The Eternal Beast King of the Life Forbidden Zone, the Terrified Dao Qiniu

Su Linxian descended from the void and landed before Li Junhua and Ming Suwen.

Li Junhua struggled to his feet. His injuries were grievous, more than half the bones in his body shattered. Golden blood seeped from his wounds, staining his tattered robes red. Yet a smile of relief rested on his face.

"The You Family has been destroyed."

"Suwen, you have your revenge."

Ming Suwen stood amid the ruins, her wedding dress covered in dust, her bridal veil long since lost. Her long hair fell loose over her shoulders. Her face was cold and composed, but her eyes were red.

"You..."

Li Junhua reached out and clasped her icy fingers.

"In this second life, I don't live only for my master."

"I live for you, too."

Ming Suwen said, "You can spend this lifetime slowly repaying what you owe me."

Li Junhua smiled radiantly.

[Ding! Li Junhua's affection toward his master has risen to adoration. Awarded 100000 villain points!]

[Ding! Ming Suwen's affection toward the host has risen to adoration. Awarded 300000 villain points!]

[Ding! Gained the allegiance of a peak emperor realm cultivator: Ming Suwen!]

This rewards villain points, too?

Su Linxian glanced at the system panel.

He turned his head toward the trembling figure in the corner.

Wang Guan.

His face was deathly pale, and he shook like chaff in a sieve.

Su Linxian examined his panel closely and shook his head slightly.

This man had yet to comprehend his extreme-rank great dao. He held little value for now.

No rush.

He had earned plenty of villain points this time.

There was no harm in letting a protagonist who had yet to mature grow a little longer.

Su Linxian said, "Let's go."

Yu Yao sprang out of the rubble and brushed the dust off herself, her golden slit pupils brimming with excitement.

She trotted after Su Linxian, still chattering about the splendor of the battle.

Li Junhua followed with an arm supporting Ming Suwen, while Ming Qingshu hurried after them.

The group disappeared beyond the gates of King-Sealing City.

Wang Guan remained where he stood, watching the white-robed figure recede into the distance. His legs gave way, and he finally collapsed to the ground.

He gasped for breath, his back already soaked in cold sweat.

Deep within his sea of consciousness, the aged voice let out a long breath.

"He's finally gone."

Wang Guan's voice still trembled. "The prodigies of the Emperor Clans are truly terrifying..."

"A Great Emperor so young..."

The aged voice fell silent for a long time.

"Little Guan, the vastness of the heavens far exceeds your imagination. What happened today may not be a bad thing for you. You saw with your own eyes what a true powerhouse looks like, and how a peak emperor realm existence was slain with a single sword strike. That is more precious than any fortuitous encounter."

Wang Guan clenched his fists, staring at the white figure that had vanished beyond the city gates. Something burned in the depths of his eyes.

When Su Linxian returned to the Su Family Emperor Clan with the others,

Shenyue Su was already waiting at the gates of Emperor City.

He raised an eyebrow at Li Junhua, Ming Suwen, and Ming Qingshu following behind Su Linxian, but asked no questions.

Su Linxian gave him a few brief instructions, told him to settle the three in, then went straight back to his bedchamber.

Li Junhua and Ming Suwen were given a quiet courtyard on the western side of Emperor City. Supporting Li Junhua as they passed through the courtyard gate, Ming Suwen glanced back in the direction Su Linxian had left and asked softly, "This master of yours... just who is he?"

Li Junhua leaned against the doorframe, the enormous Primordial Chaos Divine Tree above Emperor City reflected in his golden pupils. He remained silent for a while before speaking.

"The Divine Son of the Su Family Emperor Clan, son of Divine Emperor Su Qi. In a hundred years, he went from Supreme to the peak of the Great Emperor realm. Alone, with a single sword, he slew four ninth-level Great Emperors and wiped out four great orthodoxies. His Desolate Ancient Sacred Body has reached full mastery, and he possesses four upper-rank great daos."

He turned toward Ming Suwen, a bitter smile tugging at his lips.

"I've lived two lives and never seen anyone like him. Following him is no loss."

Ming Suwen said nothing more and simply helped him inside.

