Chapter 96: Undying Heavenly Emperor Wounded and Flees, Chaos Ancient Emperor Appears in the World

In the direction of the Beidou Star Domain.

Several strands of divine sense, powerful to the extreme, spread out, traversing the endless starry sky, wanting to capture the ultimate truth of this terrifying fluctuation in the Border Wilderness Star Domain.

"It should be the Holy Body, fighting with whom?"

From within the Reincarnation Sea Forbidden Zone, an Ancient Venerable's voice of shock and doubt rang out.

"I sensed a strand of that person's aura; could it be that he is actually still alive?"

The Immortal Mausoleum Master also awoke with a start from his slumber of ten thousand ages, sensing a trace of strangeness.

"Hmph, playing tricks..."

From within Busianshan, a cold snort rang out.

Because although the divine senses of the various Forbidden Zone Supremes were powerful, they were blocked by layers upon layers of Imperial Dao Array Patterns, and there was also the enhancement of the Chaos Two Instruments Killing Array.

This caused them to be unable to fully see the details of that patch of starry sky, only able to sense a strand of the approximate scene.

Obviously.

This was deliberately done by Gu Xuan; hundreds of years ago, he had already set up restrictions with Heavenly Emperor level cultivation, his original intention being unwilling to let the Forbidden Zone Supremes pry into whether his Nirvana succeeded or not.

And his exchange with the Undying Heavenly Emperor was too fast; within a single move, both sides exploded with the utmost Heavenly Emperor level combat power, determining the victor.

Even though that kind of terrifying fluctuation was vast and unmatched, sweeping across countless stars.

No one in the outside world was able to observe the details of the battle within either.

Finally.

Waiting until that fluctuation gradually dissipated, and even calmed down afterwards, the several great Life Forbidden Zones returned to calm once more, the various Supremes continuing to fall into slumber, waiting for the Immortal Path.

Only an extremely small number of Ancient Venerables still remained somewhat unsettled, seemingly preparing something.

In the Holy Cliff Dao Chang, drenched in treasure blood.

A tall and martial man stood within, black hair like a waterfall, majestic figure, vast blood qi flourishing to the extreme.

Above his head, a Chaos Square Vessel radiant with immortal light rose and fell, faintly emitting a near-immortal Qi mechanism, terrifying beyond compare.

It was precisely the Holy Emperor Gu Xuan who had lived out his Third Life!

He looked to be only around twenty years old, his physique robust and crystalline, standing tall amidst the boundless Border Wilderness Star Universe.

Like a Supreme God, overlooking all living beings!

However.

At this moment, he gazed at the Immortal Phoenix Remains before him, his expression somewhat subtle and strange.

For thousands of years, he had been in closed-door meditation comprehending the Dao, meticulously studying the Divine Nature Essence of the several Undying Divine Medicines within his body.

Especially the reversal process of the Chaos Green Lotus Seed from death to life, from withering to flourishing, touched him greatly, allowing him to comprehend a supreme true meaning.

Plus, there was the Nirvana experience at the Cheng Xian Chi last time.

Finally.

Over a hundred years ago, that is, around the twenty-five thousand year mark of his Second Life.

He Nirvana'd out his Third Life, once again taking the crucial step of Red Dust Immortal.

But what Gu Xuan did was not limited to this.

He used the Dao Sacrifice Heavenly Merit "Sacrifice" on his own body, evolving that kind of "real" scene of a Heavenly Emperor in his twilight years; otherwise there would not have been that kind of desperate Dao Transformation Qi mechanism.

Him doing this was also out of a kind of preparing in advance.

Because in the twilight years of his Second Life, the bizarre and treacherous aura in the universe reappeared, showing rather ominous signs of an approaching storm.

All of this was perceived one by one by him through communicating with the Heavenly Heart Great Dao.

However.

He had laid out a scheme for over a hundred years, originally thinking he could lure out certain Supremes from within the Forbidden Zones.

But unexpectedly, those people ultimately still suppressed the restless stirring in their hearts and did not appear in the world.

