Chen Jiuyang had always been curious.
What was the miraculous power of the Book of Life and Death?
It was worth the Immortal Realm, the Immortal Kings, Immortal Emperors, and the Heavenly Realm throughout the ages to scheme and desperately try to obtain it.
How terrifying was its authority?
And now, Chen Jiuyang had finally glimpsed a corner of it.
"The Tome of Extinction..."
Chen Jiuyang was already at the Dao Integration stage, but after fully understanding the authority of the Book of Life that was opened to him, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"All living beings recorded in the Book of Life have a lifespan."
"The host of the Book of Life can pay a certain lifespan cost to erase living beings recorded in the Book of Life."
"Hiss!" Chen Jiuyang's expression was horrified, and he gasped.
"This Book of Life and Death is too terrifying."
"Directly and forcefully erased?"
"No wonder..."
"In other words, the Book of Life can erase, can see how long a person can live? It records the information of every living being?"
"And the Immortal Realm, which controls the Book of Death, can achieve longevity or eternal life by deleting a living being's name from it, but it also requires a corresponding price."
Chen Jiuyang's mind was shaken, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
"Truly the most terrifying divine artifact in heaven and earth..."
"No wonder the final game, Immortal Emperors and Immortal Kings had to fight for it."
"Once obtained, it would be an invincible existence that laughs proudly between heaven and earth."
Chen Jiuyang took a deep breath. Although he hated the several forbidden lands for scheming against him for ten thousand years, just to refine him in the Myriad Tombs of the Nine Netherworlds, making him willingly become a chess piece, so that this Book of Life could be revealed.
He was also grateful. If it weren't for the schemes of the several forbidden lands, he might have spent his entire life practicing martial arts and never uncovered the secret within his body.
"Next!"
"It's time for me to get revenge!"
The excitement in Chen Jiuyang's eyes was hard to conceal...
Now that he had mastered a part of the Book of Life's authority, why would he have to wait so painstakingly until he reached the Immortal King or Immortal Emperor cultivation to get revenge!
He could just spend lifespan to get revenge!
Chen Jiuyang became excited again, then flew out of the Cliff of Fallen Immortals and carefully returned to the "Ping An Bookstore" in Fengcheng.
"Jiuyang, you're finally back." Qiu Yihan came up and acted spoiled.
"I've been guarding the store alone for these past few months, it's so boring."
Chen Jiuyang smiled and said, "Did no other sisters come to play with you?"
"They came to ask if you were back, but I don't like them, so I'm too lazy to talk to them."
Chen Jiuyang rubbed his nose, "You all should try to get along as best as you can."
"Alright, you've worked hard guarding the store these past few months. Go and have fun. I'll give you a vacation for a while, okay?"
"Okay, okay." Qiu Yihan immediately became excited, hopped upstairs, and went to Qingzhu Village through the 'Boundary Crossing,' but no one knew what she was going to do.
Chen Jiuyang, on the other hand, took a deep breath, unable to suppress the excitement in his heart. He sat at the entrance of the bookstore, casually picked up a book to read, but in reality, he was letting his primordial spirit control the "Tome of Extinction" in the Book of Life!
He hadn't used it yet, so he'd try to get familiar with it first.
His primordial spirit's divine sense sank down.
He opened his mouth and recited, "Heavy Nether Sea, Ba An!"
"Swish swish swish!"
The universe and starry sea before his eyes suddenly spun and turned into a few lines of text.
Ba An, Martial Saint seventh layer, remaining lifespan, three thousand years.
"This old dog!"
Chen Jiuyang's eyes were filled with uncontrollable, boundless hatred.
Chen Jiuyang took a deep breath and murmured, "Then let's start with this Martial Saint as an appetizer."
"Pay one hundred years of lifespan to erase Ba An!"
Suddenly, Chen Jiuyang felt his lifespan disappear by a hundred years out of nowhere.
Then, the text before Chen Jiuyang's eyes changed.
Ba An, Martial Saint seventh layer, remaining lifespan, one hundred years.
"Hmm?"
Chen Jiuyang's heart trembled, "I paid a hundred years of lifespan, and Ba An's lifespan went from three thousand years to one hundred years? This is a twenty-nine-fold difference in cost?"
