Gaze and you will become stronger: starting from Doupo

A terrifying aura swept in like a surging wave, the space shook violently, and even the stars were trembling under this aura.

Then, a man covered in golden hair came from the sky. He sat on a stone beast that looked like a unicorn. Every step he took made the sound of stars shattering. The stone beast's hooves crushed a huge star, which burst into a dazzling light, but the man seemed to be unaware of it. His eyes were as cold as a knife as he scanned the battlefield below.

This is an ancient emperor! His aura is as majestic as the abyss. Just standing there, the spiritual energy of the entire Zhongzhou is stagnant. His eyes are extremely deep, as if they contain the birth and death of the universe. Upon closer inspection, you can see the scenes of the galaxy disappearing, the heavens collapsing, and the birth of all spirits flowing in them.

"What's the matter?" The voice of the Ancient Emperor exploded like thunder, shaking the vast sky. "How can you easily disturb my deep sleep?"

The Ancient King quickly knelt on the ground, his forehead pressed against the void, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, my race has encountered an unprecedented crisis. A forbidden figure has appeared in the human race. We are really unable to deal with it alone. Please help us!" As he said that, he raised his hand and pointed at the old man in the starry sky.

The ancient emperor's gaze fell on the old man Chi Mu, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes: "You don't have much time left, but you are still trying to stay in this world?"

The old man Chi Mu swept away his previous sickly look, straightened his back, and looked directly at the ancient emperor with a gaze as sharp as a sword: "You can still fight."

For a moment, the two great beings in the starry sky stood facing each other, and the whole world fell into an eerie silence. It seemed as if even time had stopped at this moment, and only the stars in the distance were still slowly turning, witnessing this confrontation that spanned the ages.

Rumble!
A thunder broke the silence, and several flashes of lightning flashed by. Jiang Han, Ye Fan, Duan De, the abbot of the Great Leiyin Temple, the leader of the Nanling demon clan, and others appeared beside the four emperors. Their appearance brought a powerful aura, which lifted the spirits of the surrounding monks.

"Has the crisis in the East Wilderness, West Desert, South Ridge and North Plains really been resolved?" The Emperor of Shenzhou glanced at the abbot of the Great Leiyin Temple and others with an unbelievable look in his eyes.

The abbot of the Great Leiyin Temple put his hands together and said "Amitabha": "This is all thanks to the ancestor Hongjun. If it weren't for the ancestor's efforts to save the situation, the four major regions would have fallen long ago."

“Ancestor Hongjun?” The four emperors looked at each other with surprise in their eyes. “It turned out to be you! I have heard of your great name for a long time, and today I finally get to see you.”

The leader of the Nanling demon tribe pointed at the two people facing each other in the starry sky, his brows full of confusion: "Who are they?"

"The golden-haired man is the Ancient Emperor invited by the Ancient Creatures," the Emperor of Shenzhou said in a deep voice, "and the old man is the guardian of our human race, Gai Jiuyou."

"Gai Jiuyou!" Jiang Taixu was shocked when he heard this. "The closest being to immortal in the legend is actually still alive?"

Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue also widened their eyes and looked at Jiang Han with curiosity: "Master, do you know who he is?"

Jiang Han nodded gently, his voice calm but with a hint of respect: "Gai Jiuyou, one of the most amazing figures in ancient times. If he had not been born at the wrong time, he would have definitely become an emperor."

Everyone around was amazed when they heard this. They had all read about Gai Jiuyou's deeds in ancient books and knew that he was a figure who shocked the world, but they didn't expect to see him in person today.

"In this era of weak spiritual energy, you can still become a great sage. You are really young and promising." Gai Jiuyou's voice suddenly sounded, and his eyes turned to Jiang Han, "It's a pity that you, like me, were born in the wrong era! Otherwise, you would definitely be a great emperor!"

The Ancient Emperor glanced at Jiang Han with disdain in his eyes: "Great Sage? In my eyes, you are nothing but an ant."

Ji Ziyue blinked her eyes and looked at Jiang Han curiously: "Grandmaster, are you really just a Great Sage? Why do I feel that you are even more powerful than the legendary Great Sage?"

Duan De also came over and whispered, "Yes, Old Ancestor, please don't keep me in suspense. What realm are you in?"

Jiang Han smiled, looking nonchalant: "What we see may not be the truth. Sometimes, our spiritual sense may not be accurate." As he spoke, he clasped his hands across his chest, cast his gaze towards the two great beings in the starry sky, and said no more.

"There is not much time left, let's fight." Gai Jiuyou suddenly spoke, with a hint of determination in his voice.

