The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 321 The Ten Masters Return to One: He's Sick

The high priests are engaged in civil war, and the supreme beings are constantly being shattered.

The sky at the source of the evolutionary path was stained with blood, and mottled strange phenomena were scattered. In the unbelievable situation where all seven people were being suppressed by one person, the golden high priest made a move and directly summoned the weapon of another sleeping ancestor!

That iron halberd was a weapon forged by the ancestor. It was pitted and dented from impacts, yet it exuded a chilling aura.

Such a weapon is so powerful that even the Great Dao Divine Chain cannot get close to it; it breaks completely on the outside, just like the progenitor. This is a deadly weapon that transcends the Dao.

"Master Bai, I no longer care to distinguish right from wrong. Today I will suppress you to prevent tragedy from befalling this land." As soon as he finished speaking, Master Jin made his move, wielding an iron halberd and striking towards Wang Hongwu, intending to obliterate him.

Normally speaking, the Sacrifice Dao has already surpassed the Immortal Emperor by half a step. Even if a single strike cannot defeat the Supreme Being, it is enough to severely injure them. Their weapons are naturally far more powerful than the Supreme Being's weapons, possessing the ability to suppress and even eternally silence living beings.

"It's just an ancestral weapon. Even if they were to appear in their true forms, they couldn't kill me, let alone a weapon?" Wang Hongwu shook his head. Holding the Emperor's Spear in one hand and the Heavenly Lord's Lamp above his head, he actually charged towards the Golden Lord who wielded the ancestral weapon!
At the same time, the Black Lord and the Gray Lord also moved, entering his body together. Together with the other ten fierce totems, they evolved into an unparalleled battle body. With one step, he became the carrier of the four supreme evolutionary paths and the embodiment of the source of the Great Thousand World Order!

Black blood, gray mist, white light, and Tai Sui—the four major spectra rotated, surrounding the Spear of God as it thrust out with great force. Vines formed from pollen and ancestral seeds entwined around it, and it clashed violently with the iron halberd cleaved down by the Golden Lord.

Clang! With a loud bang, the spears clashed. Wang Hongwu did not retreat an inch and steadily blocked the attack. On the contrary, the gold master, who should have had the advantage, was forced back. His arms went numb and shattered, his body convulsed, and his expression changed.

"He can actually withstand the sacrificial artifact head-on!" Upon seeing this, the other ancestors were all horrified. This method was too powerful. Was the White Lord really going to reach a level of supreme power that was unprecedented? But this shouldn't be the case, because he had already reached the limit of advancement and there was no way to break through any further!
The other six high priests also understood some things. He enhanced his physique by nurturing a vast world within his body and increased his combat power by layering the sources of evolution. The current White Lord was too strong and had tasted the sweetness of seizing the power of the other high priests. It was impossible for him to stop now.

However, the White Lord in their eyes had no intention of wasting words. His entire body radiated a dazzling white holy light, illuminating eternity and shattering immortality. His spearhead, originating from ancient history, pierced through the endless distant future, while simultaneously attacking the other six high priests.

*Puff puff puff!* A series of explosions rang out, and some of the Supreme Beings disintegrated on the spot, pierced by the spearhead. Then, a scroll fell from the Heavenly Lamp and ignited them, plunging them into a state of erosion by the Origin Mother Gold. Their own evolutionary paths were affected, and a white tinge appeared.

"His ominous substance is so strong?" The chief priests were shocked and furious. They had always been the ones corrupting others with the ten-colored substance, but they never expected to be corrupted by their own people.

Suddenly, Wang Hongwu reached out with his other hand, his palm reaching out towards the endless, distant future. A patch of light and shadow emerged from it, and new epochal laws and evolutionary power surged forth, transforming into a large cauldron that crashed down and smashed a high priest to pieces.

This method involves using a system of supernatural and mysterious means to steal the Dao and laws of the future era; at the same time, the other six chief priests work together, and all sorts of incredible methods emerge.

The purple-robed high priest chanted Wang Hongwu's white name, then made a sweeping motion across the void, erasing his true name and reducing him to nothingness that had never been born! Furthermore, this power intensified, permeating the path of evolution and even the very origin of existence.

Then, the blue high priest burst forth with an eerie aura, his body twisting and transforming into a form similar to Wang Hongwu, and then into the form of the black and gray high priests. Three turbulent ripples appeared around him, which was actually stealing the echoes of existence from all realms, changing all beings' understanding of the three paths of evolution, deceiving everyone, and making everyone believe that he was the incarnation of the three paths of evolution, and briefly stealing some of the power.

