Chapter 544: Mentioning the Old Affairs of the Five Ancient Emperors

Facing this spear of Qian Chen's that pierced the void, Ao Zangwu swung his dragon tail, shattering the tent. The rolling seawater outside the tent surged in, surrounding his body.

The seawater in this shallow sea area steamed, and in an instant, large patches of cloud energy surrounded his body. This cloud energy was mixed with the Dragon race's magic power, dense and tough, even surpassing many Daoist cloud-seal magic tools.

At this moment, True Person Jiayue's sword had already slashed at his neck. Large patches of dragon blood sprayed out. The golden-red dragon blood, accompanied by a high-pitched dragon chant, instantly evaporated ten thousand jun of seawater, and the rolling cloud energy exploded.

Surrounded by cloud energy, Ao Zangwu revealed a thousand-zhang dragon body. His dragon horns were towering as he turned his head, and two dragon whiskers floated.

Accompanied by a dragon chant, the reverse scale under his jaw sprayed open. Ao Zangwu extracted the water vapor from this vast sea area, transforming it into countless steaming cloud energy—the Dragon race's innate great divine ability!

Riding the clouds and driving the mist!

Accompanied by this countless cloud energy, it was Ao Zangwu's continuous magic power. With the sea of clouds covering his body, he didn't need those billions of demon soldiers to form a great formation on his own.

In a duel of this level, it was almost a sweep of a large area. Those shrimp soldiers and crab generals who were hard to intervene could stand in the clouds, just like Dao soldiers and divine generals standing in a divine realm, giving the Dragon race a boost of magic power.

The dragon is an innate divine beast. In the great divine ability of riding the clouds and driving the mist, gathering cloud energy is not only like a boost from a formation on the ground, but it can also absorb billions of water tribes into the formation, turning them into part of the formation.

Just like the divine realm of a god!

Ao Zangwu raised his twin arms high, gathering the infinite power of the great formation. At the moment Qian Chen's next spear radiance pierced the void and thrust toward the reverse scale under his jaw, the twin hammers suddenly closed in front of his chest, blocking this spear radiance.

At the same time, those few small dragons also transformed into their original forms, roaming in the sea of clouds, joining forces to block True Person Jiayue's sword light!

The Zhu Que Fire-Pointed Spear was aggressive like fire, and the spear momentum was incomparable. In an instant, it forced out all of Ao Zangwu's innate divine abilities. But the Dragon race's physical body was ultimately powerful and ever-changing. True Person Jiayue's sword only caused his physical body to suffer heavy damage, but it did not damage his combat power.

"The Dragon race is indeed worthy of being a powerful race born to drive the Hong Hong Sihai and rule the water tribes. Just this strand of True Dragon bloodline is worth two-grade Jin Dan!"

Qian Chen understood in his heart that this Dragon race inherited the legacy of some ancient great god. The dragon pearl condensed by their Yin Spirit was a path completely different from the Immortal Dao.

The dragon pearl was not only the seed of the great divine ability of riding the clouds and driving the mist, but also an innate divine status. Wherever it went, it could turn the surrounding water area and even the clouds and mist into a divine realm.

If Qian Chen were to draw an analogy, this was a Jin Dan of the Divine Path!

In comparison, the internal core formed by the Dragon race was the result of inheriting the Immortal Dao. The four Dragon Kings of the Hong Hong Sihai Dragon Palace should be the fruit status of the Divine Path, second-grade righteous gods pardoned by the Heavenly Court. It was not the Primordial Spirit fruit status of the Immortal Dao, but a god equivalent to the Primordial Spirit, a second-grade true god!

"In other words, these four Dragon Kings of the Dragon race are actually the status of four true gods. If the dragon pearl cultivates the Immortal Dao to achieve the Primordial Spirit, there is another kind of merit. Looking at it this way, the Dragon race's foundation is even deeper than I imagined..."

