The Joy of a Divine Ability, the Ice Emperor's Fury

"Dou Qi Continent's Ten Great Clans Ranking?"

"Both Magical Beast Families and human clans can make the ranking..."

His spiritual perception sensed the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking above the Dou Qi Continent vanish.

Lin Yuan muttered instinctively, "Although half a year is a little long, compared to the Gold Ranking's rewards, This Emperor and the Seven Star Palace can afford to wait."

After murmuring that.

Lin Yuan immediately began examining the rewards bestowed by the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking.

The Emperor Grade Killing Formation was inscribed upon a Beast Skin of unknown origin. It could be deployed anywhere, but once activated, it could not be moved. Unless the formation's core was destroyed, it would remain effective forever.

If used properly.

It could suppress and kill a Three-star Dou Emperor.

Equivalent to an expert of the Flame Demon Clan's Third-grade Supreme Realm.

Afterward, Lin Yuan opened the scrolls containing the Emperor-level Cultivation Method, Myriad Star Spirit Canon; the Emperor-level Dou Technique, Meteor Fist; and the Emperor-level Secret Technique, Star Transformation. After briefly glancing through them, he set them aside and paid them no further attention.

Clearly.

Emperor-level cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, and secret techniques could not catch the eye of an Earthly Supreme like him.

Presumably, the fate of these three scrolls would be for Lin Yuan to copy them one by one and place them in the Contribution Hall treasury of the Seven Great Halls, allowing the Seven Star Palace's underlings to exchange contribution points for them and cultivate them.

After reading the first three scrolls.

Lin Yuan opened the fourth scroll, the "Divine Ability," with little interest.

He had thought it would be much the same as the previous three.

Yet unexpectedly.

After reading the introduction to the Divine Ability scroll.

Lin Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted. His eyes first filled with wild delight, before a trace of regret appeared.

He was delighted because this was a clone Divine Ability named [Three Lives Body]. It could condense three clones—"past," "present," and "future"—which could cultivate independently and remain completely under his control.

From weakest to strongest, these three clones were:

Past Body: It required vast quantities of Heavenly Treasures as assistance to condense a clone possessing the main body's strength from three years ago.

Present Body: It required vast quantities of Heavenly Treasures as assistance to condense a clone possessing the main body's current strength.

Future Body: It required merging the Past Body and Present Body to create the Strongest Clone, then condensing a new Past Body and Present Body.

In short.

Three Lives Body allowed Lin Yuan to possess up to three clones.

Moreover, the clones could fuse with his main body, causing his strength to surge dramatically.

By comparison, Three Lives Body was even more powerful than the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones Divine Ability mastered by the ancient Great Thousand World expert, the Heavenly Emperor.

The reason he had felt regret earlier.

Was because the [Three Lives Body] Divine Ability he had just obtained was an incomplete volume—or rather, only one-third of it. It described only the cultivation method for the Present Body.

In other words, he could currently cultivate only one clone.

Coming back to his senses.

Lin Yuan shook his head slightly and could not help cursing himself. "Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan, when did you become so ungrateful? This was an unexpected gain to begin with, yet you're still not satisfied..."

"The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking will conduct more rankings in the future."

"When that time comes, there will definitely be another chance to obtain the remaining two-thirds of [Three Lives Body]."

After reflecting on himself.

Lin Yuan had just put away all the rewards before him, including the Emperor Pill.

The next moment.

He seemed to sense something.

His expression instantly darkened. As he shot southeast like an arrow leaving the bowstring, he snorted coldly. "What audacity. You actually dare violate the rules This Emperor established back then and let Supreme Realm experts attack my wife and children!"

"This time, even if the Flame Demon Clan Leader comes in person."

"He won't be able to save you!"

The Flame Demon Battlefield had once been a Middle Thousand World that the Flame Demon Clan had invaded and destroyed.

After destroying that Middle Thousand World and looting the entire world clean.

The Flame Demon Clan's Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme Ancestor, who had been at the height of his power then, used a supreme divine method to divide the continents of that world into four and refine them into barracks bases for the Flame Demon Clan.

Beneath Lin Yuan's feet lay one of those four portions.

Its total area was roughly twice that of Central Continent on the Dou Qi Continent.

Because all four barracks bases contained massive teleportation formations connected to the Flame Demon Clan's Ancestral Land.

