Cultivation of immortality begins with an eighty-year-old eunuch.

Above the sky, the towering, powerful, and imposing Dharma image of the Integration Stage began to tremble violently, like a sand sculpture in a storm, under the impact of Chen Fan's calm yet profound aura.

The violent pressure that originally filled every corner of the sealed land was instantly reversed by a more advanced and indescribable power of rules!

"You...you're that eunuch!"

The earth-shaking voice of the Soul Refining Sect patriarch came to an abrupt halt, as if someone had tightly gripped his neck.

Where was the arrogance and invincibility of the ancient demon now in those eyes, which were like two blood-red suns? In their place was deep terror, an extreme fear that came from the depths of the soul!

"This aura...this power of rules...Mahayana? No! Impossible! This is...the Tribulation Transcending stage! And at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage?"

The sharp hiss of the Soul Refining Sect patriarch exploded in mid-air. Due to extreme fear, his voice even changed tone, sounding like a wildcat whose tail had been stepped on.

He had been asleep for ten thousand years, and finally the seal loosened. He risked depleting his own essence to break free from the seal twenty years ahead of schedule. He thought he could wash this world in blood and refine all the living beings here into blood food to restore his cultivation.

But he never expected that the moment he opened his eyes, he would run into an unparalleled being at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending Realm!

Such an existence, even in the ancient star field of his era, would be a hegemon at the level of a realm lord, only half a step away from ascending to the immortal realm! How could he appear in this sealed land where spiritual energy is depleted and there is no one to bother with it?

And this powerful being was none other than Chen Fan!

"S-senpai!"

Without the slightest hesitation, the patriarch of the Soul Refining Sect caused the ten-thousand-foot-tall Dharma image to collapse, transforming into a ball of pitch-black remnant soul demonic energy that plummeted straight down from the sky.

A muffled "bang" was heard.

The demonic energy transformed into a gaunt, black-robed old man ten feet in front of Chen Fan, his knees slamming heavily onto the hard bluestone slabs of the Yin Corpse Sect's plaza, creating large spiderweb-like cracks.

He lay prostrate on the ground without any backbone, trembling like a leaf, kowtowing desperately like a dog, his forehead hitting the stone slab with loud "bang" sounds.

"Please spare me, senior! Please spare me, senior!"

The old man's hoarse voice was full of obsequiousness and pleading, "This lowly one was blind and offended you, senior! I'll leave right now, immediately! Please, senior, just let me go!"

This scene left Wei Gonggong, Ji Daozi, Ren Dahai, and the others behind them completely dumbfounded.

One moment he was like a world-destroying demon god, the next he was kneeling at Chen Fan's feet like a stray dog, wagging his tail and begging for mercy. This stark contrast left everyone's minds blank.

Chen Fan still stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at the old demon below him with a calm and unwavering expression.

"Back in the day, you were quite the big shot."

Chen Fan's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the patriarch's ears: "Do you remember how many people died in order to break the seal and incite chaos among the eight kingdoms?"

The old ancestor froze, cold sweat instantly soaking through his tattered black robe. He frantically raised his head, stammering, "Senior! That's all in the past! If you're willing to spare my life, I'm willing to offer up the ten-thousand-year-old inheritance of the Soul Refining Sect, and sign a soul contract to serve you as your slave for generations! I'm only at the Integration Stage, I'm still useful to you, still useful!"

"To be a slave or a maid?"

Chen Fan narrowed his eyes, a chilling smile creeping onto his lips. "You filthy thing, do you even deserve to be our dog?"

His gaze passed over the ancestor and looked into the depths of the void, where it seemed as if Tianxiangzi had burned his divine soul to shield him from death.

"I said I would personally execute you a hundred years from now. Now that you've come out ahead of time, then you may depart early."

"No...! Senior, you can't kill me! I am from the Soul Refining Sect..."

The ancestor sensed the chilling killing intent emanating from Chen Fan and screamed in despair. The remaining power of the Integration Stage within his body suddenly erupted, attempting to burn his origin in a final, desperate struggle.

However, in the face of the peak of the tribulation, all struggles are in vain.

Chen Fan didn't even lift his eyelids. He simply stretched out his right hand and, as if swatting an annoying fly, slapped it down from a distance.

There was no earth-shattering explosion of spiritual energy, nor any dazzling magical light.

Only a pure and ultimate rule of "annihilation" descended upon Chen Fan's palm.

"Pfft!"

A very faint muffled thud.

The remnant body of the Soul Refining Sect's patriarch, which was strong enough to withstand high-level magic weapons, along with the protective demonic light he had just condensed, was instantly crushed like mud by an invisible giant mortar under this slap.

Before he could even utter a scream, his physical body, soul, and even his true spirit were completely obliterated by this palm strike, turning into the finest dust and dissipating into the world.

With a single palm strike, the old demon in the Nascent Soul stage was annihilated, body and soul!

The entire Yinshi Sect plaza was deathly silent; you could hear a pin drop.

Ji Daozi's mouth gaped open, his jaw almost dropping to the ground; Eunuch Wei's delicate fingers froze in mid-air, his eyes wide like copper bells; Ren Dahai and the others' legs went weak, and they could hardly stand up.

"This...is that all?" Jidaozi swallowed hard, his voice trembling.

Chen Fan slowly withdrew his hand, as if he had only done a trivial thing, without even changing the rhythm of his breathing.

However, at the very moment the Soul Refining Sect's patriarch died completely—

"Snap!"

From the depths of the sky, a crisp cracking sound suddenly rang out.

The sound was faint at first, but then it roared like a collapsing iceberg!

The patriarch of the Soul Refining Sect was originally the core target of the formation in this sealed land. Now that the target has completely disappeared, the ancient seal that has been maintained for tens of thousands of years has lost its support point and instantly lost its balance.

Everyone looked up in horror.

Above the Great Abyss Dynasty, the sky that had always been shrouded in a gloomy and oppressive atmosphere now resembled a shattered giant mirror, revealing countless thick spatial cracks.

"Boom!"

A violent spatial storm raged through the cracks, and large swathes of the sky collapsed with a deafening roar.

Immediately afterwards, a beam of dazzling yet gentle sunlight pierced through the endless gloom of time and shone directly on the land of the Great Abyss.

Along with the sunlight, there was also the incredibly dense and pure spiritual energy from the outside world, Tiannanxing!

"The seal... is broken?"

Inside the imperial city of Dayuan, Emperor Jianwen stood beside Tai'an Pond, staring blankly at the incredible spectacle in the sky, trembling all over.

Emperor Wu, Xiao Wu, widened his tiger-like eyes, taking a deep breath of the dense spiritual energy that flooded in. He felt his cultivation, stagnant for many years, begin to loosen. He roared with wild joy, "The heavens have opened! My Great Abyss has seen the light of day again!"