Chapter 85

Amidst the desperate Supreme Blood and Bone.

Gu Xuan sat cross-legged in the starry sky, his aura somewhat withered.

His whole body was covered in blood, he coughed up large mouthfuls of blood, and on his back there was an even more terrifying wound, white bones starkly visible, even exposing his internal organs.

Among them were the Ancient Royal Way Laws that the Cang Xu Supreme madly poured out before death, eroding flesh and blood, spreading and cutting, as if possessing an obsession of life-and-death struggle.

Such a Great Accomplishment Holy Body appeared weak to the extreme.

And the Void Great Emperor was not much better off.

For he was indeed already old beyond measure, his Qi and Blood withered to a certain degree, and having experienced a life-and-death great battle with an Ascended Ancient Emperor, he further exhausted his already scant life essence.

And the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor's all-out eruption also injured him, several blood holes appearing around his body, terrifying beyond compare.

The Outside World.

Many ancient forces probed with their Sect Supreme Treasures, capturing this scene through the still somewhat violent Great Dao Laws.

There were even Quasi-Emperor level cultivators who faintly glimpsed a strand of light and shadow of the Great Accomplishment Holy Body bathing in Supreme Blood, soaring into the sky.

Everyone felt that desperate aura — those were the corpses and bones of three Emperor-level experts!

Each one, to them, was a supreme and unreachable existence, like ants facing a heavenly dragon, yet now three had died at once!

Finally.

People saw in the battlefield Gu Xuan and Void, white-haired like snow, aged and declining.

The two Supremes of the current era both appeared heavily injured, weak beyond measure!

This involuntarily made everyone's hearts tremble, a kind of inexplicable fear, worrying about the occurrence of some strange calamity.

If at this critical moment there were still Forbidden Zone Supremes acting, taking advantage of illness to take lives, could the Great Accomplishment Holy Body and the Void Great Emperor block it?

This is also why, even though the blood battle had clearly ended, everyone was very restrained and did not show cheers.

After a long time.

Gu Xuan finished healing his injuries and stood up.

He glanced toward the Beidou Star Domain direction, and ultimately no Supreme took the opportunity to act again.

And that mysterious Divine Sense peeping in the dark also ultimately retreated, its Owner did not reveal himself.

In fact.

He was indeed injured, but not that severely.

The so-called desperate wounds, withered aura, were mainly to see if there was still anyone who could not hold back from acting.

As for that person peeping in the dark, Gu Xuan actually only vaguely sensed a trace, extremely subtle.

Because the other party's strength should also be completely not inferior to him, and extremely skilled at concealment and lurking.

If not for Gu Xuan having reached his current realm, and being a Transmigrator, knowing many past, present, and future situations, perhaps he would not have cared about or perceived that person's peeping, only treating it as an ordinary Forbidden Zone Supreme.

But ultimately, the anticipated sneak attack did not arrive.

After all, there are two Current Era Supremes suppressing the world!

With the three Forbidden Zone Supremes who just perished as a warning, no one is willing to take this risk again.

In the heavens and universe, tranquility returned once more.

That atmosphere of treacherous clouds and deceitful mists disappeared.

On the other side, Void had also finished healing his injuries.

With his aged body, he battled the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor, and was also injured, coming from the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor's deathbed counterattack.

And Void was unwilling to use too much of the Longevity Immortal Essence within his body, that was what he had accumulated with utmost hardship, otherwise he would not have been injured to such an extent.

He had no time to clean up the battlefield, and in a flash arrived at Gu Xuan's side, his eyes revealing a look of concern and worry.

Not having met for over a thousand years, during which they almost rarely even communicated via Divine Sense, all to avoid startling the snake!

Now meeting again, Void had already reached the end of his Second Life, old beyond further aging, and had also experienced an extremely fierce Supreme-level clash.

"I am fine, no need to worry." Gu Xuan smiled in response, comforting this confidant comrade of his.

He circulated a secret art, Infinite Divine Principles shining around his body, the terrifying wound on his back had long since healed, his precious body returned to crystalline flawlessness.

Only his complexion was slightly pale, obviously this battle still consumed a portion of his Qi and Blood Origin.

But this cannot be resolved by healing in a short time, it can only be left for future recovery.

And he also saw that Void, white-haired like snow, his body's essence blood was about to be exhausted, indeed already at the edge of imminent Nirvana.

One can only say, the timing those three Cang Xu Supremes sought was indeed precise without doubt!

Because they were all former Provers of the Dao, naturally possessing supreme Dao arts for deducing Heavenly Secrets, painstakingly deducing Void's true twilight years!

If not for Gu Xuan's advance planning.

This battle, the aged Void facing three alone, the outcome would truly be difficult to predict!

Not to mention whether he could win or draw, at least he could not retain any Longevity Immortal Essence.

In that case, Void would most likely be unable to Nirvana into the next life, and would just sit and pass away!

Thinking back now.

Suppose Gu Xuan had not come, and things developed according to the original trajectory.

