The God Emperor Realm, Self-Cut Divine Transformation Method and Dao-Origin Return Flow

"At your command, Master!"

Yu Yao received her orders.

She turned into a streak of golden light, appeared right before a Quasi-Emperor, and flashed a brilliant smile.

Raising her hand, she slapped her fair little palm toward the nearest Quasi-Emperor.

"Die!"

The peak Quasi-Emperor cultivator had no time to react. He only felt a shadow fall over his head before a seemingly harmless little hand landed on his crown.

A pattern of dragon scales flashed across her palm, then an utterly terrifying surge of pure physical strength poured down.

"Bang!"

The Quasi-Emperor's head burst like a watermelon, and his soul was crushed into a skyful of shimmering fragments beneath her palm.

Yu Yao dusted off her hands, her golden, slit-pupiled eyes curving into crescents.

"That's one down."

"What terrifying physical strength this little brat has!"

The other four Quasi-Emperors' expressions changed drastically, their blood turning ice-cold in an instant.

They had seen that slap perfectly clearly. There had been no fluctuations of divine abilities, no flowing Dao laws—nothing but physical strength.

Yet that single slap had smashed the skull of a peak Quasi-Emperor.

What kind of monster was she?!

"Run!"

All four shot off in different directions, desperately burning their origin essence to push their speed to its limit.

But Yu Yao moved even faster. Her tiny figure left a string of afterimages in the void, appearing behind a Quasi-Emperor with every flicker.

"Thud, thud, thud..."

The muffled impacts came so close together they almost sounded like one.

Bodies plunged from the void one after another.

"This creature is... from the Demon Race?!"

Great Emperor Rift-Space's face turned ashen, Emperor Power circulating wildly throughout his body.

Su Linxian's sword intent had grievously wounded him earlier, shattering more than half his body.

He glanced at Yu Yao, gritted his teeth, and tore open the void, fleeing into the distance as a crimson streak of light.

"The Chi family of the Yin-Yang Ancient Clan stands behind our Great Ascension Dao Domain!"

"Sir, where mercy is possible, show mercy!"

His voice came from the void, carrying a strained hint of menace.

Yu Yao tilted her head and blinked her golden, slit-pupiled eyes.

"The Yin-Yang Ancient Clan? Never heard of it."

She raised her hand toward the distant crimson streak and clenched it.

"Rumble!"

An illusory golden dragon claw reached out of the void. Its scales were sharply defined, each gleaming with light condensed from pure physical strength. The claw crossed ten thousand li of void and seized the crimson streak with unerring precision.

Great Emperor Rift-Space was forcibly plucked out of the void by the dragon claw. His bones creaked beneath its grip, his protective imperial radiance tore like paper, and more than half his body was crushed once again. His eyes filled with unwillingness and terror.

"No!!!"

The dragon claw closed.

Great Emperor Rift-Space's body burst into a skyful of bloody mist within its grasp. His fifth-level Emperor Realm origin essence was ground to nothing beneath that pure physical strength. Body and soul were annihilated!

[Ding! Killed Great Emperor Rift-Space, a fifth-level Emperor Realm cultivator. Gained 100000 Villain Points!]

"All done!"

Yu Yao clapped her little hands and skipped back to Su Linxian, looking up at him as though asking for praise.

Su Linxian glanced at her and nodded slightly.

"Not bad."

Nearby, Li Junhua sat within the jade lotus, frozen like a wooden chicken.

He looked at the falling Quasi-Emperor corpses, then at the little blonde girl skipping along.

A little girl had slapped a Great Emperor to pieces. In all his two lifetimes, he had never seen anything so absurd.

Li Junhua abruptly came to his senses, hurried before Su Linxian, and bowed respectfully.

"Your subordinate, Li Junhua, pays his respects, Master! Thank you for saving my life!"

Su Linxian looked down at him.

The system panel appeared silently.

[Name: Li Junhua]

[Title: Heaven-Destined Protagonist (second incarnation)]

[Realm: Dengxian Realm]

[Age: 1]

[Heaven's Destiny Value: 1000000]

The Dengxian Realm.

After beginning his second life, he had started his cultivation anew and was now only in the Dengxian Realm.

Su Linxian narrowed his eyes. Even in the lower realm, this level of cultivation would hardly rank among the best. Who knew how many years it would take him to regain his former peak Emperor Realm cultivation?