When Su Linxian returned to his bedchamber, Yu Yao had already claimed his bed. She hugged the quilt, rolled around twice, and fell asleep, her golden dragon horns rubbing against the pillow with faint rustling sounds.

Ignoring her, Su Linxian sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion in the center of the chamber, closed his eyes, and sank into his sea of consciousness.

He summoned the system panel within his sea of consciousness.

"System, check my villain points."

[Ding! Current villain points: 3000000]

Neither more nor less—exactly three million villain points.

[Dao-Origin Return Flow. Exchange price: 3000000 villain points. Exchange?]

With a thought, Su Linxian exchanged for it immediately.

[Ding! Exchange successful! Spent 3000000 villain points. Current balance: 0]

Hum.

A warm stream of information poured into his sea of consciousness. Every step and every detail of the Dao-Origin Return Flow method appeared clearly in his mind.

Use three order divine laws to construct the skeleton of the laws, nine extreme-rank great daos to fill out their flesh and blood, and twelve upper-rank great daos to weave their meridians.

Only by uniting all three could one create divine emperor laws that belonged solely to oneself!

Supreme Emperor Bell!

Su Linxian opened his eyes and summoned the Supreme Emperor Bell.

The small bronze bell flew from his palm and enveloped him. The temporal dao runes on its walls revolved ring after ring, stretching the flow of time within.

One day inside the bell was one year outside.

Su Linxian sat cross-legged within the bell and began refining.

The first upper-rank great dao was the red flame great dao.

Stripped from the You Family Second Ancestor's dao foundation, it contained the essence of a million years of cultivation in the dao of fire.

Su Linxian drew its origin into his sea of consciousness and began its first fusion with the law of strength. Scarlet-gold flames surged through his meridians, scorching every inch of his body. The golden divine markings of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body emerged, devouring and digesting every trace of flame, transforming it into nourishment for his body's metamorphosis.

Next came the profound nether and rift-splitting great daos...

Golden divine markings sank from the surface of his skin into his marrow. Every inch of his flesh shone with an eternal, undying luster. His blood and vitality surged within him like roaring true dragons. Each heartbeat sounded like a heavenly drum being struck, making the entire underground palace tremble faintly.

Once all four upper-rank great daos had been refined in turn, they formed an initial balance with the law of strength within his sea of consciousness.

Light intertwined and revolved in the depths of his sea of consciousness, forming a miniature vortex of dao laws.

Time raced by inside the bell.

Ten years, twenty years, fifty years, a hundred years.

Brilliant light filled Su Linxian's sea of consciousness, illuminating its entirety as brightly as day.

His cultivation remained at the peak emperor realm, but his combat strength had climbed to a level even he could scarcely measure!

Ten years later.

Deep within an unnamed Life Forbidden Zone somewhere in the myriad worlds of the heavens.

This forbidden zone lay hidden at the boundary between two Dao Domains, shrouded year-round in gray-white mist. Not a blade of grass grew within ten thousand miles.

Within the forbidden zone stood an enormous underground palace. Deep inside it lay a blood pool, its dark-red liquid churning and radiating vitality of unimaginable density.

No one knew how many tens of thousands of years it had existed, yet the liquid in the blood pool had never dried up, as though something at its bottom continuously supplied vitality.

"BOOM!!!"

A thunderous blast erupted outside the forbidden zone, shaking the entire world.

An enraged roar rang out from deep within the void. Ancient and terrifying, the voice carried unimaginable pressure, making the gray-white mist along the forbidden zone's outskirts surge and roll backward.

"People of the Emperor Clan! Our well water has never encroached upon your river water! Why do you trespass?!"

"Dao Qiniu, our clan's Divine Son needs the extreme-rank great dao you control!"

"Hand it over obediently!"

Twenty years later.

Su Linxian emerged from seclusion.

Stepping out of Emperor City, he turned into a streak of light and raced toward that Life Forbidden Zone.

He moved at extraordinary speed, ten thousand miles of void flashing beneath his feet. Every step carried him across countless mountains and rivers.

Within a few breaths, he appeared at the edge of the forbidden zone.

Gray-white mist surged like a tide, driven back a hundred yards by the dao aura surrounding him, revealing a desolate ancient path into the depths.

