Majesty Over 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 was in his hand, its blade light aimed directly at the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.

Of the dozen or so Dark Supremes within the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone, not one dared answer, and none 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 fight over a matter of pride.

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

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

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

Li Ming looked at the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone. This mysterious forbidden zone churned with chaotic energy and was perpetually shrouded in a mysterious haze.

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

The tombs were as breathtaking as stars.

They emanated a mysterious immortal aura.

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

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

"Demon Venerable, none of us attacked you, nor did we answer Longevity Heavenly Venerable's call to besiege you together. Must you truly 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 in the Immortal Mausoleum had no choice but to respond through gritted teeth.

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

"No matter who acted, this matter cannot be let go."

"I could ignore it before, but now that Longevity Heavenly Venerable, the master of the Immortal Mausoleum, has stepped forward, we will settle old and new debts together. The Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone must give me an explanation."

When his Chaotic Body attained the Dao and became a Supreme, there was no way to conceal it.

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

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

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

But now that Longevity Heavenly Venerable, a Dark Supreme of the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone, dared challenge him, this matter absolutely could not be allowed to pass.

Though debts had their creditors, Li Ming could not be bothered to distinguish them. Today, he was simply using this as a pretext. What could these Dark Supremes do to him?

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

Clearly, Li Ming was using this as a pretext for nothing more than to demand greater compensation.

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

Three bright white streaks shot out from 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.

The Light Platinum radiated holy brilliance, warm and filled 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 work, by Ye Fan's era, the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone had already used up all its Light Platinum.

Or perhaps it had been destroyed in the many divine wars throughout history.

To unexpectedly obtain Light Platinum filled with holy and life-filled aura was undoubtedly a pleasant surprise for Li Ming.

He had not expected that this Light Platinum would also contain the aura of life.

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

In 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 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 if it was not extracted and was merely carried on one's person.

It could also assist in comprehending the mysteries of Light Platinum.

In the original work, Light Platinum was truly produced in far too little quantity.

It seemed that apart from the Undying Heavenly Saber, none of the other Extreme Dao Weapons contained it.

The Immortal Ascension Cauldron seemed to contain it as well, which meant Emperor Zun had also obtained Light Platinum in those days.

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

Wonderful. Such scarce Light Platinum had fallen right into his hands. Li Ming was truly delighted.

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

Its exceedingly rich holy 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 back down.

If another 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 genuine Dao attainors throughout history.

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

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

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

After all, at this time, the number of Dark Supremes in the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone was truly astonishing.

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

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

If there were more than ten, he had better stop putting on airs. If he overdid it, things would really go badly.

Just like Longevity Heavenly Venerable, who had overreached 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 work, they had needed to rack their brains just to kill one Dark Supreme, luring them out one by one.

Li Ming had now killed so many Dark Supremes. He had already done quite well.

Moreover, with the number of Dark Supremes now so astonishing, killing that many had already given Li Ming quite a sense of accomplishment.

After ruthlessly 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 toward Heaven, his battle intent soaring into the skies as his voice resounded across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

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

"Our Heaven Forbidden Zone has already bowed our heads. No one has provoked you. Do you truly wish to go to war with our Heaven Forbidden Zone?"

"We also have more than a dozen Dark Supremes here. If you force us to emerge together, 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 rare materials. As an apology, they indeed showed sufficient sincerity.

At that moment, another purple divine light flew out, radiating an immensely rich aura of life.

It was actually a small fruit shaped like a qilin.

It was a mature fruit from the Qilin Divine Medicine.

He 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 accidentally unearthed this from a Divine Source Vein."

"I unearthed three mature fruits in total. I consumed two, and only one remains."

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

"I discovered it at these spatial coordinates."

Fearing that Li Ming would not believe him, that Dark Supreme simply sent over the coordinates in the starry sky where he had found the Qilin Divine Medicine.

Li Ming nodded after receiving them.

He seized the Qilin Divine Medicine fruit. Faint purple radiance flowed across it, staining even his palm purple.

The Qilin Divine Medicine. In the original work, it seemed to have first fallen into the hands of the Qilin Ancient Emperor.

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

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

Though it was not the true Qilin Divine Medicine but merely its fruit, it was already a sufficient surprise to Li Ming.

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

Now that he had obtained a mature fruit from the Qilin Divine Medicine as well, he was extremely satisfied.

Perhaps in the future, he could trade with other Life Forbidden Zones for the fruits of those Immortal Medicines.

The fruit of every Immortal Medicine had unique effects and contained the secrets of longevity.

For example, if he was not mistaken, this Qilin Divine Medicine should have formed through the Nirvana of the Qilin Immortal King after his death during the Immortal Ancient Era or an even earlier age.

This was not the sort of Longevity Immortal Medicine that had been struck down by Heaven's will. It had formed through the Qilin Immortal King's Nirvana and should have been left in this world by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

After putting away the large chunks of Immortal Gold and the Immortal Medicine, Li Ming was very satisfied.

This harvest had truly been substantial.

