Immortal-Exterminating Divine Venerable

”We’re here.”

Using the Northern Wilderness Sword Mansion’s instant teleportation, Yang Xiao and Ye Wanyu arrived in its legacy space in the blink of an eye. Before Ye Wanyu could even get a clear look around, Yang Xiao sent the girl straight to where Ye Wanqing was.

This made the little fox bare her teeth.

She cursed under her breath.

But Yang Xiao had no intention of dealing with her.

He was about to leave.

There were many things to arrange.

Most importantly, he wanted to spend time with Yang Zhentian.

’Once I leave, who knows when I’ll be back? Even though I have my Emperor’s True Body guarding this place, it’s still just a Clone in the end.’

Reborn into his third life, having lived as a human twice before, Yang Xiao felt that he was becoming more and more human.

And as a human, the most important thing was family.

The world outside might be full of wonders and opportunities, but what one truly cherished would always be their family and friends.

Yang Xiao deeply understood this and loved this part of his humanity.

Of course, other living beings, the All Heavens and Myriad Races, and even Artifact Spirits possessed similar emotions.

But in comparison, the Human Race’s feelings in this regard were far more intense than any other creature’s.

’Time to see Father.’

Yang Xiao smiled faintly.

He arrived at the place where Yang Zhentian was in seclusion.

But he was still in seclusion. After all, the Great Divine Power Realm was not so easily cultivated, even if Yang Zhentian had received a legacy and was no longer the man he once was.

The process was still incredibly difficult.

But Yang Xiao didn’t mind. He would wait outside.

He left all other matters for his Emperor’s True Body and Fire God Clone to handle.

Thus, it wasn’t long before all the beings close to Yang Xiao learned one thing: the Saint Prince Yang Xiao’s true self was leaving the Profound Sun Continent to venture out into other lands.

In response to this news...

Some were uneasy, fearing that the continent’s balance of power would be thrown into turmoil.

Some were worried, anxious about the unknown dangers Yang Xiao would face on his journey.

Others were excited, wanting to accompany him.

And still others were sad, mourning the impending separation.

When this feedback reached Yang Xiao, he was a little surprised and touched. In his first life, he had been all alone. The only one he cared for was his Dao companion, Chang Xi. After her, his master and Junior Brother Xuan Yang were on his mind, but his feelings for them weren’t particularly deep.

In fact, he’d had more dealings with his old rival, that old hairy Golden-winged Roc, than with anyone else.

After all, he had only gone to the Nine Yang Celestial Palace for Chang Xi’s sake.

His second life was slightly better.

But as the Human Emperor’s Son, his status was revered, and while many people surrounded him, there were very few he could truly confide in. Aside from the two Medicine Boys, Celestial Poison and Celestial Medicine, even the current Human Emperor, his Cousin Xuanyuan, only showed moments of kindness. As for his father in that life, the Flame Emperor...

...although Yang Xiao could feel his affection, moments of genuine, heartfelt emotion were extremely rare.

He was the Human Emperor. The entire world was his people.

He had to care for them all.

As an Emperor’s Son, how could he dare ask for too much?

Only in this third life, despite it having been only a few short years since his rebirth, had he experienced such rich emotional connections—his father’s deep affection, Yun’Er’s care and attachment, and all the people and events he had encountered along the way.

They were the richest of all three of his lives.

Yang Xiao truly liked this feeling.

And so, he cherished it.

「Three days later.」

All his arrangements were complete.

The group of people confirmed to be leaving with Yang Xiao had also been finalized.

It included Yang Lin, Lu Fangliang, Huang Tianling, and the Ye sisters, Wanqing and Wanyu...

Speaking of Ye Wanyu, Yang Xiao originally hadn’t wanted to take her along. But the girl came straight to him and threatened that if he didn’t take her, she would tell everyone about their dual... no, their *plucking* cultivation, making it known to the whole world.

