Chapter 139: Terrifying Tribulation, Undying Heavenly Blade Appears!

Is even an existence as earth-shaking and peerless as the Wushi Great Emperor going to meet his curtain call?

The people of the world couldn't help but cry out in grief.

But many also understood in their hearts that this day would ultimately arrive.

And the Wushi Great Emperor has already been extremely defying of heaven; two lifetimes of imperial destiny, approaching forty thousand years, surpassing the many Emperors and Sovereigns of ancient times, not inferior to the Holy Emperor of that year.

This year.

A powerful Human Race Great Saint named Gu Tian Shu came to Purple Mountain to seek an audience with the Wushi Great Emperor, and was ultimately accepted inside, becoming a Guardian of the Mountain.

Not long after.

Wushi sealed the Black Emperor, Gu Tian Shu, and others in Divine Source Liquid.

As for Di Li Si, she had long since done the same.

As for himself, he alone set foot into the Star Depths, wanting to brave the Immortal Path alone, gambling his twilight imperial destiny for a lifetime's Immortal Fate, just like the Yao Huang Xue Yue Qing of old.

If successful, he would bring them along to achieve immortality together.

If unsuccessful, he would have them wait for the Immortal Path Opening tens of thousands of years later, hoping they could be reborn and enter the Immortal Domain.

Star Depths.

Someone finally saw the Wushi Great Emperor.

His Blood Qi was exhausted, white hair like snow, body withered; a hero in his twilight years, he wouldn't live much longer, traveling alone in the universe.

An old sage saw this and couldn't help but feel great sorrow; even such a peerless hero has grown old, yet cannot see immortality.

"Great Emperor!"

Wushi passed through various domains, as if bidding farewell to this universe, saying goodbye to the myriad races of the Heavens and Worlds; many people couldn't help but cry out in grief.

Watching a towering Human Race Great Emperor meet his end like this, many powerhouses felt pained in their hearts; the Wushi Great Emperor's aging and passing would be the end of an era.

……

Finally.

Wushi arrived at the depths of the Xing Hai.

His white hair hung to his shoulders, extremely aged, yet his body remained straight and firm, standing tall in the boundless void.

Though in his twilight years, he was still the Current Era Great Emperor, possessing an inexplicable domineering aura.

"Boom—!"

He struck out with one punch, and instantly the Heavens exploded; a terrifying great void crack appeared, within which Immortal Path Laws faintly overflowed, taking the shapes of True Dragons, Phoenixes, White Tigers, and the like.

Boundless Immortal Light was brilliantly radiant, illuminating countless Star Domains.

This fluctuation was too violent, shaking the entire Great Universe, including the Life Forbidden Zones.

"This... who is the Wushi Great Emperor battling?!"

Throughout the universe, countless Saints cried out in alarm.

Numerous Supreme Races and major powers hurriedly activated their Sect Supreme Treasures, various Source Heaven Law Arrays, Heaven-Piercing Law Eyes, and the like, all focusing on this place.

Among them were some old sages, old Great Saints, whose eyelashes had fallen out from reading and witnessing so much; they guessed the truth of the matter.

"Could it be that the Great Emperor is attacking the Immortal Path?"

"Unexpectedly, in this lifetime I also have the chance to see the Immortal Path; how fortunate..."

Even in the surrounding Star Domains, several decrepit cultivators broke out of their Self-Sealed Divine Sources, disregarding everything to come to the edge of the starry sky where the Wushi Great Emperor was.

A decrepit cultivator obtained a strand of Immortal Path Qi, and his whole person felt clear and refreshed, his Qi and Blood becoming much more vigorous.

This is absolutely a rarely seen in ten thousand ages miraculous scene, as if an Immortal Domain Small World had descended!

"This... is this really the Immortal Path?!" These old cultivators were stunned!

This excited them immensely; if the Wushi Great Emperor succeeded, they would stake their old lives to follow him and charge into that eternal, misty Immortal Domain world, to witness Longevity!