As his voice fell, the sound of immortals began to flow, as if flowing from the ancient galaxy, resonating with the great way of heaven and earth. In the starry sky, Gai Jiuyou's white clothes fluttered, his hair was flying, his eyes became clear as stars, and his whole temperament changed instantly, as if he was a god patrolling the world. He was clearly standing in a distant star field, but gave people the illusion that he was close at hand, but if you look closely, you will feel that his figure is ethereal, as if he has merged with the entire starry sky.

"This... this is the Nine Netherworld Fairy Song recorded in ancient books!" The abbot of the Great Leiyin Temple exclaimed, "Legend has it that this fairy song can connect heaven and earth and mobilize the power of the stars. I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes today."

Everyone looked up and saw Gai Jiuyou in the starry sky gently waving his hands. Countless starlight gathered into piano keys. His fingers played in the void, and the fairy music lingered. Each note carried a powerful force that made the whole world tremble. The face of the ancient emperor finally became solemn. He felt the terrifying power contained in this fairy music, which was a force that could threaten his existence. "Hmph!" The ancient emperor snorted coldly, and the stone beast under his seat roared to the sky, with endless majesty in his voice. He formed seals with his hands, and a huge golden wheel appeared in the void. The wheel was engraved with ancient runes, and each rune exuded a powerful force.

The battle between the two powerful men was about to break out. The entire sky of Zhongzhou was dyed gold and silver by their aura. Countless rays of light intertwined in the void, forming a magnificent yet dangerous picture. The human cultivators retreated one after another, fearing that they would be affected by this terrifying force, while the ancient creatures looked at the Ancient Emperor with expectation, hoping that he could defeat Gai Jiuyou and lead them to victory.

In this tense atmosphere, Jiang Han stood quietly in the crowd, his eyes deep, watching the battle in the starry sky. He knew that this battle would determine the fate of the entire Beidou Star Region, and he would also play an important role in this battle. With the collision of the immortal sound and the Falun, a world-shaking war officially kicked off, and the sky of Zhongzhou would also usher in unprecedented changes in this war.

“When the sky is filled with murderous intent, the stars will move and change their positions. When the earth is filled with murderous intent, dragons and snakes will rise from the land. When people are filled with murderous intent, heaven and earth will turn upside down.” The abbot of the Great Leiyin Temple clasped his hands together, the Buddhist beads spun rapidly between his fingers, his eyes reflecting the surging Taoist rhyme in the starry sky. “This song and “Prelude of the Gods” are both known as the two greatest songs of the ancient times. I didn’t expect to see their full picture in the Dharma Ending Age…” His voice gradually became low, as if his soul was shattered by the murderous intent in the immortal song.

Every note of Jiuyou Fairy Song turned into a substantial Dao pattern, weaving into a golden net in the starry sky. Gai Jiuyou's sleeves moved without wind, his white hair gradually turned black in the fairy light, his hunched back was as straight as a sword, and his eyes reflected the galaxy that was billions of light years away. He raised his hand and waved it lightly, and five stars exploded in response, the broken stars turned into flowing fire, outlining an ancient battle formation in the void.

"Interesting." The ancient emperor's stone beast crushed the third star, and its long golden fur was flowing with the power of destruction when chaos first began. "If you had stayed in seclusion, you might have been able to survive for a few more days. But now you are going to be buried with ants?" There was disdain in his laughter. The stone beast under his seat suddenly raised its head and roared. The sound waves shattered the battle formation condensed by Gai Jiuyou, and stardust fell on Zhongzhou like a rainstorm.

Gai Jiuyou's eyes suddenly lit up, and the shadow of the Green Emperor Wutong appeared in his pupils - that was the barrier of the Great Dao that he had never been able to cross in his life. "In my life, I have been trapped by the Green Emperor's Great Dao and the laws of heaven and earth," his voice was as calm as dead water, "Only this battle can I open a path for future generations." Before he finished speaking, his figure had crossed three stars, and his giant palm, wrapped in the power of the entire star field, slapped the head of the Ancient Emperor.

This palm made all the cultivators in the entire Big Dipper Star Region feel the bone-piercing cold. The Emperor of Shenzhou looked at the palm that covered the sky and the sun, and suddenly remembered the "Nine Nether Immortal Palm" recorded in the ancient books of the clan. Legend has it that this was a forbidden move created by Gai Jiuyou when he was in the quasi-emperor realm, and he once smashed the ancient royal family's inheritance holy mountain with one palm. At this moment, the stardust mixed in the palm wind, each grain contained the pressure of the quasi-emperor level, making the knees of the powerful God Kings below weak.

