173: Chapter 173 The dust has settled, and the Burial Immortal Palace has come to an end!

To the naked eye, the withered arm of the Immortal Emperor's Remains propped itself up on the armrest of the throne that symbolized supreme authority!

Crack—!!!

A crisp sound rang out!

The armrest shattered at the touch!

It... it actually wanted to stand up!

"Ge... gege..."

Every bone in the Immortal Emperor's Remains was making a noise!

It felt as if it was resisting some kind of supreme Law.

As time passed, its body left the throne in an extremely slow and stiff manner!

Then...

Those knees that had once supported an era and made all living beings kowtow,

Those knees that made the heavens submit, slowly bent!

Thump—!!!!

In the next moment, a dull thud echoed through the deathly silent hall!

The Immortal Emperor's Remains...

Actually... knelt down!

Just like that, it knelt straight on the ground in the direction of that delicately carved little girl!

Prostrating with all five limbs on the ground!

Time came to a complete standstill at this moment.

Lin Feng and the three team members behind him remained in their previous postures.

Frozen in place in a daze.

With a buzz, their brains went completely blank!

Their pupils suddenly contracted!

Their hearts almost stopped beating!

What were they seeing?

An Immortal Emperor! Like an artifact spirit!

Knelt down?!

"Pfft—"

Lin Feng's mind could no longer think.

He froze in place.

His body had gone numb.

At this moment, he felt like he had become a joke.

Everything after his Rebirth.

Had turned into a joke.

"No..."

Lin Feng's lips began to tremble, and his teeth bit together hard.

Biting until his mouth was full of blood.

His eyes instantly turned blood-red.

Filled with bloodshot veins!

"Why..."

"Why is it like this?!"

"What is that thing... what exactly is that thing?!"

In his past life, the Abyss of Buried Immortals opened, and countless Prodigies fell.

Even Chu Xiao had paid a significant price back then to finally obtain the Legacy!

There was no such little girl at all!

There was no such Flying Boat at all!

And there was absolutely no... absurd thing like an Immortal Emperor kneeling!

Why?!

Why has this life become so unrecognizable?!

Could it be... that my Rebirth really triggered some kind of butterfly effect?

No!

Impossible!

If it were just a butterfly effect.

It would be absolutely impossible for a monster that subverts the script so much to appear out of thin air!

Chu Xiao...

Chu Xiao!!!

Who exactly are you?!

What secret are you hiding?!

...

As the Primordial Qi on the little cauldron continued to stimulate it, the Immortal Emperor's Remains seemed to remember something.

A memory that had been sealed for hundreds of millions of years was forcibly awakened!

That was the glorious era before the Ancient Immortal Court was destroyed.

He was not yet an Immortal Emperor, but just an insignificant general under the Lord of the Immortal Court.

On that day, ten thousand immortals came to pay homage, and all gods kowtowed.

He was fortunate enough, from behind hundreds of millions of immortals and gods, to catch a distant glimpse of that Lord of the Immortal Court who sat high in the Nine Heavens and looked down upon all eternity.

And beside the Lord of the Immortal Court, quietly floating, was an ancient-looking...

Yet seemingly carrying the Three Thousand Grand Daos... little cauldron!

The hongmeng creation cauldron!

It was a supreme holy object that transcended all Emperor weapons and all Laws!

It was the foundation upon which the Lord of the Immortal Court relied to suppress the heavens!

That one glance became an imprint that could not be erased for all eternity!

Now, that familiar Primordial Qi had appeared again!

Through that little cauldron, the fragmented will of the Immortal Emperor's Remains 'saw' the lazy white-robed young man standing in the center of the hall.

The Origin aura on the young man, which shared the same root and source as the Grandmist Cauldron,

Made its remaining will understand instantly!

The new Cauldron Master!

"Ka!"

"Ka ka ka..."

For a moment, the indestructible Emperor bones of the Immortal Emperor's Remains began to tremble violently!

It was afraid!

In the next second!

The prostrating Immortal Emperor's Remains moved once more!

Facing Chu Xiao's direction,

It used its skull to frantically kowtow against the floor!

