Chapter 630: The Origin of the Dark Turmoil! The Supreme Ancient Emperor Acts—Luo Fu

Whether due to fear of death or an unshakable obsession with immortality, those who survive by self-decapitation and hide in life-prohibited zones possess no trace of recklessness in their nature.

Even now, Luo Fu was certain that Luo Fu held the secret to immortality—or something comparable to a true immortal.

Unless they had absolute certainty, not one of these zone sovereigns would foolishly expose themselves.

After all, they were all hiding in life-prohibited zones—who didn’t know who each other was?

Even those dwelling in the same Primordial Ancient Mine, who had known each other for tens of millions of years.

Neither the Qilin Ancient Emperor nor Wan Longhuang and the others would trust one another.

At this moment, these sovereigns remained motionless, waiting—for someone else, unable to hold back, to act as the vanguard, to become the first stone thrown to probe Luo Fu.

Of course, if they sensed profit to be gained, these sovereigns would surge forth with astonishing speed to seize the advantage.

Though they hid within life-prohibited zones, this did not mean they remained permanently in self-sealed stasis.

Even after voluntarily severing their own Dao fruits through self-decapitation, these sovereigns still possessed the ability to achieve ultimate sublimation—once self-decapitated, they could return to their peak.

Yet ultimate sublimation demanded a tremendous cost from these sovereigns, which is why it served as their final trump card, never revealed lightly.

Self-decapitation meant exiting the perfect Dao-certified state, abandoning one’s Heavenly Heart Seal; ultimate sublimation reversed this process.

But understand this: the key reason these sovereigns chose self-decapitation was that, while retaining their Heavenly Heart Seal and maintaining their Dao-certified Emperor state, they had already reached the brink of exhaustion.

This meant they had no choice—ultimate sublimation was their final desperate gamble, a death wish to drag someone down with them.

He did not know how many thoughts had raced through the minds of the sovereigns hiding in life-prohibited zones since he revealed the Luo Tian Method.

When Luo Fu manifested a power akin to the Ten Thousand Transformations Holy Decision, instead of instilling vigilance in these Zhe Tian Method cultivators, it only deepened their resolve to utterly annihilate Luo Fu.

Luo Fu, having embarked on the unprecedented Zhe Tian Method path, was already viewed by Zhe Tian Method cultivators as an aberration.

Now, the effect of his domain—nullifying Zhe Tian spells and magic treasures due to its divergence from the Zhe Tian universe’s Dao and principles—only confirmed their certainty: they must kill Luo Fu.

Luo Fu’s display had completely violated the inner boundary of Zhe Tian Method cultivators.

After all, what gave Zhe Tian Method cultivators their superiority if not their power?

Yet before Luo Fu, everything they prided themselves on had become worthless, so severely undermining their ecological position in the universe.

Undoubtedly, within the vast Zhe Tian universe, cultivators stood at the apex.

At most, cultivators of the Zhe Tian Method differed in strength—but from the moment they forged their own Sea of Bitterness, they were fundamentally distinct from ordinary mortals.

Why were past Emperors so revered? Not for their deeds alone.

It was because the past Emperors, through bloody battles, quelled the Dark Turmoil—this great achievement made their names endure.

Yet ordinary life had fleeting lifespans; countless Emperor names were lost to time.

But for Zhe Tian Method cultivators, the existence of Emperors was what shielded them from the Dark Turmoil.

At this moment, in the eyes of these Zhe Tian Method cultivators, Luo Fu had already been cast as a strange, weak origin of the Dark Turmoil.

Even compared to the Dark Turmoil stirred by life-prohibited zone sovereigns, Luo Fu’s existence was more terrifying.

The sovereigns who stirred the Dark Turmoil merely sought to kill; Luo Fu’s existence would truly destroy everything they held dear.

Even those sovereigns could only slaughter cosmic life, absorb life essence, and prolong their own lives.

The universe was vast—these sovereigns could never kill them all, not with past Emperors and the nine successive Great Saint Bodies of the Ancient Wasteland.

