Deep within a desolate, rarely visited mountain, lay a vast, man-made space. Scarlet rocks covered the ground. In its center, a pool, roughly ten feet wide, swirled with crimson blood. Occasionally, bubbles would form within the pool, bursting and releasing an extremely rich energy... Beneath the pool, a spring-like presence loomed, constantly pouring fresh blood into it. The bottom of the pool was strewn with the white bones of various powerful Dou Sheng creatures, their marrow released into the bloody water as they soaked.
Such a powerful energy rivaled the blood pool of living beings that Soul Emperor had once intended. One wonders how many powerful creatures were slain to create this thing! "Gulp... Gulp... Gulp..."
As time passed, more and more bubbles appeared within the blood pool, until the entire pool seemed to be boiling. The deep crimson water faded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the energy within, sufficient to form a Dou Di, rapidly dissipated.
Finally, when the entire pool became completely transparent, a short, dark figure slowly rose from the bottom. It was none other than the Dark Barbarian King, Tuku, who had become increasingly elusive in recent years!
His barbarian patterns, densely packed like poisonous insects, wriggled and swarmed, emitting a savage and ancient aura. They seemed to be about to coalesce into an inexplicable pattern, and Tuku's aura slowly rose with them... However, the next second, the pattern, almost forming, suddenly collapsed. Tuku's barbarian patterns disintegrated and vanished, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, collapsing helplessly at the edge of the pool.
Another failure!!!
Tuku's eyes practically bleed. He couldn't believe how he, who had always been so smooth sailing, had encountered such an insurmountable and hopeless obstacle. Over the years, he had failed over a dozen times, wasting countless resources. Even the two female emperors beside him, severely injured and in deep sleep after having drained away the Dou Emperor's essence, still couldn't help him overcome this difficult situation. The consequences of this attempt were truly horrific. His savage body was completely destroyed, his tendons and veins severed, and blood gushed from many parts of his body. He was practically no more than an ordinary child!
If it weren't for his caution, his breakthroughs occurring unseen by others, his savage followers would have already surrounded him with their knives sharpened, ready to kill him and divide up his wealth and women!
Tu Ku raised his hand with difficulty and touched the pill box beside the pool, where there were two pills called Dragon Phoenix Emperor Embryo Pills, which were the best among the tenth-grade emperor pills. Their effect of breaking and then rebuilding was thousands of times better than that of the seventh-grade pills like Yin Yang Mysterious Dragon Pills. They were the most suitable for Tu Ku's current situation and could restore his condition to the peak level in the shortest time.
Of course, its production cost was immense. Two Dou Emperor-level stillborn fetuses, plus the Dou Emperor Dragon and Phoenix blood essence from the mother's half, combined to create a single elixir. Even a single elixir alone was enough to force a peak Dou Sheng to reach the Dou Emperor realm. However, for Tuku, it was at best a life-saving healing elixir.
As Tuku struggled to reach the exquisite elixir box, another hand suddenly appeared from nowhere, snatching the elixir box away right before his eyes!
"Who?!"
Tuku looked at the uninvited guest with utter panic. Such a familiar figure and face, who else could it be but Xiao Lin?!
"Hmm... So it's you... Not bad... You're quite loyal... You know I'm in trouble right now... Very good... I'll reward you... Now... Take a pill from that box... Feed it to me!"
Tu Ku pretended to have anticipated this, glancing at Xiao Lin. Seeing that he actually did as he'd instructed and took a pill from the box, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
But the next moment, his relief was instantly lifted!
The pill in Xiao Lin's hand didn't feed him, but instead fell directly into his own wide-open mouth. With a gulp, the slave swallowed it whole!
"Xiao Lin, you!!!"
Xiao Lin tilted his head back, as if still savoring the taste of the Dragon Phoenix Emperor Fetus Pill. Without even glancing at Tu Ku, he simply pointed at him, prompting Tu Ku to tactfully swallow the rest of his obscenities.
"I never expected... ahem... I, Tu Ku, would fall into your hands... Xiao Lin... You're so good at hiding things... I surrender... There are two Emperor Embryo Pills... Give me the remaining one... Spare my life. I'm already crippled anyway... I can't threaten you alive..."
Tu Ku, with a rare display of weakness and pleading, continued, "I'm willing to give you everything I have as compensation... Women, wealth, power... You hate our Black Barbarians, right?... No problem... You can kill all the Black Barbarians except me... Oh, and there's also the Plane Embryo... With this... "You are the Lord of the Planes... You can reshape the entire world to your will... Give me the elixir, and I'll stay away from you... I can't break through to the Dou Di realm anyway... I don't have many years left... Just let me find a deserted island... spend the rest of my days repenting and dying..."
Tuku's eyes were fixed on Xiao Lin's hand. His heart nearly leaped as he watched him pick up the second elixir and walk towards him. But the next moment, the life-saving elixir, about to reach his mouth, was suddenly snatched away like a monkey. Then, right before his eyes, it was slowly placed, inch by inch, into Xiao Lin's mouth and swallowed!
After taking two imperial-grade elixirs in a row, Xiao Lin felt as if boundless power was within him. He felt as refreshed as if he had just urinated outdoors in the dead of winter. He shrugged his shoulders and shuddered, then looked at Tuku, who looked like a dead dog in the pond, with a playful expression.
"Slave, fuck you, old man..."
