"Ah! The gods are fighting, and it has nothing to do with me. I better concentrate on absorbing the Sharp Gold Power and consolidating the Sharp Gold True Species. This might be a good opportunity for me to break into the Fifth Realm."

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In a desolate wasteland,

The Greenfin Clan member who held the mountain-like Strange Treasure which had destroyed the gate to the Realm of True Nothingness showed a slight change in expression upon hearing the bounty issued by the True Realm Ancestor.

"Who is this Xiao Mu? He managed to infuriate Ancestor Xuan Yin to the point where he personally issued a bounty."

"The True Realm's unique skill and Advanced Energy Fruits are rare treasures. Unfortunately, I'm on the cusp of my breakthrough and don't have time for this."

"Breaking through is the priority. Other matters can wait. Within three or four days, I should have broken through. Once that happens, I'll be able to come and go in the Realm of True Nothingness as I please."

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At Blood Drop Cliff, upon hearing the bounty set by Ancestor Xuan Yin, the Divine Corpse who was trying hard to break through momentarily opened his eyes before immediately closing them again.

"Breaking through is of utmost importance. Everything else can be postponed."

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In the Land of Origin, two powerful beings from the Evil Ghost Clan who were condensing the Xuan Yin Banner immediately stopped their cultivation upon hearing the bounty set by Ancestor Xuan Yin.

"Xiao Mu? Dare to provoke the elder ancestor? Deserves death!"

The long-haired, tall ghost powerhouse expressed his anger.

The Evil Ghost in yellow robes, his Nether Power fluctuating and the aura of a Fifth Realm powerhouse faintly revealing itself, reminded the tall ghost, "King Xuan, we are at a critical stage of breaking through. We can't be distracted. Please stay calm."

King Xuan, the tall Ghost, responded, "King Hades, you're right. However, we must not disregard the elder ancestor's orders. We must capture Xiao Mu!"

The Evil Ghost named King Hades in yellow robes said, "We can send someone else to do it, we're at a critical juncture. Breaking through is the priority. If we mess up the elder ancestor's major event, neither of us will be able to bear the consequences."

"You're right."

Upon hearing these words, King Xuan became grave, "Then we will send others to capture Xiao Mu."

Having said this, he spat a peculiar Fu Zhuan from his mouth.

His lips didn't move, but a voice line flew out of his mouth and entered the Fu Zhuan.

The Fu Zhuan immediately carried some kind of command.

"Transform!"

Then, the Fu Zhuan in King Xuan's hand trembled, and suddenly it burned. Under the burning of the black nether fire, the Fu Zhuan turned into a shell-shaped flying insect the size of a bee.

The insect's wings vibrated violently. Its figure was occasionally visible, occasionally invisible. Within a short time, it completely disappeared, as if it had entered another space.

A moment later, several thousand miles away.

Among a group of five to six peak Fourth Realm Evil Ghosts.

A tall Evil Ghost with a lion's head and a cow's nose suddenly extended his hand. With a flash of black light, a strange seal appeared in his palm.

It was the seal that King Xuan had released.

With the strange Fu Zhuan in hand, the lion-headed, tall Evil Ghost squeezed it gently, and the Fu Zhuan immediately exploded.

The voice of King Xuan came from inside, filled with authority, delivering a command, "In accordance with the elder ancestor's order, let go of everything and focus on killing Xiao Mu!"

"Gentlemen, King Xuan has issued a command for us to put everything aside and focus on capturing and killing Xiao Mu."

The lion-headed, bull-nosed Evil Ghost looked solemn as he relayed the command to the other evil ghosts.

"King Xuan wants us to capture and kill Xiao Mu? Zhi, does King Xuan not know how formidable Xiao Mu is? Is he someone we can capture?"

Zhi's words stirred up a commotion among the ghosts, all showing signs of reluctance.

Each of their strengths only reached the Perfect Fourth Realm. Some have condensed True Strength Seeds while some have not yet even condensed their Power Seeds.

As for Xiao Mu's strength, they had all heard of it and knew they were no match for him.

King Xuan's command stirred dissatisfaction among the ghosts.

This was simply a wild order.

With their strength, going out to find Xiao Mu recklessly would only send them to their deaths.

"If you have any objections, you can go and tell King Xuan."

"But once King Xuan's command is issued, it cannot be disobeyed. Those who disobey will die!"

Zhi's face was extremely gloomy, the intent to kill revealed between his lips and teeth, and the words he spoke were absolutely merciless.

His words immediately silenced the other ghosts.

The crowd of ghosts didn't want to, but they dared not say anything.

