After millions of years in the library, I became an Immortal Emperor.

The old, dilapidated ship exuded a depressing stillness, and the candle lit in the cabin only added to the eeriness.

"Ghost ship!"

The people on the ship were horrified.

They had heard too many legends about ghost ships in the endless sea; this was the true terror of the Nether Sea.

Even a quasi-emperor was killed in the process.

"Sage, you must leave quickly!"

The people on the boat shouted anxiously, and a look of worry appeared on Ye Buzheng's face.

Ye Fan simply watched the ghost ship approach. The waves rolled through Lin Fan's body, and everyone realized that it was just a phantom projection.

The sage did not come; he was merely a projection.

"You want me to get on the ship?"

Lin Fan looked at the ghost ship that had stopped in front of him and said calmly.

A single sentence caused the candlelight inside the ghost ship to flicker slightly, and then, to the astonishment of the crowd, the ghost ship vanished.

Then Lin Fan turned to look at Ye Buzheng, and took a step onto the deck.

"Great, you've made great progress."

Ye Buzheng stood respectfully, while the others stepped back, knowing that the Sage had something to tell Ye Buzheng.

"I'll be leaving for a while, not long, but I probably won't see you or be able to help you during that time."

Lin Fan said, then looked at this Netherworld Sea. It seemed that something was hidden beneath the deep, dark sea, but he couldn't see through it with his projection of his will.

"Live well."

Lin Fan shook his head and said that the last wisp of his will projected into a sword, which was plunged into the endless Netherworld Sea.

"I'll come here sometime in the future."

His soft words echoed in the deep sea, but the rolling waves drowned out Lin Fan's voice, and his figure disappeared into the waves.

But that sword remained forever in this sea area.

It was like a mark, shaking the entire Netherworld Sea.

The Soul Clan, one of the ten most powerful clans in the Xuanhuang Great World, had a woman in green standing before a group of Soul Clan members in one of their Dao cities.

Behind her were tens of thousands of humans.

These humans were all filthy, smelled foul, and many were covered in various wounds, with countless having severed limbs or being crippled.

"Human, do you think you can protect them all by yourself?"

A powerful expert from the Soul Clan at the Celestial Realm appeared, looking down at the human woman on the long street.

Qu Yan smiled upon hearing this.

"We can protect them."

She spoke calmly, without a trace of fear of death in her eyes, and a sense of righteousness emanated from her body.

As the sage said, "Read ten thousand books, and your talents will rival those of heaven and man!"

She spoke calmly, and a phantom appeared behind her. It was Lin Fan's appearance, a rudimentary form, yet it seemed to have connected with the taboos of heaven and earth.

With a flick of his finger, he blasted back a member of the Heavenly Realm Soul Clan.

"What?!"

The surrounding Soul Clan members were all shocked. A human at the Creation Realm had actually forced back a Soul Clan member at the Heaven Realm with just a simple finger.

As the sage said, "One can kill one person in ten steps, and leave no trace for a thousand miles!"

With another word, the law came into effect. An invisible sword beam swept across the heavens and earth, slashing towards the Heavenly Realm Soul Clan. Amidst the horrified gazes of countless other Soul Clan members, the Heavenly Realm Soul Clan was slain.

"presumptuous!"

An angry shout came from the inner city, followed by more than a dozen figures soaring through the air. All of them were at the Heaven Realm, and the leader had even reached the Dao Severing Realm.

One after another, powerful members of the Soul Clan appeared, surrounding Qu Yan and the tens of thousands of humans on the long street.

Qu Yan shook her head slightly as she watched this scene.

"Still can't do it?"

She said it as if she were already waiting for her impending death.

"I just haven't been able to see you yet..."

She said it as if it were her only regret, but in a daze she found a figure in front of her.

It was exactly the same figure she remembered.

"A hallucination before death?"

She chuckled to herself, but the next moment a voice rang in her ears.

"The Way of Righteousness is not used in this way."

Her expression suddenly changed, and then her gaze froze on the figure in front of her, just as it had been before.

She stood on the earth, while that figure resided high in the sky.

It's him!

Then he heard a voice.

"Leaving no trace for a thousand miles, killing one person every ten steps!"

The same lines of poetry, but with completely different feelings.

The sword strike was completely invisible, perhaps because it was too fast, or perhaps it was simply beyond their ability to see.

In an instant, heaven and earth split in two, and all the soul race members in mid-air were cut in two, leaving only one figure standing in the sky.

"Live well, the future of humanity needs your existence."

These were his last words in this place. She stared blankly at the sky for a long time, then looked at the humans behind her.

"We survived."

She smiled and said, and the maid beside her was slightly stunned. She had never seen such a smile on Qu Yan's face before.

That was a saint, wasn't it?

Sure enough, the young lady was thinking of the sage.

Thinking of this, she looked at the sky where the saint had disappeared and shook her head.

How can you grasp the moon that hangs in the sky?

Finally, in Shengjing, in the Zhaixing Palace, Li Yu was reading historical records, and Zhao Kuangyi was studying military books. The moonlight streaming in through the window transformed into a figure.

"teacher!"

As if sensing something, both of them raised their heads, then were startled, stood up, and respectfully bowed to a figure.

"I will be away from Shengjing for some time."

His words, though seemingly casual, struck the two men like a thunderbolt. Without him, Shengjing was no different from any other city.

With the Master present, this is truly the imperial court of the human race.

If a supreme expert from another race were to descend, they could raze this place to the ground in just a few breaths.

However, neither of them asked Lin Fan where he was going or when he would return. They simply exchanged a glance and then looked at Lin Fan solemnly.

"Rest assured, sir, we will protect Shengjing and the human race."

Lin Fan looked at the two of them and nodded.

Then it turned into dust and dispersed under the moonlight, but strands of moonlight lingered and gathered together, transforming into a jade seal.

"The Imperial Seal, which gathers the fortune of the human race, is now given to you."

"There's also a military treatise that I wrote. It's always good to read it more often."

An imperial seal and a military treatise lay quietly in their hands, as if entrusted with a dying wish, causing them to tremble with emotion.

They didn't know what Lin Fan was going to do.

But they knew that this vast and mysterious world was about to undergo a major change.

"It seems we need to speed things up."

Li Yu looked at Zhao Kuangyi and said something, and Zhao Kuangyi nodded.

"The barbarian tribes have been wiped out; the next one should be the Xuanjian tribe. The Tang Dynasty's territory should be moved beyond the Hundred Thousand Mountains."

"This time, there's no one to bail me out."

Are you scared?

"Sir, you are already very tired. Humanity cannot be just you. Before those endless years, there was not only the Great Emperor, but also countless pioneers."

"I am willing to be a pioneer in this life."

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