Sage Monarch

by Stayrr

Yang Qi was the son of the patriarch of a wealthy family from a small town. Believing himself to be in love, he stole a pill for his lover, only to have the girl betray him, by taking the pill and leaving him behind. Caught, his dantian was crippled and left to die under the lightning. This lightning helped him to recover his lost martial arts and also helped him gain a new, divi

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Chapter 1477: Reconstructing the Dragon Lair

Yang Qi had pulled everything off as planned, and acquired a huge windfall. He was now in a position to be a truly powerful person in the god world.

People who didn't have their own kingdoms or empires couldn't be considered potentates of the god world. After all, such potentates required immense destiny.

Yang Qi didn't have the billions of years it would take to build up an organization from scratch. Therefore, he had to steal the fruit of others' labor. His most recent efforts had netted him more pieces of the Mahātmā Jade, the Myriad Dragons Lair, the Chiliocosm Pagoda, the head of King Heaven-Devourer, and the blood of the King of Godmammoths. The only thing he had failed to do was subjugate Dugu Yunkong. Everything else had succeeded wildly.

That aspect was a true pity. It was a blemish in an otherwise perfect thing, like a slight flaw in white jade.

That being said, Yang Qi wasn't worried too much about losing Dugu Yunkong. Right now, his first priority was to conquer all of the Dragonfolk, and make sure the destiny of the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom burned like the sun.

Without getting his internal affairs in order, how could he possibly lead the kingdom to glory on the outside?

His second priority was to bring more humans in to populate the Myriad Dragons Lair. The dragon kingdoms weren't sufficient. Therefore, he planned to reconstruct the lair in a large way, making it a free and independent world. That would make it far more formidable.

Few people would dare to even attempt such a thing, but Yang Qi was different.

He had a plan.

The Myriad Dragons Lair was similar in many ways to the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart. Unfortunately, it wasn't big enough to support a colossal organization like the House of the Invincible. But it could serve as a foundation to stockpile resources.

The first step in reconstructing it was to draw upon the power of the Halls of Heaven, then pour it into the essence of the lair and use it to expand it, and also alter its fundamental structure.

Right now, any non-Dragonfolk who was under the Paramount God level couldn't even enter the place safely without being dragonized. That was what made it unsuitable for humans; or any other beings for that matter. Only by making it safe for all kinds of people could it be considered a grand and unified nation.

Yang Qi wanted it to be a place for everyone, irrespective of their background.

"Rise, Third Devil General. True, I've subjugated you. But I haven't harmed you in any way. And considering the level of your cultivation base, there's no need for you to grovel. As you may have guessed, I'm a Fateless One, who came to exist out of nothing. And I'm foreordained to become like the Sovereign Lord. Neither you, nor the Second Devil General, will suffer due to serving me. You'll only benefit in the long run. For now, I want the three of you to go out into the Myriad Dragons Lair and get in contact with the Dragonfolk old-timers and leaders. Get them to acknowledge allegiance to me. Given how strong you three are, you should be able to do that. In the meantime, I'm going to start reconstructing the lair, transforming its dao of heaven and altering its magical laws."

WHOOSH!

Already, the destiny of the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom was becoming purer and stronger, causing intense rumbling sounds to fill it. And at the same time, it surged with an aura that represented justice, righteousness, order, and law.

After all, its leader, Yang Qi, now had the Dragon Compendium, which made him the orthodox ruler of the Myriad Dragons Lair. However, it wasn't a case of true orthodoxy in the general sense. Only the Central Dynasty was truly orthodox.

"Third Devil General, Yang Jian, let's go," said the Second Devil General. "We're going to pay a visit to the Dragonfolk old-timers!" The Second Devil General was already in line with Yang Qi's will, and would do whatever he asked.

In the depths of the Myriad Dragons Lair, there were old-timers who had cultivation bases of ten billion or more. They weren't to be looked down on, and absolutely had to be subjugated before Yang Qi could truly unify the place. Otherwise, fighting would eventually break out, leading to immense casualties that would severely harm the destiny.

"Before you leave, I'll bless you with the essence of the Myriad Dragons Lair. You'll be able to travel anywhere in this place without being affected by any of the spell formations. Now go and help me cleanse this place."

His gaze had long since pierced into the depths of the lair, and he knew that many of the powerful old-timers had gathered together in defense, setting up spell formations to help. But since Yang Qi controlled the essence of the Myriad Dragons Lair, he could obviously deal with such spell formations.

Those formations were like tumors that would need to be excised eventually. And any of the old-timers who refused to give in also needed to be crushed.

Yang Qi even saw some old-timers holding secret meetings and trying to come up with plans to break out of the lair.

Sadly for them, the lair was now like the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart. It existed in a state of Nevasaññānāsaññāyatana, which meant that escaping it was impossible. Only someone with a cultivation base like King Immortal-Slayer, a half Annulled expert, could stand a chance. And none of the old-timers were that strong. If they were, they would have already taken the King of Godmammoths' sealing mark, established a larger kingdom, and waged war on the Central Dynasty.

Having blessed Yang Jian and the Second and Third Devil Generals with the essence power of the lair, they were equipped with a powerful weapon that would let them decapitate enemies first, and report the matter later. There was no way the old-timers in the lair could stand up to these three. And that was even more so, considering the Third Devil General was an actual dragon.

It was true that each generation will produce talented individuals; their dissertations will be passed down for centuries, but right now, there were simply no dragons who could match up to the Third Devil General.

"Do we start expanding now, Yang Qi?" asked Jadefall. "Do we start conquering more dragon kingdoms? Now that you have the Dragon Compendium, there's no way we'll meet defeat. We should be able to expand much more rapidly. Once this place is united, the destiny convergence will be incredible."

"There's no rush. Although I have the Dragon Compendium, I still have lots of reconstruction work to do. Going around fighting and killing will only damage the destiny of the Dragonfolk right now. I just sent the Second and Third Devil Generals out with Yang Jian to start spreading word about the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom. Soon, everyone here will know that I'm the rightful ruler, and hopefully we'll be able to start taking over the dragon kingdoms without having to wage war."

"What if they attack us in the hopes of getting the Dragon Compendium?" Yang Immortal-Slayer asked.

"That won't happen," Jadefall said. "With the compendium in hand, we control the various natural laws of the Myriad Dragons Lair. There's no way anyone could launch a full-scale assault on us. Doing it this way is perfect. The Second and Third Devil Generals are already famous, and the news about the Dragon Compendium will seal the deal. The dragon kingdoms will know that going up against us is just too dangerous."

"Jadefall's right. The compendium makes us unbeatable. And because no one can attack us, we don't need to go out waging war. In the past, we went on the offensive to stay alive. That's the dao of the sage monarch. Remember, sage inside, monarch outside. For now, we'll simply make sure all of the Dragonfolk know who the rightful ruler is, and wait for unity to result." Yang Qi's way of ruling was vastly superior to that of the viceroys of the House of the Invincible. And he had thought things through in a lot of detail. "Start setting up the spell formations. I'll tap into the starlight of the Halls of Heaven and start transforming the Dragon Compendium and the Myriad Dragons Lair into something suitable for me. Right now, they're designed for the Dragonfolk. I'm going to make them into something more like the Cruiser of Civilization."

By now, Yang Qi's cultivation base was no weaker than that of the Lord of Civilization himself. His cultivation base was at the level of ten billion, which was the ancient designation for the God-Lords. If Yang Qi were to be given a title in the old way, he would be the Lord of Sage Monarchs. Of course, he wasn't interested in a title like that. Besides, it would only make it easier for Proud Heaven to track him down.

He would rather remain hidden in the shadows.

With that, he reached out to the Halls of Heaven, causing dazzling starlight to fall into the Myriad Dragons Lair. Instantly, the flesh and blood that made it up started crystallizing, and in some locations, it exploded because of incompatibility with the power.

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Chapter 1478: Reconstructing the Dragon Lair Part 2

"Use the primal-chaos paleo-energy in an act of creation!" Yang Qi cried.

Power from the Halls of Heaven descended into the dragon lair, causing explosions because of power incompatibility, which sent shockwaves out in all directions.

It was a very dangerous situation. Truth be told, it was little wonder that explosions like this would result from forcibly attempting to transform a magical treasure. And the resulting chain reactions could easily ripple out and destroy everything inside it, including all of the Dragonfolk.

However, only the power of the Halls of Heaven could result in something this destructive.

Thankfully, Yang Qi had been prepared for this. Being no weaker than the Lord of Civilization, he exhaled deeply, sending numerous streams of primal-chaos paleo-energy out to cover the areas that were exploding.

As a result, the primal-chaos paleo-energy could draw on the power of the explosions to carry out acts of creation.

Years ago, in the ancient original primal-chaos, it was explosions such as these that created the numerous preheaven magical treasures and godlings of yesteryear, as well as all sorts of precious materials.

Now a similar thing was happening here, allowing Yang Qi to transform the substructure of the Myriad Dragons Lair.

In other words, he wanted the explosions!

"Let the power of the Halls of Heaven descend in torrents! Primal-chaos paleo-energy: flourish!" Howling, Yang Qi threw his hands up, and a vortex appeared above him, like a heavenly river coming from the Bastille of the One God. As it fell, the explosions increased, but Yang Qi just sent more primal-chaos paleo-energy out to cover them. As that energy combined with the power of the explosions, the world around him expanded. The flesh and blood of the Myriad Dragons Lair transformed, with beautiful mountains and rivers appearing, covered with lush vegetation, and bursting with preheaven spirit energy.

It was a minor god world of its own.

Yang Qi was imitating the Big Bang that happened within the early primal-chaos paleo-energy, resulting in the god world.

The primal-chaos paleo-energy seemed to flow without cease as Yang Qi drew it in from outside. Some old-timers would have magical treasures that could store primal-chaos paleo-energy; however, such treasures required a lot of power to operate. Furthermore, few old-timers knew how to manipulate the big bang explosions to do what Yang Qi was doing.

All of a sudden, one of the enormous big bang explosions, and the resultant combination of primal-chaos, produced a divine lamp. It was made of pure radiance and light, and was roughly the same size as the Everlit Godlamp. However, this was a preheaven treasure, and whoever took it would become like a new version of the Lord of Radiance and Light.

Yang Qi had done this intentionally. He was doing something without parallel in history. Most people who created treasures created postheaven versions, whereas he was creating the preheaven kind.

Even almighty people like the Lord of Radiance and Light, the other God-Lords, and even King Immortal-Slayer would be shocked if they could see this.

BAM!

Another big bang explosion ripped out, and a bottle gourd appeared from within. Then came something that resembled the Dragon Compendium. The aura of a minor god world flared, and it was perfectly suitable for everyone, not just dragons.

It was very much how things had been during the initial creation of the god world.

Everyone in the Sage Monarch Empire was flabbergasted, especially those who had once been part of the Deva Dynasty or the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. Under the leadership of the sage monarch magistrates, they quickly spread out into the new world, where they began to erect cities and buildings, as well as locations for cultivation.

Everything was extremely orderly, and the destiny flourished.

Yang Qi was working hard to make his own smaller imitation of the god world.

The Myriad Dragons Lair was like an enormous desert that Yang Qi was converting into a lush paradise.

RUMBLE!

All of a sudden, another big bang explosion occurred, resulting in the appearance of a continent. Upon it were primitive humans organized into tribes, the same type that had appeared in the original primal-chaos.

It was a shocking thing. At the same time, godlings appeared in the mountains and rivers of the continent. Fighting broke out between the primitive humans and the godlings, just as had occurred in the original creation of the god world.

A true world was being born.

More continents appeared, replete with more primitive people and godlings. To an outsider's perspective, it wasn't obvious, but time operated differently within those big bang explosions. While they might take only a moment to the outsider, inside the explosion, billions or trillions of years would pass, allowing for the proliferation of the humans and godlings.

It was something that only the power of the Halls of Heaven could fuel. Even if Yang Qi were ten times stronger than he was right now, he couldn't do it.

"This is amazing!" people said. Under the leadership of the two million sage monarch magistrates, they were traveling about into the new continents and found them to be true paradises.

Everything operated with complete order. And of course, many of the godlings and treasures that were being produced were harvested to create medicinal pills and other items to boost cultivation and fighting prowess.

Some of the primitive humans were also found to have exceptional qualities and potential, and were taken away for special training.

All of the things Yang Qi was doing were attracting the notice of various Dragonfolk old-timers.

Many of them had been eyeing him with the intention of attacking him and taking the Dragon Compendium away. However, after what they were seeing, they knew that any attempt would be pointless.

"Such incredible godpower. This is actual creation! He's transforming the Myriad Dragons Lair into a world of his own creation, a place like the god world. Only the power of the Halls of Heaven could do this. His minor god world is spreading, causing continents to rise up. Look at that destiny!"

"Terrifying. This is truly terrifying. It's a new world that he controls. If we attack him, it would be like attacking the Halls of Heaven."

"The Second and Third Devil Generals are traveling around telling everyone that the Myriad Dragons Lair has a new ruler. But we Dragonfolk are proud, and we obviously can't acknowledge allegiance to someone like that. If they attack us, we'll fight to the death. But we can't take the initiative to fight. He's creating his own world! How could we attack him? He's the orthodox ruler of the Myriad Dragons Lair, and he also has the God Legion Seal. He controls the Halls of Heaven! We Dragonfolk can't do anything to him!"

"Incredible. Look! Another continent popped up, and it's filled with preheaven treasures. And there are rare spirit medicines there. Is that a grand world godflower? Those flowers are extinct! Get them, and you can make some incredible medicinal pills that will heal all injuries. I was attacked by someone from the Central Dynasty years ago, and still have lingering injuries."

"So many preheaven treasures. If we join him, it might not be a bad thing after all. If he turns the Myriad Dragons Lair into a minor god world, we could all benefit."

Already, many of the old-timers were thinking of joining Yang Qi.

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Chapter 1479: Internal Restructuring

"Look," Jadefall said, "the hearts of the inhabitants of the Myriad Dragons Lair are changing. They used to be inherently antagonistic, but now it's different." She, Yang Immortal-Slayer, and others among Yang Qi's friends and family stood on a towering mountain peak that overlooked much of the Myriad Dragons Lair.

It was an enormous mountain, emerald green in color, jutting high into the sky, almost like a finger. It was actually made of pure jade, a type that had been produced in a big bang explosion and subsequently named heavensplendor jade. It suppressed vital energy and collected destiny, gathering the quintessence of heaven and earth into something particularly exquisite. It was something that could only come to exist because of primal-chaos big bang explosions, and was beyond the ability of any old-timer to create. In fact, it didn't exist anywhere else in the god world.

It was in the middle of the minor god world Yang Qi was creating, and from it, Yang Qi's brethren could see that the destiny of the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom was no longer chaotic and conflicting.

"Well, that's a given," the Shepherd said. "Not going on the warpath does have some advantages. We sit back while Yang Qi transforms the Myriad Dragons Lair into his minor god world. Within a few thousand years, everything is going to be completely united. And what are the Dragonfolk to do about it? They can't run. Surrendering is definitely the best option for them."

"Look!" Yang Doom said excitedly. "As the minor god world grows, the destiny increases, and that produces more sage monarch magistrates. Every new continent produces even more destiny! Land is the key to everything!"

"Incredible. Yang Qi is simply incredible." Buddha Lheafe and Buddha Shockheaven were astonished. As more people from the Sage Monarch Empire poured in and helped with the building projects, they cooperated fully with the Dragonfolk, all thanks to the sage monarch magistrates. There was no fighting, plotting, or scheming. Everything went in an orderly fashion. No criminals were allowed to go free, and no innocents were ever convicted of crimes.

Neither the most important leaders nor the lowliest citizens ever dared to cross the boundaries of propriety by even half a step. The empire was a well-oiled machine in which every tiny part operated properly and knew its place.

The efficiency on display was incredible. No one just sat around doing nothing, especially when it came to the expansion of the minor god world. Resources needed to be gathered, inventoried, stored, and used, ultimately turning into fighting prowess and power. It was complicated work, but the sage monarch magistrates monitored it perfectly.

If the House of the Invincible tried to found a minor god world, the selfish and corrupt government officials would immediately form conflicting interest groups, which would cause a decline in destiny. Instead of constantly producing more resources, they would do the opposite, fattening themselves to the detriment of the empire.

Although it might seem odd, sometimes an enemy invasion could serve to unite the people and cause a surge in destiny.

Ruling a nation involved understanding many of these things. The key was controlling the hearts of the countless people that made it up. That was the trick to true power.

Yang Qi understood all of that.

RUMBLE!

As the minor god world expanded, the destiny of other kingdoms flowed toward it as other leaders, interest groups, and peoples decided to join it.

Jadefall and the others were visibly delighted. As soon as a nation made its decision, the destiny would shift, even before they made a formal declaration of allegiance. Because of the natural changes that would occur to destiny because of these things, it was difficult for nations to hatch clever plots and schemes against each other.

A short time later, a host of peak Paramount Gods, all of them with cultivation levels in the billions, flew over together. "We're from the Kingdom of Roland, and we want to join the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom. Here's our official letter of state with all the details."

"I'll take it," Jadefall said. The letter of state flew over, and Jadefall looked it over, then shared it with the others. "Please, come into our minor god world. We're happy to discuss all of these matters in detail."

Jadefall and the others were late Paramount Gods with cultivation bases around a hundred million. Normally speaking, they couldn't have fought enemies with cultivation bases of a billion, but now their every move and action was backed by the national destiny of the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom. Plus, they could rely on the essence power of the Myriad Dragons Lair, which meant these experts felt shame just being in their presence.

It was similar to how, in the impure lands, an unimportant eunuch could carry an imperial edict to either appoint or execute even the most powerful generalissimo of the armed forces.

As these peak Paramount Gods entered the minor god world, they could sense the immense aura within it. And when they stepped onto the towering mountain peak, they could see all the grandeur of the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom, and the dense net of law created by its powerful destiny.

The Dragonfolk from the Kingdom of Roland included a generalissimo, a liberal senior minister, a conservative senior minister, a crown prince, and a royal uncle. They were the highest leaders of their land, with the exception of the king.

When they saw that the leaders of the Sage Monarch Empire were only late Paramount Gods, they weren't very impressed. But then they saw the net of law, and their hearts trembled in fear as they realized that Jadefall and the others could slaughter them in a moment.

They wouldn't even need to launch an attack. They could simply draw upon the essence of the Myriad Dragons Lair to launch internal attacks on them, or even eject them from the lair's greyspace.

In other words, they were invincible.

It was similar to how, not so long ago, Yang Qi and the Second Devil General could look into the Invincible Dynasty but not enter it. Nor could they kill even a minor official once inside.

The rumble of big bang explosions could be heard from the mountain peak as preheaven treasures came into being, and more continents rose up, which resulted in more destiny flowing forth.

The leaders from the Kingdom of Roland were shaking in their boots.

"Since you've come with your letter of state," Jadefall said, "we won't beat around the bush. Hand over your lands and people, and become citizens of the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom. Everyone here is equal. Sage monarch magistrates! Third Devil General!"

RUMBLE!

Everything trembled as a massive devil-dragon appeared, floating in the sky around the mountain peak. It was none other than the Third Devil General, flanked by a million sage monarch magistrates. "I'll take that letter of state. And I'll now lead my officials to take over your kingdom!"

The leaders from the Kingdom of Roland were so terrified by the Third Devil General that they couldn't resist at all.

With that, the Third Devil General led a huge army in the direction of the Kingdom of Roland. The Kingdom of Roland was roughly the same size as the Blood-Diamond Dragon Kingdom. However, with a million sage monarch magistrates, and the Third Devil General there to take charge, no one dared to act defiantly. Soon after, the destiny of the place was flowing into the net of law of the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom.

The leaders of the Kingdom of Roland had hoped to gain some advantages in the negotiations, and maybe even make the whole situation profitable for them. Sadly, their calculations were all pointless. They couldn't fight the Third Devil General, and in the end, they became servants.

Under the direction of the general and the magistrates, all the people of the Kingdom of Roland were escorted into the minor god world.

Yang Qi looked over at the previous location of the nation, and a huge explosion covered the land, which was then covered by a stream of primal-chaos paleo-energy. Moments later, another minor god world was born.

The people of the Kingdom of Roland felt like they had just narrowly escaped a major disaster, and were happy to be alive.

It was a psychological trick on the part of Yang Qi.

As soon as the kingdom joined him, he detonated their lands and created a minor god world, ensuring the citizens knew that they owed their life to him. And from now on, the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom would be their homeland.

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Chapter 1480: Delegations Come

The Kingdom of Roland had been subjugated and added to the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom. Any interest groups or factions within it were disbanded, and all of its people were cleansed and brought under the control of the sage monarch magistrates. Soon, they were busy concocting pills, practicing cultivation, and growing stronger.

Never had a massive kingdom been subjugated so quickly.

With all of its people subordinate to the net of law, they would follow all orders and never think of fanning the flames of disorder.

Even if the House of the Invincible conquered a kingdom, they wouldn't be able to root out the old factions, and it would inevitably lead to trouble. Yang Qi didn't have to deal with that. Anyone who harbored such thoughts would cause tremors in the destiny, and would be quickly tracked down and arrested.

Destiny came from the hearts of the people.

When the peoples' hearts were unsettled, destiny would be affected.

Of course, in the Invincible Dynasty, they had the Palace of Destiny to inspect the destiny. And one aspect of that was to hunt down errant behavior among the citizens. But that didn't stop important people in the dynasty from setting up private stockpiles of resources and destiny. In the end, it ensured that the dynasty was a hodgepodge of good and bad people.

There was no way anything like that could happen in the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom.

Many of the Dragonfolk old-timers had spent years campaigning on the outside, and had captured kingdoms of humans as their personal fiefdoms. But the sage monarch magistrates uncovered all such private stashes, and appropriated them for public use.

Unfortunately, Yang Qi knew that the Central Dynasty already had command of the truly orthodox destiny that existed. Even if his own destiny grew more intense, he couldn't compare with that. So he decided to take his destiny in a different direction.

As soon as the Kingdom of Roland became part of the Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom, its destiny transformed. Yang Qi could clearly see the net of law becoming a heavenly canopy that filled the souls of the people, transforming their fate in a heaven-shaking, earth-toppling fashion.

The destiny valuation was climbing.

Although he was still far from the level of the House of the Invincible, what he had at his command was in no way inferior to any of the top leaders there. After all, the destiny they could tap into was only a small fraction of what the sect as a whole controlled. In contrast, Yang Qi controlled all of the destiny in the Myriad Dragons Lair.

"Yang Qi," Jadefall said, "with the Kingdom of Roland having joined us, our destiny increased significantly. Do you want to initiate a large-scale takeover of the Myriad Dragons Lair? In my opinion, the sooner we take full control the better. Who knows what outside factors could cause problems."

"There's no rush. I control all aspects of the Myriad Dragons Lair, which means I even control time here. I'll shift things so that a single day on the outside is a thousand years inside. A thousand years should be enough time to unite the entire lair. Unfortunately, creating the minor god world I want to isn't going to happen that quickly. After all, I can't adjust the time in the Halls of Heaven."

"There's nothing you can do about that. The best we can do now is unify the Myriad Dragons Lair. After all, the more we take over, the more sage monarch magistrates we'll have. I was just doing some initial calculations with Yang Immortal-Slayer, and we came to the conclusion that running the entire lair isn't going to be easy. We need at least a hundred million magistrates, and right now, all we have is two million."

"I already thought of that. Since we don't have enough sage monarch magistrates, we have to subjugate as many Dragonfolk old-timers as possible, and enforce our laws strictly upon them. As long as I use the God Legion Seal on them, they'll have no choice but to follow orders. Although they won't run things as well as the magistrates, it's at least better than going on the warpath."

"That'll work," Jadefall said. "Should we start working on those old-timers right away?"

"No. First, let me make some adjustments to this influx of destiny. It should help to make some more sage monarch magistrates, which will make things easier overall. I want things settled and in balance before making another move. Furthermore, with all of the continents and minor god worlds I've created, there's plenty of resources and treasures to be harvested. Let's not let them go to waste. For now, focus on consolidating what I've already made, and continue sending delegations to the other dragon kingdoms to win them to our side."

The orders were sent down.

Of course, they had a big advantage, considering that the primary source of orthodoxy in the Myriad Dragons Lair was the Dragon Compendium in Yang Qi's possession.

Soon enough, experts were going out in all directions to start persuading the locals to join Yang Qi.

With all the enticements that were being offered, numerous kingdoms threw in their lot with Yang Qi over the following ten years. The Tower Heaven Kingdom, Fierce Dragon Kingdom, Fiend Evil Kingdom, Silver Blood Dragon Kingdom, Dao-Defying Dragon Kingdom, Soaring Dragon Kingdom, Double Nines Dragon Kingdom, Warfare Dragon Kingdom, Giant Dragon Kingdom, Heart-Shaking Dragon Kingdom, Grand Sun Dragon Kingdom, Moonlight Dragon Kingdom, Precious Treasure Dragon Kingdom, Myriad Oceans Dragon Kingdom, and more.

Numerous Dragonfolk kingdoms were offering their letters of state. Yang Qi would send delegations to get them, then gift their leaders with golden light from the God Legion Seal. Of course, that just let him take control of them.

Supposedly, in years past, the Sovereign Lord would occasionally summon new gods, and have the High Priestess oversee a ceremony to make them part of the legion of gods. During that process, he used the God Legion Seal to take control of them.

None of the Dragonfolk leaders put up any resistance, and the interest groups were dissolved.

As their people were moved into the minor god worlds, they started to become more and more packed.

Eventually, hundreds of years passed, while less than a day had gone by outside. Because of the disparity, Yang Qi couldn't draw on the power of the Halls of Heaven to make more minor god worlds. He could only maintain what he had already created.

To turn the entire Myriad Dragons Lair into a minor god world would probably take thousands of years of adjustments, and he didn't have that time. The only way to speed up the transformations would be to improve his cultivation base.

During the time that passed, Yang Qi had taken over about fifty percent of the Myriad Dragons Lair, thanks to his careful planning and execution of those plans.

The sage monarch magistrates had increased in number over the years, and there were now five million of them.

Also, Yang Qi's cultivation base improved, thanks to the increase in destiny provided by the sage monarch magistrates. His kingdom was expanding constantly.

Meanwhile, none of the other powerful Dragonfolk kingdoms dared to fight with him. Some were deluded enough to believe that they could form alliances to resist him. But in the end, all such efforts were useless. Perhaps if they had been vicious enough to gang up on him the moment he had taken the Dragon Compendium, not giving him any breathing room, and completely going for broke, they might have been able to force him to negotiate with them.

Sadly for them, even if they had been given more time to react, they could never have put their affairs in order to do that. And now that Yang Qi was on a roll, there was no alliance that could stop him.

As of now, forgetting about all the random tiny kingdoms that still existed, Yang Qi knew there were some places that had extremely powerful patriarchs, Dragonfolk with psychic scales and godhood ratings of ten billion. In fact, there were twenty-eight of them. Twenty-eight major dragon kingdoms.

After taking them, he would have all of the dragon kingdoms under his control. Unfortunately, the combined might of twenty-eight patriarchs of that level was nothing to look down on. Even the House of the Invincible, Central Dynasty, or Chiliocosm Dynasty would think twice about trying to take on a group like that.

'They're like the God-Lords of the past,' Yang Qi thought. 'And considering their numbers, they conform perfectly to the Twenty-Eight Mansions, which means they could form a very dangerous spell formation. I suppose I'll just have to besiege them.'

He waved his hand and summoned a map of the Myriad Dragons Lair.

Clearly visible were twenty-eight enormous kingdoms that were now linked together to form something like their own net of law. Although it was laughable compared to what Yang Qi had created, it did create a system of order that allowed for their area to be like a separate world within the Myriad Dragons Lair, not governed by the Dragon Compendium or the local natural laws.

It was an annoying obstacle that Yang Qi needed to deal with before his unification effort was complete.

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Chapter 1481: Twenty-Eight Potentates

The twenty-eight potentates had created an alliance that made them a world of their own. They were rivals to Yang Qi, and to some extent, their attempt to stave him off had worked. Thanks to the pressure he had provided, they finally came to understand how to distribute resources, unite their people, and converge destiny. Although they still had competing interest groups, their nations weren't filled with as much chaotic infighting as before.

Now that Yang Qi was attempting to exert full power in the Myriad Dragons Lair, he finally discovered this alliance of twenty-eight kingdoms that he couldn't penetrate with magical laws.

Of course, they weren't truly united. They were a loose federation, each part of which had its own interests at heart. Most of their destiny was wasted, and they had no hope of actually escaping.

He would crush them eventually, although now wasn't the time.

Initially, Yang Qi's kingdom definitely wasn't as strong as the alliance of twenty-eight. But after the hundreds of years that had passed, things were different. Furthermore, Yang Qi could bring resources in from the outside, while the alliance of twenty-eight could do nothing. And as the saying went, just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth. They couldn't leave, and they couldn't attack Yang Qi, who was growing stronger all the time. Because of that, Yang Qi saw that their people were in a state of unease.

Eventually, they would submit, whether they wanted to or not. Not even impassioned resistance would do anything. However, Yang Qi didn't want to turn things into a life or death battle. He viewed those twenty-eight kingdoms as his own, and didn't want them significantly damaged.

'Those old-timers don't want to give in. But at the same time, they're scared of me. I wonder how long they'll hold out.' He smiled and examined their destiny, which revealed how unstable they were.

Although they had created a net of law, there were impurities within it that came from the anxiety of the people as they watched the situation play out. And it was obvious that those circumstances would only get worse.

Worst of all, they had absolutely no hope. It really was a bitter situation.

"Wait another hundred years," Yang Qi said, "and we'll see what mood they're in. All the while, we'll continue to build our forces and get stronger.

The days ticked by.

The years ticked by.

With every year that passed, the minor god worlds produced more preheaven treasures, which enabled everyone to grow stronger. Eventually, the destiny valuation of the Sage Monarch Empire reached a level of so many tens of millions it was closing in on a hundred million.

He had five million sage monarch magistrates who could all subjugate peak Paramount Gods, even people with psychic scales and godhood ratings of over a billion.

Normally speaking, a nation like this couldn't form in thousands of years, let alone hundreds.

Jadefall and the others were growing stronger as well, thanks to all the blessings available. If national destiny could be used to make a Quasi-God into a peak Consummate God in the blink of an eye, what could hundreds of years of cultivation do for people like Jadefall?

The hearts of the people remained peaceful and calm.

Jadefall and all of Yang Qi's other friends and family were now in bottlenecks, having reached the level of nine hundred million nine hundred and ninety thousand. Soon, they would reach one billion. And considering they were Ascendants, once they became peak Paramount Gods, they would be elites among the elites.

By the House of the Invincible's reckoning, Yang Qi had so much destiny that even viceroys of a million lands would cower in front of him.

Another hundred years passed. There were now seven million sage monarch magistrates, and the burgeoning empire's destiny had reached a plateau.

Normally speaking, a kingdom would eventually reach a point where its destiny had passed its zenith and was on the decline. The hearts of the people would decline, and the nation would never return to its former glory.

But with the sage monarch magistrates, Yang Qi could always stay at the peak.

RUMBLE!

Yang Qi looked up and saw that the net of law was complete, and the power of his kingdom had reached the highest point it could at the moment. Now was the time to make his move.

It was time to face the twenty-eight dragon kingdoms.

After gathering his friends and family, he first took another chance to closely observe the twenty-eight kingdoms. Their nets of law were even more impure than before, and there were even areas of direct conflict.

Obviously, people were struggling over resources inside.

Hundreds of years had passed for them, and resources were getting lean. And since they didn't dare to invade Yang Qi's lands, they had to fight amongst themselves. As a result, their destiny was on the decline, and infighting was abounding.

In the end, Yang Qi didn't want to watch them crumble into nothing. Therefore, he decided to act.

"Third Devil General. Second Devil General. Yang Jian. You three come with me. We're going to pay a visit to this alliance of twenty-eight dragon kingdoms. The time has come to negotiate."

"Yes sir!"

Figuratively rolling up their sleeves and cracking their knuckles, they prepared for a day that had been long in the making.

They stopped at the border. Although Yang Qi could teleport into any location in the Myriad Dragons Lair, this place was blocked off.

"Come out, you twenty-eight potentates," he said in a booming voice that he bolstered with the power of the Dragon Compendium. "I'm here to chat. I have the Myriad Dragons Lair completely controlled and closed off, and you're just sitting there running out of resources. That's not a very good plan. There is virtue in sparing life, and I don't want to see you destroying each other. Therefore, I'll give you a chance to get out of this situation. As you can see, my kingdom is well established, and my destiny has reached a peak. I'm ready to open up the Myriad Dragons Lair and turn it into a full minor god world. If you don't acknowledge allegiance to me, I'll have to use force."

After his voice echoed out, it was obvious that the people in these kingdoms had been deeply shaken, as the destiny immediately grew more turbid.

RUMBLE!

All of a sudden, an enormous world appeared in the air, which was a gigantic meeting hall. The twenty-eight potentates were there, emanating the power that came from a godhood rating of ten billion. They were seated on thrones as they stared at Yang Qi, the Second Devil General, Third Devil General, and Yang Jian. One of them, an old-timer in a long white robe, said, "As they say, each generation will produce talented individuals and also heroes come from among the young. Who could have guessed that we would end up as the old-timers, even as a new era had come for the youngsters? Your name is Yang Qi, am I right, child? Please, come in and talk things over."

"This could be a trap," the Third Devil General said. "That right there is Paragon-King Sage Dragon, who was born directly out of the Dragon Compendium. He's even older than me, and he's definitely the backbone of this alliance."

"It doesn't matter," Yang Qi replied. "Let's go in. Crafty plots and machinations aren't going to do anything to me."

They flew into the meeting hall, whereupon four thrones rose up for them. Immediately, Yang Qi could sense the difference in this place, as he couldn't use the powers of the Dragon Compendium.

Without any pretense of courtesy, Yang Qi plopped down in one of the thrones and looked around. All the old-timers present were at the level of ten billion, and some were even higher than that. In fact, the white-robed Paragon-King Sage Dragon was beyond twenty billion, which made him stronger than the Third Devil General.

In fact, he was so high that Yang Qi couldn't completely assess him. But it didn't matter. If he wanted to be the rightful ruler, he had to get everyone to acknowledge allegiance to him.

There was no other option.

As soon as he sat down, the doors slammed shut, and the magical laws locked down the entire world. Yang Qi and his subordinates were now trapped like turtles in a jar.

One of the Dragonfolk old-timers, a man clad in a suit of armor, grinned viciously, slapped the table, and said, "You're really arrogant, aren't you? This is our meeting hall, got it? It's called the Myriad Dragons Holy Hall, and it's a magical treasure that we jointly created. You fell for our trap! You thought our destiny was in decline, and that we were just letting our resources waste away. The truth is that it was all to get your guard down. And we're not here to negotiate. We're here to end you forever!"

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Chapter 1482: Sinister Negotiations

The Dragonfolk old-timer in the armor was tall and burly, and he carried a scepter wrapped with vicious thorns. From his expression, he seemed to think of Yang Qi as nothing more than a fish on the chopping block.

He wasn't alone. All twenty-eight Dragonfolk old-timers had psychic scales and godhood ratings of around ten billion. In other words, they would have been God-Lords in ancient times. For all intents and purposes, as long as they pooled their strength, no one in the god world could possibly stand up to them.

Logically speaking, even if Yang Qi, Yang Jian, and the Second and Third Devil Generals were stronger than they were, they wouldn't be able to stand up to these twenty-eight Dragonfolk.

Before Yang Qi got his hands on the Dragon Compendium, that would have been true. But now, he controlled the Myriad Dragons Lair. This was his territory. His world. He controlled everything, and it was all these twenty-eight could do to simply defend themselves.

Unfortunately, the twist was that they had created their own territory inside of his, a territory that was separate from his control. He was now in their world, making the situation very different than it would have been on the outside.

As soon as the doors slammed shut, all of the gathered Dragonfolk experts' eyes locked onto Yang Qi, burning with cold killing intent. All of them seemed intent on taking his God Legion Seal, his magical treasures, and the national destiny he had access to.

Looking calmly at the posturing of the fellow in the armor, Yang Qi addressed the Third Devil General and said, "Who's this little dragon? And what exactly gives him the gall to rant at me like this?"

When the Third Devil General saw how calm Yang Qi was, she also remained calm. "Unfortunately, Milord, I have no idea who he is. But from his blood, I'd guess he's a later-generation heaven dragon."

Outside in the Myriad Dragons Lair, their group of four would have had nothing to fear from these twenty-eight experts. And although they had walked into a trap here, she was confident that Yang Qi had a plan.

"Calm down, Buddha Eastprime," Paragon-King Sage Dragon said. "We don't want fighting to break out. We're here to negotiate. Isn't that right, Yang Qi? Hopefully you can take an objective look at the situation. We have this place completely locked down, ensuring that the magical laws you control can't enter. You might have the Dragon Compendium, but you four aren't a match for us in here. There's really only one thing you can do. Give us control of the Dragon Compendium, leave the Myriad Dragons Lair, and hand over control of the kingdoms you've taken.

"I know you're very strong. But we can kill you if we have to. Sure, we'll have to pay a bit of a price, and some of us will even die in the process. That's why we'd rather just come to an agreement through negotiation. But if we have to, we aren't afraid to make sacrifices to get what we want."

Looking back at him coolly, Yang Qi said, "I have the God Legion Seal, all three thousand of King Heaven-Devourer's talismans, the Chiliocosm Pagoda, the Everlit Godlamp, and the Mahātmā Jade. And you want to take all of them? You've got quite an appetite, don't you? Frankly, I'm amazed."

Numerous Dragonfolk experts shot to their feet.

"What?! You have that many treasures? We actually had no idea!"

"This is perfect! Hand them all over, and you can walk out of here free and clear. Wait. No. You're obviously too important. You'll need to stay behind as our slave. You can help us manage our dragon empire. You're obviously skilled at administration, considering how much you've grown the destiny beyond what we could do."

"Excellent. He'll be the perfect slave to act as steward of our dragon kingdom."

"Your administrative skills are the only reason we're going to let you live, brat."

Already, the Dragonfolk old-timers were pulsing with immense pressure, seemingly indicating that they were about to make a move to forcibly crush Yang Qi.

Shaking his head in disappointment, Yang Qi said, "I'm very disappointed, Paragon-King Sage Dragon. You Dragonfolk old-timers are really close-minded. I can calculate the workings of heaven, and am able to smoothly manage a huge empire. Did you really think I'd fall for a little trap like the one you've set? And your repulsive chattering has really revealed your true motives. I actually did come here to negotiate with you, but obviously, negotiation isn't something you're interested in."

"Hold on!" Paragon-King Sage Dragon said. "You'd better not be putting on some kind of act. Do you really have some trick up your sleeve? I don't believe you do. We control everything inside this meeting hall, making it impossible for you to rely on the Dragon Compendium."

"Quite the blowhard, aren't we?" Yang Qi said. Obviously, these old-timers had been living high and mighty for too long. Without even moving a muscle, he said, "Tribulation Monarch Cannon!"

RUMBLE!

Everything seemed to move in slow motion as seven million sage monarch magistrates popped into being and fired their Tribulation Monarch Cannons.

Just what ferocious level of power would that entail?

A white column of light shot forth, smashing into the greyspace of the meeting hall, instantly shattering it and allowing the power of the Halls of Heaven to flood inside.

RUMBLE!

Yang Qi exhaled a stream of primal-chaos paleo-energy, and the resulting big bang explosions caused countless preheaven treasures to appear. And each of those treasures was a copy of the same thing: the Dragon Compendium!

They were exact copies of the real Dragon Compendium, just smaller. And all of them pulsed with the godpower of the Myriad Worlds Dragon Lair.

"Go!" Upon Yang Qi's command, the numerous Dragon Compendiums swirled together to form twenty-eight versions of the book, which then shot rapidly toward the twenty-eight Dragonfolk old-timers.

Yang Qi did all of these things, buying time with the Tribulation Monarch Cannons and using a stockpile of primal-chaos paleo-energy to create the copies of the Dragon Compendium, with such incredible speed that the twenty-eight experts had no idea what was happening.

To them, utter chaos had just broken out.

Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam.

However, they were soon forced to face reality as the Dragon Compendiums slammed into them. The dragon energy in the books instantly filled them with fear as they were sent flying backward.

"Attack!" Yang Qi growled.

SWISH!

Yang Qi, Yang Jian, and the Second and Third Devil Generals all sprang into motion, the four of them targeting a single person: the arrogant armored man known as Buddha Eastprime.

When he saw them closing in, he sensed the impending danger and let out a shout of rage. However, he was unable to track Yang Qi's movements, and had no idea which direction he would attack from, so he was forced to chop his hand out and send defenses springing up all around him.

"Cloud Dragon Rainstorm; Wrapped up in Wind!" he shouted, causing wind and rain to create a barrier against any incoming attacks.

Unfortunately for him, Yang Qi unleashed a vicious punch that pierced through the defenses and landed on Buddha Eastprime's belly, right where his dantian region was. Buddha Eastprime bent nearly in half, making him look like a cooked shrimp as tears streamed out of his eyes. Of course, the tears weren't caused by physical pain, but rather, psychological pain.

He was a Dragonfolk old-timer with a psychic scale and godhood rating of ten billion, putting him on the level of an ancient God-Lord. Yet Yang Qi, a person who shouldn't have even been able to stand up to him, had united the dragon kingdoms, and was now more than a match for him, or even Paragon-King Sage Dragon.

His three allies also landed blows, and before Buddha Eastprime could do a thing, Yang Qi's hand gripped his head, and he unleashed the power of the God Legion Seal. Moments later, a golden throne rose up as the man was enslaved.

"Attack again!"

In the time it took a spark to fly off a piece of flint, Yang Qi went from having three experts to help him, to having four.

The five of them didn't waste any time. They immediately turned on another of the old-timers, an old man in gray clothing who had been chomping at the bit to devour Yang Qi. His name was Buddha Fiercemurder.

He was known as one of the more ferocious of the group of twenty-eight, and had a psychic scale of twelve billion, making him even more formidable than Buddha Eastprime.

Unfortunately, he was facing five very fierce opponents. What could he possibly do?

