Boundless Arrogance

A piercing shriek startled everyone, filling them with dread. What had happened? The lords of the forbidden lands all turned their heads to look. An instant later, an overwhelming shock seized every single one of them. As lords of forbidden lands, what had they not witnessed? Yet had anyone ever seen an unimaginably formidable being—one who had just slain two forbidden land lords before falling himself—actually return from the dead? All because of the Lord of Dead Spirits' soul-summoning ritual? At this very moment, they were witnessing it with their own eyes! As if clawing his way out of boundless hell, a pair of hands reached up beneath the Demon Ancestor's feet, seizing his ankles in an iron grip. Those hands clung tightly to a forbidden land lord. They had grabbed a super-rank expert! Countless powers of the Great Daos crept upward! Silently and imperceptibly, even a super-rank had failed to evade it—and that was what struck utter terror into their hearts. To ambush a lord of a forbidden land was extraordinarily difficult! Yet now, it was not merely an ambush. The man seemed to have genuinely resurrected, clawing his way back from the depths of hell! "You stepped on my head!" An eerie voice rang out, tinged with a faint laugh. "I... have returned to life!" *Boom!* Lightning birthed out of nothingness, the void shuddered, and heaven and earth fractured! A world manifested out of nowhere, enveloping the forbidden land behind the Demon Ancestor and swallowing the Demon Ancestor himself. In the distance, the Lord of Dead Spirits' eyes flashed with astonishing brightness. *He's truly alive!* *It's real!* He burst into wild laughter that shook heaven and earth. "Soul summoning! Rebirth!" "Undying and indestructible! I walk forth from death; I command death; I am eternal and imperishable!" The Lord of Dead Spirits roared madly! Words that everyone had previously dismissed as pure nonsense had now become reality. Far away, the Immortal Ancestor turned pale with horror. He stumbled back several paces, murmuring in disbelief, "It can't be real..." This was impossible! If the Lord of Dead Spirits could resurrect a forbidden land lord at will, with zero cost, then... who could possibly rival him? When you paid an astronomical price to slay your enemy only for them to rise from the dead, how could anyone fight? Just moments ago, it had taken the lives of two forbidden land lords to bring down this Su Yu. Yet the man... was alive! Were two more supposed to die? Only for him to resurrect yet again? "It's impossible... There must be a catch..." As a supreme expert, he suspected something was amiss. But where was the catch? When no one could spot the trick, panic and despair would inevitably set in. Facing an unkillable being meant every sacrifice you made was utterly worthless! *That* was the truest source of despair! "It's all an illusion!" one forbidden land lord roared. "It's fake! Don't fear him—" *Boom!* Before the words finished, a tremendous crash reverberated through the realm! The figure clawing out of hell let out a thunderous roar and ripped the Demon Ancestor's legs apart, raging, "You stepped on my head!" "Aaaagh!" His legs torn off, the Demon Ancestor shrieked in agony. This was no simple maiming; it was laced with countless flames of the Great Dao! At this moment, everyone saw him clearly: a black-robed man with flowing hair had fully dragged himself out from hell, bringing a revival to heaven and earth! From the boundless unseen, a majestic voice resonated across the world: "The extinction has passed! Awaken!" *Boom!* With a resounding blast, countless auras suddenly surged to a boil! In a flash, the Lord of Dead Spirits' eyes flickered. With a flick of his sleeve, the individuals who had entered extinction moments ago materialized one after another. The four Great Emperors snapped their eyes open instantly, their auras boiling over and even surging higher. The next moment, as if striking upon a sudden realization, they were seized with wild joy. Dropping to their knees, they faced Su Yu in the distance and roared, "Greetings, Tribulation Lord!" "We pay homage to the Tribulation Lord!" Hundreds of experts screamed in exultation! The Tribulation Lord had returned, and they had all risen from the dead! All around, the forbidden land lords made no move to aid the Demon Ancestor. Instead, their faces were drained of color. *They've all resurrected!* *Every single one of them is alive!* *The Tribulation Lord!* Su Yu, wearing a faint smile, let his voice boom across heaven and earth: "I opened the Domain of Tribulation and established the Heaven of Tribulation, undying and imperishable! Death is not the end, but eternal life..." His voice shook the four directions. Simultaneously, having seized the initiative, Su Yu channeled ten thousand Daos into a single strike. *Boom!