Chapter 200: Human Race Upheaval, the Vanished Dragon Race!

Yet what Gu Jiangming cast to the back of his mind was, for the Great Jing, earth-shattering news.

This was not because the Jing Emperor truly held such lofty prestige in the Great Jing; after all, in this era where such cultivators were rampant in the world, while a dynasty was certainly powerful, and the Jing Emperor himself was powerful, he was merely one emperor under the heavens.

Along with the news of the Jing Emperor's passing that spread throughout the human world, there was also news that filled the countless living beings of the world with terror.

The death of the Jing Emperor was not a normal passing, but rather that not long ago, he had led a great army of Great Jing cultivators to support the Northern Front, where he encountered an ambush by ten gods and subsequently died, his Dao dissipating.

Even though the experts following the Jing Emperor fought back with all their might, in the end, they only managed to retrieve the Jing Emperor's corpse.

If matters had simply ended there, an emperor of a dynasty being ambushed and killed by foreign gods at the front line would certainly be big news, but it would not be enough to make the living beings of the human world feel terror in their hearts.

An emperor of a dynasty encountered an ambush on the Northern Front; those many Human Gods stationed at the Northern Front naturally could not stand idly by.

But no one would have thought that this was actually a "luring the tiger away from the mountain" strategy.

Following the departure of those many gods from the Northern Front to rescue the Jing Emperor, in a short span of time, nearly a hundred foreign gods emerged from the Northern Front; those nearly a hundred foreign gods seemed to have made an appointment, attacking the cities and fortresses established by the Human Race in the north at almost the same time.

In just a few short days, the Northern Front had completely rotted away, and even the Human Gods stationed in the north suffered heavy losses.

As this news spread throughout the human world, even the peddlers and porters who cared nothing for current events knew that things were developing in a direction no one wished to see.

The collapse of the Northern Front meant that countless Demon Race had already entered the territory of the Human Race.

If it were the people of the main cities, although they were terrified in their hearts, they would not necessarily feel as if the sky were falling.

But for the people of those ordinary small cities, this piece of news was truly a message comparable to the sky collapsing.

In a short time, the territory of the Human Race, which had long been peaceful, saw countless reports of demons appearing, and several towns in the north even turned into dead zones overnight.

That was because terrifying great demons had directly devoured the living beings of an entire city.

Most importantly, the events in the north seemed to have triggered some kind of chain reaction; in a short time, in the Eastern Continent, Western Lands, and Southern Kingdom—the three territories of the entire Human Race—there were Demon Race appearing in varying numbers.

Added to the position of the Jing Emperor in this incident, for a time, the entire Great Jing became precarious.

Even though the new Jing Emperor was trying extremely hard to maintain the situation, rumors were still rampant among the people of the Great Jing, and there was even a constant emergence of the phenomenon of the Demon Race appearing in the Great Jing.

"When I was gathering information, I didn't know that the death of the Jing Emperor had such a cause..."

In Leping County, as a small city on the border of the Great Jing by the sea, although the Human Race was precarious and the Great Jing was in constant turmoil, Leping County appeared somewhat peaceful in such times.

After all, even if Leping County were placed within the entire territory of the Human Race, it was sufficiently remote.

In the past, remote naturally meant underdeveloped, but in this era where chaos was gradually rising, remote meant that Leping County had not encountered too great an impact.

And in the courtyard of Gu Jiangming's home, a look of gravity appeared between the brows of Jiu Jiu.

Placed in the previous Reincarnation era, Jiu Jiu was naturally powerful, powerful enough that even if all the Heaven and Earth Enlightenment existences in the world joined forces, Jiu Jiu would have the confidence to ensure they would never return.

But after returning to this era, the End of Dharma of Heaven and Earth meant that Jiu Jiu's strength could only be exerted to the Enlightened Realm.

Even though Jiu Jiu possessed means beyond the ordinary Enlightened Realm, Jiu Jiu could perceive that every time such means were used, they would likely encounter suppression from Heaven and Earth.

Those gods that Jiu Jiu looked down upon, once gathered in sufficient numbers, could truly pose a threat to her! "I also did not expect that this front line, which has existed for tens of thousands of years, would collapse in a single day..."

"This matter is a bit too coincidental, isn't it?"

Gu Jiangming also slowly shook his head; there was no overly grave expression on his face. Although the time had been short, at this moment Gu Jiangming was still only at the Golden Core Realm, but realm did not represent strength.

