Chapter 629: Anlan and Shi Hao Strike Together Against Dark Ye Laoliu
The pitch-black cauldron dripped with black blood from time to time, continuously exuding an aura of decay and Weirdness, and the corpse atop the Imperial Throne had also rotted away for the most part; those ferocious teeth looked extremely chilling.
Anlan watched this scene in shock, unable to speak for a moment, and drew in several cold breaths in succession.
The World-Extinguishing Old Man, Emperor Hong, the Cang Emperor, and the Yu Di were already accustomed to it.
When they first arrived here, it was much the same; it was even harder to imagine what realm this Emperor Corpse had reached while alive, as just a wisp of imperial might made it difficult for them to endure, and they could not help but prostrate themselves in worship.
The scriptures manifested alongside the dark mist also created the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors, who were also the source of the Dark Turmoil in the heavens for countless epochs.
However, they did not know that what shocked Anlan was not this at all, but why the one lying here was Ye Laoliu, and not the Corpse Immortal Emperor.
In the Script, the Corpse Immortal Emperor, who had just attained the Fruit Position of an Immortal Emperor, was schemed against by the Ancestor from the Heavens Above; a drop of black blood polluted his Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit, causing him to begin turning dark and fall into ominousness.
And in order to prevent his darkened self from wreaking havoc across these myriad worlds, the Corpse Immortal Emperor had no choice but to separate his own Dao Fruit, Primordial Spirit, and true spirit.
He left behind only an ominous Emperor Corpse to guard the Ultimate Ancient Land, suppress the ominousness of the Heavens, and leave a little time for future generations to resolve the disaster.
But now the Corpse Immortal Emperor was gone, and the one appearing here was actually Ye Laoliu—of course, it could not be the one in the Chat Group, but rather the Ye Laoliu of this spacetime.
But the key issue was that the timeline where Ye Laoliu was located was even later than Shi Laoliu's; how did he end up in the ages past? This was a time paradox, an impossible occurrence!
"Could it be that Ye Laoliu's cauldron went off track and followed the Corpse Immortal Emperor? But that Emperor Corpse really looks like Ye Laoliu; where exactly did the problem arise?"
Anlan could not figure it out no matter how he thought about it.
Chat Group.
Immortal King Anlan: "Uh... everyone, what do you think of this Emperor Corpse? And that cauldron?"
Anlan voiced his doubts, hoping to get a reliable answer.
Exploding Heavens Faction Leader: "Damn, this isn't scientific. Ye Laoliu, how did you become the Corpse Immortal Emperor?"
Demon Queen: "Damn, this weird, rotten appearance is just too chilling."
Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Truly chilling; this Sword Immortal has lost his appetite."
Loves Drinking Beast Milk the Most: "Ye the Sixth turned into the Corpse Immortal Emperor? Wahahaha!"
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Fake, it must be fake. This is impossible, it cannot be me."
Young Girl Ruthless: "So, what exactly is going on here?"
Ruthless frowned; she could not accept the fact that Ye Fan had turned into something weird.
Moreover, the image of that rotting Emperor Corpse was indeed too shocking; looking at it made one frown immediately.
Exploding Heavens Faction Leader: "Group Owner, what do you think?"
Diviner: "I don't know."
Yan Shuangying replied; she truly had not expected that Ye Fan would replace the Corpse Immortal Emperor.
However, since Anlan had already become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, it seemed there was nothing impossible.
It was just that this span was indeed a bit large, so it was normal for everyone to be unable to accept it for a moment.
Demon Queen: "No way, Group Owner, you actually don't know either?"
Diviner: "I am not truly omniscient and omnipotent. Besides, Anlan's fate trajectory has already completely changed and deviated from the Script; it doesn't seem strange for this situation to occur now."
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Damn, so I'm being used as a sacrifice? No, I cannot accept such a fate. Xuan Ge, save me."
Immortal King Anlan: "? Ye Laoliu, you don't need to worry too much; this is just the Ye Laoliu of my spacetime, not your true self."
Demon King Who Never Suffers a Loss: "That's hard to say; perhaps such a future could also be one of the futures for little friend Ye Fan. After all, anything is possible in the future."
Journey to the West Scripture Seeker: "The problem isn't big; a Dark Immortal Emperor is still an Immortal Emperor."
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "..., Xuan Ge, that is too miserable."
Exploding Heavens Faction Leader: "It might be a bit miserable, but at least he's an Immortal Emperor. However, I am more curious about what happened in this spacetime, and why Ye Laoliu replaced the position of the Corpse Immortal Emperor."
Han Paopao of the Seven Profound Sect: "Indeed, Han is also quite curious. To be able to influence the past of an Immortal Emperor—what immense power that must take."
Spring and Autumn Sword Deity: "This old man is also curious. Could it be that some major event happened in the future that caused little friend Ye Fan to turn dark?"
Baiyue Jiaozhu: "It is not impossible."
Playboy: "Turning dark is normal for us; after all, anything is possible in the Multiverse."