* The Demon Ancestor was sent flying backward. An instant later, roaring as demonic qi soared to the heavens, he spun around and fled! Meanwhile, Su Yu's eerie voice echoed, "My dearest grandfather, let us slaughter! We are undying and imperishable; let us trade life for life and butcher these forbidden land lords..." His eyes, shining like the sun and moon, fixed on the Lord of Dead Spirits. His gaze was thick with unspoken meaning! *Go butcher the Immortal Ancestor of Changsheng Heaven! Right now, we must project an aura of total indifference to death. Make everyone believe we truly cannot die. If you can take down the Immortal Ancestor and then resurrect today... I guarantee no one will ever dare cross us again!* The Lord of Dead Spirits' eyes flickered. He was tempted! Because Su Yu truly had resurrected! "Kill!" A low shout shook heaven and earth. In the next breath, a black book unfolded, sweeping toward the Immortal Ancestor. Innumerable thoughts raced through the Lord of Dead Spirits' mind before he made his choice in an instant. All this theatrics and posturing had been for this very moment: to deter everyone! Previously, all of them had sought to gang up and slaughter him. He had had to remain cautious at every turn! Yet today, if he showed them an attitude of fearless disregard for death and the ability to revive from it, then even if he failed to kill anyone today, he would terrify them into submission. Even if they figured out something later, in the short term, not one of these fools would dare provoke them again! At this moment, Su Yu's aura was formidable as well! In the blink of an eye, thirty-two Dao rules, resembling small golden dragons, coiled around him. His world expanded to engulf the space! Countless chains lashed out from all sides toward the Demon Ancestor, carrying overwhelming momentum. Su Yu sneered chillingly, "You stepped on my head, and you think you can just walk away?" On the other side, the Lord of Dead Spirits threw a punch that shattered the vault of heaven, striking straight toward the Immortal Ancestor with unstoppable momentum. The sheer force of the onslaught chilled even the Immortal Ancestor to the bone! *Boom!* The Immortal Ancestor tore through the void and fled. As he ran, he shouted, "Kill him! Join forces, or we'll all die—" "Join forces?" the Lord of Dead Spirits taunted coldly. "Better yet, kill me!" At this moment, he acted as though he truly could resurrect without consequence, utterly fearless. Giving the Immortal Ancestor no chance to reply, he suddenly unfurled his black book across the entire void, locking down all the forbidden lands, and gave a ferocious grin: "My dearest grandson, let's join hands and kill them all! You still have the power of resurrection, don't you?" Su Yu caught on immediately and chuckled eerily, "Still plenty... Enough for several more resurrections... More than enough to butcher them all..." Everyone shuddered! *Power of resurrection!* *So that's it!* These two had obtained some kind of power of resurrection from somewhere, which gave them the ability to rise from the dead. What in the world was this power of resurrection? They had never heard of it! Yet a forbidden land lord had risen before their very eyes—that was undeniable fact. How much of this power did they possess? How many more times could it revive them? Regardless of how many, the mere thought was horrifying! "Withdraw first!" a forbidden land lord roared. The situation was completely unknown. In a chaotic battle, if you killed them and they just resurrected immediately... how could anyone fight? *Boom!* Several forbidden land lords on the outer perimeter forcibly blasted open the world's suppression and immediately steered their forbidden lands away in flight. In the inner ring, the Immortal Ancestor and the others turned pale. The Lord of Dead Spirits was terrifyingly strong! With everyone else fleeing, there was no way to fight! The next moment, those few powerhouses cast caution to the wind. Drawing their Daos into their bodies, they shifted into the essence of their Great Daos and fled outward in every direction! "You think you can leave?" "Extinction!" The Lord of Dead Spirits threw a world-blanketing punch laced with the power of extinction. *Boom!* With nowhere to dodge, the Immortal Ancestor took the brunt of the strike, desperately erupting with life force in a life-and-death struggle! *Boom!* In less than an instant, the life force was obliterated. With a dull thud, a black fist mark branded itself onto his back. He coughed up a mouthful of golden blood that instantly blackened as death qi billowed out! The Immortal Ancestor's expression shifted drastically! Letting out a low growl, his aura snapped back to its peak in the blink of an eye. With desperate resolve, a potent vitality surged outward, blanketing heaven and earth and snuffing out all the death qi. Just as the Lord of Dead Spirits' second fist crashed down, he burned a vast reserve of life force and pierced the void, vanishing into escape! Yet no sooner had he burst out of the world than the Lord of Dead Spirits materialized before him, smashing out another fist! "Where do you think you're going?" At this moment, the Lord of Dead Spirits' black robes billowed wildly, radiating sheer arrogance and tyranny. "You mongrels have menaced me for years. This time, I will make you pay!" He was extraordinarily powerful! …… Meanwhile, Su Yu's Daos erupted in full force. Like chains, Dao after Dao coiled around the Demon Ancestor. He had advanced! With this advancement, the massive gulf between him and a super-rank like the Demon Ancestor had vanished. Furthermore, the moment Su Yu crawled out, his Great Daos had heavily wounded the Demon Ancestor. Now, demonic flames surged as the Demon Ancestor transformed into a demonic god, roaring madly. Wielding a colossal saber, he cleaved toward Su Yu. Without dodging or evading, Su Yu countered with a fist! *Boom!