The Heavenly Emperor of Chu

Chapter 191 The Immortal Phoenix Proves Its Dao
This is very strange. Is it because they sensed that the power of the Dark Body was somewhat excessive that the sword lights were about to erupt?
Although his dark form has not yet broken through to the Immortal King realm, his potential has greatly increased after being baptized by the nine-colored radiance. Over the years, he has perfected his Dao and Dharma to the pinnacle of immortality, and his strength is no less than that of an ordinary Immortal King.

Judging from the current limit of how much the sword light can allow dark creatures to pass through, it has indeed exceeded the warning line.

But why did it stop at the crucial moment of eliminating the dark body?

"Could it be that these dark creatures were deliberately released by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor?" Chu Tianshu wondered to himself.

This is the only plausible explanation at the moment; otherwise, how could the sword light left behind by a Celestial Emperor allow dark creatures to traverse it in just one era?

It seems that the Desolate Emperor noticed some laxity in the rear and sent some small fry to remind them.

Of course, these are just Chu Tianshu's guesses and may not be true.

Before long, Chu Tianshu passed through the sword light of the Desolate Emperor, and the world instantly opened up.

Before him stretched a vast and magnificent ocean, so expansive that even with Chu Tianshu's cultivation level, he could not see its end.

Because every wave in this ocean is an ancient realm, only it is no longer at its peak and has been destroyed.

This is the Boundary Sea.

Back then, Chu Tianshu successfully opened up the sixth secret realm by drawing upon the Great Dao of all the heavens and myriad realms in the Boundary Sea.

However, the Boundary Sea is very quiet now, which is completely different from when Chu Tianshu first set foot there.

During the Immortal Ancient Era, as soon as Chu Tianshu entered the Boundary Sea, he immediately attracted the attention of several Immortal Kings who came to test him. There were also many Immortal Kings fighting and strife in the Boundary Sea.

But at this moment, the Boundary Sea was deathly silent, as if it were a forgotten place.

"It seems that the great war that affected all the worlds back then was indeed very fierce, and even the Boundary Sea has been emptied."

Chu Tianshu traveled deep into the Boundary Sea, but he never encountered any Immortal Kings. Occasionally, he encountered some Dark Kings, but he killed them one by one.

"Let's go take a look at the end of the border sea."

Legend has it that deep within the Boundary Sea lies an incredible place, the origin of darkness, a place of great terror and crisis.

However, rumors also suggest that this place holds the opportunity to rise from king to emperor, attracting countless immortal kings to rush to land here.

Back in the Immortal Ancient Era, Chu Tianshu had also considered exploring the End of Darkness, but at that time, his time was too limited, and he no longer had enough time to cross the Boundary Sea.

The Boundary Sea is vast, so vast that even a Quasi-Immortal Emperor would need a considerable amount of time to cross it.

This sea is too vast; ordinary teleportation arrays are simply unusable in the Boundary Sea.

Apart from some special islands and secret places, even a quasi-immortal emperor would have to fly obediently.

Amidst the surging waves, Chu Tianshu forged ahead, his goal set on the Dark Continent.

……

The human realm.

Since Chu Tianshu gave back to the world, the entire human realm has begun to recover rapidly, and the environment is even better than in the mythical era.

Resources and medicinal herbs that had been extinct began to reappear, and even some rare and exotic beasts that had been extinct reappeared in the world.

The beginning of all these changes was naturally the legendary Heavenly Emperor Taiyi, who was said to have become an immortal. Especially when he silently recited the name of the Heavenly Emperor, strange phenomena of heaven and earth were born, which made people more and more respectful of him, and they regarded him as the supreme deity, and dared not call him by his real name.

Time rolls ever onward, and the suppression of the previous Great Emperor's Dao is about to dissipate, and the human realm will once again welcome a new Great Emperor.

Somewhere in the human world, the source of life.

A colorful fairy egg stands in the middle of a sacred mountain, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to nourish itself.

If Chu Tianshu were here, he would surely be able to tell the origin of this five-colored immortal egg. It was the immortal phoenix egg that the Undying Emperor had reborn from the ashes.

When Chu Tianshu went to the Land of Connecting the Past and Present, he did not take it with him, but instead sent it back to the human world.

After a long period of gestation, this phoenix egg is finally about to be born.

Click, click, click!
With a cracking sound, cracks appeared on the surface of the five-colored phoenix egg, and then it exploded with a bang, revealing a five-colored phoenix to the world.

When a celestial being is born, heaven and earth are moved.

In an instant, a magnificent phantom of a five-colored celestial phoenix appeared in the entire human realm, exuding auspicious energy that shook all races.

At this moment, anyone in the human realm could see the celestial phoenix stretching across the nine heavens, its wings unfurling and countless rays of celestial light bursting forth, illuminating the entire human realm.

"Immortal, Immortal Phoenix?"

A cultivator recognized the fairy spirit's identity as the Celestial Phoenix, a creature that had been completely extinct in the mortal realm.

What frightens the world even more is that this celestial phoenix is ​​quite powerful, seemingly having reached the realm of a saint as soon as it was born.

"It is said that the Immortal Emperor's true form is a celestial phoenix. Could this celestial phoenix be his offspring?"

An ancient sage discerned the origins of the Celestial Phoenix, suggesting it might share the same origin as the legendary Immortal Emperor. After all, since the human realm was shattered, most phoenixes born there have been of mixed blood; pure-blooded ones are almost nonexistent.

