Perfect World: The First King of the Immortal Ancient Era

This handsome youth from the Foreign Realm truly possessed extraordinary talent. Given time, he would likely become another titan among kings.

Facing divine flames that held life amid endless destruction, Lin Yue's heaven-reaching Dharma Form shone with black and white light. He began resisting the two opposing forces within those flames, even evolving worlds within them.

"Soul Fiend Cauldron, suppress him!"

Immortal King Yin Sha likewise summoned his ancient artifact. Terrifying pulses shook the entire world, as though they could knock the souls out of all living things in the next instant. This single move displayed the terrifying might of a supreme king.

Behind him, Immortal King Fukui's Black Bone Tower joined the assault.

One shook souls, the other refined them. They truly made a perfect combination.

With a divine furnace added to them, their might became terrifying. Beneath the radiance of the three ancient artifacts, the space around Lin Yue twisted, cut off from ancient history itself.

"Martial Dao Divine Infant, suppress them!"

Facing two ancient artifacts that targeted the soul, Lin Yue dared not be careless even though his flesh had now attained kingship. This weakness could not be remedied in a short time.

"Nine Netherworld Purgatory, Calamity Heaven Shackles, Heaven-Severing Lock!"

After damaging his own life essence in their last encounter, Immortal King Youyu had spent years recovering. His long gray hair had returned to its former condition, and he had even advanced further.

"Human Immortal Martial Dao, rise! Gods within my body, awaken!"

Against four kings working together, Lin Yue held nothing back. Every god within his body bearing his likeness rose to its feet. Among them, a golden lotus evolved from a god radiated even more terrifying might, its divine flames seemingly capable of burning everything away.

Immortal light shone outward from within. The light of an immortal, fused with Martial Dao True Intent, spread from his Dharma Form in every direction. The entire world fell under the influence of a domain belonging solely to an Immortal King.

Things were different now. With his kingly domain and invincible divine power, Lin Yue struck with a palm that almost surpassed the might of a kingly titan, scattering the endless divine flames.

The force of that single palm drove back the ancient artifacts of three Immortal Kings.

Then he raised his hand and punched toward Youyu!

"Damn it, he has become a king! Quick! Block this punch together!"

Immortal King Yan Cang cried out in alarm. Feeling the extreme dao divine power within that palm, his entire being trembled, and his primordial spirit nearly left his body. This was terrifying. The force had begun penetrating from outside to within, injuring a king's primordial spirit. It was unimaginable.

Before Lin Yue's punch even moved, Yan Cang, a supreme king, sensed what was coming. Terrifying power was obliterating every divine mark. Chaos spread, while Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent evolved through cycles of reincarnation. Even heaven and earth could no longer imprint its phenomenon. If Youyu faced this punch alone, the consequences would be unthinkable.

Unlike Lin Yue's kingly body before, this time they could all feel the might of an Immortal King's domain. If anything still seemed wrong, the only strange point was that they could not sense a king's aura from Lin Yue's primordial spirit.

But that did nothing to diminish this strike, which rivaled a titan's.

Unmatched. This was the invincible divine might Lin Yue displayed after his flesh attained kingship.

"So what if you have become a king? I am a king, and I will not suffer humiliation!"

"Fool...!"

Yan Cang roared!

Endless chains stretched across the world from Immortal King Youyu, seeking to imprison Lin Yue as they had before.

"Heh. A king cannot be humiliated, but I can? Heavenly Slaughter!"

Ignoring the Soul Fiend Cauldron, Skyvault Divine Furnace, and Black Bone Tower descending over him again, Lin Yue unleashed his supremely domineering, invincible divine fist.

The world seemed to freeze at that moment. Space had stopped beneath the fist's might, and even time could not escape.

Boom...

To the horror of all things, Immortal King Youyu's shackles of Dao laws shattered and crumbled, turning directly into ashes and fragments that vanished between heaven and earth.

Immortal King Youyu's kingly body exploded beneath that single punch. The space where he stood caved inward, and his kingly blood stained heaven and earth. His golden blood radiated the five-colored golden brilliance unique to kings, dazzling above the entire Boundary Sea.

Energy surged like waves, raising endless storms that swept across every reach of the Boundary Sea.

The sight turned some kings in the Boundary Sea pale. At least a dozen kingly divine senses watched from hundreds of millions of miles away.

Four Immortal Kings from the Foreign Realm had descended. Their might made it impossible not to notice them. Besides, Lin Yue showed no sign of fleeing, so the four kings had no reason to conceal themselves.

Yet this sight sent chills down some observers' spines. Lin Yue's opening attack was like a titan's strike. Though Immortal King Youyu was merely an ordinary king, even the most ordinary king possessed a flawless Dao fruit. He was still an unrivaled king! His kingly body had been shattered with one punch. How much better would they fare?

"That is a titan! A true titan! Today, we have witnessed another titan among kings rise."

"Indeed. Though I cannot sense the pressure of a kingly primordial spirit, that might undoubtedly belongs to a titan. His invincible flesh and divine power even surpass those of ordinary titans. To think he truly succeeded!"

