I'm the emperor from the start, and you want me to keep the three-year agreement?

"Plop!"

Hu Yue fell, collapsing upon the very technique he excelled at.

Before his death, Hu Yue, lying in a pool of blood, widened his eyes, staring fixedly in Lin Ning's direction.

No matter how he pondered, he couldn't comprehend how this human cultivator had mastered their Beastman techniques!

Their Beastman tribe's combat maneuvers weren't like secret arts or cultivation methods; for so many years, no outsider had ever managed to grasp their fighting style.

Among the Beastman race, the thirty-six transformations awakened in each Beastman from childhood were never entirely the same.

Hu Yue himself had mastered the superior thirty-six transformations of the tribe, each transformation resulting in a creature brimming with combat power, such as tigers, eagles, saber-toothed tigers, and mammoths!

He originally thought that after Yin Ting's death, he could rely on brute force to sweep aside everything and finally bring the White Tiger's Ridge-Breaking Bone back to their Beastman tribe.

But Hu Yue had lost.

He had personally witnessed the white-robed youth transform into a brown bear, tearing apart his proudly displayed mammoth form!

Moreover, throughout this process, the white-robed youth had been fighting with only one hand, holding the white fox in his other arm.

"Thirty-six transformations? Lei Ziyu actually knows the thirty-six transformations?"

"Isn't that a Beastman technique? Could he also be a Beastman?"

"Impossible! The Beastman tribes are very united; they wouldn't engage in infighting.

If he were also a Beastman, Hu Yue certainly wouldn't have stepped onto the stage! He wouldn't have been killed by him!"

On the stage, Lin Ning beckoned with his finger, smiling as he looked at the crowd, "Didn't you say you wanted to defeat me earlier?"

"Now, come on up."

Seeing that no one came forward, Ji Jiuli, transformed into a white fox, suddenly jumped out of Lin Ning's arms and landed on the ground.

She stuck out her delicate pink tongue and raised her front paws high, as if making a face, mocking the cultivators below the stage.

After a round of mockery, she obediently returned to Lin Ning's side.

"Jiuli, you're an Empress; how can you make such gestures?" Lin Ning teased using spiritual energy transmission.

Ji Jiuli replied, "I'm not an Empress; I'm just a little fox now."

"Besides, they can't see through my true form; how would they know I'm an Empress?"

Speaking of this, Ji Jiuli suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.

Since growing up, she had been striving towards the position of clan leader under the guidance of the previous clan leader.

She didn't know when she had lost her playful nature.

Now, transformed into a little fox, she could actually make faces.

"Master is too powerful; he should be able to surpass the Emperor Venerable in the future.

If that's the case, it wouldn't be bad to obediently be a little fox by his side."

After being provoked by the little fox's face-making, many people ascended the stage again.

No matter where they came from or what cultivation methods they practiced, they were all easily defeated by Lin Ning in the end.

In the end, no one dared to step onto the stage again!

Time passed day by day, and the three-day defense of the arena quickly reached its countdown.

"Old Xiao, it seems the result has already been decided," Elder Fang Jingwei said in a deep voice.

Xiao Feng nodded, "I originally thought Lei Ziyu would be defeated and knocked off the stage due to arrogance, but I didn't expect him to be able to suppress a Completion Stage Tribulation Transcendent cultivator with one hand."

"Do you think this guy might already be a Great Emperor?"

Hearing this, Fang Jingwei was stunned.

"Old Xiao, that's a bold idea. I've already seen his report information. According to the disciples, his bone age is only eighteen years old."

"How many pounds of fake alcohol have you drunk to think he became an Emperor at eighteen?"

Xiao Feng said with a serious face, "There are many strange things in this world; who knows if someone can become an Emperor at eighteen?"

He waved his hand and smiled, "Let's go. According to the time calculation, the Deputy Pavilion Master should be here to present him with the reward."

"Why don't we get closer and feel his aura?"

......

The three-day defense of the arena ended.

The Deputy Pavilion Master of the Artifact Forging Pavilion, Kong Yunfeng, arrived, tearing through space.