Instead, he lured out this big fish, the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

However.

This is also understandable.

After all, over tens of thousands of years, Gu Xuan had set up schemes twice in succession, perhaps already leaving an extremely deep impression on the various Forbidden Zone Supremes.

The first time in the past, he took away the two Supremes of the Reincarnation Sea, the Taiyuan Supreme and the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor.

The second time, he took away the Cangxu Supreme and the Lei Huang.

The fall of these Supremes has always been reminding the other Ancient Venerables in the Forbidden Zones that there is a shameless Holy Body, rare in ancient and modern times, in the outside world.

And the Immortal Path opening that the various Supremes have always deduced is now only a mere hundred thousand years away.

No matter how tempting Gu Xuan's Heavenly Emperor Heart Blood is, and no matter to what degree he has become enemies with Gu Xuan, unless forced by circumstances, no Supreme is willing to break their seal and appear in the world.

As for the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Gu Xuan can also roughly guess the reason for his move.

This person should still have some hesitation; after all, Gu Xuan's "reputation precedes him," but ultimately he still coveted the heart blood of a generation's Holy Emperor like him, rare in ancient and modern times.

Wealth and honor are sought in danger!

For a Heavenly Emperor who has not self-severed for millions of years, and has been bathing in the blood of various Supremes to Nirvana, ambushing a Holy Emperor whose Qi and Blood are exhausted and who is on the verge of old age is still worth a try!

But unfortunately, the Undying Heavenly Emperor encountered Gu Xuan, an existence whose degree of black-heartedness is completely not inferior to his own.

He even more did not expect that Gu Xuan possessed the Forbidden Chapter Secret Technique of the Dao Sacrifice Heavenly Merit, capable of passing off the fake as the real.

And Gu Xuan, the moment they exchanged blows, sensed the Undying Heavenly Emperor's combat power.

It was also like him right now, a Heavenly Emperor level expert!

But to be more precise, the Undying Heavenly Emperor should count as a gatekeeper of Heavenly Emperor level experts, still somewhat inferior to Gu Xuan.

To examine closely.

This may perhaps be related to several factors.

First, the Undying Heavenly Emperor suffered the Taiyin Human Emperor's full-power strike before death back then, sustaining severe injuries.

Second, his method of bathing in the blood of Ancient Venerables of the Imperial Paths to achieve Nirvana, although it surpasses the Forbidden Zone Supremes' self-mutilation method of Self-Severing, ultimately involves some shortcuts.

Of course, to return to the point, the Heaven's Heart and Ten Thousand Daos — Different Paths, Same Destination.

Any method, even if it appears to cut corners, as long as it can reach the extreme end of the road, is not necessarily inferior to other methods.

If the Undying Heavenly Emperor were given enough time and opportunity, he might not necessarily be unable to reach the Immortal pinnacle through such a gateway, even achieving Immortal King or higher.

But this is ultimately only a hypothesis.

This time, the Undying Heavenly Emperor suffered Gu Xuan's full-power strike and was deeply wounded.

Not only was nearly half his physical body torn out, but most of his cultivation was also dissolved by Gu Xuan's Dao Sacrifice Heavenly Merit, causing his realm to drop as well.

And at the critical moment of life and death, this person used Great Cause and Effect to exchange for a chance to escape; otherwise, his injuries would not have stopped at this.

After this ordeal, without tens of thousands of years or even more, it will be very difficult for the Undying Heavenly Emperor to recover.

And regarding his disposition, Gu Xuan has come to understand more.

This Phoenix is extremely cautious and careful, and also very cunning; not only does he specifically choose to act when opponents are at their weakest, nearing the end of their lifespan, but even at such moments he still keeps a trump card.

Perhaps, in the future, without absolute certainty, he will be even less likely to act rashly, only probing.

But there is one point.

This person's arts of concealment and escape even earn some admiration from Gu Xuan.

For he could escape under such circumstances; truly worthy of being the number one in the art of ambush killing since ancient times, or one could call him the assassin among Ancient Emperors!

