The Hero of a Cool Novel? I, the Villain, Will Kill You!

196: Son of the road?Moreover, in the ancient scrolls of the Southern Cold Immortal Domain, Wuheng Mountain is recorded as the ”Place where the Grandmist Great Demon Perished” or ”Mind’s Burial Ground.”

This hints at its intricate connection to an unspeakable ancient terrifying existence.

This place is a Jedi (Realm of Jedi) where even time is solidified by Devilish Qi, like the end of all vitality and reason.

On the edge of Wuheng Mountain’s peak, a young man in black stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the endlessly surging Devilish Qi around him.

He lowered his eyes, a satisfied smile flashing within them.

”Revered Master was right, Immortal Realm beings who step in here will be corrupted by Devilish Qi and become Puppets.”

”The so-called Immortal Realm is merely a place for my training; my stage should be Above the Nine Heavens.”

Dongfang Shiyu chuckled softly.

Just now, some fearless beings came to the Extreme Cold Forbidden Zone, wanting to explore if Wuheng Mountain was as mysterious as the rumors claimed.

Unfortunately, those beings, as soon as they approached Wuheng Mountain’s base, were devoured by the pervasive Devilish Qi or transformed into Puppets.

This made Dongfang Shiyu even more certain that the Immortal Realm was merely his starting point, and his stage should be Above the Nine Heavens.

He was the Son of the Great Dao chosen by the Three Thousand Great Daos of the Hongmeng Sea, imbued with extremely dense Great Dao Luck.

Although the Three Thousand Great Daos do not possess self-awareness, they autonomously gather all Great Dao Luck to give birth to a naturally gifted Innate being.

And Dongfang Shiyu was that Innate being, and also the Son of the Great Dao in the eyes of many beings in the Hongmeng Sea.

Once the Son of the Great Dao is allowed to grow, he will gain the ability to drain the power of the Three Thousand Great Daos of the Hongmeng Sea, surpassing the current so-called Dao Exhaustion Realm.

Gu Junan, as the previous Son of the Great Dao.

He believed that the luck divine tree was related to the Transmigration, and wanted to extract the Origin power from all Transmigrators.

Zhuge Yuanxi did not act against Gu Junan because the members of the Transcendents Alliance had their Origin power extracted.

The deeper reason was that after Gu Junan planned to extract the Origin power from all Transmigrators and refine the luck divine tree.

He also had the idea of draining the Hongmeng Sea to create a brand new Realm.

Therefore, Zhuge Yuanxi, in a fit of rage, struck Gu Junan dead across endless time and space.

Gu Junan reincarnated into the Immortal Realm, and his identity as the Son of the Great Dao was stripped by the Three Thousand Great Daos of the Hongmeng Sea.

Finally, the Three Thousand Great Daos of the Hongmeng Sea gathered all Great Dao Luck once more, giving birth to a newborn infant, who was noticed by the Evil God True Demon.

The Evil God True Demon delved deep into the Hongmeng Sea, brought the newly appearing Son of the Great Dao back to the Nine Heavens Demon Domain, and named him Dongfang Shiyu.

It wasn’t until hundreds of thousands of years ago, when Wang Qing went to the Land of the Other Shore.

The Evil God True Demon sensed that Wang Qing’s aura was no longer in the Hongmeng Sea, and only then did he dare to send Dongfang Shiyu to the Immortal Realm for cultivation.

On the surface, he and Nine Abyss True Demon fell out over whether to submit to the Primal Divine Court.

The actual reason was that he wanted to personally descend to the Immortal Realm to properly Cultivate Dongfang Shiyu, which is why he left the Nine Heavens Demon Domain.

His goal was naturally very simple: to quickly enable Dongfang Shiyu to achieve the Dao Exhaustion Realm.

Then, relying on Dongfang Shiyu’s affinity with the Three Thousand Great Daos, he would use a special Great Dao forbidden art to drain the Hongmeng Sea.

Once Dongfang Shiyu created a new Realm by refining the power of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Then, as Dongfang Shiyu’s Revered Master, he could naturally observe Dongfang Shiyu’s creation of a new power system for the new Realm.

By comprehending the new power system, he would have a ninety percent chance of also stepping into the new Realm.

This is why the Evil God True Demon went to capture ancient existences from the River of Time, extracting their Origin power.

