Chapter 152

Sheng Ya Dao Chang.

In the Central Digong at the very center, Gu Xuan was undergoing a certain most mysterious Tu Po.

As the Dao Sacrifice Heavenly Art within his body operated to the Ji Qu, an Immortal Cocoon emitting crystalline white light appeared, holy and pure like Immortal Light, completely enveloping his entire Shen Ti.

Such a Scene bore some resemblance to Gu Xuan's Chaos Body Tu Po in his previous life.

But in fact.

The true Inner Self, however, was completely different.

For at this moment, everything about Gu Xuan became no longer visible; even Same Level experts arriving here would find it difficult to peer into the profound mysteries within the Immortal Cocoon.

And not only that.

As ancient Zen Chant rang out in this Central Digong, mixed with grand Sacrificial Sound, as if slicing through the Eternal of eternity, Misty and arriving!

Also like an immortal battle song, piercing the boundless void, Conquer the Heavens and Worlds.

Faintly, in the void True Dragons, Divine Phoenixes, Vermilion Birds and other Immortal Spirits Manifested, some coiling, some Dancing, all surrounding Gu Xuan, and there seemed to be many more spirits worshipping.

Of Course.

This was not some actual scene, but merely the resonance of Heaven and Earth's Great Dao, the Manifestation of Universe Rules.

But Undoubtedly, this was absolutely a Peerless wonder shaking the ages, and also an embodiment of a Heavenly Emperor Level Dao Sacrifice Heavenly Art profundity!

Finally.

The next moment, within the Immortal Cocoon, Gu Xuan's Rou Ti underwent a great upheaval.

Boom— a sound, apart from the Immortal Platform area, the rest of his Rou Ti all transformed into endless Light Rain.

That was endless Heavenly Emperor Level true blood, every drop bright red and dripping, crystalline and transparent, emitting a strange Qi mechanism.

And the next moment.

These hundreds of millions of blood rain pierced out from the Immortal Cocoon, Respectively sprinkling toward the Zhu Tian Wan Yu, three thousand Great Worlds.

Of Course.

The so-called "ten thousand" and "three thousand" were naturally figurative.

The Universe is too vast and boundless, Star Domains too numerous to imagine, various Life Source Stars, Ancient Lands or Chaos Secret Realms likewise too many to estimate, each a different World, all kinds of powerful races exist, and also Jin Ren.

Every drop of Gu Xuan's true blood was one of his avatars, also carrying a certain proportion of his Dao power.

Under some dark guidance, almost all went to Worlds where Jin Ren survive.

And the Dao power carried by each avatar, high or low, roughly matched the World it went to, not exceeding by too much.

Because strong as current Gu Xuan is, it is also absolutely impossible for his Dao power to be infinite; the Dao power allocated to each avatar is also limited.

In fact.

Relative to the Whole Great Universe's vast boundlessness, Gu Xuan's hundreds of millions of avatars are actually still too few.

Life Source Stars, like Ganges sands, countless.

His these avatars, compared to them, like some small gravel on an endless beach, able to change too little.

He After All still has far, far not reached the Immortal King realm, that realm where one consciousness equals a Great Universe.

Distance to that Legendary Immortal Emperor realm is even more infinitely far; that realm, a drop of blood can pierce through ten thousand ages, a strand of gaze can slice through Eternal!

Even, like Huang Tian Di's Ta Zi Zi Zai Da Fa, body transforming into hundreds of millions of blood rain, endless time-space, infinite years, including within the Wu Jin Shi Guang Hai as well as Wu Liang Yu Zhou Hai, Huang Tian Di's Great Dao brilliant figures can all manifest, and each avatar is no different from the True Body.

Gu Xuan's distance from these is still infinitely far, still on the Red Dust Immortal Road.

But this is already Gu Xuan's current limit.

Body transforming into ten thousand!

With ten thousand avatars, simultaneously going to ten thousand Great Worlds, one World after another experiencing trials, experiencing hundreds to tens of thousands of Shi, tempering heart and Dao in the River of Time, ultimately transcending above Red Dust.

This is Gu Xuan's Nirvana method this life!

Not the same as the "Great Dream Ten Thousand Ages" method, yet also has reference, to a Certain Extent, some slight similar places.

……

Zhong Tu Gu Xing.

This is a not large Life Source Star, its size, about the same as the Honghuang Ancient Star within the Seal.

Jin Ren survive here, also other races, a relatively common star in the Whole Great Universe.

This day.

A drop of true blood came from the Star Depths, crystalline and transparent, yet like dream like illusion, as if somewhat unreal.

As if sensing the Jin Ren's unique Qi and Blood on this Ancient Star, this drop of true blood as if receiving some mysterious guidance, or like magnetic attraction, headed straight for the Ancient Star, speed reaching the extreme!

On the Ground.

A troop disaster had already ended, or directly speaking, a Shao Sha Lue Duo.

Smoke just dissipated, countless Ancient Buildings collapsed, many still burning with flames.

An originally should-be magnificent temple, Obviously having undergone a troop disaster, burned and destroyed more than half, only a half-destroyed plaque remaining, on it seemingly written "Lanke Si".