The ancient emperor finally put away his contempt. He formed seals with his hands, and a golden torrent gushed out of the mouth of the stone beast. It was a magical power of destruction that gathered the essence and blood of 100,000 ancient creatures. At the moment when the torrent collided with the giant palm, time seemed to stand still - in the starry sky, two groups of light spun wildly like yin and yang fish, and every fusion was accompanied by the annihilation of dozens of stars. There was no deafening roar, only a silent explosion of light spreading in the void, like the explosion of a singularity when the universe was first born.

"Their battlefield... is outside the star track." Jiang Han looked at the distorted space and time, his fingertips unconsciously crossing the blue lotus mark between his eyebrows. He could feel that every time Gai Jiuyou swung his sword, he was overdrawing his last vitality. In his body, which should have been decaying, a spirit fire brighter than the sun was burning.

After a quarter of an hour of confrontation, thirty-seven stars in the sky had already disappeared. Gai Jiuyou suddenly coughed up a mouthful of golden blood, and the blood drops fell on the nearest star, actually pressing a dent in the celestial body with a diameter of a thousand miles. The Ancient Emperor took the opportunity to take half a step forward, and the stone beast's front hoof had already reached Gai Jiuyou's chest, but the latter suddenly showed a bitter smile: "Do you think that I have exhausted all my efforts just to tie with you?"

Before he finished speaking, Gai Jiuyou's aura suddenly changed. His skin began to become transparent, his internal organs shone like bright stars, and his blood turned into a galaxy and rushed through his veins. That was the "Life Burning Forbidden Technique" - compressing a hundred years of life into a moment of peak, at the cost of annihilation of body and soul. The four emperors changed color at the same time, and they finally remembered the secret of their clan: the inheritance of the human race's guardian has always been a blood oath of life for life.

“Master Ancient Emperor!” The Ancient King looked at Gai Jiuyou, who suddenly looked thirty years younger in the starry sky, and fear appeared in his voice for the first time, “He is burning his origin!”

The pupils of the Ancient Emperor shrank suddenly. He felt that Gai Jiuyou's aura at this moment was infinitely close to the Great Emperor realm, a realm that even he had once admired. The stone beast growled uneasily, and its claws left deep marks in the void, as if resisting the pressure from the Heavenly Dao.

"This era does not belong to us," Gai Jiuyou's voice became clear, like the roar of a young man, "but the future of the human race cannot be trampled upon by you." He raised his hand and stroked the forehead of the stone beast, which actually knelt down trembling in his palm, "Before the Green Emperor passed away, he asked me to look after this world... Now, it's time to pave the way for the younger generations."

In the starry sky, Gai Jiuyou's figure began to fade, but thousands of light points overflowed from his body, and each light point turned into his shadow, spreading across the Big Dipper Star Region. The monks in Zhongzhou were surprised to find that their injuries were healing rapidly, and their exhausted spiritual power was recovering like a spring - this was the fire of hope that Gai Jiuyou ignited for the entire human race with his last life.

"It turns out that the real power of the guardian is to burn oneself and illuminate future generations." Jiang Taixu looked at the light floating in the sky, tears welling up in his eyes. He finally understood why the ancient books recorded that Gai Jiuyou "passed away in the starry sky", but no one had ever found his body - this amazing and powerful man had already turned himself into the light of protection for the human race.

The ancient emperor's attack suddenly stopped. He looked at Gai Jiuyou's gradually transparent body and felt fear for the first time. It was not fear of power, but awe of inheritance - when a strong man is willing to burn everything, even his own Dao fruit, such determination is enough to make any existence tremble.

"Go ahead," Gai Jiuyou smiled and opened his arms. The shadows of the Green Emperor Wutong and the Undead Sky Sword appeared behind him. "Let me see if your ancient royal family's 'Ten Thousand Emperors' can stop this burning life fire."

The stone beast let out a final mournful roar, and the ancient emperor finally attacked with all his strength. The golden torrent, carrying thousands of runes, smashed towards Gai Jiuyou like an inverted galaxy. The latter just stood there quietly, allowing the torrent to penetrate his body, but directed all the world-destroying power to his sea of ​​consciousness that was about to collapse.

"Master, he..." Ye Fan choked and grabbed Jiang Han's sleeve, but found that the latter's eyes were full of respect.

"He is not fighting," Jiang Han said softly, "He is blocking the final disaster for the entire human race."

In the starry sky, Gai Jiuyou's body finally collapsed. Countless points of light gathered into a golden beam of light, rushing straight to the outside of the Big Dipper Star Region, where he used his last strength to lead the attack of the Ancient Emperor into the depths of the universe. The sky of Zhongzhou gradually returned to clarity, and only that beam of light, like a torch that never went out, illuminated everyone's heart.

The battle is over. The ancient creatures were horrified to find that their throne stone beast had been seriously injured and the ancient emperor's aura had become weak. (End of this chapter)