Chapter 102

Three Emperors convene, discussing scriptures and the Dao.

What each expounds is not only the Great Dao truths existing between heaven and earth, but also cultivation insights from the pinnacle of the Path of Humanity.

There are even ancient secrets involving the Immortal Dao realm.

In the unseen, it seems as if some profound Immortal Dao ethical sounds arise, reverberating through this stretch of starry sky shrouded by the Chaos Square Vessel, ethereal and lofty.

Even the three Undying Divine Medicines slumbering in Gu Xuan's Ku Hai awaken, perceiving this divine atmosphere.

The Chaos Green Lotus Seed trembles slightly, its green sprout swaying, as if rejoicing and leaping for joy at hearing this Immortal Dao Emperor's sound.

On another side, a little White Tiger with a cute and naive demeanor, upon hearing the divine parts, unconsciously stretches lazily, as if having gained true spiritual awareness.

Only the Fusang Divine Tree, the earliest to take residence in Gu Xuan's Ku Hai, remains as usual, unmoving — one could say it is calm and composed, or perhaps it simply prefers slumber.

And while Gu Xuan lectures on the Dao, he also perceives some unusual stirrings from the Undying Medicine within his body.

But he does not pay it any mind.

Because each has their own karmic destiny, he does not deliberately force it.

Unknown how much time passed.

The three have already spoken much, basically touching upon their own most core Great Dao comprehensions; it can be considered a pause.

Of course, there are still far too many things not yet touched upon.

The Great Dao is lofty and far-reaching; it cannot be exhausted in one or two discussions.

Even among the parts already discussed, some could be delved into further; perhaps there would be even more profound inspiration.

But to reach this degree at this moment is already enough.

Even at their current realms, the many things already discussed are all worth carefully pondering and experiencing.

Especially Luan Gu, who has just entered the Emperor's Path; even though he communicates with the Heaven's Heart mark and can instantly know many great secrets and karma in heaven and earth.

There are still many things he cannot yet reach, needing the future and sufficient time to comprehend and excavate.

And just at this time.

"Cough, cough..."

The Void suddenly coughs lightly a few times, a trace of blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth.

"Void..."

"Senior..."

Seeing this scene, Gu Xuan and Luan Gu are both startled, drawing close with concern.

The Void's injury exceeds their expectations.

Luan Gu naturally goes without saying; his realm is lower than the Void's, so he cannot perceive the other's injury.

Even Gu Xuan is only slightly stronger than the Void; if he had not deliberately sensed, he likewise would not have perceived it.

"Worthy of being the Di Zun..."

The Void wipes away the bloodstain at the corner of his mouth, his complexion slightly pale, speaking with some emotion.

Di Zun?

Not long ago, the person who triggered the great battle in this stretch of starry sky was actually the Di Zun?

At this moment, waves of astonishment surge in Luan Gu's heart.

For at the final juncture of his Great Emperor Tribulation, he also perceived a disturbance in the direction of the Honghuang Ancient Star.

This perception was not very clear, because he was still in the process of fusing with the Heaven's Heart mark, but he also roughly "saw" that gloomy universe crack, and the peerless existence within surging with Chaos Qi.

As the Ancient Tian Ting's Lord of the Mythological Era, endless years have passed since then, yet he is actually still alive, and fought the Holy Emperor and the Void Great Emperor!

Even though Luan Gu already knew the Red Dust Immortal path, he is still shocked by this.

Truly, there are heavens beyond heaven!

Before proving the Dao, he thought the Great Emperor was already the utmost pinnacle, the road's extreme limit.

After proving the Dao, he realizes beyond the road's end there is still a road; ascending to heaven reveals another new heaven and earth!

In a certain sense, this makes one somewhat helpless, for the joy of just proving the Dao and becoming Emperor is quickly offset by this sense of disparity.

The Dao Sea is boundless; does it have an end?