Even more shocking, in the temple everywhere visible twisted, charred black Rou Ti, most looking like women.

In the air wafted the Kou Wei of burning flesh, somewhat thick, making one want to vomit upon smelling.

Long afterwards.

From the Huang Yuan, Fei Xu, only then did people gradually crawl out, expressions wooden, Respectively searching for edible things.

Obviously.

Such Matters, while making survivors feel endless Bei Shui, also as if long accustomed to such Matters occurring, somewhat taking them for granted.

Since the Jin Ren Great Zhou Dynasty Decline, such Matters have already occurred many times……

That drop of true blood flew past from high altitude, Perceiving This Scene.

His arrival, Obviously somewhat late, Otherwise perhaps could have done something for this troop disaster that was tragic to the extreme.

And not only that.

As if watching some high-definition 3D movie, this drop of true blood also "saw" many other things happening on this land.

The nobles in the capital, the starving people in the wilderness, the cruel and brutal alien race armies, the Quanrong Tribe tribes ravaging the Western Region frontier...

Finally.

This drop of blood flew to the skies above the Great Zhou Dynasty's central imperial palace, and then descended.

And the people on the land, not a single one could perceive it.

The next moment.

Gu Xuan, or rather, one of Gu Xuan's myriad avatars, opened his eyes.

What met his gaze was a typical royal bedchamber.

Gold bricks paved the floor, jade steps reached the heavens, carved beams and painted phoenixes, between the vermilion-lacquered corridor pillars, palace maids stood with heads bowed in attendance, glazed lamps reflected off dragon-patterned screens.

At the distant city walls and palace gates, Golden Armor guards stood solemnly holding halberds.

As for Gu Xuan himself, he could see his image from the slightly reflective bronze walls at his side.

It was a young emperor, wearing a Purple Gold Crown, draped in a golden dragon robe, looking quite Martial.

Only from his facial features, he appeared slightly pale, seemingly long-term somewhat depressed, or perhaps it was because he had used wine and lust to numb himself for many years, leading to this.

It was actually such a life!

Gu Xuan sighed lightly.

Obviously, under the Main Consciousness's unseen urging, this avatar of his had already replaced this generation's Zhou King, becoming the supreme ruler of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Of course, this so-called supreme ruler was naturally Nominal.

Therefore now, the entire dynasty's true power had long been grasped by the Sima Family headed by the powerful minister Sima Shang.

And not only that.

In Gu Xuan's sea of consciousness, like scenes of a 3D movie, or like a flood of information, flashed various information about this land, the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even this Zhou King, including ancient history and the present.

The Great Zhou Dynasty was the only dynasty on this land established by the Jin Ren.

Beyond the territory were all alien races, including the Quanrong Tribe in the west, the Jie Tribe in the north, and the Huang Clan in the southern deserts, etc.

It is said beyond the Eastern Sea there is another vast continent, also with clans or nations there, but it is relatively far, and exchanges between them are not many.

Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty to now, there have been over three thousand years; its founder — the Da Zhou Gaozu was not only an emperor of great talent and vision, but also a legendary Jin Ren powerhouse.

He started from nothing, campaigned east and west, Sweep All, defeating many ferocious and brutal alien races, forcibly establishing the Great Zhou Dynasty, the most powerful empire on this land in thousands of years, and also the Jin Ren's territory and refuge.

However.

Even someone as strong as the Da Zhou Gaozu, walking to the Jue Feng with the Great Zhou God King Art, was merely a warrior roughly capable of matching a thousand men.

Only because, this is an End of Dharma World where the Great Dao is Suppressed, isolated from Spiritual Qi by layers of Chaos, all kinds of Great Dao do not manifest, as if cursed by some kind of curse.

But as for the true specific reasons, they have long been unknown to people.

Perhaps in distant ancient history, there once appeared terrifying powerhouses who could fly and escape underground, but that has long degenerated into myths and legends, and even the people on this Xing cannot tell if they truly existed.

The Da Zhou Gaozu died at around two hundred years old, passing the throne to his great-grandson, who was also a martial dao powerhouse who had cultivated the Great Zhou God King Art to completion.

From then on, one generation passed to the next, down to the Zhou King of this generation whom Gu Xuan replaced, it was already the forty-ninth generation Zhou King.

Only pity, by now, the entire dynasty's power, most of it had already fallen into the hands of the Sima Family headed by the powerful minister Sima Shang; the Zhou King was merely a Mu Ou.

One could even say, a Mu Ou living on borrowed time!

Internally, the Sima Family watched with tiger-like greed; the world all said, Sima Shang's ambition, everyone knows.

Externally, various alien races harassed, including the Quanrong Tribe in the west, the Jie Tribe in the north, and the Huang Clan in the southern deserts, etc.; they continuously Lue Duo the Jin Ren commoners, the frontiers and even parts of the interior filled with Xue Feng Xue Yu, countless blood and bones.

And the aristocratic clans represented by the Sima Family, more often took their own interests as paramount, mostly adopting Su Jing towards the frontier alien races.

This was very easy to understand for them.

Relative to certain major matters, those so-called calamities on the frontier were merely ringworm and scabies, far from being important.

