The First Demon of the Chan Sect

"Clang!"

The Qiankun Ruler met with the metallic outer wall, emitting a tremendous sound loud enough to rupture eardrums. Green and silver intertwined into a blazing brilliance, dazzling to the point where one couldn't keep their eyes open.

After a short while, the radiance dissipated, and the echoing, tremendous sounds came to an abrupt halt.

Li Qingming stole a glance and discovered that the Qiankun Ruler, which he had struck with fifty percent of his True Yuan, had not harmed the metallic outer wall in the slightest!

The silver wall continued to warp, with every engraved figure on it eerily shifting about, showing no signs of having been struck.

"Damn it, what a trap! From now on, if anyone tells me the pyramid is an extraterrestrial spaceship, I'm going to lose it! Are you kidding me, since when does a pyramid have such an indestructible outer wall? This is clearly a powerful Space Spiritual Treasure!" Li Qingming was shocked beyond belief.

Nevertheless, he wasn't worried, for he still had his Primordial Spirit and inside his Treasure Space was a Saint. With the combined power of two Saints, would they really not be able to break open a mere Innate Spiritual Treasure?

"Hum!"

This time, he switched to running the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, intending to rely solely on the strength of his physical body to give it a try.

Dazzling golden light gleamed, and the constantly appearing and disappearing Tao Runes seemed to make every pore of his body inhale and exhale the mists of dawn.

When his Mysterious Skill reached its limit, the enormous shadow of a Swallowing Sky Bear appeared behind him. Its formidable figure and frightening eyes spoke of the vast momentum and strength it possessed.

"Break!" Li Qingming bellowed as he raised his right fist and smashed it towards the metallic outer wall.

His punch was immensely powerful, enough to split mountains and shatter stones, to crush the very void.

"Pfft!"

Fist and wall collided, the runes engraved on the metallic outer wall rapidly rotated, attempting to dissolve Li Qingming's attack.

However, no matter how hard it tried, the gigantic fist carried the outer wall along outward.

Accompanied by a soft "pfft!," Li Qingming punched a fist-sized hole in the metallic outer wall.

"Ha! Just as I thought! Even if this pyramid is a space artifact of Innate Spiritual Treasure Level, in the end, it only qualified by rank, not by the innate material! Otherwise, it wouldn't have been broken through by my single punch!" Li Qingming looked at the hole with some delight.

Just as he was thinking this, a cold electronic voice suddenly rang out, startling him.

"Beep, beep, beep! Attention, please! Lower prison cell number 133 has been breached, lower prison cell number 133 has been compromised, please repair it promptly to prevent prisoner escape! Repeat, attention..."

"What's going on?" Li Qingming scanned his surroundings but found that the empty independent space seemed to be contracting, and those metallic outer walls slowly seemed to become more ordinary.

In an instant, the scene shifted, and the plaza disappeared. Instead, Li Qingming found himself in a quiet hall. The hall was about a hundred zhang in size, consistent with the base area of the pyramid seen from outside.

All around the hall were cages about a zhang in size. Inside each cage was a miniature version of a creature. These creatures were bizarre in shape, but each was in its original form, whether human, insect, bird, beast, or some other oddly shaped entity.

In front of each cage was a small stone stele.

"Insect Race 'Silkworm,' captured from the vast insect domain; its true form is the six-winged golden silkworm. Naturally fierce and aggressive, this species has an extremely strong reproductive capacity." Li Qingming looked at the cage in front of him, inside which there were thumb-sized golden caterpillars.

Li Qingming was momentarily dazed before he looked elsewhere.

"Beast Clan 'Golden Hou,' captured from the Golden Primordial World; its true form is the Fierce Beast Golden Furred Beast Sacrifice. Possessing Divine Skills, it can breathe fire and smoke, capable of battling dragons."

"Flying Bird Clan 'Purple Wings,' captured from the Wuhua Water Realm; its true form is the Purple Winged Divine Bird. Skilled in the art of illusion, with achievements so high, they could almost deceive a Quasi-Saint."

Cage after cage and stele after stele were orderly placed around the hall, and each one showcased the true form of its creature.

Li Qingming felt a bit overwhelmed, but then it suddenly came to him that he seemed to have truly been captured by extraterrestrials, likely to be dissected for study.

...

Meanwhile, at the topmost level of the pyramid, several individuals adorned in luxurious armor and holding golden longswords sat. They were blond and blue-eyed handsome men and beautiful women. If Li Qingming were here, he would be reminded of the Westerners from his past life on Earth.

At this moment, they were engaged in ceaseless discussion, showing no signs of panic.

"Daron, what do you plan to do about that barbaric native who damaged the prison below?" said a handsome middle-aged man sitting in the principal seat, with a feather inserted in his hair.

The young man sitting to his left stood up and said, "Oh! My dear Prince! That barbarian was captured by your orders, we don't have the authority to deal with him!"

The Prince touched the red gemstone ring on his finger, saying, "Well, alright then! Send one of our pets down to meet him! But make sure not to harm him, we need his strong body to study the power of bloodlines!"

"By your command, my dear Prince!" Daron stood up, his right hand pressing against his left chest, gave a sincere salute, and left the hall.