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The dull sounds of kowtowing were like a death knell.

One by one, strike by strike, they hammered against the hearts of Lin Feng's group of four!

At the same time!

A Divine Thought filled with fear resounded in everyone's mind!

"T-this... this lowly one... did not know the Master had descended!"

"I deserve ten thousand deaths! Ten thousand deaths!"

"I beg Master... for mercy! I beg Master to spare this lowly one's dog life!"

Boom!!!!

This Divine Thought ruthlessly shattered the last sliver of hope in Lin Feng's heart!

He truly could not imagine.

The Immortal Emperor's Remains that should have been high and mighty, that should have accepted his offerings,

And bestowed supreme Legacy upon him...

At this moment!

Was like a dog, frantically kowtowing and begging for mercy!

How absurd this was!

How ironic this was!

"Pfft—"

In the next moment, Lin Feng's mind suffered a heavy blow, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of essence blood!

His plan...

His Immortal Emperor Legacy...

His Blood Sacrifice Array...

All his endurance, all his calculations, all his pride after his Rebirth...

At this moment, they all turned into a massive joke!

The state of the three behind him, including Man Niu, was not much better.

It was as if their brains had been fried.

Especially Leng Yuexin's gaze...

As it fell upon Lin Feng's stiff back.

Her feelings were beyond words.

The master she once thought was omnipotent and could lead them to the Peak...

Now looked so small and pitiful.

However, regarding everything that happened, Chu Xiao still maintained an air of watching a play.

But soon, his gaze moved away from the frantically kowtowing Immortal Emperor skeleton.

He stepped forward and walked straight behind the empty throne.

Lin Feng subconsciously followed his gaze.

When he clearly saw the floating object behind the throne,

His already dilated pupils suddenly contracted!

He almost suffocated.

Yes, within his Divine Thought,

Behind the shadow of the throne, a heart entirely glazed in color,

Which seemed to contain a complete Great World inside,

Was slowly beating and quietly floating there!

Every beat seemed to synchronize with the pulse of the entire Abyss of Buried Immortals!

Every beat

Emitted an Origin aura that made even the Laws of heaven and earth submit!

What was that?

A term suddenly flashed through Lin Feng's mind!

Heart of the World!

For a moment, his entire being seemed to stop breathing!

A Heart of the World, this was a Heart of the World.

A supreme divine object even more maddening than an Immortal Emperor Legacy.

But now, this supreme divine object was moving away from him.

It was over! Everything was over!

He had been reborn and exerted so much effort, yet in the end, he was still just a bystander.

...

Chu Xiao naturally wouldn't care what Lin Feng was thinking.

At this time, he had already leisurely walked behind the throne.

Visibly, that glazed Heart of the World was quietly floating in mid-air.

Every time it beat,

It seemed to completely synchronize with the pulse of the entire Abyss of Buried Immortals.

Bursts of extremely pure aura

Were emitted from the heart, causing the surrounding space to produce ripples.

That was a power that transcended all Laws!

It was the source power that created worlds and evolved all things!

Let alone the three including Man Niu behind Lin Feng, even Yuan Muyu, at the moment she saw this heart,

Felt her Divine Soul and Dao Heart trembling violently!

However, Chu Xiao's face did not show much excitement.

He looked at this supreme treasure before him that was enough to make any Immortal Emperor go mad,

His eyes were calm, as if he were looking at an ordinary stone by the roadside.

Then, under everyone's already numb gazes,

He reached out his hand.

He directly plucked that slowly beating Heart of the World from the air.

The movement was smooth and incredibly natural.

As if this thing was meant to belong to him from the start.

And the moment the Heart of the World fell into Chu Xiao's palm,

Buzz—!

It didn't resist at all; instead, it let out a light hum.

Immediately after, that glazed heart instantly turned into a dazzling flow of light and surged into Chu Xiao's body!

Its target was very clear.

It rushed directly toward the Divine Soul mark of that ancient little cauldron within Chu Xiao's Dantian Qi Sea!

Boom!!!!

The moment the Heart of the World fragment merged into the hongmeng creation cauldron's mark!

