First-Tier Candidate

Po Yu Marquis curled languidly on his throne, his fair, jade-like fingers gently tapping the armrest. His gaze swept over the three corpses below the grand hall. The space within the hall vibrated slightly, and a faint spatial fluctuation, imbued with the laws of immortality, swept over the three corpses. The three bodies hissed, hissed, hissed, instantly turning into dust.

“That little fellow, I reckon, is dead. But, he was just interest,” Po Yu Marquis murmured softly.

Suddenly, urgent footsteps sounded from outside.

“Master!”

“Master!”

Urgent shouts came from outside the hall.

“Come in,” Po Yu Marquis frowned slightly and said.

Immediately, a handsome young man rushed in from outside, clad in purple battle armor with silver embellishments. The handsome young man’s eyes were slightly sunken, his pupils emerald green, and his forehead bore some secret patterns. The handsome young man’s face was filled with grief and indignation. After rushing in, he fell to his knees below the grand hall with a thud, crying out repeatedly, “Master, please save my home planet—Mo Chaer!”

“What’s wrong?” Po Yu Marquis frowned slightly. “Your home planet, Mo Chaer, is also a powerful planet, with several Immortals. Why would it need my help?”

“Master, some of my clansmen back home inadvertently offended Meng Cang King’s faction. Who would have thought that the high and mighty Meng Cang King would personally act, directly using a powerful spatial secret technique to forcibly draw my home planet Mo Chaer… the entire planet, into his God Kingdom!” The handsome young man was on the verge of tears.

“A planet, drawn into a God Kingdom?” Po Yu Marquis was startled.

God Kingdom.

It is the lifeblood of an Immortal God. A Realm Lord possesses an ‘Inner World,’ and an Immortal God possesses a ‘God Kingdom.’ Once the Inner World collapses, the Realm Lord is bound to die!

If a God Kingdom collapses, weaker Immortal Gods will die directly. While some Immortal Gods with secret techniques or rare treasures might survive, their strength would be drastically reduced to an extremely low level. And their future prospects would be almost nonexistent! One could say… a God Kingdom is half the life of an Immortal God!

A God Kingdom has many wondrous uses, and its significant role is why Immortal Gods are so formidable.

Within a God Kingdom, an Immortal God’s strength will soar… but drawing an enemy into one’s God Kingdom, while boosting one’s own strength, also gives the enemy an opportunity to attack the God Kingdom. Therefore, unless one has absolute certainty, or is forced into a corner with no other option, enemies are rarely drawn into a God Kingdom.

To draw an entire planet into a God Kingdom?

“Your home planet, being drawn into Meng Cang King’s God Kingdom, will surely meet a tragic end.” Po Yu Marquis sat high on his throne, looking down at his disciple. “If he merely intended to destroy it, a single punch would suffice to obliterate your home planet. But he went to such great lengths to capture your home planet into his God Kingdom; he won’t stop without thoroughly tormenting it.”

“How exactly did your clansmen on your home planet offend him?” Po Yu Marquis frowned.

“It was a small matter!” The handsome young man knelt below the grand hall, crying out aggrievedly, “There were often some minor skirmishes in the past, and such small matters were usually handled by Meng Cang King’s subordinates. But I never expected Meng Cang King to personally act this time, directly drawing my home planet into his God Kingdom.”

“Please, Master, save my home planet,” the handsome young man pleaded repeatedly.

“I can’t do anything!” Po Yu Marquis shook his head.

“Master!” The handsome young man’s eyes welled up with tears.

Po Yu Marquis glanced down at his kneeling disciple and said softly, “I’ll try.”

He then closed his eyes slightly, a wisp of consciousness connecting to the Virtual Universe Network. Po Yu Marquis went to find a friend of hers to speak with Meng Cang King…

Just a moment later.

“You may leave,” Po Yu Marquis opened his eyes and said.

“Master?” The handsome young man looked up, gazing at Po Yu Marquis on the throne, his face full of anticipation.

“Who told your home to provoke Meng Cang King at the very moment he was most enraged?” Po Yu Marquis frowned and snapped, “No one can save your home planet.”

The handsome young man clenched his fists.

“Get out!” Po Yu Marquis coldly commanded.

“Yes.” The handsome young man dared not say more, fearing to anger his cold and sinister master, and respectfully retreated.

Only Po Yu Marquis remained on the throne in the grand hall. Po Yu Marquis frowned slightly and muttered to himself, “No wonder Meng Cang King is so furious. The inheritance slot for ‘Demonic Sound Mountain’ that his powerful teacher secured for him was actually taken by someone… Tsk tsk, waiting for this will mean waiting another 10081 Epochs for a new opportunity. If it were me, I’d be furious too. I just wonder… who exactly took Meng Cang King’s slot!”

…

A magnificent God Kingdom.

Endless oceans rippled, with faint, scattered ice floes in the seawater. Above the boundless oceans, a magnificent cluster of palaces, entirely deep green, floated. In the center of this palace cluster stood a colossal deep green statue, a million kilometers tall—a sculpture in the likeness of Meng Cang King!

Above the sea, hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the palace cluster, a planet with a diameter of about thirty thousand kilometers hung suspended.

Figures flew out from this planet, kneeling in mid-air, constantly kowtowing and praying.

“Meng Cang King! Spare our lives!”

“Meng Cang King! Spare our Mo Chaer!”

“Meng Cang King! We are guilty! We are guilty!”

