Yet now, they had been fortunate enough to witness two of them in reality.

"No. Dismiss the idea of winning him over. A genius with that sort of temperament would never agree. It's enough to maintain this relationship," Huo Ling'er said softly, shaking her head.

"That's it for now. I should stabilize my cultivation first." Shi Jue muttered to himself as he contemplated the Heavenly Passage runes. The rest could wait.

Hundred Broken Mountain was about to close. Although Wushi and the Empress could come and go as they pleased, there was nothing here worth their attention. This discussion of the Dao with Liu Shen had benefited them greatly and made their future paths clearer.

Liu Shen had already returned to Stone Village. There was no need for her to intervene in what came next. She could focus on absorbing Demon King Pu's shattered Dao Fruit and restoring her cultivation.

"Thank you for the hospitality. I'll invite you all over again someday!" Ye Fan said with a smile.

For the time being, he had yet to establish himself. Even if he invited them over, he had nothing to offer them.

"You should focus on cultivating. Can't you see the Empress is looking at me with killing intent in her eyes?" Shi Jue said helplessly.

As expected of Empress Ruthless. Just a wisp of killing intent made his treasure body ache and caused his mind to tremble.

"Thirty years... no, I'll give you three hundred years. We'll see whether you can reach it by then," the Empress said slowly. It was not that she had forgotten what happened before; she was simply saving the reckoning for later.

Ye Fan and the others looked at him teasingly. This was the deadline being fulfilled. No one had ever reached Great Emperor within such a short time, and the Empress had even given him ten times the original time. She really... I'm going to cry.

"Fine. I'll do my best," Shi Jue agreed helplessly.

Shi Hao had become a Supreme Being at around fifty years old. Though he had not been perfect, he could still be called the youngest Supreme Being. Then, at around two hundred, he recultivated the Supreme Being realm and truly reached the Peak of Extreme Dao.

Three hundred years... if he worked hard and gave it everything he had, perhaps he could become a Supreme Being before reaching five hundred.

The five-hundred-year Supreme Being curse was not so easily broken.

"Group Leader, keep it up. I have faith in you. It took me over a thousand years to become a Great Emperor," Wushi said with a smile.

The people from Shrouding the Heavens did not linger any longer and returned to their respective eras. They all had their own matters to attend to.

"Hundred Broken Mountain is about to close! We need to leave quickly!" Huo Ling'er said urgently.

Everyone who had entered, whether they had gained much or left empty-handed, rushed toward the exit. The Divine Monkey Clan followed behind them, unwilling to let these invaders escape.

Boom!

A massive golden hand descended from the heavens, like the palm of a Heavenly Emperor. It radiated boundless majesty as it sought to suppress the divine monkey here.

"Father Emperor is here too!" Huo Ling'er's eyes sparkled, and she revealed a delighted smile. She had been worried that the divine monkey would block them here, but with the Human Emperor personally taking action, they would not need to sneak out.

"Screech! So what if you're the Human Emperor? Your true body can't enter!"

The divine monkey was stubbornly fearless, afraid of neither heaven nor earth. It used Heavenly Giant Form, gripped its war spear, and charged toward the Human Emperor's manifested palm.

Though the war spear was sharp, it did not leave even a scratch on the golden hand. The next moment, the spear rang crisply. Cracks first appeared across it, then it shattered section by section and crashed into the ground like meteors, leaving crater after crater.

The divine monkey was also slapped into the earth. Dust billowed everywhere, and all they could see was it coughing up blood after being struck by the Human Emperor.

Shi Jue immediately laughed.

Wasn't this divine monkey simply reenacting Sun Wukong? Yet it still could not withstand the Human Emperor's Five Finger Mountain. Now that the dust had cleared, it was coughing blood in great mouthfuls. Even standing up was an enormous struggle.

"Fire Emperor, you really are mighty. That monkey was no match for you at all," Shi Hao said with a sigh.

"Brats, what did you just call my father emperor?"

Huo Ling'er gritted her teeth in fury. Wasn't he openly taking advantage of her, trying to become her uncle?

The sealers were speechless as well. As expected of Brats—he was truly audacious beyond measure.

"Huh? Didn't I tell you last time?" Shi Hao said somewhat bashfully.

"You want to become the Son-in-law of the Life Gate?"

Yun Xi's tone was strange. Mainly because of Brats's expression—it really looked like that was what he meant.

"No, I just want to become sworn brothers with Junior Sister Ling'er's father."

"Get lost!" Huo Ling'er directly cursed, no longer caring about maintaining her ladylike image. This Brats was truly infuriating.

"Let's go, Shi Hao. It'll close soon, and getting out afterward will be troublesome." Shi Jue could not help interrupting the bickering pair. What were they showing off for? He was still single.

"You go ahead. I'll leave later."

Shi Hao leaped directly off the Void Beast Skin. After all, he had offended too many people, and he might end up implicating them.

"We're leaving too." The Nine-Headed Lion had someone waiting for them and did not plan to leave with the others.

"I'm leaving as well. Tell Shi Hao to keep it safe for me. I'll come collect it next time." Yun Xi said through gritted teeth, embarrassed and furious, before also leaving the Void Beast Skin.

"What is it?" Huo Ling'er asked on impulse. She did not even know why she had asked.

"Just a small earring," Shi Jue answered.

"???"

"A fragmentary Precious Technique of the Five-Colored Divine Luan. This is quite rare." Because he had saved the Sacrificial Spirit, the Scripture Repository was now fully open to Shi Jue. Many Bone Books lay there covered in dust. After wiping one clean, a Bone Book gleaming with five-colored light appeared before him.

This kind of Divine Luan was also recorded in the Primordial True Scripture. It was an auspicious beast, born with the gift of wielding the Five Elements Law. Although this bone was incomplete, it gave Shi Jue considerable inspiration and sparked ideas for the Divine Ability he had been envisioning.

"There's no Precious Technique I want!" Shi Hao searched through several shelves without finding one that suited him.

Because he had recovered the Broken Sword, Ghost Lord no longer followed him around. The elders also had one less headache to deal with, so Shi Hao was allowed to browse the Bone Books on every floor of the Scripture Repository.

"Then keep looking. I've found what I wanted," Shi Jue said.

Trying to learn too much would only leave him with nothing mastered. If he could fully understand this Bone Book, his means of attack would no longer be limited to sneak attacks. If he kept resorting to sneak attacks, people would probably think something was wrong with his mind.