Chapter 94: Chaos Green Lotus Seed

"Many thanks, Dao Friend, for sending me back to my homeland, but my time is short; I wonder what I can do to help you?"

The Taiyang Sheng Huang looked at Gu Xuan, stars flickering in his eyes, as if the vicissitudes of ten thousand ages had flashed through them.

"The Holy Emperor speaks too seriously; it was merely a trivial effort. However, I do have a few matters I wish to consult the Holy Emperor about."

Gu Xuan faced him sincerely.

The next moment, he raised his hand and shot out two imprints, flying toward the Taiyang Sheng Huang.

They were precisely the ones the Taiyin Human Emperor had carved out with Great Emperor-level Dao power after his return, and gifted to Gu Xuan.

The Taiyang Sheng Huang received them, sensing them carefully; Dao Marks of the Taiyin Human Emperor still lingered on them, clearly authentic.

For existences of their kind, fully receiving and understanding all the information on these two imprints took but an instant.

"As expected..."

The Taiyang Sheng Huang's expression froze, turning iron-green in an instant. "So my guess was correct; Senior Taiyin Human Emperor was also schemed against by that thief."

Clearly.

From his words, it could be known that this verified certain thoughts in his heart.

The years of his Dao attainment were over a hundred thousand years later than the Taiyin Human Emperor's; naturally, he had grown up listening to the legends of this Senior Human Emperor.

The Taiyin Human Emperor's disappearance in his old age was exceedingly strange, clearly different from the many Emperors and Sovereigns throughout the ages.

Regarding this, the world's opinions were divided.

Some said the Taiyin Human Emperor's combat power shocked immortals and moved gods; he fought his way onto the Immortal Path and ultimately became an immortal.

Some said the Taiyin Human Emperor perished together with several Forbidden Zone Supremes.

There were also those who said that back then a cultivator from that Immortal Passage seemed to have heard the Human Emperor's furious roar, seemingly something about the "Undying Heavenly Emperor," but in the end it was very vague, not very clear, yet it was recorded in the sect's secret canon.

And this last saying was too shocking, somewhat inconceivable.

Because the Undying Heavenly Emperor's reign was too far back in antiquity, it was truly hard to make the world believe he was still alive and had fought the Taiyin Human Emperor.

And after the Taiyang Sheng Huang attained the Dao, he had also investigated this matter.

This not only involved an ancient great secret, but also concerned whether he himself could pass through his old age peacefully.

But due to various reasons, he had not been able to unearth the whole truth, only finding some clues and forming certain conjectures.

"A pity for Senior Taiyin; he also took that step, and likewise fell short at the last moment..."

The Taiyang Sheng Huang let out a sigh, feeling regret for himself and for the Taiyin Human Emperor.

Afterward.

He returned the two imprints Gu Xuan had sent over.

Then, doing the same, he shot out two new imprints, flying toward Gu Xuan.

In an instant, Gu Xuan comprehended much.

One of the imprints was the Taiyang Sheng Huang's cultivation insights into the Sun Body Constitution — precious Imperial Path profound mysteries.

Far more valuable than the *Taiyang Ancient Scripture* circulating in the world, for the latter is merely a universal version.

Even at Gu Xuan's current height, he could gain much comprehension and benefit from it, especially for his future path.

And if someday in the future Gu Xuan can find a Sun Body, this imprint would be his best cultivation method.

One must say, the Taiyang Sheng Huang is likewise absolutely stunning throughout ancient and modern times.

Because, like the Taiyin Human Emperor, in his old age he also embarked on the path of transforming into a Chaos Body.

The Great Dao is utmost simplicity; different paths lead to the same destination. Given sufficient fortune, he might not necessarily fail to succeed.

Only a pity.

Even though he had already made preparations, the Taiyang Sheng Huang still could not survive the Human Tribulation brought by the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

And this.

Is precisely the scene manifested by the second imprint.

In a Dao Chang densely covered with Taiyang Imperial Array Patterns, the Taiyang Sheng Huang in the twilight of his Second Life sat cross-legged within.

