163: Chapter 163 A stunningly beautiful and haughty woman! The scheme succeeded…

Ye Bufan heard this, and his heart stirred slightly.

The Great Reincarnation Sutra was indeed left behind by this Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation; no wonder she was awakened by the aura on him.

However, he still did not lower his guard, continuing to stare fixedly at her, waiting for what she would say next.

The Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation seemed to see through his thoughts and, without beating around the bush, continued to speak: "Do not be anxious. This samsara dao coffin governs the Reincarnation of the world and can naturally traverse time and space to reverse Karma. I see that you are burdened with worries, constantly thinking about that girl who was captured, am I right?"

Ye Bufan's pupils constricted sharply, and a stormy sea surged in his heart.

Before he could speak, the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation continued indifferently: "I can tell you that as long as you can completely refine this samsara dao coffin and master the Origin Power of Reincarnation, you can carry the supreme power of the samsara dao coffin, return to the past, change everything, and save that girl you want to save."

This sentence, like a thunderclap, struck Ye Bufan's heart heavily.

His heart began to beat wildly, beyond his control.

Yet, he ultimately maintained his reason, forcibly suppressing the excitement in his heart, his eyes still floating with a bit of vigilance as he spoke in a deep voice: "Senior is joking. The power of time is the most difficult Dao to control in the world. With my current cultivation of the sixth stage of Enlightenment, wanting to comprehend the power of time and reverse the past is probably as difficult as ascending to heaven."

This was not him belittling himself, but the truth.

Throughout the ages, countless brilliant Emperors, in their entire lives, might not even touch the threshold of the power of time, let alone reverse time and space to return to the past.

"Relying on yourself, it is naturally impossible." The Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation spoke indifferently, her tone carrying an unquestionable certainty, "But do not forget, you are currently inside the samsara dao coffin. This coffin itself is the world's top treasure of time and space. With the power of the samsara dao coffin, you can briefly comprehend the power of transmigrating through time and space. However, this power of transmigrating through time and space can at most only allow you to travel back half a year. Therefore, you must completely refine this samsara dao coffin within these six months. Only in this way can everything you want to do be realized."

Half a year!

Ye Bufan's heart surged with waves once again.

Half a year to refine a supreme treasure sounded very difficult, but he had the complete Great Reincarnation Sutra and was inside the samsara dao coffin, nourished by an endless stream of Reincarnation Qi; it might not be impossible!

His heart had already begun to waver. But he still had not forgotten Liu Meihan outside. He immediately raised his head, looked at the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation, and asked urgently: "Senior, since you can pull me into this samsara dao coffin, can you not make a move again to save Meihan from outside as well? She is still in the hands of Zhou Liangan and is in danger at any moment!"

Upon hearing this, the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation showed a bitter smile on her face, shook her head gently, and her tone carried a hint of helplessness: "It is not that I do not want to save her, but that I cannot. That girl does not Cultivate the Great Reincarnation Sutra and has not a shred of Reincarnation Qi in her body to protect her. Inside this samsara dao coffin, it is all the most original Reincarnation Qi, which is incomparably tyrannical. If she were forcibly brought into the samsara dao coffin, she would be torn to smithereens in almost an instant, her Divine Soul destroyed, not even having the chance for Reincarnation."

Upon hearing this, Ye Bufan subconsciously sensed the extremely dense Reincarnation Qi around him.

Indeed, this Reincarnation Qi was too tyrannical. Even though he cultivated the Great Reincarnation Sutra, he felt his Meridians swelling slightly at this moment. If someone who did not Cultivate the Dao of Samsara were to come in, they would probably be torn apart instantly.

For a moment, he believed the words of the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation by seventy or eighty percent.

More importantly, he was indeed at a dead end now.

Liu Ruyan, this heroine of destiny, had already been snatched away by Zhou Liangan in advance, causing him to lose a large portion of his Origin Luck.

Coupled with Zhou Liangan's step-by-step scheming and planning, his Luck had long been eroded to almost nothing, which was simply not enough to support him in breaking the current deadlock.

The last trace of hesitation in the depths of Ye Bufan's eyes also completely vanished.

