After leaving the Divine Clan, Su Chen did not return to the Ye Family. During his tribulation, many powerful beings from various races had surrounded and attacked him.
Su Chen now visited each of them in turn to settle those old scores. For the weaker races, he annihilated them outright, wiping out their clans and seizing their possessions. For the stronger ones, they followed the Divine Clan's example and sacrificed a single branch to protect the main body.
Su Chen dealt with them in exactly the same way. He extorted them ruthlessly, taking enough to wound their foundations.
After traveling through many lands, Su Chen finally arrived at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
To ordinary beings, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion was a legendary place, extremely difficult to find. Yet for Su Chen, the current Great Emperor, its location held no secrets.
On a floating immortal island, an old man in plain Daoist robes sat cross-legged. Two cups of tea had already been placed on the stone table before him.
A figure appeared in a flicker. Although he released no aura at all, the moment he arrived, the entire world seemed to revolve around him. A single glance was enough to stir the urge to submit in anyone's heart. He was the supreme of heaven and earth.
Su Chen looked at the old man. This was the master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, whom he had met once in his youth. But now the old man's eyes had lost all color forever and could no longer perceive the outside world.
Su Chen accepted the tea the old man offered and said quietly, "Old man, why did you do this to yourself?"
The master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion sighed. "This old one offended the Emperor's majesty… but this matter concerned the survival of my Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, so I had no choice but to calculate it.
"It was all because of this old one's curiosity back then. I cast a divination for the Great Emperor and leaked a thread of heavenly secrets, nearly causing a catastrophe. It led to an assassination attempt on the Great Emperor while he was still young, nearly costing him his life."
The old man's words were truly shocking. Back then, the master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had performed a divination for Su Chen in the Ye Family. In that glimpse of the future, even though he had tried to shield the secrets of heaven, a trace had still been detected. As a result, Su Chen's fate had drawn the attention of an unknown existence that wanted to curse and kill a future Great Emperor.
"Tell me where he is," Su Chen said.
The master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had nearly caused a great disaster out of curiosity, but his desperate use of time secret arts to warn of the coming crisis had also allowed Ye Liuli to appear in time. His merits and faults balanced each other. Su Chen had no intention of troubling this dying old man. His true target was the person behind the curse.
The master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion seemed to have expected this. He directly sold out the location of the one who had cast the curse.
Su Chen did not linger in the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. He rose and left.
The master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion stared silently at the shattered teacup on the table for a long time.
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Netherworld Realm.
One of the most supreme orthodoxies in the world was entrenched here.
The ones who had cursed the young Su Chen were neither the Divine Clan, the Demon Clan, nor any other foreign races. It was the Netherworld, a colossal force that had not emerged for many eras. Within the Netherworld, a great figure had sensed the heavenly secrets and chosen to curse Su Chen in advance.
They had never expected him to survive.
A pair of massive hands tore open the void of the Netherworld Realm. An incomparably vast figure emerged, revealing half of its head. Its pupils shone with dazzling brilliance, like the eyes of the Heavenly Dao itself, gazing down upon the entire Netherworld.
Emperor pressure swept across the entire Netherworld Realm, causing countless living beings to tremble in terror.
Inside the Netherworld Realm, powerful auras began to awaken one after another as they prepared to face a formidable enemy.
The current Great Emperor had descended upon the Netherworld Realm!
"It's the Great Emperor… Has he come to the Netherworld Realm again to settle accounts with the Netherworld?"
"The Netherworld is a super orthodoxy. Since the ancient eras, it has produced at least four Great Emperors. Its foundation is unfathomably deep. Even in far more distant times, the Netherworld already existed. Great Emperors once tried to uncover its secrets, only to return in defeat!"
"..."
The Netherworld was undoubtedly a terrifying force.
Su Chen sensed several horrifying auras reviving within the Netherworld. In an instant, five figures appeared, each holding an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon. They manifested in the sky above the Netherworld Realm.
Without exception, these five were the deepest foundations of the Netherworld—supreme Quasi-Emperors who had no hope of attaining the Emperor realm. They had chosen to seal themselves within the Netherworld to protect it across the ages. Now that Su Chen had come with ill intentions, the Netherworld had mobilized all its hidden reserves.
The world was filled with horror.
"Five Emperor Weapons… I thought I had overestimated the Netherworld, but it turns out I still underestimated their foundation. What exactly are they planning? Hiding themselves away for generation after generation!"
Hidden supreme experts watching from afar felt a chill of horror. For an ordinary race to produce even one Emperor was already a sign of deep reserves. Yet the Netherworld alone had produced five. This was no longer the power of a single force—it was terrifying beyond words. It was no exaggeration to say that even a Supreme would die if they stepped into the Netherworld, and even a Great Emperor would have to retreat.
The five figures holding Emperor Weapons were descendants of past Great Emperors. They possessed the ability to awaken the remnant souls left behind by those ancient Emperors. If all five remnant souls awakened at once, they could heavily injure a true Great Emperor and even bring ruin to an entire era.
"Current Great Emperor, our Netherworld has never provoked you. Why have you come to our realm?"
One of the Netherworld's supreme experts spoke without any trace of fear. They had their foundation and were confident that Su Chen would not dare to fight them to the death. Otherwise, it would only end in mutual destruction.
Looking at their confident expressions, Su Chen smiled. He indeed could not deal with five Great Emperor remnant souls, but… would the Netherworld really summon all five to confront him?
No, they would not. Once those trump cards were played, they would be gone forever. The Netherworld's accumulation over countless years and the foundation of five Emperors had long drawn the covetous eyes of countless forces.
Su Chen reached out with one hand and grabbed the speaking expert.
The faces of the other four changed drastically.
"Current Great Emperor, do you truly wish to start a war with our Netherworld?"
The four shouted, their auras surging, yet they still did not awaken the remnant souls of the past Emperors.
The supreme expert gripped in Su Chen's hand wore a look of pure terror. Su Chen had moved too fast, too suddenly. He had no time to react at all.
"The Netherworld once tried to curse this Emperor to death."
The supreme expert in Su Chen's grasp instantly turned into a mist of blood.
Su Chen's eyes made the remaining four tense up.
In the starry sky, a hidden expert who heard this seemed to realize something and murmured in a low voice, "No wonder the current Great Emperor came to the Netherworld… They actually dared to curse a future Great Emperor. What enormous guts! They have violated a taboo and now face reckoning."
The four from the Netherworld finally understood why Su Chen had come. Their expressions turned grim. Cursing a Great Emperor who had not yet grown to power was one of the greatest taboos!