Before the Void Great Emperor was about to pass away, in the eternally cold and lonely Universe, the two Peerless Great Enemies he would face were the Cang Xu Supreme and the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor from the Busianshan Forbidden Zone.

"Void, you fought a lifetime, at death you still dragged us down, though hateful, also worthy of respect..."

"Calculating we would come, feigning death in a coffin, though aged and declining, in the end you still set up a scheme to take us down, unwilling..."

That Eternal Blue Gold Imperial Soldier shattered into dozens of pieces was the Cang Xu Supreme's Ultimate Ancient Knife.

No wonder the Stone Emperor hates Void so much, even in the original historical trajectory, Void relying on himself alone also killed three to four Supreme Supremes of Busianshan...

And now.

After Gu Xuan's arrival, the losses of the Busianshan Forbidden Zone are even more tragic.

Including the earliest Ice Emperor, a full five Supremes have already fallen, and Busianshan's vitality is severely damaged!

Perhaps at this moment, the Stone Emperor and the other Busianshan Supremes are already gritting their teeth in their hearts, filled with incomparable hatred.

But Gu Xuan and Void completely have no mind to spare for these anymore.

They have long been enemies, not friends; it is a life-and-death relationship, there is nothing to be concerned about.

Star Sky Battlefield outskirts.

Several cultivators bold to the extreme, of Saint realm and above, have come, standing in an extremely distant place watching, trembling with fear, yet their hearts filled with reverence and dread.

A strand of Supreme Blood Qi's aura overflowed, striking a venerable Teng Snake Great Saint at an endless distance into powder, turning to ashes.

The rest standing even farther away also coughed up blood in large mouthfuls, their bodies cracking, fleeing at extreme speed.

Too terrifying!

This is merely a strand of residual might from one hundred-millionth of a dead Supreme, yet across such a vast distance it exterminated a Great Saint.

One can see what terrifying existences the victorious Great Accomplishment Holy Body and Void Great Emperor are in the battlefield!

Of course, one can only blame this Teng Snake Great Saint for having a death wish.

In past times, he acted arrogantly and domineeringly, committing many evils; now with little lifespan left, he thought to take advantage of the chaos to seize a drop of Supreme Blood to help himself shed his mortal body and exchange his bones, or extend his life by some years.

Of course, he must have known he had to take great risks, so he spared no expense, asking his own Teng Snake Ancestor Quasi-Emperor to refine a Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact.

However it was of no use whatsoever; including himself and the Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact, everything turned to dust, nothing was left behind!

And having reached Gu Xuan and Void's current realm, communicating with the Heavenly Heart Great Dao, in an instant they knew the general past of the elderly Teng Snake Great Saint, and simply did not bother with it.

Gu Xuan silently watched all this before him, then reached out his hand to grasp at this stretch of starry sky.

The residual Supreme Blood Qi was all gathered by him, taken into the Chaos Square Vessel, forming two Blood Pills.

And there were also not a few Eternal Blue Gold and Dao Tribulation Yellow Gold fragments; those were left by the Cang Xu Supreme and Lei Huang's Extreme Dao Imperial Weapons, more than half were destroyed, beaten into scrap copper and rotten iron, losing their original divinity.

But there were still a few usable pieces, and they were also collected by Gu Xuan.

And on the other side.

Void also gathered the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor's residual Qi and Blood; his Phoenix Blood Red Gold ancient cauldron was likewise shattered, leaving less than one-fifth of Divine Gold usable.

The battle was so desperate, it made the two of them somewhat silent.

But ultimately it was still they who won, suppressing an extremely possible cruel Dark Turmoil!

At this moment, the universe finally quieted down.

All the Supreme Races, all the ancient great powers confirmed: the Life Forbidden Zones would no longer have Supremes appearing, at least not within this visible stretch of time.

"Unimaginable, the Holy Body reappears, and with the Void Great Emperor defeated the Forbidden Zone Supremes!"

"Is this true? The Great Accomplishment Holy Body Senior is over twenty thousand years old this life, yet still manifests in the world?"

Cultivators of minor powers dare not believe all this, as if a myth.

But the news quickly spread, verifying this fact.

Countless people cheered, rejoicing that the Dark Turmoil did not occur, excited that they survived.

Unknown how many knelt prostrate, facing the sky's direction with the grandest salute, grateful for the supreme merit the Great Accomplishment Holy Body and Void Great Emperor did for all living beings.

Many elderly cultivators had tears streaming down their faces, hearts filled with myriad emotions!

In the recent tens of thousands of years, the Beidou Star's several great Life Forbidden Zones have stirred frequently; just the Forbidden Zone Supremes emerging together has happened no less than three or four times!

This is also because the situation reached this step; the ancient existences within have already endured in silence for too long.

If not for the Great Accomplishment Holy Body and Void Great Emperor suppressing the world.

This world knows not how many times it would have been bathed in blood, too many people would have become blood food!

"Thank you Holy Body Senior and Void Great Emperor for suppressing the Dark Turmoil, resolving a great calamity!"

People kowtowed one after another, expressing the boundless gratitude in their hearts.

