“Senior Su Yang, we’d better not enter the deepest part of this labyrinth. In the ancient book I read at the Sect library, the tomb of the Dragon Demon King is guarded by Seven Demons equivalent to the Eternal Realm. Even the monsters there are comparable to the Heavenly Emperor Realm.” The skinny young man whispered to Su Yang, the leader of the group of Tianzun Sect disciples who were on a monster hunt in the tomb of the Dragon Demon King.

The labyrinth would open once a year and countless weak monsters would rush out, while the strong ones remained inside. It seems that the labyrinth was an ancient artifact that bound them including the Seven Demons guarding the tomb of the Dragon Demon King.

Every time the labyrinth opened, all the Martial Sects would send their disciples to hunt monsters, and it also served as a competition. Disciples who collected many monster crystals would usually be rewarded with high-level martial arts or become direct disciples of the Sect Leader.

Currently, Su Yang’s group which consisted of a dozen disciples from the Heavenly Emperor Realm had reached the middle of the labyrinth. They began to encounter several monsters that were equal to the Heavenly Emperor Realm, but those monsters could be subdued by ganging up on them.

“Brother Yang, we really should retreat. After all, we have collected dozens of Heavenly Emperor Realm monster crystals,” said a beautiful 18-year-old girl. However, she had already become a direct disciple of the Grand Elder because she possessed Heavenly talent.

The girl had always stuck to Su Yang after Su Yang, who was an outer court disciple, defeated her in the Tianzun Sect martial arts competition. At that time, Su Yang told her the weakness of her martial arts and gave her a solution to make her martial arts far more powerful.

The girl also fell in love with Su Yang whom she considered a martial artist who hid his cultivation because every time they sparred, Su Yang always got stronger.

She knew that Su Yang wanted to win this monster hunting competition so that he could enter the upper floor of the Sect library which stored secret martial arts scrolls, and become a direct disciple of the Sect Leader.

Su Yang wanted to become an Eternal Realm Warrior to defeat the Demonic Cult that had wiped out his Su Clan.

After his family was killed by the Demonic Cult a year ago, Su Yang began to train hard and no longer kept his Cultivation a secret so that he was pulled into the inner court of the Tianzun Sect. The elder who trained him said that in the future, Su Yang would become the strongest warrior equivalent to the First Martial Alliance Leader who sealed the Demon Emperor on the Tianlong continent.

“Don’t worry guys, we’ll be fine. From now on you guys just be spectators, I will destroy all the monsters that stand in our way,” replied Su Yang with a bright smile.

A virtual screen called “Heavenly System” appeared before him. The Heavenly System told Su Yang to enter the deepest part of the labyrinth. The reward was that in the tomb of the Dragon Demon King there was a Demon Crystal that stored spiritual energy equivalent to a thousand years of cultivation. If he absorbed the Demon Crystal, then his Cultivation would rise to the Eternal Realm. He also wouldn’t need to conserve his spiritual energy while fighting, as his spiritual energy wouldn’t run out even if he used high-level martial arts non-stop for years.

Su Yang, who was a novel writer from Earth, called this reward a legendary rare item that could only be found by the main protagonist. His dream when he was reincarnated into this world was to become the strongest warrior and have a harem of beautiful women.

“But the Grand Elder said if we found a door with a Dragon carving, then we should retreat. Because beyond that door is a labyrinth filled with monsters equivalent to the Heavenly Emperor, I’m afraid we won’t be able to defeat them,” interrupted the beautiful girl named Hua Yuerong.

Su Yang stroked Hua Yuerong’s head, who immediately blushed. “You know me best. Have I ever lied or boasted? I have a secret technique that can defeat high-level monsters easily.”

Su Yang still wanted to say something, but the labyrinth wall and the Dragon-carved door suddenly shook violently. A very strong killing intent made Su Yang and his colleagues fall and vomit a mouthful of blood.

