The Heavens: One World, One Superpower

After receiving the blank stele, Yan Ruyu smiled and put the treasure basin into the sea of ​​suffering, saying, "Our purpose has been achieved. Let's return to the Crimson Cloud Mountain Range immediately."

A half-step Great Power at the first level of the Sendai realm said, "Now is the perfect time to go back. No matter how much trouble those ancient worlds and holy lands cause, it will all be in vain."

He joined forces with another half-step Grandmaster at the first level of the Sendai realm, forming a hand seal. Instantly, a jade-green array disc flew out, radiating boundless light.

The sky illuminated by the light revealed pre-engraved array patterns, causing the entire sky to tremble.

The demons, protecting Yan Ruyu, broke through the void and disappeared under the cover of a blue light.

Ye Fan sighed, "It's such a pity that such a beauty has disappeared before our eyes."

Pang Bo said, "Indeed, it is a lifelong regret that I was unable to befriend him."

Su Chen said, "She is a princess of the demon race named Yan Ruyu. She should be heading to the southern region of the Eastern Wilderness, the territory of the powerful demon king, Peacock King."

Ye Fan said, "I will definitely set foot on the Peacock King's territory in the future and witness the beauty's charm again."

Su Chen smiled and said, "There will be an opportunity, and I believe that day will not be too far away."

His expression quickly turned serious. He said, "Ye Fan, Pang Bo, as rogue cultivators, cultivation is arduous. I have some scriptures to give you, but they are precious. If they are leaked, there will be no place for either of you in the entire Beidou region. Do you dare accept them?"

Ye Fan's eyes lit up, and he said, "Of course I dare."

Pang Bo said, "Me too."

Su Chen nodded and said, "Alright, in that case, I will pass it on to you, but you must not tell anyone."

He then transmitted the six major scriptures—the Western Emperor Scripture, the Hengyu Scripture, the Taihuang Scripture, the Secret of the First Character, the Secret of the Combination of Characters, and the Secret of the Movement of Characters—to the two of them respectively.

Ye Fan and Pang Bo were overwhelmed by the massive amount of information and it took them a while to recover.

After they sorted out the scriptures in their minds, they realized how much they had gained.

Each of the six scriptures is comparable to an ultimate imperial weapon.

The two looked at each other in surprise, and Ye Fan said with emotion, "I didn't expect Brother Chen to be so generous."

Pang Bo said, "Yes, and it has also resolved our worries."

Ye Fan nodded and said, "I was thinking that after cultivating the Sea of ​​Wheels Secret Realm, I would go to the God Family and Holy Land to see if I could take advantage of the chaos and steal the corresponding scriptures for cultivation. I didn't expect Brother Chen to have prepared it for us so easily."

Su Chen said, "Now that the matter of the Azure Emperor's Tomb is settled, are you two coming with me, or do you have other plans?"

Ye Fan said, "I've thought about it. Cultivating the Sacred Body requires a lot of resources. There are source mines in the Northern Region, so I plan to go there to look for opportunities."

Pang Bo said, "I want to follow Ye Zi. Although Brother Chen can sponsor us a lot, we can't be vampires forever. We have to build our own future."

Su Chen said, "That's spirited. Since that's the case, let's part ways here and meet again in the future."

Ye Fan said, "Brother Chen, where are you planning to go? So we can meet again in the future."

Su Chen said, "I'll go to the Crimson Cloud Mountains to see if I can marry Yan Ruyu."

Ye Fan and Pang Bo were dumbfounded.

Ye Fan said, "You are braver than us. That is a demon princess."

Su Chen said, "Putting aside her status as a princess, she is just a woman, no different in essence from us men."

Pang Bo said, "You are braver than us; you put your ideas into practice directly."

Finally, with their blessings, Su Chen took flight and headed towards the Southern Region of the Eastern Wilderness.

Although his goal was very clear—the destination being the Crimson Cloud Mountains—Su Chen was not in a hurry. Instead, he flew slowly, using only the speed of the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

The setting sun casts a crimson glow across the sky, offering a unique and breathtaking view of the vast earth below.

