Chapter 732: The Enemy of the Black Magic Hall

On Mount Qianyuan, there was a cave entrance, from which a faint, eerie light emanated, making it impossible to see deep inside. Meng Chuan flew towards this cave.

"Is this the entrance to the prison holding the chaotic beings?" Meng Chuan had learned a lot from Senior Brother Qianshou. After a careful observation, he walked into the cave. Mount Qianyuan was quite friendly to the cultivators undergoing trials; besides battling chaotic beings, there were no other dangers.

As Meng Chuan entered the cave, he found himself in a vast space.

He appeared in a dark red void.

"This is the prison?" Meng Chuan stood suspended in the air, looking around.

The dark red void was divided into tens of thousands of spatial prisons, each holding only one chaotic being.

The spatial prisons were arranged systematically.

The topmost level contained thirty-one spatial prisons, each incredibly large. Within them, one could vaguely see the imprisoned beings, all of whom were Chaos Lords.

"Chaos Lords?"

Meng Chuan observed them from a distance. Even though they were sealed and time was frozen, these Chaos Lords were still alive. Their life forms instilled an instinctive dread and fear in Meng Chuan with just a glance.

The largest of these Chaos Lords was comparable in size to a river system, its body resembling a miniature universe, with worlds dotting its surface, all currently dormant. The most peculiar Chaos Lord was a vast mass of rules—a set of rules with its own consciousness, invisible to the naked eye. Meng Chuan only knew, through Senior Brother Qianshou's intelligence, that this seemingly empty prison held a Chaos Lord formed entirely of 'rules'. There was also a humanoid Chaos Lord, sitting cross-legged with closed eyes, his eight arms relaxed and resting, his body merely a hundred zhang tall.

The physical bodies of most Chaos Lords possessed terrifying deterrent power; they were even capable of directly devouring 'higher life worlds'.

These Chaos Lords represented the most terrifying life forms under the eternal existence of the endless spacetime.

In terms of pure life essence, they were no different from Eight Tribulation cultivators.

The difference was that Eight Tribulation cultivators fully controlled spacetime rules!

"There are even more Seven Tribulation chaotic beings," Meng Chuan noted. Below the thirty-one spatial prisons on the topmost level, there were layers upon layers of more spatial prisons.

The lower the level, the smaller the spatial prisons became, and the weaker the imprisoned chaotic beings.

For instance, the topmost level, which held Chaos Lords, could imprison beings whose physical bodies reached the size of a river system, demonstrating the immense scale of these 'spatial prisons'.

"I can try fighting some of the weaker Seven Tribulation forbidden beings," Meng Chuan thought, his heart ablaze with excitement. He could kill at most one in five thousand years, and he believed his strength would advance further within that time. By then, killing a powerful one would grant him a more potent chaotic being talent. For now, he wasn't in a hurry to kill.

Besides his regular cultivation, battling forbidden beings would also allow him to verify his cultivation insights during combat.

"Whoosh."

Meng Chuan transformed into a streak of light and flew towards one of the spatial prisons on the lowest level. Even these bottom-level prisons held chaotic beings at the Seven Tribulation realm, possessing innate abilities related to fundamental rules.

The time flow on Mount Qianyuan was thirty-three times faster than in his home universe. Over ninety percent of Meng Chuan's soul origin was concentrated on Mount Qianyuan, dedicated to cultivation and combat.

***

Black Demon Hall Headquarters.

"Lihong, isn't this City Lord Dongning going too far? After becoming a Seven Tribulation cultivator, he doesn't focus on his cultivation. Instead, he repeatedly targets our Black Demon Hall," the Nightmare Hall Master said, visibly annoyed in the hall. "Whenever our Black Demon Hall undertakes even a moderately large operation to slaughter and plunder prosperous areas, City Lord Dongning appears and intervenes. How can a dignified Seven Tribulation Soul Cultivator bring himself to act against mere Six and Five Tribulation cultivators?"

"He doesn't seem to feel embarrassed about his repeated interventions," replied Lord Lihong, whose face was handsome, as he calmly gazed at a scroll before him. The scroll depicted a previous battle: Meng Chuan descending from the high altitude of a star, and with a single glance after his arrival, a massive contingent of Black Demon Hall cultivators—from Six Tribulation down to Emperors—were all instantly killed.

