Chapter 242

This sturdy man holding a giant axe is part of Emperor Pangu, and can be called Pangu King.

Like the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Emperor Pangu also divided himself into three parts, existing respectively in the past, present, and future; the part facing Feng Yi is the present portion, a true Stone Man King, and one of the oldest kings of the Nine Provinces.

"Fuxi?"

Pangu King's eyes still held a hint of disbelief; after a long while he sighed, "I never expected it to really be you—I thought I had mistaken you. It's truly been a long time since we last met; I never imagined you have now reached such a level!"

As one of the oldest kings of the Nine Provinces, although Pangu King is not in the Nine Provinces, he has always secretly paid attention to its situation.

However, after the defeat in the Battle of the Source Land billions of years ago, Pangu King realized that beyond the ninety-nine stone steps of the other world lies an unimaginable great terror, a terror that even kings cannot cope with.

Before truly uncovering the hidden secret within, Pangu King could only hide in the Primordial Heavenly Realm, secretly seeking opportunities and probing bit by bit.

For if they cannot uncover the other world's hidden secret and find a way to counter it, then no matter how many times the Nine Provinces victory over the other world, they will ultimately, like previous civilizations, inexplicably return to the road of failure.

Of course, after the recent world-shaking battle, Pangu King has already understood what the hidden secret and foundation of the other world are.

Emperor!

The other world actually has a supremely powerful being surpassing kings existing in the world—no wonder that, although the Nine Provinces clearly held the advantage multiple times initially, they suddenly suffered a crushing defeat, and even later were almost unable to recover!

Since the other world possesses a supremely powerful existence surpassing kings as its foundation, no matter how many kings the Nine Provinces produce, it is utterly meaningless.

From the terrifying battles in which just a few emperors could almost destroy the heavens with a wave of their hand, Pangu King realized that the gulf between emperors and kings is an unbridgeable chasm.

Facing the existence of an emperor in the other world, the Nine Provinces' defeat is actually quite normal.

Thinking of this, Pangu King looked at the familiar figure before him, and his eyes involuntarily showed a hint of dazedness.

Fuxi, as one of the most outstanding primordial gods of the current Nine Provinces civilization era, Pangu King naturally knows him and is aware that this fellow Daoist has already surpassed the realm of primordial gods, undergoing transformation in secret.

But what Pangu King did not expect was that, upon meeting again, this fellow Daoist Fuxi had directly grown from a minor primordial god to being able to suppress two emperor-level supreme beings, and it appeared effortless.

This growth rate simply surpasses his imagination; it can even be said to be unprecedented, making him feel as if he has fallen into an illusion!

And at the moment when thoughts turned in Pangu King's mind, the hearts of the many kings around him also surged with tremendous shock.

Pangu King, as one of the strongest beings even among kings, and an antique who has lived for hundreds of millions of years, most of the kings know of him or have heard of this king of the Nine Provinces.

But what surprised everyone was that this supremely powerful being who could suppress two emperors actually knows Pangu King, and the two appear to share a deep origin.

Thinking of Pangu King's origin, many kings' minds involuntarily gave rise to a thought:

"Could it be that this powerful one named Fuxi also comes from the Nine Provinces?"

Thinking of this, some antiques who have lived for endless years felt a stir, and images of the kings that have occasionally appeared in the Nine Provinces over hundreds of millions of years surfaced in their minds, involuntarily giving rise to a hint of suspicion.

What exactly is special about the world of the Nine Provinces?

How is it that new kings appear after each passage of time, and now even a supreme being like Fuxi capable of suppressing emperors has emerged?

"Indeed it is me!"

Hearing Pangu King's words, Feng Yi nodded slightly, smiling and said, "I have gained some other opportunities."

Saying this, Feng Yi gently turned his gaze and glanced around the chaotic land.

In an instant, the gazes of all the surrounding kings were completely occupied by a pair of profound and inscrutable eyes, causing their hearts to tremble involuntarily.

After regaining their senses, everyone immediately understood the meaning of this powerful being.

