Simulation of the Heavens: Starting from the Age of Desolation

Chapter 120 The Mother Ancestor Cult Leader and the Blood Blade God Emperor

Zhou Yu did not rush to hunt down the Mother Ancestor Sect protectors of the other two cave heavens, but instead went to the depths of the Black Moon Swamp first.

The arrangement left by Gu Qi gives each person three chances to go. Zhou Yu's strength has greatly increased, so he naturally wants to give it a try.

On this trip, Zhou Yu killed three strange beasts in succession.

It wasn't that Zhou Yu's strength was only enough to kill three strange beasts, but rather that after he killed the three strange beasts, no new strange beasts appeared.

Zhou Yu understood that the three lower heavens beneath the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel were only accessible to Venerables, and Gu Qi's difficulty level wouldn't be too high; the strongest of the beasts was only equivalent to the peak of the Opening Realm.

In other words, Zhou Yu cleared the level on his second visit.

"The harvest is quite large." Zhou Yu didn't dwell on it. This time, the three beasts he killed were even stronger, and the harvest was greater than the previous six.

Regarding the source energy, it's impossible to let Zhou Yu conduct another simulation.

However, in terms of soul, Zhou Yu's clone became much stronger, increasing by 20-30%, from being only twice the strength of a soul at the same level to about 2.5 times stronger.

This is the blessing brought by "soul amplification"; otherwise, Gu Qi's casual arrangement would not have had such an effect.

Of course, Zhou Yu also understood that as his soul grew stronger, it would become increasingly difficult to make it even stronger.

In the simulation, the greatest increase in his soul power came from the treasure he consumed when he was weak.

Because he was weak, ordinary treasures could transform his soul. However, once he became stronger in the simulation, although he obtained many better treasures, the effect was not as obvious.

. . .

In the Black Rain Cave, a black, terrifyingly corrosive rain fell incessantly.

Zhou Yu walked on a piece of land in the Black Rain Cave, and at the same time, he made contact with the Witch Emperor who guarded the Black Rain Cave through cause and effect.

Emperor Wuqu, ranked 12th on the list of gods and demons in the universe, is a well-known good person. He is not only powerful and popular, but also willing to guard the Black Rain Cave for a long time to prevent the Mother Ancestor Cult from obtaining a certain extremely precious treasure. This makes the rulers very polite to him.

Of course, the Wuqu Emperor's ability to preserve his life is also incredibly powerful. Even the rulers cannot kill him. He must have opened up a path for life, which is why his ability to preserve his life is so extraordinary.

At this moment, the Witch Emperor received Zhou Yu's message and quickly responded.

"Lord of Flamefire, I heard from the God Emperor that you attacked the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Cult in the Blood Demon Cave Heaven. Are you currently in the Black Rain Cave Heaven?"

"I have already killed all five guardians of the Blood Demon Cave Sect." Zhou Yu didn't hide anything at this point; he said directly:

"I came to Black Rain Cave to find the protector of the Mother Ancestor Sect here."

"The Mother Ancestor Sect's protectors formed a formidable team, possessing exceptional strength and survivability. It's remarkable that you, Flame Lord, were able to annihilate them all," the Witch Cricket Emperor exclaimed in admiration. He then added:

"However, you killed the Mother Ancestor Sect's protector in the Blood Demon Cave Heaven. They must be on guard now. The Black Rain Cave Heaven is also incredibly large. It won't be easy for you to find them again."

"Give it a try," Zhou Yu said without further explanation.
“Witch Emperor, you have dealt with these Mother Ancestor Sect protectors for a long time, so you should be quite familiar with them. Tell me about them.”

"it is good"

The Witch Emperor naturally agreed; it was just some intelligence.

The information provided by the Witch Emperor was indeed much more detailed than that given to Zhou Yu by the Blood Blade God Emperor, and Zhou Yu kept this information in mind.

For Zhou Yu's ancient cultivation talent "foresight" to take effect, many prerequisites are still required.

For example, if Zhou Yu wants to predict someone's future, he needs to know some information about that person. The stronger that person is, the more information Zhou Yu needs to know.

In addition, causal relationships, distance, and other factors can all affect the predicted outcome.

Although the people of the Mother Ancestor Cult do not have causal relationships, it is only at the cosmic level. In reality, Zhou Yu has already killed the five guardians of the Mother Ancestor Cult in the Blood Demon Cave Heaven, so how could he not have causal relationships with them?

As Zhou Yu traversed the Black Rain Cave, he continuously activated his talent for foreseeing the future.

Suddenly, an image flashed through his mind.

