Under One Person, your rebellious life has reached the heavens?

After a few seconds of silent staring, without any words of confrontation, the human and the evil spirit immediately began to fight. The void trembled, and dense afterimages collided continuously, punch after punch.

They fought fiercely, and the aftershocks alone destroyed nearly a thousand miles of the battlefield. Humans and evil spirits caught in the blast were unable to escape, unable even to utter a painful cry before being deprived of consciousness, their bodies destroyed, and sent to their deaths.

Soon, angry roars echoed through the sky, and dark purple blood fell like a torrential rain.

The Evil Spirit Ancient Emperor was beheaded by Daoist Changxian, and his body was blasted open with a large hole, severely injured and no longer possessing his previous ferocity.

A roar resembling that of a wild beast echoed across the battlefield, followed by an even more terrifying black shadow that blotted out the entire sky. It was none other than the bloodline supernatural power of the Evil Spirit Clan, which had entered a desperate phase, plunging the battlefield into absolute darkness.

Only a dazzling white light remained, growing ever brighter. Daoist Changxian took a deep breath, and those trapped in darkness, including humans and evil spirits, could see his figure and his actions.

"Boom!!!"

Millions of black rays of light attacked from all directions, attempting to seize Changxian Daojun's body, but he stood firm, his body surrounded by a layer of dim yellow light, regarding the numerous deadly attacks as nothing.

The Evil Spirit Ancient Emperor refused to believe in evil and intensified his offensive, determined to annihilate this great enemy.

The two fought for more than ten breaths without a result. Then, Daoist Changxian stood there quietly, his gaze peaceful, and the smile on his lips no longer held back.

With a soft laugh, as if victory were assured, the whole world began to shake and rumble.

"Boom!!!"

The sky trembled precariously as countless fireballs, like stars from afar, were summoned by Daoist Changxian and burned countless fiery holes into the dark sky.

Immediately afterwards, the darkness covering the battlefield was also enveloped by the moonlight barrier that rose from the ground. Gradually, the world slowly formed a furnace, with world-burning fire spreading, and evil spirits fell in droves.

"Boom!!!"

The ancient emperor launched a final counterattack, and countless darknesses attacked Changxian Daojun. In the center of the battlefield, an explosion suddenly occurred, flames soared into the sky, and everything ended, with hundreds of thousands of evil spirits and that supreme being forever silenced.

However, the war was not over yet, and Changxian Daojun had reached his limit. His body was like shattered white porcelain, and the time he could stay still was getting shorter and shorter.

Finally, he gazed in a certain direction, smiled without saying a word, slowly exhaled, and passed away, his soul turning into a gentle breeze.

The war between humans and evil spirits continues, while the era of Changxian ends in silence.

.......

Through Xuan Hua's memories, Jiang Mo witnessed the terrifying nature of the Ultimate Key.

The Dao Lord who was no match for the Evil Spirit Ancient Emperor was at the peak of the fourth realm of Qi Refining, 'Ascending to the Other Shore,' and was only a hair's breadth away from 'Seeing the Immortal Palace.'

After successfully performing the procedure, he advanced to the late stage of the 'Seeing Immortal Palace', almost on par with the Flying Immortal Master before refining the fragments of the Book of Time. The seemingly insurmountable predicament was thus easily resolved.

Jiang Mo was deeply moved, and he finally understood why the old man insisted on teaching him the Twelve Arts of Flying Immortal.

On the one hand, it was to make him the third hidden pawn after the Flying Immortal Sect Leader and the Flying Immortal Master.

If the first two were to meet with an accident and be assassinated by forces outside Tianyuan, then he would be the last hope, still able to continue to Feixian County and secretly seize the faith body left behind by Feixian Daojun.

No one could have imagined that the world's number one demon lord would possess the supreme secret technique of the Flying Immortal Sect. With such scheming, he might encounter far less resistance in the future.

Secondly, the power of the 'Extreme Key' may become a trump card for turning the tide someday.

From Xuan Hua's perspective, he had absolute trust in Jiang Mo's talent and strength, and naturally had high expectations for him to master the 'Ultimate Key'.

