Tianyu Continent.
Ancient Secret Realm.
Darkness shrouded the earth, demonic energy raging to the sky!
"One hundred thousand years! It's been one hundred thousand years!"
"Revenge… I will have my revenge!!"
"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill…"
"Jie jie jie…"
Voices boomed across the firmament like giant bells.
At this critical moment, a clear bell sound drifted over from afar.
Dong…
The seemingly ordinary sound exploded through the vast demonic energy like a spring breeze brushing against the face.
"Aah!!!"
"Old bastard Donghuang! This sovereign swears to grind your bones to dust, scatter your soul forever, and condemn you to never reincarnate!!!"
"We shall see the light of day again one day…"
"Jie jie jie…"
As the chilling echoes faded,
the secret realm returned to silence, leaving only specks of starlight shining across the sky.
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Meanwhile, the demonic energy had dispersed, but the thick murderous aura filling the jungle was rapidly gathering in one direction at a visible speed.
Before long, a human-shaped shadow quietly took shape at the center of the convergence.
Countless streams of murderous aura were flooding wildly into the shadow's body.
After roughly the time it took to burn an incense stick, it finally calmed down.
Though his face was not yet visible, just a pair of scarlet eyes sent chills down one's spine, eerily bright in the pitch-black night!
If anyone else had been in the secret realm, they would have fled in terror just at the sight.
Murderous aura, given human form!
The shadow was a handsome young man with a hint of evil charm, long hair flowing in the wind, and thick black energy swirling around him!
A moment later, the young man's eerie red eyes faded, and the murderous aura around him withdrew into his body, leaving only faint traces coiling around him like swimming dragons.
In the next second, a faint ray of light descended from the sky and instantly sank into his glabella.
The young man, who had been standing motionless, suddenly regained a spark of life in his eyes.
He stretched his limbs slightly, narrowed his phoenix eyes, and looked around in confusion.
"Where the hell did you drag me this time?"
Before he could finish speaking, a flood of foreign memories rushed into his mind.
"I… I've transmigrated! And I'm even formed from murderous aura?!"
Others at least got a lotus root body when they were reborn, but he was just a mass of energy?
What difference was there from fart?
"Whatever! I finally got a second chance. Since I'm here, I'll make the best of it. Since I'm born from murderous aura, a rootless body… I'll give myself a name. From now on, I'm Ye Wusheng!"
The young man muttered as he looked up at the sky.
Just as Ye Wusheng was talking to himself, a voice echoed in his mind one after another.
Ding! God-Demon System is binding…
Ding! Congratulations, Host, the system has been successfully bound!
Host: Ye Wusheng
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Physique: Murderous Aura
Skills & Martial Arts: None
Realm: Body Forging Layer 9
Note: The host was born from the murderous aura of the fallen Demon Ancestors in the Ancient Battlefield. Your realm can only be raised by absorbing the murderous aura from their remains.
Main Quest:
Raise your realm using murderous aura.
Seek revenge against the Five Great Clans of Central State.
Obtain the ancient treasure, the Eastern Emperor Bell, to break the seal.
Help the remaining souls of the Demon Ancestors escape, rebuild their physical bodies, and ascend to the God Realm…
Ye Wusheng listened quietly to the system's explanation, finally understanding everything.
One hundred thousand years ago, a great battle between gods and demons had taken place here.
In that war, more than ten Demon Ancestors had fallen!
He had no idea what exactly had happened, nor did he care about things from a hundred thousand years ago.
But he now understood his position clearly.
This system was a Villain System, and he had, by extension, become a subordinate of those Demon Ancestors.
"If my body comes from these Demon Ancestors, besides the system… did they leave any powerful treasures or secret techniques for me?" Ye Wusheng asked curiously.
Ding! Negative. Forgot to inform you, Host: due to your special physical form, aside from cultivating with murderous aura, you cannot wield any treasures or techniques outside the System Shop.
Furthermore, to prevent the murderous aura from driving you insane and causing the mission to fail…
All of these must be exchanged with Justice Points.
Only when opposite forces restrain each other can they endure.
"What?!"
Ye Wusheng was dumbfounded.
It was clearly a Villain System, yet treasures and skills had to be exchanged with Justice Points?!
Having a kind heart would keep him from losing control to the murderous aura…
But he was afraid he'd end up with a split personality.
Walking around with an eerie power while doing good deeds — was he some kind of anti-hero, neither good nor evil?
He decided not to overthink it.
Having been reborn, he would walk his own path.
Systems and Demon Ancestors would all rely on him in the end.
Confusion aside, he quickly tasted the benefits.
Following the system's instructions, after roughly the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Ye Wusheng sat cross-legged and slowly opened his eyes.
"Not bad, this murderous aura cultivation is ridiculously fast!"
In just a few minutes, he had absorbed all the remaining murderous aura in the secret realm, jumping from Body Forging 9 straight to Elemental Opening 3!
On Tianyu Continent, the realms were divided as such:
Qi Refining, Body Tempering, Body Forging, Elemental Opening, True Essence, Qi Sea, Origin Sea, Divine Sea, Void Refining, Divine Departure, Great Accomplishment, Divine Void, Emperor, Saint, Lord, Ancestor…
Each realm had ten minor layers.
For ordinary people, breaking through just one layer was already extremely difficult.
Yet Ye Wusheng had broken through repeatedly, even crossing an entire major realm!
Unlike others, who relied on cultivation speed and massive amounts of spiritual energy,
Ye Wusheng only needed a huge amount of murderous aura.
And his cultivation speed was as fast as it could be.
"So I just need to find places full of murderous aura!" he muttered.
But places with such dense murderous aura as this secret realm would not be easy to find.
Not thinking further, Ye Wusheng ignored the lingering murderous aura around him and stood up.
"I should first leave the secret realm and see the outside world!"
He looked toward the distant exit, his interest piqued.
Now that he had reached the Elemental Opening Realm, it was time to go out and do some good deeds to exchange for treasures and skills.
With those, he could unleash his power to the limit against villains and grow even stronger.
He couldn't rely solely on realm suppression.
As Ye Wusheng strolled leisurely toward the exit, deep in thought —
Suddenly!
A golden light burst violently at the secret realm's exit, and the entire secret realm began to shake.
Ye Wusheng immediately stopped beside a giant tree, staring ahead in confusion.
Moments later, the golden light grew brighter and brighter,
as if the exit had been sliced open.
Squinting through the glare, figures began to appear in the sky —
first scattered,
then more and more, until they turned into a dense crowd!