The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 17: One of the Nine Secrets, Black Sun in the Sky

The underworld is dark and the ancient coffin is hazy.

Duan De left in a hurry, leaving behind only a coffin that was dug out from somewhere.

The patterns on it are ancient and reveal an aura that does not belong to this era. It is a product of the mythological era and may very well be the coffin of a certain celestial being.

So, under the astonished gaze of the Holy Prince, he lay directly in the coffin, even closing the lid on his own initiative, leading himself into darkness.

hum!
At this moment, the cave in his body vibrated, and Gu Tianzun began to revive and chant scriptures, resonating with the characters carved in the coffin, as if awakening some ancient remnants.

Deep fog began to spread in all directions, filling the space inside the coffin and even spreading towards Wang Hongwu's eyebrows, cluster after cluster, like lit incense candles to communicate with God.

The mysterious power made him drowsy, and for the first time in his life he fell into a strange state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness.

It was like a dream, bizarre and strange, as if countless colorful fragments were flying around, and rainbow-like whirlpools were entangled around. All kinds of laughter, crying, and messy voices came one after another. Everything seemed unreal.

Gradually, Wang Hongwu felt that he had come to another world, feeling light and airy, unable to sense the existence of his physical body, as if his soul had left his body.

Where is this?

In the vast mist, Wang Hongwu's soul looked around in confusion. The scene was familiar yet unfamiliar. How did he come to the gate of Ziwei Sect?
However, the Ziwei Sect was very different at this time. There was a desolate atmosphere inside the mountain gate, as if an important figure had passed away. White silk was hung everywhere, and people were observing a moment of silence.

However, in the sky, one huge hand after another pressed down mercilessly, covering the sky and the sun, releasing terrifying pressure.

The main hall was decorated in white, but on this day of memorial service, it suffered a devastating disaster.

A figure rushed upwards, transformed into Kunpeng and spread its wings, trying to lift the giant hand away, but was crushed into pieces, leaving only a seed that streaked across the sky and fell sadly.

"What happened? Someone wants to destroy my sect?" Wang Hongwu's expression suddenly changed. He was about to step forward and take action, but he found that he could not use his strength at all. He could only watch and become a passerby.

In the end, the big hand fell completely, covering the entire mountain gate. The scene in front of him shattered and collapsed into a vortex, pulling his consciousness in again and sending it into another world.

This time it appeared in the starry sky, and a terrible catastrophe broke out. A vast wave of Tao burst out from an unknown place, sweeping across the entire world, causing the environment to wither and regress, becoming unsuitable for cultivation, let alone existence.

Countless planets dimmed, Dao traces dissipated, spiritual energy dried up, and too many creatures roared in grief, rushing towards the sky, unwilling to give up and determined to make a last stand.

Wang Hongwu saw Beidou and saw that some tribes on earth were beginning to prepare to isolate themselves from the origin of their gods. He also saw that the ambitious Great Sage started a rebellion, which led to mountains of corpses and seas of blood. All the tribes in Beidou were plunged into a killing calamity.

There, ancient imperial weapons collided with each other, and the terrifying divine power swept across, tearing the entire scene into chaos, forming a new vortex, which swallowed up his consciousness again.

After an unknown amount of time, a new world appeared and Wang Hongwu's consciousness became clear again. He had an inexplicable intuition that this was the last picture.

The last scene appears extremely unstable, involving many terrifying existences. Every move shatters the starry sky and sweeps across the edge of the universe.

It seemed that in the midst of a terrible bloody chaos, an unimaginable existence was born. The people of the universe encountered a catastrophe. In the very center, someone was fighting a bloody battle to turn the tide and stop the catastrophe. Behind him was a formation that gathered the moon and the sun, interpreting chaos, and was also a major pillar to prevent the unrest.

