Chapter 104

"Senior..."

Luan Gu couldn't help but turn his head, looking at Gu Xuan beside him.

His gaze was somewhat complex, containing unwillingness, regret... and at this moment, he felt empathy.

For the years before his own attainment of the Dao were indeed tragic and arduous, but ultimately the ending was good; a Holy Emperor acted to help him, allowing him to reunite with his closest loved ones.

Yet the Holy Emperor himself had no one to help him, separated from his beloved friends and family by the divide of life and death.

This moment.

Luan Gu also couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow in his heart, prostrating himself and bowing deeply toward the Ling Yuan before him.

As a Current Era Great Emperor, he could be said to be the supreme within the Yu Nei, worshipped by the Ten Thousand Races, counting as one of the most noble existences in the entire Great Universe.

What person, or what thing, could make him bow his head?

But all of this was done sincerely from his heart, truly because he felt the Holy Emperor had helped him far too much!

He even had a thought, hating that he couldn't have attained the Dao tens of thousands of years ago; that way he could have helped the Holy Emperor, protected the people within the Ling Yuan.

Of course, this is an unrealistic thought.

Even a Great Emperor fundamentally cannot change the past that has already occurred.

But at this time, Luan Gu also understood why the Holy Emperor acted to help himself.

Because he himself had tasted all bitterness, so he felt heartache for others' wind and frost; perhaps this is the meaning.

The other side.

Gu Xuan also saw the hint of crystalline moisture in Luan Gu's eyes.

Actually he originally had no intention of this; because the people in the Ling Yuan were the eternal pain in his heart, and he was unwilling to let others see.

However, within his own Sheng Ya Dao Chang, he also hadn't deliberately set up any Restrictions.

Therefore, Luan Gu seeing all of this was also natural.

Gu Xuan forced out the appearance of a smile, wanting to slightly comfort the other party.

But no matter what, there was a kind of desolate, forlorn meaning within it, instead making it look like a kind of pale, miserable laugh.

"Really... is there still hope?"

Luan Gu thought of when the three discussed the Dao before, Gu Xuan had mentioned the Immortal Dao realm; his voice trembling slightly, he softly spoke this sentence.

He seemed to have returned to the past.

For in those incomparably cruel, Shangchen years before attaining the Dao, he had also asked himself this way.

At that time, he had already fallen to the lowest valley of his life, his spirit almost collapsing; it was also holding onto this question that he finally walked through.

If he died, everything would thoroughly become empty; his closest kin, his beloved would thoroughly vanish from the Shi Jie.

And if he could become an Emperor, explore the entirety of the Chuan Yu, reach throughout the Nine Heavens Ten Earths, there might not be without a thread of possibility.

"As long as I live, there is still hope; there will be a day of resurrecting them."

This was Gu Xuan's answer.

The voice was not loud, yet there was an inexplicable persistence within it.

This is a great vow, or perhaps one could say it is an obsession!

This moment.

Luan Gu's heart was also moved; he roughly understood why the Holy Emperor would live on one life after another.

From a certain meaning, they are all the same kind of people.

Beidou Ancient Star.

A Golden Light Avenue extended from the Universe, heading straight for Beiyuan.

Everyone knew it was the Great Emperor Luan Gu returning.

The world shook; Beiyuan's land was vast and sparsely populated, cultivation far less flourishing than places like Eastern Wasteland, Central State, yet unexpectedly it produced a Great Emperor who dominated the Yu Nei!

As for Luan Gu's return, it wasn't for returning home in glory, or some drama like a Dragon King's return.

For long before his attainment of the Dao, decades or hundreds of years prior, he had already thoroughly defeated and killed the Luan Tian Seven Heroes.

As for the subordinate families or sects of the Luan Tian Seven Heroes, or some other sects that aided the tyrant, they had long since been settled by him.

Worth mentioning.

Among them were one or two sects, always tyrannical and cruel, committing countless evils, counting as the Luan Tian Seven Heroes' good henchmen.

Upon learning the news that those families or sects were settled, the Sect Masters of these two Great Teachings, in their utter panic, actually thought of spending an inestimable great price, inviting others to intercede, begging for Luan Gu's forgiveness.

And Luan Gu obviously didn't humor them; he is not a Holy Mother.

And you cannot only remember the blood feud between each other when you are at a disadvantage.

Luan Gu is not a bloodthirsty person.

During the Emperor Road Contention back then, those who were enemies with him, in the end he didn't do anything to them; after surpassing them, he let bygones be bygones with a laugh.

But all those evildoers who struck death blows at his closest kin, lovers, sect elders and old friends, were all settled, not a single one spared.

There were also an extremely few who had once helped him, who also received unimaginable recompense.

A kind-hearted elderly cultivator, cultivation not high, yet when Luan Gu was once heavily injured and dying, took him in and gave him some Source Stones to heal.

Although Luan Gu, to avoid implicating him, only stayed two days before leaving, this grace he always kept in his heart.

After returning to Beiyuan.

