Chapter 719

Ye Qin suddenly discovered that he had a deep affinity with the monkey tribe; one child was an innate spirit monkey, his senior disciple was of the white ape clan, and now he had taken the six-eared macaque as a disciple.

Perhaps it was because the monkey tribe was extremely spiritual, rich in emotion, and most importantly, they were similar to humans.

"Ooh..." The six-eared macaque rejoiced, kneeling on Ye Qin's palm, performing the ritual of three kowtows and nine bows.

Ye Qin extracted the essence and blood from the six-eared macaque's physical body, merged it into a thread of his own bloodline, then merged it with a strand of chaotic Qi to help it rebuild its body.

"You have benefited, possessing my bloodline power plus chaotic power—your future is limitless; from now on, you shall be called Six Ears!"

Six Ears rebuilt his body, returning to the origin, and began cultivating the Wind Origin Great Dao technique that Ye Qin had transmitted to him—this technique also perfectly matched the wind-attribute constitution of Six Ears.

After doing these, Ye Qin took Huang Luoyan and journeyed to the Southern Wasteland; he did not directly descend upon the Southern Wasteland via the faith conduit, but instead traveled with Huang Luoyan, enjoying the scenery, seeking spiritual treasures and roots, experiencing the changes of Honghuang.

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In the eastern lands of Honghuang, chaotic Qi filled the heavens, as if returning to the chaotic era.

Beneath the chaotic Qi lay a vast expanse of Wangyang, yet many did not know that beneath Wangyang still lay some surviving mountain ranges.

The Patriarch's great battle destroyed the Tianlong Mountain Range; the Dragon Court's beings suffered near-total annihilation, and under the leadership of the Ancestral Dragon, the Dragon Court lasted only a hundred years before declaring its demise.

This was not due to the Ancestral Dragon's inadequacy, but because after the Dao of Heaven underwent Nirvana, the development of this Honghuang had no regularity—land could shatter at any moment, powerful beings could fall at any time, let alone the Patriarchs contending for the foundation of sainthood.

Though the fall of the Dragon Court was unexpected, it was also reasonable; its downfall allowed the myriad beings of Honghuang to truly feel the terrifying power of the boundless kalpa.

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Deep in the eastern lands, a sinuous, twisting mountain range of profound gold lay quietly prostrate, containing a strand of dragon Qi that bore imperial aura, yet this imperial aura flickered in and out, as if a spiritual consciousness struggled within it.

Roar! A hundred-zhang-tall profound gold celestial dragon emerged from the mountain range, its eyes full of confusion.

"Who... am I?" The profound gold celestial dragon dazedly lifted its head; the profound gold light on its body gradually dimmed, replaced by increasingly blazing golden light.

As the golden Qi continually strengthened, the sacred aura gradually weakened, while the imperial, domineering aura grew stronger: "I am the Dragon Emperor, Dragon Emperor of the Dragon Court... but the Dragon Court no longer exists—where should I go now?"

This is the Dragon Emperor.

He was once torn apart by Ye Qin using the power of the Myriad Beasts True Martial; that power was the manifestation of the Power Dao, so the Dragon Emperor's body could not heal, he fell underground and became a profound gold dragon vein, his soul also severely wounded, only now awakening.

"Ancestral Dragon... have you abandoned me? Indeed, in your eyes, I am merely a puppet, a puppet managing the Dragon Court for you... now the Dragon Court is destroyed..." The Dragon Emperor murmured.

The Dragon Emperor existed only by relying on the Dragon Court.

A hundred years ago, the Ancestral Dragon governed the Dragon Court; he became the vessel bearing the Dragon Court's fate, cultivating the Divine Dao, attempting to control the Human Dao via the Divine Dao, using the faith power of the Dragon Court's beings to elevate his cultivation to the Patriarch's realm, and his dragon body transformed from gold to profound gold.

But now the Dragon Court has perished, its fate shattered, its beings nearly exterminated, the Dragon Sealing List also broken and scattered between heaven and earth; the Dragon Emperor's cultivation plummeted, his body turned golden, and he was no longer in the Patriarch's realm.

Boom—

At this moment, the earth transmitted a violent tremor; over a thousand ancient, mysterious bronze coffins shuttled and flew beneath the ground, appearing to merge with the earth, able to traverse freely.

Among these bronze coffins, the foremost was a myriad-zhang-sized coffin emitting golden light; before it stood a tombstone radiating boundless majesty, inscribed with the words "Corpse God"; closely following were seventy-two coffins with powerful auras.

These bronze coffins emitted myriad auras: evil, death, blood, darkness, immortality, and more.

Whoosh!

When they saw the profound gold mountain range, they finally came to a stop.

Strands of evil aura emanated from these bronze coffins, enveloping a vast expanse of land; time seemed to freeze at this moment, everything eerily still.

Roar! This howl was neither beast nor not beast, containing a transcendent aura beyond the Three Realms and outside the Five Elements.