In a pitch-black cave, candlelight crackled and burned, and seven figures sat cross-legged there.

"The leader has sent word that just now, Protector Ziyun unexpectedly encountered Lord Yanhuo and was instantly killed. According to Protector Ziyun's avatar left in our universe, Lord Yanhuo's strength has clearly improved again," said a figure covered in white cloth.
"Let's lie low here for the foreseeable future until Lord Flame leaves! He's not the Witch Emperor; he won't have the patience to stay here indefinitely."

"There's been progress again? That's incredible!" Another withered and emaciated figure seemed somewhat incredulous.

Based on the strength Zhou Yu had previously demonstrated, they were not afraid.

The Black Rain Cave is even more important, so much so that the Mother Ancestor Sect's protectors here are not only numerous but also of higher quality, with two top protectors. Together, they are enough to deal with Zhou Yu.

But now, the opponent's strength has actually increased again, forcing them to hide.

"no way."

The figure with white cloth wrapped around his body shook his head and said, "After all, the Flame Lord is a lord of the material world. His secret cult leaders also want to find out, but it's very difficult."

"Of course, the leaders also have their own guesses. They speculate that this Flame Lord might be the reincarnation of a leader-level being from another universe. With the accumulation of his previous life, he was able to make rapid progress in the profound system of cultivation rules in this life."

"Those from other universes are making trouble for us?"

"After reincarnation, he is naturally considered a member of this universe. There may be other reasons as well. In any case, we must treat this Flame Lord with caution."

"That's the only way."

The protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect all nodded.

At this moment, Zhou Yu also understood that the Mother Ancestor Sect's protectors had strengthened their karmic connection with him by discussing him, which caused his ancient cultivation talent to come into play.

However, although he knew that the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect had gone into hiding, Zhou Yu could not determine their exact location for the time being.

That cave

Zhou Yu kept recalling many details in his mind, and at the same time, information about the Black Rain Cave Heaven also surfaced in his mind, which he compared one by one.

"There are a total of 1786 suspected locations. Let's investigate them one by one."

As Zhou Yu pondered this, he took a step and traversed through the void, arriving at the first suspected location.

Zhou Yu's ancient cultivation talent, "Void Shuttle," allows him to travel at a speed far exceeding that of the Time-Space Dao.

This is a terrifying talent that allows one to travel even within the "Seven Star Sea Sacred Realm." In contrast, cultivators of the Spacetime Dao, a system of profound rules, can only travel within the Sacred Realm after becoming Void Gods, and even then, only for short distances.

This is the terrifying talent of ancient cultivators.

A sufficiently powerful ancient cultivation talent can grant one abilities that even cosmic gods would envy.

Therefore, Zhou Yu arrived at the first suspicious location with just one step.

After a brief investigation, Zhou Yu confirmed that there was no trace of the Mother Ancestor Sect's protectors here, and he immediately stepped towards the second suspected location.

Zhou Yu's "void traversal" speed was too fast, so it didn't take long for him to arrive at the 567th suspected location.

"Ok?"

Zhou Yu's eyes lit up this time; his precognitive ability had worked again, and the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect were right here.

Inside the cave, where candlelight flickered.

"They've improved so quickly! That's incredible!"

Just as Zhou Yu had foreseen, the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Cult were discussing him, but they had only gotten halfway through the conversation.

"It seems my prediction was only half right; the other half was wrong." Zhou Yu stood in the nearby space-time.

His spatial and temporal path had reached the pinnacle of the Opening Realm, making his concealment ability even stronger. So much so that even though Zhou Yu wasn't far away, the guardians of the Mother Ancestor Sect hadn't noticed him.

"Because I don't have the patience to listen to them finish speaking."

At that moment, Zhou Yu had a sudden thought.

Instantly, dark spatial fluctuations emanated from him.

Domain-level ultimate technique—Myriad Evolutions of Space-Time Annihilation!

It is a terrifying ultimate technique that combines the three paths of array formation, destruction, and time and space.

Chi chi chi~
The surrounding rocks were silently annihilated into dust, and by the time the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect reacted, the domain had already completely enveloped them.

"what is this?"

The protectors of the Mother Ancestor Cult all paled. These black spatial fluctuations not only made them feel as if their physical bodies were encased in a terrifying restraint, but also felt a destructive force penetrating into their bodies.

Furthermore, these fluctuations will continuously combine and erupt; the more fluctuations that penetrate, the greater the damage they suffer.

"No!"

An ordinary protector of the Mother Ancestor Sect, whose physical body was not strong, was directly annihilated into dust.