This land is mostly high mountains and steep ridges, and you can often fly hundreds or thousands of miles without seeing any signs of human habitation.

The distant horizon was already darkening, revealing the stars and the moon. Behind us, only a faint crimson glow remained on the horizon, as the enormous sun was about to set.

More and more birds gradually appeared in the sky.

A giant falcon with a wingspan of over fifty meters hovered in the dark night, its eyes like a pair of copper bells, emitting a bluish-yellow light.

Suddenly, it swooped down, sweeping towards a large tree on a mountain, instantly passing over the treetop and causing it to sway. When it soared back into the sky, its sharp claws had already seized a giant ape seven or eight meters tall.

The sharp claws pierced the ape's body and throat, and blood splattered down like rain.

In the dense forest below, blood rained down on the trees and the ground, and many one- or two-meter-long reptiles rushed over, greedily sucking the fresh and delicious blood.

Suddenly, a thick vine swung down from the bushes, making a sharp tearing sound in the air, and nearly killed the blood-sucking reptile on the ground. The vine bound the reptile, quickly growing thorns that pierced its body and sucked out all the juices.

Su Chen was looking for a place to rest.

Seeing a Taoist temple on a high mountain, he descended and swept it with his divine sense. There was no Taoist priest inside, and it was in a state of disrepair.

He didn't mind and landed.

The door was covered with vines, which clung to the fragile wooden planks until they were almost falling apart. A thick layer of fallen leaves had accumulated on the ground, and when you stepped on it, many small insects such as centipedes and spiders would scurry out.

All that remained were ruins. He unleashed a sword strike, slicing the wooden door and vines into dust, before stepping into the Taoist temple.

He was curious about what kind of deities would be worshipped in Taoist temples in this world where emperors reigned supreme.

Stepping inside, it was still damp, covered with a layer of rotting leaves. Several unidentified trees also grew wildly in the yard.

Passing through the courtyard, you will reach the main hall of the Taoist temple.

However, the main hall was already dilapidated, with a large hole in the roof, and it was damp inside. Perhaps it was because the mountain climate was changing frequently and the moisture was abundant, so much so that this place had become a swamp.

In the darkness, Su Chen clearly saw that the statue in the main hall was not the Three Pure Ones, but a statue of a human emperor, with the words "Void Emperor's Divine Position" engraved on it.

"The Void Emperor?"

Su Chen thought about it and it made sense. The Ji family dominated the southern region of the Eastern Wilderness. If the Taoist temples here didn't worship the Void Emperor, who else could they worship?

Of the eight hundred states in the Southern Region, five hundred and sixty were ruled by the Ji family.

It can be said that the Ji family is half the sky here.

The Void Emperor was one of the greatest protectors of humanity, exchanging a lifetime of bloody battles for the peace of countless generations.

He was born in the darkest era of humanity, a time when supreme beings frequently emerged in forbidden zones. He dominated the seven forbidden zones, slaying many supreme beings and bringing peace to the forbidden zones.

He single-handedly traversed the most rampant Undying Mountain, slew the Supreme Being, confronted him for a thousand years, and forced the Supreme Being to make a pact: he would not emerge before the path to immortality opened, in order to secure a period of peace for the human race.

He single-handedly guarded the Sea of ​​Reincarnation, his injured body bearing the weight of the sea, sealing the forbidden zone with his own power and preventing the birth of the ancient emperor.

As his lifespan drew to a close, he buried himself in a nine-layered divine coffin, blasting away the four supreme beings from the Undying Mountain into a star trap. He burned through his imperial power, dragging two of the supreme beings down with him, his remains burying themselves in the void.

The corpse spirit transformed into the Yellow Emperor, leaving his name on Earth. Tens of thousands of years later, darkness and turmoil arose again, and he was resurrected in response to the call of all spirits. Holding the half-shattered Void Mirror, he fought the Supreme Being once more, until his imperial bones were shattered and only half of his body remained.

It can be called great.

Suddenly, a voice rang out in the Taoist temple: "Layman, please offer a stick of incense to the Great Emperor of the Void."