* Death qi inundated the blade, corroding it until it was pitted and gouged. Su Yu chuckled faintly. "You're too late!" Before his advancement, he couldn't have withstood that blade strike, but now that he had advanced, it was nothing! "Dead Spirit Cage!" With a low bark, the Daos coalesced into a cage. Su Yu closed the distance in an instant and yelled, "Let one go first! Otherwise, we won't kill either! Slay one before going after the rest!" The Lord of Dead Spirits cursed internally! *No! I want to kill the Immortal!* *Only by killing him do I have a chance of seizing his Dao and achieving the reversal of life and death! Killing the Demon Ancestor is pointless to me!* "Kill the Immortal!" he roared. The Immortal Ancestor's face warped in terror, but Su Yu furrowed his brows. It wasn't that he didn't want to kill the Immortal Ancestor, but that the man had relied on his life force to return to his peak once again—he was too difficult to finish off! The Demon Ancestor, on the other hand, had been heavily wounded from the very start and was currently trapped within Su Yu's own world, making him a far easier target. If Su Yu abandoned the Demon Ancestor now to chase down the Immortal Ancestor, they might lose both the watermelon and the sesame seeds, ending up with nothing! He understood what the Lord of Dead Spirits wanted, but at this critical juncture, they had to choose one! Otherwise, once the other forbidden land lords regained their wits and converged, their chance would slip away! "Kill the Demon!" Su Yu barked sharply. Everyone had selfish motives, and he certainly wanted to help the Lord of Dead Spirits, but the timing was wrong. Speed was of the essence; if the others rallied and returned, they would lose their chance entirely! The Lord of Dead Spirits wanted to roar in frustration! Yet he, too, saw that the Immortal Ancestor had instantly returned to his peak. Those cultivating the Dao of Life were notoriously difficult to put down. With bitter reluctance and lingering anger, he ultimately chose to fly toward Su Yu. Killing the Demon Ancestor would intimidate the entire realm and empower Su Yu; perhaps another opportunity would arise later. "Roar!" He bellowed furiously as the Dead Spirit World manifested, sweeping down to envelop Su Yu's side. The Immortal Ancestor's expression shifted, but he couldn't spare a thought for anything else—flee! If none of them had run and the six or seven forbidden land lords had stood their ground, they could still have fought. Now that everyone had scattered, the Demon Ancestor... could only fend for himself! "No..." The Demon Ancestor's despairing scream rang out. *Don't!* If the Immortal Ancestor fled, he would be left facing the combined slaughter of two supreme powerhouses. He shrieked frantically, "No! Don't fall for it! It's fake! It's all fake... They can't resurrect..." Even he didn't believe his own words! Yet to survive, he had to say it. "It's all fake! It's a sleight of hand... Come back... Otherwise, they'll pick us off one by one..." "Aaaagh!" Before his shouts subsided, Su Yu threw a punch, and the Lord of Dead Spirits arrived in a flash, throwing a fist of his own! Between the two powerhouses, the Lord of Dead Spirits wielded the might of roughly thirty-five Daos, ridiculously powerful. Striking a wounded, trapped Demon Ancestor, they shattered his defensive barrier in an instant! "Heavenly Demon Disintegration!" A furious roar shook the world, and in the next moment, towering demonic qi rattled heaven and earth. Yet in the blink of an eye, death qi surged in from one side, and the power of ten thousand Daos crashed down from the other. Between heaven and earth, two layers of worlds appeared at once! Two world-openers joined forces, incomparably mighty at this moment. World suppression bore down, Great Daos erupted—*rumble!