The man reacted as he thrust the sword towards Xu Ming.

Xu Ming was standing in front of a tree. He used the Origin Movement as he passed through the tree and appeared on the other side of the tree. The sword stabbed the tree, but it couldn't reach Xu Ming. ​​

"What are you doing? Kill him right now!" Wu scolded the guy whose sword was stuck in the tree.

His arm was bleeding, but Wu didn't care as he chased after Xu Ming.

Xu Ming's sword again collided with Wu's sword making Wu move back 5 steps because of the heavy impact.

Xu Ming didn't let the opportunity go to waste. Before Wu could balance himself, Xu Ming appeared right in front of Wu and thrust his sword. His sword penetrated the heart Wu who coughed out a mouthful of blood as he let out a pained groan. His bloody eyes kept looking at Xu Ming even as he died.

The last remaining team member had finally pulled his sword out of the tree and attacked Xu Ming. Xu Ming used the origin movement as he appeared behind the man and sliced his head off. The man couldn't even see Xu Ming move before he died.

Xu Ming looked back at Zi Zhenfeng and Wu Tian. He noticed that they were both still lost in cultivation. He kept the bodies of Wu and his teammates in his storage ring as he walked to some distance and threw those bodies before walking back to his original position. He sat down and placed the enlightening ball back in Zi Zhenfeng's lap.

'I only killed the ones that tried to get me killed, but why does it feel good? It feels satisfying. Is this what I truly needed? To kill? Or is it because I know that I am capable of taking revenge?' Xu Ming wondered as he looked at the bloodied sword in his hand.

Xu Ming used the common grade sword in this fight and not the sword of his father as he didn't want to attract unnecessary attention. That sword was only for life and death situations. He didn't want to show it off before he was strong enough to wield it proudly, just like his father did.

5 hours passed away and Wu Tian stopped his cultivation as he opened his eyes.

The first thing he noticed was the bloodstains on the ground. He turned to his left in worry and saw Xu Ming sitting there. He breathed out in relief.

"Was there a fight here?" He asked Xu Ming.

"Yeah, Some people tried to attack us to take the ball," Xu Ming replied.

"Why didn't you wake us up? You're not hurt, are you?" Wu Tian inquired.

"I'm perfectly fine. Don't worry about that. I didn't wake you up because there was no need for that. There were some weaklings that wanted to utilize the opportunity and take the orb. They were even weaker than me," Xu Ming said without much explaining.

"Oh? It's good that you didn't face a strong team. If there's ever a situation like that, you should always wake your partners first. There are a few strong cultivators here. So fighting them alone can be dangerous," Wu Tian said.

"Oh, I'll keep that in mind," Xu Ming replied.

What Wu Tian didn't know was that Xu Ming had just taken care of one of the strong teams that he was talking about.

"You can cultivate now. I'll take care of things," Wu Tian told Xu Ming. Xu Ming heard the words and nodded his head before he sat on a meditative position as he closed his eyes and began cultivating.

***

In a dark place, a boy was walking alone. A small Ice Phoenix was sitting on the boy's shoulders.

Not even a speck of light was visible in the scary darkness, but still, the boy wasn't having any difficulty in seeing through the darkness.

The strange thing was that no matter how far he gazed, there was nothing but emptiness for him.

A voice kept echoing in his mind as if this voice was something that he wasn't allowed to forget. It was as if it belonged to someone really special.

"You created pain to create happiness and as a result, you gave birth to the darkness. Now you shall spend eternity in the darkness that you created," the voice said.

The boy muttered, "I created darkness?"

"Who am I?" He let out blankly as he kept walking through the darkness.

There were many times when random visions appeared in his mind. The boy couldn't help but wonder if he was starting to remember his past or was this something else? The visions didn't make sense if it was past.

In one of those visions, he was in a place where he saw tall buildings and moving vehicles whereas in other visions he saw a man who wore a crown calling him son. In one vision, a girl called him brother, whereas, in another vision, a different girl called him brother Liang.

He had around 6-7 visions like this that he could remember.

Inside his body, his soul was tied by the chains of universal laws. There were only 93 chains remaining while 7 were already broken.

Although only 7 chains were broken, they were enough to give him the power of creating life forms and many more. The bindings were also started to weaken slowly as his soul was finally starting to resist the bindings, but the resistance was only subconscious. As the boy didn't remember who he was and his true identity, he didn't even know about the bindings, thus he put no effort into getting free.

There was something in his soul that was telling him to be free and destroy the world for what it did whereas there was another part that was telling him to take care of the world as if it was his own child.

***

The immortal world, a realm that was stronger than the mortal worlds. It was a place where the strongest of human cultivators lived.

A person from the mortal world was only able to enter the Immortal World after breaking through to the Saint Realm. Normal people couldn't enter as there was a barrier between the Mortal Worlds and the Immortal Realm that could only be passed through by the Saint Realm or higher cultivators.

There were many strong cultivators in the Immortal World that elevated from the mortal world and established their families in the Immortal Realm.

That's how strong clans and the sects got established in the Immortal World and began developing.

Even though the Immortal World was so vast and had thousands of powerful families and sects, there were only 4 people that truly controlled the Immortal World.

The North Emperor Qin Shen, the South Monarch Wu Li, the Eastern Emperor Du Wan, and the Western Empress Xi Linxi. Each of them ruled one of the 4 great empires.

The Western Empress Xi Linxi was the Empress of the Xi Empire that ruled over the Western portion of the immortal world.

The Great Xi Empire controlled the biggest territory, but the Great Qin Empire of the North was said to be the strongest Empire as Northern Emperor Qin Shen was the strongest amongst the 4 great rulers.

He was said to have reached the peak of cultivation that mortals were capable of reaching. Only the people of the Heavenly Realm and the Demon Realms were capable of becoming stronger because of their Immortal Bloodline.

The Great Qin Empire of North was in great unrest at the moment. Even the Emperor who was said to be the strongest amongst the humans looked scared as he read the letter that was in his hand.

"The New Heavenly Realm Ruler? How can there be such a big change in the Heavenly Realm so fast? Also, why is the new Heavenly Emperor coming here? Does he wish to use us for a war against the Demon Realm? I don't want to get involved in their matters, but can I really deny him?" Northern Emperor Qin Shen muttered with a frown.

"Minister Mu! Start preparation for welcoming the new Heavenly Emperor. He'll be coming here tonight. I don't want anything to go wrong or I'll have to cut your head to please the Heavenly Emperor. Be careful!" Northern Emperor Qin Shen told the person that was standing in front of him.

"Yes, Your Majesty! I'll do my best to please the Heavenly Emperor. I'll arrange the most beautiful girls in our Empire to welcome him and follow him inside. There won't be any mistake," Minister Mu replied.

"Good! I have faith in you. We will also come with you to welcome him," The Emperor said as he glanced at the letter.

"Yes, Your Majesty. I'll get right to it,"Minister Mu said before he left the hall.

Time kept passing and soon it was the night in the Immortal World when the people saw a huge flying beast come down from the sky. The beast looked as if it was shining as bright as the moon.