Assassination!

Yan Ning flipped his hand, and a dark golden suit of armor appeared. Ancient patterns covered its surface, and it radiated a terrifying, weighty aura—the High-Level Defense Treasure Desolation-Destroying Armor!

"More defensive treasures are always better!"

He lightly tapped it with a fingertip, and crimson-golden divine power poured into the armor.

"Hmm—"

The Desolation-Destroying Armor instantly broke apart, transforming into countless dark golden particles that covered his body and merged perfectly with his skin.

Yan Ning could clearly feel his divine body's defenses instantly rise by several levels!

"Not bad. The Desolation-Destroying Armor for physical defense, the Chaos Bell and Thousand Illusion Pearl for soul defense, and the Moon Wheel Palace for escaping."

He nodded in satisfaction, then took out a pair of iridescent wings—the High-Level Flying Treasure Sky Roc Wings!

"Whoosh!"

The wings unfurled, spanning a hundred meters. Every feather shimmered with the fluctuations of the laws of space.

Whoosh!

Yan Ning vanished in a flash, using Divine Kingdom Teleportation!

When he reappeared, he was already in an unfamiliar Void Domain.

"Let's test the speed!"

At a thought, Yan Ning gave the Sky Roc Wings a gentle flap.

"Boom!"

The very space across the starry sky trembled!

"So fast!"

Yan Ning's eyes lit up. With the Sky Roc Wings and the Moon Wheel Palace, even a Universe Overlord wouldn't be able to catch him!

Finally, he took out a section of emerald-green vine: the High-Level Special Treasure World-Devouring Vine!

"This one's rather unusual."

Yan Ning infused it with divine power, and the World-Devouring Vine immediately came to life, coiling around his arm like a spirit snake.

From the information he received upon binding it, he learned that the World-Devouring Vine could devour an enemy's divine power and feed it back to him, making it a formidable weapon for prolonged battles!

It could also transform like a plant life-form and wrap around him as armor, while serving as a weapon in combat.

It was practically a treasure in the form of a plant life-form!

"Perfect!"

Yan Ning let out a long breath. He was now armed to the teeth:

Attack: Space-Breaking Blade (High-Level Attack Treasure)

Defense: Desolation-Destroying Armor (High-Level Defense Treasure)

Soul: Chaos Bell + Thousand Illusion Pearl (High-Level Soul-type Supreme Treasures)

Flight: Sky Roc Wings (High-Level Flying Treasure)

Domain: Star Sea (High-Level Domain-type Treasure)

Palace: Moon Wheel Palace (High-Level Palace Treasure)

Special: World-Devouring Vine (High-Level Special Treasure)

"Now..."

Yan Ning clenched his fist, battle intent surging in his eyes.

"Even against a Universe Overlord, I can put up a fight!"

Yan Ning used Divine Kingdom Teleportation to return to Redbud Island.

He continued comprehending the Beast God Inheritance.

At the same time, he kept fighting in the Glory World, accumulating experience and separating the good from the bad—though, to be fair, he wasn't exactly getting thrashed.

Most who had reached the fourth level of the inheritance were Universe Venerables, so he couldn't rampage through them the way he had at the third level.

But he didn't mind. If he couldn't win, he'd simply hold off on fighting.

He still had plenty of Glory Points left.

There were enough to let him continue receiving the inheritance.

He could return to battle after he'd comprehended more of the fourth-level inheritance.

Redbud Island, Yan Ning's residence.

Five hundred years flowed by like water.

Yan Ning, seated in the center of his training room, slowly opened his eyes. Within his pupils, countless Flame Worlds seemed to appear and vanish.

"Phew—"

He exhaled deeply as the Fire Void Law patterns circulating around him gradually faded.

"I've nearly finished absorbing the inheritance I received last time."

Yan Ning stood and stretched his limbs. Over the past five hundred years, he had fully integrated the inheritance he'd received into himself, advancing his comprehension of the Fire-Void Fusion Law to a higher level.

"It's time to receive the inheritance again."

Yan Ning strode toward the entrance of his residence.

