Repay Enmity with Kindness? Get Lost! Extreme Dao Array Diagram Mastery! The Dark Turmoil Begins!

Outside the Immortal Court.

The Sacred Body Ye Mingyuan sat cross-legged, golden blood Qi rising through the void around him!

The phenomenon of chaos growing a green lotus manifested, accompanied by wisps of imperial might, turning this region that no one had dared enter into a forbidden zone as well.

He gazed at the mountains ahead, where immortal charm Qi stretched unbroken, and could not help sighing.

A hundred years.

He had waited here only to ask Lu Qingyun for a clear answer!

Buzz-!!

As a Quasi-Emperor, Ye Mingyuan immediately sensed the change in his surroundings.

Exceedingly pure immortal charm Qi surged toward him from every direction, making even his ocean-like golden Bitter Sea boil!

His eyes snapped open, and he saw Lu Qingyun sitting cross-legged atop a massive piece of Immortal Source.

Chaos Qi shrouded his entire body, mysterious and powerful. Waves of extreme Dao pressure, even without being deliberately released, left even a Quasi-Emperor-level Sacred Body like him struggling to breathe, unbearably oppressed.

After a hundred years, Lu Qingyun had grown even stronger!

Shock filled Ye Mingyuan's eyes. He could not understand how a dignified Quasi-Emperor like himself had been relocated without noticing a thing.

Yet this only strengthened his resolve to awaken Lu Qingyun!

Lu Qingyun, meanwhile, looked at this old acquaintance, countless thoughts passing through his eyes.

Back when he had first arrived on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

In battles at the same level, no one could withstand a single punch from him!

Only the man before him, relying on his incredibly thick health bar, had stubbornly endured three moves before falling!

That was precisely why, having seen him remain here for a hundred years, he had agreed to meet him.

Of course, it was only a meeting.

After all, he was merely an old acquaintance, not an old friend.

Their relationship was hardly close. In fact... there were even some grudges between them.

"Lu... Heavenly Emperor, now you are an invincible being standing high above all, while I am still merely an insignificant Quasi-Emperor, with a long way to go before my physique reaches major completion. This gap truly is enormous."

"Naturally. That gap was already set when I knocked you down in three punches."

Lu Qingyun's words darkened Ye Mingyuan's face. He even felt a phantom ache in it.

He forced a laugh and stopped concealing his purpose, stating it outright. "So I knew that the position of Great Emperor in this lifetime would certainly be yours. But why... did you turn yourself into a forbidden zone, imitating those Supremes clinging to their last breaths while you were at your peak!?"

"Do you know where this leaves the countless living beings of the universe!? What do you take this heaven and earth for!"

Ye Mingyuan grew somewhat agitated.

As someone with an innate sacred body, he had always followed the example of his predecessors, taking the protection of all living beings beneath heaven as his duty.

Thus, he could not understand. Lu Qingyun had clearly already attained the Dao and become an Emperor.

Why... would he abandon that responsibility, and even... willingly enter a forbidden zone to become a Supreme, reduced to someone reviled and hated by the world!

Hearing this, Lu Qingyun understood why he had come.

He chuckled, utterly unaffected by Ye Mingyuan's emotions.

"The countless beings of the universe? Heaven and earth? Heh-why should I be responsible for them?"

"Ever since I began cultivating, heaven and earth treated me as a calamity, and the sacred lands and great families treated me as an obstacle. Eight hundred years... eight hundred full years of escaping death, crawling and struggling. I achieved the imperial throne entirely through my own talent!"

"Don't forget, before my Chaos Body reached major completion, the Emperor Weapon I caught with my bare hands belonged to the Feng Family! As the son-in-law the Feng Family is so proud of, you're now asking me to repay enmity with kindness? What a joke!"

Hearing this, Ye Mingyuan's face alternated between white and red, as though he felt deeply humiliated.

He wanted to say something more.

But with a sweep of his sleeve, Lu Qingyun sent him outside the Immortal Court!