A distant cauldron chime echoed from within Chu Xiao's body!

Buzz—!!!!

In the next moment, the little cauldron radiated thousands of beams of light!

Strands of purple Primordial Qi gushed out from her mouth,

Filling the entire hall!

Visibly, her body was undergoing rapid changes.

The aura on her became more solid and powerful.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The entire Heavenly Palace of Buried Immortals, under this vast pressure,

Began to tremble violently and wail!

On the walls, those countless ferocious and terrifying murals began to crack inch by inch!

On the ground, the Ancient Four Symbols Blood Sacrifice Array that Lin Feng and the others had opened with essence blood,

Exploded with a bang the moment it came into contact with the Primordial Qi.

The Immortal Emperor's Remains that were still frantically kowtowing,

After sensing this incredibly powerful aura,

Its kowtowing motion suddenly froze!

And this was only the beginning!

The entire Abyss of Buried Immortals, because of the little cauldron's recovery,

Fell into violent turmoil!

The earth shook and mountains moved! Space collapsed!

Deep within the abyss, countless terrifying Vicious Beasts that had slept for unknown millions of years were startled awake at this moment!

They opened their eyes from their slumber.

Sensing that heaven-shaking and earth-shattering aura, they all let out uneasy roars!

...

Inside the hall.

While everyone else was stunned into a daze by this world-destroying scene,

Chu Xiao, who was at the center of the storm, felt incredibly comfortable.

After the little cauldron absorbed that Heart of the World fragment,

She was like a child who had been hungry for hundreds of millions of years

And finally ate a mouthful of sweet rice.

A stream of incomparably pure and vast spiritual power

Fed back from within the cauldron, instantly surging into Chu Xiao's entire body!

That spiritual power was the Origin power from the beginning of the world!

It washed through Chu Xiao's Meridians, cleansed his Physical Body, and nourished his Divine Soul!

Boom! And accompanied by a loud blast,

Chu Xiao's cultivation made another Breakthrough.

Returning Void Realm!

An aura a thousand times deeper and more ethereal than before

Slowly radiated from Chu Xiao's body!

"Whew..."

Chu Xiao slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

He felt the power within his body that had increased more than tenfold,

And felt the closer connection between himself and the Laws of this world.

A satisfied look appeared on his face.

His strength had broken through, and the divine cauldron was repaired.

This trip to the Abyss of Buried Immortals had yielded great harvests and was well worth it.

As Chu Xiao's Breakthrough was completed, that terrifying pressure sweeping through heaven and earth also quickly receded,

Retracting back into his body.

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Inside the main hall, silence once again descended.

However, within this silence, there was an added suffocating despair.

"Brother Chu Xiao, you're amazing!"

Princess Ji Ziyue was the first to react; visibly, her face was now filled with adoration and joy.

She skipped over to Chu Xiao's side, her beautiful large eyes.

Were full of sparkling stars.

The world-destroying scene just now not only didn't frighten her.

But instead made her feel incredibly brilliant and beautiful!

Yuan Muyu also slowly stood up from the ground, looking at Chu Xiao's back.

Her beautiful eyes sparkled with wonder!

On the other side.

Lin Feng's three teammates were completely dumbfounded at this moment.

Visibly, all of them were trembling violently.

Muttering incoherently.

And Chu Xiao, having resolved everything, slowly turned around.

His eyes fixed on the completely petrified Lin Feng.

The moment that gaze fell upon him.

Lin Feng's entire body trembled violently!

Then his whole being began to shake uncontrollably.

In Lin Feng's fear-filled pupils.

Chu Xiao slowly spoke: "Now, it's time to settle our accounts."

Hearing Chu Xiao's voice, Lin Feng's body trembled again.

In an instant, despair once again surged into his heart.

What should he do?

To survive!

Run?

This thought had just risen before he himself extinguished it.

In front of this man, he didn't even have the right to escape!

Beg for mercy?

That was even less likely!

He had just activated the Blood Sacrifice Array; how could the other party let him go?

"No..."

For a moment, Lin Feng's lips trembled.

His feet subconsciously retreated.

