In the current era of Honggu Heavenly Realm, the Great Heavenly Venerate was recognized as the strongest above all. He guarded the Heavenly Court, became the Heavenly Emperor, crushed through the ages, suppressed the infinite realm and was invincible in that era.

In this world, there were very few secrets that he did not know of.

Taking the situation at Tianyuan world for example, he in fact knew it better than anyone else.

However, it was just insignificant to him and he would at most throw glances occasionally at it.

“That’s not it!” Before waiting for Star Lord Taibai to even reply, the Great Heavenly Venerate spoke up once again, “That old man Mountain Master Tianyuan is the one living the most carefree life. He doesn’t have a care for anything which means he has no weakness. He doesn’t ask of others nor does he control anyone. After that incident that year, he is even more unlikely to accept disciples. Look at him now! Who would dare make fun of him?”

“He’s apathetic and has no desire at all. Yet he’s the most stubborn one sometimes!” Taibai Star Lord sighed.

“That’s true!” Great Heavenly Venerate frowned slightly, “It’s just that this human’s growth seems to be a little abnormal. I tried to see through his innate nature and was actually warded off.”

“Even your Majesty can’t see through?” Star Lord Taibai was shocked.

The Great Heavenly Venerate nodded and continued, “However, we can still feel that he has an amazing qi and blood. His physical body is anything but ordinary as well. That sword Dao that he just performed was extremely domineering but its Dao fluctuation was very poor in comparison. His cultivation base shouldn’t be high but his combat power is sky-defying. Taibai, this kid came from the immortal realm and yet had such achievements. Doesn’t this feel familiar?”

“It’s…” Star Lord Taibai’s expression changed slightly and continued, “Could it be that he is related to ‘that place’?”

“That should be the reason! Otherwise, how could he, a human from the immortal world, grow to such a level?” The Great Heavenly Venerate stood up. In an instant, a powerful surge of energy was awakened as countless storms were set off in layers of space, “Alas, ‘that place’. A place that’s both desirable by many, and feared by many as well.”

“Your Majesty, with your cultivation base, you should be able to stand firm there!” Star Lord Taibai thoughtfully said, “Compared to this place here, isn’t it much easier to walk on the path of Dao over at ‘that place’?”

“It isn’t so!” the Great Heavenly Venerate shook his head, “It’s very easy to improve to the Great Overarching Realm there, but becomes extremely difficult to improve further. The great Dao would seem to be far from attainable and it’s even harder for enlightenment.”

With his hand behind his back, the Great Heavenly Venerate paced back and forth in the great hall as the mirror that was floating in front of him continued following him around.

Star Lord Taibai was silent for a while after taking in such news.

“What do you think would happen if that kid killed Beiming Hai?” the Great Heavenly Venerate spoke again with a strange tone.

“Can he kill him though?” Star Lord Taibai shook his head, “Your Majesty, you said it yourself just now that this kid has a low cultivation base and there’s even Bei Chenxing on the sideline. How can he even kill him? There isn’t any grudge between the two and hence there shouldn’t be any reason for them to fight. Besides, Beiming Hai has the Black Emperor behind him.”

There was a glimpse of strangeness in his eyes as he had quite a grasp on the Great Heavenly Venerates thought.

Even if there were some guesses in his heart, he could only pretend to be confused at times.

‘What if the kid was killed by Beiming Hai?’ Star Lord Taibai lowered her head, thinking that this might be the other meaning behind what the Great Heavenly Venerate was saying.

“Let’s just watch this farce unfold!” The Great Heavenly Venerate sat back down on his throne and the peerless power that was raging also fell silent.

…

In the Infinite Realm Battlefield, Jiang Ming paused his attack after a single sword slash.

While he was exchanging blows with Bei Chenxing, he opened up the Human Path Record again.

Name: Beiming Kunpeng

Race: Demon clan

Gender: Male

Cultivation Base: Quasi-Sage Realm

Background: The Great Northern Emperor of the Honggu Heavenly Realm Heavenly Court, also known as Black Emperor.

Relationship: 0

Innate Talent: Quasi-Sage

Status

: As the first Kunpeng of the Honggu Heavenly Realm, his congenital bloodline and aptitude was extremely high. Since the beginning of his birth, his growth has been smooth sailing as he yearns for an unfettered life and freedom.