At least Gu Jiangming had the confidence that no matter how rotten this world became, he would be able to remain safe and sound in this world.

"It is not a coincidence!"

"The Void Gate has had an anomaly!"

"My father has returned to the sea territory; he also sensed my return to the sea territory, so my father projected a thought back."

"Behind those Demon Race, there are others!"

"While we were unaware, the world underwent some changes that we could not perceive."

It was just as Gu Jiangming and Jiu Jiu were talking about the Jing Emperor and the news of the collapse of the Human Race front line that a dragon shadow, invisible to ordinary people, flickered in the sky above Leping County.

A moment later, this dragon shadow transformed into the appearance of Long Xi and landed at Gu Jiangming's home.

The usually calm Long Xi, upon seeing Gu Jiangming at this moment, had a layer of anxiety and gravity between her brows instead.

"The old Dragon King has returned?"

As Long Xi's voice fell, Jiu Jiu's body suddenly stiffened.

If it were the previous era, she would not underestimate the old Dragon King either; after all, the old Dragon King was also an existence who had walked into the Supreme Realm by his own power. Every Supreme, whether hostile or not, was worthy of respect.

"No, what returned was only a thought!"

"Heaven and Earth no longer have any tolerance for the Supreme Realm. My father sensed this as early as tens of thousands of years ago, and coupled with some special reasons, he took the Dragon Race and left the sea territory."

Long Xi shook her head; she also knew why Jiu Jiu was nervous.

After all, Mie Changsheng could be considered their greatest secret. When the old Dragon King saw Gu Jiangming and saw Jiu Jiu appearing in this era, who knew if the old Dragon King would have some special ideas.

Especially having seen the madness of a Supreme in his later years, Jiu Jiu would not think that the old Dragon King, knowing that Gu Jiangming and Jiu Jiu—who should have died 150,000 years ago—appeared in this era, would not do something.

"This time returning to the sea territory, I resolved many doubts in my heart."

"Some things might also resolve other doubts!"

Long Xi sat in front of Gu Jiangming, watching Gu Jiangming holding Jiu Jiu, and after a moment of silence, she openly occupied the other side of Gu Jiangming's chest.

Jiu Jiu, seeing Long Xi actually competing for her husband's embrace, subconsciously wanted to get angry.

But thinking of the old Dragon King who could send a thought back into Heaven and Earth, and what Long Xi said about resolving some doubts in her heart, Jiu Jiu ultimately remained silent.

"Let's start with why I lost my memories of the Heavenly Human Era!" Long Xi, seeing that Jiu Jiu did not look angry, found a suitable position in Gu Jiangming's arms before speaking slowly.

"According to my father, 140,000 years ago, Mingyue sent the corpses of the four of us back into Heaven and Earth."

"There was nothing special about this originally; the only special thing was probably that my father personally went to find Sheng Xi once to bring my corpse back to the Dragon Palace."

"The Dragon Palace was already very decadent at that time, after all, it had experienced a reckless disaster caused by Long Ao."

"Even though 10,000 years had passed, there were only three or four hundred Dragon Race in the Dragon Race at that time, and among them, there were over a hundred whose lifespans were already old."

"My father said that at that time, he felt that my Dao had not completely shattered."

"He wanted to gather my Dao and try to use my Dao to awaken me."

"It is a pity that my soul was ground away and my Dao was even more shattered and broken. My father worked hard for tens of thousands of years, but only managed to repair my Dao slightly."

"However, my father was a Supreme after all, and a Supreme who had dealings with Huang Yu at that."

"He went to the southern mountains and forests 120,000 years ago to find Huang Yu's reincarnated body after Nirvana."

"From Huang Yu's own mouth, my father obtained a Nirvana Technique that belonged only to the Phoenix Race; he modified a portion of the Nirvana Technique himself and used his own essence blood as a guide to restore my Dao Principle fragments to their original state."

"In the years that followed, I was conceived from my original corpse, which counts as a sort of special Nirvana Technique."

"I inherited my own original Dao, but after Nirvana, according to my father, I no longer had any of my previous memories."

"To my father, me not having my previous memories was actually a good thing; at least I wouldn't miss you anymore, and I wouldn't be melancholy again."

As Long Xi spoke, she rubbed against Gu Jiangming's chest once more.

Even Long Xi herself had only just realized that she was actually her own Nirvana body from the Heavenly Human Era.

