High Martial Arts: I Travel Through Heaven and Earth Through Dreams

"However, even if they were still alive, now that they have lost the foundation of the forbidden zone and all their supreme subordinates have been wiped out, they have become stray dogs and no longer pose a fatal threat to us."

"If they dare to show their faces, just kill them."

Jiang Ling and Qin Changqing both nodded slightly.

With their current terrifying strength and prestige, the four forbidden zone lords hiding in the shadows are indeed not a threat.

"While the master of the penalty area may not be able to cause much trouble..."

Lin Hanzhou gripped the hilt of his sword, his voice low and unusually tinged with wariness and seriousness.

"But what I'm truly wary of... isn't them."

"Who is that?"

Jiang Ling asked instinctively.

Lin Hanzhou turned around, looked at the three of them, and uttered two heavy words.

"Emperor."

Upon hearing this name, Huang Xi and Qin Changqing's pupils contracted slightly at the same time, and the temperature of the entire void seemed to drop a few degrees in that instant.

Emperor!

That eternal, unparalleled mastermind who spanned several eras, who looked down upon all ages in the age of mythology, and who schemed against all the heavens!

"Over the past fifty years, I have repeatedly swept my divine thoughts across every corner of the universe, and even ventured into the ruins of some small worlds on the edge of the universe."

Lin Hanzhou's voice echoed in the starry sky.

"No matter how hard I search, I can't find even the slightest trace of the Emperor. It's as if he doesn't exist in this era at all."

"But that's precisely the most abnormal part."

Lin Hanzhou's eyes were as cold as ice as he spoke slowly.

"Given the Emperor's personality, he would never give up his ambition, much less truly perish."

"Over the past fifty years, the universe has been revitalized, golden rain has fallen continuously, and the order of the heavens has been reshaped... In the face of such earth-shattering environmental changes, he has managed to remain calm and not reveal the slightest clue."

Lin Hanzhou took a deep breath and his fingers on the hilt of the silver longsword tightened slightly.

A subtle, unsettling sixth sense was frantically warning him.

The Emperor has been silent and disappeared for so long, and it is definitely not because he is afraid or hesitant.

In that dark place unknown to anyone, in a place where even the Heavenly Dao cannot illuminate, that most ruthless person in all of history... is definitely brewing a momentous event that will shake the ages and overturn the entire universe!

Under the starry sky, golden rain continued to fall slowly, accompanied by celestial music, creating a scene of prosperity and vitality.

But Lin Hanzhou stood atop the Milky Way, dressed in white, his eyes colder than a ten-thousand-year-old glacier.

He knew that destroying these forbidden zones was just an appetizer; the real, ultimate storm might be just around the corner.

.........

Meanwhile, in a hidden little world within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

This place does not belong to any known star field, nor is it within the network of laws that the [Celestial Star Chart] can deduce.

It is a cave dwelling opened up by a true immortal in the ancient times, and it has existed to this day in the long river of time.

At the very center of this hidden little world stands a colossal peak that pierces the clouds, seemingly about to shatter the heavens and earth.

At the summit of that mountain, a tall, slender figure dressed in flawless white robes sat quietly in meditation.

His face was as handsome as a god's, and his brows revealed an absolute indifference that looked down upon all ages and regarded all living beings as ants.

Her long, black hair cascaded down her back, each strand shimmering with a crystalline, divine glow.

This person is none other than the biggest mastermind behind the scenes in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths—Emperor Venerable.

His body was surrounded by a terrifying power that was pure, vast, and transcended the laws of this universe!

Those were wisps of white mist, almost tangible, the legendary power of immortals!

It is a supreme power that transcends the imperial laws of the Great Emperor and truly belongs to the realm of immortals!

For beings of the Emperor's level, time is nothing more than a meaningless string of numbers.

In this secluded little world, he has sat like a stone statue for a full hundred years.

Over the past century, the outside world has been in turmoil. Sword Emperor Lin Hanzhou and his companions have been on a relentless pursuit across the universe, unleashing a bloodbath that has shaken the ages and sending countless hidden supreme beings to their doom.

The Emperor, however, was completely unaware of and utterly indifferent to the turbulent events unfolding outside.

He completely secluded himself in this world, focusing all his energy on the [Immortal Body and Immortal Soul Transformation Technique].

After a hundred years of seclusion, day after day, year after year, the Emperor finally succeeded.

"call……"

The Emperor, who was sitting cross-legged atop the mountain peak, suddenly opened his eyes slowly.

At this moment, the Emperor's skin was crystal clear, radiating a faint white immortal light. Even the sound of the blood flowing in his body was as booming as the Yangtze River and as melodious as the music of the Great Dao.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the originally golden Supreme Divine Soul had now completely transformed into a small figure radiating boundless immortal might, sitting cross-legged in the chaos, inhaling and exhaling the most primordial immortal energy between heaven and earth.

The physical body and the divine soul have completely transformed into an immortal body and an immortal soul!

Every inch of his flesh and blood, every meridian in his body, was filled with boundless immortal power.

He was only one step away from the legendary realm of true immortality.

That is to trigger the tribulation of becoming an immortal, and under the witness and baptism of the Heavenly Dao of this universe, to pass through the heavenly tribulation of certain death and life, and to completely sublimate one's own imperial laws into perfect and flawless immortal laws!

Once he takes this step, he will be the first and only true immortal born in this universe in the past tens of millions of years!

The Emperor slowly stood up, his white robes fluttering in the wind.

He looked down at the small world beneath his feet, but there was no pity in his eyes.

Originally, this small world was a rare sacred place for cultivation.

The soil here contains countless divine sources, waterfalls formed from spiritual energy flow through the mountains and rivers, and precious natural treasures and ancient medicines rarely seen in the outside world grow all over the mountains and fields.

But now, looking around, the entire small world has turned into a desolate desert.

The earth cracked open, revealing bottomless ravines. The waterfall of spiritual energy dried up completely. Those divine herbs and great medicines that once exuded an amazing medicinal fragrance had all withered into ashes, leaving not a trace of life.

Even the spatial barriers of this small world have become riddled with holes and could collapse at any moment.

This is because, during the hundred-year transformation process, the Emperor, like a bottomless pit, forcibly drained all the immortal energy and vitality contained in this small world!

In order to achieve his own path to immortality, he did not hesitate to sacrifice this entire world.

However, the Emperor didn't care about this at all.

As long as one can step into the realm of immortality and become an unparalleled true immortal, let alone a small world, even if it means sacrificing the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and countless living beings, what does it matter?

These are just minor costs.