"You've begun your second life?"

Li Junhua raised his head, his youthful face brimming with excitement.

"It was only thanks to the Nine Profound Blood Ginseng you bestowed upon me that I could begin a second life, Master!"

His voice suddenly faltered, and a complicated emotion flashed through his eyes before vanishing.

I really have begun a second life.

But I became someone else's slave right at its start.

Alas...

Su Linxian waved a hand, his tone indifferent.

"Your cultivation is just a little weak."

Hum.

He took out a Storage Ring and casually tossed it to Li Junhua.

"Keep everything in here safe and restore your former cultivation as soon as possible."

Dengxian Realm cultivation was of far too little help to him.

Li Junhua caught the Storage Ring in confusion and sent his divine sense inside. His entire body suddenly stiffened.

Inside the Storage Ring, ten million supreme-grade spirit stones were piled into mountain ranges. Emperor-grade spiritual materials, Saint Medicines, pills, and cultivation-method jade slips were sorted into categories, a dazzling array.

Together, these things were worth more than ten times everything he had accumulated in his first life!

Li Junhua's hand trembled around the Storage Ring. His lips quivered, but for a long while, he could not utter a word.

After a while, he abruptly raised his head.

"Thank you, Master!"

Fuck!

He suddenly saw the light.

A slave it is, then!

Life as a slave is even more comfortable than before!

Su Linxian surveyed the surrounding ruins, plowed beyond recognition by the lightning tribulation and battle, then raised his hand and summoned a Spirit Boat.

The Spirit Boat was jade-like throughout. It unfolded in the void, growing to about a zhang in size and radiating a gentle glow.

"Let's go."

He stepped onto the Spirit Boat. Yu Yao skipped aboard after him, and Li Junhua hurried to follow.

The Spirit Boat rose into the sky and streaked off into the distance.

Aboard the Spirit Boat.

Su Linxian leaned against the railing, watching the distant clouds rush past, and spoke calmly.

"Li Junhua."

"You were once at the peak of the Emperor Realm. Do you know anything about the God Emperor Realm?"

Sitting on the other side of the Spirit Boat, Li Junhua gave a bitter smile at the question.

Although he had returned to his original, youthful state, his mind was still that of an old monster who had lived for seventy-six thousand years, and his voice carried the weathering of those ages.

"Though I once reached the peak of the Emperor Realm, I know... nothing of the Divine Emperor realm."

"All I know is that a Divine Emperor apparently needs to comprehend their own Dao. I exhausted seventy-six thousand years back then and still could not touch that threshold."

"One's own Great Dao..."

Su Linxian's eyes flickered as he questioned the system within his sea of consciousness.

System, is there any way to help me enter the God Emperor Realm?

[Ding! Recommended option one: Self-Cut Divine Transformation Method. Requires cutting away your cultivation, reducing it to its lowest point, then cultivating back to the peak of the Emperor Realm. Repeat nine times to create a new Great Dao.]

Su Linxian frowned.

Cutting away his cultivation nine times, each time starting from nothing and cultivating back to the peak of the Emperor Realm—this option would take far too long.

He shook his head.

Give me another.

[Recommended option two: Dao-Origin Return Flow. Using three Order Divine Laws, nine Extreme-Rank Great Daos, and twelve Upper-Rank Great Daos as a foundation, you can forge Divine Emperor Laws. Order Divine Laws can be extracted from the origin essence of special physiques. Extreme-Rank Great Daos and Upper-Rank Great Daos can be obtained from Heaven-Destined Protagonists.]

Su Linxian pondered for a moment.

This option sounded workable.

Order Divine Laws—

The Desolate Ancient Sacred Body seems to possess one innately, called the Law of Strength, an utterly pure order of physical strength.

With a thought, he checked the System Shop.

[Dao-Origin Return Flow. Exchange price: 3000000 Villain Points]

Three million.

Still quite a way short.

The burden is heavy, and the road is long.

Su Linxian glanced at Li Junhua, who was holding his Storage Ring and grinning foolishly beside him. His gaze lingered for a moment.

Heaven-Destined Protagonists, Upper-Rank Great Daos, Extreme-Rank Great Daos...

These are all foundational materials for forging Divine Emperor Laws.

Looks like I'll have to keep searching for protagonists...

Just then, an enormous crash suddenly came from the distance.

"Boom!"