The further one progressed in cultivation, the greater the disparity in power. In front of a Seven Tribulation cultivator, Six Tribulation cultivators were utterly powerless.

Meng Chuan repeatedly thwarted Black Demon Hall's large-scale operations, annihilating many of their teams and killing numerous Six Tribulation realm external avatars, causing widespread resentment within the entire Black Demon Hall. However, the Six Tribulation members of Black Demon Hall could only grumble amongst themselves and report to the Black Demon Hall Master and Nightmare Hall Master.

"What should we do?" the Nightmare Hall Master asked his companion.

"What can we do?" Lord Lihong said indifferently, looking at the scroll. "As a physical Seven Tribulation cultivator, I can't stop him. Can you stop him?"

"The moment he appears, the Black Demon Hall team is completely wiped out; I'd be too late even if I rushed there," the Nightmare Hall Master shook his head. "Besides, I can't stop his slaughter either."

Lord Lihong nodded. He had previously clashed with Meng Chuan and knew that the Nightmare Hall Master couldn't stop him.

Both fell silent.

What to do?

Dongning's stance was clear: although his cultivation time was precious, as long as he discovered a large-scale slaughter operation by Black Demon Hall, Meng Chuan would immediately intervene.

"A Seven Tribulation Soul Cultivator, when determined, is truly troublesome. And he's so young," Lord Lihong shook his head. "Let's have our subordinates break into smaller units. From today onwards, stop all large-scale slaughter operations and conduct numerous scattered plundering actions instead. With countless scattered plundering incidents across the entire River of Spacetime, I'd like to see how a single Seven Tribulation cultivator can stop them all."

There were many scattered plundering incidents in every river system, and countless more throughout the entire River of Spacetime.

Many who were plundered couldn't even call for help from the Eternal Tower, so Meng Chuan naturally wouldn't know. Even if he did, he couldn't stop countless plundering incidents; after all, the entire universe was simply too vast.

"Break into smaller units for scattered plundering?" the Nightmare Hall Master frowned. "Dongning can't stop all of it, but the gains from such actions would be too small."

Slaughtering a single prosperous trade planet in a river system, or one of the top prosperous regions within a river domain, yielded significant profits.

Scattered plundering, however, yielded very little.

"Do you have any way to deal with Dongning?" Lord Lihong asked him. "He's so young; he could outlive us all, and before long, he'll become even more formidable! We'll just have to endure it. Black Demon Hall has been forced to endure many times throughout its history."

The Nightmare Hall Master truly had no solution.

A Seven Tribulation Soul Cultivator was already formidable, but one who had only cultivated for seven thousand years instilled fear in all factions. It was foreseeable that he would continue to grow stronger, his influence on the River of Spacetime steadily increasing.

Living in the same era as him meant they had to learn how to coexist.

Black Demon Hall employed ruthless methods. In the current era, with Lord Lihong, the Seven Tribulation Soul Cultivator 'Nightmare Hall Master,' and their inherited treasures, there were few entities they feared. In fact, throughout much of Black Demon Hall's history, they had acted with impunity, but when truly confronted by a formidable, 'tit-for-tat' enemy, even Black Demon Hall had to show restraint. In this era, they had encountered the powerful enemy that was Meng Chuan!

Black Demon Hall's operational methods changed, becoming much more discreet.

They completely dispersed into small Black Demon Hall teams, plundering various river systems across the River of Spacetime. This 'breaking into smaller units' approach, while still posing a significant threat, reduced their destructive power by an entire major level compared to the past! The outer void was too vast, and cautious cultivators made it difficult to plunder other 'cultivators'. Even if successful, many victims were merely avatars without valuable treasures. Only some Venerables suffered truly dire fates, often dying upon encounter.

Ultimately, Meng Chuan was only one person, and this was the extent of what he could achieve.

Various factions across the River of Spacetime were also observing. The fact that Meng Chuan, a Seven Tribulation Soul Cultivator, only caused trouble for Black Demon Hall and did not interfere in other disputes brought a sigh of relief to the major top-tier powers.