Chapter 244

Watching Pangu's figure and sensing the change in his qi, Xuanyuan and Shennong's eyes flashed with realization, smiling: "So that's it; it seems Pangu, you too have awakened your past memories and returned to your true self, just like us."

Having said that, the two looked toward the nearby figure and understood why Pangu had been awakened.

Hmm.

Emperor Pangu gazed into the distant void, a hint of sentiment on his face, and said: "Since other heavens exist beyond the Chaos Region, the original plan is no longer suitable, and there's no need to maintain the three-part state any longer!"

Indeed.

Xuanyuan and Shennong nodded; they too had chosen to awaken themselves for the same reason.

After all, following the original plan would greatly damage the source of the myriad worlds and irreversibly lower their overall level.

In that case, should any heavens beyond the Chaos Region discover the heavens they inhabit, a situation like that between other realms and the Nine Provinces would likely arise.

By then, their heavens would have no capacity to resist.

Their thoughts turning, the two looked at Fengyi and said: "Brother Fuxi, our original plan to link past, present, and future, using the power of the heavens' source to refine the myriad emperors, is no longer viable; what can you do against the many emperors of the Unique True Realm?"

Even if the original plan is abandoned, Xuanyuan, Shennong, and the others' resolve to utterly slaughter the myriad emperors of the Unique True Realm will not change.

Not to mention that the emperors of the Unique True Realm are completely indifferent to all beings, casually destroying heavens, regarding all life as ants, and utterly unconcerned with life and death.

Simply the fact that these emperors aim to blood‑sacrifice the entirety of the myriad worlds to elevate the source of the Unique True Realm is something Xuanyuan and Shennong cannot accept.

This is also why, in ages past, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and others formulated the plan to exterminate all emperors.

Their most fundamental conceptions and worldviews are diametrically opposed!

Hearing Xuanyuan and Shennong's words, Pangu also turned his gaze toward Fengyi, his eyes involuntarily showing a hint of admiration.

Through prior communication with Fuxi, he had already known the other's plan in advance, and couldn't help but sigh with awe at its domineering nature.

Glancing at Xuanyuan and Shennong, Fengyi's eyes showed a faint smile as he casually said: "Isn't this simple? Just lure them out of the Unique True Realm and beat them to death!"

Eh?

Hearing such a simple and blunt reply, Xuanyuan and Shennong blinked, momentarily at a loss for how to respond.

Hum

At that moment, Fengyi pointed a finger; the ancient city universe before him suddenly burst forth with a hazy divine light, a vast and ancient aura, like the essence of the myriad worlds' source emerging from within, causing the hearts of Pangu, Xuanyuan, and Shennong to suddenly surge with endless longing.

Initial Source Ground.

Saying that name instinctively, but Xuanyuan and Shennong immediately realized: "No, that's not the Initial Source Ground."

The so‑called Initial Source Ground was nothing but a scam—a trap set by the Nine Provinces' emperors for the emperors of the Unique True Realm, and it simply does not exist.

But what is the qi manifestation displayed by this universe before us?

Their thoughts turning, Xuanyuan and Shennong vaguely grasped what it was.

Seeing their expressions, Fengyi's gaze deepened, and he smiled: "This is the graveyard I have prepared for those emperors—a place that can 'master' the source of the myriad worlds and master the 'Initial Source Ground' of the Unique True Realm. I believe no emperor could resist such temptation."

After briefly outlining his plan, Fengyi said lightly: "As long as those emperors step into my universe, everything will be out of their control!"

This

Xuanyuan and Shennong exchanged a glance, frowned slightly, and asked: "Brother Fuxi, are you confident you can deal with so many emperors?"

Within the Unique True Realm alone there are the Primordial Nine Holy Emperors, the Acquired Twenty‑Seven Emperors, the Thirty‑Six Emperors, the Five Ancestors of Other Realms, and so on; adding the like of the Five Heroes of Chaotic Antiquity hidden in the myriad worlds, the number of emperors still extant is likely close to a hundred.

Even though the Nine Provinces' emperors are the strongest among emperors, they dare not claim they could take on ten foes, especially since some of those emperors possess strength nearly equal to theirs.

According to the original plan, the Nine Provinces' emperors would have to nearly sacrifice themselves to fully link past, present, and future, borrowing the source power of the heavens of those eras to truly exterminate all emperors, and they themselves would ultimately return to nothing, perishing alongside those emperors.

Now, without following the original plan and lacking the aid of the heavens' source power from past, present, and future, we can only rely on Brother Fuxi's own strength to suppress those emperors!

