Chapter 268

True Realm.

As the Qing Emperor ascended to the other shore, the heavenly principles of all realms shifted, many slumbering great powers awoke, and one after another mighty divine beings returned.

In the outer starry void, new star domains emerged one after another: immortal mountain daoist sanctuaries, Buddhist pure lands, demon race holy grounds, divine nation territories—each like a world of its own, together forming a brand‑new starry cosmos.

The True Realm's territory expanded by an unknown factor, revealing its foundation as the center of all realms.

However, although all the mighty divine beings had awakened, none dared to reach into the core of the True Realm.

Because a living Human Emperor had appeared in the heart of the True Realm!

Later, the mighty divine beings learned that this Human Emperor could oppose the Heavenly Dao monster, this other‑shore entity, mainly through the power of the Human Emperor's vestige and the Human Emperor's Sword.

But regardless of the outcome, at least this Human Emperor could display power comparable to that of an other‑shore being.

Just this alone meant that no mighty divine being dared to face his edge.

Moreover, behind this Human Emperor stood the Qing Emperor, a formidable other‑shore supporter capable of suppressing the Heavenly Dao monster.

And now the pattern of the True Realm's core has also changed.

With the Human Emperor's Sword in hand, plus the Qing Emperor's other‑shore form as a backing, Feng Yi's Human Emperor incarnation no longer held back; he began his campaign to unify the True Realm, and even to unify all realms.

Northern Zhou, the Grasslands, the Southern Wasteland, the Western Regions, the East Sea.

The point of the Human Emperor's Sword, carrying an irresistible force, easily swept clean the entire core of the True Realm.

Not even Northern Zhou's Gao Lan who had attained a Dharma‑body, the Spirit Insect God lurking in the Southern Wasteland, nor the wielder of the Heavenly Punishment Axe, nor Gu Erduo—who had once ranked first on the Heavenly List—could muster any resistance against the Human Emperor's Sword.

In just a few years, the True Realm was completely unified, forming a vast dynasty that encompassed the former Southern Jin, Northern Zhou, the Grasslands, the Western Regions, the Southern Wasteland, and the East Sea.

For the martial artists of the True Realm, among whom even attaining a Dharma‑body was exceedingly rare, everything felt like a dream.

It felt as if, upon waking, the heavens and earth had undergone a tremendous change—not only reverting to the age of ancient myth, but also giving rise to an immensely vast Human Dao dynasty.

Thereafter, the dynasty launched a plan to spread martial arts across the land, establishing academies everywhere that stored myriad divine techniques and secret arts, causing the martial world to flourish ever more.

Divine Capital.

As the dynasty continually expanded, the Divine Capital likewise seemed to be affected, growing ever larger and more vast.

Now the Divine Capital is the center of the whole world, like a primordial beast lying across the heart of the True Realm, and also like a cosmic ancient city that embraces heaven and earth—majestic and profound, making one dare not stare directly.

Above the Divine Capital, a visible qi‑luck heaven‑pillar spans heaven and earth, linking the powers of the Three Powers (heaven, earth, and man); it seems to also pierce through all realms, suppressing any force outside the Human Dao.

Outside the Divine Capital, Meng Qi gazed upon the enormous ancient city that resembled a primeval beast, his heart shaken.

At the same time, memories of his journey after crossing into this world surfaced in his mind, filling him with many reflections.

He had thought he had transmigrated into an ancient martial‑arts world, but instead he found himself in the Six Paths Reincarnation Space.

He had just assumed it was an endless‑flow world, when suddenly heaven and earth underwent a great change, mighty beings returned, and the great figures of past myth and legend appeared one after another.

It turned out that the world he had transmigrated into was a mythic world!

'Just as I arrived in this world, I encountered the great upheaval of heaven and earth and the return of mighty beings—I don't know whether that is fortunate or unfortunate!'

After silently complaining to himself, Meng Qi lifted his gaze to a towering altar a thousand zhang high atop the Divine Capital's city wall.

The altar has nine tiers, carved with the sun, moon, and stars; mountains and rivers; immortals, gods, demons, and monsters; the myriad aspects of humanity; and the pattern of mortal beings. Surrounding it, the power of all living things swirls, making it resemble a Human Dao sovereign standing above all, suppressing the four corners of the universe.

Around this great altar stand five smaller altars, colored red, green, black, white, and yellow—each like a sovereign representing a different authority, together encircling the central nine‑tier altar.

'Even the Five Direction Five Emperors lie beneath the Human Emperor—truly worthy of being the present Human Emperor.'

Meng Qi's eyes widened in surprise as he exclaimed, 'What a grand ambition!'

Having said that, thinking of his reincarnation mission this time, Meng Qi couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

'Ah, let's take it one step at a time!'

With his thoughts turning, Meng Qi gathered his spirit and strode toward the towering ancient city before him.

