The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 165 The Final Battlefield of Myth

The ruins of the Heavenly Court have been discovered, and it is suspected to be the place where the sect members ascended to heaven in the past!

This immediately sparked a craze for the starry sky, with all the experts in the Holy Land rushing to the place of birth.

"It is said that during the mythological era, many emperors coexisted. The Emperor led all the other emperors to ascend to immortality, intending to enter the Immortal Realm. Unfortunately, something unexpected happened, and they failed in the end!"

"My ancestors were former members of the ancient Heavenly Court. Their notes recorded that an entity on the other side of the Immortal Path intervened, putting the Emperor in a dilemma. I wonder if this is true?"

"I heard that it was his subordinates who rebelled and conspired with the Kunlun remnants to assassinate the Emperor. In the end, they were chased into the forbidden area and killed by the ancient Heavenly Court Lord."

This matter is being discussed throughout various star systems. Many ancient secrets have been unearthed and pieced together, gradually revealing the truth of what happened back then, which is shocking.

A thunderous roar echoed once more at the Imperial Pass on this very day, as someone stood before the monument and inscribed their name.

"Another person has been nominated on the Crystal Tablet, and it's a supreme figure who fought against the Holy Venerable back then! That Taoist? He's actually named Wuliang, just like an ancient Heavenly Venerable from the mythological era!" A Heavenly King was surprised, thinking of the legendary Wuliang Heavenly Venerable who opened up one of the Nine Secrets, and couldn't help but feel suspicious.

One of the Great Sages who survived the battle in the Divine Realm pondered, "Could it be that the Ancient Celestial Venerable's own child has been born?"

"Why does it feel like there are so few nominees this time, and it's so slow? It doesn't seem to fit this glorious era at all." Some people are puzzled, wondering why it's different from what we've seen in history. It's much sparser and slower.

"This time, the Imperial Pass may be the earliest one to open. There may only be five people, or maybe seven or eight, but it will not exceed ten."

Surprisingly, the Daughter of the Ruins, far away in the Big Dipper, appeared. She crossed the universe to come here, but did not enter the pass. She simply recorded things silently.

"The Holy Venerable and the Phoenix Lord have arrived!"

"Hiss, the Holy Venerable's cultivation seems to have improved again. It's almost like facing a Great Saint. Could he now be compared to the Patriarch of a Domain?"

Meanwhile, on the edge of the universe, Wang Hongwu and the Heavenly Empress appeared, attracting the attention of all the saints. Countless people trembled, sensing a terrifying fluctuation emanating from the Holy Venerable.

In the universe, there are many ancient paths, but only the strongest can break through the shackles and make the final leap to enter the final heavenly gate and leave their name. The first person to arrive will always leave a deep impression. His departure into the unknown star field naturally attracts everyone's attention.

Becoming a Great Sage is enough to rule a region. After all, the universe is vast and full of talented people. Not every genius can have the hope of becoming a Quasi-Emperor.

Quasi-Emperor, that's truly another realm. Once one is born, all the saints of the starry sky will come to pay homage. Achieving that is really not easy.

"Why is this? My secret realm, the Sea of ​​Wheels and the Dao Palace, are trembling! They are yearning for submission?" In particular, one powerful figure after another retreated, their faces showing shock. They were horrified to discover that when facing the Holy Venerable, the two secret realms within their bodies had stirred, as if they had seen a natural enemy, a 'king,' and naturally submitted!
A great sage looked on solemnly, activating his Heavenly Eye, and vaguely saw two seeds. He then exclaimed in disbelief, "How is this possible? He dispelled the secret realm of the human body and condensed it into two Dao Seeds?! What kind of method is this? Has he created his own lineage?!"

Upon hearing this, all the saints were in an uproar and turned to look at him.

Transforming a secret realm into a seed of the Dao—is this meant to unleash a celestial flower, leading one to seek the Dao and pursue immortality?
Wang Hongwu remained silent, standing with his hands behind his back. His red hair moved without wind, and his golden robe and purple garments exuded a vast aura of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, instantly obliterating all vision and causing everyone's eyes to darken. They could no longer sense anything, even the Great Sage in front of them!

