The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 272 Dark Matter Changes, Ten Fiends' Two Extremes Change

Within the Realm of the Void Gods, the turmoil subsided, and supreme power subdued the Seven Kings.

After eliminating the remaining troubles in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Wang Hongwu turned his attention to foreign lands.

The next step is to take it over.

"You've cleaned up everything in this cage. We no longer need to guard it and can return to our posts."

The two guardians exchanged a glance, revealing a sense of relief. With the guidance of the King's Law, they had recovered many of their primordial spirit imprints. They only needed to return to their physical bodies to recuperate slowly. In a few hundred thousand years, they would be fully recovered.

The next moment, they transformed into streaks of light and shot out, landing in the Heavenly Beast Forest and the Golden Nest of the Yellow Immortal in the border region.

Roar! Before long, the Second Under Heaven soared into the sky, stirring up chaos. Its body was covered in silver scales, like an ancient crocodile. Its limbs were thick and powerful, and it had a pair of dragon horns on its head. Its head was also extremely similar to a real dragon. It also had a pair of huge silver-white wings on its back, which covered the sky and blocked out the sun.

It was originally an important branch of the dragon race, and it fought against the true dragon for supremacy. It was defeated by a mere half move, and it was so powerful that it was naturally a true king, ranking at the top.

"This body, after being nurtured for so long, has not recovered much." On the other side, a golden-faced, golden-haired Taoist priest emerged from the Yellow Path Nest. He was very old, with golden blood on his body that had not yet dried. He was a product of the Immortal Metal Spiritual Connection.

Although they regained their physical bodies and primordial spirits, their injuries were still severe, and they would not be able to fully recover without hundreds of thousands of years of recuperation.

Fortunately, when the kings came to pay homage, they presented Wang Hongwu with many elixirs. Among them, the great medicine given by Qi Yu and the giant behind Liang Tianwang was very effective in treating the Immortal King. He took it out and gave it to the two of them.

With this nourishment, they regained their fighting power in a short time, but it would still take a considerable amount of time for them to fully recover from their injuries, since they were not directly repaired by the Supreme Elixir.

The sudden appearance of two Immortal King auras here naturally alarmed the Immortal Realm, and the presence of Immortal Kings observing the situation was quite unexpected.

"Two more Immortal Kings have appeared in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?"

"They were the second best in the world and the King of the Yellow Path back then, no need to worry about them."

"The Great Ming King is treating them; who dares to stop him? We can just observe quietly."

After learning the reason, the kings fell silent again, for the person who had done this was not to be trifled with.

If an ordinary immortal king had done these things, there would have been many people who would have said something, but the one who did it was an unparalleled giant, so who would dare to speak recklessly?
Not long ago, a living giant was killed.

This change was naturally sensed by the beings who were cultivating diligently at the Imperial Pass, and they were all greatly shocked. They never expected that there were still two Immortal Kings in their homeland, which was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.

Wang Hongwu also glanced into the distance, his divine sense descending. More than a hundred years had passed since he left. The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had entered the Dharma-ending Age. The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had merged into one, making the environment even more challenging and extraordinary.

Now, Shi Hao has achieved the Dao Supreme, ranking at the pinnacle of the Dao. He has even begun to try an alternative path to immortality by using the Seed of Time and Space. He already possessed the Reincarnation Seal, so he combined the two and divided himself into nine bodies to experience the end of the Dharma, each seeking a different way to reverse life. When they return to one, they will become immortals in the mortal world.

Wang Hongwu was somewhat surprised; this growth rate was much faster than in history. It seemed that the Heavenly Land could be reserved for him to become an Immortal King.

"Senior Liudao, I have also deduced some other things. In addition to seeking freedom by using spacetime as a seed, I also believe that the Great Dao rules of different realms can also be used as seeds. By constantly harvesting and nurturing them, and holding the seeds of all the heavenly realms in one's own body, it is as if the Great Daos of all the heavens have baptized one's body, which is enough to nourish the strongest Dao body!"

To test this method, Shi Hao once went to the dam boundary to cultivate asceticism, absorbing the power of the broken universe and realm. Following his path, he would also achieve a new level of immortality.

Possessing the laws of all heavens and the seeds of all realms, this achievement is truly remarkable.

