[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-watching-the-immortals-fall":3,"chapter-watching-the-immortals-fall-watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-408":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Watching the Immortals Fall",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2260281,4410,"Chapter 408","watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-408",408,"\u003Cp>The night stretched endlessly, and malevolent energy rolled forth across the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless cultivators flying through the air fell as corpses, thudding down and smashing into piles of meat and mud between palace halls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone screamed and wept, fleeing in madness—except one man who walked against the tide: He Jingyuan, Director of the Imperial Cultivation Surveillance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, his hair disheveled, he walked slowly along the white marble path, eyes dazed, as if soulless, stepping into the imperial palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor of Great Xia sat upon the Golden Throne, watching him approach with calm eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why did it come to this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It was always meant to be this way. Why do you ask, Minister He?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Jingyuan stepped onto the Golden Throne dais, eyes wide with bloodshot confusion: “Where is our new world? Why has it become the Remnant Clan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor of Great Xia lifted his lips slightly: “This is the new world—our new world. It has nothing to do with you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard you told Kuangcheng our long-standing tale. Now, let me tell you my version.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor rose from his throne, smoothed his sleeves, and when he opened his eyes again, they were utterly crimson—like an ocean of blood, radiating malevolent energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, He Jingyuan collapsed onto the ground, his face, already pale, turning deathly white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For only now did he realize the Emperor he had followed for decades was not his sovereign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in this terror that shattered his very marrow, the other’s voice began to drift slowly forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A thousand years ago, our Sacred Emperor grew weary of being controlled by Heaven’s Dao. With great power, he refined Heaven’s Dao into himself, granting our Remnant Clan command over wind and rain. But when the ancient Heaven’s Dao was refined, a new Heaven’s Dao was born from Qingyun.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This new Heaven’s Dao descended sacred artifacts, using the demon and human races to try and exterminate our clan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But our Sacred Emperor already possessed the body of Heaven’s Dao—how could a weak new Heaven’s Dao possibly harm him? So we did not die. We shed our flesh and slept as spiritual essences. Before slumber, our Sacred Emperor had already laid the grand plan for revival, leaving behind me and another Royal Minister to carry it out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For a thousand years, I could not awaken—until one day, my spiritual essence was stirred by a karmic thought. He told me he was the Emperor of Great Xia.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, He Jingyuan trembled all over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the story the other told was precisely the one he had once told to Kuangcheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his version, their Emperor had labored tirelessly, finally finding a celestial fate capable of countering the Immortal Sects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, those crimson eyes still watched him, and the voice continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After I awoke, he wept to me, saying the descendants of the ancient sages who controlled the sacred artifacts had oppressed the people, driving countless to despair—so he meant to change this world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Honestly, your human race has always called our Remnant Clan cruel and bloodthirsty—but I’ve never seen anyone so vicious and heartless toward their own kind.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I followed your Xia Emperor away. He sought to use me to suppress the Immortal Sects, while I slowly took over his body and altered his plan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve long wondered how I unlocked the ancient ruins untouched for a thousand years. In truth, I am Remnant Clan myself—how could I not know how to open our imperial tomb? But it did take effort, for the key was royal blood. I searched for years before finally finding traces in the Snowlands.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Jingyuan’s mind exploded: “So when you sent us secretly into the demon realms, pretending we despised the Immortal Sects’ cruelty and wished to ally with the demons to reclaim Jiuzhou—you sent us to find the Scale Clan’s chieftain, and what we brought back was this?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor of Great Xia nodded slightly: “Yes. That journey was perilous indeed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And then? The ruins, the sages’ sacred ground, the ancestral temple, the national fortune—what of them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Opening the ruins was to restore our Remnant Clan’s Heaven’s Dao—not for you to steal our power. Severing your human national fortune was not to seize the sacred artifacts, but to release the refined spiritual essences of our clan, imprisoned beneath your ancestral temple.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Jingyuan trembled as he stared at him: “You’ve been using us all along?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor of Great Xia smiled: “Better to say your human greed and cunning gave me opportunity—your Immortal Sects’ suspicion, your noble houses’ frantic competition, especially… Fang Ruoyao. Throughout this journey, only he, as the Night Watcher, could have done many things: entering shattered spaces, severing your national fortune. I deceived him for years—told him he was destined, told him his Dao heart was pure. It took tremendous effort. My clan’s spiritual awareness nearly got discovered by that one named Ji You. That was the only thing I never anticipated—but in the end, all went smoothly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is a Night Watcher…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The watcher who kept vigil over our clan’s revival. He was hunted down and killed by your people over a hundred years ago. Had he lived, our plan might not have succeeded so easily.