"Fellow Daoist, this way please." At this moment, a protector of the ancient human path raised his hand and invited Wang Hongwu to travel together. This scene naturally surprised everyone. Even the patriarch had to address him as a fellow Daoist. The Holy Venerable was indeed able to sit on equal footing with the patriarch.

Wang Hongwu nodded, and before his afterimage had even faded, he was already in front of the protector, asking, "Has the Heavenly Court ruins already appeared?"

"Fellow Daoist, you have arrived late and are unaware that the Heavenly Court ruins are located within this destroyed Chaotic Immortal Land beneath your feet. You can enter once the chaotic energy dissipates. However, there are still many ancient Heavenly Court array patterns inside. Although they are half-destroyed and nearly ruined, they still retain the killing intent from the great battle and may affect intruders. You must be careful."

The protector named Tiangang explained the situation to the two, saying that a Great Sage had previously broken in, only to be completely destroyed by the surging primordial chaos energy.

The ruins of the ancient Heavenly Court were discovered in the chaos at the edge of the universe. Strictly speaking, it was the change caused by the opening of the last ancient well that dispersed the chaos, exposed a corner of it, and allowed several great sages to work together to excavate it.

In fact, it exists in a vast chaotic world, possibly the chaotic immortal land that once belonged to the Emperor, and is filled with hidden mechanisms and array patterns.

Unfortunately, after that battle, nothing was left. The ancient Heavenly Court collapsed, the entire sect ascended to immortality, and even the Emperor himself "passed away" in legend, bringing an end to the mythological era.

Seeing this, Wang Hongwu looked down at the half-destroyed Chaotic Immortal Land below. Sure enough, the surface was shrouded in a thin veil of mist, which was the chaos that filled the edge of the universe. He then slowly opened his hands.

Suddenly, the divine embryo within his body revived, its seven orifices activated, and it began to devour the chaotic energy here, inhaling large amounts at a time, creating an opening in the thin veil of mist.

It's torn open? Upon seeing this, all the saints widened their eyes. Just now, a great saint had been destroyed by the chaotic energy, and in the blink of an eye, the saint had taken action to collect all the chaotic energy.
Isn't this thing supposed to be a threat to the Great Sage? How come it's become a tonic for him?

People were puzzled, only feeling that the Holy Venerable was becoming increasingly unfathomable; and when the divine embryo had eaten and drunk its fill, more than half of the chaotic energy here had disappeared, revealing the entrance to the Chaotic Immortal Land, which was no longer a threat.

"Let's go." Wang Hongwu said calmly, then led the Heavenly Empress and the Great Sage of the Heavenly Gang into the room.

"Let's go, hurry, hurry, let's get into the divine land quickly, the ruins of the ancient heavenly court are inside!"

Instantly, the onlookers followed suit, and at a glance, there were hundreds of thousands of people, all of whom were beings from the Holy Realm. Moreover, the number was still increasing, with beings from other star regions rushing to arrive.

"Let's take a trip to the former Immortal Realm and the battlefield of the Venerable Ones."

At the same time, a hidden place on the edge of the starry sky suddenly trembled, the ten directions of the heavens collapsed, stars exploded one by one, turning into fireworks, and the ancient underworld reappeared in the mortal world.

Countless stars have fallen onto this vast, dark, and gloomy land. Pitholes are everywhere, shrouded in eerie mist. Beneath those deep pits lie burial grounds, and the entire underworld is a sea of ​​corpses.

Right now, a group of people emerged from the burial ground. There were Holy Kings, Heavenly Kings, and Great Saints, and they were carrying a jade ice coffin. The leader was a being completely wrapped in Nether Iron Armor, with a gleaming black wheel hanging behind his head, as if it carried the boundless burial ground and connected endless reincarnation. He was quite extraordinary.

