574: Chapter 574

The power of the rules within the Ancient Chaos Ruins sent Qin Yun back to the middle layer.

When he reappeared in the Stone Tablet area, the originally noisy atmosphere in the field instantly fell silent.

Everyone's eyes fell upon him.

This time, it wasn't simple shock.

It was greed, wariness, jealousy—a mixture of every negative emotion, an almost tangible malice.

"He's out!"

"The second time... he actually came out of the core area alive for a second time!"

After a brief silence, the crowd completely erupted.

If stepping into the core the first time could be attributed to extraordinary talent and being blessed with Luck...

Then this second time completely shattered everyone's understanding.

"Impossible... the Ancient Chaos Ruins have opened so many times, yet I've never heard of anyone entering the core twice!"

"Among the young Prodigies of this generation, those who could enter via Stone Tablet certification or Ancient War Tokens can be counted on one hand. But even they only went in once and never had another chance!"

"How exactly did he do it? He actually managed to walk through the Ancient Path of Corpse Mountain!"

"He must have a secret we don't know about, perhaps even some kind of token that allows him to ignore the rules of the ruins!"

The atmosphere completely shifted at this moment.

It was no longer simple wonder and awe.

A more primal, more direct greed rapidly grew in everyone's hearts.

Entering the core twice—what did that mean?

It meant the Opportunity he obtained was twice that of others, perhaps even more!

What exactly was hidden in that core area that existed only in legends?

An Ancestor's Legacy?

An Immortal Divine Medicine?

Or a supreme method that could allow one to ascend to the heavens in a single step?

Qin Yun alone monopolized all the possibilities.

This completely shattered the psychological balance of all the Prodigies present.

"He must have a great treasure on him."

A narrow-eyed youth licked his lips, his voice raspy, the greed in his eyes almost undisguised.

"The opportunities of the Ancient Chaos Ruins should be shared by all who see them. For him to swallow them all alone is simply looking down on the heroes of the world too much."

Another Saint from an Ancient Sect with a steady aura spoke slowly, his words sounding high-minded and grand.

"Why don't we join forces and ask this Fellow Daoist to share his experiences and opportunities from the core area? To explore the Great Dao together—wouldn't that be a beautiful thing?"

"Well said!"

Someone immediately chimed in, their voice growing louder.

"If he doesn't hand it over, he makes himself an enemy of us Prodigies from the Thousand Realms!"

Just then, someone else quickly looked up Qin Yun's background and immediately spread a piece of news throughout the field that made everyone even more unscrupulous.

"This person comes from the Great Xia Holy Dynasty of the Heavenly Savage Domain!"

"Where is that? Just a remote little domain barely surviving under the iron hooves of the Yao Race!"

"He has no Imperial Clan, Ancient Imperial Dynasty, or Longevity Family backing him! At most, he has one or two ordinary Saints as supporters!"

This news was like a spark that ignited everyone's greed.

No background.

Carrying great treasures.

In their eyes, he was no longer a person, but a piece of fat meat that could be cut and divided at will.

The Prodigies who were still somewhat hesitant now had no more scruples.

Some who were previously competitors actually reached a tacit understanding at this moment.

Dozens of figures closed in from all directions, faintly forming a circle of encirclement.

The outermost were the ordinary Prodigies who considered themselves slightly inferior in strength but didn't want to miss the chance; they were responsible for blocking Qin Yun's retreat.

The inner layer consisted of possessors of various powerful Physiques; they were the main force responsible for taking action to suppress him.

And behind the crowd, there were a few figures with the most terrifying auras, waiting and not yet acting.

They were waiting.

Waiting for Qin Yun to be exhausted and heavily injured, so they could deliver the fatal blow and snatch the final Opportunity.

The Primordial Beginning Saint Body and the Wugou Saint Body, two of the Ten Great Saint Bodies...

The Sun God Body of the Peerless Divine Bodies... successors of top-tier Saint Bodies who could suppress the Luck of an entire region in the outside world all appeared in the encirclement.

Even further away in the shadows stood a youth with an aura as steady as a mountain.

He was surrounded by a faint trace of Imperial Might, and his every move seemed out of place with this world.

The Heaven-Dominating War God Body.

A Half-Emperor Body infinitely close to an Emperor Body.