Roar... followed by successive howls.

Clang! The coffin lids of over a thousand bronze coffins behind flew open, crawling out were pale-skinned humanoid strange beasts; their eyes were red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple—seven colors; their auras varied; each bore a pair of fangs and fleshy wings on their backs; upon appearing, they bellowed to the heavens, shattering the solid earth into dust.

"Hail the God!" They all knelt, bowing before the coffin radiating golden light.

Clang! The coffin lid slowly opened.

Hiss! Boundless golden light shot straight to the clouds; a pale yet extraordinarily handsome young man rose from the coffin, his purple eyes emitting profound Dao aura, golden double wings on his back, a pair of blood-colored fangs filled with righteous aura, devoid of ferocity, instead resembling the world's most perfect artwork; within the righteous aura lay endless evil aura.

This is a perfect physical body! As if containing a world, a world of death.

Roar! The young man bellowed to the heavens, stretched out his hands, as if stretching lazily; his body crackled with popping sounds.

"You forged these zombie bronze coffins, drifting for tens of millions of years, enduring countless lands of death; yet here, this is the place where deathly aura is most concentrated—what great battle occurred here?" The young man asked, not addressing his subordinates behind him, but looking toward the Dragon Emperor.

This voice contained absolute power, with a magical force invading the Dragon Emperor's soul, instantly bewildering him.

"This is the Tianlong Mountain Range; not long ago, a world-ending battle occurred here, the eastern lands of Honghuang reduced to dust, returning to chaos..." The Dragon Emperor, like a puppet, recounted the scene of the Patriarch's demise in full detail.

"The Patriarch has fallen? A pity—ultimately, I came too late; if I could obtain the Patriarch's corpse, how many powerful beings could my corpse race produce? Though this place has slain billions of beings, it could also allow you to cultivate to the peak of quasi-sainthood—absorb freely!" The young man said to the thousand-plus monsters behind him.

"Ah!" A flash of imperial aura passed through the Dragon Emperor's soul; he suddenly awakened, enraged: "Who exactly are you?"

If the Dragon Emperor still possessed his former cultivation, he would not have angered but fled, for he had not realized that the person before him, this powerful being, had already reached the cultivation of the Ancestral Dragon.

How dare an ant rage at an elephant?

"Imperial domineering aura? Hahahaha, finally found it! After searching for tens of millions of years, I have finally found it! My Samsara World-Sealing Coffin can finally be successfully refined! My Imperial Samsara Great Dao is finally about to achieve great completion!" The young man laughed maniacally.

Originally, he was the Corpse God's Minister; in the Southern Wasteland, upon learning that Ye Qin was the Carefree Wanderer God, he immediately retreated, thereafter leaving the Southern Wasteland and drifting into the Boundless Lands.

As the progenitor of the corpse race, the Minister is the true god of the corpse race, cultivating the Corpse God Dao, and he created the most suitable method for refining spiritual treasures for the corpse race—the Earth-Sealing Bronze Coffins; his own Earth-Sealing Bronze Coffin is immensely powerful; he extracted the core Qi of the earth—Samsara Qi—and refined it into the bronze coffins, combined with the Corpse God Stele, to forge an immensely powerful supreme treasure—the Samsara World-Sealing Coffin; of course, it still lacks a governing Dao Qi for Samsara—the Imperial Domineering Aura.

The corpse race is a unique kind of being: seeming dead yet not dead, their aura transcends the Three Realms and lies outside the Five Elements; they do not cultivate the Heavenly Dao, but cultivate Samsara. Of course, the Samsara Dao has only been barely grasped by the Corpse God Minister, but it is precisely this slight understanding that allowed him to step into the Patriarch's realm.

The Samsara World-Sealing Coffin is the coffin refined by the Minister from this trace of Samsara intent; when his Samsara Dao is fully comprehended, this coffin will become his Samsara world, through which he can enter Samsara to cultivate in various forms, and one day, under the guidance of the Samsara World-Sealing Coffin, return to his peak.

This is an immensely powerful spiritual treasure; of course, it is still incomplete now.

"You must be the Dragon Emperor, I presume; your fame resounds like thunder, you once ruled the eastern lands of Honghuang, yet now you are in such a state; but today you have met me—I give you an opportunity: to live eternally indestructible, and to grow strong with me, becoming the treasure spirit of the Samsara World-Sealing Coffin!" The Minister also showed respect to the former powerful being, so he did not act immediately.

However, as the former emperor of the Dragon Court, how could the Dragon Emperor accept the fate of becoming a treasure spirit of the Samsara World-Sealing Coffin? With his tyrannical imperial nature, he would rather die than submit to enslavement.

The Dragon Emperor's weak soul suddenly howled madly, transforming into a myriad-zhang body, manipulating the power of the profound gold mountain range to rush at the Minister.

"Good! Worthy of being an emperor!"

Upon finishing his words, the Minister caused a power of time stillness to descend, actually freezing the Dragon Emperor in place.