The armor seemed to have undergone a baptism of quasi-royal blood, filled with demonic power. Numerous veins glowing with purple light were densely distributed on it, rising and falling like breathing. Two beast heads rose on his shoulders, and his face was covered by a helmet. In his hand, he held a heavenly halberd, and under his feet stood an ancient stele. He looked like a son of the underworld, surpassing the former Yama and the Prison Suppressor.

"It's a pity. If only he were the Prince of the Underworld, he wouldn't just be able to borrow a sliver of the power of the Heavenly Underworld Treasure."

"It was a last resort. The Prison Emperor, in his guise as the Underworld Emperor, participated in that battle. Although he succeeded, he lost something of great importance to the Underworld Emperor there, and his successor needs to retrieve it."

A sigh came from inside the Yama Palace. It was from a palace messenger, whose status was second only to the deputy palace master.

The envoy of the Prison Suppression Hall shook his head and advised, "Don't even think about it. If it really is the Prince of the Underworld, a celestial artifact like the Heavenly Underworld Treasure will immediately recognize its master. The ones we nurture are just successive hall masters. Who would expect to actually cultivate three Dao Prodigies? The probability is even lower than digging up a royal corpse."

The Yama Palace messenger, however, had other worries and couldn't help but say, "Alas! I am worried that if this generation's Underworld Prince also meets with an accident and is killed by that Holy Venerable, what should we do? This possibility cannot be ruled out, and we must prepare for the worst."

After all, although the three sons had all touched upon the divine restrictions, they couldn't enter at will. Even the former quasi-ninth generation Palace Master couldn't do that; he only had a high probability of triggering them. So how did the Holy Venerable achieve it? It's inconceivable. Before, during the battle of the Seven Heroes of the Ancient Road, you and I also received footage recorded by others. Wasn't that why the Overlord Body and the Divine Blood were defeated and killed?

He didn't even say some things, because he wasn't sure if the Holy Venerable had obtained the Spirit Treasure Array Diagram. He was really unsure, but given that the Spirit Treasure was really effective against their Underworld, everything related to it had to be destroyed.

Entangled with the Sun Emperor and the Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, Wang Hongwu, who inherited their power, naturally became a thorn in the side of the Underworld. They had no choice but to send the Underworld Prince with various weapons and immortal artifacts to test the Holy Venerable and retrieve the Underworld Emperor's lost treasure.

"What can we do? What can we do! We'll just have to cultivate the next generation. Why waste our energy fighting him? At worst, we can send out the quasi-royal corpse spirit." The envoy from the Prison Suppression Hall was also helpless. There was nothing he could do if the next generation couldn't defeat him.

Even if you were to send the three future palace masters you've been nurturing to participate in the current battle for supremacy among the four, let alone the Yama King and the Prison Suppressor King in their youth, they would still be left in the dust!
Finally, the Netherworld fell silent again, emitting only occasional tremors as it breathed in and out of mist. Meanwhile, in another corner of the starry sky, on a star that had been the focus of the saints' attention and was known as the place where various races were reorganizing their armies, something was also happening.

According to ancient legend, Flying Immortal Star was originally a forbidden land for life in the extremely distant past. Later, it changed, and many powerful races emerged and lived here.

"These guys are really unsettling. They were all high and mighty earlier, wanting to send troops to Beidou, and now they want to head straight for the ancient Heavenly Court ruins. What's gotten into them?"

"They want to seek revenge on the Holy Venerable. Now the Holy Venerable is in the ancient Heavenly Court ruins. They can seek revenge and search for treasure at the same time. It's killing two birds with one stone."

The sages observed from afar, but dared not approach, for it was a forbidden zone in the mythical era, and was once known as the place closest to the immortals, where great secrets lay.

The Kunlun people, in that distant past, once lived on the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, and were the uncrowned kings of the mythical era.

Their power and terror were known throughout the world. They were unparalleled in those years. Later, only powerful figures like the Emperor dared to attack them. Ultimately, the Emperor breached Kunlun Immortal Mountain, defeated the sleeping Supreme within their clan, and forcefully overthrew the dynasty.

