Arc 13The Life Secret Realm

Shiheng rescued Kaiser and Kailin from the Demon Race Asura patriarch, then secured a truce and learned that Oakes’s uncle and other clansmen were imprisoned in the Life Secret Realm. After strengthening his Death Law, Shiheng led Oakes, Kaiser, and Kailin into the realm, where a vengeful enemy sensed their arrival.

  • Kailin inherited the first Elves Asura’s supreme bloodline and resolved with Kaiser to defend the Elves Race, but the Demon Race Asura trapped the siblings in an ambush.
  • Shiheng reached Kaiser and Kailin in time to stop the Asura’s killing blow, then fought the Asura Clan Chief for days until the Chief’s defensive Sovereign Artifact prevented Shiheng from defeating him.
  • Oakes helped Shiheng force the Asura Clan Chief to reveal that Oakes’s uncle and eight Seven-Star Fiends had been sealed in the Life Secret Realm, and the Chief paid one hundred drops of Sovereign’s Might before leaving.
  • Kailin agreed to guide Shiheng, Oakes, and Kaiser to the Ancient Life Divine Tree, while the group prepared to enter the Secret Realm and rescue Oakes’s relatives.
  • Shiheng broke through to Highgod in the Death Law and awakened the Other Shore Flower blade soul’s Paragon willpower, while Ryder and his sister advanced their fused clones to Highgod.
  • Shiheng’s victory inspired humans across the Life God Realm as other races ended their abuses, and he led Oakes, Kaiser, and Kailin toward the Secret Realm while Ryder and his sister guarded the entrance.
  • Shiheng used the Other Shore Flower’s Paragon will to shield the group as they entered, while a hidden enemy tortured nine Azure Dragon prisoners and vowed vengeance on the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
  • The enemy sensed the intruders, recognized a powerful direct Azure Dragon descendant among them, and sent his Paragon pressure toward the entrance.
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Ch. 301Secrets of the Ages (Part Two)

Kailin learned how her ancient Elves Asura bloodline and destiny had led her back to the Life God Realm, where she awakened her power and became a Seven-Star Jade Tree Practitioner. After an elder sacrificed himself to save her and Kaiser from a Demon Race Asura, Kailin resolved to protect her people and continue her ancestor’s Great Way.

  • Kailin understood that her bloodline had drawn her from Yulan to the Life God Realm and that she was the sole heir to the first Elves Asura’s supreme bloodline.
  • After consuming the origin Life Spirit Fruit, Kailin broke through to level 75 in the Life Law and became a Seven-Star Jade Tree Practitioner.
  • Kaiser explained that the elder had sacrificed himself to hold back the Demon Race Asura and save Kailin and the elves’ last hopes.
  • Kailin vowed not to waste the elder’s sacrifice or her people’s blood and resolved to defend the elves against the Demon Race Asura’s return.
  • Kaiser pledged to stand with Kailin in the Life God Realm as a storm of slaughter began brewing near Azure Nether City.

Ch. 302The Crushing Burden of Offspring, a Century of Protection as Destiny (Part One)

Kailin and Kaiser survived the Demon Race Asura’s assault, and Kailin finally understood her origins and bloodline destiny. The chapter revealed that Kaiser had spent ten thousand years bearing the Elves Race’s crushing demands to produce heirs, leaving his future bound to the race’s hopes for restoring its Asura legacy.

  • The demonic energy and killing intent receded, and life and peace returned to the Secret Realm.
  • Kailin stood beside Kaiser and fully understood her origins, bloodline, and inherited mission.
  • The Elves Race’s first Asura had fallen ten thousand years earlier, leaving its bloodline legacy close to extinction.
  • The Elves Race placed its hopes for renewed Asura descendants on Kaiser, the only awakened royal-blooded elf besides the current ancestor.
  • The Elves Race repeatedly pressured Kaiser to marry holy maidens and produce heirs, disregarding his wishes and freedom.

Ch. 303The crushing burden of offspring, a century of protection destined (Part two)

Kaiser explained to Kailin how her return as the elves’ supreme pureblood had freed him from the race’s reproductive and succession burdens, and why he had protected her for centuries. After the battle in the Secret Realm, they stood together as the Demon Race Asura’s threat and the elves’ unfinished destiny remained ahead.