He couldn't accept it!

Couldn't accept that after his Rebirth.

He still had the fate of an ant!

He suddenly raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, and roared, feigning courage: "Chu Xiao! You can't kill me!"

"I am destined by Heaven! I am the Son of Heavens Destiny of this era! Kill me, and you will surely suffer the backlash of the Heavenly Dao, your Divine Soul will be extinguished, and you will never be reborn!"

This was his final struggle.

And the only straw he could think of to intimidate the other party!

Son of Heavens Destiny!

Heavenly Dao backlash!

These eight words were enough to make any Cultivator wary!

However, Chu Xiao smiled upon hearing this.

"Son of Heavens Destiny?"

Chu Xiao let out a soft sneer.

"With just that pitiful bit of future information in your head, you dare to call yourself the Son of Heavens Destiny?"

As his voice fell, he no longer paid attention to Lin Feng's instantly stiff expression.

He took a step and walked towards Lin Feng.

Lin Feng's face turned paler inch by inch as Chu Xiao approached.

"You..."

He retreated in terror, only to find his legs felt as if they were filled with lead.

Completely unable to move.

Chu Xiao walked up to him, looked down at him, and spoke indifferently: "From the moment you were in the mountain hollow, looking at those 'fools' outside with self-importance, I was watching you."

Boom!

This sentence made Lin Feng's mind buzz and go completely blank!

He... he knew from the beginning?!

"Your little cleverness, in my eyes, was full of flaws."

"From the moment you shamelessly walked up and proposed cooperation!"

"I had already finished reading your script."

Chu Xiao extended a finger, lightly tapping the air.

As if enumerating Lin Feng's crimes.

"The so-called shortcut you led us through was indeed very hidden."

"Were you wondering why that Void Devouring Beast guarding the Ten-thousand Year Soul Crystal didn't appear? So you could reap the benefits?"

Chu Xiao's smile remained unchanged.

"Unfortunately, it's smarter than you. It knows who it can provoke, and who it cannot."

Upon hearing this, Lin Feng's pupils suddenly constricted.

H-how could this be?

The other party knew all his thoughts from beginning to end!

"As for this..."

Chu Xiao's gaze swept over the already dilapidated Blood Sacrifice Array, and the disdain on his face grew stronger.

"This so-called Blood Sacrifice Array is indeed somewhat interesting."

"Too bad, you don't even know the Origin of this Immortal Emperor's Remains, yet you dare to use it as your trump card?"

Chu Xiao shook his head, his eyes looking as if he was staring at an idiot.

"You don't even know that everything you painstakingly plotted, from beginning to end, my Magic Treasure knew perfectly well."

As soon as these words came out, Lin Feng froze violently!

He was almost on the verge of collapse.

Everything he plotted, in the eyes of this man, was truly just an act.

Was there anything more ironic in this world...

More humiliating than this?!

"Pfft—"

Upon hearing this, Lin Feng could no longer bear the blow of these facts.

His mind completely collapsed, and a mouthful of vital blood spurted from his mouth.

His eyes instantly lost all their luster.

Visibly, he seemed to have been drained of all his essence, Qi, and spirit.

Slumping to the ground.

"No... no... impossible..."

He muttered distractedly, like a madman.

"The script isn't like this... I'm the protagonist... I'm the one..."

And behind him, Barbarian Ox, Shi Potian, and Leng Yuexin.

Didn't dare to make the slightest move.

They could only stand foolishly in place, their bodies cold.

Barbarian Ox's legs trembled like a sieve.

Sweat poured down his head like a waterfall.

Shi Potian was even worse; a smell of urine emanated from his crotch.

Clearly, he had been completely scared to pee.

And Leng Yuexin, surprisingly, was the calmest one.

However, her face showed disappointment and... a sense of relief!

She once thought she was following a future deity.

A true Dragon who could lead them to the Peak.

But now it seemed, he was just a self-important loach.

But what could be done about it?

Cultivators of our generation all contend with Heaven for destiny.

One wrong step, and there would be no chance to start over.

Since embarking on the path of cultivation, she had been very clear about this principle.

