197: Chapter 197 Demigod?

So that was it.

The so-called demigods were nothing more than a group of stray dogs who had lost their homes and were wandering through the Universe.

Their invasion of Blue Star was not purely for the sake of slaughter and destruction.

Their deeper objective was to occupy a portion of Blue Star's territory through assimilation.

As long as they could gain the recognition of Blue Star's world will, these demigods who had fallen from their previous Realms could once again draw upon the Universe Origin and return to the true God Realm.

They might even usurp the host's role, occupying Blue Star completely and turning it into their new ancestral planet!

"Stray dogs, yet you dare to call yourselves gods?"

Lin Yuan let out a low sneer, but deep within his eyes, an unprecedented fervor ignited.

A threat?

No.

This was no Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the Human Race.

These were clearly one mobile, top-tier experience pack after another!

Nirvana Demon Lord? Star Spirit God Clan?

Just wait.

Once I've cleared out your nests one by one and drained all of your Origins, they will become the supreme steps for me to ascend to the God Realm!

Lin Yuan slowly stood up and stretched his limbs.

The power of the Emperor Realm Five-Star Peak made every one of his cells jump with joy.

It was time to head out.

...

Outside the Ancient Desolate Secret Realm.

The bamboo forest on the back mountain of Yuanwu Academy was deathly silent.

Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss and the Azure Nether Sword Emperor stood side by side, their gazes locked onto the entrance of the Secret Realm ahead, which was shrouded in a dark-red blood mist.

A day and a night had already passed.

Inside, there was still no movement.

A rare trace of anxiety appeared on Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss's face, which looked as though it were carved from mountain rock.

"Azure Nether, do you think that kid Lin Yuan... could have run into trouble?"

"Even at my Peak, I wouldn't have dared to lightly touch the malevolence deep within that Secret Realm. Although he's a Prodigy, he has only just entered the Emperor Realm after all..."

The Azure Nether Sword Emperor rested his hand on the wooden sword at his waist and said nothing.

However, his tightening knuckles betrayed the lack of peace in his heart.

Right at that moment.

A sudden change occurred!

Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss's burly frame suddenly shuddered. He whipped his head around, staring intently at the entrance of the Secret Realm.

"What's going on?!"

His perception, which was connected to the pulse of the earth, clearly captured that the malevolence within the Secret Realm—which had resided there for ages and was violent enough to defile Emperor Realm experts—was diminishing at a terrifying speed!

It wasn't dissipating; it was diminishing!

It was like a pool filled with water that had its plug pulled from the bottom, being frantically drained by a bottomless black hole!

The Azure Nether Sword Emperor also sensed that something was wrong.

His Sword Intent circulated around him as he pushed his perception to the limit.

“The malevolence... is disappearing!”

Before his voice had even faded.

An even more shocking scene unfolded.

Whoosh—

The dark-red blood mist that had shrouded the Secret Realm's entrance for a thousand years without dispersing was suddenly wiped away as if by an invisible giant hand.

The blood mist vanished completely.

In the next second, a surge of pure Spiritual Qi, so dense it had nearly materialized, erupted from the entrance of the Secret Realm like a volcanic eruption!

Boom!

The wave of Spiritual Qi washed over the area.

The withered yellow leaves in the back mountain bamboo forest instantly turned green again.

Wild grass that had long since shriveled up sprouted new shoots and buds at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Within a radius of several miles, all the plants were growing frantically. A scene brimming with vitality took shape completely in just a few breaths.

The concentration of Spiritual Qi in the entire Yuanwu Academy skyrocketed several times over in that instant!

"This... this..."

Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss sucked in a breath of cold air. This Prison-Suppressing Emperor, who guarded the Human Race's borders and was accustomed to mountains of corpses and seas of blood, completely lost his composure.

"The source of the malevolence... has been snuffed out?!"

The Azure Nether Sword Emperor similarly tightened his grip on the wooden sword at his waist. He could feel that the Laws within the Secret Realm were returning from chaos and death to purity and rebirth.

This meant that the greatest hidden danger that had plagued Yuanwu Academy for thousands of years had been completely eradicated!

The two looked at each other, seeing extreme shock on each other's faces.

Lin Yuan...

He had actually done it!

Just as their hearts were racing, the sound of steady footsteps slowly drifted out from the entrance of the Secret Realm where the Spiritual Qi was gushing.

Tap.

Tap.

Tap.

A slender figure walked out slowly against the dense wave of Spiritual Qi.

Lin Yuan was dressed in black, spotless and untainted.

He had clearly tried his best to restrain his aura, but the pressure naturally leaking from him after devouring a demigod's heart and having his cultivation skyrocket to the Emperor Realm Five-Star Peak still weighed heavily on the hearts of Azure Nether and Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss like an ancient divine mountain.