  • Kaiser recalled how Kailin’s supreme bloodline shifted the elves’ hopes and reproductive expectations away from him.
  • Kaiser described how he had protected Kailin for centuries and risked his life to help her escape the Demon Race Asura’s attack.
  • Kaiser told Kailin that he had sheltered her because she had taken on the destiny and burdens that once weighed upon him.
  • Kailin understood why Kaiser had favored and protected her while avoiding the race’s positions of power and resources.
  • Kaiser and Kailin resolved to face the coming storms together and carry the elves’ Asura inheritance forward.

Ch. 304Too Clever for Their Own Good

After recovering from their battle, Kaiser and Kailin chose the public road toward Azure Nether City instead of the Elves’ hidden safe passage, unknowingly heading into danger. The Demon Race Asura learned that Shiheng and his party were near the city and raced ahead to ambush them, setting the siblings’ path to intersect with his killing ground.

  • Kaiser and Kailin recovered from their injuries and decided to travel toward the Elven territory by way of Azure Nether City.
  • Kailin suspected the Demon Race Asura had withdrawn to set an ambush, while Kaiser rejected the deadly wastelands and chose the public main road.
  • The narration revealed that the siblings could have reached the Elves’ Ancestral Land safely through a hidden passage, but their caution led them to abandon it.
  • The Demon Race Asura received confirmation that Shiheng and his party were at the cross-boundary Teleportation Array outside Azure Nether City and vowed to kill them and recover the Death Otherworld Flower.
  • The Demon Race Asura raced toward Azure Nether City to prepare an ambush as Kaiser and Kailin unknowingly continued toward the same danger.

Ch. 305Nowhere to Run, a Certain-Death Trap

Kaiser and Kailin were trapped by a Demon Race Asura who had sealed the highway while waiting to ambush Shiheng and his companions. As the Asura began crushing the siblings, Shiheng and his group arrived in the Life God Realm, setting up two imminent battles.

  • Kaiser and Kailin traveled toward the Elves' lands, believing they could reach safety before the Demon Race Asura caught them.
  • The Demon Race Asura sensed the siblings in the bottleneck and trapped them inside a sealed zone of Demonic Mist and Asura pressure.
  • The Asura explained that he had been waiting for Shiheng, but chose to kill Kaiser and Kailin after they entered his ambush zone and reminded him of their role in his beloved concubine's death.
  • Kaiser shielded Kailin as the Asura's power shattered his defenses and wounded him, while the Asura threatened to destroy the Elves' last purebloods before their second uncle could arrive.
  • Shiheng, his companions, the Azure Dragon's remnant soul, Ryder, and his younger sister emerged from the Cross-boundary Teleportation Array outside Azure Nether City.

Ch. 306Brother and Sister Held Their Ground, Barely Alive Against the Onslaught

Kaiser and Kailin were trapped by a Demon Race Asura’s sealed killing array just miles from Azure Nether City, and Kaiser prepared to sacrifice himself so Kailin could escape. Kailin refused to abandon him, unleashed her First-Generation Elves Asura origin, and stood with him against the Asura’s lethal strike.

  • The Demon Race Asura sealed the airspace around Kaiser and Kailin, leaving them unable to reach Azure Nether City or call for help.
  • Kaiser shielded Kailin as the Asura’s laws battered his defenses, and Kailin poured her power into the failing barrier.
  • Kaiser told Kailin he would detonate his laws and life’s reserves to open a path for her escape, but she refused to leave him behind.
  • Kailin unsealed her First-Generation Elves Asura bloodline, revealing its powerful origin and drawing the Demon Race Asura’s greed.
  • The Asura formed a colossal palm and struck, while Kaiser and Kailin stood back-to-back and raised their final defenses.

Ch. 307Word of a distant bloodbath, an old acquaintance in peril

Shiheng sensed a concealed battle between a Demon Race Asura and his old acquaintance Kailin, then ordered his companions to head toward the fight despite their desperate warnings. The Demon Race Asura detected their approach as Kaiser and Kailin stood on the verge of being crushed, leaving Shiheng's group entering an even more dangerous ambush.

