“Thank you, Master,” Dongbo Xueying said with some surprise, though he quickly bowed in respect.
Beside him, the Matriarch of Yingshan smiled faintly, finding it perfectly natural. After all, Xueying was the most dazzling figure in the history of the Nanyun Kingdom—even Patriarch Fan had taken the initiative to accept him as a disciple. What was the gift of a single demonic dragon in comparison?
The Nanyun King nodded and glanced at the five disciples beside him, smiling faintly. “These are your five senior brothers and sisters. I assume you already know them.”
As the King’s personal disciples, they were naturally prominent figures in the Nanyun Kingdom. Even the weakest among them had attained the rank of King, their reputations widespread. Xueying had long been aware of them.
“Greetings, Senior Brothers and Sisters,” Dongbo Xueying said.
The five before him were:
The eldest senior brother, the Greedy Roc Divine Emperor—one of the three Divine Emperors of the Nanyun Kingdom. He had followed the King even before the kingdom was established, remaining utterly loyal. The King had endured difficult and tragic times in the past, and thus cherished old bonds deeply. He had poured great effort into guiding the Greedy Roc Divine Emperor, even investing countless treasures into him, ultimately enabling him to break through from the Chaos Realm to the Cosmic God level.
The second senior brother, Gongliang Yi, was at the tenth level of the Chaos Realm—a rare genius within the Nanyun Sacred Sect who had reached the eighth level of the Unity Realm. A native of the kingdom, he had been accepted as a disciple by the Nanyun King.
The third in seniority was the Ghostly Li Empress, also at the tenth level of the Chaos Realm, though slightly weaker than the second senior brother.
Fu Lingyun and Fu Lingxiao, a pair of brothers, ranked fourth and fifth. Back when the Nanyun King was still struggling, the strongest by his side had not been the Greedy Roc Divine Emperor, but another astonishingly talented tenth-level Chaos Realm expert—Fu Chen. Fu Chen had devoted himself wholeheartedly to the King, their relationship akin to both subordinate and brother. After Fu Chen’s death, the King had painstakingly nurtured his two sons. Once they reached the Chaos Realm, he took them in as personal disciples, sparing no expense in showering them with treasures.
Yet, the brothers’ innate talent was merely average. Despite the vast resources poured into them, they had only reached the ninth level of the Chaos Realm.
From this, it was clear that the Nanyun King still cherished old bonds.
“Junior Brother,” the five senior brothers and sisters greeted warmly, all smiles and courtesy in their master’s presence.
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The next day was the day of the official enfeoffment. The title had been decided beforehand—now it was merely a formality.
Most preferred to use their own names as their titles. Some even founded entire clans, turning their names into the family surname.
The title would also become the name of their city and estate. Some cultivators, however, disliked spreading their true names far and wide. Dongbo Xueying had chosen a simple title for himself—”Flying Snow,” a pseudonym he had once used and the name of the spear he had wielded as a mortal.
The Nanyun Kingdom was abuzz with excitement. The imperial palace teemed with princes and marquises, and even powerful figures from neighboring kingdoms arrived to offer congratulations. The ensuing celebration banquet was even livelier. Though Xueying disliked such clamor, he still made the rounds, greeting one Divine Emperor and noble after another. Several visiting Cosmic Gods attended, not to mention the representatives of major factions stationed in the kingdom.
The six ancient kingdoms all had branches here, each operating under the guise of some illustrious family.
Yet, in the end, strength was what truly mattered among cultivators. Without it, one’s status within a great clan would remain low—unless, like the Eldest Prince, one happened to be the Nanyun King’s firstborn and thus doted upon.
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After the enfeoffment, construction began on “Flying Snow City,” Dongbo Xueying’s personal domain. Every King was entitled to a city, and as the sixth tenth-level Chaos Realm expert in the Nanyun Kingdom, his city was exceptionally vast—on par with Yingshan City. Even with countless cultivators laboring on it, the construction would take hundreds of millions of years.
The true challenge lay in the intricate arrays inscribed throughout the city. Once Xueying took his place as its guardian, the empowered arrays would allow him to crush ordinary Cosmic Gods with ease.
Until the city was completed, Dongbo Xueying would reside temporarily in the capital.
—
Time flowed like a river.
Before long, over three hundred million years had passed since his enfeoffment.
Nanyun Kingdom, Flying Snow City.
The city had long been completed. Xueying had brought some from the Fireblaze Marquis’s estate to assist in its management—primarily elites from his father, Yingshan Liehu’s, lineage. Managing a city held no appeal for Xueying himself. Aside from Flying Snow City, nine other cities had been constructed, each guarded by one of his slumbering avatars.
“Ahahaha!” Yingshan Liehu was living his best life. A city as grand as Flying Snow was a nexus of immense interests, and with Xueying delegating most administrative duties to Rong Xinglan and Liehu, the latter naturally basked in glory.
Within a towering Void God Pagoda, Dongbo Xueying sat cross-legged on a massive stone suspended midair, deep in cultivation.
His body appeared utterly ordinary, devoid of any aura of power—this was the natural state of the perfected tenth level of the Nanyun Sacred Body. Even at this pinnacle, however, the Voidform had not reached its absolute limit. True Voidform mastery meant complete unity with the essence of the void—vanishing entirely, undetectable even by mighty Cosmic Gods.
Though his aura was now perfectly restrained, his Voidform was still far from its ultimate potential.
After all, his master’s *Voidform Immortality Art* could only be mastered upon reaching the Cosmic God level. As a Chaos Realm cultivator, it remained utterly beyond his grasp.
“I’ll have to create my own method,” Xueying mused, undeterred. He had studied the scales of the Destruction Demon General “Mogu,” whose innate *Shadowless* talent bore naturally inscribed patterns—simple yet profound. Xueying believed it was entirely possible to achieve something similar at the Chaos Realm level. The difficulty lay in devising the technique himself.
For now, however, his focus was not on Voidform.
Instead, it was on the *Twelve Forms of Nanyun Sacred Fist*.
*Boom.*
With a thought, a faint radiance shimmered across his body as countless divine patterns ignited within. His physique was truly the darling of the void, merging with it even more deeply than his past life as a Voidwalker. Empowered by the Nanyun Sacred Body, Xueying finally succeeded in executing this single punch.
*Boom.*
A fist of overwhelming force, carrying the weight of the entire void, struck out with devastating might.
*Crack.*
No sound could be heard—only the pure resonance of the void.
Xueying sensed it: the tiniest particles of the void’s essence, the black mist-sphere granules. Three of them shattered outright under his punch. For an instant, where his fist had struck, there was a hint of something terrifying—as though a fissure had opened to another dreadful world. The crack was too minuscule for the naked eye to perceive.
Yet, a wisp of mysterious energy seeped through before the fissure, formed by the shattered granules, instantly healed.
“That world…” Xueying had seen it.
This was the clearest glimpse he had ever caught.
*Breaking the Firmament*—shattering the cage of this Source World. Though the fissure was too small to see, through it, Xueying had truly *seen*.
“That mysterious energy seeping through could be used to cultivate a clone technique,” he realized belatedly. But by the time he snapped out of his daze, the wisp of energy had long since dissipated.
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