The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 283 Returning to the Ancient Wilderness, Entering the Heavens

The land that connects heaven and earth, spans the past and present, and gives birth to the cycle of reincarnation.

Since the Great Calamity of Fall, Shi Hao has fought against many dark kings, cleansed the Immortal Realm, and even killed a group of beings who voluntarily embraced misfortune, such as Immortal Kings Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu.

"Be careful, those who embark on the path to becoming kings and emperors will be targeted by the Ancient Temple of Guidance and the darkness, just like the shepherds of the past." This was a warning from a giant in the Boundary Sea.

Now, together with the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, he has come to this legendary place of reincarnation, seeking the opportunity to break through the King and become an Emperor.

This place was quiet and peaceful. Apart from a drop of blood and a line of golden characters, there was nothing else. Shi Hao's expression changed, and he realized something. He said, "The Heavenly King has also been here before, within the last 100,000 years."

"Indeed, there is the aura left by that person. He is already invincible in the realm of kingship. As far as I know, even butchers and chicken farmers are not as good as him. He can sweep through a realm and kill a celestial king in a region by himself." The white-robed forbidden zone lord also nodded with a sigh. He had ventured into the sea of ​​boundaries and returned severely injured. That celestial king, on the other hand, directly drained half of the sea of ​​boundaries, killed the old ancestor of the alien realm, and swept through the Ancient Hall of Guidance.

The next moment, Shi Hao touched this ancient land, entered the stone chamber, and merged into the stone wall. From within, it seemed that two voices alternated, crisscrossing and echoing each other:
'Others are free to transform, while self-attachment leads to the cycle of rebirth!'

He wandered through the long river of time, looking back on the past and the future, and saw one being after another who looked down on time. Before the chaotic ancient times, there was the immortal ancient times, and after that, there was a hazy period of time.

In the blurry light and shadow, Shi Hao saw Wang Hongwu, who was experiencing the Tongtian Land for the first time and turning the cycle of reincarnation. He was stunned and sighed, "Unfortunately, wrong time, right person. The one I am looking for is not you now."

That was indeed the Heavenly King, but it was his younger self, who had returned from the mythological era of the post-apocalyptic world.

At this moment, the torrent of time envelops the wilderness, heading towards an even more ancient era. In that mottled scroll of time, there is the long cry of the golden crow, the vastness of the immortal realm, and figures emerging from there, stepping towards the other side of the boundary sea.

At that very moment, he saw the future, a figure drifting downstream, so familiar that he couldn't help but call out, but his voice was drowned out by the waves of time and could no longer be heard.

Hmm? Wang Hongwu, who had already arrived at the Heavenly Land and embarked on his return journey, sensed something and looked back at the past, but there was nothing there.

"A familiar feeling. I never imagined that something like this would happen 100,000 years after I left."

He withdrew his gaze and looked at the flowing ancient history, where he saw the great calamity of the Immortal Realm, the pollution of the system, and the rise of Shi Hao.

Across the sea, the Lord of the Dark Heavenly Court descended upon the Immortal Realm in a single thought, causing a great calamity and ultimately creating the magnificent and invincible king, Huang.

At this moment, as Wang Hongwu treads forward along the long river of time, he sees many scenes. Downstream, a ball of light disintegrates space and melts heaven and earth; while another ball of light is accompanied by a rain of light, which is the accumulation of time, the power of time dancing, as if it wants to burn down the long river of time for eternity. The two balls of light are intertwined with each other, like two opposing sides of a single entity.

"That's... flames?" Wang Hongwu looked over and suddenly noticed that the sacrificial bowl at his waist trembled, as if it were related to something. He couldn't help but look over, only to find that two balls of flame had fallen into a strange place in the myriad worlds. After he secretly noted down the coordinates, the scene completely disappeared, and in its place were prominent figures from the ancient history.

They are all connected to the myriad realms, the ultimate beings born here. The aura they exude and the ripples they create reflect the past, present, and future, spanning one era after another. It's terrifying.

Wang Hongwu saw a figure in the distance. Before he was born in the Immortal Ancient Era, he heard a voice saying, "In the Dark Ancient Era, the true Underworld had already appeared."