The Dragon Compendium shoved him backward, and the continuous explosions in the area were making it difficult for him to even see what was happening.

"A copy of the Dragon Compendium! A preheaven treasure? I'll just take it and use it to grow stronger!" Before he could follow through on his idea, five shadows converged on him.

Crushing weight weighed down, causing his five viscera and six bowels to churn painfully, and his soul to fill with eternal darkness and gloom.

Yang Qi's hand clamped onto his head.

"No!"

Buddha Fiercemurder knew it was over. A moment later, he was subjugated.

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Chapter 1483: Planned All Along

Yang Qi had come in prepared, so how could he possibly fall for any sort of trap? The twenty-eight Dragonfolk old-timers thought they could pull a fast one on him, but instead, he turned the tables. Just when they thought they were about to seize victory, he exploded into action and caught them completely unprepared. These Dragonfolk simply had no way to assess what level of power he was truly capable of unleashing.

They were quick to react to the blast of the Tribulation Monarch Cannon and the unleashing of the Dragon Compendiums. But they were still thrown into chaos, and that was all the opportunity Yang Qi had needed.

One important aspect of the situation was that the old-timers weren't working together. As soon as the situation turned dangerous, all of them immediately resorted to protecting their own heads.

That was how Yang Qi seized the upper hand.

In contrast, Yang Qi and his people, including the sage monarch magistrates, were all so in sync that they were essentially thinking the same thoughts. If they weren't, there was no way Yang Qi would have succeeded like he just had.

In the blink of an eye, he had seized both Buddha Eastprime and Buddha Fiercemurder. And from there, it was a snowball effect.

Swish. Rustle.

Moving in a blur, he and his five expert allies targeted the next Dragonfolk old-timer. This one resembled a young man, and had a sinister bearing that revealed how twisted and distorted his heart was. He looked more monstrous than an actual monster.

His name was Buddha Detestation, and he commanded all the energies of hatred and detestation in heaven and earth, making him extremely dangerous. Although he hadn't spoken this entire time, his eyes were filled with malice and loathing, and it was clear that he had been concocting a plan to kill Yang Qi. Obviously, there was no way Yang Qi was going to risk letting this person get away.

RUMBLE!

Primal-chaos paleo-energy flowed out of Yang Qi's mouth, and the energy of the Halls of Heaven swept about like tidewater. The Dragonfolk experts were all falling back from the big bang explosions and focusing on their own lives. Meanwhile, as the explosions continued rippling out, the Dragon Compendiums swirled together to form an even larger version of the book.

Dramatic transformations struck heaven and earth as Yang Qi closed in on Buddha Detestation. The evil dragon immediately prepared to fight back, thrusting out a claw in a martial discipline unique to the Dragonfolk.

Sadly for him, Yang Qi didn't even let him complete the move. After all, Yang Qi had already built up immense momentum, not to mention the five top experts at his side.

"Dragon Compendium!" he growled, and the enormous book opened, unleashing a massive gravitational force that caused all of the Dragonfolk old-timers to feel as though their souls were about to be ripped out of their bodies. Buddha Detestation couldn't fight the force, and was sucked inside the book, where Yang Qi quickly subjugated him.

It really was a snowball effect.

"Attack, everyone together!" In three short breaths' worth of time, Yang Qi had subjugated Buddha Detestation, Buddha Eastprime, and Buddha Fiercemurder. Adding in the Second and Third Devil Generals, Yang Jian, and himself, he had seven top experts, all of whom could power the Dragon Compendium.

All seven of them had psychic scales of ten billion or more, and because of that, the Dragon Compendium unleashed tornados of such incredible power that the nearest three Dragonfolk experts were instantly sucked in.

One of them was female. She was the weakest of the group, having only just recently reached the level of ten billion.

"Save me, Paragon-King Sage Dragon. Save me!" she screamed.

"Join forces, otherwise we'll all get sucked in!"

"Hurry and do it!" Of the group of three who were being most affected, one was an old man named Buddha Greenpeak, and the other was a middle-aged man with a confucian aura, a scholarly and refined man named Buddha Cunfucian-Immortal. The third, the woman who had just screamed out, was Buddha Lady.

They were all fighting hard in their various ways, but simply couldn't stand up to Yang Qi and his allies.

"Heaven and Earth Explosion!" Yang Qi growled. "Sage Monarch Magistrate Power!"

RUMBLE!

Seven million sage monarch magistrates unleashed their power, empowering Yang Qi so much that he didn't even need to do anything. The pages of the Dragon Compendium erupted with even more power, and the three experts were sucked inside, whereupon the book slammed shut.

Crunch. Crack!

The book opened, and the three experts emerged, glowing with halos from the God Legion Seal as they knelt before Yang Qi. They had all been subjugated.

All of these dramatic events had occurred in only five breaths' worth of time.

Six Dragonfolk experts had been subjugated, and were now loyal servants of Yang Qi.

Buddha Eastprime. Buddha Fiercemurder. Buddha Detestation. Buddha Greenpeak. Buddha Lady. Buddha Cunfucimmortal.

Yang Qi's power was surging beyond anything from before, and he had also experienced a big uptick in destiny.

"Stop!" Paragon-King Sage Dragon shouted angrily, using a Dragonfolk secret magic called the Sweeping Voice of the Dragon. "Everyone stop what you're doing and pool your power. We have to join forces and forget our former enmities. Otherwise we'll all end up enslaved!"

Paragon-King Sage Dragon was the most influential among the group, so as soon as he uttered the words, people began flocking to his side.

Of the original twenty-eight, Yang Qi had subjugated six, leaving twenty-two who were still free. And now they were standing united against Yang Qi.

For the moment, Yang Qi just stood there smiling coldly at Paragon-King Sage Dragon. "I came here with good intentions to negotiate with you, Paragon-King Sage Dragon. But you were plotting against me the whole time. What's surprising is that you thought a trick like that would work. You made a grave mistake, and now I'm going to teach you a harsh lesson."

One of the other Dragonfolk old-timers, seeing that they had the advantage of numbers, shouted, "You think you have the advantage, boy? There are twenty-two of us, which means we completely outnumber you. If you refuse to back down, both of us are going to be severely hurt in the fighting."

In response, Yang Qi laughed loudly. "You just had twenty-eight on your side, and now you only have twenty-two. Meanwhile, I've gained six. If you couldn't deal with me when you were at full strength, what makes you think you can do so now that you're weaker and I'm stronger?"

In their hearts, the old-timers knew that Yang Qi was absolutely right. In the shortest of moments, he had enslaved six of their number and was now stronger than ever. Their confidence was crumbling as they realized that Yang Qi was an unbeatable monster.

"You just caught us off-guard, Yang Qi, that's all," Paragon-King Sage Dragon said. "Now that we've pooled our strength, we're no weaker than you. It's true that we were plotting against you, but let's set that aside. How about we split the Myriad Dragons Lair between us? Fifty-fifty. And we enter a nonaggression pact. You make your empire, we have ours. The other possibility is that you open the Myriad Dragons Lair and let us free. Allow us to move our empire away."

Yang Qi snorted coldly. "You love wishful thinking, don't you? I'm building something called the Sage Monarch Empire, and the Dragonfolk are part of it. You think you can just walk away from that? As you know, the three top groups on the outside are the Invincible Dynasty, the Central Dynasty, and the Chiliocosm Dynasty. Well, I'm making a fourth. And nobody is going to harm its foundation. So be good little dragons and acknowledge allegiance to me. If you don't, I'll use force."

"He's right," the Third Devil General said. "Don't you see the situation here, Paragon-King Sage Dragon? If you don't surrender, the Sage Monarch Empire will just continue growing stronger and stronger, and we'll harvest more power from the Halls of Heaven. Meanwhile, you'll sit here just sitting and eating, depleting your mountain of wealth. Eventually, things will fall apart for you. Probably within a few hundred years. But if you join us, things will be different. My lord Yang Qi has the God Legion Seal, and his cultivation base is unfathomable. He can unite the Dragonfolk, creating a fourth power in the god world. It's a given that he'll control the Halls of Heaven, and once he does, what will the other three dynasties count for?"

The Second Devil General chuckled darkly. "Actually, I'd prefer to eat a few of these dragon patriarchs. I've heard they're delicious. I hope they continue to be stubborn, that way I can truly be vicious and merciless. Look, I'll put it simply. Acknowledge allegiance. Or die!"

"You're pushing things too far, you three!" one of the old-timers shouted angrily. Yet he didn't move a muscle. They all knew that if Yang Qi unleashed another explosive attack, the resulting chaos would be extremely dangerous for them.

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Chapter 1484: Who Won't Submit?!

"It's already obvious how things are going to play out here," Yang Qi said. "But if you really want to keep fighting, I'll give you time to think it over. After all, I have plenty of time on my hands. Buddha Detestation, Buddha Lady, and all the rest of you six. Go prepare your kingdoms for migration to the most recent minor god world I created. Got it?"

"Yes sir..."

The six experts he had just subjugated quickly flew off to follow his orders.

"You!"

The remaining twenty-two experts were so angry their hearts nearly exploded from rage. For Yang Qi to do this was really raking the firewood from beneath their kettle.

All six of those old-timers had kingdoms of their own, and the destiny they provided was a big boost to the alliance. Now that they were going to move their kingdoms, the alliance would suffer a major blow.

Furthermore, the boost in destiny Yang Qi would receive wasn't anything to take lightly. And it would also have a big negative effect on the thinking of the leaders of the remaining twenty-two kingdoms.

For these six to leave the alliance right now was like a big hole opening up in a massive dike. Once water started flowing out, it would be impossible to patch the hole.

Unfortunately for the remaining old-timers, there was nothing they could do about the situation. They didn't own those kingdoms, thus they had no say in the matter.

Within moments, the six old-timers had reached their kingdoms and were passing out orders.

RUMBLE!

A mass migration was underway.

Six enormous kingdoms were moving into the latest minor god world Yang Qi had created. At the same time, his sage monarch magistrates entered those kingdoms to establish a better system of order.

As a result, the overall destiny of the twenty-eight-kingdom alliance was crumbling.

Word started spreading immediately, and of course, it struck fear into the hearts of the people of the other kingdoms. That, in turn, had a negative effect on the destiny, which began collapsing even faster than before.

As a result, the power of the Dragon Compendium started seeping inside. Yang Qi was slowly gaining control.

He was winning a victory without shedding any blood by eroding the foundation of the alliance itself.

The remaining twenty-eight old-timers had extremely unsightly expressions on their faces. They knew there were already some of their subordinates who were thinking of joining Yang Qi.

RUMBLE!

Big bang explosions occurred on Yang Qi's side as the power of the Halls of Heaven detonated primal-chaos paleo-energy, causing preheaven treasures to emerge and pour into the six new Dragonfolk kingdoms.

The other dragon kingdoms could only look on in envy.

Shortly thereafter, defectors appeared, leaders from other nations who ran to Yang Qi's side, where the sage monarch magistrates would take care of them.

Seeing this, the twenty-two old-timers were even angrier than before.

"Anyone who tries to defect from my kingdom will be slaughtered! Send the army in to crush the rebels!" Many such orders were sent out via projection and a bloodbath immediately ensued.

Seeing this, Yang Qi raised his voice and said, "Any who join me will be rewarded. Show faith in me, and offer your prayers, and you can come to the Sage Monarch Empire. I'll teleport you out, and nothing will be able to stop me. On my side, no one will suppress you, and you'll have freedom of thought and action."

Everyone could hear his words clearly, and they knew he controlled the balance of power in the Myriad Dragons Lair.

Instantly, numerous dissenters began praying in their hearts, saying things such as, 'I'm willing to join the Sage Monarch Empire!'

Moments later, they were teleported into the minor god world, where the sage monarch magistrates took charge of them.

Chaos was engulfing the alliance! No one could restore control, as no one could control the thoughts of the citizens.

The dragon kingdoms were rapidly emptying, while Yang Qi was opening more minor god worlds for the influx of people.

The preheaven treasures popping into being were like huge chunks of meat being dangled in front of starving people.

Yang Qi's Sage Monarch Empire was experiencing a rapid increase in destiny, and the net of law was expanding and growing stronger. The sage monarch magistrates were proliferating, and the Dragonfolk old-timers could sense his psychic scale and godhood rating rising.

"We're finished..."

They knew that there was nothing they could do now. Yang Qi was winning a victory without shedding blood, simply by destroying their alliance.

They wanted to rush out and forcibly control the situation, but it wasn't as if they could control the thoughts of their people. Freedom of thought couldn't be removed except by means of one thing: the God Legion Seal.

That fact made it obvious how mighty the Sovereign Lord had been, as well as how savage and mad he was. He had controlled people's hearts and minds, which was almost unimaginable. And even though Yang Qi could use the seal to monitor the thoughts of those he had subjugated, he actually wasn't even sure how it all worked.

The twenty-two experts watched helplessly as more people deserted them.

"Bah!" Paragon-King Sage Dragon said. "Well played, Yang Qi. You planned things out perfectly. What a pity. If we'd planned things out better, perhaps attacking you when you first seized the Dragon Compendium, things might not have turned out this way. We should've strangled you before you started growing."

"That's exactly right," Yang Qi said. "If you had teamed up on me in the very beginning, I never would've been able to build this empire of mine. But it's too late now."

"A single slip may cause everlasting pain, regret won't bring the past back again." Paragon-King Sage Dragon shook his head regretfully. "I really never could have imagined you'd become this strong. I suppose that's fate. That said, Yang Qi, it's still not going to be easy for you to subjugate us. Look, I'm willing to work for you. But I won't accept you using the God Legion Seal on me. I'd rather die!"

Yang Qi laughed coldly. "You're really counting your chickens before they're hatched, Paragon-King Sage Dragon. Even if you die, your soul will remain stuck inside the Myriad Dragons Lair. I could just use the power of the lair to bring you back. You see, this place is like the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, which I gained complete control over many years ago. Considering the threat you pose, I think I'll just kill you all, harvest your power and essence, then remake you in a more loyal form."

What he said was completely true.

1. I'm leaving out a passage that likens the twenty-two experts to the Last Emperor of China, a.k.a. Puyi. It's an analogy that makes sense to Chinese readers, but seems extremely out-of-place in a fantasy setting.

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Chapter 1485: No Other Choice

The alliance of twenty-eight dragon kingdoms had been a mighty force, but it was crumbling into nothing. Its citizens were deserting like mad, and even the most loyal members could tell that it was time to start making plans for the worst.

Once the citizens of a nation lost their heart, it would be impossible to get back. A massive empire collapsed in no time at all.

Yang Qi himself was simply focusing on making more minor god worlds. The sage monarch magistrates were handling everything else.

The government officials from among the Dragonfolk were also a lot of help, and were very orderly considering they had been trained by the sage monarch magistrates. Although they weren't perfect, they were far better than, for instance, the viceroys from the House of the Invincible.

Yang Qi's destiny burned like the sun, and was so intense that the remaining twenty-two old-timers couldn't possibly stand up to it. He now had the upper hand in everything.

"You've completely lost the initiative," Yang Qi told them. "So what do you have to say for yourselves? It would be foolish for you to just let yourselves die. Your only option now is to acknowledge allegiance to me. Become like the ancient God-Lords who acquiesced to the Sovereign Lord."

"No!" Paragon-King Sage Dragon shouted bitterly. "I won't acknowledge allegiance to you! The Sovereign Lord couldn't force me to do that in ancient times, so how could you possibly do it!?"

"The past is the past, and the present is the present. Just because the Sovereign Lord couldn't do something doesn't mean that I can't. Furthermore, maybe the Sovereign Lord just wasn't really interested in having you as a servant. Look, this is a simple matter. Either acknowledge allegiance, or die. You choose. I'm not a very patient person. I want destiny, and you have a lot of it. And your refusal to surrender is harming the destiny. So if you don't change your mind quickly, don't blame me for being vicious and merciless."

He clenched his hand into a fist, which pulsed with killing energy. Above his head, it was possible to see countless devils, gods, buddhas, demons, and wretch-gods swirling about, slowly merging together until they formed a huge megamammoth.

"No!" one of the old-timers blurted. Lunging forward, he dropped to his knees in front of Yang Qi and started kowtowing. "Stop! Don't attack me! I surrender. I'll acknowledge allegiance! I'll join the Sage Monarch Empire."

"Excellent!" Yang Qi reached out and placed a palm on his head, sending the power of the God Legion Seal into him. This particular old-timer had only recently pushed his cultivation base to the level of ten billion. His name was Buddha Sectduke.

He wasn't an expert who had been around in ancient times, but rather, was a newly-risen genius among the Dragonfolk. Considering he had only just reached his current level, he had absolutely no desire to die, and was already convinced of Yang Qi's superiority.

Another top expert had been subjugated.

Buddha Sectduke.

Yang Qi's cultivation base was again rising, and considering the flows of destiny from the Myriad Dragons Lair, and the net of law, there was no way anyone could possibly resist him. Once the net filled the entire lair, and connected completely with the essence power of the place, he could transform the world with a single word.

Buddha Sectduke's surrender was the straw that broke the camel's back.

The other twenty-one old-timers were now completely crushed, and in the blink of an eye, four of the younger ones flew forward to acknowledge allegiance.

Yang Qi quickly dealt with them using the God Legion Seal.

These were people who weren't so proud that they would rather die than surrender.

"You little bastards!" Paragon-King Sage Dragon shouted. "Have you no spine? Dragonfolk are supposed to be proud! You're not even fit to be dog food! You should be putting everything on the line right now. Self-detonating! Using your secret magics to destroy everything around you! Everyone, join forces. Let's use the most ancient Dragonfolk primal-chaos curse to end this in mutual destruction!"

"Shut the fuck up," one of the old-timers said. "That's the stupidest plan I've ever heard, Paragon-King Sage Dragon. You think that we'll use the power of that curse to blow ourselves up and give you a chance to escape? We've all been in the Myriad Dragons Lair for hundreds of millions of years, do you really think we're that stupid? Following you was a mistake. I should have known from the beginning that this alliance of yours was a bad idea. Brothers, ignore Paragon-King Sage Dragon. Let's join Yang Qi. Even the Second and Third Devil Generals are on his side. If we follow him, maybe we can bring back the glory of the Sovereign Lord."

This particular dragon had been on the receiving end of a lot of pressure from Paragon-King Sage Dragon, and in this critical moment, he chose to turn traitor.

Flying over to Yang Qi, he said, "Exalted Yang Qi, this Paragon-King Sage Dragon is too pig-headed and stubborn. If you imprison him and torture him a bit, maybe he'll acknowledge allegiance to you. But truth be told, I think you should just execute him. His flesh and blood will taste delicious, so as long as I get a mouthful or two, I'm willing to serve you for life."

"Very good." Yang Qi reached out and touched the old-timer's head, subjugating him so that he couldn't offer even the least bit of resistance.

"I'll surrender as well. I'll acknowledge allegiance!"

One by one, the other old-timers were all surrendering.

Yang Qi smiled coldly at how these Dragonfolk feared death. The dragons he had tried to subjugate early on were obviously extremely proud and arrogant, which was why they had resorted to self-detonation. These higher-ranking dragons had apparently manipulated the younger ones into risking life and limb, but when it came to their own life or death, they did things differently.

Before long, only Paragon-King Sage Dragon was left. He was the strongest of them all, and was even superior to the Third Devil General. But for him to be all alone facing Yang Qi made him seem quite lonely and pitiful.

"You're all alone, old man," Yang Qi said. "Why don't you just give in? Are you really going to throw your life away? Dying isn't going to do you any good, and besides, I'm strong enough that I could make it a hard task for you to actually die."

Paragon-King Sage Dragon's face was as white as his robes, and at first he seemed to be at a loss for words. Finally, he said, "Oh, how tragic. If I'd known things would happen like this, I would've just joined the Central Dynasty. Then none of this would have happened. I can't believe that I, Paragon-King Sage Dragon, elite genius of the Dragonfolk, would fall to a youngster like you."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Yang Qi asked, clasping his hands behind his back. "Are you saying you want to die? In that case, fine. I'll give you that as an option. Your fellow dragons seem interested in devouring your flesh and blood, so maybe I should give you to them as a reward. Go ahead and commit suicide."

In response, Paragon-King Sage Dragon trembled and let out a bitter moan. "I can't believe things are ending like this. We Dragonfolk are proud! Does our honor mean nothing? In the Sovereign Lord's Age, we dragons kept our freedom. Now that the Sovereign Lord is dead, we should be stronger than ever. But with no pressure and no enemies, we've grown weak. Why? Why is all this happening?"

The other old-timers' hearts were thrown into chaos by his words. What he said was right. The Dragonfolk had no true enemies, and no pressure. Instead of advancing by leaps and bounds and taking over the god world, they had ended up in this situation.

"You fought among yourselves like fools, with every dragon out for himself. In the end, you're like nothing more than animals. Look around the god world! There are plenty of animals that have survived for billions of trillions of years, yet haven't changed. Because they're not human. Don't think that just because you can take human form, it makes you human. True humans form groups, spread order, build up power, and create new things. That's what it means to be human. You might look human, but inside, you're animals. Because of that, you can't grow. The Dragonfolk that join me are no longer dragons. In their souls, they've become human."

His words crashed in their ears.

They were weak because, in the end, they were still animals.

That was why, no matter what they looked like on the outside, they could never truly conquer the god world. It was similar to how, in the impure lands, there were plenty of animals that were stronger than people. Yet those animals couldn't create kingdoms or empires. In the end, humans would always be able to wipe them out.

That was the power of order. And of destiny.

"Paragon-King Sage Dragon, I'll give you one last bit of honor. Kill yourself and give your flesh and blood to your companions so they can become true humans."

"No!" Paragon-King Sage Dragon blurted, staggering backward. "Don't eat me. I'm willing to join you! I'll become human."

Thump!

A Dragonfolk old-timer that was as strong as the God-Lords of old suddenly dropped to his knees and kowtowed.

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Chapter 1486: Rapid Developmen

The strongest of all the Dragonfolk was on his knees, acknowledging allegiance to Yang Qi, bereft of all pride and dignity. Seeing this, Yang Qi waved his hand and sent a golden stream of light into Paragon-King Sage Dragon.

After the baptism of sagelight was over, Paragon-King Sage Dragon shivered and looked up, his face a mask of despair. He could sense the golden throne that existed for him in the God Legion Seal. How ironic that, in ancient times, he was never bound to the God Legion Seal, but now he was.

Yang Qi's friends and family began talking amongst themselves.

"Impressive! With Paragon-King Sage Dragon sealed, the fate of the Dragonfolk is sealed. We now have the foundation necessary to truly establish the fourth great power of the god world."

"Yeah, that's right. With the converged might of all the dragon kingdoms, we might not be able to fight the three other dynasties, but given Yang Qi's capabilities, and the resources from the halls of heaven, they won't be able to take advantage of us."

"We finally have a true dynasty under our control."

"Should we go ahead and make ourselves publicly known in the god world?"

"Not yet. We still haven't reached our full potential. I think we should do the same thing the junior houselord of the House of God Ordainment did. Make a faction called the Mystery Society and use it to infiltrate the other dynasties. Then we can use it as a secret weapon when the time is right."

"But if we remain in the shadows, nobody will know there's a fourth great power in the god world, and our destiny will never match up to that of the other three dynasties."

"That's true. We can't just sit around hiding all the time. If we want to seize ultimate control, we need more destiny."

They knew they now had a major foundation in the Myriad Dragons Lair, the basis upon which they could build a true empire.

However, it was a tricky matter trying to decide whether or not to announce it publicly. Both options came with upsides and downsides.

All of the races in the god world, from demons to devils, would think of three names when it came to the top forces. Invincible. Chiliocosm. Central. There were always people hoping to join them. That was just how the hearts of people worked; and hearts were the basis of destiny.

Yang Qi was still technically a viceroy in the House of the Invincible, so he knew full well that there were always people coming and wanting to join the sect. In fact, the foreign affairs department was constantly giving aptitude tests to the gods who came and applied for membership.

Of course, that aptitude test was extremely difficult. After all, those who passed it and joined the House of the Invincible gained its protection, which meant no one could just randomly kill them.

If Yang Qi had a dynasty, but nobody came to join it, his destiny would never truly be able to rival that of the three major dynasties.

At a certain point in the god world, things could only operate out in the open. When power levels reached those commanded by the three dynasties, crafty plots and machinations were useless. Only open strength could be used. And that was why operating in the shadows just wasn't a good option. They had to declare themselves as the fourth power, which would lead to streams of people coming to join them, and a resulting increase in destiny.

Yet now wasn't the time. Yang Qi wanted to bring more human kingdoms into the fold. Right now, his empire was only made up of roughly half humans, while the other half was Dragonfolk. And that wasn't a very good ratio.

Yang Qi had a goal already. He wanted the Spritefolk on his side. The Spritefolk were no weaker than the Dragonfolk in terms of the resources they had access to. And they were strong. They were currently considering throwing their support behind the House of the Invincible, but Yang Qi planned to change their minds.

The first task at hand, though, was simple. Exercise complete control over the Myriad Dragons Lair, and turn the entire thing into a minor god world.

The Myriad Dragons Lair wasn't a suitable place for human habitation, but if he transformed it in the same way that worlds were created from primal-chaos, he could make something like a new version of the god world. And that would be the most suitable type of empire to spread.

Not even Proud Central and the Central Dynasty could consider transforming the Myriad Dragons Lair into a minor god world. But Yang Qi could tap into the power of the halls of heaven, the God Legion Seal, and the Mahātmā Jade.

The truth was that during the process of making the minor god worlds he already had, he'd gained a lot of new enlightenment. For instance, he could use the power of the explosions to make weaker copies of the Everlit Godlamp, the Chiliocosm Pagoda, the Dragon Compendium, and other such treasures.

In some ways, he actually felt as though he himself had become a world of primal-chaos.

If some almighty entity could enter a state of Nevasaññānāsaññāyatana at this moment, they would see the flesh and blood that made up the Myriad Dragons Lair transforming into crystal. And although it was only happening on a small scale, it was like a spark that could cause a forest fire. The effects were already spreading through the entire world.

Given the current speed, it would probably take thousands of years for Yang Qi to finish the work. Maybe even ten thousand.

That was actually fast for a truly powerful magical treasure. There were some treasures from ancient times that would take hundreds of millions of years to create. And the Myriad Dragons Lair was a magical treasure to being with, its heart being the Dragon Compendium. Because of that, it had the potential to match up to the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart. If Yang Qi could succeed in crystallizing the flesh and blood, it would become even more powerful, such that it would surpass the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart. Thankfully, Yang Qi could tap into the halls of heaven, and was no weaker than the Lord of Civilization or Lord of Radiance and Light had been.

As his cultivation base continued to increase, it was no longer wishful thinking to consider what it would be like to be on the same level as the King Immortal-Slayer of old.

The twenty-eight dragon kingdoms had been subjugated, but now they needed to be put into order. Adding a bunch of chaotic kingdoms could actually be very harmful to the overall destiny, if they weren't brought into line. With the God Legion Seal, just about anything was possible.

Using the seal, he subjugated all the leaders of the twenty-eight kingdoms who were peak Paramount Gods, then put them in charge of various matters.

He was creating an organization unlike any other, and it was already equivalent to roughly twenty or thirty percent of the Invincible Dynasty. Normally speaking, one person couldn't manage something so large.

But Yang Qi was different from other people.

He hovered in midair, countless thoughts running through his mind at lightning speed.

Then he would send those thoughts into the minds of the government officials under his control, who would carry out his orders without question. Of course, the only reason he could handle so many complicated and important thoughts at the same time without his head exploding was that his brain was a combination of the Cruiser of Civilization and the Mahātmā Jade.

The Lord of Civilization had originally hoped to create an enormous brain that could control an entire nation without the need for government officials, eliminating the problems of corruption and vice.

Unfortunately, he had never succeeded.

But where he had failed, Yang Qi had succeeded, thanks to combining the cruiser with the Mahātmā Jade. The jade contained the most profound secrets relating to wisdom and thought. Throughout the years, countless sages and mahātmās in hell had dreamed of doing what Yang Qi had done, thus bringing order to the chaos of the devils.

Even the True Devil himself had long tried to bring order to the dao of devils.

Unfortunately, they had all failed. But with that combination, Yang Qi was now able to send his thoughts out to bring order to his empire, causing it to advance by leaps and bounds.

With every day that passed, things grew more orderly. Interest groups were disbanded, and the citizens worked hard under the new rules. Civilizations flourished, and Yang Qi oversaw it all.

Yang Qi's friends and family were all in amazement and how he had turned a dish of loose sand into something so orderly. Normally speaking, it would take iron control and a lot of executions to do that, which would harm the destiny.

But Yang Qi did it without killing anyone. Everything was carried out smoothly and without any hitches.

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Chapter 1487: Psychic Scale of Twenty Billion

With Yang Qi's thoughts guiding the nation, it expanded dramatically in the half a month that passed. He subjugated all of the top leaders, who then followed his commands to the letter and didn't dare to try to profit personally from their positions.

For now, Yang Qi needed their influence.

Eventually, everything calmed down.

On one particular day, the Myriad Dragons Lair trembled as the net of law became fully integrated, covering the entire place. As of that moment, the lair was the net, and the net was the lair.

Going forward, no one would ever be able to seize authority in the lair.

Opening his mouth, Yang Qi devoured the Dragon Compendium.

Using the powers of King Heaven-Devourer's talismans and the golden godmammoth blood that ran through his veins, he broke it down and made it part of his body.

His body was a strange thing now. It was incomparably perfect, beyond the level that words could be used to describe. And in the moment that the net of law became fully integrated into the Myriad Dragons Lair, the destiny of the place flowed into him more mightily than ever, causing him to undergo fundamental transformations.

Crack!

He shot to his feet, white energy flowing around him as teleportation portals whirred to life, connected directly to the halls of heaven. He exhaled, and primal-chaos paleo-energy flowed out, causing big bang explosions to occur that made minor god worlds pop up with even greater frequency.

Buzzzz.

King Heaven-Devourer's talismans flew out, forming a primal-chaos elder-snake that sucked in countless streams of primal-chaos paleo-energy. Then, shockingly, the snake started to change. Its body remained that of a snake, but its head changed into that of a human with Yang Qi's face.

It indicated that Yang Qi had truly transformed. He was King Heaven-Devourer, and King Heaven-Devourer was him. The legacy talismans were now an integral part of him.

And his cultivation base was rising.

Once the net of law integrated with the essence of the lair, everything settled down. The flowing destiny led to an ever greater sense of order, filling the inhabitants with a sense of awe, and a feeling that there was the power of karmic retribution at play.

The combination of karmic retribution and the dao of heaven was intense, and could only have appeared in the sealed environment of the Myriad Dragons Lair. Yang Qi was creating his own system that existed separately from the natural and magical laws of the god world.

Right now, the destiny couldn't compare to that of the House of the Invincible. However, its valuation was still in the billions.

Originally, his Sage Monarch Empire had had a valuation of two million, and that had been impressive. But now, the valuation was so far beyond that it was almost impossible to compare the two levels. He had really replaced hunting rifles with cannons. After all, the twenty-eight additional dragon kingdoms he had taken were mighty compared to the innumerable smaller ones he had taken before.

That was especially true considering he had combined them all into one force, and had the sage monarch magistrates to manage them.

Thanks to the dramatic increase in destiny, he now had ten million sage monarch magistrates. Unfortunately, it still wasn't enough to fully manage his empire. But thankfully, considering he now had a destiny valuation in the billions, new sage monarch magistrates were coming into existence at every moment.

Thanks to the immense power at his disposal, he was also able to help all of his friends and family achieve breakthroughs.

All of them pushed their psychic scales to the level of a billion, reaching the peak level, then climbing even higher.

As for Yang Qi's own psychic scale and godhood rating, they climbed without stop, until they reached the level of twenty billion. They were now at the point where he could shake the halls of heaven!

Twenty billion! Even in ancient times, the God-Lords didn't have cultivation bases of that level.

Before coming to the lair, Yang Qi had been a weakling. But now he could be considered a true potentate in the god world.

It wasn't a trick, and it wasn't due to random chance. He had set up a nation and managed its destiny, then used it in the best way possible. If destiny could turn a Quasi-God into a Paramount God, then what would it do to devour a thousand times that level of destiny?

Going forward, the previous type of cultivation would be completely pointless.

Only destiny could be relied on for all time.

By cultivating energy arts, one could smash fate. However, Yang Qi wasn't jumping up and down with glee because he had reached a psychic scale of twenty billion. After all, the leaders of the House of the Invincible, House of the Chiliocosm, and Central Dynasty had ruled their respective organizations for billions of years, and he had no idea how much destiny they had consumed, or what level their cultivation bases were.

One thing was certain: they were at a higher level than him. Therefore, the only course of action he could take was to expand his borders, grow his organization, and get stronger.

'The halls of heaven...' When he thought about how the purrling had entered the halls of heaven and taken that jade thumb-ring, it made him wonder what other magical treasures were up there. He had the feeling that getting those treasures would be the key to making his empire the greatest in existence.

'I think I need to take a trip to the halls of heaven.'

His cultivation base was now strong enough that, with the help of the God Legion Seal, he should be able to enter the halls of heaven and search for some useful items.

In fact, he was even thinking about trying to take the halls and add them into his own lands. Compared to the halls, even the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart was pitiful. Only the Great Necropolis could possibly compare to the halls of heaven.

He also needed to take whatever items existed in the Bastille of the One God and add them to his minor god worlds.

He exhaled, and winds swept through the Myriad Dragons Lair, ensuring that everyone knew their ultimate leader Yang Qi had reached a very enigmatic level of cultivation.

Minor god worlds proliferated constantly.

"Friends, family, brethren," Yang Qi said, "I'm leaving this place in your care. Practicing cultivation here will be much more beneficial for you than doing so in the House of the Invincible. I'm leaving. I've received news that the House of the Invincible has begun preparations to welcome the princess of the Spritefolk, and I need to make sure that wedding doesn't take place."

"Don't worry, Yang Qi, we'll take care of everything," Jadefall said. She and all of Yang Qi's other friends and family were now the top leaders of the empire, and had such command of the destiny that they could ordain a Quasi-God into a Paramount God, if Yang Qi permitted it.

"Good. I'm leaving now, but my will shall always be here overseeing things. These lands are like clones of me now. And my will shall also remain connected to the halls of heaven, creating more minor god worlds. Right now, I can sense the other pieces of the Mahātmā Jade, and one of them is in the halls of heaven. There's also a piece in the Central Dynasty. I have to get them!"

Yang Qi still had big ambitions.

He had achieved a major goal by founding a true empire. Now he needed to reach the half Annulled level. He needed to become like King Immortal-Slayer, the True Devil, Wretch-God Ultimate, the Demon Master, the Sovereign Lord and the King of Godmammoths.

In the past, reaching that level had been nothing more than a dream, but not anymore.

Now, he could truly attempt to bring the Spritefolk into his kingdom, which would cause it to double in size, and make its destiny even more amazing. And that would be the key to actually stepping halfway into the Annulled level.

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Chapter 1488: Returning to the House of the Invincible

Having completed his work in the Myriad Dragons Lair, Yang Qi could connect to it no matter where he was. He no longer needed to remain there as his true self. It would continue its transformation into a full minor god world, and his ten million sage monarch magistrates could manage things while he was away.

The flesh and blood that made up the lair would continue crystallizing, uniting it in a way that had never occurred before. And its destiny was constantly increasing.

At the same time, preheaven treasures proliferated without end, providing endless resources for the people of his empire.

Now that the initial period of chaos had passed, things would continue developing naturally without Yang Qi's direct oversight. And once the process was complete, his cultivation base would increase even more.

There was no way to compare the benefits of destiny to what Yang Qi could accomplish via personal cultivation. It would be like trying to compare a rich businessman's income from his business to what he could earn by going out and doing manual labor.

Yang Qi became a blur that left the Myriad Dragons Lair and reached the House of the Invincible in virtually no time at all. Although the destiny here was dazzling, it wasn't as mysterious and enigmatic as it had been in the past. And he was confident that, in future times, the destiny of his own empire would surpass the House of the Invincible. In fact, he would eventually conquer this place.

Right now, his psychic scale and godhood rating were at twenty billion, making him no weaker than any of the old-timers in existence. And that wasn't to mention all of the treasures he commanded, or the fact that he had acquired the blood of the King of Godmammoths.

He was so strong that even if people with godhood ratings and psychic scales of thirty, forty, or even fifty billion tried to chase him down and kill him, he would probably be able to stand his ground.

And if he called on the aid of his ten million sage monarch magistrates, he would likely be able to kill any expert there was, with the exception of people as strong as the Sovereign Lord, King Immortal-Slayer, and the Demon Master. Right now, the only people he needed to truly fear were those with Unbounded will convergence who were half a step into the Annulled level.

That said, he still needed to act with caution. The three major dynasties all had secret reserve powers that he needed to take into consideration.

However, with the God Legion Seal, he could now start subjugating the leaders of the major powers.

'I have a few things to start out with. I can find out what Dugu Hong is up to. And I can subjugate Duke Nine Cauldrons and that priestess, Dugu Wanqing.' Upon entering the House of the Invincible, he headed to his own territory.

I hadn't actually been very long since he was there, as he hadn't spent an inordinate amount of time in the Myriad Dragons Lair.

It wasn't unheard of for viceroys to leave for long periods of time, even thousands of years.

Before long, Dugu Hong appeared and dropped to his knees. "Congratulations, Milord."

"Oh? What happened?" Yang Qi asked.

"Because of how well you've managed your territory, news came down that you're to be rewarded. Now that you're back, you need to report in immediately."

Dugu Hong was Yang Qi's servant, but he didn't know about what had gone on in the Myriad Dragons Lair. And Yang Qi wasn't inclined to tell him.

The fewer people who knew his secrets, the less likely that word would accidentally leak. Being able to monitor the thoughts of his subordinates couldn't prevent slips of the tongue. For now, he needed to play things as safe as possible.

"Fine, take me to see the leaders," Yang Qi said, smiling.

However, before Dugu Hong could even respond, a whooshing sound could be heard as a group of white-robed destinors appeared just on the border of his lands. "Viceroy of the Land of Dreamvoid, our exalted Priestess Dugu Wanqing has summoned you. Hurry with me to the Palace of Destiny."

From their bearing, it seemed they were just on the verge of coming in and arresting Yang Qi.

'What's this?' Yang Qi thought, a bit surprised. 'The Palace of Destiny already knows I'm back? Information must've leaked from inside my own palace. Well, it doesn't really matter. It's like having someone deliver a pillow just when you're getting ready to take a nap. Who the hell does this priestess think she is, anyway? I could subjugate her with the snap of a finger.'

Because of the incredibly strong destiny in the House of the Invincible, and the strictly enforced rules, it was essentially impossible to fight and kill anyone inside.

Of course, Yang Qi didn't care about that now, considering how strong he had become. If he wanted to, he could create a void around himself that would cut him off from the local destiny.

As long as he didn't run into anyone with a godhood rating and psychic scale greater than ten billion, he could subjugate anyone he encountered.

People with ratings greater than ten billion could be troublesome to deal with, at least as long as he was actually inside the House of the Invincible. Outside, beyond the net of law, even such people wouldn't be problematic for him.

"The people from the Palace of Destiny are obviously up to no good, Milord," Dugu Hong said. "You need to figure out a way to get out of this."

"Don't worry about it. Also, don't tell my superiors, understand? I'll handle the situation." Straightening his clothing, he walked out into the presence of the white-robed destinors. Their leader was a peak Paramount God, and he was glaring at Yang Qi as he walked out. "Come with us immediately, Viceroy. Any unnecessary delays will be severely punished!"

"Oh really?" Yang Qi said languidly. "Since when does the Palace of Destiny have the authority to order around a viceroy like me? If I feel like ignoring this summons, I can ignore it."

"You!" the peak Paramount God destinor said angrily. "You've got a lot of gall to talk like that. When our priestess summons you, you come. Otherwise you're just asking to get killed."

"I never said I wasn't going. Go ahead and lead the way."

He waved his hand, and an invisible stream of golden light entered the destinor, causing him to shiver as he was subjugated. In fact, the man was just about to drop to his knees when Yang Qi stopped him.

"Let's go!"

The newly subjugated destinor led the way to the Palace of Destiny.

Yang Qi ignored the other destinors. They were too weak. He was only interested in having peak Paramount Gods with psychic scales of a billion or more.

As for the destiny provided by this newly subjugated peak Paramount God, it was so negligible as to be beneath Yang Qi's notice. At this point, only subjugating people on the level of Dugu Yunkong would provide any helpful amount of destiny.

In the blink of an eye, they were at the Palace of Destiny.

The destinors led him into an expansive meeting hall, closing the door behind him as he entered. A handful of priestesses were there, sitting on thrones, including Dugu Wanqing. He obviously hadn't forgotten how she had tried recruiting him without offering any substantial benefits.

The other priestesses were obviously lower-ranked than her.

There were other people present who obviously weren't members of the Palace of Destiny. There were roughly ten of them, men and women who were all peak Paramount Gods. One of the men was attractive, with a fit physique and long, slender fingers. He was also visibly taller than everyone else. He had a psychic scale of more than nine billion, putting him just on the verge of being like the God-Lords of old.

'He's from the Spritefolk!'

Yang Qi had become familiar with the aura of the Spritefolk during his spritefruit heist. Thanks to the spritefruit, he was also familiar with their life force and genes.

Nowadays, he didn't focus much on people's aura or physical appearances, as he could assess their genetic substructure. Many things could be faked, but not genes.

"Well, aren't you an important person, Viceroy!" Dugu Wanqing said sarcastically. "We've sent people to summon you on many occasions, yet you were never around. Now that you're back, do you mind explaining what you've been doing this past year that you were away?"

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Chapter 1489: One of the Spritefolk

Yang Qi was actually delighted that one of the Spritefolk was present. He was definitely going to kill multiple birds with only one stone here.

Nobody present had a psychic scale of over ten billion, which would ensure that things went very smoothly. Of course, that didn't mean he could act rashly. The net of law in the Palace of Destiny was particularly strong, so if people found out he was doing something shifty, it would be difficult to escape.

Once that net of law was provoked, it could unleash innumerable attacks, and it would lock down like a spider web, trapping the target within it.

