Chapter 75

Immortal Ground.

Gu Xuan and Void lingered here for a month, deeply studying formations and perfecting their own Array Dao cultivation.

And they seriously supplemented it, re-arranging the layout of this place, making it even harder for the outside world to break in.

This granted the formation true life, equivalent to Gu Xuan being personally present here; as long as he does not die, unless one can defeat him in battle, the formation fundamentally cannot be broken open.

Void's Emperor Dao mark was also added, for convenience of future needs.

Finally.

After the two discussed, they set up Peerless Formation Patterns, causing this piece of immortal ground to hide away, as if it had vanished from the world.

Of course, this immortal ground contains the Ruthless Great Emperor's mark; these concealment formation patterns are naturally ineffective against her.

Afterwards, the two stood up and left this place.

……

Ziwei Star Domain.

Two Golden Light Avenues extended over, precisely Gu Xuan and Void.

This time they did not conceal Heavenly Secrets, but did so naturally.

Because this trip no longer involved any great secrets.

Throughout the entire Ziwei Star Domain, numerous lineages and Great Teachings trembled, sensing these two supremely vast Zhizun Boji.

In the starry sky.

There were also many forces crossing the void, with numerous artifacts.

Among them were no lack of old sages, even Great Sage-level figures.

Judging by the situation, they had completely confirmed the Dark Turmoil had been pacified, hence returning to the Zujing from secret realms outside the domain.

Upon seeing these two Golden Light Avenues spanning the universe, these cultivators nearly boiled over.

And this time, it was different from lecturing the Dao.

Whether it was Gu Xuan or Void, during their past lectures they had deliberately restrained their Qi.

But this time, these cultivators personally experienced the World Shocking Power of Emperor-level Experts.

Amidst the boundless Xing Hai.

Two towering figures stood Peerless and erect, truly looking down upon Heaven and Earth, Qi swallowing mountains and rivers, gazes capable of shattering spacetime, unique and supreme across ten thousand ages!

Shocking the world, the Heavens and Worlds all trembled, all living beings' souls resonated, the star-filled sky seemed about to fall rustling down.

Absolutely not comparable to so-called Quasi-Emperors in the slightest; that was a transcendent aura, possessing an invincible posture throughout ancient and modern times.

This moment.

All Saints knelt prostrate; this was an irresistible majestic aura, like ants facing the bright moon, facing gods, there was an innate reverence.

"Thank you, Void Great Emperor and Great Accomplishment Holy Body, for pacifying the Dark Turmoil and saving our lives!"

In the distant starry sky, an old sage excitedly shed tears, pulling his young grandsons and granddaughters to repeatedly kowtow in gratitude.

There were also Great Sage-level figures with white hair, who while kowtowing, had hearts surging, emotions like surging terrifying waves, unable to calm down.

In former years.

He was still a young junior cultivator then, once brought by a Supreme Elder as a sect Heaven's Pride to Beidou Star to pay respects to the aging Holy Cliff Holy Body Gu Xuan.

Thousands of years have passed; he is now decrepit with age, an Old Fossil-level figure of the sect, an existence of Foundation.

And at this moment, in the instant he raised his eyes to look over.

He faintly saw Gu Xuan's face; although Chaos Qi swirled around, he exhausted his Heavenly Eye to open, almost splitting his eye sockets, finally glimpsing Gu Xuan clearly for an instant.

It was a man like a god, heroic and towering, black hair scattered, terrifyingly young, pupils that could see through everything!

He actually truly Lived Out the next life!

Although he had long known Gu Xuan Returned Against Heaven, when truly witnessing this scene, this old Great Sage was still shaken.

Because as the sect's Old Fossil, he also knew many great secrets.

Including that the Great Accomplishment Holy Body, after pacifying a certain Forbidden Zone turmoil in the past, took the Liu Shen Shen Yao, only to heal injuries.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, the Holy Body should be almost impossible to Live Out another life.

But the fact lay before his eyes; he broke convention, Reincarnated and returned!

