Chapter 188: Emperor Nie, Star Lord, and the Fifteen Dragon-Men

Fang Yu's cultivation base had now reached completion; he had cultivated both the Great Five Elements Art and the Great Cutting Art to the Great Perfection stage. His Great Five Elements Art, in particular, had absorbed several Five Elements Sacred Beasts comparable to the Golden Core realm—some even having survived the Great Wind and Fire Tribulation—making its power incomparably terrifying. He was fully capable of killing enemies across cultivation realms.

Yet now, Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai was spouting nonsense before him, claiming Fang Yu had no idea what kind of torture awaited him once he fell into his hands. This was truly foolish. Fang Yu unleashed the Great Cutting Art and the Great Five Elements Art, instantly inflicting severe injuries upon Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai, leaving him unable to even flee.

Fang Yu did not waste words. He reached out and grabbed the dying Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai, his magic power surging forth into Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai's mind to read his memories.

"No-Life Sword Sect, Great Slaughter Art."

Soon, Fang Yu found what he was looking for.

Between heaven and earth, there is always a glimmer of life; this is the number of the Great Expansion—lacking one, it remains agile. However, the No-Life Killing Dao practiced by Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai forcibly defied heaven, extinguishing all vitality, using the stance of an absolute killer to execute absolute slaughter. Nothing between heaven and earth could match it.

This was the inheritance Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai had obtained. This "Little Immortal" of the Ascending Feather Sect had acquired the absolute killing sword art of the ancient Sword Sect, the No-Life Sword Sect—which was none other than the Great Slaughter Art among the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Fang Yu searched Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai's sea of consciousness and directly obtained the Great Slaughter Art.

It was as if someone had brought a pillow just as he was feeling sleepy. Fang Yu had been worrying about his lack of supreme supernatural powers and higher-level Daos, and Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai had actually come to provoke him. Without hesitation, he seized the Great Slaughter Art from Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai's mind.

"What did you do to me?"

Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai had not even reacted to what was happening. He only remembered that he had been about to unleash his No-Life Killing Sword to teach this fellow disciple from the Ascending Feather Sect a lesson, but then the guy named Fang Yu had directly shaken his spiritual sense, and he had been grabbed in mid-air, seemingly having his soul searched.

This was unimaginable.

At this moment, Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai was about to explode with rage.

As a "Little Immortal" of the Ascending Feather Sect, he had encountered numerous fortuitous events since he began cultivating. At only sixteen, while others were still worrying about the Supernatural Secret Realm, he had already reached the sixth level of the Supernatural Realm, the Unity Realm. Now, his cultivation had even reached the seventh level, the Golden Core realm. Yet here he was, restrained and held in the void by someone.

This was a tremendous humiliation.

Almost the instant he realized what had happened, Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai felt the urge to self-detonate his Golden Core and fight Fang Yu to the death.

"Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai, if you weren't a disciple of my Ascending Feather Sect, you would already be dead. Before me, you don't even have the possibility of self-detonation. Get lost."

Fang Yu had keenly sensed Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai's thought of self-detonation. He immediately moved his hand and threw Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai away.

There were plenty of people who didn't follow the Ascending Feather Sect's rules, but sometimes one had to follow them slightly—especially when it came to fellow disciples fighting to the death outside. If the Sect Master or Elders found out, it would be quite troublesome.

If True Inheritor disciples wanted to fight to the death, they had to go to the Heavenly Punishment Platform.

Otherwise, for one True Inheritor disciple to kill another outside would have a truly terrible impact. If it went unpunished, then if disciples started killing each other every time they left the sect, what dignity would the Immortal Dao sect have left? What decorum would there be for Immortal Dao disciples?

This was not allowed.

Fang Yu felt that if he killed Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai here, it would surely reach the ears of the Ascending Feather Sect's Sect Master and Elders, so this time he only plundered one of Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai's supernatural powers before throwing him out.

"Fine, Fang Yu, I will remember you."

Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai gritted his teeth, as if to etch Fang Yu firmly into his heart. Immediately after, he took out a large gourd of elixirs, swallowed them, and transformed into a streak of sword light to fly away.

"I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Fang to have such a cultivation base. I heard Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai's cultivation had already reached the seventh level, the Golden Core realm, while Fellow Daoist Fang's cultivation is only at the fifth level. With a gap of two realms, you were still able to easily defeat Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai. If this gets out, you will surely become famous throughout the world."

Not far from Fang Yu, Fairy Fairy Fairy Lianyun wore a look of shock.

This time, she had witnessed the internal strife between True Inheritor disciples of the Ascending Feather Sect, and she had not anticipated the result. A Golden Core realm cultivator had been easily defeated by a Heavenly Human realm cultivator!

No matter how one looked at it, it seemed unrealistic.

After all, the enemy Fang Yu faced was also a supreme genius of the Ascending Feather Sect, not just some random nobody, yet Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai had been defeated just like that!

"Fame abroad is unnecessary; I hope you will keep this a secret. This is internal strife within my Ascending Feather Sect; I apologize for the spectacle."

