The Bright Continent, the Brightness Kingdom.
In recent days, a shocking event had shaken the world.
A man had suddenly fallen from the sky like a shooting star, crashing into the Imperial Ancestral Temple of the Brightness Dynasty.
Afterward, the entire Brightness Dynasty was thrown into an uproar. The Emperor of Brightness flew into a rage and dispatched a hundred thousand imperial guards to surround the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
The one who had fallen from the sky was a young man in a blue-gray robe, with a sturdy build.
A treasure wreathed in flowing light was fastened around his right wrist.
After crashing into the Imperial Ancestral Temple, he had yet to wake. He sat amid the ruins.
The hundred thousand imperial guards had come under imperial orders to seize the young man.
Seated on the ground, the young man was wreathed in a radiant glow. The hundred thousand imperial guards couldn't harm him in the slightest.
Whether they peppered him with arrows and crossbow bolts, hacked at him with a thousand swords and a hundred spears, or tried to burn and bury him...
The glow around him blocked it all. They couldn't hurt him at all, nor move him even an inch.
Such a wondrous sight gave rise to rumors among the imperial guards that the young man was an immortal who had descended to the mortal world.
This only made the Emperor of Brightness even more restless. His imperial authority was supreme; how could he allow it to be challenged?
The Emperor of Brightness and the State Preceptor arrived in person, murder in their eyes.
The Emperor of Brightness was the third strongest person on the Bright Continent, while his master, the State Preceptor, was the strongest.
With two such experts arriving together, what difficulty could there be in killing one young man?
When the Emperor of Brightness and the State Preceptor arrived, the young man finally woke.
Seeing him stir, the Emperor of Brightness struck first. His sword flashed like lightning and pierced the young man's chest in an instant.
The State Preceptor sensed something strange. Casting aside all concern for his status, he attacked at the same time as the Emperor of Brightness, striking from behind and in front to take the young man's head.
A split-second, lethal strike from two of the three strongest on the Bright Continent—who could withstand it?
But whether it was the State Preceptor's slash that cleaved through the air or the Emperor of Brightness's deadly strike, both were stopped by the glow around the young man with a clang.
The two greatest experts in the land had struck with all their might, yet hadn't harmed him in the slightest.
"Is this how you treat your guests?"
The young man in blue, Liu Chengfeng, looked at the sword piercing his chest and shook his head.
He gently raised a hand. Lightning instantly burst from the Myriad World Wristband on his wrist.
The lightning shot out too swiftly for either the Emperor of Brightness or the State Preceptor to dodge.
Struck by the lightning, they fell to the ground at once, their bodies convulsing.
"Protect His Majesty!"
The imperial guards' commander roared and led his troops to the rescue.
At his shout, the hundred thousand troops charged at Liu Chengfeng to save the Emperor of Brightness and the State Preceptor.
The hundred thousand troops surged like a flood of steel, trampling the grass beneath them, their momentum terrifying.
"Why bother?"
Liu Chengfeng watched the imperial guards charging at him, raised a hand, and snapped his fingers.
Lightning burst from the Myriad World Wristband on his wrist, like divine thunder from the heavens. With a boom, it sent the oncoming hundred thousand troops flying.
For a moment, the entire scene fell silent.
The soldiers blasted away and the commanders writhing on the ground, stunned by the lightning, were all scared out of their wits.
"Know your limits."
Liu Chengfeng shook his head slightly as he surveyed the chaos before him.
The Bright Continent was merely a small world where people practiced martial arts. Compared to the world of cultivators, it was an ant's world.
Liu Chengfeng was also a mortal, but he had the Myriad World Wristband.
Looking at the Myriad World Wristband on his wrist, he saw that its light had dimmed a little.
His heart sank as well. The journey through space to the Bright Continent had taken a heavy toll on the Myriad World Wristband.
Liu Chengfeng looked inward into his mind. A three-tiered Quadrangular Platform floated there.
Just then, the Quadrangular Platform trembled.
"The Sky Eye should be here."
This only made Liu Chengfeng more certain he had come to the right place.
At that moment, the State Preceptor and the Emperor of Brightness awoke from their faint. They struggled to their feet, intending to kill Liu Chengfeng.
Unfortunately for them, Liu Chengfeng gave them no chance. He picked up a saber from the ground and chopped off both their heads.
"His Majesty is dead! The State Preceptor is dead!"
The imperial guards' commanders and soldiers, who had been about to rescue them, saw that the State Preceptor and the Emperor of Brightness had been beheaded, and their morale crumbled at once.
Countless soldiers dropped their weapons and fled.
Liu Chengfeng didn't pursue them. Instead, he stood amid the ruins and listened carefully.
The Heavenly Mound in his mind began to turn, expanding Liu Chengfeng's senses and letting him hear all kinds of sounds.
The loudest was a dragon's roar coming from beneath the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
"So the dragon vein of this kingdom is here. No wonder I was sent here."
Hearing the dragon's roar underground, Liu Chengfeng immediately understood why he had landed here.
When Liu Chengfeng walked out of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, the entire Brightness Dynasty was in chaos, and its hundred thousand imperial guards had been routed.
His Majesty was dead, the State Preceptor was dead, and an immortal had descended.
The strongest and third-strongest experts on the Bright Continent had both been killed by a young man with a single gesture.
He had even routed a hundred thousand imperial guards. If he wasn't an immortal, what was he?
But no one knew that Liu Chengfeng, who had fallen from the sky, was only a mortal.
While the entire Brightness Dynasty was leaderless and in chaos,
the Empress of Brightness stood forth like a pillar amid a raging current.
She led the civil and military officials of the Brightness Dynasty to kneel before the Golden Throne Hall and welcome the immortal's arrival.