: When he was challenged by the ancient Heavenly Court and wouldn’t back down, he was forcefully suppressed and was almost besieged.

: Although he subdued in the end, the foundation of his cultivation aptitude was also destroyed and his potential greatly reduced.

: He stayed in the Heavenly Court but hated the place very much.

: When the ancient Heavenly Court suffered a disaster, not only did he not lend a helping hand, he kicked them when they were down, landing a blow onto the previous Heavenly Emperor before quietly disappearing from the place.

: When the Heavenly Court was rebuilt, he was invited by the Great Heavenly Venerate who treated him generously. Unable to refuse the offer, he took on the position as the Great Northern Emperor, commanded the Northern sky and mastered the Killing Dao.

: His Dao injury still remained and recovery was too difficult. In the endless years, he felt more and more lonely and started thinking about inheritance and leaving a legacy. When he thought of bloodline inheritance, he had a sudden spark in his mind, and came up with a method: To replenish bloodline with bloodline and whittle away his Dao injury with the power of origin.

: As Beiming Hai was born from this thought, he loved him immensely and took great care of him in every possible way. However, it also caused this beloved son of his to develop a reckless and domineering character.

: He didn’t mind it all and even created a type of technique that allowed Beiming to plunder other people’s cultivation base, absorb it as his own, extradite the energy with his bloodline inheritance which allowed him to improve without needing to cultivate.

: At the same time, there was also the Cauldron technique that allowed him to snatch a person’s innate ability, talent and bloodline to enhance his own. This made Beiming Hai even more lawless. Under his intentional indulgence and secret guidance, Beiming Hai plundered rare women everywhere. After toying with them, he either devoured them directly or used them as his cauldron, allowing his strength to skyrocket.

: Upon reaching the Great Overarching Realm, he indulged his beloved son more by even gathering countless artifacts and treasures for him to refine and absorb, so as to improve his cultivation base and potential even further.

: Under his secret guidance, his son even captured some of the most talented female disciples of the major sects as cauldron and continued to grow his origin.

: Seeing the growth of his child, he was extremely happy and reassured.

: He finally made up his mind to retreat into cultivation to adjust his current state to the peak and even practiced the Holy Laws a couple of times in order to be more perfect. After he finishes his cultivation retreat, he plans on forcibly raising his child’s cultivation base up to the pinnacle of Great Overarching Realm. When the time comes, he will devour his son to repair the injury to his body, improve his potential and at the same time cut off emotions and desire. By then, he will be enlightened and be able to peep into the Holy Dao.

: Currently in the midst of a cultivation retreat.

…

“Oh my God!”

Although Jiang Ming remained calm from the outside, he was extremely shocked in his heart.

This Kunpeng had Dao injury on himself, but was still in the Quasi-Sage Realm. Putting that to a side, who would’ve thought that he gave birth to a child, raised his child’s cultivation at any cost, and even developed the child into a lawless domineering character that made enemies everywhere and plunders the beauties of the world, all for the sake the growth of his beloved son’s origin so that he can devour it in the future.

‘Nurturing a child with the aim of devouring it?’ To think of it, Jiang Ming felt chills running through his spine.

He began wondering if Kunpeng was a human and thought that it was a resounding no.

‘He isn’t a human to begin with, but a beast! There’s a saying that a tiger, though cruel, will not devour its cubs. However, this guy gave birth and nurtured his son with the aim of killing it! Who would even believe this if the news went out?’ Jiang Ming sighed in his heart.

Meanwhile, he inexplicably felt some pity for Beiming Hai.

This person’s whole life was arranged from his birth to his upbringing.

However, with this person being a knot in little junior sister’s heart, how could he let him die at the hands of others?

Several thoughts ran through Jiang Ming’s mind.

‘If I kill Beiming Hai, that old Kunpeng will definitely go crazy. But If I don’t, Beiming Hai will surely fight us to his last gasp. Therefore, the result will never change whether I kill him or not! Wait…Why am I even pondering on this?’

He didn’t care about Bei Chenxing spreading the news around about the great encounter hidden in the Tianyuan world.

