The Heaven Suppressing King and the Shame of the True Kings Sit at the Same Table! (Please Read On)

"Old Ghost, you didn't destroy your Original Martial Arts body after all. You've been hiding your strength really well!"

The God Forger stared at the Heaven Suppressing King in surprise.

Cultivating two paths and possessing two Break Eight bodies—the Heaven Suppressing King had quite the ambition.

Zhang Tao's expression was grave. He said nothing, and didn't ask why the Heaven Suppressing King had kept his strength hidden all this time, watching the Earth Cave invade and slaughter humanity.

Even the Heaven Suppressing King was only ranked fifth. There were four other Old Sixes ahead of him, so it was only natural that he'd hidden his strength.

The Heaven Suppressing King remained expressionless and said nothing. Gazing at the Sky Screen, he thought, I hope the Sky Screen leaves me with a little dignity.

He'd done plenty of swindling and shady dealing in his younger days.

If that got exposed... he'd be sitting at the same table as the Seven-Surname Slave and the Shame of the True Kings!

[The Heaven Suppressing King, Li Zhen, was born forty thousand years ago. Gifted beyond measure, he became the disciple of Yang God, one of the leaders of Original Martial Arts.

During the Heavenly Court era, the Nine Emperors and Four Emperors stood at the pinnacle of the Three Realms. The Heaven Suppressing King was among the mightiest. Yang God said he would become an Emperor, and the Emperors thought highly of him, addressing one another as fellow Daoists.

On the surface, he destroyed his Original Martial Arts body and switched to cultivating the Origin Source. In truth, after sneaking into the Void Gate, he stole a secondary seed.

Using that seed, he secretly forged himself a Jade Bone body over two thousand years and reached Break Eight in the Origin Source!

With both his Original Martial Arts body and his Origin Source body at Break Eight, if he could completely fuse the two, his combat power would surpass one hundred million!

After the Heavenly Court fell, Yang God ordered the Heaven Suppressing King to protect the Human Realm and eliminate the Emperors' pawns. He also had him open a New Dao and lay the groundwork in secret, making him the Heaven Suppressing King of the Human Realm.

In the process, he helped the Demon Emperor, Mo Wenjian, reincarnate and aided the Martial King, Zhang Tao, and the Underworld King, Li Zhen, in reaching the Dao. He also played a major role in the growth of the Future Human King.]

"Terrifying! The Heaven Suppressing King is far too powerful!"

He'd been one of the mightiest eight thousand years ago. Did that mean the Heaven Suppressing King could now fuse his two bodies and become an Emperor?

Fused, the two bodies would have over one hundred million in combat power!

One hundred million Vitality... no one dared imagine how powerful that would be!

The Earth Cave True Kings were silent with fear, not daring to breathe!

The Heaven Suppressing King was simply too powerful, too ancient!

King Ming was already close to despair.

Over one hundred million in combat power... That meant the Heaven Suppressing King could annihilate him with a single sneeze.

"Are Emperors really that powerful?"

King Ming murmured under his breath.

The Nine Emperors and Four Emperors had stood at the pinnacle of the Three Realms... There were thirteen powerhouses with Emperor-level combat strength!

Add the Heaven Suppressing King, and that made fourteen!

Every one of them was an ancient being who had cultivated for a thousand, ten thousand, tens of thousands, or even a hundred thousand years!

How could warriors of their new era, with only a century behind them, possibly stand against these ancient powerhouses?

The Earth Cave King, the Earth Cave Emperor... In the end, they were nothing but a bubble of fantasy.

King Ming looked stricken. He'd thought that Emperors came after Emperor level, and that he could become one and suppress everything—including King Gen, King Xun, King Gan, and the others.

But reality told him he wasn't worthy!

At that moment, countless people were so shocked that they were terrified!

Over one hundred million in combat power!

A powerhouse like that might be able to destroy every Royal Court in the entire Earth Cave with a single punch!

And there were several more powerhouses like the Heaven Suppressing King!

Unless the Nine Emperors and Four Emperors were all dead—but the Sky Screen's description didn't sound like they'd fallen.

Zhang Tao fell completely silent as well.

Over one hundred million in combat power... When the Heaven Suppressing King had just dragged him into the Small World, he hadn't even been able to react.

Was this the horror of the mightiest powerhouses?

Then why didn't the Heaven Suppressing King, the Emperors, and Yang God ever show themselves? Why didn't they unite the Three Realms and put an end to the fighting?

