Time passed in the blink of an eye.

Su Chen's name began to spread across the Ruler Battlefield. The Immortal Spirit known as Emperor Venerable was renowned for his audacity.

After he refined a Five Tribulations Ruler from the Main God Hall, countless powerful enemies hunted him, including Six Tribulations Rulers. Yet Su Chen resolved every threat. Like a roaming primordial beast, he slaughtered and refined fifteen Five Tribulations Rulers in just five hundred thousand years, along with one Six Tribulations Ruler.

What made him especially notorious was his relentless targeting of members from the Transmigrator Alliance and the Main God Hall. The two superpowers gritted their teeth in hatred and dispatched supreme geniuses to eliminate him.

The nine-star talent prodigies sent by the Main God Hall and Transmigrator Alliance managed to heavily wound Su Chen, but he still escaped. After twenty thousand years of pursuit, Su Chen broke through to the Six Tribulations Ruler realm and annihilated those chosen talents in a single earth-shaking battle.

Su Chen toyed with the fragments he had seized. It was something called a "system"—a one-hit-999 system, according to the Transmigrator Alliance expert. It allowed rapid leveling by killing enemies, the very thing the man had once dreamed of. The potential of Transmigrator Alliance members was often tied to the grade of their cheats. Thanks to that one-hit-999 system's explosive power, Su Chen had nearly let the expert escape.

"Not a bad toy," Su Chen mused. Unfortunately, the system had shattered the moment it fell into his hands, much to his regret. He wouldn't have minded experiencing the thrill of one-hit kills himself.

The Ruler Battlefield hosted not only the Main God Hall, Transmigrator Alliance, and End Times Immortal Domain, but countless other factions and endless powerhouses. Even among so many colossal forces, Su Chen stood as one of the top geniuses.

A million years later, Su Chen had gained enormous rewards, including the suppression and killing of several Six Tribulations Rulers. He returned to his original universe.

In that million years, Di Chan and Chi Yao had comprehended the Death Book and both advanced to the Three Tribulations Ruler realm. However, after his experiences in the Ruler Battlefield, Su Chen felt it was too wasteful for talents like them to remain confined in the original universe.

"Are you willing to sever your foundations and cultivation?" he asked. "I will find unrefined universes and send you into them. From then on, your paths will face no shackles."

Both Di Chan and Chi Yao possessed excellent comprehension. Even if they restarted from zero, they could sweep through their enemies and return to the peak. In the future, they would become his capable left and right arms.

The two women exchanged a glance and made their decision.

"We are willing!"

They knew that staying here would only leave them further behind Su Chen. They could never surpass him if they remained in the original universe.

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In the mysterious space, Su Chen exchanged two Four Tribulations Universe Hearts for two untouched universes. He personally severed Di Chan and Chi Yao's cultivations, destroyed their foundations, and reincarnated them into the new universes.

Su Chen's goal was never so simple. He needed them to be able to assist him in the future.

He had found no news of Qin Wujie. Ever since leaving the original universe, the Chaos Body had vanished without a trace.

Many new powerhouses had risen in the original universe. Occasionally, a dazzling genius would appear, suppressing the era and claiming invincibility. Su Chen appreciated them greatly.

The path to transcendence now existed in this world.

As for the truth behind transcendence… Su Chen smiled with satisfaction.

A powerhouse who had left the universe had discovered a new one in the void. The Emperor Court still stood, but only those who had transcended could know its true nature. Those who learned the truth became Su Chen's tools, one generation after another. They explored the void in search of other universes. Su Chen was never stingy with them—he allowed them to study the Death Book, unravel the secrets of life and death, live longer, and even equipped them with Undying Divine Medicines before they set out.

Now, he was finally reaping the rewards.

Su Chen easily refined a new universe. His strength advanced from the Six Tribulations Ruler realm and stepped into the Seven Tribulations realm.

The origin universe underwent another round of sublimation, birthing countless new powerhouses.

...

"Who are you?"

Spirit Divine King realized he had been reborn once more. Some lucky fool must have obtained his cultivation method, allowing him to return to the world yet again. He wasn't sure why it was yet another reincarnation.

Spirit Divine King fought his way across the era, effortlessly crushing the era's top geniuses. He became a Great Emperor and even slew several contemporary Great Emperors in succession. However, he soon discovered something was wrong—this universe had already been refined by someone.

He was furious, yet remained outwardly calm.

The golden-robed man before him gazed down at him like the heavens looking upon an ant. Escape or death were both impossible. This person was the one who had refined the Universe Heart—the greatest Emperor of all time, Emperor Venerable. He was still alive.

"How much of your memory has recovered?" Su Chen asked indifferently.

Shock surged through Spirit Divine King, but he suppressed it and replied in a low voice, "What are you talking about? What memory?"

"You should know that your rebirth was no accident," Su Chen said. "I erased all traces of you. The only reincarnation method you left behind is now under my control."

Spirit Divine King's expression changed drastically. "You… you actually know?!"

Not only did Su Chen know, but he could also reincarnate as well—though unlike Spirit Divine King's soul-seizing rebirths, his method relied on the Reverse Fate Scripture to change destiny through repeated reincarnations.

"This is not the first time I have seen you," Su Chen said with a sudden smile.

That smile turned the bright sunlight ice-cold. At least, that was how it felt to Spirit Divine King. His greatest trump card—his endless cycle of rebirth—had been controlled by another all along.

Spirit Divine King laughed bitterly in despair. "Heh… After millions of years of scheming, I ended up making a wedding dress for someone else…"

His cultivation had reached the Two Tribulations Ruler realm, and his restored memories revealed many things he had never known before.

"Do you think I will tell you anything?" Spirit Divine King sneered. He, Spirit Divine King, would rather die than submit.

"I will give you a path to life," Su Chen said calmly. "I will send your cultivation method into an unrefined universe. You will only lose this Universe Heart."

Spirit Divine King's sneer froze.

Silence fell between them.

After a long moment, he finally spoke. "Do you mean that?"

He did not believe Su Chen would be so kind-hearted.

"I have already refined this universe's Universe Heart. You can never refine it again—unless I die. And I will not die," Su Chen declared, his voice filled with domineering confidence and unshakeable belief in his invincibility.

He was not lying. He truly would not 'die.'