The underworld? His expression shifted, and he looked over immediately. However, the sound stopped because the creature seemed to have been attacked and fallen into an unknown underground world.

Underground, there are crisscrossing passages, ancient and secluded, exuding an aura of decay and death, with some rotting corpses lying around.

"The Path of Reincarnation!" Wang Hongwu, who had personally walked that path, was naturally familiar with it. In fact, that path was even older than the one on Earth, a product of countless eras ago. Some sections of the underground path were broken, as if they had been destroyed and were already in ruins.

We don't know where it leads, we don't know its beginning, we don't know its end!

He saw it clearly, knew the location of the road, and discovered that it had always existed, even continuing into the years of the Emperor's Demise!

The ancient road splits the sky, pierces the sea of ​​time, and spans one era after another. Through the rise and fall of countless worlds, even in the chaotic ancient era, the presence of that road could still be seen, only now it was empty, as the beings that once guarded it had gone to another, more terrifying battlefield.

Swish!
After traveling through time, he returned to the most familiar ancient era. This time, only a few hundred years had passed since he left.

Having experienced hundreds of thousands of years in the Chaotic Ancient Era, yet only a hundred years have passed in this world, this feeling is truly unique.

In the 340,000th year of the Hongwu calendar, ten thousand years had passed since the Great Emperor Luan Gu ascended to the Celestial Court. The suppression of the Great Dao within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths dissipated, ushering in an unprecedented golden age.

A young man named Wushi quietly descended from the Immortal Realm to the mortal world, vying for survival.

He possesses not only the Immortal Tear Green Gold Secret Realm inherited from his Immortal Golden Saint Body, but also the bloodline and Dao foundation passed down from his mother, the Western Emperor, making his foundation terrifying.

What surprised everyone the most was his legendary rise to power.

At the time of his birth, a celestial bell came of its own accord, its resounding waves cleansing his body, each time bringing about a transformative change.

When he was two years old, a black dog-like spirit pet came to his door, nestled beside him, and brought mysterious ancient scriptures and heavenly techniques.

At five, he danced with dragons and phoenixes in the Immortal Realm; at six, he entered a stone pit in the Immortal Realm alone and obtained a remnant artifact from the Immortal Ancient Era; at eight, he entered the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and received a rare treasure from heaven; at eleven, he fell into the Lake of Reincarnation, awakened his past life wisdom, and his cultivation increased dramatically... All of this was like a dream, but it really happened to Wushi, as brilliant as the protagonist of heaven and earth.

Furthermore, on his path to rise, he defeated the offspring of many ascendants, suppressed the transcendent bloodlines of the Immortal Realm, and even the son of a True Immortal suffered a crushing defeat. Moreover, after reaching the Quasi-Emperor realm, he caught an Emperor weapon with his bare hands, demonstrating terrifying strength and establishing the reputation of the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.

On this very day, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the Celestial Court, and the Celestial Realm all trembled, for at their highest point, some being awakened from its slumber!
In an instant, blood rained down, and river after river of blood fell from the sky, turning the vast and boundless Nine Heavens and Ten Earths into a crimson color. The Immortal Realm was the same, a deep red, like countless red suns rising together, illuminating the heavens.

This terrifying phenomenon shocked the world!

Then, for a moment, the world was plunged into darkness, nothing could be seen, the universe seemed to have been extinguished, and all the stars and myriad realms seemed to have been shaken down.

What exactly happened that caused such widespread fear among the living beings of the world?
In the eternal heavens, it seemed as if a king had returned, his imperial light shining upon all realms, and a vast array of strange phenomena manifested. The primordial immortal realm hung high, accompanied by the dark alien realm, and in the middle of them was the boundless sea of ​​realms!

A single drop of water is a shattered universe, a single wave is a decaying realm. The mere manifestation of these phenomena caused the Immortal Realm and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to tremble simultaneously, unable to withstand the force.

"This fluctuation, is it him?" The Emperor Venerable awoke from his seclusion and felt an aura that far surpassed the realm of immortals, causing all realms to shake and rumble. He was even more astonished. He had just felt that he was about to touch the limit of the Mortal Immortal, but the Great Heavenly Venerable directly leaped over the Kingly Path.

