The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 290 The fusion of law and law brings about a change in the heavens; reincarnation leads to the Emperor and entry into the heavens.

The path of reincarnation is deathly silent, as if it has been sedimented over the long years, buried in the historical dust of one era after another.

When Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao set foot on this place, they found that there was not a single living creature on the entire road. It was even colder and darker than the legendary Netherworld. The surroundings were very dark, and the broken continent floated in the universe, suspended on the world's ocean, giving people a very unreal feeling.

“This road was once walked by others, leaving traces, and that’s why I came here.”

Shi Hao spoke up, saying that the marks were related to the footprints on the dam. Perhaps that person had also walked this path back then, but found nothing.

"That emperor from the Immortal Realm." Upon hearing this, Wang Hongwu looked up. If calculated according to the era in which he lived, it would be normal to find nothing; because at that time, the heavens and the land of calamity were at war, and the forces on the path of reincarnation had been largely drawn away, so it could be said that the four ancient lands were empty.

However, after the fall of the emperor, they gradually recovered until the end of the chaotic era, when Shi Hao rode in a coffin into the heavens. By then, they had been defeated, and their blood stained the Thirty-Three Heavens.

As they talked, the two ventured deeper into the path, even attempting to probe its edge, only to find that outside lay a vast, boundless void, more fragmented than anything they had seen in their reincarnation. The place seemed to have endured billions of years of war, ultimately reduced to ruins.

That place was a battlefield, a place where the two sides once fought. It was bathed in holy and radiant light, yet also stained with dark matter, and filled with an ominous atmosphere.

Wang Hongwu raised his hand and a ball of matter fell into his palm. It was pure black blood, not the second-generation matter splashed by the ancient artifact, but one of the ten truly ominous substances, a symbol of the Black Era.

"Black blood, red hair, and gray mist are the three known timelines. After the gray mist comes the white calamity, which is the great calamity that the heavens of the ancient era will soon face."

After sorting things out, he already knew what would happen next. The black blood substance was devoured and refined by the Origin Mother Gold, making the heavens within his body even deeper. Outside the Eight Realms and the Sea of ​​Realms, a blurry cycle of reincarnation appeared, which was the one that had been severed back then.

Shi Hao was exploring the battlefield ruins when he discovered many corpses of beings that did not belong to the heavens. They were all very powerful, and some even surpassed the realm of kings!

The world outside the cycle of reincarnation was so desolate and dilapidated that both sides suffered heavy casualties.

How many years ago did this happen?

No matter how you look at it, it is extremely old.
“It should be a battlefield between Heaven and Calamity.” Wang Hongwu understood and told Shi Haotian about some of the information above and the special features of the four ancient lands. The ancient underworld and the cycle of reincarnation are naturally adjacent and even connected. Their roads are interconnected, linking Heaven and transcending all worlds.

The eerie and ominous creatures only occupy a corner of the ancient underworld. The true path to the ancient underworld is unimaginable and unfathomable. No one knows when it began, whether it was naturally formed by heaven and earth, or whether it was created by someone. This pool is very deep, and some unparalleled villains and ancient monsters that have surpassed ancient history are trapped in the cycle of reincarnation and transformation.

"You travel through the cycle of reincarnation just to find the four ancient lands?"

"Yes and no. For me, reincarnation is dynamic; it is a form of spiritual practice."

As they talked, the two arrived at the depths of the cycle of reincarnation, where countless corpses began to appear along the way, ranging from the weakest to the strongest. Creatures from all realms appeared, and even those that had long been annihilated in history came to the fore.

In the shadowy lands, deep within the cycle of reincarnation, lie too many secrets.

Clearly, this was an important place, but certainly not the final destination of reincarnation. Soon, the two reached the end, but their expressions changed.

Because beyond the passage lies a vast world, not just any of the great realms of the heavens, but more like a corner of the sky.

In that otherworldly realm, there grows a celestial lotus, very large and pure. The lotus leaves are large and vary in color: some are as red as blood, some are as black as ink, some are as gray as dull, and some are as white as lightning. In addition, there are three flower buds side by side, emitting chaotic energy and emanating celestial light, full of vitality.