Thus, Luo Fu became the irreconcilable enemy in the hearts of these Zhe Tian Method cultivators.

When they realized ordinary spells and even magic treasures could not harm Luo Fu.

After a brief shock, the first few Zhe Tian Method cultivators to recover exchanged glances, then, driven by impulse, charged straight toward Luo Fu.

If ranged spells and magic treasures could not touch Luo Fu, then let them reveal the most terrifying aspect of Zhe Tian Method cultivators.

Though Zhe Tian Method cultivators possessed countless secret arts and magic treasures, their greatest strength was unquestionably their own bodies.

After all, the origin of the Zhe Tian Method was “the body as seed,” conceived by the Primordial Heaven Emperor to unlock the hidden treasures of the human form.

The Zhe Tian Method itself was a technique, a derivative art.

Its foundation ensured that Zhe Tian Method excelled in close combat.

Blood surged, fear of this unknown being mounting—once one Zhe Tian Method cultivator became the first to strike.

Soon, more and more Zhe Tian Method cultivators began surrounding and attacking Luo Fu.

Facing the overwhelming tide of enemies rushing toward him.

Luo Fu’s face showed neither sorrow nor joy.

Behind him, the Nine Heavens Treasure Tree, with its twelve branches, swayed gently; as radiant divine light danced, an unfathomable aura erupted.

The Zhe Tian Method cultivators at the forefront, the moment touched by this divine light, cried out involuntarily—and before countless eyes, they dissolved into pure life essence, absorbed back into the light, strengthening the Nine Heavens Treasure Tree’s radiance.

At this moment, Luo Fu revealed pure power of Dao and principle.

True cosmic essence.

Many Zhe Tian Method cultivators could not even comprehend how Luo Fu had slain his peers.

Yet this terrifying method did not frighten the other Zhe Tian Method cultivators.

Or rather, Luo Fu had not killed enough.

Fundamentally, the method Luo Fu displayed now operated on the level of Dao and principle.

He was merely unusual—if any other Zhe Tian Method cultivator wished to achieve such a feat, they would need at least a pseudo-Emperor, or even a Dao-certified Emperor.

Only a Dao-certified Emperor could wield Dao as a weapon; even those who achieved Dao in an alternative way might not reach this level.

As Luo Fu was surrounded by countless Zhe Tian Method cultivators.

The sovereigns watching from life-prohibited zones grew increasingly impatient.

As self-decapitated beings, though they had stepped out of their perfect Dao-certified state, they could still perform ultimate sublimation in their final desperate gambit—and they clearly recognized that Luo Fu’s seemingly ordinary, visually unremarkable technique was, in truth, the Dao-level power exclusive to Emperors.

These sovereigns could even discern that Luo Fu’s mastery differed from their own Dao-certification, where one Dao suppressed myriad Dao.

Dao-certified Emperors pushed their own Dao to its absolute limit; in a sense, Dao-certification and the Heavenly Heart Seal meant these Zhe Tian Method cultivators had surpassed the universe’s limits, completing and supplementing the cosmic Dao.

This is why later generations, during their Tribulation Crossing, could see the youthful images of past Emperors in the thunder.

Those youthful Emperor shadows were not actual beings, but projections of the Emperor’s Dao.

Yet Luo Fu’s divine light, though seemingly ordinary, blended dozens of distinct Dao.

Though only twelve Heavenly Dao and methods were involved, these former Dao-certified sovereigns perceived it as a fusion of dozens of Dao—this was not strange at all.

Though the gap between a True Immortal and a Dao-certified Emperor seemed but a step, it was a true, absolute abyss—far greater than the difference between a carp before and after leaping the Dragon Gate.

It was the difference between a Nine Heavens Divine Dragon and a grass carp.

After sharing the abilities of the Nine Heavenly Worlds, Luo Fu had already reached the final step of becoming a Red Dust Immortal—“one lifetime as nine lifetimes.”

Now, his state had shattered the limit of becoming Immortal through nine lifetimes.

