After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Huo Yu was surprised that this hybrid infant already possessed the intelligence to communicate with humans, and the killing move he was preparing paused for a moment.

Seeing this, the mixed-race person quickly said:

"In this world, few creatures can outrun me! Besides, I can take you through those clouds of spiritual energy and into places inaccessible to all outside cultivators!"

Huo Yu didn't take the previous sentence to heart, after all, he himself was one of those "not many".

However, upon hearing the last sentence, he was indeed somewhat tempted.

There are no known natural barriers ahead. If it takes this much time to get through each one, Long Yucheng would have died hundreds of times over.

Seeing this, the hybrid seized the opportunity and forced out a drop of golden soul blood.

As its soul blood left its body, it became somewhat listless.

However, Huo Yu did not accept the drop of soul blood, but instead had the mixed-blood release his divine sense directly.

Just as the mixed-race man hesitated, he saw Huo Yu about to unleash another killing move, and had no choice but to obediently release his divine sense.

Using that drop of golden soul blood as a guide, Huo Yu directly inscribed his slave mark into the weak soul of the mixed-blood.

He did not intend to fatten up the dragon's offspring before taking its scales.

Given the growth rate of dragons, this hybrid might not even be an adult by the time Huo Yu ascends to heaven.

He was simply used to controlling others in a more direct way, rather than resorting to useless threats like soul blood.

If Huo Yu wanted to kill someone, he wouldn't need soul blood at all.

After the slave mark was engraved, the half-blood knew that if he had any thoughts of rebellion, Huo Yu would immediately sense it, and Huo Yu could kill him effortlessly through the slave mark.

She immediately became incredibly obedient, ignoring the internal and external injuries she had sustained from Huo Yu's beating, and fawned over him:

"Master, where are we going next?"

"Fly at full speed due north until I say stop."

Huo Yu leaped and landed steadily on the head of the hybrid valley dragon. The enormous descendant of the valley dragon then flapped its wings and soared into the sky, its massive body carrying Huo Yu as it sped northward like an arrow.

Huo Yu sat calmly on the dragon's back, his eyes closed, lost in thought.

Upon first contact, he keenly noticed that there was no trace of prism on the head of this hybrid valley dragon, nor any annotation regarding whether its ascension was hopeless or not.

Huo Yu secretly speculated that this might be because the path to ascension for demons and human cultivators was inherently different.

Humans ascend to the Human Immortal Realm, while demons ascend to the Demon Immortal Realm. More importantly, demons are not subject to the control of the Heavenly Dao.

In the world of human cultivators, there are many strange rules, the most well-known of which is that cultivators are forbidden from possessing the bodies of mortals.

These rules are not merely moral constraints, but real laws governing life and death; once violated, one's foundation will crumble and one will perish.

As for the underlying principles, no one knows, and ultimately it can only be attributed to the ethereal "Heavenly Dao." Moreover, these rules seem to only apply to human cultivators.

However, the more Huo Yu learned since his rebirth, the more convinced he became that the "Way of Heaven" was not an illusory concept.

All signs indicate that "the Way of Heaven" is a real entity. Both the prism and the annotations seem to be direct manifestations of the will of "the Way of Heaven".

If the "Heavenly Way" truly possesses its own will, then what about those cultivators whose fates were already decided by the "Heavenly Way" when they embarked on the path of cultivation?

Main Quest: Obtain the Legacy of the Ancient Thunder Dragon

Reward: Dragon Spear

Side Quest 1: Eliminate Hostile Cultivators

Rewards: Eliminating one Qi Refining cultivator grants 10 points; eliminating one Foundation Establishment cultivator grants 100 points.

Side Quest 2: Eliminate the demonic spy hidden within the Qiongshan Sect

Reward: 500 points

Faced with three new tasks, Long Yucheng felt a mix of emotions, and wanted to cry but couldn't.

The new main quest appears after completing the main quest "Entering the Nine Star Secret Realm".

The two side quests were as follows: one popped up suddenly when the sect elders were giving him instructions on the precautions for the secret realm before he left, and the other refreshed when he arrived at the valley where the secret realm was opened.

No matter which task it was, Long Yucheng, who was only at the first level of Qi Refining, could only watch helplessly.

Whether it was the mysterious inheritance of the Primordial Thunder Dragon or the hidden demonic undercover agent, despite the extremely tempting rewards, Long Yucheng had an extremely clear understanding of his own strength.

At this moment, his only wish is to leave this place safely.

Long Yucheng had no idea where the ruins were located. After hearing the sound of the entrance barrier being broken, he ran forward in a panic. After passing through a dozen or so intersections, he completely lost his way.

He had considered crushing the jade slip that could teleport him out of the secret realm, but the moment he took out the jade slip, a strong sense of crisis surged into his heart like a tide.

It was as if if he crushed the jade slip, he would be doomed forever.

Long Yucheng was very familiar with this strange feeling. When he was a hunter, it was this strange sixth sense that allowed him to escape from the fangs of wild beasts and poisonous creatures countless times.

This was the first time he had encountered such a sense of crisis since embarking on the path of cultivation. Alarm bells rang in his mind, prompting him to decisively abandon the idea of ​​crushing the teleportation jade slip.

He had already checked on the map that his current location was not in the known area marked on the map, and there were several white dots representing fellow disciples flashing around him.

However, unlike the map for Foundation Establishment stage disciples, the map for Qi Refining stage disciples cannot display the names of the disciples represented by the white dots.

However, even if he knew who those white dots were, it wouldn't help him now.

Unable to teleport directly out of the secret realm, and fearing being overtaken by those who came after him if he stayed in place, Long Yucheng had no choice but to carefully observe the movements around him while cautiously groping his way forward.

Long Yucheng was completely unaware that the ruins he was in, from the outside, appeared as a giant dragon-shaped mountain range stretching for nearly a thousand miles, with barren, scorched earth on one side and nothingness on the other.

However, this dragon-shaped mountain range seems to have been cut into several pieces by some external force, with the cut edges as smooth as a mirror, as if it had been cut by a sharp blade.

The place where Long Yucheng was located was the underground ruins below the dragon's head. The restriction that the three disciples of the Beast Taming Valley had broken open together was located at the reverse scale position under the dragon's throat.

Within half a day of the three people breaking through the restrictions in Beast Taming Valley and entering the underground ruins, five more people arrived at the same place.

When the first four people saw the destroyed barrier, their eyes narrowed, and then they revealed murderous intent as they rushed into the passage, as if they already knew what secret was hidden within the barrier.

The fifth person to step into this place was Huo Yu.

As soon as Huo Yu stepped into that long and narrow passage, which was deep and unpredictable, his steps involuntarily faltered.

He carefully examined the stone walls on both sides, a thought flashing through his mind, before continuing to hurry deeper into the passage.

The descendant of the grain dragon, who had willingly acknowledged him as its master, had shrunk countless times and remained motionless, tightly wrapped around his wrist beneath his white Taoist robe, resembling a uniquely shaped bracelet.

The passage went straight down, seemingly without end.

Huo Yu flew at full speed for half an hour, but the scenery around him remained unchanged.

He had to stop. With a slight thought, the hybrid dragon on his wrist leaped out of his sleeve and instantly swelled to several feet in length.

Huo Yu pushed off with his feet and landed steadily on its back, the mixed-blood dragon carrying him on its way.

Huo Yu's gaze, however, was fixed on the rapidly receding stone wall beside him, as if deep in thought.