Living in the deep palace

"roar--------!!!!"

Within the vast void, the [Star-Shepherd Giant], whose size was a hundred times larger than the Eternal Heaven, let out a greedy roar that shattered the chaotic air currents spanning billions of light-years.

In its ignorant and primal-appetizing single eye, the ancient god's remains, radiating rich blood and energy, and the tiny, green-robed figure standing at the very front of the remains, were simply the perfect dessert bestowed upon it by the Great Void!
"Boom!"

The Star-Shepherd Giant extended its colossal hand, covered in barbs of gray meteorites, which blotted out the sky. In its palm, it even held several broken, dead stars whose cores it had chewed up. With a terrifying weight capable of crushing countless worlds, it slammed down upon the Eternal Heaven as easily as swatting a fly!
This palm strike contained the purest law of destruction within the vast void. Wherever it passed, the celestial winds of the void crumbled, and space was forcibly compressed into an absolute void black hole!
"My lord, beware!! This void behemoth possesses a monstrous physical body; we cannot defeat it by force!!!"

Behind them, the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Skeleton Lord were terrified. Even though they had witnessed Su Chen's invincible prowess in tearing apart gods in the lower realms, the fear in their bones still made them feel suffocated in the face of this primordial beast that fed on stars in the vast void.

However, this colossal hand, capable of shattering the entire Middle Thousand Worlds, was a world-destroying force.

Su Chen didn't even bother to draw the bone knife that had cleaved through the heavens at his waist.

His eyes, as deep as an abyss, showed no sign of solemnity; instead, they blazed with a raging inferno of gluttony!
"Unable to defeat them by force?"

Su Chen's sinister smile widened instantly, revealing his gleaming white fangs. He slightly bent his knees, and the Origin Divine Power within him, which had just entered the [Seventh Realm - Great Dao Venerable Position], erupted like billions of ancient volcanoes simultaneously!

"Before my recipe, even the Heavenly Dao is only fit to be a base soup!"

"A wild boar that digs up dead stars in the void dares to open its mouth at a butcher with a knife?!"

"Bang--------!!!!!"

Su Chen stomped his feet on the Divine Court, his figure transforming into a chaotic, shimmering light that tore through the void. Instead of dodging, he faced the giant shepherd's sky-covering palm and shot straight into the sky!

He did not manifest a ten-thousand-foot-tall demon god form, but with his seemingly insignificant seven-foot body, he clenched his right fist and, without any fancy moves, punched the palm of the giant beast that was ten thousand times larger than a divine mountain!

"Thump—!!!!!!!!!!"

A collision between two extremely disproportionately large and small objects!
However, it was not the tiny figure in the green robe who erupted in painful cries.

"Awooo——————!!!!"

With a shrill scream that made the entire Taixu Star Sea tremble, the giant shepherd's massive hand, which covered the sky, seemed to have struck the very origin of the universe the moment it touched Su Chen's fist!

"Click-clack-clack—"

The bone-crackling sound was like a barrage of thunder! The gray meteorite scales of the Star Shepherd Giant, which were said to be indestructible and could not even leave a white mark on the exploding stars, crumbled inch by inch in front of Su Chen's Origin God Power, just like fragile shortbread!

The violent seventh-realm blood energy flowed from Su Chen's fist and surged into the arm of the Star Shepherd Giant with overwhelming force!
"boom!"

That massive arm, which was tens of millions of miles thick, was actually blasted apart from the palm to the shoulder by Su Chen's punch, turning into a cloud of gray blood mist that filled the void!
"A beast that knows no manners, its flesh is as coarse as a rock, so coarse that it's too smelly to be used as firewood, yet it dares to talk about food?!"

Su Chen crippled the Star-Shepherd Giant with a single punch, and his body, like a lingering infection, instantly traversed endless space, directly stepping onto the ancient behemoth's broad shoulders, which were as wide as a continent!
He lowered his head, and with one hand transformed into an incomparably sharp purple-gold dragon claw, he fiercely pierced deep into the neck of the Star Shepherd Giant.