He did not think much more, sat cross-legged directly in the center of this Reincarnation space.

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed all distractions in his heart, closed his eyes, drove the Great Reincarnation Sutra to the extreme, and began to crazily absorb the surrounding Reincarnation Qi, communicating with the Origin of the samsara dao coffin bit by bit, and started to slowly refine this legendary supreme treasure.

He did not see that the moment he closed his eyes, the soul body of the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation opposite him curved her lips into a smile of successful calculation, and a flash of cunning light flickered in her beautiful eyes.

Outside, on a desolate, uninhabited ancient star.

The cold cosmic wind blew across the land, rolling up dust and sand, and the surroundings were silent, without even a trace of vitality.

Zhou Liangan waved his hand casually, and a force descended, throwing Liu Meihan, who was seriously injured and had her Spiritual Qi sealed, onto the cold rocky ground.

Liu Meihan fell heavily to the ground, groaned in pain, and struggled to sit up, but she could not use any strength in her whole body, so she could only lie on the ground, staring fixedly at Zhou Liangan standing in front of her with eyes full of hatred.

Zhou Liangan looked down at her, his gaze evil and playful, slowly sweeping over her plump, hot, and graceful figure, from her blood-stained snow-white neck, to her slightly heaving chest, and then to her slender waist and long legs. Wherever his gaze passed, it carried undisguised aggression, as if he wanted to see through her entirely.

Liu Meihan felt her whole body crawl with his gaze, and she subconsciously wanted to curl up her body, but she could not move. She could only grit her teeth and growl fiercely: "Zhou Liangan! What are you looking at! If you have the guts, kill me! Otherwise, I will make you die a horrible death sooner or later!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Liangan slowly squatted down, reached out, and used his fingertips to gently lift her chin. Looking at her stubborn and helpless appearance, the smile on his lips grew thicker.

"Kill you?" He chuckled, his tone carrying thick mockery, "Such a beautiful beauty, how could I bear to kill you? How about this, you submit to me obediently, and I will let you go, how about that?"

His gaze still lingered on Liu Meihan, and his eyes radiated evil intent...

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Inside the samsara dao coffin.

The ink-colored Reincarnation Qi was like a thick deep-sea tide, slowly churning in all directions, carrying countless fragments of time. Some were magnificent scenes of stars being born and dying, others were fleeting shadows of living beings reincarnating, and occasionally, sighs that spanned through eternity would flash by. Just standing in this space, one's Divine Soul would involuntarily follow the flow of time, and if one was not careful, they would be dragged into endless Reincarnation, never to escape.

Ye Bufan sat cross-legged at the very core of the samsara dao coffin, eyes closed tightly, a faint halo of Reincarnation surrounding his body.

He was concentrating on operating the Great Reincarnation Sutra, probing his own Divine Soul Origin bit by bit into the depths of the samsara dao coffin, attempting to completely refine this supreme Emperor Weapon that even Half-Emperors would covet.

As his Cultivation Technique operated, the Reincarnation Qi inside the dao coffin seemed to have found its home, pouring into his limbs and bones one wave after another.

With every circulation of Qi, he could clearly feel that his understanding of the Dao of Samsara had deepened by a point, and his cultivation in his body was also skyrocketing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yet, right at this moment, an indescribable feeling of palpitation was rising from the depths of his Divine Soul bit by bit.

At the very beginning, this feeling was only a faint uneasiness, as if something had brushed past his back, and when he focused to check, he could find nothing.

But as his refinement of the samsara dao coffin deepened, this feeling of palpitation not only did not disappear but, like a wildly growing vine, tightly entangled his heart, tightening more and more.

Every time he refined a point of the Restriction of the dao coffin, the premonition that disaster was about to befall him in the next second became heavier.

In the end, Ye Bufan even felt as if he had been targeted by a Vicious Beast lurking in the darkness of eternity, hiding in the shadows he could not see, its cold fangs already pressed against his neck, ready to bite through his throat and tear him to shreds at any moment.

"Something is wrong... something is very wrong."