However.

There were also those who remained clear-headed, far from this excited, especially the existences in the Life Forbidden Zones.

"Isn't this the Immortal Path that the Yao Huang walked back then? And now it's even less the correct time; is Wushi this confident?"

"Can't call it confidence; this is his final desperate gamble." An Ancient Venerable saw some clues.

"Hmph!"

Several Forbidden Zone Supremes also watched with cold eyes, not optimistic about this, and they had long been on very bad terms with the Wushi Great Emperor, merely enduring for many years.

Boom—!

The white-haired-like-snow Wushi Great Emperor struck out with an ultimate attack again, obviously intending to continue deeper into that gloomy and incomparably misty Immortal Path Passage.

Instantly, this Heaven and Earth had boundless laws raging violently, emitting world-destroying fluctuations.

This mighty power and mirror scene were too terrifying, causing the Great Saints in the surrounding Star Domains to tremble, no longer able to endure, all prostrating themselves, acclaiming the Wushi Great Emperor.

Those were strand after strand of World-Destroying Immortal Radiance, each stretching several Star Systems long, shattering the ancient blue sky, shaking the Heavens and Worlds; however many sages came, they would absolutely be suppressed and killed.

Only a single peerless figure stood amidst it all, watching the Xing Hai vanish like illusion, seeing the vast seas turn to dust, while he remained eternally immortal, ignoring this immense pressure.

That was the Wushi Great Emperor; though aged, he still dominated ancient and modern, sole sovereign of ten thousand ages; his gaze seemed to open heaven and earth, containing scenes of Star River destruction.

Such terrifying tribulation waves, such violent backlash; any single strand of overflowing Qi mechanism could instantly kill the Heavens' powerhouses, yet the Wushi Great Emperor basically had no defense.

"Boom!"

Above his head, an ancient and unadorned Imperial Bell soared skyward, smashing heaven and splitting earth, slaying gods and exterminating immortals, rising against the void, smashing that World-Destroying Immortal Domain Dao Wave to pieces.

This moment, cultivators throughout the universe saw that that Star Sky completely collapsed and shattered; nothing existed anymore.

All Saints trembled!

Tens of thousands of years have passed; people once again witnessed the Wushi Great Emperor's all-out attack, truly earth-shaking through the ages!

"Heavens, this is a Great Emperor's single strike?"

If they were present, ten thousand of them, a hundred million of them, past or present, would all be instantly ground to dust, leaving nothing behind.

Ants gazing up at a True Dragon — that still fails to capture their insignificance; such a gap inspires despair, they are too far from a Great Emperor, yet now, separated by the Origin Heaven Array, they finally witnessed it.

And this seemed to be only the beginning.

The Wushi Great Emperor roared at the Cosmos, his Spirit, Energy, Mind still rising, several times more terrifying than at the start.

For within that Immortal Path Passage, an equally terrifying Immortal Light was blocking the way, trying to suppress the Wushi Great Emperor — this Immortal Dao power from another world!

In the end, all kinds of Great Dao laws surged tumultuously, even Chaos mist appeared, covering that entire Xing Kong,

"Why can we no longer see? A once-in-ten-thousand-ages opportunity, the only chance of this lifetime — do we not even have the qualification to catch a single glimpse?!" The voices of the various Great Saints trembled, regarding it as a lifelong regret.

However.

There were also powerful Quasi-Emperor Level experts who, sparing no cost, activated the Observe Heaven Divine Array with their own heart's blood, and ultimately caught a glimpse of that faint, indistinct light and shadow.

They saw that within the great shattered cracks of the ancient Void, there seemed to have appeared a Longevity Road.

And the Wushi Great Emperor, bleeding all over, advanced step by step, toward an unknown Immortal Domain world, stepping toward immortality!

Everyone was dumbstruck, like clay sculptures and wood carvings, shaken beyond words.

Does such an Immortal Path truly exist?!

