Chapter 2: Hengyu Land

Clamor.

Ye Wuque spoke lightly, his gaze coldly fixed on the young man.

Then, with one hand he seized the man in splendid robes and lifted him up.

"I ask, you answer. Understand?"

The man immediately nodded frantically, like pounding garlic.

"Sir... Your Excellency... Sir! Thank you for sparing me! Feel free to ask any question; I will answer everything without omission!"

Ye Wuque was slightly stunned.

Why isn't this following the usual script?

Shouldn't he first be defiant, refusing to yield even unto death, and only after experiencing the Nine Dragons Binding Heaven Lock speak?

What a good fellow.

He's got character.

"Name, affiliation," Ye Wuque began interrogating.

"My name is... Jun Duanjian!"

"From... Jun Family!" At the mention of Jun Family, an unmasked pride flashed in his eyes.

Ye Wuque continued: "Jun Family, in this region, what tier do they belong to?"

Obviously, mentioning Jun Family gave Jun Duanjian more confidence; his voice grew slightly louder:

"My Jun Family... stands as one of the supreme overlord forces at the very pinnacle of the entire Hengyu Land's Southern Region!"

"It wields incalculable influence across the whole Hengyu Land!"

Ye Wuque raised an eyebrow, saying: "Hengyu Land?"

"Yes! Hengyu Land! One of the Ten Lands among the Nine Heavens Ten Lands... Hengyu Land!"

"So, fellow Daoist, for the sake of Jun Family's face, grant me a reprieve, how about it? I guarantee I will never trouble you again; moreover, I will give you benefits beyond imagination!"

Jun Duanjian's mouth curved into a smile as he looked at Ye Wuque and said.

But Ye Wuque keenly noticed a shocking hatred and poisonous resentment deep within his eyes.

Yet Ye Wuque did not expose him, instead smiling: "Fine, but you must first tell me the situation of this Hengyu Land in detail, with no omission whatsoever."

A glimmer of hope flashed in Jun Duanjian's eyes, and he hurriedly said: "Very well! I am of the Jun Family, I possess comprehensive information; I will tell you everything now..."

"The entire Hengyu Land is boundless, containing an endless great starry sky, a Great Universe, and a Great World!"

"No distance is beyond reach! Unimaginable!"

"Geographically, it can roughly be divided into the Southern Region, Northern Region, Eastern Region, Western Region, and Central Region."

"Each region is many times larger than the entirety of Liuhe Bahuang combined!"

Upon hearing this, even Ye Wuque, who had long witnessed countless grand scenes, inhaled a faint gasp of cold air.

How vast is Liuhe Bahuang?

Leaving the Eight Desolations aside, just Liuhe alone is boundlessly vast, astonishingly huge.

Each successive He is larger than the last, and each is stronger than the last.

One can imagine how expansive and boundless the whole Liuhe is.

Any region of Hengyu Land is many times larger than the entire Liuhe Bahuang combined!

"Indeed, the magnitude of this world far exceeds my imagination!"

"Liuhe Bahuang, Nine Heavens Ten Lands, Heaven and Earth, Xuanhuang, Universe Honghuang, are all real places."

Ye Wuque's mind involuntarily recalled that line from Miao Miao Xianzi.

The excitement and anticipation in his eyes grew even stronger.

The true pinnacle worlds of Zhutian Wanjie stand atop the endless realms, a supreme contest of supremacy, endlessly spectacular and worth looking forward to!

Jun Duanjian's voice continued to sound slowly:

"I'm not very clear on the other regions; the Southern Region is roughly like this."

"The Southern Region of Hengyu Land is boundless, with countless forces developing within, intersecting, the law of the jungle."

"But only five forces stand at the pinnacle of the Southern Region!"

"Two great families! Two great sects! One great divine sect!"

"Each of these five great forces is a colossal entity that has overseen the Southern Region for countless ages, lofty and unfathomably profound! Throughout the Southern Region, they are the supreme heavens! No matter what happens there, it cannot escape these five terrifying powers!"

Jun Duanjian's tone was filled with boundless reverence.

"And my Jun Family... is one of those two great families!"

Ye Wuque's expression remained calm, continuing:

"What about the others?"

Jun Duanjian said:

"The other two sects are the Rift Heaven Blade Emperor Sect and the Burning Heaven Sect."

"The great divine sect is... the Little Fate Divine Sect!"

"As for the last family..."

A mysterious hue flashed in Jun Duanjian's eyes.

"It is... the Zi Family!"

"These are the five dominant forces of my Hengyu Land's Southern Region!"

Ye Wuque nodded with satisfaction, smiling slightly:

"Hmm, that's enough, you may now die."

Jun Duanjian instantly turned pale with horror and roared:

"You! You can't do this!"

