The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 317 The Road Ends, One Ascends to the Supreme Throne; A Fellow Daoist's Call Reflects the Passing of Time (Taking a day off tomorrow)
All ages shine, the vast world is shaken, and a brilliant path of evolution spreads and expands throughout history.

Spanning the past and future, transcending the cycles of time, constantly evolving and expanding in dimension, it has arrived at a realm that transcends concepts such as time, space, and history.

Here, one magnificent path of evolution after another unfolds, the source of the invincible system across all ages, and forming one ceiling after another, suppressing countless successors.

From a distance, they look like circular spectra, each containing a flowing river of time, signifying their simultaneous existence at various points in spacetime, never weakening, and thus becoming eternally unaffected.

One direction, corresponding to the heavens, is surrounded by ten layers of supreme spectrum, but eight of them are already extremely dim and almost disappeared. The remaining two are also drifting like candles in the wind, constantly being eroded and affected by the nine-colored spectrum of another region, which belongs to the Calamity Land.

Now, a new supreme spectrum has risen in that area, pure white with a metallic ring around it, continuously radiating holy light outwards.

"A new Supreme?" In an instant, the two remaining Immortal Emperors of the Heavenly Realm sensed it. Meng Hai, the master of the Three Artifacts, and Luo Di, the Supreme Emperor of All Spirits, both looked towards the direction of the Calamity Land. Just as one Supreme was silenced, another had already filled the void. This was truly troublesome.

However, for some reason, the two felt that there was a trace of familiarity in that dazzling holy light.

Who is it? Meng Hai's expression shifted slightly, but then he saw Luo Di's eyes widen as he sensed something familiar. He stared intently at the circle of white holy light and murmured, "It's him?"

At the same time, in the vast world beyond the heavens and the land of calamity, two spectra also hung high, belonging to the Lord of the Hall of Guidance and the Desolate Emperor. They also sensed the change, that a new supreme being had been born.

The Lord of the Reception Hall, who was crossing the sacrificial sea, paused slightly. He noticed a familiar trace in the white holy light, as if it was intentionally meant for him to sense. He then looked back at the past and found entirely new changes in history.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield outside the myriad worlds, a seed in Desolate's hand suddenly lit up and became somewhat scalding hot.

"It seems to be going smoothly." He smiled confidently, his gaze becoming even sharper. With a wave of his imperial sword, the scroll of eternal heavens unfolded, and he single-handedly suppressed this ancestral battlefield.

Wow!

In an instant, boundless waves surged across the entire land of Calamity, as if the river of time was sweeping through it. The entire sky was collapsing, and the dark heavens could not withstand the aura of the newly appointed high priest, and were about to completely disintegrate!
"This newly promoted fellow Daoist is quite remarkable." The red-robed high priest's expression gradually turned serious. He sensed a terrifying threat emerging. Upon breaking through, that person had reached an unbelievable realm, actually catching up with his predecessors and heading towards the end of the supreme realm!
The gray high priest was also somewhat surprised, having never seen such an existence before. If the highest level is the strongest, could it be that it can directly rival the strongest golden level?

Beneath the main tree, the white coffin rose with a roar, reflecting a dazzling holy light.

In an instant, Dao patterns appeared around everyone, resonating with and submitting to the rules and Dao trajectories they had mastered and comprehended, bowing down to that person; even the bodies of the Dao Ancestors blurred, their evolutionary paths "manifested" and they worshipped.

A new, supreme celestial canopy rose before the eyes of the people, enveloping the source of the white evolutionary path and becoming a brand new ceiling.

"He succeeded, a new Supreme, the White High Priest." In the land of Calamity, a Dao Ancestor watched all this with a complex expression, a mixture of longing and envy.

However, no one dared to gaze at that evolutionary path for too long, because they themselves would be affected and assimilated!

Some ominous creatures were so engrossed in watching that they sensed the Daoist essence and were instantly assimilated into the path of evolution!

Their own scriptures and doctrines have been transformed into bricks and tiles embedded in that new path of evolution, causing more ominous creatures to tremble. Clearly, this white priest is more bizarre and terrifying than the other priests.

Gradually, a human-shaped outline appeared in the sky, with white holy light boiling around its body. It was like a holy furnace burning fiercely, with strands of holy light forming streams of fire and swirling winds, tracing the path of the Dao, becoming increasingly mysterious and unpredictable.

At this moment, every move he made was in accordance with the laws of nature, transcending the so-called Great Way. Even his face became blurred, and no one could look directly at him.