In response to Dugu Wanqing's reproachful question, Yang Qi acted neither servile nor overbearing. "Exalted Priestess, I was out trying to expand the territory of the House of the Invincible. I wanted to see what kingdoms could be conquered. I'd made a bit of progress when I decided to return to take care of some business. That was when you summoned me."

"What incredible gall!" another of the priestesses shouted, rising to her feet and unleashing immense pressure that was obviously designed to force Yang Qi to kneel. "How dare you talk to us like that. Have you no respect? On your knees!"

Crack!

Yang Qi unleashed a bit of godpower to counter the pressure and remained standing. "Our sect has rules. I'm a viceroy, and as long as I observe the proper etiquette, I don't need to kneel. You're going far beyond your authority here."

"How outrageously brazen!" the same priestess replied, a cold smile on her face. "You're just getting cockier and cockier here. Could it be that you think your backer, Duke Nine Cauldrons, will help you? Is that why you're being so rude? Don't forget, we're planning to run an investigation to see why the destiny you control is so unusual. Let's cut to the chase here. You need to cut ties with Duke Nine Cauldrons and join us instead. Tell us how you managed to improve that destiny, and give us whatever magical treasure you recovered from the Bastille of the One God. After you join us, we'll reward your loyalty."

"Did the Invincible Dynasty decide to stop following the rules or something?" Yang Qi replied. "Aren't you worried that openly trying to turn me into a turncoat will provoke a reaction from the destiny here?"

Even as the words left his mouth, the destiny in the area began to pulse, with him at the center.

It was a natural function, as he was currently speaking with righteousness and justice on his side, whereas the priestesses were violating the interests of the sect, not to mention being very unreasonable.

Unfortunately, the destiny in this hall was actually very weak. Obviously, someone had used special techniques to reduce its effectiveness.

"Provoke a reaction from the destiny?" Dugu Wanqing laughed. "This is the Palace of Destiny! We control the destiny here, and can adjust it any time we want. Furthermore, you aren't the least bit important. You're nothing but a measly viceroy. It might be a slight violation of the rules, but we can bring you here for punishment if we want. It's an unwritten rule among the officials of our dynasty. You'd better watch out, because your life's on the line here."

"Why do you people care so much about me? I'm just a simple viceroy. Isn't it going a bit overboard for the Palace of Destiny to treat me like this?"

"There's more to you than meets the eye," the Spritefolk man suddenly said. Rising to his feet from the guest throne in which he sat, he strolled over to Yang Qi, his eyes twinkling. "You act very cool under pressure. In fact, I don't think any other viceroy could act as cool as you in this situation. And that's not to mention that you're only a late Paramount God with a psychic scale of a few hundred million. You're definitely hiding something. You see, I looked into the lands you run, and I understand it quite clearly. You have a lot of thralls running things there, unintelligent thralls that can't fight. Not even the ultimate thralls of all time, the ancient angels, could possibly run a nation. Yet your thralls do it perfectly. Their policies see instant results, which should be completely impossible for thralls."

"Who are you?" Yang Qi asked.

"I'm a general of the Spritefolk. Sprite Guyuan." Clasping his hands behind his back, he smiled coldly and continued, "As it turns out, there are crouching tigers and hidden dragons in the House of the Invincible. Such geniuses really shouldn't be skulking around as viceroys. What are you really doing here? Why are you hiding in the House of the Invincible?"

"Why should I answer any of your questions?" Yang Qi said coldly. "This is the House of the Invincible, and I'm a viceroy here. I have a responsibility to my nation and people, and have to answer to the emperor. You're an outsider who has no right to be demanding answers from a viceroy. I'm a government official, and you're nothing but a vassal. Who gave you the authority to interrogate me like a criminal?"

Yang Qi's words were spoken extremely sharply, an open humiliation of Sprite Guyuan.

"Are you looking to die!?" Sprite Guyuan barked. "I think I'll cut your head off right here and now, so everyone knows the price to be paid for insulting me!"

"Such audacity!" Yang Qi replied loudly. "How dare you talk about attacking a viceroy in the middle of the House of the Invincible? This is outright rebellion! You people from the Palace of Destiny, are you really going to stand for this repulsive behavior?"

"If a fight breaks out, General Sprite Guyuan, we can always look the other way," one of the priestesses said. "Boy, did you really think the rules of our dynasty are that rigid? Do you really think they can't be broken? Let me tell you the truth. Those in superior positions here are vastly more powerful than their inferiors. We make the rules here, and if Sprite Guyuan wants to kill you, we'll just say the two of you agreed to have a martial arts match, and you accidentally lost your life. No one will care that much. Besides, Princess Sprite Susu is going to be marrying the exalted Dugu Yunkong soon. In other words, Sprite Guyuan will soon be a general of the Invincible Dynasty. And what do you count for compared to that?"

"Wow, you people really don't care about the rules. You'll harm the national destiny just like that?"

Glancing around, Yang Qi confirmed that they were completely cut off from the outside, and it caused him to smile inwardly. That was exactly what he wanted.

Glaring angrily, Sprite Guyuan said, "Considering how you just talked to me, boy, I've decided that I'm not going to ask any more questions. I'll just kill you and drag the answers out of your soul afterward. You think I won't kill you because you're a viceroy? All you've succeeded in doing is pissing me off!"

He seemed to view himself as an angry tiger facing a bunny, as though Yang Qi didn't even have the ability to fight back.

In fact, his hand shot out, glittering with dazzling light as he said, "This is my Prism-Devil Nightmare Hand. After it latches on to you, you'll descend into an endless nightmare that'll make you wish you could die. Except I won't let you!"

CRACK!

The moment the words left his mouth, a loud smacking sound rang out as Yang Qi slapped him so hard he flew off to the side and slammed into the wall, blood pouring out of his mouth.

Yang Qi moved so quickly that none of the priestesses could even see what happened. Some of them even assumed he had experienced a sudden onset of cultivation deviation.

"You think a bit too much of yourself," Yang Qi said, shaking his head. "And you people are the ones who blocked this place off from the outside destiny, so don't blame me for this. You think some puny Spritefolk general can steamroll me?"

Instead of pulling his hand back, Yang Qi left it hanging in the air, making it obvious that he was the one who had just done the slapping. Then he made a grasping gesture, and Sprite Guyuan flew back toward him. Yang Qi grabbed him by the throat and held him up like a trussed chicken. Staring into his eyes, he said, "You're weak, Sprite Guyuan. Couldn't even stand up to a single slap from me. And you think you're going to actually fight me?"

"You..."

The priestesses were all flabbergasted. However, after a moment passed, some of them took action. Some tried to unleash magical techniques, some tried sending out warning messages, and some tried unsealing the hall. Sadly, they then found that there was a greyspace surrounding them, which repelled all magic and all messages.

"Too late, ladies and gentlemen. I've already made this place into a pure land controlled by me. It's a good thing you cut this place off from destiny, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do this. You've spun a cocoon around yourselves." He waved his hand, and godtrees sprouted up everywhere. Above, stars appeared, mighty and grand in every sense.

"Who are you?" Dugu Wanqing said. "How are you doing this? And what are you doing in the House of the Invincible?" She obviously knew it was a dangerous situation, and given that they were stuck, she decided to try talking to him, and possibly scheme her way out of trouble.

"Who am I?" Yang Qi threw this head back and laughed. "My master is the Invincible Dugu, so you tell me who I am." It was no lie. He was telling the truth.

"What?!" Dugu Wanqing said. "That's absurd! Patriarch Invincible has been sleeping since the primeval era, and he never had any apprentices. Right now, the nine patriarchs are in control!"

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Chapter 1490: I'm the Successor

Yang Qi was telling the truth, yet not a single person believed him. After all, not even the highest leaders of the dynasty had ever seen their Patriarch Invincible, the Invincible Dugu. The Invincible Dugu had fallen in the Sovereign Lord's Age, and it didn't seem possible that he could be alive right now. It was said that the whole reason the House of the Invincible was gathering destiny was to resurrect him and follow his leadership to dominate everything under heaven.

But many people thought that was nothing more than an old story, and that Patriarch Invincible was like the Sovereign Lord: impossible to resurrect.

Yang Qi looked at Dugu Wanqing and snorted coldly. "Why would I lie to you children? You lot are so weak that I could kill you in half a moment. And you think that I'd just make up something about my Master? Let me explain things here. I'm from the lower worlds, and my master there was the Invincible Dugu. There's no reason for me to just make that up."

"You ascended from the lower worlds?" Dugu Wanqing said. "Then why are you targeting us? If you really are the patriarch's apprentice, you shouldn't be opposing us! That would be harming your own Master's interests. Look, we can talk this out. Given how strong you are, we can arrange for an important position for you in the House of the Invincible. But if you kill us, you'd be cutting off any future that you have here. Come, let's negotiate!"

"Negotiate? You think you deserve to do that? The reason I'm telling you all this is that you're going to be my slaves in a moment. I'm the real successor of the House of the Invincible. And now you're all going to be subjugated, starting with you, Sprite Guyuan!"

Crack!

Golden light shot out from Yang Qi's palm, entering Sprite Guyuan and causing him to slump to the ground. Then a shocked expression overtook his face, and he got to his knees and kowtowed. "My respects, Milord. I deserve to die for what I did. I had no idea you were so mighty. You have the God Legion Seal! I'm truly blind."

"What? The God Legion Seal?!"

"What nonsense are you spouting, Sprite Guyuan?"

"You're the top expert in our faction, Sprite Guyuan. You couldn't possibly be so foolish. I can't believe you're kowtowing to him? You're besmirching the honor of the Spritefolk!"

"Dammit. Attack!"

"Let's all attack together. I refuse to believe that he would dare to kill us!"

Roar!

One of the Spritefolk experts, with a psychic scale and godhood rating of about seven billion, transformed into a stream of sword light that resembled a striking snake and shot toward Yang Qi.

Yang Qi didn't even look in his direction. "Be subjugated," he said. Instantly, the man stopped in mid-flight, whereupon Yang Qi flicked his finger, sending a stream of light into him.

A moment later, the man dropped to his knees. "Milord, you are truly invincible. I deserve to die for my actions!"

"Now for the rest of you."

CRASH!

A massive hand descended, like the Sovereign Lord reaching from the halls of heaven down to hell. To the shock of the handful of Spritefolk, they could only watch as that hand crushed down on them.

The entire group was sucked up into the hand, which closed around them. Flashes of light exploded out, then they dropped to the ground, all of them addressing Yang Qi as 'milord'.

Yang Qi felt the surging destiny they provided. It was a different type of destiny than that of the Dragonfolk, but it was fragmented and disunited. And it couldn't come close to matching up to the destinies of the three major organizations, which was why the Spritefolk had to pick a side to join.

Now Yang Qi controlled the destiny of these Spritefolk, and any who refused his orders would be killed instantly.

Roar!

Yang Qi quickly blessed them with the Eternal Heavenly Aria, then turned and smiled at the group of priestesses. "Do you really think you can refuse to serve me, ladies?"

"Y-y-you..." Dugu Wanqing stammered, a look of fear finally showing on her face. "Stay away from me!"

"You're very stubborn." Yang Qi exhaled, causing the Sovereign Lord's Holy and Far-Reaching Consummate Omnicurse to fall like snowflakes and enter the bodies of the priestesses. Before any of them knew what was happening, they were kneeling in front of Yang Qi.

They had all been subjugated.

Yang Qi smiled. "Excellent. My command of the Sovereign Lord's Holy and Far-Reaching Consummate Omnicurse has reached the highest level. I can turn it into a falling snow that baptizes anyone it touches."

"My respects, Milord!" the priestesses all said.

"On your feet," Yang Qi replied, simultaneously reining in the God Legion Paradise so that the meeting hall returned to its original state. Instantly, the net of law rumbled in and filled the place.

As soon as it made contact with him, he shivered as he felt himself contacting the essence of the destiny of the House of the Invincible. As for the destinies of these priestesses, they were far beyond the level of a viceroy with two lands.

Of course, it wasn't even close to sufficient. He needed to subjugate more of the leaders, those that had godhood ratings and psychic scales of ten billion. With that, he would gain a very deep enlightenment of the organization's destiny and net of law. Then he could become like a parasite, taking away the destiny and giving it to his Sage Monarch Empire.

As he subjugated more and more people here, he was actually creating a secret organization in the dynasty. The Sage Monarch Society, which he would eventually use to take over.

There were some existing factions in the Invincible Dynasty. For instance, the grand exarch's Confucian Society and Dugu Yunkong's Sky Society.

The nine Dugu patriarchs that ran the entire dynasty didn't pay much attention to such affairs; as long as they had the destiny to work on their cultivation, they only showed their faces for important matters.

Of course, Yang Qi wouldn't give them an opportunity to do anything. They would have no idea he was eating away at them until it was too late.

"For now, just carry on with business as normal. But remember, you're now members of the Sage Monarch Society, which will eventually control the entire Invincible Dynasty." Turning to Sprite Guyuan, he said, "By the way, there's something I need to know. Where is Sprite Susu?"

"Milord, Princess Sprite Susu is currently at her mobile palace of operations. It's called the Cloud Palace, and it's been set up here in the House of the Invincible as a special place for her to reside. You see, we're actually guards assigned to keep her safe."

"Let's go!" Yang Qi said. "Take me to see her."

"But..." Sprite Guyuan said. "Men aren't allowed to enter the Cloud Palace. Not even Dugu Yunkong can see her before the wedding. We only patrol the exterior."

"That doesn't matter," Yang Qi said. "Take me there. I'll just sneak inside."

"Yes sir!" the Spritefolk said, not daring to argue. And with that, they led the way.

After he left, the priestesses sagged limply. Exchanging awkward, fearful glances, they said, "We're finished. I can't believe we've fallen into the hands of that monster. We're done for."

"Ai. There's nothing we can do now except follow his orders."

"He's wildly ambitious. I can't believe he wants to eat the Invincible Dynasty from the inside out. Well, we work for him now. He planted seeds in our minds and souls that will make it impossible to be free."

"So what do we do now?"

"Whatever he says, that's what."

All of the priestesses were filled with regret that they had chosen to trifle with Yang Qi. That said, he would have come for them regardless. The Palace of Destiny was just too important to him.

Before long, Yang Qi was deep in the Invincible Dynasty, where he caught sight of an enormous palace hovering in the air, slowly rotating. It looked like a violet planet, reminding him of the Tusita Heaven from the immortal worlds.

Shockingly, there was an entire army guarding the palace, composed of crack troops from the Spritefolk.

Sprite Guyuan was one of the generals from that army.

WHOOSH!

Upon catching sight of the Cloud Palace, Yang Qi became a shadow that slipped inside completely unnoticed.

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Chapter 1491: Finally Reuniting

Yang Qi was very excited to be in the Cloud Palace.

He was absolutely certain Sprite Susu was Yang Susu, and he was very curious to find out how she managed to ascend to the god world. Had she encountered some sort of good fortune in the immortal worlds? That didn't seem likely. So had she been taken to the god world by Proud Heaven? But if she had, how did she slip free from his control and get the Spritely Sage Grail?

There were too many unanswered questions for Yang Qi to piece together a theory. He wasn't worried about this being a trap. He had always been a fan of the saying when soldiers come, send a general to stop them; when floodwaters come, use earth to block them.

'I need to lock on to the aura of the Spritely Sage Grail.'

The Cloud Palace was huge, and all of the handmaidens were Spritefolk women. There were some experts present, but they were all irrelevant, so Yang Qi wasn't interested in subjugating them. Instead, he focused on locating the aura of the Spritely Sage Grail, which was the most powerful item the Spritefolk possessed.

Supposedly, it had existed back in the days of the preheaven primal-chaos, and it was what had given birth to the Spritefolk. Furthermore, it possessed a preheaven will of its own, making it vastly superior to ordinary preheaven treasures. In other words, it was similar to the Dragon Compendium and the Myriad Dragons Lair.

Sprite Susu being fused with the Spritely Sage Grail was like Yang Qi being fused with the Myriad Dragons Lair, and he took that to be a sign that she was trying to unify the destiny of the Spritefolk.

After all, every faction within the Spritefolk would offer yearly sacrifices to the Spritely Sage Grail. And it was certain that Sprite Susu possessing the grail meant that she was constantly improving her cultivation base.

Yang Qi was very curious to see what the situation was all about.

WHOOSH!

Eventually, he reached a delicately decorated bedchamber deep in the palace. There was no one present; apparently, Sprite Susu liked things quiet.

Eyes flashing, Yang Qi looked inside and saw a young woman dressed in violet garments. If it wasn't Yang Susu, then who could it be?

Swish!

He entered, and was now standing behind the woman.

She could sense that someone had entered, as she said, "We're not married yet, Dugu Yunkong. So why exactly are you sneaking around in my palace? This is against the rules, and if the leaders found out, you'll be punished."

"I'm not that piece of trash Dugu Yunkong. I trust you've been well since we last met, Aunt Susu. After we parted ways in the Demi-Immortal Institute, we never saw each other again. You disappeared like a wisp of smoke. Now here we are together in the god world. It's almost as if this was foreordained. As if nothing could have stopped this from happening."

When the woman in violet heard his words, she spun around. Visibly trembling, she said, "Y-y-you... Yang Qi?! Am I dreaming or something?"

Yang Qi didn't look at all like he had in the past, having experienced far too many transformations. But at this point, physical appearance wasn't very important. What mattered was the mind, spirit, soul, and substructure. Yang Susu looked very different physically. However, in terms of her life force, thoughts, and substructure, she was the same person.

He sighed. "That's right, Aunt Susu. It's me. It's a strange thing for us to be meeting here. I can calculate the workings of heaven and manipulate the cosmos. I can even create god kingdoms. But I couldn't ever have calculated that we would meet like this."

"Yang Qi... you..." She seemed to be so excited she was at a loss for words. Then she made as if to lean forward and hug him, only to suddenly hold back. "Yang Qi, this is a very dangerous place. How'd you get into the House of the Invincible with a cultivation base like that?"

Yang Susu had advanced her cultivation, so the first thing she thought about was the matter of safety. Consummate experts had to get rid of their normal emotions to be able to maintain a cool and collected demeanor.

"Don't worry. The cultivation base I'm revealing is fake. I'm actually on the very verge of stepping halfway into the Annulled level. Few people in the god world could be a threat to me." He took a step forward and embraced her, allowing him to sense her aura and soul even more deeply.

She trembled as she hugged him back. "How did you get your cultivation base that high, Yang Qi? What's going on here?"

"It's a long story, Aunt Susu. So, your psychic scale and godhood rating are beyond nine billion. It won't take much to reach ten billion, except it seems your stuck in a bottleneck." Looking more closely, Yang Qi saw that Yang Susu pulsed with destiny. Inside her was the Sage Grail, which continuously absorbed the destiny sacrificed by the Spritefolk. Although it was somewhat weak, it was still impressive.

However, she hadn't yet fully fused with it. In other words, most of the destiny went to the Sage Grail, instead of Yang Susu.

'The Spritely Sage Grail actually resembles a tree,' he thought. Even more surprising, that tree had spritefruit on it. He remembered from his encounter years ago that the Spritefolk actually lived in enormous trees.

Waving his hand, he quickly created a replica of the Spritely Sage Grail, which he sent into Yang Susu. At the same time, he said, "I call upon the power of my name to appoint Yang Susu as the senior princess of the Sage Monarch Empire."

RUMBLE!

He spoke with a golden mouth and jade words, instantly causing a stream of destiny to pierce into her. She trembled, and the Sage Grail inside of her merged with her life force and genes. In that moment, she became the Sage Grail, and the Sage Grail became her.

She was now the Holy Mother of all the Spritefolk.

At the same time, her psychic scale and godhood rating burst into the level of ten billion, making her like the God-Lords of old.

"I can't believe you founded an empire like that, Yang Qi!"

"I recently took over the Myriad Dragons Lair and used it as the foundation of my empire. It's not quite complete, though. When I heard the news about your wedding, I had to come here and help you take over as the leader of the Spritefolk. I want the Spritefolk as part of my Sage Monarch Empire. It'll make me the fourth great dynasty here. Eventually, I'll take over the other three and control the entire god world."

"Amazing," she said excitedly. "You're completely amazing. I can definitely help you, now that I've fused with the Sage Grail and achieved a breakthrough. However, there's something else you need to help me with."

"Is it Dugu Yunkong? All I have to do is subjugate him to take care of the situation. Unfortunately, his cultivation base is very impressive. And I don't think I can overcome him while inside the House of the Invincible. It needs to happen outside."

"There's no rush. Now that I've achieved this breakthrough, I'll have a much higher position among the Spritefolk. Yang Qi, what happened after we parted so long ago? I'm dying to hear."

"Alright." They sat down on the bed and started chatting, and it was the most natural conversation possible. He recounted everything about the Demi-Immortal Institute, killing the Crown Prince, unifying the Rich-Lush Continent, going to the Hanging Mountain, joining the Titan Emperor Collegium, ascending to the immortal worlds, reaching the Titan Emperor Heaven, the invasion of the future world, the formation of the Dao Defense League, the appearance of the Great Necropolis, his conquering of the impure lands, ascending to the god world, entering the House of God Ordainment, and all the other things that had led to the current point.

His story already sounded like the stuff of legend, and Yang Susu couldn't help but be excited and impressed.

He could have used divine will to simply impart the information to her, but talking seemed like a better choice. And it had been a long time since he'd just enjoyed a good conversation. It was a nice break from all of the conquering and killing he usually did. And it actually led to some further enlightenment regarding the Annulled level.

Their conversation lasted all day and then through the night.

When he finished, he said, "Now, Aunt Susu, I'm curious how you got to the god world."

"It's not that complicated. A powerful force pulled me up into the immortal worlds, and once I got there, I realized it was Proud Heaven. He wanted to use me to get at your God Legion Seal. However, in the process of trying to imprison me, he provoked a reaction from a sealing mark inside me. It caused a brilliant shaft of light to shoot down from the god world, grab me, and pull me up. Once I was here, I found myself inside the Spritely Sage Grail, which was where I continued my cultivation for a number of years. When I finally got out, I was among the Spritefolk, who named me a holy daughter with the divine right to accept the power of sacrifice."

Although it was a fairly simple story, Yang Qi picked up on some important aspects.

"It seems you're a fated individual among the Spritefolk, Aunt Susu. Unfortunately, while you have the divine authority of sacrifice, you don't have official royal authority, so you haven't been able to unify your people."

Yang Susu was a princess and holy daughter. She had been given the ability to tap into the sacrifices of her people using the Sage Grail; however, what she had access to was minimal at best.

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Chapter 1492: Divine Authority and Royal Authority

Throughout history, it was generally known that royal authority surpassed divine authority. The person who held royal authority handled practical matters, while in contrast, divine authority was related to faith. When a dynasty changed, people would have no choice but to alter their faith in order to stay alive.

The reason Yang Susu had been able to reach the level of the God-Lords so quickly wasn't specifically because of the Spritely Sage Grail, but rather because she bore divine authority.

Because of her divine authority, she had destiny constantly flowing into her, that equivalent to that of a viceroy of tens of thousands of lands in the House of the Invincible.

That said, it wasn't enough.

To achieve the goals she sought, she would need both divine and royal authority, combined and united.

Yang Susu understood this as well. She had learned a lot in her time in the god world. Although she had limitations in terms of her cultivation base, she had benefited a lot. And although she hadn't experienced as many complicated situations as Yang Qi, she had been through many things.

"The Spritefolk are broken up into numerous interest groups," she said. "Furthermore, there are multiple empires, not to mention the smaller kingdoms. Everyone fights for power and authority, and frankly, it would be impossible to subjugate them all. This arranged marriage between me and Dugu Yunkong is the work of several emperors, all of them old-timers who don't want me to gather any more divine authority. You see, it's all a big plot. After the wedding, they'll make up some excuse to strip me of the Sage Grail. It's sort of like a royal seal, so whoever has it is considered the official ruler. Unfortunately, I don't have the influence to oppose these old-timers. But I do have some loyal followers. For instance, most of the members of the army protecting me. Although, there are outside agents among them. For instance, the man you subjugated, Sprite Guyuan, is a mole placed in my army by the Gu Dynasty. It's actually good that you subjugated him. It removes a big thorn in my side, a potentially deadly one."

"I knew that bastard was no good. Otherwise, why would he be meeting with the priestesses of the Palace of Destiny? You've done well up to this point, Aunt Susu. I suggest that right now, you summon all of the peak Paramount Gods who work for you to a meeting. We'll use the opportunity to find out who's really loyal to you, and who's an agent. If we don't clean house a bit, it's going to lead to disaster later on."

"But how exactly do we do it?" She knew that Yang Qi had a lot of experience in running national affairs. And although she had long since hoped to gain greater authority, she was simply too weak to pull it off. But with Yang Qi's support, she was like a tiger that had grown wings.

"Simple. Call the meeting, with the excuse of forming a palace guard. Then, announce that with the authority granted to you by the Sage Grail, you're going to call on your divine authority to bring new glory to the Spritefolk. In other words, you're going to found a new empire. Taking your palace guard with you, you'll secretly leave the House of the Invincible and travel around to the numerous royal dynasties to recruit ambitious experts. When the time is right, use your divine authority to call a huge meeting of all the Spritefolk, where you'll force all of the other emperors and old-timers to submit to your authority. With your divine authority, you should be able to get plenty of ambitious people to work for you, not to mention that I'll be helping you. We'll overwhelm your opposition with unstoppable momentum."

"How many experts can you provide me to help?" she asked calmly. "I don't have enough to pull this off. There are too many Spritefolk old-timers who can tap into the dao of heaven. And the Spritefolk empires opposing me are powerful. They have access to destiny that ordinary people could never even dream of."

"Don't worry about all that. When you tap into your divine authority, I'll have all of the Dragonfolk old-timers with me to act as dharmic dragon guards. Since you're now the senior princess of the Sage Monarch Empire, having them act as guards for you makes perfect sense."

"Alright. I'll call the meeting now."

"Alright!"

Bells tolled as Yang Susu entered one of the main halls of the Cloud Palace, whereupon the troops rushed inside.

Yang Qi was actually surprised by what he saw. There were several thousand people, all of them peak Paramount Gods. It went to show how important Yang Susu's wedding was to the Spritefolk. After all, a lot of the people present were obviously moles sent to make sure she didn't try to escape the marriage.

However, this would just make it easier to handle them all at the same time.

As soon as everyone was inside, Yang Qi waved his hand and closed the door. Then, a huge greyspace sprang up, ensuring that whatever happened inside would remain secret. After all, they were still in the middle of the House of the Invincible, so if word spread, it could lead to disaster.

The assembled Spritefolk looked over at Yang Susu, and from the way their eyes flickered, some could obviously sense that something strange was going on. Finally, one of them stepped forward and said, "Exalted Princess, why exactly did you call this meeting? Is there some important matter to discuss?"

"Well, if it isn't General Sprite Tushan from the Totem Empire." Yang Susu smiled. "I called this meeting because I have an important announcement. The Spritely Sage Grail has suddenly become active, and issued an official decree regarding the fate of the Spritefolk."

"What? The fate of the Spritefolk?"

"Can that even happen?"

"What the hell is going on?"

"Keep it down! The princess is going to explain the official decree. It's completely inappropriate for you to be talking so loudly."

Yang Susu's announcement had already led to a big stir, and Yang Qi was already starting to identify who was loyal, and who were moles.

"Quiet, everyone!"

Whizz!

Yang Susu used a special voice technique to silence the hall. When that happened, two of the experts present who had been standing there with eyes closed the entire time, suddenly looked up.

"Princess, your psychic scale has reached ten billion!"

Those two, as well as the man Yang Susu had just addressed, all had psychic scales of ten billion. They were very important people among the Spritefolk, and were the commanding officers of the army that guarded Yang Susu.

All three were clad in bright red armor, with red cloaks and tall helms. They all held scepters in their hands, and were surrounded by thrumming energy fields.

Obviously, they were the ones who held primary authority over the task of watching over Yang Susu.

She had already told Yang Qi about them. Their names were Sprite Tushan, Sprite Zhangang, and Sprite Gufeng.

They were old-timers from powerful empires who, despite being at odds with each other, were united in their resolve to keep Yang Susu under control, and prevent her from expanding her influence and seizing royal authority.

Before, it had been an easy thing to control her, but now that she had a psychic scale of ten billion, it would be a lot harder.

They knew that she could control divine authority with the Spritely Sage Grail, which made her very dangerous.

"That's right. The Spritely Sage Grail gave me the power I needed to break through last night. It also gave me an order regarding how to lead the Spritefolk. It said that we should leave the Invincible Dynasty, lest we be destroyed in the future."

Silence reigned. Hearts pounded, and quite a few people actually twitched because of the tension.

Everyone knew exactly what Sprite Susu meant. She was planning to break her promise of marriage and go out on her own. If news spread, it would cause a major commotion. The House of the Invincible, the House of the Chiliocosm, and the Central Dynasty would definitely be riled up into a huge stir.

RUMBLE!

Sprite Tushan stepped forward. Voice hard, he said, "Princess, I can respect you because of your title. But you don't have the right to go around randomly making official decrees. This wedding has already been set in stone by the real leaders among the Spritefolk. We and the Invincible Dynasty are going to merge to form a grand empire, and you have no choice but to go along with it. You're nothing by a figurehead, and have no royal authority. Understand? Don't tell me you plan to break the law here today."

"What gall!" Yang Susu barked. "You'll follow all the rules and laws of the Spritefolk when you address me, Sprite Tushan. Have you no respect for the Sage Grail? You're a disgrace to the totems of the Spritefolk. Maybe I should just have you burned at the stake!"

"I wouldn't dare disrespect the Sage Grail," Sprite Tushan replied. "I'm just asking you to not randomly announce official decrees. Perhaps you think that because you have a psychic scale of ten billion you can now interfere with royal authority. But that's not how things work. Let's join forces to teach a little lesson to the princess, and make sure she stops this melodrama."

"Alright!" Sprite Gufeng said. He and Spring Zhangang stepped forward as, behind them, their followers started shouting out to admonish the princess and call for her to be punished.

RUMBLE!

Even the Spritefolk who were loyal to Yang Susu were struck speechless by what was happening.

It went to show how lacking in influence and power Yang Susu really was. Without Yang Qi there to back her up, she would have had no choice but to go through with the wedding to Dugu Yunkong, after which she would be stripped of any power she did have.

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Chapter 1493: Striking Back

"What, planning a rebellion?" Yang Susu didn't have much power and authority among the Spritefolk, but now that Yang Qi was there, she wasn't afraid of anything. She chuckled coldly as an enormous vortex opened up behind her, and more than thirty figures appeared, all of them pulsing with immense power.

Twenty-eight of them were the top patriarchs of the Dragonfolk. The Second and Third Devil Generals were there, as was Yang Jian from the House of the Chiliocosm. These people all had psychic scales and godhood ratings of ten billion!

Yang Qi was also there, sitting upon an emperor's dragon bed and being carried by a handful of the Dragonfolk patriarchs.

"Who's causing a scene here?" the Third Devil General growled, her voice so cold and sinister that everyone was struck speechless. Of course, they could tell that she had a very profound cultivation base, and was obviously some sort of important old-timer.

"What? Paragon-King Sage Dragon?!" Sprite Tushan didn't recognize the Third Devil General, but he did recognize the white-robed Paragon-King Sage Dragon. "What are you doing here? What's going on?"

Paragon-King Sage Dragon snorted coldly. "Sprite Tushan, you old bastard. Maybe Sprite Tuba deserves to consider himself my equal. But you? How dare you talk to me like that. Are you feeling suicidal? The exalted Yang Susu has been appointed the senior princess of our Sage Monarch Empire. And you just threatened her. Are you actually asking us Dragonfolk to kill you?"

"Senior princess? What are you talking about? What's happening here?"

Everyone was shocked, and no one dared to take any action. These people were all top experts from the Spritefolk, and they were experienced and knowledgeable down to the last one. They could see that there were over thirty Dragonfolk old-timers here, and the aura they emanated was enough to chill anyone down to their souls. No one wanted to do the wrong thing and cause a fight to break out.

"Third Devil General, ma'am, can you please explain?" Paragon-King Sage Dragon said.

"Okay," the Third Devil General said with a nod.

However, when Sprite Tushan heard the name, he blurted, "Third Devil General?! The patriarch of the devil-dragons that was sealed by the King of Godmammoths? That Third Devil General? That's you? How did you get out? You're not dead? I thought your story was just a legend!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to explain," the Third Devil General said loudly. "We were led here today by our boundless, paragonic, divine, and ultimate leader, His Majesty Yang Qi, who unified us into a magnificent and grand empire. All of the Dragonfolk patriarchs now work for him. As for your Princess Sprite Susu, she was His Majesty Yang Qi's aunt when they were together in the impure lands. And now he's appointed her as the senior princess of his Sage Monarch Empire. We've come here to purge any rebels from the senior princess' forces, and the first part of that effort involves establishing the Knights of the God Shrine. You lot here are going to be the first group of knights. Understand? Any who dare to resist will be executed immediately. There is no second option."

'His Majesty the Emperor?'

Everyone looked over at Yang Qi sitting on the dragon bed, unmoving, but emanating an immense grandeur. And they couldn't help but notice the pious expression on the faces of the Dragonfolk patriarchs who held the bed aloft.

'Who is this person? The Third Devil General works for him?'

The Spritefolk were all wondering what exactly was going on, but none of them dared to do anything yet. In fact, none of them even spoke. They were aware that many Dragonfolk enjoyed consuming human flesh. In fact, there had been some occasions where dragons would devour entire kingdoms of humans.

It was a terrifying thing that was little different from the dao of devils.

The Dragonfolk had never been united, and had always fought amongst themselves. But apparently, some profoundly powerful person had finally brought them under control. And that was a terrifying and dangerous thing. Everyone had already reached the conclusion that a new dynasty had been formed.

When Sprite Tushan, Sprite Gufeng, and Sprite Zhangang realized what was happening, they were shocked. They knew that Sprite Susu had acquired a huge backer, someone so powerful that she could now call off the wedding with Dugu Yunkong. Furthermore, she was now strong enough that she could probably take control of all the Spritefolk.

And if they tried to fight back, they would be ripped to shreds.

Waving his finger, Yang Qi said, "You three, get on your knees and prepare to receive a baptism. The Spritefolk as as disunited as a dish of loose sand, and I'm going to fix that. I'm forming the fourth dynasty in the god world, and you Spritefolk are going to lead the organized religion of my empire."

WHIZZZ!

Three beams of golden light shot out, becoming like enormous mammoths crushing down toward their heads.

"AAAAAIIIIIIIEEEE!" The three experts roared in defiance as they tried to fight back with various consummate abilities. One even tried to simply run away. But the three golden mammoths hit them, forcing them to their knees.

"Pitiful fools. Just accept my baptism." Golden light flowed from Yang Qi, forcing the three experts to prostrate themselves so low they looked like frogs on the ground. They twitched as if with insanity, until a moment later, they calmed and climbed to their knees. "Milord, we're here to follow any orders you have. We hereby pledge our lives to the senior princess, and will clear any obstacles presented to her divine authority."

Turning to the other Spritefolk, they shouted, "The rest of you, get on your knees!"

The rest of the Spritefolk were embarrassed and completely at a loss. But they knew they couldn't defy the three leaders of the army, therefore, they dropped wordlessly to their knees.

Yang Qi waved his hand, sending out golden light to subjugate all of them.

Yet again, he had won a victory without shedding any blood.

"Teleportation portal! Devour Heaven and Earth!"

RUMBLE!

Yang Qi inhaled deeply, and everyone present saw black as they were sucked inside. A moment later, they were in a minor god world in the Myriad Dragons Lair.

The Myriad Dragons Lair itself was slowly being converted into a minor god world, and was filled with lush mountains and rivers, numerous planes of existence, and thriving life force. Everyone present realized that this was the Sage Monarch Empire, a rising force that couldn't be stopped.

"Susu," Yang Qi said, "organize these Knights of the God Shrine however you see fit. Then pick some Dragonfolk experts to add to the ranks. Once you're ready, go to the Spritefolk kingdoms and start gathering more experts to your side."

"Okay."

Meanwhile, the larger army remained outside of the Cloud Palace. Taking them along would have attracted the suspicions of the House of the Invincible, so he left them alone for now. With the Spritefolk on Yang Qi's side, he definitely had a strong enough force to consider himself the fourth dynasty.

Their destiny was roughly on the same level as the Dragonfolk, and the new addition was so immense that it immediately benefited his cultivation base. What level would he reach? Fifty billion? A hundred billion? It was hard to say.

One thing was for certain, he was now in a position to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another in the god world. In other words, improving his cultivation level was as easy as drinking water.

The Knights of the God Shrine quickly increased their number tenfold. With the twenty-eight dragon patriarchs at their side, they formed ranks and left the Myriad Dragons Lair.

"Yang Qi, I'm going to head to Spritely God-Temple, which is where I connected with the Spritely Sage Grail. After I take control of the temple, I'll make my announcement and summon all of the important people to a meeting."

"Doing that will be beating the grass to startle the snake," Yang Qi said. "Instead, do some selective targeting and subjugate some of the empires. Start with their leaders. Then have your meeting, and you'll have momentum going into it. Doing it the other way will lead to fighting, which will harm the destiny. Even better, why don't we split the responsibilities? You to go the Spritely God-Temple to make preparations, while I go and personally handle some of the emperors and other leaders."

"Alright! Let's do it that way. You start with the Totem Empire, while I head to the temple and take control of all its aspects."

1. The 'dragon bed' (the bed of the emperor of China), could look a number of different ways. where you can see a variety of them.

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Chapter 1494: Two Courses of Action

Yang Qi's plan was to take two courses of action. He would use his incredible cultivation to strike with lightning speed and subjugate the leaders of some of the Spritefolk empires. At the same time, Yang Susu would take the newly established Knights of the God Shrine to take control of the temple she had mentioned. By the time she called her meeting, he would already have some of the empires under his complete control.

The Spritefolk were numerous, and had countless empires. In fact, they were larger than the Dragonfolk in terms of population. The only reason the Dragonfolk had such incredible destiny was that one dragon was worth ten thousand humans in that regard.

That was why conquering all of the Spritefolk nations wouldn't be a simple task. Doing it with pure force would take a lot of time, which was why he wanted to take advantage of Yang Susu's divine authority to get more people on their side more quickly.

The best way to conquer a people wasn't to forcefully subjugate them, but rather getting them to willingly join up.

Yang Qi had no idea of the total population of the Spritefolk, but he did know that they were scattered throughout the god world. Subjugating them one by one was simply too unrealistic. But if he could establish a grand empire with divine authority, based on the faith power of the Spritely Sage Grail, they would flock to it.

Spritefolk were actually human, and they had a lot of potential. Their vast numbers ensured that they would be difficult to rule, but if he had the destiny of a few powerful empires to work with, it would make things a lot easier.

Right now, he had ten million sage monarch magistrates, which wouldn't be enough. He wanted more. A hundred million. With that many, he could manage an organization as large as the House of the Invincible, at least with some effort. For things to be run absolutely smoothly, he would need three or four hundred million. And if he wanted the destiny to be absolutely pure and clear, it would require a billion.

The more sage monarch magistrates he had, the better.

"Look, Yang Qi. That's the Spritely God-Temple. I'll lead the knights there. Use the maps I gave you to travel around to the most powerful Spritefolk empires. I'll take care of everything else." Yang Susu spoke with the manner of a ruler. After coming to the god world, she had obviously experienced and done a lot.

Yang Qi looked over at the temple, and found that it was a complex of buildings filled with the enormous trees that were the trademark of the Spritefolk. And streams of Spritefolk headed into the temple, where they would offer sacrifices and worship.

It was a marvelous location. Every hundred years, countless Spritefolk would travel to it in a mass pilgrimage.

As luck would have it, this was just such a year.

"I know a lot of the secrets of the Spritefolk," Yang Qi said. "So subjugating them won't be very difficult. You do your work here at the temple and wait for my signal. When the time is right, unleash the power of the Spritely Sage Grail."

The grail was so powerful that it didn't matter where the Spritefolk trees were located in the god world, it could connect to them and urge the Spritefolk there to come to the temple.

There were even powerful experts who could use the power of the trees to teleport here. That was one reason why the Spritely Sage Grail was such a coveted item.

If it weren't for the fact that Yang Susu had a powerful cultivation base, other Spritefolk would surely have already taken it away from her. She was now a figurehead that most Spritefolk wouldn't dare to disrespect. On the other hand, controlling her was controlling a symbol that would lead to immense power.

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

Yang Susu and Yang Qi parted ways. As he flew off, he referenced the maps he had memorized and identified an expansive continent upon which had been built a sprawling empire.

Getting around the god world was easy for him. There were distances that ordinary Paramount Gods would take thousands of years to span via flight, but he could cross in the blink of an eye.

That was the result of his combination of a high cultivation base with the Myriad Worlds Greater Teleportation and Tribulation Wings.

As for his fighting prowess, he was already at the peak of what ancient God-Lords were capable of.

Of course, future breakthroughs would only get more and more difficult.

'So, this is the Totem Empire? It has incredible destiny!' He stopped just on the borders of the empire to examine it, and was thoroughly impressed by the destiny and net of law, which would repel anyone who tried to invade.

It was a huge empire that rose high into the sky and far under the ground. There were huge trees everywhere, atop which were built various palaces and temples.

The Spritefolk in general couldn't ever stay far away from their spritetrees.

They were born under those trees, and their life force would be linked to it throughout their life. And the spritefruit that grew on the trees were holy fruits to them.

The height to which a spritetree grew was a reflection of how much power and influence its Spritefolk wielded.

Some of the trees were so enormous that they stretched millions upon millions of kilometers into the air. Some even reached deep out into the void. The sky of the god world was filled with chaotic vital energy and deadly killing energies, but the spritetrees had an innate power that could shield against such danger. In fact, the trees could absorb those chaotic energies and convert them into something beneficial to the cultivation bases of the Spritefolk who lived in the trees.

The trees were like naturally formed cities or even castles. It was actually rare for them to be gathered into an empire, as each tree was a world of its own.

However, they did exist, and when they were gathered into an empire, there would always be common people and high-level leaders. At first, Yang Qi just took some time to look around.

