Chapter 526 – Fusion of Great Ghost Domains, Invincible Li Yuan, A Historic Moment - Part 1

The collapse of the nine gates...what did it mean?

It meant the order of this land had shattered!

In an instant, the heavens turned upside down, the earth cracked open, and a world-altering catastrophe erupted without warning. Yet Li Yuan remained largely unaware.

That didn’t mean he had been idle. On the contrary, he had been preparing for something of great significance.

Ten years of roaming the land, righting wrongs, bringing warmth to the cold snow of this world, returning fertile ground to the people.

Through this journey, his heart grew clear. The chaos of his countless ancestral seal seeds gave way to the order of a hero seeking to restore hope. The nature of his power transformed. What had once been erratic and destructive vibrations now flowed in steady, focused rotation.

Vibrations may be more explosive, but they were wild and unfocused. Rotation, on the other hand, carried a natural centripetal force. It binded. It gathered. And with that, his strength became cohesive, enough to push him alone into the fourth rank of Human Soul cultivation.

He now cultivated the Heaven, Earth, and Human Paths in tandem.

Both his physical body and Immortal Form were powerful in their own right.

Over the past ten years, the spiritual soil he had cultivated had long since reached saturation. In that time, only 1,160 new ancestral seal seeds had sprouted.

And so, at this moment, Li Yuan's total ancestral seal seed count was 19,160.

Those seeds coursed through his body, transforming into the Wind-Fire Wheels, Heavenbinding Ribbons, and Flamed-Tipped Spear.

Riding atop his Wind-Fire Wheels, he soared above the Ghost Prison.

Red above, black below, Yin and Yang divided so starkly it felt like two worlds had collided.

Suddenly, Yan Yu, dressed in black, stirred.

In the void, ghastly figures began to emerge. The boar, the frozen maiden, the white and red flower girls...one after another, all kinds of ghosts surfaced.

And along with them came something else, from the other side of the ancient ghost street.

With the gate shattered, the barrier holding back great ghost domains no longer existed.

Happyland Zoo surged forth from the distance, crashing directly into the Ghost Prison like an unstoppable tide.

The sight was breathtaking, epic in scale and terrifying in implication, charged with the raw energy of annihilation.

A distant mountain forest was instantly flattened by a supernatural force, turning into an abrupt, wide, eerie plain.

The plain looked like some forgotten corner of the universe, long untouched, covered in thick gray fog like centuries of dust. From the shattered gate, a flood of ghosts spilled out like a tidal wave.

Human-headed spider ghosts sprayed silk in every direction, crawling chaotically with no sense of order.

Dog-bodied, human-faced ghosts darted at impossible speeds, enough to scramble the eyes of any who tried to follow.

Rat-headed ghosts slithered with sharp hissing sounds, covering the ground like a living carpet—only to reveal, upon looking up, grinning faces rotted through with blood-drenched holes.

The spider-ghosts, dog-ghosts, and rat-ghosts grew massive, each one towering several stories high, blending into a spectral horde as they glared coldly across the borders at their

neighbours

in the mortal realm.

Clearly, when Li Yuan had clashed with Happyland Zoo before, he had merely grazed the surface. Only a single rule had been triggered. It had been nothing more than a taster.

But now...

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Silkfloss Province.

Puppets of a mysterious faction, high-grade constructs built for war, were frantically using the Mirrors of Sin to scan the lingering ghosts of Happyland Zoo.

In front of each puppet, a crimson countdown appeared again and again.

But none of them seemed to care.

Lacking true life, they could withstand the attacks of the ghosts far longer than ordinary martial artists..

True, these high rank puppets would eventually be wiped out. That much was certain. But for now, they clutched the Mirrors of Sin with unwavering grip, relentlessly bombarding Happyland Zoo with stimuli, driving it into a frenzy, goading it to crash straight into the Ghost Prison.

Originally, Yan Yu would have lost all reason and charged toward Happyland Zoo herself.

But thanks to Li Yuan, that fate had been averted.

Even so, battle was now inevitable.

Hungry ghosts, all bones and sagging skin, dragged their twisted limbs toward the spider ghosts.

Frostbitten ghosts blanketed in pale-blue ice crawled slowly across the ground.

White-robed female ghosts, hair disheveled, skittered like giant spiders, their limbs clicking and snapping against the cold stone.

Two tidal waves of ghosts charged forward like opposing armies, attacking each other from all directions. They had torn through the barriers of space and now stood face to face.

And then, without hesitation, they clashed.

It was as if the entire underworld had collapsed in on itself.

Wherever these ghost tides swept through, they would swallow everything. A thriving city full of warmth and human life could be turned into a realm of death in mere moments. No one would survive.

Not even sixth or fifth rank martial artists could make it out alive.

Only a rare few at fourth rank had any chance of escape on their own.

𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

This wasn’t a battle anymore. It was a natural disaster, a true calamity.

On the land of Great Zhou, there were seven such disaster zones in total.

And if one looked down from above, it was clear that these seven sources of catastrophe were beginning to collide, creating three epicenters of destruction.

One at the meeting point of Happyland Zoo and the Ghost Prison.

One at the Northwind Inn and the Ghost Bazaar.

One at the Ghost Peak, Ghost Lake, and Apparel Atelier.

