Poverty

Chapter 1940 The Hidden Emperor's Resurrection
Dark Forbidden Zone

At this moment, one after another, huge stone statues lit up in this desolate and rugged place.

At the very source, an extremely powerful aura emanated outwards, then transformed into an old man dressed in ancient robes.

The old man had a halo behind his head, within which were countless universes arising and ceasing, the boundless sky, and even the shadows of many people living in these universes, almost reflecting the entire void.

After this person was revived, several extremely powerful statues also revived.

The Donghua Ancestor, the Four Willows Daoist, and the Peacock Emperor all revived at this moment. Their expressions were solemn, and behind them were several figures. These people all sensed the aura from the source of the Dark Forbidden Zone and immediately went to meet it after reviving. They were very respectful to the old man.

The old man slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were long and narrow, and they held a calm, an absolute calm.

The Hidden Emperor, a figure feared throughout the Dark Forbidden Zone.

Back then, he repelled several powerful enemies who had invaded the Dark Forbidden Zone.

At this moment, the Hidden Emperor slowly spoke: "The unsettling factors from outside the realm have reappeared; that demoness from back then is still alive."

At this moment, the Donghua Patriarch said in a deep voice, "That demoness is not dead yet?"

The Hidden Emperor said, "Not only did she not die, but she also killed all of Jiu Yao and the others. I stabbed her with a sword earlier, but I was not fully recovered and she escaped."

Two cold glints shot from the eyes of the Donghua Ancestor: "I cannot rest easy until this demon woman from beyond the realm is dead. I shall go and cut off her head."

At this moment, the Hidden Emperor slowly said, "Very well, that demoness was stabbed by me and her life is uncertain. She is powerless to resist. However, there is someone by her side who needs to be careful."

The Old Ancestor Donghua asked, "Who is it?"

The Hidden Emperor said, "Do you remember the last time a Taoist priest in green robes broke into the Dark Forbidden Zone?"

The Old Ancestor Donghua frowned: "That's right, there is such a person. I fought with him back then, and his Taoist magic was powerful."

The Hidden Emperor said, "That person is the future incarnation of the demoness who is currently accompanying her. Be careful of him when you go to deal with this demoness."

The Old Ancestor Donghua frowned slightly and said, "So it was him."

Although the Hidden Emperor has not been revived, the matter of the Dark Forbidden Zone cannot be hidden from him.

The cultivation level of the Donghua Ancestor is above that of the Nine Luminaries Saint Monarch.

At this moment, the Four Willows Daoist beside the Donghua Ancestor also said, "Brother Hidden Emperor, why don't you let me go? I'm afraid Donghua won't be able to handle this matter well."

The Old Ancestor Donghua sneered, "Your injuries are more severe than mine. Do you really think your cultivation is superior to mine?"

The Taoist Master Siliu said, "I am always more meticulous than you in handling matters."

The Peacock Emperor said lazily, "Why don't you let me go? I promise to bring that kid back."

Seeing that everyone was about to argue, the Hidden Emperor waved his hand and said, "Let Donghua handle this matter."

The Old Ancestor Donghua smiled and said, "Brother Yindi understands me best. I am confident that I can handle this matter well."

He then called a few people to leave with him, and in an instant, these people disappeared into the dark forbidden zone.

The Taoist Master Siliu said, “Donghua is impatient. Although the Taoist in green fought him to the death, it was just a future body, not even the real body. Donghua knows this. I’m afraid this will affect his dealings with the demoness.”

The Hidden Emperor said, "Since Donghua wants to do it, let him do it. It's time to settle some of the karmic ties between him and that Taoist in green."

Since the Hidden Emperor had said so, no one said anything more, and they all turned back into stone statues.

The annihilation calamity emanating from them was far too powerful. There were many stone statues like them in the Dark Forbidden Zone, all ancient beings entangled by the Great Dao of Annihilation.

At this moment, everyone fell silent.

On the other side, Li Yanchu escaped without being tracked down, and that ancient consciousness seemed to have been abruptly severed.

He was unaware that an extremely powerful being was leading a force out of the ancient forbidden zone in search of his whereabouts.

Li Yanchu was hiding in a universe when he suddenly felt a strange sensation in his heart. It wasn't caused by the woman in his arms, but rather by an extremely terrifying being locking onto him.

After a long time, he changed several universes but still couldn't get rid of this feeling.

Previously, the ancient consciousness had only swept over this place without locking onto Li Yanchu's karma. But this time was different. Li Yanchu felt that his karma had been locked onto, and his gaze became stern.

