Chapter 411: Main Road – Checkpoint 49!

Here, we have long since left the novice zone of the early Ancient Path and entered the deep waters where true strongmen gather, and opportunities coexist with danger.

The forty‑nine‑th checkpoint is an ancient Star Domain that is tens of times more vast than the Star Domain where the Initial Chill Gate lies.

In the records of the Star Sky Ancient Road, this Star Domain is called the Meteoric Path Star Domain.

Legend says that in a time far, far ago, more than one great being who had ascended to the Origin Dao Realm level fell here; their blood stained the stars, their Dao Rule shattered the Void, and their unwilling resolve and lingering fate made this Star Domain full of mystery and danger, yet also gave rise to countless ancient opportunities that drive the outside world mad.

At this moment, near the strange area called the Ancient God Meteoric Pit in the central region of the Meteoric Path Star Domain, the atmosphere is unprecedentedly lively and tense.

The Ancient God Meteoric Pit is said to be the place where a Dao Realm Existence finally fell and its Dao collapsed.

The place is unique; every long interval of years, the periodic fluctuation of residual Dao Rule triggers some ancient secret realms or relics deep within the Star Domain to surface, erupting with astonishing fate.

And recently, various signs indicate that a new eruption period is about to arrive!

The news has already spread, drawing the attention of many powerful Heavenly Pride on the Ultimate Main Road.

Countless fleeting lights rushed from every corner of the forty‑nine‑th checkpoint, and even from earlier and later stages, converging here, trying to get a share of the upcoming opportunity feast.

Opportunities are endless, and killing continues unabated.

In these five years, Ye Wuque has long become accustomed to this rhythm.

He is like a solitary star‑sky wanderer, also a cold Shura Killing God, barreling forward, breaking through one checkpoint after another.

His steps have never lingered long for any person or matter; his goal has always been the end of the road, a higher Tiandao, a stronger power.

After five years of war, his Gaisheng Shenwei has long ceased to be confined to the Nine Heavens branches or the circles of his early entry into the Main Road.

Time and again he forcefully slays strong foes, repeatedly explores perilous places to seize fate, and repeatedly clashes with top demons from all sides without defeat…

The name "Ye Wuque", along with terrifying titles such as "Ye Demon God", "Black Robe War God", "Black Demon Wuque", and "Newly Ascended Killing Star on the Other Shore Hunt List", have already completely shaken the Ultimate Main Road!

He is recognized by countless beings as one of the most terrifying, most untouchable handful of defying‑heaven monsters on the current stage of the Ultimate Main Road!

Especially for the beings of the Other Shore World, Ye Wuque has become a nightmare that makes them grit their teeth and feel deep terror.

In five years, the number of Other Shore Heavenly Pride that have died by his hand is already staggering, and among them are some core figures who are also well‑known within the Other Shore.

Consequently, Ye Wuque has long been placed near the top of the Other Shore's mandatory kill list, with bounties high enough to stir countless beings.

Some Other Shore strongmen once set a trap to surround‑kill him, but he turned the tables and slaughtered them all, leaving calmly, his ferocity even greater.

At this moment, at the edge of the Ancient God Meteoric Pit, within a relatively secluded broken‑star belt.

A Black Robe Figure stands proudly and silently atop a slowly rotating meteorite.

He is tall and upright, black hair draped over his shoulders, his face still youthful, yet those deep eyes have settled a richer, more restrained sense of world‑weariness and majesty than five years ago.

His surrounding aura is harmonious and natural, as if merged with the surrounding starry sky; without deliberate display, it is almost impossible to perceive his presence.

It is Ye Wuque.

In five years, for him, it has been not only steady cultivation progress, but also deeper comprehension of the Three Great Saint Method Origins, and increasingly proficient use of the Four Supreme Powers.

It is also a honing and elevation of his mindset.

Lonely exploration, brutal killing, life‑and‑death trials have made his already god‑golden Dao Heart even more radiant, flawless, crystal clear.

His gaze calmly sweeps over the increasingly lively, increasingly chaotic and powerful core area of the Ancient God Meteoric Pit in the distance.

There, thousands to tens of thousands of powerful beings from all sides have gathered, their clamor shaking the heavens, various strong auras interweaving and colliding, forming a chaotic and dangerous force field.

"This checkpoint… the commotion is quite big."

Ye Wuque murmurs softly to himself, his voice calm and unruffled.

"According to custom, those guys over on the Other Shore who have been shouting they want my life… I guess they should be arriving now, too."

A faint, icy curve lifts at the corner of his mouth.

"Especially you… Shi Litian."

Ye Wuque's gaze seems to pierce the Void, seeing a direction suffused with overwhelming Corpse Qi.

"Two years ago, at the thirty‑second checkpoint, I slaughtered the three Corpse Hounds you sent to track me, and also wiped out that batch of your Corpse Clan Heavenly Pride that entered the Main Road… counting the time, you should act now."

"And Xue Jianchen and Gui Qianmo… regulars on the Other Shore Heavenly Ladder List, whose clan members I beheaded and whose opportunities I seized; they must be fuming, hoping to reclaim a stage here, right?"

He seems to be speaking to the air, yet also sorting out the possible incoming foes.

