Volume 1, Chapter 349 – Heavenly Dao

Wind, fire, thunder, and water all stirred throughout heaven and earth. The laws sustaining the world began to collapse one after another. As Linglong and the host of Yang Spirits weakened, Langya Grotto-Heaven was about to fall into silence and completely become a ruined, broken world, no longer possessing the slightest trace of life.

“Father God regarded you as half a son. Even after you betrayed the god race and killed Yao, Father God never once thought of killing you. Only after his heart turned cold did he pass the position of God King to me and dissolve into the Dao…”

The God King lay flat on the ground, the blood-red battle halberd piercing through his chest. Blazing divine blood surged across the earth like an enraged river, shining with dazzling divine radiance.

“Back then, Yin forced you to kill your son. You know full well what it was for. If not for that, your human race would already have been exterminated in the Primordial Age. You also know that Yao was innocent in the end.”

“The reason my seal loosened in the ancient era was also because your human race’s military edge had grown too fierce. A single god war nearly broke the vitality of Lingyang and alarmed the Heavenly Dao…”

The secret history of the Primordial Age came from his mouth word by word, mixed with the divine blood he coughed up and carrying a thick scent of blood.

“Many things in this world are difficult to divide simply into right and wrong. Beneath the Heavenly Dao, all are ants…”

Wanggu’s voice carried a faint loneliness, and within his eyes, an indescribable light flickered in and out.

“In the Primordial Age, if you had not insisted on going your own way and forcibly stirred up the God War, perhaps things would have ended very differently now.”

The God King’s expression calmed, and the violent savagery in his eyes gradually faded. In his dark red pupils, it was as though the extinction of all living beings flowed past.

Suddenly, he asked softly,

“Ye, have you ever regretted it?”

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“I carry guilt… but no regret.”

Wanggu gave an answer much like Linglong’s. For existences like them, their Dao hearts had long since been made clear and would not be shaken by anything. What had happened in the past had already become fact. Even if one could go back upstream through the river of time and alter what had already happened, that would only produce an illusory result in another stretch of spacetime. Aside from offering some comfort to one’s desolate heart, it had no meaning at all.

“Heh… guilt…”

A cold laugh drifted through heaven and earth. The transparent chains completely wrapped around the God King and turned into an enormous transparent cocoon, isolating him from the Heavenly Dao laws of the Lingyang Realm and sealing him away once again, plunging him back into slumber.

The Ancient Gods were born beloved by heaven and earth, and the God King in particular carried what was called heavenly fate. Within the Lingyang Realm, he had become a truly eternal and deathless existence. The position of God King contained a Heavenly Dao imprint; so long as Lingyang endured, the God King would endure.

Even the Human Race Annals did not possess the power to kill the God King completely.

A vortex gate appeared upon the Human Race Annals. Beyond it, a barren little world could vaguely be seen, filled with countless graves.

Nearly a hundred ice coffins were suspended in the void, wrapped in heavy aspiration power. Some coffins held only chaos, some buried shattered battle weapons, but more of them contained corpses wrapped in imperial divine might.

Beneath the ice coffins, dozens of giant cocoons were suppressed. Figures slept within each cocoon—some Ancient Gods, some of the Half-God Race, but even more were Primordial demons and devils that could not be brought to heel.

…

Wanggu put away the battle halberd and looked toward the youth to one side. His hand tightened slightly, then gradually loosened again. He turned to look at Linglong, who was like the last candle flame in the wind.

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“Do you need me to see you off?”

Linglong shook her head slightly. Her blurred face turned toward the youth at one side, and with a trace of curiosity in her voice, she asked,

“What sort of scenery lies ten thousand ages in the future?”

The youth fell silent, then replied,

“The myriad races contend for supremacy.”

“And my human race?”

“Of the five Great Dao pillars that hold up the heavens, the human race alone occupies three.”

“That… is good…”

Reassurance entered Linglong’s voice. She raised her hand and sent the cracked Linglong Ancient Jade before the youth.

“There is a bond between you and it that even I cannot understand. The fact that you could come here from ten thousand ages in the future means there must be some hidden purpose in it. But nothing may be forced. If you attempt to change certain extremely important nodes in time and space, I fear you will only bring disaster upon yourself and act against what the Heavenly Dao allows. Take care.”

After warning the youth once, Linglong lowered her head and looked down over the chaotic land of Langya Grotto-Heaven, then beckoned lightly.

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Rumble…

The earth split apart, and countless coffins engraved with profound array patterns burst out from the deepest reaches underground, filling the sky.

She raised her hand once more, and her slender fingers lightly traced across the void. In the blink of an eye, she opened a world gate that reached from heaven to earth.

“I’ll take you home…”

After the world gate appeared, Linglong’s figure grew even fainter, nearly on the verge of dispersing. The mere handful of Yang Spirits that had survived by luck stood guard at her side, bearing the coffins that filled the sky as they stepped into the world gate.

Wanggu silently watched everything before him. He swept one more glance at the youth in the distance, suppressed the thoughts in his heart that could not be spoken to others, then turned, tore open the void, and strode away.

The Human Race Annals could not leave the Imperial Palace for too long. It was not a weapon for warfare, but a priceless treasure used by the human race to suppress its fortune. Most of its power was spent sealing the Primordial demons and devils within that small world, and it was never meant to be moved lightly. All the more so in these troubled times—his intervention this time had already been something of a breach of the rules.

The youth stood quietly where he was, holding the Linglong Ancient Jade stained with blood in his palms, silent for a long while.

Perhaps his earlier thoughts had been somewhat fanciful. The Origin Epoch was far more complex than he had imagined. For these existences who had already touched the river of spacetime, what they saw, heard, and felt likely went far beyond the bounds of his understanding.

…

In Chengtian Domain, above the nameless mountain valley where Linglong had once lived, dozens of enormous ancient warships hovered in the air. Within some of the warships were auras belonging to Supremes of the universe, held in check and not yet released, ready to be awakened at any moment.

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After receiving warnings from Tianwu Yangyu and the host of heavenly prodigies, many hidden imperial clans had invited out the Imperial Dao divine weapons of their respective clans to provide support.

The surrounding hundreds of thousands of miles had been completely sealed off, and a simple but gigantic teleportation array had already taken shape. This single formation had nearly emptied the coffers of several imperial clans.

They had already prepared for the worst. If the Ancient God King broke free, they would activate the formation and shift the battlefield beyond the domain, staking everything in a desperate fight.

The Tianwu Imperial Clan had also returned to Chengtian Domain once more by means of the domain gate that ran directly from the Imperial Court to the borderlands. The Heaven Extremity Blade had fully awakened and now floated in the void, sharp blade-light coiling around its body. Heavy imperial divine might descended from it like a weighty river of chaotic stars.

The atmosphere all around was extremely grave, utterly silent.

Buzz—

The void trembled, and a temporary world gate reaching from heaven to earth opened. The atmosphere in the field instantly tensed. The auras of the many Sovereign Weapons all began to stir, and the Sovereign spirits within them were on the verge of awakening.

Yet the fully revived Heaven Extremity Blade instantly drew in its aura.

One coffin after another emerged from within the world gate, covering a radius of ten thousand miles. Several illusory figures followed close behind and stepped out of the gate.

“Lingyang…”