Chapter 2448

How long is three million years in the eyes of an ancient emperor?

The answer is no different from that of ordinary people—it is the passage of each second, each minute; even for an ancient emperor whose lifespan nears a hundred million years, every second they experience is exactly the same as a second experienced by an ant.

Especially at this juncture, drawing ever closer to the end, the forbidden-zone ancient emperor also feels reluctance in their heart.

The flowing water does not cease, yet they do not forsake day or night.

The river of time rushes on endlessly; that single wave, seen only once, is never seen again, for time never turns back.

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang sat upon the crystal divine throne, gazing with a hint of melancholy toward the boundless starry void.

"Mortal beings of the mortal realm—can they truly not achieve immortality? ——

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Jiang Ding whispered.

Even one such as he, even the forbidden-zone ancient emperor, has come to the twilight of life—now eighty million years old, with only ten million years remaining as a slumbering buffer, reserved for the golden great age to wage war and slaughter, granting greater ease.

"Mother,"

"Will I become an immortal? Will the golden great age truly arrive?"

"I——will I ever see——you again?"

A thought arose in Jiang Ding's heart, and he unexpectedly grew weak, anxious about the future.

As the years he has lived grow ever longer, his soul grows ever more aged; he no longer possesses the arrogant confidence of his youth, when he was certain he would surely become an immortal in a single lifetime. The deeper he treads upon the immortal path, the more he explores the boundless starry void, the more the unknown and incomprehensible accumulate in his heart, and the less confidence he feels within.

For there are too many unknowns!

Cold.

A vast silence.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu is empty and vast, with no sound, no person—among the myriad myriads of living beings in the present boundless starry void, not one can enter the heart of the forbidden-zone ancient emperor by even a hair's breadth.

Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu—today, its name is still Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu.

But in the future, in the next era, it will change its name once more, just as Wan Fa Tian Shu became Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu; after undergoing another cycle of a human sovereign's reincarnation, the name Tai Shang Da Ri will ultimately be forgotten by people with the passage of time, just as time has forgotten the Solar Ancient Emperor and the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Ancient Emperor.

Would the influence these two forbidden-zone ancient emperors exerted upon the boundless starry void during their lifetimes be weaker than that of Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang?

Especially the Solar Ancient Emperor, who saved humanity, the child of fortune in humanity's boundless starry void—such a person, yet during the youth of Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, no record of them was ever heard.

"Departing, I press forward along the way."

"Only slaughter, only battle, only crossing over——"

Jiang Ding slowly rose from the crystal divine throne, step by step walking into the Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu, looking around, and discovered that everywhere was empty and vast.

In the pond, the fourth-generation Tai Shang Da Ri immortal elixir of deathlessness had never sprouted; it had long been gathered up, planted within the Great Day Forbidden Zone, hoping to encounter a suitable environment for growth in the future, thereby continuing the life of a forbidden-zone ancient emperor for one lifetime—now only rolling water remains in the pond, with waves rising and falling.

Every place within the Tian Shu palace is thus—many things have vanished.

"Eighty million years ago, this sovereign set out from the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Star Domain upon the campaign,"

"Pressing forward, waging war, slaying the true dragon son of fortune, slaying the true god-child of the Heavenly Weaving Maiden, slaying the myriad-law true immortal maiden—humanity's myriad peoples and cultivators cheered and leapt with joy, flocked to submit, gave mighty support, thus achieving the unification of the boundless starry void, attaining the status of Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, ascending to the peak of the boundless starry void."

"Recalling all this, it feels as if it happened just yesterday."

Jiang Ding walked slowly, passing hall after hall, lightly touching the palace walls, recalling all that had been.

At that time, upon becoming an ancient emperor, his soul and spirit spontaneously sensed the myriad-law Tian Shu, the ethnic great weapon of humanity's dominion over the boundless starry void, so he summoned it into the present world, opened this palace that had lain sealed for tens of millions of years, nearing a hundred million, and the scenes within could be described as opening his eyes wide at that time.

