novelraw Chapter 26 The Emperor Reappears
Chapter 26 The Emperor Reappears
Swish!
If time were to rewind and stop, Jiang Yi would likely already know the whole story by now.
Shang Yuan is the Emperor's Daoist partner, and the child she holds is the Emperor's only bloodline, the little master in the Heavenly Court's legend.
Thinking about it this way, everything makes a lot more sense. With his unparalleled cultivation, the Emperor's Daoist partner must not be an ordinary person.
Shang Yuan's ability to enter the depths of Kunlun Mountain undoubtedly proves that she is a cultivator who has achieved enlightenment through a different method.
It seems that during the final battle of the Heavenly Court, it was this woman who took away the Emperor's only bloodline and returned to the ancient primordial star.
As for why the Emperor's offspring were not handed over to the Heavenly Court for training, it was probably because those supreme beings who participated in the God War at that time had not yet died.
Those supreme beings may not be interested in other members of the Heavenly Court bloodline, but they are certainly very interested in the offspring of the Emperor.
If the Emperor's offspring were to be born at this time, it would likely attract the covetousness of those supreme beings. Therefore, Shang Yuan did not inform the Heavenly Court of the Emperor's bloodline.
Thinking about it this way, it's possible that the bronze coffin really contains the Emperor's body. However, this is just speculation. Jiang Yi stepped forward, preparing to open the bronze coffin to verify it.
Click!
As the bronze coffin was opened, Jiang Yi was able to see the scene inside: there were two immortal sources, and a woman and a child were sealed inside.
The woman was Shang Yuan, the woman Jiang Yi saw when he traveled back in time, and the child in the Immortal Source bore an eight-tenths resemblance to the Emperor.
"What's going on? It's them?"
The inscription clearly states that the Supreme God was buried here, so how did it become Shang Yuan and his descendants?
Thinking of this, Jiang Yi continued to use the time reversal technique, wanting to see clearly what exactly happened back then.
Fragments of time kept flying around, and we returned to that point in time.
In the fragments of time, Jiang Yi clearly saw that thousands of years after the Emperor was buried, Shang Yuan came here with her child, awakened the Emperor, and then said something to him. The Emperor then sealed the mother and child in this bronze coffin.
The Emperor has been restored!
Upon seeing this scene, Jiang Yi immediately stopped his time-traveling magic, his gaze slightly narrowed.
The Emperor was awakened by his Daoist partner thousands of years after he was buried.
This all indicates that the Emperor has long since awakened from his feigned death and is hiding somewhere in the world, possibly even in Kunlun.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yi's eyes flashed with divine light as he scanned the entire Kunlun region, trying to find the Emperor's figure, but to no avail.
Finally, with no other choice, he turned his gaze to the two people inside the bronze coffin.
Under Jiang Yi's Heavenly Eye, Emperor Venerable's Dao Companion Shang Yuan had many Dao wounds on her body, which had spread to the Immortal Platform.
However, the offspring of the Emperor are different; their blood and energy are extremely vigorous, and their immortal essence flashes with symbols of the Great Dao.
"Was this the work of the Emperor?"
Jiang Ling murmured, "At the end of the mythological era, everything was shrouded in mystery and fog, leaving people completely baffled."
"Back then, when the Heavenly Court collapsed, many treacherous individuals followed the Supreme Being into the Heavenly Court, intending to destroy everything within it!"
Suddenly, a sighing voice came from behind Jiang Ling, filled with emotion.
Jiang Ling turned around and saw a man with great majesty standing behind him, staring at the figure inside the bronze coffin, his eyes as calm as still water.
"Emperor!"
Jiang Ling asked.
"It's me!"
The man replied, his gaze still fixed on the bronze coffin.
The Emperor has reappeared!
Jiang Ling narrowed her eyes. As the first supreme being to establish a Heavenly Court since the chaotic ancient era, the Emperor played a pivotal role in the entire ancient history of the human realm.
After the final battle at the end of the mythical era, the opponent faked his death and escaped. Now he has reappeared and is brazenly standing in front of him, so he must be on high alert.
This is not like the carefree Celestial Venerable who cuts himself off, causing his blood and energy to wither away.
Judging from the life force emanating from the Emperor, he has already lived through his third life and embarked on the path of immortality in the mortal world. He is undoubtedly the strongest person Jiang Ling has ever encountered, without exception.
A bloody battle was inevitable. Since the other party had appeared in front of him, they must have been prepared to silence him.
The Emperor, who had faked his death, had grand plans and would never allow the news that he was still alive to leak out.
However, the Emperor did not make a move at the beginning. Instead, he continued to speak to himself, "Back then, when the Heavenly Court was in turmoil, I had no time to attend to anything else and could only bring some of the survivors to the ancient primordial star..."