Liu Chengfeng stood before the Empress of Brightness, looking at the woman kneeling on the ground.
The Empress of Brightness wore an embroidered phoenix robe adorned with gold, a phoenix crown on her head. She was alluringly beautiful and full-figured, her dignified bearing touched with seductive charm.
The Empress of Brightness was twenty-six years old, renowned throughout the Brightness Dynasty for her beauty and virtue.
At that moment, she led the civil and military officials, kneeling before the Golden Throne Hall to welcome the immortal.
Seeing the young man in blue before her, she could hardly believe he was the one who had killed the Emperor and the State Preceptor with a gesture and routed a hundred thousand imperial guards.
As Liu Chengfeng approached the Empress of Brightness, he sensed a familiar aura.
The Quadrangular Platform floating in his mind—the Heavenly Mound—turned three times.
That had never happened before. Liu Chengfeng knew at once he had come to the right place.
"I came here only to find one thing: a black pearl."
Liu Chengfeng took out a drawing and showed it to the civil and military officials in the Golden Throne Hall.
But his eyes remained fixed on the Empress of Brightness.
The drawing depicted a black pearl shaped like an eye. The officials all shook their heads when they saw it, none of them knowing what it was.
The Empress of Brightness glanced at it, quickly lowered her head, and shook it. "I don't know."
"My patience is limited. If you don't hand it over, I'll wipe out the entire kingdom."
Liu Chengfeng's lips curled as he looked at the Empress of Brightness.
The Empress of Brightness lowered her head and said nothing.
The civil and military officials were even more cowed into silence by his words.
To them, this was no immortal. This was a demon from legend.
"I'm tired. Search carefully. You don't have much time."
Liu Chengfeng yawned and turned to leave.
For a moment, the civil and military officials stood rooted to the spot, unsure what to do.
"Search! We have to find it. Dig three feet into the ground if we must!"
Someone shouted, and the officials scattered in a frenzy, rushing out.
The question was no longer who would become emperor. They had to find what the immortal wanted, or the entire dynasty would be destroyed.
Only the Empress of Brightness remained in the Golden Throne Hall. At some point, a cold glint appeared in her limpid eyes.
The imperial palace's bathing pool was filled with Azure Sky Stone Milk. Liu Chengfeng soaked in it, his strong, well-defined muscles exposed.
Azure Sky Stone Milk was priceless on the Bright Continent. A single bottle could grant a martial artist ten years of cultivation.
Now, an entire pool had been filled with it, and Liu Chengfeng was using it to bathe.
A single bottle of Azure Sky Stone Milk could grant a martial artist ten years of cultivation.
But for Liu Chengfeng, it was of little use. It could only restore his mental energy.
That was because he came from the Green Meng Realm, a world above the Bright Continent.
To someone from a great world, even a mortal, the tonics of a small world were of little use.
If a cultivator came to such a small world, the turbid energy of the mortal realm would contaminate their spiritual energy.
That was why his master had sent him, a mortal disciple, to travel through small worlds.
Cultivators became even weaker when they came to such small worlds and couldn't stay for long.
Soaking in the Azure Sky Stone Milk, Liu Chengfeng closed his eyes to rest and waited for the fish to take the bait.
Before long, he heard a noise.
Liu Chengfeng opened his eyes. A woman stood beside the pool: the Empress of Brightness.
She was no longer wearing her phoenix robe. Instead, she wore only a thin veil.
Through the veil, her skin was as white as snow and as smooth as jade. The curves of her lush hills and deep valleys were breathtaking.
Her beauty was so dazzling that no one could look away.
"An immortal is bathing. The palace's common maids are too base to attend to you, lest they defile your sacred body. If you don't mind, this humble concubine will serve you."
The Empress of Brightness knelt beside the pool, her veils offering a boundless view.
Liu Chengfeng smiled frankly and nodded. "All right."
The Empress of Brightness entered the pool.
Her veil soaked through and clung to her curves. Rosy and snowy white, she was utterly exposed, stunning beyond compare.
Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but smile.
He closed his eyes and enjoyed the Empress of Brightness's service.
The Empress of Brightness was the mother of the nation, a woman of immeasurable status.
Now, kneeling in the pool, she washed Liu Chengfeng's body and massaged him, careful and tender.
Her fingers kneaded him like a spring breeze, bringing Liu Chengfeng indescribable comfort.
"Immortal, are you a Great Firmament Golden Immortal?"
As she served him, the Empress of Brightness asked timidly.
"I'm no immortal, just a mortal."
Liu Chengfeng made no secret of it. He was utterly candid.
The Empress of Brightness's movements stiffened for a moment, then she continued massaging him.
Liu Chengfeng rested with his eyes closed, enjoying the Empress of Brightness's service.
Just as Liu Chengfeng was leaning against her ample bosom while she massaged his shoulders,
a sudden change took place. A cold gleam flashed.
A thread-thin strand of Cold Silk, so translucent it seemed to vanish, wrapped around Liu Chengfeng's neck and tightened, squeezing it hard.
At that instant, the Empress of Brightness was no longer a timid, delicate empress. A surging power erupted from her body.
With that power, she was invincible on the Bright Continent.
"Die!"
The Empress of Brightness gave a sharp cry and yanked the Cold Silk, trying to sever Liu Chengfeng's neck.
The Empress of Brightness was not only an empress; her true identity was also the second-strongest person on the Bright Continent, ranked only behind the State Preceptor.
Aside from the State Preceptor, no one else knew this secret.
She had humbled herself today and even sacrificed her dignity to serve Liu Chengfeng, all so she could slay the immortal and protect the Brightness Dynasty.
As the second-strongest person on the Bright Continent, she had absolute confidence in her lethal strike.
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