The peerless black hand that covers the sky

Chapter 1114: If you can't beat them, join them!

The stronger a person is, the more disastrous the consequences will be when they make a mistake or crash!

An unparalleled being may indeed be invincible in the world, but that doesn't mean he won't make grave mistakes.

"The past era has turned the page, and reminiscing or going back in time has little meaning... But we must learn from the past to guide the future." The old man's tone was calm. "The present era has begun to show signs of turmoil, which seems to be the prelude to the downfall of the mastermind behind the scenes."

How could the emperors not feel a chill run down their spines upon hearing this?
First, they were told that even the strongest can make mistakes... Then, the conversation abruptly changed to the fact that everyone was already in the car, and the doors were welded shut. The peerless figure stepped on the gas and left it to fate... Finally, someone regretfully informed them that not only was the gas pedal pressed down, but they had also taken a shortcut, which was extremely dangerous. There was no saving them; they were just waiting to die!

The faces of the Celestial Emperors turned deathly pale, their expressions extremely grim. Was this truly an impending catastrophe?!
"What do you mean by that, senior?!"

They sought advice.

"To reverse life and death, to defy the laws of time—this is indeed an unparalleled supernatural power… But ultimately, the human world is not a plaything to be manipulated at will. The slightest mistake will lead to errors and loopholes in certain areas." The old man sighed, "The greater the mistake, the greater the loophole!"

"These vulnerabilities will exist in an abnormal state of life and death, neither alive nor dead, neither dead nor alive... Hmm, it seems you've figured something out?"

The old man's gaze fell upon the emperors.

The powerful men were all pale.

Compared to the "Heavenly Emperors" who had descended one after another before, they were weak and easily defeated, all of them just nobody.

But looking beyond the mortal realm, the achievements of the Celestial Emperor are already astonishing, truly possessing extraordinary supernatural powers.

With a single glance, he could say that observing the Three Realms and Six Paths was nothing more than an ordinary matter. The true Immortal Emperor sat high in the heavens, with all the heavens before his eyes!
It is easy to see that in many places throughout the human world, there are inexplicable and bizarre things evolving, which are neither born nor die, neither dies nor decays!

"and many more……"

One of the Celestial Emperors forced himself to remain calm, "These bizarre phenomena seem to originate even before we, the Celestial Emperors who have attained the Dao, did?"

This was like grasping at a straw, pointing out a minor issue with the timing.

“That’s true.” The old man nodded with a smile, “But before you became Immortal Emperors, their strength was definitely not as great as it is now.”

"At that time, although they were very powerful and extraordinary, they were still capable of handling, suppressing, and even annihilating..."

“From the time you became Immortal Emperors, which was also the time when that peerless black hand made its move, they seemed to have undergone a sublimation, a complete transformation!”

"And just now... they have undergone a second sublimation!"

"In fact, these bizarre things can be traced back to their origins... They may be resentments left over from prehistoric times, or the lingering obsessions of powerful figures who have fallen in the present world, or alternative forms of zombies that have emerged from a collapsed mind after receiving a memory infusion but lost control..."

"The sources are different, and even the most powerful things have their limits. They are troublesome to deal with, but they are not a big deal."

"Through these successive transformations, they seem to have been integrated into a system, gaining a foundation for longevity and immortality!"

"Two transformations have already brought this much, but what if there are more transformations? I'm very curious about how high they will go..."

The old man sighed.

"So, the more drastic the changes in the future, the more frequently the peerless beings behind the scenes will intervene... The more frequently they intervene, the more powerful those bizarre creatures will become, ultimately destroying all of humanity?!" an emperor whispered in despair.

"Is that powerful figure so cold-blooded and ruthless? Willing to sacrifice the entire world to achieve his goal?"

Someone is growling.

"Perhaps, He is gambling... gambling that the situation won't deteriorate to the extreme before He achieves His goal, at which point He can calmly step in and clean up the mess," the old man guessed. "Those bizarre things, even if they are extremely powerful, that person is not worried."

"No matter how strong, can anyone be stronger than Him?"

"Even if I am alone, facing countless adversaries, in this sea of ​​living beings composed of these opponents, I can still fight, struggle, and break through all enemies, sweeping away everything, annihilating all the bizarre, and restoring the collapsed endless spacetime, universe, chaos, and the Great Dao to their original state..."