The destiny was incredibly strong, far denser than anything from the Dragonfolk kingdoms. Dragonfolk destiny was always chaotic and scattered, whereas this destiny burned like the sun.

It was definitely nothing to look down on.

After some basic calculations, Yang Qi came to the conclusion that the destiny of this empire was equivalent to three or four hundred million lands in the House of the Invincible.

It was little wonder the Invincible Dynasty was drooling over the prospect of getting the Spritefolk on their side. The boost in destiny would be immense. If a single empire had the equivalent destiny of three or four hundred million lands in the House of the Invincible, and they could get a few such empires, along with some other smaller nations, they could acquire billions, or even tens of billions of times as much destiny as before.

Not even Yang Qi could prevent himself from licking his lips in anticipation. Using his Lord's Eye, he examined the structure of the society here, and analyzed its destiny transformations. The Totem Empire was ruled by a single dynasty, and although the place was very orderly, there were obviously places where the destiny was weak and could be improved.

He could also see that it was connected to the destiny of the House of the Invincible. Obviously, this empire paid them fealty.

There were also many teleportation portals leading to the House of the Invincible, which were used to conduct business. And business was obviously booming.

If nothing else, the rare spritefruit were a source of immense profit. Spritefruit could be used to concoct medicinal pills, or as materials in equipment forging. Although the Spritefolk had rules regarding their holy fruit, the rules had changed in recent years, if for no other reason than survival.

After examining the destiny, Yang Qi could see why the old-timers here wanted to get rid of Yang Susu. It would mean they could benefit even more from the House of the Invincible. They were definitely very ambitious.

'They just want to use Aunt Susu for their own benefit,' Yang Qi thought. 'I'm not going to forgive them for that. That said, this emperor's cultivation base is no weaker than that of Paragon-King Sage Dragon. And he's hidden in the depths of his empire. It's not going to be easy to subjugate him. I have to come up with a good plan.'

This mission was going to be a lot harder. For one thing, he had subjugated Paragon-King Sage Dragon in the Myriad Dragons Lair, where Yang Qi controlled the natural laws.

It would actually have been much more difficult outside of the lair.

A second reason this would be harder was that Yang Qi had crushed Paragon-King Sage Dragon's kingdom, making him unable to tap into its destiny. Here in the Totem Empire, it was going to be different.

A person with numbers in the level of twenty billion, plus the power of an empire to back them, could brush off an attack from Yang Qi. He could theoretically destroy the empire, but he didn't want to take over a patch of scorched earth.

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Chapter 1495: Proud Heaven?!?!

'I need to identify where the destiny is converging,' Yang Qi thought. After doing some searching, he found what he was looking for. It was an incomparably vast tree that was so high it was almost impossible to measure. And it was covered with immense buildings that pulsed with the energy of an emperor. This had to be the imperial palace.

There was one location in the middle of the palace where the vortexes of destiny were so strong, and the net of law so dense, that anyone who tried entering would be killed instantly.

Thankfully, Yang Qi had subjugated Sprite Tushan, thus acquiring some of the destiny of this place. With it, he could pass himself off as a Spritefolk general.

Thus disguised, he entered the empire without suffering any ill effects. An ordinary person who tried to do the same, even someone with a psychic scale of ten billion, would trigger invasion alarms and be inflicted with crushing pressure.

But not Yang Qi.

As he approached the imperial palace, he drew on the heavenly workings calculations systems that were built into his mind, using them to analyze the destiny and net of law. He assessed their profundities and weaknesses, and even tapped into the destiny a bit to strengthen himself.

The destiny here was no weaker than that in the Invincible Dynasty, but given Yang Qi's cultivation base, it was an easy task for him to remain hidden.

Swish!

Soon, he was inside the palace without having been detected. And in his hand was a small replica of the Spritely Sage Grail.

That was his trump card.

After becoming familiar with Yang Susu's grail, he had used the preheaven explosions in his growing minor god worlds to produce a copy. With it, he could exercise immense control over the Spritefolk. Without an asset like that, he would never have just strolled into this empire to try to subjugate the emperor.

Exercising utmost caution, he used the Life-Death Void-Destruction God-Lightning to head into the middle of the tree. There were countless soldiers on guard here, as well as numerous spell formations that actually surpassed anything he had seen among the Dragonfolk.

Dragons were incredibly strong on an individual level, but they weren't good at building things. They weren't particularly skilled at pill concocting or equipment forging either. So there was no need to mention spell formations.

Of course, after being conquered by Yang Qi, they tapped into their true potential and started turning into actual humans.

As they grew stronger, their destiny grew more impressive, and they slowly parted ways with their animalistic nature, heading more in the direction of civilization.

In some sense, Yang Qi hadn't conquered the Dragonfolk, but saved them.

'What a powerful energy,' he thought as he blurred into motion, heading deeper into the palace. What he sensed up ahead was an energy so immense that it surpassed his own cultivation base significantly. It almost seemed like some sort of ancient beast was waiting for him.

This shocking level of power was nothing to look down upon.

He had been operating under the assumption that the strongest person in the Totem Empire was the emperor, whose cultivation base was similar to Paragon-King Sage Dragon, at twenty billion. But this energy he was sensing actually surpassed fifty billion. In fact, it seemed something more like eighty billion, or possibly a hundred billion.

How strong would a person like that be?

This was someone who could step halfway into the Annulled level, and as far as Yang Qi knew, the Spritefolk didn't have any experts like that. If he faced someone like that, he would have no choice but to flee, and would definitely have to abandon any plans to subjugate the emperor.

Even if this person wasn't half Annulled, but still had a psychic scale of a hundred billion, they would still be someone very difficult for Yang Qi to deal with.

'Who is it? It's definitely not one of the Spritefolk.'

Eventually, he reached an area where the emperor was meeting with a visitor. Yang Qi inserted himself into the flame of a lamp so that he could spy.

This person looked dangerous. He was tall and fit, and had a majestic aura that caused Yang Qi to shudder.

Behind him, ten universes rotated without cease.

It was the aura of the Ten Universes!

Proud Heaven!

Yang Qi couldn't mistake him. It was Proud Heaven! From the impure lands to the Ancient Road to the Gods, all the way here to the god world, this man had always been his biggest enemy.

He looked physically different than before, taller, with different facial features. But in his substructure, he was the same. And the aura of his Ten Universes was very similar to Yang Qi's Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

Proud Heaven was here, discussing some private matter with the emperor of the Totem Empire.

Yang Qi felt an impulse to just jump out and start fighting. However, he suppressed the urge. This wasn't the time for that. He would have to wait until Proud Heaven left, then continue with his plan of subjugation.

"Exalted Proud Heaven, it's a true honor to have you visit me in person like this." The emperor was an old man clad in an imperial gown, who pulsed with the aura of an emperor. However, it was obvious that he couldn't measure up to Proud Heaven.

"There's a big matter to discuss, Emperor Sprite Totem. One of your Spritefolk is set to marry that brat from the House of the Invincible, Dugu Yunkong. I'm here to take charge of the matter. If you Spritefolk join up with the Invincible Dynasty, that leaves me out in the cold." After hearing his voice, and the immense air of control it contained, Yang Qi was convinced that he was dealing with Proud Heaven.

Smiling obsequiously, Emperor Sprite Totem replied, "You're mistaken. That princess is nothing but a figurehead. Exalted Proud Heaven, everyone knows the Central Dynasty is the one that truly has the mandate of heaven. Your destiny is righteous and pure, and surpasses even the ancient halls of heaven. If we were truly going to join a dynasty, it would be yours. What makes you think we're really going to be loyal to the House of the Invincible?"

"Yes, I know that." Proud Heaven smiled. "You've done well to stick to the plan. I'm just here to guide you a bit. I want your empire to become the strongest among all the Spritefolk. Unite your people, then sow chaos in the House of the Invincible. With you working on the inside, and the army of the Central Dynasty pressing in from the outside, we can finally bring the House of the Invincible crashing down!"

"Many thanks for your interest," Emperor Sprite Totem said, sounding delighted.

"There's another thing," Proud Heaven continued, "something that must be kept a secret. When your princess marries Dugu Yunkong, it's highly likely that someone named Yang Qi will show up. He's my biggest enemy. He's long since ascended here to the god world, but unfortunately, I have no way to locate him, as he's a Fateless One. I absolutely must get my hands on him."

"What? Fateless One? Isn't Yang Voidprime from the Chiliocosm Dynasty a Fateless One? Are you saying there's another one? All the old records say that there's only supposed to be one Fateless One at a time."

"The details are too confidential to explain to you right now. Suffice it to say that Yang Voidprime and Yang Qi are connected. They're predestined to be enemies. Yang Voidprime is a genius with an incredibly powerful cultivation base. He's also extremely ambitious. Sadly, it's foreordained that he'll be killed. He's no match for Yang Qi. You see, it's impossible to describe exactly how crafty and cunning Yang Qi is. In any case, he's connected to Sprite Susu, and that's why I'm here to watch over things, ensuring that everything happens as it should. If I can make Yang Qi show his face, and simultaneously bring down the House of the Invincible, I'll have killed two birds with one stone."

"Oh exalted Proud Heaven," Emperor Sprite Totem gushed, "I have nothing but the utmost admiration for you!"

"Enough with the bullcrap. Here, I brought some resources for your empire." Proud Heaven produced a talisman filled with countless medicinal pills, ores, and other types of wealth. "This should push your empire to an even high level. Furthermore, here's another talisman that contains a Heaven-Burying God Pill that I personally concocted, expending great effort to do so."

The second talisman was roughly the size of a fist, and looked like some sort of ancient stone.

'That's the quintessence of the Great Necropolis!' Yang Qi thought, having immediately sensed what he was looking at. He knew that if he could get that pill, his previous connection to the necropolis would ensure that he experienced a huge boost in cultivation base.

"Only consume this Heaven-Burying God Pill after you still your energy. And go slowly. With it, you can double your strength! Remember, don't rush. It will take at least a thousand years for you to fully assimilate it. Very well, I'll leave now, before anyone from the House of the Invincible senses my presence. I have important matters to attend to, so don't attempt to contact me. In a hundred years, burn that talisman, and I'll return to you."

1. This is a good place to point out that Divine Dreamwalker is not very consistent with terms. He often changes the names of things seemingly randomly. Sometimes he goes back and forth, sometimes switches from one name to another. In some cases, I replicate that inconsistency in the translation, when it makes sense, as with the Invincible Dynasty and House of the Invincible. But in other cases, it's confusing enough that I pick one name and consistently stick with it. In the case of the Sage Monarch Grand Magic, that was the original name he called it, but it has other versions. For instance the Sage Monarch Ten Daos or the Sage Monarch Ten Magics. Remember, it has ten major components. So the comparison to the Ten Universes is apt when the "ten" versions are used.

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Chapter 1496: Thwarting the Plo

Yang Qi was finally getting a glimpse into Proud Heaven's plot. He really was trying to lure Yang Qi out into the open, and had even roped this emperor into his plan. Sadly for Proud Heaven, Yang Qi had seen through his plan, and could plan countermeasures. Furthermore, even if nothing else came out of this trip, he had learned some of Proud Heaven's secrets, as well as gotten information about his cultivation base.

His psychic scale was at the level of a hundred billion, and he was in the process of stepping into the half Annulled level.

Once he succeeded, he would be like the Demon Master, True Devil, King Immortal-Slayer, Wretch God, and Sovereign Lord. It would be very difficult to deal with him at that point, and he would definitely be in the position to kill Yang Qi.

There was no way Yang Qi was going to let him succeed.

Clearly, Proud Heaven had been researching the Great Necropolis and had learned something from it. He had also seemed anxious to leave, presumably to go back to the Great Necropolis and continue his work. Apparently, he needed a hundred years before he anticipated carrying out the next step of his plan.

That meant Yang Qi only had a hundred years to work with.

That was enough time to build up the fourth powerful organization in the god world. Once he did that, people would flock to his banner, and his destiny would surge, giving him a cultivation base that could counter Proud Heaven's. Add in the resources he planned to take from the halls of heaven, and he might even be able to surpass Proud Heaven. If he could reach the half Annulled level, he would definitely kill Proud Heaven and dismantle the Central Dynasty.

Yang Qi remained in place quietly for a short time while Proud Heaven gave a few reminders to Emperor Sprite Totem, as well as some assorted daoist techniques. Then he left.

The emperor did as he had been told and didn't immediately consume the pill. Instead, he drew on the surrounding destiny to make the net of law around him ten times stronger. Being inside of the area already, though, Yang Qi wasn't affected.

After the area was secure in the bubble of destiny, Emperor Sprite Totem looked at the talisman with the Heaven-Burying God Pill, and smiled broadly. "You plan things out well, Proud Heaven. But do you really think I would follow your instructions with this pill? You want me to take the pill so you can control me. Sure, it will make me stronger. But as an old-timer who's been around for hundreds of millions of years, do you really think I would let someone turn me into a zombie puppet like that? You just wait until I join forces with the Invincible Dynasty. As I grow my influence there, I'll use it to get stronger. Then I'll just wait for your two dynasties to clash. When both of you are injured and weakened, my time will have come! Hmph! The destiny of the Invincible Dynasty is the only way I'll get a stronger cultivation base than you!"

As it turned out, Sprite Totem was no slouch. He was trying to play both sides against each other, while simultaneously benefiting from the resources of the House of the Invincible, and at the same time, getting benefits from Proud Heaven.

Inside, Yang Qi smiled coldly.

It was a given that Proud Heaven knew about this. When it came to plots and schemes there was nobody who could outdo Proud Heaven, except for Yang Qi.

As Yang Qi looked on, Sprite Totem wrapped the talismans with destiny, then waved his hand.

A spell formation suddenly took shape in front of him, in the middle of which was an altar that he placed the talismans onto. Immediately, a passageway opened up.

All of a sudden, the energy of the House of the Invincible rushed into the hall.

"Dugu Yunkong!" Sprite Totem said. "I've received some magical treasures from Proud Heaven. It's obviously a trap. I need some of the destiny from the House of the Invincible to make sure he's not using them to spy on me. Can you help?"

"You've planned things out well, haven't you, Sprite Totem? Trying to play us against each other? What exactly are your intentions with the Invincible Dynasty?"

"We're on the same side here, Dugu Yunkong. I know you're fighting for control of the Invincible Dynasty. And I heard that you went into the Myriad Dragons Lair and fell victim to some powerful expert that stole things that belonged to you. How about this: I'll give you half of everything I received to make up for your loss. I know you're in a tough spot, so if I get on your good side now, it'll benefit me greatly in the future!"

"Good idea, Sprite Totem. Except I don't want anything that comes from Proud Heaven. He's a vicious schemer, and whatever gifts he gives are definitely a trap. Fine. I'll use the destiny of the House of the Invincible to cleanse it. After all, it's not as though the destiny will benefit you directly."

Bzzzzzzzz!

A stream of destiny flew out onto the altar, causing black smoke to rise up from the talismans, apparently from some sort of warding spell.

Moments later, the two talismans were clean.

"Now, Sprite Totem, you need to work on contacting more empires to discuss our plan of joining forces. Once I've fully recovered, I can marry Sprite Susu. And then we can speed up our plan."

"Of course, of course."

Sprite Totem closed the passageway, then threw his head back and laughed loudly. "Ah, Proud Heaven. I used the destiny of the House of the Invincible to cleanse the treasures you gave me. You're not strong enough to defy that level of power. Now I can use them safely."

"You're quite the opportunist, Sprite Totem," someone said.

Of course, it was Yang Qi.

It was a case of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it, and Yang Qi was the oriole. In the moment that the destiny from the House of the Invincible cleansed Proud Heaven's gifts, he had sensed Proud Heaven's aura flicker, then fade away. It made it clear that Proud Heaven was truly gone.

Clearly, he had more pressing matters, presumably his work on the Great Necropolis and King Immortal-Slayer. Besides, Proud Heaven was the type of person who would have backup plans for his backup plans. There was no way the destiny of the House of the Invincible had truly cleansed the Heaven-Burying God Pill of everything Proud Heaven had hidden in them.

"Who are you?" Sprite Totem blurted, and as he shot to his feet, he drew deeply on the destiny of his own empire. Not even Proud Heaven should have been able to get in without his sensing it, yet Yang Qi just strolled right in. It made the emperor wonder if he was actually a half Annulled expert.

But a half Annulled expert wouldn't need to come inside to cause harm. He could wave his arm from outside the empire and suck it up into his sleeve without any effort.

"I'm the person Proud Heaven just said to watch out for. The Fateless One." He extended his hand to reveal his copy of the Sage Grail, which looked almost like a tree, its leaves growing with a green light that was the perfect bane of the vital energy in the surrounding empire.

"The Spritely Sage Grail!?" Sprite Totem said, confusion in his eyes.

"Yes, it is. Well, it's a copy. But it's the perfect thing to keep the destiny of your empire under control. That's why trying to fight me will be useless."

"What are you doing here?" Sprite Totem said. He was a consummate expert and an experienced leader, so he was keeping his cool.

"Oh, nothing. You see, Sprite Susu and I have come to an agreement. She's going to draw on her divine authority to summon all of the Spritefolk to her, give her their royal authority, and allow her to put together a truly grand empire. I'm the leader of the Sage Monarch Empire, and I've come here to recruit you to our side. You need to throw your support behind Sprite Susu. By the way, the person who hurt Dugu Yunkong in the Myriad Dragons Lair was me. I conquered the Dragonfolk, and am in the process of creating the fourth major power in the god world. So forget about your plan of trying to play both sides off each other. Join me. That's the only real choice you have."

"You..." Sprite Totem's heart was pounding as he realized he was facing a truly dangerous opponent. Anyone who could conquer the Dragonfolk and found a new kingdom, injuring Dugu Yunkong in the process, was obviously formidable. And it was true that news had spread recently of the Myriad Dragons Lair disappearing.

"What's your decision?" Yang Qi sat down in the very chair Proud Heaven had been sitting in moments ago. "I'm patient, so I can wait for you to think things through. Look. I'm sitting in the same chair Proud Heaven was just sitting in. I know he has a good cultivation base, but mine is superior. So I'd suggest you refrain from offending me just as you refrained from offending him."

"You're Yang Qi... You're both ambitious and skilled to be trying to found a fourth empire. And you also conquered the Myriad Dragons Lair? Unfortunately, that's not going to be enough. Even if you get the Spritefolk on your side, it won't be enough to deal with the other three dynasties. Don't forget, they form a tripartite balance of power! If you form another dynasty, they'll join forces to crush you."

Obviously, he was trying to buy time.

"Don't you know? With my techniques of administration, I can increase the destiny of an empire by tenfold. You think your destiny is impressive here? From what I can tell, it's actually far from pure. Sadly, there's nothing you can do to improve it. But I can." He reached out and took the Heaven-Burying God Pill, which looked like a fist-sized rock that pulsed with incredible power.

"You're serious, aren't you? In that case, I'll join you. I'll even announce it publicly!" As the words left his mouth, he bent back, then snapped forward toward Yang Qi in a burst of power.

Roar!

However, what met him was a huge primal-chaos elder-snake with gaping maw. Before he could react, he was swallowed up.

"King Heaven-Devourer!?"

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Chapter 1497: The Lurking Oriole

Yang Qi had been waiting for Sprite Totem to launch an unexpected attack. The man was treacherous to the core, and was also the type who would bet everything on a desperate move. Sadly for him, he had fallen for Yang Qi's ruse.

After having fully assimilated King Heaven-Devourer's talismans, he had essentially turned into King Heaven-Devourer.

When he went all out, he was about a third as strong as King Heaven-Devourer himself, and when you added in the golden blood of the King of Godmammoths, he could reach even greater heights. And that wasn't to mention that he had taken the actual head of King Heaven-Devourer. All of it made him like a snake guarding a tree stump, just waiting for rabbits to snatch up.

If he had taken the initiative to attack, his opponent would have fought back bitterly, and the shockwaves would have caused chaos and destruction that went outside of the borders of the kingdom they were in. But now, his opponent flew straight into King Heaven-Devourer's talismans, and was devoured by Yang Qi.

Not pausing for a moment, Yang Qi unfurled his Tribulation Wings and flitted away.

Shortly thereafter, he was in the Myriad Dragons Lair.

SPLAT!

Opening his mouth wide, he spat out Sprite Totem. Before the man could even get his bearings, Yang Qi clamped his hand onto his head and unleashed the power of the God Legion Seal, wresting control of his thoughts and soul. It only took a moment to subjugate him, and then he dropped to his knees.

Swish!

Not bothering with long-winded explanations, Yang Qi then returned him to his palace, where he could control him from behind the throne like a marionette.

Sprite Totem immediately started summoning his top officials.

Yang Qi was so familiar with this process that his skill had reached the point of perfection. It was exactly how he had taken over the Myriad Dragons Lair.

Furthermore, Sprite Totem was an emperor who commanded immense respect and authority. His underlings were much easier to issue commands to, unlike the Dragonfolk, in which countless generals would always squabble endlessly.

Sprite Totem was the type of ruler who would punish insubordination with execution.

He summoned all of the senior officers from the armed forces, and before they knew what was happening, they found themselves sucked into a spell formation and sent to the Myriad Dragons Lair. The subjugation process went quickly, and they were back in little more than an hour.

After the military was under control, the members of the officialdom were summoned and subjugated. It was a snowball effect that ended only about six hours later, with tens of thousands of members of the leadership all subjugated. Before anyone knew what had occurred, there was a new leader.

The underlings were kept in the dark, including the ordinary soldiers in the army and the low-level administrators. None of them knew that a major transformation had occurred, and that their actual leader was now someone named Yang Qi.

Next, Yang Qi distributed the resources that Proud Heaven had given, including all sorts of medicinal pills, magical treasures, preheaven medicines, ores, and even godnotes. It was a collection that would definitely fuel immense growth in his empire.

Although all the top leaders were now puppets under Yang Qi's control, their administrative capabilities had already increased by many times over. After all, leadership ability didn't really have anything to do with cultivation base.

The empire was experiencing a major revolution.

Normally speaking, there would be competing interest groups that took part in a revolution, making things very difficult. It generally wasn't easy to just depose an emperor without throwing the entire empire into chaos. But Yang Qi had perfect control of the leadership, and was thus able to iron out all such problems.

The interest groups collapsed, and the power of the government increased. Even the common people could sense the dramatic transformations to the destiny that occurred in the following days. Corrupt officials were being removed, and the national storehouses were being tidied up, with resources being allocated to the proper places.

One of the worst things that could happen to an empire would be for its resources to be wasted, with riches molding away in storage instead of being used to groom talent.

Now, a storm was rocking the empire as Yang Qi ensured that all of the resources were brought and distributed perfectly.

It took almost no time at all for the entire empire to be thrumming with vitality.

Within a few short days, the destiny improved tenfold, and the net of law became vastly sturdier and more effective.

Revolution had swept the empire from top to bottom, and everything was different.

No one could top Yang Qi in terms of ability to run governments. After all, his ability came from the combined experiences of countless civilizations throughout history, including all of the innumerable revolutions that had occurred. Any government he ran would experience a massive boost in destiny.

Within a matter of days, the other major empires of the Spritefolk had taken notice of what was happening, and they were shocked.

Of course, they had no idea what had occurred. They just knew that in a matter of a few days, the Totem Empire had experienced a dramatic transformation. Most of them assumed that the Totem Empire had secretly acquired the support of one of the major sects.

And immediately, they all started considering ways to get a share of the action.

As it turned out, that was when Emperor Sprite Totem sent out invitations to the major empires of the Spritefolk, saying that he had benefited from a huge influx of resources, and that he wanted to discuss forming an alliance.

Without hesitation, the other emperors accepted the invitation. As soon as the meeting started, and before anyone could even give any suggestions about how to divvy up the destiny and resources, Yang Qi made his move.

He acted with incredible speed, so despite the fact that all of the emperors were experts with psychic scales of over ten billion, with immense destiny at their command, they were still virtually powerless.

In the blink of an eye, he subjugated five major Spritefolk emperors, who he then sent back to summon their subordinates to also be subjugated.

It was in this manner that, in roughly ten days, Yang Qi took over five empires, which he made sure were linked via teleportation portal, creating a unified alliance.

Including the Totem Empire, he now had six Spritefolk empires under his complete and utter control.

Of course, the destiny of those six empires was surging to higher heights than ever. No one outside of the empires knew what was happening. However, inside, all of the top officials and important people were working together according to Yang Qi's instructions.

A month later, all the people in the six empires knew that an official announcement was coming. All of the Spritefolk were excited at the prospect of their people becoming the most powerful group in the god world.

On one particular day, Yang Qi watched as the destiny of the six empires converged, creating a pillar of energy that resembled an enormous tree. It was a level of destiny equivalent to roughly a third of that of his dragon kingdom. And these six Spritefolk empires were only a scratch on the surface of what the Spritefolk in general had to offer.

Yang Qi wasn't even inclined to calculate the precise destiny valuation.

After the process was complete, he called a meeting in which he announced that all the major leaders of the six empires would be taking a trip.

During the month that had passed, Yang Susu had accomplished a lot, and had finished her preparations.

"People of the Spritefolk," she announced, "we already have six major empires who have sworn loyalty to me and my Grand Sage Monarch Spritefolk Empire. I hereby invite all Spritefolk, regardless of where you are in the god world, to join us! In the future, our people will never be fractured again. We will be united, and follow the will of the Spritely Sage Grail to rise to prominence in the god world!"

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Chapter 1498: Grand Sage Monarch Spritefolk Empire

The enormous Spritely God-Temple was filled with a sea of people.

They were the most important and influential Spritefolk, and they were gathered in the most important temple of their people. This was where the Spritely Sage Grail had originally been housed, and as such, it was a most holy of locations, that had existed since primeval times.

Countless Spritefolk in the god world would look in this direction and long to lay eyes on the Spritely Sage Grail, no matter how long and dangerous of a journey it involved. And most Spritefolk would do anything to defy death if they hadn't yet made the pilgrimage.

The temple existed as an independent entity within the Spritefolk, and was almost like an empire of its own. However, there were only priests there, no commoners, and the sacrificial resources they gathered came from the numerous other empires that existed.

The handful of high-ranking priests wielded immense power and influence. Technically, Sprite Susu was supposed to be the leader of them all, but the truth was that originally, she only had the loyalty of a few of the priests.

However, with the help of the twenty-eight Dragonfolk experts, and her own command of the Sage Grail, she had brought the entire priesthood under her control. She now had complete control of the temple, and all of the divine authority that came with it.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi had subjugated six of the top empires, which meant she was now benefiting from royal authority as well.

It was already causing a sensation among the Spritefolk near and far.

The day had come in which Yang Susu was planning to officially combine the divine and royal authorities. Millions of high-ranking members of the six empires were present, and there were countless priests and priestesses praying. Meanwhile, Yang Susu sat on a throne, the Sage Grail floating above her head.

A tree grew from within the grail, spreading out to obscure heaven, and casting dazzling sagelight down onto the Spritefolk.

Flanking Yang Susu were the twenty-eight Dragonfolk patriarchs, who were imbuing her with additional power that allowed her to catalyze the Sage Grail to an even greater level. After all, the combined might of those twenty-eight Dragonfolk could be considered second only to Proud Heaven. Everyone present could sense the splendor and might of the grail.

Their eyes brimmed with tears of excitement as they looked at it and realized that the time had come for the Spritefolk to be rejuvenated.

In addition to members of the six major empires, there were representatives of countless other smaller empires as well. Seeing the trend of events, and knowing they couldn't do anything to change it, they had come to join. With the six major empires united, what could the smaller nations do?

Seeing that all the preparations had been made, Yang Susu rose to her feet and said, "I hereby declare the founding of the Grand Sage Monarch Spritefolk Empire!"

RUMBLE!

The millions of members of the six great empires all joined their voices together, announcing in a booming voice, "For the glory of the Spritefolk!"

Yang Qi immediately sensed a huge surge in destiny coming from all directions.

Although the initial destiny couldn't compare to that of his Dragonfolk kingdom, as time went on, numerous smaller nations would flock to the new Spritefolk empire, and the destiny would continue to grow.

"Sage monarch magistrates!"

Ten million sage monarch magistrates flooded onto the scene, much to the shock of the leaders of the various smaller nations.

"These thrall troops have been provided by the Sage Grail!" Yang Susu announced. "With this army, no one can do anything to harm our empire. Starting today, these thralls will be the ones to accept the loyalty of any Spritefolk who wish to join us."

Ten million sage monarch magistrates made for a virtually invincible force.

They had previously been tasked with bringing the dragon kingdom under control. That task had been completed, and the kingdom now existed in a state of peace and calm. For now, it could govern itself for a few hundred years without the intervention of the magistrates.

And the Spritefolk empire definitely needed their help now. Yang Qi also planned to bring Dragonfolk into the Spritefolk areas and take some of the Spritefolk into the Myriad Dragons Lair, slowly integrating the two peoples into an even larger empire.

Yang Qi's destiny was increasing, and as it did, his psychic scale and godhood rating were climbing higher and higher. In fact, they were already at the level of thirty billion.

Cultivation base improvements were just that simple now. Now that he had his Sage Monarch Dragon Kingdom and Grand Sage Monarch Spritefolk Empire, he really was a truly important ruler.

Thanks to his cultivation base improvement, the sage monarch magistrates had added a million to their number. As soon as they began governing the Spritefolk, Yang Qi sensed the destiny stabilizing and increasing.

One day. Two days. Three days...

There was already an immense net of law formed by destiny, spreading out from the temple. And Yang Qi was already creating minor god worlds, causing explosions of preheaven treasures. Of course, the Spritefolk thought it was happening because of the Spritely Sage Grail.

Meanwhile, Spritefolk continued flowing into the empire, and all of them felt like they were wandering vagabonds who were finally returning home.

Destiny was building with every moment that passed.

Yang Qi nodded. His effort to create the fourth major power was finally starting to come to fruition. And it would soon be time to announce the foundation of the Sage Monarch Empire.

The news of the unification of the Spritefolk was still not very widespread, and many people who heard of it just assumed that it was a situation of chaos.

But then the Spritefolk armies and the Dragonfolk armies started combining, and under the direction of the sage monarch magistrates, they started marching out to conquer surrounding nations.

There were many races in the god world, such as the Mechfolk, Magefolk, Giantfolk, Seerfolk, and others. In the end, they were all humans. As for the Spritefolk, they were known for being proud conquerors, so it was little surprise that they would be doing this, especially considering they had the help of the Dragonfolk.

Yang Qi nodded in satisfaction.

His plan was working, and he was already so strong that none of the other three major powers would dare to act against him alone.

More sage monarch magistrates came to exist every day, and thus, his cultivation base constantly advanced. At the same time, he took efforts to excise all disloyal people.

A few dozen days passed, and the empire was more stable than ever.

At that point, Yang Qi slipped away alone, heading back to the House of the Invincible. He wasn't afraid of anyone now, not even the nine patriarchs of the House of the Invincible. They couldn't hurt him. His cultivation base was at the level of thirty billion, and he now had incredible destiny to draw on. Not even the nine patriarchs had access to anything close to what he had.

Based on his calculations, it would be somewhere between three and five years until his psychic scale and godhood rating would reach the level of fifty billion. Of course, he had no plan to simply stop at fifty billion. Right now, he wanted to see what was going to happen in the House of the Invincible. He wanted to subjugate more experts there, preferably including Dugu Yunkong. If he could get the House of the Invincible under control, then they wouldn't be a threat to the Spritefolk. And then he could proceed with the next phase of his master plan. He wanted to enter the halls of heaven and take the resources there. If he could, his psychic scale and godhood rating would climb to a much more acceptable level, such as a hundred billion. At that point, he would be approaching the level of King Immortal-Slayer.

Besides, it was likely there was another piece of the Mahātmā Jade in the halls of heaven.

Upon arriving at the House of the Invincible, he immediately sensed that the atmosphere was different. Everyone seemed tense, as though war might break out at any moment. Obviously, they were bracing for conflict with the Spritefolk.

When news struck that Yang Susu had left the Cloud Palace and suddenly founded a Spritefolk Empire, everything had changed.

There was no way the House of the Invincible would simply let things proceed. No, they would dispatch an army to take care of the troublesome situation.

"Dugu Hong, take me to see Duke Nine Cauldrons!" Yang Qi ordered. Dugu Hong didn't hesitate to comply, and the two of them flew into the depths of the House of the Invincible.

He was currently in the middle of a very tense meeting that had already been underway for several days. Once Yang Qi announced himself, he was called inside.

Hurrying in, he saw that there were tens of thousands of top experts gathered for the meeting, all of them viceroys with ten or more lands. All of them were respectfully listening to the instructions being given by Duke Nine Cauldrons, and other top figures like him.

Obviously, those people were the ones who led the major interest groups in the sect.

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Chapter 1499: A String of Subjugations

It was a rather small meeting, and there wasn't even anyone present with a psychic scale of ten billion.

The tens of thousands of people present were all viceroys with ten lands or more, but to Yang Qi, they were like nothing. After all, in the Invincible Dynasty, viceroys numbered like the eternal sands.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Duke Nine Cauldrons said loudly, "a major event is playing out. We leaders are currently considering how to wage war on the Spritefolk. All of you need to put pressure on the lands you control to produce as many resources as possible. Once the war starts, you'll need to provide steady contributions. As you all know, our Invincible Dynasty is lax during times of peace, but when war comes, we strike like lightning and crush the enemy! We're going to raze the Spritefolk Empire to the ground! Hmph! It's unbelievable that their vile princess fled the agreed-upon marriage, insulting the dignity of the Invincible Dynasty. We simply won't tolerate such behavior!"

Yang Qi didn't say anything, but his gaze turned very sharp.

All of a sudden, a golden tempest sprang up, and everyone felt like they were suffocating down to their souls, or being devoured by a horde of godlings. Moments later, all of the viceroys were subjugated, as was Duke Nine Cauldrons. Everyone swayed dizzily as if drunk.

"You're all dismissed, immediately," Yang Qi said via thought projection. In response, the viceroys all left in a daze.

Going forward, they would secretly prepare to gather all of their resources and defect to the Sage Monarch Empire at a moment's notice.

The dukes were given similar orders, and they left.

Ever since Yang Qi took the Cruiser of Civilization as his own brain, it was possible for him to monitor the thoughts of the countless individuals he subjugated, without the risk of missing any important thoughts.

Soon, only Duke Nine Cauldrons was left behind.

Walking forward, Yang Qi coolly said, "Take me to see your direct superior. I want to snag all of the grand exarchs from the confucian faction. The true ruler of the House of the Invincible has a psychic scale of ten billion. You people are just the middle management."

"You... I can't believe you're behind all of this," Duke Nine Cauldrons said bitterly. Of course, he had been subjugated, so he couldn't do anything to fight back. "You founded the Spritefolk Empire and the Dragonfolk Empire?"

"That's right, Duke Nine Cauldrons." Having subjugated such a large group of people, Yang Qi could sense destiny from the House of the Invincible converging on him. Smiling, he continued, "I'm going to continue subjugating people just as I did here. I'll even get to the higher echelons of leaders as well. Eventually, the House of the Invincible will be mine. I'm going to do something the likes of which has never been done in the god world before."

Heart pounding, Duke Nine Cauldrons said, "I... I can't commit a sin like this! I'll be condemned by the Invincible Dynasty!"

"Hmph! Cut the crap!"

Duke Nine Cauldrons' thoughts were under Yang Qi's control, so he bowed at the waist, "Of course, Milord. I'll take you to see my direct superior. I report to Dugu Ruxia, who has a psychic scale of fifteen billion. I understand your plan, Milord. You'll subjugate everyone you can, then use them to learn the secrets of the top leaders."

"Lead the way." Yang Qi waved his hand dismissively, indicating that Duke Nine Cauldrons should lead the way.

Soon, they were in an area filled with towering bookshelves, which were packed with books and scrolls of all types. They contained all sorts of knowledge and profound information about the virtues taught by the confucians. Yang Qi didn't need to read them; with a mere scan of thought, he could gain plenty of information from them.

They passed through several worlds of bookshelves, until they were in a place where the bookshelves stretched up into the clouds, and emanated an aura that seemed packed with destiny, and a sensation of strength that seemed impossible to conquer.

Yang Qi was shocked as he realized how powerful the confucian experts were. They sustained the righteous energy of heaven and earth, would defy threats and violence, espouse justice, die for a good cause, and sacrifice themselves for their principles.

However, this Dugu Ruxia only had a cultivation base of fifteen billion, while Yang Qi's was over thirty billion, so crushing him would be simple. Furthermore, after subjugating so many people earlier, Yang Qi had a lot of the destiny of the House of the Invincible on him, giving him even greater influence over the net of law.

With the Spritefolk empire backing him, he no longer feared anything. If he encountered a difficult situation, he could just use the God Legion Seal to reach out to the halls of heaven. If he did that here, the House of the Invincible would face a major disaster.

Every time his cultivation base rose, more profundities of the God Legion Seal would be unlocked.

And he was convinced that if he fully drew on them, he could definitely scour the treasure troves in the halls of heaven.

"We're here," Duke Nine Cauldrons said, stopping in front of a towering bookcase. "It is I, Duke Nine Cauldrons, here to request an audience with the exalted Dugu Ruxia. A subordinate viceroy of mine has brought information about the Spritefolk. I'm sure you'll find the news shocking, so I brought him here to deliver the details in person."

"Oh?" someone said in a surprised voice. A gravitational force sprang up and sucked them into the bookcase. Looking around, Yang Qi saw himself surrounded by book scrolls, and looking up, he saw a world of books. Some of those books pulsed with the aura of the Sovereign Lord, indicating that he had been the one to pen them.

Standing in the middle of it all was a confucian reading from a scroll of bamboo slips. As he looked up, a righteous, noble aura settled over Duke Nine Cauldrons and Yang Qi.

"This is the viceroy? Oh, you're the one with the good record of service that the Palace of Destiny is after. How exactly did you resist their advances?"

"It was really a fluke, oh exalted one. And it was also by chance that I learned that the Spritefolk are working with the Dragonfolk. They've created a massive empire, and the one pulling the strings from the shadows is Proud Heaven from the Central Dynasty."

Dugu Ruxia turned and looked at Yang Qi with glittering eyes. "That's it? I knew all of that already, so why exactly did you come here? What's going on here, Duke Nine Cauldrons? Did you really interrupt my important work for something so trivial?"

"I wouldn't dare!" Duke Nine Cauldrons said, trembling like a cicada in winter.

"Tell me how you manage your lands so well. What's your secret? Why is the destiny so pure? Also, what type of thrall is it that you got from the Bastille of the One God? How come they're so skilled at governing nations? We confucians specialize in such matters, and know full well how destiny can provide immense benefits to cultivation. Explain your secrets, and if I'm impressed, I'll reward you greatly."

"Yes sir!" Yang Qi said, bowing at the waist. "The truth is that they're not thralls. They're actually ancient souls that I discovered in a magical treasure in the Bastille of the One God. I can show it to you, as long as you don't laugh at the simplicity of it all."

With that, he pulled out a treasure that glowed with golden light.

"What? What kind of treasure is that?" Eyes glittering with more intensity, Dugu Ruxia said, "Hand it over!" As Yang Qi extended his hand, golden light suddenly shot out, piercing right toward his head.

He immediately realized what was happening. "How dare you plot against me!"

Roar!

Yang Qi opened his mouth, and instantly, the numerous minor worlds around him were sucked inside as he became an embodiment of King Heaven-Devourer.

However, Dugu Ruxia was more impressive than Yang Qi had anticipated, and he fought back so strongly it seemed like he might break free.

'Incredible. It's almost like being in the House of the Invincible really does make him invincible. Even cut off from the destiny, he's still fighting? Confucians really deal with destiny differently. Their whole life and cultivation is about the governing of nations. They're so strong!' Thankfully, he had planned for a possibility like this.

"Many Heavens God Seal! Crushing Power!"

He exhaled, and a huge sealing mark appeared, like the jade seal of an emperor.

"Who exactly are you? That's the Many Heavens God Seal!" Dugu Ruxia struggled, causing white steam to rise up from him.

But only a moment later, he was whisked into the Myriad Dragons Lair.

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Chapter 1500: Secrets of the Confucians

Dugu Ruxia, a confucian expert, master of the ruling of nations, blessed with immense destiny, had been dragged into the Myriad Dragons Lair by Yang Qi.

As soon as he was out in the open, a tremor passed through him, and the golden light that had been binding him shattered. Unexpectedly, the God Legion Seal wasn't able to subjugate him. Yang Qi couldn't help but admire the man's noble and righteous soul.

His soul was so strong that it seemed impermeable, and held strong even against several of Yang Qi's attempted incursions.

Yang Qi could kill him, but subjugating him was going to be much more difficult.

"This is the Myriad Dragons Lair?" Dugu Ruxia murmured, looking around. He didn't seem fazed by the attack, and instead just smoothed out his clothing, then looked at Yang Qi and nodded as if in greeting.

"You've got some icy nerves there," Yang Qi said. "Don't you know that once you get pulled into the Myriad Dragons Lair, you can never escape?"

"Perhaps I'm going to die, but I won't make it easy," Dugu Ruxia replied. "I almost can't believe you exist. You command the God Legion Seal, and you're already unleashing a reign of carnage. I guess another arrogant and conceited Sovereign Lord is on the rise."

"Strong words. Don't you see what I've already accomplished? Look, I'm not going to force you into anything. I know that you confucians don't fear death. However, when it comes to the ruling of nations, can you really top me? You've seen how well I run my Dragonfolk kingdom, right? And you know what I accomplished with the Spritefolk. So what do you say?"

Yang Qi had shifted to more psychological tactics.

He knew that he could subjugate Dugu Ruxia if he wanted to, but it would take a very long time, probably months or years. And he didn't have that kind of time.

Waving his hand, he summoned an image of the extremely orderly affairs of the Dragonfolk and Spritefolk.

When an empire grew big enough, it would eventually stop providing destiny, and would instead absorb it from below. The result was that the empire would eventually crumble. However, that wouldn't happen with the Spritefolk or Dragonfolk.

Seeing it, Dugu Ruxia's expression flickered. "That's an unprecedented achievement in the ruling of nations. Incredible. Where did you get those thralls? Why are they so good at governing? They're far better than ordinary government officials, and they don't require any destiny."