How does one cultivate oneself?
A dream that lasts forever?!
"Brother has returned after attaining enlightenment?" The Divine Phoenix Maiden was also shocked, and she could feel a pull, as if her cultivation system had been expanded, and a great power was feeding back from the source.

She could clearly sense that the other party's strength had increased dramatically, becoming many times stronger than the divine phoenix of the Immortal Ancient Era in her inherited memories, and achieving unimaginable Dao fruits!

"Immortal King!" On the other side, Gu Tuo, who was in seclusion trying to break through to the Kingly Realm, was shocked. He almost failed because of this and his Dao Fruit fell. Fortunately, the owner of the aura sensed it and blew out a breath to stabilize his Dao Fruit, avoiding a tragedy.

A Celestial King! Absolutely a Celestial King! And one of the most powerful among them.

In an instant, Gu Tuo clearly felt that fluctuation. A thousand thoughts tangled together in his mind, creating a turbulent wave that he could not calm down for a long time.

In the end, all that could be said was a sigh: "I've only just begun my ascent to the Kingly Path, how come he reached its peak after just one night's sleep?"

Gu Tuo didn't understand.

He even felt that his initial guess was wrong. This was not the successor of the fake medicine seller, but the fake medicine seller who had returned!
"Dude, I just became an immortal! I was just keeping pace with you, and you've already become an Immortal King?"

On the thirty-third heaven, Duan De was stunned. He pulled back the hand that had been knocking on the door. He pinched his cheek in disbelief, then gasped sharply. He had finally perfected his cultivation and become an immortal with the Nine Reincarnation Seal. Overjoyed, he came straight up to Duan De, ready to show off.

The sudden thunderbolt left him completely bewildered.

Having awakened the memories of the Chaotic Ancient Era, he understood perfectly what this meant—he was an invincible being even among the Immortal Kings!

"You pervert, you pervert! Old Wang, you're really making life unbearable for everyone!" The fat Taoist priest patted his belly in anger, then sat down abruptly on the ground and rolled around indignantly.

Soon after, the strange phenomenon disappeared, the gates of the ancient palace opened, and a figure emerged from it, surrounded by a dazzling imperial light that was indestructible and exuded a transcendent aura.

"Old Duan, congratulations on becoming an immortal." The man looked at Duan De, who was slumped on the ground, and then saw the fat Taoist priest say helplessly, "What kind of opportunity did you get this time? How come your cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds?"

“The Land of Heaven, a dream of ancient chaos.” Wang Hongwu smiled. Upon hearing this, Duan De’s mind was shaken, as if some kind of fog had been cleared and some fragmented memories suddenly returned. He was shocked and exclaimed, “It’s you! When you descended upon the Imperial Pass, it was because you borrowed the Land of Heaven? No wonder, no wonder, Great Ming King, Heavenly King, Lord of another realm, you are truly remarkable.”

Many memories allowed Duan De to connect with history and finally understand why Shi Hao could not find him when the Great Calamity of Fall occurred—it was because he had returned to the future.

Soon, the Emperor and the Divine Phoenix also arrived. When they saw Duan De, the latter raised his eyebrows and exuded a dangerous aura.

"Great Celestial Venerable, above the Immortal Path, you have become a King. Now, have you achieved it?" The Emperor Venerable stepped forward to inquire, filled with anticipation, for he had seen the path ahead, the vast and magnificent landscape belonging to the Immortal King's realm.

Wang Hongwu nodded slightly and pointed a finger. The mysteries encompassing the Immortal King realm surged into the Emperor's heart. He said calmly, "I have become an Immortal King. I have reached the end of this realm. The next step is to break through to become an Emperor, attain the ultimate Dao, and be ranked among the Dao Ancestors."

At the end of the Immortal King realm, one attains enlightenment and becomes an Ancestor!
These eight characters shocked the Emperor, who was both surprised and delighted, and also sighed with admiration. He truly deserved to be the last of the Ten Heavenly Venerables of Mythology to achieve such a perfect synthesis, and was indeed worthy of the evaluation of "exhausting the ultimate of the Dao".

