Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate-Chapter 372: Sun Tianlin Steps In

"What?!" Bo Luncang's eyes went wide. He was getting real tired of being surprised every five minutes. No time to rest, no time to breathe—just one shock after another.

"The Prosperous Stone Immortal Star actually sent an army of cultivators to the Immortal Martial Continent?!"

Weren't they done with that place? he thought, baffled. They haven't shown interest in the continent for a million years! Why now? And why send so many?!

If anything, he would've expected a small scouting group—maybe a few dozen at most. Not a full-blown army.

"Damn it!" he growled, running a hand through his hair. "That ruins everything I had planned for the Western Ice Domain. Guess that's off the table now."

Grinding his teeth, he shoved those plans aside and turned his attention to the real problem: the army coming through the Pure Frost Domain.

"Find out how big that army is," he ordered sharply. "I don't care what it takes—we need that information."

Even if it meant losing people. He needed answers.

Then he looked up, eyes locking on the rippling spatial crack above.

"Get back to the Myriad Demons Continent," he told one of his trusted aides. "Report everything—don't leave out a single detail."

His voice was cold now. Tight. The easy win he thought he'd get? Gone.

"I thought taking over the Immortal Martial Continent would be easy," he muttered, clenching his fists hard. "But now? Looks like we're in for a real fight."

He hated this feeling—like the pieces were moving without him. Like he wasn't the one calling the shots.

And that drove him crazy.

Right now, the demon army was scattered all over the Immortal Martial Continent. They'd come through the Myriad Demons Sky Piercing Mirror in waves, but now, they were all spread out—easy pickings for the human cultivator legions to take down one by one.

Pulling them back was easier said than done.

The teleportation arrays that used to connect the continent? Gone. Jiang Chen had destroyed them a while ago. That meant even for a powerhouse at the Transcendence realm, getting from one domain to another was going to take serious time.

This won't do, Bo Luncang thought, frustration bubbling in his chest. I need to get to the Pure Frost Domain first and stop those human cultivators before they make a move.

If the enemy didn't have anyone in the Nirvana Peering realm, then wiping them all out in one big strike might actually be doable.

And even if they did have someone that strong?

"I can hold the line," Bo Luncang told himself. "Long enough to regroup and call in the rest of our forces. The Myriad Demons Continent can keep sending troops."

With that, he made his decision.

He sent out a command: all demon legions were to retreat and gather in the Everflowing Truth Domain.

As for him, he shot straight toward the Pure Frost Domain.

The Immortal Martial Continent was split into sixteen domains. Right at the heart of it were four major ones: Everflowing Truth Domain, Lustrous Yang Domain, Pure Frost Domain, and Vibrant Blaze Domain. The Everflowing Truth Domain sat right in the center—pretty much the core of the continent.

Luckily for Bo Luncang, the Pure Frost Domain wasn't too far from the Vibrant Blaze Domain. And with his Nirvana Peering-level strength and a powerful Transcendence-level artifact boosting his speed, he flew like a streak of lightning across the sky.

Time was tight—but if anyone could turn things around, it was him.

...

Just as Bo Luncang flew out of the Vibrant Blaze Domain, far off in the Western Ice Domain, Mo Hao was still leading the way with a confident grin. They'd covered a lot of ground by now, but oddly enough, they hadn't run into a single Supporting Character.

That made Jiang Chen raise an eyebrow.

Weird, he thought. With Mo Hao's Protagonist Halo, we should've hit someone by now.

Then suddenly, his transmission jade token lit up.

He scanned it with a quick sweep of divine sense—and just like that, his whole expression changed.

"The Prosperous Stone Immortal Star's army just arrived?" he muttered under his breath.

And not just a small force, either—a full-blown army. A million cultivators strong. And a bunch of them were already in the Transcendence realm. There might even be a top-tier powerhouse in the Nirvana Peering realm leading them.

So that's what's going on, Jiang Chen thought, his gaze sharpening. No wonder the demon army's struggling. They're totally scattered, and now the cultivator army's putting serious pressure on them.

The demon commander was clearly trying to pull things back together before it got worse. Chances were, he'd head straight for the Pure Frost Domain to stop the humans from wiping out too many of his troops.

Which means, Jiang Chen realized, if their commander really did leave the Vibrant Blaze Domain… then this is my shot.

He narrowed his eyes.

If I can sneak in and destroy the spatial channel while he's gone, that'll really mess up their plans.

But there was a problem: What do I do with Mo Hao? Jiang Chen rubbed his chin, thinking it through.

He didn't want to leave Mo Hao alone for too long, just in case something big happened. But this chance was too good to pass up.

After thinking it over, Jiang Chen came up with a quick plan. He'd have Ying Luo keep Mo Hao busy.

Meanwhile, Jiang Chen would secretly use the Immortal Martial Cave Heaven to teleport himself straight to the Vibrant Blaze Domain and check things out for himself.

