Dominating the Major Forbidden Zones

Li Ming took a single step and arrived above the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.

"Who dares fight me?"

The Heavenly Demonic Saber rested in his hand, its blade light aimed directly at the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.

None of the dozen or so Dark Supremes within the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone dared respond. No one dared accept the challenge.

They had sealed themselves within the Forbidden Zone for countless ages to await the opening of the Road to Immortality, not to contend over pride.

Most importantly, the Demon Venerable was simply too powerful. Every Dark Supreme who had confronted him had died.

They wanted to hunt the Demon Venerable, but they knew it would only be courting death.

The Demon Venerable had already grown from a young dragon into a True Dragon.

Li Ming looked down at the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone. This mysterious Forbidden Zone seethed with Chaos energy and was shrouded year-round in an enigmatic mist.

From time to time, the power of suns, moons, and stars fell like a galaxy, flowing into one astonishing tomb after another.

The tombs were as astounding as stars.

They emitted mysterious Immortal Dao auras.

At this moment, more than a dozen Dark Supremes lay hidden within the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.

There were even Supremes from the Primordial Ancient Era and the Chaotic Ancient Era sealed there. It was indeed exceedingly mysterious.

"Demon Venerable, none of us attacked you, nor did we answer Longevity Heavenly Venerable's call to join in besieging you. Must you really wipe us all out?"

"That's right. Must you force the Supremes of our Immortal Mausoleum to emerge together?"

"Do you intend to flatten our Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone just as you flattened the Reincarnation Sea?"

Sensing Li Ming's icy killing intent, one of the Dark Supremes within the Immortal Mausoleum had no choice but to respond through gritted teeth.

Li Ming said coldly, "When I attained Enlightenment as Supreme, I did vaguely sense that a Dark Supreme from the Immortal Mausoleum had acted against me."

"Regardless of who it was, this matter cannot be left unresolved."

"I could overlook it before, but since Longevity Heavenly Venerable, the master of the Immortal Mausoleum, has stepped forward, then old and new debts will be settled together. The Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone must give me an explanation."

When his Chaotic Body attained Enlightenment as Supreme, there was no way to conceal it.

Quite a few people from the major Dark Restricted Areas had attacked him. Some had acted openly, while others had acted in secret.

Those who acted openly had basically all been killed by him.

As for those who had acted in secret, Li Ming had temporarily let the matter go at the time.

But now, since Longevity Heavenly Venerable, a Dark Supreme of the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone, had dared challenge him, this matter absolutely could not simply pass.

Although every grievance had its culprit and every debt had its owner, Li Ming had no intention of sorting that out. Today, he was using the matter as a pretext. What could these Dark Supremes do to him?

After hearing Li Ming's words, the Dark Supremes fell silent.

Clearly, Li Ming was using the matter as an excuse because he wanted more compensation.

After a moment, a majestic voice rang out from the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone. "This is our explanation!"

Three dazzling white streams of light shot out from within the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.

They were actually three chunks of Light Platinum!

Each was half a cubic meter in size, enough to forge three Extreme Dao Weapons.

Sacred radiance flowed from the Light Platinum, warm and brimming with the aura of life.

Li Ming had not expected the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone to produce Light Platinum.

His Heavenly Demonic Saber had only lacked Light Platinum to gather all Nine Immortal Metals.

He had not expected to complete the set by chance today.

Before this, he had never heard that the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone possessed such a specialty.

Perhaps, in the original story, by Ye Fan's era, the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone had long since used up all this Light Platinum.

Or perhaps it had been destroyed in the many Divine Wars throughout history.

He had unexpectedly obtained Light Platinum filled with sacred and life-filled aura. To Li Ming, this was absolutely an unexpected delight.

He had not expected this Light Platinum to contain the aura of life as well.

In this era, he had unexpectedly obtained the Primordial Life Stone from the Reincarnation Sea.

Within the Divine Ruins Forbidden Zone, he had unexpectedly obtained Immortal Source from the Immortal Domain.

And now, in the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone, he had obtained this Light Platinum containing the aura of life.

Perhaps this Light Platinum had also fallen from the Immortal Domain into this world along with the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.

The Northern Polar Immortal Light within it, along with faint Longevity Substance, could extend one's lifespan even without extraction, merely by carrying it on one's person.

At the same time, it could assist in comprehending the mysteries of Light Platinum.

In the original story, Light Platinum had been exceedingly scarce.

It seemed that apart from the Undying Heavenly Saber, no other Extreme Dao Weapons contained it.

The Immortal Ascension Cauldron seemed to contain some as well, which meant Emperor Zun had obtained Light Platinum back then.