"Heh heh, Lu Kong is in trouble. How does one erase karma with a titan? I'm very curious!"

"Hmph. To erase such karma, he can only die and have his Dao extinguished. What I did not expect was for karmic retribution to arrive so quickly. It came to pass in a mere ten thousand years. Across the ages, I have seen many titans rise, but this is the first time I have seen karma complete its cycle so swiftly. Lu Kong is still too young. He has no idea what a titan's potential means, or what it means to be a son of an epoch."

At that moment, hundreds of millions of miles away, someone fled frantically through the void, wishing he had two more legs. He even resorted to blood escape to get farther from this place. Had Lin Yue cared to look, he would have recognized the king from the Immortal Domain who had stabbed him in the back.

Lu Kong's face looked ready to bleed. Back then, he had taken advantage of Lin Yue's predicament to backstab him. When Lin Yue escaped, his satisfaction had turned to fury, and he had vowed to spare no effort in killing him the next time they met.

He had never imagined that when he saw Lin Yue again, his mind would go blank, leaving him with nothing but the desire to flee.

The Boundary Sea truly was terrifying!

"Aah...!"

An earth-shaking roar rang out. Immortal King Youyu, reduced to a golden primordial spirit, had gone mad.

"Impossible! Ant, you are nothing but an ant! My will becomes chains; myriad calamities descend upon you!"

Meeting Lin Yue again after so many years, Immortal King Youyu found that his attacks could barely harm him anymore. He could only pin his hopes on burning his innate divine essence.

"Damn it! Attack with everything you have! This is a titan's might!"

Immortal King Yin Sha looked panicked. Though he could sense Lin Yue's kingly domain, he could not feel the pressure of a kingly primordial spirit. He had never expected Lin Yue to shatter a king's body with a single attack. As a supreme king who had roamed the Boundary Sea for years, he had witnessed such might before. This divine power almost surpassed that of titans. No one would dare dispute calling it the greatest in the kingly realm.

If they did not fight for their lives against Lin Yue now, they would likely all be buried in the Boundary Sea.

Chapter 71: Battling Four Kings

"By my true life, I become flame, melting heaven and refining earth."

Immortal King Fu Yan Cang had already entered the ranks of supreme kings. Facing a titan like Lin Yue, whose might was unmatched and whose bearing was domineering, he directly expended his innate essence to elevate his endless divine flames.

His entire body swelled like a fireball. The fireball became a vast world, where endless life and death, destruction and rebirth evolved and cycled simultaneously.

His further-advanced Dao of divine fire made Fire Island boil once more. The island had begun falling dormant after Jin Ling's final divine sense dissipated, but now its flames burned even more fiercely. After all, though Jin Ling had been a supreme being of his generation and might even have reached the utmost limits of Immortal Kings, overwhelming others with his might, he was dead.

Yan Cang, however, was a living supreme king unleashing his full power. The invisible Dao laws around him broke apart, shattering freely.

"Vanish into nothingness with this world, Lin Yue!"

Immortal King Yan Cang advanced directly, his body like a blazing furnace. Fire Island turned to ashes. Beneath those terrifying divine flames, the Boundary Sea's black waters evaporated into rising black mist, which was then burned away as well.

"Come, Yan Cang!"

Lin Yue roared, as though he meant to shout out all the endless humiliation of these past years.

The gods within his body erupted to their utmost limits. A golden divine lotus imprinted by a god began manifesting from within him.

Caw...

An earth-shaking cry of a divine bird split the sky. Even the Boundary Sea's towering waves dissolved beneath it. Within Lin Yue, the golden divine lotus suddenly transformed into a Three-Legged Golden Crow and flew out, hovering above his head like a golden sun.

The Golden Crow clan's endless divine flames likewise burned through heaven and earth, devouring Yan Cang's divine fire with even fiercer might.

"Damn it! Those are the Golden Crow clan's divine flames, the Solar Essence Flame! How is this possible? Lin Yue, you cannot be a Golden Crow! Impossible!"

Immortal King Yan Cang's expression darkened. With his Flame World descending, he had thought that even if he could not burn Lin Yue to death, he would at least burn away all his divine essence. Instead, a heaven-shaking Golden Crow phenomenon had risen above Lin Yue's head, opposing his Flame World in such a domineering fashion and even devouring his divine flames. It shattered his composure. These flames completely countered his own. How could this be?

Of all the world's fires, the sun's divine flame reigned supreme, like the origin of every flame. Combined with Lin Yue's terrifying Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent, it swallowed and destroyed everything.

"Heavenly Slaughter!"

Lin Yue punched. Yin and yang energies, Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent, and undying, imperishable divine marks opened up worlds.

Boom...

Yan Cang's Flame World collapsed beneath that punch. Even the Boundary Sea's eerie gray mist was burned clean by the spreading divine flame energy, revealing the stars floating above. In an instant, the sky cleared for ten thousand miles. One could imagine how terrifying those divine flames were.

Yet Lin Yue's divine fist lost none of its might as it smashed straight toward his opponent's chest.

"Do not be so arrogant!"

