Four-star reward

Seeing Ye Fan break free of Yuangu's rhythm of cultivation-level suppression, everyone who cared about him breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Ming's beloved women also began considering what the outcome would have been if they had stepped forward and fought this duel with all their strength.

The odds were still fifty-fifty.

After all, they possessed the combat strength of the eight prohibitions, and so did Yuangu.

They were all Dao-Severing Kings. If they met in battle, their only option would be a bloody fight.

Yuangu, however, still refused to accept defeat. He activated the bloodline imprint within him—the Emperor Yuan Scripture: Forbidden Chapter. Ordinarily, this was a technique descendants could only use after becoming Saints. At lower cultivation levels, using it incorrectly would cause permanent damage.

Unwilling to lose, Yuangu had invoked the Ancient Emperor Scripture: Forbidden Chapter.

Jiang Ming's understanding of forbidden chapters came from knowing that the Void Great Emperor had a move called the Void Divine Stele, also known as the Void Great Brick. It was incredibly powerful. The dead Supremes of the Undying Mountain had all experienced it, and everyone who tried it sang its praises.

Ye Fan struck as well. He used a secret technique from Emperor Wushi's forbidden chapter, which the Black Emperor had passed on to him. Astonishingly, Ye Fan could actually execute it.

The result was—

Yuangu was utterly finished. He suffered a crushing defeat.

And defeat was not all.

After murmuring a few words to himself and delivering his final lines, Yuangu dissolved into a rain of light, his body and soul annihilated, becoming the first close-bloodline descendant of an Ancient Emperor to perish on the Emperor's Path.

``` "Congratulations, host, on jinxing Emperor Yuan's eighth-generation descendant to death, a contemporary first-tier prodigy whose bloodline had reverted to its ancestral