This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

Chapter 455: Legend's End

In the highest room of the palace in the center of Beginner City, a woman lay on a luxurious sofa. Her name was Ziye. Her features had returned to the prime of her life. The women of her generation hated her, and the women of her junior generation envied her. The source of all this was her cultivation base. As a nascent soul grandmaster, Ziye possessed a maximum lifespan of three thousand and six hundred years.

Never had the widow mother thought she would reach such heights. In the Demon Cage Realm, she was once the daughter of one of humanity’s strongest cultivators, Azure Leaf City Lord. However, Azure Leaf City fell along with her father, and she fell from one of the proud daughters of heavens to an ordinary cultivator without backing.

In humanity’s new stronghold, Fan City, Ziye fell in love with Lushu, a loose cultivator. He was a rising star, said to exceed her father in cultivation base and strength, but he died out of nowhere one day. All he left behind was a child for her, Jinshu.

Jinshu was an exceptional child. He was upstanding since young and never complained, understanding her plight. To her relief and worry, Jinshu inherited his father’s cultivation talent. Ziye worried that he would one day die without warning, just like her departed husband. Thankfully, her worry did not come true.

When Jinshu grew up, a major change occurred in the Demon Cage Realm. The Vast Heaven God reappeared in the Demon Cage Realm and whisked the humans away to a paradisiacal land with no monsters or demons. Not only that, but the Vast Heaven God also accepted her son as a disciple.

Thanks to his status as the Vast Heaven God’s disciple and own growing strength, Jinshu was able to forcibly boost her cultivation to the Nascent Sou Realm through sheer resources. Ziye didn’t harbor any hopes of entering the Immortal Realm. She knew her own talent, and surpassing her father’s strength was only a possibility.

Jinshu had wanted to raise her cultivation to the Unity Realm, but Ziye rejected it. Entering the Unity Realm would not increase her lifespan, so she saw no point. She was already satisfied with her current lifespan.

Many of her old acquaintances had also increased their longevity thanks to the superior cultivation environment on Sixth Heaven, where they lived. And it wasn’t like they only relied on absorbing the abundant spiritual qi to cultivate. Many of those who wanted to seek the immortal path also had jobs.

Years after the great migration, the Vast Heaven God created a game known as [Cultivation Online]. The [Players] were cultivators outside the Nine Heavens, the world the Sixth Heaven resided in. The people hired by the Vast Heaven God were divided into three groups: [NPCs], [Moderators], and [Admins].

NPCs, or Non-Playable Characters, had the lowest wage. They had to act out certain roles in Cultivation Online, such as a shopkeeper or blacksmith. Moderators and admins were vastly different. They were to solve any issue that cropped up in Cultivation Online, such as a player abusing some feature or loophole. They also maintained the fairness of the hunting grounds and bosses, preventing any one [Guild] from monopolizing it for too long. Well, at least to a certain point.

The players were all geniuses far beyond the natives of the Demon Cage Realm, and any action taken by the former would be easily rebuffed. In order to carry out their duties, the admins and moderators were given special privileges.

It was intoxicating.

Moderators possessed the power of a peak Transcending Mortality Saint, while admins had the power of immortals. Thanks to her connection with Jinshu, Ziye was chosen as an admin.

Upon first using her privileges, Ziye entered an illusion that she was all powerful. She used her newfound powers to kill the players that caused trouble and refused to comply with the rules. With her might established, none of the players dare to offend her on the surface.

Ziye enjoyed the feeling. Had it not been for Jinshu, who visited her using his status as a player, she might not have sobered up from her illusion. If she allowed the power to hinder her judgment and corrupt her, she would lose her position as an admin. Though the players would not be able to kill her, there are other methods of gaining revenge.

Power that ultimately belonged to external sources could not be relied upon. And even if she truly had the power of an immortal, Ziye didn’t think she would be able to contend with the Vast Heaven God. So, after killing the players to establish her might, she rarely killed again.

Normally, Tianyi disdained to steal treasure from other people, even if he wanted them. However, he was going to kill the Dragon Emperor, so this can be considered his reward, right?

He took action. He didn’t plan to use Constellation Cessation. Using Stellar Silence already resulted in a phenomenon that could be seen from the Nine Heavens System, and using an even stronger technique would cause it to remain for years. Of course, he could forcibly end it, but that would just be wasting energy. Better to just let it dissipate naturally.

The Dragon Emperor pushed his speed to the maximum, so much so that it left a long trail of golden light. Still, he could not avoid the Planetary Purgatory Tianyi unleashed. Only this time, Tianyi didn’t use them as fuel for Stellar Silence and detonate them. However, the visual impact was arguably worse, as the Dragon Emperor had to dodge planets literally shooting at him.

“Who are you!? You, an exalted god, don’t even dare to show yourself in front of me? Can you only hide and only use sneak attacks? Coward! No wonder it took the Buzhuo Immortal Court so long to unify the Huang Realm. It’s because of your cowardice! Even with absolute superiority, you hide behind a bastard’s facade!”

In the Vast Void of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System, Tianyi blinked as he heard the Dragon Emperor’s rant. ‘This guy, just what scenario did he imagine?’

Still, Tianyi didn’t plan on showing himself. It was more fun to see the enraged expression on that uppity emperor’s face. Still, he upped his attacks. He started detonating the planets, but not to the same extent as the first one. They still shone brightly in the sky, but only for a brief moment.

The Dragon Emperor escaped from the blast radius of another Stellar Silence. His life force flickered weakly, and it was clear that if this continued, he would fall. He roared in anger and unwillingness. “Immortal Court, this is not over between you and I!”

Tianyi wondered what the Dragon Emperor planned to do, self-detonate and create more Dragon Emperor clones? Unfortunately, that was impossible in the Nine Heavens Universe.

He soon realized what the Dragon Emperor planned moments later. His aura and the aura of the divine dragon scale began to synchronize. The Dragon Emperor planned to merge with the divine dragon’s scale and raise his strength to the Origin Immortal Realm, or possibly to the level of a pseudo divinity. Although Tianyi had the confidence to kill a pseudo divinity in the Nine Heavens Realm, he wanted the divine dragon scale, so he would never allow the Dragon Emperor to succeed.

Tianyi used his ultimate technique, Nebulous Negation.

At once, immortal qi of destruction leaked from the Dragon Emperor’s body. The divine dragon scale didn’t lose any essence because Tianyi hadn’t understood it yet. He could force it, but that would destroy the point. Anyway, without the Dragon Emperor’s immortal qi of destruction, the merging process slowed, but he didn’t stop there. Blood red mist also leaked from the Dragon Emperor’s body. Compared to the immortal qi, the dragon bloodline was the true bridge that linked the divine dragon scale.

The Dragon Emperor struggled, of course, but under the absolute control Tianyi had over the Nine Heavens Universe, he was like an ant attempting to stop a raging river.

“No, no,” the Dragon Emperor whispered weakly. His body lay prone in the void. The golden scales had receded, leaving behind a mangled body that would soon become a corpse. Not only had the skin melted, but the muscles also turned to liquid, revealing golden bones.

Slowly, no sound left the Dragon Emperor’s lips. He had turned into a corpse with the only life force emanating from him was because of the divine dragon scale. A sickening plop and stretched skin later, the divine dragon scale flew off of the corpse’s forehead and disappeared into space.

Tianyi sighed. He didn’t feel pity about the Dragon Emperor’s death at his hand, but there would always be a complicated feeling whenever he witnessed the passing of a legend. The same feeling occurred when he wiped the Eight Pillar Sect off the face of the Earth Continent.

“Huh?”