[Forbidden Zone Heir Ye Fan]

After a long journey, nine enormous dragon corpses pulled an ancient bronze coffin across the Other Shore of the Starry Sky, arriving at the Big Dipper Burial Emperor Star!

The Ancient Desolate Bronze Inscription shone with divine radiance, offsetting the impact. The bronze coffin toppled onto the ground, and a bright world appeared before them.

"Great! We've finally escaped the darkness and desolation and arrived in such a beautiful sacred land."

"At last, we don't have to live in fear anymore!"

Many people cheered, and some even wept with joy. After enduring death and hardship after hardship, they had finally reached a vibrant, natural world.

The journey here had been terrifying. Even half their classmates had died, leaving only a dozen or so survivors. Who knew what demons and monsters they would encounter next, or how many of them would survive?

"Everyone, don't let your guard down."

Ye Fan looked grave as he said loudly, "This isn't a pure land. Danger still lurks everywhere. Look over there."

Everyone followed Ye Fan's finger, and their faces immediately filled with horror. A Golden-Winged Great Peng spread its wings through the sky, clutching a giant elephant as it soared into the heavens and roamed between heaven and earth.

The sight petrified them. They stood rooted to the spot, numb with shock.

"Fuck, where the hell did this thing bring us? Don't tell me we've gone back to the Jurassic!"

Pang Bo could not help blurting out a curse, his huge eyes widened like bells.

"Such a massive divine bird... what kind of world have we come to?" Even Ye Fan could not help feeling troubled, doubt rising in his heart.

"Relax. This place is much safer than the outside world. At most, the mountains, terrain, ferocious beasts, and savage birds here pose a threat."

"The human heart outside is far more terrifying than floods and beasts."

Lin Xian said meaningfully, patting Ye Fan on the shoulder with a radiant smile. "No need to be nervous. Let nature take its course. Now that you're here, treat this place like home. Don't be restrained."

Ye Fan froze, his eyes filled with confusion. Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?

"You're the Forbidden Zone Heir." Lin Xian gave Ye Fan a deep look, then turned toward the abyss. Nine great mountains encircled it, as if forming the road to hell's Yellow Springs. It was dark and bottomless, enough to chill one's soul.

Rumble...

The nine enormous dragon corpses and the bronze coffin crashed down into it. After that, there was not the slightest sound, as though they could never reach the bottom.

Lin Xian did not dare look any longer and quickly withdrew his gaze. Two Supremes were hidden beneath that abyss. One was the Ruthless Great Emperor of old, while the other was the Great Accomplished Saint Physique afflicted by the ominous curse in his final years.

The Ruthless Great Emperor was manageable. She was merely silently observing Ye Fan, suspecting that he might be a similar flower—the reincarnation of her brother.

She was an observer, peering into the changes of reincarnation. Unless Ye Fan truly faced a life-or-death crisis, with his life hanging by a thread, the Ruthless Great Emperor would not intervene.

The truly deadly one was the Great Accomplished Saint Physique.

Ye Fan's identity as the Ruthless Great Emperor's brother was uncertain and impossible to pin down, but the bloodline of the Innate First-Generation Saint Physique could not be faked!

That Great Accomplished Saint Physique was the genuine First-Generation Desolate Lord. The Ruthless Great Emperor was merely the Second-Generation Desolate Lord who had moved in later.

From every angle, Ye Fan was the true heir of the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Zone—the Forbidden Zone Heir!

Only with such an identity could he come and go freely through the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Zone, as easily as returning to his mother's home.

Anyone else, even a Ninth Heaven Quasi-Emperor, would have long since been slapped to death.

"Everyone, our fate together ends here."

Lin Xian smiled faintly and waved farewell. "The road ahead is difficult. When we meet again, may all of you have become venerable ancestors in your own right."

Before the others could react, Lin Xian strode away to search the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Zone for divine springs and sacred fruits.

Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin had temporarily suppressed the forbidden zone's power. Such an opportunity was rarer than once in ten thousand years; he could not miss it.

Cultivators moved quickly. After making a circuit of the area, Lin Xian soon discovered an immortal patch of land.