This is one of the Minister's innate Divine Abilities—Time Stillness; he wields it at the Patriarch's realm, causing time to still within a hundred-zhang radius.

The Dragon Emperor wanted to struggle, but due to his weakened soul, he lacked strength; he wanted to self-annihilate; at this moment, he finally understood: the person before him is a Patriarch-level being he cannot contend with.

A surge of sorrow welled up in the Dragon Emperor's heart. As the ruler of the greatest power in the Honghuang world, and moreover the first emperor of Honghuang, he sat upon boundless fate, yet could never break through to the Patriarch's realm. Only later, by absorbing the human fate of the Dragon Court, did he manage to cultivate into a Patriarch's body. Yet now, upon casually encountering a person, that person is actually a powerful Patriarch.

Am I living in a dog's body now? As one of the oldest existences, I've fallen to this state— the Dragon Emperor's heart is already desperate, nearly wanting to destroy himself.

"You need not destroy yourself, nor must your vision be so narrow. This Honghuang world is not the end of the world— why despair over a small setback? Follow me; I will not enslave you. Let this Suppressing Bronze Coffin be your flesh! We are equals!" Jiang Chen said leisurely, his voice seeming to contain magic.

That is a charm, a convincing charm, and also one of Jiang Chen's Divine Abilities.

The Dragon Emperor's soul suddenly stopped dissipating and began to consider Jiang Chen's words. As if a magic whispered in his heart: the Dao is boundless; since I have always sought a fleshly body, why not try a different way of life? He also felt that this bronze coffin contained profound Dao, seemingly able to merge with his imperial aura.

The Dragon Emperor actually nodded, then entered the Suppressing Bronze Coffin.

Jiang Chen rejoiced, forming profound hand seals with both hands; a golden corpse qi rose, forming deep, profound runes. These runes contained the essence of reincarnation, all sinking into the Suppressing Bronze Coffin.

"Corpse God Dao, Reincarnation Runes, Earth Reincarnation Qi, condense!"

Boom—

The earth suddenly trembled violently; streams of breath embracing all things converged toward the bronze coffin. These breaths contained the essence of reincarnation, wrapping the coffin and beginning to refine the Dragon Emperor's soul.

The Dragon Emperor's eyes suddenly blazed open; he opened his dragon mouth, greedily absorbing these gases, then roared loudly, transforming into nine golden dragons coiling around the bronze coffin.

Huh...

The bronze coffin blazed with light; streams of imperial aura were infinitely magnified. The nine golden dragons formed golden dragon reliefs on the coffin's outer wall, their bodies twisting and winding, tightly wrapping the entire coffin. The dragons' gaping mouths inhaled and exhaled profound reincarnation qi.

After an unknown time, the world inside the bronze coffin seemed saturated, and the golden dragons stopped inhaling and exhaling.

Boom! The coffin lid flew up, steadily settling onto the coffin, as if something were being nurtured within.

Meanwhile, over a thousand other corpse clan members were absorbing the death qi beneath the earth, causing the death qi on Honghuang's eastern land to gradually decrease while vitality increased. The original balance between Honghuang's eastern self-repair and chaos qi being swallowed was broken, and chaos qi began to be slowly expelled.

So-called life and death coexisting is fully embodied in the corpse clan: they can make the earth fill with deathly qi, or restore vitality to the earth.

Huff... streams of earth reincarnation qi, carrying merit power, entered Jiang Chen's body. Yet Jiang Chen merged the merit power into the Reincarnation Suppressing Coffin.

"Excellent, the Reincarnation Suppressing Coffin is finally forged. I don't know how long gestation will take—I will wait here. When the Reincarnation Suppressing Coffin emerges, it will be the time I, Jiang Chen, attain the Dao!" Jiang Chen said.

However, Jiang Chen did not know that when the Reincarnation Suppressing Coffin emerges, heaven and earth will have undergone vast changes, the world transformed.

At the foot of Buzhou Mountain, inside Pangu's Palace.

Hou Tu was cultivating when she suddenly opened her beautiful eyes, filled with doubt. She immediately ran out of Pangu's Palace, sensing the earth's changes.

"Huh? There is actually such a supreme, all-encompassing Dao qi within the earth? This Dao qi can rival the Heavenly Dao? What power is this? Could the earth transformed from the Father God still possess power to contend with the Heavenly Dao?" Hou Tu murmured to herself.

Moreover, she actually shed two tears, as if her soul had been greatly moved, yet she did not know why she wept.

She sat cross-legged outside, beginning to comprehend this Dao.

Meanwhile, the other ancestral witches continued cultivating in Pangu's Palace, sparring with Bai Qi and Bai Yudragon Elephant in combat techniques, battling fiercely within Pangu's Palace.

Pangu's Palace, forged from what material or what chaos spirit treasure, remains unknown. Even if the ancestral witches fought with their greatest strength, they could not break it. (End of Chapter)