Ye Fan had also forged nine Immortal Gold cauldrons, which meant he obtained some later as well.

Wonderful. This Light Platinum, with its scarce production, had simply fallen into his hands. Li Ming was truly delighted.

Each chunk was half a cubic meter in size, enough to forge three Extreme Dao Weapons.

The incomparably dense sacred aura made it seem as though life could be nurtured within it.

This was truly wonderful!

Under Li Ming's pressure, the dozen or so Dark Supremes of the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone chose to yield.

If any other Supreme had dared pressure them like this, that person might have long since been killed and devoured by the Dark Supremes.

They had truly hunted and killed genuine Enlightened ones in history.

But the Demon Venerable was so powerful that he had slain numerous Dark Supremes and, not long ago, even killed the formidable Longevity Heavenly Venerable.

This deeply intimidated the Dark Supremes of the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.

Seeing these Dark Supremes yield, Li Ming was very satisfied and did not continue pressing them.

After all, the number of Dark Supremes within the Life Forbidden Zones at this moment was truly astonishing, especially in the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.

Even with Li Ming's current strength, facing more than a dozen Dark Supremes alone was dangerous.

If there were no more than ten Dark Supremes, he would still be confident.

If there were more than ten, he should stop pretending. It would be bad if he overplayed his hand.

Just like Longevity Heavenly Venerable, who had overplayed his hand and been beaten to death by Li Ming.

Li Ming had a clear understanding of his true strength.

Thinking of the Human Race Great Emperors of the Desolate Ancient Era in the original story, each had needed to rack his brains to lure out a Dark Supreme one by one just to kill one.

Li Ming had already done extremely well by killing so many Dark Supremes.

Moreover, there were now an astonishing number of Dark Supremes. Having killed so many of them, Li Ming already felt deeply accomplished.

After thoroughly suppressing the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone, Li Ming turned his gaze toward another vast Life Forbidden Zone, the Heaven Forbidden Zone.

It was the so-called Burial Heaven Island, the severed head of Mount Tai.

"Who dares fight me?"

Li Ming arrived above the Heaven Forbidden Zone once more. The Heavenly Demonic Saber pointed at Heaven, his battle intent soaring into the sky as his voice resounded throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

"Demon Venerable, you have already killed so many Dark Supremes, and today you even killed Longevity Heavenly Venerable. Have you not killed enough?"

"Our Heaven Forbidden Zone has already lowered its head. No one has provoked you. Do you truly want war with our Heaven Forbidden Zone?"

"We also have more than a dozen Dark Supremes here. If you force us all to emerge, you will gain nothing from it either!"

"Some Dark Supremes of our Heaven did indeed once covet your Chaotic Blood and Chaos Origin. In that case, let them offer treasures themselves to buy their lives!"

Streams of light suddenly flew out from the Heaven Forbidden Zone.

There was Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold, and Eternal Blue Gold.

Li Ming looked at these precious materials. As compensation, they were indeed sincere enough.

At that moment, another violet divine light flew out, emanating an incomparably dense aura of life.

It was actually a fruit shaped like a small Qilin.

It was a ripe fruit of the Qilin Divine Medicine.

Li Ming had not expected someone to have obtained the Qilin Divine Medicine in this era.

Could the Qilin Divine Medicine have fallen into the Heaven Forbidden Zone?

Seeing Li Ming's suspicious gaze, the Dark Supremes of Heaven immediately explained, "I happened to excavate this from the Divine Source Vein."

"I excavated three ripe fruits in total. I consumed two, leaving only this one."

"As for the true Qilin Divine Medicine, I do not know where it is either."

"I discovered it at this set of spacetime coordinates."

That Dark Supreme feared Li Ming would not believe him, so he simply sent over the starry-sky coordinates where he had discovered the Qilin Divine Medicine.

Li Ming nodded after receiving them.

He grabbed the Qilin Divine Medicine fruit. Faint violet radiance flowed across it, dyeing even his palm purple.

The Qilin Divine Medicine had seemingly first fallen into Qilin Ancient Emperor's hands in the original story.

Later, it seemed to have been destroyed in the Primordial God War, then reborn through Nirvana before finally falling into Ye Fan's hands.

Li Ming had not expected to obtain a fruit of the Qilin Divine Medicine in this era.

Though it was not the true Qilin Divine Medicine but merely its fruit, it was already more than enough of a pleasant surprise for Li Ming.

He had seized the Divine Peach Tree from the Divine Ruins Forbidden Zone and forcibly demanded ten Flat Peaches.