It was a pure sense of suppression at the level of life itself.

Even the air around him distorted slightly because it could not withstand the blood-qi power radiating from his Physical Body.

Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss's eyes widened as he stared fixedly at Lin Yuan. He pointed a finger at him, and due to his excessive shock, his fingertip was trembling slightly.

"Emperor... Emperor Realm Five-Star... Peak?!"

He almost roared it out.

"When you went in, weren't you only at the Emperor Realm Second Star?!"

"How long has it been?! A day?! Tell me what you did in there?!"

Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss felt his worldview collapsing.

This was the Emperor Realm!

Those were existences that had condensed a life star and begun to comprehend the Laws!

The advancement of every minor stage was calculated in units of centuries or even millennia.

But what about Lin Yuan?

He took a stroll inside and came out having skipped three levels, even reaching the Five-Star Peak?!

Is this fucking Cultivating?

Even being on a rocket wouldn't be this ridiculous!

Although the Azure Nether Sword Emperor did not make a sound, the hand he had placed on his wooden sword already had its knuckles protruding from the force of his grip.

He prided himself as a Sword Dao Genius and his life of cultivation had been smooth sailing, but compared to the monster before him, his meager achievements were simply a joke.

Facing Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss's expression, which looked like he wanted to eat someone, Lin Yuan merely raised his hand calmly and brushed off non-existent dust from his sleeve.

Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss forcibly suppressed the churning in his heart and asked with a voice that trembled slightly:

"The source of the malevolence inside... what exactly was it? How did you solve it?"

Hearing this, Lin Yuan looked up and glanced at the two tense Emperors.

He thought for a moment, seemingly organizing his words.

Then, in an extremely flat tone, as if saying "the weather is nice today," he said casually:

"Oh."

"Inside was the remnant Soul of a Star Spirit Race demigod named Galos."

"Along with a demigod's heart, I treated them as snacks and ate them while I was at it."

The two Emperors standing at the Peak of the Human Race now felt that their understanding of martial arts, along with the pride built up through centuries of bitter cultivation, was being pinned to the ground by Lin Yuan and ground back and forth in an extremely humiliating manner.

Treating a demigod's heart as a snack?

Is that something a fucking human can say?!

Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss's mouth opened and closed, his throat feeling as if a red-hot iron were stuck in it, unable to utter a single word. His weather-beaten face rapidly switched between expressions of blankness, frenzy, and confusion, finally settling into a sort of distorted absurdity.

For the first time, the Azure Nether Sword Emperor's Sword Intent, which was as condensed as a physical object, showed signs of uncontrollable turbulence. The simple wooden sword at his waist, which never left his side, let out a faint hum, as if expressing that unspeakable horror on behalf of its master.

In the bamboo forest, there was a deathly silence.

Only the streams formed by Spiritual Qi gurgled beneath their feet; the sound seemed so surreal at this moment.

Looking at the two completely petrified men, Lin Yuan put away his playful attitude.

He knew that some things had to be made clear to these pillars of the Human Race.

Thus, he used the simplest language to succinctly explain the cosmic truths he had stripped from Galos's remnant Soul regarding the "world will," the "destruction of ancestral planets," and how "demigods were merely stray dogs."

There was no embellishment, no exaggeration.

It was as if he were stating a fact that had nothing to do with him.

But every word was like an invisible heavy hammer, slamming hard against the hearts of Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss and the Azure Nether Sword Emperor.

As Lin Yuan spoke, the shock on their faces gradually faded, replaced by a coldness and heaviness that originated from the depths of their Souls.

It turned out that what had been hanging over the Human Race's heads was never some kind of gods.

Instead, it was a group of interstellar exiles who would stop at nothing and use any means necessary to survive!

They had no way back, so their invasion was bound to be the most frenzied and thorough!

This was a hundred times more terrifying than facing a pure, powerful enemy!

Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss, this Prison-Suppressing Emperor who guarded the border and was used to mountains of corpses and seas of blood, actually felt a layer of fine cold sweat break out on his back.

However, when this chill—sufficient to crush any expert—reached its Peak, the gazes of the two men simultaneously fell back onto Lin Yuan.

Because Lin Yuan was standing right here.

He had calmly revealed the cruelest truth of the Universe. In those bottomless eyes, there was no fear, no gravity, and not even a so-called sense of mission.

There was only a near-greedy fervor.

It was as if he were saying: good, let them come, the more the better.

At this moment, Mountain Sinking Deep Abyss and the Azure Nether Sword Emperor suddenly understood.

The future of the Human Race might truly not lie with "guardians" like them who followed the rules.

The true hope was the lawless monster before them, who viewed demigods as food and the enemies of the Universe as experience packs!

He wasn't the Human Race's source of confidence.

He himself was the sharpest butcher's knife hanging over the heads of all their enemies!