Though his head was full of white hair and his appearance aged beyond measure, within his withered body a faint life force was faintly manifesting, and growing stronger.

Brilliance shone around him, and a strand of Chaos Great Dao vaguely permeated the air.

Clearly, the Taiyang Sheng Huang was undergoing some mysterious transformation.

However.

Suddenly, a Heavenly Knife came from the void, actually piercing through layers of Imperial Array Patterns, directly slashing at the Taiyang Sheng Huang's skull.

This stunning knife strike, even though merely transformed from an imprint, seemed tainted with a trace of Immortal Dao aura; its power was fully revealed without doubt.

If generation after generation of Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors saw it, they would also marvel at it, beyond what they could achieve.

Even Gu Xuan, seeing it, had his pupils contract slightly.

Because he asked himself: with his current combat power, he could also cleave out such a knife strike, even surpass it.

But to silently avoid the protection of these layers of array patterns and achieve such a concealed ambush kill — perhaps he still fell short.

From this it can be seen that the Undying Heavenly Emperor's attainments in the art of secret ambush killing are indeed uniquely astonishing, surpassing the many Emperors and Sovereigns throughout all ages!

And at this moment.

The Taiyang Sheng Huang was clearly at the most critical period of his transformation, weakened to the extreme.

With no choice, he was forced to abandon the transformation, instead mobilizing his full Emperor Power to block the knife strike and repel the opponent.

But precisely because of this, his effort to transform into a Chaos Body and live out his next life ended in failure, and ultimately he could only pass away in gloom.

At the final moment of his life, to avoid implicating the Sun Divine Sect, even the entire Ziwei Ancient Star.

He buried himself in the Nine-Layer Spirit Coffin of the Ancient God, then went to the eternal, cold, and lonely Universe Xing Kong.

Thus.

The second imprint ended.

As for why his physical body ultimately ended up with only a single sheet of human skin, the imprint did not manifest it.

But the root cause within it was not difficult to deduce.

Whether it was Gu Xuan or the Taiyang Sheng Huang himself, both perceived that strange aura upon that blood-stained sheet of human skin.

Without a doubt, these were the Undying Heavenly Emperor's Dao Marks.

The Taiyang Sheng Huang had exchanged blows with this person, so naturally, with just a slight sensing, he knew it was him.

And Gu Xuan had also sensed the exact same aura from the Taiyin Human Emperor's Remnant Body before.

Obviously.

After the Taiyang Sheng Huang passed away in meditation, the Undying Heavenly Emperor used a Secret Technique to deduce the location of the Nine-Layer Spirit Coffin of the Ancient God.

Then, he rushed to the Star Depths, swallowed and devoured the Holy Emperor's flesh and blood, leaving only this sheet of human skin.

"Undying Heavenly Emperor……"

Gu Xuan murmured, as if chewing on the words, "This person is truly insidious."

The Taiyang Sheng Huang let out a light sigh. He looked at Gu Xuan, and amidst the latter's head full of gray long hair, a single strand of white hair had already grown.

"This person is indeed insidious, yet also extremely careful; he only acts when he has absolute certainty of victory. I see you are also approaching your twilight years, so you must make some preparations as well, to guard against this person's sneak attack." He could not help but remind Gu Xuan.

"Many thanks, Holy Emperor." Gu Xuan bowed with clasped hands once more.

For this time, not only did it resolve the doubts in his heart, but it also made him even more clearly understand the road he must walk in the future.

The current Gu Xuan held in his hands the cultivation insights of two great Emperors, the Taiyin Human Emperor and the Taiyang Sheng Huang; this was the best Imperial Path Domain reference from ancient times to the present.

"No need for such formality; I only hope you will be more careful."

The Taiyang Sheng Huang looked at Gu Xuan, his gaze gentle, and even containing a faint gratification and hope.

On this junior hero's body, many miracles had occurred, some of which even the Taiyang Sheng Huang found astonishing.

If in the future someone could help him and the Taiyin Human Emperor take revenge, perhaps only the Gu Xuan before his eyes had a sliver of possibility.