Now that he had also obtained a ripe fruit of the Qilin Divine Medicine, he was extremely satisfied.

Perhaps he could visit other Life Forbidden Zones in the future and exchange for the fruits of other Immortal Medicines.

Every Immortal Medicine fruit had its own unique effect and contained the secret of longevity.

For example, if he had guessed correctly, this Qilin Divine Medicine should have formed from the Nirvana of the Qilin Immortal King after his death in the Immortal Ancient Era or an even earlier age.

It was not a Longevity Immortal Medicine that had been struck by Heaven's Will Blade. Rather, it was formed from the Qilin Immortal King's Nirvana after death and should have been left in this world by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

Putting away the large chunks of Immortal Gold and the Immortal Medicine, Li Ming was highly satisfied.

This time, his harvest had truly been immense.

He had not expected killing Longevity Heavenly Venerable to bring about such an unexpected effect.

He did not continue forcing these Dark Supremes.

After all, the Dark Supremes had already yielded. If he truly gave them no path to survival, they would genuinely fight to the death.

After all, they had all once attained Enlightenment and ruled the world.

They had their own pride.

In any case, Li Ming did not intend to completely flatten them and kill them all right now.

First, his strength was insufficient. Second, he bore them no grudge, so why insist on fighting them to the death?

After all, Li Ming was not some saintly mother who, after transmigrating here, had to kill every Dark Supreme.

So long as they did not provoke Li Ming, he would not deliberately seek to kill them.

In Li Ming's view, his sole goal in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands was to become a Red Dust Immortal.

The enemies who could truly threaten him were not the Dark Supremes of this world, but the Dark Strangeness beyond the world.

As for whether Dark Supremes might risk their lives to ambush him while he walked the Red Dust Immortal Path in this world, that was hard to say.

"I have never been so humiliated!"

"For the sake of waiting for the Road to Immortality to open, what is wrong with yielding a little?"

"There were people in history even more arrogant and domineering than him, yet were they not ultimately settled during their later years?"

"That's right. No matter how unmatched his strength is beneath heaven, he will ultimately be buried by time."

"His later years will not be pleasant. Once he truly enters old age, it will be our time to settle accounts."

"Just wait. That day will come!"

Every one of these many Dark Supremes had once ruled the world. When had they ever suffered such humiliation?

Now someone had come to their doorstep to bully them, yet not a single one dared make a sound.

"The Demon Venerable has narrowed his own path!"

"In the future, he may not even have the chance to cut himself with a single blade."

"If he cuts himself with a single blade, how much of his strength can he retain?"

"That's right. If he does not cut himself with a single blade, he will eventually grow old and die."

The many Dark Supremes communicated through divine sense, their voices cold enough to pierce bone.

Though no one detected their voices, they were indeed seriously discussing Li Ming's later years.

"Whoever prevents us from killing the Demon Venerable and devouring his Chaotic Body will be our enemy!"

In what seemed like mere moments, an alliance to devour the Chaotic Body had formed.

After accepting the many pieces of Immortal Gold and the Qilin Divine Medicine, Li Ming turned and left this stretch of starry sky with the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

He knew these Dark Supremes were surely unwilling to accept this in their hearts, but unwilling or not, they could only endure it.

Even if Li Ming wanted to kill these Dark Supremes, he needed to find a justifiable excuse.

He absolutely could not let the Dark Supremes think Li Ming would leave them no path to survival.

These Dark Supremes could not be killed off completely.

As long as people continued to attain Enlightenment as Supreme and Emperor Enlightenment, there would always be those unwilling to die just like that and become Dark Restricted Areas once more.

By forcing these Dark Supremes this time, he had indeed deeply offended them.

Supremes could not be insulted. That saying truly made sense.

But it only applied to other Supremes.

It was useless against Li Ming and instead sounded like a joke.

This world was ultimately one where strength reigned supreme.

Whoever had the larger fist possessed reason.

So what if he insulted Supremes?

Li Ming openly provoked them, yet not a single Dark Supreme dared respond.

They had been humiliated—truly humiliated—but even if they refused to accept it, they swallowed it.

Li Ming had given them the chance to break out of their Immortal Source, the time to undergo Extreme Sublimation, and even a reason to emerge together and besiege him.

Even after Li Ming had gone this far, not one Dark Supreme dared step forward and openly declare that they wanted to kill him.

He knew that these Dark Supremes would surely seek a reckoning with him in their later years, intending to devour his Chaotic Blood and Chaos Origin.

Li Ming did not care about that at all, nor was he worried.

