The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 298 The Fall of the World, The Four-Man Group, and the Ancient Hall of Guidance
The Supreme One was annihilated, and the Three Emperors perished in succession. The Four Ancient Lands and the Dark Shore joined forces, but were wiped out by the three emperors who appeared out of nowhere, leaving only one survivor.

The Old Man of Destruction remained silent. Perhaps it was precisely because of this upheaval that the future was thrown into turmoil, with eight people descending against the tides of time.

The man stepping on the cauldron, the man with the back of the bell, the woman with the ring and mask, the fat Taoist priest with a hoe and pickaxe, and four other dark Taoist ancestors with ominous substances in their bodies, have come from the future. Are they here to see someone or to stop something?
By this time, he no longer had the confused thoughts he had before, and he even believed that it was because they had killed the three emperors that someone came to stop them.

Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao exchanged a glance and both noticed the fat Taoist priest among the four. That was Cao Yusheng, the future Duan De, who had also reached this stage. He was saying something to the two of them, but it was silent, blocked by the karma of time.

"They are still here during this time; they have not disappeared." The woman with the ring seemed to recognize the two, and the man with the large clock beside her nodded and said, "Some say that they transformed ancient history, merged into reincarnation, turned that place, sealed the greatest source of calamity, and disappeared from all worlds. Now that they have been found, perhaps we can ask them and find out what happened."

"They cannot be judged by common sense. Some are the embodiment of ancient history, while others stand at the source of everything. Perhaps they have grand schemes. However, in the future, all the heavens and myriad worlds will disappear. It's too strange. The Calamity Land has also undergone a great change. Only the four of us are left to search for the relics of the past and seek the remnants of the heavens." The man stepping on the cauldron whispered. Their communication was completely enveloped by the passage of time and did not get out. Otherwise, there would have been a huge karmic consequence.

Wang Hongwu's expression shifted slightly. It was clearly the group of four consisting of Ye Fan, Wu Shi, Ruthless Man, and Duan De. They had crossed into the future and arrived for unknown reasons. However, the words of the four ominous Dao Ancestors were clear, seemingly because he and Shi Hao had changed the course of the battle against the heavens.

During the Immortal King era, they intervened in the Heavenly War, and their actions in the future will obviously not be small either, because at this time the Heavenly Kingdom is in the midst of a great war with the Calamity Land, which is not yet over. Their arrival has caused some fluctuations in Shi Hao's history, and everything has moved much faster, creating opportunities for change at certain points.

The same thought also occurred to Shi Hao and the First Emperor. They understood that it was after pacifying the Boundary Sea today and going to another place that a series of major events occurred in later generations. Some people were willing to venture into the past, even if it meant suffering huge karmic backlash, in order to change the outcome.

It should be understood that once one reaches this level, even an emperor cannot investigate further. He himself is shrouded in mystery, and his past, present, and even his death are all shrouded in mist, impossible to see through or understand.

Just like trying to find the past and future of a Daoist ancestor in the long river of time, it's too difficult, there's no way to touch it.

This time, the person from the future was able to find it entirely because the battle of the eleven emperors was so intense that its terrifying aura shook the river of time; otherwise, it would have been impossible.

"Fellow Daoists have come from afar. Although we do not belong to the same time and space, we are still destined to meet. However, as we travel along the long river of time, if we act rashly, the world will collapse."

The old man's eyes flashed with a sharp light. He was pondering and making connections. Was the future really that terrible and complicated? It seemed there were wars and conflicts he was unaware of.

"We have come here because we have the power to protect us; otherwise, what are we doing here?"

"The great events of time cannot be changed, that is for beings below the highest. Such beings have long been able to overturn the past and present, reshape history, and reflect the heavens. With a decree issued, our coming here is only natural."

"These two must not be allowed to go unpunished. If they go to the heavens, they will..." "Be careful what you say!"

The four Dark Dao Ancestors came for Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao. When one of them spoke the key point, thunderbolts struck from all directions, lightning flashing and thunder roaring, hitting him with incredible force.

However, the lightning did not harm him, but another mysterious and unpredictable force appeared, silencing him completely. That was the power of cause and effect.

The secret he was about to reveal had a huge impact, and he immediately suffered a backlash, coughing up blood.