It was a glorious and splendid period, with cultivation civilization extremely advanced, various races vying for supremacy, and tens of thousands of powerful races standing side by side, unparalleled in their grandeur. However, it was also in that era that bloodshed and slaughter were rampant, and countless powerful races were wiped out, disappearing in the midst of this most splendid time.

"Our clan's three key talents have all been killed. There's nothing more to say. Let's avenge them and seize the Heavenly Court's relics!"

The next moment, a large group of figures rushed out from Feixian Star, each with a different appearance and bloodline, but all were very powerful. They rode on an ancient flying boat and headed to cross to the edge of the universe.

Meanwhile, Wang Hongwu, whom they were so concerned about, had already been exploring the Chaotic Immortal Land for some time.

He stood in the middle of a mountainous area. In the distance, dragons and elephants galloped, their bodies covered in blue scales, trampling a giant tiger into mud. On the other side, a silver giant bird flapped its wings and fought with a divine ape covered in red fur. The two blocked his way like a mountain.

These are all powerful ancient beasts and divine birds, some of which are even comparable to the Great Sage, yet they still struggle in the simple food chain, where the strong survive and the weak are prey, as if they are bound and limited by some kind of force, similar to the situation in the divine realm of the Heavenly Venerable Lingbao.

"The battle back then was too brutal, shattering even the immortal land covered with extreme Dao array patterns. I heard that some people have seen fragments of ancient Venerable Dao weapons here, but I don't know if it's true."

The Great Sage Tiangang looked around and saw that the so-called immortal land was barren and desolate, with no grass growing on it. The land was reddish-brown, and the desolation was completely different from the magnificent and sacred place he had imagined.

This place is vast and boundless, as if shrouded by a spatial array, making it seem infinitely large. The 100,000 people who just entered appear insignificant at this moment.

"It's even more completely destroyed than the immortal land of the Celestial Venerable of Nirvana. It seems to be a remnant of the entire sect ascending to immortality, having experienced the great battle between the Venerables and the Emperor." Wang Hongwu confirmed the authenticity of this place. The blood-red soil, the dried corpses, and the vast territory made this place empty and desolate, appearing very eerie.

Furthermore, upon exploring the depths of this chaotic divine land, they witnessed numerous extraordinary phenomena, seemingly unchanging for millennia, filled with mystical wonder.

Black mist billowed into the sky, and right beneath this earth, several demon ancestors roared, their bodies pierced by chains of immortal order, waging war and howling.

They seemed to have been bound into some kind of sacrifice, becoming provisions for opening the path to immortality; the methods of the person behind the scenes were ruthless and terrifying.

Is it the Emperor? Wang Hongwu had this inexplicable feeling, it was strange and unreal, but he just inexplicably thought of the Emperor's handiwork.

Behind this extraordinary phenomenon, there was a completely opposite one: a vast fairyland where celestial birds and mythical beasts danced in the air, and magnificent palaces hung above the white clouds. Amidst the scene of immortals ascending to heaven, several celestial spirits whispered as if admonishing the creatures of the human world.

It was as if the celestial path was refusing visitors from the mortal world, due to some unavoidable fear and predicament.

The Empress's eyes flickered slightly. Upon witnessing this extraordinary phenomenon, the two bloodlines within her body reacted, confirming that there was indeed a path to immortality here back then.

"Back then, when the Emperor wanted to open the path to immortality and allow his entire sect to ascend to immortality, could he have prepared a few sacrifices? He's certainly done things like sacrificing powerful imperial experts before, and he did have such thoughts and preparations." Wang Hongwu guessed that this chaotic immortal land might have indeed sealed imperial sacrifices, like the transformed snake and the annihilation, but they were definitely completely dead, and it was hard to say whether anything was left.

At the very least, these strange phenomena should be the result of the fusion of the resentment of the imperial path and the power of the immortal path from back then, and they will never dissipate.