Whenever the Flame Demon Clan invaded another world.

They would first send their barracks bases outside that world.

Then they would seal off the world, dispatch troops from within their clan, open Spatial Channels connected to the invaded world, send in clan members that world could withstand, and gradually devour it until that world's World Origin had been completely consumed...

Under normal circumstances.

Only Flame Demon Clan warriors would exist on the Flame Demon Battlefield.

Other than defending their own world, the invaded side had no other choice.

Unfortunately.

The Dou Qi Continent's circumstances were different.

Lin Yuan had discovered every invasion passage opened by the Flame Demon Clan in advance. He opened new spaces on the spot and, just as the Flame Demon Clan had sealed off the Dou Qi Continent, firmly imprisoned the invasion passages within those newly opened spaces. He also assigned Supreme Experts of the Dou Qi Continent to guard them...

As a result, not a single Flame Demon Clan member had infiltrated the Dou Qi Continent for a thousand years.

At any other time.

The Flame Demon Clan might have given up.

They would not have wasted time on the Dou Qi Continent, a Small Thousand World.

But this time was different. The Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme Realm Pillar of the Sea Old Ancestor within their clan had been injured and urgently needed a Fire Attribute Supreme Treasure. The Flame Demon Clan Leader had detected the aura of a Supreme Treasure on the Dou Qi Continent, so naturally he would not compromise so easily.

Originally.

The Flame Demon Clan had invaded the Dou Qi Continent.

The Seven Star Palace defended it, and the two sides had remained evenly matched.

But a hundred years ago.

When Lin Yuan had entered the Flame Demon Battlefield on one occasion.

To vent his frustration at being unable to travel to the Great Thousand World.

He had accidentally used his Eight-star Dou God cultivation, enhanced by many methods he had signed in for through the system, to forcefully kill a Half-step Earthly Supreme Realm elder stationed on the Flame Demon Battlefield.

Everything changed after that.

Not only did the Seven Star Palace block the Flame Demon Clan's frenzied counterattack.

Before the Flame Demon Clan Leader arrived, they also slaughtered their way through the Eastern Region of the Flame Demon Battlefield, inflicting devastating losses upon the Flame Demon Clan.

Afterward.

Whenever Lin Yuan sensed the aura of the Flame Demon Clan Leader or elders above the Earthly Supreme Realm.

He immediately led the Seven Star Palace's forces back to the Dou Qi Continent.

After the army rested for several days, they would switch to another Spatial Channel and launch another counterattack. They struck and changed locations, bringing immense panic and plummeting morale to the Flame Demon Clan.

After this deadlock continued for some time.

The Flame Demon Clan Leader realized that things could not continue like this.

With the Flame Demon Clan temporarily unable to break into the Dou Qi Continent and search for the Fire Attribute Supreme Treasure, while also fearing that Lin Yuan could ignore the rules and freely enter and leave the Flame Demon Battlefield and the Dou Qi Continent, making his movements unpredictable and posing a threat even to Supreme Realm elders.

He ultimately chose.

To find Lin Yuan and negotiate.

At the cost of ceding the Eastern Region of the Flame Demon Battlefield to the Seven Star Palace, he made an agreement with Lin Yuan that experts above the Supreme Realm could not act on the Flame Demon Battlefield.

Regarding this.

Lin Yuan naturally knew that the other party's generosity was ill-intentioned.

There had to be some scheme in secret, or perhaps they were stalling for time until the Flame Demon Clan's Old Ancestor emerged from seclusion.

But he also understood that both he and the Seven Star Palace needed time to grow and seek a turning point.

Therefore.

He agreed to the Flame Demon Clan Leader's conditions.

He established a Seven Star Palace Branch Hall in the east of the Flame Demon Battlefield.

He had the Tian Xuan Palace Master and numerous affiliated clans of the Seven Star Palace stationed there, turning the Flame Demon Battlefield into the Dou Qi Continent's first line of defense.

Over the following hundred years, although friction between the Flame Demon Clan and the Seven Star Palace never ceased, with heavy casualties on both sides every day, the overall situation remained within both parties' control.

Meanwhile.

As Lin Yuan hurried along at full speed.

Within a valley in the Southeast of the Flame Demon Battlefield, shrouded by a special magnetic field.

Three uneven figures, one large and two small, were surrounded by more than a dozen Flame Demon Clan experts with terrifying auras.