Tuku had no idea what was about to happen. He'd barely opened his mouth to curse when a massive foot dropped from the sky and shattered his neck!
"Idiot! Kill you! Those things belong to me, Xiao, too. And I'm not like you, the one who enjoys talking to living enemies! Now that you're dead, I'd actually be interested in talking to your corpse!"
"The world is fair. There are gains and losses. Your pureblooded Black Barbarian bloodline is so abnormal, how could it be without flaws? The flaw is that you can never fully return to your ancestral pureblood! The source of that bloodline must be the most selfish and brutal creature in the world. How could their half-blood descendants possibly possess the power to spy on you? Isn't it the same for your own children, Tuku? Even if you truly return to your ancestral pureblood, I'm afraid you'll either be possessed by another body or be devoured alive by the monster that originated it. So... You're destined to never reach the Dou Di realm. No matter how hard you try, it's all in vain!"
"Tuku, things change over time. Don't look down on a poor youngster! Hahaha, I think I can return the favor!" After laughing, Xiao Lin looked at Tuku's still-twitching corpse. His expression darkened, and he said gloomily, "Tuku, do you think this is the end? No, no, no, I never leave any room for trouble. Who knows what this dead body of yours might be up to? I'll chop off your head right now, then skin you, remove your tendons, and then remove your flesh and bones. I'll place you in an alchemy furnace and refine you for seven days and seven nights, reducing you to a handful of ash. Not even a trace of demonic energy will stir!" As he spoke, Xiao Lin pulled a sharp boning knife from his storage ring and was about to decapitate Tuku and split his chest open!
However, before the blade could strike, the supposed victor, Xiao Lin, seemed frozen in place. Black flames suddenly streamed from his left eye.
"Wait, Xiao brat! I still have a great use for this barbarian's corpse, and I won't let you destroy it!"
"Fire... Elder?!"
The black fire flowing from Xiao Lin's left eye instantly transformed into the image of an old man in a black robe. With a single finger, he pointed, and blazing black flames erupted from all seven of Xiao Lin's orifices!
"Fire Elder... didn't we agree... I'll help you become Dou Di, and you'll help me avenge my death... and rebuild my body... Are you going to violate the soul contract we signed?!"
"Soul contract? Humph, what is that? Just now, that barbarian tried to kill you with a soul contract, but I easily blocked it. To us, the strange fires born from heaven and earth, your human soul contracts are nothing but a joke!"
"As for Dou Di? Why do I need your help? Just refine this body of yours into a devouring fire body and let me devour it, and I'll become Dou Di just as well." "I will take the throne. Then I'll refine that barbarian into a puppet outside, and I'll stay inside. This world, I alone, will control!"
"Besides... you little brat are truly terrifying, far more terrifying than your father ever was. I don't want to die at your hands like that barbarian! Anyway, I've already avenged your vengeance, so just be honest with me..."
"You talk too much, old man!"
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"Xu Wu Swallowing Flame watched Xiao Lin, who should have been incinerated alive, stare at him indifferently in the black flames. A surge of fear surged in his heart for no apparent reason!
"What did you say?!"
"Xiao, I say, old man, you talk too much!"
As he spoke, the black fire in Xiao Lin's seven orifices suddenly receded into his body like a receding tide, leaving this pale, beardless, feminine man staring blankly at Xu Wu Swallowing Flame.
"What a joke! Your mere tricks can't possibly defeat me. I just leveraged the power within you to break through to the Dou Emperor realm, possessing the most powerful Emperor Flame in the universe! And you, after all these years, wasted your time. Even if you now possess the power of a Dou Emperor, you possess neither Emperor-level fighting skills nor the cultivation of Emperor-level techniques. With nothing but strength, how can you fight me?!"
"Eight Extremes Emperor Collapse!"
Xiao Lin simply raised his right hand and, without a trace of ceremony, launched a strike through the air at Void Devouring Flame!
The space surrounding Void Devouring Flame, which had been chattering endlessly, suddenly began to collapse. The powerful Emperor Flame, blasted to pieces by this insignificant blow, couldn't even stir a single drop; it was instantly shattered!
Within a ten-meter radius of its location, a black hole-like presence suddenly appeared in the Dou Qi Continent's space. Before Xiao Lin could even react, the vast majority of debris within the mountain, including Tuku's corpse, was sucked into the abyss of outer space... Watching the closing black hole and the strange auras emanating from it, Xiao Lin knew it wasn't some wormhole within the continent, but rather that he had reached his father's domain, having just pierced the barrier of the entire world with a single, air-piercing strike!
Xiao Lin, thirty years old!
He created his own supremely powerful, imperial-level martial art, the Nirvana Technique!
He realized his own peerless magical power, the art of rebirth from the ashes!
For over a decade, despite his crippled body, he mastered the Eight Extremes Collapse, wielding the Collapse Fist tens of thousands of times daily with his mind, without ceasing.
With unwavering dedication, even metal and stone can be broken. Finally, he mastered the imperial-level fighting skill, the Eight Extremes Emperor Collapse!
He seized the Dancheng Emperor from within Tuku's clutches with the Nirvana Technique!
Using the Fire Bathing Rebirth Technique, he was reborn through the Nirvana of the Emperor-level Alien Fire!
Eight Extremes Emperor Beng's punch pierced the air, annihilating the terrifying ancient Alien Fire creatures, devouring the flames of nothingness!