Twisted, withered ancient trees lined both sides of the path, their branches reaching skyward like ghostly claws, their bark engraved with the scars of time.

An ancient, decaying aura filled the air, as though no one had set foot upon this land since the dawn of antiquity.

In the distance, the aftershocks of battle shook the void. Following the auras deeper into the forbidden zone, Su Linxian soon saw the battlefield.

Yuan Feng and several Great Emperors of the Su Family surrounded a colossal creature, bombarding it fiercely!

"BOOM!"

"BANG!"

The enormous beast was pitch-black, its form resembling both tiger and bull. A single horn rose from its head, and bone spurs bristled along its back like a sinister forest. Its four limbs were thick as pillars, and every step cracked the earth into a spiderweb of fissures.

Dense dark-red light wreathed its body. Within that light, the patterns of an extreme-rank great dao flowed, each radiating a heart-stopping aura of destruction.

A Primordial Forbidden Beast!

The system panel appeared.

[Native beast king of the Life Forbidden Zone]

[Dao Qiniu · Million-year forbidden beast]

[Cultivation: Peak emperor realm]

[Controls an extreme-rank great dao · desolate ancient brute force great dao]

One extreme-rank great dao.

With peak emperor realm cultivation and the innate physique of a native beast king of the Life Forbidden Zone, its combat strength far surpassed human Great Emperors of the same realm.

Su Linxian looked at the order divine laws coiling around the giant beast's horn, and his pupils contracted slightly.

It was the purest great dao power he had sensed so far, yielding nothing even to the law of strength innate to his Desolate Ancient Sacred Body!

"People of the Emperor Clan, you've gone far too far!!" Qiuniu roared in fury.

Yuan Feng was the first to sense Su Linxian's aura.

He abruptly turned to look, surprise flashing through his clouded old eyes before giving way to undisguised delight.

"Your Highness! What brings you here?"

Su Linxian did not answer. His gaze settled on the Primordial Forbidden Beast as he asked, "How many great daos does this beast possess?"

Yuan Feng froze briefly, then seemed to understand something and spoke gravely.

"One on its horn, one among the bone spurs on its back, and one on each of its four hooves, along with several upper-rank great daos surrounding its body. This beast has cultivated for who knows how many epochs. The great dao origins within it are exceptionally abundant!"

"An ancient creature like this possesses an extraordinary wealth of great daos!"

"Quite a few indeed." Su Linxian nodded slightly.

Two extreme-rank great daos and several upper-rank great daos.

He was drawing ever closer to what Dao-Origin Return Flow required.

"Your Highness!" Yuan Feng hurriedly said. "This beast is immensely powerful. Only after joining forces with the other Great Emperors for ten years did this old servant manage to trap it. You..."

Su Linxian had already stepped onto the battlefield.

His aura was terrifying beyond measure, like an ancient star descending.

Dao Qiniu's gaze fell upon the white-robed figure.

Its dark-purple slit pupils contracted sharply, anger, wariness, and a trace of instinctive fear churning within them.

It could sense the aura emanating from the white-robed young man before it. Ten great daos intertwined and circulated, their depth and weight far exceeding those of any living being it had ever encountered.

"Who are you?" the Primordial Forbidden Beast asked, its voice rumbling like thunder through the forbidden zone's gray-white mist.

"The Su Family's Divine Son.

"Su Linxian raised his hand, and the Diya Sword coalesced in his palm.

"Perfect. I've been in seclusion for so long."

"I'll use you to limber up."

Dao Qiniu's pupils nearly burst.

It had lived for over a million years, reigning over this forbidden zone without ever encountering a worthy opponent.

Being besieged by several Su Family Great Emperors for ten years had already left it burning with rage. Now, a white-robed young man who looked barely two hundred years old dared speak of "limbering up" before it.

Savage light flared in Dao Qiniu's eyes. Every bone spur along its back stood erect, and its four hooves drove against the ground. Its enormous body hurtled toward Su Linxian, wrapped in the dark-red desolate ancient brute force great dao.

Its charge swept forward like a force crushing rotten wood.

