106: Chapter 106 The Immortal Realm's Structure

The foot pressing down on Wang Teng's face didn't use much force.

Yet, what Wang Teng was bearing was not the weight of a single person.

It was a divine mountain that could not be moved.

He was instantly crushed by a sense of humiliation.

He wanted to struggle.

He wanted to roar.

He wanted to tear the person before him into ten thousand pieces.

Yet, the moment the Immortal Qi within his body touched the figure pressing down on his face, it instantly recoiled, not daring to move an inch.

This was a fear stemming from instinct.

The other party's power exceeded his cognition.

That group of Wang Family attendants had long since been scared out of their wits.

They were all kneeling on the ground.

Their heads buried deeply.

Wishing they were just stones.

Their earlier arrogance and complacency had been replaced by nothing but regret and fear.

It was over.

This errand had caused a massive catastrophe.

What kind of demon god had they provoked?

The area in front of the Southern Heaven Gate fell into a dead silence.

Only the ragged, loud wheezing sounds from Wang Teng's mouth remained.

Li Xuan lowered his head, looking at that blood-engorged, twisted face.

His voice was calm.

"Speak, who sent you?"

The calm question.

Heard in Wang Teng's ears, however, it felt like a fatal threat.

His survival instinct made him want to confess everything immediately.

But the dignity and pride of a Wang Family Prodigy made him unwilling to yield.

He, Wang Teng.

A direct descendant of an Immortal King Family, a True Immortal Late Stage powerhouse, a Genius with hopes of reaching the Golden Immortal realm in the future.

How could he bow his head to a rogue cultivator?

"You... if you dare to touch me... my Wang Family will absolutely not let you go!"

Wang Teng gritted his teeth and said, his words slurred and filled with madness.

"My Wang Family's Old Ancestor is a powerful Golden Immortal! The Dominator of this vast territory spanning hundreds of millions of miles! If you kill me, there will be no place for you in heaven or on earth!"

He played his trump card, the "Golden Immortal Old Ancestor".

This was his final source of confidence.

Li Xuan's reaction left him in complete despair.

Li Xuan laughed.

His laughter was filled with disdain.

"A Golden Immortal?"

He applied a little more force with his foot, nearly pressing Wang Teng's entire face into the white jade steps.

"Is that it?"

These two words completely shattered his final pride.

A powerful Golden Immortal... in this person's mouth, just a simple "Is that it?"

Who exactly was this person?

Was he a madman?

Or was it that... he possessed confidence far exceeding that of a Golden Immortal?

Wang Teng's mind went blank.

Li Xuan couldn't be bothered to waste more words.

Dealing with such second-generation heirs required a more direct method.

"Noisy."

Li Xuan spat out the two words impatiently.

He slowly crouched down, not moving the foot pressing on Wang Teng's face, but instead pressing down harder.

Then, he placed a hand on the crown of Wang Teng's head.

"You... what are you doing?!"

His heart immediately chilled.

Li Xuan did not answer him.

Only a layer of barely visible gray Qi on his palm instantly drilled into Wang Teng's Sea of Consciousness.

Soul Search!

This was the most direct and overbearing method.

"Ah!"

Wang Teng's body suddenly went rigid, then began to convulse violently.

His eyes rolled back, his mouth wide open, yet he could not make a sound.

This silent torture made him unbearably painful.

His Sea of Consciousness was undergoing a catastrophe.

Li Xuan's Divine Thought brutally tore through the defenses of his Sea of Consciousness.

Those memories he cherished, those secrets buried deep in his heart, were now being wantonly browsed, filtered, and read by Li Xuan.

Wang Teng's life experiences, from learning to speak to cultivating, from his first kill to his first time in a woman's bed, all scenes transformed into countless fragments, flashing rapidly through Li Xuan's Divine Thought.

Li Xuan casually swept through this junk information and crushed it directly.

He wanted core intelligence.

Soon, he found it.

A vast map of the Immortal Domain unfolded in his mind.

This map was ten thousand times more detailed than the old soldier's, marking countless Immortal Domain continent fragments, as well as the coordinates of various dangerous lands, Secret Realms, and resource points.

Among them, the most prosperous continent, heavily marked, was the "Feiyun Continent" where the Wang Family resided.

Next was detailed intelligence on the Wang Family.

Li Xuan saw the layout of the Wang Family, the Immortal City floating above the sea of clouds, mountains of Immortal Crystals and divine Materials in their treasury, and even their core Cultivation Technique.

The scene shifted.

At the peak of a bottomless Immortal Mountain.

Inside an ancient Dao Palace, a withered figure sitting cross-legged appeared in Li Xuan's Divine Thought "vision".

Around that figure, Golden Immortal Dao Laws circled, exuding an aura of immortality.

Golden Immortal.

Indeed, a Golden Immortal.

Judging by his aura, he had already reached the third level of the Golden Immortal realm; in this broken Immortal Domain, he certainly counted as an overlord of a region.