"Why did the Heavenly Court fall? Why did Yang God order the Heaven Suppressing King to protect the Human Realm? What is the Demon Emperor plotting by reincarnating in Star Suppressing City? Who is the Demon Emperor?"

The more information the Sky Screen revealed, the more Zhang Tao felt that an earth-shattering conspiracy was hidden beneath it all!

[Li Zhen was a shameless, roguish sort.

During the Heavenly Court era, he secretly stole the food Grey Cat and the Heavenly Dog had stolen. He stole food from a dog!]

The Heaven Suppressing King: "Sky Screen, screw you! Who stole food from a dog?!"

[He also sneaked a look at the Spirit Emperor, the only female Emperor, while she was bathing, and she beat his face until it swelled up!]

The Heaven Suppressing King: "Slander! The Sky Screen is slandering me! It's slandering me!"

"Pfft! The Heaven Suppressing King is quite a character!"

"Shame on him! At his age, he still has no decency. Stealing food from a dog and spying on a woman in the bath!"

"The Heaven Suppressing King dared to spy on an Emperor while she was bathing. He really is bold!"

"Come to think of it, the Spirit Emperor must be gorgeous!"

"Hahahaha, I'm dying! If the Sky Screen reveals a few more embarrassing things about the Heaven Suppressing King, he'll be sitting at the same table as the Seven-Surname Slave and the Shame of the True Kings!"

"Meow? That old man stole from me before!"

"Uh..."

Looking at the Heaven Suppressing King's dark expression, Zhang Tao didn't know what to think.

He hadn't expected the Heaven Suppressing King to do such shameless things, even as one of the mightiest powerhouses. And the worst part was that they'd been exposed.

Beside them, the God Forger was doubled over, laughing so hard he showed his teeth.

"Old Ghost, your reputation is ruined!"

The next moment, the God Forger stopped laughing.

[Twenty thousand years ago, the Heaven Suppressing King, Li Zhen, secretly robbed the God Forging Mansion and stole many of the God Forger's divine weapons!]

"Damn it!"

The God Forger's face turned black. He glared at the Heaven Suppressing King and swore,

"Li Zhen, I'll curse your ancestors!"

"Give me back my divine weapons!"

The Heaven Suppressing King's face darkened. "What's yours? It's all mine!"

"I'll—!"

The God Forger was furious.

Zhang Tao watched the Heaven Suppressing King with interest. This old ghost really was shameless!

[He tricked Jiang Tianming, the War King of Star Suppressing City, into accepting him as his adoptive father. Later, the Future Human King forced him to become his godfather, and he got fleeced!

He also successfully tricked the Martial King, Zhang Tao, into drinking his footbath water!]

"Pfft, I can't hold it in!"

"The Heaven Suppressing King is so shameless! The Martial King, Zhang Tao, is pretty pitiful too. He was tricked into drinking the Heaven Suppressing King's footbath water!"

"Ancestor, you wanted the Heaven Suppressing King to be your godfather?!" a Little Fatty blurted out in surprise.

"I never did that!"

The War King flew into a rage, cursing furiously in his heart.

Why had exposing the Heaven Suppressing King dragged him into it? He had his dignity too, all right!

Still, when he saw that Zhang Tao had drunk the old ghost's footbath water, the War King started laughing.

There was no comparison, no pain. The Sky Screen had done even more damage to Zhang Tao.

The Heaven Suppressing King stared at the Sky Screen. At first he was stunned, then he burst out laughing.

This time, Zhang Tao's face turned black.

So, in the future, he'd drink Old Li's footbath water. Fuck...

Seeing Zhang Tao drink footbath water, Li Zhen and Nan Yunyue also laughed without a shred of shame.

At Magic Martial University,

Fang Ping laughed helplessly. If he remembered correctly, when the Sky Screen had exposed the Martial King, Zhang Tao, earlier, it had also said Zhang Tao had accepted someone as his adoptive father.

The Martial King had accepted an adoptive father, the War King had accepted an adoptive father, and the Future Human King had accepted an adoptive father... What a mess!

"Wait, the Future Human King?!"

Fang Ping's expression darkened. He was probably the Future Human King.

Was he going to become a Lu Bu who kept accepting godfathers?!

On Heaven Sealing Island.

Feng gazed at the Sky Screen, his eyes narrowing.

"Mo Wenjian actually gave everything up to reincarnate and start over!"

Mo Wenjian was the foremost figure of the sect era and a friend of Grey Cat's. He'd entered the Heavenly Grave with Grey Cat's help, and his strength was probably no less than a Heavenly King's!

And someone that powerful had actually reincarnated!