"No one can reverse the course of time. Any troublemaker will ultimately fail. You don't belong to this time and space, so you can never change anything." The First Emperor shook his head. If it only affected some minor cultivators and mortals, without affecting the past and present, and without getting involved in major events, he might be able to let it go after paying a sufficient price. But if it involved the Dao Ancestor, then it would be different.

"Enough with the nonsense, attack!" Another Dark Dao Ancestor roared and suddenly attacked the Three Emperors. A decree appeared above his head, bearing the backlash. Ye Fan coldly rebuked him and threw a punch. Although they were not beings from the same world, they had been born and fought each other in the same era. They could fight each other without being tainted by the great karma in the long river of time.

However, they all knew in their hearts that the so-called Dao Ancestor's reversal was just a cover-up. It was unrealistic to expect them to change anything. The real supreme plan was in the decree, and it had another purpose!

At this moment, chaos reigned in the arena. Wu Shi, the Empress, and Duan De also made their moves. Beings from the past, future, and present were all present, and the great battle shook the heavens and the earth, reverberating throughout the ages and the future.

The decrees brought by the Dark Dao Ancestors shone brightly, seemingly conveying some kind of message. The cycle of reincarnation in the arena suddenly erupted, as if some terrifying being was about to descend.

Shi Hao and the First Emperor's expressions turned solemn. They rushed forward, blocking the way with their bodies, and stood there, single-handedly preventing the Supreme Beings of the Four Ancient Lands from coming to kill them!

Wang Hongwu charged directly at the Old Man of Annihilation, intending to kill this last man as well. With a swift movement, the Emperor-Slaying Spear belonging to the Feather Emperor flew out from the sacrificial bowl and was grasped by him. In an instant, it pierced through the air. Furthermore, eight Supreme Enlightenment experts rushed out and joined the attack. The Old Man of Annihilation roared, revealing a huge wolf head with bull horns. Its red fur danced wildly, and it was extremely ferocious. With a thunderous crash, it blocked the attack from the Supreme Encirclement.

Then, it opened its blood-red maw and devoured everything in its path. This bite was truly heaven-devouring and earth-shattering, refining all things in the heavens. It was aimed at Wang Hongwu, whose strength was truly formidable. He had almost become an Immortal Emperor, had given birth to an Immortal Embryo, and had one foot already in the Dao Ancestor realm. One could imagine how terrifying his combat power would be.

Boom! The Nine Nether Hound swallowed everything nearby in one gulp, emitting a dark light and refining all tangible matter, but it did not harm Wang Hongwu. He stood in the origin node of the dark land, overlooking ancient history, and his whole body was in a state of dimensional ascension. The spear in his hand suddenly stabbed towards the World Destroyer in the future history.

Establish your origins in the past, and annihilate your future enemies!

This method is very troublesome. To hurt him, one would have to go back in time and invade the origin of a place. However, the Old Man of Destruction is no ordinary person. He has his own simple method to completely destroy this world, annihilating the past and future. This can still hurt the enemy and may even cause the opponent to suffer a huge spacetime explosion.

The moment this thought arose, the Old Man of Annihilation acted upon it. The enormous black horns on the wolf's head glowed, crashing into the dark land and drawing everything into the six gates of reincarnation behind him, using the power of the ancient underworld to harm the enemy.

In the past origin, Wang Hongwu sensed something but didn't care. With a wave of his hand, he seized an era, extending the life of this world, laying out a new history, writing the future, and stabilizing it again. He stepped out calmly. He also existed in the origin of all heavens and could seize eras. In terms of this kind of ability, even if the four emperors of the world sea were tied together, they couldn't compare to him.

"Netherworld Reincarnation, Nine Netherworlds and Six Paths!" Upon seeing this, the Old Man of Annihilation unleashed his divine power. The six gates behind him rotated, suddenly covering him, and then reopened. From them, six figures of the Old Man of Annihilation suddenly appeared, attacking Wang Hongwu simultaneously. Moreover, from behind each wolf's body, nine tails suddenly shot out, resembling nine true dragons, as black as ink, with ferocious dragon heads, opening their huge mouths, and baring their fangs, pouncing and binding him.

