Chapter 362: 【My Ancestors, My Sect, The Torch Passed Down】

The old man in green robes flew toward the North Sea, setting foot upon the legendary divine island of Tang Gu.

The North Sea was pitch-black like ink, with massive waves shattering the clouds and black billows connecting to the sky, boundless and vast. However, the black ocean could not encroach upon Tang Gu by even an inch; the island was teeming with vitality, filled with precious herbs everywhere, and various fragrances wafted over, making one feel as if they were being baptized, their pores opening wide.

In the center of Tang Gu stood an ancient golden tree, its color a brilliant gold, as if cast from gold, its entire canopy of golden leaves dazzling, flowing with the holy power of the sun!

"An Undying Immortal Herb, the ancient Fusang tree!"

Countless cultivators groaned, staring straight at this scene. The immortal tree was no more than six zhang tall, yet it was more imposing than a mountain.

It possessed a unique aura, with golden solar holy power flowing as if it were opening up an ancient universe, evolving three thousand worlds, surrounded by hazy golden mist, presenting a magnificent spectacle.

Beneath the ancient Fusang tree, the old man in green robes, who was clutching the Emperor's coffin, felt the response of the ancient Fusang tree. As solar holy power descended, his eyes gradually regained clarity, and he murmured, "Who am I? Who is me?"

"I am a wisp of the remnant will of the Sun Holy Emperor. That's right, before the Holy Emperor passed away, he instructed me to return home."

"In the nine heavens and ten earths, I alone am supreme, sweeping across three thousand worlds, reversing the six paths of reincarnation. I am—the Sun Holy Emperor!"

Wisps of Imperial might bloomed. The Sun Stone Pagoda hung high in the universe like a great sun, reigning over Ziwei. Countless sect masters knelt, kings from all directions bowed in worship, and even Great Sages had to bow to pay their respects.

The old man in green robes had his robes fluttering. Though he was not heroic or robust, at this moment, he possessed a peerless demeanor that suppressed three thousand worlds and cut across eternity. His eyes were incomparably brilliant, gazing through the ages of time.

One after another, Imperial weapons roared, forced to awaken to resist that vast Imperial might!

The old man in green robes revived bit by bit, similarly awakening the essence of a divine thought. His body emitted ripples, turning into black light, surrounding him like a black sun.

"It is not solar holy power; it is a divine thought!"

A sect master murmured in despair, causing all the sages to shudder. The Sun Holy Emperor had looked down upon eternity with great courage and compassion; the more this was so, the more evil his divine thought would be.

Who could subdue the Holy Emperor's divine thought? Even a Great Sage would likely be torn to shreds by it; only by holding an Imperial weapon could one escape such a calamity.

"Chant the Scripture of Salvation!"

The sages of the Heavenly Court shouted in unison, borrowing the endless Yang energy, intending to transcend the Sun Holy Emperor's divine thought. Unexpectedly, the old man in green robes merely shook his head indifferently, refusing to accept the salvation.

This situation left all the sages terrified; it was the first time they had seen the Scripture of Salvation fail to work.

"The Holy Emperor is pure Yang; the Scripture of Salvation can only transcend Yin spirits!"

A Great Sage of the Ziwei Divine Dynasty trembled as he said, "He is not a Yin ghost; the scripture of Lingbao Tianzun has failed."

Just as everyone felt as if they had fallen into hell, the Fusang divine tree sprinkled down a sheet of divine light, cleansing the evil body and making it gradually grow bright.

"I am not the Sun Holy Emperor; I am merely a wisp of his evil thoughts, not even one ten-thousandth of him..."

The old man in green robes spoke in a low voice, and that black sun faded away, revealing a brilliant gold, possessing a trace of the aura of an ancient Holy Emperor.

"That's right, the Sun Holy Emperor hacked through thorns and thistles for the human race, pouring out his heart and blood; how could he leave behind a divine thought to harm the world?"

The North Sea Daoist Kunpeng Great Sage, who had followed, murmured, "This was a contingency the Holy Emperor specifically left behind back then to purify his own evil thoughts."

Countless Ziwei humans felt ashamed and lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at the Holy Emperor.

The aura of an ancient Great Emperor circulated, but the Holy Emperor's divine thought exclaimed, "The Holy Emperor has passed away, and his body has disappeared. Who moved him?"

This time, only those protected by sages and Imperial weapons could shift their gaze to glance inside the stone coffin, and they immediately felt a chill run through their bodies.

In the coffin, there was no corpse of the human ancient emperor, only a human skin, emitting golden light, as blinding as a sun!

All the terrifying fluctuations originated from it, and it was stained with a few drops of golden blood, as if it had been peeled off not long ago.