Wang Hongwu looked over and found that there were many figures inside. Something unexpected had happened, even... civil strife!
He saw himself, his body transformed into the sun, but he got into an argument and was pulled back by many strong men. Then he saw a figure surrounded by the power of the moon, carrying a sword on his back, with a cold expression, and seemed to be crushing something in his hand. He stepped out of an unknown formation, destroying the entire arrangement.

Wang Hongwu's eyes were bulging with anger. He struggled to break free from the people on both sides, roared, and pounced forward.

Bang! As the sun and the moon collided, everything in front of me became completely distorted, and I could not see anything.

At this point, all the images collapsed, and the broken events that seemed to happen in the future filled Wang Hongwu's mind, making him unable to distinguish between truth and falsehood, the present and the future.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally woke up in the coffin, opened his eyes, and took a deep breath, trying to calm the waves in his heart.

"What I just saw was a glimpse into the future, a fragment of the future that might happen.

What was left in this ancient coffin from the mythical era turned out to be the secret of the first character, one of the nine secrets. No wonder it triggered a response from my Heavenly Venerable’s incomplete transformation.”

Gradually, Wang Hongwu sorted out his thoughts, but his mind inevitably became heavy, because he had seen a lot of terrible futures that made people powerless and wanted to change them even more.

The danger of the religion being destroyed, the calamity of the decline of the Tao, and the terrible turmoil all require great strength to overcome.

Now that the secret of the previous word has allowed him to foresee all this, it can be said to be a warning.

The former secret of the word, Xiu Yuan Shen, can make the spiritual consciousness immortal, and can even affect the physical body and expand the divinity, which is unparalleled!

Of course, the real power of Qian Zi Mi is not limited to these. In addition to majoring in Yuanshen and possessing immortal divinity, he can reach a profound state and can predict everything in advance.

"Qian" is named after this. The immortal platform of the human body is the most mysterious. It has endless immortal power. When it reaches a certain level, it can foresee the future and know it in advance. The secret of "Qian" is to focus on it, so that everything can be one step ahead and the battle can be dominated.

After putting the coffin away, Wang Hongwu decided to practice the first secret, one of the nine secrets. At the same time, he also felt a sense of urgency to improve his strength. Naturally, the fastest way to improve at the moment was the ancient method.

The new level of the ancient method is divided into two stages. It is no longer necessary to completely borrow the runes of ferocious beasts and birds of prey, but to engrave some of one's own symbols in the body; and then use these symbols to arrange and combine to engrave various killing formations in the body. For Wang Hongwu, this step is naturally not difficult, and he practiced it all at once.

He was slightly hesitant about the choice of formation, but ultimately he chose to copy the pattern of offering sacrifices to heaven in the broken bowl. Although he didn't know how high its grade was, it was undoubtedly the most practical. If he could master the secret of offering sacrifices to heaven, he could use it directly with his own body, and even deduce magical powers and create scriptures to pass on to the people of Ziwei Sect.

By then, all the Ziwei people will offer sacrifices to the heavens, and if they all master this kind of magical power, it will become the ancestral technique of his Beidou people, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. He copied the talisman on the bottom of the broken bowl on the spot, carving a corner of the array pattern on his flesh in a very meticulous manner.

At first, there was no reaction or feeling, not even any feedback, just like an ordinary ghost painting.

But when the array pattern was gradually completed, a terrifying devouring force appeared, which swallowed up all his divine power in an instant, and even plundered the essence of his body. He immediately turned from a strong young man into a skinny and withered human figure.

Every bone in his body was clearly visible and burning, and his entire body even shriveled up and was almost sucked dry. Fortunately, the power of "using the body as a seed" combined with the dual method was stimulated and revived, and the door to human potential opened a gap again, from which divine power continuously emerged, which barely maintained his vitality.

But if he continues like this, his end will not be good. He will be in imminent danger and will be eaten alive.

At this moment, Wang Hongwu felt as uncomfortable as if he had fallen into a frying pan. He had not expected that the corner of the heaven-sacrificing formation pattern he copied would be so terrifying. It almost took away all his vitality and was about to drain out his essence.

