Chapter 98: Did the Chaotic Ancient Ultimately Become Emperor?

This moment.

In the starry sky, Luan Gu bathed in blood and raged, like a War God who had walked out of a corpse mountain and blood sea.

This was not an illusion.

Because the Luan Tian Seven Heroes had run rampant all their lives without restraint, the opponents they had killed were too many to count, and among them several had used their respective Quasi-Emperor Weapons to imprint the Netherworld Ghost Imprints of their opponents, in order to increase the power of their Quasi-Emperor Weapons.

When they were struck down by Luan Gu, all these imprints were released, and only thus was this scene produced.

And countless Netherworld Ghost phantoms manifested from the void, revealing a look of relief and even gratitude toward Luan Gu, before completely dissipating and departing.

Luan Gu won!

In the life-and-death great battle at the Emperor Pass Last City, he faced seven alone, struck down the Luan Tian Seven Heroes, and also avenged the Xue Hai Deep Hatred of the past!

Such battle results were glorious to the extreme.

They also shocked all cultivators on the Star Sky Ancient Road.

One must know, any one of the Luan Tian Seven Heroes was an Emperor Road Contender who had been famous for a long time, having defeated countless strongest Heaven's Prides of all races along the way!

Such figures, since their debut, could be called a one-way horizontal push with no opponents, glorious on the Emperor Road.

And who was Luan Gu? He was the opposite of them.

His life was full of setbacks; it was either defeat or crushing defeat, with almost no victories.

Even the people around him seemed to have been tainted by his terrifying ill fortune.

Lover perished, relatives died miserably, master was killed, friends wiped out...

When the news of the final revenge battle spread afterwards, no one dared believe it was fact.

But when people rushed to the Emperor Pass Last City, they only saw desolate blood and bones, and the shattered weapon remnants of the Luan Tian Seven Heroes, all beaten until they had lost their divinity, like scrap bronze and rotten iron.

That kind of desperate, terrifying to the extreme High-Level Quasi-Emperor Aura was incomparably awe-inspiring; for a very long time no one dared go collect the corpses, fearing being caught in the backlash.

A long time later.

Only then did a certain mysterious Quasi-Emperor act, collecting the corpse remnants of the Luan Tian Seven Heroes, suspected to be from the bizarre Di Fu organization.

In the hundred-plus years after that.

Occasionally, vast Thunder Tribulation fluctuations transmitted from the Universe Borderlands, front and back there were several times, all shaking countless Star Domains.

This degree of Thunder Tribulation resembled the last few Great Calamities of the Quasi-Emperor Tribulation recorded in Ancient History, causing countless monks to look sideways in astonishment.

Major powers used their Sect's Source Heaven Supreme Treasures to glimpse a portion of the people undergoing the tribulation.

Among them was the Young Master of the Swallow Heaven Beast Clan, talent Peerless, feeding on stars; although their population was incomparably sparse, almost all could grow into the Great Saint Realm, even the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

There was also the Green Demon Clan's Peerless Heaven's Pride, the most outstanding hero of that clan for ten thousand ages, who broke the mythical record of the youngest Quasi-Emperor in their Star Domain.

There were also those who saw.

In the Thunder Tribulation, there was a youth holding an Ancient Primitive Stone Axe; although his appearance was slightly rough, his prestige was absolute, possessing a unique aura that was desolate yet domineering!

And for these Heaven's Prides undergoing the Quasi-Emperor Tribulation.

The so-called Heavenly Tribulation was not yet the most terrifying.

Ancient orthodoxies, with the strongest Source Heaven Arrays, captured a few strands of Peerless terrifying light and shadow.

Those were Supreme Killing Strikes; within them faintly lurked a Supreme aura, wanting to exterminate these Heaven's Prides.

Human Tribulation!

"Chi!"

A Spirit Blade, roaming hundreds of thousands of li, hidden within the vast Thunder Dragons, wanting to exterminate that youth holding the stone axe, even his Immortal Platform to be pulverized.

Only it was resolved by him using the stone axe as a substitute.