What's even more captivating are the creatures that dwell on the lotus leaves, densely packed with skeletons and mummies on each enormous leaf, some lying down, some sitting cross-legged, their vitality dormant to the lowest point—all of them Celestial Kings! Some are even extremely powerful rulers.

"They entered there through the passage and perched on the lotus leaves." Shi Hao made a discovery. The cycle of reincarnation connects there. What are they trying to do by raising so many kings there?
The Lotus of Eternal Reincarnation. Wang Hongwu, however, knew the origin of this lotus; it was not on the path of reincarnation, nor within the myriad realms, but rather seemingly within the heavens!

As for his later fall into the heavens, it was due to the great battle. He was cut off by a sword, and the one who wielded the sword is still standing next to him.

Then, through that transparent area, the two vaguely saw the indistinct and endless land above, majestic and magnificent mountains, and vast and boundless territory.

That area had no end, and the celestial energy was so dense that it turned into liquid and flowed in the void. It seemed to be a corner of the heavens, connected to the cycle of reincarnation, but it was separated by a special barrier, preventing them from entering.

Whether it was left behind by the ancient underworld or evolved by the heavens, the power of the Kingly Realm is impenetrable.

At this moment, the arrival of the two seemed to coincide with something. The bud at the top of the giant lotus, which was as large as a mountain, was shaking, causing an unusual phenomenon that made the sky almost transparent and caused a large amount of misty colored light to fall down.

That substance was of great benefit even to kings, and the creatures on the lotus leaves were vying for it with great eagerness. Each time they obtained a portion, their aura would become stronger, and some even seemed to be using it to advance further.

As the lotus leaves turned, massive burial pits rose up around the passage, filled with countless withered creatures. Outside the pits were rows of gears and millstones, each carrying countless powerful corpses from the other side of the passage. These corpses were then ground down to extract the purest essence and origin, which was then used to nurture the creatures, continuously increasing their strength until they could ascend the Lotus of Eternal Reincarnation for further transformation.

At this moment, these beings headed towards the barrier, spreading their arms wide, greedily devouring the matter, waiting for the passage to open so they could enter the heavens.

Chi!
Just then, a thick silver arrow, carrying chaotic energy, came, capable of piercing the universe and posing a serious threat to a great world. Wang Hongwu turned around, grabbed the arrow with his five fingers, and flung it back.

The attacker was a knight clad entirely in black armor, riding a black tiger. He was constantly drawing his bow in the sky when the giant arrow he hurled back pierced through the heavens and earth, causing the void to collapse and the world to become unstable before it even got close. The arrow instantly blasted him apart, causing him to perish on the spot.

At the same time, another bell suddenly appeared, suspended in mid-air and ringing on its own, its ripples like water, gentle yet sacred, originating from a faceless man who had no mouth, nose, or eyes, his face bald, flat, and quite terrifying.

The bell trembled before Shi Hao, as if he were seeing entire ancient histories. It was stealing his time, reversing the course of history, and trying to kill him with the Time Bell. He snorted coldly, activated the Supreme Bone Treasure Technique, and used the cycle of time to fight against the years. In turn, the bell decayed and decayed, and then turned into dust. The bell collapsed.

But at this moment, all the creatures in the burial pit and on the lotus leaves looked over and stared at the two of them. Then a terrifying scene unfolded: one after another, those fallen creatures who were cultivating in a different way on the lotus leaves rushed over, crossing the barrier and appearing. At a glance, there were far more than ten thousand of them.

The heavens may descend, but the underworld cannot be easily entered; the power lies with the other side.

Clearly, the person behind the cycle of reincarnation wants to cultivate an existence that surpasses even the Celestial King. Even if only one is born, it would be a huge gain.

Therefore, the creatures here, from weak to strong, are all available. The goal is to raise a Gu to create an unparalleled being, a quasi-Immortal Emperor!

The number of Celestial Kings is truly enormous. Some were cultivated, some were spirits of corpses, and some were created from a vague bloodline, accumulating over countless epochs.