"Where did the Holy Emperor's essence blood go? Why is there only a skin?"

The divine thought was puzzled and murmured. Standing beneath the tree in Tang Gu, surrounded by endless solar holy power, he possessed a divine might that seemed to swallow the universe and suppress the heavens, as if the ancient Holy Emperor had been reborn.

Yet, this also made his empty green sleeve appear particularly jarring!

Who could sever an arm of the Sun Holy Emperor? Even the Supremes in the forbidden zones could not; they had already fallen from the rank of Great Emperor and were far from being a match for a flawless Great Emperor.

Only those legendary figures—the true Heavenly Emperors and Heavenly Sovereigns—could possess such absolute combat power to crush a flawless Great Emperor!

"It must be the inherently evil Undying Emperor!"

Lin Xian choked with sobs, "The Undying Emperor is the great black hand behind the scenes throughout the ages. He took advantage of the Holy Emperor's nirvana to launch a sneak attack, stealing all of the Sun Holy Emperor's immortal essence, causing a generation of Human Emperors to wander the starry sky, unable to return home."

The cultivators of Big Dipper were shaken. They had all been to the Central Plains Immortal Mansion and seen that human skin; why was it so similar?

Could it be that the Undying Emperor was truly the culprit?

He had stolen the Sun Holy Emperor's method of longevity and immortal fruit, performing nirvana in later generations.

"The Hengyu Great Emperor entered the Taichu Ancient Mine back then; could he have been investigating the cause of the Holy Emperor's death?" The God Wang Jiang Taixu murmured. One must know that the Hengyu Great Emperor was a Ziwei native.

"Is it the Undying Emperor?" The Ziwei cultivators exclaimed. They knew the name of the Undying Emperor, but they had not expected that the Undying Emperor was such a person!

"Undying Emperor, did he kill the Holy Emperor?"

The divine thought murmured, also puzzled. He had lost too many memories over the ancient years, leaving only a remnant thought.

"Besides the Undying Emperor, who else could it be?"

"He is the greatest black hand. Back then, he persecuted the Emperor, causing the collapse of the Ancient Heavenly Court, leading to the severance of the path to immortality for humanity. Otherwise, our human race would still be dominating the myriad heavens and domains."

"The Undying old ghost stole the Taiyin Human Emperor's immortal fruit, stole the Sun Holy Emperor's essence blood, ambushed the Emperor Wu Shi Great Emperor, and killed the Taihuang Great Emperor... one by one, each instance is enough to prove that he is the great enemy of our human race."

Lin Xian spoke with great passion, bluffing with nine truths and one lie, "Perhaps the Ziwei Great Emperor was also ambushed by the Undying Emperor. The ancestors of the Human King Hall and the fairy of the Guanghan Palace also suffered the poisonous hands of the Undying old ghost."

"I also heard that in the ancient years, on the battlefield of immortals, it was the King of the Phoenix clan who ambushed the King of the Daoist Kunpeng clan!"

In short, the Undying Emperor was the source of all evil.

The human Great Emperors of the Desolate Ancient era were all killed by him. The great changes in the Primordial environment were caused by his ambush of the Fighting Holy Emperor. The collapse of the Mythological Heavenly Court was his doing. In the Chaotic Ancient years, the absence of immortals was his conspiracy. In the Immortal Ancient years, the invasion of the Otherworld was led by the Phoenix.

In the Emperor-Falling years, it was the Undying Emperor who slandered, causing the Dark Dao Ancestor to sacrifice the Heavenly Court. In the Heaven World, it was the Undying Emperor who led the Dark Immortal Emperors to invade the Boundary Sea. The ten great ancestors ascending to the plateau were also led by the Emperor, and the Red-Haired Ancestor's cremation was fueled by his fire!

The cultivators of Ziwei Star listened in a daze; in any case, they did not know the truth.

The history books of the ages were in Lin Xian's hands. With a bit of trimming and changing using the Spring and Autumn brush technique, even the Sun Holy Emperor's divine thought was somewhat convinced.

"So the Undying Emperor was a spy sent by the Immortal Domain to our human world, which is why he committed these evil deeds."

The Holy Emperor's divine thought nodded thoughtfully, then looked at the Sun Body Ye Tong, imprinting the nine Imperial characters into his Immortal Platform. This was the foundation of attaining the Dao.

It was also the foundation for whether the future Sun Ancient Sect could revive.

"Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Whether immortals will emerge in the human world of later generations will depend on you all."

The old man in green robes waved his arm, not only leaving behind opportunities for the Sun Ancient Sect but also bestowing blessings upon human cultivators.