* The battle erupted instantly! In the distance, the Immortal Ancestor fled at top speed, his roar echoing in all directions: "Rally! Forbidden lands, rally! Come reinforce us!" The void rippled! At this moment, forbidden lands that had not previously shown up sensed the anomaly and teleported over one after another. But teleportation took time. One forbidden land after another began to manifest, and the lords who had previously fled were also rushing back in this direction, their faces deathly pale! …… Meanwhile, within Su Yu's world. The Lord of Dead Spirits also felt the mounting pressure. Looking at Su Yu, he sent a voice transmission: "Summon your world first. While the Heavenly Gate blocks your world, my world will break through, and I'll kill him!" Su Yu did not hesitate in the slightest! In an instant, the phantom of the Heavenly Gate opened. A potent force permeated inward. Before long, a colossal portal manifested in the distance, seemingly battered by a world charging against it... …… In the myriad realms, Su Yu's world suddenly vanished, and everyone who had entered extinction revived one after another. The next moment, as if traveling across time, they arrived at the terminus of the River of Time. There at the end, a gate manifested. While everyone stood in a daze, the world attempted to burrow inside. Yet the portal unleashed an overwhelmingly powerful aura, jolting the world backward in an instant! The moment Su Yu's world was repelled, the Dead Spirit Realm seemed to manifest and slipped inside in a flash. A wild, manic laugh echoed, "Moron!" The power of his world had entered! …… Inside the gate. To everyone's shock, the colossal portal was suddenly engulfed in death qi. Then, a world emerged and dropped squarely onto the Lord of Dead Spirits' head in an instant. Everyone gasped! "It's over!" The Heavenly Gate hadn't blocked him! It was over! It really was over! The Lord of Dead Spirits had fused his two worlds! Why? The Heavenly Gate had always blocked it before. Why hadn't it stopped the Lord of Dead Spirits from merging his two worlds this time? In the distance, the forbidden land lords had hoped to gather more people before going to rescue the Demon Ancestor, but now, looks of helplessness washed over their faces. It was hopeless! Back then, the Lord of Dead Spirits with his two worlds fused had slaughtered a forbidden land lord with domineering ease. Today, accompanied by his "grandson"—another world-opener who was also a super-rank—the two were ganging up on a heavily wounded Demon Ancestor! The Demon Ancestor... was finished! Sure enough, at that moment, even Su Yu felt it: with both worlds merged, the Lord of Dead Spirits' aura surged, far stronger than before! Trapped, the Demon Ancestor roared frantically. "No, please..." "I have lived for countless ages! I witnessed the opening of the River of Time! I was born from primal chaos! I don't want to die..." "Don't kill me!" The Demon Ancestor had gone mad! His Great Dao fluctuated wildly as a demonic Dao tumbled violently. Burning his Dao until it fractured, exhausting every ounce of his power, he desperately sought escape. *No, I only arrived later! I didn't do anything!* *I don't want to die like this!* "I'll tell you secrets! A monumental secret! Secrets of the Human Gate! Don't kill me... Ahhh!" A shrill shriek rang out, but Su Yu and the Lord of Dead Spirits paid it no mind. They would not waste a single second! Both were ruthlessly decisive powerhouses; how could they be swayed by such pleas? Secrets? Both shared a single conviction: so long as they were strong enough, no secret mattered! Under everyone's stunned gazes, the Demon Ancestor's physical body was pulverized by a punch from the Lord of Dead Spirits. Then, the two world-openers bellowed together as world suppression clamped down on a mighty Great Dao struggling to escape! Other Daos couldn't destroy it, but world power could! At this moment, boundless world power converged. The Lord of Dead Spirits, having fused two worlds, was terrifyingly formidable. With a thunderous roar, his hands clamped down like a man seizing a colossal dragon by its head and tail! His body expanded endlessly as he roared and compressed the Dao, crushing the gigantic dragon down into a grindstone-sized Dao. At that instant, Su Yu and he bellowed simultaneously as the core of their worlds burrowed straight in! Su Yu directly plunged in with his physical body, greedily devouring the Dao's power! The Lord of Dead Spirits also roared, "Mine!" The Dao of a super-rank contained boundless rule power. Having seized the Dao, why wouldn't he claim it? Just as he spoke, Su Yu fled backward at breakneck speed. *Boom!* A cataclysmic roar shook heaven and earth as the Great Dao snapped! The Demon Ancestor's shrill screams resonated in all directions! "I refuse to accept this!" "I refuse to accept this!" "I wasn't the first to arrive... I wasn't..." "I am not reconciled! Even in death... I refuse to yield!" *Why me?* *Why was it me?* *Why?!* *I lived from the opening of heaven to this day! I witnessed the creation of heaven and earth! I saw the Lord of Time! I founded the demon race! I survived the apocalypse! I established a forbidden land...* *I refuse to accept this!* *Why must it be me?* *The Heavenly Gate is about to open! The perished era is about to return! I had grand ambitions...* *Today was supposed to be an ordinary outing, just to see what happened to the Luohun Valley Lord. He had only come to take a look, deliberately arriving later than the rest. Why him?