But this is obviously also a good thing; those who can achieve a Great Emperor — which one does not have a firm Dao Heart and advance fearlessly? Otherwise they absolutely could not reach this step.

Luan Gu is naturally the same, and may even be the most outstanding among them.

The road ahead is vast and misty; he may not necessarily be unable to surpass his predecessors.

And on this side.

Gu Xuan crosses out Divine Rules to sense the Void's specific injury.

Before this, although he also roughly perceived the Void's state was abnormal, he did not do so, because that would seem somewhat abrupt.

But at this moment, he can no longer care about so much.

And the Void does not resist, instead letting Gu Xuan's unmatched Divine Rules sense the injury within his body.

This is originally an extremely dangerous act.

Both are Emperor Path experts; who would dare let another's strongest Divine Rules enter their body? The slightest mishap could result in heavy injury, even the Primordial Spirit suffering calamity!

But given the relationship between the two of them, naturally there is no need to worry about this.

Finally.

Gu Xuan understands the Void's injury.

Before achieving Nirvana Perfection, he forcibly appeared into the world to fight the Di Zun, heavily injured to the Origin!

This result makes Gu Xuan's complexion change, even his gaze turning somewhat dim.

And Luan Gu, learning the truth, also feels his heart sink, his expression ugly.

Although he long knew there were crises in the Great Universe, such as the dozens of Ancient Supremes in the Beidou Seven Forbidden Zones of Life, like malignant tumors of this universe.

But he hadn't expected that he might still face terrifying enemies like the Di Zun and the Undying Heavenly Emperor, beings who had survived for countless ages!

But right now, this wasn't the time to think about these problems.

Very soon.

The three of them, Gu Xuan included, arrived at a plan to treat their injuries.

Having reached their current realm.

Naturally, in a single instant, they all knew that returning to the Cheng Xian Chi where the Ninety-Nine Dragon Head Peaks converged to recuperate was the Void's wisest choice.

This land that nurtures immortals, which the Ancient Tian Ting exhausted countless resources to build and into which it absorbed the essence of many Life Ancient Stars, could be said to have inversely seized the creation of heaven and earth, past and present.

It was a peerless, unmatched wonderful land, worthy of being called the best in the entire Great Universe.

Perhaps the several Source Eyes of Creation that the Undying Heavenly Emperor found for his young son were not bad either, said to be able to nurture gods in the era before the Primordial.

But compared to the Honghuang Ancient Star's Cheng Xian Chi, they still fell far short.

And Gu Xuan, on one hand, spared no effort in passing the incomparably precious Immortal Dao Essence from his body to help the Void alleviate his injuries, while simultaneously helping him stabilize his foundation even further.

On the other side.

He was also thinking: if one day in the future, he could seize those few Source Eyes of Creation that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had found and integrate them into the Cheng Xian Chi, would it make it even more miraculously effective?

If that day truly came, it was hard to say whether the Undying Heavenly Emperor would fight desperately, but him coughing up blood in rage was very likely.

But this was ultimately a later matter, not worth mentioning for now.

"No matter..."

The Void's expression was calm as he lightly waved his hand, to comfort Gu Xuan and Luan Gu across from him.

And the moment he perceived the Immortal Dao Essence being passed over from Gu Xuan's palm, he forcibly stopped the other's action.

This substance was too miraculous and precious; it pertained to Gu Xuan's future Nirvana Path, and he himself certainly didn't have much left.

Therefore, the Void was unwilling for Gu Xuan to do this; in the end, he only let him pass over a little, an extremely limited amount.

But even so, these Life Substances were of great help to the Void; perhaps in a critical moment in the future they would play a major role.

And ultimately.

All three understood that it was still best to return to the Cheng Xian Chi as soon as possible.

The Void couldn't help but give a slight bitter smile.

He had already spent ten thousand loads of time within it; one awakening later, he would have to go back and lie down for another several thousand or ten thousand years...

But he also knew he couldn't delay; otherwise, not to mention that his combat power would not easily recover, it would also affect his future path.

