Chapter 100

Outside the Honghuang Ancient Star.

Gu Xuan and the Void Great Emperor each sat cross-legged in the starry sky, regulating their breath and healing their wounds.

Both had suffered serious Dao injuries, even damaging their Origin.

If this matter spread to the outside world, it would surely shock everyone.

The Holy Emperor campaigned all his life, blood-battling countless times; in his early years he had suffered heavy injuries, but after he blasted open the Ten Thousand Daos' suppression and defied heaven to become Emperor, he had already been invincible in the world for who knows how many ages.

Such an existence is rarely seen from ancient times to now; who could make him suffer injury?

And the Void Great Emperor reappearing in the world would also be an extraordinary major event!

But few know of this great battle; the world's people are all focused on the Dao-proving Great Calamity in the Universe Borderlands!

Moreover, Gu Xuan's Chaos Square Vessel still envelops this region of starry sky.

Unknown how much time passed.

Gu Xuan coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood, but his complexion recovered from pale to normal; although he still has some Origin injuries, these can only be slowly nurtured in the future.

On the other side, the Void Great Emperor's condition is obviously even worse, still sitting with eyes closed.

And Gu Xuan also waited quietly, not disturbing him.

His gaze flowed, cold light flashing, looking at the universe crack once broken open by the Emperor Lord.

Clashing with the Emperor Lord this early was truly somewhat beyond his expectations.

He originally thought the Undying Heavenly Emperor had already been injured by him, his realm fallen somewhat, and at least within the visible ages would no longer pose too great a threat to Gu Xuan.

In that case, if the Void Great Emperor succeeded in Nirvana, plus the Chaos Ancient, they could join forces to do some things.

For example, leveling certain Life Forbidden Zones.

But now it seems this plan has gained a variable again.

At least, before resolving the Emperor Lord's threat, acting rashly is merely an unwise choice!

Because this person's strength is truly terrifying; if during the critical period when the Forbidden Zone battle reaches a white-hot intensity, he suddenly acts, Gu Xuan and the others might not be able to watch their backs.

And as for why the Emperor Lord suddenly acted against the Cheng Xian Chi, Gu Xuan also has some speculations.

Since shattering the Ten Thousand Daos to become Emperor, he too has finally reached a certain height, discovering and erasing a portion of the runes the Emperor Lord secretly carved in this Great Universe.

And he repaired the Wan Dao Long Shou Feng Great Array, letting the Immortal-Nurturing Ground revive once more, perhaps also producing some inexplicable influence on the Emperor Lord.

Of course.

This is mostly still just Gu Xuan's speculation.

As for the specific truth, it may only be known when he clashes with the Emperor Lord again in the future.

And on the other side.

After a long while, in the distant Border Wilderness Star Domain.

The Chaos Ancient also welcomed the final tempering of his own Dao-proving tribulation.

In the eternally cold and dark boundless starry sky, it was as if a Thunder Prison World suddenly descended, magnificent and vast, grand and unmatched, spanning across heaven and earth.

Everywhere were thunder lights stretching across several star systems, like Immortal Spirits descending to the mortal world.

Most shaped like True Dragons, also quite a few like Immortal Phoenixes, Qilins, Kunpengs, etc., dazzling to the extreme, illuminating the dark Great Universe.

Each one violent to the extreme, almost reaching the pinnacle of heavenly punishment, rumbling and roaring, finally all chopping down toward the Chaos Ancient together!

This aura is too terrifying, causing all who watch this scene to tremble in fear.

Unknown how many cultivators are terrified, among them even no lack of Quasi-Emperor realm experts.

Human power has its limits; this level of Heavenly Tribulation, no matter how many Quasi-Emperors went they would only turn to dust — can a single living being cross it?

The Chaos Ancient has indeed already reached his own limit.

Even with the Nine Revolutions Divine Axe substituting for him in death, and the Eternal Exile and other Forbidden Chapter Secret Techniques all used, helping him continue his life several times.

