Chapter 2548

The heavens and earth fell silent for a moment.

Such a forbidden zone emperor, clearly already achieved, his might pressing upon the starry sky, his crown illuminating myriad ages, the most dazzling and conspicuous being of the golden great age, causing many forbidden zone beings to feel dread.

Yet suddenly, he failed.

The forbidden zone emperor's crown shattered, his spirit and soul both extinguished, utterly dead.

The last words and resentment of this forbidden zone emperor only made people's hearts fill with endless speculation, a chill rising within, as a thread of fear emerged toward the ancient forbidden zone.

Could there be some great terror within?

Many forbidden zone beings fell into deep thought.

The Great Sun Forbidden Zone.

"The inheritor of the forbidden zone Dao lineage—cannot achieve the forbidden zone ancient emperor?"

"No, not that."

"It's merely that the difficulty is great, not that it's becoming an immortal—what's so hard about it?"

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang spoke indifferently.

Regarding the achievement of the Blood Yang Emperor, he felt no joy, for among the Great Sun sword cultivators there existed no affection, only strength and weakness, loyalty and obedience, death or submission—this never changed due to master-disciple relationships.

Likewise, regarding the Blood Yang Emperor's resentment and killing intent before death, he felt no anger, only that his painstaking efforts had been wasted, betrayed.

Among the Great Sun sword cultivators, such weakness does not exist.

Blood Yang Emperor, the name Blood Yang Emperor, or the name Blood Yang Ancient Emperor—this is Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang's respect for the Blood Yang sword heir; perhaps many ancient emperors in the Jin Wu Kong Kong likewise do so, acknowledging this being's strength, not despising him for his swift death, nor treating him as a fleeting junior.

This emperor, before death, possessed the power of a forbidden zone emperor.

No one would deny that this was indeed an extraordinarily talented and magnificent being.

"A lack?"

"A lack in the Great Dao?"

Jiang Ding fell into contemplation.

Judging by the Blood Yang Emperor's final miserable state, he must have seen some terrifying thing—his Dao foundation had a flaw, some substance having fallen into the hands of the ancestral founder of his Dao lineage.

Such a minute flaw might be nothing in another era, for no being's Dao foundation is absolutely perfect.

But in the golden great age, it is not acceptable.

The pressure of the golden great age's Dao rules is too terrifying—any minute crack in the crown will trigger extremely dire consequences, causing the entire Dao foundation to collapse utterly.

The weight of the golden great age's imperial crown exceeds anyone's imagination.

"However,"

"Even so, there will still be emperors born into the world—this admits of no doubt————"

Jiang Ding murmured.

Beneath the Jin Wu Kong Kong, the being who had just achieved forbidden zone emperor status had his Dao collapse and die.

The starry sky trembled; myriad races and holy lands' Qingmu Xianzong, amidst shock, saw ambitions slowly arise, especially powerful non-human alien forces beyond humanity, which were likewise eager.

This is the characteristic of this era.

The chaotic age has lasted too many years, forming inertia—once the strongest Dao-prover dies, everywhere immediately falls into turmoil and warlordish strife, without exception, as the past Golden Crow True Immortal's immortal dynasty, the Qingfeng Beidou Holy Maiden's immortal dynasty, and all powers that established immortal dynasties in the golden great age are thus.

The first to rebel was the True Immortal Tianwu of the True Dragon Immortal Clan.

This result is no surprise—the True Dragon Immortal Clan has always been overly proud from ancient times to now, its history indeed glorious, having produced generation after generation of Dragon Emperors, whose prestige weighs heavily among the myriad immortal clans.

In October, merely one month after the Blood Yang Emperor's death, the True Dragon Immortal Clan's Tianwu True Immortal rebelled.

One month—this duration is too short for an immortal dynasty organization, so short as to reach the limit, almost equivalent to the Blood Yang Emperor being entombed one second and the next second rebellion erupting, the classic political landscape of the golden great age immortal dynasties, where nearly all subordinates went wild, with little loyalty to speak of.

Tianwu True Immortal is indeed a hero of the True Dragon Immortal Clan, his abilities also outstanding.

He secretly returned to the Tianlong Star Region, suddenly summoning a fiercely powerful dragon-blooded army of the dragon clan, personally commanding it to break the Tianlong Star Region's great formation, slaughtering the immortal dynasty's garrison troops, immortal sect citizens, Great Sun sword cultivators, and Tushan maidens—these political cores of the immortal dynasty—after which the remaining people, including myriad human cultivators, immediately surrendered and were all accepted, granted generous treatment and ennoblement.

All these are the customs of this era—loyalty is an extremely rare quality.

Meanwhile, when the news of Tianwu True Immortal's rebellion arrived, all under heaven rebelled!

No one knows how the True Dragon Immortal Clan coordinated, but at once, hundreds of places across the Jin Wu Kong Kong simultaneously erupted in rebellion—Golden Crow Immortal Clan, Taotie Immortal Clan, True Phoenix Immortal Clan, and myriad human cultivators' Dao lineages, human sword cultivators' Dao lineages—among them, the rebellion of the human sword cultivators' Dao lineage was expected.

The human sword cultivators never pledged allegiance to the Ninth Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty.

The human sword cultivators have always pledged allegiance to the strongest human sword cultivator under heaven—this has never changed; once heaven loses its strongest sword cultivator, the human sword cultivators must inevitably split—this is a historical law, almost never failed.

For a time, beacon fires burned everywhere, wolf smoke rose everywhere.

The many appointed local officials and military commanders, as well as the immortal sect citizens and Tushan maidens serving as support in the administrative-military system, were slain, and everywhere instantly lost control.

Ziwei Ancient Land · Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu.

Since the descent of the golden great age, after myriad ancient emperor secret realms fell, the Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu has remained in an active state ready to be summoned at any time—so long as one gathers a certain standard of human qi fortune, ruling qi fortune, and then becomes the strongest in qi fortune among the myriad contemporary human powers, one can control the Tian Shu.

In the Ninth Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty, the Tian Shu is named Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu.

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An emergency meeting was convened here, attended mainly by three parties: the immortal sect, the Tai Shang Da Ri sword cultivators, and the Tushan maidens—three parties generally in cooperation, yet usually full of mutual contradictions, occasional clashes, internal consumption ever-present, far from what it was when Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang was alive.

However, since the vast benefits of ruling the golden great age immortal dynasty, the three parties have maintained cooperation above the qualifying line.

Now, as external pressure suddenly increased, the contradictions among the three parties show a trend of easing.

Contrary to all outsiders' guesses, there is no bone-chilling killing intent here, no heaven-shaking thunderous fury, no sky-reaching shouting and blame.

Only calm.

Calm to the point of indifferent calm.

"Approximately five hundred billion citizens died."

The immortal sect administrator spoke softly.

"Over a billion Tushan maidens and relatives died."

Su Zhen Zhenzi said.

"Over a billion people."

The Path-Destroying Sword Immortal Maiden spoke lightly.

After the death of the Blood Yang Great Emperor, he was the strongest Great Sun Sword Cultivator; nearby, his knees were broken, his breath like a thread, yet he could not die—this was proven by the Myriad Slaughter Sword Immortal Maiden.

The inheritor of the Bitter Fire Ancient Emperor's legacy, the Bitter Fire True Immortal Maiden, was also present.

However, he seemed to have classified himself among the Great Sun Sword Cultivators, which did not represent the interests of the Law Cultivators, nor did he reveal his sharpness; he appeared to go with the flow, and among the Great Sun Sword Cultivators, his relationships were excellent.

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