“Using the myriad realms as a furnace to nurture one’s body before transcending is indeed a good method. I think you can also transform it into a secret realm, one secret realm per realm, with all the heavens as seeds of the Dao. In the end, one’s own laws will become the laws of all the heavens, and all laws will be invulnerable.”

Leaving behind a series of precious medicines, resources, and scriptures, he withdrew his gaze, sat cross-legged outside the boundary wall, and a ball of dark matter appeared in his hand. It was collected from a group of fallen kings. The source of this matter was the ancient artifacts of origin. Those two things created the Burial Warriors and also created the alien realm. Although the two ancient artifacts of origin were different, they led to the same result: the creation of two powerful races.

Therefore, some people suspect that if the box is opened, a true emperor can be created in the end; this is why the Boundary Sea and the other realms are targeting and searching for it, and why some people in the Immortal Realm are concerned.

However, Wang Hongwu knew that although those two items were indeed crafted by a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, they had nothing to do with the secret of breaking through to become an Emperor. The reason these two artifacts appeared was because the nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor left the Immortal Realm and invaded the other side of the Boundary Sea, which aroused the fear there. From then on, they targeted him and sent down the Origin Ancient Artifact.

Whether traveling to other realms or crossing the boundary sea, one cannot avoid dealing with this substance. With this thought in mind, he put himself into the sacrificial bowl to prevent any accidents from affecting the surrounding realms.

In this world isolated from cause and effect and the secrets of heaven, he directly integrated this dark substance into his body. Instantly, an ancient and strange aura flowed out, and the light rain rippled like a raging sea, as if the heavens and the universe, and the endless sea of ​​stars were falling down.

Wang Hongwu's expression turned slightly solemn as he sensed the intense corrosiveness of the substance. The thick black substance on his body emitted a terrifying sound, accompanied by countless strange phenomena, including numerous dark cages and dazzling showers of light. Various images intertwined, as if an ancient history was emerging.

Under the influence of the fusion, he seemed to be undergoing a terrifying evolution and transformation, with large areas of Dao patterns appearing on his body, all of them jet black and constructed from dark matter; terrifying wails and sobbing sounds came from all around, as if some ghostly creature was eroding everything at its source.

If the kings of the Immortal Realm were to witness this scene, they would surely think he had gone mad. He dared to stuff dark matter, which ordinary people would avoid at all costs, into his body. Was he completely unafraid of any accidents?

Even giants have to put in a lot of effort to get involved.

At this moment, Wang Hongwu could sense that his incomparably powerful golden body of the King's Mother was also undergoing changes. His flesh and blood were distorting, his bones were becoming alienated, and his blood turned pitch black before emitting a holy luster. This substance did not obliterate his body, but rather led it in an alternative direction of evolution. Although it would make him stronger, it would also cause erosion.

He was carefully experiencing all of this, figuring out the process and methods. He even had time to develop his own laws with his other hand, constantly adjusting his "all things are me" mentality and drawing on the direction of the dark matter's erosion. Because it would be too slow to enlighten people on his own. If he could comprehend the mysteries of this matter, so that people would be enlightened on the spot upon seeing him, and he would understand the principle that all things return to oneness and all phenomena are me, that would be the right path.

Under the surging dark matter, not only the physical body but also the primordial spirit were being eroded. In an instant, even the true forms of the Ten Fiends that evolved behind Wang Hongwu were submerged by the dark matter. The Dao patterns flowed, extremely complex and profound, but he became interested because there were cases among the Ten Fiends whose bloodlines were combined with the dark matter. Perhaps he could take this opportunity to demonstrate it as well.

Sensing his excitement and anticipation, the boiling dark matter paused for a moment.

Its few remaining spiritualities froze, sensing something was amiss. This seemed quite different from those who had been tainted in the past. In the past, beings from all realms had been extremely resistant to this substance. Once tainted, there was no turning back; they would fall into darkness, forget themselves, and what future could they possibly have? Their lives would be ruined.

Otherwise, why would the Immortal Realm be so strictly sealed off, so that even its own people who go to conquer the dark creatures are not allowed to return to the Immortal Realm, and are forever abandoned and exiled?

Why is he all excited, expectant, and even a little thirsty?
But daring to think what others dare not think, daring to do what others dare not do, that is what makes a strong person, and that is exactly what Wang Hongwu is like.

