Struggling to Survive with Regression Power in the Primordial Saint Sect

Overseas, in a remote sea region.

Beneath the deep sea, there suddenly existed a pitch-black cavern. Within the cavern, countless waters gathered, while a thousand fire veins stretched out all around, like stars encircling the moon.

【Earthfire Sea-Heart Furnace】!

And at the heart of the volcano, there stood a refined and scholarly-looking young man, appearing almost like a learned scholar. He was holding a Jade Slip in his hand, reading it with his divine sense.

After a moment, he finally put down the Jade Slip, his face full of difficulty.

“Overseas hasn’t been peaceful lately.”

Suo Huan had already been in seclusion inside this 【Earthfire Sea-Heart Furnace】 for several decades. To be precise, ever since True Person Chong Guang proved the 【No Heaven】, he had gone into seclusion.

There was no other choice—it was the trend of the times.

When Chong Guang proved the 【No Heaven】, he had taken away all the True Lords in one breath. The ones most excited about this were none other than those overseas, with the Dragon Lord even laughing loudly as he departed.

And after the True Lords withdrew from the world, the True Dragon Clan immediately swarmed out, sweeping across the overseas lands in every direction, searching for spiritual materials, all to prepare for the Golden Core advancement of the Crown Prince of the Dragon Palace, 【Tian Qiu】. In such a great tide, as a rootless and helpless itinerant cultivator, Suo Huan naturally had no choice but to hide.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but sigh again.

“Eh.”

Chong Guang had taken away the True Lords of the world—this was a great blessing for most cultivators. But for him alone, it was like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky.

Because unlike others, Suo Huan’s path to Golden Core required the help of a True Lord.

Not to mention anything else, just the foundation itself—the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment Realm—he needed the Dao Court’s Heavenly Child to personally confer him an official position to achieve it.

But now, the Heavenly Child of the Dao Court had gone into seclusion.

The Crown Prince was overseeing the court in his stead, but his attitude toward him was utterly different. After several talks, the other party simply refused to grant him the official position of Great Perfection Foundation Establishment.

So Suo Huan was left in an awkward stalemate.

For a while, he couldn’t help but show a look of despair. “My great limit is approaching now… Could it be that the 【Realm of the Vast Ruins】 will truly become extinct in my hands?”

He was unwilling!

But no matter how unwilling, what could he do? Suo Huan lowered his head in dejection. “At this point, I can only wait… endure until the True Lords return.”

Yet at that very moment—

“Rumble!”

Suddenly, the entire 【Earthfire Sea-Heart Furnace】 began to shake violently. Suo Huan frowned and looked toward the direction of the tremor.

What he saw made him leap up in fury.

“Bastards!”

Before his eyes, in the remote sea where the 【Earthfire Sea-Heart Furnace】 was located, billions of acres of seawater were forcibly lifted by a tremendous power!

Suo Huan looked far into the distance and immediately saw hundreds of thousands of demon soldiers standing in ranks upon the sea surface. They were channeling heaven and earth’s spiritual energy, raising the sea itself. At the very front of the army stood a man and a woman, both of them old acquaintances of Lü Yang.

Dragon King Sui Ying, Dragon King Sui Ling.

The two Dragon Kings, at mid-Foundation Establishment, had their aura greatly enhanced under the blessing of hundreds of thousands of demon soldiers. Their sharp eyes looked straight toward Suo Huan.

“So it is indeed here.”

“You are Suo Huan?”

Faced with the inquiry of the two Dragon Kings, Suo Huan ignored them. His hands were trembling with rage, for his 【Earthfire Sea-Heart Furnace】 had already been destroyed!

It had to be known that the 【Earthfire Sea-Heart Furnace】 was constructed with geomancy.

Thus, terrain and formation were everything. Yet now, with the Dragon Kings lifting the seas, they had directly broken the feng shui and ruined his 【Earthfire Sea-Heart Furnace】!

‘Damnable beasts!’

Suo Huan cursed inwardly, but in the end, he couldn’t bring those words to his lips. After all, with the True Dragon Clan now in its prime, he couldn’t afford to provoke them.

“…Two Daoist Friends, for what reason do you seek me?”

Suo Huan shook his sleeves, performing all courtesy.

Hearing this, Sui Ying smiled faintly, his dragon pupils gleaming with mockery. “I heard that you, an itinerant cultivator from beyond the heavens, have in your possession a 【Lingxu Blessed Land】. I wonder if that is true?”

