After a round of deductions, Xiao Ping'an finally identified the culprit who had killed his parents.
Under the brilliant starlight, Xiao Ping'an rode a streak of rainbow light. With a single step, the stars wheeled and shifted.
A blazingly bright streak of purple light spanned the universe, crossing the myriad realms of the heavens and leading straight to a certain Life Source Land.
That streak of purple light was dazzling beyond measure.
"How could that brilliant purple path stretch so far?"
"It leads into the depths of the starry sky. Is the Overlord Heavenly Venerable setting out?"
Everyone knew of the Overlord Heavenly Venerable. After attaining the Dao, he had flown aggressively toward a certain part of the starry sky.
"Is he going to Beast God Star?"
The purple path crossed countless galaxies, reaching straight to the ancient Beast God Star Domain. He made no attempt to conceal himself.
Nor did he make any attempt to hide his anger.
His blood Qi spread like a sea, engulfing the starry sky as he arrived in the star domain where the Beast God resided.
This was an incomparably vast star, in no way inferior to the Big Dipper or Ziwei. Its life essence surged, its mountains and rivers were magnificent, and the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth was abundant, making it highly suitable for cultivation and comprehending the Dao.
Beast God Star was truly extraordinary. The Beast God and his two sworn brothers held it down, and their exclusive divine Great Dao patterns were engraved upon it. Any expert who came here would be suppressed.
Ordinary Saints did not dare descend on this planet, for their combat strength would be cut by at least half here.
Only a Heavenly Venerable like Xiao Ping'an could act without restriction here.
"Beast God, I know you're here."
"Tens of thousands of years ago, you killed my parents. Today, you and I will settle this grudge," Xiao Ping'an shouted.
"What a powerful Great Accomplished Tyrant Body. It truly is a physique rarely seen throughout the ages."
A figure suddenly appeared in the starry sky. It was the Beast God.
The Beast God was enormous, a full three zhang tall, with long yellow hair streaming in the wind. His body bore the features of several other powerful beings, as though he had been formed from their fusion, and his entire person gave off a strange, powerful presence.
Before this, Xiao Ping'an had never imagined that it was the Beast God, a Dark Supreme, who had devoured his parents' lives.
"I killed your parents? I don't remember it at all. Tens of thousands of years ago, I went out to feed and did indeed devour quite a few seeds with vigorous blood Qi," the Beast God said calmly, as though he had done something utterly insignificant.
Xiao Ping'an's eyes turned red on the spot.
Though shortly after his parents gave birth to him, they sealed him away and then set out on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
He had hoped his parents would return as kings, but instead he received the terrible news that a Dark Supreme had drenched the Starry Sky Ancient Road in blood, leaving countless peerless geniuses without even their bones.
"Today is the day you die." Xiao Ping'an immediately slammed a fist at him.
With a thunderous boom, pale bones and scarlet blood scattered across the starry sky.
Xiao Ping'an was completely unharmed, while the Beast God was injured.
The Beast God's expression changed at once. Xiao Ping'an was actually this overpowering.
Xiao Ping'an's Great Dao had severed space with one hand and time with the other. Together, they had severed both time and space.
Just how grand was this man's ambition, to have created such a secret technique?
The Beast God's expression turned cold. He had realized that if Xiao Ping'an continued developing this cultivation method and secret technique, it would inevitably become terrifying in the extreme, perhaps even surpassing the Nine Secrets.
This was a taboo secret technique Xiao Ping'an had cultivated after reading the trilogy and drawing inspiration from the description of the Gu Ancestor Treasured Technique.
Xiao Ping'an held out his left and right hands, the left representing time and the right representing space.
His hands formed a seal, releasing a terrifying presence.
His left hand traced a rune in the void. With a rumble, the roaring rush of the long river of time seemed to echo faintly.
Time grew chaotic there, and heaven and earth blurred, as though everything had been submerged in the long river of time.
His right hand traced another enormous rune, imprinting it on the void. The space there immediately collapsed, and the void shook violently.
The power of space spread everywhere, destroying heaven and earth. An unstoppable force shattered the void there and reassembled it, only to shatter it again, changing with the movements of Xiao Ping'an's right hand.
As he brought his hands together, the two merged, as though traversing the primordial universe, as though heaven and earth were being created anew.
Heaven and earth exploded. Cracks appeared across the Beast God's body, and with a series of cracking sounds, it burst apart.
In a single exchange, Xiao Ping'an had blasted the Beast God's body apart.
The Beast God painstakingly reformed his body.
"Impossible! How can you be so powerful?" Disbelief appeared on the Beast God's face as he stared at Xiao Ping'an and examined him closely.
He could not believe that Xiao Ping'an, who had only just attained the Dao, possessed such tremendous strength.
Though he had not undergone Ultimate Sublimation, waves of dread gripped him. His life was threatened, and an intense sense of danger arose.
His keen divine perception told him that he might truly die.