The Fusang divine tree swayed, revealing thousands of visions. An ancient palace appeared, hazy and unclear, as if in the clouds and mist, and also as if in another world.

That was the dojo opened up by the Sun Holy Emperor; it was his small world!

Now, it was left to the descendants of the human race.

The Ziwei sect masters had burning gazes, yet no one dared to act rashly. The Great Sage of the Ziwei Divine Dynasty had emerged, and the North Sea Daoist Kunpeng Ancestor had followed the Emperor's shadow, yet neither dared to cross the line by even half a step.

The Heavenly Court had two Great Sages holding Imperial weapons to deter others, and they were supporting the Sun Ancient Sect. Whether in terms of strength or legitimacy, no one could compete with the Heavenly Court for the Holy Emperor's legacy.

"Go, all of you."

The old man in green robes shook his head, not caring much. His opportunity was left for the entire human race; whether it was obtained by Ziwei cultivators or Big Dipper cultivators, it was the same to the Holy Emperor.

Countless Ziwei cultivators rejoiced. Having received the Holy Emperor's decree, they no longer feared future liquidation by the Heavenly Court, and they flew into the Holy Emperor's palace one after another to seize their own share of the opportunity.

"Attaining the Dao here, burying my bones here, causes arise and causes cease, everything passes away..."

The Holy Emperor's divine thought sat cross-legged beneath the Fusang tree, clutching the stone coffin, about to pass away and dissipate with the wind. Suddenly, he looked up at the starry sky of the Ziwei Emperor Star, extended a finger, and said indifferently, "Let me make one last contribution to Ziwei."

The Fusang divine tree roared, golden leaves dancing all over the sky, and vast solar holy power surged, turning into a Sun Finger, pointing toward the sky beyond the sky.

Every longevity herb had its own most unique aspect. The Fusang immortal tree bore no fruit and grew no holy herbs; it only contained solar holy power and was the most lethal divine herb!

In the starry sky beyond the domain, a purple-gold warship sailed through the void, flying toward the Ziwei Emperor Star bit by bit.

The cabin was vast and boundless, like a huge palace, with various halls and ancient secret rooms inside, endless at a glance.

It carried three Great Sages of the ancient tribes, as well as forty Ancestral Kings, preparing for an expedition to Ziwei.

They had been silent for too long; if they were to revive, they would need a large amount of life origin. For Ziwei, this was a dark turmoil.

Lin Xian had invited several Great Sages to bring Imperial weapons, partly to conquer Ziwei and partly to deal with this ship of Ancestral Kings.

Now that the Holy Emperor's divine thought had taken action, a great battle was spared.

The Sun Divine Finger pressed down, carrying wisps of Imperial might, suppressing the universe in all eight directions, sweeping across the myriad heavens and domains, causing one starry sky after another to collapse.

The previously silent Ancestral Kings revived at this moment, their faces filled with incomparable terror. The leader among them was a Thousand-Handed Demon God, every inch of whose skin shimmered with black light, as if cast from black crystal, possessing over a thousand arms, resembling an immortal god.

However, at this moment, facing the Imperial might, the Thousand-Handed Demon God was incomparably fearful, lacking any demeanor of a Great Sage, merely prostrating on the ground, begging frantically, "Sun Holy Emperor, spare us! We will never dare again!"

"No pardon."

A calm voice rang out. The vast solar holy power swept through the dark universe, like a million stars exploding, destroying heaven and earth, burning everything.

The purple-gold warship exploded, accompanied by the forty-three sages of the ancient tribes turning into ashes, like a magnificent firework in the universe.

The powerhouses on Ziwei Star felt something, looked up at the horizon, then cast their doubts to the back of their minds, turning to seize the legacy in the Holy Emperor's palace. Compared to the ethereal starry sky, the opportunity before their eyes was more important.

In silence, the Sun Holy Emperor had protected Ziwei Star once again.

"A hometown, this is also a human sage seeking her home. She wants to go to Big Dipper."

The Holy Emperor's divine thought said indifferently, having discovered something different in the starry sky.

In the purple-gold warship, besides the ancient Ancestral Kings, there was also the corpse of a human sage who had long since passed away and a jade pendant, which fell into the hands of the Heavenly Court crowd along the trajectory of the solar holy power.

"Taiyin holy power!"

"This is a human female sage who practiced the Taiyin True Scripture."

"She seems not to be a Big Dipper sage, but a human from another domain."

The sages of the Heavenly Court commented, shaking their heads one after another; they did not recognize this sage.

"Her name is Di Lisi, and she has a connection with a Big Dipper human Great Emperor named Emperor Wu Shi in later generations." The Holy Emperor's divine thought said indifferently; this was what he had seen in the purple-gold warship.