The alarm bells in Ye Bufan's heart rang crazily. He abruptly stopped the operation of his Cultivation Technique, his originally relaxed brows twisted fiercely into a 'chuan' shape, the calmness on his face faded away entirely, replaced by an impenetrable solemnity.

He slowly opened his eyes, two rays of light containing the Power of Reincarnation flashed past the bottom of his eyes, scanning this seemingly calm Reincarnation space. But no matter how he spread his Divine Soul and searched every corner inside the dao coffin, he could not find any abnormality.

Just then, a soft yet supreme authoritative voice rang slowly in his ears.

"What is wrong? Everything was fine, why did you suddenly stop refining?"

Seeing the depths of the samsara dao coffin, a wisp of pearly white remnant soul slowly floated out, gradually condensing into the figure of a woman.

She was dressed in a plain white Emperor robe with gold trim, her three thousand strands of black hair hanging down like a waterfall, and a faint halo of Reincarnation surrounded her body. Although she was only a remnant soul, she carried a peerless aura of overlooking the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and governing Reincarnation.

Her appearance was even more devastatingly beautiful, with the vicissitudes of eternity in her brows and eyes, but a pair of beautiful eyes shone like a galaxy. She was the owner of the samsara dao coffin, the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation.

She floated in front of Ye Bufan, her red lips parted slightly, her tone carrying a bit of just-right confusion.

Ye Bufan raised his head, his gaze staring straight at the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation in front of him, his fingertips subconsciously clenched, his knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

He was silent for a long time, turning over the lingering feeling of palpitation in his Divine Soul over and over again, but he could not find any clue. Finally, he could only speak in a deep voice, his tone full of solemnity: "I cannot say exactly what is going on, but ever since I started refining this dao coffin, my heart has been very panicked, and I always have a feeling of palpitation, as if some great disaster is about to fall on my head. I have checked the surroundings, but I cannot find the source of this feeling."

As soon as Ye Bufan said this, a flash of something hard for others to notice flickered in the beautiful eyes of the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation.

However, this abnormality lasted for less than a breath of time before she perfectly concealed it.

She also remained silent for a moment, a look of realization appearing on her face, with a hint of melancholy in her tone.

"So that's how it is." She sighed softly, her gaze sweeping over the samsara dao coffin as if recalling events from eons ago. "This samsara dao coffin accompanied me throughout my life of battle. Back when I swept across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, fighting to the death against those nine Half-Emperors guarding the borders of the Human Race, it was stained with the blood of more than one Half-Emperor. The cultivation of those Half-Emperors was unfathomable; even a single drop of blood contained their undying resentment, malevolence, and imperial might, which have not dissipated even after all these years."

She turned her head, her gaze falling upon Ye Bufan. Her tone softened considerably, carrying a soothing nuance: "You are only at the sixth stage of Dao Comprehension now and have yet to touch the threshold of the Half-Emperor Realm. It is perfectly normal for you to feel palpitations and unease when affected by the malevolent aura within this imperial blood. You need not worry too much. Although I only have a wisp of remnant soul left, if the fierce might within this imperial blood dares to act up and harm you in the slightest, I will protect you, even if it means damaging this remnant soul of mine."

These words were spoken with deep sincerity, leaving no room for doubt.

Upon hearing this explanation, the heart that Ye Bufan had been holding in suspense immediately relaxed by more than half.

He looked at the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation before him, his doubts gradually dissipating. He nodded thoughtfully, his tone filled with a measure of admiration and gratitude: "So that is how it is; it was this Junior who overthought things. Senior's elegance was peerless back then, sweeping across the ages. It is this Junior's great fortune to receive Senior's Legacy. I only hope that now that this samsara dao coffin has fallen into my hands, I will never disgrace Senior's prestige in my future actions."

Upon hearing this, a strange look appeared in the eyes of the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation, but this time, what was hidden within that strangeness was even deeper.