If the world were to fall one day, Jiang Mo, who has received the blessing of the ultimate path, would once again advance to a higher realm, and might become the person with the highest realm in the history of Tianyuan.

Even if it is affected by the incomplete laws, I am absolutely confident that I can kill the powerful figures of the Sunset Royal Court, the Great Ye Dynasty, and the Void Sword Sect.

"......"

After refining all the secret techniques and memories, Jiang Mo sat cross-legged on the spot, preparing to cultivate.

Of the twelve secret techniques, he only needed four: 'Past Body', 'Faith Body', 'Binding Immortal and Slaying Demon Rope', and 'Ultimate Secret Key'.

As the supreme martial arts of the most prestigious sect, the cultivation of the Four Arts is by no means easy. However, with the insights gained from Xuan Hua, Jiang Mo knew that it would take him less than thirty years to deduce these four arts from scratch to their peak perfection.

Based on his original age, and with the time he had accumulated through repeated cultivation and by using his "seclusion" to avoid the passage of time, Jiang Mo's true age once approached the 400 mark.

He endured a mere thirty years without a moment's hesitation, immersing himself in the membrane of time to cultivate, maintaining a state of detachment from the outside world.

For the first three years, he practiced the 'Binding Immortal and Slaying Demon Rope' without any failures, succeeding on the first try, just as he had always done before.

Then, after a year, Jiang Mo completely mastered the cultivation.

From the 5th to the 13th year, Jiang Mo successfully cultivated his Faith Body and reached the Imperial Realm, but he did not create his own Faith Body.

In the 14th to 20th year, the previous incarnation reached the pinnacle, maintaining this state for a quarter of an hour.

From year 21 to year 27, Jiang Mo had thoroughly mastered all the contents of the Ultimate Key and simulated it tens of thousands of times, but out of caution, he did not pass the final hurdle.

He, along with the successive masters and Dao Lords of the Flying Immortal Sect, have all entered that 'Schrödinger's realm,' neither having mastered it nor failing to master it. They simply treat it as a trump card for emergencies.

........

Inside the attic, the membrane of light and time on Jiang Mo's body gradually collapsed and dissipated.

When his eyelashes fluttered and he opened his eyes again, it felt like a lifetime had passed. A full 27 years had gone by, leaving him slightly weary, while in the real world, time was but a fleeting moment.

"How's it going, young friend?"

Xianhua brought over a cup of hot tea, handed it to Jiang Mo, and asked with concern.

"I have lived up to the expectations of my predecessors. I have completed thirteen of the twelve stages of cultivation. I have also made some progress on the remaining 'Ultimate Key,' but I have not taken the risk of taking the final step."

Jiang Mo took a sip of tea and immediately felt calm and relieved of much of his fatigue. He truthfully told Jiang Mo what level he had reached in cultivating the four secret techniques he had chosen.

"Oh? That's excellent, excellent!"

"Come here! I happen to have something to show you."

The old man smiled with pleasure, then took out another map, spread it out on the tea table, and looked at it together with Jiang Mo. It was a map artifact that they had previously stolen from the Luo family apostles.

"interesting....."

Jiang Mo looked at the map that could zoom in and out, and it was so realistic, just like the maps he saw on his phone or computer. He couldn't help but admire it.

The document records the three continents and twelve prefectures of the Daye Dynasty, which are incredibly vast and expansive. As Xuan Hua continued to test it, Jiang Mo could even see the specific mountain ranges and the clear appearance of villages, towns, and capital cities.

The Sunset Royal Court, outside of the Imperial Dynasty, appears much thinner, basically consisting of only approximate locations marked, making it impossible to zoom in for a closer look.

Due to the limited vision of the map creator, they were unable to personally visit the demon race's heartland hundreds of thousands of miles away and record the Void Sword Sect's history.

Therefore, the contents of the map are only clearest within the territory of the Daye Dynasty, and the contents of the latter two combined are not even one-thousandth of the contents of the former.