He found this elderly cultivator, old and frail, with little lifespan left; with Emperor Dao magical power he helped him wash the marrow and refine the essence, not only extending his life by thousands of years, but his future on the cultivation road was also promising.

For this elderly cultivator, it was simply a surprise to the extreme!

Having a Great Emperor help him rebuild his cultivation foundation, in the future he might possibly achieve a Saint, or even a higher realm!

And the elderly cultivator also had a sudden inspiration, proposing to join the Luan Gu Aristocratic Family, and obtained permission.

This caused the onlookers to be envious to the extreme!

Who would have thought that this old man's momentary act of kindness back then would bring him such a tremendous stroke of fortune.

There were also other individual kind-hearted people who received enormous returns from Luan Gu, with deep fortune.

……

During the era when the Luan Gu Great Emperor suppressed the world, the whole Great Universe could be said to be relatively peaceful, with no Dark Turmoil occurring.

Some say this is because the previous generation's Holy Emperor and the Void Great Emperor joined forces, having already slain the ancient supremes who were restless in the Life Forbidden Zones, which brought about the current relatively peaceful environment.

Others say it is actually not solely because of this, but because the Luan Gu Great Emperor truly shook the past and dazzled the present; even if supremes wanted to appear in the world, they had to weigh the consequences.

Opinions varied, each with their own reasoning.

And this generation's Great Emperor held the Holy Emperor and the Void Great Emperor in especially high regard.

After he proved the Dao, besides lecturing on the Dao in Beiyuan, he also toured the Eastern Wasteland several times.

And he respectively lectured on the Dao at the Qingyun Holy Land and the Eastern Desolation Ji Family, bringing extremely heavy fortune to these two great Desolate Ancient aristocratic families, which can be said to have benefited the descendants of those two Great Emperors.

There are also rumors that the Luan Gu Great Emperor once went to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, wishing to visit the mysterious existence within.

However, the specific circumstances at that time are unknown to the world.

Only certain supreme races or major powers, through their sect's supreme treasure the Source Heaven Divine Eye, managed to glimpse a strand of light and shadow from that time.

The Luan Gu Great Emperor entered the mountain gate of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, within which there was suspected to be an incomparably majestic golden giant manifesting, standing opposite him.

But more than that, people could not see, blocked by that terrifying supreme Qi mechanism.

In summary.

The Luan Gu Great Emperor was similar to the vast majority of Great Emperors throughout history.

He protected the Ren Yu for an era, guaranteeing that the people of the world would not be poisoned by Dark Turmoil.

And the people of the world were also grateful to him, revered him.

Throughout the Universe, the Heavens and Worlds' Ten Thousand Races all came to pay respects, universally honored, making the historically vast and sparsely populated Beiyuan brilliantly radiant for a time, creating a glorious Beiyuan era.

Time passed leisurely.

Nearly ten thousand loads later, the Luan Gu Great Emperor lived out his second life with the Immortality Medicine Fruit.

And at this time.

In the Honghuang Ancient Star's Cheng Xian Chi, the Void Great Emperor had also reached over twenty thousand years of age in his third life.

He had already finished recuperating, his Dao injuries completely healed, and had reached the absolute peak of this life, truly becoming a Heavenly Emperor level expert!

For certain reasons, he did not alarm too many people; only Gu Xuan, Luan Gu, and a mere few others knew of his appearance in the world.

Otherwise the world would surely have been set into a huge uproar.

And outside the Cheng Xian Chi, some remnant bodies also appeared; those were the flesh remnants shed during his recuperation, crystalline and fresh red as if dripping, carrying a certain divine nature.

Regarding this, the Void pondered for a long time.

In the end, he did not refine the remnant bodies, but buried them in a certain dragon vein within the Kunlun Mountains.

For he already vaguely had a certain plan in his heart.

And this portion of remnant body, after all, contained his own divine nature essence; should there come a day, it might not necessarily be unable to exert some effect.

But simultaneously, the Void Great Emperor also faced a biggest problem.

That is, he was not far from the old age of this life, and wanting to live out a fourth life was already rather difficult, even could be said to be extremely perilous!

This naturally had to do with his forced appearance in the world, his battle with the Di Zun causing him to leave behind Dao injuries.

Even though they have healed now, they still have a certain impact on him.

And this life he had no choice but to expend much time and energy on healing injuries, leading to insufficient accumulation, which is also one of the reasons.

Of course.

If the Void wanted to forcefully continue staying in the Ren Yu to undergo Nirvana, there are also other methods.

For instance, with his current Heavenly Emperor level cultivation, perhaps he could enter the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, use his supreme Dao Fruit to attempt to communicate with that female emperor, and learn from her Nirvana method.

But the Void ultimately still did not do this; this is absolutely a profound method rarely seen in ten thousand ages, yet it is not necessarily suitable for him.

He chose another road.

Ultimately.

In the late years of his third life, the Heavenly Emperor level expert Void Great Emperor together with the second life Luan Gu Great Emperor came to the Sheng Ya Dao Chang in the depths of the Xing Hai, to visit Gu Xuan.

After a long period of discussing the Dao and deduction, the three made a certain decision.

And then.

"Come!"

