138: The king arrives at Guixu, attracting everyone's attention

After the astonishing mythic battle at The Peak of the Forbidden City, where one person suppressed a generation, finally concluded in the most unreasonable and domineering way, Lin Tian did not linger long in Yanjing, a place filled with awe and panic.

For him, whether it was the Prodigies he trampled underfoot or the Qin Family's ultimate humiliating compromise, they were merely an insignificant landscape, long left behind on his arduous journey. His gaze had long since turned towards the deeper, more mysterious ultimate forbidden zone, which held more secrets about mythical creator figure and the World Tree.

At the Huaxia Long Family headquarters, after a brief rest and personnel reallocation, the candle dragon aerospace carrier set sail once again.

This time, Lin Tian was accompanied by an extremely luxurious Divine-Grade team. The First General, Long Qingtian, a former First Sequence, after being completely subdued by Lin Tian, and having obtained some Opportunities from the Pangu Tomb and Lin Tian's personal guidance, his strength had subtly touched the threshold of the demigod level, becoming Lin Tian's sharpest 'spear'. The newly acquired maid, Qin Yubing, the Qin Family's pearl with an SSS-Class Supreme Yin Physique, after a complete internal surrender, her clear, cold eyes, though still carrying an unerasable trace of stubbornness, now held more of a resigned, absolute obedience. His mount, Golden Lion Simba, the royal heir from the African Beast King Hall, after being 'fed' countless top-tier exotic beast jerky by Jiang Luoling for half a month, had grown another size. The majestic aura of a king had long vanished, replaced by a 'pet dog' consciousness that instinctively wagged its tail whenever it saw Jiang Luoling. Besides these, there was also his 'fiancée' Elizabeth, who insisted on coming along, and the 'Chief Foodie Officer' Jiang Luoling, among others.

This team, capable of causing an earthquake wherever it went, under Lin Tian's leadership, officially embarked on a new journey towards one of Huaxia's three great forbidden zones—the Eye of Guixu. The Eye of Guixu is located at the easternmost point of the East Sea, rumored to be a bottomless abyss connecting to an unknown dimension, formed when two supreme Divine-Grade beings in ancient times fought and tore through the continental plates. Guixu City is a floating metropolis, built upon this bottomless abyss, filled with fantasy and cyberpunk aesthetics.

When the massive hull of the candle dragon, like a floating mountain range, tore through space and slowly emerged from the warp channel, descending over the city, the entire city was instantly enveloped by its colossal, sky-obscuring shadow!

Boom—Boom—Boom—!

Piercing roars, signaling the highest level of invasion alert, echoed through every corner of the city! This frontier city, which constantly battled forbidden zone exotic beasts and whose people were exceptionally fierce, at this moment, revealed its terrifying fangs, enough to make any S-Class Expert tremble! Countless defensive energy barriers shot up from the bottomless abyss beneath the city, instantly enveloping the entire city tightly! Tens of thousands of unmanned mechs and fighter jets, like a disturbed swarm of bees, poured out from the city's various spaceports, surrounding the candle dragon, their muzzles flashing with dangerous energy light!

However, when the lifelike, ferocious Dragon crest insignia, representing the Huaxia Long Family, slowly lit up on the hull of the candle dragon, all the alarms and all the hostility ceased abruptly at that moment.

Immediately after, when Guixu City's intelligence center, through the emblem's highest authority, confirmed the carrier's ownership and the identity of the passenger it represented... the entire city erupted!

"Oh my god! It's the candle dragon! It's the vehicle of Lord Lin Tian, Number Zero of the Long Family!"

"He... how could he come to our Guixu City?!"

"Why else?! It must be to explore the mysteries of the Eye of Guixu! As expected of the man who suppressed an era, he was just crowned king at The Peak of the Forbidden City, and in a blink of an eye, he's challenging the three great forbidden zones!"

After a brief shock, there was a volcanic eruption of fervent cheers! Countless young Cultivators who were Cultivating, working, or even fighting, upon hearing this news, instantly dropped everything in their hands and surged like a tide towards the direction of the spaceport! They only wanted to see with their own eyes the true face of that legendary figure, like a Divine-Grade being, who only existed in legends!

On the giant holographic screens on the skyscrapers, thousands of meters high, lining the streets, commercial advertisements were no longer playing. Instead, they were completely flooded with the fervent and adoring faces of countless young women!

"Lord Lin Tian! Look here! I want to bear your children!!!"

"Ahhh! Has the legendary man, more handsome than a Divine-Grade being, finally come to our Guixu City?! I feel like I'm going to faint from happiness!"

"Wuwuwu, I've watched the live broadcast of The Peak of the Forbidden City no less than three hundred times! Can I finally see him in person today?!"

This fervent 'fan effect' was even more exaggerated than in Yanjing, by more than ten times! Because the people of Yanjing were accustomed to royalty and nobility, and had long developed immunity to so-called 'Prodigies'. But the people of Guixu City, they lived on the front lines of the war between human civilization and forbidden zone exotic beasts; they were accustomed to life and death; they... only worshipped true, unrivaled Experts! And Lin Tian, during his 'Qin Family trip,' with his invincible myth of 'one person suppressing a generation,' had long become the sole and supreme... faith in the hearts of all young Cultivators in this era!

In this fervent atmosphere, hot enough to melt steel, the gangway of the candle dragon slowly lowered. A figure slowly emerged from the shadow of the carrier, which was full of futuristic technology.

The moment he appeared, it was as if even the never-extinguishing neon light rain of this cyberpunk city fell silent. All the clamor, all the screams, all the worship, were, at this moment, completely suppressed by a higher, absolute beauty and majesty stemming from the level of life itself.

He was still dressed in simple black casual clothes, his expression indifferent, as if the fervent cheers, like a mountain tsunami before him, were nothing more than a trivial breeze in the countryside. His eyes, as deep as the Universe, did not linger on any fervent face, as if none of this concerned him.

He simply, calmly, led his 'honor guard,' a sight that would make any force take notice, down the gangway. Then, ignoring all the fervent crowds trying to rush forward to catch a glimpse of him, he walked directly towards the City Lord's Mansion, a structure like a Divine-Grade palace, suspended in the very center of the city and symbolizing the highest authority of the place.

His goal, from the very beginning, was incredibly clear. He wasn't here to receive cheers. He was here to... conquer.