The Sovereign Appears

The moment Old Man Bai Chen’s terrifying voice echoes outside the cave, Wu Yao drops to her knees without wasting a single second. Looking toward the heavens, she speaks with absolute determination:

"I, Wu Yao, take an oath upon Heaven to accept Senior as my Master!"

RUMBLE!

At that exact moment, Bai Chen unleashes a devastating Palm Attack from the sky directly onto the cave. The monstrous pressure of the strike begins to bleed into the cavern, causing rocks to crack and crumble.

Zhou Yuan, however, couldn't care less about the incoming attack. He immediately looks within himself and inspects their Fate. The moment the Master-Disciple bond is forged, Wu Yao’s immense Heavenly Fate begins to merge with the destiny of the original Wang Su's body. Beneath the shroud of her massive fate, Wang Su's ordinary mortal destiny is completely concealed.

Zhou Yuan senses that Wang Su’s weak fate is breaking away from the laws of this universe. As the universe's restriction begins to lift, Zhou Yuan instantly activates a mere 2% of his true soul power!

He chuckles in amusement within his mind: 'Hahaha! This tiny fraction of power isn't even worth mentioning compared to my original form... but in the 9th and 10th Dimensions of this wretched universe, this much power alone is more than enough to make me Invincible!'

Just then, Wu Yao’s voice reaches him from nearby, trembling yet filled with a spark of hope: "Master..."

Zhou Yuan snaps back to the present and takes her by the hand to help her up. He doesn't even glance at the colossal palm attack rushing toward the cave. He simply flicks a single finger through the air.

Swoosh!

The terrifying palm attack silently vanishes into thin air in an instant!

Up in the sky, Old Man Bai Chen is violently thrown off balance. The abrupt destruction of his palm attack causes a massive backlash to his focus, and blood sprays from his mouth.

"Who goes there?!" Bai Chen roars.

Right then, a portal flashes in the air before him, and two figures teleport into view. One is a beautiful young woman (Wu Yao), her eyes burning with the flames of anger and revenge. Beside her stands a young man dressed in ordinary village clothes, looking exactly like a normal mortal.

Yet, despite looking like a common mortal on the surface, there is an ethereal, absolute confidence in the young man's eyes—a gaze suggesting that if he wished, he could reduce the entirety of Planet Yun Mo to dust in a single breath!

Bai Chen wipes the blood from his mouth and glares at Wu Yao, snarling, "You bitch... Wu Yao!"

Calming himself slightly, he sends out his spiritual power toward Zhou Yuan to gauge his cultivation level. But after checking, the result is baffling—the youth is nothing but a mortal!

Infuriated, Bai Chen tries to move forward to attack them, but suddenly... the Space Locks! The entire sky freezes around him, and he cannot budge a single inch.

Bai Chen stares at the young man as an unknown horror begins to take root in his heart. His entire body starts to tremble. He thinks to himself: 'Why? Why am I feeling such primal fear toward a mortal?'

Forcing a mask of calm, Bai Chen greets Zhou Yuan politely, saying, "Fellow Daoist... My name is Bai Chen. Might I know your name, and why are you interfering in our matters? This is a personal vendetta!"

Before Zhou Yuan can speak, Wu Yao screams from the side, "A personal vendetta?! You motherf***er! You destroyed my entire Blue Profound Sect! All over a petty, ancient promise for a pill!"

Zhou Yuan looks at Wu Yao and reflects inwardly: 'I must resolve this disciple's crisis right now. If her rage isn't placated, she will fall prey to an Inner Demon. Her entire cultivation will be ruined, and my plans will be derailed.'

Zhou Yuan places a hand on Wu Yao's shoulder, transferring a tiny sliver of his soul power into her. He speaks in a calm, steady voice, "You shall take revenge for your sect with your own hands."

With those words, Zhou Yuan uses his invisible power to instantly suppress Bai Chen’s cultivation, dragging him down from the Tribulation Transcendent Realm straight down to the Void Awareness Level!

He turns back to Wu Yao, "Go and take your revenge. This is your only chance to eradicate your inner demon and break through to the Body Unity Level!"

A newfound vigor lights up Wu Yao’s face. "Thank you, Master!" she declares, lunging forward to attack Bai Chen at high speed.