At those words, Suo Huan’s heart instantly sank.

‘So that’s why they came… they’re after the 【Lingxu Blessed Land】! They want to consume it as a ritual tool for Golden Core ascension?’

This was intolerable!

If it had been anything else, out of fear of the True Dragons’ might, Suo Huan would have given it up. After all, he had bowed his head many times before—what was one more time?

But the 【Lingxu Blessed Land】 was different.

Because it was the seed of revival for the 【Realm of the Vast Ruins】. It was his greatest hope for survival. If he gave it away, then the 【Realm of the Vast Ruins】 would truly perish!

‘…Courting death!’

In that instant, Suo Huan’s anger flared, murderous intent rising in his eyes as he glared at Sui Ying and Sui Ling.

Indeed, with hundreds of thousands of demon soldiers supporting them, the two Dragon Kings had formidable might. But they were still only mid-Foundation Establishment. He, on the other hand, was late-Foundation Establishment, and with the 【Lingxu Blessed Land】’s support, he was no weakling among late-Foundation cultivators. If they truly fought, he could suppress these two small dragons with a single palm!

Yet just as his aura shifted—

Almost simultaneously, Sui Ling and Sui Ying, clearly prepared, immediately produced a trident and raised it in the air, reflecting rippling crystalline light.

‘【Imperial Sea Trident】!’

The weapon shone in the air, casting forth ten thousand dazzling lights. A thunderous boom resounded as the clear skies above echoed with the sound of rushing water.

“This is…”

Suo Huan’s pupils contracted sharply. He recognized the weapon at once—it was the personal weapon of the Dragon Palace’s Crown Prince 【Tian Qiu】, an upper-grade spiritual treasure!

And at this moment, the 【Imperial Sea Trident】 had clearly been empowered beforehand with 【Tian Qiu】’s divine ability. Now that Sui Ling and Sui Ying wielded it, it carried the blessing of the Great Perfection Foundation Establishment rank. Those two, whom he had dismissed just moments ago, suddenly posed a threat many times greater!

In an instant, Suo Huan’s heart turned icy cold.

‘They… mean to kill me?’

It was obvious—Sui Ling and Sui Ying had come fully prepared. The Dragon Palace’s Crown Prince 【Tian Qiu】 might even be secretly watching him at this very moment!

At that thought, Suo Huan instantly abandoned all killing intent.

‘Forget it. At worst, I’ll just flee once again.’

Suo Huan closed his eyes, not daring to harbor a shred of defiance. Ever since he had come to this forsaken place, resistance had always been nothing but an impossible dream.

Yet just as he prepared to risk everything for a path of escape—

Suddenly, an earth-shattering boom exploded from the heavens above, reverberating across the entire overseas domain. Countless cultivators raised their heads, only to see the clouds torn apart as infinite spiritual energy poured down from beyond the sky!

It was as if the heavens themselves had collapsed!

“This is… the fall of a Realm Heaven?”

Suo Huan lifted his head. In a daze, he seemed to return to the past, to when the former 【Realm of the Vast Ruins】 had also been dragged from beyond the heavens by the True Lords.

But this one seemed different.

It looked like it had entered on its own?

Before Suo Huan could make sense of it, the next scene left him utterly dumbstruck.

From the heavens above descended a colossal hand, vast enough to cover sky and earth.

The sea lifted by Sui Ling and Sui Ying was already vast beyond measure, empowered further by the rank of Great Perfection Foundation Establishment—it was like the waters of the Milky Way itself. Yet when this colossal hand spread open, it pressed everything into its palm!

“Who goes there!?”

Sui Ling and Sui Ying were terrified. They instantly transformed into their True Dragon forms and tried to flee into the skies—but they could not escape the five fingers of that hand.

“Boom!”

With no suspense, the five fingers clenched. The two Dragon Kings were crushed like mere chicks, utterly destroyed.

“Daoist Friend, stay your hand!”

From the distant sea, 【Tian Qiu】’s voice echoed.

But the only reply was a light sound.

“Bang!”

Blood and flesh flew. The two Dragon Kings perished in an instant. Then the radiant hand dimmed, divine light retracted, and revealed the tall figure of a young man.

“This damned place—I’m back again!”

Looking around, Lü Yang’s face twisted into a fierce grin.

As for 【Tian Qiu】’s words—he hadn’t cared in the slightest.

Show mercy?

This time, he had returned for nothing less than war!