The other ordinary guardians of the Mother Ancestor Sect were also rapidly losing their life force amidst the black fluctuations.

"Quickly, get to our treasure cave."

The two top-tier guardians instantly took action, capturing the ordinary guardians one by one. Their life essence was also being lost, but the loss was relatively slow, and they could withstand it for a short time within this domain. Of course, if they were trapped in the domain for too long, and the destructive power accumulated in their bodies increased, they would also die.

"Hurry up and run!" The two top-tier guardians of the Mother Ancestor also wanted to escape, but at this moment, Zhou Yu had already arrived in front of them.

"Lord of Flame, is that you?" The two couldn't believe it.

"Die!"

Zhou Yu's gaze was calm, and he suddenly unleashed a sword strike.

Wow!
A terrifying black sword light erupted.

Although this move only incorporates the two paths of time and space and destruction, it is a pure killing technique, and its instantaneous power is stronger than "Myriad Evolutions of Time and Space Annihilation".

The two guardians of the Mother Ancestor Sect joined forces to resist, but the sword light still pierced through their flesh.

"This is absolutely a Dominator-level attack." The two Mother Ancestor Cult protectors' expressions changed.

While the strength of the Purple Cloud Protector was too weak to be determined, they were certain that this move possessed the power of a Dominator, because they had lost too much of their life essence.

This kind of killing power reaches the Dominator level, which is much more terrifying than strength, because the former is better at eroding life force. Even if the two of them are top-level protectors, they simply cannot withstand many moves under such an attack.

boom!
One of the Mother Ancestor Cult protectors ate a leaf from the Void Mother Tree without hesitation, while the other took out a gray fruit and ate it.

Both of their abilities instantly received a qualitative boost.

“A futile struggle,” Zhou Yu thought to himself, shaking his head.

Under his domain suppression, even if the opponent's power increased to the Dominator level, it would be about the same as his, while his moves were far more profound than the opponent's, and his attack power was even more terrifying.

Even if the two of them join forces, how many moves can they withstand?

As for escaping, that's even more impossible!
Back then, he wasn't strong enough to let Protector Huozhu escape, so how could these two think they could escape?
Of course, although Zhou Yu felt confident, he didn't let his guard down and instead went all out time and time again.

In despair, the two protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect were quickly killed.

As for the few ordinary protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect that they had previously taken away, they were easily killed by Zhou Yu.

The protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect in the Black Rain Cave were also wiped out.

. . .

Half a day later.

At the very bottom of the dark abyss, in the chaotic spacetime.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Several protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect suddenly appeared here.

These were the guardians who originally resided in the Ice and Snow Cave.

Like the protectors of Black Rain Cave, they initially wanted to hide and wait for Zhou Yu to leave the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel before venturing out.

To their surprise, they soon received news that the guardians of Black Rain Cave had been completely wiped out.

At this point, the Mother Ancestor Sect naturally realized that Zhou Yu definitely possessed some kind of detection method that could find their traces, and that continuing to stay in the Ice and Snow Cave Heaven would be tantamount to suicide. Therefore, they instantly decided to leave the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel.

"Quickly send a message to the sect leader; the cultivator ruler might be nearby." The several guardians of the Mother Ancestor Sect certainly didn't think they were safe at this point.

They believed that the cultivator ruler was likely lurking nearby.

Of course, the Mother Ancestor Sect had long been prepared for this. Firstly, the spacetime outside the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel was chaotic, so even cultivators who ruled over it might not be able to find them.

Secondly, a leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult also came to the vicinity to meet them.

At this moment, these protectors of the Mother Ancestor Cult quickly contacted the cult leader and told him their location.

But it was at this very moment—

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

A calm voice suddenly rang out, followed by an invisible black wave that erupted, and then a jet-black sword light that enveloped the surrounding space and time.

"Fire Lord!!"

"No!"

"."

The several guardians of the Mother Ancestor Sect were filled with disbelief. The Flame Lord had actually been lying in ambush here all along.

Logically speaking, even if they were to leave the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, their whereabouts should remain a secret!

boom! boom! boom!
In the blink of an eye, several ordinary protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect had died, leaving only one top protector who could hold on.

"stop!"

A furious shout suddenly rang out, and a figure draped in a black robe, exuding an incomparably vast aura, appeared.

The moment the figure appeared, it slapped Zhou Yu with a palm. The immense power it possessed completely surpassed Zhou Yu's and was clearly much stronger than the ruler of the Rules and Mysteries System.

"Is this the leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult?"

Zhou Yu remained calm. What good is great strength? Can you even hit someone?