A Dark Pool, silently and without a sound, appeared behind the Young Master of the Swallow Heaven Clan, wanting to devour his Primordial Spirit.

Forcing the latter to self-destruct his physical body, using Dao Fire to burn the Dark Pool and the contaminated Immortal Platform to ashes, only then barely escaping, yet discovering with a cold, gloomy face that his own Dao Xing was damaged by half, having to recuperate for hundreds of years, and perhaps still with hidden dangers.

And all the Supreme Killing Strikes, before acting, severed their auras, leaving no way to trace their source.

The Supremes perhaps still had some apprehensions.

As for who the apprehended one was, naturally it goes without saying.

This is the illustrious fame the Saint Emperor killed his way to in the past.

Acting to exterminate the current generation's Heaven's Prides who want to Prove the Dao and Become Emperor is naturally necessary, lest the world produce figures like Gu Xuan and Void again.

But not a single Supreme was willing to risk exposing themselves.

This is a special era.

Since the Void Great Emperor's passing, it has already approached Ten Thousand Loads.

And the Saint Emperor has likewise not manifested in the world for thousands of years, his life or death unknown.

Some suspect the Saint Emperor is still alive; this life it is absolutely impossible for anyone to Prove the Dao and Become Emperor, thus secretly mocking those Emperor Road Contention strong ones for not knowing the times.

However.

There are also those who believe the Saint Emperor is special; this era might perhaps have a miracle occur.

Especially the many High-Level Quasi-Emperors, who are unwilling to give up any shred of possibility and hope of Proving the Dao.

Because most people carry the expectations of their clans and relatives, and are unwilling to Self-Seal until a future life to contend for the Emperor Road again, and not everyone has that many Divine Sources.

Since born in this life, one should naturally strive forward with all effort.

On the cultivation path, like rowing against the current, if you retreat, it equals giving way to others.

As long as the Saint Emperor has not manifested in the world for a single day, the masses will harbor this hope for a single day.

However.

Finally this day arrived.

From the Universe Borderlands transmitted a vast, absolute Heavenly Tribulation; its terrifying degree, suspected to be the Proving the Dao Tribulation recorded in Ancient History!

"Boom!"

Another most violent sound rang out, sweeping across the whole Great Universe, causing everyone to tremble.

Thunder rumbled, Chaos Qi surged, incomparably blazing electric lights flashed, each spanning several star systems, immensely long and large, shocking countless people.

Great Emperor Tribulation?!

Someone actually wants to become Emperor at this time, undergoing the Infinite Divine Tribulation, Immortal Light covering sky and earth, waking the Ancient Venerables in the Forbidden Zones.

"Rumble—!"

The Thunder Tribulation surged vast and mighty, shattering the Universe Borderlands, sweeping across Heavens and Worlds, countless star systems turned to dust, and in the boundlessness a kind of Supreme Above All law spread.

This terrifying to the extreme fluctuation surged toward all places; this is forging the unique Emperor Dao, wanting to suppress the Human Realm.

This Moment.

Myriad Dao Lament, all kinds of Order Divine Chains in Heaven and Earth are about to be suppressed, and just like this achieve one person's Great Emperor Dao Fruit!

As long as this person achieves the Dao, he will stand high above, looking down on Nine Heavens Ten Earths; all later comers this life cannot become Emperor again, only after he dies ten thousand years later can they — this shocks people.

Across the Universe, countless Heaven's Pride figures turned pale as paper, as if struck by thunder, unable to believe this is fact.

Among them, there is no lack of Peerless prodigies, Peerless monsters.

Some are Divine Sons rarely seen in ten thousand ages of the God Race; some are the most stunning outstanding talents of a certain Supreme Race.

There are even those who fought invincible across dozens to hundreds of Star Domains, moreover possessing Great Fortune, obtaining the inheritance scriptures of Ancient Emperor and Sovereign, not even putting the Luan Tian Seven Heroes of those years in their eyes much, merely never having fought.

But This Moment, they all froze.

Even though that person has not yet truly crossed the Proving Dao Tribulation, all Heaven's Pride have already perceived that kind of Roaming Yu Nei, Only I Am Supreme Proving Dao Qi Mechanism!

