Firmament Sword

Wanghai glanced coldly at the junior brother who had followed him for so many years and said indifferently, ”I had originally planned to give you a proper burial. I didn’t expect you to finally reveal your true feelings before you died. A scumbag like you... why should I bother? I’ll just let you... rot out here in the open!”

ROAR!

The beast trapped in the Array let out a frenzied roar, relentlessly battering against the formation.

Wanghai smirked. ”Don’t be impatient... This Array can only last for six hours at most. Once I’ve taken that inheritance, you’ll be free!”

”Shameless!”

A cold voice suddenly came from the black beast within the Grand Array.

Wanghai was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing, a smug look on his face. ”Shameless? How am I shameless? ’Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost!’ Everything I’ve done is just the most basic human instinct! You’re just a beast... what would you know of such principles?”

”An evil degenerate like you is not worthy of that inheritance!” the black beast’s furious roar echoed from within the Array again.

”Calling me evil? Hahaha... and you’re not evil for swallowing a person whole? Brother Beast... this is the pot calling the kettle black! Don’t you lecture me!” Wanghai said smugly. ”As for whether I’m worthy... that’s even more irrelevant. In any case, that inheritance is as good as mine, Wanghai’s!”

Within the Grand Array, the corners of the black beast’s mouth curled into a mocking sneer for some reason. ”Is that so? I bet you won’t be able to get that inheritance!”

”Big guy... you don’t need to try and get under my skin. You think I’d believe you?” Wanghai sneered. ”How much blood and sweat have I poured into getting this inheritance? Only I know the true cost!”

”Now... the protective Array has been broken, and you’ve been trapped. Tell me, if this inheritance doesn’t belong to me... who else could it possibly belong to?”

”This is a Land of Extreme Yin, bone-chillingly cold. Ordinary people can’t even get in, and great masters wouldn’t give a place this simple a second glance. After all, the inheritance is just a Divine Thought... you should know that.”

”Besides, even if there were treasures here, they would be of a cold and evil nature...”

”Who other than me... would ever think that an inheritance of Extreme Yang would be hidden in a Land of Extreme Yin?”

”Hahahahaha! I’m going to claim my inheritance now! Big guy... you just wait here quietly for a few hours!”

”If you’ve got the guts... you can come after me when you get out.”

”I have a small, single-use Teleportation Array on me. You can try to guess where I’ll end up.”

”Oh, right... you know I’m a disciple of Celestial Brilliance. You can go straight to Celestial Brilliance and report my crimes. See if one of their masters comes out and pounds you into meat paste! Hahahahaha!”

”Get out!” an earth-shattering roar came from the black beast within the Grand Array.

”Hahahaha, I’m getting out right now!” Wanghai let out a wild laugh and strode away smugly.

A voice trailed from the distance, ”From this day forward... I, Wanghai, will look down upon the entire Divine Domain!”

After Wanghai was long gone, the black beast’s cold, mocking voice came from the Grand Array. ’That inheritance... has already been taken. I don’t know who did it, but it’s better than it going to a scumbag like him! Hehe... I wonder if that scumbag... will go crazy when he finds the inheritance is missing?’

As it spoke, a plume of black energy passed out of the Grand Array and enveloped the handsome young man lying on the ground, who was already long dead.

’A soul filled with resentment and unwillingness, yet with a remarkably simple heart... perfect for receiving my inheritance. Hehe, although it’s not as good as that Extreme Yang inheritance in the cave, I imagine... my own inheritance isn’t too shabby in this Divine Domain, right?’

’When that scumbag later sees his junior brother standing before him, completely unharmed, won’t he be surprised?’

The black beast’s mocking voice echoed from within the Grand Array.

Then, the handsome young man—whose forehead had been pierced with a hole and whose heart had been run through—suddenly trembled. His wide-open eyes, long devoid of any light, abruptly flashed with an ice-cold gleam.

A strange life force began to emanate from his body.

”Wang... hai!” The handsome young man slowly forced out the name.

...

...

”There’s... nothing in this cave dwelling? That’s impossible!” Master Mao grumbled, tail flicking as he looked left and right.

Xiaojin also looked around in a daze. The entire cave dwelling was completely empty, as if there was nothing there at all.

Xu Luo, however, wasn’t anxious. The moment he stepped into the cave, he felt as if he hadn’t entered a dwelling built in a Land of Extreme Yin, but had stepped into the sun itself!

When he closed his eyes, the aura of Extreme Yang grew even stronger!

It felt as if it were seeping into his very soul!

Immediately after, a powerful will enveloped him.

Xu Luo had a strange feeling, as if from the great beyond... a pair of eyes was calmly watching him!

Then, a chant appeared directly in Xu Luo’s mind.

The voice was incredibly ancient, as if it had crossed hundreds of millions of years. It carried no emotion, only a simple chant. After it was finished, there was only silence.

There was no explanation of its origin or purpose, and no unnecessary words.

Just a single chant!