But the Holy Emperor also deeply knew that it was merely a possibility.

After all, the Undying Heavenly Emperor had already lived for many tens of thousands of years, and had bathed in the blood of many Supremes; who knew what realm he had reached by now.

Such an enemy, who also likes to hide in the dark and strike when others are weak, is truly hard to deal with!

Whether it was before the Taiyang Sheng Huang's fall, or Gu Xuan's present, both had deduced Heavenly Secrets many times, attempting to find the Undying Heavenly Emperor's hiding place.

But obviously.

This person possesses an extremely terrifying concealment secret art, making him impossible to fathom or track.

"My time is not much left; I hope you take good care of yourself."

The Taiyang Sheng Huang's tone was calm, his gaze clear, carrying a sense of release.

As a generation's Human Emperor, he had great magnanimity in his heart; even though he would ultimately vanish and perish, he was not overly attached.

And Gu Xuan had also seen that the Holy Emperor's this manifestation had already dimmed and was about to completely dissipate.

This was even shorter than the Taiyin Human Emperor's manifestation before.

But it was also an inevitability, for the Taiyang Sheng Huang had only a sheet of human skin left, at most carrying a few traces of blood.

Being able to manifest and meet with Gu Xuan was already due to the combined force of the Shenyi Nian and Belief Power.

"Respectfully seeing off the Human Emperor."

Gu Xuan bowed with clasped hands, treating him with reverence.

The Taiyang Sheng Huang waved his hand slightly, then looked at the Sun Stone Pagoda floating before him, silent for a moment before saying: "Ultimately, I still cannot accompany you to the very end."

The pagoda trembled violently, extremely reluctant, even emitting a sobbing sound.

"Go." The Holy Emperor raised his hand, sending the pagoda away.

Sending it to the side of the Lao Da Sheng in the distant starry sky, who was continuously kneeling, kowtowing, and weeping sadly.

This was the Taiyang Sheng Huang's direct-line bloodline descendant after who knows how many generations, and also the Sun Divine Sect's strongest Foundation today.

Finally.

The Holy Emperor's figure faded, transforming once more into a sheet of human skin.

The coffin lid of the Nine-Layer Spirit Stone Coffin opened automatically, the human skin flew inside, and then the lid closed.

Hum!

Amidst the void's destruction, the Nine-Layer Spirit Stone Coffin traversed the Void Crack and left; the world would never know its final destination again.

And only one who had reached Gu Xuan's realm could see that the Holy Emperor's stone coffin returned to the Deep Parts of the North Sea of Ziwei Star.

In this instant, Gu Xuan comprehended everything.

That place was necessarily one of the Taiyang Sheng Huang's Dao Chang locations.

And before his passing, he had also set up a backhand.

If in the universe, the Dark Turmoil reappears and spreads to the Ziwei Ancient Star, the human skin will also recover, wielding the Imperial Pagoda to fight.

Worthy of being a generation's Human Emperor!

Gu Xuan let out a light sigh.

……

After resolving these two cases of the Taiyin and Taiyang, Gu Xuan returned to his own Dao Chang.

Since then, he rarely went on inspection tours.

Because as of today, he was already twenty-one thousand years old.

Such a vast Lifespan shocked the world, and even the Supremes in the Forbidden Zones sighed in admiration, considering him another special existence after the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor.

But Gu Xuan had indeed slowly entered his Old Age.

Originally, after he proved the Dao and became Emperor, his full head of white hair turned gray, and his appearance was like that of a middle-aged man.

But over a thousand years passed, and gradually, a few strands of white hair grew back.

In fact.

Apart from a possible sneak attack, the crisis he faced was mainly how to live out the next life.

The Undying Divine Medicine had already lost its effect on him.

And using the Immortal Dao Essence, borrowing the Cheng Immortal Pond — that land that nurtures immortals — was also no longer of any use.

Future nirvanas required Gu Xuan to open up a new road himself.

And his seeking out the Taiyin Human Emperor and the Taiyang Sheng Huang was precisely preparation for this.

