Living in the deep palace

"what?!"

The Thunder God General had no time to dodge and could only hastily set up his acquired spiritual treasure, the Thunder God's Chisel, to defend himself.

clang--! ! !
A deafening roar that could shatter the stars!

Lei Fatian felt as if he had been hit head-on by a cultivation star. His arms broke instantly, and he was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing through layers of thunderclouds and leaving a long trail of blood in the air!
"Lord City Lord!"

"The city lord has returned!"

Inside the City of Immortality, the cultivators who had been in despair erupted in thunderous cheers.

Su Chen casually tossed the dragon bone, which stretched for thousands of miles, outside the city, causing a deafening roar that shook the earth.

He clapped his hands, stood in the void, and looked at the Thunder Punishment General who was struggling to rise from the clouds in the distance, a cruel smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Is this a good enough gift?"

“Ahhhh——!!!”

Ten thousand feet away, Lei Fatian burst out from the ruins-like clouds, his hair disheveled, his once majestic divine armor now covered in cracks, and his left arm in a strangely twisted shape.

He stared at Su Chen, his eyes burning with rage that seemed to set the entire area ablaze.

"You...you actually used the dragon bones from Corpse Dragon Ridge as a weapon?!"

Lei Fatian recognized the origin of the skeleton and was even more horrified.

That was the true form of the Corpse Dragon Emperor, a being even he dared not easily provoke! This Su Chen not only killed the Dragon Emperor, but also dismantled his bones?!
"You wicked creature! No matter what sorcery you used, you must die today!"

"Let the baby unleash their power!"

Lei Fatian spat a mouthful of golden life essence blood onto the Thunder God Chisel in his hand.

This is a postnatal spiritual treasure!
A treasure capable of easily annihilating a Grand Luo Golden Immortal!
Today, let this damned traitor see the power of this treasure! So what if he regains his strength?

Desperate!

Om-!
That low-grade acquired spiritual treasure seemed to awaken, bursting forth with an ancient and weathered aura.

The purple lightning instantly turned into a deep black – that was the "World-Destroying Black Lightning"!
"The revival of a spiritual treasure? Interesting."

Su Chen narrowed his eyes.

He could sense that the black lightning contained extremely powerful rules of destruction; if it were struck, even the Heavenly Emperor's Bone might not be able to withstand it completely.

Is this a treasure unique to the Heavenly Realm and the Void Realm, a spiritual treasure?
Lingbao is divided into acquired and innate.

Even a low-grade spiritual treasure can unleash the power to annihilate a Grand Luo Golden Immortal!

Because each acquired spiritual treasure represents the entire creation of a Great Immortal, forged through rigorous refinement.

It is a primordial spiritual treasure, and it is said to have been forged by refining it at the fifth level of cultivation.

"Heavenly Punishment - Ten Thousand Thunder Purgatory!"

Thunder God General roared and slashed downwards with his Thunder God Chisel.

Rumble!
The sky seemed to crack open, and countless bolts of dark lightning poured down like a waterfall, instantly sealing off all the space around Su Chen and forming a lightning cage!
"In this Black Lightning Purgatory, no matter how strong your physical body is, it will be refined into ashes!"

"is it?"

Despite being in the center of the sea of ​​lightning, Su Chen remained remarkably calm.

He slowly raised his right hand, and a grayish-white light quietly appeared in his palm.

That is the power of the [Second Branch of Longevity - Branch of Withering and Flourishing].

"Thunder is the most powerful and yang force of heaven and earth, representing both destruction and life."

"But all things that are born must die, and all things that flourish must decline."

Withered and flourishing branches are born from the power of weeds.

The Dao of Desolation is a forbidden power even in the Heavenly Domain and the Ruins Domain.

Can be imagined.

How powerful these withered and flourishing branches are!

Su Chen's voice seemed to transcend time and space, carrying an unquestionable law or decree.

"I sentence you to...wither."

hum-

With a gentle wave of Su Chen's hand.

An invisible, hazy wave swept across the sky filled with black lightning in an instant.

A strange scene happened.

Those originally incredibly violent black lightning bolts, capable of destroying even Golden Immortals, seemed to have undergone erosion over billions of years the moment they came into contact with this fluctuation...

Their colors began to fade, changing from deep black to grayish-white.

Their power began to wane, turning from ferocity into deathly stillness.

Finally, it turned into wisps of harmless green smoke and dissipated into the void!
"Wha...what?!"

Lei Fatian's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. "My Black Thunder... is old?! Dead?! How is this possible? How can thunder grow old?!"

"Everything has a lifespan, including thunder."

Su Chen stepped out of the Thunder Prison unharmed.

He looked at Thunder Punishment General and spoke again: "Now, it's your turn."

"Eternal Life: A Single Thought of Life and Death!"

Su Chen pointed at Lei Fatian General from afar.

call out!
A grayish-white beam of light, ignoring spatial distance, struck Thunder Punishment General in the chest in an instant.

