Chapter 180: Dust-Sealed Old Monsters, the Battle for Ascension!

Time flowed leisurely, and in the blink of an eye, thirty years of time flashed by! In these thirty years, the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations across the entire Heaven and Earth were tranquil and peaceful.

Facts proved that if the Demon Race lost the resources of the Human Race, they could still survive quite well in Heaven and Earth; it was merely that fewer of them awakened their intelligence, and fewer powerhouses were born.

Conversely, the Human Race experienced great governance over the past thirty years.

Especially after Gu Shengxi successfully broke through to the Heaven and Earth Enlightenment Realm, she began, with the help of Gu Nianmo, to truly govern this land of the Human Race.

Although Gu Nianmo did not follow Gu Jiangming during his childhood, after so many years of tempering, Gu Nianmo also had a benchmark for the Great Harmony of the world in Gu Jiangming's heart.

And Gu Shengxi was originally the Human Emperor Supreme favored by the Human Race's destiny; although she did not take the position of Human Emperor upon achieving Heaven and Earth Enlightenment, she acted on behalf of the human world, truly striving for the Great Harmony of the world.

Practitioners have the rules of practitioners, and ordinary people have the laws of ordinary people.

But the barrier between practitioners and ordinary people was absolutely not an insurmountable class; the Starfire Technique had been deduced to the thirty-sixth version over these past many years.

The thirty-sixth version of the Starfire Technique was a technique capable of achieving the Transformation of God Realm.

All humans within the Human Race's territory could receive the Starfire Technique free of charge at the age of twelve, but how far one could cultivate depended on individual aptitude and Opportunity.

For Gu Jiangming, the spread of the Starfire Technique among hundreds of billions of humans brought him Humanity Merit that was vast beyond count.

Under the accumulation of such Merit, although Gu Jiangming still had not stepped into the Heavenly Human Realm, his Merit Karma Fire divine ability grew once again, and even Gu Jiangming's own strength could briefly reach the Heavenly Human Realm with the help of this Merit.

This method of briefly stepping into the Heavenly Human Realm with the help of Merit did not truly mean that Gu Jiangming had broken through to the Heavenly Human Realm.

If one had to use a metaphor, it should be considered as adding a question to the exam paper oneself and then finishing it; the Heavenly Dao, as the examiner, might not have noticed at first, but the time one could hide it was extremely limited.

But Gu Jiangming also realized that with the renewed surge of his Merit Karma Fire, the burden placed on his own body was becoming greater and greater.

Merit and Karma were originally powers that only Heaven and Earth could wield.

Even if Gu Jiangming used a clever method to forcibly wield this power, everything has its gains and losses; the dissipation of Gu Jiangming's own lifespan and his constantly collapsing body were the price he had to pay!

"Thirty years, huh..."

On this day, Gu Jiangming slowly rose from a mountain on the left side of Niankong Villa.

This mountain was where Gu Jiangming often went into seclusion, and it was also the territory closest to the Qilin Clan.

For thirty years, whether it was Zhao Kai or Gu Jiangming, as long as Gu Jiangming sat on this mountain, their Qi and intent were in constant conflict.

Although the two had never truly fought, it was undeniable that Gu Jiangming had effectively been fighting Zhao Kai for thirty years.

Well, the kind of fight where one could go home to eat and stop halfway...

And today, thirty years later, both Gu Jiangming and Zhao Kai had adjusted their Qi and momentum, essence and spirit, to their peak states.

Whether it was Zhao Kai or Gu Jiangming, both of them were impatient to truly engage in a fierce battle, to kill, to sublimate themselves in that boiling intensity, and to work together between life and death to break through the restrictions of Heaven and Earth, subsequently truly breaking through to the Heavenly Human Realm.

Gu Jiangming had a reason he had to break through; with the further elevation of the Merit Karma Fire, he only had a hundred years of lifespan left in this body.

Zhao Kai also had a reason he had to break through; although he presumptuously claimed to be in the Ascension Realm, he was always separated from the true Ascension Realm by a sliver—it was Heaven and Earth obstructing him, and it was the world obstructing him.

For Zhao Kai, he had waited too long for this day, so long that Zhao Kai himself had almost forgotten time.

From this day on, within the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations of the entire Heaven and Earth, all those of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment began to awaken and cast their gazes.

Even those dust-sealed Old Monsters in their twilight years of Dao transformation were stirred within their seals, as if, as if Heaven and Earth were instinctively urging them to act! Some of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment did not understand why, but they could still feel that in the Human North Territory, two auras were constantly climbing and constantly sublimating! The battle between Gu Jiangming and Zhao Kai had not yet begun; they were in the final step of elevating their own momentum and spirit.

