260: Cao Mengxian became emperor in his physical body

Cao Bu saw through their silence.

"So, what you loathe is not the forced marriage, but the person who forced the marriage, which is me."

"In your eyes, even if my combat power is extraordinary, I am still the Adopted Son of Gu Qingtian."

"Deep down, you are unwilling to admit that the person standing before you right now is more powerful and more irresistible than my Adopted Father."

He stepped back two paces, his tone softening, yet carrying a deeper pressure.

"I am not asking for your approval; I am simply telling you the reality."

"The reality is that I am stronger than you, the people behind me are stronger than your Clan Chief, and even stronger than all four of your clans combined."

"And you, from the moment you agreed, have already made your choice."

"Between the survival of your clans and your personal dignity, you and your elders chose the former."

"Since that is the case, stop putting on this look of being insulted."

The palace was deathly silent.

Long Qingxin closed her eyes.

She remembered the ashen and helpless look in her father's eyes when he left the banquet, and the grief and indignation of the entire clan who dared to be angry but dared not speak.

Cao Bu's words peeled away all the flowery excuses, revealing the bloody essence.

The Four Sacred Realm had yielded, and they had yielded as well.

It was not yielding to reason, but to the unfathomable woman behind him, and to his own strange and unpredictable strength.

What was the point of resisting further, other than bringing disaster to the clan and making oneself even more embarrassed?

Feng Nishang's red dress stirred without wind, then returned to stillness.

She looked at Cao Bu, and the fire in those Phoenix eyes, which always carried pride, gradually extinguished, turning into a gloom of resignation.

Cao Bu was right; how much of their hatred stemmed from the event itself, and how much from their deep-seated contempt for Cao Bu?

Bai Shuang loosened her fists, and her shoulders slumped slightly.

That palm strike back then had completely shattered all her proud declarations.

In his Domain, all her attacks had become futile.

The gap in strength was so desperate.

Xuan You was the first to lower her eyelids.

She was from the Black Tortoise Clan and understood best how to assess the situation.

When an irresistible force descends, resisting head-on only brings destruction.

Accepting, and then finding the possibility of surviving or even benefiting within this established fact, was her nature.

Cao Bu stopped speaking and simply waited.

After a long while, Long Qingxin slowly opened her eyes, the calm restored in her pupils.

She raised her hand and untied the thin belt at her waist.

"Extinguish the lights."

Feng Nishang turned her face away, her fingers stiffly touching her own clothing belt.

Bai Shuang took a deep breath, raised her hand to remove her shoulder armor, and the metal made a dull thud as it hit the ground.

Xuan You remained silent, her ink-colored skirt quietly loosening.

In the darkness, clothing rustled to the floor.

There was no affection, no blending, only silent endurance and occupation.

The rules of power operated at this moment in the most primitive way.

A Cultivate session that began with oppression took place in the silent palace.

Four once-brilliant Prodigy radiances now yielded to a more tyrannical Law of power.

Until dawn.

Five auras rose!

The Azure Dragon phantom circled, the Phoenix phantom cried out, the White Tiger phantom roared, and the Black Tortoise phantom floated, finally all merging into Cao Bu's body!

His aura began to climb crazily.

Seventh Level Quasi-Emperor!

Eighth Level Quasi-Emperor!

Ninth Level Quasi-Emperor!

Three days later.

Cao Bu walked out of the sleeping palace, his aura like an abyss and a sea, his Ninth Level Quasi-Emperor cultivation base as stable as Mount Tai.

Fang Ruodan stood quietly in the courtyard, seeing Cao Bu walk out, she said excitedly: "Cao Bu, you are a Ninth Level Quasi-Emperor."

Cao Bu nodded: "It is thanks to their help."

As the words fell, four beautiful figures walked out from behind him.

It was Long Qingxin and the other three women.

They walked out fully dressed, each with a complex expression.

Overnight, they had not only lost their innocence, but their cultivation had each improved by one level.

Long Qingxin reached the Seventh Level Great Emperor, Feng Nishang reached the Sixth Level Great Emperor, Bai Shuang reached the Fifth Level Great Emperor, and Xuan You reached the Fourth Level Great Emperor.

This improvement should have been joyful, but the four women had mixed feelings.

"Four wives, there is one more thing." Cao Bu took out the ten thousand fragrances paying homage to the phoenix diagram, and as the scroll unfolded, over a dozen female phantoms floated within: "Force out a wisp of Primordial Spirit and Essence Blood to merge into this diagram."

"On what grounds?!" Bai Shuang said angrily.

Cao Bu's eyes turned cold: "On the grounds that This Clan Head is your husband, and that your life and death are within my single thought."

Fang Ruodan released a bit of her aura.

The four women gritted their teeth and looked at each other, finally having to comply.

Four wisps of Primordial Spirit and four drops of Essence Blood flew into the ten thousand fragrances paying homage to the phoenix diagram, and the phantoms of the four women immediately appeared in the diagram, establishing an unbreakable connection with Cao Bu!

From then on, the life and death of the four women were controlled by Cao Bu.

The next day.

The Dragon Clan treasury, located beneath the ten-thousand-zhang deep sea.

Long Aotian opened layers of Restriction, revealing a huge cave.

Inside the cave, spirit crystals were piled like mountains, Spiritual Artifacts were dazzling, and there were countless Dragon Clan secret treasures.

Cao Bu strolled through, his Divine Thought sweeping over.

"The first item." He pointed to a cyan dragon scale: "Primordial Azure Dragon Inverse Scale."

