Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

Ji Beilan felt a deep sense of sorrow in his heart.

The Son of Destiny – in the eyes of the world, what an enviable identity, what a powerful bloodline, a spokesperson walking the world on behalf of the Heavenly Dao, a darling favored by the heavens.

But what the world doesn't know is the kind of growth and psychological pressure a Son of Destiny born into an ordinary family or a small force experiences from the moment they learn of their bloodline.

Without a strong backer, the bloodline of Destiny only brings trouble, being targeted by other Sons of Destiny, devoured, becoming a wedding dress for others, turning into white bones under their feet.

He didn't want to end up like that, unwilling to become a fake, hiding his identity, constantly striving to become stronger, but contrary to his wishes, he ultimately couldn't break free from the shackles of fate.

Just then, a figure appeared silently in front of him.

That figure looked down at him, not speaking, with pity in their eyes.

Hanging his head low, Ji Beilan, whose scattered hair obscured his face, vaguely saw the figure in front of him through the gaps in his hair. He slowly raised his head, the hair matted with blood sliding to both sides as he lifted his head, revealing his face disfigured by wounds.

He saw the appearance of the person in front of him. It was a strange face, but when he met those eyes, the light gradually returned to his somewhat empty eyes, and a look of excitement even appeared on his face.

"It's me."

The person squatted down, brushed aside the hair stained with blood on his face, looked at the hideous wounds on his face, and said in a voice suppressed with icy killing intent, "I will make them pay the price!"

"Brother-in-law…"

Ji Beilan's voice trembled, and tears suddenly welled up in his eyes. Then he smiled self-deprecatingly, "You should have known long ago, but you pretended not to know, never exposing me. For a long time, I firmly believed that the path I was taking was the right one, and the only one I could choose, but now it seems I was wrong, all wrong…"

"If it were in another era, your choice would not be wrong. A Son of Destiny without a strong backer would inevitably become prey once their identity is exposed. But this era is different. In this era, you made the wrong choice. I don't approve of your path, because you are not without a backer. You have a better choice, a relatively stable cultivation environment."

"I have a backer…"

Ji Beilan's eyes were blank, his mind seemingly unable to process what he heard.

"I am your brother-in-law, your Imperial Sister's husband, I am your backer! If anyone wants to hunt you down as prey, they will have to ask if I agree. Now, the Zhuxian Dynasty is at its zenith, can't it protect a Son of Destiny like you?"

"But…"

"There are no buts. The Zhuxian Dynasty can protect you, but it's not to make you a flower in a greenhouse, but to give you help at special times, to prevent certain people from acting rashly, to give you a relatively fair growth environment, so you don't fall into the hands of those great forces."

"Brother-in-law is right, I chose the wrong path, but it's already too late." Ji Beilan looked at the cold prison and said, "Brother-in-law, you should leave quickly. If the experts from Xiluo find out, it will be troublesome. I overheard two guards talking yesterday and learned that they deliberately released the images of me here to lure you here. Many experts will gather here, just to kill you!"

"I know they want to kill me, and I know they have set up a net here, but it won't be so easy for them to keep me here. Now, I'll take you away first."

After he finished speaking, he released the Primal Chaos Avatar.

"Take off your clothes."

Ji Beilan hadn't reacted yet when he heard Jun Wuxie say this to him, and couldn't help but be stunned, but he still did as he was told.

Soon, he took off all his clothes, revealing a body covered in wounds, with hardly any intact parts visible, covered in blood, a ghastly sight.

Jun Wuxie's eyes twitched violently a few times as he watched, and the anger and killing intent in his heart continued to boil.

He controlled the Primal Chaos Avatar to transform into Ji Beilan's appearance, then took Ji Beilan into the cave, runes flashing under his feet, ignoring the forbidden formations here, his body sank into the earth, disappearing.

The Primal Chaos Avatar, transformed into Ji Beilan's appearance, put on his tattered clothes, sat cross-legged in the prison, with disheveled hair and covered in blood, exactly the same, without any visible problems.

…

Deep underground, outside the city of Hualunba.

Jun Wuxie released Ji Beilan from the cave.

"Brother-in-law, are we underground?"

Ji Beilan looked in shock at the tight layers of rock around him, then at Jun Wuxie. The surrounding rocks and soil at their current location were not pushed away by energy, but actively gave way to create space.

