Chapter 1 The Darkest Era

The darkest era seemed to have passed. The myriad realms were regaining their former glory, and the Dao and Dharma were once again shining brightly in the world. Various civilizations contended for brilliance, as if another great era was about to begin.

During this period, the Shrouding Heaven Dharma (Zhetian Fa) was passed down, burying a seed to sprout in the future. In addition, the several Great Dao Dharma (dadao famen) that Jiang Xuan deduced were also passed down. The Dharma of various worlds intermingled, about to erupt into an even more splendid civilization.

Monsters like Shi Guanwang, Zhexian, and Shi Yi were growing up one by one, advancing towards higher realms. Later generations were also constantly climbing the path of cultivating the Great Dao. In the Boundary Sea (jie hai), countless ancient worlds, one by one, geniuses capable of leading an era were rising.

However, no matter who it was, no one could ignore two people. One was the Desolate Heaven Emperor (Huang Tiandi), the current Lord of the Heavenly Court in the Immortal Domain, who was already an unparalleled warrior. He had broken into the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm in an extremely short period of time and was now even more unfathomable.

As for the other, it was naturally Jiang Xuan. Nowadays, in the myriad realms, he was more often referred to as the "Profound Heaven Emperor (Xuan Tiandi)." This was what the Quasi-Immortal Emperor who had come from the future had said, which was equivalent to rectifying his name. After the great war ended, the myriad realms jointly respected him as the Heavenly Emperor.

It was also he who opened this era of myriad Daos intermingling, giving the world's living beings hope for further advancement.

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As time passed, tens of thousands of years went by. In the turbulent Boundary Sea, a surge of aura spread throughout, covering the heavens and myriad realms, exuding veneration, transcendence, and holiness, as if it was the embodiment of all Dao and Dharma. The heavens, the myriad Daos, and billions of epochs seemed to merge into one, transcending everything.

In the Immortal Domain, Shi Hao, who had come far in the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, had also undergone Nirvana not long ago, with one foot stepping into the Immortal Emperor realm, equivalent to or even stronger than the World-Extinguishing Elder of the past!

But on this day, he suddenly felt a terrifying aura pressing down from the boundless Boundary Sea. The entire space-time was frozen at that moment.

It was a supreme power, like a mortal looking up to a god, beings from completely different levels of existence.

However, upon sensing this aura, Shi Hao's face revealed joy. He took a step out, and the next moment he was already in the Boundary Sea. A pair of Chaos Divine Eyes saw through the essence of all things and also saw the supreme figure standing in the long river of time.

"Is he about to attain the Dao?"

Shi Hao looked in that direction, his eyes flashing with inexplicable light. Having comprehended this realm for tens of thousands of years, he naturally knew the wonders of this realm and could better appreciate the difficulty of the Immortal Emperor path.

But now, finally, a living being was about to break through, to rush into that realm, and it was someone he knew well, so naturally, he was very much looking forward to it.

Boom!

It was unknown how long had passed when suddenly, with a "boom," the heavens and myriad realms, the river of time, all violently shook. All living beings in all time and space were shocked, blankly raising their heads to look at the sky.

At this moment, in the long river of time, vast brilliance spread out, sweeping across the heavens and the earth, passing through all obstacles, cleansing the universe. In the vast sky, there was only one figure, floating with the epochs, as if a single breath was a billion years.

He seemed to be standing at the beginning of time, observing everything, seeing through the great world, seeing the vicissitudes of life, and he also seemed to be standing at the end of time, seeing endless destruction and rebirth.

On his body, an aura became increasingly ancient, as if it had accumulated the past, present, and future of a great world, but this aura was still pure, not tainted in the slightest.

Countless living beings looked from afar. On this figure, they seemed to see their own lives, all their own Dao and Dharma were being performed on his body. This figure was like a reflection of their everything, like another self.

Billions of time and space, one epoch after another, all had his figure. He was a small cultivator just embarking on the path of cultivation, a great power standing at the pinnacle, an old man on the verge of death, an infant just arriving in the world, and also an alien race, a demon...

Not belonging to any one epoch, but existing in every epoch, undying in one body, he would eventually return, watching the evolution of myriad Daos in the long river of time, melting and unifying them, truly achieving the extreme realm of time and space!

"A true Emperor!"

Shi Hao's eyes were burning brightly. He felt that majestic power most directly and clearly. It was true infinity, without end. All Dao and Dharma were being performed on his body. He could even see his own figure and traces.

This meant that if Jiang Xuan was willing, he could even evolve him out in a certain time and space, and he would definitely not be inferior to his original self.

"Congratulations, Senior." Shi Hao said to Jiang Xuan, he had witnessed the birth of an Immortal Emperor, and at the same time, his own path became clearer, vaguely about to clear away the last layer of mist and see the path after the Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

"No need to be so polite." Jiang Xuan smiled and nodded, his eyes turning to look deep into the Boundary Sea. Now, he could finally go there.

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On the other shore of the Boundary Sea, in the deepest part of the origin of darkness, was the abyss of despair known as the Ultimate Ancient Land. Darkness enveloped this place, even breeding dark creatures of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.