Throughout ten thousand ages, even those as strong as Heavenly Venerates and Ancient Emperors, how few have achieved this?

Truly an unfathomable supreme existence!

This old Great Sage sighed with myriad emotions in his heart.

"Everyone need not be like this, please rise."

This time it was Void who spoke, appeasing the many cultivators in the starry sky.

He was usually taciturn and spoke little, but he regarded Gu Xuan as a senior, therefore taking the initiative to handle these trivial matters at this moment.

Next moment.

The Golden Light Avenue extended, the two arrived above Ziwei Ancient Star.

As an extremely powerful Divine Sense spread out.

An ancient stone pagoda rapidly Recovered from the depths of the Sun Divine Sect, shocking the people on the ancient star, yet they also roughly knew the reason.

The next instant, the stone pagoda appeared before Gu Xuan and Void.

Sun Stone Pagoda!

The Taiyang Sheng Huang's Ji Zhi Emperor Weapon!

The moment facing Gu Xuan.

The stone pagoda trembled violently, seemingly whimpering, yet also seemingly unable to contain its excitement.

Obviously.

Even after thousands of years had passed, it still could not forget the life-and-death great battle of the past.

It also still could not forget that, at the moment before Gu Xuan's self-destruction, he pushed it away.

"Go guard the Holy Emperor's Dao lineage..."

This was the last wisp of divine sense that Gu Xuan left for it that day.

The stone pagoda also possessed a spirit; the deity within it could be regarded as the continuation of the Sun Holy Emperor's life, inheriting the Holy Emperor's great benevolence and great courage.

As a human race Great Accomplishment Holy Body, Gu Xuan protected the Human Realm for an era; his deeds were almost identical to those of the Sun Holy Emperor back then.

For Gu Xuan's passing, the deity also grieved silently for thousands of years.

Now being able to meet again, its excitement was such that it could not control itself.

"Paying respects to the Great Accomplishment Holy Body, paying respects to the Void Great Emperor!"

On the stone pagoda's surface emerged a figure — an old man clad in a cyan robe — who cupped his hands in salute.

Tall and slender in build, gaunt in appearance; though he looked like an ordinary old cultivator, he possessed an aura that could sweep across the three thousand worlds and remain undying through ten thousand ages.

It was precisely the Sun Stone Pagoda's deity.

"To witness the Holy Body's return — utmost gratification!"

Ordinarily, he appeared to have Dao bones and immortal bearing, without a trace of mortal air, giving a very natural, heaven-formed feeling.

Yet at this moment, he rarely revealed an excited demeanor, moved and joyful to the extreme.

"No need for excessive courtesy; I came to see an old friend."

Gu Xuan smiled, and simultaneously extended his hand to support the void; a strand of invisible force lifted up the stone pagoda's deity.

In a certain sense, the Sun Stone Pagoda was also Gu Xuan's comrade who shared life and death, just like the Void.

"The Holy Body and the Great Emperor pacified the Dark Turmoil, protected all living beings — merit vast and supreme!"

The stone pagoda's deity saluted once more, full of remembrance.

As an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon, although it did not participate in this God War, it similarly learned many of the details within.

That battle.

The Forbidden Zone's Four Great Supremes all emerged, and there was also the Peerless Killing Array formed by the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerate's Zhu Xian Killing Sword.

This was a terrifying scene that even the Sun Holy Emperor of that year had never encountered.

Originally it had already despaired, and had made preparations to perish.

Because at that time, not only were the Reincarnation Sea's two Supremes unopposed, other Supremes were also restless.

It believed that at that time the Sun Divine Sect would very likely be found by the Forbidden Zone Supremes and slaughtered on a large scale.

And itself also had a very high probability of not surviving.

Fortunately, this turmoil was ultimately still pacified, dissolving a human-world calamity.

At this time.

Gu Xuan drew forth from within his body a miraculous flame — precisely Immortal Fire.

In the past, Gu Xuan risked danger to obtain this fire from the Ten-Layer Fire Domain; later he placed it inside the stone pagoda to assist its repair.