Without the slightest hesitation, the kings hurriedly performed a respectful salute and then quickly left this chaotic land.

Before departing, looking at that profound figure standing in the chaotic land, all the kings understood that from today onward, the pattern of the myriad heavens and worlds would undergo a earth-shaking change.

The birth of an emperor-level supreme existence means these kings can no longer be invincible in the world as before, standing atop the myriad heavens!

Thinking of this, the hearts of many kings instantly became complex.

At the same time, confirming that the realm of emperor truly exists above the king, the hearts of some kings who had slept for countless years in their pursuit of the Dao began to awaken, as if regaining their former vitality.

As the kings left this chaotic land one by one, the place returned to calm once more, leaving only Feng Yi and Pangu King.

Paying no heed to the thoughts of the many kings, after seeing them all depart, Feng Yi once again turned his gaze toward Pangu King.

Sensing the spiritual fluctuations of this Stone Man King, Feng Yi immediately understood that this king, like the Nine Provinces' Shennong and Xuanyuan, had not recovered his past-life memories.

Regarding this, Feng Yi felt no surprise; instead, he pondered whether to fully awaken the other party.

"Anyway, I no longer intend to continue the original plan of the Absolute Emperor of the Myriad Heavens; I might as well awaken Pangu Emperor—it would also give me an extra helper!"

As this thought arose in his mind, Feng Yi's heart stirred, and the qi mechanism within his body began to change.

With the power of the eightfold great spacetime reincarnation system he has now constructed, awakening Pangu Emperor is neither trivial nor particularly difficult.

Hum

As his own Great Dao turned, eight dazzling bright light rings appeared in the ancient city universe in his palm, slowly rotating, constructing a great spacetime reincarnation according to the profound rule system.

And at the very core of the ancient city universe, a faint illusion of the Yi Dao Taiji appeared, together with the eight surrounding light rings forming a harmonious whole, like a perfect and flawless yin-yang bagua diagram.

"Pangu, do not resist!"

A grand and profound voice sounded; Feng Yi extended his hand, and the ancient city universe in his palm directly fell onto Pangu King's head, pouring down strands of brilliant divine light that completely enveloped him, activating the power of the great spacetime reincarnation.

"This"

Hearing Feng Yi's voice, Pangu King couldn't help but startle, his eyes also showing a hint of doubt.

However, out of trust in this fellow Daoist, Pangu King did not make any resisting move.

Regarding this fellow Daoist Fuxi, he has an innate trust, believing the other party will not harm him!

Hum

As the great spacetime reincarnation power operated, a profound force merged into Pangu King's innate spiritual light; his mind stirred slightly, as if sensing something, and his eyes showed a hint of dazedness.

Rush

An illusory sound of flowing water arose, and an ancient, weathered river appeared, like an eternal spacetime river flowing through every corner of the myriad heavens and worlds, penetrating past, present, and future.

The spacetime river, taking Pangu King's internal qi mechanism as a guide, and borrowing the profound principles of the great spacetime reincarnation, connected to the ancient ages before the primordial wilderness and extended toward the distant future of endless time.

In an instant, illusory conceptual forces from past and future converged upon Pangu King's body; his Stone King body suddenly blazed with light, as if undergoing some deep-level completion.

Although Pangu King's cultivation has not undergone any major change temporarily, his entire qi mechanism has become completely different from before, carrying a sense of loftiness and transcendence, as if incompatible with the rules of the myriad heavens; even his original stone body faintly glowed with bloodlight, showing a tendency to transform into a flesh-and-blood body.

Witnessing this scene, countless trigrams flowed in Feng Yi's eyes, reflecting Pangu King—or rather, the qi mechanism changes within Pangu Emperor—perceiving the contained principles and laws, continually perfecting his mastery of the Way of Pangu Opening Heaven and Earth.

Not knowing how long had passed, Feng Yi's spiritual sense twitched slightly, as if sensing something; he reached out, and the radiance of the Ancient City Universe atop Pangu Huang's head retracted, returning to his hand.