Haha.

Hearing Xuanyuan and Shennong's words, Fengyi laughed: "Do you two imperial younger brothers forget that I can traverse the heavens? Emperors may be strong, they are the peak of this heaven, but in the true myriad worlds they amount to nothing; I am no longer the person I was in my past life!"

Hum

As his words faded, Fengyi's inner qi shifted; the eight light wheels in the ancient city universe before him slowly turned, and together with the phantom of the Yi Dao Taiji at the universe's core, they began to form the Nine Grand Spacetime Reincarnation System.

In an instant, a lofty qi almost surpassing the emperors rose, making Xuanyuan and Shennong's hearts tremble; they were instantly drawn to it, as if beholding the source of the Great Dao, unable to help but sink into it.

Even though their minds had returned to the Emperor Realm, the two could hardly control their own thoughts at this moment.

This is the instinctive pursuit of a higher Great Dao, a resonance springing from the Dao‑heart!

After a long while, the two came to, looking at the figure before them whose aura had reached an unfathomable extreme, and couldn't help but feel a sense of awe.

Brother Fuxi has indeed surpassed his past self!

That thought arose in their minds, but before it could settle, Fengyi spoke again: "Two imperial younger brothers, I have not yet broken king to become emperor!"

His voice was soft, yet like a gentle breeze sweeping over Xuanyuan and Shennong's spirits, it cleared their minds and let them fully relax.

Even though Brother Fuxi has not yet broken king to become emperor, his strength already exceeds his past life and is enough to suppress the emperors.

Once he truly achieves breaking king to become emperor, just how great will his strength become?

Emperor!

A new title arose in Xuanyuan and Shennong's minds—not the emperor of these heavens, nor the emperor of the Human Dao Realm, but the emperor of the Immortal Dao Realm!

In these heavens, the titles of emperor and sovereign carry no rank distinction; both refer to those whose strength has reached the pinnacle.

However, in the heavens they previously experienced, as Brother Fuxi explained, if one follows the system of cultivating the self as a seed to the utmost extent of the path, one could attain a supreme realm that shocks ancient and modern times.

That is a supreme realm surpassing the peak emperor of these heavens.

Immortal Emperor!

The Immortal Dao's emperor, the end of the path, true supremacy!

Their thoughts turning, Xuanyuan and Shennong gazed at the figure before them and suddenly felt a premonition.

Perhaps after Fuxi, the Imperial Elder Brother, defeats Emperor Wang Cheng, his strength might be able to approach that of a true Celestial Emperor.

By that time, even if faced with the united forces of all emperors across the myriad heavens and worlds, he would be enough to suppress them all.

Thinking this through, Xuanyuan and Shennong completely let go of their worries.

As for whether Fuxi, the Imperial Elder Brother, can defeat Emperor Wang Cheng, the two have never doubted this, and even have full confidence.

"Since that's the case, the remaining few fellow Daoists need no longer hide; it's time to awaken them, so that they, like us, may return to their true selves!"

The remaining few fellow Daoists spoken of by Xuanyuan and others naturally refer to the other few among the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, such as Suiren, Zhuanxu, Di Ku, Yao, and Shun.

Feng Yi naturally had no objection; once he truly awakened the other few of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, he could obtain their complete Sovereign's Great Dao and use it as provisions to perfect his own future path.

After all, the path Feng Yi now walks is neither the orthodox Sovereign path of the Longevity Realm nor the normal system of taking one's body as a seed; it is a path he himself created, and his future path still needs a bit of refinement from him.

Therefore, regarding different comprehensions of the Great Dao, he welcomes all comers—the more, the better!

After chatting a moment longer and confirming the details of his plan, Feng Yi turned his gaze to the other realm beyond the boundless void, smiling as he said, "Let's go; it's also time to thoroughly resolve the other realm."

Saying that, Feng Yi put away the Ancient City Universe, and together with Shennong and others led the Nine Provinces' great army into the other realm.

Among the myriad worlds, each Sovereign sighed with emotion.

The great battle between the two realms in the void outside the Nine Provinces' Great World naturally could not escape the eyes of many Sovereigns.

That Sovereign named Fuxi is indeed a person of the Nine Provinces!

And that Sovereign, with a casual gesture, obliterated the entire other realm—including the four Sovereigns within it—a horrifying sight that many Sovereigns witnessed in full.

All the Sovereigns understood that, from this day forward, the other realm, this famed great world of the myriad heavens, would become history entirely, while the Nine Provinces would become the strongest world in the myriad heavens, without equal.