Later still, the stone pagoda gifted the Immortal Fire to the Void, hoping to lend a helping hand.

After thousands of years of twists and turns, it ultimately returned to Gu Xuan here.

Counting carefully, although Gu Xuan had only just returned from Nirvana not long ago, the treasures on his person were not few.

Regarding Undying Divine Medicines, he had the Fusang Divine Tree and the White Tiger Undying Medicine.

Regarding divine weapons and rare materials, there was the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerate's Killing Sword and Immortal Fire.

Additionally, there were four different kinds of Immortal Gold materials, respectively: Feathering Green Gold, Dragon-Pattern Black Gold, Divine Mark Purple Gold, and Immortal Tears Green Gold.

These were "sponsored" by the Four Great Supremes during the Dark Turmoil.

After that day's God War curtain call.

The Four Great Supremes' weapon remnants, though not many, still had some.

Together with the Immortal Fire, all were taken out by the Void, to be given to Gu Xuan.

But Gu Xuan originally refused.

The battle was fought by the two people together; how could all the spoils belong to him alone?

But the Void insisted resolutely, and gave a very sufficient reason, saying these could serve as materials for the senior to forge a Supreme Weapon.

Gu Xuan originally had a Supreme Weapon — a set of Holy Body Battle Armor.

However, in his previous life's twilight years, during a great battle to pacify turmoil, the Holy Body Battle Armor was almost completely destroyed; afterwards he also had no leisure to reforge it.

The current him could be said to have no weapon of his own.

And the Void insisted repeatedly, and his meaning was very obvious: the two were truly comrades, could be said to be one body, and naturally should share what they have.

In the end, Gu Xuan still accepted the Immortal Fire and these four kinds of Immortal Gold.

The Void still felt some guilt.

He said, if he had known the senior would return, he would not have integrated all the remaining Phoenix Blood Red Gold and Eternal Blue Gold left after the Undying Daoist and Ice Emperor's deaths into the Void Mirror.

"No need for this; these are all what you deserve, and that day I myself had no certainty of definitely succeeding in Nirvana."

Gu Xuan comforted him.

Regardless, the current Gu Xuan was not far from reforging a weapon of his own.

And in his heart he had a certain preconception.

At this moment.

Gu Xuan drew forth Immortal Fire from within his body to help the Sun Stone Pagoda refine and advance, letting it progress a step further.

And the Void naturally also assisted from the side.

Before that, Gu Xuan already knew that the Void Tower had recovered from its injuries.

Doing it this time could be considered a reunion of comrades; it was his meeting gift to the Tower.

After this matter was concluded.

The two stood up, intending to depart.

The Sun Stone Pagoda trembled, and through his divine sense came a feeling of reluctance and attachment.

Gu Xuan stopped his steps, quietly gazing at this somewhat unusual Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon, his gaze warm.

"Within the universe there is a bosom friend; though distant, we are as neighbors."

Finally, he left these words behind.

And the Stone Tower finally let go, returning to the Sun Divine Sect.

……

Beidou Star.

Eastern Wasteland, Holy Cliff.

This was the final stop of Gu Xuan and the Void's patrol of various places in the universe.

Two Golden Light Avenues crossed the Endless Star Domain in an instant, landing upon the Dao Platform.

"You went to the trouble……"

Gu Xuan looked at the cenotaph the Void had erected for him, sighing emotionally.

Having reached his realm, he could already communicate with the universe's Great Dao and instantly know many things.

At this moment, the scene of those years faintly appeared before his eyes.

The Void disregarded his injuries from the Imperial Tribulation and the great war, struck up to the Nine Heavens, probed down to the Nine Serenities, finally found a small section of his Dao Bone, and then carefully put it away.

After stabilizing his realm, he did not return to the Eastern Wasteland ancestral land.

Instead, he came to the Holy Cliff at the first opportunity.

Here, the Void carefully took out that small section of Dao Bone and erected a cenotaph for him.

At the moment the coffin was laid, a surge of desolation and domineering aura instantly swept across the Eight Wastes of the Universe!

