Villain System: Stealing the Protagonist's Harem and Luck

Chapter 158: Finally Confronting Ye Ling, It’s Fine If He Dies, He Can Still Take the Blame

A spark of genuine interest flickered in Gu Changge’s eyes.

Even after completely severing ties with Chi Ling and losing a massive chunk of his Providence, Ye Ling still possessed over 5,000 Luck Points.

Truthfully, Gu Changge was slightly impressed.

However, back when he had slaughtered Long Teng, he had successfully utilized a Luck Plundering Card. He intended to repeat the process here. While he possessed numerous methods to mentally break Ye Ling and further bleed his Luck Points dry, there was simply no need to prolong the inevitable.

It was time to close the curtain.

“System Prompt: Killing the Son of Providence, Ye Ling, yields 3,000 Luck Points and 15,000 Destiny Points. Additional rewards calculated separately.”

Gu Changge skimmed the system notification. Factoring in the monumental legacy of the Reincarnation Heavenly Sovereign, his total harvest would be astronomical.

He was already mentally cataloging his loot. The thought of Ye Ling escaping simply didn’t exist in his calculations.

“Gu Changge! You have pushed me too far!” Ye Ling roared, snapping out of his shock at Gu Changge’s sheer audacity.

Even after I die, you still plan to use my corpse as a scapegoat?!

A bone-deep chill seized Ye Ling’s spine, rapidly boiling over into boundless, apocalyptic fury.

Gu Changge was a demon wearing human skin! Hacking him into a thousand pieces and grinding his bones to dust wouldn’t even begin to satisfy Ye Ling’s hatred.

“I’ll drag you to hell with me!” Ye Ling screamed.

A tsunami of pitch-black divine light erupted from his body, coalescing in the air above him to form a massive, lifelike black dragon. The dragon radiated suffocating draconic might, its iron scales dense and its divine runes pulsing with terrifying vitality.

Simultaneously, blinding white light intertwined to form a majestic True Phoenix. It spread its wings and unleashed a piercing, heaven-shaking screech!

Roar!

The black dragon mirrored the cry, its bellow echoing like a tolling bell, causing the very cavern to tremble.

This was the ultimate manifestation of Reincarnation power—the eternal cycle of life and death, white and black. The terrifying forces intertwined, creating an attack so destructive that even a Heavenly God Realm existence would be instantly vaporized if they dared touch it.

“Why do all of you insist on using that exact same line?” Gu Changge sighed, his expression completely undisturbed. He offered a faint, mocking smile. “What do you mean, ‘pushed you too far’? Do you honestly think yelling that will make me stop bullying you?”

He casually flicked his sleeve, hovering effortlessly in the subterranean sky.

Buzz!

He simply raised his hand and pressed down.

A colossal palm, large enough to blot out the sky, materialized above the cavern. Primal mist swirled around the impossibly massive fingers, and ancient runes drifted within its palm lines. It descended with the crushing weight of billions of tons, warping and tearing the void as if the very heavens were collapsing onto Ye Ling’s head.

The suffocating Pressure nearly stopped Ye Ling’s heart. His face drained of all color.

This wasn’t just raw Qi—this strike was woven from an ocean of divine runes, indicating a terrifying mastery over countless divine abilities. Most horrifying of all… it contained the absolute power of cosmic rules!

Pfft!

No matter how heaven-defying the power of Reincarnation was, it was an ant trying to stop a falling mountain when faced with rules of a fundamentally higher dimension.

The black dragon and the True Phoenix let out agonizing shrieks as they were instantly, effortlessly crushed into nothingness beneath Gu Changge’s palm!

“I never had any enmity with you! Why are you doing this to me?!” Ye Ling screamed, his face deathly pale. He tried to dive out of the palm’s blast radius, only to realize the surrounding void had solidified into concrete.

Absolute, freezing terror gripped his soul.

Boom!

At the absolute last possible fraction of a second, Ye Ling crushed a supreme rune hidden in his robes. The overwhelming Pressure of a Saint Realm expert erupted from the shattered jade, intertwining with the laws of order as it swept upward in a desperate attempt to deflect Gu Changge’s strike.

