Gaze and you will become stronger: starting from Doupo

“Thunder…Thunder Halberd…”

The shadow's voice sounded like the chorus of countless souls. It raised its hand, and a half-broken thunder mark appeared on its palm. It was a protective mark planted by the master of the thunder halberd when it was still a human warrior 100,000 years ago. Memories came flooding back: the battlefield of blood and fire, the light of the thunder halberd splitting the chaos, and the back of the person who always stood in the front.

"Master... is that you?"

The shadow suddenly knelt down, and the body made of corpse qi began to collapse, revealing the life soul that was glimmering inside. Deep in its soul, there was a forgotten memory: in order to seal the source of darkness, the owner of the Thunder Halberd voluntarily locked himself in the fairy chain of the seven forbidden areas. Each chain was guarded by a different forbidden area, and the mission of the Burial Sky Island was to guard the "Chain of Time".

"After 30,000 years, you finally broke the first chain." The shadow's soul gave off a mixture of sadness and joy. "Back then, you asked us to pretend to be the guardians of the restricted area because you were afraid that the human race would do everything they could to save you after knowing the truth... But do you know? Every time there was a dark turmoil, we secretly used our souls to extend your life."

In the starry sky, the lightning suddenly paused. The man with the Thunder Halberd's consciousness swept across the Burial Heaven Island, and when he saw the half-thunder mark, a trace of pain flashed in his eyes. He remembered that in the war 100,000 years ago, in order to keep the last human race alive, he personally turned his most trusted subordinates into "monsters" in the restricted area, letting them bear the infamy, just to defend the last line of defense.

“Wake up, old brother.” A deep voice echoed across the Sky Burial Island, and the shadow’s soul trembled violently. “Wait until I break all the chains, and we will go back together…to the homeland of the human race.”

The shadow suddenly stood up, and the corpse qi turned into a black fog, condensing into a huge battle flag above the island. Embroidered on the flag was the familiar lightning halberd. And in the depths of the black fog, countless faint points of light were gathering - they were the souls of all the human martyrs who had been buried in the restricted area for 100,000 years. At this moment, as the battle flag was raised, the light of hope was rekindled.

The main peak of the Immortal Mountain suddenly split open, revealing a black palace inside the mountain. In the center of the palace, a demon holding a black Fang Tian Hua Ji was staring at the starry sky. His armor was covered with cracks, and each crack was oozing golden blood - those were the wounds left when he fought side by side with the master of the Thunder Halberd.

“Old ghost, do you really want to fight him?” The old man held the Xuanwu magic medicine in his arms, his voice trembling, “Three hundred years ago, you secretly drank half a bottle of immortality medicine, and now your injuries are only 30% healed…”

"Shut up!" The tip of Demon Shadow's halberd slammed heavily on the ground, and magma gushed out of the cracked mountain. "In order to keep us alive, he voluntarily locked himself in the ancient forbidden land and used his own blood to feed the immortal chains of the seven forbidden areas. Now he wants to break the chains, and he will inevitably be retaliated by the way of heaven. If I don't take the calamity of the Immortal Mountain for him, who will?"

He suddenly raised his head and looked at the lightning in the starry sky, with a bitter smile on his face. "Do you think those guards of the restricted area are really trying to stop him? No, we are helping him share the pressure of the Heavenly Dao. Every obstacle is to make his breakthrough smoother. When he was teaching us to practice halberd, he said that if you want to split the chaos, you must first become chaos."

The old man suddenly fell silent, and the Xuanwu magic medicine in his arms suddenly let out a mournful cry - it was a wail that sensed that its master was about to die. The demon turned around, and the cracks on his armor suddenly glowed with golden light. Countless phantoms appeared behind him, all of them were the immortal mountain warriors who had fought with him.

“Tell future generations that the halberd of the Immortal Mountain will always be wielded to protect the human race.” His voice gradually became low. “If I die, stick my halberd on the top of the mountain so that lightning can shine on it every day… That way, he will know that his old brother is still waiting for him.”

Before he finished speaking, the demon shadow suddenly turned into a black light and shot towards the starry sky. The Fang Tian Hua Ji kept growing bigger on the way, and finally turned into a huge black blade that covered the sky and the sun, facing the lightning that was about to fall. In the depths of the Immortal Mountain, countless ancient tombstones suddenly lit up. They were the strong men who had fallen to protect the human race in the past dynasties. At this moment, they were using their last strength to illuminate the way forward for their comrades.

When the auras of the seven forbidden areas all awakened, the star tracks of the entire universe began to rearrange. The man with the thunder halberd stood on the stars above Zhongzhou, and the chain patterns on his robes were breaking one by one. Every time a chain broke, a ray of light from the forbidden area merged into his body.

"Gai Jiuyou, look." He suddenly spoke, his voice full of the vicissitudes of life, "Over the years, you thought the forbidden area was a threat, but it was actually the last line of defense I left for the human race. Each forbidden area seals the source of darkness left over from the war, and I am that lock."