This was the natural manifestation of the Void's state of mind as a Current Era Great Emperor.

And Gu Xuan also felt this, and was moved by it.

And the Void sat alone on the Dao Platform, mourning in solitude, silently speechless; that indescribable sorrow was also perceived by Gu Xuan.

To gain one bosom friend in life is enough; in this world, we should cherish each other.

This was Gu Xuan's true feeling in his heart at this moment.

And then he also noticed the old Sage of the Qingyun Sect guarding the tomb for him outside the Holy Cliff.

The next moment.

An invisible ripple passed over, and the old Sage's whole body was rejuvenated.

Not only were his chronic ailments completely gone, but his lifespan and aptitude also increased by a great deal, equivalent to washing the marrow and transforming the bones, a grace of rebirth.

His grandchildren and granddaughters who were with him were the same, their body constitutions greatly improved.

On the day of the God War, they hid in the Holy Cliff Dao Chang, protected by the array patterns within, and escaped the shockwave aftermath of the Supreme Great War; otherwise they would undoubtedly have died.

The excited old Sage led his children and grandchildren in repeated kowtows, thanking them in every way.

……

After concluding this patrol.

Gu Xuan set foot in the Qingyun Holy Land, looking at the sect he came from.

And the Void returned to the Ji Family.

In these days since, in the Heavens and Worlds, all powerful clans came to pay pilgrimage, bowing in thanks to the unparalleled Holy Body and Great Emperor, the shouts of acclamation never ceasing.

To pay pilgrimage to the Void, naturally they came to the Eastern Desolation Ji Family.

And to pay pilgrimage to Gu Xuan, some went to the Holy Cliff, and a small portion went to the Qingyun Holy Land.

This grand scene lasted for several months before gradually calming down.

The Void did not appear; these matters were naturally handled by people specially assigned by the Ji Family for reception.

In the thousands of years since proving the Dao, he actually had not accompanied his family much.

Most of the time, he was either comprehending the Dao and cultivating, or guarding the Dao Chang near the Forbidden Zone.

As a Current Era Great Emperor, he shouldered too much, with little leftover for his own kin.

Especially his wife.

Back then, when the Void was still a cultivator whose realm was not too high, she had already traveled with him.

She had once blocked enemies for him, and once suffered heavy injuries for him, and the Void was the same.

It could be said they had experienced life-and-death trials together, and later became husband and wife.

However.

Not long after, the Void gradually became a thorn in the side of the Forbidden Zone children, and eventually was targeted by Supremes, who directly acted to obliterate him.

Therefore, the Void had always been bitterly cultivating outside, fearing to implicate her and his relatives.

That was a period of wandering between life and death; the couple spent little time together, rarely even meeting.

And even after he proved the Dao and became an Emperor, though the situation improved somewhat, in fact it did not change much.

Because the situation back then was truly too perilous, too cruel!

When he suppressed the several great Life Forbidden Zones, there were several times when he succeeded only at the risk of his life.

And over these years, his wife had always worried for him and missed him, but never dragged him down.

But the Void also discovered that his peerless wife's green silk had added a few strands of white hair.

She clearly possessed extremely high cultivation and was in her prime, so this phenomenon should not have occurred.

The sole reason was worry for him.

The Void was a man of few words, but deep down he valued loyalty and affection greatly.

He could face all living beings of the universe with a clear conscience, yet always felt guilty toward his wife and family.

"Void, you are the Human Race Great Emperor, protecting all living beings; I am proud of you, no need for guilt."

These were the words his wife spoke before he set out to suppress the anomaly at Busianshan.

The situation was extremely perilous then, for several Supremes were clearly restless within the Busianshan Forbidden Zone.

Even as a Current Era Great Emperor, he could still encounter misfortune.

At the moment of parting, everything went unspoken; all guilt and reluctance lay in his silent gaze.

And his wife, suppressing the pain of parting, spoke the words above.

Now.

The situation finally improved, and Void could finally make some amends to his family.

(Chapter End)