"I made it!"
Great Emperor Baiyun emerged from the void somewhere, covered in blood and sword wounds, countless mountains and rivers receding behind him. The moment he stepped into the Luo Clan's territory, delight crossed his face.
This meant he was safe.
Yet before he could rejoice for long, terrifying killing intent came from behind and locked onto him, followed immediately by a terrifying surge of sword killing intent.
"Old dog Bai Yu! Die!"
Lin Dong's roar exploded through the area like thunder.
Not good!
Great Emperor Baiyun's expression changed drastically, and he shouted toward the Luo Clan's ancestral grounds, "Save me!"
Several shouts came from the distance as four waves of imperial might swept over. "Junior, you court death! You dare enter our Luo Clan's territory to kill someone? Do you really think our Luo Clan has no one?"
"You old bastards, tired of living, are you? First you attacked my grandson, and now you want to touch my son?"
But Lin Canghai's voice rang out, filled with endless fury, deafening as thunder. His terrifying imperial might annihilated the oncoming might of the four Luo Family Ancestors.
"No... Lin Canghai! Get lost!"
"Does your Lin Clan intend to fight our Luo Clan until one of us is dead?"
The four Luo Family Ancestors were extremely agitated. With Great Emperor Baiyun so badly wounded, he would surely fall without support.
Sure enough, Lin Dong's sword intent came with unstoppable force. Great Emperor Baiyun could not block it at all. It pierced straight through his brow and extinguished his soul, killing him on the spot.
"Ah..."
The four Luo Family Ancestors dared not roar in anger.
Rumble!
The two Great Emperors, Lin Dong and Lin Canghai, showed no fear of the Luo Clan's four Great Emperors. Instead, they pressed them hard. They had intended to destroy the Luo Clan, but unfortunately, several Great Emperors from the Wang Clan and elsewhere emerged to stop the father and son.
In the end, Lin Canghai forcibly killed one ancestor. Otherwise, the Luo Clan would have lost far more than two ancestors-it would have been exterminated.
The powerhouses of the Archaic Continent's various factions watched in shock. They had truly slain Great Emperors!
In the end, two of the Luo Clan's Great Emperors fell, and three ancestors were severely wounded.
The mighty imperial Luo Clan announced on the spot that it was withdrawing from the world.
Were they crazy? Who said the supreme imperial Lin Clan had declined?
Just two Great Emperors had slaughtered their way through all opposition. If the Lin Clan's old monsters took action, wouldn't the Luo Clan be exterminated?
Many factions sighed and clicked their tongues. Their leaders issued orders forbidding anyone from offending a member of the Lin Clan. Anyone who disobeyed would have their nine familial branches and eighteen generations exterminated.
The Lin Clan.
Compared with the upheaval outside, Lin Fan's courtyard was much quieter.
Lin Fan knew nothing of what was happening outside.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lin Fan's presence surged wildly. Starting from the first level of the Body Tempering Realm, his cultivation shot upward without stopping, like a cow riding an airplane-bullish to the skies.
Third level of the Body Tempering Realm!
Ninth level of the Body Tempering Realm!
Body Tempering Extreme Realm!
A hundred thousand jin of strength!
Sensing his condition, Lin Fan could not help rejoicing.
The Chaos Gods and Devils Body, spiritual power, and other forces were transforming his body. His blood and vitality grew ever stronger, as terrifying as those of an Archaic giant beast's cub, vast as an ocean.
On the Ancient Continent, a hundred thousand jin of strength was called the Body Tempering Extreme Realm.
Only certain prodigies, the young of ferocious beasts and divine beasts, and the like could reach the extreme realm.
Even his former self had possessed only tens of thousands of jin of strength in the Body Tempering Realm, making him a prodigy at most. Now he had actually reached the extreme realm!
First level of the Qi Condensation Realm!
Ninth level of the Qi Condensation Realm!
After an unknown amount of time, Lin Fan opened his eyes.
He felt brimming with vigor, his entire body filled with strength, his blood and vitality like a dragon's. He could kill a young dragon with one punch.
His cultivation had stopped at the Core Formation Realm First Level.
Lin Fan looked inward at his dantian and froze in disbelief. His dantian glittered with golden light, its interior vast and fathomless, like an entire universe.
"This..."
"This is my dantian?"
"I actually condensed a golden core of the highest grade!"
"It's who knows how many times larger than my old dantian, and as solid as iron, too. The Nine-Turn Nirvana Pill really is fucking amazing!"
Lin Fan was utterly thrilled. If his former dantian had been a lake, his current dantian was an entire universe, capable of holding who knew how many times more Spiritual Qi.
The dantian was the key to a cultivator's talent and potential.
The spirit sea he could open upon reaching the Spirit Sea Realm would be large enough. The larger the spirit sea he opened, the more Spiritual Qi it could hold.
Spiritual Qi was of the utmost importance to cultivators.
If someone's spirit sea was only the size of a stream, they would run out of mana after using one or two skills.