The Void and Luan Gu each exerted great divine power, respectively summoning several massive Divine Sources from the Eastern Desolation Ji Family and the Northern Plains Luan Gu Aristocratic Family.

Those were the most important relatives, close friends, etc. they had sealed away back then.

Additionally.

The Void Emperor Mirror also automatically recovered, carrying the Divine Sources along, crossing the endless starry sky, arriving at the Sheng Ya Dao Chang, by the Void Great Emperor's side.

The mirror body trembled, as if alive, rejoicing and encouraged, leaping with joy at returning to its owner's side.

As for the Luan Gu Emperor Axe, naturally it had always followed its owner.

This scene naturally shook the Ji Family and the Luan Gu Aristocratic Family.

Although they did not understand why it was so, the Divine Sources and Emperor Weapons in the depths of the ancestral grounds automatically soared into the sky; the greatest possibility is that they went to answer their own Great Emperor's summons; a major event must have occurred.

Ying Huo Gu Xing.

Gu Xuan and the other three used Chaos to conceal the Heavenly Secrets, arriving at this Ancient Star.

And then.

Gu Xuan sacrificed the Chaos Square Vessel, and assisted it with a Heavenly Emperor Grade Formation, covering this region of starry sky; no one could perceive any movement within.

Such an approach was indeed somewhat covert, even appearing extremely cautious.

But the situation in the universe now was still not very clear.

Leaving aside the Heavenly Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor, there were still dozens of Supremes in the Life Forbidden Zones.

If these people shared the same ideals and principles as their own side, Gu Xuan and the others would not mind guiding them into the Strange World as well.

In this way, it would also indirectly resolve the problem of the Dark Turmoil.

But this was obviously not very likely.

In the several Life Forbidden Zones, some Supremes had already launched Dark Turmoils several times in past ages, their hands stained with endless fresh blood.

No matter what, Gu Xuan and the others were unwilling to let these Supremes achieve longevity so easily.

And if hostile Forbidden Zone Supremes were also allowed to enter this world, it might bring even greater trouble to the Void and the Chaos Ancient.

Finally.

With the Chaos Ancient guarding from the side.

"Open!"

Gu Xuan and the Void, two Heavenly Emperor Level Experts, joined forces to open the Cheng Xian Tong Dao on the Ying Huo Gu Xing.

They saw that vast and wondrous world, within which Immortal Light shone.

And even before entering, there was faintly an Immortal Path Qi drifting out that made one feel clear-headed and refreshed, as if one were about to undergo Immortal Ascension!

Strange World!

"Not at the correct time, not at the correct place; only by entering this world first can one break through the Immortal Realm." Gu Xuan said softly.

He used Emperor Power to prop open the passage, letting the Void enter first, and the Chaos Ancient followed closely behind.

Suddenly.

Strange World Middle, as a profound spatial ripple twisted, a supremely powerful Qi mechanism appeared not far from the passage exit.

In fact.

Without Gu Xuan's reminder, the Void had long been on guard.

Because before this, Gu Xuan had already warned them that there were also Imperial Path Experts in the Strange World, even stronger existences; without Heavenly Emperor Level Combat Power, one must not enter rashly.

The next instant.

The Void's gaze condensed slightly, he swung his Imperial Fist, clashing once with that majestic figure in the Strange World.

Boom!

The person opposite flew out horizontally, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood, retreating in a stagger.

That was an Imperial Path Expert!

But obviously, he was still no match for the Void Great Emperor.

That person retreated to a distance, too late to wipe the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth, his face revealing a shocked expression, unable to believe this fact.

But in the end, knowing he was no match, he escaped with injuries.

And the Void Great Emperor also paid it no heed, did not pursue, and this was merely a casual strike of his, not a manifestation of his true combat power.

After that.

Gu Xuan and the Void attempted to communicate with the Great Dao of this world, deducing and understanding a portion of the truth.

Compared to the Ren Yu Universe, this was indeed an extraordinary world, equally vast and boundless, and possessing a small amount of undying immortal substance.

This substance was brilliant with immortal essence, peaceful to the utmost, and had great effect on existences like the Void and the Chaos Ancient, able to nourish their Primordial Spirits and physical bodies, forging immortality.

And their closest friends and relatives sealed in Divine Sources would also be able to survive, not die of old age, and even advance further on the path of cultivation.

Of course, there were also many native experts in the Strange World, and even Heavenly Emperor Level Experts existed, likewise walking the Red Dust Immortal road.

But the current Void had already reached this height, and was not inferior to the strongest existences within.

Of course.

This is not to say that he and the Chaos Ancient could rest easy.

Stepping into this world was equivalent to a new journey opening for them, and they would face layer upon layer of trials.

Here one can only say there is some immortal substance, barely allowing one to persist, but it does not mean immortality.

And as visitors from outside the domain, they would inevitably face targeting, even besiegement, from native experts.

The road ahead would certainly not be easy, and might even be perilous.

But this was also an inevitable choice; otherwise the Void would likely find it difficult to live out a Fourth Life in the Ren Yu Universe.

(Chapter End)