  • Shiheng detected a distant Asura-level battle hidden by spatial isolation formations, and Oakes restored his injured Water Clone with Sovereign's Might.
  • Shiheng recognized Kailin's Life Divine Power and decided to go to her aid, while Oakes, Ryder, and Linor urged him to flee.
  • Shiheng insisted that his Midgod Life Law and strength let him face the Demon Race Asura, and ordered Oakes to steer toward the battle.
  • The Demon Race Asura sensed Shiheng's vessel approaching and mocked the group for delivering themselves into his trap.
  • Kaiser and Kailin remained trapped beneath the Asura's colossal palm of destruction, their Life Divine Shields nearly shattered.

Ch. 308Revealing the Power of Four-Element Soul Mutation

As a Demon Race Asura cornered Kaiser and Kailin with a lethal attack, Kaiser prepared to sacrifice himself to save his sister. Shiheng arrived at the last moment and revealed the power of his four-element soul mutation by casually blocking the attack.

  • The Demon Race Asura trapped Kaiser and Kailin beneath a crushing palm of Destruction Laws.
  • Kaiser burned his life force to raise layers of defenses, but the barriers began to shatter under the Asura's attack.
  • Kaiser prepared to detonate his divine soul and urged Kailin to escape the Life God Realm and preserve the Elves Race.
  • Shiheng tore through the sealed airspace and reached the siblings just before their deaths.
  • Shiheng used his fused laws and four-element fusion divine power to block the Asura's lethal blow with a casual slap.

Ch. 309Shiheng's Strength

Shiheng revealed Peak Asura combat power when he stopped a Demon Race Asura’s full-force attack with one hand. After shocking Kailin, Kaiser, Oakes, Ryder, and Linor, he faced the Demon Race Asura and declared that he would collect the debt from Hell.

  • The Demon Race Asura struck Shiheng with a killing blow, but Shiheng blocked it barehanded and overwhelmed the attack.
  • Kailin urged Shiheng to flee, while Kaiser recognized that Shiheng had matched the Asura through genuine strength.
  • The Demon Race Asura realized Shiheng possessed Peak Asura combat power and cursed his intelligence operatives for misidentifying him.
  • Oakes, Ryder, and Linor watched from the flying ship in shock as Shiheng's strength far surpassed what he had shown a month earlier.
  • Shiheng confronted the Demon Race Asura and vowed to collect the debt from Hell, beginning their battle.

Ch. 310Battling the Demon Asura of the Life God Realm

Shiheng fought the demon Asura patriarch in an evenly matched day-and-night battle that drew countless observers and overturned their assumptions about human strength. After the probing contest ended, the patriarch acknowledged Shiheng as the strongest human he had ever seen and prepared to unleash his full power.

  • The demon Asura patriarch abandoned his earlier contempt and challenged Shiheng to a direct contest of strength and laws.
  • Shiheng and the patriarch traded close-quarters blows for an entire day and night, matching each other without using their hidden trump cards.
  • Fiends and Highgods gathered at a distance to watch, while the city lord of Azure Nether City and other experts recognized the battle's overwhelming power.
  • Observers who had mistreated humans reconsidered their actions and vowed to return stolen resources and make amends.
  • Shiheng and the patriarch separated after their probing battle, and the patriarch praised Shiheng before declaring that he would now fight seriously and kill him.

Ch. 311Sovereign's Might, Four Blades as One

Shiheng fought the Demon Race Asura Clan Chief through an escalating battle, surviving a sneak attack with the Four Blades Formation and Four Blades as One. As powerful onlookers gathered, both combatants continued unleashing their strongest abilities, and the fight remained unresolved.