She had long been prepared.

"I've finished reading your script; it's very boring."

Chu Xiao's voice sounded again, interrupting everyone's thoughts.

"Now, it's time for my script."

The moment his voice fell, Chu Xiao moved.

The next moment, he raised a finger and pointed it towards Lin Feng's glabella.

"No—!"

Seeing that finger, Lin Feng's scattered pupils.

Suddenly erupted with a survival instinct!

He roared, struggled, wanting to dodge, wanting to resist!

The spiritual power within him burst forth frantically.

Various life-saving Magic Treasures, his last resort, were instantly unleashed.

Forming layers upon layers of defensive light barriers in front of him!

However, it was useless.

In front of Chu Xiao, who had already broken through to the Returning Void Realm, all his struggles.

Were as slow as a snail.

All his defenses were as thin as a cicada's wing.

That finger directly ignored everything and touched his forehead.

Buzz!

Lin Feng's body instantly stiffened.

All his movements, all his expressions.

Were frozen at this moment.

The spiritual power within him was instantly confined, and his Divine Soul was tightly locked.

He couldn't even move a single finger.

He could only look at Chu Xiao in front of him with eyes full of fear and despair.

Inside the main hall, silence fell once more.

Princess Ji Ziyue curiously looked at the frozen Lin Feng, blinked, and asked: "Brother Chu Xiao, did you turn him into a wooden puppet?"

Yuan Muyu, on the other hand, looked at Chu Xiao's profile without speaking.

Chu Xiao didn't answer Princess Ji Ziyue, but simply looked at Lin Feng, whom he had immobilized, and said indifferently: "Killing him would be too wasteful."

"The memories of a Reborn person should still contain many interesting things."

"It just so happens that taking you back as my intelligence database should extract a lot of value."

Intelligence database!

These five words almost made Lin Feng's heart stop!

He, Lin Feng!

Having lived two lives, a self-proclaimed Son of Heavens Destiny!

In the end, he didn't even have the right to die as an opponent!

Could only become a... tool for others to browse information at any time?!

This was a punishment a thousand times more cruel than death!

"Ah... ah..."

Lin Feng's throat made a strange gurgling sound.

He wanted to roar, wanted to curse.

But couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

The next moment, two lines of bloody tears flowed from his eyes!

Regret! Endless regret!

If... if he could live another life!

He swore...

He would rather be a Mortal.

And never again provoke this monster named Chu Xiao!

Soon, Chu Xiao's gaze bypassed Lin Feng and fell upon the three people behind him.

"No... it has nothing to do with us!"

Shi Potian was the first to break down.

Visibly, his face was now filled with terror.

Without another word, his knees buckled, and he directly knelt on the ground!

"It was all him! It was all Lin Feng who forced us to do this!"

Shi Potian cried and wailed, pointing at the completely dazed Lin Feng not far away.

Frantically kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"We were all deceived by him! We don't know anything about a Blood Sacrifice Array! Please spare our lives, Young Master! Please spare our dog lives!"

Barbarian Ox, seeing this, though not as pathetic.

Was also scared out of his wits.

He wanted to beg for mercy, but he trembled and couldn't say anything.

Only Leng Yuexin stood quietly, her eyes tightly shut.

An expression of resignation on her face.

Chu Xiao's gaze swept over the three of them, not lingering for a moment.

He wasn't even bothered to ask them anything.

Because there was no need.

The next moment, he gently raised his hand and casually waved it towards the direction of the three.

Shi Potian, who was kneeling and begging for mercy, suddenly stiffened.

His kowtowing motion came to an abrupt halt.

The fear and pleading in his eyes instantly froze.

Then, his body, from head to toe, began to turn into dust inch by inch.

"Ugh..."

Barbarian Ox, witnessing this scene, his fear reached its Peak.

Then, he also followed in Shi Potian's footsteps.

His burly body, too, turned into a sky full of dust.

Finally, it was Leng Yuexin.

She hadn't opened her eyes the entire time.

The moment that invisible power descended upon her, she merely curved her lips slightly upward.

Revealing a wistful and beautiful smile.