"Henceforth, the Han Dynasty shall be elevated to the Han Imperial Dynasty, and I shall be the Emperor of Han!"
...
Yang Hao, holding the Nine Dragon Imperial Seal in his left hand and the Xuanyuan Sword at his waist with his right, let out a loud shout that shook the heavens!
"Your subjects pay homage to the Emperor!"
"Long live His Majesty, ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand years!"
Led by Li Si, the civil and military officials, their faces filled with excitement, knelt on both knees and bowed to the Han Emperor.
"Long live His Majesty, ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand years!"
"Long live His Majesty, ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand years!"
At this moment, countless citizens of the Han Dynasty also knelt down, welcoming the Han Emperor and congratulating the Han on its promotion to an Imperial Dynasty!
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the main quest and successfully receiving one opportunity to promote the Destiny Nine Cauldrons!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the transformation of the Human Emperor Tablet and officially promoting it to the Emperor Tablet!"
Just as the eyes of the various factions in the Cangyuan World were all focused on the Han Imperial Dynasty in the Eastern Wasteland Continent, outside the Cangyuan World, in a void, the Han who was sitting cross-legged opened his eyes, and instantly, the void erupted.
"It is time!"
The Han whispered, and a trident appeared in his hand. With a gentle poke at the void, the world of the Cangyuan World boomed.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, in Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty in the Cangyuan World, countless martial artists changed their expressions, rising to their feet, their eyes flashing with astonishment.
"What is that?"
The dragon of destiny coiled in the void above Chang'an City glared forward, roared, and transformed into a stream of light, merging into the Destiny Nine Cauldrons.
Yang Hao's brows furrowed as he looked at the void above. The omens of the Han Imperial Dynasty's promotion had all dissipated, and torrents of elemental energy storms darkened the sky.
Not only the Eastern Wasteland Continent, but the entire Cangyuan World was swept by these elemental energy storms. Especially at the boundary between continents and oceans, the storms whipped up waves thousands of feet high, piling layer upon layer into the sky. Suddenly, wave after wave fiercely struck the continental coastlines. The impact of the waves was no less than the full force of a Nirvana realm martial artist. Thunder boomed, and the earth bore the brunt of repeated blows, finally unable to withstand the pressure and cracking open.
"Rumble..."
In the very center of the Cangyuan World, in the void above the boundless sea between the four continents, accompanied by a deafening roar, deep blue lightning bolts as thick as giant pillars crisscrossed and struck, tearing open a narrow, elongated rift!
The rift extended an immeasurable distance horizontally, and streams of void energy poured out. As it deepened, perhaps due to light refraction, it emitted a seven-colored glow, with wisps of peculiar aura more refined than elemental energy, containing nearly a hundred times the energy of elemental energy.
At this moment, all top-tier Venerables, with their eyes tightly closed, felt a surge of blood within their bodies, as if being drawn, wanting to break through their flesh and shoot into the rift above the nine heavens.
Above the vast ocean between the Eastern Wasteland, Northern Region, Western Region, and Southern Domain continents, an area of the sea surface tens of thousands of feet wide surged upwards. When it reached tens of feet above the sea level, the seawater poured down.
As the seawater continuously drained, the tens of thousands of feet above the sea level gradually revealed its true form: a new continent spanning tens of thousands of feet. The continent was shrouded in a thin layer of mist, isolating it from the invasion of seawater.
It was covered with dense forests, with a coverage rate of up to ninety-nine percent.
In the very center of the continent, a magnificent palace stood erect. The void energy flowing from the rift instantly converged towards the palace, and myriad elemental energy storms roared, plunging the world into darkness once again.
Before long, martial artists throughout the Cangyuan World could look up and see the rooftop of a palace flashing amidst the clouds in the distant sky. The rooftop seemed hidden in the void, emitting colorful lights.
Instantly, the sky above the entire rooftop was covered by a seven-colored stream of light, like a divine being descending, with a celestial canopy, and a seven-colored stream of light as a blanket!
"Wooo~~"
A piercing sound reverberated, stirring up the elemental energy in the void into rippling waves that swept across the entire Cangyuan World!
"The Supreme Hall appears, and disaster is imminent!"
Deep within the Demon Cloud Palace of the Demon Race in the Western Region, the Demon Ancestor stood up, his eyes narrowed as he looked at the rooftop of the palace covered by the seven-colored stream of light in the void, and softly murmured.
"It's finally here. A million-year opportunity, this old man will fight with all his might!"
In the Northern Region's Heavenly God Mountain, atop a giant bloodwood, an ancient spirit soul looked excitedly at the celestial phenomenon, then shifted his gaze to the physical body on the adjacent bloodwood, a hint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes: "Demon Ancestor, Savage Emperor, until the very last moment, who dares to claim kingship in Cangyuan!"
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In the Han Dynasty's Chang'an City, Yang Hao looked solemnly at the golden rooftop faintly visible in the void. By now, any martial artist standing at the pinnacle of martial arts understood that the golden rooftop covered by the golden seven-colored stream of light was the legendary Supreme Hall.
An hour later, the golden rooftop disappeared, and the void of the entire Cangyuan World remained covered by the seven-colored stream of light. At a certain moment, a sudden gale swept through. In the voids of the Northern Region, Western Region, Eastern Wasteland, and Southern Barbarians, elemental energy frantically converged towards the center of the continents.
At the edges of the continents, elemental energy was rapidly depleted. Within a few breaths, it was completely exhausted. Without the nourishment of elemental energy, the land became like a dried, cracked earth, splitting open with dense fissures.
Within a few breaths, the elemental energy of the four continents was drained clean. The seven-colored stream of light disappeared, and the world gradually returned to normal.
In the palms of Yang Hao, the Demon Ancestor, the Savage Emperor, and the Heavenly God Mountain old ancestor Huangfu Nian of the Northern Region, a pale blue, seed-shaped object had formed, condensed with the elemental energy of an entire continent.
The Seed of the Continental Core!
There were only these four in the Cangyuan World. The condensation of the core seeds had come at a great cost. The entire Cangyuan World was now like an ordinary mortal plane, devoid of any elemental energy.
"Dong~"
"Dong~~"
Suddenly, a loud booming sound reverberated throughout the Cangyuan World. After each impact, the four continents would recover a trace of elemental energy. This state continued for a full hour before gradually disappearing.
In that hour, the elemental energy of the four continents only recovered to one-third of its level before the celestial phenomenon. One-third of the elemental energy was barely enough to support the cultivation needs of countless tribes and martial artists.
It was as if they had reached the end of the road for martial arts elemental energy. For the elemental energy of the four continents to recover to its peak would require hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated recovery.
This was the price for condensing the four Continental Core Seeds. In the coming hundreds of thousands of years, the weakening of elemental energy and the barrenness of the continents would make the martial path of cultivation extremely difficult for martial artists.
Thus, it was said that the appearance of the Supreme Hall every million years was both an opportunity for top-tier Venerables for a million years and a catastrophe that swept across the entire Cangyuan World!