Several old vines as thick as water buckets surrounded an open space. At its center was a spring pool about one meter across, bubbling continuously like a divine spring of sweet dew.

"Ding-dong. A famous scene, Ancient Desolate Forbidden Zone, has been detected. Dao charm successfully absorbed."

"Check-in reward: one volume of the Incomplete Sea of Bitterness Scripture."

"Note: This is the work of a saint from Heavenly Jade Sacred Land and has reached the minimum standard for creating a technique."

"A scripture?" A page of incomplete scripture passed over Lin Xian's mind lake. Countless characters as large as dippers, like ancient talismans, reflected in the deepest depths of his eyes.

"System, can you hire someone to cultivate for me?" Lin Xian's voice echoed through his mind lake, leaving System 10086 completely baffled.

"What kind of scripture is this? I still have to cultivate it myself."

Lin Xian could not help sighing. "The system only needs to handle the cheats. The host has much more to think about."

System 10086: "...On the road to the Dao, do you also want to hire someone to fight for you?"

"That function exists too?"

Lin Xian's eyes immediately lit up. The Three Heavenly Emperors could slaughter their way through everything up ahead while he coasted behind them. If the system could fight in his place, that would truly be perfect.

"Blocked. No thanks!" System 10086 fell silent. He had never seen such a shamelessly lazy host.

"Before transmigrating, I had to work hard at my job. After transmigrating, I still have to cultivate hard. Wouldn't that mean I transmigrated for nothing?" Lin Xian muttered, though he still began cultivating obediently.

It was just like working. Did anyone truly love going to work? What a load of crap. It was nothing more than coveting those few scraps of silver.

The cultivation world was no different. Who would genuinely enjoy tedious cultivation? They only desired the power and lifespan it brought.

"If only someone could cultivate in my place."

"Let the masses of cultivators create surplus value for me, while I harvest the fruits of their victories and effortlessly achieve the goal of gaining without labor."

From Lin Xian's thirty-seven-degree mouth came the cold words of an immortal-cultivation-world capitalist.

The Ruthless Great Emperor gave that a firm like.

Truly, great minds thought alike. That had been her thinking back then as well, which was why she created the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art. It could devour the origins of others to strengthen herself. With every type of origin she devoured, her strength rose another level, and she became ever more powerful.

She let all kinds of exceptional talents and kings of the world cultivate diligently, only for the Ruthless Great Emperor to harvest their Dao fruits in the end. This saved her enormous amounts of cultivation time and allowed her to prove the Dao and become an emperor with an ordinary body.

The Supremes of the forbidden zones could only exclaim at this. Before even proving the Dao, she had already fallen into darkness and begun harvesting the universe as a great medicine.

She had truly experienced an advanced version ahead of schedule.

"Similar."

Briefly awakened by Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin beneath the abyss, the Ruthless Great Emperor looked toward the divine spring and slowly spoke two words. A trace of inquiry emerged in her clear, peerlessly beautiful eyes.

Yet compared to those forbidden zone Supremes, slave-master chieftains who regarded the universe as a medicinal garden—

the Ruthless Great Emperor had already evolved into a more advanced capitalist.

She consumed people with greater elegance, able to squeeze out the final trace of origin from heavenly geniuses and kings, maximizing the use of resources. Unlike the Dark Supremes, who crudely and simply gnawed on life origin to prolong their lives.

In the end, the Ruthless Great Emperor underwent ultimate sublimation, cast off the corruption of her demonic nature, and created the Immortal Heavenly Art.

She no longer consumed people merely for the sake of consuming them. She even refined and devoured her demonic self, truly severing herself to illuminate the Dao.

She secluded herself in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Zone, overlooking the myriad races of the universe with an emotionless mindset: Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs.

Because the Innate Saint Physique had arrived, the Great Accomplished Saint Physique, awakened ahead of time, silently watched it all. His gaze shifted away from Ye Fan and toward Lin Xian.

At this moment, he desperately wanted to complain, Great Emperor, you chose the wrong person.

You had only just awakened. You heard only the latter half of his words, not the first half.

This kid's demonic nature had already been suppressed by terminal laziness. He did not want to cultivate himself; he was simply lying flat.