Fang Yu looked at Fairy Fairy Fairy Lianyun and spoke.

Although his moves just now were simple, he had used his most formidable means: using the Great Cutting Art to shatter the opponent's thoughts, leaving the enemy unable to muster magic power or focus their spirit, and then using the Five Emperors Canopy to summon the Five Emperors Thunder to destroy all laws.

His attack techniques were one after another. When encountering those with weaker strength, they would die under his first move, not even requiring a second.

The Great Cutting Art was incredibly useful as an opening move.

"Understood, understood. Rest assured, Fellow Daoist, this matter will rot in my stomach."

Seeing Fang Yu's serious expression, Fairy Fairy Fairy Lianyun nodded. Deep down, however, she was filled with curiosity. What were those supernatural powers Fang Yu had used? Their power was truly too great.

She considered herself a powerhouse of the Heavenly Human realm, having received guidance from many experts of the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land and practiced many supernatural powers. But she had a realization: if she had been the one fighting Fang Yu just now, she likely would have fallen in the first move.

That move was simply too fast, too ruthless, and impossible to block.

After this incident, the two continued toward the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Tower.

The battle just now had seemed intense, but in reality, it had only lasted a moment. The experts in this city hadn't even reacted before it was over, and Fang Yu and Fairy Fairy Fairy Lianyun soon returned to the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Tower.

Fang Yu's harvest this time was quite good: he had obtained a Kunpeng egg, a supreme treasure, and had also obtained a Great Dao for free—the Great Slaughter Art.

Over the next few days, he began to practice the Great Slaughter Art.

The No-Life Sword Sect's Great Slaughter Art was not difficult to practice, but the philosophy of the No-Life Sword Sect was even more demonic than that of the demons themselves.

Between heaven and earth, all things can be killed. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.

Slaughter does not distinguish between right and wrong, between anything. Only by cultivating a heart of slaughter within can one practice the Great Slaughter Art to the stage of Great Perfection.

Regarding this, Fang Yu had a different perspective, but in the process of practicing, he realized that if one were to truly fall completely into the Great Slaughter Art, then even one's foster father or master could be killed.

It was no wonder that Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai, a man among men, specialized in killing his foster fathers.

"A perfectly fine youth, having obtained fortuitous encounters, yet he chose the wrong path?"

A thought even rose in Fang Yu's heart.

But such thoughts were useless now. He and Meng Meng Meng Meng Meng Shaobai had already forged a deep enmity, so they could only fight to the death. If there was an opportunity in the future, he would kill him.

As he cultivated, the days passed quickly, and soon it was the day of the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Tower's grand auction.

These past few days, the entire city had been in a state of upheaval. The Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land had used its influence to "leak" the auction's finale item. Many big figures knew that the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Tower had actually obtained a Five Elements Sacred Beast—a Vermilion Bird—and was going to auction it off.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves.

The sacred beast Vermilion Bird was something that hadn't been seen on the Profound Yellow Great World for thousands, or even ten thousand years. Although many Five Elements spirits had been born on the Profound Yellow Great World long ago, they had all been obtained by those senior experts and could not possibly appear on the market.

Now, the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land had actually obtained a Vermilion Bird!

Visibly, many high-level cultivators had arrived in this city under the Great Xuan Empire: experts at the seventh level of the Supernatural Realm (Golden Core), the eighth level (Great Wind and Fire Tribulation), the ninth level (Heaven and Earth Dharma Form), and the tenth level (Heaven-Defying Fate-Changing) had all come.

There were even rumors that Eternal Giants had descended upon this city.

"What is happening? Although our Taibai City is a famous city of the Great Xuan Empire, it cannot compare to the Five Emperor Cities or the Profound Yellow City. Why are there so many big figures here today?"

A cultivator who had reached the third level of the Supernatural Realm (Qi Gang) looked at a tenth-level expert who had just passed by, feeling their spirit tremble.

The pressure from such a cultivator was simply too strong. Walking on the road, there was almost a sense of destroying eternity.

"I also heard a rumor. They say a fairy from the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land caught a Vermilion Bird from somewhere and is going to auction it here at the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Tower. That's why those big figures have arrived. Look, that's another big figure at the Golden Core realm. I can clearly perceive the pressure of that Great Golden Core."

A cultivator at the fourth level of the Supernatural Realm (Yin-Yang) spoke, looking at another great cultivator who had just arrived.

"What? A Vermilion Bird? That's a fire-type sacred beast, almost comparable to a god. Is something like that actually being auctioned?"

"Indeed. If this news hadn't come from a fairy of the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land, I wouldn't believe it either. Think about it, what kind of existence is a Vermilion Bird? Is it something that can be auctioned? But the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land has the big figure known as the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Immortal Venerable. It would be normal for this Immortal Venerable to pluck the stars from the sky to use as a bracelet, so I think this news is true."

"Then we must go and see. I also want to see what a Vermilion Bird looks like."

"Go, of course we must go. It's impossible for people like us to bid for the Vermilion Bird sacred beast, but seeing it to broaden our horizons is possible."

