Ten Great Kings

Having completed Flesh Energy Transformation, Lin Jiufeng had finally gained a firm foothold in the Eighth Restriction.

From now on, as long as his physical body was not instantly destroyed, given enough time, he could recover.

Late at night, Lin Jiufeng looked up at the stars filling the sky and rose to his full height. Energy surged within him, the immense power of a Dragon Elephant concealed beneath his ever more perfect body, unnoticed by anyone.

His black-and-white Daoist robe seemed to replicate Yin Yang itself, making Lin Jiufeng appear ever more detached from the mortal world, like an immortal spirit.

Bai Ling lay sprawled on the roof, watching silently.

Lin Jiufeng smiled faintly and beckoned to Bai Ling. "Why aren't you resting at this hour? What are you doing on the roof?"

Bai Ling answered bluntly, "Keeping you company."

Lin Jiufeng smiled. "Then come keep me company while I read."

Bai Ling stood and nodded, leaping down from the roof and following Lin Jiufeng into the Scripture Pavilion.

Lin Jiufeng went straight to the highest floor of the Scripture Pavilion and opened the hidden Small World.

"This is... a Mystic Realm!" Bai Ling said in surprise.

"A Mystic Realm?" Lin Jiufeng looked at Bai Ling curiously.

"My memories told me. This kind of space has an independent dimension, but incomplete laws, and must depend on the main world. It is called a Mystic Realm," Bai Ling explained.

"Your memories?" Lin Jiufeng did not quite understand.

Bai Ling said lightly, "Because I was born from the union of a human and a demon. Most children like that have impure bloodlines, unwelcome on either side. They inherit none of humanity's innate advantages and gain none of the Demon Race's gifts, able only to drift through an ordinary life."

Lin Jiufeng stopped and looked at Bai Ling. "So what about you?"

"Unfortunately, I'm one of the rare few." Bai Ling said proudly, "From the moment I was born, my bloodline underwent Bloodline Reversion. As I grew older, the bloodline inheritance of my Fox Clan ancestors gradually awakened. That is why, even without my parents teaching me, I know so much."

"This Mystic Realm was something my Bloodline Reversion memories told me about," Bai Ling said.

Lin Jiufeng understood. He remembered reading books about this. They recorded that the Demon Race differed from humans: their ancestors engraved their vast knowledge into their bloodlines and passed it down through generations.

Even if their descendants' bloodlines gradually became muddied, there was still that sliver of a chance for Bloodline Reversion, awakening the bloodline inheritance.

This was a unique inheritance method belonging solely to the Demon Race.

"Then why do you still want to learn the Feather Ascension Scripture from me?" Lin Jiufeng asked curiously.

"Because the Feather Ascension Scripture was something my father knew, so I must learn it," Bai Ling said earnestly.

"You say this is a Mystic Realm. Are Mystic Realms common?" Lin Jiufeng asked. He had spent most of his time in this world at the Feather Transformation Sect and did not know whether there were many Mystic Realms outside.

Bai Ling nodded. "Yes, there are many. The memories in my bloodline inheritance tell me that there are numerous Mystic Realms, large and small. Basically, major factions all have Mystic Realms of their own. Even some powerful cultivators possess Mystic Realms that belong solely to them."

Lin Jiufeng fell into thought. It seemed the Feather Transformation Sect's Mystic Realm had been left behind by the founding patriarch.

He did not ask anything further and led Bai Ling into the Mystic Realm.

The Feather Transformation Sect's Mystic Realm was vast, but also desolate. There were no traces of human habitation, only mountain after mountain. Within those mountains were books collected by generations of Feather Transformation Sect Masters.

Lin Jiufeng brought Bai Ling to a valley. The valley was bare, and the surrounding rock walls had been hollowed out into one large cave after another, storing countless books that had not decayed despite the passing years.

Bai Ling asked in surprise, "You humans like hiding books inside mountain rocks?"

Lin Jiufeng smiled. "Perhaps the former Sect Masters of the Feather Transformation Sect thought it had a distinctive charm."

"There are thousands upon thousands of books here. You may read them as you please. Although you possess a bloodline inheritance, those are ultimately memories from ancient times. The times are developing; you cannot copy old knowledge wholesale. You need to learn the knowledge of this era," Lin Jiufeng told Bai Ling seriously.

Bai Ling nodded obediently. She knew Lin Jiufeng was right, and she could feel that he sincerely cared for her. So she listened and ran off to read.

Lin Jiufeng also found a cave and began reading after entering it.

He found a book recording cultivation from five thousand years ago. Its contents could help answer his doubts.

Lin Jiufeng had previously been searching for books from the era three thousand years ago, wanting to know the true circumstances of that great war. But someone had seemingly erased it deliberately, shrouding that period of history in a veil and leaving it hazy and unclear.

So this time, he sought books from five thousand years ago, specifically ones on cultivation, hoping to find some clues.

Even if he found none, he still wanted to see just how formidable the experts of the Cultivation World had been five thousand years ago.

Lin Jiufeng had always felt that the current Cultivation World was incomplete.

Five thousand years ago, experts filled the Cultivation World like clouds, and talent emerged in endless succession. Among them, the Ten Great Kings stood supreme, suppressing an entire era.

This was the first sentence in the book Lin Jiufeng had found. It was extraordinarily domineering, stating outright that five thousand years ago, the Cultivation World had only the Ten Great Kings.

Lin Jiufeng was immediately drawn in, clicking his tongue in wonder. "The Ten Great Kings, capable of suppressing an entire era—they were definitely no simple figures."

The book said that the Ten Great Kings rose one after another over a span of three hundred years. They overturned the old generation and suppressed the New Generation, truly becoming invincible in the Human World except against one another.

But such glory lasted only eight hundred years.

The Ten Great Kings disappeared one after another. Some said they died when old injuries flared up. Some said they left this world. Others claimed they fought in secret and killed one another.

From then on, the stories of the Ten Great Kings were gradually swallowed by time. By now, no one remembered them or knew of them.

After all, there were countless geniuses in the Cultivation World. The Ten Great Kings were merely kings of one era, and they had existed too long ago. Their lineages had not been passed down either.

"Just who were these Ten Great Kings?" Lin Jiufeng was extremely curious and continued turning the pages.

The book said that the Ten Great Kings were the Red-Clad Maiden, the Painted Skin Scholar, Gu Baili, Longevity Heaven, the Great Serpent King, the Great Ape King, Sword God Emperor Willow, Mad Blade Hundred Battles, the King of Hell on Earth, and Madam Whale.

Among the Ten Great Kings, there were victories and defeats, stronger and weaker. But against everyone outside their ranks, they were undefeated, which was why they were grouped together.

"Did none of these people leave behind their ultimate arts?" Lin Jiufeng was deeply puzzled. The people had vanished back then, and their lineages had vanished as well.

"What a pity." Lin Jiufeng sighed regretfully.

Just as Lin Jiufeng was lamenting, a line of text suddenly appeared before his eyes.

You carefully flipped through the book and activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension, comprehending a segment of time. Would you like to view it?

Lin Jiufeng looked at it in delight. He had not expected Heaven-Defying Comprehension to activate this time, allowing him to comprehend a segment of time.

What did this segment of time record?

He immediately said, "View!"