Zhou Yuan releases the space lock, granting Bai Chen the freedom to move. Though Bai Chen is terrified to his core by Zhou Yuan’s incomprehensible power, he blusters outwardly, shouting at Wu Yao:

"Even if my cultivation has been suppressed by two major realms... I still possess the combat experience of a Mid-Level Tribulation Transcendent! You cannot defeat me!"

BOOM! CRASH!

A fierce battle erupts in the sky between Wu Yao and Bai Chen. Standing below, Zhou Yuan watches them, musing: 'My disciple’s physical talent is exceptional... but her techniques and battle experience are still lacking compared to this old fox.'

Leveraging his centuries of experience, Bai Chen begins to suppress Wu Yao, all while keeping an eye out for an opportunity to flee the area. Wu Yao unleashes everything from the 1st to the 6th form of her Thunder Sword Technique, yet she fails to push Bai Chen back.

It is then that Wu Yao recalls her Master’s words—that this is the moment to break through.

In the middle of the raging battle, Wu Yao takes a massive gamble. She forcefully begins to merge her physical body with her spirit, attempting a breakthrough to the Body Unity Level!

The moment she takes this step and the two entities begin to fuse, terrifying Dark Clouds suddenly gather in the sky, accompanied by deafening roars of thunder.

Seeing this, Bai Chen bursts into a mocking laugh, "Hahahahaha! You idiot! Attempting a breakthrough in the middle of a live battle? You are practically begging for death!"

Bai Chen immediately retreats, waiting for the devastating Heavenly Tribulation lightning to strike and obliterate Wu Yao.

Wu Yao successfully fuses her body and spirit, advancing her breakthrough to the Half-Body Unity Level. If she can endure the impending tribulation, she will firmly step into the Early Body Unity Level. Bai Chen waits like a vulture, ready to strike her down the moment she is weakened.

But right then... Zhou Yuan uses his soul power to completely block the terrifying Heavenly Tribulation right in the sky! The arcs of lightning freeze dead in mid-air.

At that exact millisecond, Zhou Yuan transmits a direct message straight into Wu Yao’s mind:

"Delay the breakthrough! Kill Bai Chen first and erase your Inner Demon... otherwise, your soul will be torn to shreds during the tribulation!"

Old Man Bai Chen looks up at the sky, his legs trembling violently as sheer terror grips his soul. He screams in absolute disbelief, "Impossible! Even a cultivator at the Peak of the Tribulation Transcendent Level cannot freeze a Heavenly Tribulation in mid-air like this! What kind of monster are you?!"

Stumbling two steps backward, his panicked eyes lock onto Zhou Yuan. The final sliver of hope he had held onto for survival was bleeding away, leaving nothing but an empty abyss of despair. He knew he was trapped. Losing his sanity but refusing to back down, a savage look crosses his face.

'If I am going to die here, I am taking that wrench with me!'

With a mad roar, Bai Chen begins to burn his very cultivation essence, forcing his fading energy to ignite for one final, desperate slaughter.

Wu Yao steps forward, her gaze piercing through the chaos. Inner voices of the past echo in her mind. 'Seniors, Great Elders, my fallen disciples... your Sect Master is finally going to avenge you today!'

"Thunder Sword Technique, Sixth Form: Thousand Thunder Shadow Sword!" she bellows.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Thousands of ethereal, crackling sword shadows materialize across the sky, blanketing the horizon before raining down toward Bai Chen with piercing velocity.

Burning his life force to the absolute limit, Bai Chen counters with a forbidden high-tier technique: "Dark Heaven Emperor Palm!"

A massive, pitch-black giant palm manifests in the heavens, clashing violently against the storm of sword shadows. The collision of the two colossal forces triggers a deafening explosion. The shockwave blasts both fighters backward, spraying arcs of fresh blood from their lips.

Recovering instantly, they charge at each other again, colliding in a frenzied melee. Dark energy and crackling lightning tear through the atmosphere so violently that it feels as if the sky itself might shatter and collapse onto the earth.

This was no longer a battle for resources or glory; this was a primal clash of Revenge and Survival. On one side stood a desperate devil willing to pay any price to protect his wretched life; on the other stood a woman who had lost everything—her sect, her family, her home. Her eyes were bloodshot, consumed entirely by a wrath that cared nothing for her own survival, so long as her enemy burned.