Not long after, he was bumped into by several people.

These people were described as ancient, and they all had different injuries, some to the head, some to the heart, and some to the abdomen.

Each of them was surrounded by the Annihilation Flame, seemingly on the verge of achieving enlightenment, yet their auras were incredibly powerful, sending chills down one's spine.

Li Yanchu looked at these people coldly and said, "How come there are so many old, decaying bastards in the Dark Forbidden Zone?"

At this moment, a being at the Primordial Realm sneered and said, "You are already struggling to take care of yourself, and now you dare to collude with this demon woman from outside the realm. I think you don't want to stay in the Great Void anymore."

Li Yanchu said, "Having offended so many people, I can't survive in the Great Void. But how many of you are there? Are you going to send waves of people to my door for me to kill?"

The Primordial Realm being's expression changed, and he angrily said, "You brat, you don't know your own limitations!"

At this moment, an even more powerful voice emerged, followed by beams of light enveloping the void, and a figure slowly walked out—it was none other than the Donghua Ancestor.

The Donghua Patriarch looked very refined. In his thirties, he resembled a schoolteacher, holding a ruler in his hand.

As soon as the Donghua Ancestor appeared, the void around Li Yanchu was immediately locked, and the karma on his body was locked by the Donghua Ancestor.

Li Yanchu thought to himself, "He is a divine strategist at the Primordial Realm."

The Old Ancestor Donghua said calmly, "Impressive. Your future self stormed into the Dark Forbidden Zone. Do you know what his final fate was?"

Li Yanchu asked, "What will happen in the end?"

The Donghua Patriarch said, "He could indeed cause rivers of blood to flow, but in the end, he was killed by me."

Li Yanchu's heart sank.

The Taoist in blue was his future self, possessing immense combat power. He stormed into the forbidden area, but unexpectedly, he was killed by the schoolteacher in front of him.

The Old Ancestor Donghua said, "I have some karmic connection with him, so I will settle it with you today."

Li Yanchu waved his hand and said, "He is the future me, not the present me. To be precise, there is no hatred between you and me now."

The Old Ancestor Donghua frowned slightly: "That Taoist in green robes was incredibly domineering as he stormed into the Dark Forbidden Zone. You seem to be lacking in comparison."

Li Yanchu said, "I was just an ordinary Taoist priest, so it's normal that I don't have any domineering aura."

The Old Ancestor Donghua said, "Is that so? My forbidden zone has quite a few bloodstains owed to you." Li Yanchu shrugged and said, "Really? Who can testify?"

The old ancestor Donghua's expression changed, and he shouted, "I have no mood to waste time arguing with you here. Today, not only will you die, but this demoness in your arms will also die."

Li Yanchu said, "I will kill you all one by one sooner or later. Well, since you have delivered yourself to my door today, I will kill you and settle this grudge."

Donghua Patriarch sneered: "You think you can take me on?"

The aura emanating from him was extremely powerful, even stronger than that of the Nine Luminaries Saint King.

The murderous aura on Li Yanchu's face vanished, replaced by a smile as she said, "So you're that good at fighting? Sorry, just pretend I didn't say anything."

The next moment, Li Yanchu broke through the air and disappeared into the horizon as a streak of light.

The Donghua Ancestor imprisoned the void, but Li Yanchu waved his hand and unleashed a divine blade. The purple blade energy was extremely sharp and directly shattered the void that had been sealed by him.

Ancestor Donghua was taken aback, and the other beings at the Primordial Realm around him exchanged bewildered glances.

They had originally prepared for a great battle. Li Yan had just entered the Primordial Realm, and his combat power was extremely strong. Several of his fellow Daoists had died at his hands, so they naturally did not dare to underestimate him.

They suspected that the demoness was behind it all, and that Li Yanchu was just getting the benefit.

Today, Li Yanchu shattered the void-sealing barrier of the Donghua Ancestor with a single strike, and they realized that Li Yanchu did indeed possess some skill. However, it was as if such a person was running away far too easily.

The Old Ancestor Donghua turned around and said, "Chase him! Don't let him escape!"

Immediately, everyone scattered and transformed into streaks of light to chase after it.

Li Yanchu was frantically traversing the vast void when he heard the female demon's weak voice from his arms.

"You just ran away like that? That's not like you. I thought you were going to rush up and fight them."

Li Yanchu sneered, "A great battle, then they kill me, cut off my head and hang it at the East Gate?"

The female demon asked, "Where is the East Gate?"

Li Yanchu said, "Stop talking nonsense, how did you wake up?"