"They're my sage monarch magistrates. Not only do they constantly replicate themselves, but they also have immense fighting prowess. And yes, they're incredible at governing nations. I infused them with the success and failures of countless civilizations throughout history. They're even superior to the ancient angels, although they don't match up in number. But they'll continue growing. Look, see how I've turned the dragons into actual people? Not even you confucians can do anything like that. Before long, all of the devils in the god world will exist in a state of order. Can you imagine that?"

Dugu Ruxia's eyes widened with shock. The power of the Myriad Dragons Lair was enough to shake the House of the Invincible, much less when it was combined with that of the Spritefolk. And the force was increasing on a daily basis.

The House of the Invincible would have to pay a heavy price to win a victory in open conflict. And it was entirely likely that they would suffer so much damage they would slip to the level of a second-tier sect, then be overtaken by the House of the Chiliocosm or the Central Dynasty.

"What do you think? I already have agents in the House of the Chiliocosm and the Central Dynasty, all of them ready to take action whenever I say. And I've already established a fourth major dynasty. Your Invincible Dynasty has a lot of resources, but you don't use them effectively. Why not let me run things? It won't be long before you completely surpass the other two dynasties."

"I have to admit you're right," Dugu Ruxia replied. "Your way of ruling leads to a huge influx in destiny, and your sage monarch magistrate are simply terrifying. They're almost like machines. Unfortunately, the Invincible Dynasty is an independent entity, and you're an outsider. I know that you're telling me all of this to shake my confidence. Unfortunately, it won't work. I'm not shaken at all. You can kill me, but you'll never subjugate me. We have an orthodoxy that outsiders can't interfere with, and we confucians are tasked with maintaining its honor and dignity."

"Don't you believe in the old maxims? A just cause enjoys abundant support? The lands belong to the virtuous? Don't tell me you think my actions aren't virtuous. I'm not going around killing anyone, and I'm skilled at governing. If I controlled the Invincible Dynasty, everyone would live in peace and prosperity. Furthermore, no outside force could ever invade successfully. Doesn't that meet your standards?" Yang Qi was starting to get impatient.

"Not, it's not enough," Dugu Ruxia said. "You're not from the orthodoxy. You're an outsider."

"I'm not from the orthodoxy?" Yang Qi pursed his lips and decided to deliver a bombshell. "Let me tell you the truth. There's no one more orthodox than me in the entire House of the Invincible. My Master is the Invincible Dugu. In the impure lands, his divine will founded a group called the Invincible Society, and I was his eighteenth apprentice."

"What did you just say?" Dugu Ruxia said, visibly stunned. "That's impossible. Our patriarch fell in primeval times and left behind nothing but a corpse, which is buried in the deepest crypts of the House of the Invincible. Although we long to resurrect him, everyone knows it will never happen." All of a sudden he leveled an accusatory finger at Yang Qi. "How dare you try pulling a dirty trick like this!"

"Hmph! You think I'm trying to pull some trick?" Yang Qi quickly used his divine will to recreate an image of the Invincible Dugu from the impure lands. "Take a look for yourself."

Dugu Ruxia shivered as the memory was transferred into his mind, and he was able to see the Invincible Dugu.

"That's Patriarch Invincible! I've offered worship to his image, and it looks exactly like the face from your memories! Don't tell me Patriarch Invincible might be able to live again! But where did his divine will projection go? Why did he take you as an apprentice? And what was he doing in the impure lands?

"Hmph! What makes you think you could understand all the complicated factors that play into it? Patriarch Invincible gathered a group of apprentices in the impure lands, and once he was done with his work there, he vanished. Presumably, he's waiting for me to come rescue him. It touches on karmic relationships and the magical laws of fate. Surely you're aware of how such things work. In any case, do you really dare to defy the master plan of your own patriarch?"

"Never! I would never!" By this point, Dugu Ruxia was unable to keep his composure.

Yang Qi waved his hand, and a golden halo of light descended onto Dugu Ruxia, which entered his mind and subjugated him before he realized what was happening. He dropped to his knees.

"You... you subjugated me!" he said, his face a mask of despair.

"Yes, I did. And now you know that this is no trick. I really am the apprentice of Patriarch Invincible. He expended immense effort to send some divine will into the lower worlds to find me. And now I have to rescue him. As someone who is loyal to him, you should be doing everything possible to figure out a way to save him. And the truth is that while the House of the Invincible has incredible destiny, it's not very pure. If I command this place, and use my sage monarch magistrate to govern it, the destiny will become incredibly pure, making it ten times as strong as before. And that's how the patriarch can be resurrected. In some ways, you being subjugated by me will help you fulfill your obligations of duty."

Although Yang Qi was being glib, he was also telling the truth. In his heart, Dugu Ruxia realized that.

"Alright, let's go back. I had no idea subjugating a confucian with a psychic scale of ten billion would be so difficult. It took some work to find the weakness in your soul. It seems the techniques of righteousness that you confucians cultivate really bear more analysis."

Yang Qi opened a rift, and they stepped back into Dugu Ruxia's study in the House of the Invincible. The destiny that belonged to Dugu Ruxia split off into Yang Qi, and he could immediately tell how superior it was to that of the viceroys. It was a matter of substructure, much the same way that mud could be compared to gold. Even a huge amount of mud could never be worth the same as even a little bit of gold.

"You really are an important person in the sect, aren't you? I don't think I'll waste any more time subjugating more confucians. Who do you think I should target next?"

"The other two factions in the sect are the army and the Palace of Destiny. Of course, there's also the emperor, and the imperial clan, of whom Dugu Yunkong is a member. They get a lot of destiny. However, tangling with them would be dangerous. I suggest you start with the army."

"Good idea. I'm sure their leaders will have some good secrets to share with me. I'll start with them."

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Chapter 1501: Heading to the Army

The army of the Invincible Dynasty had divisions devoted to warfare, martial law, training, assassination, and the like. The army was very influential, and when it came time for war, it would become even more powerful, and resources would be poured into it. It was hard to say how many threats to the Invincible Dynasty had been destroyed by the army throughout the years.

The confucians weren't easy to subjugate, as they had special cultivation techniques and abilities, and were closely linked to the destiny of the nation. Yang Qi wasn't inclined to waste time on them, thus he shifted his attention to the army.

The members of the army were top experts who specialized in fighting and war. They weren't particularly adept at matters relating to the heart or destiny, therefore, they would be easier to deal with.

Once the leaders of the army were subjugated, Yang Qi would have truly inserted himself into the Invincible Dynasty like a parasite. He was like a tumor that was slowly leeching away at the dynasty's force.

"That's the army just ahead." Yang Qi caught sight of an enormous military base that resembled the encampment of the Army of Radiance and Light in the Bastille of the One God. It thrummed with killing energy, and troops were pouring into it constantly through teleportation portals.

The destiny of the army was linked with the destiny of the nation, creating a power that could conquer every obstacle in its path.

'The army has quite a formidable killing energy. Should I try subjugating it from the bottom up, or the top down?' He had to make a decision whether to start with a peak Paramount God with a psychic scale of only one billion, or to aim higher, such as a marshal with a psychic scale of ten billion.

The weaker target would be easier to subjugate, the stronger one would obviously be harder.

Unfortunately, subjugating weaker individuals would clog up the bandwidth of the God Legion Seal, and make its functions less efficient. Even Yang Qi's mind had limits, just like how photonic computers had limitations.

He had only recently subjugated the Spritefolk and the Dragonfolk, and monitoring all of the thoughts of the people involved was no simple task.

There seemed little point in wasting time on the underlings. He would aim for a peak Paramount God!

'I'll subjugate some of the army leaders, get more destiny, then start working on that Heaven-Burying God Pill with power from the halls of heaven. All I have to do is advance my cultivation base one more step, and Proud Heaven won't pose a big threat.'

He was really looking forward to acquiring some of the quintessence of the Great Necropolis via that Heaven-Burying God Pill.

Proud Heaven had hoped to get Emperor Sprite Totem under his control. How could he ever have guessed that Yang Qi would beat him to it? And not only that, but Yang Qi would also use the power of the halls of heaven to unlock the trap of the god pill he had provided as a gift, then use it to learn more about the Great Necropolis.

Yang Qi knew he would eventually have a showdown with Proud Heaven, the result of which would determine who got the Great Necropolis.

Obviously, subjugating important people in the army was the best way to get more destiny. And the more destiny he had, the better. That would increase the number of his sage monarch magistrates, and enable him to control the thinking of his government officials even better.

With that, he blurred into motion as he entered the army and looked for the most impressive aura he could find. It didn't seem like it would be a difficult task. This was the location where all the marshals resided.

However, after searching through several parts of the base, he found that most of the army officers weren't present. His first guess was that they were all in a meeting somewhere. Quickly drawing on his Life-Death Void-Destruction God-Lightning and the Myriad Worlds Greater Teleportation, he headed deeper into the base.

It was such a huge place that even a Paramount God who tried flying from one end to the other would need a long time. Thankfully, Yang Qi was far beyond the level of an ordinary Paramount God.

All of a sudden, he noticed a part of the camp that had been built out of a mountain chain. It looked almost like a temple of stone that had been built to resemble the word Invincible.

Within that temple were numerous auras that could only belong to elite experts. 'Why are there so many top experts gathered here?' he thought. 'These are people with psychic scales of ten billion! The Dragonfolk only had twenty-eight of them. I knew the House of the Invincible surpassed the Dragonfolk, but the fact that they have thousands of these people is terrifying. There might even be tens of thousands of them! They're almost as numerous as the God-Lords from the Sovereign Lord's Age.'

Even a few hundred God-Lords with psychic scales of ten billion would be difficult for Yang Qi to defeat and subjugate. And there were definitely more than a few hundred people of that level here.

In other words, he might as well forget about trying to subjugate them, and instead consider how to not get killed by them.

What exactly were they meeting about?

Thankfully, the palace was lit with numerous burning lamps, so Yang Qi simply called on the power of the Everlit Godlamp to insert himself into one of them and spy on the proceedings.

As he examined the situation, he saw that there were several hundred marshals, all of them on the level of God-Lords with ratings of ten billion, dressed in the clothing of the House of the Invincible. Opposite them were seated numerous experts from the House of the Chiliocosm. Unexpectedly, this was a meeting between two opposing armed forces.

There were hundreds of God-Lord-level experts here!

Even the combined experts of the Spritefolk and Dragonfolk who were in that level couldn't surpass that number. He had the twenty-eight Dragonfolk patriarchs, the Second and Third Devil Generals, Yang Jian, and himself. That was a total of thirty-two. Add in the roughly forty or so from the Spritefolk, and it didn't even surpass eighty.

Present in this hall was a group that numbered nearly a thousand. The nine patriarchs of the House of the Invincible even had ratings that went past a hundred billion.

If all of them acted together, there was no way Yang Qi could be a match for them.

If the group that was gathered here today went onto the warpath, he would be in a very dangerous situation. He might have founded a fourth dynasty, but its destiny wasn't stable, and if he faced an enemy like this, it would probably be destroyed.

That said, he was fairly confident they wouldn't take any such action. The casualties for them would be too severe. After all, the Central Dynasty was eying both of them like a tiger eying its prey, and the last thing they wanted was to be gobbled up.

In short, Yang Qi wasn't worried. He could buy time if he wanted to. And every day that passed meant he had more time to get stronger. After he was done with this reconnaissance mission, he needed to head to the halls of heaven as quickly as possible. If he could push his psychic scale to a hundred billion, he wouldn't need to worry about any sort of attack or invasion.

Yang Qi remained unmoving within the lamp light in order to avoid attracting the notice of those present with ratings of fifty or sixty billion.

The person to break the silence was a marshal from the House of the Chiliocosm, an expert with a psychic scale of fifty billion. "Dugu Sheji, there's no need to talk about a minor matter like the Spritefolk empire. We brought the army of the Chiliocosm Dynasty here to talk about important things such as the Central Dynasty. Proud Heaven is working hard to recruit as many allies as possible, and we need to figure out what to do about it. The Central Dynasty could deploy troops against us at any time, and we can't just sit around waiting for it to happen."

Yang Qi looked over and saw that the man was dressed in a red cloak that burned with intense flame. Reaching out to Yang Jian for information, he found that this was one of the top experts from the House of the Chiliocosm, and his name was Yang Primal-Chaos.

He was strong, but he wasn't on the level of Yang Voidprime.

The person Yang Primal-Chaos was talking to was Dugu Sheji, an expert who had a psychic scale of sixty billion. He was actually a generalissimo who reported directly to the emperor. He was so powerful he didn't even care about the Palace of Destiny or the confucian faction.

If Yang Qi could subjugate him, he would have control of the entire army.

Unfortunately, even on the outside, Yang Qi would have had trouble doing that. The difference between ratings of thirty and sixty billion was just too immense. Even a fight with him would be difficult.

Maybe if he could lure him into the Myriad Dragons Lair, where he could use the power of the halls of heaven, and also have all of his expert subordinates attack in unison with spell formations, then he might stand a chance.

He had no choice but to squash thoughts of subjugating Dugu Sheji right now. However, if he could subjugate everyone else, then turn them on Dugu Sheji, he might succeed.

"We absolutely have to deal with the Spritefolk," Dugu Sheji said. "I think this newly formed empire of theirs is Proud Heaven's doing. If we don't get rid of them, what will happen with all the other races who have been thinking of joining us? Everything will descend into chaos."

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Chapter 1502: Over a Thousand Marshals

There were over a thousand marshals gathered here, all of them on the level of God-Lords. Their combined might was so incredible that if they attacked Yang Qi's lands, nothing could stop them.

Of course, it seemed unlikely that they would truly act in unison.

Yang Qi had already made a decision: he absolutely had to subjugate the two top leaders, Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji. They were the key to controlling both armies.

One had a psychic scale of more than fifty billion, and the other was at sixty billion. It was hard to say what the two of them could accomplish together. Sadly, the idea of subjugating them seemed completely insane right now.

There was simply no way that Yang Qi could pull it off.

"What? You're saying that everything happening with the Spritefolk is actually Proud Heaven's doing? If that's the case, then we can't just attack them. What if people from the Central Dynasty are actually with the Spritefolk? If we go in and start a war, the ramifications will be hard to deal with."

"No, we have a perfect excuse to attack them," Dugu Sheji replied. "They backed out of an arranged marriage, which is a clear violation of the rules of the House of the Invincible. The Central Dynasty can't send in troops considering we have a justification like that.

"Furthermore, the Spritefolk have openly declared themselves an empire. If Proud Heaven is behind that, it's a clear case of subterfuge. Think about it. What happens if that Spritefolk Empire joins the Central Dynasty? Just what level of destiny will that form? Furthermore, it seems that someone has organized the Dragonfolk into some sort of empire. Dugu Yunkong suffered greatly in the Myriad Dragons Lair, and your own Yang Jian has gone missing. I'd say that's more of Proud Heaven's meddling."

"You're right. Our Lord of the Chiliocosm said exactly the same thing. It's definitely Proud Heaven. He's the only one strong enough to do that. And he's been to the impure lands, where he collected all sorts of magical treasures.

"The fact that he's doing all of this secretly means that he doesn't want open conflict, but can we really afford to take action? There's no way he doesn't have countermeasures in place in case we do. Based on our latest information, the Dragonfolk and the Spritefolk are working together, which means they have an immense level of destiny, and are incredibly powerful. Our two dynasties could probably destroy them, but the casualties would be horrendous, and our vital energy would be seriously damaged. At that point, the Central Dynasty could gobble us up with no effort at all."

"We need to plan things out very carefully," Dugu Sheji said. "If we can't afford to act openly, perhaps we should carry out a secret operation! For instance, we can kidnap Sprite Susu. She's the key to all of this. She's their leader, and the holder of their divine authority. If we bring her back here and force her to go through with the marriage, we won't need to attack with our armies!"

"That's a pretty basic plan," Yang Primal-Chaos said. "In fact, you could do it yourself. What do you need our help for? You're really making a big fuss over a minor issue here."

"No, if Proud Heaven is manipulating all of this from behind the scenes, and we send people in, he'll just kill them. We need to pick one person to go in undercover and handle the mission."

"Oh, that's what you mean," Yang Primal-Chaos said. "You want us to send in our Fateless One, Yang Voidprime."

"Exactly. If a Fateless One does it, Proud Heaven won't have any clue what's happening. Sprite Susu will be gone before he knows what's happening. Besides, Yang Jian is an imperial prince, and considering he's being held captive by the Spritefolk, there's no way you can just sit back and do nothing."

"But how do we benefit from all this? If Yang Primal-Chaos brings Sprite Susu back here to marry Dugu Yunkong, you'll have a formal alliance with the Spritefolk. And we'll come out empty-handed."

"It's simple. Our patriarchs have already agreed that if you send Yang Voidprime on the mission, we'll pay you with a huge lot of Invincible Gold Pills. You'll gain a lot of top-level experts with those pills. Remember, the formula for Invincible Gold Pills is top secret. Nobody but us knows how to make them. We're making this offer in good faith, and we hope you'll respond in kind."

"Alright!" Yang Primal-Chaos said with a curt nod. "We agree. However, you have to provide some experts for backup. It's entirely likely that Yang Primal-Chaos will end up fighting Proud Heaven. And if the God-Lords from the Spritefolk and Dragonfolk get involved, it's going to be a tough situation."

"That's fine, we can do that. Based on our intelligence reports, the Dragonfolk have twenty-eight patriarchs, and the Spritefolk have over forty. Without sending out our entire army, that's going to be a difficult force to deal with. How about we provide seventy God-Lords, and you provide thirty? That's a total of a hundred, and if they operate in formation, they should be able to give Yang Voidprime a window of opportunity."

"That should work," Yang Primal-Chaos said. "The only question is how many Invincible Gold Pills you're offering."

"If you provide thirty God-Lords, we'll give you thirty pills."

"Absolutely not. We'll only accept a hundred at the very least."

"A hundred?! That's far too many. Even our imperial princes only have one or two each. You have no idea how incredibly expensive and difficult it is to concoct Invincible Gold Pills."

"A hundred. Any less and the deals off. That's the price to get the help of Yang Voidprime."

"The most we can offer is fifty."

"Ninety!"

Yang Qi watched as they negotiated, eventually reaching an agreement for sixty Invincible Gold Pills. It really was a small fortune. After all, Invincible Gold Pills could unlock the potential of even a weakling, and push them all the way to a psychic scale of a billion.

He continued watching as they selected the group of a hundred experts to go on the mission.

The plan was for them to operate an ancient spell formation that had been originally used by the Sovereign Lord's army. It was designed to deliver killing blows to the head using something called the Purification Thorn.

Once the hundred experts were selected, they set about training together in the use of the formation.

After pooling their life essence and vital energy, each expert transformed into a mote of light, which then swirled together to create a long, sharp thorn.

The thorn was both holy and sharp, and could obviously pierce through anything and everything. In fact, not even Yang Qi could evade it if it were to fly toward him.

It was, of course, the Purification Thorn, which had been used in the past to assassinate elite military experts. Because it wasn't something the King of Godmammoths had used, Yang Qi wasn't able to use it.

In fact, to Yang Qi's surprise, the thorn was so formidable that he could tell the net of law in his Spritefolk Empire couldn't even block it.

He immediately started thinking of ways to deal with the Purification Thorn, and possibly even subjugate the hundred experts who were part of the mission. All of them had ratings of ten or twenty billion, which meant he could deal with them, if he planned well.

WHOOSH!

The experts continued training in the use of the formation, and simultaneously tried to lock down Sprite Susu's current location.

A day passed, then a night.

Eventually, they finished their training, and clearly, they were all exhausted.

"Take some time to build your vital energy back up, everyone," Dugu Sheji said. "This joint venture between the Chiliocosm Dynasty and the Invincible Dynasty is going to work perfectly. Now we just need to wait for news about Yang Voidprime."

"Yes," Yang Primal-Chaos said. "Go back and get some rest while we wait for Yang Voidprime. The current plan is to set off on the mission in ten days. There's no way Sprite Susu and her Spritely Sage Grail can block our Purification Thorn."

"That's a given," Dugu Sheji replied. "The Purification Thorn is simply too powerful. Of course, in ancient times, the God-Lords who used this formation were led by the Lord of the Sword Dao, and we're not quite on his level."

"I heard that when the Lord of the Sword Dao used the Purification Thorn, he actually reached the half Annulled level. But moments later, he perished. I wonder if that story is true. In any case, it's definitely the most powerful attack the God-Lords could use." Yang Primal-Chaos sighed. "I wonder if his remains are still in the ancient halls of heaven. I guess it doesn't matter. In all the hundreds of millions of years that've passed, no one's ever been able to defy the glory of the Sovereign Lord and go into the halls of heaven to hunt for treasure."

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Chapter 1503: Purification Thorn

Yang Qi didn't do anything other than observe the one hundred God-Lord-level experts training in the use of the Purification Thorn. It was obviously a huge drain on their animadestiny godpower, and they were going to need a full ten-day period to get back to full strength.

Yang Qi knew his opportunity had arrived.

He had ten days to subjugate all of those experts. Then he could use them to turn the Purification Thorn on Dugu Sheji and Yang Primal-Chaos, catching them unawares, then subjugate them too.

Everything was working out perfectly to his satisfaction.

The only hitch was Yang Voidprime, who was an expert on almost the same level as Proud Heaven. Dealing with him was going to be very difficult. That was why Yang Qi had to be absolutely prepared with all of the other subjugated experts before tangling with him.

"You're all dismissed," Dugu Sheji. "Our alliance is now formal. Although our Chiliocosm Dynasty and Invincible Dynasty are weaker, if we work together, not even the Central Dynasty would dare to tangle with us."

With that, the meeting ended.

Yang Qi also slipped away and prepared to make his move against the hundred experts.

His first target was someone from the Invincible Dynasty who had a psychic scale of twenty billion, making his fighting prowess roughly equal to Paragon-King Sage Dragon. His name was Dugu Badao, and he pulsed with a divine blade aura that made him seem capable of destroying anything in his path.

Yang Qi followed him deep into the command center, where his quarters were located. Inside was an enormous lake of liquid jade.

Dugu Badao entered the lake and sank into its depths, allowing the liquid jade to wrap him up like an embryo.

'Incredible,' Yang Qi thought. 'I've heard of this thing before. It's a jadevoid pearlspring, which erupted from a preheaven spring of jade in the ancient preheaven primal-chaos. Only the most favored of the Sovereign Lord's concubines were allowed to use them. But now the House of the Invincible has them. Anyone who practices cultivation in that spring will be able to concentrate destiny to lead to rapid cultivation progress.' With that, he sent his thoughts piercing into the liquid jade.

Thanks to his command of so many streams of destiny in the House of the Invincible, no one could tell what he was doing. Soon, he was part of the liquid jade itself and was slowly surrounding Dugu Badao.

Having just worked so hard with the Purification Thorn, Dugu Badao was exhausted, and had only begun recovering.

"What? What's happening?"

All of a sudden, Dugu Badao realized that something strange was happening around him, and just as he was preparing to shoot out of the jade, he realized he was stuck as surely as a fly in amber.

If he had attempted to escape earlier, he might have had a chance, but now it was too late.

Yang Qi had sent his thoughts to fill the jade spring, turning it into an incarnation of himself.

"Be subjugated, Dugu Badao," he said. "I am the true Sovereign Lord, and you are my servant. For all eternity, you will follow my commands, and never defy me. Open your spirit and soul..." Without any hesitation, Yang Qi unleashed the Sovereign Lord's Holy and Far-Reaching Consummate Omnicurse, sending it stabbing into Dugu Badao.

RUMBLE!

A shockwave passed through the lake as Dugu Badao's mind went blank. A moment passed, then he dropped to his knees in front of Yang Qi. "Milord!"

The moment Yang Qi subjugated him, he felt a shift in destiny as he gained a greater foothold in the net of law.

Dugu Badao was a marshal in the armed forces, and commanded millions upon millions of troops. When he marched into battle, countless nations could be destroyed. He had access to even greater destiny than Dugu Ruxia, so with his additional destiny, Yang Qi was almost on the level of a member of the imperial house.

The shift in destiny wouldn't be noticed by the net of law, because it involved a personal possession of Dugu Badao. The destiny generated by personal possessions could be freely used or distributed by whoever owned it.

Yang Qi smiled. Having subjugated Dugu Badao, it would be easier to subjugate the next target. It was a snowball effect.

WHOOSH!

After giving orders to Dugu Badao to simply continue his session of cultivation, Yang Qi headed to a different part of the encampment.

He had decided to focus on the experts from the Invincible Dynasty first, as each one would give him a boost in destiny, and also greater command of the net of law.

The next location was another spring of liquid jade, and the expert inside it was Dugu Shiwang, whose cultivation base was on the same level as Dugu Badao.

This subjugation went even more smoothly.

Within less than ten breaths of time, Yang Qi had him completely under control, and had gained access to even more destiny.

In Yang Qi's view, the destiny from the House of the Invincible had taken a shape that resembled a crown, further cementing the fact that he was like a member of the imperial clan.

He now had so much destiny that, if he had to fight any of these marshals or generals, he wouldn't even need to use his divine abilities to crush them. He could just use destiny.

Whooosh!

He visited one location after another in the military camp, targeting the marshals who were soaking in their springs of liquid jade. For all intents and purposes, those jade springs were like tombs now.

Over the course of the next hour, he subjugated about a dozen marshals.

RUMBLE!

Something like a vortex of power could be seen above Yang Qi as more and more destiny flowed toward him, and the shape of the crown became clearer.

For now, it was completely illusory, and no one knew anything about it. Only after he subjugated all of the top leaders, and took over the position of emperor, would he become a recognized ruler.

That said, his crown of destiny made him so powerful that not even the grand princes of the imperial house could surpass him. And once he subjugated all of the marshals, the House of the Invincible would become home ground for him.

'Even with only a dozen marshals subjugated, I don't have to fear the Purification Thorn anymore!'

Yang Qi was able to pick up speed now, and started subjugating the marshals even more quickly. Twenty. Thirty. Forty. Eventually, it reached the point where he didn't need to do anything to subjugate them. He would just wave his finger and say a few words, then their destiny would shift to him.

Soon, he had subjugated all of the marshals from the House of the Invincible who were assigned to the Purification Thorn mission. And thanks to the surging destiny, his psychic scale and godhood rating had both improved. Before, he had been at the level of about thirty billion, but now he was closing in on forty billion.

It seemed his breakthrough to forty billion was just around the corner.

Next, he shifted targets to the marshals from the House of the Chiliocosm. It would be even easier to deal with them, now that he was like a shadowy version of the emperor of the House of the Chiliocosm.

One. Two...

Using the same methods, he eventually subjugated all of the marshals who were involved in the Purification Thorn mission. With the increased flow of destiny from both the House of the Chiliocosm and the House of the Invincible, he finally broke through to forty billion!

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Chapter 1504: Shadow Emperor

Yang Qi had reached a psychic scale of forty billion, which was a feat that would cause anyone who learned of it to gasp in amazement. There were old-timers who had spent forty billion years working on their cultivation base without reaching that level.

Destiny was the foundation of everything. Not even tens of thousands of years of cultivation could compare to getting even the tiniest scrap of destiny.

It was similar to how, in the impure lands, an ordinary person might spend their entire life building up some wealth. But other people would take the imperial examinations, whereupon money would pour into their pockets without cease. In the end, there wasn't any better way to get rich than becoming a government official.

Thanks to the immense destiny Yang Qi had access to, he was like a shadow emperor that existed behind the scenes.

It was the same for the Chiliocosm Dynasty.

After all, the marshals in the armed forces were all important people who had access to even more destiny than the important government ministers. In any government, military credit was worth more than anything else.

'Now that I've reached a psychic scale of forty billion, I'm stronger than ever. The God Legion Seal works even more efficiently, and I can send even more resources from the halls of heaven into the Myriad Dragons Lair!'

Yang Qi was very excited.

The Myriad Dragons Lair was already a hundred times what it was before, and was well on its way to becoming a true minor god world.

With every new landmass that popped up there, Yang Qi gained more destiny. At the same time, the explosions led to more preheaven treasures and god medicines. And there were preheaven aboriginal humans who would appear in the new landmasses, which led to even more destiny.

As Yang Qi's cultivation base improved, the God Legion Seal worked better, making the growth in the Myriad Dragons Lair increase. It was a virtuous cycle that led to constant improvements.

Of course, he still wasn't content with how strong he was. Next up, he had two generalissimos to subjugate.

Yang Primal-Chaos had a psychic scale of more than fifty billion, while Dugu Sheji was at sixty billion. If he subjugated them, he would get an even greater influx of destiny, and would probably be able to break into the level of fifty billion himself. Perhaps even higher.

It was almost impossible to imagine what kind of destiny they had access to as top leaders of the armed forces.

Considering that they were the primary factors in the Purification Thorn, he absolutely had to subjugate them. Before, it would have been very difficult, but now that he had an additional hundred experts to back him, along with the Purification Thorn, it wasn't going to be a problem.

However, the most pressing matter at hand was figuring out a way to get them apart.

Time was of the essence, so he chose to focus first on Yang Primal-Chaos.

'I have a few more days to work with. With all of these experts, and the resulting increase in destiny, I could probably subjugate that confucian expert.' He was doing everything possible to further his master plan; therefore, he headed into the depths of the Invincible Dynasty like a ghost, planning on subjugating as many top experts as possible.

WHOOSH!

The next target was someone named Dugu Gaishi, who had a psychic scale of ten billion. He was the type of person whose destiny was so strong he could vanquish opponents who were stronger than him.

Sadly for him, there was nothing in this army that could stop Yang Qi.

Yang Qi slipped into where Dugu Gaishi was cultivating his energy arts and drawing on his destiny.

Yang Qi pounced, devouring him in a single move, like a snake swallowing an egg. Just like that, Dugu Gaishi was gone from the world.

A moment later, Yang Qi spat him back out.

Dugu Gaishi dropped to his knees immediately. "Milord."

"Just stay here and keep working on your cultivation." The combination of King Heaven-Devourer's talismans with the God Legion Seal was extremely effective.

Without King Heaven-Devourer, the Sovereign Lord never would have been able to subjugate the legion of gods.

Neither Proud Heaven nor King Immortal-Slayer could have subjugated people in the House of the Invincible like this. The destiny would have revealed them, and they would have been attacked.

Transforming into an incorporeal snake, Yang Qi continued threading his way through the military encampment, arriving next at a marshal named Dugu Xin, who was in the middle of reading a book. In the blink of an eye, Yang Qi devoured him, then spat him back out.

Next came a marshal who unexpectedly wasn't surnamed Dugu. His name was Wang Xilai, and he was a faithful adherent of the House of the Invincible who had a long and successful military career. It was a bit strange, as most of the higher-level members of the House of the Invincible had imperial blood and were surnamed Dugu. Not many people without the surname Dugu would reach such a high level of influence, and it went to show how skilled he was.

Upon devouring him, Yang Qi found that he was actually hiding his true strength. He looked like he had a psychic scale of a bit over ten billion, but the truth was that he rated more than thirty billion! He had been keeping the truth hidden, in the hopes of revealing it in dramatic fashion at a critical moment.

Upon being devoured, he struggled mightily, unleashing a host of deadly techniques.

Sadly for him, Yang Qi's cultivation base was simply too high. He just unleashed the Sovereign Lord's Holy and Far-Reaching Consummate Omnicurse, and moments later the man was subjugated.

Again, Yang Qi received a significant benefit of destiny.

"Milord, I'd been concealing my strength for many years, all in the hopes of making a meteoric rise. But now I've been subjugated by you. I guess I'm just unlucky. I'd always hoped I would eventually become the ultimate leader of the House of the Invincible."

"Don't worry," Yang Qi said. "Now that you're working for me, you'll reach amazing heights."

Over the course of the following days, he was like a specter that went about subjugating dozens of marshals. He even found spies from the Central Dynasty. One of them was Dugu Baihuo, who was actually operating under an assumed name. His real name was Proud Baihuo, and his destiny really came from the Central Dynasty. Furthermore, his psychic scale was actually forty billion, not the ten billion he displayed as a front.

There really were hidden dragons and crouching tigers everywhere. However, Yang Qi crushed them one after another, causing his destiny to constantly rise.

Nine days went by, and he had subjugated fully two hundred marshals!

Thirty were from the Chiliocosm Dynasty, and a hundred and seventy were from the Invincible Dynasty. As of now, the destiny they provided had pushed his psychic scale and godhood rating to the level of forty-five billion.

By now, he knew that the House of the Invincible's army had a total of six hundred marshals, and he had subjugated a bit less than two hundred. It was about a third of the total number of marshals.

Unfortunately, he didn't have any more time to work with, as Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji had called another meeting. The hundred experts tasked with the mission all flew over to them.

"Yang Primal-Chaos, where exactly is Yang Voidprime?" Dugu Sheji said. "We're supposed to go on the mission now."

"Don't worry about it. He's ready to take action, he's just hiding in the shadows, waiting for the right moment. He said for us to make the first move. The Central Dynasty and Proud Heaven have spies everywhere, and he doesn't want to alert them to his presence. As long as Proud Heaven isn't willing to make an open move, he won't do so either. So we need to use the Purification Thorn to attack the destiny of the Spritefolk kingdom before striking our blow at Sprite Susu."

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Chapter 1505: Making a Fool of Yourself in Trying to be Clever

'So, my ruse was effective. Yang Voidprime is completely focused on Proud Heaven, which means I'm now free to act more openly here.' Yang Qi knew he had struck it lucky.

Without Yang Voidprime to worry about, he could subjugate Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji without having to worry about being careful.

They obviously had no idea that the hundred marshals they had personally trained were now working for Yang Qi.

"Alright, let's get going!"

The two experts led the marshals out of the House of the Invincible on their mission to strike at the heart of the Spritefolk.

They moved with incredible speed, such that they arrived at the Spritefolk Empire the next day. Normally speaking, it would take a Paramount God ten years to make that trip. But these people were all consummate experts that were like the God-Lords of old. From the void, they looked at the empire and the temple at its core, which was abuzz with activity.

"Incredible. All of you, look..." Dugu Sheji said. "How could the Spritefolk Empire have grown such incredible destiny? This is impossible. Completely and utterly impossible."

Yang Primal-Chaos looked at the enormous temple that formed the core of the empire and saw spritetrees growing up everywhere, forming impenetrable defenses that allowed for the inhabitants to safely work on business, cultivation, and general growth.

Apparently, the Spritefolk weren't as xenophobic as they used to be, as there were now other races of people living with them in harmony.

As a result, their destiny was stronger than ever.

Upon inspecting the destiny, the two generalissimos found that the Spritefolk had created a world of their own. It also pulsed with the aura of dragons, because they were now working together with the Myriad Dragons Lair. Furthermore, there were even Dragonfolk and Spritefolk getting married and having children, creating a new generation unlike anything that had ever come before.

The combination was one of pure harmony.

And the destiny created an exterior shell that was like impenetrable armor. Without it, how could this place really be considered a fourth dynasty?

The more Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji studied the situation, the more unsightly their expressions grew. The destiny was completely shocking both in quantity and in quality.

"Incredible. Completely incredible. Who did this? It wasn't Proud Heaven. He's strong, but he doesn't excel at the governing of nations. If he was, the Central Dynasty would already be completely dominant, and our dynasties wouldn't be around anymore."

"Don't tell me that Sprite Susu actually did all of this," Yang Primal-Chaos said. "If so, she's far more incredible than we realized. If we could get her secrets of governing nations, then our two dynasties would get destiny that the Central Dynasty couldn't possibly compare to. Did you notice that the destiny has actually increased even in just the time we spent talking? It's like it's endless! Once the Dragonfolk and Spritefolk become fully integrated, it really will become a fourth dynasty."

"It's possible that could happen. This kind of destiny increase is simply terrifying. It's a good thing we found out about this early on, otherwise, if too much time passed... In any case, we simply can't allow the Spritefolk to do this. Come on, let's determine where Sprite Susu is."

"Okay, I'll do the calculations. Thankfully, I have a geomantic compass that's locked on to her. It's an ancient magical treasure that the Lord of Civilization used to model his heavenly workings calculation systems on." He pulled out his geomantic compass and set to work.

Buzzz... Buzzz...

The compass flashed and pulsed as the workings of heaven stirred, and Yang Primal-Chaos poured power into it.

[Beep-beep-beep. Beep-beep-beep.]

The compass suddenly flashed brightly, indicating it had determined Sprite Susu's position.

"Alright everyone," Dugu Sheji said, "get in formation and launch the attack. Pierce through the destiny and drag Sprite Susu out!"

Swish!

The hundred marshals leaped into action, and their combined aura was so powerful that it was impossible to detect, almost as if it was in the Annulled level.

The incredibly sharp Purification Thorn formed, and it was so powerful that even Dugu Sheji was surprised by the sight of it.

"Attack!" he growled.

The Purification Thorn suddenly started moving toward the Spritefolk Empire, with Dugu Sheji following it with divine will.

But then, something very unexpected happened.

The thorn suddenly appeared right in front of Dugu Sheji, piercing through his defenses before he could react, and stabbing him directly in the forehead.

SNICK!

He suddenly went completely stiff as a primal-chaos elder-snake appeared, gobbling up him, and everything around him.

Yang Primal-Chaos had been focusing on his calculations, so he was also swallowed up.

Almost immediately, cracks spread out over the surface of the snake, as though it might explode. But then it vanished, having teleported into the Myriad Dragons Lair.

Once inside, the Dragonfolk patriarchs appeared, along with the Second and Third Devil Generals and the top Spritefolk experts.

This was exactly as Yang Qi had planned it.

The snake exploded, and Yang Primal-Chaos tumbled out, his psychic scale of fifty billion roaring with power. "Who the fuck are you! How dare you trifle with me!"

"Welcome to the Myriad Dragons Lair," Yang Qi replied, having returned to his normal form. Dugu Sheji still had the Purification Thorn stabbed into his forehead, but he was glittering with a bright light that seemed to indicate he hadn't been subjugated.

However, Yang Qi drew deeply on his destiny to crush the man with incredible pressure.

At the same time, the Dragonfolk and Spritefolk patriarchs, as well as the Second and Third Devil Generals, were in formation dealing with Yang Primal-Chaos.

"It's really true that each new generation will produce talented individuals," the Second Devil General said. "You youngsters nowadays are always reaching new heights." The Second Devil General used to be the top subordinate of the True Devil, but even at his prime, he couldn't have matched up to Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji.

Of course, that was because the True Devil had never founded an empire and harvested destiny.

In the ancient past, God-Lords with psychic scales of a hundred billion were very rare. Of course, back in those times, half Annulled experts had existed, whereas now they didn't.

When comparing ancient times to modern, it was a fact that the average level of the top experts was higher.

As for what it all meant, not even Yang Qi was sure.

Regardless, he was now focused on subjugating Dugu Sheji.

Yang Qi drew deeply on the God Legion Seal, as well as the mighty destiny of the Dragonfolk and Spritefolk.

Yang Qi had a psychic scale of forty billion, while Dugu Sheji's was at sixty billion. If it weren't for the sneak attack with the Purification Thorn, Yang Qi never would have been able to fight him like this. And outside of his own lands, not even the Purification Thorn would have given him the upper hand.

"You chickens and dogs! I'm a generalissimo from the Chiliocosm Dynasty! You can't fight me. Even if you had more people on your side, you'd still die!"

RUMBLE!

Yang Primal-Chaos unleashed an enormous attack that caused a huge hand to rumble out, violently shaking the nearby minor god worlds.

BAM!

The Second Devil General was too slow to defend himself, and was sent flying backward, nearly losing consciousness in the process. Climbing angrily to his feet, he said, "I'm the Second Devil General, subordinate of the True Devil. I'm the most powerful devil there is! How dare you insult me!"

"Second Devil General? Devil king in ancient times?" Yang Primal-Chaos looked surprised, but then he just laughed. "You old bastard. I can't believe how weak you are. You have no idea what the times are like now. I'll show you what true power is. You're about to be ended, understand?"

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Chapter 1506: Bad Luck for the Leaders

Yang Primal-Chaos was a brutal and ruthless fighter.

He would never surrender, and he pulsed with a fiercely baleful energy. He controlled the army of the Chiliocosm Dynasty, and had countless years of experience. Not only that, his cultivation base was domineering to the extreme.

Not even the God-Lords of ancient times had been as strong as him.

When he swept his hand out, backed by his psychic scale of over fifty billion, numerous experts were sent flying.

Inhabitants of nearby minor god worlds were also injured by the shockwaves, and in fact, had they been on the outside, they would have been wiped out of existence.

"Come forth!" Yang Qi bellowed.

RUMBLE!

All of a sudden, a host of experts appeared out of nowhere, a full hundred of them, all of them experts from the Invincible Dynasty. They were the additional marshals Yang Qi had subjugated, and in this critical moment, they would prove to be the straw that broke the camel's back.

Instantly, those hundred experts formed another version of the Purification Thorn, which then shot toward Yang Primal-Chaos.

"What's going on here?" Yang Primal-Chaos blurted. "You people are from the Invincible Dynasty! Don't tell me this has all been some sort of trap. Impossible! This is just going to lead to ruin for all of us! What's happening, Dugu Sheji?"

Unfortunately, Dugu Sheji was also in a very tricky situation.

"Brother Primal-Chaos, we've been tricked. I don't see how we can get out of this situation. Who is this person anyway?"

"Enough jibber-jabber," Yang Qi growled impatiently. "Be subjugated!"

Despite how much effort he was putting forth, he still couldn't forcibly subjugate Dugu Sheji.

"Sage monarch magistrates!"

At this point, he finally drew on his sage monarch magistrates. He now had fifteen million of them, and they acted in perfect coordination with his will to launch attacks on Dugu Sheji.

Pop!

The dam finally burst, and Dugu Sheji collapsed. In the blink of an eye, a golden throne rose up in the God Legion Seal. This was the largest throne so far, even larger than those thrones in the seal from the ancient legion of gods.

That said, the Lord of the Sword Dao had a superior cultivation base. It was just that Yang Qi didn't have his golden throne; after he had died long ago, his throne vanished. There were other almighty beings of the past who had used the release of death to escape the binds of the God Legion Seal, as well.

However, those were matters to worry about later. Now that Yang Qi had subjugated Dugu Sheji, he instantly experienced a deep transformation.