* He was consumed by bitter regret! Endless resentment erupted! The entire realm echoed with his venomous curses: "I refuse to accept this! I curse you all!" "Come join me in death!" "This world shall perish!" "None shall survive!" "I curse you..." His spiteful screams flooded heaven and earth, laden with fathomless malice. On Su Yu's side, thunderous explosions resounded through the realm. The next moment, a colossal forbidden land manifested—the Demon Domain! *Rumble!* The Demon Domain instantly collapsed, blowing countless experts to pieces. "Demon Ancestor!" Within the Demon Domain, countless voices shrieked in agony. All around, the forbidden land lords paled in horror! He was dead! The master of the demon race had died just like that. Today, a third forbidden land lord—a second super-rank—had actually died right before their eyes, beaten to death by two powerhouses. "Why didn't the Heavenly Gate stop him?" a forbidden land lord roared in fury. Why? If it had blocked him, the Lord of Dead Spirits wouldn't have merged his two worlds and couldn't have slain the Demon Ancestor so easily! Once more people gathered, they could have struck together. Regrettably, there were no "what ifs"! At this moment, Su Yu and the Lord of Dead Spirits exchanged a glance and burst into mad laughter. An instant later, the two powerhouses charged madly toward the assembled crowd! The Lord of Dead Spirits laughed uproariously: "Why would the Heavenly Gate stop me? He and I are old friends! Why stop me? Stop me from sweeping away disobedient obstacles on his behalf? Did you think you were Fa? Back then, he only stopped me because Fa was his lapdog!" Several forbidden land lords paled! *So that's how it is!* "Flee!" They roared. Even though eight or nine powerhouses had gathered, they were uncertain whether these two could resurrect if killed. All they could do was wait—wait for the dual-world power of the Lord of Dead Spirits to recede! After all, power from outside the gate was naturally rejected by this world. Unless the Lord of Dead Spirits was willing to be completely assimilated into netherworld power, his other world's strength had to withdraw! In truth, the Lord of Dead Spirits couldn't maintain it for long anyway! The Heavenly Gate was shuddering violently! Su Yu's world had only absorbed the initial shock for him. Now that the Heavenly Gate had reacted, it was fiercely repelling him, even preparing to attack him! Though slightly regretful, the Lord of Dead Spirits kept up a front of calm confidence and roared with laughter: "A bunch of useless trash! If you have the guts, don't run! Hahaha..." After laughing for a moment, he barked, "Forget it, I wouldn't want my world power to be assimilated... I'll spare your miserable dog lives!" The next moment, his world power from the myriad realms instantly dissipated! In the blink of an eye, the distant Heavenly Gate vanished as well. In reality, the Heavenly Gate had thoroughly shattered the penetration of his world power. Of course, nobody else knew that right now. Su Yu knew, but he certainly wouldn't expose it. The next moment, the two stepped forward before everyone. Opposite them, eight or nine forbidden land lords quickly clustered together. Yet both Su Yu and the Lord of Dead Spirits stood arrogant and utterly fearless! Their auras were immensely powerful! Su Yu had also changed into a black robe, matching the Lord of Dead Spirits. Both stared coldly across at their opponents. The forbidden land lords opposite them wore heavy, grim expressions. Despite outnumbering their foes, they felt as though these two were simply unassailable. They were thoroughly unnerved! Rising from the dead... slaying the Demon Ancestor! Today, three forbidden lands had fallen and two super-rank experts had died—unbelievable. The Heavenly Gate hadn't blocked the Lord of Dead Spirits' world penetration, Su Yu had resurrected... All of this filled them with sheer dread. At this moment, only the Lord of Dead Spirits' wild laughter echoed between heaven and earth! Opposite them, an ancient being looked heavily at the Lord of Dead Spirits, then at Su Yu, and said in a low voice, "What more do you want?" Two super-ranks had already been killed! The Lord of Dead Spirits smiled coldly. "What more do I want? Nothing much! I just want to test... if I die, can I resurrect? I am too powerful; though my grandson has revived, I... am stronger than him. I want to give it a try. Gentlemen, won't you indulge me?" Everyone held their breath, completely speechless. He wanted to test resurrecting from death! How could they test that? What kind of price would it cost to kill him? And if they did kill him... what if he actually resurrected? The Immortal Ancestor swept his gaze over them and fixed on Su Yu, speaking coldly: "Resurrecting from the dead... No, this man is surrounded by the power of life and death... Could he have revived only after merging the Daos of Life and Death? There must be a trick... How could supreme experts resurrect so easily... It's impossible!" He didn't believe it! Yet his disbelief changed nothing: Su Yu had genuinely resurrected! That was what everyone dreaded most! The Lord of Dead Spirits smiled, and Su Yu smiled as well. *You don't believe it?