"This... how could it be like this?"

This is a man of strange and towering stature, head bearing Ancestral Dragon horns, back having dark gold wings, head horns towering, aura terrifying, a Peerless Quasi-Emperor.

Yet at this moment he stands dazed in the Xing Kong, stunned in place, even speech not smooth for a time, truly shocked to the extreme.

"I am unwilling, why is it now?"

"Upper Heaven, how unfair you are, give me three hundred more years..."

In various Star Domains, there are also Quasi-Emperors wailing sadly, unable to bear this result.

There are also cultivators with powerful auras waking from Deep-level Enlightenment.

Although by nature cold and ruthless, always taciturn, even at This Moment they still remain silent.

But those pale faces, vacant pupils, also reveal their hearts' true reaction.

The outbreak of This Proving Dao Tribulation, for them, is undoubtedly a Great Calamity, making people Despair, seeing no future.

Their path ahead is severed!

Heavenly Punishment grows ever more fierce, suppressing everything, vast and endless star systems, this is simply World-Destroying.

There are also people praying.

Praying that that person cannot succeed this time; if so, they still have Opportunity...

But many cultivators have sensed that in Heaven and Earth, Dao Rules are Reorganizing, constantly arranging; This Life's Strongest's Unique Great Dao will become the only one, suppressing all Dao Lineages, ruling this Universe.

"Who is crossing the Tribulation?"

Countless people are asking, wanting to probe the true identity of this Great Figure who horizontally suppresses same-generation Heaven's Pride.

Finally.

Someone exerted utmost to Open Heavenly Eye, in those endless Thunder Lights, saw a towering figure.

Above his head, there is also a huge Divine Axe sinking and floating, accepting World-Destroying-like Thunder Tribulation's tempering, and moreover seemingly transforming into another form, suspected to be a certain Dao Talisman!

It is that Axe-Wielding Youth of the past, who Defeated the Luan Tian Seven Heroes, also once nearly suppressed and killed by a Spirit Blade from the Forbidden Zone, yet unexpectedly walked to This Step.

Along with the Tribulation-Crosser's one angry roar.

Void twisted, Ten Directions all destroyed; under that vast Thunder Pool, who knows how many Void Abysses appeared.

In that Thunder Punishment, the Myriad Dao Thunder Dragons descending from the Heavens, quite a few were Being Led Into it; otherwise he and his Weapon absolutely could not withstand such Terrifying Thunder Tribulation.

Even if Blood Qi flourishing, accumulation deep, still not necessarily able to completely endure to the end.

And the so-called Leading Thunder Tribulation to Temper Body, indeed has this saying.

But this is Great Emperor Tribulation, since ancient times Rare, far from comparable to those Peerless Heaven's Pride's Quasi-Emperor Tribulations.

Since Ten Thousand Ages, generation after generation of Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors, also each have their respective Forbidden Chapter Secret Techniques, and by them cross This Great Calamity.

And This Moment.

Along with the Tribulation-Crosser's Weapon and Secret Technique's revelation, his identity also gradually becomes clear.

Luan Gu?!

Outside World, everyone shocked.

How could it be him?!

Since Ten Thousand Ages, generation after generation of Heavenly Venerates, Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors, which one is not startlingly talented, horizontally suppressing Yu Nei.

Even if not a life of no defeats, at least also same-realm invincible, even cross-realm Defeating enemies, from the start a Strong's posture, born like a King Realm dazzling the world.

Or possess some kind of Super Strong Protagonist Aura, as if Upper Heaven's Chosen Son, horizontally sweeping all opponents, stepping on Kings' corpses to ascend the Absolute Peak!

And looking again at Luan Gu, with these fundamentally no connection.

His life miserable, even can be called Tragedy; since cultivating Dao, encountering same-realm enemies all Big Defeat Losses, even intimates and close friends almost none survived.

Although say recent years also occasional Stunning deeds, finally Turn Defeat Into Victory, even killed Luan Tian Seven Heroes, after that disappeared a very long period.

But such a person, no matter what, also hard to make people associate him with Achieving Emperor.

