Chapter 154: Gathering of Heroes

"Huangxian Jiyuan Map…"

Ye Wuque, Sheng Xuanyi, and the War Prince stood amid the desolate starry sky, their gazes all drawn to the floating, endlessly radiant and ancient scroll before them.

The five ancient characters, as if bearing the weight of ten thousand ages, rotated slowly in the Void, each stroke seeming to recount a glorious history buried by dust.

On the scroll, light flowed like liquid mercury—not a lifeless object, but something constantly evolving and living.

It was so vast that it seemed to condense an entire Epoch's rise and fall, its civilizational shifts, into this tiny space.

The three's divine consciousnesses simultaneously immersed themselves, attempting to decipher the mysteries hidden within this enigmatic ancient map.

They could see, in a corner of the scroll, a depiction of the Epoch's beginning:

Early ancestors, amidst vast marshes and mountains, gnawed raw flesh and drank blood, battling Honghuang beasts, struggling to survive.

It was the moment the spark of civilization was first ignited, brimming with primal and wild power.

Their gaze shifted, and another part of the scroll revealed the budding and development of the cultivation path:

Wise ancestors contemplated the natural heavens and earth, traced Dao traces, drew Qi into their bodies, and forged the earliest cultivation methods;

Tribal rites communicated with ancestral spirits, gaining protection and power;

Powerful beings awakened bloodline gifts, calling wind and rain, moving mountains and filling seas… The dawn of cultivation civilization illuminated that barbaric age.

Later came cataclysmic changes in Heaven and Earth, the brutal clash of Tiandao:

Stars fell, continents shattered, god‑demon‑like beings waged war across the heavens, their divine light tearing the firmament, blood staining the ancient earth crimson.

It was an era of turmoil and chaos, yet also a time that birthed heroes and legends.

They could also see ten thousand households' lights, mortal cooking smoke, dynastic changes, the civilizational torch stubbornly passing, developing, and growing amid war and calamity…

These barely discernible scenes already formed a grand, awe‑inspiring epic scroll!

Even a mere glimpse was enough to make their spirits quiver, to feel how ancient, towering, and dazzling the era called Wasteland Immortal truly was!

It was a great Epoch no less than the present, perhaps even more magnificent and powerful in some respects!

"Incredible… This is practically a living Epochal history!"

The War Prince could not help but exclaim; as a descendant of the War God Heavenly Hall, his knowledge was vast, yet he had never seen such a wondrous relic.

Sheng Xuanyi's eyes also glittered, his breath slightly rapid:

"Huangxian Jiyuan… I once saw scattered notes in the oldest bone script of our clan, vague and unspecific, only speaking of its greatness and mystery, long buried at an unknowable end of Time. I never imagined that today I could behold its complete historical scroll! Its value is incalculable!"

Yet, in the core region of the entire Huangxian Jiyuan Map, several spots were shrouded by the most intense, most radiant light, as if veiled in layers of mystery; no matter how they urged their divine consciousness, they could not pierce it, unable to discern what crucial scenes lay within.

The Dao Rule circulating at that core was too profound, the light too blazing, as if it were the nexus of the entire Huangxian Jiyuan's destiny and mysteries.

"The core is veiled by a mysterious force…"

Sheng Xuanyi's brow furrowed slightly as he tried to strike with a Holy Clan secret technique; the brilliance remained unmoved, instead sending back a reverberating force that made his soul tremble.

Ye Wuque remained silent, but his gaze grew ever sharper.

Would he be content to stop here?

That core must conceal the Huangxian Jiyuan's deepest secret, perhaps the cause of its zenith, perhaps the fruit of its Jiemie!

A thought stirred; within Ye Wuque's eyes a hint of Chaos hue silently swirled, and the surrounding Space seemed to ripple with subtle undulations.

He quietly activated his Temporal‑Space Divine Eye!

At the same time, he pushed his soul's perception to the limit, like the finest tendril, cautiously probing the most blazing brilliance of the core region.