Because the Hong Hong Sihai Dragon Kings had no divine status and were not on the Dao Sect's Investiture of the Gods, Qian Chen had not been able to penetrate the mystery for a time. Although he had killed an old dragon who walked the Divine Path earlier and knew that the dragon pearl was the core of its divine realm, today, seeing Ao Zangwu, who cultivated the Immortal Dao lineage, display his innate great divine ability and reveal the dragon pearl, he finally glimpsed the core mystery of the Dragon race's path!

"It seems that all True Dragons who cultivate the Immortal Dao are actually goods who cultivate both Immortal and Divine paths! Hmph! Standing on both sides, be careful of capsizing the boat!"

"I don't know which ancient great god their inherited bloodline comes from. It is actually so terrifying, almost engraving the Divine Path into the bloodline, equivalent to half an innate god! The Dragon race rules billions of water tribes and has territory in the sea area, just like the acquired Divine Path, receiving the offerings of faith and thoughts from the water tribes under their command, thereby nourishing and nurturing the dragon pearl."

"The dragon pearl does not rely on incense and wishes. The power of 'where the dragon goes in the water, it is a god' even has a hint of the wonder of an innate god."

"But the Dragon race practices the path, polishes the dragon pearl, and receives the offerings of billions of water tribes, which is the path of a god emperor! The Divine Path that controls the water area and the wonder of manipulating laws is the innate Divine Path; receiving the offerings of acquired sentient beings and absorbing wishes and faith is the application of the acquired Divine Path. This kind of obtaining both innate and acquired Divine Paths faintly has a hint of the ancient and obscure charm of the Great Dao of the ancient times... The ancestor of the Dragon race, wouldn't it be that ancient great power who inherited the innate Divine Path and opened up the acquired Divine Path!"

At this moment, Qian Chen's thoughts flashed, and he remembered a few sentences written in simple and near-Great Dao eclipse script on an ancient turtle shell in the Louguan Dao—

"Zhen Yu from the Dragon, Phoenix, Spirit Ancestor, Original Ancestor Ying Qiang, one hundred cattle"

"Dao Venerable Wenshi annotated: Qiang is the disobedient barbarian of the Heavenly Shang Divine Dynasty, cattle is the five-colored divine cow, using one hundred heads for sacrifice, great extravagance!"

"Dao Venerable Wenshi annotated: Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, Original, Ying are the Five Ancient Emperors! The Long Huang ruled the acquired sentient beings to disobey, attacked the gods, was defeated, and was executed! The Phoenix Emperor offered to the acquired sentient beings to disobey, attacked the gods, was defeated, and was executed! The Qilin Emperor was benevolent, pitied the acquired sentient beings to disobey, attacked the gods, fought for a million years, and was defeated! The sentient beings of the world were less than one in a hundred!"

"The Original Emperor is the ancestor of humans, led the acquired sentient beings to attack the gods, still defeated! The Ying Emperor is the ancestor of humans, the Ying clan, a half-god, led the acquired sentient beings to attack the gods, the Emperor summoned him, he did not obey, split his body into five directions!"

"The Emperor demoted the clans of the Five Emperors to insects. The five acquired insects are Ying, Scale, Mao, Yu, Kun! The Lieshan clan inherited the position of the Ying Emperor, became Chi, ruled the five insects, still enemies of the gods!"

"The Ying Emperor, the combination of the Original Emperor and the two clans, gave birth to the Lady Gongsun clan. The Lieshan clan declined, passed the position to Lady Gongsun, exerted the remaining power of the Five Emperors, attacked the gods, the Emperor's mandate declined, and finally won! This is the head of the Five Ancient Emperors, known as the Huang Di!"

"Succeeded to establish the Divine Court, attacked the disobedient, executed the beast gods and fierce gods, Kunpeng, Qiongqi, Zhuyin all rebelled, returned to the five insects. The Original Emperor Lieshan lineage did not obey, the nine clans rebelled, their leader Jiang You claimed to be the Original Emperor, Lieshan, still wore fur, known as the insect race, good with Ying, Scale, Mao, Yu, Kun, the gods thought it was Chi!"

"The Huang Di pacified the Divine Court, registered the nine clans, enfeoffed the Jiang clan, known as the Nine Li, still thought it was the god race!"

"The Nine Li god race returned to the Great Wilderness, did not serve the Heavenly Realm!"