The female demon said, "I woke up when those enemies came looking for me. Why didn't you hand me over?"

Li Yanchu said, "To be honest, I did consider handing you over, but you can see that person was clearly after me. What good would it do me to hand you over? I'd just lose face and not even survive. I might as well play the hero."

The female demon chuckled, her smile radiant, and said, "You're quite an interesting person."

Li Yanchu said, "You'd better not think I'm funny. Once you've recovered and woken up, hurry up and run."

The female demon said, "If I had stayed awake, you might have abandoned me, right? After all, we don't have any connection."

Li Yanchu was stunned for a moment. While maintaining his supernatural powers and running at full speed, he replied to the female demon, "You see things very clearly. If you had woken up earlier, I probably wouldn't have cared about you."

The female demon said, "I knew it. I have no power to fight back now. Whether you hand me over or abandon me, it's all the same and I'll die. It's up to you."

Li Yanchu cursed at her: "Stop talking nonsense, put away your seductive look and go seduce someone else."

The female demon laughed and said, "What a pity. Someone as ruthless and decisive as you should have had a great future, but you have an untimely sense of justice, which means you're destined to go nowhere."

Li Yanchu said, "Why do you talk so much? Once you're healed, you should come down and run."

The female demon wrapped her arms around Li Yanchu's neck, and the fragrance emanating from her body made one's heart flutter.

Although he was fleeing for his life, Li Yanchu couldn't help but feel a pang of emotion, but he was determined and immediately suppressed the thought.

Li Yanchu said coldly, "If you're still planning to use your seductive tricks at this point, you might as well prepare to die."

The female demon said aggrievedly, "I didn't. It's just normal attraction between men and women. What, you can't resist my charm either?"

Li Yanchu shut his mouth and stopped talking.

It wasn't because this female demon was too confident, but because she was being blocked by a being at the Primordial Realm.

This being of the Primordial Realm held prayer beads in his hand, each bead resembling a divine mountain. The eighteen beads began to circulate, whistling as they came.

Li Yanchu was immediately enveloped in a divine light, and at that moment, a peerless divine blade appeared in his palm. He swung the blade to meet the attack.

The blade struck a rosary bead and shattered instantly. The eighteen rosary beads circulated endlessly. Li Yanchu attacked with his blade several times in succession, but each time they were smashed by the rosary beads.

The prayer beads were about to land on Li Yanchu, but Li Yanchu focused all his energy on his cultivation, turned around, and took the blow with his back.

With a bang, the prayer beads struck Li Yanchu, causing him to rush forward and vomit a mouthful of blood.

His mouthful of blood landed right in the face of the female demon, Ye Zi.

Ye Zi was stunned by the mouthful of scalding blood. After a moment, she said, "You could have thrown me out."

Li Yanchu said, "Stop talking nonsense. I don't trust you that much either, but I'm not going to use you as a shield. What can you do? If you don't resolve this quickly, the others will catch up, and you might not be able to escape."

He also knew that it was unrealistic to run away several times in the face of someone like the Donghua Ancestor.

Ye Zi said, "There are a few flaws in the supernatural abilities he cultivates. If I were at my peak, I could naturally kill him, but if it were you, you would be much less capable."

Li Yanchu said, "What flaw? Tell me."

Ye Zi then spoke eloquently, explaining to Li Yan the flaws in the cultivation technique of the Primordial Realm expert behind him.

Their conversation did not shy away from mentioning the powerful expert at the Primordial Realm.

The powerful cultivator at the Primordial Realm changed his expression and felt a chill run down his spine.

The female demon's words indeed pinpointed a flaw in his technique.

But then he calmed down. Having a flaw is one thing, just like when a waterfall is rushing down, even if there is a gap, you can't control it. He wasn't worried about his technique being broken.

His technique inherently has methods to deal with these weaknesses, but many people rush in blindly, thinking they can break his technique, only to be killed by it instead.

After Ye Zi finished speaking, a third eye suddenly appeared between Li Yan Chu's brows, and a willow leaf-shaped mark slowly opened, reflecting the vast void within the third eye.

When the rosary beads came at him again, Li Yanchu found the flaw in the technique.

Originally, even with his divine eyes, he couldn't find the man's flaw for a while, but after Ye Zi's guidance, he quickly found it.

At this moment, he swung his sword to meet the attack, and streaks of sword light fell. Suddenly, the prayer beads scattered and transformed into towering mountains that roared past Li Yanchu's body.

The Primal Realm expert who had recovered from the forbidden zone looked on in disbelief and exclaimed, "This is impossible!"