Hum

At that moment, the changes in Pangu Huang's internal qi completely ceased, and he slowly opened his eyes.

A mysterious and hazy light flowed within his eyes, carrying a sense of being from another era, as he whispered: 'So that's how it is!'

The moment his words fell, Pangu Huang turned his gaze, sighing: 'I never expected that beyond the endless Chaos outside the myriad heavens there would be yet more heavens; the Great Dao truly has no bounds, Fuxi, you have quite the fortune!'

Hehe.

A faint smile appeared on Feng Yi's face as he softly said: 'I too gained the ability to traverse the heavens through sheer chance, and thus changed my original plan.'

Hearing Feng Yi's words, a hint of contemplation appeared in Pangu Huang's eyes, as if pondering something.

After a moment, he reached out and plunged into the Chaos, tearing open the boundless Chaos.

After a moment, Pangu Huang withdrew his hand from the Chaos, and a towering palace appeared in his palm.

The palace was ancient and weathered, filled with the marks of time; deep within stood a stone gate, remarkably similar to the stone gate at the end of the ninety-nine-layered stone steps of the other world, as if they were one.

Since Fuxi, you have decided, we naturally will fully support you.

Having said that, Pangu Huang hesitated no further, directly handing the palace in his hand to Feng Yi.

'Mm, rest assured.'

Feng Yi nodded, reached out to take the palace from Pangu Huang's hand, and directly placed it into his own Ancient City Universe.

Boom

The moment the palace appeared within the Ancient City Universe, a ninety-nine-layered stone steps emerged— that very holy artifact of the other world— and collided directly with the palace.

In an instant, the two holy artifacts reordered and combined; the palace's stone gate merged directly with the stone gate at the end of the ninety-nine-layered stone steps, forming a brand-new palace possessing the ninety-nine-layered stone steps.

At the same time, the Heaven-reaching Death Bridge, etched with the marks of time, appeared, joining the two holy artifacts and spanning the top of the steps, becoming a Heaven-ascending stone bridge leading to endless unknown realms.

A hazy, illusory micro-world emerged, like the primordial source of all things, carrying a hint of the most ancient qi; it merged directly with the entire Ancient City Universe, making the universe somewhat more stable and imparting a touch of the primordial source's aura.

Witnessing this, Feng Yi's gaze grew ever deeper, countless trigrams flowing in his eyes, constantly deducing the future's fateful branches.

Although he will no longer follow his original plan of using the primordial power of the heavens to refine the sovereigns.

But these heavenly holy artifacts are not without use.

These holy artifacts are forged from the primordial power of the heavens combined with the primal Dao of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and are themselves immensely powerful treasures.

More importantly, each of these holy artifacts contains the qi of the primordial source.

By reorganizing these heavenly holy artifacts, Feng Yi can disguise his Ancient City Universe as the primordial source recognized by the sovereigns, luring them into a trap so that their Sovereign Dao Origin Order becomes nourishment for his future transformation, and also transmute this Ancient City Universe into a supreme treasure surpassing the sovereigns.

Of course, to achieve this, Feng Yi at least needs the power to overwhelm the sovereigns, so he can truly net them all.

In the original story, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, by linking the primordial power of the heavens across past, present, and future, caused the entire heavens' past and future to suffer grave vital injury, lowering the heavens' hierarchy as the price, thereby ultimately wiping out many sovereigns.

Feng Yi does not intend to do that; he can only rely on his own power to suppress the many sovereigns.

'With so many sovereigns, so much Sovereign Dao Origin Order, to completely obliterate them would be a shame, and it would also gravely wound the primordial source of the heavens, weakening overall strength—truly contrary to my ideals; better to let these sovereigns' Dao sources become nourishment for my future transformation!'

This thought arose in his mind; Feng Yi's gaze shifted slightly, and the future vision in his eyes fully coalesced into one.

Afterward, he restrained the aura of the Ancient City Universe in his hand, causing it to return to an ordinary state, like a pocket-sized model.

