The Heaven-shattering: Starting from the Ancient Times

Chapter 42 Dark Erosion
The greatest disaster in the mythological era was the corpse disaster caused by practicing the longevity method of the reincarnation seal.

Especially during the period when Lingbao Tianzun was attaining enlightenment, corpse disasters were rampant and all living beings were suffering.

After Lingbao Tianzun attained enlightenment, he fought to quell the corpse disaster.

There are only fragmentary records about the corpse disaster in the mythological era.

From the mouth of Lingbao Tianzun, Chen Zhao gradually understood the nature of the corpse disaster.

"Immortal corpse communicating with spirits?"

When Chen Zhao heard Lingbao Tianzun mention this past event, his eyes narrowed slightly.

This past event is the origin of the legend that was passed down to later generations about Lingbao Tianzun holding the sword formation to kill the immortals.

Using the dignity of humanity to attack the true immortals.

This thing sounds like a fairy tale.

The original novel mentioned a lot about Lingbao Tianzun's fight against the immortals, but the mystery was not solved.

"A celestial corpse emerged with a spirit, attempting to devour the living beings in the universe to make up for its own shortcomings."

"The power of this immortal corpse is extremely strong. Even if it is just a corpse communicating with spirits, it still exceeds the realm of humanity."

Lingbao Tianzun slowly narrated this past event, and when he talked about the spiritual immortal corpse, his tone still contained a chilling murderous intent.

"I held the Immortal Execution Sword Formation and attacked the Spiritual Corpse. At the cost of serious injuries to myself, I killed the Spiritual Corpse at the edge of the universe."

"After killing this immortal corpse, I was on the verge of death. I wanted to use the immortal essence of this immortal corpse to revive myself."

When he said this, Lingbao Tianzun paused for a moment, and said with some regret: "After I used the origin of the immortal way to transform, I found that there was a special substance hidden very deeply in the origin of the immortal way."

"This special substance is very special. It can corrode my soul."

"At that time, I could feel a new soul being born in my head. This soul was violent and cruel. It was my fallen soul."

After hearing this, Chen Zhao roughly knew what the special substance contained in the origin of immortality was.

According to Lingbao Tianzun, the erosion of this special substance allowed him to give birth to a new soul.

This made Chen Zhao think of the erosion of dark forces.

"When I discovered that a fallen soul had been born, I could only dissolve my physical body and scatter it across the universe and galaxies, blending it into the heaven and earth, and using the power of heaven and earth to suppress it."

"Finally, I used Taoism as fire, my primordial spirit as firewood, and the immortal platform as a furnace to ignite myself!"

Lingbao Tianzun sighed and said with lingering fear: "This strange substance is extremely special, like a carbuncle attached to the bone that is difficult to remove."

"After lighting the immortal platform, it took countless years for me to burn all those special substances, and the fragments of the true spirit were scattered throughout the universe."

At this point, Lingbao Tianzun bowed to Chen Zhao and said, "If it weren't for Daoyou's help this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to gather my true spirit and return."

"I, Lingbao, have spent my entire life suppressing corpse disasters, but after my death, I almost became the biggest corpse disaster in the universe. It's really fate that plays tricks on me."

After hearing what Lingbao Tianzun said, Chen Zhao said, "This strange substance is probably the dark matter left over from the last era."

"I once obtained the remaining classics from the last era, and discovered that the end of the last era was related to a special dark force."

"This dark force can corrode the souls of living beings, causing them to fall and give birth to new dark souls."

Although Chen Zhao understood the plot, due to his special identity, he could only reveal the information through ancient books.

"So that's why. No wonder the psychic corpse was so strange. I thought it was because of something ominous." Lingbao Tianzun realized it and said with emotion. Lingbao Tianzun was also unlucky. The origin of the immortal way he encountered had dark matter, and he himself was almost eroded by darkness.

His method of dealing with darkness requires great courage. He must actively dissolve his physical body, ignite his own immortal platform and burn his soul.

No wonder there is fire on Lingbao Tianzun’s altar. This unsolved mystery has been solved.

This method is too harsh, most people cannot learn it, and it is also extremely dangerous.

In later generations, Lingbao Tianzun never returned and completely perished.

"Fellow Daoist Lingbao has successfully come back to life this time. This is a blessing in disguise." Chen Zhao said.

Then, he thought of something and continued to ask, "I wonder what the relationship is between you and the former Lord of Heaven, Emperor Zun. I found the Dao pattern left by Emperor Zun on your immortal platform."

"Emperor? In the mythological era, he was called Yuanshi Tianzun. He existed in the world before I became a Taoist. I have discussed the method of immortality with him many times. He is a Taoist friend with amazing talent."

“I didn’t expect that Fellow Daoist Yuanshi could cut off all Dao and Dharma and re-attain the Dao of Heavenly Venerable.”

The moment Lingbao Tianzun returned, his consciousness penetrated the universe inside and outside, and he understood the major events that had happened in ancient and modern times.

So he knew who the emperor Chen Zhao was talking about.

"The Emperor's temperament changed drastically in his later years. Could he have been contaminated by dark matter like fellow Taoist?" Chen Zhao said.

Emperor Zun is an extremely contradictory person, and the contrast between his past and present is too great.

In the previous life, when The Great Ruler was just a novel, the inexplicable darkening of the Emperor in his later years could be explained by the unknown old age of Red Hair and the poor ending of The Great Ruler.

But the current "Zhetian" is a real world, so the reason why the Emperor inexplicably turned evil remains to be investigated.

Apart from being eroded by dark matter, Chen Zhao really couldn't figure out what reason could cause a person's temperament to change so drastically.

Even Lingbao Tianzun was corroded by the darkness and almost fell into it. He could only disintegrate into a weapon and ignite the immortal platform.

Then it is very likely that the Emperor has also been eroded by the power of darkness.

When Ye Fan and others break into the strange world and kill the Immortal Emperor, the Emperor will appear in a close manner and attempt to commit suicide to seek relief.

Even Duan De, who had returned with the Nine Reincarnation Seal as one, believed that that was not the Emperor.

"That's possible. In the past, Fellow Daoist Yuanshi liked to experiment with the method of immortality on himself, so he might have been corroded by dark matter during this process."

Lingbao Tianzun sighed and said: "But now that fellow Daoist Yuanshi has fallen, everything will return to dust and ashes."

"Fellow Daoist Lingbao, according to my discovery, the Emperor is not dead. Now there are formation patterns of the Emperor everywhere in the universe. The function of those formation patterns is to refine the human universe." Chen Zhao said.

When Lingbao Tianzun heard that Emperor Zun was not dead, he frowned and said, "Then Daoist Yuanshi may have really fallen into darkness."

"I once knew my dark soul. It was extremely cruel and violent."

Chen Zhao waved his hand and said, "The Emperor is not dead, but he cannot return to the human universe. Instead, he is in a strange world. I have a way to deal with the backup plan he left behind."

"A strange world? Is it the world that the path to immortality on Mars leads to?" asked Lingbao Tianzun.

"Could it be that fellow Daoist also knows about the strange world?" Chen Zhao was a little curious.

Lingbao Tianzun lived for three lifetimes and, with his amazing fighting power, fought his way into the immortal world. It is not surprising that he knew about the strange world.

(End of this chapter)