Shrouding the Heavens: The Ruthless Heavenly Emperor

And the pupils of the fallen head contracted—what was that?

He could not sense any aura or death, but he was surrounded by billions of runes, with black lines spreading inside the white ancient characters, which looked extremely eerie.

Xu Changqing stroked his chin with one hand, quietly observing the ancient characters and the emotions emanating from the Great Sage's head. When the ancient characters approached the Great Sage's head, the wisps of emotion emanating from them began to be drawn in.

If Xu Changqing were to succeed, it would be extremely terrifying.

The heavens may lack spiritual energy, but the beings in all the myriad realms certainly possess emotions. With emotions, there is life.

The source of power.

If replacing spiritual energy with the emotional power of the heavens could truly succeed, it would be defying the heavens.

Every living being experiences seven emotions and six desires. When a living being witnesses something and experiences emotions such as anger, shock, fear, despair, discouragement, and love, that is the moment Xu Changqing absorbs them.

Even ordinary people can provide Xu Changqing with various emotions for cultivation.

The path he is taking now involves first being ruthless, and then absorbing emotions, restoring feelings, and achieving emotional transcendence. With this foundation laid, his future path will be easier.

Even if he regains his emotions, he won't do anything foolish. He will remain the same. Regaining emotions is essential because absorbing the emotions of all living beings for cultivation will inevitably lead to their recovery.

"The foundation of the emperor is the emotions of all beings in the myriad realms."

"Replace the spiritual energy within the body, and use the emotions of all living beings as the source of power to achieve emotional transcendence."

Xu Changqing murmured, but he wasn't quite sure how to replace the spiritual energy in his body, so he had to experiment step by step.

If he succeeds, every battle and every move he makes will affect his opponent's emotions, and he will be able to control the opponent's rhythm.

The city was in ruins, with all sorts of broken walls and ruins. The ancient roads were destroyed, and all the ancient lands of life around the Holy Spirit were slaughtered by Xu Changqing to perfect the Heavenly Art.

Inside the city, Xu Changqing silently watched as the ancient characters absorbed the fear and anger emanating from the Great Sage. As a result, a black thread appeared in the divine power within his body.

He stretched out his right hand, and with a thought, he connected with the black threads within his divine power. The black threads, like a sinister venomous snake, coiled around his fingers.

When the Great Sage, who only had one head left, saw this scene, he was immediately dumbfounded, and his pupils contracted.

What kind of power is this? Why did I feel boundless fear the moment it appeared?

Next, more and more black threads appeared in Xu Changqing's body, all provided by this Great Sage.

But Xu Changqing frowned, because he used scriptures and Dao patterns as bridges to guide the Great Sage's emotions. So if he had to build such a bridge every time he absorbed an emotion, it would be too troublesome.

It seems I must continue traveling through countless worlds to find a solution to this problem.

After making up his mind, Xu Changqing directly annihilated the Great Sage's primordial spirit.

In the years that followed, Xu Changqing continued to experiment with and refine his Heavenly Skill, traversing various ancient paths, occasionally washing the Holy Spirits with blood, and even shattering the Holy Spirit Ancient Path and refining the Holy Spirit City.

The news caused a sensation throughout the land. This bloodbath was even more ruthless than the merciless massacre of the past.

When the group arrived at the Ancient Holy Spirit Road, they discovered that the trial path leading to it was completely severed, covered by a terrifying sea of ​​blades, where laws and time were severed.

When some powerful individuals entered the shattered Holy Spirit Ancient City, they found that although the city was in ruins, there was no resentment, no bloodstains, and no corpses, which puzzled them greatly.

This is too bizarre! The corpses and bloodstains have all disappeared, and even the laws of the Great Dao are gone. All the treasures and divine objects in the city have vanished.

Moreover, the ground was covered in dust. Some people picked up the dust and examined it closely, only to discover that it was the dust of the Holy Spirit weapons.