Because the Nine Provinces' Great World possesses Fuxi, this Sovereign capable of suppressing Sovereigns, who can be called the paramount powerhouse of the myriad heavens, an invincible stabilizer!

This is the rule of the cultivation world: might returns to oneself, and a single paramount powerhouse is enough to represent everything!

With this thought arising in their minds, all the Sovereigns secretly became vigilant, listing the Nine Provinces as the power they must not provoke, without equal.

In the other realm.

The many powerhouses of the other realm, including its primordial Sovereigns such as Lu Zhan, have already been slain by Feng Yi; even their Dao principles and vital energy have merged into the Ancient City Universe, adding a touch of primal essence to it, so the remaining cultivators in the other realm naturally could not withstand the Nine Provinces' great army.

As the Nine Provinces' great army entered the other realm, the remaining cultivators there were crushed like dry weeds; the myriad foundations of the four civilizational regions that had developed over hundreds of millions of years in the other realm became spoils of war, turning into the foundations of the Nine Provinces.

At the same time, the Nine Provinces' great army also rescued many powerhouses who had been suppressed by the other realm during the Nine Provinces' earlier civilizational era, including many stone beings and Supreme Ancestral Gods.

These powerhouses were imprisoned in the other realm's ancient jail, or used as subjects for certain experiments, or as research subjects, or had their minds controlled to do other things.

All of these people were rescued by the Nine Provinces' great army, and Feng Yi personally acted to help them fully recover their normal state.

For a time, the foundations of the Nine Provinces gained a bit more.

Thereafter, Feng Yi directly refined the primal essence of the entire other realm into his own Ancient City Universe, causing the other realm to cease to exist completely.

Of course, crafty rabbits have three burrows; after developing for hundreds of millions of years, the other realm naturally still had, aside from the ancestral realm, other hidden stations in the myriad heavens, and some cultivators had survived.

As for these, Feng Yi did not continue to act, but left them to the new generation of the Nine Provinces, using them as a whetstone for the Nine Provinces' new generation.

With this battle thoroughly ended, the great enemy that was the other realm ceased to exist; the Nine Provinces began to rise, presenting a scene of thriving prosperity.

Having settled the other realm and then orderly arranged the affairs of the Nine Provinces, Feng Yi did not become complacent due to the Nine Provinces' prosperity; instead, he returned to the small courtyard of the Ancestral Dragon Village, continuing to focus his energy on his own cultivation, beginning to sort out the many cultivation systems he had mastered bit by bit, perfecting his future path.

He deeply understood that all prosperity is built upon strength; only strength is fundamental. Without thoroughly settling the Sovereign of the Sole True Realm, the Nine Provinces' prosperity is merely a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water.

Feng Yi's cultivation system of the Longevity Realm follows his own unique path of transforming realms into a city, also incorporating many holy objects including the Heavenly Stele; upon birth he reached the pinnacle of Sovereign realm with dual perfection of primordial spirit and fleshly body, only one step away from Sovereign.

His system of taking one's body as a seed, having integrated myriad different cultivation systems from the myriad worlds, created his own unique Eight Grand Spacetime Reincarnation System, also reaching the limit of the Immortal Sovereign realm and drawing close to the Dao Ancestor realm.

For Feng Yi as he is now, the most important thing is to hone his cultivation, comprehend his own Great Dao, continually settle, and consolidate his foundation, preparing for the ultimate leap.

On the path of cultivation, the further one advances, each step forward becomes increasingly difficult; every bit of progress may require accumulation of endless years, especially when breaking through a major realm.

Therefore, Feng Yi did not overly rush his cultivation; instead, following his own path, he naturally comprehended the Dao, unhurriedly polishing his cultivation, reviewing the many cultivation systems he had once mastered, and began to truly contemplate the Great Dao information contained in the concept of Fuxi Sovereign, that heavenly will of the far shore, bit by bit perfecting his own Sovereign Dao primal order and bit by bit constructing his own Nine Grand Spacetime Reincarnation System.

As time trickled by, Feng Yi's cultivation saw no substantive increase, yet his foundation grew ever deeper, his understanding of his own path became ever more profound, and his aura underwent imperceptible transmutation and sublimation bit by bit.

For Feng Yi, having reached his present realm, time had lost much of its meaning and no longer affected him; unknowingly, tens of thousands of years had passed.

Tens of thousands of years flowed by, almost equivalent to an entire previous civilizational era of the Nine Provinces, yet for Feng Yi as he is now, it felt hardly different from taking a nap, leaving hardly any trace on his person.

However, during this period of Feng Yi's Dao comprehension and cultivation, the Nine Provinces underwent earth-shaking changes.

