Unparalleled Since Time Immemorial

Zhu Xiaotian wielded a five-pronged rake, black currents swirling around it as he shattered the sword rain filling the sky. He was utterly enraged. This human was far too arrogant, trying to suppress them all by himself.

The black-robed man thrust out his pale hands again and again, casting one blue spirit talisman after another. In an instant, he laid down a great heavenly lightning array.

Rumble! Rumble!

The array transformed the heavens. Dark clouds blotted out the sun as bolts of heavenly lightning crashed down, each a meter thick. Destructive power descended like divine punishment.

Within a hundred meters, only where he stood was free of roaring thunder.

"Who do you think you are?" Zhu Xiaotian's eyes were blood-red, and he had fallen into a frenzy. His enormous five-pronged rake smashed through the air.

"Get lost!" the youth shouted. The Sword Qi surging around him converged into a golden greatsword tens of meters long and slashed at Zhu Xiaotian.

The five-pronged rake collided with the golden sword in an earth-shaking clash. Zhu Xiaotian unleashed his full strength, his body growing until he stood over thirty meters tall. The rake also grew to more than ten meters, and he gripped it as he met the golden greatsword head-on.

Demonic Qi swept in as Mo Tao's body took shape. His Devouring Greataxe crashed down with the might to split heaven and earth.

"Suppress!" Unfortunately, they faced a furious Fu Yuan. His left hand traced strokes through the air, forming a single character that became a great mountain and bore down on Mo Tao.

Fu Yuan entered the array bodily, letting bolt after bolt of heavenly lightning strike him. He reached out with the Star-Plucking Hand, intent on suppressing the black-robed man.

A white talisman burned, and space rippled. The black-robed man vanished and reappeared a thousand meters away.

"Can you escape?" Fu Yuan's voice was icy. He used the Kunpeng Precious Technique and crossed a thousand meters in an instant, reaching out with the Star-Plucking Hand once more.

Another spatial talisman, even more precious than the last, transported the man a hundred thousand meters away. But Fu Yuan was too fast. The Kunpeng Precious Technique, famed as the pinnacle of speed in the world, covered a hundred thousand meters in a single breath.

"Fellow Daoist, why must you press me so relentlessly?" A voice came from within the black robes. He did not want to reveal his identity.

Fu Yuan pressed him at every step, the two giving chase and fleeing in turn.

Another teleportation talisman took the black-robed man to a spot beside Mo Tao and Zhu Xiaotian.

"I've run into another monster!" the black-robed man sighed. His luck had turned against him; he had met monsters both times. "The time for Carefree Manor to reveal itself has not yet come. Let's join forces."

He no longer suppressed his cultivation, and his presence soared wildly: the fifth layer of Nirvana... the sixth layer of Nirvana... the peak of the seventh layer of Nirvana.

The World Road had only been open for ten months, yet he had broken through from Profound Opening to late Nirvana. His rise through the realms had been far too swift.

That was the advantage of demonic cultivation: devouring the vital blood and cultivation of others could greatly elevate one's realm, far faster than painstaking cultivation.

"The seventh layer of Nirvana!" His presence was so powerful that the spectators' expressions changed.

"Someone from the talisman-making Chen family has taken up demonic cultivation." Xuanyuzi's expression darkened. The family was a force on friendly terms with the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, famed for making talismans.

He already knew who was beneath the black robes. That dense death Qi and resentment had not come from killing in battle, but from refining living beings alive or swallowing them whole.

For it to be so dense, at least a million living beings must have been refined alive.

"I won't concern myself with others, but you, Chen Qiusheng, I cannot ignore." Xuanyuzi was no longer composed. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's emissaries rarely made a move, but they were by no means weak, and their arts and techniques were all extraordinary.

"The outcome of this battle is already certain: the third layer of Nirvana against the seventh." Zhuge Yun shook his head. With a difference of four minor realms, even a holy son could fight and kill an emperor's son. For monstrous talents of the same caliber, a single minor realm was difficult to bridge and could decide victory or defeat.

"A being who walked out of the Indestructible Forbidden Zone is not so simple." Zhuge Lingfeng saw it differently. The sight of Fu Yuan suppressing and killing a pure-blooded ferocious beast, Zheng, with one move that day had left too deep an impression on him to forget.