"Soul Fiend Cauldron, seize the heavenly soul!"

Immortal King Yin Sha's summoned Soul Fiend Cauldron had already reached Lin Yue. It enveloped him directly, tugging at his soul with endless soul-refining power.

"Martial Dao Divine Infant, suppress it!"

"Soul-Refining Tower, refine him! My body becomes the source, drawing in the souls of heaven and earth!"

At the same time, Immortal King Fukui's bone tower descended to suppress him.

More terrifying still, after expending his essence, Immortal King Fukui transformed into an enormous black hole hanging above the Boundary Sea, carrying endless gravitational force. Its terrifying suction drew in only intangible souls and essence, ignoring all tangible bodies. It even isolated the entire surrounding world of the Boundary Sea.

Even the Golden Crow above Lin Yue's head began showing signs of instability.

It was not that Fukui was stronger than Yan Cang, but that this secret art seemed designed specifically to target that endless essence.

Indeed, no king's secret art could be underestimated. Otherwise, one would die bitterly and descend into the Nine Netherworlds.

A Flame World illuminating heaven and earth had just been destroyed by the divine fist, only for another expanse of the world to fall beneath an enormous black hole. Moreover, this black hole's pull targeted Lin Yue's weakness: his primordial spirit.

Boom...

Even as a titan, Lin Yue's divine fist slowed a fraction, allowing Yan Cang to dodge it. Without interference, Immortal King Yan Cang might not have escaped unscathed, for the place where he had stood was blasted into utter nothingness.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Endless chains extended from Immortal King Youyu's body, locking down Lin Yue's heaven-reaching Dharma Form.

The four Immortal Kings attacked simultaneously. Immortal King Youyu had moved first, yet his attack was the last to reach Lin Yue. There was a clear gap between his strength and that of the other three.

"Hahahaha...! You're finished! You're finished!"

Immortal King Youyu, left with only his primordial spirit, laughed madly.

"Are you that desperate to die?"

Lin Yue was furious now. This bastard disgusted him like a rat.

"Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent, Void Shattering!"

Feeling as though he were being pulled apart, Lin Yue suppressed the entire world with his divine power. His Void Shattering punch interwove life-and-death ultimate intent, seeking to break through the boundary and displaying the might to annihilate primordial spirits outright.

"Quick! Attack together! Youyu is in danger!"

Yan Cang roared! Even without a kingly primordial spirit, Lin Yue's interwoven Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent could still injure primordial spirits.

There was another saying in the Boundary Sea: never lightly provoke a titan. Even if such figures had weaknesses, they were not people supreme kings could manipulate. Some extreme dao powers possessed by titans could even destroy everything. Just as now, the fusion of Lin Yue's extreme dao divine power and Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent had produced a force that transcended boundaries.

Heaven-Burning Earth-Boiling! A divine ability that melted and refined the tangible bodies of all things.

Soul Returns to Heaven and Earth! A divine ability that melted and refined the tangible souls of all things.

It had to be said that these four Immortal Kings from the Foreign Realm worked together seamlessly, almost as though their combination had been designed against Lin Yue. Ordinarily, though a titan might not completely overwhelm a supreme king, he would never be forced onto the defensive like this.

Two supreme kings attacked simultaneously. Their power to annihilate everything actually stirred the River of Time, causing it to manifest above the Boundary Sea.

This was not a divine ability through which kings used secret arts to travel through the River of Time. Rather, extreme dao power, elevated to its utmost limit, had stirred the power of the ages.

The greatest sound was silent; the greatest form was shapeless!

The three joined forces against Lin Yue's punch. At that instant, the Boundary Sea's waters actually stopped moving, and its towering waves hung motionless in the void.

For time, space, the ages, and all things tangible and intangible had fallen silent at that moment, unable to manifest before their eyes.

There was no sound. Everything vanished into the River of Time. Yet hundreds of millions of miles away, beneath the terrified gazes of countless kings, the two supreme kings, Immortal King Yan Cang and Immortal King Yin Sha, were hurled backward.

The two supreme kings' bodies cracked open, and countless drops of precious blood stained the sky. Even two supreme kings could hardly withstand a titan's extreme dao punch head-on.

Whoosh...

The Boundary Sea returned to calm! The great waves suspended in the void crashed down once more.

"Aah...!"

Immortal King Youyu, reduced to his primordial spirit, had thought he would escape unharmed. Unfortunately, the Void Shattering punch imbued with Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent broke through the limits between the intangible and tangible, splitting his primordial spirit. He let out an earth-shaking scream. This was a primordial spirit injury, something even a king could barely endure.

Unfortunately, it still could not kill him outright.

"Damn it! A king's primordial spirit is such a nuisance!"

"Hahaha... cough... Lin Yue, a king's spirit endures myriad calamities without perishing. It's useless. In the end, you will still die, and your Dao will be extinguished."

"I don't believe that! If once isn't enough, I'll kill you a hundred times, a thousand times. Let's see whether you can withstand that kind of bombardment!"

"Life-and-Death Ultimate Intent, Void Shattering!"