The Beast God immediately underwent Ultimate Sublimation.
He knew that if he did not fight for his life now, he would have no chance.
"Old thing, you're finished."
"Even Ultimate Sublimation won't help you," Xiao Ping'an mocked.
"Is that so? When I attained the Dao, your ancestors were crawling at my feet, you descendant of servants," the Beast God said with a loud laugh.
"Is that so? Today I'll kill you, old thief."
The great battle erupted, with taboo secret techniques unleashed from the outset.
Xiao Ping'an had originally planned to kill the Beast God as quickly as possible, but to his surprise, nine Divine Forms appeared around the Beast God, then fused into one and transformed into a Battle Immortal.
Seeing this, Xiao Ping'an suddenly understood. Back then, he had torn apart a Great Perfection Saint Spirit with the Tyrant Fist he had created, then incorporated the Saint Spirit's cultivation methods and secret techniques to create a new Tyrant Fist.
As for the almost mythical Nine Great Divine Forms of later generations, Xiao Ping'an had had no idea how to attain them and had instead cultivated nine great phenomena.
As he watched the Beast God and his nine Divine Forms, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed his mind.
So the Heavenly Tyrant Body Lineage's Nine Great Divine Forms in later generations had been inspired by the Beast God.
At that thought, Xiao Ping'an was no longer in a hurry to kill the Beast God.
He watched closely, probing the secrets of the Nine Great Divine Forms.
Xiao Ping'an controlled time with one hand and space with the other. Casually tearing through spacetime, he began a tremendous clash with the Battle Immortal and the Beast God.
With a wet sound, the Battle Immortal formed from the fusion of the Nine Great Divine Forms was pierced through, sprays of blood erupting from its body as it fled at great speed.
As for the Beast God, one of his arms was torn clean off, and his entire body was nearly ripped apart.
The Beast God saw Xiao Ping'an's nine great phenomena merge into a supreme Immortal King, which planted its foot firmly on the Battle Immortal formed from the Nine Great Divine Forms.
Xiao Ping'an was now looking at the Battle Immortal with a peculiar gaze, seeking to unravel its secrets.
At this moment, Xiao Ping'an truly possessed a bearing of divine might that overshadowed the world, unmatched under heaven, with no one capable of contending against him.
His expression was fierce and cold, and divine light flickered in his eyes.
He had firmly suppressed the Battle Immortal, and no matter how it struggled, it could not break free.
The Beast God painstakingly expelled the Great Dao Runes from his arm, allowing it to grow back.
All of this was an utter humiliation for him. In his day, he had swept across the world, his might shaking the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
Yet now, a Heavenly Venerable who had attained the Dao after him had beaten him so badly he could not raise his head. It was worse than killing him. Xiao Ping'an forcibly tore apart the monster formed from the Nine Great Divine Forms and suppressed it inside the Tyrant Bell.
He intended to keep refining it and unravel the secrets of the Nine Great Divine Forms.
After losing the monster formed from the fusion of the Nine Great Divine Forms, the Beast God's body shook violently, and he was gravely injured in an instant.
For it contained his essence, Qi, and spirit. Now that he had lost them, he could not cultivate them back in a short time.
"I truly regret not killing every last one of them back then... Ah..."
The Beast God roared at the heavens. On one of his trips out to feed, he had devoured living beings, never imagining that among the descendants of those weak beings lurked a peerless monster like Xiao Ping'an.
Compared to Xiao Ping'an, whose blood Qi was vigorous, he could be said to be old and feeble. It was truly a sorrowful thing.
Even so, the Beast God did not submit. His might had once shaken the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and a temporary setback did not mean he would fall.
A divine dragon flew out above his head, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws. Then the Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, White Tiger, Huashe... all manner of incomparably powerful immortal spirits appeared.
The immortal spirits then merged back into his body.
He gained the head of a dragon, the wings of a Phoenix, the limbs of a White Tiger, the tail of a Huashe...
It was a terrifying transformation.
The strongest parts of the various immortal spirits had fused perfectly on the Beast God's body.
Using a taboo secret technique, he had broken down and reassembled the various Great Dao Divine Forms, extracting the strongest parts most suited to him to form another kind of creature.
Indeed, this could perhaps be called the Beast God Ancestral Form.
Xiao Ping'an nodded. The principle behind this Beast God Ancestral Form was almost identical to that of the Tyrant Body Ancestral Form.
A dragon's head, a Huashe's tail, a White Tiger's claws, Phoenix wings, Qilin Armor, a Xuanwu's back...
All manner of the hardest, strongest, and most indestructible attributes had fused into one.
The instant this special battle form appeared, all of heaven and earth erupted in turmoil, and ten thousand peals of thunder rang out.
"This battle form truly is powerful. No wonder the Heavenly Tyrant Body Lineage treated this cultivation method and secret technique like a priceless treasure after obtaining it, keeping it secret and allowing only the Pure-Blooded Tyrant Bodies of later generations to cultivate it. Those with thinner Tyrant Body bloodlines weren't qualified to cultivate it at all."