  • The Asura Clan Chief activated Sovereign's Might and fought Shiheng for three days and nights, while their laws and restorative powers let them endure devastating injuries.
  • The Asura Clan Chief drew a Destruction Sovereign Artifact and launched a concealed killing strike at Shiheng.
  • Shiheng summoned the Fate Battle Blade, Destruction Battle Blade, Death Battle Blade, and Life Battle Blade, then used the Four Blades Formation to block the strike and restore his shattered arms.
  • The Asura Clan Chief defended his sneak attack as both fighters resumed their fight to the death with their full power.
  • Nearby city lords, veteran Highgods, and Asura powerhouses arrived to watch, recognizing the battle's danger to the surrounding cities and inhabitants.
  • Shiheng and the Asura Clan Chief continued fighting with their reserves and trump cards unleashed, while neither gained a decisive victory.

Ch. 312Onlookers in Shock (Part One)

Kaiser and Kailin watched Shiheng fight the Demon Race's Asura patriarch and realized that Shiheng's four supreme laws and extraordinary resilience let him withstand an opponent armed with an Overgod's power. As Asura powerhouses gathered to witness the duel, the battle remained unresolved and Shiheng's growing strength made its outcome uncertain.

  • Kaiser and Kailin hid among the clouds and watched Shiheng battle the Demon Race's Asura patriarch from afar.
  • Kailin recognized Shiheng as the human she had known on the Yulan Continent, while Kaiser marveled that he could face a peak Asura after only a century or two.
  • Kailin and Kaiser realized that Shiheng wielded four supreme laws, whose fused power allowed him to withstand the patriarch's Sovereign Artifact.
  • Kailin discovered that Shiheng had also fused in the law of life, letting him rapidly heal and grow more adept as the battle continued.
  • Kaiser warned that the duel's outcome remained uncertain as Shiheng kept improving, and powerful Asura observers arrived to watch the fight.

Ch. 313Onlookers in Shock (Part Two)

As Shiheng battled the Demon Race Asura patriarch, Kailin, Kaiser, and Oakes watched from a safe distance and discussed Shiheng’s past. Kailin revealed that he had risen from an ordinary mortal to a fighter capable of challenging a Peak Asura in less than a thousand years, while the battle continued unresolved.

  • Kailin and Kaiser reflected on how Shiheng had saved them from the Asura patriarch’s ambush, and Kaiser warned Kailin not to interfere in the deadly battle.
  • Oakes Redding joined the siblings and explained that Shiheng had rushed to the battlefield after sensing the disturbance, despite having just fought another major battle.
  • Oakes teased Kailin about her closeness to Shiheng, and Kailin said they had been friends and had exchanged cultivation knowledge on the Yulan Continent.
  • Kaiser and Oakes were stunned when Kailin revealed that less than a thousand years had passed since Shiheng began cultivating.
  • Kailin recounted Shiheng’s rise from the Yulan Plane, leaving Kaiser in awe and Oakes convinced that Shiheng could become a Paragon.
  • Kailin, Kaiser, and Oakes watched as Shiheng and the Demon Race Asura patriarch continued their immense battle without either side gaining the advantage.

Ch. 314Ten days of grinding battle

Shiheng and the Asura patriarch fought for fourteen days in a grinding battle of attrition, with Shiheng’s four-law fusion steadily forcing his opponent to spend his Sovereign’s Might. By the end, the patriarch had used fifteen drops and faced the collapse of his reserves, while Shiheng sensed that the last of the patriarch’s Sovereign’s Might was nearly gone.

  • After four days of combat, Shiheng and the Asura patriarch settled into ten days of relentless fighting, each trying to outlast the other.
  • Shiheng endured mounting wounds and exhaustion as his four laws healed him, sharpened his understanding of the patriarch’s moves, and made his attacks increasingly difficult to counter.
  • The Asura patriarch repeatedly consumed Sovereign’s Might to keep his strength up, despite the cost to his divine soul, his ambitions, and the Demon Race’s reserves in the Life God Realm.
  • After the ten-day battle of attrition, the patriarch had spent twelve more drops of Sovereign’s Might, bringing his fourteen-day total to fifteen.
  • Shiheng sensed that the patriarch’s remaining Sovereign’s Might had nearly dissipated, while Oakes, Kaiser, and Kailin watched and realized the outcome had been decided.

Ch. 315The Power of Two Sovereign Artifacts

After exhausting his Sovereign's Might, the Demon Race patriarch revealed a second Sovereign Artifact, a defensive armor that Shiheng could not penetrate. The battle became an impasse, and Oakes recognized the armor as the Sovereign Artifact of his missing uncle by marriage.