Endless Belief Power surged toward Gu Xuan and Void in the Star Sky Battlefield, all drawn by the two into their respective Extreme Dao Weapons.

Hum—

Gu Xuan took down the Chaos Two Instruments Killing Array Diagram suspended above the Firmament, along with the two Killing Swords, and put them all into the Chaos Square Vessel.

…

Beidou Star.

Two Golden Light Avenues extended from the starry sky, permeated with Imperial Dao aura, prestige absolute!

In the two great Holy Lands of Qingyun Holy Land and Eastern Desolation Ji Family, people were already excited beyond measure, cheering for the Holy Body Ancestor and Void Great Emperor's return.

Naturally there were also Yaochi Holy Land, Hengyu Family, and the Holy Lords of Beidou Star's numerous great powers coming to pay homage.

One after another, even the Tribal Leaders of the various Supreme Races from outer domains arrived — Great Strength Bull Demon Clan, Bright Clan, etc. — too many to count, and not a single one below Sage Realm cultivators.

Among these countless races, the majority are now on good terms with the Human Race.

This is also the obvious situation: the two Supremes of the current era are both Human Race, their combat power shaking ancient and modern.

And they successively pacified several Dark Turmoils; their merit can be said to be unprecedented, surpassing the many Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors of the past ten thousand ages.

Of course, this shift in situation also inevitably involved forceful suppression.

Over tens of thousands of years, besides Gu Xuan and Void patrolling the universe.

The three Void Imperial Sons and White-Haired Sword God Mo Cang, before being sealed away, also acted multiple times as Gu Xuan and Void's "Tool Persons", striking in the Star Depths, exterminating several powerful existences of extreme wickedness.

"Pay respects to the Great Accomplishment Holy Body!"

"Pay respects to the Void Great Emperor!"

Upon sensing the two supremely domineering Supreme pressures above the Firmament, everyone saluted toward the sky's direction, to express reverence for Gu Xuan and Void.

Sensing the expectant and reverent aura of countless cultivators below.

Gu Xuan and Void looked at each other, a glint flashing in both their eyes that was somewhat similar.

"Senior, it's hard to refuse such kindness; how about you give the sermon this time?"

Void was originally of a steady temperament, always taciturn, yet at this moment he smiled faintly, cracking a joke with Gu Xuan.

The two had known each other for many years, kindred spirits.

Although in address they still used "Senior," in truth they had long been like brothers, confidants, comrades who could entrust life and death to each other, and also joke.

"Good going, you Void, you no longer respect your elder senior, actually even assigning me a mission?"

Gu Xuan smiled, teasing the other.

Who could have thought that the two supremes of the current era, existences supreme above all, like the Nine Heavens Gods, would also have such a side.

If the world knew, who knows to what degree they would be surprised.

And obviously, only those who have reached their level of experts, or the closest existences, such as Empress Kong and the like, could occasionally see such a side of Gu Xuan and Void.

"I feel that I am now older than you, Senior, more deserving of the title 'Old Senior.'"

Void pointed at his own white-haired, extremely aged face, a serious expression hiding amusement.

Rare to see him in such a posture.

"Didn't expect a Current Era Great Emperor to also have such a shameless side..." Gu Xuan sighed lightly.

"Haha..." Void laughed heartily.

Compared to not long ago, the life-and-death blood battle with the Three Great Forbidden Zone Supremes, such a scene can be said to be a rare moment of ease.

In fact.

The road ahead of the two was still not peaceful, filled with unfathomable crises, even perilous.

These years, they were like passing gates and slaying generals, joining forces to stumble through one checkpoint after another.

Several times it was fraught with danger, a hair's breadth from an unacceptable tragic outcome.

Although describing a Current Era Great Emperor and a Great Accomplishment Holy Body this way seems somewhat bleak.

But this is indeed an undeniable fact.

Because the enemies they face are too many and too strong.

And there is another obvious fact: after this battle, the two have inevitably become thorns in the eyes of the several great Life Forbidden Zones.

Since ancient times, such a thing has never happened — Forbidden Zone Supremes slaughtered like dogs, a full nine struck down!

Gu Xuan and Void both sensed the terrifying hostility coming from the Life Forbidden Zones!

Even though the several great Life Forbidden Zones deliberately suppressed and concealed this hostility, it could still be felt by the two of them.

This is the strongest spiritual awareness of Emperor-level experts!

You must know, apart from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, within the Six Great Life Forbidden Zones, there still hibernate dozens of Ancient Venerables.

These people are like time bombs, unknown when they might join forces to appear and cause trouble, impossible to fathom.

And there is that Undying Heavenly Emperor hiding in the dark.

Even if Gu Xuan and Void won two or three times, what about the fourth, the fifth?

There will always be a time of separation, also moments of weakness; if enemies seize the chance to attack again, what then?

And now.

Both have reached or are approaching the twilight of their Second Life; whether they can nirvana into a Third Life actually holds great variables, even possibly perishing body and Dao.

(Chapter End)