The peerless black hand that covers the sky

Chapter 1140 I really deserve to die!
Longma is not a good horse.

It used to be someone who could hang out with the likes of Black Emperor, so it's no surprise that it's full of bad intentions.

That's why, almost instantly, it realized something was wrong and understood what Chu Feng was planning—this young man really doesn't treat people like human beings at all!

He was worried about the origin of the Time Furnace. This treasure was entangled with the three thousand prehistoric immortal emperors. How could it have fallen into his hands for no reason?
It might be a trap!

However, Chu Feng could not easily give up this treasure, as it was the fundamental guarantee of his personal safety at this moment.

Without this furnace to isolate the secrets of heaven and shield cause and effect, would he still be so at ease now?
It's possible that a Celestial Emperor or a High Priest will descend from the sky at any moment, or even that Ye Tian Emperor who seems to be in serious trouble!
Therefore, despite their hidden worries, they could only suppress them, accept this gift of fate, and pay the hidden price they were unaware of.

However, when his gaze fell on the dragon horse and he learned about the horse's background, a plan immediately came to mind.

Although he didn't really want to see that peerless empress before he became an Immortal Emperor... if the situation became critical, it wouldn't hurt to try and get on her good side!

It's going to be tough on Longma, going through fire and water with him, overcoming countless hardships and obstacles.

If he encounters any force majeure event that even the Time Furnace cannot help him, or even if the enemy turns against him, then... he will "sacrifice" the dragon horse and use the Great Summoning Technique to send an unparalleled empress across countless times to conquer the world!

Chu Feng's scheme backfired spectacularly on Long Ma. Long Ma, with his petty mind, judged Chu Feng's intentions and thought that this young man was about to be completely cunning!

The air is filled with yang energy, yet a chilling wind blows... What kind of underworld things are these!

'From this day forward, the Bitter Leaf Sect no longer needs to frame Emperor Ye as the Evil Ancestor... The true Evil Ancestor has appeared!'

Longma was filled with bitterness. At this moment, its vision went black, and it vaguely saw a glimpse of its future—endless suffering awaited it on the road ahead!
Through trials and tribulations, this young man is ruthless. He will willingly endure hardship, traverse perilous lands, and seek the truth of history, pondering the possibility of saving the world.

But it will never benefit anyone; instead, everyone will be taken along on the journey and suffer together!
"I won't do it!" Longma shouted. "I have shed blood for humanity, I have rendered meritorious service to all ages, young man, you can't treat me like this!"

"That's not up to Fellow Daoist Longma!" Chu Feng smiled, becoming increasingly composed, and marveled at himself, "I really am a genius, to have come up with such a scheme of using one tiger to devour another..."

He was somewhat smug, no matter how foul-mouthed Longma's insults were.

"Ahem! Now that things have come to this, fellow Daoist, tell me, do you choose to maintain your dignity, or should I help you maintain your dignity?" Chu Feng asked with a smile.

Longma calmed down, a process that was much shorter than Chu Feng had imagined. "What does it mean to be respectable yourself? And what does it mean to help me be respectable?"

Chu Feng was a little surprised, but he didn't think much of it. He simply said, "If you want to maintain your dignity, then obediently follow me... Otherwise, I'll have to ask you to settle down in the furnace."

“Then I’ll choose to live with dignity.” Longma sighed softly, as if resigned to his fate. “If I go into the furnace and it goes out of control one day, I’m afraid I’ll be reduced to ashes, and even the Empress won’t be able to sense it and avenge me.”

"Good! Good! Good!" Chu Feng nodded with a smile, activated the Time Furnace, and left a mark on the dragon horse to ensure that this rogue horse wouldn't cause him any trouble.

Longma obediently accepted all of this, as if he had given up and resigned himself to his fate. Life is like this: if you can't resist it, then just enjoy it.

"Fellow Daoist is so honest, it suddenly makes me a little wary..." After finishing everything and setting up layers of restrictions, Chu Feng spoke again, "You don't seem like someone who would give up so easily... Is there some conspiracy or trick waiting for me ahead?"

"Young man! Don't go too far!" Longma was enraged. The Time Furnace flew away, no longer suppressing him. He stood up, shook his body, opened his blood-red maw, and spat everywhere. "I resisted your suppression of me, and now that I've accepted my fate, you doubt me!"

"Why are you so suspicious? Why do you think so badly of others? What kind of family did you grow up in?!"

Longma roared, looking extremely angry and furious, while trying to hide a hint of guilt.