He had not expected that killing Longevity Heavenly Venerable would produce such an unexpected effect.

He did not continue pressuring these Dark Supremes.

After all, these Dark Supremes had already submitted. If he truly left them no way to survive, they would genuinely fight to the death.

After all, they had all once attained the Dao 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.

One reason was that he lacked the strength, and another was that he bore them no grudge. Why insist on fighting them to the death?

Li Ming was not some saint who had to kill every Dark Supreme the moment he transmigrated into this world.

As long as they did not provoke Li Ming, he would not deliberately kill them.

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

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

As for whether Dark Supremes would risk their lives to ambush him while he walked the Red Dust Immortal Path in this world, that was difficult 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?"

"Someone in history was even more arrogant and domineering than him, yet was he not still settled in his later years?"

"Yes. No matter how unmatched his strength, he will eventually be buried by time."

"His later years will not be pleasant. Once he truly enters old age, it will be time for us 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 one dared make a sound.

"Demon Venerable is narrowing his own path!"

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

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

"Yes. If he does not cut himself down with a single slash, he will eventually grow old and die."

The many Dark Supremes communicated through divine sense, their voices icy to the bone.

Though no one discovered their voices, they were genuinely and seriously discussing Li Ming's later years.

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

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

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

He knew these Dark Supremes were certainly unwilling to accept this in their hearts, but even if they were unwilling, 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 believe that Li Ming intended to leave them no path to survival.

These Dark Supremes could not be killed off completely.

As long as people continued to attain the Dao and become Supremes or attain the Dao and become Emperors, there would always be those unwilling to simply die and who would once again become Dark Restricted Areas.

This time, forcing these Dark Supremes to submit had indeed deeply offended them.

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

But it applied only to other Supremes.

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

This world was ultimately one where strength reigned supreme.

Whoever had the bigger fist was right.

So what if he humiliated Supremes?

Li Ming provoked them to their faces, yet not a single Dark Supreme dared respond.

He had humiliated them—truly humiliated them—and even if they refused to accept it, they swallowed it.

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

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

He knew those Dark Supremes would surely seek him out for a reckoning in their twilight years, hoping to devour his Chaos Blood and Chaos Origin.

Li Ming did not care about that in the slightest, 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 him trouble, they first had to find him.

Think of the Beginningless Emperor in the original work, who went looking for trouble with those Dark Supremes and with the Underworld.

Yet the Underworld hid itself beneath the concealment of the Immortal Weapon, the Tongtian Nether Treasure.

No matter how heaven-reaching his abilities, the Beginningless Emperor could not find the Underworld or the Dark Supremes within it.

In the end, he could only die in despair.

And after the Beginningless Emperor entered the Strange World, he could no longer attend to matters concerning Yaochi Holy Land.

Those Dark Supremes emerged once more and nearly wiped Yaochi Holy Land from the face of the world.

They were ultimately forced to relocate, while all of Yaochi's Former Site became a terrifying cursed place that ordinary Yaochi disciples no longer dared return to.

Since the Underworld could conceal itself with a single Immortal Weapon and evade those Dark Supremes, Li Ming now possessed the Immortal Weapon known as the Bronze Immortal Hall, as well as the even more mysterious Bronze Mirror. If he truly wished to hide away in his twilight years, then for those Dark Supremes to find him would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

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 the same.

If a divine battle at the Supreme level truly erupted, countless Life Source Grounds throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands would likely be shattered.

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 inheritances from Supremes and Heavenly Venerables naturally knew the secrets of the restricted areas.

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 the Dao and become Supremes had not died, nor had they been buried in the starry sky. Instead, they had transformed themselves into restricted areas or hidden within them.

Many cultivators did not know this secret.

Yet after reaching higher realms, many cultivators could vaguely sense that great terror.

They had vague guesses about what lay within the Life Forbidden Zones, but none dared speak of it aloud.

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

Now, seeing the Demon Venerable be so powerful that he dared challenge the experts within the Dark Restricted Areas alone, beating them until they lowered their heads, yielded, and obediently offered treasures in surrender, they found it truly unbelievable.

Many powerful races of the universe warned their younger generations never to be foolish enough to provoke the Demon Venerable.

In this era, they were even more forbidden from casually provoking or slaughtering the Human Race.

On many life-bearing planets, the relations between the ancient races and the Human Race had originally been extremely tense, yet they unexpectedly eased at this time.

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

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

As long as the Demon Venerable remained alive, no ancient creature would dare casually slaughter the Human Race.

With the Demon Venerable's rise, the Human Race throughout the universe grew ever more prosperous.

At the center of the Reincarnation Sea, Immortal Spirit aura 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 rumbled and manifested above the Reincarnation Sea.

Scenes of flying immortals appeared there from time to time. Saints and sages who happened to pass by and witness the strange sights within the Reincarnation Sea all clicked their tongues in wonder.

The 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 fused together perfectly, leaving Li Ming extremely satisfied.

"It's 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 searching 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 and cultivated in enlightenment for a time, his essence, energy, and spirit had all been adjusted to their peak. 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.