If another person's dantian was like an ocean, inexhaustible and unending, that person could effectively spam ultimate moves without limit. It was easy to imagine who would suffer.
The quality of Core Formation determined a person's talent even more.
Ordinary cultivators could only condense white cores. One-in-ten-thousand geniuses could condense purple cores, while only monstrous geniuses had a chance of condensing golden cores.
Lin Fan looked at his gleaming golden core, with glittering golden spiritual liquid flowing inside it.
He also could not help looking forward to the day he opened his spirit sea. Would he be able to unleash ultimate moves endlessly then, too?
His cultivation had originally dissipated completely, yet merely fusing with a Chaos Gods and Devils Body had sent it soaring.
He had advanced a full three major realms!
Although it was not as high as his previous Spirit Sea Realm cultivation.
He felt that he could now kill ten of his former selves with one punch.
He could even instantly kill Luo Chen, who had previously been in the Spirit Sea Realm, across the realm gap without relying on an imperial weapon.
Boom!
As he thought about it, Lin Fan excitedly punched the strength-testing stone tablet in his room.
The next instant, a string of digits appeared on the tablet. Seeing them, Lin Fan froze and cried out, "Holy shit?!"
Several scarlet digits appeared: 1,000,000 jin of strength.
Crack, crack, crack!
Unable to withstand the tremendous force, the stone tablet shattered on the spot!
Just then, Uncle Fu's voice reached Lin Fan from outside. "Fan'er, did something happen?"
Lin Fan shouted, "Uncle Fu, I'm fine!" His gaze fell on the digits, staring fixedly at the number. "Ones, tens, hundreds, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions... holy moly! A million jin of strength?"
After saying this, Lin Fan's throat felt rather dry. He stood there in a daze for a long time before accepting the fact.
Cultivation?
Why the hell would I cultivate? Wasn't using cheats more satisfying?
He surpassed his former self in every respect. Every realm had reached its extreme: the Body Tempering Extreme Realm, the purest golden spiritual liquid condensed in Qi Condensation, and a golden core of the highest grade condensed in Core Formation.
How could cultivating feel as good as cheating?
For the first time, Lin Fan experienced the pleasure of using cheats, and for a while, he could not pull himself free.
At this thought, he opened the system interface. He remembered there were still many rewards and wanted to take stock of everything he had gained this time.
The items lying in the system space were: World-Destroying Double Pupils, Flower of Slaughter, Tianchen Emperor Scripture, the saint artifact Saint-Slaying Sword...
The last two were items he had obtained by killing Luo Chen.
The emperor scripture and saint artifact were both useless junk. The Lin Clan had plenty of them. Besides, he had the Chaos Scripture and three imperial weapons to protect him, more than enough for his use, so he simply left them to gather dust.
"The Flower of Slaughter!"
Lin Fan's gaze fell on the Flower of Slaughter.
Flower of Slaughter: a quasi-emperor-grade treasure, nurtured with the blood of hundreds of millions of people and condensed from slaughter intent. Consuming it grants an eighty percent chance of comprehending the Law of Slaughter and can help those on the path of slaughter become quasi-emperors.
After reading the reward's description, the first person he thought of was Uncle Fu.
A hidden reward, becoming a quasi-emperor through the path of slaughter-could this be a reward the system had prepared for Uncle Fu?
Lin Fan could not help rejoicing. Uncle Fu had served as his personal guard for so many years that his cultivation had long been held back.
Now that Uncle Fu had a chance to break through to quasi-emperor, he was naturally happy.
He immediately found a casual excuse and sent the Flower of Slaughter outside. "Uncle Fu, this is something I obtained from Luo Chen. It should be useful to you!"
Outside the room, Uncle Fu froze at first and instinctively declined, but under Lin Fan's firm insistence, he accepted the Flower of Slaughter and could not help laughing heartily.
"Hehe, Fan'er has grown up. Then I'll accept it!"
Lin Fan smiled and withdrew his gaze, turning it toward the dazzling, funnel-shaped prize pool before him.
He had previously unlocked system functions, including a search for remaining opportunities and the Heavens and Myriad Worlds Treasure Grand Prize Pool.
He had not used the prize pool yet.
Heavens and Myriad Worlds Treasure Grand Prize Pool: 10,000 per draw. Ten consecutive draws guarantee a purple; fifty consecutive draws guarantee a gold.
Item grades: purple-gold, gold, purple, blue, green, white!
Lin Fan read the introduction and could not help saying, "Ten thousand Villain Points for one draw? Isn't that too much of a rip-off, System?"
He checked his Villain Points.
Lin Fan discovered that he had saved a full 214,000 Villain Points.
Previously, he had constantly been caught between life and death and had no time to study the system at all. He had only saved up this little bit of Villain Points after fleecing Luo Chen for so long.
Yet two sets of ten draws would wipe him out. It was nowhere near enough to splurge with!
After thinking for a moment, Lin Fan decided to test the waters first. "Let's start with a single draw!"
A notification sounded: [Ding! The host has spent 10,000 Villain Points and obtained one prize pool draw! Drawing begins...]