"Looks like we've made a huge mistake." Shi Hao smiled, but showed no fear. Before he finished speaking, the law of the king was already in effect, and he was free to transform, making all time and space eternal!
In a split second, he made his move, merging into spacetime. One moment he was him, the next he was still him, unleashing a full-scale attack covering the past and future within the same timeframe.

This is tantamount to having reached the supreme realm ahead of time. The sword light is vast and boundless, slashing and killing in every corner, instantly wiping out a group of figures. When he reaches the peak, he can even cleave from the source of ancient history to the infinite future with a single sword, never to be extinguished.

Wang Hongwu also made his move, violent and direct. With a single stomp, the boundless sea of ​​boundaries expanded outwards, forming monstrous waves. The simplest methods brought the most terrifying destruction; the entire cycle of reincarnation was nearly burst apart by his attack. The terrifying ocean swept across, bathed in the radiant light of the Origin Mother Gold. Wherever it passed, the kings vanished as if they had never existed. However, the more they killed, the more beings emerged, seemingly endless, constantly growing—hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions!
There are even more than one terrifying creature that devours each other, reaching ninety-nine heads in total. These creatures are beings that surpass the pinnacle of Immortal Kings and can fight against Emperor Light Kings. Here, they are merely commanders.

The sheer number of kings was astonishing. The two constantly invoked the law, and under these circumstances, they resonated with each other, blending together and subtly evolving into a completely new form.

Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao exchanged a glance, then tacitly extended one hand each, joining forces to strike: He Transforms Freedom, Self-Obsession Reincarnation!

In an instant, a dazzling light burst forth in the arena, causing time and space to freeze briefly, as if to recreate ancient history and evolve into a vast and wondrous phenomenon. Even the Dao was in the process of birth and decline, all things were waxing and waning, and all worlds were decaying and reviving. The essence of the world was explained, and everything was incorporated into the cycle of reincarnation.

Ubiquitous, all-encompassing, and all-existing, the two embody the primordial state of all things, for everything must be overturned and rebuilt.

In the darkness, this power spans countless ages, traverses the cycle of life and death, encompasses heaven and earth, and will ultimately bring an end to enemies throughout the ages and the future!
Under the vast expanse of history, in every era, and in every epoch, the figures of these two emerge. In the present and in the future, their radiant presence will be felt everywhere.

The next moment, time and space here were eternally distorted. The straight lines in front of the two became arcs, illuminating their figures everywhere. They existed simultaneously in every instant. Then, the two in those images suddenly split apart again. He transformed into Wang Hongwu, and I manifested into Shi Hao. The new them used the King's Law again. Shi Hao, whom Wang Hongwu manifested, used He transformed into He, while Wang Hongwu, who manifested from Shi Hao, used I manifested into I.

They alternated, and more two appeared, repeating the cycle, numbering in the thousands in an instant. Moreover, as the law of kingship became one, the enemies on the other side were also transformed into them, becoming part of 'me'. These enemies then operated their law of kingship, once again using the power of other-transformation. The cycle of self-attachment continued, and the number of figures increased until the cycle of reincarnation was almost filled.

But the changes brought about by the eternity of all time and space are not limited to this. So many Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao exist simultaneously in every time scale. When they make their move, it means that they are attacking each other in every time scale, infinite multiplying infinitely, and transcending in every thought!

In an instant, its killing power surpassed all others in heaven and earth, causing the light of time to scatter, the river of time throughout the ages to flow in disorder, all worlds to be in turmoil, and even the Thirty-Three Heavens to seem as if they were about to be shaken down.

This Daoist aura was terrifying enough to suppress all the immortals and demons of the heavens. Kings of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions were meaningless, completely submerged in the eternal and free torrent of all time and space. The vast ocean of the Great Dao surged and crashed against all worlds, affecting the existence of the past and present. At this moment, all worlds, past, present, and future, were like the shimmering surface of the sea, constantly rising and falling. The secret technique they had jointly evolved was not yet fully formed; it had only just been used, yet it had already annihilated all the kings!
This special evolution of the King's Law has broken the limits of the King's Way realm. It no longer belongs to the king, but is a higher realm of mystery. It has touched the origin of the cycle of reincarnation, causing mysterious changes to occur here.

