199: Chapter 199 I Will Surpass My Ancestors, the New Emperor

Qi Xuan's journey through the starry sky was far from ideal.

Not long after he entered the starry sky, his act of righteous intervention led to the discovery of his Kirin Bloodline.

There were beast-hunting clans from ancient Star Domains, specializing in capturing rare Bloodlines. There were also descendants of powerful races that were once enemies of the Kylin Clan, who recognized his origins and were boiling with killing intent.

Furthermore, evil cultivators saw him as a supreme treasure medicine.

Qi Xuan transformed into a youth with azure hair and golden pupils, beginning a life of constant hiding and evasion.

To temper himself at the fastest speed and obtain the opportunities and power sufficient to revive his clan,

he made a choice that astonished the world, setting foot on the Ancient Path of humanity's ultimate trial, renowned for its brutal competition.

However, the glory and the curse of his Bloodline coexisted. At the fortieth checkpoint of the Ancient Path, while contending for an Opportunity,

he was ambushed and surrounded by several powerful Saint Kings. At the brink of life and death, he was forced to manifest his true Kirin form. With one claw, he tore through the void, a sacred aura sweeping in all directions.

The news spread through the Ancient Path like a storm.

"It's a Kirin, and moreover, from the Kylin Clan's Imperial Blood lineage!"

"Capture it! Its true blood can extend life by a thousand years, its divine scales can forge invincible battle armor, and its Kirin horn is the supreme material for a Dao Artifact!"

"Kill it! We cannot allow it to grow up and restore the might of the ancient Kylin Clan!"

Thus began the prologue of Qi Xuan being an enemy to the entire world. Some of humanity's proud geniuses viewed him as a formidable, heretical foe.

Clans among the Ancient Races that held enmity towards the Kirin dispatched powerful pursuers. Descendants of past enemies laid down inescapable nets. Countless greedy individuals swarmed forth.

The path Qi Xuan tread was no longer a trial road, but a blood-soaked path of carnage.

An enemy to the entire world, foes were everywhere. Those who were enemies of the Kylin Clan itself, plus those who coveted his Kirin blood and bones—there were far too many.

Qi Xuan embarked on a path of battle and flight.

And, worthy of a heaven-blessed Genius, he grew fiercer with each fight.

From his initial blood-soaked escapes, struggling at the edge of life and death, he gradually adapted and began to strike back.

Setting an ambush in the Burial Saint Abyss, he counter-killed three descendants of enemies at the Great Saint Realm who came bearing forbidden artifacts, his Kirin True Fire incinerating the starry sky.

In the starry void, he faced seven top geniuses from different powerful clans alone.

After a fierce battle lasting three days, he ultimately tread upon the bones of his enemies, bathed in the light of flying immortals, and his cultivation broke through.

Qi Xuan's reputation accumulated amidst blood and slaughter. The more he was hunted, the more desperate his situations became, yet his combat power transformed and sublimated at an astonishing speed.

The fearsome and majestic name of 'Qi Xuan of the Kylin Clan' simultaneously resounded through the starry sky.

He was no longer prey, but had become the nightmare of countless enemies.

Qi Xuan once single-handedly charged into a starry sky killing trap set by a major enemy clan, forcefully broke through it, and seized that clan's supreme treasure, the Source of the Stellar Core.

He once dueled with another equally dazzlingly talented Genius within an ancient ruin, fighting until the starry river dimmed, ultimately achieving victory and departing gracefully.

Many began to say that Qi Xuan possessed the makings of a Great Emperor and might prove his Dao.

After two thousand years of bloody battles, treading upon endless piles of bones, Qi Xuan fought his way to the absolute peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm.

His azure-golden battle armor, forged from his own molted old scales and obtained immortal gold,

was stained with the blood of different powerful beings. The Great Dao runes condensed upon the single horn on his forehead were nearly perfect, each breath drawing in the radiance of the surrounding stars.

Qi Xuan fought through the entire Ancient Path, battled across all domains, and defeated all his enemies.

The forces that once hunted him had either withered away or were terrified by his reputation, no longer daring to face his might.

The entire cosmos marveled; Qi Xuan truly might prove his Dao and stand alongside his distant ancestor.

The Kylin Clan would once again become the imperial clan reigning supreme over the heavens!

"No need to long for the distant ancestor; I will surpass the distant ancestor!"

This was Qi Xuan's confident declaration.

This declaration shook all beings across the cosmos. Surpass an ancient Emperor?