When their momentum and spirit climbed to the limit of Heaven and Earth, whether they were willing or not, they would have to fight each other! Heaven and Earth was not only urging other Heaven and Earth Enlightenment to attack them, but also urging the two of them to fight!

Heavenly Human Realm, Heavenly Human Realm...

Just as a human body would not allow a parasite as important as its own organs to be born within it, Heaven and Earth would not allow a living being capable of replacing a part of itself to be born within it.

"Human North Territory..."

"I was wondering why the Red Lotus Demon Venerable resided in the Human North Territory for so long; so it was to deter Zhao Kai of the Qilin Clan?"

"Zhao Kai's strength has actually reached such an incredible level?"

"Are these two about to break through to the true Ascension Realm?"

As those two auras, which seemed to reach the heavens, shook the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, one after another, the Enlightenment powerhouses who had just gone into seclusion walked out of their mountain gates helplessly.

It was not that they had to join in the excitement, but the warning from Heaven and Earth made it impossible for all of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment to continue their secluded cultivation.

What's more, what's more, just watching those two auras surging, plus the warning from Heaven and Earth, who could not know that this Red Lotus Demon Venerable and Zhao Kai of the Qilin Clan were about to break through to the Ascension Realm?

"Can they succeed?"

"As Heaven and Earth gradually perfected, how many years has it been since a being of the Ascension Realm was born in this world?"

"After those ancient Ascension beings fell one by one, this Heaven and Earth no longer allowed anyone to break its restrictions..."

Some sleeping Ancient Supremes awakened from their places of slumber; some of these Ancient Supremes did not even know how many years they had survived, and some of these Supremes were even born in the era after the last Ascension Heavenly Human fell.

Among these Ancient Supremes, some had long lifespans, and coupled with special sleeping methods, they lived to this era.

Some Ancient Supremes had already had their bodies mostly transformed into Dao, yet those Supremes still walked out of their places of slumber.

They all stared fixedly at the Human North Territory, at those two pillars of aura reaching the heavens! Within the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, an unknown number of Old Monsters began to walk out; these Old Monsters were the dust-sealed Old Monsters of those races.

Although these Old Monsters were in the twilight of Dao transformation, perhaps even one or two moves would lead to Dao transformation.

But these Old Monsters still could not help but emerge at this time.

All the old antiques who still had the heart to go further could not possibly miss this Opportunity!

Gu Jiangming and Zhao Kai were about to fight; just by looking at the two pillars of Qi in Heaven and Earth, these Old Monsters knew that whether it was Gu Jiangming or Zhao Kai, they had already cultivated the Supreme state to the point where there was no further to go! This was an Opportunity for all of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment, an Opportunity to go further! The battle between two beings who had half a foot in the Ascension Realm would inevitably lead to the confusion of the principles of Heaven and Earth, and the confusion of principles was the only Opportunity for those of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment to go further.

This was also the reason why so many Old Monsters could not help but emerge just because Gu Jiangming and Zhao Kai's Qi bloomed.

Those ancient Supremes wanted to fish in troubled waters, wanting to use the Opportunity of Gu Jiangming and Zhao Kai's breakthrough to go further, or even ascend to the Heavenly Human Realm themselves.

Those of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment in the twilight of Dao transformation wanted to use the time when the principles of Heaven and Earth were confused to quickly add points.

These people were like being in a large examination hall with thousands of people, where everyone had achieved a perfect score, or was about to achieve a perfect score, and some had even exceeded a perfect score.

And now, the two people with the best grades in this examination hall met each other's eyes and were about to fight in this examination hall.

For those Old Monsters who had nowhere else to go, and even for those candidates who were still doing the paper and those who had perfect scores but were unwilling to hand it in like this, this was a unique Opportunity!

The two candidates with the best grades fighting would inevitably lead to chaos in the examination hall.

Those without perfect scores could take this Opportunity to look at others' papers and look at others' problem-solving ideas.

Those with perfect scores could take this Opportunity to see how those who exceeded the perfect score did it, and see if they could add two questions to the paper themselves to solve, and then hand it in directly, creating a fait accompli.

There were also those older candidates with excellent grades; they had been taking exams their whole lives, to the point of death, and their scores were the closest to those two most outstanding ones; they wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the examination hall to likewise change their own papers to ninety points.

The battle between Gu Jiangming and Zhou Kai had yet to begin, but whether it was Gu Jiangming or Zhou Kai, at this moment, without a doubt, they were the focus of Heaven and Earth!

Yet regardless of whether it was Gu Jiangming or Zhou Kai, neither of them was disturbed by the outside world in the slightest.

Near the mountain where Gu Jiangming stood, Jiu Jiu and the others were also alarmed; they stood on the periphery of this mountain, gazing at that figure atop the mountain, their eyes filled with irrepressible worry.

