Two Emperor Arts Perfected to Transcendence-Now I Lack Nothing!

[Ding! Congratulations, Master, on killing Ancestor Tai'a and gaining 120,000 Villain Points!]

Ancestor Tai'a's dying scream shattered the void, carrying across hundreds of millions of miles.

Even Quasi-Emperor Kongming and the others fleeing for their lives heard that agonized roar!

"Tai'a?!"

Quasi-Emperor Kongming's heart and lungs seized.

Breathing raggedly, he glanced back toward Ancestor Tai'a.

"Ancestor Tai'a is dead?!"

"Damn it!! What exactly did that little bastard obtain in the forbidden zone?"

"How did he break through to the emperor realm in an instant?!"

"Run! We must return to the Four Extremities Divine Sect and report this to His Majesty! That little bastard must have obtained some earth-shattering—"

Before he could finish.

A streak of sword light tore toward him.

Boom!

Quasi-Emperor Kongming!

Fell!

[Ding! Congratulations, Master, on killing Quasi-Emperor Kongming and gaining 80,000 Villain Points!]

Su Linxian's expression remained calm as he looked in another direction without turning back.

"Next."

"Whose turn is it?"

Within the void.

One Quasi-Emperor after another spilled blood across the sky!

The terrifying aura of the peak emperor realm swept forth, leaving every living being in the Ziwei Domain prostrate and trembling!

Each time Su Linxian flickered out of sight.

Another Quasi-Emperor's aura was erased from the Ziwei Domain entirely.

"No... the ancestor backing me will never let you off!!"

Boom!!

With the death of the last man.

Thirteen Quasi-Emperors...

Had all fallen!

From beginning to end.

It had taken no more than half an hour.

[Ding! Killed Quasi-Emperor Qingming, killed Spirit Venerable Jiuyun...]

[Congratulations, Master, on gaining 720,000 Villain Points!]

[Ding! Items obtained: Quasi-Emperor-grade Storage Ring x13!]

Su Linxian stood amid the blood mist filling the sky.

His white robes remained spotless, his expression indifferent, and the imperial might surrounding him was as fathomless as an abyss and vast as the sea.

Su Linxian said coolly.

"This is only the beginning."

"Not one of the orthodoxies backing you will escape!"

Among these thirteen Quasi-Emperors.

Few had sects behind them that possessed emperor-realm cultivators.

If the system had rewarded him with cultivation at merely the first level of the emperor realm.

He would probably have needed to exercise some restraint.

But the system had gone ahead...

And given him peak emperor realm cultivation right from the start!

With such strength, he stood supreme throughout the entire Ziwei Domain, his word absolute!!

Hum.

Su Linxian waved a hand casually.

Thirteen Storage Rings floated before him, shimmering with light, each bearing the seal of a Quasi-Emperor-grade restriction.

His imperial sense probed inside.

Crack.

Those restrictions might as well not have existed before him.

At the lightest touch, they shattered.

Spiritual radiance surged into the heavens, illuminating the entire Star Sea.

Whoosh—

Spirit stones poured down like a torrential storm, pills piled up like mountains, emperor-grade herbs swayed with radiant light, and quasi-emperor artifacts rang out in metallic contention...

One billion four hundred million supreme-grade spirit stones, three ten-thousand-year-old emperor-grade herbs, nine quasi-emperor artifacts...

Along with countless cultivation methods, divine abilities, and heavenly treasures.

The vast ocean of resources left Su Linxian, who had seen little of the world, somewhat tongue-tied.

"These people from the orthodoxies really are dripping with wealth..."

What did 1.4 billion supreme-grade spirit stones mean?

As the Dao Son of the Tianxuan Orthodoxy.

His annual cultivation stipend had amounted to only a hundred thousand supreme-grade spirit stones!

Su Linxian swept his gaze over the immense trove before him.

He murmured.

"At my current realm, ordinary artifacts and pills are already useless to me."

"My immediate priority is to replace the supreme-realm divine abilities and cultivation methods I practice."

"Only divine abilities and cultivation methods of Quasi-Emperor grade or higher can bring out the full fighting power of the peak emperor realm!"

Su Linxian closed his eyes.

His imperial sense swiftly swept through the cultivation methods and divine abilities.

Finally, it settled on two scrolls.

"These two!"

Su Linxian opened his eyes and drew them straight out of the pile.

One was a jade slip, its ancient characters austere, sword qi crisscrossing across it.

The other was a hide scroll covered in savage markings, as though a primordial beast were roaring within its depths.

[Emperor · Tai'e Sword Art]

[Emperor · Savage Elephant Divine Refining Power]

The Tai'e Sword Art was the foundation upon which the Tai'e Sword Sect had been established, divided into nine levels.

Its power was terrifying beyond compare, making it one of the foremost offensive divine abilities in the Ziwei Domain!

The Savage Elephant Divine Refining Power, meanwhile, had come from Quasi-Emperor Chiyang.

This exceedingly ancient art was a divine body-refining method that Quasi-Emperor Chiyang had obtained from a primordial divine tomb.