In a daze, the world seemed to turn upside down, and everything seemed to be distorted. This desolate place was indeed changing, especially as some huge rocks emerged from the ground, one after another, magnificent and enormous.

These giant rocks are inscribed with many ancient characters, too ancient to be deciphered.

At the horizon, the sky was gray and cracked, with a long river of time flowing by and chaotic mist churning.

"The heavens have changed!" Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao exclaimed simultaneously, both of them having experienced such an event.

The world can undergo dramatic changes; in an instant, the river of time may be torn open, revealing people and events that should not have appeared.

Perhaps we can see the door to the future, or the past.

What they see now is the past!

There, chaotic energy permeated the air, and a long river of time stretched from ancient times to the present. A figure was walking along this cycle of reincarnation, wielding power that surpassed the level of a king.

Because of the unique nature of the cycle of reincarnation connecting the past and present, the simultaneous eruption and resonance of the two forces created a 'celestial change'. Normally, a war between immortal kings could cause this kind of impact, but they amplified this probability infinitely. Furthermore, due to the unique nature of the cycle of self-reincarnation and the cycle of ego, the celestial change became even more intense, resulting in the current scene.

The two looked ahead and saw creatures that seemed to have existed before the fall of the emperor!
This dramatic change had such a wide-ranging impact that its effects were immeasurable, involving unpredictable time and space, hence the term "celestial upheaval."

"When I turn my back on the past, the future lies before me; when I turn my back on the future, the so-called past becomes the future. The world changes, how interesting."

At this moment, the person spoke, his face obscured, but above his head a tower rose and fell, surrounded by dazzling imperial fire.

Then, he stared at Shi Hao with a strange expression, as if he had noticed something.

"You are...the person on the dam!" Shi Hao immediately sensed it, because he had the other party's Emperor Fire within him!
Boom! Just as he uttered those words, lightning struck down from the sky, powerful enough to kill even a peak Immortal King. Wang Hongwu opened his mouth and inhaled, swallowing the lightning into his body as if it were nothing.

"Time is not to be trifled with. When you appeared before me, I understood something. Your conversation with me touched upon some important matters that may have a lasting impact and influence the long river of time. Therefore, your conversation was interrupted and you were punished by the heavens. Be careful."

As the years passed and the emperor fell, the emperor who had emerged from the Immortal Realm spoke up to offer a reminder.

Shi Hao and Wang Hongwu never expected that a sudden change in the heavens would lead them to meet someone who had once embarked on the cycle of reincarnation and crossed the boundary sea.

Due to the special nature of the meeting, they could not communicate too much. The two thought of the tragedy of the Fall of the Emperor and intentionally reminded each other, of course, without affecting the general trend of history. At most, it would affect some minor details, but the major trajectory would not change. Just like the meeting between Duan De and Shi Hao back then, they reminded each other of the key information about the ultimate ancient land.

"More than one."

"Leave a backup plan for the future."

They didn't mention anything about the boundary sea, but only offered two reminders. As a result, thunder still raged, blindingly bright, severing the sky and shaking the ancient river of time.

Seeing this, the emperor on the opposite bank stepped in to help, and the two of them once again combined their attacks to unleash a supreme technique, colliding with the thunder. The three supreme forces disrupted time, causing the entire ancient history to rumble, and the cycle of reincarnation to teeter on the brink of collapse, on the verge of ceasing to exist.

The scene was terrifying, but Wang Hongwu remained calm. Based on his previous experience, the fact that the other party had indeed left behind the Primal Emperor Fire proved that history was bound to happen. This change in the heavens and their meeting were simply part of the course of time.

Soon, the change in the heavens vanished, all the images disappeared, and only three powerful forces surged forth, breaking through the barriers on the path of reincarnation.

Boom!

The barrier has been breached, and the heavens are within reach.

Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao exchanged a glance, said nothing, and stepped directly across the broken barrier into a corner of the heavens.

Meanwhile, before the fall of the emperor.

An emperor emerged from the cycle of reincarnation, his gaze deep and unfathomable as he looked toward the future. "There is more than one. What would make me think there is only one?"
emperor?"

It seems he really needs to have some backup plans.

The future is far more magnificent than I imagined.

(End of this chapter)