Having done all this, Feng Yi turned his gaze toward the vast Nine Provinces world beyond the endless Chaos, smiling: 'The Holy Ancestor of the other world has already been suppressed by me; it's time to resolve the last remnants of the other world and fully restore peace to the Nine Provinces.'

Hearing Feng Yi's words, Pangu Huang's mind conjured the ancient civilization of the Nine Provinces spanning a hundred million years; his eyes involuntarily showed a hint of complex emotion as he sighed: 'Ah, I never expected that the contingency we left behind would undergo such a great change, turning the other world directly into our Nine Provinces' great foe, causing our Nine Provinces' civilization to crumble generation after generation—truly, human plans pale before heaven's.'

Through restoring the sovereigns' memories, Pangu Huang gained a complete understanding of the Nine Provinces' situation, naturally feeling deep emotion.

Although his heart is set on the myriad heavens, for their ancestral land, the Nine Provinces, Pangu Huang and the others have not left no contingency.

Originally they left a guardian for the Nine Provinces: that very nine-point stone person.

It was born from the Nine Lamps nurtured by the tombs of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and other sovereigns of the Nine Provinces, containing the perfect Dao of those sovereigns; if it grows normally, it can rival a true sovereign.

Given the current change in the heavenly rules, where sovereigns cannot long remain in the world, this innate sovereign is sufficient to guard the Nine Provinces.

But somewhere along the way something went awry: this innate sovereign split into spirit and flesh, its flesh becoming the innate Stone Person King, while its spirit nurtured into the Heavenly Emperor of Heaven Emperor City.

If that were all, the Heavenly Emperor is a flesh-and-blood king, the innate Stone Person a perfect stone-person king; should they unite, there would be a chance to challenge a sovereign, and given that they contain the perfect Dao of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the likelihood is great—enough to protect the Nine Provinces.

But who would have thought the Heavenly Emperor unwilling to unite with the innate Stone Person, instead desiring to truly cultivate a Stone Person King body, break through alone, and attain the sovereign realm.

Yet when the Heavenly Emperor finally emerged from seclusion, the innate Stone Person had already been slain by the hidden sovereign soul-shadow within the other world's ninety-nine-layered stone steps, having forcefully stormed them.

The stone person, nine-point, lost its original innate perfect state, and the Heavenly Emperor thus completely lost any possibility of reuniting with it.

Thereafter, the Heavenly Emperor continued to cultivate the Stone Person King body, but failed to achieve transformation; in the end he left only a Heavenly Emperor City filled with endless regret, and a rumor of 'the Heavenly Emperor has remorse'.

Without this innate sovereign's guardian, facing the other world's sovereign soul-shadows, the Nine Provinces could only fail repeatedly, exhausting their foundations time and again, until the present era, where they have weakened to the point that even Ancestor God–level experts are exceedingly rare.

Thinking of this, Pangu Huang could only silently lament the twists of fate.

'The future is uncertain—who can truly grasp it perfectly?'

Hearing Pangu Huang's sigh and feeling his spiritual fluctuations, Feng Yi calmly said: 'Even if one could pierce past and future, command the river of fate, one cannot control human hearts—much less, given our former plan to exterminate all sovereigns, our arrangements for the Nine Provinces were indeed rather crude.'

Having said that, Feng Yi's tone carried a hint of confidence: 'At least for us now, everything is developing toward the better; the future Nine Provinces will surely be more prosperous, and the entire heavens will become a true realm of longevity.'

'Indeed.'

Pangu nodded, his heart stirred slightly, and he cleared away the distracting thoughts in his mind.

As an eternal sovereign, he is accustomed to the vicissitudes of civilization; just now he merely had a passing feeling.

While speaking, the two casually broke through the Chaos and left that place.

The expanse of Chaos returned to tranquility once more, only the disordered spacetime fragments and lingering Dao traces remained, indicating that a world-shattering battle capable of destroying the heavens had once taken place here.

It is believed that in the near future this place will become another battlefield relic where the sovereigns of the myriad heavens contemplate the sovereign realm.

(End of chapter)