"After the Huang Di, the human race flourished, there were Green, Black, White, Red four emperors each ruling for a time, this is the Five Ancient Emperors! Opened the five elements, opened the human path, and became gods!"

"Annotation by Xin Jiran of the Louguan Dao: The Five Ancient Emperors—Dragon, Phoenix, Spirit, and Origin—were innate gods. Later-born beings revered them as ancestors. The Emperor of Victory was a demigod, also revered as an ancestor. Innate beings multiplied into later-born ones, and the ancient innate gods viewed them as food. The Long Huang's bloodline was the most arrogant, so it rebelled first, initiating the later-born divine path and being the first to advocate for later-born beings to become gods. The Phoenix Emperor was noble and pure, becoming the Phoenix; its bloodline was not numerous, but it received the devotion of birds and did not enjoy blood-feasts, so it was embraced by later-born beings. It opened up the Five Virtues, becoming the pioneer of the Path of Merit, and unable to bear the ancient gods' cruelty toward living beings, it also rebelled!"

"After the two emperors rebelled, the innate ancient gods were enemies of sentient beings, the Qilin Emperor was benevolent and kind, led the ancestor gods, half-gods, and acquired gods of the acquired sentient beings, went against heaven to attack the gods, captured the Great Wilderness (now the Earth Immortal Realm), and had holy virtue in the world."

"In the 100,000th year of the Spirit Emperor era, the Dragon race betrayed, the Spirit Emperor collapsed, the Qilin Emperor succeeded, restored for 50,000 years, the half-gods betrayed, collapsed! Restored for 500,000 years, the Great Wilderness was captured, all slaughtered! Restored for 100,000 years, 63,600 acquired clans were destroyed. The Original Emperor was angry and rose up, 3,000 acquired sentient clans followed him, became the ancestor of humans, wore fur, had nine great ape clans, humans lived in one of them, known as the Ying Ape!"

"In the Original Emperor era, the acquired sentient beings were checked, there were only 39,800 clans!"

"In the 30,000th year of the Original Emperor era, the Great Wilderness was recaptured, the Emperor attacked personally, the Original Emperor collapsed! The Ying Emperor is a half-god, the son of the Ying Ape, was plundered to the Divine Court, became a slave! Received the love of the Emperor's daughter, escaped, married the Emperor's daughter, lived in seclusion in the Great Wilderness for 5,000 years. Emperor's son Li attacked! Emperor's daughter collapsed! The Ying Emperor rebelled, the five clans rose together, inherited the Original Emperor position."

"The Ying Emperor occupied the Great Wilderness for nine eras, and allied with 800 clans of acquired sentient beings, and attacked the gods!"

"The Emperor was tired of the rebellion of the acquired sentient beings, allowed the Ying Emperor to recruit them, pulled up the acquired gods to be gods, served in the Divine Court, Ying did not obey, the acquired gods betrayed, collapsed! Split into five directions, each became a divine mountain, the leader contained the Emperor's daughter's remains, the skull split, Lieshan came out!"

"Chronicles of the Five Ancient Emperors: Received the mandate from all living beings, went against heaven to rebel against the gods, by ruling, nobility, benevolence, compassion, received the mandate from all living beings! Flourished the path of the acquired, protected the multiplication of sentient beings, this is great merit. Ten thousand clans record it together..."

"However, at the time of the Five Emperors, the path of cultivation was not complete, the acquired sentient beings were weak, and the ancient gods were powerful, so the Five Ancient Emperors all died miserably... until the time of the Huang Di, inherited the remaining shade of the Five Emperors, angry at the fierceness of the ten thousand acquired clans, finally beheaded the Emperor's mandate, opened the five elements, the acquired sentient beings multiplied until now."

"Although the Huang Di attacked the disobedient and bent the ten thousand clans, during his reign, he did not destroy a single clan. The acquired sentient beings multiplied to 120,000 clans, and had great merit to all living beings! At that time, the descendants of the Five Emperors were almost gods, known as the Five-Colored God Race, opened the Divine Court, powerful for a time. However, after the Five Emperors, the Desolate Emperor succeeded, his power was dim, cut himself off from the human race, cut off the communication between heaven and earth, witchcraft and sacrifice were rampant, finally leading to the Great Tribulation of the Chaotic Ancient Era!"