"..." The powerful figures remained silent.

well.

This is truly super power, capable of sweeping away everything and eliminating any resistance. It is very powerful and also very capricious.

But they, as the parties involved, are furious!
Even the lives of cattle and horses matter!

They felt that they could still be saved!

After all, they are not fighting alone!
One "Heavenly Emperor" after another has already reached out a lifeline... though it's unclear how effective it will be.

"Thank you for your explanation, senior..."

After a long while, a Celestial Emperor sighed and bowed in gratitude, saying, "In this way, even if we wither and die one day, we can die knowing the truth, instead of being confused ghosts."

"No need to thank me..." The old man shook his head, "Is telling you the truth necessarily a good thing?"

"That's not necessarily true."

"Sometimes, ignorance is bliss, while overthinking can lead to a miscalculation at crucial moments..."

As he spoke, what kind of image surfaced in the old man's remaining memory? In a daze, he saw a creature with a tuft of red hair on its head pointing at a woman who looked like a corpse lying on the ground, laughing wildly and shouting something like, "You stinky little sister, I gave you a chance but you were useless. You failed at the last minute..." The air was filled with the atmosphere of "insulting a flower".

"If you don't know the inside story and are just risking your life and struggling for yourself, you might actually create a miracle."

"Knowing too much and understanding what an insurmountable barrier you are facing can easily lead to discouragement."

"Many times, success and failure are separated by just a little bit of spirit..."

said the old man.

“If success or failure is determined by mere willpower, then it’s nothing but luck.” One Immortal Emperor held a different view. “In any case, we should thank our senior.”

"Unfortunately, we have nothing of great value to offer as a token of our gratitude... Is there anything we can do for you, senior?"

“Serve…” the old man murmured, then sighed deeply, “I’ve even forgotten who I am, so what is there left for me to do?”

"Who am I...where did I come from...where am I going..."

"I've... forgotten everything!"

The old man sighed.

The emperors looked at each other in bewilderment.

The old man's condition is really abnormal.

As an unparalleled powerhouse, one could be said to be omnipotent, yet in the end, one could not even remember who one was—how tragic!
"Senior, do you remember nothing about your past? Could it be that someone targeted you, attacked you, causing you to fall into this state?" a Celestial Emperor pressed. "For example, those suspected masterminds you just mentioned..."

"The Coffin Master, the Demon Ancestor... is it them?"

“Coffin Master, Demon Ancestor…” The old man was momentarily stunned, repeatedly chewing on these two names and connecting them with his own situation.

Suddenly, he roared, unleashing his immense power, causing the eternal sky to shatter and then reappear!
boom!
His head glowed, and his eyes shone brightly, terrifying and awe-inspiring!
“I think I remember something…” he murmured, “They all seem to have… targeted me…”

"Demon Ancestor...you have tormented me, Coffin Master...you have wounded me..."

"Who am I, and who is me..." His breathing was unstable, sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes extremely intense and terrifying, and sometimes faint and nonexistent, like a dream or a bubble.

From the darkness, a shower of light appeared, fell, gathered towards him, and entered his body, as if something was returning!

Deng Deng Deng!
The emperors were bleeding profusely and were forced to retreat. The old man was not targeting them, but they could not even withstand the spread of his aura!

"How do you feel..."

As they stumbled backward, a Celestial Emperor coughed up blood and said, "It's like a deity undergoing a spiritual ascension?"

He felt that perhaps in the next moment, the old man would become supremely majestic and solemn, his mouth holding the mandate of heaven, causing all the worlds on earth to wail and say, "Your king has returned!"
but!
Ultimately, things did not develop that way.

When the old man's energy reached its peak, it felt as if he had stepped into empty space, leaving a sense of emptiness and unease.

It's an indescribable subtlety, like a punch thrown with all your might missing its target, the power having nowhere to go but rolling back!

collapse!
As if the great road had collapsed, the old man's eyes dimmed, and even his figure blurred. "Yes, and no... no, and yes..."

"In the end, it's still just a fog, a dream, a bubble..."

"That's enough...that's enough!"

He sighed deeply and chose to let go.

The emperors looked at him with worry and fear, and the immortal emperor who had just spoken out of turn was speechless.

