Chapter 136: 152 Too much nonsense, a beating comes first.

Within the frozen space.

As Qian Mo refined the fragment of the Primordial Water, the surrounding icy terrain instantly dissipated, turning into nothingness.

Wisps of it vanished like energy, and this space reverted to its original appearance.

Everything around was empty, with nothing else except Qian Mo, the coffin, and the old geezer inside it.

.........

Just as everything dissolved into its original form, the unmoving heart of the old geezer lying in the coffin suddenly began to beat.

The blood in his body, which had been frozen for a hundred years, flowed once more.

The deathly pallor on his face turned rosy.

Along with this change, a powerful aura of a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng suddenly erupted from his entire body.

Upon seeing this, Qian Mo thought to himself: *Oh ho, the undying old fellow is about to revive. I wonder if he is a good guy or a bad guy?*

*If he's a bad guy, I'll beat him to death and refine him into a puppet. If he's a good guy... well, we'll see.*

Suddenly, eyes that had been closed for over a hundred years opened once more.

The intense aura of a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng burst forth, shattering the entire coffin into flying fragments.

*Goodness gracious me, is he acting this arrogant right as he revives?* Qian Mo flew backward, and the coffin flying toward him also dissolved into nothingness.

"Hahahaha!!!"

"I, Huang Tianye, have finally come out!!"

Huang Tianye's figure floated in the air, laughing loudly toward the upper realms.

Back in the day, driven by a greedy impulse to refine that piece of ice, the moment he touched it, he had been frozen solid. He had tried countless methods afterward, none of which could break the seal. But right now, he foolishly believed that he had broken it himself by striking the exact same spot over and over again for an unknown length of time.

If he only knew that he wasn't the one who broke it, he wouldn't be laughing with such great spirits.

"Laugh your sister, laugh, it sounds atrocious." Qian Mo grabbed the large crowbar in his hand and threw it across, shouting in disgust.

"What?!" When Huang Tianye finally recovered his senses, a crowbar flying from afar suddenly smashed squarely into his face.

*Splitch—*

A mouthful of blood spewed from Huang Tianye's mouth, and his body was sent flying backward into the distance below for several hundred meters.

"Ah!!"

A miserable scream echoed from the edge of the sky.

The crowbar that hit him returned to Qian Mo's hand. Qian Mo retrieved the crowbar, pulled out a spiked club, and walked slowly toward the flying Huang Tianye.

..........

*Thud—*

Huang Tianye landed heavily on the ground, tumbling several times before he could barely come to a stop.

At this moment, he was utterly bewildered. *What is this? Where am I? Why did this happen to me? Am I not a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng?*

Crawling on the ground in a sorry state with blood streaming from his mouth, he roared angrily: "Who?! Exactly who is it?! Who is framing this Emperor?!"

"Stop shouting, you're so annoying." From the distance, Qian Mo said indifferently, a huge spiked club slung over his shoulder.

Hearing this voice, Huang Tianye, who was sprawled on the ground, suddenly lifted his head. His pupils constricted. He saw a young man with long hair, wearing clothes of an unknown style, some unidentifiable pants, and bizarre shoes, carrying an unknown object on his shoulder as he walked slowly toward him.

"It was you? You launched a sneak attack on me?! Who are you?!"

"How is this possible? You don't even have any Dou Qi, how could you possibly injure this Emperor!"

Enduring the sharp pain, Huang Tianye roared furiously.

"What nonsense, I'm afraid you've been frozen stupid, haven't you? We're at the tail end of the twenty-second century now, where on earth are there any emperors left?" Qian Mo initiated his bluffing mode, speaking with a bland expression.

Huang Tianye, still burning with rage, froze upon hearing the man's words and asked, "What era is this?" He was panicking, wondering if his dynasty was truly gone.

"The year is 2019, and ten thousand years have passed since your time." Qian Mo wore a straight face, showing no trace of a lie.

"What? Te—ten thousand years?!" "Then, then what about my dynasty? What about the imperial palace of the Western Continent?!" Huang Tianye instantly believed it, panicking deeply as he shouted.

"What kind of stuff is that? This is Huaxia on Planet Blue, did getting frozen scramble your brains?"

"That so-called royal family of yours was destroyed ten thousand years ago, gone for good. This is modern society."