As Wang Hongwu felt his own posture, he entered another dimension. Spacetime formed a ring outside his body, with the past and future coexisting. History appeared before him as a flat book, which he could freely flip through and traverse. All sorts of concepts and illusory things were made concrete in this dimension, becoming things that could be touched and influenced.

Just like the various basic concepts such as systems, the vast world, the ages of history, nothingness, and light, he can occupy and influence them. This is the basic quality of supreme beings. When they fight, it is in this area, which can also be called 'beyond all worlds'.

The supreme battle is essentially a conquest of the Great Dao system, which naturally involves the history and concepts covered by the system, resulting in various changes.

"After millions of cycles of reincarnation in the mortal world, today we establish our path and ascend to the highest height."

At this moment, Wang Hongwu's emotions surged, and a thick fog enveloped him. He seemed to be eternal, existing in ancient history. The Tai Sui system was vast and boundless, with the imperial aura boundless. Symbols of realms such as Burning Lamp, Ascending to the Throne, Dao Embryo, Yang God, Ten Thousand Years, Great Awakening, Primordial Beginning, and Freedom appeared all at once, transforming into a magnificent imperial throne that lifted him up. Like the Great Dao, it was omnipresent, illuminating all heavens and shining on all worlds.

All sorts of feelings and thoughts converged into a smile from beyond all worlds: "Fellow Daoists, I've kept you waiting."

Sorry for the wait!
In short, it transcends time and resonates through countless cycles of reincarnation.

In the past, the ten supreme beings of the heavens, amidst their laughter and conversation, suddenly became solemn and looked at the God at the victory banquet. He smiled leisurely and raised his glass to them from afar: Fellow Daoists, you have been waiting for a long time!
"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Tai Sui, and God the Heavenly Lord." The ten supreme beings bowed respectfully in the past, all understanding that the eleventh level of supreme evolutionary civilization had reached its culmination.

Such beings exist in the past, the future, and the present; their meeting is an inevitable historical event.

In the ancient ancestral hall of the ultimate land, the primordial spirit of the Hall Master of the Hall of Guidance was vaguely recalling the past heavens when he saw Wang Hongwu suddenly grow taller and raise his head as if ascending to heaven. He smiled at him and said, "Fellow Daoist, I've kept you waiting."

"So it was you?!" The Hall Master of the Guiding Hall was startled, but then understood and returned to his perfect state. He cupped his hands in greeting and said, "Emperor Gu, greetings, fellow Daoist."

In the past, in the river of time, Shi Hao severed the ages with a single sword, leaving behind a perfect world. Suddenly, he turned around and saw a figure going against the current, smiling slightly at him, "Fellow Daoist, I've kept you waiting."

"I have been waiting for a long time." Huang, with a smile on his face, slowly turned around, pointed his sword at the sky, and charged towards the land of calamity.

At the same time, Wang Hongwu's figure appeared in every corner of the River of Time. Even in the myriad worlds that he had absorbed into his body, his figure was reflected. These were ancient places where he had once had his past and where he had left his achievements.

He also met Ye Fan, Duan De, and their six companions and dog who were searching for the traces of the myriad worlds. He smiled slightly, pointed a finger, which transformed into a Dao trace and entered their bodies, informing them of the current situation and telling them that they no longer needed to search for the myriad worlds.

The next moment, the figure of the 'White Priest' also appeared in the history of the Evil Land, and the ears of each priest heard the words, "Fellow Daoist, you have been waiting for a long time."

Then the remaining seven high priests looked out from history, nodded and said, "Congratulations, fellow Daoist, on your ascension to the position of high priest, illuminating all the heavens!"

Advertisements spread throughout the world, a new emperor ascends the throne.

The Dao is supreme, illuminating all the heavens!
This is the radiance belonging to all living beings at the end of the road, becoming the source of an evolutionary path, a ceiling.

Looking down at the vast and desolate land, Wang Hongwu saw his own white race. He suddenly stepped down, and pure white ripples spread out from the originally transparent void. At first, there was only a small ripple, but it grew larger and larger until it covered the entire white race, changing the ecology and appearance of that world.

Between heaven and earth, holy light and clouds billowed, and the aftershocks of divine power were everywhere, sending chills down everyone's spines. Yet, from the void, a sacred hymn, seemingly both divine and demonic, both a prayer and a fall, both sorrowful and joyful, resounded:
The darkness of the land of peril, the despair that spreads from the edge of the plateau.