Upon stepping into the Divine Capital's ancient city, Meng Qi suddenly felt a strange sensation, as if he had entered another completely different heaven and earth.

'Is it because of the qi‑luck heaven‑pillar?'

After glancing at the vast heaven‑pillar that spans heaven and earth and suppresses all heterodox forces, Meng Qi shook his head and continued forward.

Just then, a mysterious ripple flowed through the Divine Capital; the whole ancient city seemed to undergo some special change, stirring Meng Qi's heart and flashing a hint of astonishment in his eyes.

'What is this?'

Supreme Ultimate Hall.

Feng Yi's Human Emperor incarnation wore a dark‑black imperial robe, seated upon the throne; a regal kingly aura radiated in all directions, filled with endless sanctity and solemnity.

Behind him, countless cosmic phantoms rose and fell, within which the silhouettes of various rulers appeared faintly, representing the marks and legends he left across different realms.

Through the Human Emperor's Sword and the True Realm's exalted status above all realms, radiating outward, the Human Emperor's incarnation now not only unified the core of the True Realm but also continually wages war upon the remaining realms.

The boundless power of all beings emerged from those cosmic phantoms, gathered via the Human Emperor's Sword into his incarnation's body, making his aura grow ever thicker and stronger.

At that moment, the aura of his Human Emperor incarnation shifted, faintly bearing a sense of completeness; he slowly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of deep, solemn double pupils.

Feeling the change within himself, countless trigrams flowed through his eyes as he slowly spoke.

'The time has come!'

Clang.

A heavy, solemn sword‑ring rang out; pale gold light flowed over the Human Emperor's Sword, its hue pale gold, and the Human Emperor's vestige—bearing double pupils—appeared in the great hall.

As a vestige of the other shore, it is practically equivalent to a complete set of all realms; thus, when the Human Emperor's vestige appeared, the True Realm ought to have been shaken.

But at this moment, nothing changed in heaven and earth, as if the Divine Capital ancient city were isolated from the rest of the True Realm.

Gazing at the Human Emperor's vestige before him, the vital energy within Feng Yi's Human Emperor incarnation shifted, activating the concept of the Human Emperor's rank that he contained, and his mind and spirit became fully linked with it.

In an instant, his mind and spirit sank into emptiness, as if directly merging with a residual instinct within the Human Emperor's vestige, and countless pieces of information surfaced in his consciousness.

His gaze shifted slightly; the power of all beings swirled at his side, the feeling of sanctity and solemnity grew richer, and he spoke solemnly:

'I swear to protect this heaven, earth, and humanity, to bless all sentient beings, to perpetuate the civilization of all realms, and to let the light of the Human Dao shine!'

As his words fell, the double pupils of the Human Emperor's vestige flickered with a strange hue—seeming satisfied, relieved—and the lingering instinct completely vanished.

Don't worry, after I attain the Dao in the future, I will definitely make the heavens of this realm a true paradise of the human Dao!

A low whisper sounded, and Feng Yi's Human Emperor body pointed a finger, a divine light merging into the Human Emperor's shed remnant.

Hum

An inexplicable undulation flowed between heaven and earth, the entire Divine Capital Ancient City's qi shifted, as if it had become a vast, boundless ancient city universe, and also as if it were a diagram of the Great Dao's Taiji Bagua that encompasses everything.

The Human Emperor's shed remnant gradually became illusory and illusory, slowly dissolving into countless Great Dao laws, spreading in all directions and merging with the entire ancient city.

This ancient city universe was already close to the level of the Other Shore Absolute, and having obtained the source Dao principle of a true Other Shore shed remnant, the ancient city's aura rapidly expanded, reaching a limit in the blink of an eye.

Boom

A roar like a universal big bang sounded, the ancient city universe's qi instantly rose to a new level, with the surrounding spacetime river encircling it; clearly standing at the present time node of the real world, yet also seeming to exist in the ancient past and endless future, covering every time node of this era.

Other Shore Absolute!

As the thing left behind after Feng Yi's true self underwent nirvana transformation, the entire ancient city universe is equivalent to his half-body.

As this ancient city universe entered the level of Other Shore Absolute, Feng Yi's Human Emperor body's aura also swiftly rose; although it had not yet transcended the sea of suffering, it already gave a vague sense of the Other Shore Heaven's Will's lofty feeling.

At the same time, as the Divine Capital's ancient city universe became a true Other Shore Absolute, its aura began to radiate throughout the real world, merging with the entire dynasty's territory, causing the whole real world to begin changing.

In the real world, beings who felt something looked up to the sky, finding the azure heavens ever bluer, the laws ever more stable, and vaguely sensing a special power flowing between heaven and earth, guarding the world from destruction.