Qian Mo bluffed with a completely straight face, feeling that this foolish old man in front of him was immensely entertaining. Since the old man had no idea what was going on anyway, he might as well just keep bluffing.

"What, what? De... destroyed!"

Upon hearing this, Huang Tianye looked utterly heartbroken and suddenly wailed, "Ah! It's all my fault, it's all my fault! Blame it on my greed, why did I have to touch that damned thing? Now my royal family is gone."

"Oh, don't be so sad. Even though your dynasty is gone, there are things far more advanced than yours nowadays. You should let go of the resentment in your heart and properly adapt to life here," Qian Mo calmly advised.

Suddenly, the old man looked up at Qian Mo, asking in a hoarse voice, "Young man, what you're wearing, are these the clothes of this era?"

"Oh? You mean the clothes? Yeah, these are the most trendy garments of this era."

Then, Qian Mo grabbed his shirt and said, "This is called a button-down shirt, never seen it before?"

"These are called thermal leisure big shorts, haven't seen them either, right?"

"And this, this one is truly incredible."

With that, Qian Mo raised the flip-flop on his foot.

"This is the existence of a divine artifact."

"What? A div... divine artifact?" To someone practicing martial arts like Huang Tianye, the term divine artifact was extremely sensitive, yet after observing Qian Mo's shoes, he couldn't sense any Dou Qi fluctuations whatsoever. Could it be that his own cultivation level was simply too low?

"Then, what kind of artifact is this divine object?"

Huang Tianye asked. By this point, Huang Tianye had been completely led astray by Qian Mo's bluffs.

"Flip-flops!"

"This item has so many functions. It can be used for fighting and beating people, it can be worn, and at critical moments, it can even be used as a flotation device on a deserted island—its buoyancy is ridiculously good. Most importantly, it can even be set on fire and burned. Especially items like mine: tough, durable, slip-resistant, and it even comes with a lifetime warranty."

"Tell me, isn't this like a divine artifact?"

Qian Mo said calmly.

Huang Tianye lost his composure at this point. He froze upon hearing Qian Mo's words, then realized the truth. His complexion turned pitch black, and he roared angrily: "Bastard! You lied to me! What kind of divine artifact is this?!"

"Hey, you can't blame me for that, you're just the foolish one. Alright, it's time for business now." No longer in the mood to play along, Qian Mo stabbed the giant spiked club into the ground and said impatiently, "It's robbery time. Old geezer, as a perk for thawing you out, I won't take your life. Hand over all the valuable things on you obediently, or the consequences will be severe."

"I—I think you're courting death! How dare you rob this Emperor? Do you know who I am?!"

Huang Tianye flew into a rage. As a dignified Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng, he was actually being robbed by a little brat? What would people say if word of this got out?!

"Aren't you just the previous emperor of the Western Continent royal family? A Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng?"

Qian Mo said indifferently, letting out a sleepy yawn.

Upon hearing this, Huang Tianye was surprised that someone still recognized him. Yet, it was strange—how did this kid know who he was?

"Hmph, exactly. Knowing that it's this Emperor, how dare you still act so arrogant?! Now, this Emperor will give you a chance: become this Emperor's slave, and this Emperor can spare your life and grant you cultivation resources."

Qian Mo blinked at him, looking as though he were gazing at an utter idiot. "Old man, a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng? Doesn't look all that impressive to me. Just now, my crowbar knocked you flying from quite a distance away. Pretty mediocre."

Huang Tianye grew furious upon hearing this. This was the greatest humiliation of his entire life! He had actually been beaten until he bled by a kid without any Dou Qi.

"Bastard! That was a sneak attack! This Emperor didn't react in time!"

[...]

Huang Tianye's old face flushed slightly red. If this got out, how could he ever show his face in public?

"But you're a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng. Did you spend all that cultivation training it into a dog?" Qian Mo said matter-of-factly.

"Ahem, everyone makes mistakes sometimes." "Bastard! You little brat actually compared this Emperor to a dog!"

"It seems this Emperor has to teach you a proper lesson!"

Huang Tianye burst into anger as this greenhorn provoked him once more.

Just as he was roaring, he saw a large, thick, spiked black object flying straight toward his face.