It was confident, and also wildly arrogant!

But it was extremely difficult. After all, possessing the potential to prove one's Dao does not guarantee success. In every era, many have the potential, but how many truly prove their Dao?

Possessing the potential is merely the threshold for proving one's Dao.

The peerless great tribulation belonging to Qi Xuan descended as he was about to prove his Dao.

Qi Xuan's existence threatened the interests and stoked the fears of too many forces.

The Kylin Clan had far too many powerful enemies.

Three powerful beings sealed since ancient times broke free from their Seals.

This was a ruthless assassination attempt targeting Qi Xuan.

At the edge of the Universe, an ancient battlefield ruin was shattered into Chaos.

Divine blood boiled, evolving visions of an ancient Divine Court. An Ancient Clan ancestor roared. For seven full days,

that Star Domain grew utterly dark. Countless stars turned to dust. The rules of the Great Dao were thrown into disorder.

All powerful beings observing this battle believed this formidable Kirin had reached its end, as the numbers were not equal.

You, Qi Xuan, are a Genius, capable of fighting across levels. But who among those who reach the peak of Quasi-Emperor isn't a Genius? Can you fight several at once?

However, as the battlefield gradually calmed, endless divine blood and the shattered remains of Ancient Clan ancestors drifted in the cold void. Within the battlefield, only one figure still stood.

It was Qi Xuan. He had already reverted to his true Kirin form. His originally sacred azure-golden body was covered in deep, bone-revealing wounds. Flowing divine blood dyed it a dark gold.

But he still held his head high, his four hooves planted on the fragments of shattered stars, the single horn on his forehead still shining with an unyielding Dao light.

Qi Xuan surveyed his surroundings. Wherever his gaze fell, there was not a single living enemy left.

"Who else?"

A roar, carrying weariness yet radiating even greater majesty and desolation, shook the cosmos. It declared the end of this brutal assassination attempt and heralded the birth of a terrifyingly powerful being.

At the zenith of the Universe, Qi Xuan triggered his own Great Dao-proving tribulation.

Tribulation clouds covered the edge of the Universe. He bathed in world-destroying thunderous light, using his wounded body to withstand the Heavenly Tribulation, piercing through the myriad daos with his horn, incinerating all falsehoods with his true fire.

When the final tribulation thunder dispersed, a majestic, vast, and mighty Imperial Dao Law, carrying an aura of auspiciousness and warfare, swept across all realms like a tide.

The myriad daos resonated. Billions of strands of auspicious light shone. Countless Kirin phantoms ran and roared across the starry sky.

The Kylin Great Emperor proved his Dao in this era!

The cosmos was in an uproar, all beings were shaken. This Qi Xuan, who fought his way out from a path of pursuit, treading upon the bones of countless geniuses and ancient powerhouses to reach the pinnacle,

with his indisputable iron-bloodedness and power, became the sole Emperor of this era.

His legend began as a hunted orphan and culminated as a Great Emperor revered by all heavens.

An Imperial Dao epoch belonging to Qi Xuan began amidst blood and fire.

After proving his Dao, the first thing Kylin Great Emperor Qi Xuan did was not to proclaim his majesty to the heavens.

Instead, he restrained all his Imperial might and quietly returned alone to that desolate, dead Kirin Ancestral Star.

Using his supreme Great Emperor power, he drew upon the radiance of the surrounding stars and realigned the shattered earth veins.

The dead star began to revive. Dried-up riverbeds surged with spiritual springs. Cracked earth gave birth to miraculous plants. The dim sky once again gathered auspicious clouds.

Though it could not compare to the peak of the ancient era, it finally regained the appearance and Foundation of a life-giving ancestral land.

While doing all this, Qi Xuan's expression was calm, without excitement, as if merely fulfilling a responsibility that should have been his to bear.

He stood silently before his parents' graves for a long time, his azure-golden imperial robes swaying gently in the wind stirred by the stars.

"Father, Mother," Qi Xuan murmured softly.

"I did it. I have proven my Dao and become an Emperor. I have not brought you shame. A mixed-blood Kirin can also become supreme, can also be invincible."

After paying his respects, Qi Xuan found a place nourished by spiritual energy on the ancestral star and began his post-proving seclusion.

He did not, like many Heavenly Venerables and Ancient Emperors, immediately and ostentatiously establish an imperial court after proving his Dao, to rule the heavens and summon all clans to pay homage.

To him, establishing a great power held no meaning.