"First, wasn't it you, fellow Daoist, who stirred up my suspicion and sensitivity?" Chu Feng said calmly, "You disturbed my Dao heart with your words, almost making me question the meaning of my life."

"Secondly, the characteristics of this era are different from those of your prehistoric days. Our predecessors dug pits to bury our descendants, and fragments of memory hide hidden hands. If normal people are not careful, they may inevitably become part of the corrupt and degenerate... Fellow Daoist, you have not experienced our suffering, so do not advise us to be kind."

Chu Feng answered Long Ma methodically and logically.

"Third, I've been an orphan since I can remember. I grew up relying on the kindness of many families and was only raised by a few teachers... I'm truly sorry for the lack of proper upbringing!"

Chu Feng said softly, which made Longma pause in surprise and feel a pang of guilt, as if his already fragile conscience was being torn apart.

For a fleeting moment, it even felt a pang of guilt—I'm so damn awful!

After making two grunts, Longma chose to shut up.

But Chu Feng did not.

He looked Longma up and down thoughtfully. "So quick to feel guilty? Instead of arguing his case, he's shouting about ignoring the facts..."

"Based on my observations and understanding of you, and my speculation about your integrity... it seems you were really up to no good just now. You have some kind of conspiracy on the road ahead, or at the very least, you'll see me make a fool of myself?"

Suddenly, Longma's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost.

“You’re not a sentimental horse; you won’t empathize with others’ plight… In fact, if there’s a benefit, you’ll use every means to fight for it,” Chu Feng whispered.

"However, you still have some principles, and you're not too bad in terms of morality. You don't have much conscience, but you do have a little..."

"So, such a big and quick reversal means you have something to hide..."

"Yes... someone else will come to rescue you soon?"

"Or... even if you encounter danger, the hidden hand behind me will intervene and let you go, making it seem like danger is actually safe?"

Chu Feng stared intently at the dragon horse, observing it carefully.

At this moment, Longma was covered in sweat.

Even without the Time Furnace suppressing it, Chu Feng's terrifying image remained in its mind, dangerous and horrifying!
This has nothing to do with strength.

"You can't wrong a good horse!"

Longma managed to utter this sentence.

At this moment, it felt that compared to Chu Feng, even though it had been a bad horse and had eaten some of Ye's blood buns, it was now seen as a good horse.

This young man... is too dangerous!
It's as if the Demon Ancestor has descended upon the world; even the weakest among them are extremely terrifying!
"Injustice?" Chu Feng smiled. "Whether it's an injustice or not, you should know better than I do."

He turned around, and the Time Furnace flew into his body. "Alright, let's go."

Instead of pursuing the matter further, he strode forward with a clear direction.

Longma paused for a moment, then followed closely behind.

Along the way, it hesitated several times before finally speaking, "Hey, young man, aren't you curious?"

"Curious? Curious about what? Curious about why you seem dangerous but are actually safe?"

Chu Feng turned around and smiled slightly, "There's no need to ask that question; I can roughly guess what's going on..."

"Oh?" Ryoma was surprised.

"Because I suddenly realized something..."

Chu Feng said leisurely, "Cultivation isn't just about fighting and killing; it also involves human relationships and worldly affairs..." "Three thousand Immortal Emperors, three thousand Immortal Emperors... Heh!"

"How many people in this case have mysterious causes and complex backgrounds?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, there might be some backup plans from Fellow Daoist Longma's backers planted among them, infiltrating that group, right?"

"Even a centipede with a hundred legs doesn't fall down when it's dead... No matter how powerful the Heavenly Emperor is, can he really wipe out all these backup plans?"

Chu Feng's eyes gleamed with wisdom, "Even the outstanding figures who have risen in this era, those Dao Ancestors, those Immortal Emperors..."

"They inherited fragments of the memories of their predecessors, integrated them, and achieved their own enlightenment..."

"But who knows what kind of 'impurities' might exist in those fragments of memory, which at some point might come to life from the memories of those Dao Ancestors and Immortal Emperors, and seize their bodies and take their place!"

"If the powerful figures of this era are like this, how could the prehistoric Immortal Emperors be completely innocent and clean?"

"Why wouldn't I believe it?"

"Who knows, some of them might have become the incarnation or avatar of some ancestor, overlord, or Dao master long ago..."

Chu Feng made a bold guess, and Long Ma, who was following behind, broke out in a cold sweat.

"It can't be that bad...it really can't be that bad..." Longma said guiltily, "How could those peerless figures do such a shameless thing, haunting us and infiltrating someone else's team...Ahahaha..."

