113: Let's see who the toy is.

Inside the Hundred Flowers Garden, there was a deathly silence!

The once noisy and luxurious grand ceremony site had now been reduced to ruins. However, atop these ruins, a brand-new, suffocating order was being established!

The Sect Masters of all the second-rate forces and top-tier clans in the Central Region, without exception, were all kneeling on both knees, their foreheads pressed against the cold ground, not even daring to breathe loudly! Their bodies were trembling, not from the cold, but from a fear and submission originating from the depths of their Souls!

Because they had personally witnessed the birth of a new emperor!

On that shattered high platform, Lin Chen stood with his hands behind his back, clad in an imperial robe condensed from the golden light of the human emperor divine kingdom, looking like the only True God dominating the world!

To his left, the once-revered and Soul-stirring Palace Master of Hundred Flowers was now snuggling into his embrace like a docile Persian cat, her body soft and boneless. Her powerful aura, which had already touched the threshold of the Half-step Void Refining Realm, was completely restrained before Lin Chen, leaving only fawning and attachment.

And at his feet, the once-cold and ruthless Heaven-Patrolling Goddess, who held the power of life and death in the Central Region, was now kneeling in humiliation and submissiveness. Lin Chen's foot was unceremoniously treading on her noble back, thoroughly trampling her dignity into the dust! But terrifyingly, there wasn't the slightest hint of resistance in her eyes, only absolute loyalty after being deeply brainwashed by the Soul Imprint.

As for the Soul Transformation Female Sovereigns like Heavenly Sword, Black Lotus, Yaoguang, and Pill Fairy, they stood respectfully to the side like the most beautiful handmaidens, forming a breathtakingly beautiful scenery that eclipsed heaven and earth!

The Central Region was settled. Lin Chen felt the Peak Soul Transformation power surging like an ocean within his body, and a surge of unprecedented pride rose in his heart!

He looked up, his gaze penetrating layers of clouds to lock directly onto the structure floating high in the Nine Heavens, symbolizing the highest power in this world—the Divine Phoenix Heavenly Palace!

That was his final target! To replace the Empress and become the true master of this world!

Next, it's time to meet that Empress... Lin Chen was just about to take a step.

Suddenly!

Without any warning!

An indescribable, incomprehensible, and even irresistible terrifying pressure crashed down from the highest point of the Divine Phoenix Heavenly Palace!

Buzz—!!

This wasn't an attack! This was merely... presence!

In an instant, the sky over the entire Hundred Flowers Garden—no, the entire Central Region Imperial City—changed! The blue sky and white clouds vanished, replaced by a pure golden canopy flowing with ancient secret sigils!

The wind stopped.

The Spiritual Qi in the air solidified.

Even time seemed to have been paused at this moment!

The Sect Masters kneeling on the ground maintained their terrified expressions, yet they couldn't even move their eyeballs!

Lin Chen's perfect and peerlessly overbearing human emperor divine kingdom actually emitted crisp cracking sounds the moment this golden pressure descended, like a soap bubble shivering in a storm, liable to burst at any moment!

This... what kind of power is this?!

Lin Chen's pupils constricted violently into pinpricks! Every one of his chaos dragon elephant particles roared frantically, trying to resist this suppression, but he found himself facing what seemed to be the will of the entire Universe!

"Master... be careful... it's... it's her!" In his arms, the Palace Master of Hundred Flowers, even having touched the Half-step Void Refining Realm, was suppressed until her face was deathly pale, unable to even speak a complete sentence!

If the Soul Transformation Realm was about controlling the Laws of heaven and earth and utilizing the world's power,

Then the owner of this pressure was herself—the Rules!

She didn't need to mobilize the power of heaven and earth, because her every thought and movement was the truth of the world's operation! This was an absolute crushing of dimensions!

Within that pure golden canopy, a figure slowly appeared.

She wasn't tall, nor did she deliberately emit any world-destroying aura.

She simply reclined lazily on a cloud couch woven from countless stars. Her figure was blurred, as if separated by endless time and space. But even so, the slight silhouette revealed possessed a Perfection and majesty that made all living beings suffocate!

She wore an imperial robe, but it wasn't made of mortal embroidery; it was woven from golden chains of rules!

She was the heaven of this world!

The Divine Phoenix Empress!

She didn't look at the ants kneeling below, nor did she look at the crippled Heaven-Patrolling Goddess.

Her golden eyes, which seemed to contain the cycles of the sun, moon, and stars, penetrated the endless void and simply made one movement—

A gaze.

She was looking at Lin Chen.

With just this one look, Lin Chen's recently perfected Nascent Soul and his indestructible Physical Body simultaneously transmitted a stinging pain of imminent collapse!

Is this... the Void Refining Realm? Lin Chen gritted his teeth, deathly supporting the human emperor divine kingdom from shattering, his spine held straight, not bending a single inch under this pressure!

This stubbornness seemed to pique a hint of interest from the being in the sky.

Between heaven and earth, a voice suddenly rang out.

That voice had no discernible age or emotion; it was like a young girl's whisper and also like the low chant of an ancient deity, echoing directly in the deepest part of Lin Chen's mind.

"...What an interesting little thing."

In this sentence, there was actually no killing intent, but rather a hint of... amusement, as if she had found a new source of fun.

The golden canopy rippled slightly, and the Divine Phoenix Empress's lazy figure shifted positions slightly, as if she were appraising a rare treasure.

"You broke three of my toys."

She was naturally referring to the three major forces: Heaven-Patrolling, Hundred Flowers, and Danxia. In her eyes, these behemoths that had ruled the Central Region for thousands of years were nothing more than toys she played with at her leisure.

"According to the rules, those who break things must be punished."

Lin Chen's heart tightened, and he pushed his full power to the limit, preparing to face a devastating blow!

However, the expected attack did not come.

The voice rang out again, and this time, it carried a hint of bone-melting yet hair-raising seduction.

"But... you, little thing, are tougher and more interesting than all of them combined."

"Now, you are qualified... to come to my bedchamber."

Boom!

A golden stairway of light extended down from the highest point of the Divine Phoenix Heavenly Palace, laying itself right at Lin Chen's feet!

"Be my... new toy."

"Come," the Empress's figure began to slowly dissipate, leaving only those words filled with endless meaning and challenge echoing between heaven and earth.

"I will be at the top floor of the Divine Phoenix Heavenly Palace... waiting for you."

The golden light faded, and the pressure vanished.

Lin Chen stood in place, his back already drenched in cold sweat, but the corners of his mouth slowly curled into a smile that was more crazed and ambitious than ever before!

"Toy?"

Lin Chen looked at the golden stairs leading to the heavenly palace, his eyes burning with the fires of conquest!

"Very well! Divine Phoenix Empress... I'll see in the end who is whose toy!"

"This Void Refining Realm body, I, Lin Chen... will have it!"