Chapter 197: The End of Reincarnation, Gu Jiangming's Regrets!

After one line of text after another, and one scene after another, unfolded before Gu Jiangming, Gu Jiangming in this bizarre space fell silent.

Especially when Gu Jiangming watched Gu Shengxi, who mingled in the cities of the Human Race, sometimes manic and sometimes laughing or crying, Gu Jiangming finally understood why the Seek Immortality Interface would say, would say that his trip to Wanglin Mountain would be a matter that would leave him filled with regret.

His third child, Gu Mingyue, was left sleeping alone within the Qilin Grotto-Heaven; Gu Nianmo did successfully step into the Heavenly Human Realm, but for the rest of his life, Gu Nianmo could only wander aimlessly within the Great Wilderness.

Others did not know what the Great Wilderness looked like, but when Gu Jiangming acted on behalf of the Heavenly Will, he knew the appearance of the Great Wilderness better than anyone else.

That is a place where the Heavenly Net can barely reach; there is no sunrise or moonset there, no vitality, and certainly no living beings surviving.

For the countless living beings in the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, stepping into the Great Wilderness is basically a dead end; most importantly, ordinary Heaven and Earth Enlightenment practitioners, and even the Supreme, do not necessarily have the ability to set foot in the Great Wilderness.

It is filled with infinite danger, yet it is also a dead zone for living beings.

This is also the reason why, even though some people know that the Great Wilderness might be a place where one can step into the Heavenly Human Realm, few people have ever been willing to walk into the Great Wilderness.

After all, even at the Supreme Realm, it is impossible to go without any communication with the outside world for a long time.

The Great Wilderness has no Spirit Qi, no vitality, and is entirely desert; for those at the Supreme Realm to step into the Great Wilderness, a short period of a thousand or so years might be fine, but if it were for a longer time, rashly walking out of the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations covered by the Heavenly Net is almost seeking one's own death.

Additionally, Gu Jiangming also noticed that the Heavenly Net seems to be intentionally or unintentionally shielding the living beings of the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations from knowledge of the Great Wilderness.

In the Eastern Sea Region, even the Dragon Race will subconsciously not head toward the desolate sea areas.

In the Southern Mountains, one mountain range after another cuts off all communication between the Great Wilderness and the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations; just those seemingly endless Southern Mountains are enough to make a Heaven and Earth Enlightenment practitioner unable to finish walking them even by the end of their life.

In the northern snow plains, the further one walks north, the more frigid the temperature of the snow plains becomes.

Even for some Heaven and Earth Enlightenment practitioners who specialize in ice-type Dao Principles, if they walk to the end of the snow plains, it is highly likely they will completely turn into ice sculptures and sink into the snow plains.

The west is an infinite desert; the closer the desolate desert is to the Great Wilderness, the more barren its vitality.

If one had to describe it, then the Great Wilderness outside the entire Four Wilds and Eight Desolations is a territory that lacks any soil for cultivation.

That Gu Nianmo was able to break through to the Heavenly Human Realm in the Great Wilderness was not his original intention either.

At least Gu Jiangming saw in this bizarre territory that Gu Nianmo's breakthrough to the Heavenly Human Realm was entirely due to the misleading of Supreme Changyu, or rather, it was premeditated! But alas, even though Gu Jiangming knew this, he could not change it.

He just clicked on the scenes of Gu Nianmo achieving the Heavenly Human Realm, frowning as he replayed them over and over.

【Your offspring Gu Nianmo met Supreme Changyu in the Great Wilderness; Gu Nianmo, who had been rushing about in the Great Wilderness for seven thousand years, was already extremely exhausted. In this territory where no vitality survived, your offspring Gu Nianmo exhausted the foundation of his Pseudo-Heavenly Human state.】

【Your offspring Gu Nianmo still did not reach the end of the west; he did not see what was at the western end of the Great Wilderness.】

【He transformed into a giant thirty thousand zhang tall and fell in the Western Wilderness territory under the lack of spiritual energy.】

【While your offspring Gu Nianmo was in a state of coma, Supreme Changyu, whom you had only met a few times in this era, discovered him. Supreme Changyu dragged your offspring Gu Nianmo and sent him to a place of vitality that had existed for who knows how long.】

【This is a place of vitality not covered by the Heavenly Net; there is relatively sufficient vitality and spiritual energy here. Your offspring Gu Nianmo, in an unconscious state between life and death, autonomously stepped into the Heavenly Human Realm.】

【Before your offspring Gu Nianmo woke up, Supreme Changyu had already disappeared.】

【After your offspring Gu Nianmo stepped into the Heavenly Human Realm, he discovered that he could no longer enter the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations; the Heavenly Net was blocking him, and the Heavenly Will was likewise blocking him.】

Gu Jiangming clicked on that scene of Gu Nianmo and flipped through the scene of Gu Nianmo achieving Heavenly Human status dozens of times.

And accompanying Gu Jiangming's flipping, Gu Jiangming's brow furrowed more and more severely.