As Longma spoke, his voice grew softer and softer.

After all, there were undeniable facts.

During the Ancestral Court era, the Nine Great Dao Lords ruled over all mortal realms. They were considered "one of their own" and emerged from among the many Celestial Emperors, sharing a close bond with them. However, in reality...

When their true identities were revealed and they shed their disguises, the Celestial Emperors of Heaven all turned pale, as if they had swallowed a dead child.

The progenitor, overlord, heavenly emperor... the only one of Heaven's own—the Pollen Emperor—was suppressed.

face?
What is a face?
Can you eat?
A strong person can have a sense of shame, or they can not; they can take things on and let them go!
"Hey!"

Chu Feng didn't even turn his head. "I'm more interested in the history before this era. It's perhaps even more fascinating and unexpected than people guess..."

"The information that later generations try their best to find is probably all embellished, distorted, and simplified... The truth is known only to the parties involved, and it is beyond imagination."

"Fellow Daoist Longma, you must tell me about it in detail when you have time!"

Chu Feng laughed loudly.

Ryoma wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "Definitely! Definitely!"

It tried to evade the question, not daring to delve any deeper, fearing it would lose its grip on the situation, so it proactively changed the subject, asking, "Where are you going?"

"Go...to my hometown, my hometown!"

Chu Feng straightened his posture, "My life before I embarked on the path of cultivation was also the place where I encountered this Time Furnace!"

“I don’t have many clues and I know nothing about prehistory, but I think I can find some clues in that place.”

A glint flashed in Chu Feng's eyes, followed by a somewhat dazed look.

So many years have passed, has my hometown... changed beyond recognition?
Perhaps everything is unfamiliar... The village bully, Big Black, and Uncle Cao, the grave robber... you probably didn't even leave behind a few bone fragments...

'And then there are a few teachers, mere mortals, whose lives last no more than a hundred years before they are all buried…'

As he approached his hometown, Chu Feng felt a mix of emotions, unable to contain himself.

However, he also understood that finding a time furnace in that place, in his childhood, from an ordinary flash flood, was probably not as simple as he had initially thought!
And himself!

As Ryoma said, he was an orphan who had no parents since he could remember.

Of course, he didn't lack family affection or care... In that small village, he grew up eating food from many families and receiving care from many families.

However, this point cannot be ignored.

However, when he traced his lineage, he found himself shrouded in mist, everything obscured.

This is very abnormal!
You must know, he is already a Celestial King!

Don't be fooled by the fact that in this era, the achievements of Immortal Kings may not seem impressive. They are people you see all the time... but their level of life doesn't lower itself. They are truly comparable to a complete and vast universe, capable of establishing their own Immortal Realm and achieving immortality!

Before this era, a Celestial King was a great figure no matter where he was... He could even participate in the most intense battle, the war between the light and dark factions, even if he was just a pawn!
The strange and ominous mass production of cannon fodder, no matter how many heads, or even a dozen or dozens of them, if they are not baptized with precious primordial matter, the Immortal King is almost the end, and they will not be able to enter the Dao Ancestor realm!
Now, a Celestial King is tracing his roots and investigating his own bloodline, but he hasn't found anything... How can this not be frightening?
Therefore, he was determined to return to his hometown!

"Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going?"

Chu Feng said quietly, "The truth should come out by now."

“Previously, I avoided and ignored this issue... After all, if even a Celestial King can't see it clearly, how deep must the water be?”

"But now, I have a priceless treasure and a sacrifice that can be offered in a critical moment... I can definitely find out more!"

Chu Feng muttered to himself.

"Hey! Don't scare the horse! What do you mean by 'sacrifice'? Aren't you going to try to hide it?" Longma muttered.

Amidst the dragon's protest, a man and a horse traversed the boundless Milky Way.

Finally, they tore through the last layer of spacetime, descended into an ordinary universe, and arrived before a light blue star.

"and many more!"

Longma stared wide-eyed at the star, his pupils contracting.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" Chu Feng noticed its strange behavior and immediately became alert.

Flames ignited, and the Time Furnace flew out, poised to unleash a devastating, earth-shattering attack at any moment.

He was waiting for Ryoma's reply.

In terms of combat power, with the Time Furnace in hand, he wouldn't be afraid of even an Immortal Emperor.

However, he was ultimately just a Celestial King, and his vision, knowledge, and spiritual perception were still inferior to those of the Dragon Horse.

“This ancient star…it’s so similar! So similar!” Longma whispered.

(End of this chapter)