The saying "pressure is the source of motivation" is not without merit.

Since this incident, Lin Yun's cultivation speed has increased somewhat.

Originally, when Lin Yun used the resources inside the Heavenly Dao Tower, he would calculate how to use them most cost-effectively and how to achieve the best value for money. Now, however, he doesn't care about those things anymore.

The spirit of the Heavenly Dao Tower seemed to know that Lin Yun was anxious and that the current situation could not be viewed through the lens of common sense. It didn't say anything, but simply did its best to provide Lin Yun with the resources he needed.

One year later.

"boom!"

A huge fluctuation came from the place where Lin Yun was cultivating inside the Heavenly Dao Tower space, and all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the entire Heavenly Dao Tower space gathered towards Lin Yun.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth around Lin Yun had become liquid, and Lin Yun's body was like a whale sucking in water, rapidly absorbing this liquid spiritual energy.

"Middle-level Saint Realm! Lin Yun has broken through to the Middle-level Saint Realm!"

"Lin Yun has finally broken through!"

In the distance, True Martial Saint Lord and the spirit of the Heavenly Dao Tower watched this scene with excitement.

At this time, it had been less than five years since Lin Yun broke through to the lower-level saint realm.

In less than five years, Lin Yun broke through again, which can be described as extremely fast.

Whew! Whew!

As they spoke, True Martial Saint Lord and the spirit of the Heavenly Dao Tower teleported to Lin Yun's vicinity.

"I was right after all. At the current rate of Lin Yun's cultivation, he will definitely be able to break through the thirty-fifth level of this universe..."

"When Lin Yun first broke through to the lower-level Saint realm, he was already strong enough to fight against a lower-level Saint King. Now that Lin Yun has broken through to the middle-level Saint realm, I wonder what level of strength he has reached?"

True Martial Saint Lord and the spirit of the Heavenly Dao Tower forcibly suppressed their emotional fluctuations and spoke.

...

While Lin Yun was breaking through inside the Heavenly Dao Tower, the Saint-level ghost cultivators outside were getting anxious.

A year has passed, and Lin Yun and Zhenwu Shengjun still haven't come out.

At first, they suspected that Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Monarch might not know what was happening outside the Heavenly Dao Tower. But as time went by, they became more and more certain that Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Monarch were not unaware of what was happening outside, but rather that they knew about it but chose not to come out.

A year has passed, and they have killed nearly forty million humans in the Immortal Origin Realm and on Earth.

Most of those who stood up for themselves were killed by them. Those who remained were mostly people who deeply hated Lin Yun and Zhenwu Shengjun, and they cursed Lin Yun and Zhenwu Shengjun incessantly every day.

“This won’t do. These people hate Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Lord so much, why would Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Lord come out for them?” A low-level Saint Lord-level ghost cultivator transmitted his voice to the other Saint Lord-level ghost cultivators.

"Even if they don't hate Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Lord, would Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Lord come out for them? We killed quite a few of those who didn't hate Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Lord before, so it's clear that Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Lord came out?" A low-level Saint Lord-level ghost cultivator sneered and said.

"I never expected that Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Monarch would be so ruthless! Especially Lin Yun, he's not old, but he's ruthless!" A low-level Saint Monarch-level ghost cultivator said with a fluctuating expression.

“It seems I underestimated Lin Yun. Of course, if his mindset were like that of an ordinary human youth, how could he have achieved such success? Moreover, we overlooked something: Lin Yun had already sent a group of people away. Those people must be the ones he cares about. He doesn’t care about the lives of the rest of them at all…” The three-headed dog demon cultivator narrowed his eyes and said softly.

“We can’t wait any longer! During this time, I’ve been asking a friend to contact a powerful ghost cultivator at the Saint King level. He’s sent back a message these past few days, and we’ll send the information about this universe to that Saint King level ghost cultivator right now!” After a pause, the three-headed dog ghost cultivator said.

"What? Brother Ao has already made contact with a ghost cultivator at the Saint King level?"

Upon hearing the words of the three-headed dog ghost cultivator, the group of lower-level Saint King-level ghost cultivators were all surprised.

“I haven’t been able to contact it yet, but that powerful ghost cultivator at the Saint King level has agreed to let me contact it. I’ll go back to the Netherworld in a little while and try to make contact!” The three-headed dog ghost cultivator shook his head and said.

Although this universe is connected to the Netherworld, there is still a major rule that makes it extremely difficult for them to contact the ghost cultivators in the Netherworld using communication devices when they are in this universe.

It needs to return to the Netherworld.

