Covering the Sky: Fairy, I really need to control you properly.

That figure stood with his back to him in the chaos, surrounded by endless Dao principles, holding a black gourd that devoured the heavens and earth and refined all things.

Is this the Eastern Emperor Taizun?

Even if an emperor is just a remnant of the Dao, or just a mark from the past, it is enough to make people feel the pressure that surpasses all things, and the aura that looks down on all living beings.

The next moment, time reversed.

Zixia Fairy and Xu Jinhuan in the Sea of ​​Bitterness felt a sudden blur before their eyes, and the world spun around them.

The kneeling crowd vanished, the collapsed ruins vanished, and even the figure that stretched across the starry sky from the Primordial Mine disappeared.

Beneath her feet lay chaos.

Vast and boundless, its origin and destination unknown.

"This is……"

Chaos surged, and a beam of light descended from the infinite heights.

In the light, a figure was solidifying.

That was a person.

Even though it was just a phantom, it was handsome and otherworldly.

From the waist up, she is a perfect human form with fair skin, smooth and powerful muscle lines, and black hair that cascades down to her waist.

From the waist down, it is a winding snake body, its scales dark and shimmering with a chaotic luster, coiling in the void, its length unknown.

Human head, snake body.

Zixia Fairy subconsciously looked at that person's face.

Those eyes were closed, as if asleep, or as if in deep thought; a vertical line between their brows revealed a radiant light within.

Ancient symbols appeared around him, swirling and intertwining, dazzling and captivating.

Those symbols were too ancient, not belonging to this era, nor to any script she knew, yet when she gazed at them intently, their meanings were naturally imprinted on her heart.

That is Daoist script, the script that carries the origin of the Great Dao.

The first symbol resembles the rising sun.

Its meaning is east.

The second symbol resembles all living beings looking up.

Its meaning is emperor.

The third and fourth symbols resemble the beginning of chaos, where all paths converge into one.

Its meaning is the One.

Donghuang Taiyi!

Zixia Fairy had read countless ancient books and heard countless legends, but never had a single book or legend mentioned this name.

It's not that it's not prestigious.

Rather, it is too ancient, so ancient that it had already fallen before the formation of the Big Dipper. It is a celestial being from the mythological era, an existence earlier than the ancient emperors of the myriad races of antiquity, and an ancestor even more ancient than the great emperors of the desolate era.

And at this moment, this legendary being appeared right before her eyes.

Although it was only a wisp of Dao trace, its imposing aura, its grandeur, and its nobility still made people tremble.

The illusory figure spoke, its voice shaking the nine netherworlds, revealing its origins: "My name is Donghuang Taiyi, born from the primordial energy."

In the midst of suffering, Xu Jinhuan's heart stirred.

The primordial energy took form; could it be that the Celestial Venerable Donghuang Taiyi is a Holy Spirit?

Among all spirits in the world, some are born of ordinary people, some of extraordinary talents, some of the spiritual roots of heaven and earth, and some of the Holy Spirits are born in special places and nurtured over countless ages.

People like the Stone Emperor of the Undying Mountain and the Green Gold Immortal with Tears of Immortals are both members of the Holy Spirit Clan.

The transformation of innate pure energy into physical form is also a kind of holy spirit; the Spirit Emperor of the Divine Ruins, a forbidden zone of life, is an example of this.

The so-called primordial energy is the purest wisp of origin that rose from chaos at the beginning of the universe.

Ordinary beings are born into this turbid world and are formed through later life. Their mortal bodies are all nurtured by the essence and blood of their parents and are tainted by the karma of the mortal world. From the moment they are born, they are separated from the Great Dao by a layer.

However, the existence of innate pure qi that has taken form is different.

They are creatures born of heaven and earth, traces of the Great Dao. From a wisp of air to a form, and then to a living being, this process can only be refined by heaven and earth as the furnace and time as the fire, forging the purest Dao essence.

No wonder Donghuang Taiyi was able to attain enlightenment and become a supreme being in the mythological era. Born from the primordial energy, he was the embodiment of the Dao.

If such a person cannot attain enlightenment, then no one in this world can.

At that moment, chaos surged, and the phantom moved once more.

He rose from the chaos, his serpentine body coiling, standing proudly.

Ahead, ancient history unfolds, and time flows backward.

One after another, the figures of formidable enemies appeared: ferocious beasts with bodies as large as stars, beings shrouded in light, and men wielding battle halberds.

In Donghuang Taiyi's hand was a gourd, completely black and plain, exactly the same as the black gourd outside, yet completely different.

The difference is that this gourd has "divine" power.

That was the vessel that Donghuang Taiyi cultivated with his life since birth; it was the continuation of his Dao and the other half of his life.

"kill!"

Someone, I don't know who, let out the first roar.

A great war broke out.

Fairy Zixia was completely absorbed in it, as if she were experiencing it all herself.

She saw Donghuang Taiyi fight bloody battles against all the heavens, being driven to the brink of death time and time again, yet struggling to get back up each time.

She watched as the black gourd grew alongside him, absorbing one formidable enemy after another into it and refining them into ashes.

She saw Donghuang Taiyi defeat the last great enemy, stand atop the starry sky, and be bathed in boundless lightning tribulation.

That tribulation lightning was terrifying; it could destroy anything. It was a true tribulation for an emperor to achieve enlightenment. Each lightning bolt was enough to destroy a star field, and each one contained the wrath of heaven and earth, as if it wanted to completely wipe out this rebellious being.

But Donghuang Taiyi did not retreat.

He stood tall, his snake body coiled, his black hair flying, enduring the lightning tribulations, the charred flesh, and the shattered bones, only to be reborn and transformed time and time again.

Finally, the lightning tribulation dissipated.

A grand Daoist sound resounded throughout the heavens and earth, echoing across the universe and all the realms.

He has attained enlightenment.

He became emperor.

From then on, he was the Eastern Emperor Supreme Venerable, one of the oldest Heavenly Venerables in the mythological era, and the only supreme being in the universe.

Zixia Fairy was utterly shocked by what she saw.

That was Emperor Cheng.

That was the real, living process of becoming an emperor, not a legend, not cold words in ancient books, but the reality she witnessed with her own eyes.

Then, the scene changes again.

Donghuang Taiyi sat cross-legged in the chaos, surrounded by countless golden imperial runes, dazzling and brilliant, each rune containing the supreme Dao.

He's trying.

Try to live a third life.

Zixia Fairy's heart stirred.

She had heard that the lifespan of an emperor in one lifetime was only ten or twenty thousand years, and that the elixir of immortality could allow one to live a second life. If one wanted to live longer, one needed to constantly transform and be reborn.

One can live a third life...

too difficult.

Throughout history, among countless brilliant emperors and ancient sovereigns who shook the world, only a handful have managed to live to a third life.

Since the age of mythology, only a handful of people, such as the Underworld Emperor, the Immortal Emperor, the Emperor, the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable, the Ancient Emperor of the Divine Silkworm, and the Ruthless Great Emperor, have been able to live a new life without relying on the elixir of immortality.

Void Emperor, Fighting Saint Emperor: What about us? We didn't even live to see our second life!