Dugu Sheji was a powerful generalissimo with a psychic scale of sixty billion, who commanded a huge force of troops. Even Dugu Yunkong had to support him, and if he refused, would have suffered greatly because of it. Obviously, his destiny was completely shocking.

Upon subjugating him, Yang Qi immediately felt as though the energy of war from the Invincible Dynasty was gathering within him.

"This is my opportunity. Dugu Sheji, crush Yang Primal-Chaos!"

With a roar, Dugu Sheji lunged forward and smashed his palm into Yang Primal-Chaos, sending him staggering backward. At the same time, Yang Qi's other subordinates launched attacks, causing Yang Primal-Chaos to be overwhelmed with energy.

There were just too many people for him to deal with. Over two hundred experts had formed two Purification Thorns. Plus there was Dugu Sheji and all of Yang Qi's other people, as well as the raw power of the Myriad Dragons Lair. Probably the only person who could avoid being crushed by such power was Proud Heaven himself.

There was no suspense as to how things would turn out.

Yang Primal-Chaos was vanquished, sucked into Yang Primal-Chaos, and subjugated. Instantly, even more immense destiny was flowing into Yang Qi.

Yang Qi threw his head back and howled as winds whipped around him.

Slam!

Power that had been locked inside of him was released. His life force flourished as his cultivation base rose to the level of fifty billion.

In just a few short hours, his cultivation base had risen by nearly ten billion. He had massive destiny flowing into him from the other two dynasties, and the God Legion Seal glittered with intense golden light. All of a sudden, that golden light shot into the Halls of Heaven, causing starlight to shine dazzlingly. Suddenly, one of the heavenly bodies exploded, and the pieces fell down into the Myriad Dragons Lair, causing explosions left and right.

Yang Qi wanted to take advantage of the moment to fully convert the Myriad Dragons Lair into a minor god world.

Given the previous level of his cultivation base, this effort would normally have taken a thousand years to come to fruition. But he was many times stronger than before. Plus, he had nearly three hundred God-Lords, as well as the leaders of two entire armies. With all of that power to catalyze the God Legion Seal, he was able to do, in a very short period, what would normally have taken a thousand years to do.

With the Myriad Dragons Lair as a minor god world, it would be far superior to the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, and would be something he could rely on to stay safe if the other three dynasties attacked him.

"Let the stars fall..." Rumbling sounds echoed out as more stars from the Halls of Heaven exploded and fell down.

The stars that filled the sky of the Halls of Heaven were actually heaven caliber godstones, which were comparable to perfect caliber godstones. In other words, they were so incredible that even one of them the size of a fingernail would be considered literally priceless.

As the stars continued to explode and fall into the Myriad Dragons Lair, primal-chaos paleo-energy erupted everywhere.

It was an incomparable act of creation.

Not even King Immortal-Slayer could have done something like this. Only Yang Qi was able to, thanks to the immense power of the Halls of Heaven, and the legacy he had inherited from the Sovereign Lord.

As millions of stars exploded and the lair transformed, Yang Qi led his experts in reciting an enchantment that caused numerous preheaven treasures to form.

The destiny of empires was being used to create a true minor god world, and that minor god world was improving the destiny of his empire.

As the process went on, the destiny of his combined empire grew to incredible levels.

As for his sage monarch magistrates, their numbers jumped to twenty million, then thirty million.

RUUUUUMBLE!

Yang Qi was benefiting immensely.

Eventually, a hundred thousand stars fell into the Myriad Dragons Lair, at which point the dragon energy was completely replaced by preheaven primal-chaos paleo-energy. And in that moment, a new god world was created. A minor god world.

It rotated slowly, a crystal ball hovering in the void, pulsing with immense power.

"Henceforth, it will be called the Everlasting Aegis." Upon naming the minor god world, he sent his divine will into it, causing calm to fill it.

Then, the sage monarch magistrates set to work.

As they labored, the Everlasting Aegis became filled with the lands, life force, vital energy, and people of the two empires that formed the basis of it.

Yang Qi now had a safe place for his empire, a place that not even Proud Heaven could easily enter.

In the moment that the Everlasting Aegis was completed, Yang Qi's cultivation base advanced again, and his psychic scale and godhood rating increased from fifty to fifty-five billion.

His next goal was going to be reaching sixty billion.

That said, even just fifty-five billion was still an incredibly domineering level. And with the power of his minor god world as well, he was no longer someone the other three dynasties could take lightly.

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Chapter 1507: Everlasting Aegis

Yang Qi had finally fulfilled his long-held goal of completely converting the Myriad Dragons Lair into a minor god world. Then he had converted that minor god world into his Everlasting Aegis. It covered his empire and all the lands therein, and if danger arose, it could whisk them away, causing it all to disappear without a trace in front of any enemy.

It was essentially the same thing the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart could do.

Henceforth, his empire would be even more stable and safe.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi was constantly drawing on the grand destiny of the Chiliocosm Dynasty and the Invincible Dynasty for his own cultivation. His sage monarch magistrates continued constantly growing stronger, and given some time, they would be able to reproduce yet again.

"This is great," Yang Susu said as she flew over, accompanied by Jadefall and Yang Qi's other brethren.

"Yang Qi, you really do have what it takes to found the fourth great empire," Jadefall said.

Yang Qi's other friends and family started weighing in as well.

"Exactly. With Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji as loyal servants, you're now just as strong as the House of the Invincible and the Chiliocosm Dynasty. You might as well officially declare the founding of the fourth empire. Spread the word through the god world, and your destiny will become even more impressive."

"Yeah. If we declare a fourth empire, people from throughout the god world will flock to us, and provide a huge increase in destiny. It'll be completely different from lurking in the shadows."

"But if we declare the founding of the fourth dynasty, won't the other empires attack us? Then what do we do?"

Yang Qi waved his hand to interrupt the talk. "For now, we can't make any announcements about a fourth empire. In a moment, I'll head into the depths of the Halls of Heaven to look for resources. Once all of you are on the level of the ancient God-Lords, we can make the announcement. As for Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji, they need to return home for the time being."

"Why?"

"They work for us now, and they make us vastly stronger. What happens if Proud Heaven or Yang Voidprime come to cause trouble? We won't be able to stop them."

"First of all, if we openly steal the subordinates of the Chiliocosm Dynasty and the Invincible Dynasty, they couldn't possibly stand the loss of face, and would definitely mount a full-scale attack. And that isn't something we could defend against. Second, if they publicly defect, then their superiors in their respective dynasties would definitely end up being sacked, and that would interfere with the destiny we have access to now. That's why our current focus should be on stockpiling as many resources as possible.

"With the Everlasting Aegis completed, the current focus needs to be on taking advantage of all the preheaven treasures that were created. Use them to expand our own destiny and produce more sage monarch magistrates. Unite everything we've gained up to this point. Once I'm back from the Halls of Heaven, we can definitely tap into the true history and potential of the god world."

"The Halls of Heaven are a very dangerous place," Jadefall said. "Do you want to take the purrling along with you?"

"That won't be necessary. The purrling is our most precious asset, and although the Everlasting Aegis is impressive, if a truly almighty entity came along, it might not be able to stand firm. Considering we openly exist in the god world, it's obvious we have to do business to stay afloat, and that means it'll be impossible to prevent almighty beings from coming into our territory. The key is making sure they don't harm our destiny. And if any of them turn hostile, we'll have to rely on the help of the purrling. Proud Heaven and Yang Voidprime will find a big surprise waiting for them if they try anything funny. Although, I'm fairly certain Proud Heaven already knows about the purrling. For now, focus on expanding and subjugating as many people as possible to bolster our forces."

"There are some races that have come here to join us," Jadefall said. "Unfortunately, we suspect many of them of being spies, or at least, up to no good. How should we handle them?"

"Don't worry about them. We now have more than thirty million sage monarch magistrates, and their combined power surpasses the God-Lords of old. Anyone who comes to cause mischief will be dealt with quickly. Furthermore, my travels in the Halls of Heaven will definitely result in major benefits. And as my life force improves, the sage monarch magistrates will grow in number. By the way, Jadefall, if you ever notice the sage monarch magistrates suddenly ceasing their reproduction, or if you see their aura unexpectedly decline, open a portal to me immediately, and send the purrling to help me."

Yang Qi was planning for all possibilities.

"Alright..." his friends and family said, nodding in agreement. There were many tasks at hand. For one thing, although they were all peak Paramount Gods, that didn't mean they had cultivation bases like the God-Lords of old. That would require more time spent in cultivation. After all, they weren't Yang Qi, who could tap into the national destiny.

Yang Qi was the emperor of his empire, which meant that he was the only one who could improve his cultivation with its destiny. And of course, he was fully focused on using the destiny to make more sage monarch magistrates.

Whoosh. Whoosh...!

After giving some orders, his newly subjugated marshals returned to their respective dynasties. Although they hadn't completed their mission, and would thus be punished, they were all important enough that such matters would quickly be smoothed over. Marshals were just too important, and were always being targeted for recruitment by the various interest groups. Now, Yang Qi had some very powerful agents in place in the other dynasties who could use their influence to start persuading powerful government officials to look kindly on the Sage Monarch Empire.

And of course, both Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji were vitally important figures. Other than the top patriarchs of the two dynasties, nobody could do a thing to them. Obviously, they were going to be of immense help to Yang Qi, and he wasn't going to reveal the fact that they were working for him.

Furthermore, with the two armies essentially under his control, it would be much easier to secure new resources, going forward.

Thus, the destiny only continued to improve.

With all his preparations made, Yang Qi headed to the spot in the Bastille of the One God that was directly beneath the Halls of Heaven, where the sky still glittered with a host of stars. Although he had destroyed several hundreds of thousands of them, it was still only a fraction of the total amount. As a result, dazzling starlight still bathed the area.

Normally speaking, even the most elite expert wouldn't even consider approaching the Halls of Heaven, much less try exploring their depths.

But Yang Qi had the God Legion Seal, which he could use to suppress the tempests that surrounded it. And his Tribulation Wings were a continuation of the Angel Wings, which made it easy for him to flit back and forth between the passageways that separated reality from illusion. In other words, he could easily travel to places where ordinary experts just couldn't go.

Despite that, it still took him several hours of flying to reach the outskirts of the actual Halls of Heaven. It resembled an enormous ship, so big that nothing like it had ever existed.

Tapping into the God Legion Seal, he landed on the deck of the ship, and could instantly sense how different it was from anything else he had ever seen before. It appeared to be completely made of crystal, using some sort of unheard-of technique. And each step he took on its surface caused a sonorous thrum to echo out, like that of a saber or sword being unsheathed.

It was like each step caused a host of top experts to draw their weapons and prepare to attack.

Thankfully, he had the God Legion Seal, otherwise he would already be bleeding out of his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

'What an incredible view!'

Looking down, he could see the Bastille of the One God in its entirety, as well as numerous other locations in the god world. It was like he was standing at the peak of the entire god world.

The reality was that the god world wasn't a place where the higher you flew into the sky, the further you could see. It was entirely possible to fly higher and higher, only to end up in a lower position.

The god world was neither a planet nor a continent. It contained numerous universal structures and shapes, and didn't have a true high point or center.

The truth was that Yang Qi's position in the Halls of Heaven was like a convergence of numerous universal coordinates. And from there, he could see the Sage Monarch Empire, its destiny burning like a torch.

He could also see the Central Dynasty, whose destiny was like a pure white flame that had tendrils spread out through the entire god world, as if it was trying to completely envelop it.

Yang Qi could also see the Chiliocosm Dynasty and the Invincible Dynasty in their entirety.

The god world had numerous empires and races, such that even the most powerful old-timers had never been given a glimpse of what it truly looked like. Yang Qi felt like a frog that had been sitting in the well looking at the sky, only to suddenly fly up and look back down.

At that moment, he suddenly felt even more connected to the god world, and also sensed that he was brushing closer to the Annulled level.

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Chapter 1508: The Highest Point of the God World

Yang Qi was currently standing at the highest point of the god world, and it had led him into a state of deep enlightenment. His mind pulsed and his thoughts stirred as his consciousness spread out over the god world at large. All of a sudden, he felt himself enter a state in which he understood deep matters regarding the existence and destruction of the god world.

From any location in the Halls of Heaven, it was possible to get a birds-eye view of the god world.

It was hard to say how the Sovereign Lord had controlled it all, or how he had searched through all of the infinite spatial nexuses of the universe to find this one specific location of immense 'height'.

Perhaps a place like this hadn't existed in the god world, and the Sovereign Lord had used his magnificent godpower to create one. Perhaps the Halls of Heaven actually didn't even exist in the god world.

After all, it would be impossible to gaze upon the entire god world from within the god world.

You can't know the true shape of the god world because of being in the god world itself.

Yang Qi knew that his cultivation base wasn't high enough to perceive the entire god world while simultaneously being in it.

Even now, while he did have a bird's-eye view, there were still many parts of the god world that were shrouded by primal-chaos. Outside of the god world, there was nothing but primal-chaos. Furthermore, the god world was constantly expanding. Eventually, when it filled the entire world of primal-chaos, the entire multiverse would explode, bringing about the ultimate doomsday. As for what would happen afterward, it was impossible to tell.

That would be a true tribulation.

And without reaching the Annulled level, no one could survive it, not even someone like the Sovereign Lord.

Yang Qi just stood there, soaking in the view of the god world and gaining unprecedented enlightenment. As he did, his psychic scale shot upward by billions and billions.

Six hours later, intense rumbling filled him as his psychic scale reached sixty billion. At the same time, the surging godpower of the Halls of Heaven flowed into him, pushing his monarch godhood to the same level.

He was now standing atop the buildings that made up the Halls of Heaven, which represented a power that no magical treasure could match up to. The Halls of Heaven just weren't made from the same material as the god world.

It would be like the difference between someone absorbing the rays of the sun in the sky, and a person standing on the sun directly absorbing its power. The two couldn't compare.

As the hours passed, Jadefall and the others in the Sage Monarch Empire could sense that something was happening. The sage monarch magistrates grew stronger, then started proliferating again. As they did, they threw back their heads and let loose howls that filled the entire empire.

They weren't howls of fear, but of passion and struggle. And the cries caused the hearts of everyone that heard them to thump with anticipation. They all knew from the sound alone that their empire would continue to thrive, and would never decline.

"The sage monarch magistrates are proliferating again. And each one is already at the peak Paramount God level. Are they going to break through? Incredible! They all have teleportation portals linking them to the power of the Halls of Heaven."

Jadefall, Yang Qi's other brethren, the Dragonfolk patriarchs, the Second and Third Devil Generals, and everyone else in their group exchanged stunned glances.

They could only watch as the sage monarch magistrates grew stronger, slowly reaching the power level of nine hundred million. If they broke through, there would be no question that they were the most elite type of thrall in all heaven and earth. Although their numbers were particularly impressive, they only had a few million, but that still represented an immense level of power.

Thirty-five million.

Forty million.

Fifty million.

In the blink of an eye, the sage monarch magistrates had proliferated to the level of fifty million! Because of the rapid increase, everyone knew that Yang Qi had come across some sort of amazingly good fortune.

Of course, it hadn't come from any magical treasure or treasure trove, but rather a deep and profound enlightenment.

That was the best type of cultivation, which, when coupled with destiny, was unmatchable. To reach the Annulled level, one had to break through the bounds of one's own soul and spirit.

Aaaaoooooo!

Heaven and earth trembled violently.

Yang Qi's cultivation and thinking had both reached perfect states. He had a psychic scale and godhood rating of sixty billion, which ensured that dramatic transformations were taking place within him. His black hair seemed to fuse with the void around him, and his feet connected firmly to the ground.

Soon, the fluctuations died down and the moment had passed.

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

Again, Yang Qi stared down at the god world, as if committing everything he was seeing to memory, creating a map of the place that existed in his mind.

Despite being in the Halls of Heaven, he still couldn't tell exactly how large the place was. It was like looking at an iceberg floating in the ocean; how could anyone tell what exactly lay beneath the surface?

But the tip of the iceberg that he could see was still more than enough to understand the circumstances of the god world much better than before.

One thing was certain: if one wanted to leave the god world, it would essentially be impossible, no matter which direction they chose to travel.

If he could leave the god world, he could search for the Ancient Road to the Gods and the vanished impure lands. And if he could do that, he would be able to collect all the friends and family he had left behind.

All such people would become key elites in his empire, which would make it even stronger. So he very much wanted to do that, and until it was accomplished, he couldn't rest at ease. Unfortunately, to date, he still didn't know how to get from the god world to the Ancient Road to the Gods and the impure lands.

After gazing at the full structure of the god world, he turned and headed deeper into the Halls of Heaven. They were huge, larger than any other unique area Yang Qi had visited. It made sense, considering the Halls of Heaven weren't truly a part of the god world. However, he could also tell that they were smaller than the god world as a whole.

The Halls of Heaven had been created with immense effort by the Sovereign Lord after he had unified the god world. He had used incalculable amounts of resources, and numerous treasures taken out of the ancient primal-chaos, to build it.

The time had come to search for treasures. He was in another world of resplendent palaces and buildings, although he didn't enter any of them. He restricted his search to places he could see without touching anything.

At one point, he caught sight of a group of pearls inlaid in the walls of a palace, which glowed with a soft, pure light that was devoid of even a speck of darkness and gloom. They were preheaven treasures, born out of big bang explosions in ancient primal-chaos, and they were known as nine-yangs ultraradiance pearls.

Their light could pierce through any haze, and they could be used to create the most powerful out-of-body incarnations, form second nascent divinities, and pierce through the defenses of any enemy.

Yang Qi chose not to take them. Although they were true treasures, they were an integral part of the Halls of Heaven, so taking them would damage the structure of the halls.

He wanted to find some treasure troves that contained stockpiles of treasures.

'Where would the treasures be hidden here? Most importantly, I need to find another piece of the Mahātmā Jade. Once I get the piece from here, I should be just on the verge of completing my collection. It's likely that the final piece is in the Central Dynasty with Proud Heaven or Proud Central.'

Yang Qi's heart thumped a bit.

Closing his eyes, he focused on the energy of the jade, and in his mind, he could see the composite image, except that it was clearly missing two pieces. Furthermore, they were obviously the two most important pieces. With them, the jade would be complete, and he would have the legacy of the ancient True Devil, and could tap into the true power of the dao of devils.

Of course, getting that piece would also boost his psychic scale, most likely to the level of seventy billion.

At that point, getting the final piece would be a lot easier. He might even be able to reach out and summon it to him, regardless of how tightly its current owner had it locked down. But no matter how he did it, he needed to be very careful. Proud Heaven and Proud Central could very well be using it as bait to trap whoever was trying to collect them.

Yang Qi himself had used tactics such as that in the past, so he knew how effective they could be.

Even as he formed the image of the jade in his mind, it suddenly stirred, giving him a direction to travel in.

He nodded, and proceeded forward carefully, using the God Legion Seal to make sure he stayed as safe as possible.

1. This is a twist on the common expression not knowing the true shape of Mount Lushan because of being on the mountain itself, which was used in .

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Chapter 1509: Consummate Treasure Trove

The depths of the Halls of Heaven were filled with hidden spell formations. In fact, even the dust motes in the air had them. Someone who inhaled such a dust mote would be inhaling a deadly trap. Even an expert with a psychic scale of a hundred billion who did so would end up dead through and through.

If it weren't for how deadly the Halls of Heaven were, it would have already been looted clean by experts from the three dynasties. There wasn't anyone who didn't drool over the idea of getting what the halls had to offer.

Sadly, from ancient times until now, any hero who got too close to them ended up dead. And those who didn't die from the initial contact were cursed horribly, ending up with such bad luck that they would eventually die.

Not a single expert had ever entered this place.

Thankfully, Yang Qi had the God Legion Seal. That said, he still wouldn't underestimate the place. He knew that there were spell formations everywhere, and that even inhaling a mote of dust could prove deadly.

About half of the deadly formations could simply be dismantled by the God Legion Seal. The other half required Yang Qi to use special means to avoid. As long as he did that, and didn't touch anything, he wouldn't have any trouble traveling about, as he had the blood of the King of Godmammoths.

But doing any sort of looting was going to be difficult.

He could sense that even the blades of grass had been put in place according to a special design. Everything conformed to the dao of heaven and earth, and the quintessence of the universe. Even the floor tiles seemed uncharacteristically rare and special.

Yang Qi wasn't going to take any sort of action blithely, as he knew that disturbing the structure of the Halls of Heaven would provoke a deadly attack.

He could only go about his search slowly and carefully.

Thus, he followed the guidance of the Mahātmā Jade, flying along with immense caution.

As he proceeded along the roads in the Halls of Heaven, he passed pagodas, kiosks, palaces, wide avenues, enormous public squares, and every one was as beautiful as could be imagined.

He saw a flower garden filled with fresh blooming flowers, and he recognized many of them: flowers of illusion, flowers of karma, flowers of good and evil, flowers of time, flowers of the five phases, and others. All of them were vying with each other in terms of glamor and beauty, and some of them had even borne fruit.

Yang Qi could create things like these with primal-chaos explosions. And he didn't dare attempt to pick any of these flowers or fruits. Instead, he remained completely focused on finding the piece of the Mahātmā Jade.

After all, the jade wasn't fundamentally part of the Halls of Heaven, so taking it wouldn't provoke a reaction. Once he got the jade, and his psychic scale increased, the God Legion Seal would give him a deeper connection to and understanding of the Halls of Heaven, and then getting such treasures would be much easier.

He still hadn't reached the ultimate limit of what the God Legion Seal had to offer.

The interior of the Halls of Heaven had countless pathways that twisted and turned. There were bridges that spanned streams, twisting corridors, and numerous sights to see. But he didn't waste time on sightseeing.

Several hours later, he stepped out into a wide public square, covered with bronze floor tiles. And a bronze temple sat at the other end, pulsing with the energy of the Mahātmā Jade.

'Hmm. This is a treasure storehouse alright. There are a lot of places like this throughout the Halls of Heaven. Too many to count. But why does this one seem to be in disrepair?'

The main gate was halfway collapsed, and it bore the aura of ancient devils, as well as the musty smell of age.

It seemed this was a place in the Halls of Heaven that had suffered an attack by the True Devil. Either that, or when the Mahātmā Jade exploded, one of the pieces landed here and caused the destruction.

Yang Qi immediately headed toward the entrance, which was mostly in ruins. However, his heart pounded as he knew that the Mahātmā Jade was here, and that he was about to get it.

He stepped inside, to find that it was pitch black. However, he could still see, and at the far end, embedded deeply in the wall, was a piece of jade that was the exact shape of one of the missing pieces in his collection.

"Excellent," he murmured, his heart pounding in his chest. Once he got this piece, all he needed was the piece from the Central Dynasty.

That said, he wasn't about to let his guard down now.

Walking further inside, he opened his Lord's Eye to scan the area for danger.

The vital energy here was in chaos, and was thoroughly intermingled with the aura of devils.

The place was completely empty, as though it had been wiped clean by a single destructive blast. Obviously, when the Mahātmā Jade had hit this place, the force released had destroyed the other magical treasures that existed there, transforming them into nothing but ash.

Approaching the bronze wall, he reached out toward the depression, whereupon the Mahātmā Jade started trembling. Then, cracking sounds rang out as sections of the wall crumbled and fell off.

Finally, the jade shot out into his hand.

'Alright,' he thought, although he kept his heart calm and at ease.

However, even as he prepared to assimilate the piece of the jade, he sensed something being him, a beam of sword light stabbing toward him with unexpected speed.

"That's..."

There was no time to contemplate what dao of the sword this was, or where it came from. It wasn't King Life-Killer's sword, nor was it that of Star Swordlife.

King Life-Killer's dao of the sword was about pure killing.

Star Swordlife's dao of the sword was about pure life.

As for this dao of the sword, it was about the pure sword.

This was a true dao of the sword, something that could truly be called a sword technique. As it stabbed toward him, Yang Qi suddenly came to understand the true meaning of the dao of the sword. He finally understood its ultimate meaning.

Swords weren't life. Nor were they destruction. Swords were swords. There was nothing really complicated about them. They were a weapon, and they were a concept.

"Dammit..." he murmured as the sword seemed ready to eradicate every aspect of his life force. All of a sudden, his eternally indestructible soul seemed like a mere candle flickering in the wind.

Of course, Yang Qi wasn't an ordinary person. At this moment in which he faced sudden death, in which catastrophe loomed, the Mahātmā Jade suddenly vanished from his palm.

It became a stream of thought that shot into his mind, whereupon his entire person vanished, replaced by the fluctuations of kalpas and tribulations, completely lacking in fear.

"Your sword; my will," a voice spoke.

Yang Qi's thoughts expelled the sword energy, and then his body formed again, and his psychic scale was climbing. He had devoured the Mahātmā Jade!

Creak. Crack...

His psychic scale instantly jumped from sixty billion to seventy billion! It was an increase of ten billion! And it had occurred as easily as if he had just taken a drink of water.

Looking off into the distance, Yang Qi murmured, "Lord of the Sword Dao. Who would've guessed that you're not actually dead? You're here in the Halls of Heaven. You have my admiration. That sword alone would have killed anyone other than me, even someone with a psychic scale of a hundred billion. Sadly for you, I was already fusing with the Mahātmā Jade. In order to destroy me, you would have had to destroy the jade. In other words, without destroying the jade, you can't destroy me."

"I'm truly shocked that the world has changed in this way in the past hundreds of millions of years..." As the voice drifted into the room, a tall, burly man walked in, holding a sword in his hand.

He looked like a lonely wanderer, the type that wouldn't have a home or friends to return to. It was as if he didn't even belong in the world of ordinary men, nor in this universe. He was desolate, lonesome, and the type of nomad no one could ever understand. He didn't carry a vat of alcohol, as he didn't rely on alcohol to dispel his melancholy. He only relied on his sword.

He almost didn't look like the enigmatic master killer that the Sovereign Lord had employed, the famous Lord of the Sword Dao, top member of the God-Lords. He looked more like a down-and-out assassin from the impure lands.

However, within his eyes was a darkness like that of the resplendent chill of nightfall.

This was definitely the most powerful expert Yang Qi had ever encountered, someone whose experiences surpassed even that of Proud Heaven.

This was a true swordsman. Compared to him, Star Swordlife's sword of life was like absolutely nothing.

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Chapter 1510: Lord of the Sword Dao

In a completely unexpected turn of events, Yang Qi had been ambushed by the Lord of the Sword Dao in the middle of the Halls of Heaven. Thankfully, he had acquired another piece of the Mahātmā Jade, boosting his psyche and allowing him to think like the True Devil. Were it not for that, he likely would have been badly injured.

But things hadn't turned out like that.

And while there was still one piece left in the Central Dynasty, he had certainly reached a minor level of completion in terms of his collection.

His psychic scale had reached the level of seventy billion, improving his control of the God Legion Seal to a point that not even the Lord of the Sword Dao, with his rating of a hundred billion, was anything for him to fear.

As long as he could get the final piece of jade, he was sure he could break through to the level of a hundred billion. When that happened, he would be in the half-Annulled level, making him like people such as King Immortal-Slayer, the Sovereign Lord, and the True Devil.

Looking every bit the lonely wanderer, the Lord of the Sword Dao said, "Who could ever have guessed that after all this time, someone else would show up in the Halls of Heaven? It's been a long time since there's been a visitor here."

Yang Qi was stabilizing the power of the Mahātmā Jade and simultaneously absorbing the flowing power of the Halls of Heaven. Inside him, the trumpeting of the King of Godmammoths could be heard in his God Legion Paradise as a teleportation portal opened and allowed the destiny of the Sage Monarch Empire to pour into him.

With the fifty million sage monarch magistrates he had, his empire was strong and constantly expanding. It was now roughly half as big as either the Invincible Dynasty or the Chiliocosm Dynasty, although it was still in its initial stages of growth. In four or five years, it would reach the level of seventy to eighty percent. It was a speed the likes of which the god world had never seen before.

And that was with Yang Qi trying to keep a relatively low profile. If he pulled in the two marshals, Yang Primal-Chaos and Dugu Sheji, the destiny of his empire would be much different, and he would be in a position to contend with the other two dynasties much sooner.

In other words, with the destiny he could tap into, he had absolutely no need to fear the Lord of the Sword Dao.

Not daring to bandy words, Yang Qi directly asked, "Why did you ambush me, Lord of the Sword Dao? I'm just here to get some treasure."

Sighing lonesomely, he replied, "You have the God Legion Seal, which means you can help me leave the Halls of Heaven. Because of the destruction wrought upon this hall by the Mahātmā Jade, I can stay here safely. But if I try traveling about outside of it, the innumerable spell formations of the Halls of Heaven will cause me endless trouble. It's better to just stay put. Isn't the God Legion Seal reason enough for me to attack you?"

"It is," Yang Qi said with a nod. "The God Legion Seal could cause rivers of blood to flow in the blink of an eye. To get it, fathers would slaughter sons, and even bring about an end to all human life. Unfortunately, Lord of the Sword Dao, you're not strong enough to kill me."

"You're right. I'm not. Unexpectedly, you've fused the God Legion Seal with the Mahātmā Jade. And you have the blood of the King of Godmammoths, monarch godhood, and an enormous empire to fill you with destiny. Meanwhile, I have nothing. No empire, no anything. I'm no match for you."

Although the Lord of the Sword Dao seemed like a truly lonely wanderer, he had obviously seen through Yang Qi to his core, and understood everything about him.

Yet to Yang Qi's surprise, he couldn't read the Lord of the Sword Dao at all, which meant the man's psychic scale was definitely at least at the level of a hundred billion. That was when the psychic scale converged on itself and pushed one into an entirely different state of existence.

That was why he had been able to attack Yang Qi so unexpectedly. Long story short, his psyche was immeasurably close to the Annulled level, which was a terrifying thought. However, Yang Qi had still been able to detect the attack at the last moment, which meant the Lord of the Sword Dao couldn't kill him. Of course, neither could he kill the Lord of the Sword Dao.

"What exactly do you want?" Yang Qi said. "For me to take you out to the god world? How about you join me in looting some of the treasure troves here? You can be one of the cofounders of my empire. I'll appoint you as a grand elder, and even give you a share of the destiny. And you won't have to do a thing other than stand guard over the empire."

Obviously, having an expert like this, who would provide an inherent boost in destiny, would make his empire even more stable. Not even the patriarchs of the House of the Invincible, Proud Heaven, Yang Voidprime, or Yang Chiliocosm would be able to cause problems for him then.

Right now, Yang Qi only had to fear people with psychic scales of a hundred billion or more. That meant people like Yang Chiliocosm, Yang Voidprime, and Proud Heaven. The Dugu Clan had their nine patriarchs, and although they all weren't at the level of a hundred billion, there were two who had indeed reached that level. And the others weren't far behind.

All of them were terrifying individuals and hardened killers who could inflict major destruction on Yang Qi's empire if they so chose.

Yang Qi didn't really have anyone who could counter forces such as that. Not even he himself counted in that regard. But if he could get the Lord of the Sword Dao on his side, it would change everything. The three other empires wouldn't dare to attack him, and he could bide his time in peace, slowly emptying out the Halls of Heaven and building up a destiny superior to any of the other groups.

"No," the Lord of the Sword Dao said. "You're trying to recruit me? It won't happen. The God Legion Seal is the most horrifying thing in existence. In the past, the Sovereign Lord used it to control me. His thoughts governed my life or death, and he could even monitor my mind. It was a life worse than death. If I work with you, help you grow your empire with the riches of the Halls of Heaven, you'll just become the next Sovereign Lord. Eventually, you'll subjugate me with the God Legion Seal, and I'll yet again be trapped."

"I guarantee that I won't do that," Yang Qi said quickly.

"The only thing I trust is my own sword. I don't trust the guarantees of anyone. If the Sovereign Lord were to be resurrected, and he made a promise to me, I'd spit on it. So what makes you think I'll trust you?" The Lord of the Sword Dao was making it very plain that he wouldn't work with Yang Qi.

Yang Qi could sense his resolve, and knew that people as strong as him didn't waste words. Besides, if he was the Lord of the Sword Dao, he would make the same decision. The God Legion Seal was just too dangerous. Working with Yang Qi would just be heading toward the path of subjugation.

But Yang Qi had to have him!

If he couldn't be convinced, he would have to be subjugated!

Time was of the essence, and his empire was on the line. There was definitely war on the horizon. When empires arose, it always happened along with blood and fire.

When people made cultivation progress, they had to pass through tribulations, and it was the same with empires. Other forces could attack an empire, but if the people held firm and fought back, their hearts would grow more resolute. They would have infinite faith in their country, and develop a sense of belonging. When that happened, the empire would become truly powerful.

The Chiliocosm Dynasty, Invincible Dynasty, and Central Dynasty had all experienced such things, which was why they were considered unparalleled under heaven. All of their people had a strong sense of belonging, which led to powerful destiny, and the willingness to sacrifice themselves for their country.

Yang Qi's empire hadn't yet reached that state, as it hadn't had a chance to experience warfare. But war would come eventually. That was why Yang Qi had come to the Halls of Heaven, to ensure that he was as prepared as possible.

"I can see the killing intent in your eyes, young one," the Lord of the Sword Dao said. "You're extremely ambitious, aren't you? You're thinking of trying to subjugate me. Turn me into your servant. You just began building your empire, and need to temper it in the flames and blood of war. You need me to be able to stand at the true peak of the god world. I've seen far too many ambitious people like you. I guess that means I need to kill you. That's the only way to put an end to thoughts such as yours."

Yang Qi smiled. "Even if I didn't subjugate you, Lord of the Sword Dao, you wouldn't just let me walk out of here. I'm your only way out of the Halls of Heaven. Am I right? You could say we're two peas in a pod. The main difference is that you were once subjugated by the God Legion Seal, yet your golden throne is nowhere to be found inside. How did you free yourself from it? Mind explaining?"

"It's not just me. You'll find that all of the ancient God-Lords died and were born again. That's how we got free. That's how we were able to appear once again as this new age dawns." He looked down and tapped the blade of his sword. "Anyone who was once controlled by the God Legion Seal will hate you down to their bones. You'll eventually face the wrath of the countless God-Lords. Well, you might. It depends on whether or not I cut you down right here and now!"

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Chapter 1511: Bitter Fighting

The Lord of the Sword Dao wouldn't just let Yang Qi go. The moment his sneak attack had failed, he realized that Yang Qi wasn't the type to be frightened easily. Furthermore, here in the Halls of Heaven, Yang Qi had the advantage. Worse, the Lord of the Sword Dao was limited to being able to act within this hall of bronze. He was stuck.

The vital energy in here was weaker than outside, and there were no spell formations to worry about.

"You want to fight me, Lord of the Sword Dao? And you say all the other God-Lords will do the same? Good. I want that. That way I can subjugate the lot of you, one after another. Remember, I've combined the God Legion Seal with the Mahātmā Jade, which means you can't escape me."

Yang Qi's words were immeasurable domineering.

Even though the Lord of the Sword Dao was down on his luck right now, he was still as overbearing as ever. And his own unique style was what made his dao.

Yang Qi also had his own style. For one thing, he was the successor of the Sovereign Lord, and had his aura. But he was also different from the Sovereign Lord. The Sovereign Lord had sought to conquer everything in existence, while Yang Qi's ultimate goal was actually to make life better for everyone.

That was the dao of the sage monarch.

The dao of sages was to make everything better, and the dao of monarchs was to conquer. Sage inside, monarch outside.

The Sovereign Lord had only followed the dao of monarchs. His way was to conquer, conquer some more, and then keep conquering.

Yang Qi had his sage monarch magistrates, who had changed what it meant to subjugate people. His empire was a wonderful place, a place of order that lacked any impurities, a place where everyone belonged.

The Lord of the Sword Dao had his dao, and Yang Qi had his as well. Right now, they were engaged in a clash of psyche and will, and although the Lord of the Sword Dao had been an outstanding figure among the God-Lords of old, that didn't mean Yang Qi was afraid of him.

Any who tried to stop him, he would kill or subjugate.

No one could impede his godly might, not even the Lord of the Sword Dao.

"Make your move," Yang Qi said with a beckoning gesture. "You attacked me from behind, which earned you the fate of becoming my servant. Nobody is going to come along and save you." Yang Qi wasn't interested in wasting words, and in fact, was curious to see what the Lord of the Sword Dao's cultivation base was really like.

"No problem."

SWISH!

The Lord of the Sword Dao immediately unleashed a succession of three sword moves, and if nothing else, they were devastatingly powerful. The first move caused an enormous gully to appear in Yang Qi's mind, which filled with rippling sword energy, creating an Unbounded Sword River.

It was filled with countless swords of all shapes and sizes, and it sliced into his sea of consciousness with enigmatic power.

This was a sword that didn't cause any outside fluctuations. It pierced right to the soul to destroy a person at their core.

It was a sword of the heart.

Belief existed in the heart, and one could use this sword to pierce that heart.

King Life-Killer had used a sword of killing, and Star Swordlife had used a sword of life. But the Lord of the Sword Dao used a sword of the heart, and could use it to pierce his enemy's heart in the most flawless fashion.

Yang Qi responded in a flash, his body and soul transforming into concentric circles that fluctuated out at rapid speed. They were the fluctuations of kalpas and tribulations.

All of a sudden, the Unbounded Sword River collapsed into fragments.

"Four Directions!"

The Lord of the Sword Dao shifted tactics. His expression lonesome, he sent his sword speeding out in four directions, causing everything around them to collapse.

Winds sprang up from the four directions, and Yang Qi felt himself surrounded by sword light, crushing down on him as if to seal him. In fact, the fluctuations of tribulations and kalpas started to calm.

"Son of Heaven Defends the Nation's Gate!"

Suddenly, he switched to a fist strike, punching out with the Nation-Fate Godfist. Use the dao of heaven to fight the dao of men, use the dao of men to crush the dao of heaven.

The more powerful the national destiny, the stronger the Nation-Fate Godfist, and right now, Yang Qi had access to incredible destiny. In fact, it was so strong that it shattered the surrounding sword light, turning it into nothing but ash.

Unexpectedly, the Lord of the Sword Dao took three steps backward. Despite having a psychic scale of a hundred billion, he had been shoved back by Yang Qi, or more specifically, by the power of his destiny.

Yang Qi had such powerful destiny that he could reduce most experts to dust. Meanwhile, the Lord of the Sword Dao didn't have any destiny at all. He could only rely on his own personal strength, so how could he possibly fight against Yang Qi?

It had taken billions of years for the three dynasties to reach their current state, and Yang Qi was at almost half their level. Just what kind of destiny was that? And what exactly was it capable of? The Lord of the Sword Dao had a strong cultivation base, and walked his own orthodox dao. In order to reach the half Annulled level, he had to leave this place and found his own empire devoted to the dao of the sword. But would that happen?

"Sovereign and State Die Together!" Yang Qi said, unleashing another fist strike. Numerous projections sprang up, representing the people the emperor ruled over, as well as the ministers and nobility. As a result, it unleashed mountain-toppling, sea-draining force that few people could possibly counter.

Whack. Whack. Whack!

He unleashed a series of punches that smashed into the sword light, shoving the Lord of the Sword Dao relentlessly backward and quickly putting him on the defensive.

However, Yang Qi could see that, despite how he had seized the upper hand in the fight, the Lord of the Sword Dao wasn't actually hurt. He was waiting for the right moment to turn the tables and deliver a killing blow. The man was clearly profound on many levels, and it seemed unlikely that Yang Qi could kill him.

Thankfully, Yang Qi had an unending supply of destiny to support him, so much that no one could possibly compare to him.

His empire was so powerful that no individual person could do anything to it.

"Blood Stains Spring and Autumn!"

Yang Qi's moves were impossible for the Lord of the Sword Dao to avoid. He couldn't flee, and they were forced to fight in very tight quarters.

Out in the open, the Lord of the Sword Dao would have had a lot of options, but here in the Halls of Heaven, Yang Qi had a clear advantage.

The time was right. The conditions were favorable. And Yang Qi had the upper hand.

"Now that you've seen me use my destiny, Lord of the Sword Dao, you can see how powerful my empire is. Furthermore, I have the advantage here in the Halls of Heaven. I can back out of the fight any time I want, and step out to where you can't strike at me. Remember, I've already assimilated that piece of the Mahātmā Jade. Maybe I can't win this fight, but I can't lose it either. Maybe you could fight me on the outside, and maybe even hurt my empire. But right here, you can't do anything. Do you really think you have what it takes to win?"

Yang Qi was trying to strike a blow to his confidence.

Unfortunately, it didn't work. The Lord of the Sword Dao simply dodged the attacks, moving as fluidly as water. He wasn't the type of person who would get flustered in a fight, and would remain calm and cool no matter what.

"This fight is like nothing compared to what I've experienced in life. Remember, young friend, I've fought the Sovereign Lord and the King of Godmammoths. You weren't even alive back then." The Lord of the Sword Dao spoke as calmly as if they weren't even fighting, but were instead having tea together. At the same time, he unleashed occasional jabs with his sword, probing Yang Qi's weaknesses and forcing him to go on the defensive.

To Yang Qi, he seemed like a monster who couldn't be harmed. It almost seemed pointless to fight him.

"Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth!"

In that moment, he chose to use his top technique, the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth. And he resorted directly to the Fist of the Halls of Heaven.

That move relied on the godly might of the Halls of Heaven, and right now, he was right in the middle of those halls! Immediately, the energy of the halls rushed toward him, and as it did, the damage done to his surroundings was repaired.

In a shocking twist, Yang Qi was using the Fist of the Halls of Heaven to actually repair this area, in order to completely trap the Lord of the Sword Dao.

The Halls of Heaven were like a desert to the Lord of the Sword Dao, whereas this hall of bronze was like an oasis. And the Lord of the Sword Dao was a fish in a pool of water in that oasis. But if Yang Qi removed the oasis, the Lord of the Sword Dao would be stuck in the middle of that desert with no other option than to simply die.

"Do you recognize this, Lord of the Sword Dao? It's the Fist of the Halls of Heaven. I bet you never would have guessed that I could use this move." Yang Qi was like a giant who could call on the might of the surrounding halls, causing it to whip about like storm winds.

CRASH!

The main entrance had previously been half-broken, but thanks to the influx of vital energy, it was rapidly forming anew.

