Chapter 816: The Origins of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor

Soon, the Gold Emperor Burning Heaven Flame belonging to the Gu Clan also appeared atop the Strange Flame Pillar.

Not long after, apart from the Strange Flame ranked first, every Strange Flame on the Strange Flame Ranking had already appeared in full upon the Strange Flame Plaza.

With the last Strange Flame, Xu Wu Tun Yan, taking its place, all twenty-two kinds of Strange Flames of the Dou Qi World had been gathered completely.

Afterwards, Lü Bu also condensed the Twenty-Two Strange Flames together.

"Condense!"

At Lü Bu's low cry, the Twenty-Two Strange Flames began to merge slowly.

In a short while, a ball of scorching Strange Flame radiating dazzling light appeared before everyone's eyes.

With the formation of this flame, the temperature of the entire Strange Flame Plaza rose considerably.

Even with cultivation at the Martial Emperor Realm like Bai Qi and the others, they too felt a wave of scorching heat.

From this, one could see that the Emperor Flame, the number one Strange Flame of the Dou Qi World, was indeed very powerful.

And with the formation of the Emperor Flame, a scene also appeared in the sky above the Strange Flame Plaza.

One saw, in a mysterious space, a seven-colored orb of light, after leaving behind a Clone, its main body transformed into a Strange Flame and departed the mysterious space.

And this Strange Flame, within the underground magma, grew by constantly devouring the power of the magma.

Until finally, after this Strange Flame grew powerful, it began to devour the other Strange Flames.

After devouring the Twenty-Two Strange Flames, this Strange Flame ultimately succeeded in advancing to the Dou Di Realm.

And it itself, after breaking through to Dou Di, transformed into human form.

And the human form taken by this Strange Flame was the very same person as the statue atop the Strange Flame Plaza.

Seeing this scene, everyone immediately understood — this should be the path of growth of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor.

"I understand!"

"This general finally understands why the World Consciousness of this Realm has not appeared!"

Just as everyone fell silent, Lü Bu suddenly said to everyone with an excited expression.

Hearing Lü Bu's words, everyone turned their gazes toward him, their eyes full of puzzlement.

"Lu General, what exactly is going on?"

Seeing Lü Bu so excited, Bai Qi could not help but ask.

"Hahaha, General Bai, I wonder if you all noticed that mysterious space earlier?"

Seeing Bai Qi's inquiry, Lü Bu, with a smiling face, asked Bai Qi and the others.

"You mean… that space earlier with the colored orb of light?"

Hearing Lü Bu's words, Bai Qi recalled the scene he had seen earlier and said to Lü Bu uncertainly.

"Exactly!"

Hearing Bai Qi's words, Lü Bu immediately responded.

"Lu General, where is that mysterious space? And what is that colored orb of light?"

At this moment, Huo Qubing at the side could not help but ask Lü Bu.

"That mysterious space is the Heavenly Dao Space where the World Consciousness resides."

"And that colored orb of light is the World Consciousness of this Realm!"

Lü Bu looked at everyone's expectant gazes and said with a solemn expression.

"What!"

"That was actually the World Consciousness?"

Hearing Lü Bu's words, everyone was greatly shocked and could not help but cry out in alarm.

The news Lü Bu spoke of was truly too shocking.

"Then does this mean the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was transformed from the World Consciousness of this Realm?"

After hearing Lü Bu's words, Gu Yuan said with a face full of shock.

The scenes earlier, they had seen very clearly.

It was precisely the World Consciousness that, after leaving behind a small portion of its origin in the Heavenly Dao Space, departed the Heavenly Dao Space.

And after leaving the Heavenly Dao Space, the World Consciousness transformed into a Strange Flame.

Until finally, having gathered twenty-two Strange Flames, it transformed into form and became the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor.

Gu Yuan and the others had not expected that the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was actually transformed from the World Consciousness.

In fact, not to mention Gu Yuan and the others — even Lü Bu had not expected it.

The World Consciousness of the Dou Qi World had actually taken human form.

Moreover, this fellow in the end even left this Realm.

Logically speaking, after the World Consciousness departed, the world it resided in should gradually collapse.

Yet this Dou Qi World could still exist for so long.

However, upon recalling that the World Consciousness had left behind a portion of its own origin before departing, Lü Bu came to somewhat understand.

In that case, it was no wonder that the Dou Qi World could not give birth to a single Dou Di Strong One in the time since.

Even the World Consciousness had already departed — for the Dou Qi World not to collapse was already considered fortunate!

Thinking of this, Lü Bu could not help but feel worried.

Since the World Consciousness was already gone,

how could their Han Empire still advance to the Immortal Martial World?

"Gentlemen, we must hurry back, meet His Majesty, and report this matter to His Majesty."

"The absence of the Dou Qi World's World Consciousness is not good news for our Han Empire!"

After thinking it through, Lü Bu hurriedly said to everyone.

Hearing Lü Bu's words, the expressions of the others also turned somewhat unsightly.

If it really was as Lü Bu had said, then for them, it was indeed bad news.

"Let's go, we'll head back right now to see His Majesty!"

Bai Qi said to everyone at once with a solemn expression.

Immediately after, Bai Qi tore open space and stepped into the Space Rift in a single stride.

Seeing this, the others also closely followed behind Bai Qi and stepped into the Space Rift.

……

In the Gu Clan, within the Ancient Realm, space rippled, and a Space Rift appeared in the Ancient Realm.

Immediately after, Bai Qi's figure was the first to walk out from within the Space Rift.

Seeing it was Bai Qi, the people of the Gu Clan also relaxed their expressions.

Afterwards, the figures of Lü Bu, Huo Qubing, Gu Yuan, and the others also successively walked out from the Space Rift.

Very soon, everyone arrived at the Gu Clan's council Main Hall.

Seeing that Liu Bian happened to be in the Main Hall, Bai Qi and the others hurriedly bowed to Liu Bian:

"Your general (minister) pays respects to Your Majesty, and wishes Your Majesty boundless sage longevity!"

Seeing this scene, Liu Bian waved his hand at everyone and said in a commanding voice:

"Your Ministers, please rise!"

"Your general (minister) thanks Your Majesty greatly!"

After seeing everyone rise, Liu Bian noticed their solemn expressions and also began to inquire of them.

"Judging by your expressions, things didn't go well—did something unexpected happen during this trip to the Dou Emperor Cave Mansion?"

In Liu Bian's memory, within the Dou Emperor Cave Mansion, apart from a Nine-Star Dou Sheng Peak Zhukun, there were only the Emperor Grade Infant Flame and Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's remnant soul.

But these three, for Bai Qi and the others, should have been resolved very easily.

"Your Majesty, within the Dou Emperor Cave Mansion, we encountered Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's remnant soul…"

Immediately after, Lü Bu stepped forward and gave Liu Bian a detailed report of everything that had happened within Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's cave mansion.

"Your Majesty, this is the Emperor Flame condensed from the Twenty-Two Strange Flames!"

After finishing his report, Lü Bu took out the Emperor Flame and respectfully presented it before Liu Bian.