His Blood Qi has also withered dry, his body charred black all over, exposed white bones everywhere on his body, and bloody viscera, looking too miserable to behold.

And this is still not the main thing.

The most dangerous is that his spinal Great Dragon, though long since probed into the Immortal Platform more than half, still lacks that final step of the Ultimate Leap.

And his whole body's Dao power is consumed extremely severely; he has charged several times but all gave out halfway.

This is a terrifying signal!

The Great Emperor Tribulation has already reached the final juncture; if he falls at the last pass, the heavenly punishment's backlash will surely be incomparably violent, possibly suppressing and killing him completely.

This is not empty words.

Since myriad ages past, there is no lack of Peerless Heavenly Prodigies who walked to the Dao-proving tribulation, but not every one can pass through safely.

Those who pass are the Heavenly Venerates, Ancient Emperors, and Great Emperors who leave their names in the Mythological Annals!

Those who fail are merely a pile of dung, before long disappearing in the River of Time, no one remembering them again.

And not only that.

In the several major Life Forbidden Zones, there are awakened Supremes' gazes flashing, within them flowing bloodthirsty and gloomy cold light, as if thinking of something.

He emits an extremely powerful Divine Sense, perceiving the Chaos Ancient's miserable state.

At this moment, he even wants to appear in the world and sublimate to the extreme, seizing the Chaos Ancient's Great Emperor Dao Fruit by force.

But he ultimately still did not do so.

Because the Chaos Ancient is no weakling; he has already held on to the last few barriers of the Great Emperor Tribulation.

And at this moment the Thunder Tribulation is too terrifying; even if the Supreme sublimates to the extreme and enters to suppress the Chaos Ancient, it is already too late.

The final result would very likely only be experiencing the taste of tribulation-crossing in youth once more, even exhausting his own power and perishing.

Under the Thunder Sea.

The Chaos Ancient roared angrily at the sky, black hair dancing wildly in the tribulation light, his whole person like a furious Demon God!

Though his strength is exhausted, his heart is unwilling.

Having walked this path all the way, he bore the heavy expectations of his parents, relatives, lovers, and closest friends, and had also endured an immeasurably heavy and cruel sorrow.

Was he to give up at this final moment?

"No, I will continue walking forward. My kin, my lovers, my master and old friends—if I die, they will truly be gone..."

In an instant.

In Luan Gu's sea of consciousness flashed the faces and voices of his relatives and friends; every detail was as if reappearing before his eyes, scene after scene flashing by, deeply moving him.

At this moment, he felt as if he had returned to the past, returned to the side of those dearest and most beloved people; such a scene was incomparably beautiful and warm.

Luan Gu suddenly opened his eyes, and rolling hot tears burst forth.

Even though he was about to prove the Dao and become a Great Emperor, his heart still held a great sorrow.

In this life, he had been alone and friendless; those who loved him, pitied him, and comforted him had ultimately all departed, leaving only him alone in this world.

But he would not give up.

Over the past hundreds and thousands of years, his Dao Heart had long been firm as iron; even if his heart was sad as rain, he still walked forward step by step with such firmness.

If he could achieve the Great Dao Fruit, then in the future, roaming the Great Universe, ascending to the Nine Heavens and descending to the Ten Earths, there might perhaps be a glimmer of possibility.

But if he failed at the brink of success right now, then there would truly not be a shred of hope left; all his kin and lovers would pass away forever and completely.

Therefore.

Within Luan Gu's body, which was like a lamp with oil exhausted and wick dry, there arose an incredibly strong will.

Like the undying Dao Fire, no matter how the wild winds howled past, it always guarded the light.

Boom!

He madly absorbed the Universe's Essence Qi, drawing from the void, drawing from the stars, terrifying beyond compare, his entire body radiating brilliant light, like a million stars self-destructing.

An endless river of Essence Qi converged toward that direction, brilliant as the Star River.

The originally dark and cold Bian Huang Xing Hai was like the Great Explosion of Universe Opening, blinding to the eyes, completely melting everything.