Since he wanted to assert dominance, he was ready to face anything that comes in his way.

“Are you finished thinking about this?” Jiang Ming walked towards him, “Your son wanted to destroy my homeland but I crippled him instead. He is now left with only a wisp of soul remnant and is being tempered by the Nine Fiery of the Netherworld, yet you still had so many worries about it. Haha, you really make me despise you!”

“You’re courting death!” Despite being cautious, Immortal Emperor Bei Chen couldn’t hold back his rage anymore this time, “How dare you treat my son like this! I will definitely kill you and all the living beings in that island of yours, leaving no survivors at all!”

“What are you waiting for? Bring it on then!” Jiang Ming lunged forward as the sword in his hand was already emanating dense aura of murderous intent.

“Great Akasa Sword Technique, End of Era!”

Hidden in the sword slash were boundless Dao of Destruction.

As an era came to an end, everything withered as the world returned to ruins, burying anything and everything with it.

It was a sword slash of death.

“Although your combat ability is strong, it’s only to such an extent!” Bei Chenxing’s killing intent was raging. He knew that this battle was inevitable and wanted to finish the fight quickly, “Great Overarching Dao where I control the stars!”

With a slash of a long sword, the stars in the sky glimmered, evoking an ancient starry sky. Between the cycles, an immeasurably imposing aura was dispersed.

There was also the power of Dao that belonged to the Great Overarching Realm in it, suppressing all of those under the Great Overarching Realm.

Jiang Ming was flung off from the explosion, as the sea waters below evaporated by thousands of feet and even the Tianyuan world shook slightly.

“Tyrannical indeed! As expected of a strong Great Overarching expert!” Jiang Ming didn’t mind and launched himself onwards to attack again.

The Sword Dao special ability was evoked as the destructive intent of the sword Sambodha pervaded thousands of miles around.

“You’re merely as so. When I get serious, you are nothing to me!” Bei Chenxing hummed, “Thinking to fight against a Great Overarching expert when you aren’t even one yourself? I myself am in the later stage of Great Overarching!”

As the deafening roars shook the sky, the two continued to exchange blows.

Although Jiang Ming was able to withstand the attacks, he was clearly at a disadvantage.

As Beiming Hai stepped back and landed onto his battleship, he held a maidservant in his arms as his hands were caressing up and down whilst carefully observing Jiang Ming.

“Mere ant that isn’t even of Great Overarching Realm to be as strong as this extent! There’s also that young girl from before. This is interesting!”

His eyes flicked as his heart was racing from happiness.

“Great Overarching! Deserving as it’s called!” Jiang Ming blocked off the attacks from his opponent, but couldn’t help and sighed.

The reason why he was at a disadvantage was because he was far from using his full strength.

He had yet to cast the World’s Projection which could suppress his opponents quite a bit. Besides, he had not evoked any physical body technique, incarnation Dao, and many other peerless ultimate techniques.

Nevertheless, it was already very remarkable for him to face up with Bei Chenxing of the later stage of Great Overarching with himself being in the Mystical Immortal Realm.

Fortunately, he hid himself using the Human Path Record so that other people couldn’t see through his actual cultivation realm. Otherwise, if people knew that he was only at Mystical Immortal Realm, who knew how big of a storm this might set off.

‘Although this fight was to assert dominance, I can’t let this stalemate go on for too long. Let’s just end this!’ As Jiang Ming thought to himself, readying to exert an explosive attack to destroy his opponent, he saw that Bei Chenxing had already evoked a terrifying technique.

The palace under his feet suddenly burst out hundreds and millions of light rays from the countless star imprints that were spread millions of miles away. The imprints formed a great array formation, encircling Jiang Ming in it.

“This is the Immortal Annihilation Star Array Formation! A technique which I’ve developed from the beginning of my birth through hundreds of millions of years of comprehension which uses my origin to match the starry sky.” Bei Chenxing’s voice was deafening, “I’ve collected the various star nuclei and the energy of countless stars, condensing into 365 huge stars. Once evoked, I am certain to even trap a Quasi-Sage Realm expert. As for you? It’s also your honor to be able to die under this formation!”

“Is that so?” Jiang Ming remained calm on the outside while his heart skipped a beat.

Did this count as being slapped in the face?