[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body":3,"chapter-starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-chapter-38":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting with the Wasteland Sacred Body",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2340845,4576,"Chapter 38: Killing Long Hao Tian, the Eighteenth Ancestor Acts, Three Swords Destroy a Semi-Sovereign!","starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-chapter-38",38,"\u003Cp>That voice spoke, and the cosmos trembled, heaven and earth shook!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrifying dragon aura crushed down from above!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the horrified gazes of all factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive, muscular, jet-black dragon claw descended from the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its jet-black scales gleamed with icy light; as the claw descended, it tore rifts in space, its ripples terrifying enough to strike fear into the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That aura… at least a Semi-Sovereign!” some elder experts cried out in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sovereign realm stands atop the pinnacle of the Immortal Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And a Semi-Sovereign is the foremost beneath a Sovereign!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even within some immortal sects, a Semi-Sovereign is an absolute top-tier figure, a cornerstone of their foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, one had appeared, causing the four corners to tremble in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No wonder Long Hao Tian dared act so boldly—he had backing. Naturally, he wasn’t afraid.” Some understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how arrogant Long Hao Tian was, he could never have come alone to the Jun family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as a Jun family prodigy would never be foolish enough to challenge the Ancestral Dragon Nest alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Long Hao Tian, someone was supporting and protecting him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excellent! Elder You Long has acted!” Long Hao Tian’s face broke into a smile of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as he still had a single breath, there was a chance for a comeback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shame of today might yet be washed away tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? Could the one arriving be the You Long Sovereign of the Ancestral Dragon Nest?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Long Hao Tian’s words, some elder cultivators trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder You Long was a powerful Semi-Sovereign of the Ancestral Dragon Nest, his true form a black dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once, with his Semi-Sovereign cultivation base, he had stood against a human Supreme Sovereign, earning fame that spread across the three thousand Dao States of the Immortal Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But later, he vanished into seclusion within the Ancestral Dragon Nest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, reappearing, his aura still shook heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jun family brat, don’t push things too far. Let this matter end here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The You Long Sovereign’s tone was cold, aloof, condescending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Long Hao Tian who had provoked trouble, coming to the Jun family, trying to crush Jun Xiaoyao beneath his feet to gain fame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, with a single word from You Long Sovereign, he expected to walk away unscathed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, what You Long Sovereign could do now was merely take Long Hao Tian away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To kill Jun Xiaoyao within the Jun family’s territory was as absurd as a fantasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even if he were a true Sovereign of the Ancestral Dragon Nest himself could he kill Jun Xiaoyao on Jun family ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing You Long Sovereign’s words, Long Hao Tian finally exhaled in relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his gaze toward Jun Xiaoyao was filled with icy malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time in his life, he had been defeated so utterly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had even needed his clan’s elder to humiliate himself to save him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could say Long Hao Tian had never suffered such humiliation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hatred for Jun Xiaoyao was unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Long Hao Tian’s gaze, Jun Xiaoyao smirked coldly: “What, are you going to say ‘Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph, my elder brother Long Ao will make you taste defeat!” Long Hao Tian hissed coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dared not speak of avenging himself personally anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Ancient Holy Body and Sovereign Bone were too powerful—he could never hope to oppose them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah… too bad, you won’t live to see it.” Jun Xiaoyao smiled, and as Long Hao Tian stared in shock, his hand pressed down again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jun Xiaoyao, are you mad? Still attacking me?!” Long Hao Tian paled, retreating violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Audacious!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the heavens, You Long Sovereign’s voice boomed like thunder, shaking the nine heavens and ten earths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, a Semi-Sovereign, had spoken personally—and Jun Xiaoyao ignored him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom! Boom! Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A colossal dragon claw plunged straight from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the void, countless runes glowed—Jun family’s defensive array, sensing magical energy, activating automatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each ray of light could kill a Saint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, it could not halt the descending dragon claw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the claw passed, the array runes exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Long Sovereign had acted—not to kill Jun Xiaoyao, but to retrieve Long Hao Tian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom! Boom! Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jet-black claw tore through space, shattering array runes one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The might of a Semi-Sovereign was this formidable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… doesn’t the Jun family react at all?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling that terrifying aura, many hurriedly scattered, glancing toward Jun Zhantian and other clan elders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancestral Dragon Nest’s Semi-Sovereign had acted—why were they still so calm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some sharp-eyed observers noticed: Jun Zhantian and the other elders all wore cold, mocking smirks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The powerful aura of the Semi-Sovereign crushed down, focused entirely on Jun Xiaoyao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any ordinary young prodigy would have been paralyzed by such pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Jun Xiaoyao ignored it, continuing his attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached into the void, summoning the Spear of the Ming God, and hurled it straight at fleeing Long Hao Tian, piercing his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, using the Jisu  of the Demon Wings, he moved with lightning speed, raising his hand to strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack! Crack! Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A series of bone-snapping sounds, grating and nauseating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Hao Tian spat blood furiously, his entire skeleton shattered, collapsing to the ground, barely alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Jun Xiaoyao stomped down from midair, his foot infused with forty thousand Great Elephant Particles, crushing Long Hao Tian’s chest outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spurt!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gush of blood, mixed with shattered organs, erupted from Long Hao Tian’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his dragon body could not withstand such force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Hao Tian’s eyes bulged, filled with shock, rage, disbelief, and faint regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother… won’t… forgive you…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Hao Tian stared wide-eyed, his words slurred, then his breath ceased, eyes still open in death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancestral Dragon Nest’s dragon prince was dead!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And all of this happened in the span of a single instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even You Long Sovereign had not expected Jun Xiaoyao to act so decisively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A roar shook the nine heavens and ten earths!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Long Sovereign was enraged!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vast pressure surged like a tidal wave, cracking the earth; nearby guests were crushed to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, Jun Xiaoyao stood with hands behind his back, his immortal, ethereal face as still as a deep well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if he faced not a Semi-Sovereign of supreme power, but an ordinary man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a cold snort echoed from deep within the Jun family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When did a mere Semi-Sovereign dare act so boldly in the Jun family’s domain?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the words fell, a brilliant, vast sword light pierced the sky from the Jun family’s depths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword light gleamed, reflecting the terrifying scene of countless Immortals falling; the void split open into a pitch-black fissure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black space currents roared with the sword qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One sweep of the blade—You Long Sovereign let out a roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive dragon arm, drenched in dragon blood, fell from the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One sword—severed You Long Sovereign’s dragon arm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone around was stunned, hair standing on end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword light’s might seemed ready to annihilate all worlds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s the Jun family’s Luoxian Sword Art—one of the Five Divine Arts! The one who struck is Jun Family’s Eighteenth Ancestor!” someone cried out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jun Family’s Eighteenth Ancestor, you’ll pay for this…” You Long Sovereign’s voice rang from the heavens, cold and sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since you’ve come, then stay…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eighteenth Ancestor’s voice echoed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, two more Luoxian Sword Art blades slashed through the sky from the Jun family’s depths!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No! Do you intend to ignite an eternal war between the Ancestral Dragon Nest and the Jun family?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the void, You Long Sovereign’s voice carried unprecedented terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the two immortal factions truly ignite an Immortal War, the entire Wilderness Heaven Immortal Realm will plunge into unprecedented turmoil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what if it’s an Immortal War? My Jun Clan has stood firm in the Immortal Realm for countless years—when have we ever feared anyone!” Eighteen Ancestor’s tone was utterly domineering!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pfft!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the heavens, two sword beams swept consecutively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood rain poured down like a deluge!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven and earth wept together; the cosmos trembled!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive black dragon corpse plummeted from the distant heavens, like a divine being fallen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jun Clan’s Eighteen Ancestor slew the Ancestral Dragon Nest’s Pretender to the Supreme with three sword strikes.\u003C\u002Fp>",1385,"2026-06-20T23:29:44.332Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","266fd3585ad803fc9b862488b464ce2efa11fb2e589bc4dc521e5559fc0e48e2","starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-chapter-39","starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-chapter-37",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-cover.jpg"]