The next moment.

Gu Xuan waved his great hand, collecting the Phoenix's remnant body lying before him into the Chaos Square Vessel, to study carefully in the future.

Because this was left by a living being truly from the Immortal Domain.

And as a member of the Immortal Phoenix Clan, even though the Undying Heavenly Emperor walks the path of blood-bath Nirvana rather than fire-bath Nirvana, his bloodline naturally contains the ability of Nirvana rebirth.

For Gu Xuan, this is also a reference; perhaps in the future, he can comprehend his own Nirvana method from it.

……

Time flowed leisurely; over three thousand years passed.

Since that earth-shaking, world-destroying great tremor back then, Gu Xuan has almost never manifested in the world again.

Among the world's people, many believe he has already passed away in meditation.

That tremor was perhaps the Dao Wave of his passing.

After all, throughout the myriad ages, almost no Emperor or Human Emperor has ever lived past twenty thousand years in their Second Life.

People acknowledge the Saint Emperor as a special one, with Combat Power surpassing ancient and modern, and Merit unmatched.

But they also feel that no matter how great an existence, it must eventually reach its Curtain Call.

Besides Self-Severing, there has never been anyone who could Reincarnate for this long.

A few people harbor a certain hope, guessing the Saint Emperor might be like those Forbidden Zone Supremes, performing Self-Severing and transforming themselves into a Forbidden Zone.

But this guess is ultimately not mainstream, not accepted by people; they believe the Saint Emperor, when suppressing the era, took pacifying Forbidden Zone Disasters as his duty, so how could he turn himself into a Forbidden Zone?

Various theories abound, opinions differ.

And this era is already eight or nine thousand years since the Void Great Emperor perished.

The world is bustling; Heaven's Prides of all kinds emerge across the universe, shining brilliantly on the Star Sky Ancient Roads of various clans.

Among them are the outstanding talents of the present age, as well as those who self-sealed in ancient times and later broke the seal to emerge; each and every one can be called one in a hundred million, with talent surpassing several Star Domains.

Heaven's Prides vying for supremacy — this can be considered a minor Golden Prosperous Era.

This day.

In the starry sky, Gu Xuan, sitting in meditation comprehending the Dao, suddenly opened his eyes.

He saw a corner of the future; that person appeared.

Beidou Ancient Star.

From Beiyuan walked out a youth; his features were somewhat rugged, yet not lacking in simplicity and martial bearing.

On his back, a Stone Axe hung diagonally, ancient and somewhat heavy; it was his Weapon.

He waved farewell to his parents and kin, stepping onto the road to the Sect for cultivation.

And behind a large tree not far away, a clear and gentle young girl with tears brimming watched him depart reluctantly.

This was the youth's childhood sweetheart, also a female cultivator of exceptional talent, with deep family heritage.

The youth sensed something, looked back, and then with a few leaps arrived beside the girl.

"I will become a Saint, defeat those people in the future, and return to marry you!"

The youth tightly embraced the girl before him, whispering a promise in her ear.

"Luan Gu, I will wait for you."

Though the girl's face was red to the point of dripping, her expression shy, she still responded firmly.

The two young people's families lived adjacent to each other, yet both were pressured by another great clan.

That great clan produced an exceptionally talented descendant who nearly reached the Quasi-Saint realm in his prime; he forcefully demanded the girl as a concubine, in reality to swallow the cultivation resources of the girl's clan.

Fortunately, the elders of the youth and girl's clans were fairly united in heart, planning strategically, barely dragging out the great clan and winning a certain buffer time.

And this is the reason the youth named Luan Gu embarked on the road to join a Sect and become a disciple.

He was already the most talented young descendant between the two clans, and had long since won the girl's secret affection.

This is the glimmer of hope he fought for his kin, for his beloved, and for himself.

Otherwise.

Once they — their two clans — would certainly be eaten clean by that great clan where the Quasi-Saint cultivator resides, just like those clans that disappeared before.

Several years later.

That Quasi-Saint peak realm young cultivator finally could not endure any longer, acting in a domineering manner.