"Hum, hum, hum..."

I do not know from when it began, but the Heaven and Earth between the Qi of Gu Jiangming and Zhou Kai actually emitted a series of humming sounds.

Accompanied by the rise of these humming sounds, countless existences who had attained Heaven and Earth Enlightenment and were watching the Human North Territory could see clearly—they could see clearly that the space there was actually in turmoil under the collision of the two's Qi!

"Void Shattering!"

"This is Void Shattering!"

"It is something only a true Ascended Heavenly Human can accomplish!"

"My father once saw the scene of the last Five Decays Heaven and Human making a move; at that time, countless Supremes wanted to kill that Heaven and Human who was already in the Five Decays."

"That Five Decays Heaven and Human had soiled clothes, withered flowers on their head, sweat under their armpits, a foul-smelling body, and no joy in their seat, yet just such a Five Decays Heaven and Human, by merely waving their arm, shattered the Void and directly buried dozens of Supremes of one race!"

Old Monsters who did not know how many years they had lived had already arrived outside the one-hundred-thousand-mile boundary of the Human North Territory.

One hundred thousand miles, this was a relatively safe distance; if one had to have a clear understanding, it was that these Old Monsters were separated from the center of the battlefield by the distance of three or four Earths...

However, even at such a remote distance, the Old Monsters who dared to stand here were a mere five or six people.

From each of these eleven or twelve people, a decaying and immense aura radiated; they merely stood there, and it actually caused their surroundings to decay and wither.

No one knew how long these Old Monsters had lived, but the decay on their bodies had reached a terrifying state, so terrifying that just by standing there, they could already infect the outside world with their own decay.

"It is Chang Yu!"

"You are actually still alive?"

"Earlier, when I felt a new Supreme born between Heaven and Earth, I thought the principles of Heaven and Earth had changed."

"When I couldn't help but cast my gaze over, I seemed to feel a familiar gaze; I truly did not expect it to be Supreme Chang Yu!"

These Old Monsters who did not know how many ages they had spanned actually still had acquaintances? An Old Monster whose face had already decayed looked at the one who spoke and let out such a sigh.

And in the territory further away, about fifteen thousand miles out, there were those half-step beyond Heaven and Earth Enlightenment guys like the old Dragon King.

Although the old Dragon King's gaze was likewise placed on the center of the battlefield, the old Dragon King's eyes could not help but glance toward that spot ten thousand miles away.

There, they also had Old Monsters of their Dragon Race.

Originally, the old Dragon King felt that having three or five sealed ancient Supremes between Heaven and Earth was already shocking enough, but the old Dragon King had never imagined that there were actually eleven or twelve hidden ancient Supremes between Heaven and Earth.

Although one of them was the ancestor of their Dragon Race, the old Dragon King could not see the background of any of the others! Thirty thousand miles away was the place where those of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment gathered.

As the clash of momentum between Gu Jiangming and Zhou Kai shattered more and more spatial turbulence, Jiu Jiu, Liu Moran, Wang Qinghe, and Long Xi had to move away from the battlefield.

In thirty years of time, Jiu Jiu's strength had become extremely close to the Supreme Realm; although Liu Moran was slightly inferior, she could still stand alongside Long Xi's old father.

Even Long Xi at this time could barely stand near her own old father.

As for Wang Qinghe, Gu Nianmo, Gu Shengxi, and Gu Mingyue, the four of them needed the protection of Jiu Jiu and the others to stand fifteen thousand miles away.

Even though they were infinitely worried in their hearts, at this moment, other than watching the battle, they could do nothing else.

As for the old Dragon King...

The old Dragon King watched his daughter actually able to rely on her own strength to stand with him, then looked at Gu Jiangming in the distant territory; the old Dragon King's eyes were truly complex to the extreme at this moment.

His own cabbage was just different from other people's cabbage; his own cabbage grew legs and carried the pig away itself...

However, looking at the terrifying aura on Gu Jiangming in the distance, and then looking at Long Xi's current strength, the old Dragon King's eyes were filled with a bit of gratification amidst the complexity, while at the same time, he felt a bit annoyed when looking at Gu Mingyue and the others.

The old Dragon King's gratification was easy to understand, but as for the annoyance...

Of course he was annoyed!

Why is it that you, Red Lotus Demon Venerable, have four wives, and three of them have given birth to offspring with Supreme Seeds, yet my own cabbage hasn't given me a grandson with a Supreme Seed? It was just that the timing was not right, otherwise, the old Dragon King would have risked his life today to question Gu Jiangming: Have you been working hard all these years? If you have been working hard, where is my grandson? To tell the truth, after the old Dragon King truly saw Gu Nianmo and the others, he began to miss his own grandson whom he had never met and who did not yet exist! (End of chapter)