"Heal your wounds quickly. Your Imperial Sister may also have come to Hualunba. Don't let her see you like this." Jun Wuxie took out Divine Beast essence blood and Red Jade Ginseng and placed them in front of him, "I'll forge a set of battle armor for you."

After he finished speaking, he left some runes around Ji Beilan, constructing a space, and then disappeared.

He went to the nearby area to forge the Qiankun Battle Armor and Battle Suit, one set for Ji Beilan and one for Ji Yinyan.

Before long, the battle suit and armor were forged, all forged to the limit of the three stages, possessing a 90% absolute damage reduction effect.

After that, he continued to construct formations and left.

By dawn, he returned to Ji Beilan's location.

After half a night of recovery, his wounds had healed, and he had changed into clean clothes. The blood on his hair had also been purified by true energy. The whole person no longer had the earlier sluggishness and decadence, and looked a little more spirited.

"Brother-in-law!"

Ji Beilan opened his eyes and said excitedly, "The blood you gave me is really good stuff, and that ginseng, the healing effect is too strong!"

"That's Divine Beast essence blood, and Red Jade Ginseng is also a rare treasure, and it's especially for body cultivation, so how could the effect not be good?"

"What? Divine Beast essence blood?"

Ji Beilan was stunned. What was the concept of a Divine Beast? That was a being that could enter the mythical realm after adulthood. Could the essence blood of such a creature be obtained?

"Alright, don't be surprised. Do you and your Imperial Sister have any special way of contacting each other?"

Ji Beilan's eyes were blank, and he said, "No, brother-in-law, you and Imperial Sister are so in sync, even if there is a special way to contact each other, it should be used between you, why are you asking me."

"Forget it, we'll go to the Colosseum and search separately, to see if we can find your Imperial Sister. If she comes to Hualunba, she will definitely find a way to contact me. However, the environment here is special, we can't openly look for each other, otherwise it's easy to expose our identities."

After he finished speaking, he took out a ring and handed it to Ji Beilan: "Inside are various resources I've obtained over the years. You can use some of the resources to break through your realm. I see that your talent growth intensity has already reached the ceiling, which is very good, but your realm is only in the early stage of the middle Heaven Position of a Half-Saint, which is a big gap compared to the most outstanding people of the same generation. You must first raise your realm, as for the talent growth intensity, when you return to the Emperor Beginning Star, you can directly break through the ceiling and step into a higher level."

"The talent growth intensity can't continue to rise after reaching the first level of the eternal legend. This is the rule suppression of the lower realm universe. Is there any way to break through upwards?"

Ji Beilan was very shocked. As far as he knew, only certain extremely special secret realms could do it, but those secret realms were hard to come by.

He heard that the Golden Scale Secret Realm was possible, but at that time he was being chased and killed, and then he was captured to the Hualunba Colosseum of Xiluo, and he had no chance to return to the Emperor Beginning Star, missing that opportunity.

Jun Wuxie smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "With your brother-in-law here, anything is possible, otherwise how would I be worthy of your Imperial Sister?"

"Does my Imperial Sister like you have anything to do with this?" Ji Beilan looked at him in surprise: "Could it be that Imperial Sister wasn't tricked by your skilled flirtatious methods back then, boarded your pirate ship, and has been unable to dock ever since?"

"You little brat!"

Jun Wuxie gave him a flick on the forehead.

"Hehe."

Ji Beilan rubbed his forehead and smiled honestly, then opened the storage ring and looked at it, and suddenly his whole person froze.

His lips trembled, and he swallowed hard. The ring was full of dazzling light, and various peerless resources blinded his eyes.

"Brother-in-law, did you pick up some kind of peerless treasure?"

He was really shocked, the resources inside were too outrageous. Any one of them was a rare treasure that was hard to find in all ages. One was already extremely rare, but there were so many, most of which could improve the talent growth intensity of cultivators!

"Sigh." Jun Wuxie shook his head and sighed, "To this day, you, my little brother-in-law, still haven't seen the truth. Your brother-in-law is a living treasure."

"Brother-in-law, you are really too good to me…" Ji Beilan's face was full of emotion, and he went forward to rub against him: "Can I hug your thigh for the rest of my life in the future, follow you, you cover me, I will sit at home and enjoy the resources, and cultivate to a shocking and earth-shattering realm without leaving my house!"

"Get away!"