"Kill!"

Zhu Xiaotian howled, the sound ringing through the clouds. He swung his enormous rake, each blow carrying a terrifying force of several million jin, enough to smash a mountain to pieces.

Mo Tao swung his Devouring Battleaxe, fully displaying his cultivation at the peak of the sixth layer of Nirvana Heaven. He and Zhu Xiaotian attacked Fu Yuan from the left and right.

Chen Qiusheng brought out nine spirit talismans and activated them with blood. They transformed into nine white flood dragons, each possessing the combat strength of the ninth heaven of Nirvana, and attacked Fu Yuan together.

Fu Yuan awakened his bloodline, and manifestations of it appeared above his head. Small cauldrons in ten colors-white, green, blue, black, yellow, orange, purple, red, gold, and chaos-gathered and circled above him as terrifying blood Qi spread out.

The tenth-grade bloodline revealed itself to the world for the first time. The bloodlines of every living being within a thousand li were drawn to it, submitting against their will to their emperor.

"How can there be ten colors?" Zhuge Yun was horrified.

"A tenth-grade bloodline!" Xuanyuzi halted in mid-step, standing rooted to the spot in a daze.

Every being present recalled the bizarre bloodline tremors from some time ago. They had been caused by a being breaking out of the cage of the ninth-grade bloodline and creating the legend of a tenth-grade bloodline.

The creator of a myth, unparalleled through the ages in the Profound Understanding Realm.

Countless people froze, doubting their eyes and wondering whether they had seen wrong. Some slapped their companions, suspecting they were dreaming.

"Unparalleled through the ages!" an elderly cultivator exclaimed. This had truly rewritten ancient history and broken the rules.

"Even a Great Emperor reincarnating and cultivating anew can only reach the peak of the ninth-grade bloodline. How can a tenth-grade bloodline exist in this world?" a being cried out, unable to calm down for a long time.

Countless people's understanding was shattered that day. The ninth-grade bloodline was not the limit.

"Myth is being created in this age, legend forged in the present." Countless people marveled. Some had tears brimming in their eyes; others cheered and leaped for joy. They had become witnesses to history.

"Even if this youth falls along the way, his name will still be recorded in ancient history."

The first being in the world to possess a tenth-grade bloodline was destined to leave a bold, indelible stroke in history.

The enraged Fu Yuan's presence continued to rise. His foundation at the eleventh layer of Profound Opening was too terrifying. With cultivation at the third layer of Nirvana, he fought one opponent at the peak of the seventh layer and two at the sixth layer head-on, yet still held the upper hand.

An even more terrifying sight appeared. Chaos Qi surged, and the world seemed to return to chaos. Every color vanished, and all under heaven became a void.

A gigantic axe split heaven and earth apart, illuminating the universe once more, as all manner of roars powerful enough to suppress the heavens rang out.

The phenomenon of Chaos Splitting the Heavens appeared, and a presence that would endure through myriad tribulations filled heaven and earth.

"The phenomenon of Chaos Splitting the Heavens!" Xuanyuzi was shaken once again. "What physique is that? Another Chaos Physique?"

Whether Mo Tao, Zhu Xiaotian, or Chen Qiusheng, all were horrified. The very source of their lives trembled, and their souls quaked.

Facing Fu Yuan directly, they felt their whole bodies shaking. Frozen in the air, they could no longer advance another step.

The blood-red color vanished from Zhu Xiaotian's eyes, replaced by deep fear.

Not a trace of Mo Tao's arrogance remained. His face was full of shock, and time seemed to stand still.

What manner of existences were those roaring within the phenomenon? How could they make him so afraid that he could not bring himself to resist?

All the beings gathered at the Heaven-Ascending Tower fell silent. The world seemed to stop, leaving only the youth in ink-black robes and the phenomenon of Chaos Splitting the Heavens.

"So what if you have a Holy Body or a Divine Body? You'll only become my wedding dress!" Chen Qiusheng roared. He forcibly steadied his mind and attacked Fu Yuan alongside the nine flood dragons at peak Nirvana.

"An insignificant clown!" Fu Yuan sneered and reached out one hand, as though to seize heaven and earth in his grasp. The nine flood dragons formed from spirit talismans were crushed to pieces in a single exchange.