Long Aotian felt immense pain.

That was the only relic left by his great-grandfather, containing Primordial Dragon Might!

"The second item." Cao Bu walked towards a box: "True Dragon Ganoderma."

"The third item." Cao Bu's gaze fell on a cyan dragon pearl: "Azure Dragon Pearl."

"The fourth item..."

Long Aotian was almost vomiting blood; every treasure was a supreme treasure contested by various Great Emperors in the Spirit Realm.

Now that ten items were lost at once, he was so angry he almost fainted.

The Phoenix Clan treasury, located deep within the Undying Volcano.

Feng Jiuxiao opened the Restriction, full of crimson: fire crystals, Phoenix feathers, Nirvana stones...

Cao Bu chose: Primordial Phoenix True Feather, Nine-Turn Nirvana Pill, Southern Bright Separation Fire Essence...

The White Tiger Clan treasury, located underground in the battlefield of slaughter.

Bai Zhan opened the treasury, with Killing Intent soaring to the sky: tiger bones, slaughter Emperor weapons, White Tiger Evil Qi...

Cao Bu chose: White Tiger Old Ancestor's tiger tooth, Slaughter Law crystal, Breaking Army Star Core...

Finally, the Black Tortoise Clan treasury.

Although Xuan Zhong was unwilling, he was forced by pressure to open the treasury under the Xuanming Abyss.

Cao Bu chose: Black Tortoise Old Ancestor's shell fragment, Xuanming Heavy Water, Heart of the Earth...

With forty supreme treasures in hand, Cao Bu was satisfied.

Four Sacred City, central square.

Cao Bu sat cross-legged, with twelve supreme treasures in front of him, as well as the Essence Blood of the four Sacred Beasts collected earlier.

"Ruo Dan, be my Protector."

"Yes." Fang Ruodan nodded.

Cao Bu operated the Twelfth Level Mind-Cultivation Technique of the Primordial Indestructible Scripture.

The Primordial Azure Dragon Inverse Scale merged into his left arm, the True Dragon Ganoderma merged into his Bloodline, and the Azure Dragon Pearl sank into his Dantian.

The Primordial Phoenix True Feather merged into his right arm, the Nine-Turn Nirvana Pill burned his Physical Body, and the Southern Bright Separation Fire Essence tempered his tendons and bones.

The White Tiger Old Ancestor's tiger tooth merged into his spine, the Slaughter Law crystal merged into his Divine Soul, and the Breaking Army Star Core lit up his acupoints.

The Black Tortoise Old Ancestor's shell fragment merged into his skin, the Xuanming Heavy Water washed his Meridians, and the Heart of the Earth stabilized his Foundation.

The Essence Blood of the four Sacred Beasts converged in his body, and the phantoms of the four Sacred Beasts—Azure Dragon, Phoenix, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise—appeared behind him, roaring and hissing!

The Yin-Yang Two Energies rotated in his body, harmonizing the power of the four Sacred Beasts!

"Boom—!"

The sky suddenly darkened!

Dark clouds gathered over the entire Four Sacred Realm, and lightning rolled within them!

That was not an ordinary Lightning Tribulation, but a Sacred Beast Physical Body Emperor Tribulation carrying the phantoms of the four Sacred Beasts!

"He wants to undergo the Tribulation at this time?!" Long Aotian was horrified.

"And it is a Physical Body Emperor Tribulation!" Feng Jiuxiao was shocked: "He wants to achieve Emperor status via his Physical Body!"

Bai Zhan stared fixedly at Cao Bu: "Madman, the power of the four Sacred Beasts has not been fully harmonized, undergoing the Tribulation now is certain death!"

Xuan Zhong's eyes were complex: "No, look, the phantoms of the four Sacred Beasts are resonating with him."

Sure enough, the phantoms of the four Sacred Beasts not only did not attack Cao Bu, but circled around him, seemingly protecting him!

The first bolt of lightning fell.

Azure Dragon Lightning Tribulation!

A ten-thousand-zhang cyan lightning dragon roared and swooped down!

Cao Bu did not dodge or evade, letting the lightning dragon bombard his Physical Body!

The lightning exploded on his skin, leaving only faint white marks!

The second bolt of lightning: Phoenix Fire Tribulation!

Seven-colored flames descended from the sky, with a temperature high enough to incinerate stars!

Cao Bu opened his mouth and inhaled, swallowing all the flames into his belly, and with a turn of the Yin-Yang Two Energies in his body, the flames turned into pure energy!

The third bolt of lightning: White Tiger Killing Tribulation!

Billions of silver Killing Intent condensed into blades and swords, falling like a deluge!

Cao Bu raised his hand and pressed it, the Virtual-Real Yin-Yang Boundary unfolded, and all the Killing Intent turned into nothingness after entering the Domain!

The fourth bolt of lightning: Black Tortoise Dao Tribulation!

Pitch-black heavy water poured down like a heavenly river, each drop as heavy as a mountain!

A Black Tortoise shell phantom appeared around Cao Bu, and the heavy water bombarded it, only causing ripples!

When the eighty-one Lightning Tribulations passed, the dark clouds dispersed, and auspicious signs descended from the sky!

Cao Bu stood up slowly, his skin like jade, with the patterns of the four Sacred Beasts faintly flowing!

With every gesture, space automatically twisted and avoided him!

Physical Body achieved Emperor status!

And not an ordinary Great Emperor, but one that fused the Origin of the four Sacred Beasts: Four Sacred Emperor Body!