His imperial law affected Wang Hongwu, weakening the White Lord in conjunction with the Purple Lord; the Red Priest was not idle either, unleashing a terrible curse, and clumps of red hair began to appear on Wang Hongwu's body. Not only him, but also in the heavens and earth, in the air currents and essence, and even in the omnipresent Dao, terrible red hair grew.

In an instant, all worlds turned blood-red, the sky and earth were crimson, and mist and rain poured down, all because the power of the curse was unleashed; the Azure Lord, the Brown Lord, the Silver Lord, and the Gold Lord also made their moves, some evolving bronze coffins to bury emperors and bury the heavens, some transforming their bodies into rust to corrode the origin, some swallowing and spitting out the River of Souls to bring down ancient emperors, and some guiding golden mist fists to shatter the path of evolution.

Various great powers emanated from them, and their combined combat strength far exceeded that of the seven high priests fighting alone. Even the Lord of the Guiding Hall looked solemn. In fact, during the clashes, the evolutionary paths and figures of the seven people faintly overlapped, showing a tendency to become one person. Whenever this happened, their killing power would surge.

Faced with the overwhelming imperial laws, Wang Hongwu directly used the imperial laws to enlighten his other self. With a turn of the causal wheel behind him, he transferred the overwhelming killing power to his body. Then, he used the system to extract the calamity seed and the disease, and directly condensed this other self of the seven imperial laws cursed into a calamity disease seed.

The seven high priests were somewhat bewildered. Were they to be sacrificed? Then, Wang Hongwu flicked his finger, and the seed containing the imperial power of the eight high priests fell into their history!

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; to kill misfortune with misfortune.

The next moment, the seven high priests exploded simultaneously. Affected by this attack, they were all subjected to the combined attack of the seven people and the White Lord's power, leaving them in a very sorry state.

When they recovered, the White Lord had already transformed into another form. He led them to his sacrificial ground, which was not the former White Demon Cave, but a heavenly kingdom, a sanctuary of light.

Then, the Kingdom of Heaven descended upon him, and Wang Hongwu was clad in pure white battle robes and armor. As sacred hymns flowed down, countless white holy lights around him transformed into many winged angels, both male and female, who swirled around him, singing hymns and verses. With each step he took, the white pure land expanded, forcefully pushing back the seven people.

They were all ominous substances, but what the Seven Lords couldn't understand was how they became so sacred in the hands of the White Lord, completely opposite to their own.

"Is this the change after he seized the power of the two supreme paths? Could it be that with ten fruit positions, he can really break through?" At this moment, even the Gold Master was shaken, his expression changing constantly. He even had a desire to join the White Master, he really wanted to break through.

Unfortunately, he cannot, and the White Lord will not allow it; there can only be one vessel for the unification of the ten Lords.

"It's time to end this. You've witnessed the evolutionary path of this generation of white matter, and your lives have not been in vain."

Wang Hongwu glanced at them, and a sacred light emanated from every pore of his body, like the radiance of a full moon enveloping his entire body. Finally, it condensed on his palm, changing shape countless times. Each shape exhaled divine syllables, converging into a torrent of sacrificial texts, and then he stretched out his palm.

In the next instant, the entire universe, any time and space, any realm, any concept or element, existing or not, was grasped in one hand.

This hand is omnipresent, all-encompassing, and all-inclusive; it is the ultimate evolution of the white matter evolutionary path—the hand of God!
*Pfft! Pfft!* In an instant, the seven high priests were crushed by this one hand.

They couldn't even return to the plateau to recreate it; that hand bound them firmly here, for God's glory is everywhere.

The Lord of the Temple then saw the seven high priests being shattered time and time again, struggling in the pure white hands of God.

This is the hand of mercy, and also the hand of destruction. It holds the authority of the gods and can bestow glory upon them. The birth and death of all things, and the creation of the world, are all within a single thought. This is God, an emperor who surpasses even the heavens.

Under these circumstances, the Crimson Lord was the first to succumb and was suppressed, falling to the side. Then came the Brown Lord. Both of them were enveloped in holy light and pressed to the ground by white palms. They tried to struggle again, but the Lord of the Guiding Hall arrived. With one sword and one person, he made them behave.

With two of the seven leaders gone, the remaining five found it increasingly difficult to resist.

"Why struggle? Why struggle so hard? I will take you to the sacrificial ceremony."

Then, Wang Hongwu moved again. The primordial matter spread outward, and everywhere was filled with white holy light like a sea, as if the evil land was about to be transformed into a pure land. Then, he used another great technique of the white evolution path, which was the ultimate sublimation of the Holy Fist from before.

Heaven above, hell below, one punch, and I reign supreme!