Fifty-four chains stretched across the sky, confining Wang Hongwu to a place of reincarnation. Then, the six Nine Nether Hounds roared, triggering the reincarnation here and reversing Wang Hongwu's state, causing his aura to drop continuously and weaken all the way, as if he was about to fall out of the Dao Ancestor's domain!
As Wang Hongwu sensed the Nine Nether Hound's killing move, he realized that after cooperating with the Ancient Underworld, he should also have his own pseudo-supreme methods, but they had not yet been revealed.

Although his aura was waning, he made no attempt to stop it. The system was in operation, transforming into a medicinal tree that took root within it, refining the great calamity. He condensed the calamity he had encountered into a seed of calamity, which he then planted directly into the history of the Old Man of Annihilation.

Even the Old Man of Annihilation was startled; his pupils contracted sharply as his own aura began to wane!

Did this same tactic also work on him?

He was forced to stop, but at this moment, Wang Hongwu seized the opportunity to attack, joining forces with the eight supreme beings to fight. The old man of destruction was forced to resist, and the battle became fierce, with blood and bones flying everywhere.

"The Calamity of the Past!" Endless calamity light burst forth from his palm as Wang Hongwu grasped the past, extracting all the scenes of the First Emperor, the Azure Emperor, the Hong Emperor, and the Feather Emperor when they suffered calamities, and condensing them into a Calamity Seed of the Fall of Emperors. This was originally a method of his system attack, but it had broken away from the fancy form of the past and transformed into a collision of the essential Dao.

Bang! The Old Man of Annihilation made a move, directly confronting this calamity seed. It was as if he were facing all the attacks of the Four Emperors when they were suffering calamities. Even the Dao Ancestor would perish and could not resist. But he was the strongest one after all, and he managed to survive the calamity. However, he had many injuries, a blood hole between his eyebrows, his body was cracked, his primordial spirit was ignited, and he was also cursed. With the four calamities combined and all the tribulations entering his body, his face looked rather unpleasant.

He began to doubt whether this was really a newly broken through Dao Ancestor. Although the strength in this field was indeed closely related to the system, this was still a bit outrageous. However, the other party's physical body was indeed strong enough to fight him with ease. It was no problem to say that he was the toughest person in the Dao Ancestor realm.

However, Wang Hongwu didn't waste words with him and launched a series of attacks. He activated the Imperial Law, and the figures of Shi Hao and the First Emperor appeared beside him, cooperating with him to attack. In an instant, the situation became that three Dao Ancestors, eight Supreme Beings, and eleven people were besieging the Old Man of Annihilation.

This situation made the future Dark Dao Ancestors' scalps tingle. No wonder God and the Desolate Heaven Emperor were able to change the course of the battle. Not to mention their individual combat strength, the combined power of their imperial laws alone was heaven-defying. Quantity had lost its meaning for them!
This is the key reason why the four ancient lands are so wary: what is their strange advantage? It's their sheer numbers, their immortality!
But now that someone has cracked it, how can we tolerate it?

It's impossible for them to grow up safely to the highest level!
Boom! In the end, in the fierce battle, the Old Man of Annihilation was shattered, but his primordial spirit was nowhere to be seen. After he exploded, the six portals behind him suddenly rotated, and the middle portal opened, and another him walked out intact, as if he had gone through reincarnation, his aura still at its peak.

"It's useless. My primordial spirit has entered the cycle of reincarnation. The Nine Netherworlds and Six Paths are not empty words. No matter how much you destroy, it's just a physical body. This is a futile effort." The Old Man of Annihilation said calmly. He was proficient in the destruction of the world and also in the cycle of reincarnation. The Nine Netherworld Hound had this advantage innately, and it also had something in common with the cycle of reincarnation that Wang Hongwu had mastered.

Just as all paths lead to the same destination, high-level fields are interconnected, differing only in name. For beings who reach that field, any path is correct. Perhaps in the end, they will find that everything is so familiar, as if it were yesterday. "You used the Emperor's Law." Wang Hongwu, however, was not swayed by it and directly exposed it. This guy had finally revealed his trump card.

"My imperial law is beyond your ability to break." The Old Man of Annihilation was neither ashamed nor angry. This was a pseudo-supreme technique he had evolved from the ultimate realm of the underworld, called the Nine Netherworlds and Six Paths, which had two effects.