"Look! Behind the strange phenomenon hangs a celestial palace; that's the ancient Heavenly Court!"

"What's going on? I think I saw what looks like the back of an Emperor? Could it be that he's still alive and has been lying dormant in the mortal world all this time?"

"Celestial Venerables? I see several ancient Celestial Venerables discussing the Dao, no, they are fighting. What's going on?"

Soon, the arriving creatures cried out in alarm, discovering many terrifying sights.

Almost everyone sees something different; the only thing they have in common is that towering celestial palace.

As Wang Hongwu approached, he looked in that direction and saw towering celestial palaces and magnificent immortal pavilions perched atop the white clouds. The scene was breathtakingly beautiful, with clouds rising and clouds swirling around them. Even though the array patterns on them were nearly destroyed, their luster dimmed, and they were full of scars, they still stood high above, looking down upon the mortal world.

He thought of the ruins of the Big Dipper, which were similar in style to this place and had a connection point that belonged to the ancient celestial court, making him feel emotional.

At this moment, seemingly due to the arrival of the crowd, some palaces resounded with boundless divine sounds, making the place even more solemn and majestic. The crowd couldn't help but hold their breath, and then a shower of immortal rain flew out from the palaces, transforming into various symbols and imprinting themselves in the void, becoming the carriers of the Great Dao.

The deafening roar was a spiritual sound, and in that instant, everyone felt it, becoming completely absorbed and enlightened, as they comprehended a profound meaning of the scriptures.

Everyone in the group gained something, but the amount they gained varied depending on their level of cultivation and their level of understanding.

"This is a passage of scripture that the Emperor once recited?!"

Some people received a passage that was like a sudden enlightenment, and immediately sat down cross-legged. Others understood some long-standing problems in their spiritual practice and danced with joy, almost like madmen.

This is a profound and extensive doctrine, flowing through people's hearts like a stream, and many people have gained something from it, immersing themselves in a wonderful state.

However, few people can obtain the written text; those who comprehend it only grasp a fragment or a few pieces of the Order Rune, so everyone's experience is different.

Wang Hongwu also gained something, and even his body was surrounded by strange phenomena of the Great Dao, making him particularly conspicuous in the scene. He obtained a secret technique from it, which belonged to the ancient Heavenly Court and could communicate with the array patterns left behind in the past. He wondered if he could use the Spirit Treasure Array Diagram and the Ancient God Stele to repair the array here.
Then, he noticed another figure in the crowd, who was none other than the Holy Spirit of Dao Tribulation from back then.

This guy entered the Mythical Ancient Road relatively late and chose to seek out the Holy Spirit Lord, which is how he narrowly escaped death; otherwise, he would have been killed by him on the other side.

It's not too late to kill him now. With a single glance, he was about to grant him death. Fortunately, he still had a fragment of the Supreme Dao that he could retrieve, allowing the Eastern Emperor Bell to advance further.

“Your Majesty, why do you need to take action? I will try this thing.” Shen Chen also noticed the Dao Tribulation Holy Spirit. He felt that it was not necessary for the Holy Venerable to take action personally, but he saw the Heavenly Empress shake her head and say, “He just got interested in hunting. Let him be. It won’t take long.”

Just then, a new change occurred. Above the ancient celestial ruins, a new scene appeared: countless stars, like fireflies, were rapidly extinguishing. A giant black hand reached out from the universe, obscuring the starry sky, and all the stars shattered.

The sight was terrifying; a giant black hand reached out from the sky, covering the entire world. Everything seemed so small in comparison, not even a speck of dust.

"Is it a replay of the past, or is it actually happening now?"

This sight shocked everyone; even the saints were terrified. What kind of immense power was this? It far surpassed that of the Great Sage.

How could this be?
Is this a reenactment of the ancient Heavenly Court's collapse in the past? Or is it that a terrifying figure from beyond the realm has made a move to directly uproot the entire Chaotic Immortal Land?
(End of this chapter)