153: Chapter 153 The Master of the Cultivation Technique? The Refining Heaven Demon Emperor

After speaking, Fang Yuan actually charged directly towards the heavenly tribulation, without the slightest hesitation.

The first heavenly thunderbolt descended, a purple bolt as thick as a mountain Peak, containing terrifying destructive power!

Fang Yuan endured it head-on, his flesh charred black, blood splattering across the starry sky.

The second, the third...

Each tribulation lightning was more terrifying than the last.

At the same time, deep within various forbidden life zones, some ancient consciousnesses quietly awakened, gazing across the boundless sea of stars towards the tribulation site.

"Oh? Someone is attaining the Dao again." An aged consciousness rippled.

"Huh? He's actually cultivating that Shenwu fellow's Blood Prison True Scripture, and has even optimized and improved it himself. What a Genius, interesting!"

"Seems to be that little fellow named Fang Yuan? Interesting, ruthless enough to actually kill his own entire family."

"Truly a ruthless person."

Several consciousnesses conversed as if watching a good show.

Although most of these Forbidden Zone Supreme Beingss are now heartless individuals, before they entered the forbidden zones, they still had emotions.

Someone like Fang Yuan, who exterminated his own family right at the start of his cultivation, was considered a ruthless person in their eyes.

But it didn't matter; in their view, Fang Yuan was merely a delicacy.

"Who will make a move this time?"

The Forbidden Zone Supreme Beingss began to assign the one to act. They were very calm, as if Fang Yuan's fate was already sealed in their eyes.

"I will!" From within the Primordial Chaos Ancient Cave, an ancient, weathered voice suddenly rang out.

"Huh? Old Ghost Shenwu, you've actually awakened?" A Sovereign within the Primordial Chaos Ancient Cave exclaimed in surprise.

"Mmm, woke up to take a look. Didn't expect a pleasant surprise."

The owner of this consciousness was precisely the Shenwu Heavenly Venerate, lurking within the Primordial Chaos Ancient Cave.

He attained the Dao during the Mythical Era, and his life could be called legendary.

He originally possessed the most ordinary mortal Physique, yet had exceptional comprehension and cultivation talent, showing his brilliance from a young age.

However, his luck was poor; the era he lived in saw the emergence of numerous prodigies with various special constitutions.

Coupled with Shenwu Heavenly Venerate's ordinary Origins, he suffered repeated defeats at the hands of those powerful special constitutions. Despite his myriad ingenious methods and countless divine abilities, he struggled to rival their Innate affinity with the Great Dao and vast foundational essence.

The disdainful looks from those heaven-favored prodigies, the helpless sighs from fellow Cultivators...

Comments like, 'What a pity about your comprehension talent, if only you had a good constitution...' pierced his heart like poisonous thorns.

His obsession and resentment towards constitutions ultimately transformed into a biased demonic thought, "Since Heaven and Earth do not bestow it, I will seize it myself!"

Thus, he expended immense effort, fusing multiple cultivation methods with his own analysis of myriad constitutions, and created the astonishing and horrifying "Blood Prison True Scripture".

Relying on this scripture, he secretly hunted prodigies, seized their foundational essence to supplement his own body. In the end, with a mortal Physique as his foundation, he defied the heavens to attain the Dao, becoming a fearsome Heavenly Venerate of the Mythical Era.

After attaining the Dao, he perfected this scripture to the limits he could achieve, attempting to forge an Acquired Chaos Body. Unfortunately, by his later years when he entered self-seclusion, he had still not succeeded.

Shenwu Heavenly Venerate sealed himself within the Primordial Chaos Ancient Cave, both to await the immortal path and to search for a destined individual.

A perfect vessel capable of pushing the "Blood Prison True Scripture" to a higher level, even completing the regret he held from back then.

At this moment, Shenwu Heavenly Venerate's cold consciousness swept over Fang Yuan, who was undergoing the tribulation, as if appraising a piece of art nearing completion.

"Not bad... truly not bad." His consciousness rippled slightly in the depths of the forbidden zone, carrying unconcealable appreciation and greed.

"Not only has he successfully cultivated this Venerate's 'Blood Prison True Scripture', he can even deduce and improve it on his own, integrating it into his own Dao, touching upon the Pseudo-Chaos Realm... Little fellow, your talent and brilliance are not inferior to this Venerate's back in the day."

Fang Yuan, this Genius who gathered the foundational essence of countless plundered beings, preliminarily manifesting the characteristics of a Chaos Body...

His significance to Shenwu Heavenly Venerate far surpassed the life essence of an ordinary Great Emperor.