These array patterns were offering sacrifices, burning divine power, sacrificing vitality, wreaking havoc in his body, wanting to sacrifice him and completely transform him into a corpse.

"You bastard, I'll show you who's the master!" He began to revolve around the two mother scriptures. The sound of chanting echoed throughout the four secret realms, resounding through the heavens. The text thundered, eclipsing the heavens and earth. Under the synergy of yin and yang, mysterious changes began to unfold. Then, Wang Hongwu formed seals with his hands, and eighteen ancient characters leaped from his fingertips one after another.

The nine on the left are golden, surrounded by red clouds, explaining the origin of the sun; the nine on the right are dark, steaming with purple air, explaining the origin of the moon.

These are nine mysterious ancient characters found in both the Sun Emperor Scripture and the Moon Emperor Scripture. They can suppress oneself and achieve eternity. They are extremely mysterious and unfathomable. There are a total of eighteen emperor characters, which possess unfathomable magical power.

I saw ancient characters flying one after another, and a cage appeared in the air. Nine characters sealed the sky, and nine characters pressed down on each side, slowly closing together. A small world suddenly appeared under the fusion of yin and yang, like the creation of the world, with chaotic mist flowing, and all the restless sacrificial array patterns stabilized in an instant.

Yin and Yang began to rotate, and the pattern of the Heavenly Sacrifice Formation became the arc that divided the two in the middle, as if it was transforming into the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram to achieve a balance.

boom!
Finally, the last changes stopped. The nine ancient characters of the Sun Emperor's Scripture surrounded the left side of the Heavenly Sacrifice Formation, and the nine ancient characters of the Moon Emperor's Scripture were arranged on the right side of the Heavenly Sacrifice Formation, perfectly forming a Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram. The arc in the middle maintained the balance, allowing this engraved formation to be completely formed.

"Huh... I felt an unprecedented hunger, and my body seemed to have turned into a bottomless pit.

I need a sacrifice, I need blood food, I need to hunt!"

Wang Hongwu, who looked like a mummy, suddenly opened his eyes. His red eyes were full of hunger and devilishness. After the sacrificial array pattern was engraved on his body, unexpected and strange changes occurred, which led him to embark on a special path. Even the Holy Prince was a little surprised and doubtful. He unexpectedly found that his divine power and the things around him were uncontrollably cast into the body of the Son of the Sun.

It was like a black hole appeared, swallowing everything.

It was visible to the naked eye that the red sun behind him gradually dimmed, turning from red to black, and suddenly a terrifying black light spread out, making the sky dark and gloomy.

The red sun reverses, and the black sun hangs in the sky!
In this state, he seemed unable to use various magical powers and techniques, only having the purest body and array patterns. However, his physical strength had soared greatly, which surprised the Holy Prince and made him a little dazed.

With a bang, Wang Hongwu in the black sun state rose from the ground and rushed out along the same path. The Holy Prince followed closely, but found that all the ghost soldiers and ghosts along the way were swallowed up and became sacrifices, while a large green ghost fog surrounded the head of the Son of Sun in front of him, which was continuously poured into his body.

With such a vast amount of essence entering his body, his physical strength and spirit also made rapid progress. Even the spirit of the big flag flew out on its own, opened its mouth and sucked out a stream of it from the ghost fog, pushing itself forward.

Soon, Wang Hongwu and the Holy Prince rushed out of the underworld node and returned to the royal ruins.

Suddenly, there was a violent earthquake in the distance, and everyone was shocked. It was like waves surging there, and pieces of rock rose and fell like waves, and then shattered.

There is an ancient mountain rising slowly from the ground, like a bright moon rising from the sea, magnificent and gorgeous, attracting people's attention.

The sacred mountain rises high into the clouds, majestic and majestic, giving people a feeling of being the emperor among mountains. There are no plants growing on it, but it is surrounded by fairy mist and emits a refreshing fragrance.

