1: This sword strike severs the very essence of Heaven!

Above the Sky-Reaching Platform in Kunlun Ruins, seven thousand eight hundred mountain peaks floated, and millions of Cultivators rode their Magical Artifacts to witness the Ascension of the current era's foremost figure, Ling Tian.

A Nine Dragon Carriage descended from the sky, crushing three mountain peaks!

"Who is that? So overbearing!"

"Shh, keep your voice down. That's Liu Lanyan, the Empress of the Great Yin Dynasty! She actually came too!"

Liu Lanyan lifted her twelve-stringed jade crown, her expression complex as she gazed at the man about to Ascend—Ling Tian, the current Sect Head of the God Slaying Pavilion.

Rumble!

Nine Heavenly Lightning bolts struck simultaneously.

Ling Tian drew his sword and cleaved, severing the Heavenly Lightning.

Space fractured, the earth collapsed, terrifying to behold.

Millions of Cultivators were shocked!

"Ling Tian! What are you doing? You Ascend if you want to Ascend, but do you want to destroy this continent?!"

Ling Tian's voice boomed through the cloud sea: "Today's Ascension isn't to reach the heavens, but to show everyone this cage! Sword, come!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Nine thousand Flying Swords automatically unsheathed from the spectators' scabbards, forming the God Slaying Sword Formation in the clouds. Each sword light carried a murderous intent that pierced the firmament.

"Warning: Detected fluctuations in the cultivation world barrier."

The System interface suddenly flashed wildly before Lu Chen's eyes.

Lu Chen was riding his electric scooter, parked on the side of the non-motorized vehicle lane, when he was cursed at by a ride-hailing driver behind him: "Are you trying to die?! Believe it or not, I'll run you over!"

Lu Chen quickly pointed a finger into the Void Realm, and a world the size of a basketball appeared before him.

Others couldn't see it; only Lu Chen could. This was the fourth world he had created. A month ago, he inexplicably bound the heavenly dao system, which allowed him to gain rewards by destroying cultivation worlds.

The larger the scale of the cultivation world and the higher its overall Realm, the more heavenly dao energy he would gain from its destruction.

However, he also couldn't let the people in the cultivation world reach too high a Realm, otherwise, it would threaten his safety.

Therefore, once someone Ascended, that was his cue to destroy this world!

Lu Chen overlooked the entire cultivation world. When not observing, the flow of time in the cultivation world was 365,000 times faster than in the real world. When observing, it became synchronized.

Oh my god!

Lu Chen was shocked!

The previous world took ten thousand years for the first Ascender to appear.

This world, however, only took 2,000 years for an Ascender to appear!

It seemed the previous destruction wasn't thorough, leaving behind quite a legacy for them.

There were pros and cons.

The advantage was that it accelerated the development of this world, allowing for earlier harvesting.

The disadvantage was that the risk was too great. If he wasn't careful, an Ascender might emerge who could break through the spatiotemporal boundaries.

"Heavenly Dao, I see you!"

Ling Tian's voice tore through the sky, and ten thousand sword lights erupted from his body, forming a thirty-six-layered God Slaying Sword Formation. Each sword mark was branded with runes of a thousand-year blood sacrifice.

For this one sword, he slaughtered three thousand Yao Beasts, using their resentment as an lead, and the Nine Nether Yellow Springs as a furnace, refining the God Slaying Tribulation Sword.

The instant the sword was unleashed, the Spiritual Qi of the cultivation world flowed backward, the Laws of heaven and earth disintegrated, transforming into a crimson sword glow that pointed directly to the end of the Void Realm!

Lu Chen was startled. Damn it, this guy actually discovered him? And he even wanted to kill him?

[Warning! host presence detected! Danger coefficient +10%! This reward +10%!]

"This sword is meant to slay the Heavenly Dao!"

Wherever the sword light passed, the Void Realm fractured, and even the barrier Lu Chen had set up was cut with a gap.

Ling Tian's eyes burned with a crazed obsession. He gambled everything, just to prove—the Heavenly Dao can be slain!

Slap.

Lu Chen raised his hand and slapped it across.

Where the palm wind passed, the thirty-six-layered sword formation vanished like foam, Ling Tian's Nascent Soul instantly shattered, and his Meridians were severed.

However, Ling Tian not only wasn't afraid but instead let out a crazy, sinister laugh!

"Heavenly Dao... you are a living person!"

"Haha... I can't kill you, but the next generation... surely will..."

Lu Chen frowned.

"So much nonsense!"

With a clenched fist, Ling Tian's last remnant soul was crushed, even the qualification for Reincarnation was stripped away.

[Heavenly Dao Log]

"Abnormal individual 'Ling Tian' has been eliminated."