Although Nirvana and offspring are two different concepts, Long Xi still felt a bit awkward; this awkwardness was as if she had given birth to herself? "And after I was resurrected through Nirvana, my father stopped running around for my sake."

"A Supreme's lifespan is long if you say it's long, and short if you say it's short."

"But accompanying the 50,000th year after the end of the Heavenly Human Era—which is 100,000 years ago—my father felt it, felt the pressure from Heaven and Earth upon him growing stronger."

"My father even said that Heaven and Earth seemed to be urging him to die, to fall, as quickly as possible!"

"That formless malice from Heaven and Earth even began to spread from my father to the entire Dragon Race."

"The reproduction of the Dragon Race was already an extremely difficult matter; from 100,000 to 80,000 years ago, the number of the entire Dragon Race not only failed to grow at all, but instead, because of the malice of Heaven and Earth, dwindled to the point of having only two or three hundred clansmen."

"At that time, my father realized that a mutation was occurring in Heaven and Earth."

"But my father was, after all, only an ordinary Supreme; his abilities were extremely limited, and he could only perceive this much."

"70,000 years ago, my father met the Ziwu Supreme who had awakened once again. Ziwu Supreme told my father that Heaven and Earth no longer allowed them to exist; if they continued to remain within Heaven and Earth, they would sooner or later be crushed to death by the weight of Heaven and Earth, and it would even implicate their race."

"Ziwu Supreme and Changyu Supreme had an agreement that 100,000 years later, Ziwu Supreme would leave the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations with Changyu Supreme."

"Ziwu Supreme also invited my father, inviting my father to leave Heaven and Earth together and go to the Great Wilderness outside to walk around and see if they could find a glimmer of survival."

"My father eventually agreed to Ziwu Supreme's invitation."

"It was just that he couldn't let go of me after all, so he refined an avatar, an avatar that could barely exert the power of a Quasi-Supreme."

"My father was the only Supreme in the entire Dragon Race, and no one noticed anything wrong with my father."

"70,000 years ago, Changyu Supreme took my father and Ziwu Supreme to leave the Heaven and Earth of the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations together, going to a place of vitality outside the Great Wilderness."

"It was just that my father was not held in high regard; Changyu Supreme merely found a large lake for my father and did not pay much attention to my father afterward."

"On the contrary, Ziwu Supreme had already stepped into the Heavenly Human realm 60,000 years ago."

"In that 10,000-year period, my father successively took a portion of dragons from the Dragon Race to the Great Wilderness, but my father also discovered that as time passed, even for him, the most ordinary of Supremes, the difficulty of returning to the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations was becoming greater and greater."

"Heaven and Earth is indeed gestating an Immortal Dao Principle."

"In this process, Heaven and Earth is instinctively expelling all existences that are a threat to it; a Supreme can threaten Heaven and Earth even if only slightly, hence why Heaven and Earth is oppressing the Supremes."

"After that, it was my father who began to use his avatar to move the Dragon Race."

"Although there are no Dao Principles outside the Great Wilderness, the upper limit is at least higher, especially with the orderly inheritance within the race; every dragon always has the hope of achieving Heaven and Earth Enlightenment."

"But remaining in the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, the bloodline of the Dragon Race will decline, and the birth of pure-blooded dragons will even become increasingly difficult."

"This situation continued until 30,000 years ago; 30,000 years ago, even that avatar of my father could no longer enter the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations."

"Although my father made many preparations, most of those preparations were already useless; in the years that followed, the father I saw was, most of the time, only a manifestation of a thought."

"Only my strength was very weak, and I didn't notice at all that my father was just a manifestation of a thought."

"Originally, my father also wanted to take me away from the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, but the main body of my Dao Principles had already been taken into the Heavenly Net by Heaven and Earth; I could only remain within Heaven and Earth for a long time as a god."

"And also because of the Nirvana Technique, most of my time was spent in slumber."

"In my time, I only felt that a few thousand years had passed, but in the actual outside world, tens of thousands of years had flowed by."

Long Xi looked at Gu Jiangming before her, her words also carrying a look of slight loss.

She indeed only felt that a few thousand years had passed in the outside world, and she indeed knew that the number of her clansmen was becoming fewer and fewer, but no matter what, Long Xi would never have thought that what the old Dragon King had been using to accompany her was merely a manifestation of a thought.

But a thought, too, will constantly wear away until it disappears.

And this is also the reason why the old Dragon King, and the entire Dragon Race, have left no traces in this era.

"There is one more thing..."

(End of this chapter)