"Fist of the Halls of Heaven?!" the Lord of the Sword Dao said, although there wasn't a scrap of fear in his voice. Instead, he brandished his sword and said, "One Sword to Destroy Nations; A Million Royal Defenders; Slaughter Everything in Existence!"

RUMBLE!

A river of sword might swept forth as the fighting reached a fever pitch. The Lord of the Sword Dao was finally revealing what he was capable of.

If Yang Qi was a nation whose might couldn't be challenged, then the Lord of the Sword Dao was a single swordsman who could kill a million troops, and single-handedly wreck a nation, up to its highest leaders.

BAM!

A massive explosion ripped through the area.

Yang Qi's destiny shattered, and the repair to the surrounding bronze hall ceased. At the same time, a stream of sword energy suddenly surged as if to break out into the Halls of Heaven in general.

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Chapter 1512: One Sword to Destroy a Nation

The Lord of the Sword Dao had finally gone all out. Every move from his daoist techniques was incomparably devastating. Each of his sword strikes could destroy a nation, and thus Yang Qi's destiny was crushed. The sword energy then swept outward, moving beyond the boundaries of the building in the destruction it wrought.

The Lord of the Sword Dao had sword techniques that were formidable to the extreme. Sometimes he struck like lightning, other times his strikes were as exquisite as silk. Sometimes he was like a god from heaven descended into the mortal world, and other times his sword was like a tiger hiding in a mountain. Regardless, it could lock down and destroy just about anything.

The sword energy spread out, sealing everything it touched as if in ice, and simultaneously releasing fluctuations that could crush souls.

This was the sword of the heart.

As one sword technique after another was unleashed, Yang Qi found himself vanquished left and right. His destiny was shattered, and the Lord of the Sword Dao had him completely locked down. The man had created an enormous prison of sword energy that was slowly shrinking around Yang Qi to shred him apart.

RUMBLE!

The dao of heaven transformed, and the sword technique became nothing but destructive fluctuations that flowed like the tide, piercing into Yang Qi and causing him to tremble deep in his mind.

"You're weak," the Lord of the Sword Dao said. "You thought I'd be impressed by the Fist of the Halls of Heaven? Can that technique really crush me? I've been living here in the Halls of Heaven for tens of billions of years. Did you really think the halls would be able to do anything to me?" His voice boomed from within the sword light, which ate away at Yang Qi like a corrosive flood, piercing toward his soul.

All of a sudden, Yang Qi felt like a fish in a puddle.

'This bastard is impressive. I have a psychic scale of seventy billion, plus the blessing of destiny. Yet he can still do this?' Yang Qi actually felt fear in his heart because of the Lord of the Sword Dao's fighting prowess, which was inconceivably formidable. In fact, Yang Qi felt like he was just on the verge of losing the fight.

Of course, he still had trump cards he hadn't played.

Before he did, he wanted to see exactly how impressive the Lord of the Sword Dao was in terms of fighting prowess, and how strong his cultivation base really was. Furthermore, fighting an opponent of this caliber would provide priceless experience.

In fact, Yang Qi actually felt somewhat liberated. It had been a long time since he had engaged in a truly risky battle, and he needed this experience. The Lord of the Sword Dao would be a catalyst for him, providing crucial enlightenment regarding what half-Annulled experts were capable of.

"What, Lord of the Sword Dao, you think that just because you have some flashy moves, you can overcome me? True-Devil Unspoiled-by-Myriad-Kalpas-and-Tribulations Body! The Hell-Crushing Godmammoth Crushes the Halls of Heaven. Yin Yang Convergence!" Yang Qi's divine will unfurled, binding the sword energy as he himself transformed into pure jade. It was none other than the energy of the Mahātmā Jade!

At the same time, a projection of a mammoth emerged from the jade, seemingly capable of trampling the universe into nothing.

Immediately, the sword light gave way.

"The Wheel Comes Full Circle!" the Lord of the Sword Dao said, and the sword light bent into a circle that surrounded Yang Qi as surely as a python.

"Heaven-Devouring Will!" Yang Qi said. Opening his mouth, he unleashed the consummate techniques of King Heaven-Devourer, and started consuming the sword energy.

It happened so quickly that the Lord of the Sword Dao was very nearly devoured as well.

Whooosh!

However, he flitted away like a specter, using some sort of powerful teleportation technique similar to the Myriad Worlds Greater Teleportation. Although he'd managed to evade the devouring technique, he had also lost the initiative.

On the outside, he would have a one hundred percent chance of defeating Yang Qi. Not even Yang Qi's destiny would have given him an edge.

But here, the Lord of the Sword Dao was severely restricted.

"Flood of Heart-Blood!"

Seeing how things were progressing, and how Yang Qi had pierced the bindings of his sword technique, he unleashed another move, one that resembled a beating heart. However, it wasn't made of flesh and blood, but rather swords!

This was the true heart of swords, the ruler of myriad other swords.

As the heart beat, it sent sword energy flowing out like a flood of blood.

Crack!

King Heaven-Devourer's talismans crumbled, the primal-chaos elder-snake collapsed, and the mammoth shattered.

Crick. Crack. Snap...

The sword energy pierced into Yang Qi, and blood sprayed out everywhere.

The truth was that Yang Qi normally didn't have blood to bleed. His blood had changed into life force quintessence, so if his godhood was damaged, the pure liquid of the God Legion Paradise would come out.

But this injury had been inflicted by the Flood of Heart-Blood, and it went to show how savage and merciless the Lord of the Sword Dao was.

"That injury is going to put you out of the fight. And now, we enter into an era in which the God Legion Seal belongs to me!" The lonely assassin swordsman that was the Lord of the Sword Dao strode forward and thrust his sword directly at Yang Qi's throat.

That sword strike contained his pure quintessence. He knew that Yang Qi fundamentally couldn't be killed, because his spirit had fused with the Mahātmā Jade, making him eternally indestructible and everlastingly deathless. However, he was confident that he could still reduce him to ashes, and possibly extract him from the Mahātmā Jade. Maybe he couldn't destroy the jade, but he could destroy Yang Qi.

And he was taking advantage of Yang Qi's injury to try pulling it off.

Unfortunately for him, an enigmatic smile suddenly appeared on Yang Qi's face.

All of a sudden, he transformed into the Great Necropolis. The sword then stabbed into the Great Necropolis, which flew up and expanded to cover the entire bronze palace, trapping the Lord of the Sword Dao within.

"Is that...?" The Lord of the Sword Dao was finally visibly shaken.

The power of the Great Necropolis wasn't something that he could contend with.

"Heaven-Burying God Pill!"

All of a sudden, the Lord of the Sword Dao realized that his sword had stabbed into the Great Necropolis to pierce, not Yang Qi, but the Heaven-Burying God Pill!

That pill contained the quintessence of the Great Necropolis, and had been given to Emperor Sprite Totem by Proud Heaven as a trap. Sprite Totem thought that he had extruded any extraneous will from it, but he was wrong. Therefore, Yang Qi had never dared to use it. He had just kept it in reserve for later.

And now, he had found an opportunity to use it.

He had intentionally allowed himself to be wounded, then let the Lord of the Sword Dao stab him, all with the purpose of killing the nascent divinity that remained in the pill.

The Lord of the Sword Dao was the type of person who made every strike lethal. So when he stabbed the Heaven-Burying God Pill, it instantly cracked open, and a righteous, orthodox destiny spilled out of it.

It was the will of Proud Central of the Central Dynasty, the ultimate emperor, mysterious and enigmatic, who had lurked in the shadows during the Sovereign Lord's Age, and had thus escaped destruction. Later, he had subjugated the Lord of Righteous Justice.

The will of Proud Central had been hiding in the Heaven-Burying God Pill, ready to pounce on whoever tried to assimilate it. Obviously, that was how Proud Heaven had hoped to control Sprite Totem.

Of course, Proud Heaven knew that Sprite Totem couldn't actually assimilate the pill.

Furthermore, he knew that Yang Susu of the Spritefolk was deeply connected to Yang Qi, and that Yang Qi would eventually go looking for her. In other words, he had planned for the pill to ultimately fall into Yang Qi's hands.

Never could Proud Heaven have imagined that Yang Qi would not only have uncovered his plot, but that he would also have refrained from assimilating the pill, ultimately using the Lord of the Sword Dao to purge it.

The mighty will of Proud Central was now receiving the full wrath of the sword light from the Lord of the Sword Dao.

In the blink of an eye, the fight turned into a life-or-death battle between the Lord of the Sword Dao and Proud Central. Proud Central's will spread out to fill all creation, wrapping up the sword light. At the same time, a mighty figure appeared and thrust his hand out to summon a river of stars that slashed the sword energy to bits.

He was trying to take control of the Lord of the Sword Dao!

"Proud Central!?"

There was no possible way the Lord of the Sword Dao could ever have guessed that Yang Qi would have a trump card like this to call on, and because of that, he just couldn't react in time. But the will of Proud Central was obviously trying to devour him, and he couldn't just sit around and do nothing.

Therefore, he decided to go all out, and bet everything on a single sword move, backing it with all the power he could muster.

As the two mighty experts clashed, Yang Qi looked on coldly and focused on healing his injury.

At the same time, the quintessence of the Great Necropolis flowed into him from the Heaven-Burying God Pill, transforming the blood of the King of Godmammoths and turning it into the color of stone. After all, the blood of the Great Necropolis was the most powerful blood that existed in the god world.

All of a sudden, Yang Qi's godpower started changing.

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Chapter 1513: Top Skills

Yang Qi immediately benefited from assimilating the quintessence of the Great Necropolis. The necropolis could bury the legion of gods, and the god world as a whole. In fact, it could bury anything and everything. The truth was that the necropolis wasn't made from stone, but rather the quintessence of 'burying'. And theoretically speaking, it was actually stronger than the Mahātmā Jade.

In the hopes of pulling Yang Qi into a trap, Proud Heaven had actually refined the quintessence of the necropolis into the form of a medicinal pill.

But in the end, he had actually helped Yang Qi.

The quintessence of the necropolis was boosting Yang Qi's psychic scale in a way that was similar to the Mahātmā Jade.

His psychic scale reached eighty billion, and kept climbing. At the same time, deep in his mind, his connection to the necropolis grew stronger, improving his ability to control it.

'The Great Necropolis is currently in the Central Dynasty. I haven't seen King Immortal-Slayer in quite a while, which means he must be struggling to maintain control. He's powerful, but he's stuck in the necropolis, besieged by Proud Central and countless Paramount Gods. Not only that, but he also has to deal with the destiny of the Central Dynasty. For now, he's not going anywhere. But now that I can tap into the essence of the Halls of Heaven to improve my destiny, I can start working on a plan to rescue him.'

Using the power provided by the Lord of the Sword Dao, he had taken the Heaven-Burying God Pill for himself, turning a trap set by Proud Central and Proud Heaven into a major windfall.

They had given their enemy a wife and lost soldiers to him as well.

As Yang Qi's cultivation base rose, the Lord of the Sword Dao was clashing with Proud Central. As it turned out, the Lord of the Sword Dao was a bit stronger. Eventually, the projection of Proud Central shivered and started fading out of existence. As he did, his voice echoed out, "Incredible, Lord of the Sword Dao. You're strong. But I won't let you live in the end!"

BAM!

Unleashing one final blow, Proud Central sent the Lord of the Sword Dao flying backward into the bronze wall, his aura in chaos. His sword even fell out of his hand and clattered to the ground. Obviously, if they were on the outside, the Lord of the Sword Dao couldn't actually match up to Proud Central.

Proud Central had been stronger than him even in the ancient era. After the Sovereign Lord perished, and Proud Central founded a dynasty, he got access to massive destiny, so he was even stronger than before. In fact, it was possible that Proud Central was already in the half-Annulled level.

However, at the moment, Proud Central was so focused on struggling with King Immortal-Slayer that he couldn't spare the effort or energy to try to take over the god world. If it weren't for the current state of affairs, the Chiliocosm Dynasty and the Invincible Dynasty would likely be in great danger.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi shivered as he fully recovered from his injuries. Now that he was surrounded by the Great Necropolis, he was so powerful that nothing here could possibly harm him.

Smiling, he walked over to the Lord of the Sword Dao and said, "You thought you hurt me? Sorry, you were mistaken. It was a big trap, and you fell right into it. I used you to assimilate that pill, which contained the quintessence of the Great Necropolis. Now my psychic scale is at eighty billion. Plus, I can call on the Great Necropolis to defend myself any time I want. Your sword technique simply isn't good enough to hurt me. What's your stance now, Lord of the Sword Dao?"

"So, it turns out you're a real force of nature," the Lord of the Sword Dao said, slowly rising to his feet. Although he didn't appear to be wounded, Yang Qi knew that his clash with Proud Central's will must have been very taxing.

Were it not for the Lord of the Sword Dao, he never would have been able to assimilate the Heaven-Burying God Pill. In the end, the Lord of the Sword Dao suffered the ill effects he would have suffered had he tried.

"You came out on top in every way imaginable," the Lord of the Sword Dao said coldly. "You benefited from that pill, you hurt me, you hurt Proud Central, you boosted your cultivation base, and now your psychic scale and godhood rating are at eighty billion. On top of it all, you have the protection of the Great Necropolis. You're right. I can't hurt you. Despite all that, you still won't be able to overcome me. So just leave."

"Leave?" Yang Qi said. "Is that supposed to be a joke? You're hurt, and I'm getting stronger by the moment. I've already surpassed you, and you think I'm just going to leave? No. Instead, I'll kick you while you're down."

"You can't subjugate me, young one. I advise you to just turn and walk away. The most important thing in the world is your own life, and it would be stupid to throw it away in the hopes of achieving a minor gain."

"Minor gain? You count for much more than that. I know you have other tricks up your sleeve, Lord of the Sword Dao. I'm sure you could keep fighting me for quite some time. But do you think I'm out of tricks already? Thanks to your clash with Proud Central, I can rest assured he won't come for my empire anytime soon. So now I'll show you what I've been holding in reserve this entire time. Exalted Purrling, please, come forth!"

Purr. Purr...

An immense aura suddenly weighed down on the area.

Yet again, the purrling had come to the Halls of Heaven, and it obviously existed on a higher level than the Lord of the Sword Dao. The purrling had the respect of even King Immortal-Slayer, the reason being that it was truly capable of half-Annulled levels of power.

The downside was that its main interests seemed to be sleeping. And it generally didn't like fighting. For the most part, it viewed the conflicts of the world as having nothing to do with it, and it would only take action when Jadefall requested it. Thankfully, Yang Qi didn't ask too many favors of it.

The purrling was actually curious about Yang Qi. After all, the two of them would occasionally communicate directly, therefore, it was interested in what happened to him. So when Yang Qi asked the purrling to come to the Halls of Heaven and help him deal with the Lord of the Sword Dao, it did.

Yang Qi didn't normally ask for help from the purrling. For one thing, the purrling wasn't his. Furthermore, he had no idea what karmic ramifications there could be when asking for its help. Also, there was also the possibility that he would ask for help only to be refused.

He had never even considered trying to subjugate it.

Most likely, even if the Sovereign Lord were to be resurrected, not even he would be able to subjugate the purrling.

"Exalted Purrling, allow me to introduce you to the Lord of the Sword Dao," Yang Qi said in the purring's language.

It looked at the Lord of the Sword Dao and made a few purring sounds, which meant, "This human is strong. But he hasn't taken the final step. He still has fetters binding his heart, an obstacle he has yet to transcend. That said, if you subjugate him, he'll be very useful."

"Exalted Purrling," Yang Qi replied, continuing to use the purrling's language, "would you like to say something to the human? I can translate."

"Fine," the purrling said. Then it made a few purring sounds to the Lord of the Sword Dao, which Yang Qi translated.

"You should just surrender, human. You haven't taken the final step, and you can't beat me in a fight. Not that I'm interested in fighting. I'm with Yang Qi here. He has a unique fate, and I suspect that he might be able to survive the destruction of the god world. I've seen some signs of the trajectory of his fate, and the fact that he's combined the God Legion Seal, the Mahātmā Jade, and numerous other magical treasures just goes to show that he's very unique. I might even need his help to fully transcend my own fate, and become truly lifeless and destructionless."

"Who are you?" the Lord of the Sword Dao said, his expression serious. "And why would you speak such words to me?"

Given the level of his cultivation base, he could see how strong the purrling was, and knew that it was at a level of strength that he couldn't contend with. And that wasn't to mention the fact that Yang Qi was also present. Worst of all, he was stuck in the middle of the Halls of Heaven with no way out, and for that matter, no idea which way to go even if he did have the chance to escape.

"A mighty being such as yourself should achieve breakthroughs on your own merit," he continued. "You shouldn't be getting help from others. If you try that method, you'll never make progress. I was wrong. You don't have a truly mighty heart."

Yang Qi translated for the purrling.

"Foolish human! There's nothing wrong with using tools and resources to forge the perfect soul and the perfect will. True strength comes from using anything and everything necessary. The difference between humans and animals is that humans can use tools. Refusing help in getting strong might seem like perseverance, but it's really a sickness. A disease. In fact, that's why you haven't achieved your own breakthrough. You have a soul disease that you haven't excised. A devil."

Yang Qi felt deeply shaken as he translated the words. It made perfect sense to use the term soul disease. On the one hand, relying on others could lead to dependency-devils. But refusing outside help could also lead to the devil of a soul disease.

The key to it all was achieving the right balance. The golden ratio between making progress alone, and relying on help. One needed the strongest will and the strongest soul possible to reach the half-Annulled level.

The Lord of the Sword Dao shivered as though he had just come to understand something. All of a sudden, he bowed deeply to the purrling. "Oh mighty one, many thanks for your reminders. However, I'm still not going to surrender and be subjugated. So, please show me how strong you are."

"Fine, human. Make your move. You're still not convinced, so you want to challenge me to a fight. Truth be told, I like your attitude. And because Yang Qi wants to subjugate you, I won't kill you. Besides, I don't like killing people. It's a blasphemy against life force, and creates an aura I find very distasteful. I love life, not the endless, dead void of ancient primal-chaos. Only the modern world is interesting and colorful."

Swish!

Even as the words left the purrling's mouth, a sword closed in on it.

1. I really don't like it when authors put a whole bunch of idioms back-to-back for filler purposes, which is what happened here. I'm removing the following parts from the chapter because they are pure repetition, but the idioms are cool so I'll explain them. He says they lost a child but didn't trap the wolf, which is a twist on the saying you can't expect to trap a wolf without (being willing to) sacrifice a child. The author then throws in another variation, saying they lost a wife without catching the gangster.

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Chapter 1514: The Purrling Fights the Sword Lord

The Lord of the Sword Dao was fierce and valiant, and contrary to expectation, he actually attacked the purrling. The purrling could come and go as it saw fit in the Halls of Heaven, yet the Lord of the Sword Dao wasn't afraid. He certainly lived up to his reputation of having thoroughly tempered himself by cultivating the sword of the heart. There was nothing that could possibly shake his sword heart.

He was the sword. The true and ultimate sword.

BAM!

And right now, he was like a steel needle piercing into polished glass.

The purrling was surrounded by a huge bubble, but the Lord of the Sword Dao sent his sword stabbing into that bubble. His sword rotated, moving millions upon trillions of times per second as it burrowed inside. Sadly, it was to no avail. The purrling's bubble was something that not even he could pierce through.

Purr!

A bubble shot out and headed directly toward the Lord of the Sword Dao.

The Lord of the Sword Dao reacted with visible consternation. He knew that if that bubble wrapped around him, he wouldn't be able to escape. There was no question: he was now in a very dangerous situation. Therefore, he swept his sword out in an arc, slashing into the bubble and causing it to burst.

'So strong!' Yang Qi thought. He couldn't help but be impressed by how the Lord of the Sword Dao handled the situation. When it came to cultivation base, the dao of the sword, and fighting experience, there was no one who could match up to him.

At that point, the purrling flicked a claw, and the burst bubble suddenly expanded, turning into an enormous net that swept toward the Lord of the Sword Dao. It was the first time Yang Qi had ever seen the bubbles do anything different, and it went to show how amazing the Lord of the Sword Dao was.

Of course, Yang Qi had long since learned to imitate the purrling, and therefore, watching it fight was always very helpful. In fact, his psychic scale was becoming more perfect.

He even wondered if this trip into the Halls of Heaven would end with him reaching a psychic scale of a hundred billion, and becoming one of the most powerful beings in the god world.

It was currently at eighty billion, which was a far cry from a hundred. And further progress would only be more difficult. But considering the treasures and legacies that were available in the Halls of Heaven, it still seemed possible.

"One Sword to Crush Eight Distant Lands!"

The Lord of the Sword Dao slashed out with his sword, twisting elegantly as eight beams of sword light shot out and formed a mirror that blocked the purrling's bubble net. Then, the Lord of the Sword Dao dashed out from the scope of the net, making it seem like nothing could possibly capture him.

According to Yang Qi's estimation, he couldn't even match such agility with his Tribulation Wings.

However, the purrling seemed to be taking everything in stride. Waving its claws again, it caused the bubble to stretch out until it looked like a sword, which then stabbed toward the Lord of the Sword Dao.

This was Yang Qi's first time seeing the purrling use a sword technique. Nobody could match the Lord of the Sword Dao in terms of sword techniques, not even Yang Qi. Yet here the purrling was accomplishing that very task.

It used its bubble of energy to create a sword, which flew out with such elegance that it actually seemed to surpass what the Lord of the Sword Dao was capable of.

"Nice sword technique," the Lord of the Sword Dao said, clearly shaken. "Oh mighty one, you actually have a true and real sword technique. However, I am the lord of all swords, and no one can compare to me. Not even you. I am the true master of all swords."

Swissshhhhh!

The Lord of the Sword Dao unleashed a flurry of sword moves as he tried to regain the upper hand and crush the purrling's sword.

Although the purrling's sword was made of energy, it seemed likely that it was the number one sword in the god world, and the Lord of the Sword Dao wasn't going to take it lightly.

"Sword Shakes all Things!"

"Break the Sword in Nine Prefectures!"

"One Sword to Pierce Heaven!"

"Sword Destroys Mountains and Rivers!"

"Sword Energy Like a Rainbow!"

"Sky of Snow Engulfing Earth!"

"One Sword to Seek the Dao!"

"Cut and Sever Even the Future!"

"Fate of Heaven in My Hands!"

"Sword Like Fate and Destiny!"

The Lord of the Sword Dao was fighting with increased ferocity, and his each and every move was extremely deadly in nature. He unleashed move after move, none of which Yang Qi had ever seen before. Nor could he replicate them after having seen them. In the blink of an eye, the Lord of the Sword Dao revealed thousands of deadly sword moves, sending a river of destruction to smash into the purrling's sword.

Unfortunately for him, the purrling's sword could never be destroyed, and it blocked all of the sword moves, crushing them out of existence.

Purr. Purr!

They had been exchanging sword blows for about four hours now, and finally, the purrling seemed to have had enough. It exhaled a stream of energy and simultaneously began growing larger, causing the Halls of Heaven to shake violently.

SNICK!

The sword of energy suddenly grew dramatically larger, then was thrust forth in a smacking attack.

The Lord of the Sword Dao couldn't block it.

BAM!

His sword shattered, and he was smashed down so hard he was embedded into the ground. By now, he wasn't even in human form. Instead, he had turned into a sword.

This was the Lord of the Sword Dao's original form. Similar to the Lord of Radiance and Light, he had been born of the big bang explosions of primal-chaos, where he started out as a sword. In fact, it was entirely likely that he was the very first sword that ever existed, and as a result, his technique was number one in all heaven.

Until he met the purrling. He simply couldn't beat the purrling.

"Abandon the Sword and Demand Slaughter! The Sword Cannot be Destroyed!"

Having returned to his original form, the Lord of the Sword Dao wasn't dead or unconscious. In contrast, he now seemed capable of moving ten times faster than he could before. And instead of attacking the purrling, he headed toward Yang Qi. He was attempting to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat. He hadn't lost yet, and considering he knew he couldn't beat the purrling, he decided that he should shift his target to Yang Qi.

If he could cut down Yang Qi, maybe he could get the God Legion Seal, and experience a rapid advancement in cultivation. Then, he might have a chance of escaping from the purrling, and even looting the Halls of Heaven and becoming stronger than he had ever been.

In that case, he might even have a chance to become as strong as the purrling itself.

Although the purrling wasn't truly in the half-Annulled level, it was as strong as that level. As for what level it was really in, the Lord of the Sword Dao wasn't sure.

"Solitary Sword Parasitization!"

Yang Qi was completely taken aback by the Lord of the Sword Dao attacking him. However, it was actually the perfect development.

Before, the Lord of the Sword Dao had been unleashing his most powerful attacks. But now he was fighting for his life, and that was a very different thing.

Now he was like a cornered animal.

Yang Qi could sense that if this attack hit him, then everything about him, including his treasures, destiny, techniques, vital energy, and psychic scale would all be taken by the Lord of the Sword Dao. It was a very profound sword technique designed to possess the target.

It was something that was designed for use in a worst-case scenario.

The Lord of the Sword Dao was putting everything on the line to deal with the greatest tribulation he had ever faced!

As for the purrling, it didn't interfere. Apparently, it wanted to see if Yang Qi could deal with the situation. It was like a test, and if Yang Qi passed it, then it meant that he qualified to subjugate the Lord of the Sword Dao. If he couldn't, he would die.

The purrling wasn't Yang Qi's guardian or nanny. It actually didn't care if Yang Qi lived or died. That was one reason why Yang Qi didn't often ask for help from it.

The sword was moving with indescribable quickness, such that it seemed impossible to stop. In fact, Yang Qi knew that trying to block or dodge would be stupid. All of a sudden, a smile appeared on his face as he seemingly entered a lifeless and destructionless state.

The unblockable sword headed toward his throat, intent on taking his life. Defensive moves were pointless. The Lord of the Sword Dao was going all out.

However, in the moment that it seemed Yang Qi would be cut down, he suddenly vanished. More specifically, he disappeared into the Lord of the Sword Dao's sword.

Unexpectedly, Yang Qi was simply going along with what was happening.

The Lord of the Sword Dao had resorted to a last-ditch move, and so had Yang Qi.

In the blink of an eye, their wills clashed.

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Chapter 1515: Subjugating the Sword Lord

Yang Qi was in a life-or-death struggle that would be resolved in the blink of an eye.

His divine will was clashing directly with that of the Lord of the Sword Dao. It was a very dangerous risk. However, the Lord of the Sword Dao was both injured and flustered, while Yang Qi's cultivation base had just improved. As far as he was concerned, this was an opportunity.

After all, even if the purrling had defeated and sealed the Lord of the Sword Dao, it would still have been difficult to subjugate him.

But the situation had changed.

If their souls clashed, and the Lord of the Sword Dao lost, it would be a truly ultimate defeat that he could never come back from. And Yang Qi could definitely enslave him.

The sword hovered in the middle of the bronze palace, twitching as it switched back and forth between glowing with the golden color of the blood of the King of Godmammoths, and the stone color of the Great Necropolis.

Yang Qi was going to succeed or die trying.

Everything would be determined by this one clash.

"Well played, boy," the Lord of the Sword Dao said in a booming voice. "I never imagined that you'd turn out to be as vicious as me. But I suppose that's to be expected from someone as ruthlessly ambitious as you. I underestimated you. That said, you think a bit too highly of yourself if you think you can single-handedly take on my will."

"Cut the crap, Lord of the Sword Dao. We're going to compete with each other on the level of our souls. Show me what you've got! Halls of Heaven, give me your power!"

RUMBLE!

All of a sudden, the Halls of Heaven trembled as the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth called on numerous streams of energy, causing them to form an enormous spell formation.

As for the purrling, it was watching with keen interest.

Hooooooowlllll.

Power from the Halls of Heaven poured into the sword. Furious, the Lord of the Sword Dao shouted, "I can't believe you're drawing on the might of the Halls of Heaven! Are you crazy?! Not even the resurrected Sovereign Lord could subjugate me! You're going to die, and the God Legion Seal will be mine!"

"Is that so? The moment you unleashed your possession move on me, you fell for my trap. Maybe the resurrected Sovereign Lord couldn't do anything to you. But what if the Sovereign Lord and the True Devil were both resurrected at the same time? True Devil Sovereign Lord! God and Devil Combined!"

Whizz!

In the depths of the Halls of Heaven, an enormous figure appeared, larger than any giant of the past, his face shining with radiance and light.

It was none other than the Sovereign Lord.

Then another figure appeared, one whose face was a mass of darkness and gloom. It was the True Devil.

Crack!

The two bodies merged, becoming a single figure with two faces that stepped into the sword. However, they were as opposed as fire and water, so they suddenly exploded.

The Lord of the Sword Dao let out an anguished shriek as he sustained an attack from the combined wills of the Sovereign Lord and the True Devil.

"I'm in charge here," Yang Qi said. "This is my empire, my heaven and earth. This is my universe! You've lost, Lord of the Sword Dao. Now get out of here!"

WHOOSH!

Redirecting the force of the explosion, he sent the sword shooting out of the bronze palace. It wasn't a very impressive distance, but it immediately put the Lord of the Sword Dao into grave danger.

He was safe inside the bronze palace, but outside of it, he was subject to the full, explosive power of the Halls of Heaven. Given the level of his cultivation base, it should have been impossible to force him outside of that bronze building. But Yang Qi had played his cards perfectly.

RUMBLE!

As soon as the sword was out in the open, lightning massed and shot toward it! The Halls of Heaven were trying to eliminate the outside threat!

All this time, he had been hiding in the bronze palace, but now that he had been found out, he was viewed as a tumor that had to be removed.

The purrling looked on, nodding.

It knew that victory and defeat had been determined. It was only a matter of time now.

Screams echoed out from the sword that was the true form of the Lord of the Sword Dao as he fought to free himself from the power of the Halls of Heaven and get back to the bronze palace.

Sadly for him, that was no easy task. Under ordinary circumstances, he might have succeeded. But right now, Yang Qi was inside him, and he had to protect his soul. If he didn't, Yang Qi would definitely possess or subjugate him.

"Lord of the Sword Dao, you've already fallen into the depths of frenzy. You've lost control of your heart and soul, and are heading toward inevitable destruction. Why don't you just let me subjugate you?" As he spoke, Yang Qi continued exerting full pressure with the God Legion Seal and the Mahātmā Jade, until the Lord of the Sword Dao finally stopped trembling and simply remained in place, unmoving.

RUMBLE!

An enormous hand appeared, which was none other than the Hand of the One God. It grabbed the sword and assaulted it with immense, deadly pressure.

The Lord of the Sword Dao could sense that this was a power he couldn't fight, but he remained calm and collected. "Ah, tribulation. I am the Lord of the Sword Dao, who has experienced narrow escapes from death on numerous occasions. I was subjugated by the God Legion Seal, but escaped from it, and now it's happening again. Is that just my fate? If so, damn my fate. I refuse to be subjugated! I'd rather die to have my freedom!"

"You won't find freedom in death!"

The Lord of the Sword Dao had reached the end of the line, and Yang Qi could tell that he was even willing to end the fight in mutual destruction. But sadly, not even that would work for him.

It was his last stand. Some people would expect a scene like this to end with Yang Qi freeing the Lord of the Sword Dao, who would then offer to willingly serve him out of gratitude.

Unfortunately, that wasn't how this scene would play out.

At cultivation levels such as this, only fools and the weak would free an enemy and expect gratitude in return. At this level, everyone had their own dao, and the only way to pursue it was to crush the daos of others. In other words, freeing an enemy was essentially the same as declaring defeat.

Yang Qi wouldn't do something so monumentally idiotic. Furthermore, there was no way the Lord of the Sword Dao would offer service to Yang Qi because of being freed.

The only path before him was one of darkness.

"Annul Death; Eternally Bury!" Yang Qi said, resorting to the tenth move from the Sage Monarch Grand Magic. Instantly, he became the Great Necropolis and rumbled down to bury the Lord of the Sword Dao.

Still unwilling to give in, the Lord of the Sword Dao started chanting, "In the grand heaven; verily, only exists the sword. The soul never concedes; verily, the spirit shall return. The heart is boundless; verily, what can it be? God and spirits; verily, return they home...

"You're truly incredible, Yang Qi. I can't believe you tricked me into this position, outwitting me at every turn. However, I still have one move left in my dao of the sword. You've never seen anything like this, nor has your all-powerful ally." Voice turning cold, the Lord of the Sword Dao continued, "This final move is called Home. This place doesn't belong to either of us. It's not your home, nor mine. Let's go home."

For his last move, the Lord of the Sword Dao was using something that could end the fight in mutual destruction. Even if it didn't end up killing Yang Qi, he wanted to die. To him, that was like going home.

Once the move was unleashed, there would be no more sword energy. There would be no more ultimate martial path. There would only be the will to go home.

That lonesome wanderer finally wanted to return to his home.

It was his ultimate dao of the sword.

His ultimate move.

Home.

Yang Qi suddenly felt as though he wanted to join the Lord of the Sword Dao in returning to his home. It was an eternal rest. Death. The vanishing of the world. Nothing. Dust.

"Whose home? Where? Souls have no home. Heaven and earth are filled with homes. A steady heart is home." Yang Qi's soul slipped into a state almost like slumber, and it almost seemed like he was going to pass out. But then his eyes glittered. "I am your home..."

RUMBLE!

An explosion rippled through the sword, then vanished. All of a sudden, Yang Qi's will seemed to slip into eternal slumber, making him feel like he had disappeared, and wasn't aware of anything. Was he dead, or just unconscious? No one knew.

He had never suffered an attack such as this. The Lord of the Sword Dao had a truly powerful cultivation base.

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Chapter 1516: Deadly Tribulation

Yang Qi was in a position of deadly tribulation.

For him to go up against the Lord of the Sword Dao seemed to be just asking for humiliation. Not even a psychic scale of eighty billion would give him that right. Yet, by grasping at a host of varying opportunities, he had succeeded.

Unfortunately, the Lord of the Sword Dao had one final move to use. Home. It was designed to take both fighters into that eternal home of nothing, and as a result, Yang Qi had lost consciousness.

He wasn't sure if he was dead or alive.

It was a terrifying sensation, and truth be told, he felt like he was in a nightmare that he was unable to wake up from, his soul sealed forever in a location of absolute nothingness.

The purrling wasn't there. The Halls of Heaven weren't there. Nothing was there. It was very strange. What had just happened?

He felt depression grip him as he realized that he didn't even have a body. It was as if literally everything had gone away, leaving behind only his thoughts.

Where was he?

'Don't tell me I'm in a state of Nevasaññānāsaññāyatana.' All of a sudden, a daoist scripture flickered into his mind.

The state of Nevasaññānāsaññāyatana was one of ultimate understanding, which involved making everything disappear, and leaving behind only thoughts. It was a state of true invincibility. Once a person entered that state, no attack would be useful against them. If the physical world didn't exist for them, how could physical attacks do anything to them?

All of a sudden, joy surged within Yang Qi.

However, his joy quickly faded as he realized that he didn't know how to return from this state. If he couldn't return, it made reality like little more than a dream. This wasn't the half-Annulled level. After all, in that level, it was supposedly possible to freely enter and exit the state of Nevasaññānāsaññāyatana.

"Die!" Yang Qi drew on his mind and unleashed a powerful attack.

Unfortunately, nothing happened as a result. If thoughts were useless, and he existed in a world of only thoughts, then what could he do?

'Impossible, there has to be a way out,' he thought, calming himself. 'Given the level of my cultivation base, there must be a way back to the real world. Why can't I even sense the Mahātmā Jade and the God Legion Seal? Only my own personal thoughts remain? Not even the purrling can help me in this situation. However, I still have my mysterious connection to the Great Necropolis.'

Focusing his thoughts, he imagined the Great Necropolis, and how it had crashed down into the impure lands.

RUMBLE!

After an unknown period of time passed, Yang Qi spotted a pinprick of light. The light rushed toward him, accompanied by immense rumbling; then, with no warning at all, he popped back into the real world. There he was, a short distance from the bronze palace.

Looking down, he saw a sword in his hand, and it was marked by the God Legion Seal.

"Don't tell me the Lord of the Sword Dao died." Delighted, he flew over to the bronze palace, where he found the purrling waiting for him.

The purling nodded and purred. "Congratulations. You passed a deadly tribulation. You were in a very dangerous situation, but you managed to find your way back from death."

"What? Wasn't I just in the state of Nevasaññānāsaññāyatana?" Yang Qi said, looking surprised.

"Yes. And at the same time, no. You were on the edge of it. You're like an expert who tried to break into the half-Annulled level, but was too weak to succeed. Your psychic scale isn't strong enough to break through. However, you're obviously incredibly lucky in that you didn't die. Usually, people who try to break into the half-Annulled level, but fail, end up dead." The purrling spat out a bubble that wrapped around the sword.

Slowly but surely, the sword took human form again.

It was the Lord of the Sword Dao.

BUZZ!

He opened his eyes, and they looked like ten thousand swords piercing the heart.

"I'm not dead? I didn't go home?" he said, looking confused.

"Get on your knees and pay your respects, Lord of the Sword Dao!" Yang Qi roared.

CRACK!

The Lord of the Sword Dao felt immense pain in his head, and although he fought the urge, he dropped to his knees. "My respects, Milord"

A new golden throne had risen up in the God Legion Seal.

The Lord of the Sword Dao had escaped the fetters of the seal, only to fall right back into them.

"I just can't escape the seal, can I," he said bitterly. "Is this just my fate? I refuse to accept this. I refuse!"

Yang Qi felt powerful thought fluctuations bucking against him; monitoring the thoughts of the Lord of the Sword Dao was not easy! It was like trying to manage a hundred million Paramount Gods all at the same time.

However, considering the level of his cultivation base, and the fact that he had just survived a deadly tribulation, he was now more in a position to succeed than ever.

"You're right, Lord of the Sword Dao. Your fate is to be bound to me. We're going to work together. If you refuse, or try to kill me, we'll have to do things the hard way. However, while it's true you'll serve me forever, don't think too much into it. In fact, I'm going to give you some of the power of the God Legion Seal. That way, the Halls of Heaven won't attack you, and you can go take a look at the god world."

"No! You won't bind me! I'm the Lord of the Sword Dao! I broke free from the God Legion Seal before, and I'll do it again. You'd best just kill me. I could snap at any time and destroy your empire!"

"Not likely. I'm going to keep a very close eye on you. I know everything you're thinking, including your dao of the sword, and your battle experience. And I'm thoroughly familiar with your cultivation base as well. For now, you'll become a sword again, and I'll use your power to clear out the treasures of the Halls of Heaven. The first stop will be the pill repository. I want to see what kind of medicinal pills are there."

He made a grasping gesture, and the Lord of the Sword Dao transformed back into a sword, which Yang Qi grabbed.

"Alright," the purrling purred, "you got what you wanted. I'm leaving now. Remember, you owe me a favor." With that, the purrling made as if to leave.

"Exalted Purrling, don't you want some of the treasures from here?"

"Nope. I wouldn't be interested even if the Sovereign Lord showed up. When you get to my level, treasures are like trash. Besides, the Halls of Heaven basically belong to you, so if I took treasures, I would just be prematurely calling it even with you, right?"

With that, the purrling vanished.

Yang Qi shook his head to clear it of extraneous thoughts. Now that he'd subjugated the Lord of the Sword Dao, he had learned a lot of secrets pertaining to the Halls of Heaven. For instance, the location of the pill repository.

Whooosh!

He shot off like a bullet into the twisting depths of the halls.

The pill repository contained pills that had been personally concocted by the Sovereign Lord. If Yang Qi could send them to his empire, his loyal people would get far stronger, which would lead to better destiny.

One of the fastest ways to improve destiny was to improve the cultivation bases of the people. And medicinal pills were a great way to do that.

RUMBLE!

Yang Qi sped through countless buildings, ignoring the auras of quite a few magical treasures. For now, he was focused on the pills. After all, the stronger he got, the easier it would be to control the Lord of the Sword Dao.

Wasting time on random treasures along the way would be pointless.

Swish!

He finally arrived at a huge building that was shaped like a medicinal pill. There, he swept out the sword that was the Lord of the Sword Dao, allowing him to take the brunt of the defensive measures.

The door opened, and he found himself looking at layer upon layer of yellow sand. It was like looking at a desert.

'What's this?' he thought. There was something about the sand that seemed odd, so he opened his Lord's Eye, which was when he realized that the grains of sand were actually medicinal pills.

'Are they Eternal-Sands Willpower Pills?'

He remembered reading about Eternal-Sands Willpower Pills in an ancient record book. Only the Sovereign Lord had ever been able to concoct them. They were used to boost psychic power, remold the nascent divinity, and unlock hidden strength. However, after concocting them, the Sovereign Lord had second thoughts, and because he feared other gods becoming too powerful, he only handed a few out.

Nowadays, the recipe for Eternal-Sands Willpower Pills was considered a thing of the past.

"These things are amazing. With all these pills, the psyches of my people will reach incredible heights. And I bet the destiny will improve by thirty percent without a hitch." Even Yang Qi was surprised by how much he was benefiting from visiting the pill repository.

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Chapter 1517: Taking the Pills

The huge collection of Eternal-Sands Willpower Pills that Yang Qi had found would provide a huge boost to his empire's destiny. They looked almost like sand dunes spreading out in all directions.

It was Yang Qi's first time coming across a true treasure trove in the Halls of Heaven.

RUMBLE!

Opening his mouth, he transformed into King Heaven-Devourer, and sucked in the collection of pills.

As soon as he devoured the pills, he activated his internal teleportation portal, and sent them into the waiting hands of Jadefall, Yang Susu, and his numerous other friends and family. The veritable mountain of medicinal pills descending from above caused a shocking aura to fill everything within the Everlasting Aegis.

"These pills are incredible!" Yang Susu said. "They were concocted by the Sovereign Lord. Let's hurry and distribute them!"

"Let me take a look," the Shepherd said, striding forward and grabbing a handful of the sesame-seed-sized pills. He tossed them into his mouth, whereupon every pore on his body erupted with sizzling flames that engulfed the entire area.

At the same time, his life force substructure transformed dramatically, and his psychic scale increased by several hundred million.