Even worse.

These past few years, rumors had long spread in the capital, proclaiming "Dao Wu Shi, Tian Yan forty-nine, Escape one, leave a line of Life Force, is the Variable!"

The meaning was very obvious: the Zhou King had passed down to the current forty-ninth generation emperor; it was time for a dynastic change, to leave a line of Life Force for this Tian Xia!

Some also said, this was merely rhetoric deliberately fabricated by the Sima Family, the purpose being to usurp the throne.

Only, the Great Zhou Dynasty had stood for thousands of years; no matter what, the royal family still retained some residual prestige in the hearts of many citizens.

This was also why, even though these generations of Zhou Kings were weak, the Sima Family still feared public opinion, not daring to act too openly and directly usurp the throne and ascend.

And this generation's Zhou King also lacked his ancestors' Martial prowess; his cultivation of the Great Zhou God King Art could only be described as mediocre, not worth mentioning as cultivation at all.

In fact.

Not only him; for thousands of years, as the End of Dharma Era intensified, it was very difficult for true martial dao powerhouses to appear on the entire land; thousand-man enemies like the Da Zhou Gaozu already existed only in legends.

The current Zhou King perhaps had also long seen this clearly, plus he had no great talent or vision, a comeback was almost impossible, so he early on chose to lie flat.

Perhaps he once had unwillingness, perhaps he once had thoughts of struggle; occasionally looking at the Shang Shu, at the miserable state of the frontier people, he also felt heartache.

But finally, he still chose to give up, chose to numb himself.

Adhering to the life principle of muddling through, he lived one day and enjoyed one day; all day long fine wine and beauties, drunk on life and dreaming of death.

Until the arrival of this drop of Gu Xuan's true blood, or rather, an avatar.

Along with it came a wisp of Gu Xuan's Main Consciousness's will, directly erasing this generation's Zhou King; then that drop of true blood, under the activation of the Character Secret, Hua Xue Zai Sheng, replaced the Zhou King.

This process, perhaps somewhat cruel.

But facts are facts, and those frontier people slaughtered by alien races had even more tragic fates.

As for the Bing Zai Gu Xuan saw when arriving at this Ancient Star, they were actually also related to the Sima Family and alien race invasions.

The Quanrong Tribe invaded from the west, charging straight in, Sweep All, almost reaching the vicinity of the Great Zhou capital.

At the critical moment, Grand General Sima Shang and others urgently contacted the Jie Tribe who were originally vassals of the Great Zhou Dynasty, requesting them to send troops for support.

Due to years of continuous warfare, national power was hollowed out, and coupled with the Jie Tribe's constant coercion and inducement, the court agreed to the Jie Tribe's request.

That was, after repelling the Quanrong Tribe, to let the Jie Tribe plunder Luocheng, which was known as Xijing.

Such a decision naturally sparked opposition during the internal secret court deliberation, with Qing Liu Dai Chen representatives vehemently opposing it.

However, Grand General Sima Shang had always been cold and ruthless in character; his word was law within the court, and with a few words he cowed those two or three Qing Liu Dai Chen ministers.

"If our Great Zhou does not borrow troops from the Jie Tribe, then the Jie Tribe has only three possibilities."

"The first is to actively send troops to attack the Quanrong Tribe, or to remain neutral."

"The second is to take advantage of the chaos to loot; even if they cannot seize territory, they will still plunder the dynasty's north."

"The third is to ally with the Quanrong Tribe and together deal with Great Zhou."

"Which one do you think is most likely? In any case, I think the first is unlikely; since that is so, we must choose the lesser of two evils!"

"We can only make the people of Luocheng suffer; the infamy we will bear ourselves. And with the Jie Tribe standing on our Great Zhou's side, it is also a boost to Great Zhou's military morale, while dealing a blow to the Quanrong Tribe. They will consume each other's strength, which also benefits Great Zhou's future."

"And if the Jie Tribe fights a few battles with the Quanrong Tribe, taking on the hatred, it will block their path of retreat from allying together to deal with Great Zhou."

This was, at that time, the opinion of Grand General Sima Shang — tall and sturdy in build, with a cold aura — during the internal secret court deliberation.

Of Course, these words were unlikely to Spread to the Outside World.

"Can't we substitute with wealth and goods instead?" a Qing Liu Dai Chen minister proposed, his face ashen.

This was naturally refused on the spot by the Ministry of Revenue minister: "The court's royal army already has insufficient supplies; where would there be any surplus wealth and goods to supply to the Jie Tribe?"

At this point, this resolution was finally approved, in the name of This Generation's Zhou King, agreeing to the Jie Tribe's request.

In the end, after the Quanrong Rebellion was repelled, the Jie Tribe began a three-day spree of Shao Sha Yin Lue in Luocheng.

Many young women fled to the high towers and pavilions of Lanke Si, Sheng Shan Si, and other temples outside the city to hide; the Jie Tribe set fire to the temples, and the great fire did not go out for over ten days, with the death toll from the fire alone reaching Tens of Thousands.

This Is one of the scenes of military disaster that Gu Xuan's drop of blood sensed.

(Chapter End)