However, although it had not yet made contact with the other party, with this message from the other party, the matter was almost certainly settled. But before leaving, it still wanted to try to see if it could force Lin Yun out.

"Lin Yun, Zhenwu, I'm giving you ten more days. From now on, for every day you come out, I will kill one-tenth of your current numbers. After ten days, I will kill everyone..."

The three-headed dog demon cultivator looked up, towards the direction of the Heavenly Dao Tower, and said.

"What?"

No!

"Spare me, spare me, I don't want to die..."

"I surrender, I surrender to you! I'll do whatever you ask, please don't kill me..."

"Lin Yun, Zhenwu, you deserve to be torn to pieces! Why should we suffer the consequences of the powerful figures you provoked? Even if I die, I will curse you..."

"Lin Yun, Zhenwu, if you're still men, come out right now!"

Those humans from the Immortal Origin Realm and Earth also heard the three-headed dog demon cultivator's words and collapsed, shouting in despair.

The three-headed dog demon closed its eyes and ignored the words of these people.

It had heard these words far too many times over the past year, and it hoped that Lin Yun and Zhenwu Shengjun would be influenced by them and come out. Unfortunately, it couldn't control Lin Yun and Zhenwu Shengjun's hearts.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

A day later, the three-headed dog demon cultivator, with a thought, precisely slaughtered one-tenth of the Immortal Origin Realm and Earth's humans. In an instant, hundreds of millions of heads rolled down, and a powerful baleful aura soared into the sky.

The remaining Immortal Origin Realm and Earth humans were all stunned and dared not utter a word for a moment.

The power to kill hundreds of millions of lives with a single thought is terrifying beyond measure; some weak cultivators are even scared to death.

"call!"

At that moment, the three-headed dog demon's body suddenly became enormous, its blood-red maw opened wide, and billowing blood energy poured into its mouth, causing its body to grow even larger.

"Oh my god!"

"This ghost cultivator is terrifying!"

"To annihilate hundreds of millions of living beings with a single thought, to devour hundreds of millions of living beings..."

"Help……"

Seeing this, the remaining people from the Immortal Origin Realm and Earth finally reacted and exclaimed in horror.

Over the past year, they had witnessed the three-headed dog demon cultivator slaughtering some of their beings, but they had never seen him kill so many at once, and they were terrified.

Many of them retreated, but the starry sky they were in had long been covered by the domain power of the three-headed dog ghost cultivator. How could ordinary cultivators like them shake the domain power of a mid-level Saint King ghost cultivator?

"These humans taste really good, it's a pity... If it weren't for the need to force Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint Monarch out, I would really like to keep some as seeds..." The three-headed dog demon muttered to himself as he chewed.

Over the past year, it has killed 100,000 people from the Immortal Origin Realm and Earth every day, killing nearly 40 million people in total.

It had long discovered that the flesh and blood of these immortal beings and humans from Earth were quite good, not only because of their taste, but also because of their great benefits. However, this was the first time it had ever eaten so much flesh and blood from these immortal beings and humans from Earth at once.

The benefits it received were so great that it was deeply moved.

"Once I devour all the flesh and blood of these Immortal Origin Realms and Earth humans, my strength can advance by a large margin. Unfortunately, most of the Immortal Origin Realms and Earth humans were devoured by those low-level ghost cultivators, leaving only about a billion humans. If there were a total of 10 billion, and I devoured them all, my realm could definitely reach the peak of the middle-level Saint King..." the three-headed dog ghost cultivator lamented in his heart.

Its realm has only recently broken through to the intermediate Saint King level. If it could quickly reach the peak of the intermediate Saint King level, it would be an enormous leap forward. This also shows how great the benefits are for ghost cultivators to devour living beings.

Of course, this is also because these creatures are of very high quality.

Even if it devoured a hundred or a thousand times more of other living beings, it might not have the same effect.

However, the number of living beings in this universe is far more than a million times, ten million times.

This also shows how much a living universe can help them...

In other words, there are powerful bottlenecks between the intermediate Saint King realm and the superior Saint King realm, and between the superior Saint King realm and the peak Saint King realm. These bottlenecks cannot be broken by ordinary means. Otherwise, with the help of the beings in this living universe, it would not be impossible for them to break through to the peak Saint King realm, or even the Saint King realm.

Why would it bother blocking Lin Yun and Zhenwu Saint King here? And why would it tell those Saint King-level ghost cultivators about the information of this universe? It's already busy devouring the beings of this universe to increase its strength!

The next day passed quickly.

"Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle..."

"boom!!!"