"This pill is amazing! Just what you'd expect from something made by the Sovereign Lord. It's far beyond anything the God-Lords could make. Brothers, come, take some and see for yourself! Our empire's destiny is going to skyrocket!"

"Sage monarch magistrates!" Jadefall said in a loud voice, and whooshing voices could be heard as a few thousand magistrates flew over. "Take these pills and fit them into our current reward system. And use them as a signing bonus for any new experts we recruit. That should improve our recruitment numbers."

"Yes ma'am," the sage monarch magistrate thundered back, then they gathered up the sand-like pills.

These were pills from the Halls of Heaven, personally concocted by the Sovereign Lord. Not even the House of the Invincible could produce anything close to this level.

Under the direction of the sage monarch magistrates, the pills could be distributed without worrying about anyone pocketing some on the side for personal use. And they were the perfect tool for recruiting new experts, such as top leaders from the Spritefolk.

There were also people who were owed rewards, that received the pills, took them, and instantly experienced huge jumps in cultivation base.

Most importantly, the pills could be used by Quasi-Gods and Paramount Gods alike. A Quasi-God who took one would transform on the deepest level and become a full god. And a Paramount God who took even one pill would experience a boost in their psychic scale. That wasn't to mention what taking multiple pills could do.

A few hours passed.

RUMBLE!

The destiny of the empire burned brighter than ever as numerous geniuses reached higher levels than before. The expression advancing by leaps and bounds couldn't even come close to describe what was happening.

Hooooooowlllll.

Yang Qi looked on as the destiny caused the spherical greyspace that was the Everlasting Aegis to rapidly grow stronger and larger.

'Incredible,' he thought, feeling quite delighted. 'It only took a few hours for the destiny to improve dramatically. Those pills really are amazing.'

By now, he had already cleared out all of the Eternal-Sands Willpower Pills.

That was when he realized there was another type of pill present. They were roughly the size of mung beans, and were stored in cauldrons, making them seem almost like grain. He had never seen pills stored in this way before.

He picked one of them up and found that it was an ancient pill known as the Jasper Yin-Yang Obstacle-Dissolving Pill, which could be used to directly improve the power of a nation or empire. It was very different from ordinary pills that were designed for a single expert to use.

Yang Qi was very pleased.

After all, he wasn't interested in pills that would benefit his cultivation base, but rather pills that could improve the destiny of his empire. A boost in destiny would also benefit his brethren.

In terms of how to improve the destiny of a nation, it was rather simple. First, one could improve the quality of the citizens. Second, one could increase the number of citizens. Third, one could gather resources by conquering other nations.

As for the Jasper Yin-Yang Obstacle-Dissolving Pill, it could improve the people on a fundamental level, helping them survive their cultivation tribulations. Normally, tribulations were a very deadly thing, but this pill could change that.

Yang Qi inhaled deeply, absorbing all of the cauldrons and pills, and sending them into his internal teleportation portal.

Yet again, things inside the Everlasting Aegis began transforming at top speed.

Time passed, and his empire was developing at rapid speed. Normally speaking, growing that quickly would be flirting with danger, as it would be hard to provide the necessary resources. Ordinary empires would consume massive amounts of resources on a daily basis. And those resources didn't come from nowhere. They had to be taken from the god world.

Without resources, people would starve, and in that case, destiny would decline, not increase.

However, Yang Qi didn't need to worry about that. When he had succeeded in forming his minor god world, there had been a huge influx of preheaven treasures, enough that it would keep his empire running for hundreds of years. That wasn't to mention the resources pouring in from the Halls of Heaven.

If an empire wanted to close its doors to the outside, it had to consider a few things: first, the godstones they could produce; second, the medicinal pills they could provide; third, the magical treasures in the empire; and fourth, the resources gained from military campaigns.

Yang Qi was fine on all of those fronts; furthermore, he could adjust how time flowed in his empire. A few days could be equivalent to a few dozen years. And in a few dozen years, it was definitely possible for his empire to grow to roughly the same level as the Invincible Dynasty.

Of course, that required a lot of godstones. But he had the Halls of Heaven, so he wasn't worried. No one else could possibly replicate what he was doing.

After clearing out the Jasper Yin-Yang Obstacle-Dissolving Pills, Yang Qi went looking for other pills. He found a large group of Dao-Enlightenment Gold Pills, which could provide deep enlightenment, then replenish the body afterward.

They were stored in bags, which made them resemble rice from the impure lands. And each bag contained tens of thousands of 'grains'. Of course, even that much was like nothing compared to what was available in the Halls of Heaven as a whole.

As he explored the pill repository, he sent all sorts of pills back to his empire.

Meanwhile, powerful streams of destiny were flowing into him, and at the same time, his sage monarch magistrates continued proliferating.

By the time he cleared out all the pills, his sage monarch magistrates were a hundred million in number, and they were all on the verge of breakthroughs with their psychic scale. Once they succeeded, they would be peak Paramount Gods, and if Yang Qi fought with them, they could probably take down an opponent with a scale of a hundred billion. He was getting stronger and stronger.

Laughing heartily, Yang Qi said, "My empire's destiny is just getting stronger and stronger. What do you think, Lord of the Sword Dao?" The stronger Yang Qi grew, the less the Lord of the Sword Dao could struggle.

And the Sage Monarch Empire was getting more and more in the position to hold its own against the three other dynasties.

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Chapter 1518: First Energy Primordial Chaos Pill

"It won't work, Yang Qi! I already freed myself from the God Legion Seal once, and I'll do it again. You're not the Sovereign Lord, after all! I escaped from his God Legion Seal, do you really think I can't deal with you?" The Lord of the Sword Dao was fully locked down, yet he refused to give in. He still believed he would find a way to make trouble, and eventually, kill Yang Qi.

Yang Qi snorted coldly. "You just refuse to give in, don't you, Lord of the Sword Dao? Don't forget that in this world, strength is what gets respect. I could just devour you and take your cultivation base. You're only a sword, after all. Remember, I've devoured the Dragon Compendium, the Mahātmā Jade, King Heaven-Devourer's talismans, the Everlit Godlamp, and all sorts of other preheaven treasures. You're no different than them."

Yang Qi knew that the Lord of the Sword Dao had made his mind up not to be a servant. Even if Yang Qi consigned him to the deepest depths of hell, the man would never give up on his quest to destroy the Halls of Heaven.

For now, the only thing he could do was get strong enough to assimilate him, thus reaching a psychic scale of a hundred billion.

That was the only way to deal with him. After all, this was no Second Devil General. The Lord of the Sword Dao had already escaped from the God Legion Seal once, so keeping him around like this was extremely dangerous.

Before long, Proud Central and the other dynasties would definitely come for Yang Qi and his empire.

Once that happened, the situation would turn extremely perilous, and there would be a lot of deadly fighting. If he got surrounded and besieged, it was possible that the Lord of the Sword Dao would use that chaos to try breaking free.

And if he succeeded, the first thing he would do was kill Yang Qi.

Obviously, he hated Yang Qi with a passion.

Assimilating him was really Yang Qi's only option. Besides, if Yang Qi could reach a psychic scale of a hundred billion as a result, who could possibly challenge him?

Once his psychic scale reached that level, and his cultivation base followed, the God Legion Seal would be even stronger, and the vital energy of the Halls of Heaven would be easier to control.

Once he had access to all the resources of the Halls of Heaven, everything in existence would essentially be his for the taking. The god world would be his.

The more destiny he had access to, the less effective the Lord of the Sword Dao's struggles would be. And while it was true he had escaped the God Legion Seal in the past, that was after the Sovereign Lord had died. While the Sovereign Lord was alive, he had been forced to be nothing but an obedient servant.

For now, Yang Qi was focused less on directly dealing with the Lord of the Sword Dao, and more on making sure his destiny was equal to that of the House of the Invincible. At that point, he would publicly declare the founding of the Sage Monarch Empire, the fourth empire alongside the Central, Invincible, and Chiliocosm Dynasties.

The news would spread rapidly, and his destiny would grow in kind. Eventually, he would reach the point of being able to thoroughly and completely assimilate the Lord of the Sword Dao. Until then, he would grow in secret. Thanks to the fact that he had agents in leadership positions in all three of the other dynasties, he had direct access to all of the latest news from all three places. That made it easy to make plans and arrangements.

As more medicinal pills flowed into his empire, it bubbled like boiling water, expanding rapidly. Of course, resources were being devoured like mad, but Yang Qi didn't care. The Halls of Heaven weren't running low yet.

"Grand-Clarity All-Soul Pill?"

"Double-Nines Paragonic Cauldron Pill?"

"Sun-Moon Radiance-Light Glitter-Sparkle Pill?"

"Primal-Chaos Hetero-Fruit Primordial-Vitality Pill?"

"First Energy Primordial Chaos Pill? I can't believe this pill is here. And there are so many of them! Incredible. This thing is truly incredible! It's specifically designed to bring empires to greater glory!" In the depths of the pill repository, he encountered an entire world filled with medicinal pills the size of longan fruits. They were pills that had long since been considered lost in the god world.

Anyone could make use of this pill. And while it wouldn't increase psychic power or godhood rating, it had the ability to change one's substructure, making it possible to absorb an aspect of primal-chaos paleo-energy called primordial chaos first energy.

After consuming it, the people of an empire wouldn't need ordinary resources to survive and flourish. The reason was that ordinary resources had their origin in primal-chaos paleo-energy. And normally speaking, only the power of the god world could be used to break down primal-chaos paleo-energy and turn it into precious materials, which could then be tapped into.

It was similar to how, in the impure lands, people had to eat food to survive. And food could only be grown from the dirt in the ground, with sunlight from above. But imagine what it would be like if the people of an empire could absorb energy directly from the sun, and could eat dirt for sustenance. Just how powerful would that empire become?

The Sovereign Lord had originally concocted the First Energy Primordial Chaos Pill in the hopes of improving the destiny of his own empire. But later, he realized that if his citizens didn't need resources, they would prove difficult to govern. After all, if they could directly grow by taking primordial chaos first energy from the larger primal-chaos paleo-energy, and didn't need resources from the empire, things would quickly get out of hand.

Of course, Yang Qi wasn't worried about such things. He could rely on his sage monarch magistrates to keep things running smoothly. He now had a hundred million of them, and their cultivation bases were growing constantly.

These pills would increase the empire's destiny, and that would make the people more content. After all, even the common citizens knew that the level of resources in a nation was important. The more resources there were, the more content the people would be.

As this pill was distributed among the populace, the people in general would know that they didn't need to worry about a lack of resources.

As word about this spread, the destiny would increase.

Yang Qi didn't hesitate to collect the pills, then distribute them in concert with a specific reward system designed for their use.

The sound of horns and drums filled the worlds of Yang Qi's massive empire. And in the middle of all those lands was a public square, in which the sage monarch magistrates had gathered.

"Hear ye, citizens of the Sage Monarch Empire," their voices boomed in unison. "Our boundless leader, His Majesty Yang Qi, has acquired an ancient boon, the First Energy Primordial Chaos Pill. It ensures that you don't need to use resources in your cultivation, but can instead tap directly into the primal-chaos paleo-energy. Observe the effectiveness of this pill."

Up in the air, a sage monarch magistrate hovered next to a Mechfolk chief elder, the latter a Paramount God who had recently joined the empire and made significant contributions.

"For his contributions to the empire, this Mechfolk chief elder will be given a First Energy Primordial Chaos Pill. Please, consume the pill immediately."

"Many thanks to the empire for this reward!"

The Mechfolk chief elder took the pill and popped it into his mouth.

RUMBLE!

All of a sudden, an enormous nascent divinity appeared behind him. It was a first energy primordial chaos nascent divinity, and it immediately began absorbing the primordial chaos energy, then turning it into precious materials such as godstones, medicines, and vital energy.

Everyone watching was stunned into envious silence.

The sage monarch magistrates then called an assembly to reward the most faithful and loyal people with First Energy Primordial Chaos Pills.

The same thing happened to everyone who could use them. What was even more amazing was that the resources produced by the resultant nascent divinity could actually be sold!

Anyone who took the pills turned into resource-making machines.

Not even the Cruiser of Civilization had been as effective at converting primal-chaos paleo-energy into medicinal pills. Now, Yang Qi realized that the Lord of Civilization must have devised his methods by imitating these very medicinal pills created by the Sovereign Lord.

However, the cruiser required large amounts of godstones to fuel the process.

But now, he didn't need any outside help, only primal-chaos paleo-energy.

And there was an endless supply of that out in the void.

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Chapter 1519: Fourth Empire

Yet again, Yang Qi's empire's destiny was burning like fire.

The leaders were the first to get the new medicinal pills, allowing them to generate their own resources.

The entire empire surged with excited activity as everyone thirsted to get their own First Energy Primordial Chaos Pill. As a result, the people worked even harder to perform services, resulting in an immediate ten percent increase in destiny.

Time sped by.

Destiny improved constantly, and the Everlasting Aegis expanded with even more rapidity. By now, the Everlasting Aegis was a treasure superior to even the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi was scouring the Halls of Heaven for more medicinal pills.

His empire had been growing for ten years.

Back when Yang Qi had first ascended to the god world, he hadn't even been a Paramount God. But now, his empire was thriving so incredibly it was hard to say how many top experts it could produce. There were some god-spirits there, who, because of the superior nature of the empire they lived in, could reproduce at an incredible rate.

Furthermore, Yang Qi had subjugated large groups of Demonfolk, and had transformed them on a genetic level, turning them into true humans. And they had incredible reproductive capabilities. They could produce a hundred offspring at a time! In fact, the sage monarch magistrates started recruiting their nursemaids to join the learning institutes of the empire and train everyone else on how to raise children.

Eventually, Yang Qi cleared out the final First Energy Primordial Chaos Pill.

Yang Qi looked at his empire, and saw that the destiny was like a mighty pillar climbing into heaven, where it spread out into the void, sending out tendrils that could absorb everything it touched.

His destiny was now at about eighty to ninety percent that of the Invincible Dynasty!

In other words, he had nothing to fear if the Invincible Dynasty invaded. Of course, if all three of the other dynasties joined forces to attack him, he would be in extreme danger.

Having finished with the First Energy Primordial Chaos Pills, Yang Qi continued his exploration, gathering up medicinal pills of all sorts to send back to his empire. However, he now needed to reduce how much he was sending back. He had already reached the point where the pills couldn't be used fast enough, and had to go into storage.

And when stores built up unused, the destiny would grow more slowly.

For now, he stopped looking for pills designed to improve destiny, and instead focused on pills similar to the Invincible Gold Pill, which could be used to boost individual cultivation bases.

"Lord of the Sword Dao, what sort of pills can be used to achieve a cultivation base like you God-Lords of old?" Yang Qi asked.

"Quit dreaming," he replied with a cold smile. "You think the Sovereign Lord could literally do anything? The God-Lords had psychic scales of at least ten billion, and were considered completely invincible. That requires personal enlightenment. Even with a blessing of destiny, you can't just make a peak Paramount God into a God-Lord. It has to be done on one's own merit."

Yang Qi chuckled coldly. "You're wrong. God-Lords aren't half-Annulled experts. With the right resources, any breakthrough is possible. All of my friends and family are peak Paramount Gods, and I want them to be God-Lords. And that's going to take medicinal pills."

"Regardless, I'm not going to help you," the Lord of the Sword Dao snarled. "As long as you don't kill me, Yang Qi, I'm going to get out of here eventually. And then I'll kill you!"

"I know. You and I are as opposed as fire and water. If I were in your position, I'd have the same attitude. Don't worry, I'll kill you as soon as I can."

When the Lord of the Sword Dao heard that, his heart went cold.

However, there was nothing he could do. King Immortal-Slayer and Proud Central were in a similar deadlock. If the latter couldn't assimilate the former, the former would eventually escape and kill the latter. There was no way to resolve the situation.

It was survival of the fittest.

Yang Qi spent a lot of time searching for rare medicinal pills, but didn't send them to his empire. It was already saturated with pills, and it would be hundreds of years before they ran out.

For now, the destiny in his empire wasn't going to suddenly surpass that of the House of the Invincible, because in terms of strength, he couldn't outdo them.

Before that could happen, he needed to push his own psychic scale to the level of a hundred billion, and also make sure he had multiple God-Lord-level subordinates, people like Dugu Sheji and Yang Primal-Chaos. With fighting prowess like that, his forces would be unparalleled in all creation.

Leaving behind the lower-level medicinal pills, he raced on, knowing full well that time was of the essence. As his empire's destiny rose, it was only a matter of time before the other three dynasties found out what was happening. And there was no way they would be happy with a fourth major power rising up to compete with them. Once they found out, it would mean war, so he needed to get as strong as possible before that happened.

After some searching, he suddenly detected the fluctuations of a powerful medicinal pill. It came from a wide-open square filled with a forest of stone pagodas. And atop each pagoda was a crystal box shaped like a coffin, filled with pills, all of which resembled śarīra left behind after some top expert experienced nirvanic extermination.

However, closer examination revealed that they didn't have the aura of the buddhist schools, but instead, a radiance and light filled with a sensation of righteous justice.

As Yang Qi looked closer, he realized that they weren't made of pure medicinal ingredients, but rather seemed like convergences of psychic scale and godhood rating, with destiny thrown in. And as it turned out, they were filled with the aura of the confucian schools.

Yang Qi couldn't help but let out a laugh. "Do you know what pills these are, Lord of the Sword Dao? As it turns out, the legends are true. The Sovereign Lord slaughtered countless confucians in the ancient era. It was a bloodbath that later came to be called the Sovereign Lord's Confucian Purge, and even the most elite experts lost their lives in it. I used to be skeptical about whether it really happened, but after seeing these medicinal pills, I understand the truth."

The legend of the Sovereign Lord's Confucian Purge stated that, as the confucian schools gained power, they began establishing empires throughout the god world. And because they excelled at governing nations, other empires would invite them to send advisors and counselors to help them. Even the Sovereign Lord had confucians as government officials.

But as time went on, they got stronger and stronger, eventually gaining such immense influence that they earned the right to disagree with the Sovereign Lord. It reached the point where they wanted the Sovereign Lord to be a figurehead ruler, while they took responsibility for governing the god world.

That was when conflict broke out.

In his fury, the Sovereign Lord slaughtered all of the confucians he could find.

The confucians fought back, but they couldn't counter the might of the Sovereign Lord. He wiped them out in bloody fashion, although a few survived. In the countless years that followed, they eventually came back, to the point where the three major dynasties in the modern god world all had confucians as government officials.

Based on what Yang Qi was seeing, the countless confucian experts that were slaughtered had been used by the Sovereign Lord as ingredients in medicinal pills.

The pills were called The Lord's Wrath.

After concocting them, the Sovereign Lord didn't give any to his subordinates, but rather kept them sealed here.

"I wonder how strong these pills are," Yang Qi said, reaching out to open one of the crystal boxes.

Taking out a pill, he peeled it apart, until he could tap into the quintessence of the pill. Intense rumbling shook the area as confucian ideals, divine abilities, and other things poured into Yang Qi, causing his psychic scale and godhood rating to jump by several hundred million!

Although that wasn't very much considering his overall level, it went to show how impressive the pills were.

Most people would get an increase of several billion if they took the pill.

"Incredible! With these pills, my friends and family will definitely experience huge boosts. Even if they can't become God-Lords with psychic scales of ten billion, they'll at least get up to the level of nine billion. They'll be just on the verge of breakthroughs!"

Yang Qi couldn't have been more delighted.

1. The term I'm translating as "confucian purge" could be translated as "bury alive the confucians" and is most famously associated with an incident purported to have been carried out by the first emperor of China, Qin Shihuang. It was called the "burning of books and burying of confucians", which he supposedly did to strengthen his own philosophy of Legalism. Nowadays, many historians question whether that event really happened. .

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Chapter 1520: Sea of Faith

The medicinal pills known as The Lord's Wrath had been created after the mass slaughter of confucians, using their quintessence as the main ingredient. After sampling just one of them, Yang Qi had experienced a big boost to his cultivation base.

He waved his hand, and a stream of sword energy flew out, slashing into the sealing marks protecting the various crystal boxes. Taking the medicinal pills, he sent them to his friends and family.

Unfortunately, the pills wouldn't help his sage monarch magistrates, otherwise he would have had them achieve breakthroughs.

Their breakthroughs were dependent on his enlightenment. Without gaining new enlightenment, they couldn't do anything, not even with medicinal pills.

It could be likened to ordinary government officials. It didn't matter how hard they worked, if they didn't catch the attention of a superior, thus getting promotions, they might as well be considered trash. But once a superior took a liking to a lower-ranked official, that official would have a chance to gain immense power and authority.

It had basically nothing to do with hard work.

When the new pills arrived in the Everlasting Aegis, Jadefall and the others were very excited. Those who used them would achieve dramatic transformations, and the first to do that was Jadefall herself. Previously, she had been deeply connected to the purrling, and its cultivation base had a big influence on her.

Once she consumed The Lord's Wrath, her psychic scale rose into the billions. Yet that wasn't enough for her, so she consumed more. In fact, she took seven at once, causing thunderous rumbling to sound out as her psychic scale skyrocketed to the level of ten billion.

She had become a God-Lord, a level that most experts would dream about constantly.

Furthermore, she gained the frank and calm air of a confucian, bringing her even closer in alignment with the destiny of the empire.

Confucian ideals could greatly benefit any nation, and in fact, any top government would have to consider them. Of course, sage monarch magistrates were an exception. That said, the magistrates innately used confucian thinking in many ways.

Next came the Shepherd, Eldest Brother Mage Cloudwalker, Brahma, Yang Doom, Yang Proudworld, Yang Manifestation, Yang Memory, Yang Celestial, and all of Yang Qi's other friends and family. Considering how superior the pills were to Invincible Gold Pills, if the other three dynasties saw what was happening in Yang Qi's empire, they wouldn't hesitate to launch a bloody war.

However, Yang Qi's brethren didn't need to treat them like incredibly precious items. After all, they had tens upon tens of thousands of them.

The confucian schools had been so incredibly powerful and influential that even the most remote corners of the impure lands had been touched by their influence. In fact, some people believed that confucian ideals were the true path that should be followed in the god world. For example, the rightful rulers in the Rich-Lush Continent had been the institutes, which were essentially confucian schools.

All it took was seven or eight of The Lord's Wrath, and his brethren were bathed in golden light and white energy, and inundated with complex information.

RUMBLE!

Yang Doom broke through. He was a unique person, as he had once borne a third of the God Legion Seal, and had immense personal destiny. Now, his cultivation base was like that of the ancient God-Lords.

One by one, his other friends and family broke through to the level of ten billion.

When Yang Qi saw what was happening, he thought, 'Incredible. I never would have guessed it would happen like this. I guess ascending from the impure lands and immortal worlds makes them very special indeed. I thought they would all get stuck at the level of nine billion, but instead, they're breaking through all obstacles."

Thus was the effectiveness of a type of medicinal pill based on the ancient confucians.

Next, Jadefall had other elites from the empire take the pills, hoping to create even more God-Lords.

Unfortunately, of the several dozen they picked, none of them could get past the level of nine billion. They weren't Ascendants, so they couldn't just break through.

All of a sudden, Yang Qi came to a realization. Ascendants didn't come from the god world, so they weren't under the same pressure from the local natural laws. They had fewer obstacles, which was why they could achieve breakthroughs so easily.

All of a sudden, Yang Qi realized how valuable Ascendants were.

'My brethren all succeeded because they're Ascendants. Yes. I must figure out a way to get back to the impure lands and rescue all of my other friends and family members from there. They're the greatest treasure conceivable. Without them, it won't matter if I completely clear out the Halls of Heaven. People. I need my people!"

Never before had Yang Qi been in such pressing need of top talent.

After distributing The Lord's Wrath, Yang Qi decided to give up on searching for pills. Instead, he spent time looking for formations and magical treasures. Some, he could send to his people, while others were stashed away for later use. For instance, he found something called a Universe-Origin Many-Heavens Myriad-Manifestations Transformation-Destruction God-Sphere that seemed like it could be particularly useful in the right circumstances.

Eventually, he shifted his attention again, and began looking for the passageway to the impure lands.

He already knew that there was an entrance to the Ancient Road to the Gods somewhere around his current location. That was how the Great Necropolis had ended up in the impure lands. The Great Necropolis had been locked down by the Sovereign Lord, and had remained in the Halls of Heaven for billions of years before ultimately descending to the lower worlds.

'That's right. I bet if I could track down the aura of the Great Necropolis, it would lead me to the passageway. Once I find the passageway, I can figure out a way to bring all of my people up here. That's going to be the best way to strengthen my empire. People. Talented people. That's what I need.'

As he began his search, he took on the form of the Great Necropolis, and began flying back and forth throughout the Halls of Heaven. It was similar to how he had searched for the Mahātmā Jade.

"You're trying to find a way to the impure lands, aren't you, Yang Qi?" the Lord of the Sword Dao said. "That's complete lunacy!"

"It's none of your concern," Yang Qi replied coolly.

As he floated around like a specter, he happened across various magical treasures and weapons that he would take and send to his empire. Obviously, anything he found in the Halls of Heaven would be very impressive to anyone outside.

As his people improved their fighting prowess, his empire's destiny would also improve, although in measures so small they weren't even worthy of his notice. Eventually, when he reached the half-Annulled level, he would assimilate the halls as a whole, and add it to the Everlasting Aegis.

At a certain point, he suddenly detected a familiar aura, that of the Great Necropolis. Flying onward, he suddenly detected the sound of ocean waves.

'An ocean?'

Up ahead, he saw an azure blue ocean, covered with waves, which were crashing against the cliffy shore. The sound, intermingled with cries like those of birds, sounded almost like prayers.

'If this isn't an ocean, what is it?' There actually weren't any animals in the ocean, and the water wasn't real water. Each drop was incomparably heavy. As it turned out, it was the faith of people!

Making a grasping gesture, he pulled a single drop of water into his hand, gazed into it, and saw countless people in the god world, including humans, demons, and even devils, all of them praying to the Sovereign Lord.

It was a water of faith.

This ocean had been formed by the faith power of countless individuals praying to the might of the Sovereign Lord.

Faith power and destiny were different. Faith power was purer and stronger, but it was tainted by the karma of the living beings that had offered it. In contrast, destiny didn't have karma.

Destiny came from a mutual arrangement. When the ruler worked hard at his job, and the people prospered, then the destiny would grow. If the ruler was tyrannical, the people would suffer, as would the destiny.

It was a clear cycle.

But faith was different. Faith could be demanded even in concert with tyranny. It could also be forcibly taken. There was no cycle when it came to faith. The people of a country could rebel against their leader, but believers couldn't rebel against the god they put their faith in. The two were fundamentally different.

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Chapter 1521: Passageway to the Impure Lands

The difference between faith and destiny could be summed up in this way: destiny was a business transaction, while faith was simple plundering.

Plundering brought profit much more simply and quickly than a business transaction, and it didn't require capital. But it came with big risks and restrictions, primarily that of karma. And that twist was what had led many gods to their death. While it had initially been very popular, once the gods realized its side-effects, things had changed.

The ancient buddhist schools had been particularly skilled in the use of faith power, which was how they qualified to compete with the Sovereign Lord. But eventually, their faith power reached a zenith, then they collapsed, primarily because faith could only be taken, with no return. That, coupled with the karmic side-effects, made faith inferior to destiny in many ways.

In front of Yang Qi was an entire ocean of faith that the Sovereign Lord had collected.

Of course, the Sovereign Lord also knew of the brutal side-effects of faith, which was why he had collected and sealed it here, instead of using it.

This power was ancient and immense, considering it contained the faith of gods. And because of that, it was like a dangerous bomb that could rip anyone who unleashed it incorrectly to shreds.

Yang Qi could tell that if he absorbed this faith power, he would instantly jump to a psychic scale of a hundred billion. Unfortunately, the karma within it would ensure that, after he reached those heights, he would perish.

Nodding, Yang Qi thought, 'Incredible. Simply incredible. I can't believe the Sovereign Lord stored up this much unused faith power. I used to use faith power before, but once I got to the god world, I got rid of it to clear myself of any karma. Taking this faith power would definitely be suicide. However, this faith does seem to have transformed in some way.'

Studying it more closely, he saw that the faith power resembled dragons flying back and forth, and although they contained karma, that karma was slowly weakening. That was because the gods who had given their faith to the Sovereign Lord had all perished. Normally speaking, that meant their faith should have faded away, but for some unknown reason, the Sovereign Lord had ensured that it remained. And he had also done something to slowly weaken its karmic power.

If a few more tens of billions of years were to pass, the faith power might actually become completely free of any karma. Then it would be a real treasure that could lead someone to becoming like the Sovereign Lord himself.

But unfortunately, it couldn't be used right now.

'Is there something that can get rid of the karma in that faith sooner?' He thought about it for a long time, but couldn't come up with any good ideas. As far as he knew, there hadn't ever been anything that could negate karma effectively.

It would be like someone in the impure lands trying to come up with a way to commit robbery without breaking the law.

'There must be something. But it's probably a magical treasure that surpasses the god world. Only something that doesn't conform to the natural laws here could cleanse this faith power.'

After thinking about it for a bit longer, a flash of realization hit him. "The Great Necropolis. It's got to be the Great Necropolis! It surpasses the god world, and wasn't born out of ancient primal-chaos. No wonder I can sense the aura of the necropolis here. So that's how it is! The Sovereign Lord stored this ocean of faith here and was using the Great Necropolis to cleanse it of karma. However, at some point, the necropolis ended up dropping down into the immortal worlds. But how?'

He continued along that line of thinking for some time.

'I bet the passageway to the impure lands is somewhere in this ocean. I should be able to search the ocean as long as I don't absorb any of the "water".'

Exercising utmost caution, he summoned a bubble of energy from the Great Necropolis, surrounding himself before he jumped in.

The water of faith pressed down on the bubble, causing bubbling sounds to fill it. Ironically, it was Proud Central who had given Yang Qi the quintessence of the Great Necropolis, making him deeply linked to the necropolis wherever he went.

Over the course of the next several hours, he searched here and there within the ocean of faith. Eventually, he ran into an enormous cavern in its depths, which bore the shape of the necropolis. Peering inside he saw something like an ancient road.

Unfortunately, it was a dead end.

'Damn.' Of course, Yang Qi knew that the Ancient Road to the Gods had vanished. Back in the impure lands, it had ceased to exist in the Primeval Age and the Future Age. It only existed in the Immortal Dao Age. But now, it had apparently vanished from the Immortal Dao Age as well, which meant there was no longer any connection between the impure lands and the god world. Traveling back and forth was impossible.

'I can't accept this. Don't tell me I'll never reunite with my friends and family. Impossible. With all the divine abilities I have, can't I recreate the Ancient Road to the Gods? Can't I pierce through the natural laws of the god world?!'

"You're thinking about remaking the Ancient Road to the Gods, aren't you?" the Lord of the Sword Dao said with a cold laugh. "Very ambitious, Yang Qi. But it won't work. Not even the Sovereign Lord himself would've dared to entertain such talk, yet you think you can do it?"

"If you keep jabbering, Lord of the Sword Dao, I'll make you suffer worse than you can imagine! Maybe I'll force you to absorb all of this faith. Turn you into a killing machine that I can turn on the other three dynasties. How about that?"

"Do you have a death wish, boy?!" the Lord of the Sword Dao shouted. However, a moment later, he chuckled. "Alright, bring it on. I'll take that faith power. It will kill me in the end, but at least I'd be able to break free and slaughter you in the process. As long as I can kill you, I'll die happily."

"Well thought out," Yang Qi replied as he flew out of the ocean of faith. He knew that his attempt to find the ancient road had failed.

That said, as long as travel back and forth with the god world was impossible, that meant his friends and family were safe. They were the ultimate rulers of the impure lands, and no one would be able to overthrow them. Since no one from the god world could travel down to cause problems, they were secure.

Once he pushed his cultivation to the point where he was stronger than the old Sovereign Lord, he would try remaking the connection.

He was confident he would succeed, as he was certain he would surpass the Sovereign Lord.

Since he couldn't rely on his friends and family from the impure lands to boost his destiny, he now had no other choice than to continue searching the halls of heaven for more treasures. If everyone among his people had preheaven treasures, then his empire would obviously be much stronger.

As he searched, he found all sorts of treasure troves with amazing things inside of them, all of which he sent to his empire. However, he didn't find anything useful for himself. For now, the only thing that would give him a major boost was the final piece of the Mahātmā Jade.

And that was in the Central Dynasty.

With it, he could definitely reach the level of a hundred billion, and possibly push past it.

For the moment, he was acting like a delivery service, tracking down amazing things from the halls of heaven and sending them to his people.

A month passed.

The Sage Monarch Empire was getting bigger and bigger, and his people were all armed to the teeth. Its destiny and net of law were so incredible that they seeped outside of the Everlasting Aegis.

The Everlasting Aegis was big, but it had its limitations, and soon, the empire itself was growing beyond its borders.

The destiny valuation had already reached the same as the Invincible Dynasty and the Chiliocosm Dynasty, but it was a far cry from the Central Dynasty. Regardless, he was definitely the fourth major power in the god world.

At a certain point, Yang Qi stopped his work.

The time had come to try something new.

WHOOSH!

He vanished from within the Halls of Heaven, and headed to the imperial palace in the Sage Monarch Empire. The imperial palace itself was like a minor god world, and in the middle was a yin-yang taiji symbol of immense profundity, where all of his people with psychic scales of ten billion were converging for a meeting.

He now had nearly a hundred such people, and if he added in the people from the House of the Chiliocosm and the House of the Invincible that he had subjugated, he would definitely be at a hundred.

It was time to do something that would shake heaven and earth.

He was going to make a public announcement regarding the founding of the Sage Monarch Empire, the fourth major dynasty. And that would involve sending formal declarations to the other three dynasties asking for a non-aggression pact.

"Isn't it a bit too early for that?" Yang Susu asked. "Why don't we secretly invade the House of the Invincible? Maybe subjugate some more of their leaders. Take over the Palace of Destiny and get the confucians working for us. Perhaps do the same to the House of the Chiliocosm. Or maybe we could even target the Central Dynasty."

"That's right!" Jadefall said, sounding worried. "I feel like we need to spend some more time preparing. If we rush the announcement and things go bad, we can't go back and change it."

"There's no need for that," Yang Qi said. "And subjugating more experts won't do any good. If we tried, it would affect the destiny of the House of the Invincible, and their patriarchs would notice. Furthermore, subjugating too many people puts a strain on my mind. It's difficult enough just keeping the Lord of the Sword Dao under control. The time has come to make the announcement!"

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Chapter 1522: A Massively Shocking Even

Yang Qi had made his final decision.

The time had come to tear away the veil and publicly announce something that would definitely send immense shockwaves through the god world. He had originally hoped to subjugate more people, and also get the Lord of the Sword Dao completely under control. But the truth was that the mere act of subjugating more important people would cause a public stir.

For the moment, he had to shelve that idea.

Once the announcement was made, and the shockwaves started spreading out, people would definitely be eager to join his empire. Destiny would surge, and he could use that momentum to fully subjugate the Lord of the Sword Dao. Even if he didn't fully succeed, he could at least make sure the Lord of the Sword Dao was completely locked down. And then Yang Qi would take advantage of the chaos he had wrought to sneak into the distracted Central Dynasty and get the final piece of the Mahātmā Jade.

The Lord of the Sword Dao was so strong that even Proud Central would be leery of him.

Unfortunately, until he was fully subjugated, he would definitely cause trouble if he were to be released. However, once Yang Qi made his announcement and got enough destiny to crush him, the man would become like a clone whose sword energy could devastate countless enemies.

In the depths of the empire, a huge square had been constructed, where the sage monarch magistrates had led all of the leaders and officials, gathering them in ranks.

Yang Qi stood up front, clad in his voluminous God Legion Battle Robe. Of course, the robe was now different. Instead of coming fully from the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, it contained elements of the Mahātmā Jade and the True-Devil Unspoiled-by-Myriad-Kalpas-and-Tribulations Body, making it far different from before.

When that garment stirred, the power of countless tribulations and kalpas surged within it. Obviously, any opponent of his would face the destruction of tribulations if they tried fighting him.

"People of the Sage Monarch Empire, today we tell the god world about our existence. Henceforth, we are the fourth great dynasty of the god world!" His words echoed out through space-time and filled the furthest corners of his empire, causing everything to tremble.

"As everyone knows," he continued, "for many years, the three greatest powers have been the Central, Invincible, and Chiliocosm Dynasties. But now the Sage Monarch Empire has joined their ranks. Furthermore, we will demand that they acknowledge us as equals. If they refuse, we will convey our displeasure by means of the sword. Lord of the Sword Dao!"

"Here!" the Lord of the Sword Dao said, appearing beside Yang Qi. He was now little more than a puppet, although it still took Yang Qi a lot of effort to control him. As soon as he appeared, he waved his hand to produce an immense preheaven godsword, which he slashed out in front of him.

RUUUUUUUUMBLE!

Space-time collapsed and vital energy bled out as the sword light swirled out in all directions.

"I am the Lord of the Sword Dao, subordinate of the Sovereign Lord, the king of slaughter. And now, I'm the guardian of the Sage Monarch Empire. Whoever harms the interests of the empire will be cut down, be that enemy a person or a nation!"

The Lord of the Sword Dao had a fierce, violent aura that seemed to spill out without end. Although he was the guardian of the empire, he still wanted to be free. But that only made him more deadly and dangerous.

In fact, by using him as the guardian, the bounds of destiny were more tightly wrapped around him. After all, being part of the system made one more vulnerable to the control of the system, as well as a better killer!

As soon as the Lord of the Sword Dao appeared, the people of the empire erupted into cheers.

Destiny swelled, and to Yang Qi, it felt like a vat of oil. All it would take would be a spark, and that oil would erupt, and he would reach a higher level.

"We are mighty. We are mighty!" It was the sage monarch magistrates who began the cry, and before long, all of the people were shouting at the tops of their lungs.

They knew that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era. After the destruction of the Sovereign Lord, there had never been a new empire that had simply sprung into existence like this. And they knew that the blood and fire of war was on the horizon.

Of course, all of the young people in the empire, those who had been born in the last hundred years, were burning with passion.

Although only a month had passed on the outside, Yang Qi had allowed a hundred years to pass inside. And that meant that the young ones had been given time to grow up.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's prove that miracles are possible. We will spread the might and grandeur of the Sage Monarch Empire to the most distant corners of the god world!"

He went on with various formalities and ceremonies, then the event was over.

Then he allowed the destiny to surge out in all directions, drawing on all channels of news and information to spread the word to countless people.

Yang Qi had control of numerous channels of communication. For instance, he controlled many powerful members of the armed forces from the Invincible and Chiliocosm Dynasties, which meant getting information out posed no challenge to him.

The news was already shaking the god world.

It only took a month for the news to reach even the most remote areas. All organizations and all people heard about what was happening, even the demonlings, devillings, godlings, and the strange subterranean races.

Furthermore, the news indicated that this fourth dynasty espoused justice and impartiality. Because of that, many races who were oppressed by the other three dynasties, and struggling to survive as a result, made the decision to change.

Within a month, it was common knowledge that Emperor Yang Qi of the Sage Monarch Empire had many treasures from the Halls of Heaven, which meant his people would never lack for resources.

To most people in the god world, resources were the key to everything. A race of people needed to be wealthy to prosper, but unfortunately, any group that gathered wealth would eventually have it taken away by the three dynasties. How could any group possibly reach the point of being able to rival those three empires?

There were many peoples that the three dynasties had persecuted to the point where they hovered on the brink of extinction.

The truth was that the three dynasties didn't prefer to slaughter other groups, but rather to control them and take their resources. Any group that didn't have resources would be living on borrowed time.

Unfortunately, doing things that way led to inferior destiny, and would also foster resentment. Over the past billions of years of history, the three dynasties had learned that the hard way. When they conquered a people, there would be many deaths. As for the people who were captured and enslaved, they would hate the dynasty down to their bones. And later, when such a slave encountered good fortune and got strong, they would inevitably lead rebellions that would harm the dynasty.

Such things had happened too many times to count.

Not even the most powerful wielder of magic could prevent such things from happening.

However, they wouldn't happen to Yang Qi.

It wasn't that he could prevent the people of his empire from encountering good fortune. But his sage monarch magistrates would ensure that everything happened peacefully.

Ultimately, the three dynasties had ended their tactic of conquering other peoples with war, and seizing their resources. It led to less resentment and less chaos among the slaves.

But the enslaved people were still stuck, and could only watch as their numbers slowly shrank.

However, Yang Qi's fourth dynasty abounded with resources, so all those struggling people longed to join him.

In the month it took for the news to spread like wildfire, numerous people flocked to his empire, causing the destiny to surge wildly. And it wasn't just humans who wanted to join him. There were demons, devils, godlings, and even beings that existed only in spirit form.

Yang Qi didn't discriminate against anyone.

There were limitations on other dynasties. The first related to resources, and the second related to governance. But neither applied to Yang Qi. He had immense resources, and the sage monarch magistrates to manage everything.

Furthermore, as his destiny increased, so did the sage monarch magistrates. Not too long ago, he had possessed a hundred million of them. But now he had a hundred and thirty million. Unfortunately, he still couldn't get them all to the level of peak Paramount Gods. If he could, it would be vastly easier to manage his empire.

That breakthrough would be very difficult; essentially, he had to have the complete Mahātmā Jade before it could happen.

The Lord of the Sword Dao was now in a completely hopeless state. During the month that had passed, the increases Yang Qi had experienced had pushed his psychic scale to the level of ninety billion. The Lord of the Sword Dao couldn't even utter anything disrespectful, only foster rebellious thoughts in his heart. However, such thoughts couldn't last long before they were detected and he was wracked with pain. In the end, all he could do was put on a cheerful front and comply with any orders that were given to him.

Yang Qi had already begun the process of turning him into an out-of-body incarnation. The two of them would essentially fuse, then he could turn him into a weapon to use against the top experts of the other dynasties.

Yang Qi was causing a stir in the god world the likes of which hadn't been seen in billions of years. A new age was beginning.

The time of the Sovereign Lord could be considered the primeval age.

The time of the three dynasties was like the middle ages.

But now that Yang Qi had founded his fourth empire, the future had come. A true future. And it was going to bring him incredible destiny.

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