Gai Jiuyou looked at him and suddenly found that his hair was turning white. His aura, which was just like that of a great sage, was now rising wildly, but it was also in danger of collapse. He finally understood that the so-called breakthrough to the Great Emperor Realm was just a side effect of forcibly breaking the Immortal Chain. Every time he improved by one point, he was burning his own essence.

"Why...why don't you tell the world?" Gai Jiuyou's voice trembled.

The man with the lightning spear smiled. That smile was brighter than the stars, but also more desolate than the night. "If the human race knew that their guardian was actually a prisoner cursed by the heaven, how desperate would they be? So I asked the old brothers in the restricted area to pretend to be enemies, so that you would think that as long as you defeat the restricted area, you can usher in peace." He suddenly looked towards the battlefield in Zhongzhou, where the ancient creatures were dying peacefully under his gaze. "In fact, they are not enemies, but just poor people eroded by darkness. I am just sending them back to reincarnation."

"Woof woof! The ancestor is the ancient emperor!" The big black dog suddenly rushed out, but suddenly froze when it got close - it saw seven chain shadows emerging behind the man, each chain connected to a different restricted area, and in his chest, a half-broken lightning spear was stuck, and golden blood was still dripping from the tip of the spear.

“So that’s how it is…” Gai Jiuyou finally understood why all the beings in the forbidden area respected and feared him, and why his aura was sometimes that of a great emperor and sometimes that of a great saint. “You are not breaking through at all, but repaying the karma of the past. Every time you break a chain, you will suffer a backlash from the way of heaven. Now you have to face seven at the same time…”

"Hush..." The man with the lightning spear raised his finger, a trace of tenderness flashed in his eyes, "Look, the holy body of the ancient forbidden land has awakened, the blood sacrifice monument of the Taichu Ancient Mine is crying, and the time clock of the Samsara Sea is turning back. These old brothers actually knew that I would come back a long time ago, so they have been waiting." He suddenly looked up and looked into the depths of the universe, where thirty-six lightning bolts were converging, "And it's time for me to go to the last appointment." Before he finished speaking, his body suddenly burst into a thousand-foot-long light, and seven chains broke at the same time, forming a huge starry eye pattern behind him. All the beings in the forbidden area knelt down at the same time, including the holy body of the ancient forbidden land, the old man of the Taichu Ancient Mine, and the gray-clothed man in the Samsara Sea... They looked at the figure in the starry sky, with both grief and relief in their eyes.

"Remember, the future of humanity lies not in the restricted area, not in the emperor, but in you."

The last sound dissipated in the starry sky, and the figure of the man with the lightning spear gradually became transparent, turning into countless points of light and merging into the stars. Gai Jiuyou looked at the half jade slip that suddenly appeared in his hand, with only one line of bloody words on it:
"When the seven forbidden areas stop roaring, it will be the time for the human race to rise."

A sudden rainstorm hit Zhongzhou. The rain washed the battlefield, but it could not wash away the hope in the air. The big black dog looked at the starry sky and suddenly let out a long and sad howl. At its feet, a young bud was emerging from the scorched earth, and the leaves were shining with colorful light - it was the seed of life that had been baptized by lightning.

The seven forbidden areas of life fell into silence again. But in the depths of each forbidden area, there was a figure silently watching. They knew that the man who carried all the shackles had never really left. He just turned into a star in the starry sky, forever illuminating the way forward for the human race.

And in the deepest part of the universe, in the chaos split by lightning, a cracked bronze compass slowly turned. In the center of the compass, two ancient characters were clearly engraved:

"Jiang Han"

The crisp sound of stars shattering echoed in the depths of the universe, and the ancient emperor's purple-gold pupils reflected Jiang Han's indifferent face. The galaxy behind him was formed by the faith of 100,000 ancient ancestors. Every star was beating with an immortal fighting spirit, but at this moment, ripples appeared in front of the lightning - like a glacier that had been there for tens of millions of years meeting the first rays of the sun, the seemingly eternal majesty was quietly collapsing.

"Beginningless? Void?" Jiang Han's voice was like thunder rolling across the nine heavens, with the last syllable carrying the coldness of a million years of time. "They are the seeds of Tao planted by me personally. The Bell of Beginningless, the Halberd of Void, the Furnace of Hengyu. Each of these extreme weapons is engraved with my thunder pattern." When he raised his hand, a star map composed of thirty-three thunder tribulations appeared in his palm, and each thunder tribulation corresponded to a vanishing era. "Five million years ago, when the human race was still crying in the womb, I had already scooped up the first handful of star sand from the Chaos Sea."