In their hearts arose an inexplicable emotion, as if they beheld a supreme sovereign guarding heaven and earth, an unprecedented sense of safety enveloping their whole bodies.

「Human Emperor. 」

The spacetime river trembled, a phantom of an ancient city rose from the river of fate, attracting the gazes of many Other Shore beings.

【Human Emperor.】

Other Shore beings turned their gazes to the core of the real world, seeing that ancient, weathered ancient city universe, a hint of emotion appearing in their eyes.

【What a grand handiwork!】

In the extraterritorial starry sky, mighty divine powers looked toward the core of the real world, their eyes flashing with a hint of shock.

At this moment, sensing the change in the real world's law, all the mighty divine powers understood that the core of the real world had become completely different.

Now, even these mighty divine powers dare not casually destroy the real world's heaven and earth.

Leaving aside whether they could still destroy the present real world, that backlashing force alone is absolutely beyond their ability to endure.

「Truly worthy of being the present Human Emperor! 」

Praises sounded, the mighty divine powers' eyes flickered, and they felt a stir of intention.

Assisting a true Human Emperor is also greatly beneficial to their cultivation.

Divine Capital.

Although the ancient city universe underwent a tremendous transformation, entering the level of Other Shore Absolute, its outward appearance changed little; it remained the capital's form of the dynasty, situated upon the earth.

In the Taiji Hall, Feng Yi's Human Emperor body's mind and spirit merged with the entire ancient city universe, carefully comprehending the qi changes of this companion ancient city.

「Human Emperor's Dao. Human's Path」

A low whisper sounded, and countless information flowed in his pupils; vaguely, it seemed he sensed something, his eyes holding a hint of enlightenment.

「Perhaps the future path of my Human Emperor body is to completely master this realm's heavens, establishing a true human paradise, rather than transcending out」

「Transcend. Control」

Countless insights surfaced in mind and spirit, the two different paths constantly colliding, the Human Emperor body's double pupils bursting forth with brilliant light, carrying a terrifying aura that makes hearts tremble.

「That's right, the so-called Dao fruit, the so-called transcendence, is merely a path opened by the Dao Venerable; who said that achieving a realm above the Other Shore must require abandoning everything and transcending out」

「Transcending out is a path, and controlling everything is likewise a path. 」

「Moreover, my true self originally could traverse the true heavens; the Dao fruit path is the terminus of the Great Dao for this realm's heavens, but in the true heavens, perhaps it is not the end of the Great Dao's road」

「Human's Path. Human Emperor's Path」

「Perhaps this is the path my Human Emperor body must ultimately walk, a path different from that of my true self. 」

One after another, muttering voices sounded, the Human Emperor body's pupil light grew ever brighter, vaguely realizing its own future path.

No one knows how long passed; the light in his eyes gradually retracted, withdrawing his mind and spirit from the ancient city universe.

「It seems my earlier idea was not wrong; if so, I must go meet those few and firmly establish the final covenant. 」

The moment his words fell, he reached out; the Human Emperor sword fell into his hand, the illusory river around his Human Emperor body flowed, and he directly stepped into the spacetime river.

As the ancient city universe transformed into Other Shore Absolute and connected with the entire real world, causing the real world's heaven and earth to undergo transformation, now the entire real world is equivalent to the Human Emperor body's human domain; within the real world alone, he now is not much inferior to a true Other Shore being.

Jade Emperor Mountain.

In the hall at the summit, the Heavenly Emperor statue stands solemn and majestic, gazing plainly ahead, as if overlooking all heavens and worlds.

Guard Silence Daoist sits on the futon before the statue, his aura having reached the Dharma-body realm.

However, in the current era where great powers have returned and the Human Emperor's world‑settling pattern prevails, even a Dharma-body draws little notice.

Just then, the hall grew hazy; an illusory river appeared, from which stepped a figure in imperial robes holding a pale gold long sword.

A sound rang in Guard Silence Daoist's ears; he hastily opened his eyes, and his heart startled.

Human Emperor!

How could the Human Emperor appear here?

For what purpose?

He glanced at the Heavenly Emperor statue before him, seemed to understand something, and hurried forward to pay respects.

Having received guidance from the existence within the Time Light Blade, Guard Silence Daoist naturally knows the present Human Emperor's situation.

The Human Emperor body nodded, then looked at the solemn and majestic Heavenly Emperor statue before him, and also at the blade of inwardly converging ripples before the statue.

Seeing this, Guard Silence Daoist seemed to have received some instruction, and hurriedly left the hall, closing its doors.

Hum

Ripples like water waves appeared, carrying a trace of the vicissitudes and eternity of passing years, causing the law of the whole heaven and earth to change.

The next moment, a solemn and venerable emperor's figure appeared in the hall, and the blade of inwardly converging ripples likewise fell into His hand.

「Human Emperor Dao friend. 」

(End of Chapter)