After a long journey, nine enormous dragon corpses pulled the Bronze Ancient Coffin across to 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 unfolded before them.
"Wonderful! We finally escaped the darkness and desolation and arrived in such a beautiful Divine Land."
"At last, we don't have to live in fear anymore!"
Many people cheered, and some even wept with joy. After enduring a series of deaths and hardships, they had finally reached a vibrant, natural world.
The journey had been terrifying. Half their classmates had died, leaving only a dozen or so survivors. No one knew what demons and monsters they would encounter next, or how many would survive.
"Everyone, don't let your guard down."
Ye Fan's expression was grave as he said loudly, "This is not a Pure Land. Danger still lurks everywhere. Look over there."
Following Ye Fan's finger, everyone looked over and immediately showed horrified expressions. 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 all, leaving them standing there numbly.
"Fuck, where the hell have we been sent? Don't tell me we've gone back to Jurassic times!"
Pang Bo could not help blurting out a curse, his large eyes widening like bells.
"Such a huge divine bird... What kind of world have we come to?" Even Ye Fan could not help feeling troubled, doubts rising in his heart.
"Relax. This place is far safer than the outside world. At most, the mountains, terrain, fierce beasts, and vicious birds here pose a threat."
"The hearts of people out there are far more terrifying than floods and beasts."
Lin Xian said meaningfully, patting Ye Fan on the shoulder with a brilliant smile. "No need to be nervous. Let nature take its course. Now that you're here, treat it like your own home. Don't be restrained."
Ye Fan froze, his eyes full of confusion. Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?
"You are the Forbidden Zone Heir." Lin Xian gave Ye Fan a deep look, then turned toward the abyss. Nine great mountains encircled it, as though forming the road to Hell and Yellow Springs. It was dark and unfathomable, enough to make one's heart tremble.
Rumble...
The nine enormous dragon corpses and the Bronze Ancient Coffin crashed down with a clatter. After that, there was not the slightest sound, as though they would 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 former Ruthless Great Emperor, while the other was the Great Accomplished Saint Physique afflicted by ominousness in his later years.
Ruthless Great Emperor was not much of a concern. She was merely observing Ye Fan in silence, suspecting that he was a similar flower—the reincarnation of her brother.
She was an observer, peering into the changes within Reincarnation. Unless Ye Fan truly reached a life-or-death crisis, with his life hanging by a thread, Ruthless Great Emperor would not intervene.
The truly fatal threat was the Great Accomplished Saint Physique.
Ye Fan's identity as Ruthless's brother was uncertain and impossible to grasp, but the bloodline of the Primordial First-Generation Sacred Body could not be faked!
That Great Accomplished Saint Physique was the genuine First-Generation Desolate Lord. Ruthless Great Emperor was merely the Second-Generation Desolate Lord who had moved in later.
From any perspective, Ye Fan was the true heir of the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Zone—the Forbidden Zone Heir!
Only with such an identity could he enter and leave the Desolate Antiquity Forbidden Zone freely, as easily as coming home.
If it were anyone else, even a Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven expert would have been slapped to death long ago.
"Everyone, our fated connection ends here."
Lin Xian smiled faintly and waved farewell. "The road ahead is difficult. When we meet again, may all of you have become revered masters and patriarchs."
Before the others could react, Lin Xian strode away, searching 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 came once in ten thousand years; he could not miss it.
Cultivators moved swiftly. After making a circuit of the area, Lin Xian soon discovered a patch of immortal land.
Several old vines as thick as water barrels curled around an open space. There was a spring pool about a meter wide, bubbling constantly like a Divine Spring of sweet dew.
"Ding-dong. Famous scene, Desolate Antiquity Forbidden Zone, detected. Dao rhythm successfully absorbed." "Check-in reward: one volume of the Incomplete Sea of Bitterness Scripture." "Note: This is the posthumous work of a Saint Realm expert from Heavenly Jade Sacred Land. It has reached the minimum standard for creating a technique."
"A scripture?" A page of incomplete scripture swept across Lin Xian's mind lake. Numerous characters as large as bowls, like Ancient Antiquity talismans, reflected in the depths of his eyes.
"System, can you outsource cultivation for me through Didi?" Lin Xian's voice echoed through his mind lake, leaving System 10086 utterly baffled.
"What scripture? Do I really have to cultivate it myself?"
Lin Xian could not help sighing. "The system only needs to handle the cheats. The host has to think about so much more."
System 10086: "...On the path to becoming Dao, do you also want Didi to fight for you?"
"That feature exists too?"
Lin Xian's eyes immediately lit up. The Three Heavenly Emperors could massacre their way ahead while he racked up the kills behind them. If the system could fight on his behalf, that would be perfect.
"Blocked. No thanks!" System 10086 fell silent. He had never seen such a lazy host.
"I had to work hard before transmigrating, and I still have to cultivate hard after transmigrating. Didn't I transmigrate for nothing?" Lin Xian muttered, yet he still began cultivating reluctantly.
It was just like working. Did anyone truly love going to work? Bullshit. They merely coveted those few scraps of silver.
The same was true in the cultivation world. Who would genuinely enjoy tedious cultivation? They only craved the power and lifespan that cultivation brought.
"If only someone could cultivate in my place."
"Let the masses of cultivators create surplus value for me. I'll reap the fruits of their victories and easily achieve the goal of gaining without labor."
From Lin Xian's thirty-seven-degree mouth came the cold words of a capitalist in the world of Immortal Cultivation.
Ruthless Great Emperor gave that a fierce like.
Heroes truly thought alike. That had been her idea back then as well, so she created the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art. It could devour the origins of others and strengthen oneself. With every type of origin devoured, one's strength would rise another level and grow ever stronger.
Let all manner of geniuses and kings beneath heaven cultivate diligently, then let Ruthless harvest their Dao Fruits in the end, saving vast amounts of cultivation time and allowing her Mortal Body to prove the Dao and become an emperor.
The Restricted Area Supremes could only exclaim at this. Before even proving the Dao, she had already begun to fall into depravity and harvest the universe's great medicine.
She was truly experiencing an advanced version ahead of time.
"Similar."
Beneath the abyss, Ruthless Great Emperor had briefly awakened because of Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin. Looking toward the Divine Spring, she slowly uttered those two words, a trace of inquiry emerging in her clear, peerlessly beautiful eyes.
However, compared to those Restricted Area Supremes, those slave-master leaders who regarded the universe as a medicinal garden—
Ruthless Great Emperor had evolved into an even more advanced capitalist.
She consumed people with greater elegance, able to squeeze out the last trace of origin from heavenly geniuses and kings, maximizing the use of resources. Unlike the Dark Supremes, who merely gnawed crudely and simply on life origin to prolong their lives.
In the end, 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 people. She even refined and devoured her demonic self, truly achieving Self-Slaying Enlightenment.
She secluded herself within the Desolate Antiquity Forbidden Zone, overlooking the myriad races of the universe with a detached state of mind: heaven and earth are heartless, treating all things as straw dogs.
Because the Innate Saint Physique had arrived, the prematurely awakened Great Accomplished Saint Physique silently watched everything. His gaze shifted from Ye Fan to Lin Xian.
At this moment, he desperately wanted to complain, Great Emperor, you picked the wrong person.
You had only just awakened. You heard only the latter half of his words and not the first half.
This kid's demonic nature had already been suppressed by his laziness. He did not want to cultivate himself at all; he was simply giving up.