In the blink of an eye, the true forms of the Ten Fiends of Immortal Gold flew out. After being contaminated by the dark substance, they underwent a new evolution, and indeed another dark true form appeared. They were one with each other. If one could control them, they would become stronger. But if one could not subdue them, then it would be doing charity.

Gradually, new figures appeared among the Ten Fiends of Immortal Gold. The Fallen Blood Phoenix soared under the crimson moon, the Dark Demon Dragon poked its head out of the abyss, and the God-Slaying Stone, originally simple and unadorned, turned pitch black, covered with countless eyeball-shaped holes flowing with foul blood and reliefs of agonizing, wailing faces, releasing whispered curses that could drive one insane.

The Nine-Leaf Sword Grass withered, its leaves transforming into nine twisted, rusty, and dried blood-stained broken bone swords. The swords were wrapped with writhing chains of thorns and rooted in a void rift that constantly oozed foul black blood. The entire grass exuded a desperate sword aura that tore apart everything and eroded the laws of nature.

The enormous body of the Kunpeng swam about, devouring the world. Rotting flesh and white bones flowed with viscous pus, and it carried countless twisted star remains, forming a huge dark vortex. The humanoid body of the Thunder Emperor shattered, turning into charred skeletons, and its surface was covered with twisted black lightning patterns.

The enormous body of the Skyhorn Ant is deformed by excessive expansion, its carapace is cracked, its muscles are bulging and bulging, and countless dark tentacles spread from its joints; the once sacred and peaceful body of the Qilin has become emaciated, covered in filthy blood, surrounded by a gray-white death aura, its antlers are broken, and the places where its four hooves have stepped have turned into cursed lands... The two opposing true forms are fighting each other fiercely.

The ten true forms are all portrayed as opposing and depraved figures, and the two forces coexist in their opposition.

At the same time, within Wang Hongwu's body, the constantly eroding dark matter seemed to have connected to some area, actually trying to open a channel where a cage was forming, attempting to capture the original owner's primordial spirit.

However, it was blocked by the sacrificial bowl and failed to take shape. In the end, only a completely new dark primordial spirit was born from this body and matter.

Upon seeing this, he immediately used the law to separate the mass of matter along with the dark primordial spirit, transforming it into a completely new self. However, this new self was hostile to him as if it were a mortal enemy, and from the moment it appeared, it wanted to fight him and seize his body.

The newly born dark primordial spirit was entirely black, with thick beast fur coiled together to form a writhing suit of armor. Its eyes were dark and shadowy, and behind it, one dark cage after another faintly appeared, which was the source of its power.

Wang Hongwu sensed that this newly formed dark primordial spirit was actually quite powerful. He was curious how it had appeared out of thin air. His intuition told him that the answer might be found in the ancient artifact of origin, which would be of great use to him. "Darkness is not darkness, but the true path of evolution for this world. Embrace it, and you can ascend to the highest!" The next moment, the cosmos collapsed. The dark form shook the world, flowing with ominous light and releasing terrifying power, directly charging towards him, capable of suppressing even giants.

Wang Hongwu frowned and scolded, "Ignorant! A tool is just a tool; it only needs to be controlled."

He attacked ruthlessly, unleashing a barrage of myriad Dao Fists. Boundless Dao trajectories descended from the sky accompanied by flames, enveloping and refining the primordial spirit. Furthermore, the light of the Immortal-Breaking Curse scattered, instantly blasting it away. Its eyes flickered, and it said in a low voice, "It's merely relying on the strength of its physical body. Does it dare to fight me with its primordial spirit!"

“Any strength is part of the power, and it’s not something to rely on. However, I’m happy to beat you until you’re convinced of your worth. So what if I use my primordial spirit to suppress you?” Wang Hongwu didn’t care. He directly sent his primordial spirit out and killed it. With a swing of his arms, two paths of light and shadow and a system of great Dao appeared under his feet and suddenly suppressed it.

In this posture, he was very unrestrained and wild, as if he wanted to directly destroy all the universes, but the trajectory of his fist was so agile, with billions of auspicious lights. Such a punch was equivalent to splashing ink to write words, instantly completing a decree of the Great Dao, emitting a grand sound. A stroke or a dot could create things, and a horizontal or vertical stroke was like reshaping Yin and Yang. When the words were completed, the Great Dao resonated.

