Shrouding the Heavens: The Ruthless Heavenly Emperor

His primordial spirit was also undergoing the cleansing of the white immortal water. This did not seem like a heavenly tribulation, but rather like a human act.

What everyone saw was a skeleton, countless pieces of flesh and muscle, a human skin, and a small, milky-white jade figure, motionless in the white river water.

Some powerful figures looked up at Xu Changqing's head, but felt dizzy. They did not see a black hole, but only white water coming from nothingness and ten thousand feet of lightning striking out from the crack in the universe.

Xu Changqing's will fell into slumber, his physical body was being assimilated by the white water, his bones were turning into tiny particles of light, and his primordial spirit was disintegrating.

At the same time, his flesh and blood were also changing. After being washed by white water, the scarlet flesh was actually permeated with traces of the Great Dao. Those Great Dao laws were merging with Xu Changqing's flesh and blood Great Dao.

His origin also began to change; what was originally as clear as a mirror was now overflowing with wisps of celestial mist.

His blood contains infinite mysteries; upon closer inspection, each drop of blood contains a world of laws.

P.S.: I'm taking my driving test (Part 1) in a few days.

Chapter 9 The Heavenly Tribulation Dissipates

Xu Changqing felt very strange at this moment. His consciousness was gradually awakening, but it was very hazy, like an embryo being nurtured, just like when he was reincarnated.

Years ago, he was reborn into a woman's womb, surrounded by amniotic fluid, and the feeling was exactly the same as it is now, as if he were a being nurtured by heaven and earth.

Flesh, bones, and spirit all floated in the white water, being washed and steaming up plumes of white mist.

"Buzz!"

The shattered bone knife fragments glowed, attempting to isolate the white water and allow Xu Changqing to escape, but it underestimated the water's power.

As soon as they got close, the black hole in the sky smashed down a large number of weapons that evolved from the laws of nature.

The black hole floated above the dazzling galaxy, standing amidst countless paths, with endless bolts of lightning crashing down and engulfing the white water.

But in that instant, his consciousness fully returned, and he felt he could control his body. He quickly swallowed all the pills he was reluctant to use and took out countless treasures.

After doing all this, with a deafening roar, the terrifying heavenly tribulation instantly cleaved Xu Changqing's physical body into a bloody mist, and his bones turned into powder, drifting in the white river water and being submerged by the endless sea of ​​lightning.

The primordial spirit is extinguished, and the whole person is in a state of death.

After an unknown amount of time, the torrential heavenly tribulation began to slowly disappear. The white water did not disappear, but became illusory, as if it did not exist.

"Changqing, Changqing!" On the other side, Mu Miaomiao shouted in a sob, her bright eyes already red, tears streaming down her face.

She ran frantically toward the direction of the heavenly tribulation, screaming in despair.

There was nothing left there, not even ashes, and Xu Changqing's broken weapon had also disappeared.

A blurry black figure appeared beside Mu Miaomiao and remained silent for a long time before saying, "Xu Changqing's life force has disappeared. It seems that he failed and his life has ended."

This was the first time He had ever seen Mu Miaomiao display such emotions. He regretted not letting the girl go out to train in the first place; otherwise, Xu Changqing would never have appeared, and things wouldn't be like this now.

"Dead, dead!" On the other side, Lin Siyu, dressed in a blue robe, also showed pain on her face, with guilt and regret in her eyes.

As Xu Changqing's first wife, it's impossible to say there was no love between them. If it weren't for Xu Changqing, she would have been captured and enslaved long ago, or even become a beggar, living a life where her life was in constant danger.

Xu Changqing married her and gave her a stable home.

"I'm sorry, I didn't keep my promise," Lin Siyu murmured, staring blankly at Xu Changqing's tattered battle suit drifting in the starry sky.

Then she saw the elegant woman carefully putting away the blood-stained black clothes.

Mu Miaomiao wiped away her tears, then turned around and looked at Lin Siyu. The two women didn't say anything, but silently walked away.