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, He Jingyuan’s face turned ashen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For years, they had labored with the conviction that destroying the Immortal Sects would let the people live—even staining their hands with blood, accumulating evil karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now they learned the grand conspiracy they had orchestrated for so long had merely awakened a clan that once enslaved ten thousand races.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【I cannot convince myself those sacrifices were worth it.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【I cannot convince myself your cruelty toward infants was justice.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【I cannot believe you stood idle, watching thousands die as the corpse tide came, all for the sake of a glorious peace.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You are not worthy to be mentioned alongside Ji You. If he knew, he’d flay you alive!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Kuangcheng’s furious shouts from the celestial prison echoed like arrows—each one piercing the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And the other one?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Jingyuan fell silent for a long while, then suddenly looked up at the Emperor before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor of Great Xia looked back: “What other one?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You said your Sacred Emperor left behind two Royal Ministers. Is the other one also scheming?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Does it matter to you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor of Great Xia spoke, then suddenly a crack split his forehead. His entire skull exploded outward, a wisp of smoke surging skyward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smoke flew toward Youzhou, plunging into the thousand-li storm of flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, endless shattered bones, blood, and flesh converged upon it, assembling, recombining, finally forming a towering pale-blue figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment this wild aura appeared, the heavens trembled, and a roar shook a hundred li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the towering, mountain-like Barbarian Emperor appeared upon the Youzhou plains. Seeing him, he wore an expression of nostalgia: “Royal Minister Esha. Long time no see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Royal Minister, his body reformed, turned to him: “Royal Minister Huoyang, this body doesn’t seem as robust as your letter described.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For a thousand years, I’ve fused barbarian bloodlines with my own shed bones and blood, refining this body without pause. This is the only vessel capable of carrying our clan’s spiritual essence. Royal Minister Esha, don’t be so picky.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Barbarian Emperor said, calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the ancient war a thousand years ago, while humans and demons rose to fight, all other races fled in cowardice into the Ten Thousand Mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for reasons unknown, after hundreds of generations of interbreeding, these races suddenly became fierce and battle-hardened, their bodies nearly matching the Remnant Clan’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had long puzzled the human and demon races, and since no answer could be found, they attributed it to the Barbarian Emperor’s lineage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one imagined it was because of the Remnant Clan’s bones and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You built this body from the descendants of your bones—how repulsive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Esha showed disgust, then turned his gaze to the center of the bloodstorm: “By the way, how are the Princes?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huoyang turned to look: “The Princes should awaken in two days. As for the Sacred Emperor, he needs more time to gather a perfect body capable of re-swallowing Heaven’s Dao.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why did the Sacred Emperor strip away Heaven’s Dao and rebuild his body?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Emperor said the Heaven’s Dao he originally refined was incomplete. He must release it, swallow the current Heaven’s Dao, and refine it anew.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Esha closed his eyes: “And the sacred artifacts?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huoyang looked at him: “That is the next task. We must destroy the sacred artifacts entirely. Also, the Night Watcher—the most dangerous one is dead. The remaining one must be captured.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s good news. After so long as a powerless emperor, I can finally get my hands dirty.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t kill too many. We’ll need many slaves and blood offerings going forward.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Royal Minister Esha nodded slightly, then spread his vast, sky-blocking wings and roared away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the reborn Remnant Clan followers surged after him, like a black tide flooding wildly into Jiuzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the overwhelming killing intent, Elder Shang Hui of the Wenda Sect was fleeing desperately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him, a pale-blue humanoid, wrapped in malevolent energy, closed the distance in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, Shang Hui realized his speed was nothing compared to his pursuer. He unleashed all his inner force and slashed out a thunderous strike toward the charging figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thunder, like a blade, roared downward with the power to annihilate all things—showing the full might of the Yingtian Realm. But when it struck, the lightning was calmly caught in a pale-blue palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PUFF—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With merely a clenched fist, the lightning vanished into a wisp of smoke. Shang Hui’s eyes filled with despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that despair, the hand that had crushed the thunder slammed down upon him, exploding with thunderous force, shattering half his spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the dull crack of breaking bone, the Yingtian Realm Elder flew backward like a severed kite, spewing a gout of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endless wind howled past his ears, agony spread through every limb. As he flew backward, Shang Hui strained to lift his gaze—and saw the creature that had crushed his lightning, watching him with mocking amusement, as if he were a plaything.\u003C\u002Fp>",1707,"2026-06-19T15:28:41.911Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1a4191c1d7413c5bc6b6374e6cbb5f154a463fb7ffa7c8b633b051d3cac35d44","watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-409","watching-the-immortals-fall-chapter-407",430,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwatching-the-immortals-fall-cover.jpg"]