What was even more infuriating was that she constantly brought up Ye Wanqing, saying she had already told her sister everything before coming here and that if anything were to happen to her, then...

This left Yang Xiao utterly speechless.

To stop the unruly young lady from spouting nonsense, Yang Xiao could only agree.

Who could he blame? He was, in fact, in the wrong.

「And so, more than ten days passed.」

These were more than ten days in the outside world. Added to the previous three days, nearly twenty days had passed in total. In the third level of the Northern Wilderness Sword Mansion, that was equivalent to almost sixty years.

With nothing else to do, Yang Xiao comprehended things together with his Fire God Clone. He had already grasped the Heart of Secret Patterns for four of the Yang-aspected Secret Patterns from the Greater Yang Secret Scripture.

He also thoroughly comprehended the remaining two of the Five Elements Secret Patterns.

As a result, six more Divine Pills formed within Yang Xiao’s body.

Adding to the previous thirteen, he now had a total of nineteen Divine Pills.

At the same time, he also made some progress in comprehending the Void Secret Pattern. However, this particular Secret Pattern was the most profound and mysterious of all, and he wanted to merge two different Void Secret Patterns.

The difficulty of this was actually even greater than merging two completely different types of Secret Patterns.

For now, Yang Xiao had no way to fuse them completely.

However, the power of his Void Divine Pill had increased significantly, enough to rival the Heaven and Earth Origin Fire Element Divine Pill. It was even a sliver stronger than the Gold Element Origin Divine Pill.

As a result, when Yang Xiao now activated the Golden Roc Secret Pattern—formed from the combination of two Divine Pills—to manifest the Golden Roc Wings, his speed was much faster.

Even though his power was still at the First Layer of the Small Divine Power Realm, his speed had already surpassed that of a Demigod Peak Level existence.

If he could complete the fusion of the Void Secret Patterns, his speed would likely rival that of a Tier One True God.

At the same time, with so many Divine Pills, aside from using thirteen of them to form the Twelve Heavenly Forbidden Techniques to suppress his Divine-Demon Body as usual, Yang Xiao took the remaining six, singled out the five Five Elements Divine Pills to condense the Five Elements Reincarnation Array, and then secretly used the power of the Void Divine Pill to activate the Little Hidden Void Array, concealing those five pills from view as well.

As a result, even though Yang Xiao’s strength had increased significantly and he had six more Divine Pills in his body, the aura he projected was still that of a rookie who had just reached the Small Divine Power Realm and hadn’t even condensed a single Divine Pill.

’Once I get my hands on the complete Star Secret Pattern, I’ll have twenty Divine Pills. Ten of them will be Yang Divine Pills, which can condense a power that surpasses Nine Yang. I’ll also have the Five Elements Divine Pills, which can be grouped together. Besides those, the remaining ones—Void, Time, Devouring, Emperor Dao, and Star—are all extraordinary Daos. With these twenty Secret Patterns as my foundation, it will be enough.’

Yang Xiao felt a surge of excitement.

However, to his regret, Yang Zhentian still had not emerged from his seclusion.

Although Yang Xiao was still willing to wait, the one-year deadline was fast approaching.

Yang Xiao didn’t want to break his promise.

He didn’t want to be looked down upon by Nangong Tianling, who had always shown him nothing but contempt.

But leaving without saying goodbye was even more unthinkable.

’Forget it. So what if she looks down on me? Father has been in seclusion for several months, which is almost three or four hundred years in the Northern Wilderness Sword Mansion. How much longer could he possibly be? Besides, even if I miss the deadline and that woman laughs at me, what does it matter?’

With that, Yang Xiao immediately decided to keep waiting.

But just as he made that decision, the Teleportation Token for the Star God Continent, which had been silent all this time, suddenly began to tremble.

Yang Xiao couldn’t help but take it out to look.

A message flowed into his mind.

Instantly, Yang Xiao’s expression changed drastically.

”Yun’Er is in trouble!”