Chapter 448

"The sorrow in his heart can no longer be described in words—Emperor Huang Tian values affection and righteousness too deeply!"

Cultivators from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the Immortal Realm, the Burial Land, the Kings of the Boundary Sea, and countless Dao Ancestors and Peerless Dao Ancestors from Above Heaven could not help but sigh and lament.

The Immortal Emperor wept...

This scene was almost unreal!

For no one had ever seen a Path's End-level being weep—not even a Path's End-level Immortal Emperor!

How could beings at their level shed tears? As Emperor Huang Tian himself had said: I am Emperor Huang Tian—how could I weep?

"Wu-wu, Shi Hao!"

"My poor little Hao!"

"All alone, with no one beside him, forced to gaze across the River of Time at the past!"

"What kind of loneliness and sorrow is this?!"

Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi, Shi Hao's parents, the village chief grandfather, uncles and aunts—all could not help but tear up, their hearts aching for Shi Hao...

But they had no way to comfort Shi Hao!

Because it was a future event—and the thought that the future Shi Hao might be gazing at them across the River of Time filled them with unbearable sorrow.

"Alone beside the Divine Path, with no one beside him..."

In the Underworld's Forbidden Zones, Shi Hao felt an inexplicable sadness—he was the one who felt it most acutely.

Yet even he did not know how to comfort himself, for he dared not even imagine a future without Dark Liu Shen, without family and friends...

A future without Shi Village, without the village chief grandfather, without uncles and aunts—too despairing!

The scene continued to shift:

【Became Emperor...】

【But I can no longer cry...】

【Afterward, I returned to the present, but when I looked upon the graves of those I once knew, I could not cry at all—only sealed myself away to forge an Immortal Emperor artifact!】

【As for the materials of the Immortal Emperor artifact...】

【I had long prepared them—the quasi-Immortal Emperor weapons of Cang Di and others were forged from exceptional materials.】

【To put it mildly, the materials they used could have forged Immortal Emperor weapons—but their strength was insufficient, so they could not forge Emperor weapons.】

【Thus, except for Yu Di's Regicide Spear, I smelted all the other quasi-Immortal Emperor weapons.】

【I added them to my own quasi-Immortal Emperor weapon—along with the Great Luo Sword Embryo of the Corpse Immortal Emperor, which once followed me, then betrayed me.】

【I smelted it too!】

【As these astonishing materials merged into the former Law Pool and the quasi-Immortal Emperor sword, both divine weapons underwent a staggering transformation, becoming true Immortal Emperor weapons.】

【Whether the Law Pool or the Emperor Sword, their power now far surpassed the Great Luo Sword Embryo—they had grown stronger.】

【I did not smelt the Regicide Spear because I wished to preserve it—it is stained with the blood of the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor; perhaps when I someday find a way to resurrect the dead, I may resurrect him too.】

【I think...】

【Such a being, who carried all living things in his heart...】

【Who fought the Three Dark Emperors for the sake of all beings—should not end like this. He should be honored more.】

【Afterward...】

【I chose the Upper Path.】

【I entered the Ultimate Ancient Land alone, stepped into the cave leading to Above Heaven, and there I saw a vast world both familiar and alien.】

【A blood-red dusk...】

【An endless, boundless ocean of blood...】

【Countless graveyards—this was one of the scenes I once witnessed when wielding the Great Luo Sword Embryo.】

【Thus, following the vision I had seen before, I used the Three-Era Bronze Coffin as a boat, sat upon the ancient coffin, and let it drift slowly across the blood-red ocean.】

【Carrying me to explore this unknown world!】

Perfect Great World.

"Sigh, those were our accumulations!"

"Accumulated over countless eons—now all have become Emperor Huang Tian's gains, all serving as his dowry!"

"Huh, even the Great Luo Sword Embryo of that one was smelted—why wasn't Yu Di's Regicide Spear smelted? It's nothing special!"

"Ah, so that's it—Emperor Huang Tian wishes to resurrect the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor, though it seems impossible."