"Vulnerability repair progress: 99.99%"

"Warning: Detected at least ten thousand Cultivators have observed the host's existence."

"Suggestion: Eliminate all eyewitnesses."

What's the point of repairing vulnerabilities?!

This world has developed abnormally, destroy it! Restart!

Lu Chen pulled a tissue from his pocket, rubbed it between his fingers, and lit it with a lighter.

The flame flickered, reflecting in his indifferent pupils.

He casually tossed it, and the tissue drifted down, falling into the cultivation world.

The burning tissue was not ordinary fire, but the world-destroying flame that erased all Laws.

Millions of Cultivators pointed at the sky in horror: "That... what is that?!"

"Run! It's the Heavenly Tribulation!"

"Run my ass, maybe it's our Opportunity, let's fight it!"

Boom!

In less than a second, millions of Cultivators vanished into ashes.

Seven thousand eight hundred floating mountain peaks burned to ash in the intense flames, and the earth was compressed to its extreme.

Empress Liu Lanyan's dragon robe burned in the fierce wind. She laughed wildly, looking up at the sky. Before her death, she shattered the imperial jade seal.

"Ling Tian, I'm coming to join you! In the next life, I don't want to be an Empress, I just want to be your woman."

The fragments of the jade seal transformed into a blood-weeping Phoenix, carrying her will for revenge, and drilled into the depths of the cracked Spiritual Vein.

She wanted to bury her 'hatred' into the Foundation of the world, awaiting Nirvana and Rebirth in the next life.

"Threat detected, executing clear."

The world-destroying Heavenly Tribulation discovered Liu Lanyan's remnant soul. The Spiritual Vein was instantly evaporated, and the Phoenix, before it could even wail, turned into a wisp of smoke.

All School formations, mountain-guarding Restrictions, and Magic Treasures for Undergoing Tribulation were shattered at this moment.

"No! This Dominator has Cultivated bitterly for five hundred years, I'm not reconciled—" A Sect Head in the Ascension Realm roared, his body disintegrating like dust.

"Revered Master, save me! Revered Master, save—" A young Cultivator's cry abruptly ceased, instantly engulfed by the tissue's heavenly fire.

Mortals, Cultivators, Yao Beasts, ghosts, mountains, rivers, stars, Laws... everything, absolutely everything, vanished equally in the world-destroying fire.

Like a erased painting, clean and pristine, as if it had never existed.

[World Destruction Settlement]

[World ID: Civilization No. 4 (Traditional cultivation world)]

[Survival duration: 2,173 years (Real world: 2 days, 4 hours, 9 minutes, 7.2 seconds)]

[Civilization Index: 0.67 (Comprehensive evaluation of Civilization Coefficient + Cultivation Coefficient + Wonders, etc.)]

[This reward for World Destruction Energy: 100 * 0.67 (Civilization Index) + 100 * 0.4 (Danger Index 0.1 + host observed 0.1 + host attacked 0.2) = 107]

Lu Chen was overjoyed! He hadn't expected that the Ascender attacking him would add a full 40 points of heavenly dao energy!

One must know that the entire cultivation civilization only added 67 heavenly dao energy.

Indeed, the greater the risk, the greater the reward.

But Lu Chen had been steady since childhood and wouldn't do anything rash.

If he had waited a few more hours, there might have been hundreds more Ascenders.

He might not have been able to kill them!

Although he was invincible according to the System's settings, any System surely had vulnerabilities!

Check information.

heavenly dao system (Cultivation Template)

Rank: Level 1

heavenly dao energy: 903 / 1000

Currently, Lu Chen had no special abilities in reality; it was likely that he would only see effects after upgrading the System to Level 2.

He was only 97 points of heavenly dao energy away from upgrading.

Lu Chen saw no need to take risks. He would play it safe, create a new world, and then he should be able to upgrade.

With a wave of his hand, Lu Chen quickly sowed the pre-set cultivation template seeds over the ruins of Civilization No. 4.

In an instant, the azure sky inverted, star rivers flowed into formations, Yin and Yang Qi took root in the shattered land, and wisps of Spiritual Veins exuding an ancient Aura broke through the earth.

Lu Chen savored this moment—Dominating everything, towering over all beings, he was the Creator of all things, looking down upon the ants of the world, controlling the life and death of heaven and earth!

Suddenly! Bang!

Lu Chen's body was violently shoved, and he, along with his electric scooter, was pushed to the ground.

His arm was scraped, oozing blood.

A bald, muscular man with a gold chain stormed out of a car, his Aura aggressive: "Are you deaf? I've been honking at you for ages, and you don't even move! Believe it or not, I'll beat you to death today!"