Through the Lord, enter the white kingdom of heaven.

Through the Lord, enter the sanctuary of peace.

The light of eternal day, the mercy that descends from the shepherd's hand.

Worship the Lord, and enter the eternally holy paradise. Worship the Lord, and enter the everlasting civilization of peace.

From this day forward, the Lord becomes the only one.

The Lord is the King of all existence, and will always be so.

It is the beginning, it is the end, all was created by Him; outside His flawless heart, the Lamb speaks, echoing through the ages, together inscribing the sacred name of the highest end:
Light and darkness are one, Lord of the burial pit, White Priest, King of the Evil Land, Lord of the Kingdom of Heaven, Eternal One, Supreme Ruler, God who shines throughout the world!
Amidst endless hymns, the world of the White Race was reshaped into a magnificent heavenly sanctuary, surrounded by angels and haunted by the Holy Spirit; even the matter within the original race itself underwent a transformation.

"White Lord, Holy Lord, we are all Your lambs." One by one, the beings of the white race, from the Dao Ancestor to the human race, were all transformed by this white holy light. The strength of each person improved by a lot, but at the same time, the figure of Wang Hongwu appeared in their eyes. This was the Supreme One radiating from the source of the evolutionary path, directly affecting the entire race, enlightening them all, and turning them into others.

In the future, any creature that touches the white evolutionary path will be naturally enlightened by this system, directly severing the roots of an ominous race.

"So powerful. Why does the new White High Priest give me the feeling that he is far more powerful than the other High Priests?"

The other Dark Dao Ancestors exchanged glances, noticing the difference; this White Lord seemed far too powerful.

Just then, the two chief priests, one in gray and one in red, arrived beside Wang Hongwu with strange expressions, seemingly eager to know his current strength.

"Fellow Daoist, where have you reached now?" The Gray Mist High Priest couldn't contain himself and asked first, only to hear Wang Hongwu's ethereal and otherworldly voice, as if it came from the endlessly distant heavens: "Reaching the highest peak, the road ends and one awaits sublimation."

what? !

Upon hearing this, the two high priests were greatly shocked. Reaching the peak level in a single breakthrough? This was too terrifying and too bizarre, leaving them speechless.

For Wang Hongwu, this was normal. He had accumulated so much in the Dao Ancestor realm and broken through the eight-fold ceiling. If he didn't have this level of skill, wouldn't it be a waste of time?

"Fellow Daoist, please enlighten me." The red-robed high priest was much more direct, wanting to weigh the new high priest's abilities. After all, no one would easily believe that someone could surpass them, the veterans, right from the start.

"Count me in." The Gray Mist High Priest also became interested, but Wang Hongwu smiled slightly and extended a hand, saying, "Please."

His posture was casual and composed, making it seem effortless for him to fight two opponents at once.

The high priest of the gray fog didn't care. He simply raised his hand and began to inscribe a sacrificial text in the void. As the high priest, he was naturally an unparalleled being in ancient history, who could not be fathomed or traced back to his origins. His handwriting was terrifying, capable of killing all spirits and tracing back to the heavens of eternity. When the sacrificial text was finished, it crashed down on Wang Hongwu.

The red priest pointed a finger, seemingly simple and unadorned, but in fact, the power of this finger was reshaping time, piercing through the years, and heading towards the end of a certain path of evolution, or rather, the origin of a priest, attacking the history of King Hongwu.

Only after both of them made their moves did Wang Hongwu calmly respond, his body suddenly radiating intense holy light, like the only true god in this universe.

With his intervention, a surge of holy light erupted, and from within that intense radiance emerged countless poems—magnificent hymns, texts belonging to the Book of Genesis.

It was still just a hand, its five fingers spread as if embracing heaven and earth. White matter, accompanied by boundless light, condensed into a giant palm, seemingly opening up space and time, creating all things, and establishing an era. "Let there be light," it said; "Let you fall into the dust," it said.

The Lord said, “Let there be light,” and there was light in the world.

Hymns flowed, hymns resounded, and amidst the light, the vast world trembled. The dark heavens disintegrated, and the depths of the Calamity Land cracked, causing a terrifying cataclysm. This sound echoed in the Calamity Land, shaking many dark universes and reaching the vast world.

With a single palm strike, the finger beam was extinguished, the sacrificial inscription shattered, and the palm steadily descended upon the two chief priests. The sound was deafening, the tremor of the Dao, the murmur of the order of heaven and earth, the submission and homage of all heavens to that emperor, and the worship of all ages to one person.