"Pfft!"

A large chunk of gray flesh, imbued with the rich essence of the primordial void, was torn off by Su Chen. He casually crushed the impurities within the flesh, tossed a drop of amber-like beast blood into his mouth, and smacked his lips.

"Pooh!"

Su Chen spat the residue into the air with disdain, his eyes full of contempt.

"As expected of a stupid creature raised on a dead star, this meat is full of earthy and rubble-like smells, it's practically inedible!"

"Killing you would dirty my pot. But not killing you..."

A hint of extreme cruelty and arrogance flashed in Su Chen's eyes as he stared intently at the Star Shepherd Giant beneath his feet, which was trembling wildly due to its severed arm and serious injuries.

"When I first arrived in the Great Void, the nine-headed lions were pulling the chariot of the Eternal Heaven far too slowly."

"Since your meat is of poor quality, you fat pig, then serve as my... mount!!!"

"Roar..." Although the Star Shepherd Giant lacked intelligence, it felt an unprecedented fear in the face of this absolute suppression from the dimension of life. It wanted to struggle, to escape, but the seventh-realm pressure emanating from Su Chen's feet was like ten thousand great worlds pressing down on its spine, rendering it completely immobile!
"Kneel down before me!!!"

Su Chen stomped his right foot hard!
"Boom!"

This colossal beast, whose size was comparable to that of more than a dozen star systems, was actually forced to kneel in the void by Su Chen's kick, his knee smashing the chaotic air below into two bottomless cosmic black holes!
"The Tree of Immortality is cramping!!!"

Su Chen grabbed out with his large hand, and the illusory image of the Longevity Tree behind him extended thousands of jet-black, soul-capturing branches. These branches, like the sharpest scalpels, pierced directly into the spine of the Star-Shepherd Giant, and amidst its desperate cries, forcibly extracted a [Primordial Star Main Tendon] hundreds of millions of miles long from its body!
Su Chen casually refined the main tendon, transforming it into a supreme chain that shimmered with chaotic divine light.

"Nine Heads! Get out of this mess!"

Su Chen pierced one end of the chain through the collarbone of the Star-Shepherd Giant, and threw the other end toward the Eternal Heaven behind him.

The nine-headed golden lion, already exhausted and foaming at the mouth, trembling in the fierce winds of the void, was so moved by this scene that all nine heads burst into tears at the same time! It quickly untied the star chains on its body and tightly fastened the reins, made from the main sinew of the Star-Shepherd Giant, to the array hub of the Eternal Heaven.

"Waaah... My lord is wise! This kind of rough work should be done by this stupid pig!" The nine-headed lion felt as if it had been granted a pardon and quickly shrank back into the divine court, lying down at the feet of the Hun Tian Demon Lord and pretending to be dead.

"Roar..." The Star Shepherd Giant's collarbone was pierced, and he convulsed in pain, but he could no longer muster the slightest thought of resistance.

Listen carefully.

Su Chen flew back to the throne of the Purple Gold Divine Court, sat down with an air of grandeur, played with the bone knife in his hand, and coldly looked at the Void Beast in front of him that had been reduced to a laborer.

"From this day forward, you will be my cart-pulling animal."

"Not only do I need you to pull the cart, but I also need you to pick fruit for me!"

Su Chen casually pointed to the small worlds and ancient stars floating deep in the void, emanating a rich stellar essence.

"When you encounter those ripe stars or worlds exuding the fragrance of medicine, carefully pluck them for me, discard the dross, and extract the [star marrow] to serve as my fruit platter and sweet spring water to quench my thirst on my journey!"

"If you dare to be even slightly negligent, or break my fruit..."

Su Chen's gaze was like two sharp, boning knives.

"I will slice off every inch of your rough flesh and use it to make oil for lamps!!!"