"Congratulations, brother! Now we can rebuild the Divine Phoenix Clan." The Divine Phoenix Maiden stepped forward and embraced Wang Hongwu, her expression joyful. Her aura had also been enhanced by the feedback from the system, and her progress had even surpassed that of the Emperor Venerable. She could now begin to study how to become a Celestial King.

Clang! The next moment, the Dao Bell of the Celestial Court rang out, and all the Venerables, Emperors, and Sovereigns gathered to worship the Great Heavenly Venerable.

"Above the Immortal Path, one encounters the King; the legendary realm of the King's Path?"

Upon learning what had happened, all the Dao Prodigies were stunned, then fell silent, feeling as if it were all a dream, too fast and too intense! Moreover, they did not understand what a Celestial King meant, only that he was above the Immortal Path, overlooking the rise and fall of eras, gazing upon the long river of time, capable of creating and destroying great worlds with a single thought, and opening up the universe with a single thought.

They have more powerful methods and means that they don't understand or can't imagine, which is something they can't help.

Wang Hongwu didn't say much, but simply unleashed his Immortal King Dao Fruit, forming a pure land. Within this Immortal Court, even those who had attained the Dao could enjoy longevity. Then, they would cultivate the Myriad Dao Tree and the rudimentary form of the universe step by step, condense their own Heavenly Heart Imprint, and break through by treading the Myriad Daos, becoming Heavenly Emperors and near-Immortals, and then continue walking the Immortal Path until they become Immortals.

As for enduring the hardships of reversing life, he felt it was unnecessary, because very few people could do that. The complete advancement path he had forged was actually more efficient, since the needs of raising Gu had already been met in the human realm. All that remained was cultivation and breakthroughs. Those who were capable would still be capable and would not regress.

Moreover, the current Dao Prodigies all primarily cultivate the Secret Realm Techniques and secondarily the Tai Sui Techniques, resulting in a dramatic increase in combat power and immortality. They achieve enlightenment by themselves and nurture all living beings, leading the world to sublimate together. They are truly capable of sweeping aside their peers in all the myriad realms.

"Immortality, who would have thought it would be so close?" The three emperors, Wanlong, Huangjin, and Qilin, were quite moved. Sometimes, an individual's strength is limited, and it is also important to follow the right person and board the right ship.

The Divine Ruins Emperor stroked his chin, seemingly quite comfortable lying down. After all, his disciple was the Phoenix Emperor. Thanks to this, after more than 300,000 years, he had transformed into a pure Divine Mark Purple Gold Holy Spirit and had paved the path to Golden Immortal. In the past, who could believe that?

When the news spread, the entire Immortal Realm was shaken.

"A Celestial King! The strongest in the Celestial Realm is only at this level. That Martial Emperor has actually achieved it."

"Incredible! A Celestial King who has lived for over 300,000 years is so young?"

"I heard that Lord Gu Tuo is still in seclusion trying to break through to the Kingly Realm. This must be quite a blow to him."

All beings in the Immortal Realm were shocked. Although the great calamity after the Chaotic Ancient Era destroyed history and created a gap, they also understood what an Immortal King meant. He was too transcendent!

Then, Wang Hongwu took action, gathering all the remaining fragments of the Immortal Realm together and reforging the original Immortal Realm.

Here, people have even found the temple left over from the past, which enshrines a being that looks exactly like Emperor Wu, and is revered as the Great Ming King, the Heavenly King, and the Heavenly Father.

Among them, some mysterious celestial gold was taken out and sent to the Celestial Court.

Even Pan Wang only had one longevity elixir left. Wang Hongwu intervened, using his system to enlighten its spirituality and condense fragments of its true self, barely restoring a trace of its imprint. He then moved it into the palace to nourish it, believing that it would eventually recover.

On the other side, within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Wushi had already attained enlightenment, merging the Dao fruits of his previous life's Wuzhong and this life's Wushi. He not only cultivated the laws of time but also the laws of space, aiming to evolve time and space. Ten thousand years later, he rang the Dao bell and ascended back to the Celestial Court. Strictly speaking, he was born a long time ahead of schedule, which also caused some impact.