  • The Demon Race patriarch exhausted all fifteen drops of Sovereign's Might, losing the power that had enhanced his combat strength and regeneration.
  • As the Demon Race patriarch refused to accept defeat, he summoned a blue dragon-patterned defensive Sovereign Artifact that covered his body and divine soul.
  • Oakes, Kailin, and Kaiser realized that the Demon Race patriarch possessed two Sovereign Artifacts, while the patriarch's thoughts revealed that he had concealed the armor for his long-term bid for power.
  • Shiheng continued attacking, but the armor dissipated every strike, leaving the Demon Race patriarch unable to fight back and Shiheng unable to kill him.
  • Oakes recognized the armor's Azure Dragon aura and identified it as the Sovereign Artifact of his missing uncle by marriage.

Ch. 316The Demon Race Asura's Fear

Oakes recognized the Asura Clan Chief’s defensive Sovereign Artifact as his missing uncle’s and asked Shiheng to uncover how it had reached Demon Race hands. After Shiheng demanded the truth and compensation to end their fourteen-day battle, he reflected on his weakness in soul attacks as the mystery surrounding the Azure Dragon emissary’s death began to surface.

  • Oakes recognized the Asura Clan Chief’s Azure Dragon-patterned defensive Sovereign Artifact as his uncle’s and secretly asked Shiheng to learn what had happened to him.
  • Shiheng recalled that Oakes’s uncle had died during the Life God Realm retreat ten thousand years earlier and suspected a hidden conspiracy behind the artifact’s possession.
  • After another attack failed to penetrate the artifact, the exhausted Asura Clan Chief called for a halt, and Shiheng agreed to stop fighting.
  • Shiheng demanded a truthful account of the artifact’s history and one hundred drops of Sovereign’s Might as conditions for a truce.
  • The Asura Clan Chief protested the compensation demand, while Shiheng recognized that his weak soul attacks had prevented him from defeating his opponent and resolved to train them.
  • The battle ended temporarily as Oakes waited for answers and Shiheng anticipated that the secrets of the retreat and the Azure Dragon emissary’s fate would emerge.

Ch. 317Continuing

Shiheng refused the Asura Clan Chief’s offer of fifty drops of Sovereign's Might and teamed up with Oakes to exploit the Chief’s vulnerability to soul attacks. The Chief narrowly escaped being thrown into Spatial Turbulence, leaving him shaken and afraid.

  • The Asura Clan Chief refused to reveal the Sovereign Artifact’s origin and offered Shiheng fifty drops of Sovereign's Might, but Shiheng rejected the offer.
  • Oakes secretly told Shiheng that his Azure Dragon Clan’s Dragon Roar could attack the Chief’s divine soul and create an opening.
  • With Shiheng’s approval, Oakes used Sovereign's Might to unleash Dragon Roar and delay the Chief’s reactions.
  • Shiheng struck the planar barrier with his Four Laws, opening a rift into Spatial Turbulence, then attacked the stunned Chief.
  • The Asura Clan Chief burned his divinity and used both Sovereign Artifacts to escape Shiheng’s strike and retreat tens of thousands of li, terrified by how close he came to banishment.

Ch. 318Secrets of Ten Thousand Years

The Asura Clan Chief revealed that Oakes’s uncle and eight Seven-Star Fiends had been sealed in the depths of the Life Secret Realm after the Four Divine Beasts’ clans were nearly destroyed ten thousand years ago. Shiheng accepted the promised Sovereign’s Might, while the Asura Clan Chief warned them that the Overgod’s emissary would fall within three months.