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "..., I give up."
Ye Fan was speechless; how could such a thing happen to him?
Even though it was a parallel spacetime, a version of himself in the Multiverse.
But using this as a reference, perhaps his own future would also be like this.
The ending of a parallel universe is, in itself, one possibility of infinite futures.
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Xuan Ge, with your divine abilities, can you deduce what exactly happened in An Lao Liu's spacetime?"
Exploding Heavens Faction Leader: "This matter still requires Xuan Ge."
Journey to the West Scripture Seeker: "Actually, I am also quite interested in what happened!"
Demon Queen: "Sitting here waiting to eat melon!"
Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "There must be a heaven-shaking piece of gossip."
Na Du Tong Backbone Feng Baobao: "Eat melon!"
Ancestral Mo Nv Houtu: "This seat will also eat melon for once."
One Sword Qing'er: "Sitting and watching Xuanzang display his divine powers."
Journey to the West Scripture Seeker: "Too humble, too humble."
As these words fell, in the Journey to the West World, the Scripture Seeking Group on the road to beating up Yinjiao Dawang and Jin Jiao, Xuanzang's divine sense wandered slightly beyond the heavens, connecting to the infinite spacetimes of the heavens, roaming outside countless timelines, quietly watching the endless flow of time.
To locate a spacetime among these spacetimes as numerous as the sands of the Ganges is actually not easy, not to mention that it involved many hidden powerhouses.
In that boundless Time River, the changes in time are instantaneous; a glance lasting ten thousand years is not just a saying—perhaps in a single breath, a timeline has passed ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, or even been directly annihilated.
Here, time is like a dream bubble, popping at a touch, simultaneously coming into existence and vanishing.
At the same time, Xuanzang also sensed some other consciousnesses and divine senses within the infinite Time River.
They were doing much the same as him, observing the changes in various space-times; though they were close to one another, they did not speak.
Very quickly, because he had the coordinates for the world of Anlan, Xuanzang did not expend much effort to locate the timeline of this space-time.
Fortunately, there was no Heavenly Dao in this time, nor were there any Saints.
Therefore, when the foreign divine sense of Xuanzang entered it, he did not encounter any rejection.
The past and future of the Anlan space-time appeared before his eyes, transformed into a series of images.
First, in the near future, Anlan became a true Immortal Emperor!
Subsequently, time pushed forward by one hundred thousand years, and a youth walked out of the Great Wilderness; that was the timeline belonging to Shi Hao.
Time pushed forward by several more epochs, hundreds of thousands of years, and in the images, a blue planet appeared before his eyes.
This was the timeline belonging to Ye Fan; the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin appeared in the Yin He Xi, and this point had not changed.
Ye Fan still entered the Beidou Star Domain just as in the original trajectory of fate, and then grew stronger step by step.
In the eyes of Xuanzang, this entire history of growing stronger was like looking at flowers while riding a horse; there were no major problems.
Until the very end, when Ye Fan carried the entire Heavenly Court to ascend to the Immortal Domain.
At this moment, an accident occurred.
The Ye Fan, Wu Shi, and the ruthless woman of this space-time had originally targeted the Immortal Domain, and they had indeed ascended.
However, the final landing spot was not the Immortal Domain, but the Heavens Above, the paradise of the Darkness Race.
As for what would happen next, it could be imagined.
Ye Fan's Heavenly Court fought with the dark creatures, a life-and-death struggle.
The result could be imagined; the newly ascended Heavenly Court's combat power was too weak, and it was completely a one-sided massacre.
The Heavenly Court collapsed in an instant, and countless loved ones and close friends died tragically, including his wife, son, disciples, as well as Wu Shi and the ruthless woman.
Everyone died; only Ye Fan remained of the entire Heavenly Court.
This series of blows caused Ye Fan's entire Dao heart to shatter, and his mind even developed problems.
In order to take revenge, Ye Fan staked everything on a single throw, Devouring Dark Matter to rapidly increase his strength; he soon became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor and wiped out the Darkness Race that had destroyed his Heavenly Court back then.
It was just that although the revenge was taken, the people who had died could not return.
Even if he became an Immortal Emperor and resurrected the people of the past, he had already fallen into becoming a Dark Immortal Emperor; how could he still be the Heavenly Emperor from before?
For Ye Fan, eternal life now held only endless emptiness.
Immediately, he completely gave up and became one of the Primitive Ancestors of the Heavens Above.
At a certain moment in the future, in order to settle accounts with the dark forces.
The ancient forces led by Shi Hao, Anlan, Liu Shen, and the Nine-Leaf Grass engaged in a final battle against the ancestral dark forces led by Ye Fan.
In that great battle, both sides bled, Immortal Emperor-level powerhouses fell, and the ages turned to nothingness.
And the dark Ancestor Ye Fan was beaten half-dead by the combined efforts of Shi Hao and Anlan, finally rushing into a spatial rift, his whereabouts unknown.
Seeing this, Xuanzang could not help but fall silent for a moment; was this not too outrageous?
