Covering the Sky: I am the King of Men, and I rule over the rise and fall of all heavens.

Chapter 140 The Black Emperor Appears
Jiang Bai had mixed feelings about the Overlord Body lineage.

In the original novel of Sacred Ruins, this person was a traitor, but now the other party has not betrayed them and has even made contributions in battle.

As a normal person, Jiang Bai simply couldn't bring himself to kill the entire clan of someone just because they might betray him in the future.

"Forget it, they're just a bunch of small fry, how much trouble can they cause?"

Jiang Bai decisively focused more of his energy on improving his own strength.

Thirty thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the wars among the heavens have gradually subsided.

Over these 30,000 years, the Divine Continent in the Primordial Ancient Realm broke through to the level of Immortal King.

This event shocked everyone. This human emperor, who had always been lukewarm and had nothing special except for his exceptionally fast cultivation speed before attaining enlightenment, had actually broken through first.
Jiang Bai learned about Shenzhou and discovered that this guy had given up creating methods and instead focused on researching secret realm methods, thus finding his own sixth secret realm and breaking through to the Immortal King realm in one fell swoop.

Shenzhou explained Jiang Bai like this: I have found my own path. I am not suitable for creating new methods; I am only suitable for following the existing, established path of cultivation.

Since that's the case, I should leverage my strengths, just like how he cultivated at a speed far exceeding that of his peers and quickly attained the Dao and became an Emperor.

Jiang Bai smiled at this. It was good; as long as they could find their own path, that was fine.

Similarly, Shenzhou's decision also served as a reminder to many other ancient emperors and kings who were still on their way to immortality.

Instead of relentlessly researching and creating new techniques to achieve instant success, it's better to first break through to the Immortal King level using secret realm techniques.

It's important to know yourself.

In addition, during these 30,000 years, there was a group of supreme beings who broke through to the True Immortal realm without completing the mortal immortal path, or even without taking it at all.

These supreme beings who have been promoted to True Immortals are the same group of people who were brought into the strange world by the various human emperors back then.

He was also a powerful figure who broke through to the Supreme Realm in a strange world.

Jiang Bai had hoped that some of them could walk the path of immortality in the mortal world, but unfortunately, that did not happen.

Even with the experience of their predecessors, these people couldn't take the first step. They could only keep honing their foundations and then try to break through to the True Immortal realm.

Jiang Bai could only sigh at this; the path to immortality in the mortal world was still too difficult.

The good news is that a large number of Supreme Beings will break through to True Immortal in the future.

This can be considered the strength accumulated over the years.

During these 30,000 years, Jiang Bai's cultivation level was on the verge of breaking through to a higher realm.

Jiang Bai was just a hair's breadth away from breaking through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.

But no matter how hard Jiang Bai tried, he couldn't finish that one tiny bit short.

Therefore, Jiang Bai decided to take a break.

On this day, Wu Jiang, the True Immortal of the Wu Clan who was specifically guarding the gate for Jiang Bai, came to report.

The sacred land of Yaochi is about to hold another grand event, and has specially sent someone to invite Jiang Bai.

"Let's go take a look then, and relax a bit while we're at it."

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The Jade Pool Gathering is a grand event hosted by the Western Emperor and Yunxiao, a married couple.

The main purpose is to invite everyone to come over regularly for food and drinks, and to chat about life.

In Jiang Bai's view, this is a kind of unconventional team building activity.

Therefore, most of the food at the Jade Pool Festival was provided by the Heavenly Court.

When Jiang Bai arrived, everyone except Wu Shi, who was half the master, was already there, and they were all sitting together chatting and discussing the Dao.

Shenzhou was enthusiastically sharing his experience of breaking through to the Immortal King realm. He always enjoyed making friends with people and was considered a lubricant within the Heavenly Court.

After all, even some ancient emperors had their share of friction, probably because they had spent a lot of time together and were all arrogant individuals. Upon seeing Jiang Bai, everyone rose to pay their respects. After taking their seats, Jiu Li's eyes flickered, and he teased Shen Zhou with a smile: "As a human emperor, you are at the same level as your senior. Would you like to challenge him?"

Shenzhou was speechless and said, "You want me, an ordinary Immortal King, to challenge a monster like you, senior? Do you want me to die?"

Everyone else laughed upon hearing this. Just then, Wushi's figure walked out from outside Yaochi, accompanied by a black dog the size of a calf.

From the black dog's darting eyes, Jiang Bai saw something dishonest, a trap.

"This is Xiao Hei. I found it during my travels and felt it was fate, so I brought it back," Wu Shi introduced.

"My full name is Black Emperor," Black Emperor said, baring his teeth.

"What an interesting dog," was the thought that popped into everyone's mind at the same time.

However, this assessment quickly faded away.

After Wushi let the Black Emperor play by himself, the big black dog soon started barking and demanding to be taken as a pet, and was chased by people from various sects of the human race.

After all, everyone has powerful backers and elders, so they are not afraid of the Black Emperor's identity.

"What goes around comes around. You treated dogs as pets, and now I'm treating them as pets. What's wrong with that?"

"Not only do you not thank me for leading you to experience the Great Dao of Cause and Effect, but you also shout and threaten to kill me."

"That's utterly shameless."

The Black Emperor spoke with righteous indignation, which only fueled the anger of his pursuers, making them even more ruthless.

Damn it, who's shameless here? You're the one who keeps talking about being pampered, and you even expect us to thank you for taking us in as your pampered pets.

Wu Shi didn't have a good solution to this situation, after all, the Black Emperor was too good at offending people.

“This body belongs to Wuzhong’s dog,” Jiang Bai said thoughtfully to Wushi.

It's definitely wrong to say that Black Emperor is Wu Zhong's dog, since he's already died once, unless Black Emperor remembers his past one day.

Upon hearing this, Wu Shi said indifferently, "It's not important. He's just my little black dog now."

Afterwards, everyone discussed the Dao and the current affairs of the heavens, and then the conversation turned to the selection of the Great Emperor.

Just then, the Black Emperor, who was being chased, hid behind Wu Shi.

Hengyu's eyes darted around, and he smiled and said, "Now that the battlefield of the heavens has been opened up, the internal fighting can be reduced appropriately, and more energy can be focused on external affairs."

"I think the selection of the emperor could be changed to simply having combat power so formidable that it is recognized by others."

"For example, kill dozens of supreme beings on the battlefield of the heavens, or crush a few true immortals when you walk the path of immortality in the mortal world, and you will become immortal."

"There is definitely difficulty, but I think it's not difficult for those who obtain the title of Great Emperor and embark on the path of immortality in the mortal world."

After saying that, Hengyu looked at Black Emperor with a deep gaze and said, "Little black dog, what do you think?"

"I think you have the potential to be an emperor."

"I'll be your mother, you bastard!" Black Emperor looked at Hengyu speechlessly.

Is this even human language? Go to the battlefield of the heavens and kill dozens of supreme beings, and before you can become an immortal, crush a few true immortals.

Is this something a human could accomplish?
Could all the great emperors of the past have accomplished this in this era?
After making his decision, the Black Emperor decided that he would definitely capture a few members of the Jiang family to be his personal pets.

“I think it’s a good idea.” Void nodded in agreement. Although it was difficult, it wasn’t something he had to do alone, and it would also enhance the prestige of the Great Emperor. How wonderful.

The Black Emperor immediately decided that the Ji family should not be spared either.

Jiang Bai couldn't help but smile upon hearing this; these two were simply trying to annoy the Black Emperor.

(End of this chapter)