With a single step, Zhou Yu instantly traversed the void and left that area.

"You actually managed to dodge my attack?"

The leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult was also surprised. Even though his cultivation level wasn't high, his pure power could completely shatter space and time. He couldn't figure out how Zhou Yu had dodged it.

This also demonstrates the terrifying power of the void-traversing talent. In this universe, even the rulers of the mysterious systems of rules, such as the Blood Blade God Emperor and the Time-Space Island Master, cannot stop Zhou Yu's void-traversing ability.

Not to mention the leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult.

"Take this from me too."

At this moment, Zhou Yu arrived behind the leader of the Mother Ancestor Sect and suddenly unleashed a sword strike.

"It truly possesses the power of a Dominator."

The leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult was secretly alarmed. He did not want to take the attack head-on, but instead slapped out his palm to block the sword.

At the same time, the leader of the Mother Ancestor Sect waved his hand to put away the top-level protector. Although he arrived a little late, fortunately, those who died were just ordinary protectors.

However, at this moment——

Unbeknownst to anyone, a blood-red blade appeared behind him and silently pierced into the body of the Mother Ancestor Sect leader.

laugh!laugh!laugh!
An incredibly terrifying power raged within the body of the Mother Ancestor Sect leader. Even though his life force was extremely strong, it was instantly extinguished by 30% under this attack.

"Blood Blade God Emperor".

The leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult was filled with shock and anger, and at the same time, he felt somewhat incredulous.

One move and he wiped out 30% of his life force? His physical body is far stronger than the rulers of the mysterious system of rules.

In fact, this is also the reason why Blood Blade God Emperor was able to launch a sneak attack. With his assassination skills, if he had attacked the Time-Space Island Lord, the Time-Space Island Lord would already be dead.

Of course, the Time-Space Island Master is a Dominator-level Time-Space Daoist, so it's almost impossible for him to launch a sneak attack.

At least Blood Blade God Emperor never did that.

Swish!
The Blood Blade God Emperor, dressed in a dark red robe, instantly emerged from the shadows and attacked again with a blank expression.

Now that he had succeeded in his attack, he had a chance to kill the leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult, so he naturally wouldn't waste any more words.

However, the cult leader had no intention of fighting anymore, and he directly took out a black jade stone.

After the jade was crushed, countless black runes instantly formed in the void.

The black runes enveloped the Mother Ancestor Cult leader and the top protector, and the two of them blurred and disappeared from this space-time.

"Hmm?" Bloodblade God Emperor frowned slightly upon seeing this.

But he quickly came to terms with it. The leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult was indeed not so easy to kill. This time, he managed to force out one of the opponent's trump cards, which was not bad.

Bloodblade God Emperor looked at Zhou Yu, who was standing in the distance.

He was still quite shocked and incredulous.

He knew Zhou Yu's strength was improving rapidly, but he never imagined it would be this fast.

In the short span of time, Zhou Yu had just made a killing move and a domain attack, which, in the eyes of the Blood Blade God Emperor, were all moves at the Dominator level.

The key point is that these two moves are not from any other force, but rather from the pure and mysterious system of rules.

"In terms of direct strength, Zhou Yu is at least on par with Qing Jun. He also seems to have some kind of special tracking method," Blood Blade God Emperor thought to himself.

Zhou Yu told him that the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Sect wanted to escape the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, and he was initially skeptical.

However, after learning that Zhou Yu had once again annihilated the protectors of Black Rain Cave, he still sent an avatar over.

As it turned out, they actually managed to find a protector of the Mother Ancestor Cult here, and even a cult leader.

Just as Bloodblade God Emperor was pondering these complex thoughts, a smile suddenly appeared on Zhou Yu's face as he stood there.

"Your Majesty, I'll take you to pursue the leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult," Zhou Yu suddenly transmitted his voice.

"Take me to chase them? Do you know where they ran off to?"

Bloodblade God Emperor was somewhat surprised.

"I can roughly determine that," Zhou Yu nodded.

The method used by the Mother Ancestor Cult leader just now was clearly a treasure containing the ability of "void escape".

Zhou Yu guessed that this must be a treasure crafted by some Void God.

Regardless of their system, all Void Gods naturally possess a certain ability to traverse the void, just as humans can breathe and fish can swim—it's instinctive.

However, Zhou Yu specializes in "void travel" and his ancient cultivation technique, "Void Escape," has only been cultivated to the Heaven and Earth Realm level.

But his understanding of this inheritance is at a master level.

Simply put, Zhou Yu's current power in traversing the void is at the Heaven and Earth Realm level, but his cultivation level is the Dominator level.