This scene left everyone dumbfounded.

Could an existence about to prove the Dao actually be terrifying to such a degree?

And above his head, the Luan Gu Emperor Axe, which had originally already shattered into countless fragments, reformed along with his master's transformation, and at times transformed into the form of the Nine Turns Divine Talisman, undergoing that ultimate Tu Po.

And almost at the same time.

Above the Honghuang Ancient Star, Gu Xuan's eyes shifted, and from across the Endless Star Domain, he saw the scene at Luan Gu's place.

Sure enough, he had still reached this step!

His expression unchanged, he separated a Dao Body, took one step, and returned to the Sheng Ya Dao Chang.

The Dao Body reached out and grabbed, extracting several large Divine Sources, came to the outside starry sky of Luan Gu's Thunder Tribulation, and then released the people sealed within the Divine Sources.

And at the very bottom of the center of the Thunder Tribulation.

Rumble rumble!

Boundless radiance gathered together, forming nine supreme and unmatched Thunder Spirits, of various forms: Immortal Spirits, Heavenly Palaces, Immortal-Slaying Knives...

This was the Final Blow of the Great Emperor Tribulation, vast and violent to the extreme, as if it would World-Destroy.

Afterward.

The nine Thunder Spirits descended together to suppress and kill; the laws of lightning surged and billowed, completely submerging Luan Gu and his Emperor Weapon.

When all this had passed.

A tall figure stood there, Majestic Figure, Imperial Prestige pressing down upon Yu Nei, spreading throughout the Heavens and Worlds!

Luan Gu ultimately passed through the Great Emperor Tribulation and branded his mark throughout the Whole Great Universe.

He had become a Great Emperor!

And at this time, he sensed a mysterious powerful aura, not in the slightest inferior to him.

A Great Emperor?!

Luan Gu's eyes instantly narrowed; in a daze, he saw an unrivaled sovereign of tens of thousands of years.

He absolutely would not mistake him, for Luan Gu had grown up listening to the legends of Gu Xuan and the Void Great Emperor, and had seen the statues of the two spread throughout Yu Nei countless times.

"Let us first reunite with them."

Gu Xuan's Dao Body smiled slightly at Luan Gu, then slowly dissipated, returning to his main body at the Honghuang Ancient Star, leaving behind only a peerless Holy Body Great Dao.

Luan Gu was first slightly startled, moved by the strength displayed by this Dao Body of the Great Emperor.

But the next moment.

He saw in the starry sky where the Dao Body had originally stood, those people guarded by some mysterious array patterns.

In an instant, his eyes widened, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

This was not an illusion, but his truly real kin, lovers, master, and friends...

Each one was his original him/her, not merely a Primordial Spirit or an unconscious Rou Ti.

Because with Luan Gu's current realm, he could tell at a glance.

"Mother..."

He immediately rushed over, coming before a dignified and elegant middle-aged woman, weeping uncontrollably, almost speechless!

To make a Great Emperor who had proven the Dao adopt such an attitude showed to what extent Luan Gu was Excited.

Of course, he had not forgotten to restrain his aura, otherwise everyone absolutely could not withstand it.

Nearly two thousand years of separation between life and death, who knew how many hardships and bitterness he had endured; Luan Gu Great Emperor never expected that he would one day see his mother again!

Great Dao Fruit, Communicating with the Universe Heart.

At this moment, Heaven and Earth seemed to feel it; amidst the vastness, a light and agile sound flowed, transmitting an aura of both sorrow and joy.

And Luan Gu also saw the other people, including his father and other kin, as well as lovers, master, old friends, and so on.

The number of people was actually not large; they were all Luan Gu's closest kin and friends from the early days of his cultivation, protected by Gu Xuan's Dao Body and sealed one by one.

Because later on, after Luan Gu witnessed the terrible fate he brought to those around him, he deliberately avoided forming connections with others, lest he implicate them.

"Father..."

"Xiao Ya..."