"Shh!"

Suddenly, everyone saw Xu Changqing's weapon fragments burst forth with an extremely dazzling light, then tore through the void of the universe and vanished.

"His divine artifact has not perished!"

People were astonished that even though it had been reduced to fragments and no longer possessed any divine aura, it could still run away.

Hundreds of white fragments flew off in one direction, and some people tried to chase after them, but were imprisoned by a terrifying energy.

No one knows what kind of energy it is; they can't move it, not even saints.

It was Mu Miaomiao's master who made the move. As a top expert, he imprisoned everyone present with a single thought, preventing them from chasing after the weapon fragments.

"It's a pity that the little guy died under the heavenly tribulation, otherwise we could have captured him for research."

"The talent to create one's own physique is truly terrifying. If he were to grow up, how powerful would he become? Perhaps even comparable to an Emperor?"

"Even we young cultivators were defeated by them. They are stronger than we were back then. What a pity."

Within the seven forbidden zones, known as the forbidden zones of life, some supreme beings actually awoke in astonishment. They were all awakened by the terrifying heavenly tribulation, which appeared right above their heads.

Moreover, it was a tribulation they had never seen before, yet their figures appeared there. Their young Dao bodies were almost 6% to 4% in the hands of the person undergoing the tribulation.

Xu Changqing and his group number six, while these supreme beings only have a 40% chance of winning.

Xu Changqing lay naked in a grassland, his body constantly emitting white mist, filling the entire forest with an ethereal aura, as if auspicious clouds from the sky had engulfed the place.

When the heavenly tribulation dissipated, he used his life-saving method, which was a pill passed down from two evil demon saints and a quasi-emperor powerhouse.

In the final moments of the heavenly tribulation, he regained full consciousness, and his primordial spirit returned to his shattered body. The instant he took the elixir, he was engulfed by an endless sea of ​​lightning and turned to ashes.

But he did not die; the elixirs preserved his primordial spirit, some flesh, and bones.

After the heavenly tribulation disappeared, he also disappeared.

It was the shards of his merciless blade that carried away his flesh and bones.

The interior of the Ruthless Blade is a vast world, filled with the dead, yet also containing idyllic paradises.

Most of Xu Changqing's belongings are inside. The Ruthless Blade has killed countless lives; it has a very magical characteristic.

It contains endless primordial spirits and souls, which it can absorb to ensure it will not die.

Although its body was shattered, the deity was only severely injured.

When it escaped, it used the Great Sage's Divine Speed ​​Talisman that Xu Changqing had left inside it.

The tribulation passed, and the heavens and earth responded, restoring Xu Changqing's physical body.

At this moment, he lay quietly on a green grassland, with bright sunshine hanging in the sky. The tender green grass was enveloped by the ethereal aura emanating from Xu Changqing, and dewdrops dripped onto the tender grass.

He had a head of white hair and a strong, tall body. He lay quietly on the grassland, with transparent law runes constantly flowing from his body. Various rules were like small snakes, moving around his body.

A long sword was silently stuck in the grass beside him, emitting a scarlet aura. The sword was covered with cracks, and red light kept the fragments from falling apart from each crack.

Xu Changqing gradually regained consciousness, opened his blurry eyes, and...

The light in his eyes made him instinctively raise his hand to shield his eyes.

He opened his eyes and saw the blazing sun in the sky, the boundless grassland, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

"It's a success," he murmured calmly, but a look of pain was also on his face.

"The blood pills of those two demonic great saints who slaughtered billions of living beings and countless planets were used by me. I originally intended to use them to compete with those freaks on the Emperor's Road, but I never expected this..."

He once entered the tomb of a man named Blood Demon Great Sage, and after countless trials and tribulations, he finally obtained all of Blood Demon Great Sage's possessions.

He was already in a demonic state when his girlfriend was killed in front of him.

Because of his experiences, his mind became somewhat twisted. In the illusion of the Blood Demon Great Sage, he slaughtered countless living beings, killing hundreds of life star fields before he was able to escape the illusion.