In the Ultimate Ancient Land, the Four Dark Emperors sighed deeply.

They never imagined that their countless eons of accumulation—their painstakingly gathered and forged Emperor weapons—would ultimately serve Emperor Huang Tian!

Moreover, they had not expected Emperor Huang Tian to wish to resurrect the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor—it stirred a pang of envy in them...

Yet they also deemed such resurrection impossible.

"Hiss, is that the Sacrificial Sea?"

"This is a place even Path's End Immortal Emperors can get lost in—yet Emperor Huang Tian's realm..."

"It lies within that Sacrificial Sea? No wonder we never heard of that realm—but with Emperor Huang Tian's ability, he would never be lost there!"

"Tsk—if Emperor Huang Tian reaches Above Heaven, will he come into contact with those few? As Path's End beings, without using His-Hua-Zi-Zai..."

"Could Emperor Huang Tian defeat those few?"

In Above Heaven, countless Dao Ancestors and Peerless Dao Ancestors murmured among themselves—they recognized the blood-red ocean at once.

That was the Sacrificial Sea, a forbidden zone for Dao Ancestors and Peerless Dao Ancestors, for even Path's End beings could vanish within it—its reputation in Above Heaven was immense!

Of course...

They did not believe Emperor Huang Tian would be lost.

On the contrary, they were curious, eager—what if Emperor Huang Tian faced off against the Path's End Immortal Emperors of Above Heaven?

How spectacular would that scene be?

【In the years that followed...】

【I steered the bronze coffin of three lifetimes, sailing across the blood-red Wang Yang, and once set foot in many terrifying places.】

【Those places seemed to be forbidden zones, extremely dreadful spots even in the world above the heavens, and I entered them to seek whether reincarnation existed in the world.】

【I entered the Primordial Reincarnation Path!】

【This was a terrifying ancient path, containing numerous powerful existences; even Immortal King-level experts】

【would tremble before them, for they were quasi-Immortal Emperor-level existences. Within this Reincarnation Path, even a quasi-Immortal Emperor-level existence entering it】

【could perish with a single misstep!】

【Of course...】

【If one kept a low profile...】

【existences at the level of Cang Di and others could still roam the Reincarnation Path with impunity.】

【Indeed, they could even dominate here, for I discovered that the beings within this Reincarnation Path also carried dark matter; they were beings that had been corrupted.】

【Of course...】

【For me now...】

【the great terrors within the Reincarnation Path are nothing at all; as long as I wish, I can kill them with a flip of my hand.】

【What I regret is that, although the Reincarnation Path bears the word 'reincarnation,' it does not contain the reincarnation I sought; thus, after leveling the Reincarnation Path, I departed.】

【Besides that...】

【I also encountered a vast, endless river connecting boundless heavens and earth, covering infinite celestial realms, and siphoning the soul-light of all realms across endless ages...】

【It even once destroyed infinite celestial realms!】

【Its name is the Soul River!】

【The existences within the Soul River are even more terrifying than those in the Reincarnation Path, containing many extremely powerful beings.】

【Many are no less than Cang Di and his peers in strength, and their numbers are vast; among them, the strongest are even mightier than the Old Man of World Destruction. If a quasi-Immortal Emperor entered】

【it would likely be a certain death!】

【But as I said before, quasi-Immortal Emperors cannot, but Immortal Emperors can. No matter how many quasi-Immortal Emperors or even half-step Immortal Emperors there are, before me now they are all insignificant...】

【I swept away all enemies in the world; what strange anomalies and dark quasi-Immortal Emperors, all must be executed!】

【It was only later that I learned...】

【That the Primordial Reincarnation Path, the Soul River, and so on, were merely forward outposts of the Strange Clan!】

【Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level experts are nothing at all within the Strange Clan; their clan possesses Dark Immortal Emperors, and even existences beyond the Immortal Emperor!】

【Of course, that is a story for later.】

【And these are but a few of my experiences.】