He was too talkative, but suffered an unexpected disaster and couldn't say anything.

"My dear friends, our fate has run its course. I wish you all the best in obtaining what you desire..." The old man looked up at the assembled powerful figures and said this.

Then, his figure gradually faded away, as if erasing all traces from the world.

The emperors were startled and hurriedly seized the last opportunity to ask, "Senior! Do you have any guidance on our hidden dangers?"

They felt that this might be the strongest person they had ever met who had no intention of using them.

He was not much different from the Heavenly Emperor in the Heavenly Court, let alone those "Heavenly Emperors" with impure motives.

With such a supreme being guiding them and pointing out their mistakes, they might truly be able to break the deadlock perfectly and eliminate all the hidden dangers in their minds in one fell swoop!
"The Heavenly Emperors have already done a very good job of dealing with your mental health issues..." The old man's figure grew increasingly blurry. "Even I don't have a more perfect method..."

"..." The emperors felt some regret and disappointment.

But, in the next moment, things take a turn for the better.

“However…” the old man continued, as if a ray of dawn had pierced the night sky.

"If I were in your situation, perhaps I would choose to face the calamity head-on..." he said. "A peerless mastermind, reversing life and death, yin and yang, disrupting the cycle of time and space..."

“You will keep ‘appearing,’ more than one…”

"These aspects of you can be the same, or they can be different... The you of the past is you, but also not you..."

"If you are willing, you can take advantage of these subtle changes to separate your mind and disintegrate your will..."

"How do we do it?"

"It means becoming part of that loophole, allowing that grotesque thing to possess you, and then fighting against and counterbalancing it..."

The old man described a method that was so terrifying that it stunned and frightened all the emperors.

For a moment, they even found it hard to reconcile this method with the image of the kind-faced old man who had previously helped them with their questions.

evil!

So evil!

To collude with the bizarre and grotesque?

How did you come up with that?

A mental storm raged, and the emperors' thoughts were in turmoil. It took them a great deal of effort to calm themselves down.

When they tried to ask further questions, the old man's last figure vanished without a trace.

The emperors looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Is this right? Is this reasonable?"

An emperor asked a question.

"It... seems to make some sense?"

Another being, seemingly at the end of the road, hesitated before speaking, "When an unparalleled being makes a move, sweeping across all realms of humanity, we are completely unaware..."

"but……"

"As the righteous path may be one foot high, the evil path may be ten feet high..."

“Those bizarre and strange things are the loopholes in this process, and they will be sublimated and transformed in the process.”

"By sealing them away and attaching them to our bodies, we can first indirectly capture the so-called 'nodes' and sense the ups and downs of the times in the dark..."

"Secondly, although our mental state has improved somewhat, as long as it cannot be completely cured, those hidden dangers are bound to return, and they will escalate and become increasingly insane, until we are no longer ourselves, but have been possessed by another entity..."

"Since that's the case, rather than sitting idly by and waiting to be robbed of our life's achievements by some unknown mastermind... we might as well strike first and plant another big time bomb within ourselves, one that grows stronger with the times!"

"Let's just consider it... fighting poison with poison!"

The more the immortal emperor spoke, the more fluent he became, and at this moment he felt his wisdom and talent flowing out like a spring.

He was in high spirits, his mind was active, and his inspiration was flowing freely.

"We can even observe those bizarre and grotesque evolutions, evolve in that direction, extract their true meaning, and reap the special benefits of this era..."

"Yes! That's right!"

"When an unparalleled powerhouse takes action, it stirs up great waves in all the worlds of humanity, and this leads to great terror. This is a severe test that the entire era will face. If things go wrong, humanity will fall into ruin and never recover... But why should we resist it head-on?"

"If we can't beat them, we can join them first, develop our strength quietly, and wait for the right opportunity..."

"Where the waves are, there are boundless blessings, but they only apply to the bizarre and grotesque... And if we become them, we can enjoy the same blessings."

"at the same time."

"Aren't those hidden dangers lurking in our true selves quite capable? Aren't they pawns placed by those ancient immortal emperors, or even prehistoric giants?"

"Now, we're joining the ranks of the ultimate mastermind, changing things from the inside out... I want to see if they dare to revive those vicious methods then."

(End of this chapter)