1: Start as a Nascent Soul Ancestor and activate daily intelligence!

Eastern Wasteland Dao Domain, Zhao State.

Azure Cloud Sect, Longevity Peak.

A dim streak of light tore through the clouds and plunged directly into the Immortal Cave deep within the back mountain.

Almost at the same moment, on the summit of Azure Cloud Peak, a stunning figure suddenly looked up, gazing in the direction of the Forbidden Ground in the back mountain of Longevity Peak.

She was a woman dressed in a moon-white long dress, tall and graceful.

She possessed peerless beauty, eyes like cold stars, and skin whiter than snow; her temperament was as cold as ten-thousand-year black ice, keeping others at a distance, as if she were a Nine Heavens fairy who did not eat the food of mortals.

This person was none other than the current Sect Master of the Azure Cloud Sect, Gu Qingxue.

"Old Ancestor will definitely be fine!"

Gu Qingxue clenched her hem with her delicate hands, a flash of worry crossing her phoenix eyes.

"It's Old Ancestor, Old Ancestor has returned!"

"But... why is Old Ancestor's aura so weak? It... it has deteriorated more than tenfold since he left!"

"Could it be that during his trip to the Immortal Burial Ridge, Old Ancestor..."

The Divine Sense of several Golden Core Elders intersected in the air, filled with shock and disbelief.

They dared not cross the line, only waiting anxiously outside the Forbidden Ground.

Inside the Immortal Cave, it was dark and deathly silent.

Lu Yuan sat cross-legged on a prayer mat; his formerly pine-straight posture now appeared somewhat hunched.

His long, snow-white hair hung disheveled over his shoulders, devoid of luster. That face which once suppressed the entire Zhao State Cultivation World and struck fear into the hearts of countless villains was now covered in wrinkles, heavy with the aura of twilight.

Lu Yuan slowly raised his hand, looking at those withered, cracked palms that resembled the dead bark of an old tree; a trace of infinite sorrow and unwillingness flashed deep within his murky eyes.

But immediately, this was replaced by a madness and determination that burned everything away.

He had failed.

Two thousand years of overcoming thorns and thistles, two thousand years of living towards death, yet in the end, he still lost to the will of Heaven.

He was not a native of this world, but had come through Transmigration from Earth. After experiencing many life-and-death trials, he had become a Late Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator, honored as Ancestor Qingyun, and was the only Nascent Soul Cultivator in the entire Azure Cloud Sect.

But time was ruthless; his two-thousand-year Lifespan was coming to an end, and the path to Soul Transformation was dim.

To fight for that glimmer of hope, he had ventured alone into the Eastern Wasteland Forbidden Ground, the Immortal Burial Ridge, seeking the legendary Soul Transformation Opportunity.

He did not find the Opportunity, but instead encountered a spatial storm.

He paid an extremely heavy price, and only then did he luckily escape from the Immortal Burial Ridge.

Lu Yuan inspected his internal state.

Within his Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, his Nascent Soul, which should have been radiantly brilliant and resonating with heaven and Earth, was now dim, its small body covered in cracks.

The Foundation supporting his Dao cultivation had been eroded by spatial power until it was riddled with holes, filled with an aura of extinction.

His cultivation had plummeted from the Late Stage Nascent Soul, falling to the Early Stage Nascent Soul.

Furthermore, due to the damage to his Dao Foundation, the magic power he could now utilize was not even as strong as that of an ordinary Early Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator with a stable Foundation.

Even more fatal was that his already scarce Lifespan was about to be exhausted following this severe injury.

"Less than three years..."

Lu Yuan murmured to himself.

He would not just sit and wait for death.

He, Lu Yuan, had cultivated for two thousand years, stepped over mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and never believed in Heaven, let alone accepted his fate!

Even if he were to die, before his death, he would wipe the Sect's greatest threat from the world!

In his mind, a figure with a ferocious face and sky-high Demonic Qi appeared.

Beast King Valley, True Monarch Wan Shou!

This person was a sworn enemy; five hundred years ago, he had personally severed the Opportunity for the other party's life-bound Spirit Beast to transform into a Dragon, thereby cutting off that Spirit Beast's path to the Nascent Soul.