Immediately, Chen Jiuyang's eyes were filled with joy.
If it continued like this, was he afraid he couldn't kill all the forbidden lands and avenge his ten thousand years of life?
...
In the dim and terrifying, yet unawakened Heavy Nether Sea.
Thunder and lightning flashed, and within a terrifying dark cloud, 'Ba An' was slumbering.
Suddenly...
An invisible, unspeakable, undetectable force descended upon him.
He, who had looked like a young man, instantly aged, and most of his lifespan was stripped away, directly transitioning from a middle-aged Martial Saint to an elderly Martial Saint.
"Cough cough cough..."
This terrifying loss of lifespan directly woke 'Ba An' up. He felt an inexplicable fear, "What's going on... My lifespan is only one hundred years left, could it be that the Heavy Nether Sea is going to be destroyed?"
"Pfft..."
'Ba An' began to vomit blood violently, his martial dao furnace began to collapse, and his cultivation directly regressed. He was terrified, "No!!!"
Falling out of the Martial Saint realm, 'Ba An' was immediately swallowed and decomposed by the power of the Heavy Nether Sea.
Ping An Bookstore.
Chen Jiuyang was waiting. Suddenly, his eyelids twitched, and he saw the text before him change again.
Ba An, Emperor Realm cultivation, remaining lifespan, zero!
"Hmm? Is he dead?" Chen Jiuyang was stunned, which made him ecstatic.
From now on, he could cultivate with peace of mind while using the authority of the Book of Life to get revenge.
After being reborn for more than six years, the matter of revenge finally had progress!
Then Chen Jiuyang's eyes became excited, "Can Old Village, Qin Shujian!"
Qin Shujian, sixty-three tribulations Immortal King, remaining lifespan, '...'
Chen Jiuyang immediately stroked his chin and pondered, "My current cultivation is only at the Dao Integration stage, and the Book of Life's authority should not be fully open to me yet. And Qin Shujian is an Immortal King after all, so I probably can't erase him."
"This way, how much power the Book of Life can exert depends entirely on my cultivation."
"Heh, no problem." Chen Jiuyang's eyes were bright, "There is at least another thousand years before Emperor Fuzhao appears. Only after the Emperor appears will the dark calamity descend."
"Before that, might I not have the cultivation of an Immortal?"
"Thus, as long as I am given enough time to cultivate, any Immortal King or Immortal Emperor will have to die."
Chen Jiuyang's gaze shifted again, and his primordial spirit opened its mouth and said, "Immortal Realm, San Hua Bamboo Immortal."
San Hua, thirty-six tribulations Immortal King, remaining lifespan, '...'
Chen Jiuyang frowned. San Hua's life source was still on the 'Du You Boat' in the Myriad Tombs of the Nine Netherworlds.
But there was also a San Hua in the Human Realm.
It seemed that the Tome of Extinction was not all-powerful.
"No, no, no, the authority of the Book of Life should be the most powerful. It's just that my cultivation is not enough, and I can't fully utilize its effects."
Chen Jiuyang then slowly shook his head.
Then he opened his mouth to inquire again, "Myriad Tombs of the Nine Netherworlds, 'Zhuang Wu'."
Zhuang Wu, eighty-one tribulations Immortal Emperor, remaining lifespan, twenty thousand years.
Twenty thousand years? This means that Zhuang Wu's Dao fruit could survive in the Myriad Tombs of the Nine Netherworlds for twenty thousand years...
Chen Jiuyang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in a deep voice, "Sacrifice seven hundred years of lifespan to erase 'Zhuang Wu'!"
...
In the Myriad Tombs of the Nine Netherworlds.
'Zhuang Wu' was drinking tea in his mansion, waiting for a chess piece to come and play chess with him, to smoothly unfold the final game.
Suddenly, his face changed drastically, "Not good... the Book of Life has been controlled..."
"How is this possible..."
"No, I must pass this message out..."
However, in just an instant, 'Zhuang Wu's' body turned into dust. Before his Dao fruit power dissipated, his eyes were filled with horror:
"The fruit of my decades of planning, gone like smoke and clouds..."
"Who, who exactly!!!"
"I am not reconciled!!!"