*Bang—*

"Ah!!——"

Huang Tianye was sent flying backward once again, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"So annoying. Be quick with your hands and feet, I don't have time to waste talking nonsense with you. Either hand over the valuables, or I'll refine you into a puppet. Make your choice," Qian Mo said impatiently.

If this old man wasn't taught a lesson, he'd think he was invincible under heaven.

With that, Qian Mo's figure vanished, reappearing directly behind the flying Huang Tianye.

"I didn't say stop!"

Saying this, Qian Mo swung the spiked club in his hand once more, bashing it against the old man's body.

"Ah!! It hurts!"

Instantly, countless amounts of blood spurted out.

*Thump—*
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*Bang—*
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*Bang—*
..

Countless ceaseless pounding sounds echoed throughout the space, causing the entire area to vibrate.

Every single strike from Qian Mo was strictly controlled in force so as not to kill him, because a trace of divine power was attached to Huang Tianlong's body, ensuring he wouldn't die.

At this moment, the ground was soaked in blood, and Huang Tianlong's body was covered in blood and tiny holes.

It looked rather brutal...

Qian Mo's figure appeared above once more.

"No..." Huang Tianye's pupils constricted. He wanted to speak, but before he could get the words out, Qian Mo struck him down with another blow. *Bang—*

"Ah!——" Huang Tianye's scream this time wasn't as loud as before; he probably lacked the breath to scream properly.

*Thump—!*

A massive sound rang out from below.

At this moment, Huang Tianye just wanted to die. It was too freaking abnormal, this wasn't human! He, a dignified Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng, was actually being beaten up like this...

*Splitch!*

Another mouthful of blood spewed from his mouth. He was running out of blood to spit. His face was ashen white; the rosy hue from his recent revival was long gone.

"Kill... kill... me... please..." Huang Tianye pleaded in a weak voice. He felt that living was agonizing and so humiliating! A dignified Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng living such a humiliating life without the slightest ability to fight back.

Qian Mo walked toward him and found it hard to look straight at his miserable state. "Old man, wouldn't it have been fine if you had just obediently handed over the valuables? Why put yourself through this kind of suffering?"

"Are you going to hand them over now?"

Upon hearing this, Huang Tianye realized there was still a chance to live. He nodded, biting his teeth as he weakly said, "Hand them over, I'll hand them over, I'll hand them over. Just... stop hitting me... it hurts so much—"

Qian Mo instantly smiled. "Old man, wouldn't it have been better to hand them over sooner? Why are you just like those stubborn people from before? So stubborn that they only get honest after a thorough beating."

"Don't talk about being a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng; I've killed goodness knows how many of them. Every single one had the same personality as you, but in the end, they all turned honest after a lesson."

"Hand them over."

Huang Tianye handed two storage rings from his body over to Qian Mo.

"Just two? You're an emperor of the royal family, a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng? Only two?" Qian Mo demanded overbearingly.

Huang Tianye wanted to cry on the spot. *I really only have two!*

"The... the space inside them is huge, all the treasures are in there," Huang Tianye said weakly.

"Alright, if you dare to trick me, I'll bring down a single club and your head will be gone," Qian Mo said with a frown.

Hearing this, Huang Tianye shuddered involuntarily. *This freak doesn't know the meaning of respecting the elderly!*

"I absolutely wouldn't dare trick you." Huang Tianye didn't dare lie now; this kid hit without mercy. If that previous scene repeated itself later, he'd be done for.

"Fine then, I'll trust you for a moment," Qian Mo nodded and said.

*Sob sob sob~ What do you mean 'for a moment'—* Huang Tianye felt deeply heartbroken inside.

*Those were all my retirement funds!!*

Qian Mo ignored him. After cracking the internal defenses beforehand, he swept his divine sense across them and a wicked smile crept onto the corner of his mouth.

*Tsk tsk, this old man is truly a treasure trove. He collected so much stuff, it's incredible, simply incredible.*

The treasures had piled up into mountains.

Both rings were packed.

*Haha, I've made a fortune this time.*

Without a second word and without the slightest bit of hesitation, Qian Mo transferred all the valuables inside directly into his own storage ring.

Row after row of treasures vanished in a stream. Watching this, Huang Tianye's heart ached terribly. *Ah! Those are all this old man's treasures! Dragon-Heaven Grass! Ninth-tier Monster Cores! Ah!!*

*My life's work!!*

*Pfft—*

Another mouthful of blood spewed out. Driven by fury, he kicked his legs, his vision went black, and combined with his severe injuries, he simply died right then and there...