At this moment, in everyone's eyes, Wang Hongwu stood with the heavens above his head and the earth beneath his feet, as if he were standing between heaven and hell, with hell beneath his feet and heaven supporting him, unleashing this unparalleled Heavenly Fist.

One punch, transcending heaven, delivers the highest rebirth.

The five high priests, already dealing with the calamity and influenced by the Hand of God, were dealt another heavy blow and instantly shattered. Apart from the main figure, the remaining four reappeared only to be shattered again and were given special attention.

The Fist of Heaven, the Hand of God—this was the power and imperial law of the current White Lord. Now unleashed, further amplified by the vast world within his body and the four sources of evolution, it was naturally terrifying beyond compare. The Purple Lord, unable to withstand it, screamed and was suppressed within the fist's light; the Silver Lord struggled, but was pierced by the flying Spear of God, pinned there, unable to move; the Azure Lord roared, attempting to conjure the legendary Three-Life Coffin to fight back, but was directly enveloped by the Lamp of Heaven, trapped inside.

Only Lan Zhu managed to evade the attack by relying on the system's supernatural abilities and stealing the evolution path of the Hall Master of Guidance. He hoped to avoid being covered by the fist light, but unfortunately, Wang Hongwu noticed and slapped him so hard that he exploded into the void of history. When he finally reappeared, he was already suppressed.

Four people were taken down in a row, and the scene was desolate. Of the seven chief priests, only the Golden Lord, protected by the ancestral weapon, was still struggling to hold on.

Earlier, when Wang Hongwu broke through, the other chief priests were still wondering if he could rival the gold master. Now no one is thinking about this anymore, because one gold master is not enough for him to fight. Even if seven are tied together, they will be suppressed!
"The Emperor has fallen!" At this point, the Golden Lord naturally could not surrender. He charged again with his spear, the still-burning spots of imperial blood on it burning. These were left by the supreme beings who died under this iron rod many eras ago, revealing the desolation of those past eras.

This scene is something that people in the vast world cannot see. Otherwise, the aura and the field of energy alone would be enough to cause countless people to collapse and be destroyed in an instant. For living beings, no matter how strong they are, they cannot look directly at creatures at the end of the road.

"Tai Sui." Wang Hongwu recited the true name of the system, and the image of burning lamps appeared on the vast supreme spectrum behind him. Under the light, everything was degenerating into a state of non-existence. The falling iron halberd remained unchanged, but the golden master holding the halberd was affected. His aura continued to drop, as if he was about to be reduced from a celestial emperor back to a mortal embryo.

Then, the three major ailments of Black Blood Burning the Path, Gray Mist Eternal Silence, and White Fiend Withering and Flourishing appeared on the Golden Master's body at the same time, causing him to cough up blood. During this process, the inexplicable ailments eroded his body, and the Origin Mother Gold was spreading. The metallic luster quickly spread to the ends of his arms. He gritted his teeth, being ruthless enough to himself, and abandoned it all. Accompanied by blood and fire, he groaned and staggered away.

But what's terrifying is that although the gold master reassembled his body in the distance, he left behind a portion of the primordial gold in the original location. Wang Hongwu then gathered it into his body. Only then did he realize that it was not as simple as his physical body being destroyed. His primordial spirit was also missing a corresponding part. Even though he tried to recover and reshape his form and spirit, he ultimately lost the corresponding part of the origin, and his cultivation level dropped directly!

This is equivalent to one's own existence being gradually weakened, with fewer and fewer recurring instances, until it is all transformed into the origin mother metal.

At the same time, terrifying flames erupted from the iron halberd, and the power of the sacrificial path was activated, spreading out a strange flame that caused the nearby evolution paths to burn fiercely, bursting like bubbles and dissipating like colorful mist.

This is the difference between sacrificing to the Way and the Supreme Being. Sacrificing to the Way results in a terrifying and boundless sacrificial fire that can burn even the path of evolution and bring eternal silence to the Supreme Being.

However, to the astonishment of the other chief priests, Wang Hongwu grabbed the iron halberd. The flames of the sacrificial fire spreading from it were all absorbed by the pollen road ancestor. He seized the sacrificial weapon and slashed at the reappearing Golden Master.

*Poof!* Without any ability to resist, the sugar daddy was instantly split in two, cut off on the spot. His own evolutionary path was ignited and boiling, on the verge of burning and collapsing!
The chief priest is indestructible by Heaven and impossible to bury on Earth. Whenever someone remembers him, he will reappear in the world. Such a being has severed the Great Way and has no way forward, yet he himself is eternally immortal, standing on the precipice of the Way. He is transcendent and indelible, but the fire of the sacrificial Way can ignite him and drag him into the abyss of suffering.