Such a person who repeatedly fights repeatedly loses, can also Prove Dao?

And Fact Ultimately still became Clear: under that endless Thunder Sea, the Tribulation-Crosser is precisely Luan Gu.

Shen Ti shattered, Blood Rain sprinkled Xing Kong.

Vast stretches of the void collapsed along with the chaotic ancient forbidden secret technique, causing the entire universe to tremble.

A Great Emperor is rising!

He endures excruciating torment, struggling through the ordeal; a majestic figure in the lightning shatters alongside his divine axe then reassembles, strands of imperial prestige permeating the air, gradually taking shape.

Beidou Ancient Star, the several great Life Forbidden Zones.

"This person's life-preserving methods are quite something; ultimately he has still reached this step……"

From the Divine Ruins Forbidden Zone came a deep, cold, hoarse voice, like a Primordial Demon Lord awakening from ten thousand ages past.

In the past, he once acted, yet was substituted by the Emperor Axe at the hands of Luan Gu, feigning death to escape.

"Is a new era about to arrive? In this lifetime, yet another Human Race……"

In the Shangcang Forbidden Zone, a pair of dark-gold pupils opened, their tone grim and cold, exuding an aura of cruelty and hatred.

"There is the aura of Void and that woman; this lifetime's Prover of the Dao actually has some skill……"

"Barely passable; only those who survive become Great Emperors — if he cannot pass, he is merely a pile of dung!"

From another Forbidden Zone also came a freezing voice.

……

In the Universe Borderlands.

The Thunder Tribulation continues; amid boundless lightning, a majestic and spirited figure roams and struggles, striking up to the Nine Heavens, probing down to the Nine Serenities Earth.

Though his whole body is bathed in blood, divine light shines brilliantly, as if a god's body is being forged.

He is creating a legend of proving the Dao!

The Dao marks of the void vanished ten thousand loads ago, yet since the Holy Emperor last manifested in the world, only thousands of years have passed.

And he actually intends to defy heaven and become an Emperor!

That faint proving-the-Dao aura shook the Cosmos, leaving everyone dumbstruck.

What is going on?

Was it not said that after the previous generation's Great Emperor passes away, at least ten thousand years must pass before someone can continue proving the Dao?

What about the Holy Emperor? Why would he not affect this moment's Prover of the Dao?

This obviously breaks a convention that has stood since ancient times.

"Perhaps because the Holy Emperor proved the Dao and became Emperor by shattering the Ten Thousand Daos, he does not affect later comers."

An antique-foundation Quasi-Emperor from a certain Sect, so old he could not be older, made this conjecture; otherwise Luan Gu's proving the Dao cannot be explained.

"The Holy Emperor is unique……"

An old Sage also sighed lightly.

The world bustles in turmoil, sighing that the Holy Emperor ultimately vanished from the world.

Also trembling for this lifetime, about to welcome a new generation of Great Emperor.

Among them there is loss, sadness, excitement, and fear……

Regardless of the outside world.

Beneath that vast and unmatched Thunder Sea, Luan Gu ultimately迎来了 the final moment of the proving-the-Dao tribulation.

Boom!

The Nine Turns Divine Talisman collapsed under nine incomparably huge Thunder Dragons, yet transformed into an axe-shaped weapon.

This is Luan Gu forging a weapon in the Thunder Tribulation, tempering and offering up his own Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

This is an Emperor Axe of ancient and unadorned appearance, its might suppressing the world; it has two forms — rare among all the Extreme Dao Weapons since ancient times — astonishing the world.

"No wonder he survived that day's strike; this person is indeed unexpected."

The Forbidden Zone people also sighed lightly.

They all know that by this time they can no longer stop him; otherwise they would only draw fire onto themselves — that final proving-the-Dao tribulation could take half their lives, or worse.

Finally.

In the endless lightning, a majestic Imperial Body rushed upward against the current, drawing ten thousand Thunder Dragons to temper his body; even the Immortal Platform underwent baptism in the Thunder Tribulation yet remained utterly undying.

A perfected Great Emperor is about to rise!

(Chapter End)