Shrouding the Heavens: The Ruthless Heavenly Emperor

Carrying his bone knife, Xu Jin ventured into countless mountains and forests, traversing towering peaks and rainforests. He witnessed waterfalls thousands of feet high and even saw sights like...

A sapphire-blue lake.

A quiet, serene valley, with the bright moon hanging high in the sky.

Xu Jin carried the bone knife on his back and walked through the dense forest. Along the way, he encountered many powerful cultivators, but no one dared to approach him.

I was terrified that this guy would get angry and stab me.

Xu Changqing's bone knife was truly distinctive; it was milky white with six flowing strands of six different colored immortal gold on the blade, and the edge was dark red.

The bone knife was casually stuck in the dojo; Xu Jin could easily take it out, and even if Da Hei wanted to play with it, there wouldn't be a problem.

“My foundation is shattered, and my cultivation of transcending emotions back then has been in vain. However, I have gained a better understanding, and those experiences are indelible.”

“My master said that everything had to start all over again, and that I should stop cultivating and live from the perspective of an ordinary person.”

"However, I need to travel properly, otherwise it will be difficult to see those beautiful landscapes after I become an ordinary person."

Xu Jin felt no resentment or emotion towards Xu Changqing for shattering his inner essence. After all, everything he had was given to him by Xu Changqing, and taking it back would be easy.

However, what Xu Jin least expected was that when Xu Changqing destroyed everything he owned, he thought he was going to die.

After all, the origin and primordial spirit have disappeared, even the laws of the Great Dao within the body have been dissolved, and even the blood energy and physical strength have deteriorated.

Even a quasi-emperor would die if these things came.

"The Emperor's methods are truly unpredictable and bizarre," Xu Jin remarked.

In the following years, he began to travel around the Nanling Mountains, after all, the Nanling Mountains are a place with the most beautiful scenery, such as ancient towns in Jiangnan, colorful lakes, and simple and honest local customs.

These past few years he has relaxed and is free from the fighting and killing, which is wonderful.

I'm just feeling a bit bored and want to find someone to keep me company, but I don't know who to ask.

"Forget about becoming a cultivator. I'll just marry a mortal wife and spend the rest of my life with her peacefully, perfecting my path to transcendence," Xu Jin decided.

He asked Bone Knife to casually send him to a small town of ordinary people.

Xu An did not cultivate and create a holy land as Xu Changqing had imagined. Instead, he chose to forget the past and live as an ordinary person.

He even married a mortal woman with no cultivation, and they opened a steamed bun shop, which became very successful in a mortal town.

The place Xu Jin went to had no cultivators or grotto-heavens, and there were very few mortal dynasties there.

The people of Nanling are somewhat fierce, and those in the wilderness all wear animal skin clothing.

He settled in an ordinary town and became an ordinary teacher, teaching children how to survive in the wilderness and various other skills.

During this time, he met a woman...

The woman wasn't as pretty as the cultivators; she even had some pimples on her face and her hair was a bit yellow, making her look underdeveloped.

She was only 1.6 meters tall and wore a loose gray linen dress that concealed her figure.

Two years later, Xu Jin and this girl got married. Xu Changqing naturally knew about it and woke up from his seclusion to attend Xu Jin's wedding.

He sat on the high hall, looking at his apprentice dressed in a red robe with a huge flower in the middle and a short girl beside him, feeling somewhat at a loss.

However, she wore a red veil, so no one could see her expression.

“Starting over means starting all over again.” Xu Changqing recognized Xu Jin’s comprehension.

Whether it's cultivation or those unforgettable experiences, you have to start all over again until you truly transcend emotions and achieve absolute rationality.

Back then, Xu Jin valued the master-disciple relationship too much, and was willing to use his Saint King cultivation to control the Divine Lord Sword Formation to save him. Xu Changqing just felt foolish.

Why not live if you can live?

While alive, there is still hope to avenge oneself; if one dies, then everything is gone, leaving only eternal hatred.

After the wedding, Xu Changqing gave Xu Jin some gifts and left, but what those gifts were...

Naturally, these are not things for cultivation, but things for mortals to use. For example, Xu Changqing gave some things from the Eternal Starfield to Xu Jin.

For example, things like refrigerators and large beds.

There is also a series of scientific knowledge.

Afterwards, Xu Changqing did not return to his own dojo, but went to the Cloud Mountain Range.

Chapter 124 Witnessing the World's Splendor

The mountain range is shrouded in clouds and mist, with the Hundred Thousand Mountains soaring into the sky, silent and ethereal.

The formations that the Empress casually set up were all imperial formations.

Deep within the Cloud Mountain Range, there is a grassland with a wooden cabin and a stream. The cabin is built right next to the stream.

Numerous divine herbs are planted in the medicinal field. The spiritual herbs release their essence and radiate divine light, while the surrounding mist attracts many butterflies.

The empress sat cross-legged by the stream, dressed in a moon-white gown, her long, black hair cascading over her shoulders, with portraits in front of her.

Xu Changqing entered and silently watched the Empress without saying a word. He stood behind her, watching her delicate hands outline the origin of the Great Dao and carve it onto the paper.