"You actually took care of all seven of them by yourself?" The Lord of the Guiding Hall was quite incredulous. There were ten high priests in the Calamity Land! Yet they were all wiped out by one person here!

"Since I dare to do it, I will surely succeed." Wang Hongwu said nothing more, put away the sacrificial bowl, and reappeared on the altar to begin to enlighten the remaining seven chief priests.

"White Lord, do you really intend to commit annihilation today?!" the seven high priests questioned, filled with resentment. The invincible Supreme Lord of Calamity had not died in battle, but had fallen at the hands of his own people.

They were invincible in external battles, but who would have thought they would fall victim to internal strife?

“How could it be extinction? I will take you with me to the sacrificial ceremony. This is eternity. You will live forever in my heart, shining brightly.”

Wang Hongwu was surprised. "Didn't you always say that Ecuador and Tu are one family, that we are all family members, and that we are all brothers of ill omen?"

Why do people complain about making sacrifices for their brothers or family now?

He was heartbroken by this, so he used the Imperial Law to create several other versions of himself to enlighten these seven unworthy descendants.

He also used the sacrificial weapons left behind by the ancestor, transforming them into empowering forces. He used the sacrificial fire to accelerate the operation of the imperial laws, completely suppressing them.

Gradually, a white mark appeared on the evolutionary path of the seven high priests, and then it was covered by the Origin Mother Gold, tainted by that substance, and began to be assimilated.

After an unknown amount of time, the seven calmed down and stopped struggling. A familiar outline appeared in their eyes: pure white, holy, lofty and noble. It was God, the white king.

Behind Wang Hongwu, seven evolution paths of different colors suddenly appeared.

He finally achieved his goal, acquiring ten ominous substances and ten high priestly positions, and sought to reach the pinnacle of sublimation. The Tai Sui system was also changing, evolving into the remaining seven major ailments.

The ten major ailments and ten major calamities returned to their proper places, and the matter was unified into the true primordial matter, finally giving rise to a mysterious and profound change on this altar.

Something's not right?

At this moment, even the Lord of the Reception Hall noticed that things were getting strange. The black altar looked particularly eerie under the cold night sky, and it was stained with blood, but it had long since dried and turned into black marks.

The God stood at the very center of the altar, his entire body enveloped in ten-colored matter. From afar, he looked like a feathered robe fluttering in the wind. The origin of all things, the beginning of all things, the creation of heaven and earth, all originated from him; all order and fragments of the Great Dao manifested and intertwined into a tangible form, resonating with him.

Gradually, Wang Hongwu's figure blurred, and he felt a sense of disorientation. Fragmented images surged forth from the altar, carrying him to an unknown and unknowable place.

"Is this a memory, or the altar's past?"

In the flow of his consciousness, he arrived at the very end of that distant time, a plateau with a small courtyard in the center, beside a lake.

Wang Hongwu stepped into the courtyard and looked around with some surprise. He discovered a lotus growing in the lake, emitting a delicate fragrance, which was very similar to the Lotus of Eternal Reincarnation he had seen before.

In the courtyard, a rough stone millstone caught his attention. It was the millstone that Huang held, and it was also a key factor in the evolution of his Myriad Paths Fist. Beside it, a stone zither was placed quietly.

"I wonder where this stone zither has fallen." Wang Hongwu sighed. He then saw a stove used for boiling water next to it, which was the Time Furnace. Behind it was a flower that had withered and turned into seeds, which then began to grow again. That was the Pollen Road Ancestor Seed.

Everything felt so familiar, yet so strange.

"Is this the source?"

Wang Hongwu sat down in front of the stone zither, and then the ten substances in his body seemed to reach a certain critical point, suddenly merging and erupting, using the Origin Mother Gold as a carrier, evolving towards an extreme point that transcends the highest realm.

This caused changes in his own system, resulting in black blood flowing from his mouth and nose, gray mist swirling around his body, and he even started coughing!
He created the Tai Sui system, bearing the ancient diseases and ominous calamities on his own body. This was an inevitable path, and he wanted to break through to the top through it. However, he then rotted, and various problems burst forth from his body, which were the effects of the ten major diseases and calamities.

Then, after a wave that even made the Celestial Emperor's heart tremble, thick red hair suddenly grew on his body, his eye sockets showed silvery whites, black blood began to flow from his mouth, nose, and eyes, his hair began to be covered with a layer of purple crystals, and gray mist also spread around his body. His whole person exuded the most intense eerie aura, which was extremely terrifying.

He fell ill in this courtyard.

(End of this chapter)