Su Yang frowned, this was the first time he had felt such a terrifying killing intent. Even the Demonic Cult Followers who had killed many Cultivators didn’t have such strong killing intent.

“System, what happened? Aren’t those Demons near the Dragon Demon King’s tomb, why did they appear in the middle of the labyrinth?”

His current cultivation was not yet able to defeat Demons equal to the Eternal Realm. He had to kill a thousand monsters and turn them into his living puppets.

His plan when he reached the deepest part of the labyrinth was to have thousands of monster puppets fight the Seven Demons, and then he would use a one-time use cloak item from the Heavenly System which could make him invisible for a hundred breaths.

However, it seems this mission would fail and he was forced to let Hua Yuerong and his colleagues be killed by the Demon, while he would escape using the cloak item.

That action was cowardly and shameful indeed, but what else could he do, that was the only way to save himself from the Demon.

“Brother Yang, wake up! Let’s get out of here!” Hua Yuerong shouted loudly, shaking Su Yang’s body who looked lost in thought with a sullen expression, he didn’t even hear the screams of his colleagues.

Some of Su Yang’s colleagues had started to retreat, while some others were frozen in place because the killing intent had possessed their minds.

“Yuerong,” replied Su Yang, wiping the blood from the corner of his lips.

“The System cannot identify the entity behind the door!”

“System upgrading by consuming One Thousand Player Coins.”

“Re-identification!”

“The System cannot identify the entity behind the door!”

Su Yang was confused, how could the Heavenly System, a gift from God, be unable to identify the enemy? “Is it the revived Dragon Demon King or the Demon Emperor?” he muttered speculatively.

He had heard the legend of the unkillable Demon Emperor, so the First Martial Alliance Leader had no choice but to seal him behind a mountain of huge fortresses.

Boooommmm!

The door, which required an ancient artifact to open, suddenly exploded. A mound of monsters could be seen behind it, including the head of a human-bodied Demon rolling towards Su Yang’s group.

“Finally, I see the light after a hundred days of chasing these wild boars.”

A human voice and footsteps could be heard from behind the dark-looking door. It turned out that the speaker was a human whose body was covered in monster blood, making it impossible to see what he looked like.

“Do you guys have any Baozi, you naughty kids?” The figure asked, but his lips curled into a thin grin that made Su Yang and his colleagues’ hairs stand on end.

Hua Yuerong rushed to check her dimensional ring, but there was no food in there. She immediately panicked and asked the others if they had any Baozi or other food.

Su Yang took out a sandwich, which was called a "sandwich" in his original world, and told Hua Yuerong to give it to the mysterious man.

She didn’t dare to give it to him directly because the Heavenly System still couldn’t identify the man. Whereas, in the past, the Heavenly System was always able to measure the strength of a Cultivator. For example, the Tianzun Sect Leader who had spiritual energy as vast as the ocean or the equivalent of one hundred thousand years of cultivation. He was the strongest Cultivator he had ever seen so far, even the Heavenly System said that Su Yang would not be able to defeat him even if he reached the Immortal Realm, unless he mastered one hundred high-level martial arts.

The mysterious man suddenly snapped his fingers, then the bloodstains all over his body disappeared.

It turned out that the mysterious man was very handsome even though some of his hair had turned gray. Hua Yuerong, who was walking, suddenly stopped in her tracks and stared at the mysterious man's face in a daze.

"Ah!" Hua Yuerong was startled because the mysterious man suddenly appeared in front of her.

Su Yang immediately gripped the hilt of his sword tightly and prepared to fight the mysterious man if he hurt Hua Yuerong.

"Hmm, this is delicious. What kind of food is this? It looks different from Baozi," said the mysterious man, chewing on the sandwich.

Actually, Hua Yuerong had never eaten it either, because only Su Yang could make it.

"Hmm, I don't k-know, Senior," Hua Yuerong replied nervously. Her body kept trembling, afraid that the mysterious man was an evil Cultivator and would kill her or defile her.