Devouring Fang Yuan might allow him to make up for his past regret, even glimpse the true mysteries of Chaos, allowing his Dao Fruit and state to return to their Peak, or even advance further!

"Shenwu, you've decided to act? Then we'll leave it to you. He is indeed the best nourishment for you, and now is the optimal time."

Another Sovereign's consciousness transmitted over, carrying a hint of probing and understanding.

"No rush." Shenwu Heavenly Venerate's consciousness was as still as an ancient well.

"We'll act at the moment he is weakest, right after finishing the tribulation."

These Forbidden Zone Supreme Beingss, having experienced the vicissitudes of countless ages, had long abandoned meaningless emotions in their actions, pursuing only the highest efficiency and the most perfect timing.

Fang Yuan's Physical Body shattered multiple times, only to recover and return each time.

He roared, burning all the plundered foundational essence, colliding head-on with the sea of thunder!

After ten days and ten nights, the tribulation clouds finally slowly dispersed.

A tattered figure slowly stood up.

His body was mutilated: his left arm gone, his right leg reduced to bare bone, a large hole in his chest.

But he stood there, dao patterns beginning to coalesce around him, resonating with difficulty with the myriad daos of Heaven and Earth.

The heavens fell silent; countless people were terrified.

Fang Yuan was about to attain the Dao. A Devil Path Great Emperor was about to appear. How many people would have to die then?

Right at that moment, another sudden change occurred!

From deep within the cosmos, a divine light giant hand covering starfields reached out without warning, grasping towards Fang Yuan!

All living beings in the heavens were stunned at first, then hope rose in their hearts. Right, there were still the Forbidden Zone Supreme Beingss!

Surviving the tribulation was only the first hurdle; the hurdle of the Forbidden Zone Supreme Beingss came after. In recent years, there were examples of those who succeeded in the tribulation only to die from the sneak attacks of Forbidden Zone Supreme Beingss.

Fang Yuan looked up at that sky-covering giant hand, baring his blood-stained teeth in a grin.

"Finally... couldn't wait any longer? Then come!"

His mutilated body suddenly erupted with dazzling divine light! Fang Yuan was burning his foundational essence. He knew the true test had begun; he had to fight with his life on the line.

"Heaven Burial!"

At the edge of the cosmos, endless killing aura, resentment, and the residual power of the recently dissipated tribulation lightning were all drawn by him, transforming into a dark red devil pillar that pierced through the cosmos, surging upwards against the tide!

The divine light giant hand and the devil pillar collided.

Void layers collapsed, time became disordered.

After a long time, the light dispersed.

The black hand had vanished. Several drops of pitch-black Sovereign blood drifted down in the starry sky.

Fang Yuan stood in place, his body no longer human-shaped, his aura faint to the extreme.

But he was still standing.

He had won.

Although it was only a pyrrhic victory, although his Dao foundation was severely damaged, he had withstood the assassination attempt of a Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings!

From deep within the starry sky came a cold snort, then the aura vanished.

Deep within the forbidden zones, several consciousnesses conversed again.

"Old Ghost Shenwu took a loss."

"Can't be helped. That kid is ruthless enough to burn his foundational essence to trade for his life. Unless Shenwu Ascends, he can't kill this guy. It's best not to provoke such a madman."

"His strength is indeed decent, able to barely withstand Shenwu's lethal blow before Ascension in that state!"

"A born devil Cultivator!"

"Just after attaining the Dao and already this crazy. If pushed to desperation, he'd really self-destruct. Trading lives isn't worth it."

"Indeed. That's why Old Ghost Shenwu retreated after one strike. Since he couldn't kill him, there was no need to waste time."

"We can keep an eye on him, though. If he survives and recovers his strength... perhaps we can cooperate in the future."

Amidst the ruins, Fang Yuan cast a cold glance several times towards the forbidden zones, then began fusing with the heavenly heart imprint.

Fang Yuan attained the Dao, proclaimed as the Heaven Refining Demon Emperor.

The heavens were in an uproar.

Countless forces mourned as if bereaved; the hearts of innumerable Cultivators were shrouded in heavy shadows, as if foreseeing the arrival of a bloody era.

However, the Great Emperor's might suppressed the cosmos; with the Heavenly Heart added to his body, even with ten thousand resentments, none dared to directly oppose his might.

A Great Emperor of the current era, regardless of his Origins or methods, once he attains the Dao, possesses the qualification and power to rule an era.

As long as the Heavenly Emperor does not appear, the Heaven Refining Demon Emperor is invincible.

As long as he doesn't provoke the Heavenly Court, the Heaven Refining Demon Emperor can do as he pleases.