Chapter 2588: Assassination

The Sun Immortal Palace was silent.

The Sun Ancient Emperor summoned the Ji Yan Ancient Emperor and the Sun Princes, arranged some matters, and discussed every detail thoroughly with the princes, confirming there were no doubts before concluding.

Such patience and earnest teaching are extremely rare among emperors.

The Sun Princes generally have a high rate of becoming talented, supporting the development of many immortal Dao technologies in the Sun Immortal Dynasty, and there is a reason for this: the Sun imperial family's family education is excellent.

"What do you all think of Tai Shang Da Ri?"

The Sun Ancient Emperor asked.

He knew that Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang had interacted with the princes for a period, which he had deliberately arranged; slaughter among top-tier human powerhouses does not necessarily involve lower cultivators, especially when both sides are human ancient emperors with breadth and tolerance, and such situations have occurred multiple times in history.

"Elder, teacher as well."

"His demeanor is extraordinary—"

"His teaching ability can shock heaven and earth, move ghosts and gods, beyond imagination—"

The Sun Princes spoke all at once.

After interacting with Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, they conversed happily, as if with an old friend of equal standing, their understanding of all aspects of the immortal Dao rapidly rising, a great opportunity descending silently without consuming any precious heavenly materials or earthly treasures, truly astonishing.

They naturally would not think this was because they happened to meet a kindred spirit, qualified to interact equally with Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang.

The only answer is that Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang deliberately adapts to each cultivator, or perhaps not deliberately—this forbidden zone ancient emperor's way of communicating with ordinary cultivators is simply like this, long accustomed.

"Compared to a father, how?"

The Sun Ancient Emperor said with a half-smile.

In the past, the princes' education and guidance were personally conducted by him, with patient research and discussion, yet he had never seen them so excited and animated, as if they had met a kindred spirit in the immortal Dao.

"Ah, this—"

The Sun Princes' expressions froze.

Many looked left and right, their eyes darting, unable to speak, completely unlike their earlier eloquent excitement.

"Hey!"

"Father, you are just bringing disgrace upon yourself—knowing it is enough, yet you insist on saying it yourself."

Ji Yan Ancient Emperor, utterly oblivious to social cues, loudly said: "You once earned a title, called the Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations"; many human powerhouses, the human Dao lineage, grew under your teachings, human history records it, many powerhouses are awestruck, feel ashamed, and revere you greatly.

"But goods must be compared to be discarded, people must be compared to be eliminated."

"After the immortal dynasty they left behind collapsed and was rebuilt by later generations, with nine immortal dynasties continuing, the Dao lineage spreading in all directions, your title of Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations is just talk—it cannot truly hold."

"Hahaha, compared to you—ah!"

Ji Yan Ancient Emperor grew more excited as he spoke, suddenly a sword sheath smashed over, making him let out a sharp cry, triggering laughter from the surrounding brothers and sisters.

In the starry sky, an invisible dark light flickered and leapt, slowly approaching the Undying Realm.

The Eight Characters Immortal Scripture, a supreme hidden immortal Dao technique, allowed him to hide further, making him the highest in the current Boundless Starry Sky, unseen, undetectable, unknown, his future unknowable.

"Sun Ancient Emperor, you shall die!"

"The only pity is that killing him now would be wasteful—he has extremely high growth potential, will be an extremely important ladder to immortality in the future; killing him now would be too wasteful."

Jiang Ding murmured in his heart.

The Emperors of the Human Forbidden Zone are, in his eyes, extremely important and irreplaceable ladders, not to be lightly wasted.

As for the truth, it does not matter.

What matters is that he needs the blood of a forbidden zone ancient emperor to warn the living beings of the Boundless Starry Sky: those who dare to touch the Tai Shang Da Ri Slay Demon Sword Formation shall die!

The Undying Ancient Emperor is the one he has chosen.

In his immortal soul, a notebook in his sea of consciousness flipped open with a clatter; among a dense mass of dim names, several characters flashed past, finally stopping at the name Undying Ancient Emperor.

"Before attaining the Dao, when I fought the Phoenix True Immortal Maiden, she attacked me!"

"In the Golden Great Age, when the forbidden zone fell to the human realm, during the tempering of the time imprint, she attacked me again, trying to kill me! Twice, a total of two times!"

"No living being has ever attacked me twice without dying!"

Jiang Ding's killing intent surged like tidewater, rising and falling, uncontrollable, past experiences never forgotten, always engraved in his heart.

And there is a ranking, constantly changing.

Now, in this ranking, the position of the Undying Ancient Emperor far surpasses all other names in a cliff-like lead.

If not him, who else to kill?

No excuse, no conditions—creating excuses and conditions also requires killing him first!

Jiang Ding pressed his hand on the sword hilt, his gaze falling on a dim starfield ahead, his figure silently passing through the barrier, officially entering it.

Within the blade, terrifying power surged and gradually accumulated, the power of the End-Time Dao's origin poured in, letting the blade hum silently.

"This Undying Ancient Emperor old thing is very mysterious, with many things I cannot see through."

"From experience, such mysterious ghostly things are best killed immediately—do not match wits with him, go straight in, chop and kill."

Jiang Ding Zi muttered, looking toward the celestial dome of the Undying Realm.

This vast starfield is year-round shrouded in black mist, like surging tidewater, obscuring everything; in this starfield, all living beings are undying—when the soul dies, new intelligence is born in the body, becoming zombies, skeletons, ghosts, and other new living beings.

Many worlds here never see sunlight year-round; on the land, there is no greenery whatsoever; pitch-black, gray, white-bone-colored plants or fungi, or things hard to classify, grow wildly, branches twisted and winding, under the trees skeletons, worms, all kinds of strange and bizarre netherworld beings visible everywhere.

Looking around, there are few conventional living beings, but another special kind of life, extremely prosperous.

This is the Undying Realm of the Lord of the Netherworld, extremely ancient, extremely mysterious—a forbidden zone ancient emperor of the Netherworld lineage, whose immortal Dao technology here has flourished to the extreme, far surpassing the Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty in this aspect.

And these omnipresent black mists are the immortal Dao miracle of the Undying Immortal Dynasty.

"Possessing the power to relieve force and nurture the birth of netherworld life—if shattered netherworld life receives the investiture and authority of the Undying Immortal Dynasty, then after being killed by enemies, it can revive again in the black mist; many netherworld lives are like this, let alone the Lord of the Black Mist, the Undying Ancient Emperor."

"It is somewhat similar to the River of Hell in myth and legend."

"This person's vitality must be extremely tenacious—"

Jiang Ding slowly infiltrated the center of the Undying Realm.

His black and white pupils flickered, scanning enemy information, the terrifying End-Time killing intent contained in his blade continuously gathering power, the Eight Characters Immortal Scripture ancient emperor personally acting, to unleash a stone-shattering, heaven-startling blow.

This time, blood must be shed.

If the Sun Ancient Emperor cannot fulfill his promise, then return and kill him; the Taiqing Flying Sword will surely not return in vain—this is a destined fate.