"Emperor Wu Shi Great Emperor!" The sages immediately became solemn, carefully putting away the female sage's corpse.

"A sage of the Emperor Wu Shi lineage, let the Black Emperor take her back to be buried in Zishan later." Lin Xian shook his head and said, "If there had been some accident back then, Zishan would have had an Innate Holy Body Dao Fetus long ago."

"Holy Body Dao Fetus, Sun Body..." The Holy Emperor's divine thought looked at Ye Fan, then at the crowd of the Sun Ancient Sect, and said thoughtfully, "The hope for immortality lies in the descendants. I have vaguely glimpsed a corner of the future, very good."

"I have witnessed everything in the sea eye."

The Holy Emperor's majestic figure was about to dissipate, carrying a sense of relief and a smile, about to be buried in the North Sea. The Fusang divine tree felt it, its golden leaves trembling, seeing him off. Between the lush branches and leaves, a bird's nest appeared, with golden crow divine feathers flickering inside.

That belonged to a true immortal spirit. The Jin Wu clan claimed their ancestors were Heavenly Emperors; such claims were not without cause.

In the ancient era, there was a group in the Immortal Domain that pioneered the Immortal Domain method, creating a system, almost breaking through to become Emperors. Among them, a Jin Wu Immortal King had the hope of becoming a Dao Ancestor and established the Immortal Domain Heavenly Court.

But later, the Jin Wu King, who was about to become a Dao Ancestor, died miserably in darkness because he snatched the Ancient Reception Hall.

Because the Jin Wu King was symbiotic with the Sun Divine Tree, the Sun Divine Tree also gained great benefits, later ascending to become a World Tree.

If one were to say which immortal herbs in the human world had the hope of ascending to become a World Tree, the Dao Enlightenment Tea Tree counted as one—it was an Otherworld World Tree—and the Sun Divine Tree counted as one—it was a Nine Heavens and Ten Earths World Tree.

Now that the Sun Holy Emperor was dissipating and the stone coffin was to be buried in the sea eye, and the ancient Fusang tree was to follow him into the North Sea, how could Lin Xian endure it?

"Rather than believing in the wisdom of descendants, I look forward more to the cleverness of the ancestors!"

Lin Xian shouted, sacrificed the Human Emperor Banner taken from the Western Desert Buddhist Sect, and said loudly, "How can the human world be without the Sun Holy Emperor?"

"The Sun Holy Emperor pioneered the path, created the foundation, pacified the dark turmoil, and lit up the path forward for the human race."

"Respectfully welcome the Human Ancestor to return to his position!"

The Sun Holy Emperor's divine thought roared, somewhat stunned, feeling the aura of long-lasting existence. Unlike the desolation of the Taiyin Human Emperor, the Sun Holy Emperor still had descendants and bloodlines.

Most crucially, the Holy Emperor still had a human skin and some blood remaining in the world.

The Sun Holy Emperor had more hope of resurrection than the Taiyin Human Emperor.

"No need to look forward to descendants, give me time, and I will resurrect the ancient ancestor!" Lin Xian said with resonance, "The inheritance of flesh and blood is the continuation of life; is the transmission of belief not also the immortality of the spirit?"

"The white banner summons the soul, sacrifices to the ancestors, incense continues, respectfully offered."

Preserving the heroic spirit in anticipation of the years, never forgetting, there will surely be an echo. This was the true eternal existence of the Human Emperor Banner, the symbol of reincarnation and rebirth, and the embodiment of the Yin virtue Dao.

A wisp of Yin virtue, the continuation of incense, a hundred calamities and a thousand difficulties, a glimmer of life!

From the sect master Jiang Ming of the Sun Ancient Sect down to the newly born Sun Body, all offered their blood, pouring it into the stone coffin to complete the fragments of the Dao, filling that human skin, and then prayed, sacrificed, and worshipped their ancestors.

"The Three Emperors rule the world, the Five Emperors set the standards, my ancestors, my sect, the torch passed down."

Wisps of solar holy power emerged, accompanied by the burning of the descendants' blood, turning into brilliant golden lotuses, accompanying the Imperial coffin. The Fusang divine tree felt it and also scattered countless golden leaves, piling them up around the stone coffin.

The Human Emperor Banner swayed, standing above the Imperial coffin, summoning the heroic spirits.

The Taiyin Human Emperor, the Great Accomplishment Holy Body... one after another, human heroic spirits lowered their eyes, colliding with the gaze of the Sun Holy Emperor, causing chaos energy to explode and the Dao to echo.

"One spirit remains undimmed, enter my banner!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 363 =====