Behind the statue, an elderly Taoist priest emerged at some point, holding a handful of old, damp incense sticks that wouldn't burn at all.

His hands were withered and dry, his eyes were sunken and black, lacking the whites of normal eyes. The skin on his right cheek was gone, revealing dark bone.

His Taoist robe was tattered and covered with leaves; as soon as he came out, a foul stench emanated from him.

Su Chen said, "Corpse Demon, you have already revealed a flaw."

If Su Chen were an ordinary person, the stench of the corpse would have tempted him, and he would have seen the Taoist temple as a place of great prosperity and worship.

The corpse demon was taken aback and said, "What are you talking about? Since you've come to the Void Emperor's temple, you should naturally offer incense."

Su Chen nodded and said, "You're right, I should light an incense stick."

He immediately used his divine power to condense three incense sticks, threw them out, and they landed steadily in the incense burner in front of him. The three incense sticks slowly emitted divine smoke, just like real incense.

The corpse demon said, "Since you have offered incense, you should kowtow three times to the Void Emperor."

Su Chen asked, "Why aren't you kowtowing?"

The corpse demon said, "I often kowtow. If you kowtow, I will cook you a meal and arrange a room for you to stay overnight."

Su Chen said, "No need. I won't eat or sleep. I just want to look at the mirror on the statue."

The ghoul raised its head, looking at the statue's palm, where an ancient bronze mirror lay. Its eyes were empty, dark, and terrifying. It said, "That's mine. You can't look at it."

Su Chen laughed and said, "What if I insist on watching?"

The corpse demon said, "Then kowtow first, and I'll show you after you're done."

Su Chen pointed to the corpse on the ground, which had decomposed into bones, and said, "Are you planning to cut my head off with a knife when I kowtow?"

In one corner of the Taoist temple, there were several skeletons, all of them decapitated.

There was also a large cleaver on the side, which was not rusty at all, but also gleamed with a cold light, clearly a magical weapon.

It was truly unexpected that a magical artifact could be found in a dilapidated Taoist temple.

The ghoul's eyes suddenly blazed with two green ghostly flames, and it said in a sinister tone, "Even if you don't kowtow, I will still cut off your head. It's been so long since any living person has come. I want to eat your flesh and drink your blood."

With a wave of its hand, the large cleaver in the corner flew into its hand and slashed down at Su Chen.

Unexpectedly, Su Chen simply exhaled a breath, and a burst of cold air gushed out of his mouth.

The corpse demon was enveloped, and the magical artifact itself was turned into an ice sculpture, which quickly shattered into pieces.

Su Chen stopped looking at the corpse demon and instead looked at the mirror on the statue of the Void Emperor. He reached out and took the mirror into his hand.

When divine power was channeled in, the mirror transformed into a copper sheet the size of a thumb.

It was covered with many profound Dao patterns, permeated with the laws of the Emperor's Dao. A message entered Su Chen's mind from it: "Fragment of the Void Mirror?"

This message depicts the Void Emperor's epic battle against the four supreme beings of Undying Mountain in his later years, a battle so fierce that the heavens and earth shattered and the galaxy reversed.

The Void Mirror shattered, and the piece that fell off turned into a bronze mirror, which was placed on the Void God statue by the people who built the Taoist temple.

Su Chen leaped into the air, slammed down with his palm, and blasted the entire Taoist temple into the ground. Without lingering, he quickly flew south.

This time, using the secret technique of the word "travel," they instantly traversed hundreds of miles, and with a few leaps, entered a great human city.

After checking into a hotel, he thought to himself, "It's so much more comfortable in the human world. What kind of monstrosities are these in the wilderness?"

Although I obtained a fragment of the Void Mirror, encountering a ghoul really dampened my mood.

The Void Mirror fragments contain the Dao principles of the Void Emperor, but Su Chen does not intend to comprehend them. Instead, he wants to study the Secret of Word Formation and first thoroughly refine the Four Swords of Zhuxian.

Once he has fully mastered the secret of character formation and refined the Four Swords of Zhuxian, he can attempt to break through to the Dragon Transformation Realm.