If sharing the Dao and methods of nine worlds had allowed Luo Fu to become Immortal through conventional means, then now, with the power of twelve worlds at his side, he possessed the very essence of Immortality.

This was why the life-prohibited zone sovereigns grew ever more unable to restrain themselves.

The Nine Heavens Treasure Tree, its twelve branches swaying, poured forth increasingly magnificent divine light, making Luo Fu appear all the more demonic—though this was how Zhe Tian Method cultivators saw him.

To the life-prohibited zone sovereigns, Luo Fu was not demonic at all; he radiated a sacredness they could not comprehend.

It was the realm they had longed for—Immortality.

With his lifespan nearly spent, to Qilin Ancient Emperor, Luo Fu’s existence had become an irresistible temptation, beyond endurance.

He cast one last resentful glance at his neighbors in the Primordial Ancient Mine, his gaze piercing infinite space, then surveyed other life-prohibited zones.

Unable to bear it any longer, Qilin Ancient Emperor gritted his teeth and instantly hurled his Emperor artifact toward Luo Fu.

The moment the Qilin Staff emerged, it unleashed a chilling Emperor aura.

All of Beidou was shaken to its core by the Emperor artifact’s sudden appearance.

Though Emperor artifacts were merely crafted by Emperors, in this era before the Golden Age had fully begun, even a Saint at the fourth level of the Immortal Platform could roam unchecked.

An awakened Emperor artifact at this time could deliver a dimensional-level strike.

Countless clans, sects, and lone cultivators—who had previously sensed nothing of Luo Fu—were now profoundly shaken by the awakening of Qilin Ancient Emperor’s Emperor artifact, the Qilin Staff.

Clans and sects possessing their own Emperor artifacts as hidden treasures felt their artifacts stir in response.

The Void Mirror of the Ji Clan, the Hengyu Furnace of the Jiang Clan, the Dragon-Engraved Black Gold Cauldron of the Yaoguang Sacred Land…

One by one, the divine spirits within these Emperor artifacts awoke, though none, like the Qilin Staff, were fully activated by their original masters as expendable weapons aimed at Luo Fu—but each displayed fierce resolve to protect their respective domains.

Ji Zi, who had just emerged from the Divine Source seal, stared blankly at the Void Mirror hovering above his clan.

He clearly remembered: when he was sealed in the Divine Source, his father had told him to seek a sliver of chance to achieve Dao before the next Golden Age began.

Yet now, he had barely escaped his seal—and already Emperor artifacts awakening had become commonplace?

Ji Zi was not the only one startled by Qilin Ancient Emperor’s action—every clan and sect, upon sensing the Emperor aura, immediately activated all defenses.

Yet the sovereigns within the life-prohibited zones, upon seeing Qilin Ancient Emperor’s move, grew even more composed than ever.

An Emperor artifact could unleash power second only to that of a Dao-certified Emperor himself.

Though merely an artifact, not a true cultivator, inferior to pseudo-Emperors or alternative Dao achievers, its power depended entirely on who wielded it.

A descendant or disciple of an Emperor could never fully awaken its true might.

But now, the one who acted was none other than Qilin Ancient Emperor himself—the original creator of the Qilin Staff.

Even without ultimate sublimation, the Qilin Staff’s power was sufficient to clash head-on with pseudo-Emperors or alternative Dao achievers.

From the Qilin Staff alone, these sovereigns could deduce much of Luo Fu’s true nature.

Feeling the Qilin Staff pierce space toward him.

Even Luo Fu could not help but change expression.

He had merely wished to carve out a lasting peace for himself.

Yet he never imagined that a life-prohibited zone sovereign would strike him so swiftly.

Under normal circumstances, life-prohibited zone sovereigns remained sealed within Divine Source.

Not only did they not act—they considered even conscious awareness a form of irresponsibility toward life.

Since cutting themselves down, these Supreme Beings have been in a state of continuous loss of life essence, with no means of replenishment; the only way to compensate is to ignite Dark Chaos and plunder the life force of all living beings.

(End of Chapter)