After him, the ancient era flourished even more, and a glorious period was about to begin.

During this period, the Phoenix Maiden, the Emperor Maiden, the Dragon Maiden, the Heavenly Maiden, and the Fire Lin'er were not idle. Although their backgrounds and talents were limited, they were particularly suited to the system he created because they had been in contact with Wang Hongwu for a long time, embarked on the path of immortal seeds, and developed their own secret realm seeds. All five of them had taken unique paths in different realms of the Tai Sui Dao, and they could be said to be unconventional 'pathfinders'.

Of course, this is also because the system is still in its early stages and the framework is blank, with many areas for development and shortcomings. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to expand into a mature system and forge a new path. For Wang Hongwu, this is a good thing, as it expands his system and increases his strength and foundation.

This is the benefit of being the master of the system. Once someone paves the way, he can immediately enjoy the results and make use of them. The more people cultivate and the more people pave the way, the stronger his blessing becomes and the greater the power he exerts.

Even the cultivation of each system master is not only for himself, but also for the cultivators and pioneers of those systems. They support each other and benefit each other. Therefore, as long as the five women continue to cultivate, it will benefit Wang Hongwu and will continuously enhance him. They will not fall into the awkward situation of being a burden or having no use for their skills. In turn, he will also support the five women, allowing their cultivation to continuously improve.

Even so, their breakthrough speed was much slower than Wang Hongwu's, which was inevitable. It would be absurd if they could all keep up with him.

Even the Divine Phoenix Maiden estimated that it would take her hundreds of thousands of years to become a Celestial King. It took her millions of years to reach this point, which is the normal speed of a Celestial King, and even considered fast among them.

Duan Dedu thought it was normal. He had lived for two eras and had only seen two people who became Immortal Kings in less than 500,000 years.

Hundreds of thousands of years passed in the blink of an eye. The green lotus that had been rooted in Wang Hongwu's body finally stirred and completed its rebirth, transforming into a living being. Wang Hongwu cast it into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Like Wushi, it was born ahead of time.

The elixir of immortality took human form and called itself Wanqing. At the beginning of this era, it raced across the river and wrote its own legend.

Over the course of ten thousand years, it set numerous new records and even refined its predecessor into a secret realm immortal seed. Because it was born from Emperor Wu, its path was also very similar. After proving itself as the Azure Emperor, it found the Desolate Tower and, inspired by it, decided to create a world within its body. Wang Hongwu nodded with satisfaction, finally having a like-minded successor.

The Azure Emperor gained insights from the Immortal Path to Longevity and the Tai Sui Method. He believed that the human body not only possesses many great medicines, but these medicines also have sources. After searching for these sources, he discovered that they came from the 'Gate of Potential'. By chance, he also entered the world behind the gate, which he called the 'Inner Landscape'.

Thus, the Azure Emperor unearthed a path. In the inner realm behind its gate, he gathered herbs, cultivated himself, and created a world, evolving a layer of sky that connected the inner realm with the outside world, vaguely showing signs of opening up a path.

Time passed swiftly, hundreds of thousands of years went by in the blink of an eye, and many enlightened beings were born. In the year one million of the Hongwu calendar, on Earth, at the foot of Mount Tai, an indestructible golden body descended to earth.

His name is Ye Fan.

On this day, in the Thirty-Three Heavens, Emperor Wu issued an edict to open the boundary wall, cross the Chaos Sea, and return to the myriad realms!

"Beyond the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Immortal Realm, are there other great realms?"

"The myriad realms and worlds seem to be far more numerous than we ever imagined."

"I imagine there are many strong individuals among them."

Inside the Celestial Court, the immortals were filled with anticipation, all eager to showcase their talents on the vast stage of the heavens.

They also wanted to see where they stood in the heavens compared to the beings of other realms.

“Throughout history, all things are reflections of me.” Wang Hongwu looked at the foreign realms floating in the sacrificial bowl, where the more than 130 kings were all asleep with their eyes closed, and couldn’t help but smile.

It is time to break down the barriers and let the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths return to the myriad realms.