"RUMBLE—"

Wherever it passed, the void shattered inch by inch. A bottomless trench was plowed into the earth, and more than half the forbidden zone's gray-white mist scattered.

That supremely pure brute force great dao power gathered upon its single horn. Dense ancient dao runes emerged across the horn's surface, each containing the true essence of destruction accumulated over a million years.

"Just what I wanted!"

Su Linxian's emperor eyes blazed. He did not retreat.

Tightening his grip on the Diya Sword, he charged straight forward.

Man and beast collided violently in the void.

"BOOM!"

The Diya Sword struck Qiuniu's single horn. Dark Gold Sword Intent clashed fiercely with the Desolate Ancient Brute Force Great Dao, sending the void collapsing and shattering!

Su Linxian was knocked back a hundred zhang, his feet carving two trenches through the void so deep their bottoms lay exposed.

Dao Qiniu was also driven back several dozen zhang, a faint white mark appearing on its horn.

"What a powerful physique."

Su Linxian lowered his gaze to his sword-wielding right hand. The web between his thumb and forefinger was slightly numb.

As expected of a beast king native to the Life Forbidden Zone. With its cultivation at the peak emperor realm and the brute force of an extreme-rank great dao, its physical strength alone approached that of a fully mastered Desolate Ancient Sacred Body!

This fellow's body...

How can it be on par with mine?!

A trace of horror also flashed through Dao Qiniu's beastly eyes.

That charge had carried enough force to severely injure an ordinary cultivator at the peak emperor realm, yet this white-robed young man had merely retreated a few steps!

Not even a single crack had appeared in the dark gold longsword in his hand!

It let out a low growl, the Desolate Ancient Brute Force Great Dao surging wildly around it. Dark red light condensed over its body into a layer of solid battle armor. It planted all four hooves on the ground and charged again, its momentum thirty percent greater than before, like thunder smashing through an army!

Boom!

Su Linxian grew serious as well.

He drove the Tai'e Sword Art to its fullest.

The Diya Sword became a streak of dark gold light in his hand as he battled fiercely with the Primordial Forbidden Beast in the void.

Sword light crisscrossed and the beast's shadow wheeled, every collision sending a ring of destructive ripples exploding through the depths of the forbidden zone.

The earth cracked and caved in under the aftershocks of their battle. The ancient trees remaining in the forbidden zone were uprooted, and a dense web of cracks spread across the underground palace's vaulted ceiling.

"Tai'e Sword Art!"

The longer Su Linxian fought, the more exhilarated he became.

This Primordial Forbidden Beast's physical strength was truly terrifying. Every head-on clash stirred the origin power of his Desolate Ancient Sacred Body into greater activity. Golden divine patterns flickered ceaselessly across his skin, as though some ancient battle spirit had been awakened.

Boom—!!!

The entire forbidden zone burst apart beneath that blow.

The earth split into an abyss ten thousand zhang deep. The underground palace's vaulted ceiling collapsed completely, and dark red liquid from the blood pool shot into the sky before falling as a rain of blood.

The aftershocks swept across ten thousand li. Every remaining ancient tree in the forbidden zone was reduced to dust, and the gray-white mist was scattered entirely, revealing the earth below, riddled with wounds.

A sword wound deep enough to expose bone ran across Dao Qiniu's back. Dark red beast blood poured out like a waterfall as its enormous body staggered back several hundred zhang, its four hooves stamping four deep pits into the earth.

Su Linxian exhaled a breath of stale air and planted the Diya Sword before him.

"That felt good."

He looked at Dao Qiniu, its entire body drenched in blood, and spoke with a broad grin.

"Want another round?"

At the edge of the battlefield, the twenty-odd emperors of the Su Family behind Yuan Feng were utterly dumbstruck.

"His Highness the Divine Son... suppressed a Primordial Forbidden Beast with pure physical strength?"

"That is a Primordial Forbidden Beast! An innate creature born at the dawn of antiquity! Empowered by the Brute Force Great Dao, even with all of us old men joining forces, we could only trap it, not inflict any truly serious injury!"

"But His Highness the Divine Son did it alone... Just what level has his body reached?"

"The Desolate Ancient Sacred Body... Once fully mastered, the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body is actually this terrifying!"