"Not good! Protect yourself with your spiritual treasure!"

The Thunder God General was terrified and quickly held the Thunder God's Chisel in front of him.

However, that gray light was not a physical attack, but a stripping away at the level of laws!
sizzle-

The Thunder God's Chisel flashed with spiritual light and emitted a mournful cry. This acquired spiritual treasure was actually bearing the terrifying power of "withering" in place of its master!
Visibly, mottled patina began to appear on the smooth bronze patterns on the surface of the thunder chisel.

The oppressive aura it exuded was also plummeting at an alarming rate!

"No! My precious treasure! My magical artifact!!"

Lei Fatian was heartbroken; this was his lifeline!

Only those in the fourth realm can serve as Heavenly Generals.

He, though only a Golden Immortal at the peak of his cultivation, could serve as a Heavenly General, all thanks to this acquired spiritual treasure that could easily suppress and kill a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

And now.

The acquired spiritual treasure was actually damaged...

"Since you can't bear to part with it, let's destroy it all together."

Su Chen's figure had appeared in front of him without him even noticing.

The fist, wrapped in pale golden Heavenly Emperor patterns, slammed down on the rusty Thunder God Chisel with the domineering power of the Longevity Tree devouring all worlds!

"Heavenly Emperor's Bone - Heaven Collapse!"

boom--! ! !
A crisp cracking sound.

That once-mighty low-grade acquired spiritual treasure, under the dual blows of the Law of Withering and Flourishing and the Heavenly Emperor's Bone, finally succumbed to its strain...

It exploded into countless fragments!
"puff--"

With his natal treasure destroyed, Lei Fatian suffered a devastating backlash. He deflated like a punctured balloon, spitting out blood and his aura plummeting to rock bottom.

"You...you are a devil..."

Lei Fatian looked at the smiling man in front of him, his eyes filled with nothing but endless fear.

"devil?"

Su Chen reached out and grabbed his crown.

"No, I am... your customer."

puff!

The bronze roots erupted, and this time the devouring was more ferocious than ever before!
……

……

It devoured a Golden Immortal at the Great Perfection level, plus the essence of a broken acquired spiritual treasure.

The changes within Su Chen's body were nothing short of earth-shattering. The canopy of the Longevity Tree expanded outward by another thousand feet, and the gray-white branch representing "withering and flourishing" became even thicker, with a hazy gray "withering and flourishing fruit" even growing on it.

More importantly, Su Chen's skeleton.

After absorbing the fragments of thunder laws from the Thunder God's Chisel, a trace of purple thunder pattern appeared in the golden lines on his Heavenly Emperor Bone.

[Eternal Life - Heavenly Emperor Thunder Bone]!
Now, every punch Su Chen throws not only carries the Heavenly Emperor's suppressive order, but also carries the earth-shattering power of lightning punishment!
"The early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm... is completely stable."

"Even in terms of combat strength, I can already sweep aside mid-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortals and fight head-on against late-stage ones!"

Su Chen stood above the City of Immortality, feeling the surging power within his body, and exhaled a long breath.

Below, hundreds of thousands of cultivators were already kneeling on the ground, looking at him as if they were on a pilgrimage.

Even the heavenly general wielding the magical treasure was swallowed whole by the city lord!
This City of Immortality is the safest fortress in the Void Realm!
"Dry bones," Su Chen said calmly.

"This servant is here!" Lady Kugu hurriedly flew forward, her attitude even more respectful and humble than before.

“Drag that dragon skeleton back and forge it into the city wall.”

"In addition..." A flash of light appeared in Su Chen's hand, and dozens of bronze-colored "Longevity Seeds" flew out and hovered in front of Lady Dry Bones.

"Transmit my decree."

"With Changsheng City as the center, expand outwards for thousands of miles."

"Plant these seeds on every piece of the surrounding continental debris."

"I will transform this entire desolate region, spanning tens of thousands of miles, into... the 'Land of Immortality'!"

Upon hearing this, Lady Dry Bones trembled, and an incredulous fanaticism appeared in her eyes.

"Lord of the City...you intend to establish a...divine kingdom?!"

In the Ruins Domain, only truly powerful beings or those at the fifth realm dare to divide territories and establish their own realm!
"God's Kingdom?"

Su Chen smiled, his gaze piercing through the layers of mist, looking towards the more distant west and south.

That's the direction of "Ten Thousand Demon Cave" and "Fallen God Valley".

"No, it's just a... ranch."

"I need more land and more cultivators to support the Longevity Tree."

"The death of the Thunder Punishment Heavenly General certainly couldn't be kept secret from the Heavenly Court. The next one to come will probably be a true Great Luo Heavenly General, or even... a Perfected Great Luo Immortal."

"The possibility of a fifth-realm overlord descending is actually not high, after all, this is the Ruins Domain."

"Before that, I must become stronger."

Ambitious glints flashed in Su Chen's eyes.

"Those neighbors who are still watching... the old demon of the Ten Thousand Demon Cave, the ancient god corpse of the Fallen God Valley..."