She gave a soft hum, her tone carrying a hint of chill, yet it also sounded like deliberate provocation: "You have obtained my complete Great Reincarnation Sutra Legacy. From the moment you refined this scripture, you have already shouldered the greater part of my Karma. Those who caused my death and the dissipation of my Dao, leaving me with only a wisp of remnant soul sealed in this coffin to linger on, are the very same nine Half-Emperors currently guarding the borders of the Human Race. Between them and me lies an irreconcilable blood feud. Now that you have accepted my Legacy, this debt naturally falls upon your shoulders."

She paused, looking straight at Ye Bufan, her tone probing: "If you are afraid now, you can stop here, turn around, and leave this place. If you never display the Great Reincarnation Sutra before others in this life and do not expose your relationship with me, perhaps those nine will not be able to find you, and you can still live a peaceful life, leaving yourself a way out."

As soon as these words were spoken, Ye Bufan abruptly raised his head. His gaze instantly became sharp, and he stared fixedly at the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation, an unyielding pride erupting from his body.

"What kind of words is Senior saying!" His voice was resonant, without a shred of hesitation. "In this life, I, Ye Bufan, have never feared anyone! Senior has passed down the Supreme Dao to me, a grace heavier than a mountain. Those nine old things betrayed their trust back then, joining forces to ambush and harm Senior. As for this blood debt, let alone it having fallen upon me, even if it had nothing to do with me, I would never sit idly by! Senior, rest assured. Once I have thoroughly refined this samsara dao coffin and my cultivation advances further, I will surely visit them personally to settle accounts with all nine of them one by one. Whatever they owed you back then, I will reclaim it a hundredfold, a thousandfold, and I will make them pay in blood!"

In the beautiful eyes of the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation, a hint of perfectly timed gratification suddenly appeared. She nodded gently, her tone softening: "Good, you have a heart. I truly did not misjudge you."

But her tone shifted, becoming urgent, and a single sentence struck right at Ye Bufan's most sensitive weakness: "However, you must remember, time waits for no one! For every extra day you delay here, the young lady you hold dear in your heart is in more danger. If, by the time you finish refining the dao coffin, she has already met with an accident, what use would it be even if you take revenge?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Bufan's entire body jolted, and the color instantly drained from his face.

The last lingering doubts and unease in his heart, along with that persistent sense of palpitation, were instantly cast to the Nine Heavens in this moment.

Only one thing remained in his mind—he had to refine the dao coffin as quickly as possible and possess enough strength to rescue her.

He could not wait, nor could he afford to wait.

"Senior is right, it is this Junior who has delayed!"

Ye Bufan no longer had any hesitation. He immediately closed his eyes again, focused his mind, and circulated the Great Reincarnation Sutra within his body to the extreme.

His majestic Divine Soul Origin surged out like a tide, probing into the deepest depths of the samsara dao coffin without reservation, frantically refining this Emperor Weapon.

Wave after wave of pure Reincarnation Qi, like a rushing river, slowly floated around him, enveloping his entire being. His aura also grew stronger day by day amidst this frantic refining.

Yet what he did not see was that the moment he closed his eyes and poured his heart and soul into the refining, deep within the samsara dao coffin, the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation watched his back. A charming yet bone-chilling smile slowly curved at the corners of her lips, and in a voice only she could hear, she softly spat out two words.

"It is done."

Time flew by, and two months passed.

During these two months, the flow of time within the samsara dao coffin was completely slowed; one day outside was ten years inside the coffin.

Ye Bufan was almost like a madman, pouring all his focus, all his cultivation, and all his Divine Soul Origin into the task of refining the samsara dao coffin.

He could clearly feel that his connection with this samsara dao coffin was becoming deeper and deeper. In the end, he could even mobilize all the Power of Reincarnation within the dao coffin with a single thought, as if this Emperor Weapon that had spanned the ages had already become a part of his own body.

On this day, Ye Bufan, who had been sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes.

In that instant, within his eyes, Reincarnation cycled between life and death, the sun and moon rose and fell, and images of the afterlife of countless living beings flashed across his pupils. Two beams of light containing the complete Dao of Samsara directly pierced through this space of Reincarnation, and even penetrated the samsara dao coffin, shooting out into the Star Domain outside.

As he opened his eyes, the Reincarnation Qi that had been slowly flowing around him instantly surged frantically, like ten thousand galloping horses, circulating around him into an endless, rushing river of Reincarnation.