In the Immortal Origin Realm and on Earth, hundreds of millions more were slaughtered, and in an instant, waves of blood rolled.

Inside the Heavenly Path Tower space.

Lin Yun was still stabilizing his state of mind with his eyes closed.

The spirit of the Heavenly Dao Tower was extremely anxious, while True Martial Saint Lord and Xia Qingqing's group had ashen faces.

In other parts of the Heavenly Dao Tower, there are many immortal realms and Earth humans.

The humans from Earth were brought over by Xia Qingqing and her group, while the humans from the Immortal Origin Realm were casually stored in their spatial items by Lin Yun and Zhenwu Shengjun when they escaped from the Immortal Origin Realm.

After being brought into the Heavenly Dao Tower space by Lin Yun, Zhenwu Saint Lord, Xia Qingqing and his group, they were arranged by the Heavenly Dao Tower's spirit to cultivate in some ordinary spaces.

Originally, they were not told about what was happening outside.

However, after discussing it with Zhenwu Shengjun and Xia Qingqing, they told them.

Hopefully, this incident will inspire them to train harder.

If all the beings in the Immortal Origin Realm and on Earth perish, they will become the seeds of the Immortal Origin Realm and on Earth.

At this moment, these people, through the image placed in front of them by the spirit of the Heavenly Dao Tower, looked at the scene outside and were all furious.

Of course, many people were also relieved, saying, "Fortunately, Holy Lord Lin Yun and Holy Lord Zhenwu brought us back earlier, otherwise, we would have suffered the same fate as them!"

"The Sage of Langya, and those ghost cultivators outside, are all untrustworthy. Only Sage Lord Lin Yun and Sage Lord Zhenwu truly care about us. We were ashamed that we didn't obey their orders to deal with the Sage of Langya. Thankfully, Sage Lord Lin Yun and Sage Lord Zhenwu didn't hold a grudge..."

“Those people outside are truly despicable. They are clearly ghost cultivators who want to kill them, yet they are cursing Lord Lin Yun and Lord Zhenwu. It’s laughable. People like that should not be saved!”

"Lord Lin Yun and Lord Zhenwu, you absolutely must not go out! Lord Lin Yun and Lord Zhenwu are both very young, especially Lord Lin Yun, who is very young. He will soon be able to cultivate to a higher realm and surpass those ghost cultivators. At that time, he can kill those ghost cultivators outside and avenge the Immortal Origin Realm and all living beings on Earth! If they really go out, it will be all over! Presumably, those ghost cultivators have also realized this, which is why they are threatening Lord Lin Yun and Lord Zhenwu like this! If Lord Lin Yun and Lord Zhenwu really go out, they will fall into their trap!"

"As the saying goes, these are all lies; how can we believe the words of these ghost cultivators?"

...

On the third day, hundreds of millions more were killed in the Immortal Origin Realm and on Earth.

The fourth day passed... The fifth day passed...

It remains the same.

Both outside and inside the Heavenly Dao Tower, the momentum reached its peak.

In the blink of an eye, the sixth day is about to pass...

"The sixth day has passed, kill!"

The three-headed dog demon cultivator didn't even open his eyes; he spoke slowly with his eyes closed.

During this period, it has devoured hundreds of millions of immortal beings and humans from Earth, greatly increasing its strength, and is enjoying its devouring spree.

"Um?"

Just then, it suddenly felt a sense of alarm and quickly dodged to the side, opening its eyes at the same time.

"laugh!"

The next moment, a deep bloodstain appeared where it had been. It could vaguely sense the terror of that bloodstain; if it hadn't left that spot, it would have been seriously injured.

"Lin Yun?"

The three-headed dog demon, its pupils slightly constricted, stared at a very young human figure in front of it and slowly spoke.

Ahead, a young man in white robes floated in the starry sky, looking at it with an icy expression.

The image of this white-clad youth is exactly what Lin Yun, the human it once saw, looked like.

However, this was the first time it had ever seen one in real life.

Its heart was far from calm. As far as it knew, several years ago, when those few lower-level Saint King-level ghost cultivators encountered Lin Yun, Lin Yun was only at the second or third level of the Super Realm.

Only a few years have passed? Lin Yun has already broken through to the intermediate Saint realm!

At the intermediate Saint level, he possesses strength comparable to a powerful lower-level Saint King!

This cultivation speed is absolutely terrifying!

It is said that this Lin Yun is only in his thirties!

If we give them a few more years, what would happen?

