Chapter 320

His eyes were tightly shut, and his lips seemed to be muttering something...

He appeared to be saying: "The Imperial Son... appears..."

Ji Ji Xukong did not understand; the closer he approached, the more his blood boiled, until he spat blood and nearly fainted, only then did the scene before him begin to feel familiar.

The Dutch Sacred Body split into several figures at this moment.

Some were aged, some in their prime, and some covered entirely in red hair, unable to care for themselves!

Yet from all their mouths, nothing but muttering emerged...

What were they saying?

Ji Ji Xukong felt as though his brain were about to explode; everything before his eyes seemed to overlap with a dream from his childhood, long nearly forgotten...

"When will the Imperial Son of the Human Race appear?"

He awoke as if from a dream; everything before him had changed. That Sacred Body, once covered in red hair, now shed it; his eyes cleared, and looking at Ji Ji Xukong, he spoke: "Young man, I have seen the future!"

Staring at Ji Ji Xukong, he sighed with deep emotion: "Live on, carry our obsessions, and shatter the shackles of this era!"

His gaze resolute, he rushed toward the heavens, never looking back!

After that day, the ancient races withdrew.

Talented individuals and extraordinary masters sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain, vying to emerge.

It was also on that day that the Sacred Body never again appeared in the world.

Thereafter, the Human Race enjoyed eight hundred years of peace!

He knew this was repaid by that Dutch Sacred Body.

During this period, he traversed the Ancient Path of the Human Race, where he encountered mighty beings once renowned for their breathtaking talent, clashing with them across time and space!

He created the Void Sutra and pioneered the Great Void Technique!

He debated past and present, astonishing all with his discourse on the Dao!

Yet his genius, his breathtaking brilliance, became a thorn in the heart of the King of the Forbidden Lands.

Finally, they could sit still no longer; they dispatched powerful experts to assassinate Ji Ji Xukong!

Among them were even existences above the Saint realm.

Surrounded on all sides like Chu under siege, enemies filled the nine heavens!

Even the Lords of the Forbidden Zones personally intervened, seeking to obliterate him within the void!

Covered in blood, his flesh and bones laid bare, he narrowly escaped death!

These Lords of the Forbidden Zones had thoroughly uncovered his background; he had no protector of the Dao, so even if they killed him, no one would stand behind him!

He could only rely on himself to fight his way through!

The bitterness of those years, he could only endure alone!

The turning point arrived on that day...

That day, while tempering himself in the void, an emaciated old man, nothing but skin and bones, suddenly appeared before him.

To drift in the void without dying, this old man must be extraordinary!

The old man was equally surprised upon seeing Ji Ji Xukong.

Ji Ji Xukong used an ancient mirror in his hand to reflect the man.

Seeing his own reflection in the mirror, the old man froze for a moment, a hint of melancholy crossing his face.

Ji Ji Xukong informed the old man of the current era and asked whether he intended to continue drifting or to emerge and temper himself alongside him.

The old man chose the latter.

From then on, he followed behind Ji Ji Xukong.

Gradually, Ji Ji Xukong discovered the old man's extraordinariness; he seemed to have long comprehended the mysteries of the universe.

Several times when Ji Ji Xukong had doubts regarding his cultivation base, the old man provided answers.

They were both teacher and friend, akin to friends who forgot the difference in their ages.

Until that day, when a King of the Forbidden Lands, disregarding all dignity, attempted to join forces with others to suppress and kill him.

But the old man stopped them!

Imperial aura radiated from the old man, shaking the entire Forbidden Zone until no one dared to act against Ji Ji Xukong again.

"To kill him, first kill me!" the old man's hoarse voice echoed.

In just five words, he awed the heroes; the Kings of the Forbidden Zones no longer dared to strike at Ji Ji Xukong.

He felt a sense of security unlike anything before.

A belief rose in the depths of his heart.

He must become stronger and fight alongside that old man.

He cultivated desperately, and his cultivation base surged upward rapidly.

Hard work rewards the dedicated; he finally touched the threshold, breaking through within the universe. On that day, the entire cosmos stood still!

Countless bolts of Lei Jie crashed down upon Ji Ji Xukong.

The Kings of the Forbidden Zones could no longer contain themselves and jointly launched an assault against Ji Ji Xukong.

Yet all of this was blocked by the old man!

He was powerful and terrifying.

But, he was ultimately only one man; he had ultimately stepped into twilight years!

"Where is the Great Emperor?"

"When will the Human Race produce a Great Emperor?"

"I cannot close my eyes in peace!"

With these three sentences, the old man gazed at Ji Ji Xukong, lifted his head to the sky, and let out a sorrowful roar.

In the end, he could not prevail, spilling his blood upon a cliff within a forbidden zone!

Ji Ji Xukong's eyes turned blood-red, his hair bristling with fury, yet he was powerless!

He had to become an Emperor!

Only by becoming an Emperor could he stand above those Kings of the Forbidden Zones.

The Lei Jie lasted for a full ten years!

The moment the Lei Jie vanished, he felt as though reborn, yet it was also when danger arrived!

While the Lei Jie still raged, those Kings of the Forbidden Zones dared not attack, fearing the backlash.

Now that the Lei Jie had ended, they launched a joint assault.

Ji Ji Xukong unleashed a divine ability; with a sweep of his bronze mirror, one King of the Forbidden Zones was torn apart by space, spilling blood on the spot.

He fought several Kings alone, Imperial blood flowing.

The great battle lasted for years; finally, those Kings of the Forbidden Zones became corpses!

In a single stride, he arrived upon that very cliff.

Though that person was gone, his heart was filled with desolation!

Surging with rage, he plunged into the Forbidden Zone alone!

Although wounded, he remained overwhelmingly powerful, slaying every King of the Forbidden Zone who had attacked the old man that day before finally stopping!

His arrogance displeased the masters of several Forbidden Zones.

Suppressed by the Sacred Body for all these years, they had already lived in frustration.

Now that Ji Ji Xukong was wounded, they no longer hid their intentions and jointly declared war on him.

Holding the bronze mirror, Ji Ji Xukong knew neither fear nor hesitation.

Before becoming an Emperor, he had not feared them; now that he had become one, even standing alone, he feared them even less!

"Throughout Xukong's life, I have never been inferior to anyone!"

This battle lasted for an unknown span of ages, until countless great stars shattered and the masters of the Forbidden Zones were struck with terror!

Only then did the fighting cease!

To heal his wounds, he consumed an Immortal Divine Medicine that takes tens of thousands of years to ripen...

But he had not remained quiet for long before a sinister wind howled, and the masters of the Forbidden Zones poured out in full force.

This time, their target was not Ji Ji Xukong, but the living beings inhabiting the great stars of the universe.

The great stars of the universe were shrouded in an aura of death!

This was the Dark Turmoil!

"The Human Race stands on the brink of life and death; when will our clan's Sacred Body appear!?"

The people wept bitterly.