"Your Highness!" At that moment, the young man sitting to the right of the Prince stood up and said, "This Daron is a man of Governor Wil! His accompanying us on this hunt is probably not without ulterior motives!"

The Prince chuckled coldly and said, "Him? Svik, you must understand! The only ones I truly trust are you all. Sending him to deal with that barbarian... Heh, do you think he could succeed?"

Svik was puzzled, "Then what are you suggesting?"

"Send him to his death!" The Prince laughed with a chilling smile.

...

Li Qingming was admiring the cage after cage when suddenly, an odd noise was heard, and a beast radiating with a majestic aura appeared abruptly not far away.

This was a creature that resembled a Phoenix, but with blue feathers, and its eyes shot out strands of chilly cold air, like a spirit from the snowy mountains.

"Is this... an Ice Phoenix?!" Li Qingming stared at it in astonishment for a while, then a thought struck him, "How could a creature that has never been seen in Pangu's Great Thousand World appear here? Could it be..."

Thinking of this, Li Qingming released his Primordial Spirit, and began to carefully investigate its internal structure.

"Damn it, a fake! Such a rip-off!" After a while, Li Qingming cursed in his heart, totally shameless.

This was not a real Ice Phoenix at all, but an Ice Crow with Ice Phoenix blood that had gone through multiple evolutions. Otherwise, it couldn't have resembled one so closely. However, the power of the Ice Crystal Law inside it was very faint, and it must have reached its limit with its current state.

"Screech!"

It let out a piercing cry and, with its sky-blue wings, it swooped down to attack.

"Clang!"

As it unfolded its wings and approached, the sky-blue feathers shimmered with a metallic luster, instantly freezing the space and tearing the Void. The brilliant Ice Crystal Power of Laws shone through, and the continuously flowing blood echoed like thunder, as its claws reached for Li Qingming's top of the skull.

"Quasi-Saint Peak!" Li Qingming was internally astonished, realizing that this Technology Mysterious City not only had exceptional technology but also some powerful and influential figures.

If it had been anyone else, facing the strike of the Ice Phoenix, they would undoubtedly be dead. Alas, who could help it? Its body was formidable, and its wings were enough to shatter the Void.

But Li Qingming wasn't afraid! Among all the sub-Saint Realm and below strong beings in the Universe Chaos Great Universe, when it came to comparing the power of the physical body, if Li Qingming were to rank second, then absolutely no one would dare to claim the first place.

"Rip!"

Li Qingming uttered softly and reached out swiftly with both hands, grabbing the wings of the Ice Phoenix, and the Mysterious Skill Nine Transformations activated, as the Swallowing Sky Bear manifested.

"Ssst!"

A splash of crimson red blood sprayed out, and his mighty fists tore apart the two wings of the Ice Phoenix. The sky-blue feathers fell, and Li Qingming turned it into a wingless chicken.

The rapidly flying Ice Phoenix took a tumble and fell to the ground, unconscious.

Li Qingming tossed the pair of wings onto the ground, frowning and said, "Logically, it shouldn't be this weak. What's going on?"

...

Far away, at the corridor between the first and second layers of the Pyramid.

Daron, donning a golden armor, was glaring furiously at a middle-aged man in a white lab coat, roaring, "Damn it! How could experimental subject twenty-one be torn in half so easily? Are the funds His Majesty allocates to your research institute each year all being fed to a Pig Beast (a Demon Beast akin to a pig)?"

The middle-aged man in a white coat wiped the sweat from his forehead and said anxiously, "My lord, please calm down! Theoretically, experimental subject twenty-one should possess the strength of a Quasi-Saint Peak. It's just, it's just..."

"Just what, spit it out!" Daron was furious, he drew his Longsword from his waist and placed it against the white coat's neck.

The white coat was so terrified that he froze, his face turning pale as a ghost: "It's just that there was a small accident with it waking up one day earlier than we expected. Therefore, there might be a slight flaw in its strength!"

"Useless!" Daron slammed his sword on the white coat's head, scaring him into fainting on the spot.

He paced back and forth at the entrance, and finally, with gritted teeth, he headed towards the deepest part of the second layer.

There was a container there, filled with green liquid, and within it was a silver-white set of metallic armor, radiating an endless brilliance.

"Hmph, Prince? Bullshit! If you didn't have a Holy Master brother, you wouldn't be worth a damn!" Daron's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the armor soaked in the green liquid, murmuring dismissively, "Today, I will don this Holy Armor, and capture that barbaric native! Let's see what you have to say then!"

Saying so, Daron pressed hard on the red button at the bottom right corner of the container.

"Buzz!"

The green liquid in the container started to roil, and streams of scorching air currents circulated within. After a while, it all flowed into the base below, vanishing without a trace.

The armor, on the other hand, transformed into a silver ring and flew onto Daron's hand.

Daron twisted the silver ring on his little finger and, looking into a corner of the second floor of the Pyramid, he sneered and said: "Humph, my dear Prince! I'm looking forward to seeing the look on your face when you're frantic! Hahaha..." (To be continued. If you like this work, we welcome you to recommend tickets, monthly tickets on Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)