He looked coldly at Lin Ning. Although the latter could suppress his peers in the Eastern Wilderness with one hand and had extraordinary talent, to Kong Yunfeng, an Emperor Venerable,

talent was merely the threshold to meet him.

On the path to becoming an Emperor Venerable, he, Kong Yunfeng, had seen countless geniuses, and the number of those who had fallen was countless.

There were many who were stronger than him.

There were also many who were more talented than him.

Back then, in the Eastern Wilderness Continent, in various large-scale competitions and opportunities, he couldn't get into the top three; he could only rank fourth.

Over time, people called him Old Fourth.

But after so many years, those who were stronger than him have almost all died.

And he, Kong Yunfeng, became an Emperor Venerable and the Deputy Pavilion Master of the Artifact Forging Pavilion!

"Boy, your talent is good, but you're too arrogant."

Kong Yunfeng said in a deep voice, "Appropriate pride helps us in our cultivation, but you're not proud; you're arrogant and conceited!"

"If you don't get rid of this bad habit, you'll easily get into big trouble in the future!"

He paused, looked at Lin Ning, and a smile appeared on his face.

Perhaps because he was usually stern and unsmiling, Kong Yunfeng's smile looked very forced, even a little creepy.

He said, "I'm telling you this because you're about to join the Artifact Forging Pavilion and become one of us."

"If it were someone else, I wouldn't bother."

Saying that, he clapped his hands.

Xiao Feng carried a three-foot by three-foot box, and Fang Jingwei followed behind him as the two walked towards the arena.

"You have defended the arena for three days," Kong Yunfeng said in a deep voice, "Now, swear by the Great Dao that you will only work for my Artifact Forging Pavilion in this life."

"My Artifact Forging Pavilion will then give you this White Tiger's Ridge-Breaking Bone."

Seeing Lin Ning's gaze turn to the box, Kong Yunfeng seemed to understand Lin Ning's thoughts.

Isn't the White Tiger's Ridge-Breaking Bone the bone of the Tiger Venerable?

That Tiger Venerable is so tall, his body is like a mountain; how can his bone be so small?

Isn't there nothing inside?

Kong Yunfeng explained, "The White Tiger's Ridge-Breaking Bone is the strongest bone of the Tiger Venerable; that bone is his right forearm."

"Because the Tiger Venerable wanted to give an Emperor-level divine weapon to his wife and two Quasi-Emperor divine weapons to his children, he sought our Artifact Forging Pavilion for an exchange."

The Artifact Forging Pavilion would certainly not refuse the request of a Demon Emperor Venerable.

The Artifact Forging Pavilion gave the Tiger Venerable items of equal value, and the Tiger Venerable also got what he wanted, happily giving the Emperor-level divine weapon as a gift to his wife.

"I didn't expect this Tiger Venerable to actually be a sentimentalist," Lin Ning thought with emotion.

Ji Jiuli secretly cast a spell to isolate her conversation with Lin Ning.

She said, "The Tiger Venerable's wife's birthday was half a year ago, Master. You're half a year late."

"If you had come half a year earlier and wanted his Ridge-Breaking Bone, you and I could have directly broken into the tiger's den and forced him to hand over the Ridge-Breaking Bone."

"Why swear by the Great Dao with the Artifact Forging Pavilion? What is the Artifact Forging Pavilion?"

Lin Ning smiled, "It doesn't matter; it's Lei Ziyu who's swearing, what does it have to do with me, Lin Ning?"

"If he violates it, let the Heavenly Tribulation strike Lei Ziyu; he's known as the Wind and Thunder Great Emperor and controls the power of wind and thunder; he can't be electrocuted to death, right?"

Seeing that Lin Ning hadn't sworn, Kong Yunfeng quickly urged him; he still had many things to do and didn't have time to waste with Lin Ning here.

Just as Lin Ning was about to swear, the next moment.

An old man from the Artifact Forging Pavilion stepped through the air, "Lord Kong, wait!"

"This person is not Lei Ziyu!"