Moreover, this phoenix has a five-colored appearance, which matches the legendary immortal emperor.

This is not good news. The laws of the previous emperor are about to collapse, and the throne of the emperor is already beckoning to the world.

But at this very moment, a legendary celestial spirit appeared, bringing an early end to the already unpredictable struggle for the throne.

"Hmph, so what if he really is the offspring of the Undying Emperor? The Great Emperor is forged through bloodshed, not by whoever has the strongest bloodline."

“Otherwise, if we’re talking about bloodline, who can compare to the Chu family of Tianji Ancient Star?” one of the prodigies said with a look of indignation.

This statement immediately drew many people to echo it.

Even the Chu family, a legendary lineage of the Heavenly Emperor, faced immense difficulties in attaining enlightenment. Over hundreds of thousands of years, only one member, Chu Shanhe, successfully achieved this.

Although the Immortal Emperor was powerful, he was far inferior to the Supreme Heavenly Emperor in the eyes of the world.

Throughout history, there has never been a case of an imperial prince successfully attaining enlightenment; at best, he has only achieved enlightenment through unconventional means.

Unfortunately, they were wrong. What was born this time was not the offspring of the Immortal Emperor, but the physical body of the Immortal Emperor.

Moreover, after Chu Tianshu's further purification, his bloodline underwent a reversion to its ancestral state, making him almost no less powerful than the True Phoenix.

Such talent is unique in the human realm. Defeating a celestial spirit of the same level is much more difficult than defeating a young emperor of the same level.

Soon, over the next few hundred years, the entire human realm became the stage for this celestial phoenix.

He was extremely powerful, worthy of the bloodline of the Celestial Phoenix. No living being in the world could match him, and it was rare for anyone to withstand even a single move from the Celestial Phoenix.

Some powerful forces were dissatisfied and did not want to see a powerful figure rise to prominence, so they repeatedly sent out old relics to try to kill the Immortal Phoenix.

But each time he either escaped or was killed in return, which only made his reputation grow even stronger.

Rumble!
One day, a tremendous force came from the edge of the universe, and then countless calamity lights gathered in the edge of the land. No matter where you were, you could see the overwhelming calamity clouds.

Such a scene is naturally familiar to the world; it is the great tribulation for attaining enlightenment!
In an instant, the entire human realm trembled.

This is because the Great Dao contest was too short. Only a few hundred years had passed since the last Great Emperor's Dao principles dissipated, and someone had already successfully triggered the Great Tribulation of Dao Attainment.

"Who is it? How could they be so fast? I haven't even reached the peak yet!"

"Could it be that ancient prodigy who sealed himself away has broken free and chosen to prove his Dao again?"

"Heaven is unfair! Why couldn't I have been born a thousand years earlier!"

The sudden appearance of the great tribulation of enlightenment not only shocked the world but also filled many prodigies with despair.

Although Chu Tianshu gave back to the human realm, he did not break the pattern of one emperor per generation in the human realm. Once someone's body merges with the Heavenly Heart Mark, later generations will no longer be able to attain the Dao.

Moreover, because the world is further restored, the blessing brought by the Heavenly Heart Mark has become even stronger.

In other words, the gap between those who have attained enlightenment and those who have not has widened further. The Great Accomplishment Holy Body and the Overlord Body, which were originally able to challenge the Great Emperor of the present, have completely lost that ability.

If they were to actually fight, he would probably perish at the hands of the current emperor before long.

Once someone truly succeeds in attaining enlightenment, there will likely be only one place in the world that the new emperor will fear.

In the desolate borderlands, lightning raged across the sky, its overwhelming power engulfing everything. Beneath the lightning tribulation, one could vaguely make out a handsome man with a refined and elegant appearance.

He was unleashing streaks of five-colored divine light, battling the phantoms within the lightning tribulation, and every move he made was imbued with an aura of supreme power.

"A Celestial Phoenix? How is that possible?"

Some creatures recognized the person undergoing tribulation and rubbed their eyes, staring at the scene before them in disbelief.

“It really is him. He has only been around for a few hundred years and he has already reached the final leap. Is he really going to defy the heavens?” Soon, another genius who had once clashed with the Immortal Phoenix spoke up.

Upon hearing this news, the entire human realm was in an uproar. Everyone had assumed that the one attaining enlightenment would be an ancient prodigy, but it turned out that the one undergoing tribulation was a contemporary prodigy, and remarkably young at that.

Most enlightened beings throughout history attained enlightenment at a time that was around two to three thousand years old.

Even the legendary Taiyi Heavenly Emperor only succeeded in attaining enlightenment at around three thousand years old, while this immortal phoenix, born only six or seven hundred years ago, is about to achieve the ultimate Dao position. How could this not shock the world?

"This is incredible! Could this celestial phoenix one day reach the heights of His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor?"

Some cultivators couldn't help but sigh, believing that the Immortal Phoenix was exceptionally talented and might even reach the level of the Supreme Heavenly Emperor.

However, this statement immediately drew rebuttals from many people.

"Hmph, this immortal phoenix only benefited from the advantages of the era. Back when His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor lived, it was a time of great change in the myriad paths of heaven and earth, and the suppression of the Great Dao was beyond imagination. That's why it took three thousand years. If the immortal phoenix had stayed in His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor's era, it might not have been able to reach the threshold of proving the Dao."

Upon hearing this, many people agreed wholeheartedly. Although the Immortal Phoenix was extraordinary, his path to enlightenment was only the beginning, and he still had a long way to go.

(End of this chapter)