"Forget it, the important thing is that it's edible." The mysterious man drank green tea directly from the golden teapot. "Oh, yes... Let me introduce myself, my name is Xuan Ji. A wandering Warrior."

Xuan Ji noticed the expressions of the young people who were the same age as his disciples. They still seemed afraid of him. Yes, it was only natural because he had killed many monsters and demons in the deepest part of the labyrinth alone.

He himself did not expect that after appearing in that dark room, suddenly the spiritual energy in his dantian seemed to explode, his Cultivation base immediately rose to the Immortal Realm as Mu Xian had said.

In that dark space, monsters kept coming towards him as if they were seeing prey.

After killing thousands of monsters equivalent to the Heavenly Emperor Realm, the monsters finally realized that they had chosen the wrong prey. They then fled to the tomb of the Demon Dragon King.

However, Xuan Ji followed them because he thought that the monsters must have escaped from that dark room. But it turned out they were headed for a strange tomb that kept spawning monsters endlessly.

Annoyed by constantly fighting monsters that kept being born endlessly, Xuan Ji then burned the tomb with a blue flame that couldn't be extinguished - so that when monsters were born, they would immediately be burned to dust.

As Xuan Ji was about to chase after a demon that was escaping, he saw a Crystal containing enormous spiritual energy still intact within the blue flame in the tomb. His blue fire didn't seem to be able to devour the Demon Crystal.

Xuan Ji took it and absorbed it for ten days while sitting cross-legged inside the tomb of the Demon Dragon King that was burning with blue flames.

After absorbing the Demon Crystal's spiritual energy, he resumed hunting monsters and demons that had escaped into another part of the labyrinth with its many passageways. Thanks to following the Demon, he finally arrived in front of a large door carved with a dragon. He then punched the door, shattering it to pieces, and found a dozen Warriors wearing clothes bearing the emblem of the Martial Sect.

However, they seemed to be pressured by the intention to kill him, and their expressions were as if they were seeing a ghost.

“Where is this place? Are we on the Tianwu Continent?” Xuan Ji spoke again after his introduction was not answered by the youths.

"Oh, uh, ah ... yes, we are on the Tianwu Continent. This place is the Labyrinth of the Demon Dragon King's tomb which only opens once a year," replied Hua Yuerong hastily, afraid that if she didn't answer immediately, Xuan Ji would be angry with her. “Let me introduce myself, my name is Hua Yuerong, Senior Ji. A disciple of the Tianzun Sect from the central region."

Xuan Ji nodded slowly, it turned out that he was really on the Tianwu Continent. However, it was a shame that he was separated from his three disciples who were now nowhere to be found.

He hoped the three of them were doing well out there and would soon enroll in one of the great Sects on this Tianwu Continent. However, before looking for the Teleportation altar to the Tianlong Continent, he had to make sure of their condition by visiting all the great Sects on this Tianwu Continent.

Xuan Ji was about to say something, but the deepest part of the labyrinth began to collapse. Maybe because the Demon Dragon King's tomb had stopped supplying spiritual energy, so all the mechanisms in the labyrinth stopped working.

"We have to get out of here, this labyrinth will collapse!" shouted Xuan Ji.

"O-okay, Senior Ji," Hua Yuerong replied, running immediately.

Xuan Ji followed Hua Yuerong, adjusting his steps so that he was always one step behind them.

Su Yang let out a long sigh and regretted not being able to make the corpses of the monsters into his puppets. Even the mission given by the Heavenly System failed to materialize, so he failed to become a Warrior of the Immortal Realm.

All these unexpected events were caused by Xuan Ji.

He really hated that young-looking old man. If he was stronger than Xuan Ji, he would send him to the underworld. Because irregular entities seem to be able to influence the development of the cultivation of Protagonist Figures like him. The reincarnation was supposed to be the chosen one to save the world.

"Don't tell me I'm reincarnated as a Villain? And... this mysterious figure beside me is the real Protagonist." Su Yang's goosebumps immediately stood up when he thought about it, cold sweat also dripping from his forehead. If he were the Villain, then Xuan Ji would kill him to make this world a peaceful one.