"Now on this Ultimate Main Road, among the younger generation of the Other Shore, those who can even slightly pique my interest… are only you few left."

"I hope you… absolutely do not… disappoint me…"

A long‑absent spark of scorching battle intent rises in Ye Wuque's eyes.

At his level, ordinary opponents can no longer draw his full strength.

Only beings of monster‑level can excite him, and test his growth over the past five years.

The broken‑star belt he stands upon is not an uninhabited zone.

In fact, many beings nearby are watching and waiting.

Strangely, although Ye Wuque stands there, his Black Robe conspicuous, whether observed with the naked eye or scanned by Divine Sense, those beings seem to ignore him entirely, unable to perceive his existence.

This is not a cloaking technique, but a manifestation of Ye Wuque's ultimate mastery over his own aura and the surrounding cosmic laws.

If he does not wish to be discovered, unless a peer or higher‑level being deliberately probes, even those nearby are as if in a different spacetime.

Five years of solitary exploration have made him accustomed to this concealment and observation.

After arriving at the Ultimate Main Road and parting from Geshu Wenyue, Ye Wuque has been alone ever since.

Those former acquaintances—Chen Shimei, War Prince, Little Hero, Five Divine Generals, Mu Yutiandie, and others—though gifted, the Star Sky Ancient Road is too cruel, with opportunity and risk coexisting; their growth could never keep pace with Ye Wuque's terrifying stride, and they have long been left far behind, each training in later checkpoints, perhaps never again walking side by side with him.

But Ye Wuque knows that a few people are also somewhere on the Ultimate Main Road, fighting and shining in their own ways.

Lao Feng, like him, is also a Saint Son of Great Thousand Divine Universe, whose talent, will, and opportunities are unmatched by anyone.

Ye Wuque has absolute confidence in him.

Although they have not met in five years, Ye Wuque can vaguely sense that Lao Feng must have already forged a great reputation, exploring his own supreme opportunity in some unfathomable place.

Ye Wuque does not deliberately seek him, because they both understand that the true summit lies at the very end of the Ultimate Main Road.

When that time comes, the two brothers will reunite in the most dazzling manner, raise cups in merriment, and face the final everything side by side.

There is also Ziyang Shen, Ye Beichen, and the soon‑parting Geshu Wenyue, among others.

And another notorious monster known to Ye Wuque, the unignorable—Lei Yuhuang of the Thunder Clan—if nothing unexpected occurs, he has presumably already set foot on this Ultimate Main Road.

There are also some hidden forces, the Ancient Imperial Dynasty, the Supreme Great Sect, the Undying Aristocratic Family, the Peerless Sacred Realm, and the core monsters of the Ten Fierce Beings clan…

These top monsters, also spawned from the branches of the Nine Heavens, are likewise not pond‑dwelling beings.

Ye Wuque looks forward to meeting them again in later stages, to see which step each has reached.

At this moment, the Heavenly Pride gathered near the Ancient God Crater, though numerous, the only ones that can truly stir the winds and catch Ye Wuque's peripheral attention are probably that small handful of already‑renowned monsters.

As Ye Wuque's thoughts flicker—

Rumble!

From afar, in another direction of the Ancient God Crater, a terrifying wave suddenly arrives, heavy and as if ten thousand thunders were raging!

That wave is not an energy burst, but a crushing pressure of pure, ultimate momentum!

Where it passes, the Void twists, star fragments silently turn to dust, and even the myriad mixed auras lingering near the crater are forcibly expelled and suppressed!

A towering, terrifying figure shrouded in dense, almost solid gray‑black Corpse Qi, like a Corpse Dao Emperor crawling out of the Nine Abyss Hell, slowly steps forward from the star‑filled depths of that direction.

With each step he takes, black ice crystallizes in the Void beneath his feet, spreading spider‑web‑like spatial fissures.

Within the swirling Corpse Qi around him, countless grim corpse shadows bob and wail faintly, while the mournful screeches of ten thousand wronged souls serve as background sound, making one's hair stand on end.

And most striking is that around this terrifying figure, nine relatively short yet equally ferocious and varied Nine Dao beings circle and flutter!

Those nine figures: some resemble skull War Generals with three heads and six arms, wielding bone knives and bone shields; some are bloated, rotting Corpse Demons spewing poisonous clouds; some are ethereal, formless resentful spirits emitting soul‑disturbing demonic sounds; others are like zombies clad in iron armor, possessing boundless strength…

Each of them exudes an infinite aura of terror!

Moreover, they are extraordinarily agile, as if possessing independent sentience, yet their aura is linked to the central towering figure, forming a seamless whole!

Nine Great Corpse Spirits!

The Corpse Clan's legendary peerless gift… Corpse Refining to Spirit!

Each Corpse Spirit requires at least one complete corpse and soul of a peer‑level strongman as primary material, supplemented by countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and Corpse Clan secret arts, taking many years to forge successfully.

Forging a single one can double a Corpse Clan Dark Cultivator's combat power, and within the clan such a cultivator is regarded as a genius.

But the figure before us has actually cultivated… a full nine Corpse Spirits!

And each of them exudes a terrifying aura, far from ordinary wares!