Based on what the Emperor said, Jiang Ling deduced that when the Emperor withdrew from the path to immortality, he had already decided to fake his death to escape, because the magic array he had set up in the eight wastelands of the universe to refine the universe was destroyed by the Supreme Being.
Under those circumstances, even if he killed the Celestial Venerable of Immortality and others, he would not be able to refine the entire clan.
And it will also bring forth other supreme beings who are still asleep.
With his Heavenly Emperor-level strength, he would have absolutely no hope of winning against all the supreme beings in the Forbidden Zone of Life.
Moreover, in the human realm, there are some terrifying beings hidden in the vast sea of people, such as the most mysterious Wuliang Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun, as well as Lingbao Tianzun.
Among these people, any one of them could rival him, and some were even stronger than him.
The Celestial Venerable has passed away peacefully!?
To be precise, there is no record in the stories of the entire mythological era that any celestial being died in meditation.
As one of the Nine Celestial Venerables, the Emperor Venerable once ventured deep into various forbidden zones of life, conversed with the supreme beings of those zones, and learned about some unknown past events from the mythological era.
Therefore, on his path to immortality, after learning that the Heaven-Refining Array, which was supposed to refine the universe, had failed, he quickly made a decision—to feign death and escape.
"I don't know if I'm right, but after that failure, you no longer trust outsiders."
So you decided to remain behind the scenes, simultaneously achieving immortality in the mortal world and setting up the supreme array to refine the universe once more. You awaited the array's completion, and upon achieving immortality in the mortal realm, you would refine the universe once more!
Jiang Ling looked at the Emperor and voiced her speculation.
Upon hearing this, the Emperor exclaimed in admiration, "To see the whole picture from a single leopard—while there are some general discrepancies, the general idea is quite accurate!"
Sure enough!
Upon hearing the Emperor's words, Jiang Ling's heart sank. The Emperor before her was no longer the Ninth Heavenly Venerable of the mythological era.
The idea of refining the universe to achieve one's own power is so dangerous that even most supreme beings wouldn't dare to consider it.
The universe is vast and boundless. Although the human world was damaged in the great war of countless ages, it is still a complete universe, only the laws of heaven and earth are somewhat incomplete.
To refine such a vast universe, let alone a supreme being, even a true immortal might not be able to do it.
Only beings at the level of the Immortal King can forge the universe into their own weapon.
Although the Emperor was amazing and among the strongest of all the Supreme Beings, the dangerous idea of refining the universe was something he could never have imagined.
Refining the universe with the body of a supreme being, regardless of whether there was any attempt to stop it, the backlash from heaven and earth alone would have been enough to bring him to eternal damnation.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ling continued, "What a brilliant scheme! Such a dangerous idea. Who exactly are you? A loser from the chaotic ancient times, or even earlier?"
After speaking, Jiang Ling looked at the Emperor with a solemn expression.
Seeing Jiang Ling's solemn expression, the Emperor spoke: "There's no doubt, I am the Emperor, I haven't been possessed!"
As he spoke, the Emperor sighed, "We are but mayflies in the vastness of the universe, a grain of millet in the boundless ocean. How could you, living in this broken world, possibly know the immensity of the world?"
"Although no one underestimates you, they still underestimate your ambition. Judging from all your signs, you want to become the Celestial King, and even transcend to the highest realm!"
Even now, Jiang Ling still can't tell whether the Emperor in front of her has been possessed.
However, that extremely dangerous idea revealed the Emperor's ambition.
"It seems you know quite a few secrets too!"
The Emperor looked at Jiang Ling with surprise, then gave her a deep look.
"Haha, you don't think you only know about events from ancient times or even earlier, do you?"
Ultimately, you attained enlightenment too late, and cannot compare to the celestial beings of the early mythological era. They knew far more than you can imagine.
Some of them were even survivors of that era, having personally experienced that glorious yet bloody and desperate time!
The ambition of the Emperor is to become an existence like the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, or even surpass him.
Jiang Ling's guess was correct. The Emperor had indeed come into contact with the Eternal Calamity. In his later years in his first life, he accidentally entered a relic from a chaotic ancient era.
Within those ruins, they found a sealed heart.
That heart, from the distant past to his own time, has never stopped beating.
The amount of blood energy contained within it exceeded the Emperor's imagination.
For nearly a million years, that heart has never stopped beating, which shows how powerful the person who owned it must have been in life.
In order to achieve Nirvana, he not only abandoned his own Taoist practices, but also directly implanted the beating heart into his own body, using the power emanating from the heart to advance further in the process.
However, unlike other beings affected by the Calamity of Immortality, he erased the Calamity's consciousness, only reading its sea of consciousness and learning many secrets.