If they wanted to fight, then they could have a great battle.

More importantly, Li Ming possessed the mysterious Bronze Mirror. Even if they wanted to cause trouble for him, they would first have to find him.

Think of the Beginningless Emperor in the original work, who had gone to trouble those Dark Supremes and the Underworld.

Yet the Underworld had hidden itself beneath the concealment of the Immortal Weapon known as the Tongtian Nether Treasure.

No matter how heaven-reaching the Beginningless Emperor's abilities were, he had been unable to find the Underworld or the Dark Supremes within it.

In the end, he could only die in despondency.

And after the Beginningless Emperor entered the Strange World, he could no longer concern himself with the affairs of Yaochi Holy Land.

Those Dark Supremes emerged once more and nearly wiped Yaochi Holy Land off the map.

They had no choice but to relocate. The entire Yaochi's Former Site became a terrifying cursed place, one that ordinary Yaochi disciples no longer dared return to.

Since the Underworld could hide itself with a single Immortal Weapon and evade the Dark Supremes' search,

then with an Immortal Weapon like the Bronze Immortal Hall in Li Ming's hands, along with the even more mysterious Bronze Mirror, if he truly wished to hide away in his later years, it would be harder than ascending to heaven for those Dark Supremes to find him.

When Li Ming left the Dark Restricted Area, not only did those Dark Supremes breathe a sigh of relief, but even the cultivators of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands did as well.

If a Divine War at the Supreme level truly erupted, countless Life Source Grounds throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands would likely be blasted apart.

The Demon Venerable had challenged the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone alone, killed the Longevity Heavenly Venerable in the blink of an eye, and beaten the major Dark Restricted Areas into silence. This deeply shocked all cultivators.

The imperial clans, holy lands, and aristocratic families that possessed the inheritances of Supremes and Heavenly Venerables naturally knew the secrets of the Forbidden Zones.

The Dark Supremes within those Dark Restricted Areas were unspeakable taboos throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

Those powerful figures who had once attained Enlightenment as Supreme had not died, nor had they been buried among the stars. Instead, they had either transformed themselves into Forbidden Zones or hidden within them.

Many cultivators did not know this secret.

Yet once many cultivators reached the higher realms, they could vaguely sense that immense terror.

They all had vague guesses about what lay within the Life Forbidden Zones, but they did not dare speak of it.

The stronger one was, the more clearly one could feel the terror of the Life Forbidden Zones.

Now, seeing the Demon Venerable so powerful that he dared challenge the experts of the Dark Restricted Areas alone, beating them into lowering their heads, yielding, and obediently offering treasures in surrender, they found it utterly unbelievable.

Many of the powerful races of the universe warned their younger generations never to be so blind as to provoke the Demon Venerable.

Especially in this era, they were not to casually provoke or massacre the Human Race.

On many life-bearing planets, relations between the Primordial Species and the Human Race had once been extremely tense, but now they unexpectedly eased.

Again and again, Li Ming used the lives of Dark Supremes to show everyone just how powerful this Heavenly Venerable of the Human Race was.

They also learned just how domineering and overbearing the Demon Venerable was.

As long as the Demon Venerable lived, no Primordial creature would dare casually massacre the Human Race.

With the rise of the Demon Venerable, the Human Race throughout the universe flourished even more.

At the heart of the Reincarnation Sea, Immortal Spirit Qi swirled about. From time to time, figures of immortals danced through the air, as did phantoms of Immortal Spirits, while the Grand Dao Heavenly Sound thundered and manifested above the Reincarnation Sea.

Scenes of immortals soaring appeared there from time to time. The sages who occasionally passed by and witnessed the wonders within the Reincarnation Sea all clicked their tongues in amazement.

This Reincarnation Sea Forbidden Zone was Li Ming's cultivation ground. No one dared disturb his enlightenment and cultivation.

Li Ming returned to the Reincarnation Sea Forbidden Zone and thoroughly fused the Immortal Gold materials he had obtained into the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

The Nine Immortal Metals merged together perfectly, leaving Li Ming highly satisfied.

"It is time to search for the immortal's corpse that the Longevity Heavenly Venerable mentioned."

After killing the Longevity Heavenly Venerable, Li Ming had not immediately gone to search for the starry sky coordinates of the Crippled Immortal's corpse that he had interrogated from his mind.

Now that he had returned to the Reincarnation Sea to cultivate and seek enlightenment for a time, his essence, qi, and spirit had all been adjusted to their peak state. He decided to set out at once.

The corpse of an immortal would definitely be useful to Li Ming. He felt a faint sense of anticipation.