Chapter 167: Chen Changsheng Wakes Up

As for the Great Five Elements Immortal Pill, it was tailor-made for the Great Five Elements Art, capable of assisting in its cultivation.

Meanwhile, the Great Five Elements Immortal Sword Art was also a sword technique. The five elements of the sword path were the sword's heaviness, lightness, dreaminess, swiftness, and explosiveness.

If the Pure Yang Immortal Sword Art embodied the Pure Yang sword intent, and striking open the heavenly gates with a single sword represented a sword path of ultimate cultivation, then this Great Five Elements Immortal Sword Art manifested the very five elements of the sword path.

Chu Feng wondered if he could gather a complementary Ultimate Yin sword path and thereby achieve the Chaos sword intent.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for helping Chen Changsheng complete his quest, blocking the resurrection of his consciousness, and intercepting his reincarnation destiny. You are rewarded with 200 million destiny points, along with the following rewards:]

[Reward 1: One fragment of the Law of Time.]

[Reward 2: The top-tier immortal artifact, the Soul-Depriving Bell.]

[Reward 3: Five thousand years of cultivation power.]

He truly was a protagonist and a child of destiny; Chu Feng was extremely satisfied with these rewards.

With another fragment of the Law of Time, he now possessed two such fragments. Collecting ten would allow them to fuse into a complete Law of Time, and once fused, ascension to an Immortal Emperor would be instantly achieved.

As for the Soul-Depriving Bell, it was a treasure on the same tier as the Immortal-Slaying Sword and the Purple Gold Gourd.

Regarding the final reward of five thousand years of cultivation power—

As Chu Feng absorbed this vast energy, his cultivation realm improved once again in an instant.

After several years of progress, he had finally reached the Heavenly Monarch of Tribulation Transcendence level.

Even at the early stage of the Tribulation Transcendence realm, Chu Feng's combat prowess had multiplied beyond calculation.

If his previous combat strength was unbeatable by anyone short of an Immortal Emperor—where even ancient supreme beings who had self-slain might not have been his match—now, slaying an ancient supreme being would take no more than three sword strokes.

Yunniang's vengeance was also due to be settled.

Nether Supreme.

He wondered if Yunniang had successfully forged her ghostly divine body.

His trip to the Central Domain had essentially achieved its purpose.

It was time to return.

However, before leaving, Xiao Junlin still remained to be killed. This was another Child of Destiny whom he had suppressed three times already; one final suppression would shatter his destiny aura and allow him to easily eliminate him.

Combined with Ye Fan, eliminating three Children of Destiny would elevate his own destiny aura once more, allowing him to achieve the status of the Child of the Era.

From then on, when slaying Children of Destiny, even the Heavenly Dao itself would not utter a sound of disapproval.

"Alright, work done, time to wrap up. What about these three?"

Chu Feng cast his gaze toward Zhu Ling'er, Li Lili, and Lin Leilei.

By this time, the three women were already weeping profusely, looking at Chu Feng with absolute terror. They were truly terrified now; their master was dead, their junior brother was dead, and the man before them would certainly not pamper them the way their senior brother used to.

They could easily imagine their own fates.

Previously, as disciples of Zhou Yuan, the sect master of the Lingyun Sword Sect—and now that Zhou Yuan was dead, slain by an unrivaled powerhouse entirely because of them—they had instantly become sinners of the Lingyun Sword Sect.

Those disciples whom they had once bullied would in turn become the blades that slaughtered them.

They might not die immediately, but they would suffer unprecedented torment.

Whose fault was this?

They had brought it upon themselves.

Chu Feng looked over at Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng's attribute panel had indeed changed.

[Chen Changsheng: Protagonist and Child of Destiny. Because the host stood up for him, slaying the master and junior brother who persecuted him, others assumed the host was his ultimate backing. He was thus pushed forward to become the sect master of the Lingyun Sword Sect. Relying on the obtained Kongsang Immortal Sword and the Broken Army Divine Physique, he soared into the skies, leading the Lingyun Sword Sect in a single bound to become an immortal sect and one of the many top-tier powers in the region.]

