Covering the Sky: I am the King of Men, and I rule over the rise and fall of all heavens.

Chapter 124 Disdain
After the great battle, Xia Yan became famous overnight and, under the manipulation of certain people, was hailed as a candidate for emperor.

Some even started to praise Xia Yan, saying that if he had been born in the past, the Dharma-ending Age, he would definitely have been a great emperor.

This kind of unbridled propaganda, which is full of praise but also aims to kill, is obvious to anyone, but it does not affect others from hunting down Xia Yan.

Some even brought in members of the ancient emperors and great emperors' lineages to participate in the hunt, as they wanted to tell the world that Xia Yan was no match for their ancestors.

Some even devised elaborate plans to fight Xia Yan in the Realm of the Void Gods, exhausting his energy, and then hunt him down outside the Realm of the Void Gods when he was weakened.

At the same time, it was made clear that the first hunt was not aimed at success, but at exhausting Xia Yan's energy, and then gradually wearing him down until he was finally killed.

It can be said that Xia Yan faced endless schemes and assassinations.

Looking at the Supreme Beings from various Daoist sects, including the Taiyin Sect, the Sun God Sect, Mount Sumeru, the Myriad Dragon Nest, the Fire Scale Cave, and the Divine Silkworm Ridge, who were participating in the siege, Jiang Bai couldn't help but sigh:

"A large forest has all kinds of birds, and a large lineage also has all kinds of people."

Faced with layers of encirclement and hunting, Xia Yan did not show panic or retreat. Instead, he used his great magic to erase the traces of his family and loved ones, and embarked on his journey alone with his sword.

This is a lonely road, but also a road to becoming a king.

As Xia Yan became increasingly ruthless in his killing spree and his fame grew, more and more people came to target him.

If at first it was just a few supreme beings who were eyeing him and clearing obstacles for themselves, later, after his fame grew and he was praised to death, Xia Yan encountered beings who wanted to destroy him.

Now, after withstanding the excessive praise, Xia Yan has encountered peerless geniuses cultivated by the original strange world lineage and the original immortal realm lineage, who are truly vying for the position of Great Emperor.

These peerless geniuses either have immortal blood flowing through their veins or possess unparalleled talent and have been specially trained.

Similarly, these peerless geniuses have all experienced the same situation as Xia Yan, and they have all emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood, endless hunts, and they are equally determined.

But what is an emperor? Is it someone who would stop just because an enemy has extraordinary talent or a heaven-defying bloodline?
Is it the kind of being that wouldn't dare to draw its sword just because the opponent is strong?

When the peerless genius of the original Immortal Realm lineage, the Holy Spirit Blue Maple, who possessed the Holy Spirit Immortal Blood, stood arrogantly before Xia Yan, Xia Yan glanced at him and said softly, "I heard that when the Human King marched into the Immortal Realm, he killed most of the Supreme Beings. I wonder if your clan was killed?"

"You're courting death." The young supreme of the Blue Maple lineage's face instantly darkened, and he raised his hand to unleash a divine technique inherited from his bloodline.

A brilliant blue light condensed into a spear in his hand, and everything in its path was annihilated.

"Weak humans, if I had been born tens of thousands of years earlier, would there have been a scene of you suppressing the immortal realm?"

Faced with the brutal attack, Xia Yan coldly drew his longsword, his imperial dragon aura covering it, and an endless pressure instantly spread out.

The dragon bones behind him glowed, and surging divine power flowed into the sword. With each swing, its killing power soared, instantly tearing apart the attack of the Blue Maple lineage and sending them flying.

"If you use the secret techniques you created yourself, I will definitely trust you to some extent."

"Unfortunately, you are just a piece of trash who flaunts his ancestral bloodline."

"As for me, Xia Yan, from the moment I rose to power until now, I have only one belief: I am invincible."

He raised his sword, and endless dragon energy gathered above it.