Cultivating it was agonizing beyond measure, requiring hundreds upon thousands of temperings; at its pinnacle, one could manifest a primordial giant elephant, traverse the universe in the flesh, and trample the starry sky to pieces.

It fused the purest savage power between heaven and earth into flesh, blood, bones, and marrow!

The corners of Su Linxian's mouth lifted, and he smiled with narrowed eyes.

"One divine ability, one body-refining art—offense and defense, both covered."

"These will do."

"System, spend Villain Points to comprehend them!"

[Ding... Emperor-grade divine ability Tai'e Sword Art detected. Comprehending it to perfection requires 300,000 Villain Points!]

[Perfection grants comprehension of Tai'e Sword Intent!]

[Current Villain Points: 1,100,000]

[Spend points?]

Su Linxian said, "Three hundred thousand Villain Points?"

"That's not all that much."

"Spend them."

[Ding! Villain Points successfully spent!]

[Comprehending the Tai'e Sword Art!]

Meanwhile.

News of the deaths of thirteen quasi-emperor-realm cultivators.

Was like a boulder hurled into an ancient well, instantly raising a tremendous upheaval.

The great orthodoxies throughout the Ziwei Domain erupted into turmoil!

Boom!!

An emperor's aura shot into the heavens from the depths of the Tai'e Sword Sect, wrath transforming into a sky full of raining swords that sliced ten thousand miles of clouds to shreds.

"Who dared kill our Ancestor Tai'a!!"

Immediately afterward.

Boom!!

Another emperor's aura exploded from the Chiyang Holy Land, a crimson sea of flames spreading across the heavens and scorching the star domain.

"My son, Quasi-Emperor Chiyang, has fallen?! Who was it! Who did this!!"

"Everyone in the Chiyang Holy Land, find the murderer and avenge my son!!"

A third, a fourth, a fifth...

Seven emperor auras erupted simultaneously from different directions across the Ziwei Domain, intertwining into an all-encompassing pressure that forced the cultivators throughout the star domain to prostrate themselves, trembling in terror.

"Emperors from seven sects have flown into a rage at once..."

"The heavens over the Ziwei Domain are about to change..."

"Which emperor could have done this? Someone capable of killing thirteen Quasi-Emperors at once is no ordinary figure..."

"Could it be someone who emerged from the forbidden zone..."

Countless discussions sprang up throughout the Star Sea.

Thirteen Quasi-Emperors had fallen on the same day; nothing so terrifying had occurred in the Ziwei Domain for millions of years!

With seven emperor-level powers implicated, whoever the murderer was—even an emperor—would face the frenzied vengeance of seven emperors!

However.

At that moment, Su Linxian knew nothing of this within the forbidden zone.

Or, more accurately.

He did not care at all.

Within a forbidden zone of emptiness and chaos, Su Linxian hovered, his emperor body radiating surging power, his blood and vital energy like dragons, keeping all the surrounding death qi at bay!

Suddenly!

[Ding!]

[Tai'e Sword Art comprehension complete!]

[Current status: perfection]

[Additional comprehension: Tai'e Sword Intent!]

Boom!

A thunderous explosion erupted within Su Linxian's soul sea.

Hundreds of millions of sword truths surged in like raging dragons plunging into the sea!

They rampaged through Su Linxian's soul sea, each strand of sword intent engraving itself into his marrow, bloodline, and even his soul!

Dense sword patterns emerged all over his body.

Radiating an edge sharp enough to cleave the heavens!

The entire forbidden zone was torn open with countless rifts by that invisible sword qi.

The Tai'e Sword Art had reached perfection!

At the same time.

An ancient, savage power erupted from the depths of Su Linxian's Dantian.

[Savage Elephant Divine Refining Power comprehension complete!]

[Current status: perfection]

[Additional comprehension: Barbaric tyrannical qi]

The Savage Elephant Divine Refining Power circulated furiously.

His bones shattered and reformed.

His flesh tore apart and grew anew.

"Aah!!"

Su Linxian abruptly threw back his head and let out a thunderous roar.

All the death qi within hundreds of millions of miles was shattered by the sound!

Every time his body was reforged, it became ten times stronger than before!

A hundred times, a thousand times...

Ten thousand times!

Su Linxian remained utterly still.

Boom! Boom!...

Barbaric qi washed over him in wave after wave!

Wherever his aura reached, ripples spread through the void. The ripples swelled into waves, the waves surged into tides, and the entire Star Sea trembled faintly.

His combat power soared to a terrifying, utterly monstrous height!

An unknown amount of time passed.

Only then did Su Linxian slowly open his eyes.

His gaze pierced ten thousand miles of void like two divine swords drawn from their sheaths!

Ancient, primal patterns emerged across his flawless Emperor Body.

Su Linxian clenched his fist.

Crack!

The instant his fist tightened, the space within a radius of ten thousand miles let out a mournful cry in unison.

Tai'e Sword Art, perfected!

Barbaric Elephant Body-Refining Force, perfected!

Feeling the surging emperor power throughout his body, Su Linxian's heart churned like a rising tide, and his eyes burned with fervor.

"Now I..."

"Have everything I need!"