“Boring,” Gu Changge muttered, the mocking smile vanishing from his lips, replaced by an abyss of absolute frost.

Hum!

Accompanied by an ocean of terrifying, surging demonic energy, the Eight Desolate Demon Halberd materialized in his grasp. The peerless, ominous weapon practically purred in his hands, transmitting a bloodthirsty joy.

Gu Changge looked down at Ye Ling with the cold apathy of a god regarding an insect.

He swung the halberd.

A tidal wave of apocalyptic demonic light tore through the cavern. The halberd’s strike was wreathed in pitch-black chains of cosmic rules. It looked as though it could cleave through the primordial chaos and split the universe itself!

“That is…!”

Inside the pendant, the Old Turtle shrieked, trembling so violently it nearly shattered its own spiritual form. It recognized the peerless, taboo weapon instantly.

Never in its wildest nightmares did it expect such an apocalyptic artifact to end up in Gu Changge’s hands!

Pfft!

The void in front of Ye Ling violently detonated. He let out a bloodcurdling scream as the Saint Realm rune he had just activated was instantly annihilated.

The sheer concussive force of the halberd’s aura crushed his skeleton, causing multiple blood vessels to rupture simultaneously.

“That power… it transcends the ordinary Saint Realm…” the Old Turtle stammered, its voice laced with unprecedented terror. “Ye Ling! Do not hesitate! Use the Sovereign’s ultimate trump card, or you will die right here, right now!”

Gu Changge wasn’t remotely surprised that the halberd strike hadn’t bisected the boy. A Son of Providence always had a dozen life-saving cockroaches hiding up their sleeves.

But it didn’t matter. Nothing in this universe could stop him from killing Ye Ling today.

Swoosh!

“Let’s see how many times your shell can crack before you break,” Gu Changge sneered, his entire body engulfed in surging, pitch-black demonic energy. His eyes were fathomless pools of dark intent.

The sheer volume of power undulating off him resembled a terrifying, cosmic ocean capable of drowning the stars.

He swung the halberd a second time. The void tore apart like wet tissue paper.

“How is this possible…?” Ye Ling gasped, his body bathed in his own blood. Absolute despair consumed him.

The halberd light completely shattered the seven-colored divine armor he wore beneath his robes—an artifact capable of blocking a full-powered strike from a Supreme Saint!

Which meant Gu Changge’s casual swings were packing the destructive force of a Supreme Saint!

Ye Ling was scared completely out of his wits. His will to fight evaporated. Gu Changge was a mere junior! How could he possibly wield such apocalyptic power?! Was this the true horror of the Immortal Devouring Demonic Art?!

It was incomprehensible. It was pure nightmare logic.

But through his freezing terror, he heard the Old Turtle’s desperate scream.

He didn’t want to die!

“MASTER, SAVE ME!” Ye Ling roared, burning his very essence blood to violently activate a golden, ancient rune etched directly onto his soul!

His primordial spirit flared with blinding, transparent brilliance.

This was the absolute final, ultimate life-saving measure left behind by the Reincarnation Ancient Heavenly Sovereign. Ye Ling hadn’t wanted to waste it, but if he didn’t use it now, he would be a smear on the floor in the next second.

Hum!

The ignited golden rune erupted with terrifying, boundless radiance, as if a sleeping god was violently awakening within it.

The entire subterranean world, including the floating jade palace, trembled violently, emitting bizarre, resonant groans.

The void distorted heavily as terrifying, pitch-black divine light spread in all directions, looking exactly like a black sun rising within the cavern.

From within the black sun, a towering, blurry figure stepped forward, as if walking across the river of time itself.

His gaze was terrifying, seemingly containing the cosmic cycles of black suns and white moons. He descended like a primordial deity.

The Reincarnation Ancient Heavenly Sovereign had manifested.

Though it was merely a phantom separated from its original body by countless eons, its aura skyrocketed exponentially, causing the surrounding void to groan and blur as if on the verge of total collapse.

A suffocating, absolute Pressure descended.