Rumble!
Throughout the myriad realms, that person's figure appeared simultaneously, shaking all living beings of the past and present. At this moment, the eyes of all the Dao Ancestors in the Calamity Land were bleeding, and tears of blood were flowing. Even though that battle was outside the myriad realms and blocked by the long river of time, its aftershocks still spread out, causing fear.

They all understood that this was the result of isolation; the real battle was too far away, outside the world, otherwise everyone who witnessed it would die.

When all the glitz and glamour faded, and the true results of the battle were revealed, everyone was shocked.

Because the white priest remained standing calmly with his hands behind his back, his steps unchanged, while the hand he had extended earlier pressed down on the red and gray priests, forcing them to bend over and unable to lift their heads!
One hand suppressed the two high priests!
Such a posture is earth-shattering and can be described as defying the heavens.

"This?!" The other seven high priests, who had not yet appeared but were silently observing the battle, stood up simultaneously, their expressions solemn and astonished.

The newly promoted White Lord is extraordinary. He broke through to the peak and single-handedly suppressed two supreme beings. His combat power directly ranks among the strongest of all the high priests in history!
“I admit it.” Seeing that all the high priests were looking over, Wang Hongwu released his hand. The two high priests, Red and Gray, stood up, exchanged a glance, and were not angry. After all, it was something they had to consider. Right now, they just found it unbelievable. If there really was such a powerful high priest, it would be a good thing for E'tu.

"Lord White, the Ancestor is already waiting for you, he has important matters to instruct you on."

Soon, the High Priest of Amethyst appeared, intending to lead Wang Hongwu to meet the true ominous ruler, the mysterious progenitor.

In their view, the progenitor was already the ultimate limit above the infinite universe, the strongest in the past, present, and future, with no realm to climb to.

At the edge of the plateau, the Ancestor had already appeared there, still as a projection. His true form was fighting against the Desolate Emperor. He turned to look at Wang Hongwu and nodded slightly.

Everything that had just happened could not escape his eyes. Knowing that such a high priest had been born, he was quite satisfied and exclaimed, "After so many years, another seed like this has finally appeared. His supreme realm has even surpassed ours."

"That's good. That way, if something unexpected happens during our war against the wilderness, you can step in and protect the tribe."

The ancestor valued him so much?
The other high priests' expressions changed slightly, and they thought of that person again, wondering, "Ancestor, even if all of you joined forces, you still couldn't do anything to that person?"

"It's not that we can't do anything about it, but we need a balance. We need to verify something from him, because that person received the coffin we released, and we want to see the changes in him," the Ancestor said quietly, explaining the reason.

Only then did everyone realize that the three-layered coffin, the bronze coffin of three generations, contained the remains of a person buried on the plateau. The ancestor had studied it for many years, deduced the name of the bronze coffin, and had various associations, but after countless years and eras, he still found nothing. Later, he let the coffin be lost, hoping to see if others had found anything or if the bronze coffin was unusual, but they were disappointed.

"Now it seems that the existence of the Great Priest is the person buried in the bronze coffin. Did he have three lives? Did he die after three lives, or may he reappear after his three lives? The terrifying fog makes it impossible for us to see clearly." At this moment, the projection of another ancestor also appeared, bloody and carrying a terrifying aura.

All their power originated from the owner of that bronze coffin.

Back then, they rode coffins into the plateau, replacing the bronze coffins, and buried them in the harsh soil, thus creating the invincible ancestral body. How could they not be wary and aweful of that mysterious existence? They desperately wanted to know everything about him!
Unfortunately, when they entered the depths of the plateau, although they buried themselves under the soil, they immediately fell into a deep sleep. They only remembered these things, and the past had turned to ashes. In fact, their true past lives died on that very day and were corrupted by a strange power. Only after their physical bodies regained spiritual power did they emerge as the Ten Ancestors.

Wang Hongwu knew that the original ancestors had all died, and in their place were newly born, strange true spirits, accompanying the already ominous physical bodies.

The source of all power, the origin of the bizarre birth, comes from the pit where the bronze coffin was buried and the plateau.

At this moment, the two ancestral projections did not say anything more, but simply said, "Back then, during the Great Sacrifice of the Heavens, there was a fish that escaped the net. Now, he has appeared in the sacrificial sea outside the Calamity Land. Capture him and see if you can use him to bypass the ten-person limit of the chief priest."

(End of this chapter)