  • The Asura Clan Chief yielded to Shiheng and Oakes, agreeing to provide a hundred drops of Sovereign’s Might and reveal the Azure Dragon Sovereign Artifact’s origins.
  • The Asura Clan Chief told Oakes that the ten great Asura clans had attacked the Four Divine Beasts’ clans ten thousand years ago, and that Oakes’s uncle had been defeated and sealed with eight Seven-Star Fiends in the Life Secret Realm.
  • The Asura Clan Chief explained that Oakes’s uncle had given him the Sovereign Artifact in exchange for news about the surviving clans and an oath to guide an Azure Dragon clansman to the sealed prisoners.
  • Shiheng recognized that the Asura Clan Chief still intended to kill Oakes, but chose not to fight further because he could not yet overcome the chief’s defensive Sovereign Artifact.
  • Two days later, Demon Race experts delivered a hundred drops of Sovereign’s Might to Shiheng and took the exhausted Asura Clan Chief away.
  • As he departed, the Asura Clan Chief warned Shiheng and Oakes that the Overgod’s emissary was expected to fall within three months.

Ch. 319The curtain fell

After Shiheng defeated the Demon Race Peak Asura, regional rulers and the Elves Race showed him respect and gratitude for saving Kaiser and Kailin. As the group considered their next move, Oakes weighed his urgent search for his imprisoned relative against his resolve not to burden Shiheng.

  • After the battle ended, Seven-Star Tree Cultivators withdrew and resolved to treat humans in their territories kindly to avoid offending Shiheng.
  • Qingyan Asura and five other powerful Asuras introduced themselves and humbly offered Shiheng their goodwill.
  • The Elves Asura confirmed Kailin was unharmed, learned how Shiheng had rescued the siblings, and performed a solemn rite of gratitude.
  • Shiheng accepted the Elves Asura’s thanks and considered the value of an alliance with the Elves Race for humanity and Shi Hao.
  • The Elves Asura offered the group the Elves Race’s resources, while Oakes decided he would not pressure Shiheng to help him find his imprisoned relative.

Ch. 320Setting out for the Life Secret Realm

Kailin recounted how she and Kaiser escaped the Life Secret Realm after a terrifying aura stopped them from claiming its remaining Life Divine Fruits. Shiheng decided to enter the realm with Oakes to obtain a fruit, but the Elves Asura warned them that a Peak Asura and his contracted Divine Beast had vanished there a hundred thousand years earlier.

  • Oakes asked Kailin for a map of the Life Secret Realm so he could rescue his family and clansmen, and Shiheng reminded her of their past friendship.
  • Kailin described finding an Ancient Life Divine Tree and taking one of its six Life Divine Fruits before a powerful aura forced her and Kaiser to flee.
  • Shiheng resolved to obtain a Life Divine Fruit to strengthen his Life Law and prepare to protect Shi Hao from threats to the Human Race.
  • Kailin volunteered to guide the expedition, and Kaiser agreed to accompany them and protect her.
  • The Elves Asura warned that a Peak Asura and his Early Asura Stage contracted Divine Beast had disappeared in the realm's depths after a brief, devastating battle.

Ch. 321Death Highgod (Part One)

Shiheng and his companions prepared for the deadly Life Secret Realm, where a suspected Paragon had imprisoned Oakes's relatives. Shiheng decided to break through his Death Law to Highgod and awaken the Other Shore Flower God Blade’s Paragon Willpower Might before the group entered the realm.

  • Kailin warned the group that the sealed Life Secret Realm held dangers beyond their estimates and urged everyone to use their remaining month to prepare.
  • Oakes revealed that a suspected Paragon had imprisoned a veteran Peak Asura from his clan and seven or eight Seven-Star Fiends in the Secret Realm ten thousand years earlier.
  • Kaiser confirmed that he and Kailin had sensed a terrifying dormant presence within the Secret Realm, far surpassing Shiheng’s current strength.
  • Shiheng assessed his cultivation and concluded that advancing his suppressed Death Law was his only possible path to gaining a decisive new trump card.
  • The Other Shore Flower God Blade’s female blade soul told Shiheng that Highgod-level Death Divine Power could unlock her seals and awaken her Paragon Willpower Might.
  • Shiheng announced that he would break through during the month-long journey, while the six companions prepared to enter the Life Secret Realm, rescue Oakes’s relatives, and seek opportunities.

Ch. 322Death Highgod (Part Two)

Shiheng unsealed his death law during the journey to the Life Secret Realm, broke through to Highgod, and awakened the Other Shore Flower’s Paragon willpower. After Ryder and his sister strengthened their clones and reached Five-Star Fiend combat strength, the group arrived at the sealed Secret Realm, where their trial began.