Jiang Ding still remembers the scene of that year.

In that pond and artificial mountain, dragonfish, silver pythons, phoenixes and other rare birds and beasts could be faintly seen dancing gracefully.

In those mountains and gardens, top-grade spirit medicines could be faintly seen growing in the morning light and dew, withered yellow leaves layered upon the ground, and faintly visible piles of rotting spirit fruits—this is due to their yearly ripening yet no one gathering them; however, these rotting spirit fruits are not wasted, for their nutrients seep into the earth, allowing the next generation of spirit fruits to be of higher quality;

In the sky, strands of primordial purple qi, five-colored rosy clouds, heavenly light divine water and other treasures of the boundless starry void shone brightly——

This is the tradition of the human sovereigns of the boundless starry void.

Before departing, the present human sovereign will plant various spirit medicines and immortal medicines as saplings, spirit beast saplings, immortal material embryos, and so on within the Tian Shu, then let time flow—tens of millions of years, or even hundreds of millions, or more—after which, when the next generation of human sovereign reopens the Tian Shu, they will, at the instant of attaining the Dao and becoming a sovereign, obtain many foundations and accumulations from thin air.

In this process, the primary force is the mighty power of time's creation; for the previous human sovereign, it was merely a casual scattering of some seeds.

The vast majority of human sovereigns are willing to perform such a casual gesture.

When Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang attained the Dao, he benefited from the legacy left by the previous ancient emperor, Wan Fa Gu Huang, and thus passed through the impoverished years of his initial Dao-attainment.

At the initiation stage, receiving such a large amount of resources is extremely precious.

It can be said that this initial resource for attaining sovereignty at least accelerated the development speed of the Tai Shang Da Ri immortal dynasty civilization by ten million years; original accumulation was extremely difficult, and only later, when immortal productivity and immortal industry exploded, did things become relaxed.

This is an important reason why the human sovereign, dragon sovereign, phoenix sovereign, and other hegemonic sovereigns of the boundless starry void surpass other sovereigns.

"Future human sovereigns,"

"In the twilight of this Tai Shang Da Ri immortal dynasty, at the eighty-million-year mark, this sovereign is now leaving you a legacy."

Jiang Ding murmured to himself as he walked, scattering with each step the immortal seeds representing the pinnacle of the Tai Shang Da Ri immortal dynasty's immortal agricultural civilization, and laying down one immortal cultivation formation after another; the harvest that future human sovereigns will obtain in the future will far surpass what he had in his time.

Jiang Ding spent thousands of years arranging all the various cultivation grand formations within the Tian Shu, carefully inspecting every corner, ensuring these Tian Shu formations can maintain for hundreds of millions of years or even longer.

Finally, he arrived before several formations.

This is the legacy grand formation that only extremely powerful human sovereigns will lay down, within which immortal materials will be nurtured, and it is the most important initial resource for a new human sovereign.

The Solar Ancient Emperor left here the Dragon Sovereign Immortal Blood Crystal, refined from the countless dragon bloodlines in the Tian Shu secret realm's small world; generation after generation of dragon kinds grow in the Tian Shu secret realm's ocean, leaping over the dragon gate, harvested and slain by the immortal formation, and finally, after tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years of accumulation, form the immortal material Dragon Sovereign Immortal Blood Crystal, which can enhance immortal body strength and cultivation speed.

The Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Ancient Emperor left here the Nine Heavens Chaos Immortal Fruit Nurturing Grand Formation, which can allow the immortal soul to draw closer to chaos and more easily comprehend the Dao.

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The Taiyin Ancient Emperor, or perhaps the Taiyin Ancient Sovereign, this being is extremely special—historical records are vague about her. She was born before the Qingfeng Beidou Ancient Emperor, yet also seems to have been born after the Solar Ancient Emperor, becoming the Taiyin Ancient Emperor, a great mystery in human history. She left behind the Taiyin Slaying Immortal Gold Nourishing Grand Formation; refining it can enhance the sharpness of imperial-path heavy weapons—

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