"Those guys are really quick. They've dug out the main site of the ruins in no time. Could it be that the Ancestral King has taken action?"

The Holy Prince was surprised. This was really a big deal. But before he could think about it, he found that Wang Hongwu, who was in a strange state, had rushed out and was flying towards the sacred mountain where the most living beings were.

Oh no, that's the most dangerous place! Seeing this, the monkey was worried and followed again to avoid any accidents.

During the time they were chasing, a war had already broken out at the foot of Dayue. Creatures of various races scrambled for territory, divided up interests, and separated early on.

Except for the few influential figures confronting each other at the front, everyone else has already defended their own territory, watching the entrance vigilantly and not allowing others to come and share the benefits.

Anyone who approaches at this time will be struck by lightning.

boom!
At this moment, a loud tremor broke the silence and someone else broke in.

"Get out of here!" "Let's work together to drive it away!"

"This place has already been occupied by us, and you still want to interfere?"

However, some creatures did not want anyone else to interfere and share a piece of the pie, so they took action to kill them and use ruthless means.

Other beings came to watch the fun. There was only so much profit here, and if there was one more person, everyone would get less, so they were naturally happy to see others do the work for them.

However, the person who suddenly appeared was not a passerby, but a terrifying mummy wrapped in a black sun. With strange steps, the surrounding black sun twisted and sucked, and actually swallowed up all the divine power that everyone had joined forces with, and even transformed it into another kind of power, making the black sun stronger. The creatures in the depths were unharmed, except for the corners of their clothes being slightly dirty.

Then the Black Sun creature rushed over, and with a huge, dry claw that showed the bones, it swept across, instantly knocking off the skull of a Horned Clan creature, splashing blood everywhere.

Ah! Another Fallen Feather Clan creature also suffered, uttering a scream as half of its body was torn off, blood gushing out and intestines and internal organs spilling out.

All the weapons they offered were swallowed by the Black Sun creatures in one gulp, making a crunching sound like chewing beans, and were destroyed between their teeth. The surface of their bodies reflected the ancient and complicated sacrificial texts, which was very scary.

"What...what the hell is this thing! Where did this monster come from?" The remaining Tengu creatures trembled, too scared to take action, but the creature approached mercilessly, and with a pinch of its five fingers it opened his skull, crushed his soul, and his entire body was swallowed by the black sun, becoming a sacrifice.

In a moment, all those who attacked were slaughtered. This bloody attack made many creatures present shudder, thinking that a ghost king had arrived.

The black sun was across the sky, and under the pale green mist was a figure as dry as a corpse. Amidst the gusts of cold wind, only his pair of red eyes were exceptionally clear, greedily scanning everyone present.

A powerful person frowned, but didn't say much. After all, those who died were the ones who attacked first. They killed others for no apparent reason. How could they expect others to be magnanimous and let them go? That was unrealistic.

"The Holy Son of the Human Race?" "It's not that person. It's a bit weird. That person should be a red sun anomaly. Why is this a black sun?"

"It feels so evil, like a black hole. If I get any closer, I feel like my divine power will be swallowed up."

"There's someone else, the Son of the Sun God. He's full of righteousness and his physique influences his personality. He's primarily masculine and domineering, not this gloomy and deadly. They're two completely different extremes."

The creatures of all races were shocked and confused. They really did not recognize Wang Hongwu, because his current appearance was too withered, just like a mummy rushing out of the underworld.

Some people even speculated that this guy might be a spirit possessed by the corpse of a royal relic.

Maybe he can really be considered a surviving 'royal orphan'!

"Interesting." Yuan Gu looked over and stared at Wang Hongwu. Yin Hualong, who was confronting him, also looked over, curious about this sudden intruder.

"No matter who you are, at the end of reincarnation, the underworld is the final destination of all souls."

And in the darkness, a humanoid creature covered with red hair walked out, watching with a strange smile, looking cold and evil.

(End of this chapter)