* *You may not believe it, but do you dare test it?* …… At this moment, more forbidden lands continued to manifest from all directions. Some rogue cultivators were scared out of their wits, having no idea where to hide! Today was even more perilous than back then. Several forbidden land lords had died in a single day, and the great war threatened to continue! Right then, a voice carried over from the far distance, laced with curiosity: "Can one truly rise from the dead? Lord of the Dead, how about we test it... I, too, am curious whether you can truly resurrect from death." His expression unchanging, the Lord of Dead Spirits sent a voice transmission to Su Yu: "The Lord of Tianqiong!" Su Yu understood. That person had grown intrigued as well. Yet the Lord of Dead Spirits remained nonchalant, his composure unbroken. "If you wish to test it, I can accommodate you! Qiong, others may fear you, but do you think I am afraid?" "Heh... big words!" The Lord of Mount Tianqiong had indeed become intrigued! Su Yu, however, had no desire to clash with this person right now. He knew the Lord of Dead Spirits couldn't bear losing face and might genuinely not fear the man, but fighting a top-tier powerhouse at this juncture was not a wise move. Su Yu smiled and said, "Lord of Mount Tianqiong, this is a matter between our Dead Spirit Hell and the other forbidden lands. Strictly speaking, I am a guest elder of Mount Tianqiong. The Sword Sovereign's son is still serving under me, and the Sword Sovereign can be considered one of our own... We are all on the same side. If the Lord of Mount Tianqiong won't help us, would you truly help this bunch of useless trash?" "One of our own... Mount Liufang... Black Tomb?" "Indeed!" Su Yu's voice shook heaven and earth as he smiled. "Our Dead Spirit Hell has stood here for countless ages. Just because my... grandfather..." He put heavy emphasis on the word "grandfather"! "...has a world in the outside realm, everyone has continually targeted him. How utterly ridiculous! Is it because he is strong? Because he has an external world? When you all seek to break out, isn't it also to unify yin and yang?" "As of now, we don't even know those experts from the outside—what Human Sovereign, what King Wen... Our Dead Spirit Hell has never interfered! Yet you people have pushed us time and again. Did you truly think Dead Spirit Hell was easy prey?" Su Yu said coldly, "Luohun Valley didn't know what was good for them and provoked us repeatedly, so I laid an inescapable net and wiped them out! The Demon Ancestor didn't know life from death and stepped on my head, humiliating a forbidden land lord, so I slew him!" "Lord of Mount Tianqiong, this is our personal grudge. When they besieged Dead Spirit Hell in the past, you did not participate... Are you now going to fight us to the death for the sake of these people?" Su Yu laughed heartily. "In this day and age, has strength become a crime? These weaklings make no effort to improve themselves and know only how to gang up on the strong. Because our Dead Spirit Hell is powerful, they target us again and again—how detestable! You are strong as well, Mountain Lord, and you have been ostracized from the forbidden lands all these years... Such trash is not worth turning against us for!" The Lord of Mount Tianqiong's voice drifted over with amusement: "I have no interest in standing up for them. I am merely curious how your resurrection from the dead actually worked. Was it a fusion of life and death, or is there truly a so-called power of resurrection? Or perhaps... it was just a sleight of hand? Though if it could deceive my senses, that sleight of hand would be beyond imagination!" He had no interest in helping anyone, but he was intensely curious about Su Yu's resurrection! Right at that moment, another laugh rapidly echoed: "Lord of the Dead! Su Yu! It's me, Xingyu! We're on the same side! We're all from the living realm. Let's take down our enemies together! Tianqiong is on our side too... Fight, fight..." *Boom!* A loud crash erupted, and the next moment, the Human Sovereign's voice vanished. The Lord of Mount Tianqiong remarked impassively, "That fellow has started raving and sowing discord again. Pay him no mind." *Who would believe you!