The Heavenly Emperor of Chu

Chapter 185 Returning to the Present World

By leaving the Flower of Flesh in the past, Chu Tianshu essentially left the origin of his physical body there. If an enemy were to try to destroy his body in the future, they would need to search for the Flower of Flesh in the long river of time.

The flower of the flesh does not stay for only a period of time; it constantly changes position.

After Chu Tianshu returns, he will send the Primordial Spirit Flower towards the future, so that his Primordial Spirit will not be fatally threatened.

As for the Flower of Magic, he intends to leave it in the present world, not in the long river of time.

As long as he advances through his own cultivation, Chu Tianshu can use the physical flower and primordial spirit flower he left in the River of Time to unify the River of Time and dominate the past and future.

However, this path will be very long. Chu Tianshu had a premonition that even if he reached the level of an Emperor, he would not be able to do this. He would need to take another big step forward to achieve it.

Fortunately, he has now completed the first step.

As Chu Tianshu's cultivation reached the pinnacle of Immortal King, the aura surrounding him—neither belonging to the past nor the present—became increasingly intense, making him appear ethereal, as if he might disappear from the Immortal Ancient Era at any moment.

"Since there's still some time, let's reforge the killing sword!"

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, Chu Tianshu's killing sword was shattered in the battle with the three kings. Although his killing sword was forged from the nine immortal metals and had undergone a long period of refinement, it was still far inferior to the king's weapon of the three kings.

After a fierce battle, the killing sword naturally collapsed completely, leaving only the hilt.

Fortunately, Chu Tianshu took all the fragments of the killing sword with him before he left. In addition, he had also seized a lot of immortal king weapons from the immortal kings he had killed over the years. He took advantage of this spare time to reforge it.

The next moment, one after another, hazy Immortal King weapons appeared in front of Chu Tianshu. They all exuded overwhelming power, constantly roaring and trembling, trying to break free from Chu Tianshu's control.

These weapons include the Crimson King's Crimson King Furnace, the Heavenly Halberd of an unknown immortal giant, the battle armor, killing sword, and halberd of the Three Kings, as well as immortal metals unique to the Immortal Ancient Era, such as Dark Immortal Metal, Light Immortal Metal, Five Elements Immortal Metal, Yellow Path Immortal Metal, and Seven-Colored Immortal Metal.

In addition, there are all sorts of rare and precious treasures, such as the World Stone and the Soil of All Things.

Some of these were found by chance, but most were from the collections of several immortal kings.

At this moment, Chu Tianshu took them all out at once, and their dazzling light shone brightly, spreading throughout the four directions.

boom!
In an instant, a ball of Great Dao Fire blazed fiercely, the intense heat distorting space and time, melting away the past and present. Even a Celestial King would be reduced to ashes in an instant if touched by it.

This is Chu Tianshu's Great Dao Flame, containing his Dao and Dharma. At this moment, it has transformed into a ball of Dao Flame, and indeed, there are few in the world who can resist it.

Chu Tianshu proceeded unhurriedly, first throwing in various kinds of immortal metals, allowing his Dao runes to continuously imprint themselves onto the immortal metals.

At the same time, Chu Tianshu threw the weapons of the kings into the Dao Fire, washing away the traces of their Dao techniques and leaving only their pure essence.

If their principles and methods remain within the royal weapon and are at odds with Chu Tianshu, it will inevitably affect the quality of the killing sword.

Such a scene is too terrifying. A mighty immortal royal weapon is being used as consumable material to forge a killing sword. This is an enormous waste.

For ordinary Celestial Kings, even a Celestial King weapon that isn't a perfect match can still effectively enhance their combat power, so it wouldn't be such a waste.

However, for Chu Tianshu, these immortal royal weapons were not as powerful as his physical body, so keeping them was useless. He might as well use them to forge a killing sword.

Boom boom boom!
In the final stage of the refining process, Chu Tianshu once again summoned the Great Dao of the Heavens, allowing the endless Great Dao runes to temper it. At the same time, he continuously imprinted various laws upon it, slowly fusing the mysteries of these laws into it.

Chu Tianshu used his Dao and Dharma as fire, and the entire Boundary Sea as a furnace, to continuously forge the killing sword. The momentum was immense and spread throughout the ten directions of heaven and earth.

This process was astonishing, with various strange phenomena appearing one after another in the Boundary Sea. Even in the deepest part of the Boundary Sea, there were faint signs of them.

However, no one dared to disturb Chu Tianshu, or even get close to him.

Previously, the aura of Chu Tianshu's opening of the sixth secret realm was too terrifying, causing many giants to suffer greatly.

Adding to that the imperial aura surrounding him at that moment, any king with eyes that aren't blind would know that this was a being very close to being an emperor refining a weapon. They would avoid him at all costs, so how could they possibly approach him?

After an unknown amount of time, a hazy sword embryo appeared in the void. Its power was terrifying. Even though it was not yet fully formed, its aura was far superior to that of the immortal giants' royal weapons.

Its foundation is too good. Not only does it have all kinds of peerless materials, but it has also been refined by the Dao and Dharma of Chu Tianshu, who has reached the end of the Immortal King realm. Its foundation is frighteningly large.