Huang Tianye, who had just been thawed out, suffered inhumane torture and the theft of his life's savings. Overcome with rage and heartbreak, he literally choked on his own anger and died—a generation's emperor was thus angered to death...

"Huh? He died?!" Qian Mo looked at the lifeless corpse before him and exclaimed.

*Tsk tsk, who struck so heavily anyway?*

"I suppose I might have been a bit too heavy-handed. Even the divine power I attached to his body couldn't stop him from dying. Oh well, rest in peace. Since that's the case, I might as well take all the treasures in here. They're useless just sitting around anyway, so I'll play the role of a good Samaritan."

"Who told me to be so kind-hearted and innocent?"

Qian Mo muttered to himself.

After a minute, both rings had been completely and thoroughly looted. Aside from two empty shell rings, what used to be a mountain of valuable treasures was now an utterly flat and barren plain...

Qian Mo frowned, wearing a troubled look as he sighed with sympathy: "Sigh, look at you, why did you have to die so fast? Your coffin got ruined by you too, and it's not great leaving you here. At the very least, you're the corpse of a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng. Though it's a bit battered, no matter, I can fix it up with a little effort. I'll see this good deed through to the end and let you live on in a different way. Refining you into a puppet so you can serve my Yama Prison will be my favor to you, helping you transform into a Dou Emperor puppet."

"That should make up for me beating you up and taking your retirement fund. It's settled then."

With a wave of Qian Mo's palm, Huang Tianye's corpse was pulled into Qian Mo's storage ring.

Having done all this, Qian Mo turned back to look around and used a burst of fire to reduce the broken coffin to nothingness.

Now, there was not a single thing left in this realm.

This space was too small; his own Samsara Realm was several times larger than this. Any random place he made would be bigger than it.

Shaking his head, he waved his hand, causing a spatial rift to appear, and stepped right out.

.........

.........

A familiar place, a pile of corpses beneath the earth.

Qian Mo appeared here once again.

Turning his head to look at the gravestone before him, there was a barrier inside. It was too small, inconvenient, and while his Samsara Realm could be opened anywhere, this place was at least fixed.

Wondering if this thing had any value, he summoned the Myriad Realms Encyclopedia and asked: "Encyclopedia, is this gravestone worth anything in the system?"

"Beep, Myriad Realms Encyclopedia scanning..."

"After scanning, the result is that it is valuable, but very little."

"Roughly how much?"

Qian Mo asked.

"About one hundred thousand Myriad Realms Coins," the Myriad Realms Encyclopedia replied lazily.

"One hundred thousand? That'll do. Even though it's a bit little, as the saying goes, a hundred bucks starts from a single dollar. Every grain of rice counts, every bit of money matters. I'll take it." Qian Mo blinked and said.

Reaching out, he directly shattered the spatial barrier here and stowed the gravestone into his storage ring.

Taking a closer look around to ensure nothing was missed and sensing the area, the biting cold had vanished, replaced by a faint warmth.

"Alright, the rest are just worthless things. Time to go." With that, Qian Mo walked to the spot where he had first entered, shattered the space, and his figure vanished from within the tomb.

.........

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Inside the room, as Qian Mo departed, the brightly lit room plunged into darkness once more.

Yet, with Qian Mo's reappearance, the room lit up again.

"Phew, a familiar place." Qian Mo stepped out from the spatial rift and said, looking around the house.

By now, Qian Mo pretty much understood: those people must have carried the coffin into the house, after which the void automatically pulled it inside. This realm was naturally used for burying the dead, so it was hardly surprising.

Walking to the door, to avoid unnecessary trouble, Qian Mo consciously took out his token and followed the rules.

The token flashed with a ray of light, and a array formation appeared simultaneously.

The formation split apart, and the door naturally opened.

Stepping outside, Qian Mo caught sight of the faint sunlight and stretched lazily.

"Finally out, damn, that tired me out. But the harvest this time is abundant, making the trouble well worth it."

He had made acquaintance with someone else's ancestor and beaten him up to the point of angering him to death. If the higher-ups of the royal family ever found out, they would definitely mobilize their entire forces to hunt Qian Mo down to the ends of the earth...