"If during this period, the Di Zun attacks again, what then?"

Luan Gu raised a possibility.

This was indeed a realistic problem, and not necessarily one that wouldn't happen; it was worth deep consideration.

Gu Xuan and the Void both fell silent for a moment.

The next moment.

Gu Xuan quickly gave a response; obviously, he had already given this thought long ago.

"No need to worry." He spoke calmly, "The Di Zun is indeed very strong, but he is also injured, and we will rearrange the Great Array; as long as I am here, he cannot breach it."

Gu Xuan spoke slowly, his tone containing certainty.

Actually, there was one more thing he didn't say.

That was, before this, when the Di Zun withdrew from this universe, the look of struggle revealed on his face.

Obviously.

The Di Zun also very likely encountered some kind of major trouble.

This was also a conjecture Gu Xuan had held all along; it was just that before confronting the person himself, it was difficult to verify.

"Ah, Senior, I didn't expect to burden you again..."

The Void sighed, his expression full of guilt.

"Fool... between you and me, do you still say this?"

Gu Xuan patted the Void's shoulder, putting on a slightly angry expression, and the next moment, "If you really feel bad about it, give me that plant of Ginseng Fruit Undying Medicine of yours."

This was obviously a joking remark.

Since Gu Xuan himself had several plants of Undying Medicine, why would he want that one plant he had originally given to the Void.

And the Void's reaction was also very quick, "Senior, saying this makes you lose dignity; as a generation's Holy Emperor, you must not be greedy."

Obviously.

The Void knew Gu Xuan's intent was to comfort him in another form, so he also played along with the joke slightly.

And Luan Gu on the side was also watching with a slightly strange expression.

Who could have thought that a generation's Holy Emperor who roamed the world for tens of thousands of years, a peerless legendary figure surpassing past, present, and future, would also have such a moment.

And the Void was the same.

In the world's legends, he spent his whole life in battle, campaigning and contending with several Life Forbidden Zones, always taciturn, with a deep personality.

Luan Gu had grown up listening to these rumors since his birth.

Now that he had proven the Dao and become Emperor, he discovered that two former Great Emperors also had such a side to their lives.

Actually, thinking about it, it makes sense.

Without reaching this realm, it is fundamentally impossible to come into contact with this tier.

Ants and dragons have no intersection; dandelion seeds and the colorful clouds in the sky can hardly meet; they reside in different worlds, forever unaware of each other.

This is a bleak fact.

Thinking carefully, among the many Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors who dominated the Yu Nei in ancient history, there was no lack of existences with absolute prestige, incomparably cold and ruthless, supreme and distant, utterly beyond the reach of ordinary people.

But when facing their own relatives and friends, are they still that imposing and heavy, cold and lofty?

It is necessarily not so; it is only because the gap with others is too great, the distance too far away.

……

Next.

Gu Xuan and the other two descended, arriving at the Kun Lun Mountains.

This is a stretch of primeval wilderness, vast and hazy, boundlessly expansive.

Every mountain peak is frighteningly high, clouds encircling and mist locking, as if Chaos Qi permeates, filled with the primordial breath of Heaven and Earth.

Compared to it, the Kun Lun Mountains that mortals can see are merely a tiny corner, one could say a mere tip of this main vein.

Such a spiritually holy land naturally does not lack numerous Ancient Beasts; each has astonishing Bloodline, powerful physical body, and placed in the outer domains, they would not be weaker than the sect masters of certain Great Teachings.

Among them, there are even no few Peak Great Saint level Fierce Beasts, powerfully occupying vast areas within the mountain range.

However.

Three Great Emperor level, or even Higher Realm existences descended here, truly terrifying and unmatched, in no way inferior to the previous arrival of the Di Zun.

All Ancient Beasts knelt down prostrate, trembling in fear, not daring to move in the slightest, as if facing a Supreme God.

This kind of scene, for them, was truly too terrifying.