"The Five-Colored Divine Court collapsed, the Five Emperors era ended! In the last years of the ancient times, the heavens were in great chaos, demons and monsters rose together, the human race was weak, history calls it the Chaotic Ancient Era!"

"At that time, the Supreme Dao Ancestor was born, in the body of a shepherd boy, passed down the Great Dao, opened Yin and Yang, established the Xuan Sect to rule the human race, subdued demons and eliminated monsters, pacified the Chaotic Ancient Era..."

At this moment, Qian Chen finally thought clearly!

"So the Dragon race is really the direct descendant of the Long Huang. I thought they were like the human race, all climbing high!"

Qian Chen was clear that the Original Emperor's body was an ancient divine ape. His relationship with the human race could only be said that the naked ape among the nine descendant clans under his command, that is, the Ying Ape branch, was considered the ancestor of the human race.

Saying it was the Original Emperor (Yuan Emperor), it should actually be the Ape Emperor. Climbing to be the ancestor of humans was definitely a false claim!

Later, the relationship between the Ying Emperor and the human race was relatively close, but strictly speaking, the Lieshan clan, who contained the Emperor's daughter's bones in the Ying Emperor's mouth and was born from a split skull, was the first true human race!

The current Phoenix race's relationship with the Phoenix Emperor is also a mystery. In comparison, the relationship between the ancient Feng clan of the human race and the Phoenix Emperor is even closer, so the Phoenix race has always regarded the Shaohao Feng clan as a kind of phoenix.

Like the Qingluan and Bifang, they are a kind of phoenix whose body is human!

The Qilin is a spirit beast, born inheriting a bit of Dao rhyme after the Spirit Emperor transformed into the Dao, not a blood descendant.

These Feng, Spirit, and Original emperors are all innate gods, and their blood descendants are all half-gods, but they had long been slaughtered by the Emperor. Now, those who inherit their Daoist lineage are more like their Dao imprinted on the world as a kind of feedback.

Qian Chen had always thought that the Dragon race was also like this, but now it seems that the Long Huang is indeed worthy of the evaluation of ancestor Xin Jiran that his blood descendants are numerous, actually not being killed off under the liquidation of the God Emperor.

Of course, it is also possible that the struggle between the Long Huang and the God Emperor was only thought to be a power struggle among innate ancient gods, not regarded as rebellion, until the time of the Spirit Emperor, when the rebellion of the acquired sentient beings became so large that it almost shook the foundation of the ancient Divine Court, and only then did the ancient gods begin to plan the slaughter of the acquired sentient beings.

"If the Dragon race is really the descendant of the Long Huang, that person is an innate god great power who opened up the acquired Divine Path. It is reasonable for his path to condense and transform into a dragon pearl. No wonder the dragon pearl can have such wonderful uses. It is simply an innate treasure of the Divine Path. I even want to raise a group of True Dragons to collect pearls regularly!"

Qian Chen's gaze gradually became scorching, making Ao Zangwu, who was trying his best to gather water vapor, feel cold. The dragon pearl was trembling slightly, feeling that his great divine ability of riding the clouds and driving the mist could never be dispersed, turning this thousand-mile sea area into a divine realm.

"This is an innate divine talisman!" Qian Chen glanced at the dragon pearl that had turned into a sea of clouds, feeling it a pity that among these three small dragons, only the Fourth Prince Ao Ding had cultivated the Yin Spirit and condensed the dragon pearl.

Seeing Ao Zangwu still wanting to expand the divine realm, a cold smile appeared on the corner of Qian Chen's mouth: "How could I not know your Dragon race's great divine ability of riding the clouds and driving the mist? I should have been prepared long ago!"

With a wave of his hand, the seawater in the surrounding thousand-mile sea area gathered, transforming into an Immeasurable Sea Emperor, with four arms surrounding, trapping Ao Zangwu's accompanying sea of clouds, cutting off his connection with the water of the Hong Hong Sihai.