The Temporal‑Space Divine Eye can pierce illusion, trace the Primordial, encompassing the supreme mysteries of Time and Space!

Under the Divine Eye's aid, the previously unbreakable, blazing light seemed to become… faintly translucent!

Though still vague, Ye Wuque finally managed to glimpse some interior scenes!

They were… upright, sky‑piercing youths enveloped in boundless divine light!

Some stood proudly atop mountains, some battled across star seas, some meditated in silence; each was peerlessly elegant, heroic, their eyes brimming with a supreme, unrivaled conviction.

It was a… Gathering of Heroes!

It records the most dazzling, most powerful young Heavenly Prides of the Huangxian Jiyuan!

They shone like brilliant, scorching suns, together illuminating that Epoch's heavens; their brilliance, even across Eternal Time and Space, still stirs the heart when viewed through the scroll, conveying an oncoming vigor, sharpness, and invincibility!

Being recorded in this Huangxian Jiyuan Map and placed at its core, the stature of these Heavenly Prides is easy to imagine!

They are the very fates of that Epoch, one of the protagonists writing its glorious epic!

Ye Wuque inhaled deeply, ignoring the slight sting in his soul, pushing his Temporal‑Space Divine Eye to the limit, focusing his gaze to try to see these peerless Heavenly Prides more clearly!

His eyes swept over those faces—heroic, handsome, exotic, or divine—and Ye Wuque's heart leapt.

He suddenly saw a few… familiar figures!

It was a youthful figure enshrouded in golden divine flame, wings that covered the sky, terrifying might, a rebellious gaze that seemed able to tear the heavens—Huntian! A pure‑blood taboo of the Golden‑Winged Great Peng Clan!

A mischievous sprite with a clever smile, eyes seemingly holding stars and seas, a lively, untethered girl—Miao Miao Xianzi!

A short, somewhat scruffy figure, squinting and winking, yet somehow exuding an unfathomable aura—Xiaosa Ge!

A girl with exquisitely delicate features, a hint of cunning wickedness, faint Huang fire surrounding her—Little Huang Xie!

A youth clutching an ancient sword, eyes obsessed and mad, sword aura soaring to the heavens, as if nothing existed beyond the blade—Jian Fengzi!

"It's them!" Ye Wuque's heart surged.

He had seen these figures on murals before!

Beyond these familiar faces, the scroll also displayed many peerless monsters he had never seen!

There were Human Imperial Sons, their qi and blood like dragons, fists dominating the heavens;

There were descendants of ancient gods, wielding Lei Dian, enacting heavenly punishment;

There were Demon‑race Holy Infants, inhaling and exhaling sun and moon, roaring down stars;

There were Netherworld Heirs, walking between Void and reality, bizarre and unfathomable…

Their races differ and their Dao arts vary, but without exception, they are all so powerful that they make one's heart tremble!

They together forged the most dazzling vista of the Huangxian Jiyuan, penning a sweeping, awe‑inspiring golden age chapter that amazes the ages!

It is a great era of prodigious geniuses and rampant monsters, a brilliant, indelible pearl in the endless Space‑Time River!

Suppressing the tremor in his heart, Ye Wuque reluctantly shifted his gaze from the awe‑inspiring scene of countless heroes to another place in the core area shrouded in brilliance.

When the Space‑Time Divine Eye reached its limit, faint currents of Chaos Qi could even be seen flowing within it; fine beads of sweat seeped from the corners of Ye Wuque's forehead, yet he paid no heed and peered in with all his might!

The light in this core area was no longer the vibrant, radiant brilliance of the scene of countless heroes, but instead brimmed with a sense of tragic, heroic, and resolute intensity!

What came into view was… the War Map!

Zhutian wailed in sorrow, and Wanjie collapsed!

An indescribable terrifying calamity erupted!

The once peaceful and prosperous Huangxian Jiyuan was shrouded and eroded by endless Darkness and ominous misfortune!