"Prepare, everyone. Follow me. We're venturing deeper into the True Realm of Nothingness to capture Xiao Mu!"

Zhi issued the order, giving the ghosts no opportunity to reconsider.

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"Xiao Mu has stirred up the True Realm Ancestor!"

At the border of a large relic that radiated endless intention of death, an expansive view of white bones was visible.

Clearly, these white bones all once belonged to formidable beings, each one a Fifth Realm cultivator who shaved off their power.

However, at this moment, all these formidable beings had died outside this massive relic, completely devoid of life, reduced to mere bones.

Some of them were even the Mutated Beings who had recently arrived.

At a considerable distance from the white bones and the massive relic, a strange man who looked like a sculpted image was standing, his body entirely coated in gold paint.

The man was muttering to himself; it was King Yuan, who entered the True Realm of Nothingness from a secret entrance.

Gazing at the massive relic, King Yuan's face was etched with irritation. He was gnashing his teeth in anger, full of rage, "I've completely lost contact with the power of life and death! Could it be that Xiao Mu has cultivated it?!"

"How is that possible? The power of life and death is the strongest power below the top-level power. What is Xiao Mu hoping to cultivate?"

"But, if he didn't cultivate it, why have I lost contact with it?"

"The death relics are extremely dangerous, full of the furious power of death everywhere, which can invade your body and kill you instantly."

"In this brief window of time, I've already witnessed three Mutated Beings who've trimmed their cultivation die here, including one in the late Fifth Realm."

"The power of death is not something that can be easily obtained."

"Xiao Mu, Xiao Mu..."

King Yuan uttered Xiao Mu's name. His face was distorted with intense hatred. "If the power of life and death hadn't been taken away by Xiao Mu and had been protecting me, I would have easily entered the Rebirth Canal and the death relics, acquired the power of life and death, and condensed the True Seed of Life and Death."

King Yuan gnashed his teeth in hatred till blood seeped out, filled with extreme rage, "This Xiao Mu, who ruined my good plans, I will make sure to kill you a thousand times, ten thousand times..."

King Yuan was pacing around the edge of the death relics, his body enveloped in Yin Qi, but he just couldn't bring himself to enter inside.

He was conflicted and restlessly pacing back and forth like an ant on a hot pan.

After a long time, it seemed like he had finally made a certain decision. Both his knees bent and he respectfully knelt down on the ground. An incense burner illusion appeared before him.

King Yuan kowtowed and channeled his life essence into the incense burner.

As his life essence drained, King Yuan rapidly aged. His body weakened like he was stepping into the twilight of his life.

He used his life essence as incense, worshipping a terrifying and unfathomable being.

A faint black humanoid illusion gradually materialized, releasing boundless terrifying aura. It was so powerful that even the death relics were affected and the force of death had to retreat.

A looming illusion of a green-robed man gradually formed and hovered above the incense burner.

"Greeting Ancestor..."

King Yuan was trembling violently.

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Xiao Mu rode the Fire Dragon Vehicle, and after leaving the Ghost Princess and the Ghost Servant, he continued his journey further into the True Realm of Nothingness.

He passed by the land of creation and destruction, the cursed land, the holy land, and various other strange places where true power resided.

In fact, the level of true power generated by all these places Xiao Mu passed by was no less than the force of good and evil.

Some zones were even more dangerous than the land of good and evil.

Among all the various distinctive forces evolved by Yin and Yang power, the land of good and evil, which cultivated the force of good and evil, can even be considered the safest place.

Each other landscape was extremely dangerous, with death a likely outcome if one was careless.

Ordinary Mutated Beings couldn't get near these places. Only the most powerful cultivators, who were in the Fifth Realm and decided to scale back their cultivation, had a slight chance of entering and obtaining the real power.

The land of life and death, regardless of the Rebirth Canal or the death relics, was more dangerous than the places mentioned before and was one of the most dangerous places, second only to the Land of Origin.

The Land of Origin, Xiao Mu had been to its outskirts before. He dared not probe too deep, as he had encountered a powerful being in the True Realm who had broken through in a special way, and he had nearly died there.

While the land of life and death was incomparable to the Land of Origin regarding danger, death was, nevertheless, omnipresent.

And now, Xiao Mu intended to head to the land of life and death.

The power of life and death supplied by the power of life-death was too scarce. He wanted to continue to gain power of life and death and fill up the two forces of life and death in the kind of Chaos True Seed, while further cultivating the Seal of the Heavenly Emperor.

If conditions allowed, he would even refine the Great Decree.

Afterwards, he would directly break through to the Fifth Realm.

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