"It's time to invite them to the banquet."

"Order the Changsheng Guard to prepare for war!"

"Three days from now, we will march on the Demon Cave!"

"Yes!!!"

A deafening roar echoed through the sky.

With Su Chen's command, this enormous machine, which had been dormant in the Void Domain for countless years, finally began to reveal its ferocious fangs under his will.

The expansion of the realm of immortals has officially begun.

And Su Chen's legend will rise to great heights over the corpses of countless powerful figures on the ruins of this universe!

……

……

In the western part of the Ruins, lies the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons.

This is a network of deep, crisscrossing underground fissures, said to connect to the "source of turbid energy" beneath the ruins.

For countless eons, cultivators who have fallen into depravity and gone mad in the Ruins, or desperate outlaws who practice insidious demonic arts, have all gathered here.

There are no rules here, only chaos and slaughter. Every inch of the black rock is soaked with dried demonic blood.

The master of the Ten Thousand Demon Cave is named "Ancestor of the Underworld".

He was not human, but a "Soul-Devouring Shadow Demon" born from turbid air. After devouring the primordial spirits of countless cultivators, he cultivated a demonic body at the half-step Great Luo level. His strength was even slightly greater than that of the previous Black Iron City Lord, Tie Wuyai, and his methods were even more bizarre and unpredictable.

But at this moment, this demonic giant, who struck fear into the hearts of those on the outskirts of the Void Domain, was pacing back and forth anxiously in his demonic palace.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Just who is this Su Chen?! Killing Tie Wuyai is one thing, but he even ate the Corpse Dragon Emperor?! He even defeated the Heavenly Court's Thunder Punishment General?!"

The pale, sinister face of the Netherworld Ancestor was filled with fear.

Although he was arrogant, he also knew his own limitations.

The Corpse Dragon Emperor was a true fourth realm cultivator (although he was a pseudo-Daluo Immortal), and the Thunder Punishment Heavenly General was a Golden Immortal at the peak of his cultivation, wielding a spiritual treasure.

Either of these two could easily beat him up.

But now, they have all become Su Chen's "meal".

“Report—!”

A demonic cultivator scout stumbled into the main hall, his face filled with terror.

"Ancestor! Something terrible has happened!!"

"The east...the sky in the east has changed!!"

"What do you mean? Explain yourself!" The Netherworld Ancestor grabbed the scout and shouted sternly.

“Blue…blue light…” the scout stammered, “From Changsheng City… countless blue light spots flew over like dandelions! Wherever they landed, the black ruins turned bronze! Those ruin beasts, those rogue cultivators… as long as they touched that light, they… they all knelt down!”

"And...and I saw...a colossal white dragon skeleton, stretching for thousands of miles, pulling a bronze chariot...flying towards our Ten Thousand Demon Cave!!"

"what?!"

With a flick of his wrist, the Netherworld Ancestor crushed the spy into a bloody mist.

"That's the spine of the Corpse Dragon Emperor?!"

"He...he really came!!"

The last glimmer of hope in the heart of the Netherworld Ancestor was shattered.

"No! We can't just sit here and wait to die!"

"Activate the 'Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Soul Formation'! Summon all Golden Immortal Demon Lords! Follow me to meet the enemy!!"

"Also... quickly go and invite that person from 'Fallen God Valley'!!"

……

Three thousand miles outside the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons.

The once dark and oppressive sky of the Ruins Domain was now divided by two completely different colors.

On one side was the overwhelming dark demonic energy of the Ten Thousand Demon Cave, and on the other side was the vast bronze divine light of the Eternal City.

hold head high--! ! !
A dragon's roar that shook the heavens and the earth resounded.

A white skeletal dragon, stretching for tens of thousands of miles, snaked and swam through the void. Though only its skeleton remained, it still exuded a chilling dragon's might, driven by some mysterious force.

On the massive head of the bone dragon, there was a bronze throne.

Su Chen sat upright on it, his green robe fluttering in the wind, with the phantom of the Longevity Tree floating behind him, like a celestial emperor inspecting the mortal realm.

Behind him were countless "Chang Sheng Wei" (a type of defensive unit).

Lady Dry Bones, the original members of the Black Fiend Gang, and countless cultivators who had surrendered were all dressed in uniform bronze armor, their eyes gleaming with fanaticism.

"Lord of the city, the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons is just ahead."

Lady Kugu stood respectfully beside the throne, pointing to the churning black abyss below, "That is the biggest cancer in the Ruins Domain, with tens of thousands of demonic cultivators inside. Relying on its advantageous terrain, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack."

"Easy to defend, difficult to attack?"

Su Chen looked down at the abyss below, which resembled the maw of a giant beast, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

That's from the perspective of other people.

"For me... this is a huge... rice bowl."

Su Chen slowly stood up, and the bone dragon beneath his feet roared as it came to a stop above the Ten Thousand Demon Cave. (End of Chapter)