In Purple Canopy Mountain, Mo Wenjian's master, Gong Yuzi, also looked somewhat forlorn.

"Wenjian reincarnated..."

In the void of Star Suppressing City, Mo Wenjian stared at the Sky Screen's revelations about him, his mind shaken.

"Good thing the Sky Screen hasn't completely exposed my identity."

He didn't want everything about him exposed.

If his identity was revealed, all his plans would likely fail.

"Damn it!"

In the Origin Source, the Spirit Emperor stared at the Sky Screen's revelation that the Heaven Suppressing King had spied on her while she was bathing. Her voice was icy, and a burst of murderous intent erupted!

The God Emperor, the Heaven Fighting Emperor, and the Eastern Emperor all laughed.

Zhen really was shameless.

At Southern Martial University,

Wang Jinyang stared at the Sky Screen's revelations about the Heaven Suppressing King, that shameless old lecher, and was completely stunned.

"Are all powerful people this..."

Wang Jinyang opened his mouth, hesitated, then paused before saying, "Are they all this unrestrained?"

"Pfft!"

Zhang Xuan laughed so hard that tears nearly streamed down his face.

He patted Wang Jinyang on the shoulder and chuckled,

"Old Wang, pride comes at a price. The shameless get by better."

"By the way, want to take an adoptive father too? A godfather? I can see you've got the bearing of a powerful man!"

Wang Jinyang shuddered at that and hurriedly shook his head.

Zhang Xuan was laughing so hard his whole body trembled.

Whenever he thought about Fang Ping, Zhang Tao, and the War King calling someone "godfather" when they needed something and "Old Ghost" when they didn't, he couldn't stop laughing.

The Sky Screen kept revealing more.

[Evaluation: The Heaven Suppressing King, Li Zhen, cultivated both Original Martial Arts and the Origin Source Dao. He cultivated two paths, fused two bodies, and was the second such person in history. The Emperors hailed him as the second War Heavenly Emperor, with the Bearing of an Emperor!

The Heaven Suppressing King could fight to the death against a Ninth-Rank warrior at the lower end, and hold his own against an Emperor at the upper end. His reputation as the master of a fifty-fifty matchup was well deserved!]

"Fifty-fifty... I'm dying!"

"Hahahaha, what a brilliant line: he could fight to the death against a Ninth-Rank warrior at the lower end and hold his own against an Emperor at the upper end. The Heaven Suppressing King really is something!"

"Wait! The Heaven Suppressing King was hailed as the second War Heavenly Emperor. Doesn't that mean the War Heavenly Emperor was even stronger?"

"The second person in history, the second War Heavenly Emperor... They shouldn't call the Heaven Suppressing King Old Six. They should call him Old Second!"

"..."

The Heaven Suppressing King looked at the Sky Screen's evaluation. His face fell, and he glared at it.

Two "seconds"—was it mocking him for being dim-witted?

"Wait, the second in history?"

The Heaven Suppressing King was stunned. Someone before him had fused two bodies.

How was that possible?

Zhang Tao rubbed his chin, thinking. "The War Heavenly Emperor... one of the Four Emperors?"

The Heaven Suppressing King was already so powerful, yet he was called the second War Heavenly Emperor. Just how strong was the War Heavenly Emperor?

Even Yang God, who was drinking coconut juice, was a little surprised. The second in history—who was the first to fuse two bodies?

The Heavenly Emperor, the Heaven Fighting Emperor, the God Emperor, and the Eastern Emperor had all entered the Origin Source by force from Original Martial Arts. As for the Human Emperor and the Southern Emperor, Yang God didn't think much of them.

"The Three Realms are getting more and more interesting!"

Everyone laughed, though they were still full of questions.

As for their fear and unease, they kept it buried inside.

The waters of the Three Realms ran deep. One wrong move and you'd drown.

Under this much pressure, it was nice to have something amusing to help them unwind. They were entitled to laugh a little.

[Basic Reward: Turn the false Origin Source Dao into a true one, resolve the hidden dangers in your Origin Source, and free yourself from the Origin Source's constraints, allowing you to Transcend the Three Realms.

Advanced Reward: Break Nine for the Original Martial Arts body; one Break Nine Spiritual Consciousness Crystal; one mass of Origin Source energy.]

"Break Nine for my Original Martial Arts body!"

The Heaven Suppressing King was ecstatic. He was going to be invincible!

He was going to become an Emperor!

Now that he was free from the Origin Source's constraints and his false Dao had become a true one, all he needed was for his Origin Source body to reach Break Nine. Then both bodies would be Break Nine, and he could fuse them on the spot and become an Emperor!

