I Have Nothing Left! Refining a Divine Law and an Emperor Realm Puppet!

Li Junhua stood on the platform, looking down at the figure kneeling before him.

Suddenly, he spoke calmly.

"Yang Kong."

"Do you know why you lost?"

Yang Kong froze.

Li Junhua raised his hand.

Golden blood energy gathered in his palm, forming an enormous golden palm print.

He did not strike Yang Kong.

Instead, he slammed his palm down beneath his feet.

BOOM!!!

The entire Arena shuddered violently beneath that strike.

The platform exploded, rubble flying as a crater dozens of yards deep tore open amid the thunderous roar.

The dome cracked, and the stands collapsed.

The thousand-year-old pavilions teetered amid the tremors, their tiles falling like rain.

Dust billowed into the sky, blotting out the heavens.

"That power?!"

The shock wave hurled Yang Kong away, smashing him into the ruins.

He struggled to lift his head and stared at the Arena shattered by a single palm strike.

His pupils abruptly contracted.

He understood!

Li Junhua's strength...

From the very beginning, he could have crushed him to dust with one strike!

The bitter struggle, the narrow margin, being just one move short...

It had all been a lie!!!

From start to finish, he had been toyed with!

"You..."

Yang Kong breathed raggedly, his eyes bloodshot as he roared, his voice distorted beyond anything human.

"You set me up!!"

"Divine Son of the Su Family!!"

"Bastard!!!!"

His Dao heart shattered in that instant!

Li Junhua shook his head, then turned and left as well.

After he was gone.

An Armored Guard approached, holding a rolled-up bill, and presented it to Yang Kong without expression.

"Yang Kong, you owe Blood Cliff City a total of two hundred and forty million Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones. With interest, that comes to three hundred million. How would you like to pay?"

Kneeling on the ground, Yang Kong slowly raised his head.

His eyes were cold, like a pool of dead water, without the slightest ripple of emotion.

"I don't have it."

The Armored Guard frowned and was about to speak again.

"Since I don't have it..."

Suddenly!

Yang Kong sprang up.

Blood-colored baleful energy gathered frantically in his palm, forming a dark red blade of light that slashed savagely toward the Armored Guard's throat.

"Die!!!"

The Armored Guard never even had a chance to scream before his head flew high into the air. Blood gushed from his severed neck, drenching Yang Kong!

Yang Kong stood amid the rain of blood, soaked from head to toe. His face was as pale as paper, yet a sickly smile hung on his lips.

"I have nothing left."

"The slaughter divine law is gone, Zi He has left..."

"What else do you expect me to pay you with!"

His laughter grew louder and more frenzied.

Blood-colored baleful energy surged wildly around him, blasting away all the surrounding rubble.

"Since I have nothing left—"

"Then I'll take it all back!!"

Yang Kong charged into the streets of Blood Cliff City. Blood-colored baleful energy condensed around him into countless dark red blades of light, blasting indiscriminately in every direction.

"Ah!!"

"What are you doing?!"

"No, don't...!"

The vendors on either side of the street were caught completely off guard. Some had their chests pierced by blades of light, some had half their bodies sliced away, and some became clouds of blood mist before they could even scream!

Yang Kong slaughtered his way onward, his eyes filled with madness, as though he intended to drag everyone in Blood Cliff City into the grave with him.

"Hahahaha!"

"To hell with your damned rules!!"

"In this world, the strong reign supreme!!"

[Ding! Heaven-Destined Protagonist Yang Kong's Dao heart has shattered. Gained 50,000 Villain Points!]

[Ding! Heaven-Destined Protagonist Yang Kong has succumbed to demonic madness. Gained 30,000 Villain Points!]

Hmm?

Aboard the Spirit Boat, Su Linxian raised an eyebrow.

What was going on with this Heaven-Destined Protagonist?

"Bastard!!" Beside him, Luo Wutian abruptly rose to his feet, his expression livid.

"That fellow truly has some nerve!!"

Luo Wutian turned and bowed deeply to Su Linxian.

"Your Highness, Yang Kong has been killing and robbing people. He is now running rampant through Blood Cliff City, slaughtering at will. I must take my leave for a moment."

So that was it...

Su Linxian's lips curved upward. He nodded and said indifferently.

"Go."

Luo Wutian turned into a streak of light and pursued Yang Kong in the direction he had fled.