Just as Jiang Xuan broke through the limit and stepped into the Immortal Emperor realm, in that Ultimate Ancient Land, in that bloody, desolate rocky mountain area, black mist surged, and a giant slowly opened his eyes.

His whole body was pitch black, his physique seemed to be rotten, emitting a dense black miasma, which was the true origin of dark matter. All darkness came from a corpse!

He was very incomplete, as if he had been torn apart. Starting from his head, he was cracked all the way to his abdomen. Half of his upper body was missing, such as half of his head, his left arm, etc., while his lower body was intact.

In this state, ordinary living beings would have already died and their Dao vanished, but at this moment, this figure opened his eyes, two beams of light piercing through the heavens and the earth, destroying time and space, penetrating all obstacles, and seeing the figure in the long river of time.

"The rise and fall of epochs, another Emperor has appeared?" The Corpse Immortal Emperor spoke indifferently, his tone containing loneliness, but more of it was coldness.

"Unfortunately, everything will eventually be in vain."

The next moment, his gaze turned cold, and he looked at another place, which was an ancient hall, called the Guidance Ancient Hall by the living beings of the Boundary Sea. Inside it was a rotten wooden box, constantly shaking.

Boom!

Immediately afterward, the rotten wooden box suddenly exploded, with bursts of light rain, extremely brilliant, enveloping this place, like the birth of the most sacred thing. When everything quickly calmed down again, what appeared was a shrine, ancient and mysterious, with a sense of historical vicissitudes.

"You and I are originally from the same source, today we should become one." The living being in the Ultimate Ancient Land looked at the shrine transformed from the rotten wooden box and said very indifferently.

His gaze was incomparably strange, gradually changing from pitch black to revealing a little bit of golden light. His whole body suddenly sat up, and the chains of order on his flesh were stretched straight.

"Roar!"

With a earth-shattering roar, the Corpse Immortal Emperor's eyes shot out two divine rainbows, golden and intertwined with dark light, towards the Guidance Ancient Hall.

"Boom!"

In the Guidance Ancient Hall, the rotten wooden box burst out with blazing divine light, extremely bright, and a primordial spirit imprint appeared, entangled and condensed by the two divine lights in the Corpse Immortal Emperor's eyes.

Finally, the two lights entangled the primordial spirit imprint and pulled it into the depths of the Ultimate Ancient Land, causing it to enter the light curtain, and then merged with the Corpse Immortal Emperor.

"I never thought that I would return to my physical body again. I am still me, but you are no longer you." The Corpse Immortal Emperor exuded a faint golden light, and it was the primordial spirit imprint that spoke at this time.

"What's the difference? You are me, and I am you." Dark light flickered, and the Corpse Immortal Emperor spoke.

"I never thought that when I returned, a new Emperor would have appeared." Golden light emerged, and the primordial spirit imprint said.

"So what? Just kill him!" Under the dark light, the Corpse Immortal Emperor spoke grimly, and the cold killing intent froze the void.

Light flickered in his eyes, and he saw a figure standing in the long river of time, transforming into the origin of time and space, as if the essence of everything, the root of everything, all Dao seemed to originate from him. This was a magical state, transforming into billions of epochs, standing at the end of time, high above, overlooking the heavens and all living beings, the myriad ancient epochs.

"Cannot be deduced, cannot be found, does not belong to this ancient history, nor does it belong to this time and space..." In the origin of the land, the Corpse Immortal Emperor murmured, and hostility emerged, and the killing intent shocked the ages.

"Could it be... from there?" The Corpse Immortal Emperor's expression was icy cold, and black mist filled the air, surging out, vast and mighty.

"Hmph! What if you're an Emperor? Throughout the years, who dares to stand in the Immortal Emperor realm except for me?" The next moment, a pure killing intent erupted from his body, the golden light and the dark light gradually merged, and his aura became even more tyrannical.

"I will restore my peak combat power, what is there to fear!" The Corpse Immortal Emperor said coldly. Half of his remains were still suppressed in the Da Luo Sword Embryo, which contained the third bronze coffin, but with the primordial spirit returning, he was already recovering, and the Da Luo Sword Embryo would also be summoned by him, even across the ages, it would appear before his eyes.

In the past, when he first entered the Immortal Emperor realm, he was not yet stable, and he suffered heavy damage, and was infected by a drop of blood. He had to self-sever in order to recover in the future, but now, his primordial spirit had returned, and he was about to reproduce his former glory.

Moreover, after the long years of silence, he was completely different from the past. The surging Emperor's magic power was vast and boundless, and his divine soul was also burning fiercely, domineering and unparalleled, and black flames shot out from his hollow pupils.

The Emperor's Dao rules swept through the heavens and myriad realms, and darkness descended with it. All spirits and all things could be killed. The sudden change shocked countless living beings, even Shi Hao was shocked at this time.

"Immortal Emperor? There is still an Immortal Emperor in the world?!"

Shi Hao was shocked, especially when he felt the rich dark aura, which seemed to be telling him that this aura was the source of all darkness.

Rumble...