Xuan Ji suddenly turned to Su Yang and said with a wide grin, "You smell like those who gained power instantly."

"Huh?" Su Yang was startled to hear it and thought that maybe Xuan Ji knew he had the Heavenly System or Xuan Ji also had a more sophisticated System.

"Don't be afraid, I've never eaten a human. If it's eating the Demon Emperor's heart, I've done that before," Xuan Ji said again with a flat expression even though his words were just a joke, making Su Yang look even more scared.

However, what he said about the smell was true. Somehow he felt a strange power hiding in Su Yang's body. It was similar to the Old Man's Soul hiding in the body of Zhou Fan, the young man who held a grudge against his disciple, Xiao Yue. But the strange power hiding in Su Yang's body seemed to be multi-functional, as it could bring out meat sandwiches and move around him.

“I wonder who will collect the most monster crystals? My bet's on Su Yang,” Elder Tianzun Sect started the conversation as all the Sect Elder representatives were having lunch together at the Pavilion in front of the entrance to the Dragon Demonic King's tomb Labyrinth.

“Su Yang, who is that? Isn't the strongest disciple in your sect young master Gu, who is the direct disciple of Sect Leader Tianzun?” replied the Elder of Heavenly Lotus Lake Sect.

Elder Tianzun Sect chuckled as he sipped his warm tea.

Su Yang’s existence was not yet widely known to the outside world because he came from a small Clan that had been destroyed by the Demonic Cult. However, this year's monster hunt would be an opportunity to make him known as a dark horse who surpassed the top disciples of the great Sects throughout the Tianwu Continent.

“Su Yang is a gem I found in a small clan. With just a little polishing, he grew into a Dragon. Sometimes I suspect that he is the reincarnation of the First Martial Alliance Leader,” replied the Tianzun Sect Elder, which surprised the other Sect Elders.

The basis for this suspicion was that the Demonic Cult suddenly rose after disappearing for thousands of years. In the stories of the ancients, whenever there was a disaster, a hero would be born who would lead the world to peace.

“It seems that you drink too much tea so that your brain is a little shifted, disciples who have such talent are abundant in our Peach Mountain Sect,” sneered the old woman who was an Elder from the Peach Mountain Sect.

However, the Elder Tianzun Sect remained calm and smiled in response to the taunt. “It's up to you to believe it or no- ”

Before he could finish his sentence, his eyes widened as the mountain in front of the Pavilion suddenly collapsed and disciples from various Sects rushed out of the labyrinth.

“What happened in there? Did Su Yang enter the tomb of the Dragon Demonic King?” he muttered speculatively.

However, that was impossible because Su Yang’s cultivation base was only at the Heavenly Emperor Realm, while the tomb was guarded by Seven Demons equivalent to the Eternal Realm.

The First Martial Alliance Leader had also installed an artifact that prevented someone from going to the deepest part of the labyrinth because the other function of the labyrinth was to prevent powerful Cultivators from escaping from the Tianlong Continent.

If there were Heavenly Emperor Realm Cultivators who forced their way into using the ancient Teleportation altar left by the First Martial Alliance Leader, then they would be transported to the tomb of the Dragon Demonic King. In the end, of course, it is easy to guess, the intruder will die attacked by monsters equivalent to the Heavenly Emperor Realm.

However, information about the other functions of the labyrinth was only known by the higher-ups of the great Sects, while the current generation of disciples and Cultivators many did not know this information.

“Who is that man, how can he be inside the labyrinth?” the Heavenly Lotus Lake Sect Elder shouted loudly while pointing towards the man whose hair was partially white.

The man had saved hundreds of disciples by enveloping them with his spiritual energy.

“Is he the one who destroyed the labyrinth?” replied the Peach Mountain Elder. “Even though the Martial Alliance forbids the Eternal Realm from entering the labyrinth. He must be a member of the Demonic Cult looking for a Teleportation altar to the Tianlong continent.”