The immeasurable seawater transformed into a flood ribbon surrounding a thousand miles, entangled on the four arms of the Sea Emperor, firmly sealing this coral sea area, not giving them a chance to send out news and let the Dragon Palace come to the rescue.

Qian Chen's figure, against the backdrop of the Sea Emperor Dharma image, was like an ant.

The divine fire on his long spear was scorching, thrusting into the sea of clouds, directly tearing apart a large part of the formation. Those water tribes were revealed from the cover of the sea of clouds and were killed by Qian Chen casually.

Under the arrogance of the rolling Zhu Que divine fire...

Even though he had the magic power of 100,000 demon soldiers gathered by the great divine ability of riding the clouds and driving the mist, blessing Ao Zangwu, making him cast a spell casually, as if it had given birth to a true spirit, possessing infinite power, the twin hammers he wielded under the blessing of the formation could not even be caught by Qian Chen's Zhu Que Fire-Pointed Spear. The remaining power smashed onto the sea surface below, setting off giant waves up to several miles high!

But Qian Chen either pointed or collapsed, or lifted or thrust, relying on the storage elasticity of the spear shaft and the accommodating and dissolving ability of the Immeasurable Sea Emperor Dharma body, he was also back and forth, not falling into a disadvantage.

"Fortunately, my Water-Element Divine Light cultivated Dharma image restrains all Water-Element divine abilities. I first cut off the connection between this dragon and the Hong Hong Sihai, otherwise, the power of this formation would become stronger and stronger as it runs. My two Dharma image incarnations are far from being able to rival its power!"

Qian Chen lifted and smashed the demon soldiers in the sea of clouds, killing thousands in an instant. But in ordinary times, these demon soldiers wouldn't even need one of his divine abilities to be wiped out!

Now, under the blessing of the True Dragon's divine ability, it was enough to bring trouble to Qian Chen.

Those demon generals who had not formed a core were all promoted by one realm, and even Ao Ren and Ao Ji jumped two major realms, possessing a hint of Soul Transformation power!

The three Yin Spirit demon kings, whom Qian Chen could have killed casually with some effort, all revealed their original bodies and could take two or three of Qian Chen's frontal spear thrusts!

The long spear in Qian Chen's palm turned, thrusting into the void, thrusting toward a demon king whose original body was like jade coral. The magic power on his body transformed into nine fire dragons, nine kinds of true fire surrounding and burning the Zhu Que Divine Spear until it was crimson. The point of red-golden divine fire on the spear tip suddenly surged, the red tassels rotated and flew, actually burning a large hole in the sea of clouds formation.

The Zhu Que Divine Spear transformed into a line of fire, suddenly piercing through the formation in the impossible, piercing the original body of the jade coral demon king to death, and even the divine soul was extinguished by the divine fire.

Seeing the original body of the coral demon king overflowing with spiritual light, clearly a top-grade spiritual material for refining magic treasures, Qian Chen gave the Bai Lu a wink. He himself continued to lift the spear to Ao Zangwu's hammer, shattering it.

The Bai Lu understood his intention, wandered to the place where the coral demon king fell, lifted it with its deer horns, collected the jade coral, and then continued to look for opportunities to secretly collect the treasures scattered in the tent.

At this time, the cultivators in the tent, under the power of the terrifying confrontation between the two sides, were either injured or dead, and all fled under the sea surface, relying on the seawater to resist the aftermath!

"If my true body were here, I wouldn't fear his great divine ability of riding the clouds and driving the mist. Whether it is the Five-Colored Divine Light or the Mastery of Five Thunders, I have ways to break it. But now I only have the Water and Fire two-element Dharma bodies, and his sea of clouds is a formation, and his divine ability and martial arts are also extraordinary. To kill him, I still need to join forces with True Person Jiayue!"

"Otherwise, I would have to rely on reversing Yin and Yang to transform the Water and Fire Dharma bodies into a Water-Fire Taiji Diagram!"

"This is the trump card of this incarnation of mine. If I can't kill him in one blow, I'm afraid I won't be able to do anything to this dragon! Better to join forces with True Person Jiayue and try!"