Outside, the surroundings of the royal palace remained as lively as ever, though there weren't as many people as before, as some had finished shopping and left. Still, those people couldn't affect the atmosphere right here.

"Ah Sheng, how come that brat still hasn't come out?" Ling Tianba asked Ling Sheng as the two waited outside the royal palace for Qian Mo.

"Sect Master, perhaps the Imperial Lord has taken a fancy to some treasure. Why don't we forget it? The Myriad Realms Auction is starting in an hour, and the Imperial Lord will surely go there. Shall we head over first?" Ling Sheng suggested from the side. Truthfully, he really didn't want the Sect Master and the Imperial Lord to clash; if... if the Sect Master happened to lose, it would spell big trouble...

"Hmph, no way, there's still a full hour left. Besides, those old geezery fellows haven't arrived yet either."

"Wait a bit longer, I refuse to believe he won't come out."

Ling Tianba snorted coldly and said.

"Fine then." Ling Sheng sighed softly and dropped the subject.

.....

Inside the Samsara Realm

Qian Mo stepped inside.

At this moment, Ling Xuan and Yun Yi were keeping Ling'er company and playing with her. The Samsara Realm had already been transformed into a vast continental world, offering plenty of places to play.

"Ling'er, come swim over here to Mommy."

Ling Xuan said.

The three of them were swimming by the edge of a pond, wearing perfectly fitted swimwear that looked exceptionally stunning.

Yun Yi, Ling Xuan, and Ling'er were playing in the water, with a stretch of sandy beach right beside them.

Everyone else was cultivating inside the Samsara Hall.

As for the Dan Emperor, he had refined the blood-red flesh given to him by Ling Xuan and placed it inside a mountain valley, where it radiated dense spiritual energy.

By now, it had naturally formed a valley of its own, and given the right conditions, it might even give birth to some minor life forms.

The Dan Emperor had also stepped into the study and cultivation of the Dou Emperor tier. Unlike the outside world where cultivation was exceedingly difficult due to hitting the limits, within the Samsara Realm he felt no suppression whatsoever, because cultivation in the Samsara Realm was limitless and unrestrained.

Above the Dou Emperor realm lay the Human Immortal Realm—something the Dan Emperor was well aware of, though much of it remained far too mysterious for him. Inside the Samsara Hall, he currently shouldered the role of an alchemist, specially refining pills for sect disciples. The pills he refined now were all meant for the disciples of Samsara Town.

By undertaking missions, the Myriad Realms Coins they earned could be used to purchase various wonderful treasures at a location within the Samsara Hall. Of course, what he didn't know was that these Myriad Realms Coins ultimately all ended up in Qian Mo's hands, and the prices here were extremely cheap items from the system store—even the expensive ones were far cheaper than outside, yet not too outrageously so.

The sect Qian Mo had established was not merely for gathering talent, but even more so to have them complete tasks and earn money for him.

Nothing within the Samsara Realm escaped Qian Mo's perception. He arrived at the spot where the three women were located.

"Judging by your looks, you're having a great time," Qian Mo walked out and said.

"Husband."

"Daddy."

Three voices rang out in unison.

"Well, are you having fun? Tell me, what kind of mischief did you get up to?" Ling Xuan asked.

"Haha, your husband here accomplished an extraordinary feat." With that, Qian Mo summoned Huang Tianye's corpse and said, "Ling Xuan, do you know who this is?"

"This is? I don't recognize him..." Ling Xuan shook her head. Yun Yi, on the other side, was equally curious, holding Ling'er and kissing her left and right.

"This is the previous emperor of the Western Continent royal family, the Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng, Huang Tianye." Qian Mo introduced casually.

"What?! He is Huang Tianye, the previous emperor of the royal family who vanished nearly a hundred years ago?!"

"How, how did he end up like this now?"

Ling Xuan immediately cried out in shock. As for Yun Yi, though surprised, she didn't show much expression, having already seen three Dou Emperors, so a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng wasn't particularly rare either.

"Oh, that's simple. I tried to rob him, but he kept talking nonsense, so I beat him up. He couldn't take it, his vision went black, he kicked his legs, and died..."

Afterward, Qian Mo recounted everything he had just done to the two women—or three, if one counted Ling'er.