"Good!"

Numerous discussions and divine senses were being transmitted everywhere. Fang Yu, however, went nowhere, staying in the auction's VIP room to cultivate.

While cultivating, he waited for the auction to begin.

Soon, the auction started. Treasure after treasure was auctioned off, but no one cared much about those ordinary items; everyone was waiting for the real goods from the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land.

Finally, near the end, a woman at the tenth level of the Supernatural Realm from the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land personally took the stage, causing quite a stir.

"That is Senior Sister Mo Yue of my Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land. She has already reached the tenth level of the Supernatural Realm (Heaven-Defying Fate-Changing). This time, to auction the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise, she has personally come out to suppress the scene."

Fairy Fairy Fairy Lianyun spoke, revealing the woman's name.

Fairy Mo Yue had reached the tenth level of the Supernatural Realm (Heaven-Defying Fate-Changing) three hundred years ago, but she had yet to break through to the Longevity Secret Realm. She was only one step away.

But she had been waiting for this step for three hundred years.

"Everyone, what we are about to auction next is the Vermilion Bird that has already been the subject of so much talk. This is a sacred beast born only when the essence of the Five Elements is nurtured to the extreme. If it continues to grow, it is possible for it to break through to the Longevity Secret Realm. Of course, using this Vermilion Bird to practice fire-type techniques, even the most difficult supreme fire-type supernatural powers can be practiced to Great Perfection in an instant. Besides that, if you have a Vermilion Bird on your mountain peak, it will change the ley lines of the peak."

Fairy Mo Yue's gentle voice spread throughout the entire auction hall.

With a gesture from her, the sacred beast Vermilion Bird was brought up.

This Vermilion Bird was still under seal, but the moment it appeared, the temperature of the entire auction hall rose many times over. Everyone felt drenched in sweat, as if a sun were being auctioned.

Some cultivators at the first, second, third, and fourth levels of the Supernatural Realm who were sitting in the plaza below the VIP rooms felt as if their entire bodies were about to melt and turn to ashes.

This feeling was simply too terrifying.

Truly, genuinely terrifying.

The moment the Vermilion Bird appeared, they knew their own insignificance.

If this Vermilion Bird had not been sealed and had been unsealed in this auction hall, hundreds of people would have died in a single breath.

Even in the VIP rooms, many guests at the Heavenly Human and Unity realms trembled. Only the Eternal Golden Core little giants could remain as steady as a mountain, but even their faces showed signs of agitation.

"A Vermilion Bird? Is it really a Vermilion Bird? Where did the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land get such a treasure?"

"Good stuff, truly good stuff. If this thing weren't being auctioned by the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Blessed Land, I would have snatched it directly."

A great demon of the Demonic Path made a sinister sound, seemingly eager to act, but they dared not move against the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Immortal Venerable's venue.

Once, a giant of the Longevity Secret Realm had moved against the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Immortal Venerable's venue, and later, that giant of the Longevity Secret Realm had departed very peacefully.

"This sacred beast starts at four hundred million, with each bid increasing by ten million elixirs. Everyone, start bidding."

Just then, Fairy Mo Yue's words rang out again, shocking everyone.

Fang Yu listened with great pleasure.

Higher, let the price go higher. Do not be stingy.

With such a good item here, one must not miss it.

An ancient sacred beast, only this one exists.

"Four hundred and ten million!"

Just as Fang Yu was watching the show, someone in the VIP rooms had already called out a price, directly increasing it by ten million.

This bidding pattern left those small supernatural cultivators at the first, second, third, and fourth levels stunned, and even the Heavenly Human realm experts were shocked.

Increasing the bid by ten million at once—they really didn't treat money as money.

"Six hundred million."

"Six hundred and ten million."

"Seven hundred million."

"Eight hundred million!"

In a short moment, the auction price of this Vermilion Bird skyrocketed. Just as Fairy Fairy Fairy Lianyun had said, such good items as the Vermilion Bird, a Five Elements Sacred Beast, were always hard currency and never lacked big buyers.

So, in a very short time, the price soared continuously, reaching eight hundred million.

This was no longer a price that ordinary cultivators could call out. Those bidding were all existences at the seventh level of the Supernatural Realm (Golden Core) and above, including cultivators of the Great Wind and Fire Tribulation and those who had changed their fate against heaven.

"Nine hundred million!"

Someone in a VIP room called out a price.

Nine hundred million!

A Vermilion Bird had actually reached a price of nine hundred million. This not only shocked the entire venue, but even Fairy Mo Yue, who was selling the item, was stunned for a moment.

"One billion!"

"One billion one hundred million."

"One billion one hundred and ten million."

"One billion five hundred million."

Suddenly, an old and grand voice transmitted from a VIP room. "This old man, Lord of the Nie Emperor Star, wishes to buy this Vermilion Bird for one billion five hundred million. I hope all fellow daoists will yield. I believe that at a price of one billion five hundred million, even if the Exalted Exalted Exalted Exalted Linglong Immortal Venerable were here in person, she would have nothing to say to this old man."