Currently, there is a large amount of divine energy within his body that has not yet been converted into strength. Similarly, the Great Accomplishment Body Essence he acquired back then has not yet been completely refined. Once he passes the Dragon Transformation Heavenly Tribulation, his cultivation will definitely improve rapidly.

The next day arrived.

"System, draw today's items."

[Item draw in progress today. Successful draw. Please choose one of the following three items.]

【God-Slaying Whip: From the Ancient Temple of Qi Refiners in the Northern Desert during the Pre-Qin Period】

[The Elixir of Immortality for Xuanwu: From the Xuanwu Emperor of the Forbidden Zone, the Immortal Mountain]

[Digital Secret: From Yin Tiande of the Eight Views Palace in the Purple Star Domain]

Su Chen's heart suddenly raced. "This is the first time I've ever seen an immortal medicine, and it's one of the Four Symbols Immortal Medicines."

The Xuanwu Divine Medicine has the strongest life-extending effect and is controlled by the Xuanwu Emperor of the Undying Mountain.

This Xuanwu Emperor was a holy spirit from the ancient times. Later, when Ye Fan stormed into the Undying Mountain and eliminated the supreme beings of the forbidden zone, the Xuanwu Emperor was already extremely old, exhausted, and unable to fight anymore. Before he died, he took the Xuanwu Immortal Elixir with him, and there has been no news of the elixir since.

The Xuanwu Elixir of Immortality allows emperors to live a second life, and even ordinary people can live for ten thousand years after consuming it, making it extremely precious.

"But it's not very useful to me right now."

Su Chen put aside the Xuanwu Immortality Elixir and looked at the Number Secret with burning desire in his eyes.

The Digital Secret has another name, "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones," which is a top-tier secret technique of creating clones and applying the law of cause and effect.

It can manifest three states of Daoist body: youth, middle age, and old age, practicing different techniques simultaneously, thus achieving multi-track parallelism.

Furthermore, this differentiation of true forms, though sharing the same origin and mind, with independent consciousness, does not diminish the original source.

It is a supreme and forbidden secret technique of Taoism.

As for the God-Slaying Whip, although it is specifically designed to kill divine consciousness, it is not even an Emperor-level weapon, so Su Chen didn't take it seriously.

"System, select the third item, the Digital Secret."

"Digital secret extraction in progress, extraction successful."

In the Eight Views Palace of the Purple Star Domain, Yin Tiande, who had already reached the third level of the Immortal Platform, suddenly frowned. "How come I have no memory of the numerical secrets at all? I've lost all my cultivation experience."

He has practiced numerology for over a hundred years, and while he may not have fully mastered it, he is certainly very proficient in it.

But in that instant, all he knew was that he had practiced the Numerology, but he had no experience with it at all, and he couldn't even remember a single word of the Numerology scriptures.

"Who is targeting me?"

He was taken aback, and the aura of a Dao-Slaying King surged forth from his body, instantly scanning the entire Eight Trigrams Palace, but he found nothing amiss.

With a wave of his hand, a jade slip appeared in his hand, surrounded by purple aura. He placed it between his eyebrows and once again memorized the numbers inside.

However, with his hundreds of years of cultivation experience gone, he had to start cultivating all over again.

However, Su Chen's mind was filled with the scriptures of the numerical secrets and a large amount of cultivation experience.

He activated the digital secret technique, and three points of red and purple light flew out in front of him, transforming into the appearances of Su Chen in his youth, middle age, and old age.

Su Chen's origin was incredibly powerful at this moment, possessing the origin of a fully-fledged Great Hegemon Body and the origin of the Undying Divine Phoenix Body, a peerless physique. Therefore, all three clones were at the peak of the Four Extremes, just one step away from breaking through to the Dragon Transformation Realm.

Su Chen said, "Greetings, fellow Daoists."

The three clones also greeted Su Chen, saying, "Greetings to the main body."

One person, with three separate entities, immediately joined forces to comprehend the secrets of character formation, sharing their experiences and achieving rapid comprehension.