"They're on the move..."
Feng Jiu's eyes flickered as he headed for the far north of the Northern Region at the Killing Saint's command, launching a major operation.
He was not alone. More than half the Assassin Heavenly Court's forces had mobilized. All its kings moved out, with a Killing Saint overseeing them, following certain clues in relentless pursuit.
They wove a net that stretched from heaven to earth, intent on catching a Sacred Body who deserved a thousand cuts and slicing him into ten thousand pieces!
There was more than one such net. Two others spread at the same time, belonging to Hell and Human World!
In the past, the three assassin organizations had been bitter rivals in the same trade, all too ready to stab one another in the back.
But after a certain "Sacred Body" took action, they reached a rare consensus, their minds united and their strength directed toward a single goal. Every Killer King emerged, and Killing Saints raced across the land, practically ready to turn the entire Eastern Wasteland upside down!
They made no attempt to conceal themselves. Their blatant movements frightened the world's many holy lands so badly that none dared even breathe loudly.
When had anyone ever witnessed such a spectacle before?
Assassins tore around with bloodshot eyes, as though someone had blown up their ancestral graves and ancestral halls!
Of course, the bystanders of the Eastern Wasteland all knew the root of the matter. It was all because of a Sacred Body!
That Sacred Body was astonishingly fierce. He forcibly unearthed one deeply hidden assassin stronghold after another in the Northern Region of the Eastern Wilderness, wiping them out with a flick of his finger!
He feared neither heaven nor earth, and left a name behind for his deeds, heaping every karmic consequence upon "Wushi"!
Not only that, he kept provoking them. Occasionally, he appeared in one of the Northern Region's great cities and made grand declarations before everyone's eyes, locking the hatred of all three assassin organizations firmly onto himself.
"My fate belongs to me, not heaven! One day, this entire land will grovel at my feet!"
"Heavenly Court, Hell, Human World... every last one of your assassins had better wash their necks clean and wait for me to cut them down!"
"When my desolate ancient sacred body reaches great accomplishment, all other flowers will perish after mine blooms! I will sweep away you stinking vermin in the gutters and spare not a single one!"
People saw him clearly then: a young Sacred Body with shining, starry eyes and handsome features that would eclipse even the most beautiful woman in the Eastern Wasteland, yet filled with boundless confidence and an overbearing presence.
After those world-shaking declarations, however, the young Sacred Body fled. The many Killer Kings who arrived in pursuit flew into a rage upon learning what had happened.
"That damned Sacred Body is far too arrogant!"
"He'd better pray he never falls into our hands, or I'll peel his flesh off inch by inch, then hack his corpse into ten thousand pieces!"
"..."
The assassin organizations' upper ranks seethed with anger and continued their pursuit through gritted teeth.
Feng Jiu followed along, his eyes flickering, the jubilation in his heart beyond words.
Yes... that's it...
Ah, I just want to make progress so badly...
With the system's help, I've obtained two inheritances belonging to mighty figures from my previous life, one of Fortune and one of Reincarnation.
I have foundations in this life as well, in time and in Reincarnation...
But however many inheritances I have, I can't reach the summit in a single leap.
If I don't work hard, the next time that fellow Wushi comes knocking, I'll probably have no choice but to scurry away like a rat with my hands over my head...
I've got it so hard!
All I can do is see whether there's a shortcut.
Now, the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus has begun developing an active spiritual awareness... could the stimulus of another world's Dao of Reincarnation have broken its original shackles?
It is the foundation of my Great Dao of Reincarnation in this life.
It's excellent. Even the pressure of an Emperor Weapon can't frighten it. If I could accelerate its growth...
Feng Jiu imagined a wonderful future.
That would not be easy. After all, the essence of this immortal blossom was far too transcendent.
Help accelerate its growth?
With Feng Jiu's current meager strength, where could he find suitable nourishment?
I wonder... would offering Immortal Medicine as a sacrifice work?
Feng Jiu considered it very seriously.
As it happened, although he had arrived over a hundred thousand years early, far too distant from Ye Fan's era for much of his foreknowledge to be useful-and he could forget about cutting a Kirin Immortal Medicine seed out of a stone in Saint City's stone workshops-he knew of one place where Immortal Medicine might exist!
The Myriad Dragon Nest... the True Dragon Immortal Medicine!
It involved a Primordial Imperial Clan, and after racking his brains, it was the only place Feng Jiu could identify where he had any hope of getting his hands on such a thing.
After all, he knew where the Myriad Dragon Nest was!
If I find the Myriad Dragon Nest, I'll have a chance of finding the True Dragon Immortal Medicine...
Although... I don't actually know where the Myriad Dragon Nest is.
But... I know where the "dog" belonging to that ancient imperial clan of the Myriad Dragon Nest is!
The Nether God Palace!
Feng Jiu's eyes shone.
It was an ancient holy land in the far north of the Northern Region, counted among humanity's holy lands.
In reality, however, its inheritance came from the Myriad Dragon Nest, from a Primordial Imperial Clan... in other words, it could be regarded as a holy land of "traitors to humanity," the "eyes" the Myriad Dragon Nest had placed in the outside world.
The Desolate Ancient Era could almost be considered humanity's era. After all, one human Great Emperor after another attained the Dao, their might shaking the universe.
In truth, however, humanity could hardly claim complete, absolute control over this era, especially on the Big Dipper Ancient Star!
To name just one example, Purple Mountain was currently controlled by the Undying Divine Dynasty. Venture deep enough inside, and one might even gain an audience with the Undying Heavenly Empress, sealed within divine source!
Then there was the Demon Race, with great demons running rampant. Someone had even declared that they would "rather fight a great accomplishment sacred body"... that had to be at least a Quasi-Emperor Demon God!
There were also the tendrils of the Primordial Imperial Clans... although they slumbered, hiding within divine source to smuggle themselves through time and emerge in the era when the Road to Immortality opened.
Clearly, however, they were not entirely well-behaved. They kept "dogs" in the outside world to serve as their eyes, and even harbored other designs.
The Nether God Palace was the "dog" kept by the Myriad Dragon Nest, built directly above it.
This holy land could originally have endured for tens of thousands more years, until after Wushi's "death in meditation" in the original timeline. It then stirred up a great upheaval, only to attract an unparalleled God King of the Jiang Family, who wielded the Hengyu Furnace and destroyed it!
But now?
The Nether God Palace would not get to wait those tens of thousands of years. It had been put on the express list.
Feng Jiu had made up his mind. He would use this to knock open the gates of the Myriad Dragon Nest!
Dressed in Wushi's clothes, he would borrow the three assassin organizations as his blade and become... an unwelcome guest!
"See the divine medicine, see the emperor corpse..."
Feng Jiu's gaze grew deep. It doesn't matter if I don't get to see them...
A Primordial Imperial Clan would make rather good research material for my Dao of Fortune, too.
What kind of imperial clan sleeps like the dead?
Fuck sleeping! Get up and raise hell!
Wushi has already jumped out to whip up wind and waves, yet your Imperial Daughter still wants to lie low until the era of the Road to Immortality? How is that acceptable?
Get out here!
Represent your father and battle the Emperor's Son of a human Great Emperor!
Since ancient times, Great Emperors and ancient emperors have never met one another, and every one of them believed himself invincible, right?
Then let your offspring have a blood-boiling showdown and decide victory and defeat on behalf of the Great Emperors and ancient emperors!