Standing nearby, Li Junhua cupped his hands slightly.

"Congratulations on obtaining the slaughter divine law, my lord."

Su Linxian said, "I still need one more."

"Li Junhua, when will you be able to restore your cultivation?"

Li Junhua considered for a moment.

"In roughly a thousand years, I am confident I can attain the Dao and become a Great Emperor."

A thousand years?

Su Linxian narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Too slow. The Otherworld Passage will open soon. If you lack resources, request them from the clan. Improve as much as you can."

Li Junhua's expression sharpened, and he bowed in acknowledgment.

"Understood, my lord."

Yu Yao was leaning against the windowsill. She sidled closer to offer a little flattery.

"You're amazing, Master! You're already this strong with just one slaughter divine law. Once you gather all three, just imagine!"

"Becoming a Divine Emperor will be nailed down for certain!"

"When that happens, you'll slap everything from the Otherworld flying!"

Su Linxian tapped her on the head and laughed.

"You really are something."

"While I'm in seclusion refining the slaughter divine law, you need to cultivate too."

"Otherwise, you might be so weak that the otherworldly races really do cook you."

Yu Yao was a Dragon Carp, an exotic beast with extraordinary innate gifts. Even without transforming into a dragon, she would not necessarily be much weaker than the divine beasts of heaven and earth.

Unfortunately, she was far too mischievous by nature and never cultivated properly.

Yu Yao pouted.

"I won't get cooked!"

"Who would dare cook me! Who could cook me! I have you protecting me, Master!"

Su Linxian said, "..."

After returning to the Su Family.

Su Linxian immediately called up the system panel.

"System, check my Villain Points."

"Ding! Current Villain Points: 2,700,000."

This trip had yielded quite a haul.

With a thought, Su Linxian acted.

He turned his right hand over.

The primordial true beast origin appeared in his hand.

He purchased four stellar origins from the System Shop.

[Ding! Villain Points spent, Villain Points spent: 1,200,000. Current remaining Villain Points: 1,500,000!]

A mass of intensely blazing light appeared in his palm, radiating heat fierce enough to burn a Quasi-Emperor to ashes.

Su Linxian infused that mass of light into the Primordial True Beast Embryo.

"Gurgle, gurgle."

Nourished by the stellar origins, the embryo trembled slightly. The chaotic energy within churned, and a vague silhouette could just barely be seen wriggling inside.

Su Linxian looked at the still-slumbering embryo.

He sighed softly.

"Just like that, over a million Villain Points are gone."

"You really are a gold-devouring beast."

"If you aren't as powerful as the legends claim, I really will cook you."

As though it had heard him, the true beast embryo quivered slightly and let out a faint, pleading sound.

Su Linxian chuckled and put it away.

He sank his entire awareness into the depths of his sea of consciousness.

Hum.

The slaughter divine law emerged from his Dantian.

The dark red strand of light was about a foot long, its surface flowing with densely packed ancient Dao patterns.

Every pattern contained a sharpness powerful enough to cleave the heavens apart.

His divine sense reached into it.

Rumble!

The origin of the slaughter divine law unfolded within his sea of consciousness like a boundless ocean of blood.

Within that ocean, countless dark red blades of light surged, sliced, and shredded. Every blade was a fragment of the order of the Dao of slaughter!

"Dao-Origin Return Flow!"

"Refine!"

Outside the hall, Yu Yao pursed her lips and sat cross-legged in the courtyard.

After some thought, she took Blood Child's corpse out of the system space.

The corpse was blood red from head to toe. Though its life was already gone, a dense aura of the peak Emperor Realm still lingered around it.

Yu Yao tilted her head and studied it for a while, her golden slit pupils lighting up.

"Blood Fiend Child, peak Emperor Realm cultivation, and a Blood Escape Technique that let him dare provoke even the Emperor Clans..."

"Master said refining him into a puppet would be a good idea, so I'll give it a try!"

She extended her small hands. Golden dragon patterns streamed from her fingertips and sank into Blood Child's corpse.

Blood Child's corpse shuddered slightly, and the blood-colored baleful energy surrounding it began circulating along the dragon patterns.

Yu Yao muttered as she refined it.

"I'm a Dragon Carp, after all. My bloodline power is no worse than those artifact refiners'..."

"Refining a puppet shouldn't be too hard, right..."