  • Oakes, Kaiser, Kailin, Ryder, and Ryder’s sister entered secluded cultivation aboard the Metal Lifeform while Shiheng released his suppressed death law.
  • Shiheng’s four-law balance collapsed and his personal combat strength fell, but his death law broke through to Highgod through the Other Shore Flower’s Paragon resonance.
  • The Other Shore Flower blade soul awakened, revealed that it could empower Shiheng with Paragon willpower, and granted him overwhelming offense and defense against those below Paragon.
  • Ryder and his sister used divine cores to raise their fused Midgod clones to Highgod, completing the fusion of two profound mysteries and reaching Five-Star Fiend strength; their Saint Domain true bodies became locked at that level.
  • After a month of travel, the six stopped cultivating and saw the Life Secret Realm ahead, beginning their approach to its life-and-death trial.

Ch. 323The Human Race held its head high

Shiheng and his companions reached the boundary of the Life Secret Realm, ready to enter its ancient forbidden zone in search of Oakes’s uncle by marriage. Unbeknownst to them, recordings of Shiheng defeating the Demon Race Asura Clan Chief had transformed the Human Race’s standing across the Life God Realm.

  • After a month of travel and cultivation, Shiheng broke through to become a Death Edict Highgod, and he and his companions arrived outside the Life Secret Realm.
  • Recordings of Shiheng’s victory spread throughout the Life God Realm, inspiring humans who had endured generations of oppression.
  • Other races’ factions withdrew from their bullying of human tribes and began returning stolen resources and seeking alliances.
  • A Wolf Race tribe canceled its third young lord’s forced marriage to a human chief’s daughter and offered the tribe compensation after seeing Shiheng’s battle.
  • At the Secret Realm boundary, Shiheng told his companions they were ready and led them toward the forbidden zone.

Ch. 324Entering the Secret Realm

Shiheng assigned Ryder and his sister to guard the entrance while he, Oakes, Kaiser, and Kailin entered the Life Secret Realm. After revealing that the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s ancestral Overgods had fallen and no rescue would come, Shiheng led the four into the realm’s mist to face its ancient dangers themselves.

  • Shiheng explained the Eternal Divine Prohibition and the suspected Paragon-level danger, then ordered Ryder and his sister to guard the entrance and watch for changes.
  • Oakes revealed that he had sent Azure Dragon Clan members to seek help from the Four Divine Beasts Clan, but Shiheng told him its four ancestral Overgods had fallen and outside forces could not rescue them.
  • Shiheng described the overwhelming gap between a suspected Paragon and even Peak Asuras, extinguishing Oakes's hope of outside aid.
  • Oakes accepted that the group would have to rely on themselves, and Shiheng set the party's roles for the expedition.
  • Shiheng led Oakes, Kaiser, and Kailin into the Secret Realm while Ryder and his sister remained behind to guard their only retreat.

Ch. 325Grievances

Shiheng and his companions entered the Life Secret Realm as a hidden tormentor revealed the Azure Dragon prisoners he had tortured for ages and recounted his blood feud with the Four Divine Beasts Clan. When he sensed a powerful Azure Dragon descendant among the intruders, he unleashed his Paragon pressure toward the entrance.

  • Shiheng used the Other Shore Flower God Blade’s Paragon will to shield himself, Oakes, Kaiser, and Kailin as they advanced through the Eternal Divine Prohibition.
  • In the secret realm’s core, a hidden enemy tortured nine imprisoned members of the Azure Dragon lineage with soul whips, while the prisoners begged for death.
  • The enemy revealed that the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s ancestors had killed his Sovereign clone and stolen his Earth Sovereign Spark, leaving him bent on vengeance.
  • He vowed to exterminate the Four Divine Beasts Clan after the four ancestors’ souls were beyond return, then sensed intruders entering his Life Secret Realm.
  • Recognizing a powerful direct Azure Dragon descendant among them, he opened his blood-red eyes and sent his Paragon pressure toward the entrance.
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