All the characters shone brightly, swirling with the true form of the Great Dao. Moreover, these characters were outlined by the system's light and shadow trajectories. This decree released boundless light, illuminating eternity, as if proclaiming to all the heavens and myriad worlds, and suddenly suppressed the dark primordial spirit.

The Dark King suffered a severe blow; blood flowed from his brow, his limbs cracked, and his primordial spirit surged. This was the overwhelming pressure from the expansion of the path and the system. He was ultimately not the original owner and could not control these things; there was an absolute gap between them.

At the same time, the Dark King was also learning and comprehending rapidly. Soon, similar trajectories appeared around him, albeit fainter. He was even using techniques like the Immortal Exile Technique and the Self-Attachment Reincarnation Technique, applying them in a more extreme and terrifying way.

Unfortunately, Wang Hongwu was disappointed. He did not see what he wanted. The dark primordial spirit that was born was just copying what others had created, using what he had created, and had not evolved its own trajectory. Even dark matter could not do that. Perhaps this thing was too low-level. He had originally thought that it might evolve in a different direction and give him some inspiration.

"What's with that look in your eyes! Are you disgusted with me?" The Dark King glared at him, feeling the disappointment in his eyes, as if he were a failed creation, which he found hard to accept.

"You don't understand. Just because you were born from my body and use my methods, without your own path or system, you are destined to never be able to defeat the original owner."

"Well, perhaps I overestimated this substance. After all, it's not the real thing; it's just a diluted and evolved product. I'll study it myself when I get the ancient artifact."

Wang Hongwu closed his eyes, intending to end it all. The "All Things Are Myself" technique reached its peak, and his body continued to rise, ascending vertically as if in a higher dimension. Gradually, everything around him had become him. Whether it was pebbles on stars, dust, wind and clouds, lightning, celestial structures, or various inanimate objects and plants, everything became a part of Wang Hongwu. They understood that he was who he was, and that all things were one.

The next moment, the power unleashed by the Dark King of Darkness also directly entered Wang Hongwu's body, merging with him into one.

He is everything, and all things are one.

Then, in Wang Hongwu's eyes, everything around him turned into a flat plane, all of which were part of him. His perspective was infinitely high, slowly pressing down. In an instant, a tremendous force enveloped the entire area, and then, like swatting a fly, it flattened all the matter below into a plane.

Without a sound, without any huge fluctuations, it was very calm, just like a natural phenomenon. In an instant, the Dark King of Light became a completely flat surface, crushed into a piece of paper, a picture.

When Wang Hongwu's figure reappeared, the Dark Ming King had become a flat, paper-like object. With a tug of his finger, he pulled out a series of 'himself' from its back, as if it had been sliced. Each slice was very uniform and densely covered with different parts, such as tissues and organs, secret realms, or dark matter.

He watched with great interest, and finally, with a wave of his hand, they all overlapped and returned to their original dark primordial spirit.

At the same time, Wang Hongwu felt that this was not enough, because the newly born dark primordial spirit was too fragile and no match for him at all. So he gave the broken dark primordial spirit time to recuperate, and even separated his own King Dao Immortal Gold to let it fuse together, to see if it could evolve into a brand new Immortal Gold.

To his disappointment, the dark matter lacked the ability to cultivate a new, darkened immortal metal, which contradicted his vision of cultivating a fusion of fallen immortal metal and immortal metal.

So Wang Hongwu destroyed it again, regretfully retracted his own body, and used the King's Law to completely transform it, making it his 'other self'.

After being subdued, at least within the realm of the King's Way, the dark matter could no longer affect him. He could graze and parasitize, and even evolve into a dark evolutionary path to endure, absorb, and strengthen himself.

When Wang Fa was activated again, another version of himself from the Dark Evolutionary Path appeared beside him. When he took a step and merged with Wang Hongwu's true form, he also gained that characteristic and eerie aura, looking no different from those immortal kings from other realms.

"Only then can my title as the father of this foreign land be truly deserved."

He smiled, quite satisfied.

With such experience and methods, Wang Hongwu finally looked at the twenty true forms of the Ten Fiends who were fighting, and had the resources to combine and re-evolve them.

Otherwise, he couldn't have done all that out of thin air; he must have had firsthand experience and understanding.

For the next ten thousand years, Wang Hongwu devoted himself entirely to this attempt.