In all realms, who can stand against him? Just by sending out all the kings under his command, he can sweep across the world!

The next moment, he stepped out of the universe and saw the vast chaotic sea again. In the blink of an eye, he absorbed it into his body, revealing the vast vortex of myriad worlds in the distance.

Before that vortex, there was a transparent barrier, which was the boundary wall.

Then, Wang Hongwu stretched out his hand and slowly pressed it against the boundary wall.

That giant hand severed the passage of time, disrupted the stability of all realms, and reshaped and reversed everything it passed through. Cosmic clusters were interconnected and formed rings, and primordial chaos gathered into trees. The imperial light of the king pierced through the past and present!
The legend became reality, and an ancient portal from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to the heavens appeared, causing chaos in that vast land!
In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder roared across the heavens and myriad realms, accompanied by a torrential downpour of blood rain—a truly astonishing and shocking spectacle that reverberated throughout all races.

In the Eternal Realm, a universe suddenly trembled, with five elements of immortal light flowing through it. A pair of eyes opened, looking in astonishment at the boundary wall: "The Chaos Sea has disappeared? How could there be fluctuations from the King's Domain?"

In the Dao Realm, a withered old Daoist, covered in the dust of time and silent for millions of years, was awakened and looked in surprise at what he saw: "A king? No, a king who is extremely close to the ultimate realm!"

In the Sub-Immortal Realm, a supreme True Immortal was horrified, sensing this terrifying power fluctuation. He exclaimed in surprise, "Impossible! It's even stronger than the ancestor's aura. What era's king was that? They should have all perished in that calamity back then."

In the Buddhist realm, one golden Buddha statue after another was shattered. At the very center, an old monk who looked like a dried corpse slowly opened his eyes and asked in confusion, "How could someone who has surpassed the giants and is invincible in the kingly path remain unknown?"

In the Otherworld, a human king with three eyes on his head exclaimed in surprise, "A being who has embarked on the path to becoming an emperor! And even created his own system! Such a person should be welcomed into the heavens, how could he stay in the lower realm?"

In the Yuan Realm, shrouded in thick fog and rippling water, a voice rang out, "Go and report to the Ancestor that a change has occurred. Someone may be vying with him for the position of Emperor of the Heavens in this era! We must be on high alert."

In the Soul Realm, silvery-white soul light bloomed, and a being that seemed to crawl out of the river whispered, "The great beings of the Soul River were indeed prescient, sending us to monitor the heavens. Eventually, something unexpected has happened."

"It seems that a remarkable figure has emerged." Powerful figures in the Holy Realm, the Underworld, and the Beast Realm all sensed this and were filled with doubt. The ancient realms of the top ten powerful races in the heavens were all greatly shaken by this.

Where their gazes converged, the barrier between the worlds beyond the heavens was breached. A gigantic hand swept down, utterly malevolent and terrifying, causing one magnificent cosmic cluster after another to rumble. The myriad paths of the great realms undulated, and thousands of rules emerged in the void and chaos, opening up countless orders. Even the World Tree swayed, as if welcoming a king, calling upon the Dao Ancestor, and respectfully inviting the Martial Emperor to descend!
Cover the sky with one hand!

Wang Hongwu's outstretched hand arrived, and even though it spanned countless worlds and crossed countless universes, the hand still shone brightly in the sky above some realms.

Reflect the heavens!

This is an invincible aura, the true power to embark on the path to becoming an emperor, supported by the vast foundation of half a world sea and the heavens of the human body.

"The unification of this era has unexpectedly attracted such beings!"

In the myriad realms, a Celestial King has been resurrected, his expression one of shock and horror, for since that great calamity years ago, all beings in the heavens who had transcended the path of kingship have been wiped out!
They are recuperating and gradually recovering.

Now, someone has actually broken through the barrier between the Chaos Sea and the heavens. This being must have achieved great power and is probably close to the legendary Emperor's Path!

And it wasn't just them; eyes also lit up in the various forbidden areas throughout the myriad realms.

"That place has returned!"

Some of them are reclusive groups, while others are pawns planted in the world by the source of darkness. At this moment, they are all watching closely.

(End of this chapter)