The ancient emperor's Adam's apple rolled, and the divine light between his fingers suddenly dimmed. He remembered the most obscure chapter in the ancient books of his clan, which recorded that when chaos first began, a lightning bolt split the yin and yang and carved the word "man" in the void - that was a taboo that even the ancient dragon clan dared not look directly at. At this moment, the lightning pattern revealed by the hem of the person in front of him was exactly the same as the seal of the beginning of the world described in the ancient books.

The hustle and bustle of the Zhongzhou battlefield suddenly froze. The hair of the Black Emperor stood on end, and the scales on the back of his neck exploded into dandelions in the lightning. The bronze mirror in Ji Ziyue's hand fell to the ground with a clang. Behind the reflection of Jiang Han in the mirror, five vague thrones appeared, each with a different reign title engraved on it: Tianfa, Jiuxiao, Youming, Hongchen, and Hongjun.

"The Lord of Heavenly Punishment was the master of the world-destroying thunder calamity fifty thousand years ago!" An old cultivator suddenly laughed crazily, "I once saw half of a broken stele in the Taichu Ancient Mine. It said that he used thunder calamity to refine the blood of the human race, allowing mortals to embark on the path of immortality." Before he could finish his words, his meridians were shattered by the lightning. In the blood mist, there was still an unfinished exclamation, "It turns out that his way has long been engraved in our bones."

Gai Jiuyou dug his nails deep into his palm. He recalled the fragments he had picked up in Yuhua Immortal Valley a hundred years ago, which recorded that a Thunder Emperor had once drank with Yuhua Emperor and used thunder as a pen to write "The True Explanation of Ten Thousand Daos" in the starry sky. At that time, he thought it was a legend, but now when Jiang Han raised his hand, he saw the same thunder pattern flowing in the starry sky - that was the origin of the Heavenly Dao that even the Quasi-Emperor could not look directly at.

The roar of the scarlet wheel tore through space, and the six worlds fell upside down like six burning furnaces. The ancient emperor's appearance expanded to a thousand miles in the starry sky, and every wrinkle was engraved with the rise and fall of the ancient race. The hand gestures he made were the "Six Paths of Reincarnation Seal" inherited from the ancient emperor of the Creation of Heaven, which had caused three ancient great powers to fall in the gap of reincarnation.

"The Netherworld Thunder Emperor?" His voice echoed in the treasure wheel, with a desperate ruthlessness, "Three million years ago, you bloodbathed the Netherworld Sea, and my ancestor died under your thunder halberd! Today, I will let you taste the taste of being shredded by the reincarnation--"

The scene inside the treasure wheel suddenly changed. Jiang Han stood on a bloody wasteland, with an inverted volcano above his head and a boiling blood river under his feet. In the distance, six huge portals were swallowing and spitting out different laws: the sharpness of gold, the growth of wood, the softness of water, the violence of fire, the sinking of earth, and the disorder of chaos. When the first golden light came, he suddenly laughed softly, and the lightning condensed into a halberd at his fingertips. The patterns on the halberd were exactly the same as the six marks of the treasure wheel.

"Three million years ago, when I was refining the Blood Emperor, I carved a complete diagram of the cycle of reincarnation on his sternum." The Thunder Halberd was swung out, and the golden light shattered. The blood river suddenly reversed and condensed into the shadow of the Blood Emperor at the tip of the halberd. "Do you think this treasure wheel is a murder weapon? No, it is a warning bell left by this seat for future generations-" The shadow spoke, and his voice overlapped with Jiang Han's, "Warning all living beings, don't try to control reincarnation."

For the first time, fear appeared on the face of the Ancient Emperor. He finally understood why the treasure wheel was wailing in Jiang Han's hand. It was not a trophy at all, but a warning weapon made by the Thunder Emperor when he killed the Blood Queen and used her corpse to refine it. At this moment, the six worlds in the treasure wheel were collapsing, and every piece of the debris reflected the scene of his ancestor kneeling down and begging for mercy from the Thunder Emperor.

Outside the star field, the seven forbidden areas trembled at the same time. The holy body in the ancient forbidden land suddenly spurted out a mouthful of golden blood. He finally remembered the great war a hundred thousand years ago. In order to seal the source of darkness, the Thunder Emperor had injected a part of his soul into the blood of the holy body. This is why the great holy body can always burst out the power of thunder in desperate situations.

"It turns out that our holy body bloodline is the seed of Tao that was watered by his blood." Xue Yue's white clothes were stained with blood. She looked at the lightning in the starry sky and remembered the first time she met Jiang Han. He was standing on the edge of the Chaos Sea, using thunder tribulation to baptize the newly born human race. "In five million years, he has never truly become an emperor, because he has long been a part of the Heavenly Dao."

The blood sacrifice monuments of the Taichu Ancient Mine suddenly turned to the battlefield. The indentations on the monuments began to reorganize, and a long scroll gradually emerged: Five million years ago, the first lightning born in the chaos turned into a human form. He stepped on the thirty-three layers of the sky and carved the word "man" on each layer of the sky; (End of this chapter)