This was perhaps one of the very few Children of Destiny that Chu Feng had chosen not to kill.

With a slight stirring in his heart, Chu Feng asked, "System, do you think it's still too late if I kill Chen Changsheng now? Will there be any rewards?"

After all, the fellow was still a Child of Destiny, wasn't he?

[What is the host daydreaming about? Your rewards have already been claimed; a person shouldn't be too greedy.]

Chu Feng shook his head and muttered, "Fine, consider I never asked."

Since that was the case, it was time to leave.

Breaking through to the Heavenly Monarch of Tribulation Transcendence required experiencing a baptism of thunder before one could officially step into the early stage of Tribulation Transcendence.

Gazing into the distant void, Chu Feng suddenly smiled.

There were two ways to undergo the tribulation.

One was to actively provoke the heavenly tribulation and undergo the thunder baptism.

The other was to enter naturally occurring flashes of lightning and undergo the baptism within the thunder.

Each had its own advantages.

Natural thunder contained the breath of heaven and earth, which was superior for nourishing the primordial spirit, whereas drawing down heavenly lightning was better for purifying one's magic power.

For ordinary people, choosing one was enough to step into the Tribulation realm.

As for Chu Feng, he wanted both.

Natural lightning provided a far superior enhancement and nourishment to the primordial spirit, while the drawn-down heavenly thunder offered a purer cleansing of magic power.

Chu Feng glanced once more at Chen Changsheng, then soared directly into the sky, flying toward the dense thunderclouds hanging heavy over the firmament.

He vanished into the thunder in an instant. Watching this, Chen Changsheng seemed to realize something, and with his jaw dropped in astonishment, he muttered, "The senior... is actually a Heavenly Monarch of Tribulation Transcendence."

Chu Feng's departure made Zhu Ling'er, Li Lili, and Lin Leilei feel as though they had just come back to life. They spun around to look at Chen Changsheng. "Eldest Senior Brother..."

"Shut your mouths."

Chen Changsheng directly cut the three women off, sneering coldly, "I am no longer your Eldest Senior Brother, for I am unworthy. You only ever had your Junior Brother."

"What a pity, your Junior Brother is dead."

"It's not like that!" Zhu Ling'er shook her head frantically. "You will always be our Eldest Senior Brother."

"Eldest Senior Brother, we were deceived by Junior Brother—by He Yunsheng! We know we were wrong now."

"Yes, Eldest Senior Brother, we offer you our sincere apologies. Please forgive us, Eldest Senior Brother!"

"Didn't you always dote on us the most in the past?"

"Sob, sob, sob..."

Chen Changsheng looked at the three women with icy indifference, filled with utter disdain. "Now you know you were wrong? What were you doing before? When you saw Master killed and your Junior Brother slain, you lost your backing and grew terrified, so you come to me with apologies while shifting all the blame onto He Yunsheng. Where is your shame? Did you really think I, Chen Changsheng, was so easy to fool?"

"Get lost."

"From this day onward, I, Chen Changsheng, have no relation to you whatsoever, nor am I your Eldest Senior Brother. This is the path you chose yourselves."

"Eldest Senior Brother!" the three women wept bitterly.

Chen Changsheng flicked his sleeve.

Drawing his immortal sword, he pointed it at the three women and declared, "Do my words mean nothing to you? From now on, you are forbidden from calling me Eldest Senior Brother. If any of you dare to utter it again, I will cut out your tongues."

"The senior was right; you were never worth the devotion I, Chen Changsheng, gave you. The old Chen Changsheng is already dead."

"Eldest... Eldest..."

In the end, the three women did not dare to finish shouting the title.

Meeting Chen Changsheng's frigid, murderous gaze, they were so frightened that they hastily clamped their mouths shut, their tears streaming down uncontrollably.

They did not dare to gamble.

They didn't know if Chen Changsheng would actually cut out their tongues.

Their master was dead.

Their Eldest Senior Brother no longer wanted them.

Previously, relying on their master's backing, they had strutted about arrogantly and despotically, offending countless people. Now that their master was dead, they had completely lost their protection.

They didn't even dare to imagine what their fate would be.