Originally, Gu Jiangming only had a fraction of suspicion that there might be unknown Heavenly Humans in the Great Wilderness outside of Heaven and Earth, but when Gu Nianmo stepped into the Heavenly Human Realm and could not return to the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, Gu Jiangming became increasingly certain that there were definitely other Heavenly Humans existing in the Great Wilderness outside of Heaven and Earth.

It was just that these Heavenly Humans were either like Gu Nianmo, unable to return to Heaven and Earth ever again, or they were harboring some other purpose?

"Supreme Changyu, Ziwu once said that he is the offspring of a Pseudo-Heavenly Human from the era when the Heavenly Human before me perished!"

"Calculating by time, Supreme Changyu is at least a figure from seventy thousand years ago..."

"The place where he hides is indeed a place of vitality in the Great Wilderness, but when I held the Heavenly Will, I could see that the place of vitality where Supreme Changyu slept was also slowly dissipating in vitality!"

"But Supreme Changyu was able to find a place of vitality nearby that still contained living beings..."

"Outside the Great Wilderness, how many more such places of vitality are there?"

Gu Jiangming frowned; in this era, he felt he had seen through countless mists, but at this moment, as the Seek Immortality Interface led him to review it, Gu Jiangming discovered that there seemed to be even more mists hidden beyond the truth?

"Supreme Changyu has secrets, so what about the remaining few?"

Gu Jiangming indeed felt immense guilt regarding the fates of his three offspring, but at this moment, Gu Jiangming's attention was instead placed elsewhere.

Following the movement of Gu Jiangming's thoughts, the Seek Immortality Interface before him changed once again.

【When you and your three offspring joined forces to open the Void Portal, Supreme Ziwu, Supreme Long Ao, and Supreme Huang Yu sensed it.】

【Thanks to you sharing your own vitality, Supreme Long Ao lived for another twelve thousand years.】

【He witnessed the alternation of eras, and at the same time, he witnessed the old Dragon King turning white-haired overnight.】

【Long Ao was ultimately unwilling to die and dissipate; three thousand years after you perished by smashing the sky, the old Dragon King had no heart to manage the affairs of the Dragon Race, and the Dragon Race was managed by Long Ao on his behalf.】

【In the three thousand years of time, Long Ao researched an evil art; he chose to devour one dragon a year, using the vitality, dragon blood, and dragon flesh of his own kin to replenish his vitality, and subsequently linger on in the world.】

【After you and your three offspring opened the Void Portal, the old Dragon King, who had been ignoring affairs, finally woke up.】

【The old Dragon King perceived what Long Ao had done to the Dragon Race; the Dragon Race, which had originally been the hegemon of Heaven and Earth, had seven thousand dragons perish during the seven thousand years Long Ao was in charge.】

【Pure-blooded dragons were already few in number; seven thousand years later, when the old Dragon King came out of seclusion, the entire Dragon Race had only about a hundred dragons left. The old Dragon King launched a life-and-death struggle against Long Ao; compared to the lingering Long Ao, even if the old Dragon King's realm was inferior to the other's, he still tore off one of Long Ao's Dragon Claws, shattered Long Ao's Dragon Pearl, and broke one of Long Ao's Dragon Horns.】

【In despair, Long Ao fled along the way, and finally, Long Ao stepped into the Void Portal and left the world.】

【This was Long Ao's desperate gamble; he wanted to step into the Heavenly Human Realm within the Void, and subsequently continue to linger on.】

【But the terrifying Void power within the Void only allowed Long Ao to live for another seven hundred years; twelve thousand years after your Wanglin Mountain, Long Ao perished within the Void.】

【Supreme Huang Yu calmly accepted her own death; the Phoenix Race in Heaven and Earth had long since scattered to various places, and even if Supreme Huang Yu could find enough descendants, she could not learn Long Ao's methods.】

【Three thousand years into the Heaven Collapse Era, Supreme Huang Yu perished in the Southeastern Mountains; three thousand years before she died, she gave birth to one descendant alone. This was a descendant of Supreme Huang Yu's incomplete nirvana, inheriting many of Supreme Huang Yu's memories, but it was not Supreme Huang Yu.】

【Eleven thousand years into the Heaven Collapse Era, one thousand years after you and your offspring opened the Void Portal, Supreme Ziwu stepped into the Pseudo-Heavenly Human realm.】

【His Movement and Stillness Dao became increasingly perfected, but Supreme Ziwu also discovered that within the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, he could not become a Heavenly Human.】

【He could not feel the existence of the Heavenly Net, but he could feel the power of Heaven and Earth's confinement upon himself.】

【Seventeen thousand years into the Heaven Collapse Era, Supreme Changyu visited Supreme Ziwu, inviting him to go to the Great Wilderness, and promised that Supreme Ziwu could step into the Heavenly Human Realm.】

【Supreme Ziwu did not refuse Supreme Changyu, only asking him to come again in one hundred thousand years.】