Gu Changge narrowed his eyes. He estimated that the true Reincarnation Ancient Heavenly Sovereign was likely an ancient existence who had successfully ascended to a higher dimension.

The Immortal Realm!

Even a mere phantom possessed enough terrifying power to casually sweep through Great Saint Realm existences!

“Master! Save me!” Ye Ling wept with joy, practically collapsing as he stared at the towering figure. He had found life in the absolute depths of despair!

“Master!” the Old Turtle cried out from the pendant, weeping spiritual tears.

“The Reincarnation Ancient Heavenly Sovereign…” Yin Mei murmured, her face paling slightly as she cast a worried glance at Gu Changge.

This was a mythical entity from the Immortal Ancient era! A being so ancient and powerful that he supposedly controlled the reincarnation of all living things, achieving true immortality!

However, seeing Gu Changge’s expression remain perfectly, chillingly calm, she quietly let out a sigh of relief.

“Pathetic.”

The Sovereign’s phantom snorted coldly.

The moment he materialized, his cosmic gaze fell upon Ye Ling. His eyes were filled with undisguised, profound disappointment.

Although he was merely a phantom, he instantly assessed the situation.

To think that his chosen successor had been forced to burn his ultimate trump card while fighting a mere peer from the younger generation… it was humiliating. He had never expected his heir to be such a useless, pathetic waste of space.

“Little Turtle, you have disappointed me greatly as well,” the Sovereign chastised, completely ignoring Gu Changge.

He was a legendary Heavenly Sovereign. Even as a phantom, erasing a disrespectful junior would require less effort than breathing.

“Master…” the Old Turtle hung its head in deep shame.

It knew why the Sovereign was disappointed, but the situation was infinitely more complicated than it appeared! Gu Changge’s monstrous strength couldn’t be explained in a few words, and most importantly, the Sovereign hadn’t yet realized Gu Changge’s true identity!

“Master, I…” Ye Ling flushed with shame, but his confidence returned in full force.

No matter how monstrous Gu Changge was, he was facing a literal myth from the Immortal Ancient era! If Ye Ling had known this golden rune contained a physical manifestation of the Sovereign, he wouldn’t have spent the last ten minutes running for his life like a whipped dog!

Now, the tables had turned. It was Gu Changge’s turn to taste absolute despair!

However, to Ye Ling’s utter bewilderment, Gu Changge didn’t even blink.

He wasn’t panicking. He wasn’t afraid. Was he just putting on a brave face, or did he actually possess a trump card to counter a Heavenly Sovereign?!

“Heavenly Sovereign… what a pity. You are merely a fleeting phantom…” Gu Changge sighed, looking the towering figure up and down with genuine disappointment.

“Hmm? Junior, you dare look down on me?!”

The Sovereign’s gaze instantly turned profoundly cold. He locked eyes with Gu Changge, and a vast, apocalyptic Pressure prepared to sweep down and crush the insolent insect into dust.

If they were outside, that single glare would have obliterated the landscape. Within this pocket dimension, the Sovereign was the absolute, unquestionable god.

Gu Changge merely smiled, his attitude entirely nonchalant. “Look down on you? No, Heavenly Sovereign. You simply overestimate yourself.”

Gu Changge never entered a battle without considering every possible variable. He had fully anticipated that a legendary figure like the Sovereign would leave behind a supreme trump card to protect his heir.

Everything was still perfectly under control.

“Insolent brat…”

The Sovereign’s face darkened with genuine anger. When had he ever been disrespected so blatantly?

And by a junior, no less! Although he was merely a phantom, he still retained his pride. He raised his hand to instantly erase Gu Changge from existence—

And then he saw the Eight Desolate Demon Halberd resting casually in Gu Changge’s grip.

The Sovereign’s pupils contracted violently.

The more powerful an entity was, the more they understood the true, terrifying nature of that ominous weapon. Its origins… were horrifyingly immense!

He hadn’t noticed it initially, but now, the sheer shock momentarily paralyzed him.

Hum!

In that split second of hesitation, the void surrounding the Sovereign blurred violently. Every inch of space was instantly flooded with the absolute power of cosmic rules.