And the images he deduced were simultaneously synchronized into the Chat Group, so all the group members saw these images and were silent for a time; those who had read the Script all knew that this was too outrageous.
Chat Group.
Diviner: "So, is this taking the blackened Script?"
Immortal King Anlan: "Damn, I actually became an Immortal Emperor, hehehe."
Anlan could not help but laugh out loud; this was the future deduced by Xuan Ge, it definitely could not be wrong.
Demon Queen: "Please, is that the point? An Lao Liu?"
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Ah... this? Why am I so miserable in the parallel space-time, with my wife, son, and brothers all dead?"
Scripture Seeker: "I don't know, this is what was deduced; it seems a stronger power took action to change your past."
Han Paopao of the Seven Profound Sect: "Holy Monk Xuanzang is right; logically speaking, the realm above Sacrificial Dao has a constant future, and no matter how the past changes, the future will not be affected. Now, the future of fellow Daoist Ye Fan has changed, and he has even become the source of the darkness and chaos of the heavens, the black hand that created the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors."
Immortal King Anlan: "Indeed, in that future battle, the dark Ye Laoliu did not die, but instead fell into a spatial rift and arrived in the past, replacing the Corpse Immortal Emperor. In other words, this dark Ye Laoliu might wake up at any time; if he resurrects in the past, who can stop him?"
Exploding Heavens Faction Leader: "This problem is a bit complex, can't explain it? And the future deduced by Xuan Ge seems to show that the dark Ye Laoliu did not resurrect."
Demon King Who Never Suffers Defeat: "According to the continuity characteristics of space-time, two identical people cannot exist in the same space-time, so when the future little brother Ye Fan appears, this past dark Ye Fan will also disappear."
Zui Ai He Shounai: "Doesn't that mean the dark Ye Laoliu could wipe out his future self, and wouldn't that make him the only one?"
Demon King Who Never Suffers Defeat: "Doing that is not impossible."
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Uh... sigh, I hope I don't encounter the misfortune of that space-time."
Exploding Heavens Faction Leader: "Ye Laoliu, that's not for sure, oh. The Group Owner said that only one origin world remains unchanged, and other derived time branches have different futures, hehe."
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "..."
Maiden Ruthless: "Cultivate well and defy the heavens to change your fate."
Immortal King Anlan: "Xuan Ge, did you deduce who changed the landing spot of Ye Laoliu's ascension?"
Demon Queen: "Yeah, who on earth did that?"
Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "That is a question."
Scripture Seeker: "Uh, I didn't pay attention to that; as for who it is, you will know in the future."
Immortal King Anlan: "That's true, but suddenly knowing that I can definitely become an Immortal Emperor in the future makes me a bit happy."
Zui Ai He Shounai: "Hahaha, thinking about myself in another space-time hammering Ye Laoliu in the future also makes me happy."
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Damn, can you two act like human beings?"
Exploding Heavens Faction Leader: "Pity for Ye Laoliu for one second!"
Han Paopao of the Seven Profound Sect: "It seems I, Han, must be even more cautious; I must pay attention to all sorts of things and try my best not to get involved in Karma."
My Name is Bai Xiaochun: "Agreed, yeah, Karma is too terrifying; I only want eternal life, I don't want my wife and children to be scattered in the future, sigh! If it weren't for the Earth Foundation, I wouldn't even want to leave the Sect in half a month."
Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "You two kings of caution!"
Demon Queen: "Indeed!"
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Xuan Ge, the me in An Lao Liu's timeline does not have you. In this timeline, I have a good brother like you; you must protect me in the future."
Journey to the West Scripture Seeker: "We shall see. Perhaps the future won't be that miserable; believe in yourself."
Immortal King Anlan: "Xuan Ge is right."
Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Stop talking, An Lao Liu."
Immortal King Anlan: "..."
In the outside world, after arriving at the Ultimate Ancient Land, the four Quasi-Immortal Emperors began to comprehend the Immortal Emperor techniques of the Corpse Immortal Emperor (Ye Laoliu).
Since Anlan now knew the Karma of the past and future, he no longer had any psychological burden, and at the same time, he sat cross-legged and began to comprehend Ye Laoliu's methods.
For a time, a large amount of Darkness origin substance coiled around Anlan, wrapping him up, just like that Dark Night Heavenly King in the Darkness!
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name."
"The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth; the named is the mother of all things!"
"The Tao of Heaven..."
These were all scriptures from the Tao Te Ching, and they were also the essence of the Heavenly Emperor Scripture, which fused the classics of a hundred schools; clearly, they read as if filled with righteous energy, capable of firming a cultivator's Tao heart and clarifying the ultimate principles of heaven and earth.
But in Anlan's ears, they were filled with bewitching demonic sounds; in an instant, inner demons danced in chaos, leading one to fall.
Outside his Primordial Spirit observation, Anlan was shocked to discover that at some unknown time, layers of faint black hair and red hair had grown on his skin.
End of Chapter