"So this is their Old Ancestor? He's just so-so."

Li Xuan evaluated in his heart.

With this level of strength, wanting to serve as a stepping stone for his Little Heavenly Court, he was lacking a bit.

His Divine Thought continued to delve deeper.

Li Xuan also found information on the "Corpse Immortal Sect".

It was a dead, desolate forbidden land.

Countless bones of gods and demons piled into mountains, and below the mountains flowed a roiling blood-colored river.

Bronze coffins bobbed in the blood river, and countless Corpse Puppets wandered among the bone mountains.

In Wang Teng's memory, the Corpse Immortal Sect was extremely eerie, preferring to collect various special Physiques to refine into Corpse Kings.

When the greed from that fleeting glance at Li Changsheng and Li Qingyue surfaced in Wang Teng's memory, Li Xuan developed an intent to kill.

"Courting death."

Finally, there were the memories of the "Black Abyss".

This part of the memory was filled with Chaos, madness, and fear.

It was a giant rift stretching across the starry sky, like a scar on the Universe.

On the other side of the rift was endless darkness.

Countless bizarre dark creatures poured out from the rift, hating all order and light, their only purpose being destruction and devouring.

Even just through the memory fragments, Li Xuan could feel that chaotic will.

"Interesting, this Immortal Domain is a bit livelier than I thought."

The desired intelligence was all obtained.

Li Xuan's Divine Thought instantly withdrew from Wang Teng's Sea of Consciousness.

The Soul Search ended.

Wang Teng's body stiffened suddenly, and the violent convulsions ceased abruptly.

He lay on the ground, motionless.

His eyes were wide open, his gaze vacant.

Drool flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Wang Family Prodigy, Wang Teng.

Ruined.

From a True Immortal Late Stage powerhouse, he had become an idiot inferior to a three-year-old child.

Li Xuan slowly stood up, not even glancing at Wang Teng on the ground.

He lifted his foot and kicked Wang Teng's limp body away casually.

"Bang."

Wang Teng's body rolled right to the feet of those terrified Wang Family attendants.

The attendants looked at their Young Lord's foolish appearance and the glistening drool at the corner of his mouth, and their hearts turned cold.

Ruthless.

Too ruthless.

This was no longer as simple as killing someone.

This act was about destroying the heart.

For a proud Genius, becoming an idiot who could be mocked by anyone was crueler than death.

They finally understood what a terrifying figure they had provoked.

In front of this person, the Wang Family's prestige and the deterrence of the Golden Immortal Old Ancestor had become a joke.

Li Xuan's gaze finally landed on them.

That gaze was very calm, without killing intent.

But everyone he looked at felt a sense of suffocation.

"Take this trash and get back."

Li Xuan's voice rang in the ears of every attendant.

"Tell your Wang Family Old Ancestor that from today on, the Southern Heaven Gate is taken over by my Great Xia."

Li Xuan paused, his tone colder.

"If he wants revenge, have him come and die in person."

As soon as the words fell.

That group of attendants seemed to have received a pardon, instantly feeling relieved.

There was only one word in their minds: Run!

"Yes! Yes! We will leave immediately!"

"Thank you, Senior, for your mercy! Thank you, Senior!"

The group scrambled to their feet, fleeing in a panic.

They hurried to help each other, disregarding status, and hoisted the idiotic Wang Teng like a dead dog, picked up the still-fresh severed arm, and rushed like madmen toward the Golden Immortal Boat they had arrived on.

The nine-headed exotic beast also felt fear; without needing to be urged, it let out a mournful cry, dragged the Immortal Boat, and charged into the Chaos mist without looking back, disappearing instantly.

Running ten times faster than when they came.

Watching the direction the Immortal Boat disappeared in, the old soldier's remnant soul slowly coalesced behind Li Xuan.

He gazed at the fleeing Immortal Boat and then at the pool of True Immortal blood on the ground, filled with mixed emotions.

Not long ago, he had felt despair at the arrival of these people.

In the blink of an eye, the arrogant Wang Family Prodigy had turned into an idiot and was taken away in a pathetic state.

Is this Your Majesty's method?

Killing and destroying the heart.

He looked at Li Xuan's back; that figure was clearly right in front of him, yet it made him feel unfathomable.

No, it wasn't that he was out of place.

It was that this whole world seemed to revolve around him.

Li Xuan did not pay attention to the old soldier's internal thoughts behind him.

He gazed into the distance, towards where the Wang Family was located.

In his mind, that clear map of the Immortal Domain slowly unfolded.

Feiyun Continent, Wang Family Immortal City, Golden Immortal Old Ancestor...

One coordinate after another, one target after another, clearly marked.

"An Immortal King Family, huh."

Li Xuan chuckled.

"It just so happens that my Little Heavenly Court has just been built, and it still lacks decoration Materials."

A Golden Immortal.

Should be enough to serve as a decent stepping stone.