Immediately, he transformed the Shaoqing token into a sword light, relied his mind on it, issued a clear sword cry, and informed True Person Jiayue of his thoughts through the sword cry.

True Person Jiayue had fought the Dragon race so often that she was familiar with them. Knowing she could not kill these few dragons, she had not originally intended to kill them, but upon hearing Qian Chen's sword-sound transmission, her eyes narrowed. She retracted her flying sword, and then her natal sword embryo merged with the sword light, pulling out a heaven-startling ribbon of light that sliced the sea of clouds before her wide open!

Ao Zangwu sneered coldly: "So what if you used the natal sword embryo? Although your Shaoqing immortal sword is sharp, you and I are ultimately a realm apart. How can you break my divine ability?"

At this time, the flood ribbon surrounding Qian Chen's Sea Emperor Dharma body had suddenly rolled up. Countless seawater condensed, and in the surging, thunder light was hidden. The Gui Water energy transformed into thunder beads that filled the sky and fell, bursting open, shaking the mountains and earth.

A burst of extreme cold light suddenly erupted from the Sea Emperor Dharma body. While Ao Zangwu was negligent in resisting the Gui Water Divine Thunder, it suddenly transformed countless thunder beads into a cold light that pierced through the sky and the earth. Wherever it went, everything turned into ice, and then shattered into powder.

Qian Chen finally used the Ice Soul Divine Thunder, which he had been nurturing for a long time, to shatter the sea of clouds. Countless water tribe demon soldiers turned into ice chips and fell...

At this moment, True Person Jiayue suddenly glared, and with a stern shout, the natal sword embryo vibrated. Under the vibration, the originally stagnant sword light rose again, three times faster than the sword qi thunder sound.

In an instant, it shattered Ao Zangwu's water flow divine ability that surrounded his body, almost slashing his tough dragon body into two sections with one sword.

But Ao Zangwu was fierce after being injured. A thin layer of water light plated onto the dragon scales on his body. It was just a thin layer, but it was almost indestructible.

The wound slashed open by the flying sword was covered by water light in an instant. This was a life-saving Mysterious Ice Divine Armor that this person had worn for many years of fighting. This armor was made of billions of years of mysterious ice. Even if Ao Zangwu wore it on his body, he had to use all his magic power to protect himself to withstand it.

It was just that because of this, he could only deal with the enemy with pure martial arts, so he hadn't used it earlier.

At this moment, his great divine ability of riding the clouds and driving the mist was broken. Facing True Person Jiayue's full-strength sword, he had to put on the divine armor to protect himself.

But this was exactly what Qian Chen wanted. He abandoned Ao Zangwu, shook off the red tassels, and the Zhu Que divine fire burned fiercely, dyeing half the sky red. Then, that infinite divine fire was gathered by a suddenly thrust spear, like a meteor falling instantly, almost freezing time and space.

Ao Ding felt a sense of alarm. He just unfolded the black banner behind him, and infinite fierce ghosts gathered and black clouds dispersed for a hundred miles. During this time, ghosts cried and gods howled, and countless living souls roared miserably. But only a point of golden-red divine light was seen penetrating from the black clouds. In an instant, countless fierce ghosts were burned out, and a point of copper color penetrated from Ao Ding's chest, nailing him to the spear tip...

"Ao Ding!" Ao Zangwu roared: "Does your Shaoqing really dare to commit such a poisonous hand against my Dragon race's direct descendant?"

Qian Chen lifted the dying Ao Ding and sneered, saying calmly: "The dragon slayer is Qian Chen of Louguan! What does it have to do with Shaoqing?"

True Person Jiayue laughed lightly: "Louguan and Shaoqing are both direct lineages of the Dao Sect. Nephew, do not worry! A mere East Sea Dragon race, my Shaoqing kills if we want to kill, what is there to worry about?"

Qian Chen's face turned black, and he muttered in his heart: "Not good, Senior Brother Yan's seniority has dragged me down again! If I had known, I would have agreed beforehand to calculate each other's accounts!" ===== CHAPTER 545 =====