The Great Ruler: Starting from the Dark Ages

Chapter 99 Duan De's Astonishment

Time flies, and years pass by. In the blink of an eye, thousands of years have passed.

As the white horse galloped freely, those years flowed like water to the east, or like an arrow shot from a bow, never to return, never to be contained.

Di Que, the new emperor, after nearly ten thousand years of dominating the human world, finally passed away.

During his lifetime, he widely spread Taoist teachings and left behind a lineage of successors.

He was a being who had lived two lives, and his lifespan had already been extended to a very long time. Now, even as the Emperor, he could not have a long lifespan like other great emperors.

Even if an elixir of immortality existed, it might not be able to grant him another lifetime; at most, it could only add a few thousand years to his lifespan.

In fact, someone from the Heavenly Court had tried to communicate with Di Que, but Di Que ultimately rejected the offer and chose to transform into a Daoist.

Before he attained enlightenment, he once again clashed with the Heavenly Emperor.

Last time, when the two competed in their understanding of the Great Dao, Di Que was quickly defeated. This time, however, Di Que truly fought Xu He.

No one knows how this battle of the ultimate gods ended.
Perhaps it was to save face for the new emperor that the Heavenly Emperor sealed off the battlefield, preventing even the Supreme Being of the Forbidden Zone from seeing it.

In the end, Di Que repeatedly admitted that he was not as skilled as others and lamented the gap in skill.

This did not surprise anyone.

……

Another ten thousand years passed, and Di Que's suppression of the Great Dao dissipated, even the traces of the Dao were erased.

That same year, Duan De awoke once again.

A large grave, a fat hand tearing open the earth, and then a figure emerges.

In this life, Duan De still possesses his previous memories, and a reincarnation seal has formed within his body once again.

Tens of thousands of years have passed. He greedily breathes in the fresh air, marveling at how wonderful it is to be alive. Just as he is breathing in the air, he notices the changes in the world.

"The spiritual energy in the world seems to be more abundant than before?"

Duan De sensed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with doubt, but the deeper his senses went, the stranger his expression became.

He was unable to sense the Heavenly Emperor's suppression of the Great Dao.

"Could that person be dead?" With doubt in his eyes, Duan De sighed deeply: "How long have I been asleep in this life?"

According to his thinking, that person might live for forty or fifty thousand years without any problem, but now he could not feel the suppression of the Great Dao, or even the existence of that person.

Sleeping too long is only one of the reasons.

He knew that the fundamental reason was that the person had not lived beyond the time limit.

"What a pity, such a powerful figure still died in the end. It seems he was not the person I was looking for."

"However, tens of thousands of years have passed, it's normal for a few people to die." He had long been accustomed to such things. After saying this, Duan De stood up from the graveyard and summoned back a newly forged imperial weapon.

He forged this imperial weapon to prevent accidents and to help him look down upon the human world.

Just as he was holding the Xuanjian and intending to look up some information, he suddenly saw in the reflection of the Xuanjian that, apart from his own large face, there was also a figure with a calm and serene expression.

"Heavens...Heavenly Emperor!" Duan De immediately turned around and looked at Xu He in disbelief.

He lived another life, even more powerful than before, yet he remained completely oblivious to the presence of this person behind him, talking to himself for ages.

"It's probably been fifty or sixty thousand years since we last met, hasn't it?" Xu He murmured to himself. Time now felt more like a string of numbers to him; all he had to do was witness the changing of the sun and moon, the ebb and flow of the tides. By now, even he was somewhat dazed and couldn't remember anymore.

Duan De's pupils dilated in shock, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Fifty or sixty thousand years is an extremely long period of time. Duan De still remembers that when he buried himself and began another life, the Heavenly Emperor had just entered his later years.

Now, this person, separated by fifty or sixty thousand years, is still standing in front of me!
"You... are you a human or a ghost???" Duan De finally exclaimed in shock.

Xu He's expression remained calm and composed: "It's a human, not a ghost."

"This is outrageous! You're probably really going to live forever." Duan De reluctantly accepted this fact, and to be honest, there was even a hint of envy in his eyes when he looked at Xu He.

The reason is quite simple: the Heavenly Emperor has lived for 90,000 or even 100,000 years.

No emperor throughout history has lived as long as he has.

Sometimes he even suspected that this person was not only the reincarnation of Shi Hao, but also the reincarnation of the Xuanwu Immortal King.

Otherwise, how can one explain such a long lifespan?

It is important to understand that once you reach this level, every year that passes becomes extremely difficult. The Supreme Being of the Forbidden Zone can only sever himself and seal himself into the Divine Source. Even with this method of survival, he still needs to periodically launch Dark Turmoil to obtain life essence.

As the Heavenly Venerable who ushered in the mythological era and the Underworld Emperor who governs life and death and reincarnation, he still needs to bury himself life after life and use the Heavenly Tribulation Technique to form the Reincarnation Seal to live on in the world.

But now, there is someone who has existed in the world for nearly 100,000 years? And without any consequences!
How could Duan De possibly find peace of mind in this situation?

Duan De knew that, compared to himself, the Supreme Being inside the penalty area was the most frantic.

It was a nightmare – I couldn't win a fight, and I couldn't survive.

"How many lifetimes have you lived?" In the end, Duan De could only ask in a low voice, his voice filled with envy and jealousy.

“Three lifetimes,” Xu He replied, as if he were merely describing a very ordinary little thing.

Duan De sighed deeply. No one knew what he was thinking, but Duan De knew that Xu He in front of him must be powerful enough to suppress all the myriad paths of heaven and earth and create this phenomenon of no suppression of heaven and earth.

He even suspected that the revival of spiritual energy in the world might also be a good deed done by Xu He.

However, after a brief moment of consideration, he abandoned this unrealistic idea.

After all, as a being who survived from the Chaotic Ancient Era, he knew more secrets than the other supreme beings, and naturally knew how fantastical it would be for a supreme being in the Human Realm to accomplish all of this.

To give back to the world, one must be at least a celestial being or higher.

Duan Degang took a breath, but saw Xu He's face, which he knew intimately.

"You didn't actually learn 'telepathy,' did you?"

Although this level was already useless, Duan De still had some doubts.

"You're not trying to say that you were responsible for the revival of spiritual energy in this place, are you?" Duan De's lips twitched.

Then, he saw Xu He nod affirmatively.

"Impossible! It's impossible in the realm of humanity!" Duan De roared, unable to believe what he was seeing.

But before Xu He could speak, and before Duan De could argue,
Suddenly, a deafening roar echoed from somewhere in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Then, the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth continued to converge, and at that moment, towering thunderclouds gathered in that star field, brewing a terrifying power.

The Great Dao roared, and all the Daos were renowned. The Heavenly Heart Imprint within Xu He's body surged.

Everyone looked towards that star field.
Another person is undergoing the Tribulation of Emperor!
(End of this chapter)