The massive body of the Star-Shepherd Giant trembled violently, and tears of humiliation and fear streamed from its single eye. This ancient behemoth, a dominant force in the Void, a race that grew by feeding on stars, had been reduced to a mere cart-pulling animal of a foreign race, forced to… “strip stars and extract their juice” for its master?!

But faced with Su Chen's overwhelming ferocity, it could only lower its proud head and let out a whimper like a defeated dog. "Set sail!"

With Su Chen's command, the Star Shepherd Giant, dragging its broken body, pulled the invincible ancient warship, Eternal Heaven, forward with a thunderous roar through the void.

As Su Chen had instructed, along the way, whenever it saw stars containing rich spiritual energy, it would carefully crush the star rocks with its only remaining left hand, extracting the core essence of the stars into drops of brilliant juice, and respectfully sending them into the divine court of the Eternal Heaven.

Su Chen sat on the throne, drinking the "star juice" squeezed by the Shepherd Stars, looking at the vast and boundless void, his smile growing ever deeper.

"This Taixu does know the rules."

"However, eating too many wild fruits by the roadside gets boring. In this vast void, where exactly is the most delicious 'main course' hidden in the true supreme realm?"

Just as Su Chen was beginning to search for it.

Suddenly, the vast starry sea ahead began to churn violently!

……

……

"Buzz—!!!!"

A vast and indescribable light suddenly pierced through layers of chaotic energy from the deepest part of the void, illuminating the endless star field in front of the Eternal Heaven.

Within that light, there was no murderous aura, only an extremely rich [ultimate luxury] and [infinite foundation], as if it could buy half of the vast universe!
"That is……"

Above the Eternal Heaven, the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Skeleton Lord walked together to the edge of the Divine Court, gazing in awe at the precious light.

At the center of that precious light, a supercontinent, larger than hundreds of great worlds combined, was floating!
This continent is entirely constructed from a purple-gold jade stone that exudes innate Dao essence. Celestial palaces stand tall and treasure pavilions stretch endlessly across it. Countless divine dragons, transformed from top-grade immortal veins, coil above the continent, spewing forth bursts of intoxicating spiritual energy.

At the very top of the continent hangs a supreme plaque, large enough to blot out the Milky Way, inscribed with three ancient Daoist characters, written in a flowing, elegant style, containing profound truths of the Dao.

【Wanbao Zongge】!
This is the true foundation of the "Wanbaolou" in the void, which was once casually bestowed a drop of essence blood by Su Chen in the lower realm and eventually ruled the Cangqiong Star Sea trade route! It is also the supreme power in all the heavens and myriad realms that possesses the most intelligence and the richest wealth!
At this moment, the enormous Wanbao Pavilion seemed to have sensed the terrifying commotion caused by Su Chen's subjugation of the Star-Shepherd Giant, and was moving at an incredible speed, pushing aside the Void Gale and crossing towards the direction of the Eternal Heaven!

"My lord, it seems to be our 'acquaintances' from the lower realms who have come to pay their respects." The ghostly flames in the Skeleton Lord's eye sockets flickered, and he let out a strange, cackling laugh.

"acquaintance?"

Su Chen leaned back on the throne, holding a glass of golden juice squeezed from the core of a star, and gently swirled it in his hand.

"Just a bunch of money-grubbing merchants. If they know what's good for them and offer up a few 'menu' dishes that catch their eye, I wouldn't mind sparing their lives. But if they dare to put on airs like some powerful Taixu family in front of me..."

A hint of extreme cruelty flashed across Su Chen's eyes.

"It's been a long time since my cauldron has been stewed with such a fat pig, its body glistening with oil!"

Boom!!!

Just as Su Chen finished speaking, the massive Wanbao Pavilion continent slowly came to a stop a million miles in front of Changsheng Heaven.

On the continent, celestial music resounded, and divine light shone brightly.

A vast road paved with pure innate purple energy stretched from the deepest part of the main pavilion all the way into the vast starry sky.