Use the Great Way as your brush!

She painted a portrait of a man, and finally sighed softly, saying, "Does reincarnation really exist? If so, then I will keep waiting."

Xu Changqing stood with his hands behind his back, his white hair flowing, his black clothes swaying, and his cold face expressionless. He said, "Yes, there must be reincarnation in the world. If not, then create one."

"Boom!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the sky split open, and terrifying chaotic lightning appeared, densely packed. The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth seemed to be suppressed, and the oppressive atmosphere made it difficult for Xu Changqing and the Empress to breathe.

This horrified the Empress. Even if it was a tribulation to become an immortal, it shouldn't have suffocated her as soon as it appeared.

It must have been Xu Changqing's words that triggered some taboo.

But he's right, if there's no reincarnation, then let's create one.

The entire Big Dipper Starfield began to shake violently, the sky and earth seemed to collapse, and a terrifying pressure caused the heavens and earth to tremble. The Supreme Being of the Forbidden Zone was both excited and terrified.

This aura is like the tribulation to become an immortal.

However, the heavenly tribulation soon disappeared inexplicably.

The Empress raised her head, turned slightly, and looked at Xu Changqing, who had a calm expression beside her. A smile appeared on her lips as she said softly, "Tell me, is there any supreme being watching us grow all along, just as we have been observing the heavens?"

“Your words have angered the Supreme Being.”

“He won’t get angry,” Xu Changqing said calmly.

he?

Who is he? What does Xu Changqing know?

The Empress was somewhat surprised, but after a moment's thought, she realized that perhaps the "he" she had been referring to was the supreme being she had mentioned.

Could it be that there is a powerful being, even stronger than an emperor, watching over me?

Even immortals probably couldn't do that.

However, she didn't ask Xu Changqing about these things. One day, the truth would come to light.

"I once entered a path to immortality. There was a stone tablet on the path that served as a warning, and it also contained some secret techniques." The Empress's voice was gentle, and her moon-white dress made her appear otherworldly, as if she were in a celestial realm.

"The Desolate Emperor, a person who is suspected of becoming an immortal. No one knows how strong he is, and very few people know of his existence."

"During the Immortal Ancient Era, anyone who reached Sendai could enter the Immortal Realm. Unfortunately, the ancient history was eventually cut off, and there are even fewer records of the Chaotic Ancient Era than during the Immortal Ancient Era."

The Empress had dug up countless large tombs in order to rise to power. The ancient tombs along the Imperial Road were all very old, and the ancient tombs on Flying Immortal Star were even older.

There are even some secret realms and mysterious places that contain records from the previous era.

"You're right, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor did indeed become an immortal."

"Maybe he's watching us chat in the river of time." Xu Changqing smiled as he looked at the sky.

That look in his eyes conveyed the emotion that he had already seen you.

It's even possible that Chu Feng and the others would stand beside him.

The Empress looked thoughtful and said softly, "If one day my cultivation reaches across countless ages, I will also travel down through time and look at my past self."

It would have been better if we hadn't talked about it, but the more we talked, the more a feeling arose in my heart.

"But that's just wishful thinking." The Empress shook her head again, feeling it was unrealistic, since in her understanding, the Emperor couldn't possibly live that long.

Unless one becomes an immortal, yet throughout history, countless brilliant emperors have fallen on the path to immortality.

The Taiyin Human Emperor lived for three lifetimes before collapsing on the path to immortality.

The Fighting Saint Emperor forcibly transformed into a Battle Immortal, but it ended in failure.

The Emperor, in his quest to become an immortal, was willing to sacrifice an entire era, yet he still failed.

Xu Changqing remained silent. If he hadn't known about the situation in later generations, he probably wouldn't have thought of this.

“Let’s go out for a stroll. We’ve always been too busy escaping and fighting to appreciate the wonders of the world. We haven’t had a chance to see the magnificent mountains and rivers, or the beautiful scenery of the myriad worlds,” Xu Changqing suggested.

Now, no one in the world can stop them.

The Empress nodded, her exquisitely beautiful oval face and deep, autumn-like eyes seemed to contain the entire starry sky, her figure incredibly graceful.

Her height was just up to Xu Changqing's chin.

Standing beside Xu Changqing, her black hair swayed in the breeze, and a faint, refreshing fragrance wafted into Xu Changqing's nostrils—a scent of unparalleled tranquility.

As the two took a step forward, countless Daoist runes transformed into two golden paths that traversed the vast universe.

When the Emperor travels, the main road is paved!

The entire world was shaken. This was the first time that two great emperors had traveled together, and countless people were excited.

They wanted to catch up with the Emperor and meet the legendary Emperor, but unfortunately, after they ascended into the starry sky, the faint golden path began to turn into specks of light and disappear.

Furthermore, not even their backs could be seen.

In the underworld, many supreme beings awoke and sensed two incomparably powerful auras moving through the universe.

Panic ensued; the underworld panicked and hastily activated its magical artifacts to flee.

After all, they didn't know if Xu Changqing was there to cause trouble.

The journey of two emperors at the height of their power was enough to sweep away everything in the world.