He was the ultimate hunter of this hunt.

The faces of the few people from the Great Xia Holy Dynasty turned pale. Xia Qingyue bit her lip hard and forced herself to stand by Qin Yun's side, only to be signaled by him to step back.

Qin Yun watched the tightening encirclement and the undisguised greed and killing intent on those faces, his expression remaining calm.

He didn't explain, nor did he back down.

"Do it."

The Primordial Beginning Saint Body let out a cold snort and was the first to strike.

"Arrogant!"

He struck out with a palm, Primordial Beginning Qi diffusing and turning into a gray palm print that sealed the space and suppressed everything in its path.

Simultaneously, several Prodigies attacked from different directions.

Flaming blade light, lightning secret techniques, Divine Soul attacks... dozens of Divine Abilities and Magical Artifacts, like a heavenly net, instantly enveloped Qin Yun.

They wanted to force out Qin Yun's trump cards with the minimum cost.

Qin Yun stood in place, neither dodging nor avoiding.

He simply raised his hand and threw a punch.

Boom!

Gold-red blood energy erupted, and without any fancy tricks, it collided head-on with that Primordial Beginning palm print.

The palm print shattered on the spot.

The other Divine Abilities and secret techniques landed on him, but they couldn't even shake the protective divine light on his body in the slightest.

Right then, a Prodigy saw an Opportunity and turned into a phantom, actually trying to rush in during the chaos to suppress Qin Yun's sea of consciousness with a secret method and snatch his storage artifact.

Qin Yun's eyes finally turned cold.

"Seeking death."

He no longer held back.

Boom!

Boom!

Two completely different Emperor Body pressures erupted from his body simultaneously!

One was like a brilliant sun, extremely yang and rigid, incinerating all things.

One was like the eternal heavens, heavy and ancient, suppressing all ages.

The Taihuang Holy Venerable Sun Body!

The Heavenly Immortal Body!

Dual Emperor Bodies revealed!

That terrifying pressure was like two ancient divine mountains crashing down.

The air in the entire Stone Tablet area solidified.

The Prodigies rushing at the very front bore the brunt of it; their protective spiritual lights were like paper, shattering instantly.

Some were pressed down to their knees on the spot, spitting blood.

Others had their Divine Souls nearly torn apart, bleeding from their seven orifices and fainting on the spot.

"What kind of Physique is this?"

The successor of the Primordial Beginning Saint Body's face changed drastically, the greed in his eyes instantly replaced by terror.

"Impossible! How could there be someone in this world who possesses two such terrifying Physiques!"

But Qin Yun didn't give him time to continue being shocked.

"Heaven-Sealing!"

The phantom of an ancient seal manifested in mid-air and crashed down.

The entire space was completely sealed.

Everyone's movements became sluggish at this moment.

"I'll kill you first."

Qin Yun's gaze locked onto the narrow-eyed youth who was the first to clamor and incite the crowd to snatch the treasure.

He took a step forward, ignoring the spatial obstruction, and instantly appeared in front of the man.

One punch.

Before the terror on the Prodigy's face could dissipate, his entire body exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

Divine Soul destroyed.

Qin Yun didn't stop.

His figure flashed again, appearing before another Prodigy who had shouted the loudest earlier.

Still just one punch.

Another cloud of blood mist.

In an instant, several of the loudest among the besiegers were killed on the spot.

This completely shattered the courage of the first layer of attackers.

"Attack together! Don't let him pick us off one by one!"

The Primordial Beginning Saint Body successor roared; he knew that if they didn't fight for their lives now, no one would be able to leave today.

He activated his Saint Body Origin, evolving a Primordial Beginning Millstone that pressed down toward Qin Yun.

The possessor of the Wugou Saint Body also acted, the holy Wugou divine light turning into a heavenly blade that slashed toward Qin Yun's Divine Soul.

The two top-tier Saint Bodies joined forces with world-shaking power.

"Good timing."

Qin Yun snorted coldly, pushing the Taihuang Holy Venerable Sun Body to its limit.

Behind him, the phantom of a crimson-gold sun rose up, colliding head-on with that Primordial Beginning Millstone.

Boom!

The millstone was smashed to pieces on the spot.