"Young Heavenly Tyrant Blood, your origin essence blood might let me live another Lifetime, or perhaps it could be refined into a Nine-Turn Immortal Pill to extend my life."
The Beast God roared as he charged, unleashing all manner of taboo secret techniques at once.
Every cell in his body released endless energy, and his beast blood boiled.
Xiao Ping'an merged with his nine great phenomena and calmly watched the monster charging toward him.
The monster the Beast God had become was truly powerful. With a casual movement, he tore apart a section of the universe and destroyed a region of the starry sky.
A Dark Supreme possessed just such strength.
Xiao Ping'an used the Tyrant Fist without hesitation, meeting the monster head-on. Their blows shattered heaven and earth and made ghosts weep and spirits howl.
Though wounds also appeared on Xiao Ping'an, the Beast God fared far worse. His Phoenix wings were torn off, his Huashe tail was ripped away, and his ribs were smashed and broken.
Pale bones jutted out, and fresh blood streamed.
Even the Beast God's head was nearly twisted off.
The Supremes lurking in the forbidden zones were awakened once more. Their gazes were cold as they watched the battle between Xiao Ping'an and the Beast God.
Xiao Ping'an's strength shocked them once again.
"Kill!"
A supremely powerful fluctuation of the Great Dao came from the direction of Beast God Ancestral Star. The Beast God's other two sworn brothers had made their move.
The supremely powerful Great Dao fluctuation rushed toward the two fighting at the Cosmic Frontier.
Every star in the path of that destructive Great Dao fluctuation was destroyed, forcibly opening a channel of empty space.
The Beast God wanted to flee, or summon his other two sworn brothers.
Though he appeared incomparably fierce now, the Immortal Platform between his brows had already begun to warn him. The feeling that he might not live from one moment to the next was as though tragedy were about to descend.
The void trembled. Xiao Ping'an severed time with one hand and space with the other, his incomparably overbearing fist meeting that beam of Great Dao light and forcibly severing and shattering it.
He possessed the Carefree Heavenly Venerate's Nine Secrets: Xing, and his speed surpassed everything in the world.
Time seemed to freeze.
At the same time, he brought his understanding of the Dao of space to its utmost limit.
With a bang, the Beast God's bones and sinews were broken, and his body burst apart.
Xiao Ping'an forcibly tore the Beast God's body apart.
He then utterly killed the resurrected Beast God.
Xiao Ping'an had killed another Supreme, his might shaking the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
Before the Beast God died, he let out a sigh of unwillingness.
In the original story, the Beast God had lived until the era when Ye Fan was born.
But now he had fallen at the end of the Age of Myth.
A sudden worry arose in his heart. This Tyrant Body was so powerful and terrifying that he would likely not spare Beast God Ancestral Star, and his second and third brothers might not be a match for him.
After Xiao Ping'an tore apart the Beast God's primordial spirit, he utterly ground it to ash.
Naturally, the Beast God's scripture and his secret cultivation technique for the Nine Great Divine Forms also fell into Xiao Ping'an's hands.
The Beast God, a Heavenly Venerable of his generation, died just like that at Xiao Ping'an's hands.
A storm swept through the entire universe. After killing the Carefree Heavenly Venerate, Xiao Ping'an had now killed the Beast God as well.
Though the Beast God's strength was inferior to that of the Carefree Heavenly Venerate, one of the nine great Heavenly Venerables, he too was a Dark Supreme who had stepped onto his own invincible path. Yet now he had been killed just like that.
The rise of the Overlord Heavenly Venerable was unstoppable.
Many believed that the title of the tenth of the Ten Great Heavenly Venerables was entirely deserved.
This was the era of the Overlord Heavenly Venerable.
At this time, there were several Life Forbidden Zones in the universe, scattered across its reaches rather than gathered on the Big Dipper as they would be in later generations.
Those Dark Supremes who had awakened stared coldly at the Overlord Heavenly Venerable.
On Beast God Ancestral Star, countless beings wailed. The Beast God was their ancestor, invincible under heaven tens of thousands of years ago, his might shaking the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
Though he had launched the Dark Turmoil many times, he had never harmed the beings of Beast God Ancestral Star.
The Beast God was the protector of these beings.
But now he had met a tragic end, dying at the Overlord Heavenly Venerable's hands.
In a mysterious cave on Beast God Ancestral Star, vast Great Dao fluctuations shook the surroundings. The other two Beast God Supremes were on the verge of bursting out of their Immortal Source and going together to kill Xiao Ping'an.
"Wait. The Overlord Heavenly Venerable's blood Qi is vigorous right now, and he's at his peak. If we attack now, the cost won't be worth it. We'd be better off waiting until he's old and feeble, then acting together to avenge our eldest brother," another voice said.