In that cemetery, there is a record of the Blood Demon Great Sage's own account, which also mentions how he offended a Quasi-Emperor level expert by slaughtering too many living beings during his conquest of the Emperor's Road.

With a single, casual strike from the Quasi-Emperor, he had no chance of survival. He managed to escape from the Quasi-Emperor's grasp by using his trump card, but he could only wait to die.

Having created the Blood Pill through the slaughter of countless lives, he knew he had no way to survive, so he decided to leave it to his successor, hoping that the successor would allow him to take revenge.

Find the family of that quasi-emperor, and then wipe them all out.

Xu Changqing agreed. Even if the quasi-emperor family hadn't offended him, he would still do it. There was no other reason than that the Blood Demon Great Sage's inheritance allowed him to rise to power and successfully take revenge.

"Now that we've succeeded, let's rest for a while and then head to the Imperial Road."

Chapter 10 The Supreme Ruthless Body

On the boundless grassland, Xu Changqing, shirtless with his thick white hair cascading down to his waist, swayed gently in the breeze. He was expressionless, not knowing where he was going, and could only keep walking forward.

He looked inward and discovered that his body had undergone tremendous changes.

White runes flowed across the bones, and immortal mist rose from the flesh and blood. The Bitter Sea was as bright as a mirror, without a trace of turbidity.

The internal organs radiate various colors, and each organ contains an emotional deity, each being an independent entity.

Sendai glowed brightly, like a golden mirror, reflecting everything in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Moreover, he possessed his own unique vision: himself kneeling amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, with an ancient emperor lying before him.

During the Tribulation of Severing the Dao, although he could not defeat the strongest Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, some ordinary Ancient Emperors still fell at his hands, turning into branded images that entered his strange phenomena.

This was a unique phenomenon belonging to him, and now this phenomenon has transformed into a physical phenomenon.

As for how strong it is, he doesn't know. He only knows that once the strange phenomenon is activated, the ancient emperor's body inside will come out to fight.

"My comprehension seems to have improved. Without the constraints and shackles, it's as if I've broken free of some kind of shackles. My physique has become stronger, and so has my cultivation speed," Xu Changqing muttered to himself.

He could clearly sense that his current physique was far superior to that of an ordinary person, and that his flesh and blood had been transformed by the myriad paths of the heavens and earth, and had been baptized by endless lightning and white water.

“I can even feel that the Great Dao is right beside me, and it has no secrets.”

He could even feel that his physique seemed to have merged with the Great Dao, like an innate Dao physique, belonging to the near-Dao physique.

“Severing emotions, but not completely eradicating them. As long as it is a sentient being, it will have emotions to some extent.”

"Emotion is the root of all spirits, and also the source of all cholera."

"Many people may disagree with my teachings and think that I have extinguished humanity, but that is not the case."

"I just can't feel emotions, I can't have love, family affection, friendship, or brotherhood."

Xu Changqing had long understood the meaning of love. Some people break through barriers for the love in their hearts, while others strive for the goals set by their beloved and ultimately succeed.

But most people are hurt by love. After being hurt, they will be depressed for a while, and then rekindle their goals. But when they see that person again, they can't help but soften their hearts.

Some people may seem ruthless, like demons who slaughter all things, but in reality, they have fallen into the demonic path after experiencing countless hardships. To people, they may seem heartless, but to certain people or things, they may seem compassionate.

Xu Changqing truly embodied ruthlessness, showing no emotion whatsoever towards the people in his memories.

But if anyone tries to tempt him, he will not hesitate to wield the butcher's knife; no one can disrupt his path and his moral compass.

"I wonder where my Supreme Ruthless Physique ranks among the physiques in the world of Shrouding the Heavens," Xu Changqing murmured. He belonged to the near-Dao Physique category.

The body's current abilities have not been fully developed; it's just that the cultivation speed has increased and the physical body is more...