Azure Vault Continent · Wailing Forbidden Land.
"Die, Old Devil Chu~"
"Haha, to think that you, Old Devil Chu, who has bullied men and tyrannized women and committed countless evils your whole life, would ever imagine meeting your end at Severing Soul Cliff today?"
"This venerable one shall avenge my poor disciple."
"Chu Xiu, back then you deceived my sister, not only tricking her of her body but also causing her fragrance to fade and her jade to shatter. Today, I, Xie Kuangren, will tear your body to pieces... death by a thousand cuts!"
"After hunting you for three years, you finally have nowhere left to run, do you?"
"Xue'er, today, your father will finally have his revenge."
Atop the tens-of-thousands-of-li-high Severing Soul Cliff.
The young man's face was like crowned jade, his eyes like morning stars, his skin as white as snow.
His black hair, like a waterfall, moved without wind.
A vermilion robe, soaked in fresh blood, clung tightly to his form, outlining a well-proportioned figure.
In his right hand, he held a sword angled toward the ground. Droplets of blood trickled down the blade's tip, one by one. He surveyed his surroundings, his jet-black eyes as indifferent as ever.
Rumble—
In the void above, Buddhas murmured, Vajras glared with furious eyes, and a phantom of Guanyin smiled while holding a flower.
Endless sword qi crisscrossed the sky.
Snowflakes drifted for ten thousand li, freezing space itself.
Boundless divine flames burned the firmament.
Dozens of Great Sage experts from various Ancient Families, Holy Lands, and Great Sects suppressed everything, even twisting and sealing the space around them.
At this moment, Chu Xiu, who had been hunted relentlessly for three years, finally had nowhere to run.
A stunningly beautiful Great Sage expert in a flowing white dress stepped out, riding her sword.
A pair of cool, clear eyes looked down upon Chu Xiu as her vermilion lips parted slightly: "Chu Xiu, do you have any regrets?"
Chu Xiu raised his head slightly to meet her gaze, his tone laced with scorn. "Fairy Mengdie, this seat has never offended your Taisu Holy Land. Why have you come to hunt me?"
"You have committed many injustices. I ask you again, do you have any regrets?" Qi Mengdie's tone remained cold.
"Regrets?"
"Hahahaha~"
Chu Xiu threw his head back and laughed wildly. "I, Chu Xiu, have cultivated for less than a hundred years, a life spent in constant battle. Among my generation, besides this seat, who dares to claim invincibility? Who dares to speak of being undefeated?"
"You old fossils, so shameless as to besiege this seat for three full years with your Great Sage cultivation."
"My only regret is that time is merciless. If I were given another thousand years, who in this world would dare not to submit?"
His wanton and arrogant words spread throughout the entire Southern Border Region, moving the hearts of countless cultivators.
The next moment.
His hands rapidly formed a profound Dharma Seal. In an instant, heaven and earth lost their color as winds surged and clouds gathered!
"Not good~"
"This fiend intends to use his hidden trump card! Attack together and stop him!"
The Great Sage from the Ancient Buddhist Temple of the Western Regions formed a Buddha seal with his hands. Boundless Buddhist light, carrying with it the sounds of Zen, was the first to strike at Chu Xiu, its divine ability possessing terrifying might.
The other Great Sages reacted and also attacked one after another.
Countless divine abilities and magic treasures pressed down upon the world. The combined might of so many Great Sages attacking at once was terrifying, shaking the heavens and the earth. Space itself began to collapse, streams of chaotic qi surged forth, and the tens-of-thousands-of-zhang-high Severing Soul Cliff let out a mournful cry as it began to shatter, inch by inch.
Before the tide of divine abilities could even strike its target, Chu Xiu's body, with a bang, exploded into a mist of blood, dissipating between heaven and earth.
Leaving only a sigh lingering in the void.
"To shatter immortality and seek eternal life, the Great Emperor may regret, but I do not."
"In the end, I... have still been defeated. Alas..."
The dozens of Great Sages silently watched the spot where Chu Xiu's body had vanished.
Their faces were expressionless, but in their hearts, they breathed a sigh of relief.
This child was finally dead.
"A character of this caliber, had he been willing to go to the Celestial Abyss Great Wall to slay the Fiendish Barbarians, would surely have been a valiant general of our Human Race."
"What a pity, what a shame..."
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One month later.
Taisu Holy Land.
In an era where Great Emperors were bygones and Quasi-Emperors no longer appeared in the world, for a faction to be called a Holy Land, it had to possess at least one Sage King-level hegemon to suppress all.
The Taisu Holy Land comprised eighteen Spirit Peaks.
The top three peaks, Heavenly Punishment Peak, Rosy Cloud Peak, and Heavenly Sword Peak, all had Great Sage experts as their Peak Masters.
The other fourteen peaks had Peak Masters who were all Lesser Sage experts.
The final peak, Taisu Peak, was the residence of the Holy Master, and also the place where major affairs of the Taisu Holy Land were discussed.
The hierarchy formed a pyramid from bottom to top, in the following order:
Over a million Outer Sect Disciples, more than one hundred thousand Inner Sect Disciples, tens of thousands of Personal Disciples, the Elders of each peak, several hundred True Disciples, the fourteen Peak Masters, the Holy Son and Holy Maiden, the three great Peak Masters, the Holy Master, and finally, a few old fossils!
Rosy Cloud Peak.
In the cave residence of the head Personal Disciple.
Seated cross-legged on a prayer mat, a black-robed, black-haired young man slowly opened his tightly shut eyes, a bloody glint flashing through his pupils before vanishing. His handsome face was filled with mockery, the corners of his mouth curling into a devilishly charming smile.
"I must say, sometimes, failure is also a means to an end."
"As expected, I am a man destined to be invincible in the mortal realm."
"You old bastards, just you wait for this young master. The debt for hunting me for three years, I will repay it in full, one by one."
"Now, let me see... the memories of this tool."
"Oho, so it's the Taisu Holy Land."
The young man stood up and dusted off his robes.
"For this day, this seat prepared a total of three thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one trump cards, and one thousand, two hundred and one methods of resurrection. In the end, it was fated to be activated in the Taisu Holy Land. It seems this seat and this place are truly bound by destiny!"
Jiejie~
This person with the strange laugh was named Chu Xiu. He was originally just an ordinary university student on Blue Star. During his summer vacation, he returned to his hometown and accidentally fell into an old well. When he awoke, he had transmigrated into the Azure Vault Continent.
Just like the protagonists of web novels, he too was bound to a system.
However, this system was no ordinary one; it was called the [Fated Villain System].
As long as he committed numerous evil deeds, he could rapidly grow stronger.
Having gone through nine years of compulsory education, he, of course, refused at first.