"My family stands behind me! My brother Jun Changjian is one of the Jun clan's top ten lineages! If you dare kill me, he will crush you! You will die too!"

"Ahhh… Bang!"

Jun Duanjian exploded!

Killed by Ye Wuque with a single punch, utterly dead with no corpse.

"Annoying. Since you dared to strike me, be prepared to die…"

Ye Wuque's eyes were deep as he murmured to himself.

"Zi family… interesting."

Hearing the Zi family, Ye Wuque recalled someone!

Ziyang Shen!

A supremely talented Heavenly Pride, whose studies have produced an unrivaled master of the Extreme Realm!

Could this Zi family be Ziyang Shen's clan?

Ye Wuque's gaze turned toward a direction deep in the star vault, thoughtful.

Perhaps I should go see the Zi family.

…

Meanwhile, somewhere beyond an unknown number of Star Domains away from this ancient Teleportation Array, having crossed countless temporal and spatial barriers.

In the heart of the Southern Region of the Eternal Universe, deep within an ancient Star Domain guarded by countless stars, where nebulae flow like an eternal veil.

A bronze colossal gate, whose grandeur defies description, stood towering in the Void.

On either side of the gate rose undulating bronze mountain ranges, like the back of an ancient Dragon, atop which countless bronze towers of varied shapes stood, their surfaces etched with arcane runes that glimmered with the luster of ages.

The dense power of the stars here coalesced into a visible pale golden mist, permeating every inch of Space.

A vast, weighty, supreme majesty that originated at the beginning of Open Heaven and Split Earth shrouded this immense realm, as if Time itself had lost meaning here, and only the title "Jun" remained eternally Immortal.

Here lies the stronghold of the Jun family, one of the five great overlords of the Southern Region!

Deep within the Ancestral Land, a towering bronze colossus tower that seemed capable of piercing the heavens.

Inside an ancient Dongfu that appeared modest yet every inch of its space pulsed with suffocating energy.

The floor was paved with star fragments, a cultivation platform based on divine jade, and the air was filled with liquid‑like star essence.

A tall figure clad in dark‑gold cloud‑patterned robes sat cross‑legged at the center of the platform.

His youthful face bore a hard, chiseled contour, eyes tightly shut, aura dense as a abyss, seemingly resonating faintly with the vast power of the entire bronze tower.

Suddenly!

His tightly shut eyes snapped open!

Two solid dark‑gold beams, like a slumbering ancient ferocious Dragon suddenly awakened, burst forth from his eyes!

The thick, liquid‑like star essence within the Dongfu was instantly stirred and torn by those gazes, emitting a piercing screech!

An indescribable terrifying pressure, like ten‑million Divine Mountains crashing down, and as if the dormant will of the Star Domain was instantly awakened by him!

The entire ancient Dongfu's space suddenly sank!

The star‑fragment floor crackled, and the divine‑jade pedestal buzzed and trembled!

Runes flowing on the four walls of the Dongfu flickered wildly, as if unable to bear the sudden pressure!

"Hm?"

Jun Changjian let out a low, suppressed, yet seething nasal sound from his throat.

A layer of ten‑thousand‑year dark ice chilled his handsome, cold face instantly.

Just now, he clearly sensed that his blood‑linked younger brother—Jun Duanjian—whose life mark in the family soul hall, bearing his destined soul imprint, had been completely extinguished!

Along with the imprint of the protective short sword he had bestowed, also vanished!

"Duanjian… fallen?"

The low self‑talk echoed in the Dead Silence‑suppressed Dongfu, each word squeezing out of the Nine Nether's icy prison, bearing soul‑freezing murderous intent.

"Good… good… good!"

He rose slowly, his tall, upright body seeming to support the collapsing space.

His dark‑gold robes moved without wind, rustling, the cloud patterns on them seeming to come alive, turning into a roaring dark‑gold angry Dragon.

A terrifying aura that froze the Void and made the stars tremble erupted explosively around him!

"I don't care who you are, or what faction you come from!"

Jun Changjian's voice suddenly rose sharply, like a thunderclap, causing the whole Dongfu to hum, the wall runes flickering erratically, as if about to shatter!

The icy murderous intent in that voice could freeze the Star River!

"How dare you touch my brother, Jun Duanjian…"

He stepped forward, the star fragments beneath his feet silently turning to dust.

His gaze pierced the thick bronze walls of the Dongfu, aiming toward the distant Star Domain where the Teleportation Array lay, like two apocalyptic divine rays.

"I will make you understand what fear is!"

Boom—!

Deep within the Jun family's Ancestral Land, centered on this bronze colossus tower, the vast Star Domain seemed to shiver under the raging fury of the Jun family's supreme Heavenly Pride!