Chapter 2422

Present day.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang's black-and-white light-flashing pupils stared at the river of time.

"Sun Ancient Emperor — he's moving away from me!"

"He dares!"

"He dares to move away from me!"

Jiang Ding muttered somewhat madly, bloodlight sinking and floating in his eyes, his black hair dancing wildly, as if he had gone into qi deviation, his aura surging violently.

Countless imperial cultivators of the immortal dynasties, quasi-emperors, and supremes trembled, doing their utmost to diminish their presence.

The current Ancient Emperor is off!

Very off!

Clearly he's losing control; even if the Ancient Emperor began slaughtering Wu Jin Kong Kong the next moment, no one would find it surprising — he looks exactly like someone suffering qi deviation.

The Fusang Empress smiled faintly, very calm, began to soothe the many immortal dynasty cultivators.

Qi deviation?

His qi deviation is normal; there's never a moment when he isn't in qi deviation.

"Moving away — is he approaching ancient times or the future?"

"Ancient times."

Jiang Ding gave a low chuckle.

It's simple: if the Sun Ancient Emperor approaches the future, he must pass through the present; if he and the present-era Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor are both in the present, he cannot escape the latter's lock-on.

Thus, the general range can be locked down.

Clang!

In the surging, endless river of time, the Taiqing flying sword was drawn.

The sword body was dull yellow, the Great Extinction Dao's endless rules circling, endless dharma-ending phenomena steaming, the flying sword condensed from the dharma-ending Dao fruit sliced into time, cutting toward the region of several hundred thousand to over a million years, sword light filling this segment of spacetime, destroying and strangling every fraction of a second.

Nothing gained.

The surging river of ages flows endlessly; this is the time of Wu Jin Kong Kong, never pausing for any reason.

"He escaped?"

"No, you cannot escape."

Jiang Ding's face was expressionless.

The supreme achievement of the Sun Sword Dao's immortal-path science and technology, the core road opened by the first-generation Sun Sword Master, is the endless craving for enemies, endless pursuit; for Sun Sword cultivators, there is a bone-deep instinct toward enemies, and this instinct grows clearer as the time river's super-immortal formation operates, analyzing ever more detailed data.

For example, at this moment, Jiang Ding has already successfully locked onto the Sun Ancient Emperor's certain presence within his own ninety thousand years.

Clang!

Like mercury spilled on the ground, Jiang Ding slashed another sword into the time river, causing the time river to turmoil, time in disarray, chaos hazy.

At this instant, numerous figures suddenly appeared — all Sun Ancient Emperors, manifesting at various points in the time river, frenziedly fleeing in all directions, filling heaven and earth.

"Oh?"

Jiang Ding was surprised.

After these Sun Ancient Emperor figures appeared in the time river, the instinctive lock-on of the Ri Xian Fan Sword Soul was interfered with!

Very clearly, in this brief moment, the Sun Ancient Emperor rapidly iterated and improved his own immortal arts, and he has already found a direction to shield against the Ri Xian Fan Sword Soul's lock-on!

"Hiss — "

"The posture of becoming immortal through myriad ages — "

Jiang Ding felt a chill, his blood boiling.

The Sun Ancient Emperor's talent and genius simply reached the point of shocking even the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang!

The Sun Ancient Emperor was born in a Wu Jin Kong Kong where humanity had declined for many eras; after the Beidou Immortal Dynasty, humanity went extinct for at least ten eras, even more than ten, and Wu Jin Kong Kong had not a single person.

Humanity has always been known for fierce internal strife, with slaughter between immortal sect holy lands often extremely brutal, but don't think humanity as a whole is unimportant — without human immortal sects surviving, where would later inheritors' traditions come from, where would the refuge for young, weak Ancient Emperors come from? Without predecessors' accumulation, every step requires forging the path, opening the way — the difficulty is terrifying beyond imagination.

Yet, the Sun Ancient Emperor achieved the status of Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor in such an environment!

Miraculous, like divine creation, utterly incomprehensible.

From the decrypted data, at that time, humanity in Wu Jin Kong Kong was driven to desperation, and many Ancient Emperor Secret Realms reached a consensus — it was a group of Ancient Emperor Secret Realms joining forces to accomplish this.

But among them, the Sun Ancient Emperor's terrifyingly extreme talent and genius must be the core!

Just in this brief moment!

The sensing in the Ri Xian Fan Sword Soul is weakening!

Estimated, within at most sixteen breaths, the Sun Ancient Emperor's immortal arts iteration will be fully completed, at least allowing him to completely break free from the Ri Xian Fan Sword Soul's lock-on for one breath.

With just this one breath, the Sun Ancient Emperor can leap like a fish to the sea and vanish completely!

Know this: this time, the Sun Ancient Emperor was captured by the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang solely due to lack of preparation, having provoked a special attack from something never before seen.

Once the Sun Ancient Emperor is prepared, if one cannot overwhelm him in time, causality, and power by a major level, don't even think about pulling him out again!

Now.

The Sun Ancient Emperor's aura is weakening, vanishing!

"Hahaha!"

"How interesting it's becoming."

Jiang Ding laughed loudly, his voice shaking Wu Jin Kong Kong, extremely joyful and pleased.

He pondered for a moment.

Then, hand on his sword, he stepped into the time river, his figure gradually becoming hazy, gradually dissipating into nothingness, completely vanishing from the present day.

"Your Majesty!"

"Come back! Come back!"

The Fusang Emperor and Empress saw this scene, their faces changed dramatically, and they shouted in terror.

However, they could not change anything.

The present ancient emperor, the present ancient emperor, what is the present ancient emperor?

That is, he is in the present world!

Once the present ancient emperor steps into the river of time and enters history, support from the present world will greatly weaken, and the situation that was certain to win will inevitably encounter setbacks.

Moreover, this is not the first lifetime of attaining the Dao!

This means that the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang can die, and there is no immortal golden body!

In the vast river of time.

The Sun Ancient Emperor was indifferent and majestic, with radiant light shining all around, eternal through the ages.

Endless light transformed and evolved on his body, especially in the directions of soul, fate, and instinct, where the evolution was more frequent; he precisely discovered the source of danger targeting himself.

"Nine breaths — "

"As long as nine breaths, one can leave."

The Sun Ancient Emperor's heart was calm like a lake, silently calculating: "Tai Shang Da Ri, merely mediocre talents."

If anyone knew what he was thinking, they would surely be astonished.

How peerless a talent of Shen Zhou the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang was, a forbidden-zone ancient emperor of the present age, a true immortal seed of the golden great age — no description of his brilliance would be excessive, for he is a great being who has altered the foundational logic of the Wu Jin Kong Kong Shi Dao Wen Ming, worthy of countless beings across countless eras to bow in worship.

Yet in the eyes of the Sun Ancient Emperor, such an existence was merely mediocre.

"However,"

"The Tai Shang Da Ri's method of nurturing people, the method of establishing a divine dynasty, the struggle and killing of the sword Dao — all are excellent, surpassing me. Among three walking together, there must be my teacher; in this, there are many aspects worth learning from."

The next thought of the Sun Ancient Emperor arose immediately.

"Next time, when I see you again,"

"I will certainly not be as today, fleeing in disgrace — "

The Sun Ancient Emperor muttered to himself, but suddenly paused.

His own light slightly narrowed as he gazed in a direction.

There, accompanied by the shattering of countless rivers of time, water exploded outward in all directions.

A forbidden-zone ancient emperor smashed through layer after layer of temporal obstructions face-on, descended into this ancient era, and as the light of endless annihilation spread, he precisely locked onto his target.

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