Chapter 735: Promotion to the Dao Body

“Yang… Yang Xiao, is it? No, from now on, you’re Nangong Xiao! Don’t worry. Your grandfather will make that bastard pay the price he deserves!”

Limitless killing intent filled his heart.

But just as the Star Emperor was about to strike, he sent a voice transmission to Yang Xiao.

This stunned him for a moment.

‘Nangong Xiao? Grandfather?’

He was a little confused by these forms of address.

But in the end, he didn’t say anything.

Because according to his identity in this life, this was indeed how it should be.

However, he didn’t approve of changing his name.

But since the man before him had saved him, and they were in the middle of a great battle, he didn’t bring it up, lest he disturb the man’s Heart Spirit.

If something were to go wrong, it would be bad.

‘But why is this old geezer… uh, the Star Emperor… suddenly being so good to me?’

He was puzzled.

He couldn’t figure it out.

He had no way of knowing that Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch’s reckless attack against him had already pushed the eccentric Star Emperor—who adored his mother in this life—to the brink of a furious rage.

Although he walked the Star Dao his entire life, deep in his heart, like those who walked the path of extreme passion, there was an indelible shadow.

That shadow was the woman the Star Emperor had loved most in his life, his first wife. Unfortunately, his first wife died young, leaving him with only two children.

His eldest son, Nangong Xingyao, and his second daughter, Nangong Xingyue.

Of the two,

Nangong Xingyue was his only girl, and of all the Star Emperor’s many children, she was the daughter who most resembled his first wife, both in looks and temperament.

Naturally, the Star Emperor doted on her to his very core.

As for his third son, Nangong Xinghui, who had died at Yang Xiao’s hands, he was born to the Star Emperor’s second wife. Therefore, while he was important in the Emperor’s heart, he was far less so than his eldest son, and certainly no match for his most beloved second daughter.

This was also why, even when Human Emperor Xuanyuan intervened, he couldn’t save Yang Xiao.

But the moment Nangong Xingyue appeared,

he had immediately let Yang Xiao go.

As for the leading figure of the third generation, Nangong Miexian, his connection was even more distant.

He was merely an illegitimate son of his eldest son, Nangong Xingyao. If not for a fortunate coincidence where he gained the Star Emperor’s attention by changing his name,

he would probably just be another talented kid in the third generation, and nothing more.

He would never have achieved his current status.

So, the moment Yang Xiao appeared, he had already faintly surpassed Nangong Miexian in the Star Emperor’s heart.

And now,

because of Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch’s attack,

Yang Xiao’s place in the Star Emperor’s heart had far surpassed Nangong Miexian’s. He was now second only to Nangong Xingyue and Nangong Xingyao.

In fact, due to the principle of “loving the house and its crow,” and a sudden sense of indebtedness toward Yang Xiao, his status in the Emperor’s heart was now almost comparable to that of his eldest son.

Just imagine.

For his third son, Nangong Xinghui—who wasn’t even that important to him—he was willing to fight Human Emperor Xuanyuan to the death. Now, for Yang Xiao,

and facing the very Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch he had always wanted to kill,

the man who had ruined his daughter’s life.

At this very moment,

just how intense was the killing intent in the heart of the Star Emperor, Nangong Xiongtian?

In fact,

the moment he detected Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch,

his true body, which was stationed at the Star Emperor Dojo,

had already made its move.

Just as he had previously thought,

this time,

even if all Ten Great Immortal Monarchs of the Immortal Realm attacked together, he would make them pay the price they deserved.

‘Twenty years ago, he caused my daughter to go missing. I wanted to kill him back then, but I never got any concrete information. It dragged on until thirteen years ago, when he reappeared. By then, he had already become one of the new Ten Great Immortal Monarchs! With the entire Immortal Realm backing him, even I couldn’t do anything to him!’

‘But now! So what if I can’t do anything? He must repay the debt he owes my daughter!’

Trying to kill his own bloodline…

The Star Emperor felt there was no longer any need to tolerate such a bastard.

However,

the one before him was merely a wisp of the Monarch’s will.

The Star Emperor felt that this was far from enough.

He had to lure the man’s true body out.

Thus,

although the Star Emperor attacked in a rage,

he only used three-tenths of his full power.

Of course,

even though he hadn’t considered Yang Xiao particularly important before, he had still valued him enough that this Clone, manifested from a brand of his will, also contained a wisp of his Soul.

It was powerful enough to be equivalent to a Tier One Emperor.

Now, even using only three-tenths of his strength, he was still a great deal stronger than this consciousness of Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch, which was only at the Top-tier Divine King Level.

With ease,

he battered the man, forcing him back again and again.

His entire incarnation was on the verge of dissipating.

Yang Xiao watched,

his eyes shining.

‘If I can land the final sword strike on that guy, the power I get might be even more than all the power I’ve absorbed so far.’

At this thought,

Yang Xiao’s gaze grew even brighter.

However,

as he continued to watch,

he started to find it a bit boring.

Because the Star Emperor wanted to lure out Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch’s true body,

so, although he was continuously routing the man,

but,

Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch’s will Clone kept holding on.

Soon,

half a quarter-hour had passed.

And while half a quarter-hour wasn’t much time,

for Yang Xiao, it felt incredibly long.

This was because

he had just injected all the power from the two squads he had killed into the Heaven and Earth Origin Fire, so the pressure on him was now obviously much greater.

He barely managed to suppress it for half a quarter-hour.

Then, he couldn’t hold it back any longer.

The Essence Qi inside his body surged out all at once.

Immediately after,

with the thought of not wasting even a sliver of it,

Yang Xiao sat down cross-legged and began to circulate the Power of Time.

He started to constantly accelerate the time around his body.

With the help of his Divine General Peak strength, Yang Xiao easily accelerated the time around him by several hundred times, almost reaching a thousandfold increase.

In this way,

the cultivation that would have originally taken him dozens of days to complete—refining his physical body and spirit—began to finish at a rapid pace.

In what seemed like just an hour,

the aura around him began to undergo a strange transformation.

Even more frighteningly,

because he had accelerated time,

the Mysterious Furnace Cauldron within his body was clearly also within the scope of this acceleration.

Soon,

wisps of mysterious energy surged out from within his body.

They combined with his physical body, which had begun to transform.

At the same time,

his Spiritual Level also began to skyrocket.

His Divine Soul grew even more powerful.

Of course,

since he had absorbed all of the Netherworld Erosion Demon Venerable’s Demon Elemental Power, his Divine Soul had already reached an extremely terrifying level. Therefore, while this spiritual refinement was good, the overall improvement wasn’t particularly obvious.

At least,

it wasn’t as obvious as the changes to his physical body.

This was especially true since nearly eighty percent of the Essence Qi was being used to refine his physical body.

And such a vast amount of Essence Qi

finally

caused Yang Xiao’s physical body to begin its metamorphosis.

From the level of an Ultimate-grade Treasure Body,

it began to transform into a Dao Body.