Everyone knew that the Demonic Cult were followers of the Demonic Emperor who was imprisoned in the Great Fortress Mountains Artifact, Tianlong Continent. Every follower of the Demonic Cult must try to enter the Tianlong continent to free the Demonic Emperor.

Because the Demonic Emperor had been sealed since the era of the First Martial Alliance Leader, people on the Tianwu Continent believed there was no life on the Tianlong Continent. The place was an ice-covered area that was uninhabitable, moreover, records of the Tianlong continent had long been lost or the scrolls of paper that wrote about it had rotted and no one copied them as they did with martial arts scrolls.

The old woman from the Peach Mountain Sect suddenly shot towards the mysterious man.

“Don't act rashly, Elder Long Yue!” exclaimed Elder Tianzun Sect immediately after her. He was afraid that the mysterious man would hurt their disciples if they showed hostility towards the mysterious man.

Long Yue transformed into a White Dragon, the surrounding area instantly froze. Even Elder Tianzun Sect who was also an Eternal Realm felt the cold and almost froze his blood.

“High level danger detected!”

Su Yang’s Heavenly System suddenly detected danger as soon as he exited the labyrinth.

His face immediately turned pale when he saw a mountain-sized Dragon darting towards them.

“Damn it, why am I so unlucky today? Where’s the Protagonist's luck that usually always drives the story’s plot at will!” Su Yang cursed.

He was sure this misfortune was because he was near Xuan Ji. Now he hoped that the figure that could not be identified by the Heavenly System would save them.

Xuan Ji turned to Su Yang with a puzzled expression and said, “Are you a reincarnation from another world?”

However, Su Yang didn’t hear what Xuan Ji said because his gaze was focused on Long Yue who had already spewed out Ice spiritual energy.

“It turns out there is a Long Clan on this Tianwu continent,” muttered Xuan Ji. “Maybe my distant relatives are here too.” Because the people who were on the Tianlong continent were originally from the Tianwu Continent.

Xuan Ji snapped his fingers, a large amount of Wind spiritual energy then formed a turtle shell protecting everyone.

He used one of Yan Chung’s martial arts techniques to deflect Long Yue’s attack.

“What a cold greeting, have I ever broken a promise to you, miss?” Xuan Ji teased Long Yue.

He didn’t know that the woman he was teasing was an old woman who already had dozens of grandchildren and an Elder of a great Sect.

The White Dragon Avatar suddenly frowned. It seemed Long Yue was surprised to hear the seduction of the strange man who appeared out of nowhere.

Elder Tianzun Sect tried to hold back his laughter, but suddenly he realized that the disciples from his Sect were around Xuan Ji. He had to stop Long Yue from attacking the mysterious man from hurting his disciples.

“Calm down, Elder Long Yue. If you act recklessly, our disciples might be killed by him.” Elder Tianzun Sect sent a telepathic voice to Long Yue.

Xuan Ji suddenly let out a long sigh after observing his surroundings. “It seems my disciple is not here.”

“Disciple?”

Long Yue, Elder Tianzun Sect, Su Yang and the others were surprised to hear this. They didn’t expect the mysterious man to be a Sect Elder.

“It seems it’s time to part, hopefully we will meet again in the future.” Xuan Ji winked at the White Dragon Avatar and one blink later a gentle breeze blew.

“Eh, where is he?” Su Yang was surprised.

Hua Yuerong was also taken aback because she didn’t feel Xuan Ji’s movements.

“Who is senior Ji really? Didn’t he say before that he was a Wandering Doctor, why did he suddenly say he was looking for his disciple?” Hua Yuerong whispered.

Su Yang shook his head, he felt that Xuan Ji's identity must be unusual. Even the Heavenly System couldn’t identify him. However, he also breathed a sigh of relief because Xuan Ji was moving away from him, meaning that his luck would not be taken away by Xuan Ji anymore.