In the end, the two completely different true forms, one righteous and one evil, opposed and merged, allowing this true form to undergo a substantial transformation. With Wang Hongwu's continuous evolution, they formed totem-like existences, with the Ten Fiends on the front and the Ten Fallen Fiends on the back, forming a unified whole.

Moreover, he used the Immortal King Secret Realm Seeds he condensed as his physical body to bear their power, which did not affect his ability to unleash the power of the Dao Seeds and use supernatural abilities.

With the combination of the True Form of the Right and the Reverse Form and the Immortal King's Secret Realm Seed, this brand-new Ten Fiend Totem can now unleash top-level combat power, a complete sublimation compared to the original, somewhat similar to the development direction of those multi-headed monsters; even the kings of the Immortal Realm would be astonished, because the gap between top-level and flawless is really not small, and the addition of ten combat powers at this level at once is truly frightening.

Meanwhile, in another realm, the Demon King Pu was not idle either. After ten thousand years of recuperation and recovery of his strength, he immediately came to the Fallen Dragon Valley.

This is the sleeping place of the Dark Dragon. Ever since it defected from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, it has remained in this state, basically detached from worldly affairs.

His strength is inferior to that of the True Dragon, and also inferior to that of the second strongest in the world. Moreover, he does not have the title of 'True Dragon,' so naturally he cannot be very strong.

At this moment, the sleeping dark dragon suddenly felt a warning sign and sensed that something was very wrong!

Ha, ha, ha ha!

He heard it; someone was laughing, very arrogantly and domineeringly approaching.

"Pu Demon King? Fellow Daoist has arrived..." The Demon Dragon was surprised and somewhat confused as to what this powerful giant wanted to do. But in the next instant, he could not speak because Pu Demon King approached directly. He was tall and imposing, with disheveled hair, and struck forward with a palm. The sky collapsed, the earth cracked, and ghosts and gods cried out. His supreme magical power surged forward.

This palm strike looks simple, but its power is immense.

The dark dragon was so shocked that it coughed up blood, staggered backward, and its body trembled continuously. It had suffered a violent impact from the Great Dao. Its expression was shocked, and it could not quite react to what had happened.

But the Demon King Pu wouldn't waste words with him. He grinned maliciously, and An Lan and He Wushuang appeared behind him at the same time. The three of them pressed him down and suppressed him there. Then, he slapped the demon dragon's head and said in a low voice, "You beast, why haven't you become enlightened yet!"

In an instant, the power of "all things are my image" erupted, forcibly shattering his cognition. In a distant place, Wang Hongwu had a thought, and the power of the King's Law was transmitted over. He even appeared as a Dark Evolver, pouring that substance into it, which together eroded the Dark Demon Dragon.

A moment later, the three reappeared in the Land of Burning Heaven. The Fallen Blood Phoenix, who had been intercepted, was severely injured and tried to escape. However, the Demon King Pu completely sealed off the area. With a wave of his hand, seeds and fluff filled the sky, all glowing and evolved from symbols of the Great Dao. The seeds poured out and swept over the area, taking root and parasitizing it, binding it to the spot and subjecting it to the baptism of the law.

At the final stop, on the golden grassland, the fearless lion roared in agony as half of its body was shattered by a slap from the Demon King Pu. The lion flew through the air, its blood splattering across the universe. Not to mention it, even the most powerful figures could not withstand that force; it was too overwhelming and domineering.

*Thud!* He then grabbed the fearless lion's head and body with both hands and yanked it off, tearing its head off on the spot.

"Where are the kings? King Pu has gone mad! He's trying to create a new alien realm!" the fearless lion roared. His primordial spirit broke free, carrying his essence blood, and tried to escape to a distant place, but it was blocked and forcibly pulled back.

Meanwhile, the Gu Zu was also concealing himself in the shadows, and the fluctuations in spacetime subsided. Fortunately, the strength of these three was only at the Kingly level, not outstanding. When faced with the suppression of a powerful giant and a peerless and flawless one, they naturally could not cause any trouble.

In a short period of time, all three villains were suppressed, enlightened by the law, and fell into a struggle of self-discovery.

Looking at all this, the three immortal kings smiled with satisfaction. It's almost here, almost here.

The day the Great Ming King sets foot in this foreign land will be the day they rebel, change the world, and rule this foreign land.

(End of this chapter)