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"Is this what the Devourer of Heaven did?" This question was on everyone's mind.

"Impossible. On the severed ancient path of the Holy Spirit, there is an incomparably terrifying sword intent. Time seems to have been cut off. Everything there has become empty, turning into a barren land. Even the Holy King cannot get close."

"It must have been done by Wuqing. After all, he did the same thing back then, but this time he was more ruthless. Those dead Holy Spirits seemed to have disappeared from ancient history without a trace."

The Holy Spirits of the Heavenly Fragment Mountain Range could no longer sit still. They directly dispatched many Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors to the Ancient Road of the Human Race to demand an explanation and to make the human race's powerful figures hand over Ruthless and Devouring Heaven.

On the boundless grassland, a cowherd gazed intently at the starry sky, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth, and murmured, "Sigh, troublesome. Looks like I'll have to make a trip to the Imperial Road."

Time flies, decades pass in the blink of an eye, another mortal's life has come to an end, the imperial path opens once again, and a new generation of young supreme beings once more embark on the imperial path.

Xu Changqing has been perfecting his Heavenly Skill. He broke away from the Ancient Path of the Holy Spirit and wandered through the myriad realms, testing the Heavenly Skill's secret technique for absorbing emotions again and again.

It's difficult to compare the emotions of all beings to spiritual energy; it requires a fundamental and systemic change.

Having absorbed a multitude of emotions, his mind became increasingly clear, and he gained insight into the direction of the future.

So he temporarily put aside what he was doing and returned to the Human Emperor's Road. At the end of the Emperor's Road, he came to a crystal stele.

On the crystal tablet were the names of some prodigies whom Xu Changqing had never seen before, but none of them caught his eye, so he didn't pay much attention to them and left his own name on it.

He planned to leave the Imperial Path and go to Ziwei Star, where he would become a Great Sage, seek opportunities and the secrets of the character "者" (Zhe), and visit the Daoist temple of the Moral Celestial Venerable.

76. Ask for leave

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Chapter 76 Attempting to Become a Great Sage

The stone tablet soared into the sky, crystal clear, like a mirror, emanating the fluctuations of the Imperial Array. On the stone tablet, more than thirty names were displayed.

And there are more than a dozen huge pillars standing there side by side, from ancient emperors to great emperors, from different powerful clans, leaving their marks, a kind of imprint.

Xu Changqing stood quietly in the center of a dozen stone pillars, as if surrounded by many great emperors. A terrifying force made his white hair stand on end and his loose black robes flutter wildly.

Deep within, a mirror-like stone tablet stands in the void, seemingly piercing the universe and reaching the heavens. It bears the inscription of more than thirty names.

The first one is called --time.

The second one is -- Mu.

The third one is the Ghost Immortal.

The fourth one—the wanderer.

The fifth one is Gu Yan.

Xu Changqing didn't know the first five, but from the fifth onwards, he knew them to some extent, or had heard their names in the starry sky.

After a moment's thought, he could get a general idea. After all, the final trial had no limit on cultivation level or age, so the top five were likely to be quasi-emperors.

Gu Yan herself is not far from the Emperor's Road, so she can only rank in the top five. It seems that the other four are not simple.

After leaving his name, Xu Changqing left the place. As for him, no matter what the first four were like, he would meet them sooner or later, and they might even fight each other to determine the strongest one.

He was going to Ziwei Star to seek opportunities, but he really forgot that the Moral Celestial Venerable only appeared thousands of years ago in Ye Fan's era.

"The Sun Emperor is not far from the Purple Star. He is a deity who is searching for his way home. If I help him, will I also receive an opportunity?"

He didn't know if the Sun Emperor was there, but he still wanted to look for him.

With that in mind, Xu Changqing set off towards the Ziwei Star Region. He had fought in the starry sky for so many years that he knew the coordinates in the starry sky.

As for the opportunities that belong to Ye Fan in later generations.