Jun Wuxie reached out and blocked his head from rubbing against him, with a disgusted expression on his face: "I said, do you have some special hobby? A grown man, what are you rubbing against? Do you think you're your sister, rubbing against me? Also, if you want to sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor for the rest of your life, don't even dream about it. Your sister and I are not brother-supporting demons. If you want to sponge, go home and sponge off your father."

"Don't ah, brother-in-law!"

Ji Beilan's expression was very exaggerated, that look was too fake, Jun Wuxie really wanted to kick him.

"Let's go, enter the city, if you continue to be so nonchalant, I'll really kick you?"

Ji Beilan scratched the back of his head when he heard this, revealing a silly smile.

…

When they came out from underground, they returned to the mountain range where Jun Wuxie disappeared yesterday.

The Vermillion Bird was still waiting here, but Ji Beilan couldn't see her, only Jun Wuxie could see her.

"Young Master's talisman skills are truly remarkable."

Suzaku had naturally taken in all of his actions from yesterday until now.

For a符师, whose realm was only at the peak of the ninth level of a Spiritual符师, to be able to achieve such a degree was indeed surprising to her.

It must be said that the brilliant Primal符师 profession before the Immortal era was truly remarkable, and it was no wonder that it was a profession that many cultivators of that era were wary of.

“Aunt You is too kind. After busying myself for so long, the completion of the符道 formation is only one-third. To completely set it up, I estimate that I will have to wait until this time tomorrow.”

“Young Master, do you know that if it were an ordinary符师, even if they cultivated符道 to the tenth level of a Spiritual符师, it would take at least a month to complete such a large-scale符道 formation, and it would be difficult to traverse under the earth of the originally laid killing formation as freely as you do.”

“Is that so?”

Jun Wuxie was stunned. He didn't know about other符师s, and his contact with符道 was directly with Primal符道.

In that case, Primal符师s are stronger than other符师s than he imagined, and it can be said that they are no longer on the same level.

“Brother-in-law, what are you looking at, spacing out?”

Ji Beilan reached out and waved in front of him.

“It's nothing, let's go.”

Jun Wuxie set off towards the city ahead, took out a mask and put it on, and turned his hair golden.

Ji Beilan also hurriedly changed his appearance, even changing his hair color, and took out a mask from the ring to put on.

“When you get to the city, pay attention to see if there are any special marks left in the city, such as the kind that you and your sister are both familiar with.”

Jun Wuxie reminded him like this, he guessed that if Yinlan was really here, if she wanted to contact him, she would most likely choose this method.

The pattern of something they were both familiar with would be used as a mark. In such a city, where there were many people mixed together, it should not attract anyone's attention, and even if someone noticed those marks, it would be difficult to deduce anything from the marks.

Hualunba was very prosperous, and the population here was extremely astonishing, even more than the capital of his Zhuxian Dynasty, estimated to be at least several billion.

The streets in the city were very wide, with a constant flow of traffic and a bustling crowd. There were shops selling various supplies on both sides of the street, and business was booming.

The architectural style here was very different from the architectural style of the Emperor's Beginning Star, and most of the building materials were stone, and the design of the houses was either circular or elliptical.

The Hualunba Imperial Capital Arena was built in the central area of this city, covering a very large area, and was very grand and imposing.

It was still early, and it hadn't been long since dawn, but there was already a sea of people near the arena.

Many people were lining up to enter the arena, and some were buying tickets to enter. There were hundreds of thousands of ticket windows, which were automatically sold by the rune system, and the speed was very fast.

This kind of automatic ticket vending rune system was not very complex or profound, it was just the most basic and superficial rune technology. In many medium-sized cities on the Emperor's Beginning Star, this rune technology has been passed down for many epochs.

What surprised Jun Wuxie was the scale of the ticket vending windows, which showed how good the arena's business was. How many people must watch it every day to build so many ticket windows?

Jun Wuxie and Ji Beilan lined up to buy tickets, and the speed was very fast. Before long, it was their turn, and they bought two tickets for the last row. Ji Beilan joked that he was stingy.

Of course, it was impossible for Jun Wuxie to be reluctant to spend spirit coins, and Ji Beilan also knew this.

Buying tickets for the last row was mainly to facilitate finding Ji Yinlan.

The position in the last row was the highest, and at the same time, if Ji Yinlan was also there, she would definitely choose such an area in the last row, instead of going to the front row.

After all, neither they nor she were here to watch the arena, but had other purposes.