One of them is the Nine Netherworld Undying Body: It can continuously share the injuries it currently suffers with the past and future in the cycle of reincarnation, so that each of its reincarnations can bear them together. The amount it shares is equal to the amount of power that the corresponding self can use to help it. It is an equal exchange.

The second is the Six Paths of Reincarnation: through reincarnation, various possibilities for the two sides to clash are generated. He can select the one that is most advantageous to him and imprint it into the present world, covering the future and gradually making it come true, causing real damage to the enemy.

After this method was developed, even the four ancient lands were extremely wary of him. In addition, his cultivation and achievements led them to consider promoting him to a higher position.

At this moment, the Emperor Law of the World Destroyer was activated, and his eyes reflected scenes of the future battles between the two, with victories and defeats, full of variables. He selected one of the more advantageous paths and transformed it into scenes that merged into the present world, affecting him and Wang Hongwu.

The two clashed again, and in the midst of the battle, the scene unconsciously shifted in the direction the camera was taking. The Old Man of Annihilation gradually gained the upper hand and even grasped some of Wang Hongwu's methods, all of which he had seen in his reincarnations!

"Interesting. Let me gather some information." Wang Hongwu's expression shifted, and he directly unleashed his Emperor Technique, his entire body disintegrating into countless Dao-character dragons and snakes, which directly merged into the body of the World Destroyer Elder.

Ok?
The Old Man of Destruction was taken aback. Where was he?

He briefly lost his target, with only ten people outside entangled with him, and his future also deviated, being reinterpreted based on Wang Hongwu's changes, evolving into possibilities related to this method.

So that's how it is. Wang Hongwu, who was parasitizing his body, became aware of this. He was acquiring information about the other party's imperial laws and quickly came to understand that he needed to rely on his own system to deal with and counter it.

The next moment, the Old Man of Annihilation let out a painful roar, and his head suddenly exploded. Wang Hongwu leaped out from within and slammed down with a punch, blasting away the rest of the Old Man's body.

Then the six doors turned, and another old man who had been destroying the world stepped out. He said coldly, "I have mastered the variations of your method, and it will be useless next time!"

"Heh, too late. I've already mastered your Imperial Law Transformation." Wang Hongwu didn't care. The next moment, however, he contracted violently, not physically, but at the level of spacetime. The past and future merged into the present, forming a unique primordial singularity!
At this moment, the old man of the world changed his expression slightly, because Wang Hongwu was no longer in the future of the Emperor's Law, only those ten avatars remained. He instantly realized that the other party had shrunk the future with the system, which was almost impossible. Only the Supreme Being could do such a thing!

At this moment, he finally understood what Hongdi meant by his words. Although this guy's system was not the type to kill head-on, it had no weaknesses. As long as he had the information, he could target the ancestors and restrain all laws. It was truly bizarre.

"Nine Netherworld Annihilation!"

With a roar, the Old Man of Annihilation unleashed his killing move. Black mist rose behind him, and his own body surged with dark light, condensing into a gigantic Nine Nether Beast Dharma Image. It swallowed the universe and shattered all realms with its claws, crashing down upon Wang Hongwu. Wang Hongwu, however, remained unmoved, protecting his ten avatars in front of him and blocking the attack.

Seeing this, the Old Man of Annihilation took to the air, merging with the Dao itself and unleashing a supreme attack. Countless universes collapsed, and the ancient realms were reduced to ashes. Furthermore, nine divine chains of order pierced through the universe, penetrating all realms and extracting their primordial power to fiercely attack Wang Hongwu.

The Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens! Wang Hongwu also unleashed a killing move, extracting the power of every heaven in the ancient era. Each heaven in the era was a small wheel, which, together with the vast ancient history, formed an even larger Wheel of Life and Death. With a roar, it blocked the nine chains and collided with the Old Man of Annihilation. They fought until the River of Time appeared and had to change course. The battle was so intense that it affected the past, present, and future.

As you can see, beams of light fly out one after another. Some of them manifested in the distant past, illuminating that vast world, while others radiate into the future, flowing through countless ages, with runes filling the sky.

However, these beams of light did not touch any living beings, nor did they actually change the course of the situation.

