CHAPTER 746: 179. XIAHOU SHOU IN THE OLD DAYS_3

He reached out and took the key of the Ancient World, saying slowly, "It’s beyond my reach."

"Very well."

The Heavenly Demon Ancestor said, "If you survive and return, your rank within the Demon Clan will be second only to mine. Even if you can’t reshape your Divine Soul in the Ancient World, I can still give you the Reincarnation Fruit."

Several days later, he entered the Ancient World.

It was not a vast world, referred to as a planet by its inhabitants.

The races there were also different from those in Great Yu. In addition to people with yellow skin and black hair, there were many with blonde hair, blue eyes, and even other hair and eye colors.

Beyond that, the most significant difference was the rules of heaven and earth.

Even the small heaven and earth formed by the World Tree wouldn’t isolate or change the heaven and earth’s rules, but the rules of the Ancient World were entirely different from those of Eternal Night.

The cultivation in Eternal Night required breaking through five Heavenly Barriers, whereas in the Ancient World, one would follow different procedural chains, gradually transforming from Transcendent to Divine.

After he arrived in this world, his powerful physical body and Inner Heaven and Earth were wholly suppressed by the rules. They could only be used to foster sequential promotion; fortunately, his Semi-Divine Artifact and Divine Soul had merged and could be brought into this world. Though also completely suppressed, they gradually developed and provided significant help.

He knew his Divine Soul would eventually collapse, and he didn’t have much time to waste.

He could only do his utmost, following the sequential promotion, and inquire everywhere about the secrets of this world.

He gradually found that though the Transcendent sequence in this world started weak, they rivaled Great Cultivators beginning from Demigod.

Every subsequent promotion was an earth-shattering transformation.

As for the gods at the end of the sequence, they were equivalent to proven warriors who had condensed their Divine Heart.

And at the source of all sequences related to the legendary master of the Ancient Days.

After years of struggle, he finally became a Divine Favored of a certain god, which allowed him to glimpse the true nature of this Ancient World and even rebuild his Divine Soul.

Afterward, he returned to Eternal Night with these truths and treasures transcending the rules of heaven and earth from the Ancient World.

The Demon Clan grew stronger for it.

He never forgot his objectives. While the Heavenly Demon Ancestors and the Demon Gods slaughtered the Human Clan’s proven warriors, he also led the Demon Clan’s massive army to attack the Imperial Family of Great Yu!

In the face of the newly transformed Demon Clan, the Human Clan was utterly no match.

Just as he was about to achieve his long-held wish, an invincible Divine Emperor appeared from nowhere, effortlessly drove the Heavenly Demon Ancestor away, and even a terrifyingly powerful Crown Prince emerged, single-handedly defeating many Demon Gods and Demon Ancestors.

The Demon Clan’s army was defeated and had to flee back to the Demon Country.

He was unwilling to accept this, but the Heavenly Demon Ancestor just told him to cultivate properly, accumulate enough Divine Power, and then send him back to the Ancient World.

After more than a thousand years of cultivation, he was always just one step away from proving himself.

Finally, the Demon Clan amassed enough Divine Power, and the Ancient World was opened again; he entered the Ancient World once more.

But at the same time, as he opened the Ancient World, he discovered several souls quietly slipping out.

Among them, one soul was as powerful as a god of the Ancient World—was it the god he had once seen?

He couldn’t worry about that now.

This time, he would become a divine being in the Ancient World!

...

The memory abruptly stopped.

Lin Yue then slowly opened his eyes, murmuring, "So this is the Ancient World..."