Nonsense, what he got first is his.

This time, getting from the Ultimate Imperial Pass to Ziwei Star wasn't as troublesome.

However, along the way, following a certain coordinate in his mind, he arrived at a place of life that had broken away from the ancient road.

This world is a little smaller than the Big Dipper, but it has a lot of living beings. It is located next to the 81st level of the ancient human road, and it takes about a year to travel there.

He arrived at a sacred place floating in the clouds.

Amidst the clouds, a vast palace complex stood atop the clouds, soldiers clad in golden armor and wielding golden spears stood solemnly, exuding a terrifying aura of killing intent, like celestial warriors guarding the Southern Heavenly Gate.

Moreover, his cultivation level is not low.

Behind them was a huge white stone gate with four large characters carved on top.

"Dragon's Sacred Land".

Xu Changqing stood in the void, concealing his aura, silently observing every inch of the place, not missing a single detail.

This sacred land once gave birth to a quasi-emperor countless ages ago. Unfortunately, it declined afterward, and now there is only one Great Sage in the sacred land. It seems that the birth of that quasi-emperor had exhausted all its fortune.

That quasi-emperor was once renowned for slaying demons under the starry sky, and the starry sky revered him as a dragon.

The quasi-emperor was so named because he was like a dragon, moved like the wind, and his cultivation methods were also related to dragons.

After observing for a while, Xu Changqing took out the Demon Flag, held a wooden sword, and directly stormed into the Dragon's Holy Land, starting a massacre.

It can be said that without the legacy of the original Demonic Great Sage, he would not have reached this point today.

"what!"

"Who are you?!"

"All disciples of the Holy Land, form ranks and fight!"

In an instant, the Dragon's Holy Land was filled with wails and the thick smell of blood filled the air. The once magnificent holy land was transformed into a living hell in an instant.

A dark red banner floated in the air, emitting black gas. Countless wisps of black gas condensed into a young man with thick black hair. The young man's eyes were filled with rage, and he immediately went down to slaughter.

On the primordial path within Xu Changqing's body, there was a dark red curse that was slowly fading away.

The Dragon Realm possesses quasi-Emperor weapons, but the quasi-Emperor wooden sword in Xu Changqing's hand is even stronger.

In the ensuing clash, he gained the upper hand. His opponent's quasi-emperor artifact, a large cauldron, revived in time, attempting to protect the holy land. However, Xu Changqing's wooden sword also revived, and the two artifacts transformed into light, surging into the starry sky to engage in a fierce battle.

Finally, the somewhat damaged wooden sword returned to Xu Changqing's hands.

However, outside the realm, the cauldron shattered, its divinity vanished, and it was enveloped by a terrifying sword intent.

As expected, the entire Dragon Journey Holy Land was destroyed. Flesh and blood disappeared, and resentment and primordial spirits were absorbed into the Demon Banner. More than 100,000 lives were slaughtered by Xu Changqing.

Within the strange phenomenon of the Emperor's Demise, another mountain of corpses has appeared.

No one in this world knows that the Dragon Path Holy Land has been destroyed, because this holy land was already the strongest in their world.

"You helped me rise to power, and I'll help you take revenge. It's over." Xu Changqing calmly stared at a blurry young man, the two less than two meters apart.

Xu Changqing knew that the blurry young man opposite him was none other than the Great Sage of Evil.

The Great Demon Saint nodded slightly, looking at this world with some regret, and sighed, "If it weren't for that guy's aura stimulating me, I probably wouldn't have woken up so quickly."

As a great demon of the heavens, he has no shortage of strange methods. He still has some tricks up his sleeve regarding the demon flag, which can temporarily revive him.

He looked at the ruins not far away. There was no blood, no corpses, only thick smoke, billowing flames, and various runes flashing.

Seeing this, the Demonic Great Sage suddenly burst into laughter, "Hahahaha, you killed me, but you buried the entire family's sacred ground."