At this moment, Jiang Xuan also sensed the power of the Corpse Immortal Emperor. Under his traction, the long river of time boiled, surging and surging, turning into a rain of rules, falling in the Boundary Sea, forming a rain curtain, isolating the Emperor's Dao rules from the other side of the Boundary Sea.

The next moment, Jiang Xuan stepped into the rain curtain and entered the land of origin, where he saw some palaces, all appearing on the earth, with a strange power. The palaces were flowing with brilliant light, and the tiles were golden, sacred and majestic.

In the distance, the dark matter was even more concentrated, spewing outwards, terrifyingly, but its interior was wrapped in mysterious runes, containing shocking mysteries.

Jiang Xuan's eyes saw through the ages and illuminated the other shore. He saw a living being, shrouded in light and mist, more majestic than a mountain. He sat quietly on a stone chair, with dark power surging, but around him it was like a docile sheep. He seemed to be the source of darkness.

"You've finally come!" A faint gaze, piercing through the endless darkness, also saw Jiang Xuan. He seemed to have cut off the ages, and all living beings were latercomers, all pilgrims.

"A dignified Immortal Emperor, fallen to this point, what a pity." Jiang Xuan sighed. The Corpse Immortal Emperor was very strong, the only Emperor in the long river of time, walking ahead of all living beings, but unfortunately at the most critical moment, he was taken advantage of by darkness, and his body and soul were eroded.

However, thinking of the future when the Corpse Immortal Emperor would kill into the heavens above, wanting to avenge his old grudges, Jiang Xuan felt a little strange again.

Of course, this was also normal. After all, Immortal Emperors were too difficult to kill. Even ordinary Immortal Emperors could be resurrected if living beings remembered them. Of course, if anyone could forcibly erase the traces of these living beings, they could naturally kill the Immortal Emperor.

Fortunately, Jiang Xuan was transformed into billions of time and space. Unless there was a living being who could simultaneously suppress and kill countless selves in billions of time and space, even if there was only a slight difference in time, it would allow him to return again.

"You think I'm pitiful?!"

The Corpse Immortal Emperor's pupils suddenly turned pitch black, and a cold killing intent locked onto Jiang Xuan, the opening and closing of the sky and earth, the collapse of the universe, like the waves in the Boundary Sea, endless, the ebb and flow, vast and boundless.

He did not make a move, but the eruption of his will caused visions in the heavens, far beyond what a Quasi-Immortal Emperor could compare to.

Moreover, he was not yet complete, and part of his body was still missing. Once he recovered to his full state, his strength would be unimaginable.

Jiang Xuan shook his head and said, "Are you willing to fall into darkness? Don't you want to kill into the heavens above and avenge your old grudges?"

The Corpse Immortal Emperor was stunned: "You actually know about the heavens above?!"

This was indeed strange. Ordinary living beings, even the World-Extinguishing Elder and others, did not know the details, but Jiang Xuan seemed to know it very clearly, and knew the reason why he had fallen into darkness and transformed into the source of darkness.

He even suspected that this was the extraordinary place where the path of time and space had reached its limit, but thinking about it, he denied it again. He suspected even more that Jiang Xuan was originally from the heavens above, which was why he knew so much.

"Kill!" The Corpse Immortal Emperor shouted, waving his arm and striking Jiang Xuan with a palm. The Immortal Emperor's attack shook the past, present, and future, and the impact was too far-reaching. With a boom, the Chaos Sea was suddenly split open, stretching for hundreds of millions of miles, without end, without anything that could not be killed.

"Boom!"

Jiang Xuan counterattacked, the three bodies merged into one, covering the sky with one hand, and pushing horizontally as well. Two big hands covered the universe, and when they collided, the vast palm power tore apart the heavens of all ages. In an instant, this place returned to its origin, the heavens and the earth were overturned, everything was destroyed, and all the stars turned to dust. Not just one universe, but all were annihilated.

"You have only just stepped into this realm, and you cannot compete with me, I'll send you on your way!" Dark matter boiled, and the Corpse Immortal Emperor roared: "In the past, present, and future, I am the most尊贵, all Dao are in vain, suppress the enemy of this era!"

The Corpse Immortal Emperor roared, and he used the supreme Immortal Emperor Dharma, striking across the heavens, and forbidden secret techniques appeared one after another, which he sacrificed to suppress and kill Jiang Xuan.

"Futile!"

Jiang Xuan said decisively, and the long river of time emerged, and his figure appeared in every time and space, dominating the past, present, and future.

"Undying in one body, I am immortal! How can you kill me?" In the long river of time, countless Jiang Xuan roared at the same time, each of them seemed to be the true self, the original self. Unless he simultaneously killed all his incarnations in all time and space, he would be immortal.

Many forbidden secret techniques fell, falling into the long river of time, setting off monstrous waves, sweeping towards one Jiang Xuan's body after another, but after being injured again and again, what appeared in front of the Corpse Immortal Emperor was still a Jiang Xuan in his full state.

If he could not simultaneously kill all the Jiang Xuan in all time and space, he would never be able to truly kill him, even if he was injured again, he could return!