Soon, Jiang Mo noticed that at the border of the three major forces, there were magnificent city walls, as high as mountains and stretching for millions of miles, standing on the land to prevent each other from invading.

On the east side of the Great Wall, in the black area that was jointly sealed off, are marked with two ancient characters—Tianyuan (天渊).

Chapter 514 It’s better to be in pieces than in ruins

Tianyuan is located in the southeast corner of the map, and no matter how much you zoom in, it appears as a narrow, dark, and empty space.

In other words, the left exit of Tianyuan leads to the Great Ye Dynasty, the Sunset Royal Court, and the Void Sword Sect, but what lies beyond the right exit is unknown to anyone. Perhaps a powerful force also exists there.

“Look, according to those warriors, they sneaked in through a spatial rift in this location.”

Xianhua pointed to a long wall at the eastern end of the border of the Daye Dynasty, which corresponds to the southern border.

"Do you want to go and take a look? You might find something. They have a narrow vision and can't do many things, but you are different."

"Fine, let's go again."

Jiang Mo smiled and agreed. With a wave of his hand, a void portal suddenly appeared, swallowing him and the old man and teleporting them directly to the depths of the Southern Frontier.

The night was deep, the bright moon hung high, and a large number of mutated ferocious beasts roamed the vicinity, either fighting or hunting. The moment they smelled the presence of two unfamiliar human scents, they became extremely frightened and instinctively fled.

"Wow!"

Jiang Mo exerted his pupil power to the extreme, scanning the void in an attempt to find an unusual area, but after several minutes, he still found nothing.

Following behind, Xuan Hua was also activating one of the twelve flying immortal techniques, "Illuminating Heaven and Earth." Her bright, blazing white eyes darted up and down, left and right, but she couldn't find any gap leading to the outside world.

"Hmm...that shouldn't be the case."

With a puzzled expression, Xianhua began to use the methods of the Tianyan Sect to set up an array for divination in order to glimpse the secrets of heaven. The resulting hexagram was empty, with neither auspicious nor ominous signs. This was repeated several times, with no change in the result.

Jiang Mo remained silent and deep in thought. He shed his human form and evolved into his second true form, raising his five senses to their peak. His scarlet eyes, as red as the dark sun, cleaved through countless voids, and billions of particles floated before his eyes.

"......"

After a long while, having gained nothing, Jiang Mo withdrew his gaze and turned to another method.

Since we can't see it, we don't need to use our eyes; we can just touch it and use our sense of touch to perceive it!

"Buzz!"

In an instant, Jiang Mo unleashed the Boundless Realm technique, his hands covered in a deep purple light, like the cores of two shining stars.

He touched the void, causing it to resonate continuously. The space within thousands of kilometers around him was all fluctuating at a certain frequency, gently stirred by the omnipresent purple true qi, creating countless ripples.

During this process, Jiang Mo found more than ten naturally formed spatial rifts and some subordinate spaces that did not belong to the real world. He and the old man went to explore them one after another, but what they saw were narrow caves and some lost relics of civilizations. There was no vast world at all.

After working for half an hour, the two returned empty-handed. They couldn't find a passage to the outside world, or even the barrier between the two realms.

If he could find it, Jiang Mo believed that if he went all out, there was even a certain probability that he could break through it. Unfortunately, he couldn't find it.

Inside the fourth floor of the Sutra Repository, Xuan Hua paced back and forth, utterly perplexed. What exactly was the principle behind the power that blocked their search? He murmured to himself:

"How exactly did the patriarch manage to leave back then?"

"Even if he left in a hurry and couldn't leave any clues, he didn't return after advancing further in the Daye Dynasty. Was the boundary barrier so strong that he couldn't return even if he wanted to...?"

With his seniority, Xianhua was basically aware of all the secrets within the sect, but he had no information about the outside world of Tianyuan. The more he thought about it, the less he could think of anything.

"Senior, please stop racking your brains. Why not just let things take their course?" Jiang Mo said, sitting in his chair, somewhat bored.