Under normal circumstances, his Original Martial Arts body would never reach Break Nine. In the end, he'd probably only be able to break through to Break Eight with both bodies.

He hadn't expected the Sky Screen's rewards to suit him so perfectly!

Whether it was reaching Break Nine with his Original Martial Arts body, the Spiritual Consciousness Crystal, or the Origin Source energy, they were all things he needed.

The God Forger's eyes turned red with envy. A Break Nine Spiritual Consciousness Crystal!

Damn it, that old ghost Li Zhen was really going to become an Emperor!

And he could become one at any moment!

No, he had to hurry and completely imprint his mark on the True Blood and divine artifacts. Otherwise, once that old ghost became an Emperor, he'd probably rob him again.

Zhang Tao's expression was complicated. The Heaven Suppressing King was going to become an Emperor!

After becoming an Emperor, the Heaven Suppressing King might leave Star Suppressing City.

"Congratulations, Heaven Suppressing King."

Zhang Tao said with a faint smile.

The Heaven Suppressing King's smile faded, and his expression grew complicated.

He glanced at Zhang Tao and sighed softly. "Young Zhang, there's no need to be so wary. I'll still protect the Human Realm."

The God Forger sensed that something was off, but there was nothing he could say.

The Heaven Suppressing King had guarded the Human Realm for eight thousand years without ever revealing his strength, while humanity suffered devastating losses.

Even with the Earth Caves bearing down on them, the Heaven Suppressing King had still kept his strength hidden.

Perhaps Zhang Tao and the others resented him.

Resented that, despite being so powerful, he refused to reveal his strength and keep humanity safe.

Zhang Tao's expression turned solemn. "On behalf of Hua Nation, I thank you, Heaven Suppressing King!"

As he spoke, he bowed.

The Heaven Suppressing King sighed silently.

"I won't say much about it now. You'll understand later."

It wasn't that he didn't want to reveal his strength. He didn't dare. The other Heavenly Kings and Saints didn't dare reveal theirs rashly, either.

There were Emperors in the Three Realms, as well as agents of the Emperors. All of them were under the Emperors' watch.

"Old Zhen, are you going to prove the Dao and become an Emperor?" the God Forger asked.

The Heaven Suppressing King shook his head. He wasn't planning to prove the Dao just yet.

Who knew what would happen if he did it now?

He had already Transcended the Three Realms. If he proved the Dao and became an Emperor, he would be the first Emperor to have Transcended the Three Realms!

How could the Heavenly Emperor, God Emperor, and Heaven Fighting Emperor let him prove the Dao without interference?

Earth Cave,

King Ming stared at the reward the Sky Screen had bestowed on the Heaven Suppressing King. His face was ashen, and his lips moved, but he couldn't utter a word.

He clenched his fists, his whole body trembling.

The Heaven Suppressing King really was going to become an Emperor!

His greatest wish in life was to become an Emperor, but could he really do it?

He took a deep breath. "If all the strong have Transcended, then the Three Realms will be our stage. I may yet catch up!"

King Ming's gaze was icy. Given enough time, he might still become an Emperor.

He could only curse the fact that he'd been born a thousand—or even ten thousand—years too late.

"So the Heaven Suppressing King is going to become an Emperor? The first Emperor to Transcend the Three Realms... How enviable!"

Li Zhu remarked, his gaze profound yet calm.

He wasn't an Emperor. If he had already become one, he could leave the Three Realms and explore the vast, boundless universe.

"Will the Heavenly Emperor and God Emperor let the Heaven Suppressing King become an Emperor without interference?" Li Zhu asked with a light laugh, clearly looking forward to it.

Origin Source,

The God Emperor, Heaven Fighting Emperor, and Eastern Emperor gathered together.

Heaven Fighting Emperor chuckled. "Do you think Zhen will dare to merge his two bodies and prove the Dao to become an Emperor?"

The God Emperor smiled. "He's probably afraid we'll stop him from merging his two Break Nine bodies to prove the Dao."

"Zhen underestimates us!"

Eastern Emperor chuckled.

They didn't care whether Zhen could merge his two bodies after both reached Break Nine and become an Emperor.

They hadn't cared when Zhen's Great Dao took root in Origin Source.

Now that Zhen's Great Dao was no longer constrained by Origin Source, they cared even less.

They were even looking forward to Zhen giving them a surprise.

Zhen couldn't imagine the bearing of Emperors. He only thought they would fear him—fear Yang God.

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