Chapter 227: The Undying Underworld Emperor (Part 8)

Su Chen hadn't expected this.
Upon emerging from seclusion, he encountered an old acquaintance once again.
Chen Tianyi had changed drastically.
He had broken through to the Spirit Sea Realm.
The Spirit Sea Realm grants a lifespan of three hundred years.
He was already over a hundred years old.
Although Chen Tianyi still appeared as a middle-aged man, his temples were now gray, and he wore luxurious robes, exuding an air of pampered nobility.
Chen Tianyi also noticed Su Chen.
Many years had passed.
Chen Tianyi recognized the giant black bird at a glance—it was the crow he had encountered in his youth.
Now, it was capable of slaying a demon king.
An old friend reunited.
Chen Tianyi carefully protected his wife and daughter behind him, confronting the divine bird.
In Chen Tianyi's eyes, Su Chen saw apprehension and...fear.
Fear is a biological instinct.
Courage is humanity's hymn.
Su Chen spread his wings, unleashing a massive gust of wind that scattered like countless blades around him.
Chen Tianyi struggled against the fierce wind.
When he regained his senses,
the divine bird had vanished without a trace.
In his youth, he had been ignorant and naive.
Now, Chen Tianyi finally understood.
Just how sacred was the crow he had encountered back then?
Although… what he knew was only a tiny, insignificant glimpse.
Su Chen slew the Black Serpent King and feasted on it, then slew the great demon near the Sunset Mountain Range and feasted on it as well.
“It seems some demon said that the Earth Scale Emperor won’t let me go,”
Su Chen pondered for a moment.
He had thought it was some ancient emperor.
It turned out to be a Void Realm cultivator.
A Garlic Bird.
He's only at the Spirit Soul Realm now.
For humans,
Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river.
But demons live longer than humans.
Three hundred years east of the river, three hundred years west of the river.
That's not an exaggeration.
Su Chen flew out of the Luo Xia Sect's territory, heading towards the outskirts of the Great Martial Dynasty.
There lay a demon beast kingdom.
Bad news came from the demon beast kingdom.
A black divine bird had slain a demon king there, seizing territory.
Becoming a regional overlord.
And in the blink of an eye, a hundred years had passed.
A hundred years had passed since Su Chen left the Great Martial Dynasty to become a mountain king.
On his journey, he slew demon kings, seized spiritual treasures, occupied territories, established his own domain, and became infamous.
The surrounding dynasties, and even the demon race, all feared him.
"It's just that you stole some fruit from that mudskipper in the East Sea, is it really worth this relentless pursuit?"
Su Chen was speechless.
A Void Transformation Peak-level dragon from the East Sea was eyeing Su Chen's territory menacingly.
Its ferocious appearance seemed to suggest it wanted to devour Su Chen alive.
However, the East Sea Demon Emperor dared not leave the East Sea territory.
If it left,
it would be attacked.
Su Chen's peripheral vision also caught sight of the dragon emperor, who possessed a trace of ancient dragon blood.
He didn't set foot in the East Sea again.
If he did,
he would also be attacked.
Although that dragon wasn't a true ancient dragon, it still controlled a region within the East Sea, possessing considerable strength, no weaker than an ordinary Nirvana Realm cultivator.
Su Chen wasn't a true phoenix yet, he hadn't even gotten a single feather from one.
"Sooner or later, I'll eat you, you mudskipper,"
Su Chen decided to let the little mudskipper of the East Sea go.
At his feet, he gripped a branch with a colorful fruit on it, like a drop of blood.
This is a Divine Fruit, a fruit that can only be born after the death of a quasi-saint level being, containing a trace of sacred power.
It is also known as the Holy Spirit Fruit.
Actually, none of that matters.
What matters is that it is an eighth-grade spiritual fruit.
Su Chen had only taken a stroll on a whim and unexpectedly caught the fragrance of an eighth-grade spiritual herb being born.
He and the Flood Dragon Emperor were old neighbors.
The two demons kept to themselves.
However, the old Flood Dragon Emperor had secretly kept an eighth-grade Divine Fruit. They had been neighbors for nearly a hundred years, practically old brothers, and Su Chen felt it was unethical for the old Flood Dragon Emperor to try to secretly undergo his tribulation.
So he slipped into the East Sea.
Good brothers should share blessings.
Therefore, Su Chen brought out the Divine Fruit right under the old Flood Dragon Emperor's nose.
With this Divine Fruit, the remaining energy for his third Nirvana had a purpose.
Perhaps you'll say Su Chen is cruel and immoral, even bullying the poor old dragon king next door, extinguishing its last hope of breakthrough.
Su Chen thinks that the old dragon king's first act upon breaking through will likely be to devour him.
This is the world of demons.
Su Chen is also puzzled as to why the old dragon king hasn't attacked him yet.
It seems it's trying to keep him occupied, wanting to use him as its first meal after its breakthrough.
Su Chen returns to his territory and arranges everything.
Over the past century, he has cultivated loyal subordinates, known as the Four Great Demon Kings, each possessing immense power.
The Four Great Demon Kings help Su Chen manage his territory.
Su Chen begins his seclusion.
He is about to undergo his third Nirvana.
The Nirvana Sutra—each Nirvana brings him a great fortune.
Su Chen has a premonition.
If the third Nirvana succeeds,
he will undergo a qualitative change!
Su Chen begins his Nirvana journey.
...
This Nirvana...
Five hundred years have passed.
To be precise...
Five hundred years is still a few days short.
Su Chen awoke.
However, he had successfully undergone Nirvana.
A strong stench of blood filled the air.
"Something's happened!"
Su Chen rushed out of his secluded cultivation place.
He saw corpses strewn everywhere.
Several powerful human auras were indiscriminately slaughtering.
Among them was a young figure.
Directing those powerful martial artists indiscriminately.
When Su Chen's figure appeared high in the sky,
their slaughter ceased.
The demonic beasts within the territory...
had also been completely slaughtered.
The four demon kings that Su Chen had nurtured were also dead.
The extraordinary young figure, seeing the divine bird wreathed in black flames appear in the sky, and the demon emperor descending upon the heavens like a black sun, felt no fear, only immense excitement…
“It’s it! It must be the divine bird my great-grandfather encountered in his youth!”
The young man was named Chen Bufan, the fourth-generation descendant of Chen Tianyi.
Chen Bufan was indeed born extraordinary.
At a young age, he was invincible throughout the Great Wu Dynasty, and was even valued by an elder of the Overturning Sea Holy Land, who brought him back to cultivate there. In a short time, relying on his ancestral Crow Visualization Diagram and his talent, he became a true disciple of the Overturning Sea Holy Land, with a limitless future.
And so it was…
He finally understood the terrifying power of the crow he had visualized. According to his great-grandfather, his depiction was far less than one-thousandth of the crow's wondrous nature. Even so, his great-grandfather, Chen Tianyi, had managed to transform the ordinary Qinglan Sect into the most powerful force in the Great Wu Dynasty.
Even one-thousandth was at least a Nirvana Realm visualization technique, perhaps even stronger. In terms of profound mystery, few techniques within the Overturning Sea Holy Land could rival it.
And this was still less than one-thousandth!
If it were the complete visualization technique… Chen Bufan dared not imagine what kind of existence it was.
He began using the Holy Land's intelligence to search for the mysterious crow's whereabouts.
He searched for several years.
His efforts paid off.
He finally found it!