"Creak—"

The residence's door, shut for five hundred years, slowly opened.

Venerable Wulong had sat motionless like a stone statue for five hundred years, soul patterns slowly flowing around him as if alive.

Suddenly—

"Click."

A faint sound reached his ears.

Venerable Wulong's eyes snapped open, a cold glint flashing in them!

"The door... is open!"

His muscles tensed in an instant, and his soul patterns surged wildly. The space throughout the room began to warp.

The killing intent he'd held in check for five hundred years erupted!

"Hmm—"

His Ten Thousand Souls Heart-Erosion secret technique was already at the ready. A point of violet soul power, bright to the extreme, gathered at his fingertip.

"One step... two steps..."

Venerable Wulong fixed his gaze on Yan Ning's approaching steps, calculating the perfect moment.

The instant Yan Ning had completely stepped out of the residence—

"Now! Attack!"

"Boom!!!"

A violet beam, less than a millimeter across yet condensed to the utmost, shot through the air! Space crumbled inch by inch in its wake, and time seemed to stand still.

This strike embodied Venerable Wulong's lifetime of mastery over the soul!

It contained the Zerg Clan's most advanced Soul Secret Technique!

And it was a deadly assassination, planned for five hundred years!

The beam pierced Yan Ning's brow in an instant and shot straight into his sea of consciousness!

"Success!"

Wild joy flashed in Venerable Wulong's eyes.

The attack had been so fast that even the Five-Colored Aurora Lake hadn't had time to react. Under this terrifying Soul Attack, Yan Ning's soul would surely be enslaved before being utterly destroyed!

But the next moment—

"Clang—!!!"

A bell toll, as if from the primordial past, rang out in his mind!

The Thousand Illusion Pearl shone at the same time!

Venerable Wulong's attack was completely annihilated and blocked before it could even reach the core of Yan Ning's soul!

"What? He has a Soul-type Supreme Treasure?!"

Venerable Wulong's pupils contracted sharply, disbelief appearing on his face.

"How is that possible?! A High-Level Soul-type Supreme Treasure?!"

His attack had been completely ineffective. That had to be at least a High-Level Soul-type Supreme Treasure!

His entire body trembled, blood vessels standing out in his eyes. As a Universe Venerable who excelled in the Soul Path, he knew all too well what this meant—his assassination attempt had failed!

"No! I refuse to accept this!"

Venerable Wulong's face twisted with rage as he frantically drove his divine power, preparing to attack again.

But just then—

"Rumble!"

The sky above Redbud Island changed color in an instant. Countless streams of Five-Colored Aurora poured down like a heavenly river tumbling from the sky!

"The Five-Colored Aurora Lake!"

Venerable Wulong's face turned deathly pale, but the madness in his eyes only grew.

"I'll burn my divine body! Ten Thousand Souls Heart-Erosion!"

"Boom!"

A violet beam, even more condensed than the last, shot toward Yan Ning. At the same time—

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Countless streams of Five-Colored Aurora had already engulfed him completely!

"Argh!!"

Venerable Wulong's divine body disintegrated inch by inch amid the aurora. Yet the last thing he saw was the violet beam reaching Yan Ning's brow and vanishing into him like a stone sinking into the sea, without even raising a ripple!

"Im...pos...sible..."

In the final instant before his divine body was completely destroyed, disbelief and horror still lingered in Venerable Wulong's eyes.

Yan Ning merely watched coldly, the corner of his mouth lifting in a mocking smile. "That's it?"

The Chaos Bell trembled lightly in his sea of consciousness, grinding the last trace of soul energy to nothing.

With the Chaos Bell guarding him, he had nothing to fear from Soul Attacks. So what if his opponent was merely a Universe Venerable? What could he do to him?

Redbud Island fell silent in an instant.

The powerful Alien Race figures watching in secret were all dumbfounded, their faces pale.

"My... goodness!"

A Sealed King from the Mechanical Clan trembled.

"Venerable Wulong's Soul Attack was completely ineffective?!"

"A Soul-type Supreme Treasure! It has to be a Soul-type Supreme Treasure!"