【Supreme Ziwu said that you had great grace toward him, and he would look after the Human Race for one hundred thousand years to offset the grace you had toward him.】

【Supreme Changyu agreed to Supreme Ziwu's agreement and agreed to come to the sea region to pick up Supreme Ziwu in one hundred thousand years.】

【At this time, Ziwu Supreme also realized that beyond Heaven and Earth, there might exist a power completely unknown to the world, and Changyu Supreme was a member of that group.】

【Twenty-two thousand years after the Heaven Collapse, the Stone Horn Clan Supreme Jiao Qing walked into the Void Portal and disappeared from then on.】

【Thirty-one thousand years after the Heaven Collapse, Yu Ming Supreme reached his twilight years and was about to step into Dao-Transformation; it was also this year that Yu Ming Supreme saw Changyu Supreme once again.】

【Yu Ming Supreme did not struggle with it too much; he followed Changyu Supreme toward the Great Wilderness beyond Heaven and Earth, hoping to advance further within that Great Wilderness.】

【The Dragon Race vanished, and the three Supremes of the Gu Clan had not appeared before others for a long time; slowly, no one called this era the Heaven Collapse Era anymore.】

【Especially when those Quasi-Supremes also began to undergo Dao-Transformation, the era of the rise of the Divine Path became a true God Era.】

【Records concerning you only exist in fragments among those forces and races that have truly endured without end.】

【Some call you the last Heavenly Human between Heaven and Earth, some call you the gravedigger of the era, and some call you the Red Lotus Demon Venerable, but that era is destined to drift further and further away as time passes.】

【Seventy thousand years after the Heaven Collapse, your descendant Gu Shengxi stepped into the Void Portal during his final moment of clarity.】

【When Gu Shengxi stepped into the Void Portal, the last traces you left between Heaven and Earth also dissipated, and the Void Portal vanished at the former site of Wanglin Mountain; from then on, there were only two Supremes left between Heaven and Earth: the old Dragon King and Ziwu Supreme.】

【In an era where Supremes disappeared, gods became the strongest combat power of the age.】

【Every three thousand years, Ziwu Supreme would walk among the mortal world for ten years; with no one to supervise, Ziwu Supreme still followed the agreement and resolved many troubles, large and small, for the Human Race.】

【The Human Race developed for seventy thousand years; although it was not as prosperous as when the Gu Clan Heavenly Humans suppressed the world, it still occupied one of the most fertile lands between Heaven and Earth, and strong individuals of the Human Race emerged in succession, with one heaven-defying talent after another stepping onto the Divine Path.】

After lines of text flashed on the Seek Immortality Interface once again, even Gu Jiangming could not help but fall silent at this moment.

He had not expected, had not expected that Gu Shengxi would actually walk into the Void Portal in the end; one must know that from the time Gu Mingyue sent back the remains of Jiu Jiu and the others to the time Gu Shengxi stepped into the Void Portal, sixty thousand years of time had passed.

Sixty thousand years of time—with the Qilin Grotto-Heaven having lost its anchor, no one knew how far away it might be from Heaven and Earth.

It could be said that Gu Shengxi walking into the Void was almost a nine-deaths-and-one-life situation...

"In this life, I have failed them greatly..."

Gu Jiangming rubbed his temples, and only after a long while did Gu Jiangming let out such a long sigh.

Accompanied by this sigh from Gu Jiangming, the text on the Seek Immortality Interface slowly stopped flashing, and the scenes on the Seek Immortality seemed to freeze at this moment; this was the Seek Immortality evaluating Gu Jiangming's life.

【As a human, you did not fail this era, nor did you fail the Human Race!】

【As a husband, although you gathered your four wives through your own strength, there were ultimately still barriers between them in their hearts, and they each had their own regrets to a greater or lesser extent.】

【Long Xi's regret was not having a child with you, and Jiu Jiu's regret was not knowing the final outcome of her daughter, Gu Mingyue.】

【Liu Moxuan's regret was that, throughout her entire life, she never once surpassed Jiu Jiu.】

【Wang Qinghe's regret, however, was that she suspected her son Gu Shengxi did not seem to like women, which caused Wang Qinghe to worry herself sick in secret, yet Gu Shengxi never had any intention of starting a family.】

【As a father, you were qualified, but you were also unqualified.】

【You missed the most important period of your descendant Gu Nianmo's growth; although you accompanied them for many years, they were always worried in their hearts that you would step into death.】

【Your reckless behavior ultimately resulted in your three descendants being scattered to the ends of the earth.】

【Gu Shengxi resented you, but he resented himself even more.】

【Gu Nianmo held hatred for you; he felt that if not for your stubbornness, the outcome of your family might have been different, which was also one of the reasons he eventually became a Heavenly Human of the Great Wilderness.】

【This time in Reincarnation, you obtained the Red Lotus Demon Venerable Card.】

【When you wield the Red Lotus Demon Venerable Card, you are the Heavenly Lord, you are the proxy of Heavenly Will; between Heaven and Earth, no one is a match for you!】

(End of this chapter)