* That fellow had actually seized the opening to pop up and attempt to sow discord! Right then, from far away, King Wen's voice suddenly echoed with a chuckle: "Lord of the Dead, Su Yu, we joined hands to kill Fa... We're all on the same side. The myriad realms are one family... With the Lord of Mount Tianqiong here, our alliance fears nothing!" "Hmph!" A cold snort reverberated. The Lord of Dead Spirits frowned, glancing at the crowd and then toward Mount Yongsheng, saying coldly, "I despise being used as a weapon." Yet King Wen laughed softly. "We are family, so why speak of weapons? ...Su Yu... Ah, I remember now. The myriad realms also has a Su Yu... Right, Xingyu's successor... Su Yu, have you forgotten we are all one family?" Su Yu's expression darkened, and he said chillingly, "King Wen, why resort to this? If we want to help, we will help of our own accord. If not... no matter what you do, you will only invite disgust. You are a clever man; why make me despise your myriad realms?" "Hahaha... Then I hope... it won't come to that!" King Wen's voice faded away! At this time, Su Yu turned to the forbidden land lords opposite him and smiled faintly. "Gentlemen, you disrupted our plans today. Do you have anything to say for yourselves?" What did that mean? Su Yu said indifferently, "You have repeatedly provoked our Dead Spirit Hell and ostracized us. You weaklings are always jealous of the strong, ostracizing and even seeking to destroy them. It was true for us, and it is true for Mount Tianqiong!" From the crowd, the Dragon Ancestor of the Dragon Domain said coldly, "What are you trying to say?" Su Yu replied calmly, "Nothing much! Pay a price, or else... none of you will have an easy time!" A price? The crowd was so infuriated they nearly laughed. You killed several forbidden land lords, and you want *us* to pay a price? "Su Yu, do you truly think Dead Spirit Hell is invincible?" Su Yu's aura surged with chilling intent as he took a step forward. "We can say that simply because we can resurrect! Simply because if we join hands, more of you might die! Who among you wants to die? Even a cornered rabbit bites. Did you really think Dead Spirit Hell was easy to push around?" Su Yu said coldly, "Right now, it is no longer my grandfather facing you alone! I imagine if a real fight breaks out... the Lord of Mount Tianqiong will help us as well!" The Lord of Mount Tianqiong's indifferent voice drifted over: "It has nothing to do with me." Su Yu looked toward him and said calmly, "I am a guest elder of Mount Tianqiong... If I die, Jian Kong dies, and the Sword Sovereign will be heartbroken. Is the Sword Sovereign not your brother, Lord of Tianqiong? Or is he worthless to you? If that is the case... then let the Sword Sovereign enter my world instead. You are a great figure, Mountain Lord, yet you won't even protect the foremost powerhouse under your command... Why bother ruling Mount Tianqiong as a regional lord? You'd be better off wandering freely as a rogue cultivator!" The Lord of Mount Tianqiong said coolly, "Is a junior trying to bait me?" He said nothing more. Did he need to protect the Sword Sovereign? Yes! But... damn it, something wasn't right. What did protecting the Sword Sovereign have to do with protecting *you*? Whatever, he couldn't be bothered. He withdrew his perception and ignored them completely. Let them fight however they pleased! The assembled experts, however, had uneasy thoughts. *The Lord of Mount Tianqiong... wouldn't actually intervene, would he?* The two in front of them were troublesome enough; if the Lord of Mount Tianqiong joined in... At this moment, someone said in a heavy voice, "Lord of Tianqiong, why do you keep allowing Xingyu to open the Heavenly Gate?" They had heard the Human Sovereign speak earlier. What was Qiong doing? "What business is it of yours?" The Lord of Mount Tianqiong, who previously couldn't be bothered to respond, suddenly snorted with utter indifference: "The strong have their own minds. Just as this junior said, stop constantly obsessing over suppressing the strong. If you kill the strong, does that make *you* strong? Childish! If you want to become strong, cultivate your own strength. Slaying those who are stronger than you doesn't make you strong!" He found some merit in Su Yu's words. To his mind, what if the Lord of Dead Spirits came from the outside world? Who cared! Everyone wanted to fight their way out, so sooner or later they would all end up in the outside world anyway. Why fuss over it so much? Weren't these people simply terrified that the Lord of Dead Spirits would exit the gate, fuse his worlds, and become even stronger? Was there any need for that? If you wanted to become strong, just cultivate! With that statement, the crowd fell into dead silence. Su Yu smiled. "The Lord of Mount Tianqiong is right! These fellows have no ability of their own and only think about killing those who do... Unfortunately, how could true powerhouses be slain so easily?" He mocked them openly, showing not the slightest hesitation even before multiple forbidden land lords. Su Yu said indifferently, "Enough with the useless talk. As for targeting our Dead Spirit Hell... I suggest you wash up and go to sleep! Now that the Heavenly Gate is about to open, I can't be bothered to settle scores with you over certain matters! Otherwise... you're welcome to try!" With that, Su Yu said coldly, "You weaklings have always ostracized us. Even for this Forbidden Land Conference, our Dead Spirit Hell was excluded... What, do you plan to hoard all the quotas for leaving the Heavenly Gate? Furthermore... don't think we know nothing!" Su Yu smiled faintly. "I heard that King Wen's sister, Wen Yu, possesses a Time Record that is supposedly extraordinarily powerful... This time, we will attend the Forbidden Land Conference as well. Not only that... that item belongs to me. Grant that, and the grudge from the previous siege will be wiped clean. Otherwise... feel free to test us!" The crowd stared coldly at him. *Arrogant brat!