"You dog-like creature, who gave you the audacity to threaten me, the Emperor? Could it be that because I haven't appeared in the Netherworld for so long, the ghost cultivators there have forgotten the might of the Blood Emperor?"

However, at that moment, Lin Yun in the starry sky spoke, his tone extremely cold.

His first words were stern and stern, radiating an aura of absolute authority.

"Buzz!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yun was enveloped in a dazzling crimson light.

"What?"

On the other side, the three-headed dog demon was staring intently at Lin Yun, thinking about how to capture him. Suddenly, upon hearing Lin Yun's words, especially the last two words "Blood Emperor," its expression changed drastically, and its heart skipped a beat.

Blood Emperor? This Lin Yun... is actually the legendary Blood Emperor of the Netherworld?

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree—it felt a sudden chill run through its body, and at the same time, it couldn't help but tremble.

Who is the Blood Emperor? He is one of the Nine Emperors of the Netherworld, and is said to be one of the most powerful among them!

The Nine Emperors of the Netherworld are all terrifying beings, not to mention the Blood Emperor, a ghost cultivator who is among the most powerful of the Nine Emperors!

Once, they slaughtered so many that the Netherworld was stained with blood!

Once, he slew ten thousand saints with a single sword!

Among them were many ghost cultivators at the Saint King level!

Ordinary Saint King-level ghost cultivators are no match for the Blood Emperor even in a single move!

call--

Almost reflexively, it turned around and fled quickly into the distance.

It's no wonder it overthinks.

Instead, it has been pondering a question all this time: if the blood sword in Lin Yun's hand is indeed the Blood Emperor's Blood Prison Sword, then why is this Blood Prison Sword in Lin Yun's hands?

Why is Lin Yun's performance so extraordinary?

Could it really be because of the Blood Prison Sword?

Are there any other reasons?

For example... the Blood Emperor did indeed have an accident, but Lin Yun... is actually the reincarnation of the Blood Emperor?

This is not impossible. The Blood Prison Sword... and Lin Yun's cultivation speed is simply too heaven-defying... It's very possible!

Furthermore, Lin Yun's current appearance is exactly like the way the Blood Emperor used the Blood Prison Sword, according to some information it had gathered.

The Blood Emperor is a ghost cultivator from the Netherworld, while Lin Yun is a being from the Universe of Living Beings. If Lin Yun is not the reincarnation of the Blood Emperor, then why is his current behavior so similar to when the Blood Emperor used the Blood Prison Sword?

Furthermore, Lin Yun's own admission made it no wonder that the three-headed dog demon cultivator overthink things.

A person's name is like a tree's shadow. Even if Lin Yun was merely the reincarnation of the Blood Emperor, and even if Lin Yun only possessed the strength of a lower-level Saint King, the three-headed dog demon cultivator dared not attack Lin Yun again.

It didn't even dare to face Lin Yun again and immediately fled.

"What...what did Lin Yun say? He...he...he is the Blood Emperor?"

“The Blood Emperor… He is the Blood Emperor… This is what the Blood Emperor looks like when he makes a move. I’ve seen it before…”

"Run...run...run...run away quickly..."

Not far away, a group of lower-level Saint King-level ghost cultivators saw this scene and their expressions changed drastically. They exclaimed in disbelief, their voices trembling as they spoke. Then, they turned and fled.

That's how powerful the Blood Emperor's intimidation was.

Just a moment ago, they were full of ambition.

Now, just hearing a name is enough to send them running away.

On the other side, Lin Yun was also very unsettled when he saw this scene.

He was certainly not the reincarnation of the Blood Emperor, but this was the countermeasure he had come up with.

He had never seen what the Blood Emperor looked like when he made a move, nor did the True Martial Saint Monarch and the spirit of the Heavenly Dao Tower. However, the ghost cultivator named Black Mountain knew that it was the other party's description that allowed him to depict how the Blood Emperor used the Blood Prison Sword.

However, he did not expect that his words would frighten these Saint-level ghost cultivators so much.

This result left him speechless.

If he had known this would happen, he would have come out like this much earlier.

He even thought to himself that this.

However, he quickly dismissed the idea.

He knew that the other party's escape was probably related to his current strength. If his current strength was just like that of an ordinary cultivator, and the other party could kill him with a single thought, then even if the other party knew that he was the reincarnation of the Blood Emperor, he would not have left so easily. It was very likely that the other party would have killed him directly to seize the treasure.

Because his current strength is comparable to that of a lower-level Saint King, and not just any lower-level Saint King, the other party could not kill him quickly. In addition, the other party's fear of the Blood Emperor led to this result.