And even one as strong as the Wushi Great Emperor actually suffered severe wounds; his snow-white clothes were stained with blood, blood also overflowed from the corner of his mouth, a kind of desolate heroism of a hero in twilight years mixed with domineering aura.

Yet even so, his steps remained firm, advancing step by step, opposing that Immortal Light which seemed to surpass Imperial Law.

People trembled and sighed, not knowing what bloody struggle he had endured, what price he had paid, to reach that step.

Suddenly.

"Pfft!"

The Wushi Great Emperor spat out a mouthful of Fresh Blood, so conspicuous, so tragically beautiful amid his snow-white hair, making everyone's hearts clench.

And his body swayed, nearly stumbling backward; bright red blood sprinkled on his White Clothes, blooming dot by dot, so eye-catching it made hearts tremble.

"The Wushi Great Emperor is wounded……"

Everyone who saw this scene was shaken incomparably.

People had not expected that even one as strong as the Wushi Great Emperor would be so heavily wounded, bleeding along the Immortal Path.

For the many cultivators of this era, this was almost an unimaginable thing.

In their view, a Great Emperor represented the Absolute Peak of the World, could suppress the azure heavens of ten thousand ages, was invincible in the World, uniquely supreme over the Nine Heavens Ten Earths, and would not suffer the slightest injury — even the most minor was impossible.

"I am ultimately old after all, no longer the flourishing state of those years……"

Someone seemed to have heard the Wushi Great Emperor's soft murmur, or perhaps it was merely some illusion.

But between Heaven and Earth, there indeed permeated an aura of Curtain Call — that was the Heaven's Heart Mark resonating.

Although he still had a Majestic Figure, his White Hair indeed danced, his eyes held the vicissitudes of ten thousand ages — this was already his twilight years.

However great an Existence, there comes a day of growing old; this is an unavoidable matter, even a Great Emperor cannot escape this Sadness.

This Moment.

All people watching this Xing Kong were tense, holding their breath.

Can the Wushi Great Emperor truly open the Immortal Path Passage, enter the Immortal Domain, create the miracle of Longevity?

Or, due to aging years, prime years gone, halt halfway?

Even within the Life Forbidden Zones, several Supremes had their pupils contract sharply; they too wanted to verify this Immortal Path through Wushi.

If he succeeds, perhaps certain ancient Existences would also directly Appear, following along to charge in, gambling for a lifetime's Immortal Fate!

However.

Suddenly, with a boom, that Immortal Path collapsed, a great destruction occurred.

The road ahead is severed!

Nothing remained, only boundless, limitless Nothingness — this is a Reality that inspires incomparable Despair.

Endless Chaos surged out, surging tumultuously, completely Covering that place, also submerging the Wushi Great Emperor — nothing could be seen anymore.

"I saw…… pity I am old, if only I could have come here earlier……"

From the depths of the Xing Hai came a desolate Dao Sound, somewhat indistinct and intermittent, but people recognized it — that was the Wushi Great Emperor's soft Sigh.

What did he see?

Including the Forbidden Zone Supremes, everyone in the Outside World felt their hearts clench, as if seized by a giant hand, extremely wanting to hear clearly, yet those words flashed and vanished.

This is absolutely a Ten Thousand Ages Great Secret!

Did the Wushi Great Emperor see an Immortal? An existence as Majestic as him fundamentally disdains lying — there must have been a Discovery.

Everyone's hearts pounded, yet they held their breath, staring unblinkingly through the Array at that scene.

The Next Moment, the Wushi Great Emperor staggered back, Emperor Blood scattered into the Void, retreating from that Chaos Waterfall.

Ultimately still defeated, unable to break through that Immortal Path!

And he was already heavily wounded.

The World fell completely silent, also sighs of grief, all regretting for the Wushi Great Emperor — if he had come here at his Blood Qi Peak, perhaps he truly would have become Immortal, creating a Ten Thousand Ages Myth!

And the next instant.