Immediately afterwards, an old man, draped in a robe of myriad stars, wearing a purple-gold cloud crown, adorned with various top-grade innate spiritual treasures, and whose very breath exuded a rich source of the Great Dao, stepped onto the Purple Qi Path with an arrogant expression, surrounded by a group of Supreme Elders whose cultivation level was at least at the early stage of the sixth realm.

【Master of Wanbao Pavilion - Jin Buhuan】!
This old man was a renowned powerhouse in the Great Void, whose cultivation had reached the Great Perfection of the Sixth Realm, only a hair's breadth away from the Great Dao Venerable position of the Seventh Realm! Normally, even the Heavenly Dao Sovereigns of those top worlds would respectfully address him as "Pavilion Master Jin".

He led his troops out because he sensed an extremely terrifying force in the lower realm that shattered the cosmic crystal wall, and he also heard the screams of the Star-Shepherd Giant. He thought that some ancient ferocious creature had been born and wanted to use the resources of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to suppress or subdue it.

"What kind of monsters are you, daring to act so recklessly on the flight path of my Wanbao Pavilion? And even enslave the Void Beasts?!"

Jin Buhuan stood with his hands behind his back and his chin held high. An air of arrogance and domineering presence, belonging to a superior, spread through the void with his voice.

however.

When his lofty gaze pierced through the misty void and truly landed on the scene before him.

Jin Buhuan's arrogant expression instantly froze!

What did he see?!

A massive, suffocatingly large adult Star Shepherd Giant was pierced through the collarbone by a divine tendon chain, dragging a corpse radiating the pressure of an ancient god like the lowest of mutton dogs!
At the summit of those ruins, on the throne crafted from the spine of a colossal beast, sat a man in a green robe!
The man did not release any divine light; his skin displayed a strange, all-consuming [Origin of Nothingness] color!
When the man's gaze casually swept over Jin Buhuan.

"Buzz————————!!!!!"

Jin Buhuan felt as if his soul had been struck by billions of heaven-shattering divine lightning bolts! The Dao foundation of the sixth realm at its peak within him let out a mournful cry of unbearable strain the moment it met the man's gaze, as if it were about to collapse at any moment!

"The seventh realm... no! This is beyond the seventh realm... absolute domination!!!"

"The Great... Great Dao Supreme Position?! How could a man-eating Chaos Ancestral Dragon possibly crawl out of this pond in the lower realm?!"

Jin Buhuan was so terrified that his scalp tingled, and all the innate spiritual treasures in his body trembled wildly under the overwhelming pressure of his appetite. His pride in his wealth and the confidence of his prestigious family were instantly crushed into the most insignificant dust under Su Chen's gaze that regarded him as a "fat pig"!
"Pfft!!!"

Without the slightest hesitation or doubt.

The Grand Master of Wanbao Pavilion, who held sway over the Taixu Realm, suddenly collapsed to his knees and knelt heavily on the purple avenue under the horrified gazes of his countless Supreme Elders!
He not only knelt down, but pressed his head firmly against the air, his whole body trembling like a leaf, and in the most obsequious and fearful voice he had ever heard, he hysterically cried out:

"You despicable wretch... blind to the truth! You were unaware that the Supreme Origin God had descended upon you! You deserve to die a thousand deaths!!"

"The entire Wanbao Pavilion... pays homage to the Divine Lord!! May the Divine Lord sweep across the vast void, becoming the supreme ruler of all realms!!!"

As the Grand Pavilion Master knelt, the hundreds of Supreme Elders behind him awoke as if from a dream, terrified out of their wits, and knelt down in unison. In an instant, the once magnificent and lofty Wanbao Grand Pavilion was reduced to a humble pilgrimage site before Su Chen's carriage.

"You change your tune pretty quickly."

Su Chen sat upright on the throne, chuckled softly, and tapped his fingers lightly on the armrest, making a deadly "tap, tap" sound.

"I just heard that you intend to suppress me as a demon?" (End of Chapter)