* The Lord of Dead Spirits stood with his hands behind his back, looking indifferently at the assembled lords. "If Qiong doesn't intervene... you can try and see how many of you can withstand my merged worlds. I refuse to believe that having lived to this day, none of you fear death! As long as someone fears death... you will be just like back then. Heh, kill one, and the rest will scatter. A bunch of useless trash!" "Outrageous!" someone roared in fury. Too arrogant! Right to the faces of a group of forbidden land lords, the Lord of Dead Spirits was this blatant, outright calling them trash—and Su Yu was just as bad! Both were wildly insolent! At this moment, no one doubted they were grandfather and grandson anymore. Both were far too insolent; ordinary people couldn't have taught someone to be like that! Su Yu sneered, "Did he say anything wrong? Trash is trash! My grandfather was born near the end of the creation era... and I was born not long ago. Yet today, we effortlessly slaughtered those so-called forbidden land lords, those so-called invincible, supposedly undying and imperishable beings... The destruction of three forbidden lands is right before your eyes... If you fight us to the bitter end, let's see how many more forbidden lands are wiped out! Who among you dares to step up first?" Su Yu was boundlessly arrogant, his voice sharp and fierce: "Trash is trash, so what if I call you that! Who dares stick their neck out? Immortal, do you want to try? If we hadn't prioritized killing the Demon just now, you would be the one dead!" The Immortal Ancestor's expression turned exceedingly grim as he spat, "Madman!" "Our Dead Spirit Hell has earned the right!" Su Yu scoffed. "So what if I'm arrogant? What can you do about it?" Everyone choked on their fury! Su Yu sneered, "I crawled out of hell once, and I can crawl out a second time! The only question is whether you have the guts!" That was precisely what they all feared most. At this moment, all the forbidden land lords fell into silence. …… Meanwhile, in the myriad realms. Su Yu's world returned, and all the experts who had entered extinction revived one after another. The Human Sovereign, however, wore a dazed expression. Not because they had revived, but because... fuck, he had just heard Su Yu's name. He had heard it earlier, but didn't know the specifics. Now he knew: Su Yu seemed to have opened a world, reversed life and death, resurrected from the dead, and after taking down one super-rank, seemingly took down another! "Wen the Second... what a useless piece of trash!" he muttered under his breath. Pure trash! *How many fucking years have you been inside, without achieving a damn thing?* *Look at Su Yu!* *Half a year after entering, the guy wiped out three forbidden lands in a single day and even hooked up with the Lord of Dead Spirits! Good heavens, how on earth did this bastard pull it off?* "He's a wolf..." Wherever you threw him, he was fiercely vicious and rose in an instant! Now, he watched the people in the world revive. Having undergone extinction once, they seemed somewhat different, yet also largely the same. For a moment, complex emotions welled up in the Human Sovereign! These people had actually been willing to enter extinction alongside Su Yu. Now that Su Yu had revived... they had gained something as well, insights between life and death. Was this what it meant that every loss came with a gain? At this moment, he patted the old brother beside him. King Ming was also feeling intensely conflicted, but the Human Sovereign chuckled softly and said, "I know you didn't back out because you feared death. You carry the duty of protection... Old brother, I understand you. They are too close to Su Yu... You are different!" Looking melancholy, King Ming said softly after a long pause, "Perhaps! That's fine too. Give the Formation Dao to my grandson's grandson's grandson..." He smiled. Indeed, at that moment, he had withdrawn. Wan Tiansheng and the others could choose death, but he could not. He still had to keep fighting... Su Yu, after all, was not the Human Sovereign. The Human Sovereign was his eldest brother. At this moment, he let go of the burden and smiled: "Big Brother, if you die, I will enter extinction with you..." The Human Sovereign rolled his eyes. *Get lost!* *Are you cursing me?* Soon, a smile broke across his face, and he patted King Ming's shoulder. "Let us all live... Live well!" He looked toward the depths of the River of Time and fell into deep thought. *Su Yu...* With that bastard inside the gate, he was deeply worried that the Three Gates would open prematurely! Because with that guy around, he was bound to stir up some massive storm!