Borrowing the cultivation imprints provided by the two Great Emperors, he attempted to draw reference from them; in the future he might not necessarily be unable to truly transform into a Chaos Body.

However.

Gu Xuan was also clearly aware.

Even though last time during his nirvana at the Cheng Immortal Pond, he borrowed the Yin-Cold Great Dao Rules the Ice Emperor had driven into his body, he still had a very long distance to go before transforming into a Chaos Body.

This process would need several thousand to tens of thousands of years before there was a thread of possibility of success.

That is to say, right now if he wanted to live out a third life, he still needed to find other methods.

This day.

Gu Xuan was sitting cross-legged in secluded cultivation.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes; two Golden Light Avenues shot out violently, piercing through the boundless dark starry sky.

After that, his figure vanished from the Dao Platform.

The next moment, he appeared in the deep parts of the Xing Hai, before a Small Secret Realm.

"As expected, it's here."

He murmured softly, then reached out with a large hand, breaking open this Small Secret Realm and entering deep inside.

He saw that inside, apart from a small piece of land that looked ordinary and unremarkable, there was nothing else.

If other cultivators saw this scene, they would only think this was yet another wasteland abandoned by some great power.

But Gu Xuan was naturally different, because this was a Secret Realm he had deduced over many years and continuously explored with Heavenly Emperor Level cultivation, finally calculating it out.

He extracted that small piece of land.

Then, the land that had appeared extremely ordinary inside the Secret Realm, upon arriving in the Great Universe, surprisingly became wreathed in Chaos Qi, with mysterious and unfathomable Great Dao fragments drifting out, Divine Rules permeating it — obviously quite extraordinary.

This was actually the Chaos Divine Soil rarely seen in ten thousand ages, most suitable for planting peerless treasures like the Undying Divine Medicine!

In the Whole Great Universe, Gu Xuan had only ever seen it in the Undying Mountain Forbidden Zone.

Of course, the universe is vast and boundless; perhaps it still exists in other places too, but that would require tremendous fortune.

Even at Gu Xuan's height, he had only seen a mere few instances.

But the Chaos Divine Soil was only secondary; what was even more astonishing was that the soil emitted a kind of profound and unfathomable Qi mechanism, like an existence from the Immortal Domain descending to the mortal world.

Chaos Green Lotus Seed!

Gu Xuan didn't even need to open his Divine Path Heavenly Eye to be able to see that inside was precisely this one Undying Divine Medicine.

Among the thirty Undying Medicines of ten thousand ages, it also counts as an extremely special existence.

Only because it is perhaps the only one that truly transformed from the Undying Medicine main body, proved the Dao and became an Emperor.

The Green Emperor!

In the original historical trajectory, in that End of Dharma Era of the Post-Ancient Era, breaking the ten-thousand-age rules and order, the first Great Emperor to prove the Dao in a hundred thousand years.

At this moment, it was still a strange immortal seed, quietly lying in this small piece of Chaos Divine Soil.

Who knows what happened in later generations; it suddenly ran to the Hua Immortal Pond in the Central State, coexisting with the fragmented pieces of the damaged bronze cauldron, and ultimately gave birth to spiritual wisdom there.

Hum!

A Chaos Square Vessel emerged from Gu Xuan's body, floating above his head.

He moved the Chaos Divine Soil into his Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon, then his figure flashed and he returned to his Dao Chang.

Not long after.

Inside his Ku Hai, vast like a great sea, another new Undying Divine Medicine immortal seed was added.

The Fusang Undying Divine Tree, the White Tiger Undying Medicine, and now added the Chaos Green Lotus Seed.

Gu Xuan's Divine Sense looked inward.

He saw with some amusement that the miniature Fusang Undying Divine Tree and the little White Tiger both showed curiosity toward this new "little neighbor."

A tree sapling, a little White Tiger, whoosh — in a flash they arrived beside the Chaos Green Lotus Seed; branches swayed, little tiger head sniffed.

Obviously.

They perceived that this was their same kind, also belonging to the Undying Divine Medicine; they sensed a certain Qi mechanism — perhaps before becoming Undying Divine Medicines, they had some connection.

(Chapter End)