The Extreme Yang Technique!

’What in the world is going on?’ Xu Luo was shocked.

He never could have imagined that a place of such Extreme Yin... would be hiding an inheritance of Extreme Yang!

’And even more surprisingly, this inheritance was just... given to me, just like that?’

’No explanation, I don’t even know who the master is!’

The chant was imprinted directly onto Xu Luo’s mind. Although he hadn’t started cultivating it yet, Xu Luo could already feel that this Cultivation Technique was far stronger than any he had practiced before!

The value of this Cultivation Technique alone was simply immeasurable!

If such a Cultivation Technique were placed before him in exchange for something, Xu Luo would have been willing to give up everything he owned, to pay any price—except for his Beidou Sword and the Bronze Divine Hall.

Hearing the beast’s roars from nearby, Xu Luo glanced at the very confused Master Mao and Xiaojin and whispered, ”Alright, let’s get out of here, quickly!”

Master Mao and Xiaojin gave Xu Luo a surprised look, but said nothing and quickly followed him out.

Soon, Xu Luo’s figure had completely vanished from the area.

He was already far from the cave dwelling when he suddenly heard an earth-shattering roar. The sound... actually pierced through the barrier of this Land of Extreme Yin and reached his ears.

Xu Luo paused for a moment, a chill rising in his heart. ’It seems Wanghai’s cultivation realm... is indeed much higher than mine!’

With that thought, Xu Luo quickened his pace even more. He brought Master Mao and Xiaojin into the Bronze Divine Hall World and fled the dangerous place at an incredible speed.

...

...

”Ah!”

”Who was it?”

”Who stole the inheritance from here?”

”Get out here!”

”I’ll kill you!”

Wanghai’s eyes turned completely crimson, and bloody tears streamed down his face. He had rushed into the cave dwelling full of excitement, but instead of receiving the inheritance as expected, he saw a mess of footprints on the floor.

A terrible premonition instantly surged in his heart. He then tried every method he could think of, but received no response from the inheritance.

His premonition proved true. Wanghai let out a crazed roar, then spat out a mouthful of blood.

His entire being... had completely collapsed!

”Who the hell did this?”

”I can’t accept this!”

”For this inheritance, I’ve paid too much... I’ve paid an unimaginable price!”

”I’ve endured so much hardship, stayed so low-key and patient... all for this day!”

”All to get this inheritance! I didn’t even cultivate my sect’s top-tier Cultivation Technique!”

”I was the biggest fool among the Inner Sect Disciples, mocked by so many. I endured it all, constantly swearing to myself that one day I would shock the world!”

”All I needed was this inheritance... and I could have done it!”

”Why? Why was I beaten to it? This is impossible!”

”Impossible! Aaaaaah!”

PTHOO!

Another mouthful of blood sprayed from Wanghai’s mouth, and his body swayed on the verge of collapse.

”For thirty million Top-level Immortal Spirit Stones, I murdered my own uncle and framed his enemy for it... My father, seeking revenge for my uncle, fought that enemy to the death, only to die in their ambush...”

”I begged my mother... begged her to get me Top-level Immortal Spirit Stones. I pushed her to the brink of madness, and in the end, she had no choice but to sell herself... to an Elder with Real Power in Celestial Brilliance... In my heart, I hated it too!”

”I hated that Elder with Real Power... to the bone! I had planned to kill him with my own hands after I rose to power!”

”Aaaah! How could this happen... How can this be?”

”To get the Array Materials needed to trap that powerful Guardian Beast... I don’t know how many of my fellow disciples I killed, how much innocent blood is on my hands!”

”I once thought... that if I rose to power one day, I would set up memorial tablets for them, make offerings to them... to ease the guilt in my heart.”

”But where is the inheritance? Where?! Who took it? WHO?!”

”I fought my way here, endured countless hardships... I finally broke the Array, trapped the Guardian Beast, and almost everyone by my side is dead...”

”And in the end... to get this inheritance for myself, I personally killed the junior brother who always looked up to me as an older brother. I actually knew... he wasn’t lying. He really... would have died for me.”

”I know... everything he said was true... I know it all, I know it!”

”But what I knew even more clearly was that this inheritance... is a Divine Thought. It can only be obtained by the first person to enter and gain its approval. I was just afraid... afraid he would rush in ahead of me.”

”Afraid he would be the one to gain its approval...”

”Because that guy... he always liked to check for danger ahead of me!”

”He was always like that... but this time... I was scared!”

”I couldn’t take the risk... I had to kill him!”

Bloody tears streamed from Wanghai’s eyes as he suddenly tilted his head back and roared at the heavens, ”The heavens... are blind!”

PTHOO!

Wanghai spat another mouthful of blood. His body teetered, his heart filled with resentment and unwillingness.

What tormented him most was that he couldn’t figure out who... had secretly followed him and taken the inheritance one step ahead of him!

The feeling drove him mad. Unable to make sense of it, his mind... completely shattered!