As time passed, the killing aura of this sword grew stronger and stronger. Eventually, Chu Tianshu felt that even ordinary Immortal Kings could not withstand its killing intent, and their physical bodies would begin to tear.

Such power far exceeds the scope of a Celestial King's weapon.

"almost!"

The next moment, a drop of brilliant essence blood was squeezed out by Chu Tianshu and dripped onto the killing sword.

boom!
With the blessing of Chu Tianshu's essence blood, the power of the killing sword increased once again, and its unparalleled killing intent pierced through the sea of ​​realms, causing even some immortal kings to tremble with fear.

But Chu Tianshu didn't stop. He continued to squeeze out his essence blood and infuse it into the killing sword to increase its power. Only after nine drops of essence blood did Chu Tianshu realize that the killing sword's power was no longer increasing, and he then stopped.

Zheng!
Accompanied by a clang of metal, an unparalleled killing sword appeared in the world. It was terrifying and its scarlet sword light spread across the sea of ​​realms, causing some immortal kings to feel intense discomfort, as if they would fall under the sword light at any moment.

Even ordinary immortal kings dare not look directly at this killing sword, for the killing intent would directly injure their royal bodies.

Clearly, this is a deadly weapon that could end everything.

Looking at the reborn killing sword before him, Chu Tianshu was very satisfied. With it, the power of the Dao-Slaying Sword Technique would be three times greater.

Otherwise, if he always uses the Primordial Spirit Sword Embryo to unleash the full power of the Dao-Slaying Sword Technique, there will be some deficiencies.

The emergence of the Killing Sword at this moment will make up for this deficiency.

"Now let's wait to return to the real world!"

After doing all this, Chu Tianshu did not return to the Primordial Ancient Realm. He had a vague premonition that even without going to the place that connects the past and present, he could still return to the future.

Since that's the case, it doesn't matter whether he stays there or not.

Immediately, Chu Tianshu closed his eyes and began to resonate with the Boundary Sea and the heavens. Countless Great Dao rules manifested before him, and the mysteries of all laws surged in his heart.

The opening of the sixth secret realm greatly boosted his cultivation, allowing him to not only reach the pinnacle of Immortal King but also cross that threshold step by step. The undying imperial radiance surrounding him was the best proof of this.

Chu Tianshu needs to absorb the gains from opening the sixth secret realm and at the same time deduce his own path to becoming an emperor.

Beings at the Immortal King level are not uncommon in the heavens. Even among the supreme giants, there will always be someone who breaks through to the next level every so often.

However, Emperors are extremely rare. Countless Immortal Kings are pursuing the path to becoming Emperors, but only a handful have actually broken through, and most of them did so in an untraceable and distant past.

To achieve something, and to have a layer of imperial radiance appear around one's body, is already one in ten thousand among immortal kings, a true hero among heroes.

To reach even greater heights, it would likely require countless years of exploration and experimentation.

According to Chu Tianshu's deduction, to break through the King realm and become an Emperor, one needs to create one's own unique path. Only in this way can one hope to break through the King realm and become an Emperor, or even step into a higher realm.

After all, he had seen the figure of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor before. He was far from that level before and could not understand it.

However, he has now reached the edge of breaking through the King realm and becoming an Emperor. Even if he has not broken through the realm, he has experienced a touch of the Emperor's style, but he is far inferior to the Desolate Heaven Emperor.

Beneath that silhouette, the so-called emperor was no different from an ant; it was a level that no emperor could ever reach.

"Perhaps it would be more accurate to call the next realm Quasi-Immortal Emperor."

Chu Tianshu silently deduced and realized that the Emperor's level was somewhat insufficient in front of the Desolate Emperor. Calling him an Immortal Emperor was obviously an overstatement, but calling him a Quasi-Immortal Emperor would be more appropriate.

There are Quasi-Immortal Kings before Immortal Kings, and Quasi-Immortal Emperors before Immortal Emperors; this is only natural.

However, Chu Tianshu didn't have a good idea of ​​how to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level for the time being.

Even if he returned to the future and implanted the flower of his primordial spirit into the long river of time, it would only thicken the imperial aura around him by one layer, and he still wouldn't be able to break through that barrier.

"Perhaps to break through the King and become an Emperor, we need to connect the Sixth Secret Realm with the previous major secret realms."

After much deliberation, Chu Tianshu arrived at a possible breakthrough direction, but he couldn't be certain that this path was 100% correct and still needed to conduct further research.

Just as Chu Tianshu was comprehending the truth, the Daoist aura surrounding him, which belonged neither to the past nor to this world, finally accumulated to its peak.

His figure slowly faded away, and he completely disappeared from all the heavens and myriad worlds, leaving not even a trace, as if he had never existed in the world, and it was all just a dream.

"Disappeared? How is that possible?"

In the Boundary Sea, a supreme giant discovered that Chu Tianshu had vanished into thin air, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

He was 100% certain that the Emperor Light Immortal King did not leave using escape techniques or by tearing through the void, but simply vanished into thin air.

"Let me see what's going on!"

The supreme giant was full of confidence and immediately began to deduce Chu Tianshu's whereabouts.

But the next moment, an incredible force surged from below the river of time, instantly reducing that supreme giant to dust, erasing his past along with it, and even quietly wiping him from the memories of the world.

(End of this chapter)