What was happening elsewhere, Li Yuan could no longer see. But he could still see what was unfolding here, where Happyland Zoo met the Ghost Prison.

The moment the two ghost tides collided, it was as if two monstrous forces had exploded, ripping apart the very concept of containment that once bound the ghost domains.

BOOM!

A thunderous explosion rang out.

Dark clouds surged backward against the wind, billowing upward into the sky like a black mushroom cloud.

At the epicenter of the impact, the collision was like a volcanic eruption. But instead of lava, what blasted out were ghost servants.

Tangled in combat, ghost servants spiraled through the air, merging into smoky gray clouds that splashed outward in every direction like grotesque fireworks.

Over the years, thanks to Li Yuan’s influence, the sixth rank martial artists of Gemhill County had multiplied, and their breakthroughs had come more smoothly than ever before.

Now, they stood ready, blades drawn and battle-hardened. Some stood firm at the gates of the Bladeseekers, others held their ground throughout the county, fully prepared for what was coming.

Boar-masked enforcers, white-robed guards, and even the Black and White Impermanences all turned their gazes toward the ominous clouds raining down from the sky. And one by one, they made their move.

Maybe they couldn’t take on the ghosts themselves. But ghost servants? Those they could fight.

High in the sky, Li Yuan hovered, unmoving. He didn’t spare the ghost servants a glance. His eyes weren’t even fixed on the massive spider, dog, or rat ghosts below.

Of course he knew if Yan Yu were to clash and merge with Happyland Zoo, she might lose her humanity entirely.

But even knowing that, he remained clear-minded. Because he understood one thing. In this grand conflict, the great ghost domains were terrifying, but they wouldn’t descend themselves.

The great ghost domains were just pieces on the board.

And now...those pieces were being played.

So then...where was the one making the play? If he were truly the enemy, then he would’ve accounted for any unexpected variables around Yan Yu.

That variable...had once been Li Yuan.

But the higher-ups now understood something crucial. Li Yuan and the old Khagan were one and the same. And the old Khagan had perished, consumed by the withering flame.

This meant Li Yuan was dead, so he couldn’t reveal his true self, at least not openly.

But then...was there still an unexpected variable at Yan Yu’s side?

This assault wasn’t just an attack. It was a test. A probe. A sweep.

It was meant to strip Yan Yu of her humanity and smoke out anything hidden in the shadows.

If the enemy could force out any unexpected variables and get in the way, the greater the chance that Yan Yu would lose herself to the fusion.

Floating midair, Li Yuan’s expression remained calm. Around him, spheres of fire suddenly burst into existence, spinning wildly, like countless copies of the Wind-Fire Wheels beneath his feet.

He didn’t move. Not an inch. But the fireballs flew, one after another, hurtling toward Happyland Zoo.

Each one smashed into the ground.

The tightly coiled domain force and blazing Yang energy that had been restrained suddenly cracked open the moment they landed.

The rupture tore the air like a jagged wound through space. Nearby trees and rocks shattered with sharp cracks, then were drawn toward the tear as if to patch it.

With a deafening boom, the fireballs exploded, blasting massive holes into the vast plain of Happyland Zoo, like a lit cigarette searing through rice paper, leaving scorched red craters in its wake.

Ghost servants caught in the blast were pulled toward the impact sites, as if dragged by a monstrous gravitational force. And any that so much as brushed against the energy vanished, instantly reduced to black smoke and ash.

Li Yuan...had become a full-fledged forbidden zone Yang domain.

In fact, in terms of hierarchy, he now surpassed even Happyland Zoo itself.

The fireballs he flung so casually carried two devastating traits. overwhelming gravitational pull and annihilation on contact.

Yan Yu’s existence, coupled with his unique ancestral seal, made Li Yuan’s path utterly unrepeatable.

Yan Yu was already an anomaly beyond imitation. The ancestral seal was something rooted in the universe Li Yuan had crossed over from.

It was precisely because of these distortions, this chain of impossibilities, that an unpredictable deviation had occurred.

And through that deviation...Li Yuan had merged with the withered flame.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The air trembled with a cascade of detonations.

Li Yuan was like a dying star gone mad, hurling fireball after fireball outward in all directions.

And with each impact, the balance of war between the two ghost nations crumbled.

Then, without warning, a circle of pitch-black void opened behind him.

From the darkness came a dull, rhythmic, spine-chilling

thump, thump, thump!

Layer upon layer of spectral spiderwebs spiraled into view behind him, each one stretching into unknown depths.

And from within that web...it came.

The ghost spider, its limbs stitched from human organs, crawled into the world once more.

But this time, it was gargantuan. Towering dozens of meters high. Beside it, Li Yuan looked no bigger than a sesame seed.

His assault had triggered retaliation.

Yang clashed violently with Yin.

The ghost spider, wreathed in billowing black mist, spun thread after thread, weaving a net that spiraled toward Li Yuan, intent on binding him tight.

However, he didn’t budge. Around him, the Heavenbinding Ribbons spun rapidly, forming a blazing barrier.

The ghost spider couldn’t get anywhere near him. Every thread it spat out would be incinerated the moment it neared, as if ice and snow were trying to embrace molten lava, only to evaporate on contact.

And the reason Li Yuan hadn’t struck back yet...was because he was waiting.

He was waiting for that mysterious presence he’d long anticipated, the one he believed would come to restrain him.