The two sides had long been in a life-or-death feud. Over these years, under the leadership of the True Monarch Wan Shou, Beast King Valley had been eyeing the Azure Cloud Sect like a tiger watching its prey, devouring many of the Sect's interests.

Lu Yuan knew very well that once the news of his death spread, the True Monarch Wan Shou would definitely be the first to lead the Beast King Valley army to trample the Azure Cloud Sect, slaughtering all tens of thousands of Disciples in the Sect to vent his hatred.

He would absolutely not allow such a thing to happen!

"Cough, cough..." A mouthful of dark golden blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, dripping onto the ground, instantly corroding a deep pit into the hard bluestone floor.

The frantic killing intent in his eyes grew even more intense.

He had made up his mind.

Burn the remaining Nascent Soul, sacrifice the last of his Lifespan, and forcibly activate a forbidden secret technique to reach the ultimate sublimation!

This technique could allow him to instantly unleash a strike stronger than his Peak period, but the price was that after one strike, he would fall on the spot.

"Old Monster of Ten Thousand Beasts, on the road to the Yellow Springs, let you and me... compete once more!"

Lu Yuan slowly formed a hand seal; the magic power within his body, which had already withered into silence, began to flow backward in a strange way. A destructive aura was brewing deep within his Dantian.

Just as he was preparing to trigger this power and rush into the death trap of perishing together with his sworn enemy.

[Detected that the Host is on the verge of death, meeting the activation conditions for the Fated Villain Intelligence System]

[Fated Villain Intelligence System, binding, binding successful!]

A cold electronic voice rang out in his mind without warning.

Lu Yuan's actions preparing for death suddenly froze.

The destructive energy within his body that was about to erupt was forcibly halted due to the violent shock in his heart. The backlash of the violent magic power made him spit out another mouthful of blood, but at this moment, he could not care about that at all.

A dim blue light screen appeared before Lu Yuan, floating in mid-air, with lines of cold text slowly emerging upon it.

"System?"

Even with his two-thousand-year Heart-Nature, he could not help but feel a slight tremor in his heart.

This Golden Finger, which had arrived two thousand years late, had actually descended at his most desperate moment!

Suppressing the astonishment in his heart, Lu Yuan stared fixedly at the information on the light screen.

[Fated Villain Intelligence System]

[Core Function One: Daily Intelligence]

[Every day at 11 PM - 1 AM, the System will automatically refresh three pieces of random intelligence. The intelligence Ranks from low to high are: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Gold, Red, Prismatic. The higher the Rank, the greater the value of the Opportunity represented by the intelligence.]

[Core Function Two: Snatching Return]

[When the Host successfully snatches the Opportunity of a Son of Destiny, a random multiplier critical return will be triggered based on the quality of the Opportunity.]

[Special Note: If you successfully plunder the Gold intelligence Opportunity of a Son of Destiny, you can trigger up to a ten-thousand-fold critical return!]

[Each successful snatch will grant Destiny Points. Destiny Points can be used for System upgrades to raise the minimum quality of daily refreshed intelligence, or consumed to actively obtain targeted intelligence about specific targets or specific events.]

"Snatching the Opportunity of a Son of Destiny... Fated Villain..." Lu Yuan murmured to himself; the determination to die together with his enemy in his eyes was being replaced by an unprecedented light.

So, this world also had so-called destiny protagonists, and he had actually become their opposite—a Fated Villain!

However, so what?

Competing on the Immortal path is inherently about fighting with Heaven, fighting with Earth, and fighting with people; it is either you die, or I live!

"Hehehe!"

A low laugh echoed in the Immortal Cave.

"What a good Fated Villain. Since that is the case, this old man shall trample all these so-called Sons of Destiny underfoot, turning them into the resources for me to return to the Peak, and even to reach the pinnacle of the Immortal Dao!"

[Ding! Detected that the Host's will to survive has reignited, meeting the conditions for the Newcomer Gift Pack.]

[Newcomer Gift Pack has been issued: Purple intelligence x1, Gold intelligence x1. Please check, Host.]