Along with him went a voice of the Dao that echoed in his ears.

"Dare linger around the Immortal Court again, and you will be deemed to harbor ill intent. Executed!"

The voice of the Dao thundered!

It sent his blood Qi churning, strands of golden blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

After driving Ye Mingyuan away.

Recalling Ye Mingyuan's humiliated expression, Lu Qingyun rubbed his chin and thought back to what had happened.

"Back then, I think it was to get revenge on those sacred lands and great families, and gather enough Divine Source for my breakthrough along the way."

"I plundered them. When I was plundering the Feng Family, I think I ran into a legitimate daughter of theirs with a pure yin physique and borrowed her primordial yin to strengthen my Chaos Body further. Other than that, I didn't do anything all that bad, did I?"

"Wait... Ye Mingyuan seems to be the Feng Family's son-in-law, so the legitimate daughter he married was..."

Lu Qingyun smacked his lips. "Surely it couldn't be that much of a coincidence?"

"Forget it. Who cares!"

"I got blasted by an Emperor Weapon! Not going to trouble them right now already counts as being pure and kindhearted."

[Ding! The host has stayed true to his heart and upheld his identity as the master of a forbidden zone. The system is deeply gratified. Reward: Extreme Dao Array Pattern Mastery! (Any Great Emperor-level array diagram will come naturally to you, allowing you to lay it down at will... if you have enough materials.)]

The system's voice rang out again.

Lu Qingyun's eyes lit up.

Through his understanding over this period, he had already learned how to trigger the system's rewards.

Aside from the occasional missions, as long as his actions benefited the forbidden land, or he remained within it for a sufficient length of time, he could receive rewards!

The reward of Extreme Dao Array Pattern Mastery was indeed quite good.

It was enough to save Lu Qingyun over a thousand years of studying arrays.

But... what was that final note supposed to mean?

Could it be that I, the mighty Chaos Heavenly Emperor, don't even have the materials to set up a few Emperor-level arrays!?

What a joke!

Hmm... I really do seem to be a fucking joke!

Year 372 of the Immortal Court calendar.

Within Chaotic God Mountain, a Life Forbidden Zone.

Crack, crack-!

A crack appeared across a massive Immortal Crystal.

Then it spread like a spiderweb. Before long, it would lose its effect entirely, unable to seal a Supreme's vital essence!

Buzz-!

A pair of golden eyes opened, a trace of madness within them!

At the same time, another Immortal Crystal not far from him developed the same problem.

These two Supremes had both participated in the encirclement and assault on Lu Qingyun several hundred years ago.

They had survived that great battle, but it had left exceedingly severe injuries within their bodies!

As a result, their vital essence drained away at an abnormally rapid rate. Even Immortal Source could not seal it in.

Of course, another important reason was that there was not enough immortal academy liquid.

The shares allotted to the two of them were sufficient to maintain their normal sealed state, but after a great battle without any replenishment, they were certainly not enough.

Bang-!

A golden claw thrust out of the Immortal Source as he broke free of the seal himself!

It was a Golden-Furred Hou, his fur already withered, decrepit and aged.

Yet his gaze remained sharp and full of coldness.

He looked at the hesitant figure and said sternly, "If we don't absorb vital essence soon, neither of us will last a thousand years. Better to... take a gamble! Even if that Lu Qingyun really is playing some grand game of chess, he most likely won't act over two Supremes."

"Will you live, or die!?"

Silence...

After a long while, crack, crack-!

The Immortal Source burst apart, and a figure as burly as a small mountain emerged.

Towering bloodlust and murderous intent nearly took physical form!

Madness shone in both Supremes' eyes. They even wanted to draw in some of the others whose vital essence was running thin.

But the other Supremes could all last at least several thousand more years.

They did not agree.

In the end, only the two Supremes emerged together. Their target... living beings as great medicine!

"Let the Dark Turmoil begin!"