With a slash, the imperial dragon aura, carrying the might of heaven and earth, instantly devoured the supreme being of the Blue Maple lineage.

Two moves decided life or death, leaving the onlookers dumbfounded. They exclaimed in disbelief, "That's a true immortal descendant whose bloodline has reverted to its ancestral form!"

After news of this battle spread, everyone in the Primordial Ancient Realm who participated in the battle for the Great Emperor went mad. Why? The two men had similar backgrounds, so how could there be such a huge difference in their combat strength?

Most importantly, the supreme being of the Blue Maple lineage still possesses immortal blood, and it's even a primordial bloodline.

Much later, a newly promoted supreme being from Blood Phoenix Mountain stepped forward and said, "What is yours is the strongest."

"Only by writing one's own scriptures in the realm of humanity, cultivating the five great secret realms with one's own methods, and creating one's own forbidden secret techniques can one reach the limit of combat power."

Once this explanation was given, everyone suddenly understood; that's how it was.

Jiang Bai, watching all this like a monkey show, shook his head. This is also why the current Supreme Beings are so weak; most of them have only gradually climbed up because the world has changed and become more suitable for cultivation.

If they were thrown into the Dharma-ending Age, it would be questionable whether they could even become quasi-emperors.

How could a group of beings who haven't even written their own unique scriptures possibly defeat all enemies and seize the title of Emperor?

With the words of the Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor, the other Supreme Beings calmed down and decided to rest for the time being, first writing their own secret realm scriptures and creating their own secret techniques.

Xia Yan also took the opportunity to return home and established his own dynasty, the Great Xia Dynasty.

Once the vast dynasty was established, Xia Yan sat on the throne in front of everyone and began to govern the dynasty.

Establish laws and regulations, quell rebellions, open up pathways for advancement for lower-level cultivators, and recruit people to form a large army, just like the founding emperors of mortal kingdoms.

This boring situation made a group of people unable to help but mock the Emperor, saying that this kid had fallen into depravity, instead of cultivating himself, he was indulging in worldly affairs.

It's really funny.

Jiang Bai, who was focused on Xia Yan, smiled. Xia Yan... no... at this moment should be called the Supreme Emperor, was honing his primordial spirit.

Using a method similar to the Great Dream of Eternity.

"Interesting, is this an attempt to embark on the path to immortality in the mortal world?" Jiang Bai guessed.

After all, he wasn't the Emperor Emeritus, so he didn't know what the Emperor Emeritus was doing.

Three hundred years have passed. The Great Xia Dynasty in the Primordial Ancient Realm was attacked. A peerless genius nurtured by the Daoist lineage of the original strange world, a genius with immortal blood flowing in his veins and known as the War Emperor, came to challenge the Supreme Emperor.

Jiang Bai immediately recognized the War Emperor's identity as a descendant of the native Red Dust Immortal of the Strange World. He also discovered his past, revealing that he was a contingency plan left behind by the native Red Dust Immortal of the Strange World, born countless years ago and still in self-imposed seclusion.

Furthermore, he was nurtured by the native immortals of this strange world using special methods, and his talent was astonishing.

"But it's still not as good as the Emperor Taihuang." Jiang Bai shook his head.

People who are proud of their lineage never go far in the spiritual practice world.

As Jiang Bai had guessed, the young Emperor Taihuang simply drew his sword and killed the other man; it only took a few more moves.

In the years that followed, perhaps fearing that someone would come to challenge him again and finding it troublesome, Emperor Xia Yan simply picked up his sword and began visiting various sects.

The lineages of the original Shrouding the Heavens universe, the original strange world, and the original immortal realm were all defeated by Emperor Xia Yan with the repeated phrases "Junior Xia Yan, please enlighten me."

This includes forces such as the Ji family, the Jiang family, the Buddhist sect, the Witch Clan, Blood Phoenix Mountain, and the Golden Crow Clan.

(End of this chapter)