So when Zhou Yu saw those black runes appear, he wasn't completely bewildered; instead, he instantly grasped some of their mysteries.

They were able to roughly determine which direction the leader of the Mother Ancestor Cult had gone.

Zhou Yu did not tell Bloodblade God Emperor the reason, but Bloodblade God Emperor had no reason to doubt Zhou Yu at this time, and he agreed after a little thought.

At this moment, Zhou Yu had a thought, and a force enveloped Blood Blade God Emperor, and Blood Blade God Emperor did not resist.

Wow!
The two instantly vanished through the void.

"This is already within the territory of Time-Space Island." Bloodblade God Emperor sensed his surroundings with some surprise through the lens of cause and effect.

In just a moment, they traversed such a vast distance?

Among all the masters, only the Time-Space Island Master has a chance to achieve this, right?
“However, there’s no trace of the Mother Ancestor Cult Leader or the Protectors here,” Bloodblade God Emperor said.

"Not here, we'll have to go through several more times," Zhou Yu said, once again manipulating his power to envelop the Blood Blade God Emperor.

If he were to travel by himself, one trip would be enough.

But with Blood Blade God Emperor, things slowed down.

Zhou Yu's ability to traverse the void was only at the "Heaven and Earth Realm" level. His power was insufficient, so it was naturally difficult for him to traverse the void while carrying a Sovereign-level life form.

In terms of speed, it's only comparable to the Time-Space Island Master.

Swish!Swish!Swish!
After three consecutive traversals, Zhou Yu and the Blood Blade God Emperor finally arrived at a desolate star field.

"Ok?"

Bloodblade God Emperor took a step and arrived on a star.

"They've been here before."

Bloodblade God Emperor sensed the residual power of him here, clearly the power left behind from the attack he made when he pierced the body of the Mother Ancestor Sect Leader.

His attack was not so easy to digest.

"Didn't they catch up?" Zhou Yu also arrived at this time. He shook his head inwardly. Even though his void travel had reached the Venerable level, he probably still couldn't catch up.

"That's not necessarily true." Bloodblade God Emperor smiled and said, "Since they came here, it must not be by chance. Perhaps their lair is nearby."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yu nodded; it did indeed make a lot of sense.

"I will stay here and search for a while," Bloodblade God Emperor said, looking at Zhou Yu.

“Zhou Yu, you should go to the Divine Court first. You killed many of the Mother Ancestor Sect's protectors this time, and the other rulers probably all want to see you. Also, you should have heard of my Divine Court's Myriad Flower Banquet. This Myriad Flower Banquet is about to be held. You couldn't do anything about it before in the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, but now that you're out, don't miss it. After all, this is your first time since joining the Divine Court.”

"it is good."

Zhou Yu naturally nodded in agreement.

Many sovereigns joined forces to set bounties for the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Cult, and he took the opportunity to extract more resources from these sovereigns.

“Your Majesty the God Emperor, if we have indeed found the Mother Ancestor Cult’s lair, I suggest you do not tell the Blood Lord,” Zhou Yu suddenly said.

"Ok?"

Blood Blade God Emperor frowned upon hearing this.

"I'm just offering a suggestion. Whether Your Majesty believes it or not is up to you to decide," Zhou Yu said without further explanation.

At this moment, Bloodblade God Emperor also fell into deep thought.

"Zhou Yu seems to possess some unique ability to obtain intelligence information."

Bloodblade God Emperor thought back to the previous stakeout. It wasn't difficult for him to guess that the Mother Ancestor Sect's protectors were about to leave the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, but to be able to accurately stake out them was incredible.

Could there be a traitor among the protectors of the Mother Ancestor Cult? That's utterly absurd!
“But Nero is also my ally. Could he be connected to the Mother Ancestor Cult?” Bloodblade God Emperor frowned even more deeply.

In the game "The Overlord," the relationship between him and the Bloodthirsty Overlord was indeed quite good.

The main reason was that the Blood Lord took the initiative to befriend them, and they had also fought against other Lords together.
Of course, Blood Blade God Emperor never completely trusted Blood Lord, which was due to his personality; he wouldn't easily trust anyone.

“Although there are many suspicious points about Zhou Yu, he is absolutely trustworthy in dealing with the Mother Ancestor Cult.” Blood Blade God Emperor quickly made his judgment.

He could doubt Zhou Yu on other matters, but when it came to dealing with the Mother Ancestor Cult, Zhou Yu's words were more trustworthy than those of any ruler.

P.S.: There will be another update later.

(End of this chapter)