The horrific backlash of burning his cultivation begins to take a visible toll on Bai Chen. His complexion turns deathly pale, like dried parchment.

He smiles bitterly within his mind: 'Is this it? Is a Tribulation Transcendent ancestor really going to perish in a barren wasteland like this? Was it a mistake to come here? No... what am I thinking? Do I regret it? No, never! The ruthless decisions I made in the past were the absolute best choices for me at that time. A true cultivator knows no regret!'

A chilling, maniacal smile stretches across his withered face. Gathering the absolute last dregs of his soul, he unleashes his ultimate ultimate technique: "Palm of Darkness!"

The entire sky plunges into absolute, pitch-black night. Tearing through the artificial darkness, a colossal, terrifying giant palm speeds directly toward Wu Yao. The sheer strain of the attack completely drains Bai Chen; his body shrivels instantly, looking like a rotting corpse on the verge of turning to dust.

Wu Yao channels the absolute maximum capacity of her Half-Body Unity Level power. She prepares to execute a devastating technique that she has yet to fully master: "Thunder Sword Seventh Mastery: Sword of Mountain Shadow!"

From the heavens, a colossal sword shadow, shaped like an inverted mountain peak, pierces through the clouds to meet the incoming palm. Even before the two attacks connect, the sheer atmospheric pressure causes multiple mountain ranges on the ground below to collapse into avalanches of dust.

BOOM!!!

The cataclysmic collision creates a blinding shockwave that literally flattens the topography below, erasing valleys into a smooth, desolate plain.

The giant mountain sword successfully obliterates 80% of the Palm of Darkness before shattering into stardust. However, the remaining 20% of the dark energy wave slams heavily into Wu Yao, hurling her backward by thousands of feet through the air.

Coughing up blood, she forces herself to stabilize. As her vision blurs, the painful final words of Great Elder Lu Fang echo like a mantra in her soul: 'Sect Master, run! You are the last hope of the Blue Profound Sect!'

"I will not let your sacrifices be in vain!" Wu Yao screams, her voice cracking.

Pushing past her physical limits, she charges directly into the remaining dark energy wave, pouring every ounce of her soul into her blade to slice the attack into nothingness.

But in the cultivation world, nothing comes without a price.

The catastrophic force of the explosion completely shatters her sword and destroys her entire right arm, tearing it away cleanly from the shoulder in a spray of crimson blood.

On the other side, the absolute destruction of his ultimate technique delivers the final blow to Bai Chen. He hacks up torrents of black blood as his entire cultivation base shatters into pieces. His body shrivels to the point where he looks like a walking skeleton—scarcely any flesh or life remaining on his bones.

Wu Yao stumbles forward, ignoring the agonizing void where her right arm used to be. Using her left hand to manifest a blade of pure energy, she channels the "Thunder Sword Second Mastery: Metallizing Sword."

Slice!

With a clean, swift arc, Bai Chen’s head is severed from his neck, tumbling into the dirt. Even in death, his lifeless, rolling head carries an ambiguous expression—one could not tell if it was a final grimace of absolute terror or a twisted, regretless smile.

Thick tears finally break free from Wu Yao’s eyes, mixing with the blood on her face. She falls to her knees, crying out to the empty sky, "Finally... Great Elder, seniors, juniors... I have avenged you all!"

She was a horrific sight to behold. Covered from head to toe in blood, her right arm completely missing from the shoulder—no one looking at her could have ever imagined that this mutilated figure was once a legendary, breathtaking beauty. Yet, a serene, genuine smile graces her lips. Behind that smile, the profound emotional trauma that had plagued her soul was finally beginning to dissolve.

With that peaceful smile, she turns her head to look at Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan remains perfectly calm. Silently, he raises his hand and points a single finger toward the heavens.

Wu Yao's eyes instinctively follow his gesture, looking up at the sky. There, the frozen, massive Heavenly Tribulation Clouds suddenly begin to churn violently once more.

CRACK-BOOM!

A colossal, blinding bolt of tribulation thunder breaks free from the frozen sky, racing straight down toward her defenseless body!

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