"Master..."

Luan Gu recognized each and every one of these people he had longed for day and night; his eyes were already bloodshot, tears brimming in his eye sockets.

He had originally thought he would never see them again.

Even though he had already become a Great Emperor, his combat power roaming the universe, the departed loved ones were ultimately still impossible to retrieve.

In this world, life and death are both vast and boundless; not thinking of them, yet unable to forget.

Perhaps later he could break into the Immortal Domain, and then there might be a sliver of hope, but ultimately it was still dim.

This moment.

Luan Gu sometimes held these people's arms, sometimes embraced them tightly in his arms, as if afraid this was merely an illusion, that the next moment they would vanish.

This joy of losing and regaining could be said to have reached a certain extreme.

Even though Luan Gu was now a Great Emperor, his Dao heart was almost somewhat unstable.

Unknown how much time passed.

Only then did he finish recognizing everyone one by one, and still there were endless words to speak, bottomless feelings to pour out.

But obviously.

Luan Gu still had certain matters to attend to.

Compared to accompanying loved ones and partners, these matters could not be called more important, yet they also involved peerless great secrets.

Having reached his current realm, in an instant he could communicate with the Heavenly Heart Great Dao, and had long since known a certain fact.

That is, his life was not manipulated by anyone, and if not for someone acting in the dark to save him, he absolutely would not have this day of reunion with dear kin and friends.

And who that person was, was also already self-evident.

After properly settling all his beloved kin and friends, Luan Gu sensed the direction in which Gu Xuan's Dao Body dissipated and left, took one step out, and rushed to outside the Honghuang Ancient Star.

Of course.

This was Gu Xuan doing so deliberately, not concealing himself with Chaos.

Because having reached his current height, if he deliberately concealed his Qi mechanism, even Luan Gu who had just proved the Dao and become Emperor would find it difficult to know his whereabouts.

"Holy Emperor!"

"Void Great Emperor!"

Arriving in this starry sky enveloped by the Chaos Square Vessel, Luan Gu saw two unfathomable figures sitting cross-legged within.

Even at the moment of becoming Emperor, Luan Gu had already known much.

But when truly seeing this scene, he was still shocked.

The Holy Emperor needless to say, reincarnating into a second life, roaming the world for over forty thousand loads, a magnificent existence that shakes the ancient and dazzles the present.

Even having disappeared from the human realm for thousands of loads, many in the world still do not believe he has truly passed away.

And the Void Great Emperor was not much different.

Clearly having "passed away" over ten thousand years, yet now manifesting alive before Luan Gu's eyes, and absolutely not something like an Emperor corpse gaining sentience.

Because Luan Gu had referenced the Void Scripture, he sensed the Void Great Dao on the other party terrifying beyond compare, utterly real and true!

"Dao Friend."

Gu Xuan smiled faintly, waved his hand to evolve a Dao Qi futon, inviting him to be seated.

And Void also awakened from healing his injuries, smiling kindly at Luan Gu.

Obviously, with his realm, after finishing healing, he also knew many things in the universe.

Only, though his Qi mechanism was supremely strong, his complexion was still somewhat pale, his breath slightly unstable.

This was because he emerged ahead of time, and clashed several moves with the Emperor Lord, heavily injuring his Origin Dao Fruit.

"Paying respects to the two Seniors!"

Luan Gu's expression was solemn, his tone respectful; he prostrated himself in grand salute to worship.

This scene could be called rare since ancient times!

If seen by the outside world, it would surely shake the Six Harmonies and Eight Wastelands!

Because since ten thousand ages, the world has spread the saying: Great Emperors never meet each other.

One Emperor passes, at least ten thousand loads must pass before a new Emperor appears, and this is only the ideal situation; in reality the interval may be even longer.

And the thirty Emperors and Sovereigns of ancient times, which one was not sole supreme, swallowing the Six Harmonies and Eight Wastelands; who would bow and bend the knee to another?

But today, this iron rule was broken.

(Chapter End)