The entire river revolved around him, emitting a deafening roar, as if it wanted to drag the entire world into endless Reincarnation.

The samsara dao coffin, floating in the Void Realm, also began to tremble violently at this moment.

On the body of the coffin, countless profound Reincarnation runes lit up in unison, erupting with dazzling light. A terrifying might, capable of shaking the entire Star Domain, was slowly released from the dao coffin.

Immediately after, under Ye Bufan's single thought, this samsara dao coffin, which was originally incomparably huge and comparable to a star, began to shrink slowly.

One zhang, one chi, one cun...

In just a few breaths, this Emperor Weapon that had spanned the ages had shrunk into a stream of light the size of a palm. With a sharp sound that tore through time and space, it rushed violently into the center of Ye Bufan's eyebrows, landing steadily deep within his Sea of Consciousness, and completely merged with his Divine Soul Origin.

Just at the moment when the samsara dao coffin and Ye Bufan completely merged, a sudden change occurred!

With the samsara dao coffin as the center, the surrounding Star Domain for hundreds of millions of miles instantly became like a wok of oil into which a spark had been thrown, boiling completely!

One after another, the stars hanging in the Void Realm could not withstand this suddenly erupted, terrifying might. They first trembled violently, then shattered with a boom, turning into fragments of stardust filling the sky.

Countless galaxies rolled backward, the Void Realm collapsed, and large swathes of space were crushed into the most primitive Chaos. Even the Dao Laws that traversed the Star Domain began to twist and wail frantically.

And above that collapsed Void Realm, a boundless, terrifying thundercloud was slowly condensing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

That was not the heavenly lightning of an ordinary Cultivator Undergoing Tribulation, nor was it the Emperor Tribulation of an Emperor Realm Breakthrough; it was the Heavenly Dao Extinction Lightning Tribulation, personally condensed by the myriad Daos from above the Nine Heavens!

The black thunderclouds blotted out the sky and sun, covering an entire half of the Star Domain. What rolled inside was not ordinary lightning, but one after another, Lightning Dragons formed from complete Dao Laws.

The Dao of Life and Death, the Dao of Karma, the Dao of Time and Space, the Dao of Extinction...

Countless supreme Laws, of which Ye Bufan had only seen the surface in the Great Reincarnation Sutra, had all turned into part of the Lightning Tribulation at this moment, slowly condensing with a terrifying might intended to completely erase anyone who violated the taboos.

For a time, thunder rolled, vast and surging. That supreme might from the Heavenly Dao pressed down, covering the sky and earth, causing all living beings in the entire Star Domain to prostrate themselves on the ground at this moment, shivering, without even the courage to look up.

And Ye Bufan, standing directly beneath the thundercloud, felt the panic in his heart reach its peak at this moment!

That sense of palpitation he had previously forced down was, at this moment, like a tsunami, instantly breaking through all his psychological defenses.

He finally understood that the persistent unease was not the resentment and malevolence of Half-Emperor blood at all, but a death warning from the Heavenly Dao!

Above the Void Realm, that thundercloud composed of myriad Daos had completely formed, like an overturned world, slowly pressing down toward him with the might to destroy the heavens and earth.

The Lightning Tribulation had not yet fallen, but the mere trace of aura leaking out caused the bones of Ye Bufan's entire body to creak and crack. His Physical Body, which had just broken through to the Half-Emperor Realm, had already begun to show fine cracks.

"How could this be! Why would it attract the Heavenly Dao Extinction Tribulation!"

Ye Bufan's mind went blank. He opened his eyes wide, looking at the thundercloud pressing down. Without even thinking, he moved his mind and instantly summoned the samsara dao coffin that had just merged with his Divine Soul!

This Emperor Weapon was his greatest reliance now, and also his only source of confidence.

He believed that even the Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation could absolutely not easily shatter a true Emperor Weapon!

The massive samsara dao coffin appeared in the Void Realm once again, blocking before Ye Bufan. Countless Reincarnation runes lit up, forming an impregnable barrier, shielding him entirely behind it.