Suiren, Zhuanxu, Di Ku, Yao, Shun, and the other few of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors returned to the Nine Provinces; Feng Yi awakened their true selves, restoring their Sovereign realm.

At the same time, their Sovereign-level comprehensions of the Great Dao added a bit to Feng Yi's accumulation of the Great Dao.

And as these cultivators, hidden as seeds in the myriad worlds, returned, they not only brought back some powerhouses from the Nine Provinces' earlier civilizational era, but also added to the Nine Provinces a series of entirely new great worlds, becoming subsidiary worlds of the Nine Provinces.

Cultivators of the Nine Provinces began to walk the myriad heavens, spreading the Dao; even the Primordial Heavenly Realm and the World of Death bore traces of Nine Provinces cultivators, who occupied a region and gradually became a great power spanning the myriad heavens, even deserving the title of the foremost power of the myriad heavens.

In this process, the new-generation powerhouses of the Nine Provinces also grew in succession, the most outstanding among them being the Divine Maiden Lan Nuo, Qing Qing transformed from Shennong's life aura, Little Beast Keke, Xiao Chen, and others.

Their talents are immensely powerful; none failed to accumulate the Ancestral God realm in an extremely short time and ascend above it, and they furthermore chose the most arduous path of the Supreme Ancestral God, wishing to become a rare flesh-and-blood Sovereign in the world.

Moreover, on the exceedingly difficult path of the Supreme Ancestral God, these individuals proceeded very steadily; their progress speed even surpassed that of cultivators normally taking the stone person path, and nearly all possess the potential to become flesh-and-blood Sovereigns.

For the myriad worlds where flesh-and-blood Sovereigns hardly exist now, the Nine Provinces actually produced so many peerless heavenly talents with the potential to become flesh-and-blood Sovereigns, naturally eliciting astonishment from many Stone Person Sovereigns.

However, these boundlessly talented heavenly heroes all come from the Nine Provinces, possessing the Nine Provinces Sovereign honored as Xi Sovereign who stabilizes the world; even though many Stone Person Sovereigns harbor dread in their hearts, they dare not entertain the slightest thought.

All the Sovereigns of the myriad heavens understand that the rise of the Nine Provinces is unstoppable!

As these boundlessly talented heavenly heroes grow up, becoming nearly unseen flesh-and-blood Sovereigns of the myriad heavens, even without Xi Sovereign, the Nine Provinces would become the strongest power in the myriad heavens!

As for the changes in the Nine Provinces, Feng Yi naturally saw them, but he did not intervene much, his mind almost wholly focused on his own cultivation.

After tens of thousands of years had passed, with the Sovereign Dao primal order of the other realm's Holy Ancestor and Demon Sovereign as objects of contemplation, and also the Dao comprehension of the awakened Pangu Sovereign and others, Feng Yi finally preliminarily perfected his own Sovereign Dao primal order, and also gained a clear path for constructing his own Nine Grand Spacetime Reincarnation System.

Yet in this process, what helped Feng Yi the most was the Dao law information and rank concept he had obtained from the Fuxi Sovereign.

Although when he crossed into those myriad heavens he was still weak, and when he received this information he was dazed and completely unable to grasp its essence, yet this information and concept settled in his innate spiritual light, never fully excavated by him.

The Fuxi Sovereign is indeed no less than the true heavenly will of the far shore, and as one of the ancient Three Sovereigns, he is very likely an ancient being, or one close to an ancient being.

As Feng Yi's cultivation and realm now approach the far-shore level, his contemplation of the Fuxi Sovereign's rank concept has also seen a fundamental enhancement, from which he has obtained many higher-level Dao mysteries and information.

These information and concepts are like a bright lamp in the night; whenever he falls into confusion, they illuminate some darkness on his own path, allowing him to perfect his path more quickly.

Feng Yi's ability to swiftly perfect his future path and achieve his goals is inseparable from these higher-rank concepts and Dao comprehensions.

However, in this continual process of comprehension, Feng Yi faintly felt from his mental world's Yi Dao supreme treasure that he had, in the depths of his mind, established a fuzzy fate-level connection with some existence, vaguely sensing its urgency, almost like an instinctive plea for help.

"'Fuxi!'"

"'Can't hold on anymore?'"

This thought arose in his mind, and Feng Yi faintly understood what it was.

Just then, he seemed to notice something, looked toward outside the small courtyard, and smiling, muttered to himself: "Xiao Chen! Just in time, there are some petty matters that need him to take care of!"

(End of chapter)