The Primordial Beginning Saint Body successor felt as if he'd been struck by lightning, spitting out a large mouthful of Origin essence blood as his aura instantly withered.

Qin Yun didn't even look at him, pointing a finger back.

A Sword Intent fused with the aura of the Heavenly Immortal Body struck first, directly meeting that Wugou Heavenly Blade.

Screech!

The heavenly blade snapped in the middle.

The possessor of the Wugou Saint Body screamed, a bloodstain appearing on his brow as his Divine Soul was heavily injured on the spot, and he fell to the ground.

"Retreat! Quickly retreat!"

"He's a monster!"

The remaining few Saint Body successors didn't dare to step forward anymore; their souls were terrified as they turned to flee.

But under the Heaven-Sealing Seal, where could they run?

Qin Yun's figure moved rapidly through the crowd.

With every strike, a top-tier Prodigy who was famous in their region fell.

Either blown apart by a punch or having their soul severed by Sword Intent.

No one could withstand even a single move from him.

This was no longer a battle.

This was a one-sided massacre.

Finally, the Overlord War Body who had been hiding at the very back could no longer sit still.

He had wanted to reap the benefits of the conflict, but he hadn't expected this group of people to be so vulnerable before Qin Yun.

"Trash!"

He roared and took a step forward.

A domineering aura far exceeding that of an ordinary Saint Body swept through the field.

"Kid, your Physique is strong, but your foundation is still shallow!"

"Today, I'll let you see what true power is, and what background and foundation mean!"

His body swelled, his muscles bulging like a demon god walking out of an ancient battlefield; he threw a punch, making the space itself wail.

Qin Yun looked at him, and a trace of seriousness finally appeared in his eyes.

He didn't take the hit head-on.

Instead, the moment the opponent's fist was about to reach him, he raised his hand.

In his palm, a light so white it was blinding erupted.

Taihuang Sun-Rending.

That was the first Divine Ability of the Taihuang Holy Venerable Sun Body, his strongest killing method currently.

Wherever the white light passed, everything dissolved.

The Overlord War Body's punch, capable of splitting mountains and stones, was instantly melted through by that white light like ice and snow meeting a blazing sun.

The confidence and arrogance on his face froze instantly.

"No..."

He only had time to utter a single syllable before his entire being was completely erased from head to toe by that brilliant Fissure Sun divine light.

The entire field fell completely silent.

Qin Yun stood amidst the corpses, the divine glow of his Dual Emperor Bodies flowing around him like a god or demon.

The remaining Prodigies no longer dared to have even a hint of greed; their faces were ashen, their bodies trembling, and they didn't even have the courage to retreat.

Qin Yun looked around, his gaze passing over the faces of the survivors one by one.

He spoke slowly, his voice not loud, yet it fell heavily on everyone's hearts.

"Who else wants my Opportunity?"

No one dared to answer.

...

Outside the Ancient Chaos Ruins, in the temporary camps of various major forces.

*Crack!*

Deep within a certain Imperial Sect, a soul lamp enshrined in the ancestral hall suddenly went out.

The Elder guarding the ancestral hall turned pale and rushed out in a panic.

"This is bad! The Imperial Son... the Imperial Son's soul lamp has gone out!"

Almost at the same time.

In the palace of the Wugou Imperial Dynasty, the golden dragon jade pendant representing the Luck of the Godly Dynasty's Crown Prince shattered into pieces.

*Pfft!*

The Lord of the Imperial Dynasty's eyes were full of disbelief.

In the Forbidden Ground of an Immortal Imperial Clan in the First Domain of the Great Continent, the War Tablet inscribed with the Bloodline mark of the strongest successor of the current generation exploded, turning into fine powder.

"Who! Who exactly was it!"

An angry roar came from the deepest part of the Ancient Imperial Clan, shaking the entire mountain range.

It wasn't just one place.

Hundreds of top-tier Orthodoxies and Immortal Families received news at the same time that their core successors had fallen.

At first, they thought it was an ordinary conflict within a Secret Realm.

But soon, when the news was compiled, no one could sit still.

It wasn't just one or two who died.

It was a whole group!

It was the most top-tier, most brilliant, and most promising group of the young generation!

They were nearly wiped out in the same place by the same person.

The entire Shenxuan Heavenly Continent was completely shaken.

An unprecedented storm was brewing.