His purpose was to accelerate the growth of the Son of the Great Dao, create a new Realm, and then he too could comprehend the power of the new Realm and attempt a Breakthrough.

”Crack, crack, crack...”

Suddenly, the Void Realm was torn apart by an invisible force, and a Gray-robed Old Man appeared on Wuheng Mountain.

Dongfang Shiyu heard movement behind him, turned around, and saw the Gray-robed Old Man.

He quickly stepped forward, cupped his fists, and asked, ”Revered Master, how were your gains from entering the River of Time this time?”

”The harvest was decent; I hunted three Transcendence Beings at the seventh stage of Transcendence in the River of Time.”

”The Origin power within them is enough for you to Cultivate for a period.”

The Gray-robed Old Man was none other than the Evil God True Demon, Xie Shengtian.

As he spoke, he raised his palm, summoned an exquisite jade bottle, and handed it to Dongfang Shiyu.

The jade bottle contained the Origin power he had obtained by hunting Transcendence Beings in the River of Time.

Dongfang Shiyu took the jade bottle, his eyes filled with gratitude, as this Revered Master was simply too good to him.

He resolved that once he grew stronger, he would definitely repay his Revered Master’s kindness.

Xie Shengtian saw the gratitude in his disciple’s eyes, and he extended his wrinkled hand to pat his shoulder.

”Cultivate well; I still have some matters to attend to.”

With that said.

Xie Shengtian transformed into a long rainbow and left Wuheng Mountain, heading towards the edge of the Extreme Cold Forbidden Zone.

This was because he sensed two powerful auras descending upon the Southern Cold Immortal Domain, which should be people from the Myriad Worlds Alliance.

So, he decided to go and see.

Seeing his Revered Master depart, Dongfang Shiyu also quickly left the edge of Wuheng Mountain and went into the only palace on the mountain peak to enter secluded Cultivation... at the edge of the Extreme Cold Forbidden Zone.

This place is an eternal winter that even an Immortal Physical Body struggles to withstand.

Beneath the lead-gray sky, the accumulated snow reached tens of thousands of feet deep, and each snowflake contained faint Law fragments, pricking the skin like ice needles.

The cold here was not a low temperature in the mundane sense, but a kind of ”absolute freezing” that permeated the Law.

Immortal power circulating here would gradually stagnate, and Divine Thought extending outside the body would feel like hitting an invisible ice wall; even time itself seemed to be frozen and slowed.

Fine ice crystals permeated the air, sparkling like shattered diamonds in the dim light, yet harboring hidden dangers... If inhaled, the ice crystals would instantly corrode the Meridians, lightly damaging Immortal Essence, or severely transforming one into an ice sculpture.

Compared to the pervasive Devilish Qi deep within the Forbidden Zone on Wuheng Mountain, the extreme cold at the edge appeared ”purer.”

The Devilish Qi’s erosion directly attacked the Divine Soul, while the coldness here was a comprehensive test of the Physical Body and the Immortal Dao Foundation.

Scattered across the snowfield stood frozen withered trees, their branches twisted like ghostly claws, and the ice layer condensed on their bark was over a foot thick.

Occasionally, Immortal Beast skeletons lay half-buried in the snow, their bones covered by unmelting blue ice.

Even more unsettling was the ”Wind of Annihilation,” a silent cold current that caused ripples in space wherever it passed.

If directly swept by the cold current, beings below the Immortal King Realm would have their Primordial Spirit instantly frozen, even losing the chance of Reincarnation.

Moreover, the winter’s deadly stillness in the peripheral area formed a sharp contrast with the tumultuous Devilish Qi of Wuheng Mountain.

On one hand, everything on the snowfield was frozen, even sound was swallowed, with only the howling wind and snow like an ancient elegy;

On the other hand, looking far into the depths of the Forbidden Zone, Devilish Qi surged like a living entity, and blood-colored lightning tore through the sky, as if countless vengeful spirits were roaring in the Chaos.

This stratification of the environment was not naturally formed; it was the result of the demonic might emanating from Wuheng Mountain colliding with the extreme cold Law.

The Devilish Qi attempted to expand outwards but was blocked by the orderly power of winter.

The two formed an invisible balance line at their junction, making the peripheral area both a barrier and a trap.

Xie Shengtian stood on the snowfield at the outer edge of the Forbidden Zone, his gray robe unmoving in the cold wind, his gaze fixed on the sky, as if waiting for someone.