Some Immortals and Realm Lords knelt in mid-air, their voices booming. And at this moment, their home—Mo Chaer—was experiencing a nightmarish scene: lightning flashed, flames soared, snowflakes drifted, and ice cones, like countless sharp swords, shot down from high above.

Meng Cang King!

With flowing deep green hair, a square face, and eyes wilder than a Starry Sky Behemoth, he stood in mid-air, clad in exquisite battle robes, coldly watching Mo Chaer endure various torments.

“Spare your lives? Guilty?”

Meng Cang King sneered, “Too late!”

“Too late!” “Too late!” “Too late!” “Too late!”… The voices echoed continuously in the ears of the kneeling Mo Chaer powerhouses. Those Immortals and Realm Lords were filled with immense pain, regret, and resentment! But they were helpless… Meng Cang King, as a King-tier Immortal, was too powerful.

Meng Cang King’s God Kingdom, imbued with even more astonishing divine might.

The sheer pressure of the God Kingdom alone made it impossible for those Immortals to resist.

“10081 Epochs, hundreds of millions of years! From my birth until now, such a long time has only been 12000 Epochs. To make me wait that long again…” The more Meng Cang King thought, the angrier he became, clenching his fists tighter, causing the surrounding space to vibrate and subtly crack. “Which bastard took my slot!!!”

“Who was it!!!”

Meng Cang King roared in anger in his heart, and the suspended planet’s fate became even more tragic.

…

In the vast universe, deep within the Demonic Sound Mountain of the ‘Taichu Secret Realm,’ one of the four core secret realms controlled by the ‘Virtual Universe Company’ of the human race.

In one of the 32 Inheritance Palaces of Demonic Sound.

Luo Feng was wholeheartedly receiving the inheritance. How could he know that he had taken Meng Cang King’s slot? Even for a King-tier Immortal… 10081 Epochs is still an incredibly long time. Meng Cang King had only lived for 12000 Epochs since his birth. It’s like telling someone who’s 30 and about to get married, “Don’t rush, wait another 30 years, get married when you’re 60.”

Who wouldn’t be anxious? Who wouldn’t be furious?

…

Inside the Inheritance Grand Hall.

Black mist permeated, and the inheritance steps extended layer by layer into the void…

Logically, the space within an Inheritance Grand Hall, tens of kilometers long and wide, shouldn’t be too astonishing. But the distance Luo Feng could see with his naked eye exceeded thousands of kilometers. This effect, like a world contained within a grain of sand, left Luo Feng relatively calm. After all, it was something a Realm Lord could achieve, so it wasn’t surprising that the super-being who left this Inheritance Palace could do it.

“Another part cultivated successfully!” Luo Feng opened his eyes, a look of excitement on his face, and transformed into a streak of light, flying towards a higher step.

*Snap!*

When his combat boots stepped onto that higher—inheritance step, the more profound cultivation secret technique immediately flooded into Luo Feng’s memory. At the same time, faint sounds echoed in the void beside the inheritance steps.

“Hmm?” Luo Feng turned to look.

Mysterious characters appeared out of thin air in the void. They seemed to be of the same style as the previous stone tablet characters. Although Luo Feng didn’t know what language they were, he instantly understood their full meaning.

“First-Tier Candidate?” Luo Feng was startled.

The text in the void meant—

“Life form receiving this inheritance, you have accepted one-tenth of the first stage of the ‘Demonic Sound Inheritance’! The Demonic Sound General’s Inheritance has a total of three stages. Those who complete the first stage will receive the title of ‘First-Tier Candidate’ and a ‘First-Tier Candidate’ level reward!”

“The end of the first stage is that distant hall. The First-Tier Candidate’s reward awaits there!”

“Work hard!”

*Rumble~~~*

The inheritance steps Luo Feng stood on had already extended very, very far, and now continued to extend into the void, layer after layer. Finally… after extending a great distance, at the end of the inheritance steps, a tiny hall, barely visible to the naked eye, appeared in the distant void.

“The end of the first stage? The First-Tier Candidate’s reward?” Luo Feng looked at the distant hall in the void, his heart stirring. “I’ve been receiving this inheritance for almost a year now, probably about 300 layers of steps. And that’s only one-tenth of the first stage. So, the first stage must have over three thousand layers of steps?”

The first stage has over three thousand layers of steps.

There are a total of three stages.

Assuming the next two stages have the same number, that’s roughly ten thousand layers of steps!

“Walking all the steps and receiving the complete inheritance, when will that ever happen?” Luo Feng couldn’t help but be secretly astonished.

That being said.

In reality… throughout the billions of years of Demonic Sound Mountain’s existence, tens of thousands of life forms have received the inheritance, yet not a single one has ever obtained the complete inheritance!

“Thinking too much won’t help. I’ll first fully accept the first stage of the inheritance, become a ‘First-Tier Candidate,’ and then I can claim the reward stored in that hall.” Luo Feng secretly anticipated, “This Inheritance Palace is quite impressive in its design; the reward it gives shouldn’t be bad. I wonder what it is—a treasure? A weapon? Battle armor?”

Luo Feng pondered for a moment, then stopped overthinking, and fully immersed himself once more in cultivating the inheritance secret technique on the inheritance steps. In just one year… having received this part of the inheritance, Luo Feng felt his strength soar several times over.

This inheritance is indeed an incredibly heaven-defying secret technique!

If Luo Feng were to put a price on it—a truly priceless treasure! Even better than the complete set of “Space-Time Notes”!

“I really have to thank Mo Luo for that kick!” Luo Feng often sighed with such emotion in his heart.