Even though Gu Xuan and the other two did not release much Qi, slightly restraining it, to avoid startling too many.

But Heaven and Earth sensed it, and amidst the vastness a kind of extremely terrifying pressure naturally arose; the atmosphere was extremely oppressive, hence this influence was still produced.

And not long ago, when the Di Zun arrived and clashed with Gu Xuan and Void, a few strands of that aftermath also reached here.

Not a few extremely powerful Hugu Fierce Beasts, before they could even react, were suppressed to death by that one hundred-millionth of the aftermath, their Primordial Spirits turning to ashes.

Along the way, there were also not a few towering ancient trees fallen to the ground.

Originally unknown how many years they had grown, towering into the clouds, sometimes several trunks merged together, blocking out the sky and covering the sun, even covering high mountains, but now they also suffered the impact.

Even many Treasure Medicines met with misfortune; among them were no few Medicine Kings of eighty or ninety thousand years, even over a hundred thousand years.

Some were ground into dust, some blasted to pieces, only a few roots and rhizomes deeply buried underground remaining.

Fortunately Gu Xuan still intercepted most of the aftermath; otherwise the living beings and ancient trees in the Kun Lun Mountains would only have suffered even heavier casualties.

As for the Ninety-Nine Dragon Head Peaks within the Immortal Ground.

Only one or two suffered damage, and were repaired to completeness by Gu Xuan using his Heavenly Emperor level cultivation, plus the bit of Immortal Dao Essence within his body.

This process was also a kind of reference for Void and Gu Xuan, very meaningful.

Perhaps in the future their Red Dust Immortal Road will be difficult to advance an inch, and upon entering the Strange World, they might also encounter this kind of situation.

Along the way.

The three passed by that Broken Cliff emitting terrifying Qi.

Even the aftermath struck by the Di Zun did not damage this mountain cliff in the slightest.

Because unless that existence passes away, or can defeat her, otherwise it is fundamentally impossible to break open the Broken Cliff's protection.

Luan Gu naturally sensed this Qi, extremely powerful, and also faintly had a trace of familiar feeling.

And completely not weaker than him; even accurately speaking, quite a bit stronger than him.

This is?!

Ruthless Great Emperor?

Before Luan Gu proved the Dao, he once obtained a portion of her methods, therefore he is not unfamiliar with her Great Dao.

And the next moment, he saw that Blood Robe on the cliff top protected by Chaos Guard, as if possessing endless breath of ages, eternal and undying.

No need to use its Forbidden Secret Technique Martial Dao Heavenly Eye; merely opening the Heavenly Eye ordinarily, Luan Gu saw a line of words on the Blood Robe.

"I am going to die... but what about my younger sister?"

The life of the Ruthless Great Emperor, Luan Gu had also heard much in his early years.

This Human Race Great Emperor was proud and aloof all her life, powerful to the Absolute Peak, alone supreme in heaven and earth, all domain god lords bowing their heads together, arrogantly looking down on past, present, and future!

However.

Such an unparalleled existence through the ages, yet also had a grievous past, and a sorrow difficult to dispel...

Luan Gu had only heard those rumors before.

Now seeing this Blood Robe, he knew those rumors were not false.

Powerful as she was, arrogant above ancients and lording over the present, unparalleled in the world, wishing to compete with Heaven in height, yet also unable to resurrect a corpse dead for many years, only able to leave behind a Blood Robe, a Solitary Grave...

No wonder the Ruthless Person intercepted the Nine Heavens stars, established the Broken Cliff; having seen the words on the Blood Robe, how could she be calm?

This moment.

Luan Gu's heart trembled, he thought of himself.

If not for the Saint Emperor saving his closest loved ones, what would he be like now?

Even if he ascended the Absolute Peak, those closest to him have long since become dry bones, lying on that perished road, leaving only him alone, solitary and miserable...

This is a terrifying scene, terrifying to the point that even though it has already changed, it still makes Luan Gu's heart tremble, unwilling to imagine.

(Chapter End)