If anything unexpected happened, he could always teleport right back.

Once Jiang Chen had his plan set, he gave Ying Luo a few quiet instructions. After that, he slipped away without anyone noticing.

Not long after he left, Ying Luo emerged from the group and approached Mo Hao.

"Hey, human boy," she said, sounding a little bored, "we've been flying around for a while now and haven't run into any demon troops. I'm kinda getting tired of this. Want to stop and rest for a bit?"

"Rest?" Mo Hao blinked, caught off guard. But then he nodded. "Sure, I don't mind."

He wasn't about to say no to her—especially not when he still had hopes of making her his personal mount one day. No way he'd start arguing now.

Besides, it made sense. Ying Luo really had gone all out earlier, and they hadn't seen any demons for a while. Taking a short break didn't sound so bad.

So the group found a nearby snow cave and settled in for some rest.

...

In the meantime, far out of Mo Hao's divine sense range, Jiang Chen was already on the move.

Using the Immortal Martial Cave Heaven, he teleported himself tens of millions of kilometers away—well out of sight and far from the spatial channel in the Vibrant Blaze Domain.

As soon as he arrived, he activated the special ability from his Death Calamity Dark Star Moon Dao Embryo Bloodline. Instantly, his aura vanished—like he'd never even been there. Hidden from sight, from sound, from sense.

Then, without wasting a second, he moved fast toward the spatial channel.

...

At the same time, back in the Pure Frost Domain, the sky had gone dark—not from clouds, but from the sheer number of people floating in the air.

Over a million cultivators filled the sky, packed together like storm clouds ready to burst. Almost the entire force of the Sun Clan had gathered.

Everyone was staring straight up at the massive spatial channel above them.

And then, from that glowing rift in the sky, a man slowly stepped through.

His long robes billowed in the wind, and his wild, untamed hair flew behind him. His face looked calm, but there was a quiet sadness in his eyes.

It was Sun Tianlin—father of Sun Ji.

"Welcome, Master Tianlin!"

A wave of sound echoed across the land as more than a million cultivators bowed in perfect sync. Their voices shook the air like thunder.

Sun Tianlin didn't even glance at the massive crowd of cultivators below. He just reached into his robes and pulled out a strange-looking compass.

This wasn't an ordinary tool. It had seven unique patterns carved into its surface—each one meant for something different.

Without a word, he crushed a small crystal in his hand, releasing a faint trace of soul energy into the sixth pattern on the compass.

That soul energy belonged to his son—Sun Ji.

This sixth pattern was made to pull out lingering fragments of a soul. It couldn't bring anyone back from the dead, but it could help find out what happened to them—sometimes even reveal their final moments.

Sun Tianlin's heart was set on one thing: finding the person who killed his son.

But no matter how much energy he poured into the compass... nothing came back.

No flicker of soul. No whispers. Nothing.

"Soul Annihilation..." he muttered, his voice low and shaking. "Even the last traces of his soul are gone... My poor son."

He tried again, this time using the soul essence of his other two sons to boost the signal—but the results were the same.

Nothing.

A heavy silence fell over him. Then his eyes narrowed.

"Do I really need to use the seventh pattern?" he whispered to himself.

There was a pause. And then, his voice turned ice cold.

"Fine. No matter what it takes, I'll find whoever did this. And when I do... I'll make them wish they'd never been born. I'll make their days full of pain, and their nights even worse. I'll crush their spirit before I crush their body."

He took a deep breath. Then another. Slowly calming himself down.

After a moment, he reached into his storage pouch again and pulled out three powerful soul essences.

Without hesitation, he fed them into the compass's final, seventh pattern.

The seventh pattern on the compass stood for karma—and it was the most mysterious and powerful of them all.

"Trace cause from effect… activate!" Sun Tianlin muttered, his expression hardening.

He didn't hold back. He poured his Origin Power into the compass with everything he had. Then, on top of that, he used several secret techniques to push the compass even further.

This was it—he was pushing it to the absolute limit.

"I will find them," he growled, eyes locked on the spinning compass. "No one can hide from me. Not even someone backed by the Prosperous Stone Immortal Star. And if they're from the Immortal Martial Continent..." he clenched his fists. "They're already dead."

His killing intent was burning hot now—clear in his voice, in his stare, in the way his body tensed.

"Once I find you, your nightmare begins. You'll wish you'd never been born."

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But the compass didn't respond. No hint. No name. No direction.

And worse—his Origin Power was almost completely drained.

"What… what is this?" Sun Tianlin's pupils shook. He couldn't believe it. "Why isn't it working?"

...

Far away, in the middle of moving quietly through the shadows, Jiang Chen suddenly froze.

A strange wave of heat rushed through his blood, like something deep inside him had just flared up without warning.

His eyes narrowed.

"What was that?" he whispered, instantly on alert.

Something wasn't right.

Not at all.