The next second, he sensed several familiar auras approaching. Looking up, he saw several dazzling lights flash across the night sky outside the sect, instantly transforming into human figures that appeared before him.

It is the Flying Immortal Master, Taotie, Yue Min, and Yue Li who have returned.

"How is it going?" Jiang Mo asked them about the progress of the matter.

"It went very smoothly. All 84 overseas beings who were able to attend the event agreed."

Taotie shrugged helplessly. To its surprise, all the invited experts were extremely cooperative. After seeing the Flying Immortal Master, they became as obedient as could be.

It made a wasted trip, expecting to find some stubborn guys to fight and give it a good meal, but to its surprise, there wasn't a single one.

"Eighty-four. It seems there are quite a few Masters overseas."

Jiang Mo remarked with feeling that this number was more than four times the number of Masters in Kyushu, which was less than 20. He wondered how strong they were.

"The demon kings in various places have also promised me that if any beings from the outside world contact or try to win them over, they will notify me."

Yue Min calmly said that it noticed the map on the table and walked over with several people to take a look.

"This is...?" Yue Li seemed to be deep in thought, shocked by the grandeur of the map. The mountains and rivers spanning millions of miles were clearly presented on a single sheet of paper.

"The maps that the outsiders took from them, the Great Ye Dynasty, the Void Sword Sect, and the Sunset Royal Court are all here."

Xianhua stroked his beard and smiled, explaining the details to everyone.

"So this is how the three continents and twelve prefectures are distributed..."

The Flying Immortal Master stared at the map; even the size of any one of the prefectures on it was larger than the ancient continent where the Nine Provinces were located.

The largest of these is the 'Fengwu County' in the far west of the imperial dynasty, marked with ancient characters. It is roughly oval in shape and covers an area equivalent to two or three counties, making it even larger than the Tianyuan World where they currently reside.

Next, Jiang Mo told Fei Xian Yuzhu, Yue Min, Yue Li, and Yao Wang about the Imperial Dynasty's intelligence and their cultivation system.

Upon hearing that an imperial dynasty existed with nearly a hundred Dao Lords, one human and three demons, their expressions all turned solemn.

The Dao Lords outside are not like the incomplete Dao Lords in the Heavenly Abyss; their combat power difference could be ten or even dozens of times.

In particular, the four monarchs, the emperor, the national advisor, and the nine dragon generals who had been granted titles throughout the imperial dynasty—in that world where martial prowess was supreme, these 15 people were the absolute pinnacle.

He is either a celestial Dao Lord or an unparalleled Dao Lord.

The three demon race masters did not believe they had any chance of defeating these humanoid monsters. The Flying Immortal Master also remained silent. To him, these were like fifteen giant mountains lying in front of him, full of unknowns. He was not even sure if he had enough strength to climb over one of them.

Moreover, among the three major powers, this is the weakest, the Great Ye Dynasty. The Void Sword Sect and the Sunset Royal Court are even more unimaginably powerful.

“I have glimpsed the heart of the Luo family warrior. He is willing to be won over and cooperate with us on behalf of the Luo family and the emperor.”

"Although I sealed him away before we even began to talk, those of you here today are all older than me, some of you are well-versed in the doctrine of the mean, others are skilled in calculation. Your long lives have given you profound experience, and I would like to ask for your opinions. Perhaps my ideas are still impetuous or incomplete, and you will fill in the gaps."

Jiang Mo's words came from the heart and were very humble. He told everyone to speak freely and not to hold back. The one person and three demons standing here were all his trusted allies.

"With a hundred Dao Lords and 15 monsters of unknown strength, excluding you, Xuan Zun, all the Dao Lords and Masters in our entire world combined could not possibly defeat the Imperial Dynasty."

"The gap in strength is too great. Any calculation is meaningless. Just like you humans don't care about the feelings of the ants under your feet, talking about cooperation with them is like asking a tiger for its skin. You can't have any wishful thinking about begging for their pity and mercy."

"In order to survive, we must bare our fangs and use absolute force to bite their throats, threaten them with death, make them wary, make them fearful, and make them retreat. Otherwise, it's all just empty talk."