"Clang——"

The Wushi Bell rushed up in reverse, Bell Waves vast and mighty, wanting to charge the Immortal Path once more in place of its aging Owner.

"With my life, once more."

The Wushi Bell unwilling, emitted a mournful cry, fighting for its Owner; it exerted its utmost Brilliance, blasting out Imperial Dao Fluctuations, contending with that Chaos Immortal Waterfall within the Immortal Path, wanting to blast out a Passage.

Rumble— terrifying energy storms rose again, shaking the Heavens and Worlds.

However, the Ending was already destined.

With a bang, the Wushi Bell exploded, shattered into several fragments, the deity within nearly erased, Desperate beyond compare.

The Wushi Great Emperor coughed blood at the corner of his mouth, dripping onto his White Clothes.

He sighed alone in that void crack, slowly gathering the weapon fragments that had accompanied him in conquest for a lifetime, yet was already powerless to reforge them.

"This……"

In the outside world, everyone trembled and changed color.

Even the Wushi Bell was utterly destroyed; obviously the Wushi Great Emperor had reached the end of his road.

His originally majestic figure now tottered, his steps labored, about to fall on that road.

What kind of disappointment is this — even the Wushi Great Emperor, one of the strongest few from ancient times to now, domineering and peerless, could not become an Immortal!

The wait of ten thousand ages ultimately turned out empty.

This moment.

Who knows how many cultivators' hearts tightened, feeling a piercing pain of regret.

Even from the several great Life Forbidden Zones came sighs; even those who had some grudge against the Wushi Great Emperor could not help but clench their fists in anguish for him.

This is an empathy-born sorrow — how many Emperors and Sovereigns through ancient and modern times have fallen on the path pursuing Immortality.

……

Suddenly.

Right in this instant, a supreme aura erupted, soundless and breathless, yet sharp and unrivaled under heaven.

It was a five-colored heavenly saber; its blade coiled with incomparably brilliant Immortal Light, tyrannical over heaven and earth, wanting to cleave the Wushi Great Emperor into two halves!

This stunning saber strike transcended the world's understanding, peerless and irresistible, shaking the myriad heavens of ten thousand ages.

Even if generation after generation of Primordial Emperors and Great Emperors witnessed it here, they would tremble in shock — nearly connecting to the Immortal, impossible to contend against.

"Boom!"

White-haired and decrepit with age, the Wushi Great Emperor, though already heavily injured and his Emperor Weapon damaged, still in the split-second interval unleashed his Imperial Fist.

With a clang of explosive sound, the firmament shattered for it; surging energy storms swept the eight directions.

This collision was too violent; the Cosmos trembled, as if piercing through the Thirty-Three Heavens!

Though the Wushi Great Emperor had reached life's end, he still knocked that heavenly saber flying; the blade trembled violently, nearly shattering, while his own body swayed, showing signs of decline.

And following a slightly surprised "yi" sound.

The attacker also gradually manifested his form from the void; his Qi mechanism terrifying beyond compare, only coiled by infinite Divine Rules, his true appearance unclear.

"Who is that, to actually act against the Wushi Great Emperor at this kind of moment?"

"Five-Colored Immortal Saber, that is?! Heavens, impossible……"

In the outside world, everyone watching this starry sky was utterly terrified!

Many vaguely guessed the Owner's identity from that Immortal Saber, yet fundamentally dared not believe their own guess.

So many ten-thousands of years have passed; they dare not imagine that existence still lives in the world, but if not him, who could possess such mighty power?

"Worthy of being Wushi — failing to break into the Immortal Road, heavily injured, yet still having this kind of combat power, truly admirable; however today you still must die!"

A person descended, his whole body covered in dense long hair; Imperial Path aura permeated the starry sky — obviously a powerful Imperial Path Expert.

Immediately after, another descended, holy and pure beyond compare, as if formed from Divine Source, dazzlingly brilliant, equally terrifying in Qi mechanism.

(Chapter End)