With one person's power he overwhelmed the two great clans where Luan Gu and the young woman were, and struck Luan Gu's father, a King Who Severed the Dao, into heavy injury, even intending to kill him, to serve as deterrence to others.

Right at this critical moment, Luan Gu ultimately still rushed over, rescued his father from the Quasi-Saint's hands, and struck that person until injured.

Originally, this was a counterattack story.

Because Luan Gu had already become a Saint, one can say he completely feared not that great clan.

Next, it should have been marrying his childhood sweetheart young woman, then becoming a pair of joyful Dao Companions; even if they could not walk higher on the cultivation path, it would still be a peaceful and happy life.

But who would have thought, behind that Quasi-Saint peak realm man actually stood another force, among whom were no lack of Saints, even Great Saint realm cultivators.

That force resentfully dispatched people to act, forcing Luan Gu to flee far away to foreign lands, otherwise he would have died on the spot.

The person who acted still did not vent his hatred, even wanting to exterminate completely the clans of both Luan Gu and the young woman.

Waiting until not long after, Luan Gu finally escaped the life-and-death crisis, returned for a look, yet only saw devastation everywhere, corpses strewn across the fields.

Parents and kin slaughtered, childhood sweetheart perished...

Even though his Dao Heart was firm, he could only wail sadly to heaven and earth, even vomiting heart-blood, yet could change nothing.

For a young man originally full of hope and yearning, this situation was simply tragic to a certain extreme.

However.

He did not know, this was merely the beginning of his tragic fate.

Of course.

No one knew, in the void, there existed an existence terrifying to the extreme for them.

That was a Dao Body of Gu Xuan.

Having reached his current realm, even if merely a transformed Dao Body, before Luan Gu proved the Dao, it would absolutely not be discovered.

And Gu Xuan also secretly rescued quite a few people, and sealed them away, and with great Fa Li restored the scene, no one perceived it.

Even that perpetrator who acted thought he had already successfully completed the mission, yet did not know his memories had all been tampered with.

Besides this, Gu Xuan did not do any other interference.

Another side.

Luan Gu deeply knew the enemy was so arrogant and brutal, there must be something they relied on; behind them there was certainly an extraordinary big shot.

But he bore such Xue Hai Deep Hatred, inevitably could not let the matter rest.

Each day during cultivation, the slightest slackening, before his eyes would seem to appear that tragic scene of parents and kin perishing and lover passing away.

Finally.

With his Master's help, he broke through to the next major realm, and ultimately killed several enemies, avenging the Xue Hai Deep Hatred.

But what he did not expect was, this also thereby drew out the true big shot behind the scenes.

Among the enemies he killed, one person's father's generation was one of the Luan Tian Seven Heroes, also famously renowned on the Star Sky Ancient Road, one of the Emperor Road Contenders.

Such a figure, even among the myriad Emperor Road Heaven's Prides within Yu Nei, counts as terrifying!

That person with great Fa Li traced down to spider-silk horse-tracks, investigated and found out Luan Gu's background and whereabouts.

Next, was Luan Gu's tragic fate's yet another beginning.

Master killed, Sect removed from the rolls, even the Holy Land he relied upon was exterminated to the last member...

And not only that, the friends he made on the Dao path, were also almost all killed.

Even some merely unable to bear watching, kind-hearted people who sympathized and helped him, all were implicated, not a single one spared.

Only he himself, though heartbroken and sorrowful to the extreme, always relied on a single Dao Heart, and a kind of lone-star-of-calamity-like luck or Gift, escaped into a patch of surviving sky.

But his such tragic encounter also made all onlookers click their tongues in amazement.

Truly a solitary lone individual, can be called a heaven-abandoned son.

Some also say he is a Calamity Body, analogous to the Holy Body, Divine King Body and such in legends.

Of course, there is no such constitution; ten thousand ages since, there has never appeared a so-called Calamity Body.

But Luan Gu's encounter also almost makes people believe, this constitution perhaps truly exists.

(Chapter End)