This was an earth-shattering battle. In the final showdown, the Nine Nether Hound fought desperately, and its roar resounded through the ages. The sound waves not only echoed in this world but also drifted across the long river of time, and many dimensions heard this terrifying sound.

Many people thought this was a cataclysmic event, the wrath of the heavens. Wang Hongwu also used his ultimate move, the Myriad Paths Fist, which reappeared, evolving into the Great Millstone of All Heavens, gathering the Dao of all the heavens throughout the ages. One after another, brilliant epochal trajectories burned and merged into his fists. This punch carried the power of all the heavens throughout the ages and slammed into the body of the Nine Nether Hound.

The other ten incarnations also launched fierce attacks, choosing self-destructive strikes.

puff!
With this final blow, the Elder of Annihilation's Dharma form exploded, while his true body was blasted into pieces and then shattered.

He was defeated, suffered repeated setbacks, and was no match for Wang Hongwu.

The Old Man of Annihilation suffered a calamity and once again used the Emperor's Law, attempting to reincarnate into his peak form. However, this time Wang Hongwu stopped him, reversing cause and effect, grafting the crystal-clear and dazzling causal threads onto himself. This reincarnation restored him to his peak, while the Old Man of Annihilation remained unchanged.

Seeing this, the Old Man of Annihilation frowned slightly. He wrapped the shattered bones and flesh together and reassembled them. He then consumed another Emperor Pill and recovered to his peak condition. However, this was only temporary. He only had one Emperor Pill left. Was there really any hope in this battle?
We've already lost!
But soon, he composed himself and faced Wang Hongwu again. However, at this moment, Shi Hao and the First Emperor blasted the Cycle of Reincarnation, interrupting the possibility of others coming to his aid, and also came to besiege him.

Now, the Old Man of Annihilation was completely overwhelmed and overwhelmed by the three of them. After a series of battles, he exploded once again. He tried to swallow the Emperor Pill, but Wang Hongwu once again manipulated cause and effect to take it away. He could only be suppressed unwillingly.

"You think my immortal embryonic state can't last long!" His primordial spirit was in the shape of a Nine Nether Hound, roaring and blazing with fire, glaring angrily. He had never been defeated, and even the Azure Emperor and the Hong Emperor respected him greatly, always addressing him as a senior. But now he had fallen to such a state, his life waning, and was being suppressed by three juniors.

The celestial embryo, that mysterious state, is indeed only temporary. Once the essence, energy, and spirit are depleted, it cannot be maintained. But that is meaningless, because he was defeated and could not defeat the three emperors.

"What a rebellious son!" Wang Hongwu shook his head, sighed, and put the offering bowl into the sacrificial vessel.

With this, all four Dark Emperors have fallen!
The supreme beings who attacked from the four ancient lands were all annihilated, and the four Dao Ancestors also fell into the bowl. The other side of the boundary sea was pacified, and there were no more troubles.

Upon witnessing this scene, the powerful beings who were about to arrive in the future paled in disbelief. Was the situation truly beyond redemption?

Are they here to die? What is the Supreme Being's true intention?
"The key lies in the Hall of Guidance!" At the critical moment, Ye Fan shouted out a sentence, and then the heavens and earth shook violently, and a calamity descended from the darkness, but he managed to stop it.

"Don't touch the corpse, let's borrow the passage to the Thirty-Three Heavens!" Duan De also uttered some minor details, but was engulfed by the light of the calamity, and his own body faded away.

Seeing this, Wang Hongwu and his two companions did not linger, but strode forward and arrived at the ultimate ancient land.

Here, sacred and radiant, ancient temples stand tall everywhere.

Upon closer inspection, something on Shi Hao's body glowed and vibrated; it was the rotten wooden box he had obtained years ago.

The box flew toward one of the ancient temples, the most magnificent Reception Temple, which possessed a strange power. The temple was radiant with light, and the tiles were all golden, making it sacred and imposing.

When the box flew into it and spun around, it revealed its true form: inside was a wooden temple, ancient and mysterious, exuding a sense of historical vicissitude, its antiquity revealing its extraordinary nature.

In the center of the temple, a ball of light enveloped a creature, shrouded in a misty haze. It sat there cross-legged, suddenly opening its eyes, giving off an incredibly mysterious aura.

The so-called Reception Hall is meant to welcome it back.

(End of this chapter)