The Sovereign froze, utterly stunned to find himself physically restrained. It only lasted for a fraction of a second, but the fact that a junior could bind him at all was mind-boggling!

“Watch carefully, Heavenly Sovereign,” Gu Changge smiled faintly, vanishing from his spot.

In the next instant, he materialized directly in front of Ye Ling.

The Eight Desolate Demon Halberd cleaved downward, its edge carrying the conceptual weight to pierce through absolutely anything. The surging demonic energy threatened to drown the entire cavern in darkness.

“WHAT?!”

The triumphant smirk vanished from Ye Ling’s face, replaced by a mask of absolute, paralyzing terror.

His soul froze solid.

“MASTER, SAVE ME! I DON’T WANT TO DIE!” Ye Ling shrieked, his face twisting in ultimate despair. “I REFUSE! I HAVEN’T REACHED THE PEAK YET! I HAVEN’T—!”

Gu Changge didn’t give him the chance to finish his monologue.

The halberd shattered the void.

Pfft!

Ye Ling, his eyes wide with unparalleled despair and indignation, was instantly vaporized into a fine mist of blood.

Body and soul, completely and utterly annihilated!

“Your successor was far too fragile,” Gu Changge remarked with a polite smile, turning to face the frozen Sovereign.

“JUNIOR! HOW DARE YOU! YOU ARE COURTING DEATH!”

The Reincarnation Heavenly Sovereign erupted in absolute, cataclysmic fury.

To butcher his chosen successor right in front of his face—the sheer, unadulterated audacity was unparalleled! This junior was begging for annihilation!

Even if he was the recognized master of that ominous halberd, he would not be spared!

A surging, boundless aura, as heavy as the sky itself, crashed downward, intent on grinding Gu Changge into a bloody pulp.

“Don’t be so impatient, Heavenly Sovereign. I’m sending you down to keep him company right now,” Gu Changge smiled placidly.

From his sleeve, he retrieved a palm-sized, pitch-black treasure bottle.

Hum!

With a single thought, a dense matrix of pitch-black runes materialized in the void, instantly and permanently sealing the space surrounding the Sovereign’s phantom.

The runes pulsed with a bizarre, terrifying power, acting like conceptual chains that permeated every microscopic inch of reality. Thick, black mist began to rise rapidly from the floor.

“This is… the Immortal Devouring Demonic Art…!”

The Sovereign’s eyes widened in sheer disbelief. “You are…!”

For the first time, the Sovereign’s expression shifted to one of absolute horror. He realized he had walked directly into a fatal trap. Seeing the pitch-black Great Dao Treasure Bottle floating above Gu Changge’s palm confirmed his worst nightmare.

He no longer dared to underestimate the young man.

He was the true Inheritor of the Taboo Demonic Art!

“Is this guy even human?! He’s actually scheming to devour a Heavenly Sovereign! This is terrifying…!”

The Old Turtle, having miraculously survived the blast, watched the scene unfold with mind-breaking terror.

Hum!

The dense black runes rapidly expanded, and the black mist thickened, swallowing the entire cavern in absolute, pitch-black darkness!

Holding the Great Dao Treasure Bottle, Gu Changge stepped smoothly into the abyss.

Faint roars of fury, profound unwillingness, and absolute disbelief echoed from the darkness, making the Old Turtle tremble violently.

That was the Reincarnation Ancient Heavenly Sovereign! Its once invincible Master! Even as a phantom, it possessed the power to shatter galaxies with a single thought!

Yet this supreme, mythical entity was currently being hunted and devoured by a junior from the younger generation!

It was completely inconceivable. If word of this ever leaked, it would shatter the sanity of the entire cultivation world!

Soon, the violent fluctuations ceased entirely. The black mist that had enveloped the cavern slowly dissipated.

The Great Dao runes faded back into the void.

Gu Changge strolled calmly out of the dissipating darkness. The Great Dao Treasure Bottle flashed briefly under his sleeve before vanishing, looking completely ordinary.

As for the phantom of the Reincarnation Ancient Heavenly Sovereign?

It had been erased from existence entirely.