“It’s just a projection, not the real body,” Cao Ya said softly. “If we can’t even solve the problem of projection, how can we talk about solving the predicament of the Three Realms?”

As he spoke, Cao Ya took a step out of Zhan Tiandi's subspace. He stretched out his left hand and, following a special sensation, slashed his arm. With a hiss, the void tore open, and spatial turbulence surged.

"He's gone. Now we're in for a good show," the Tyrant Emperor chuckled.

"Cao Ya, you must help Big Cat's master!" Second Cat said, waving its paw.

Cao Ya stepped into the torn void, waving his hand before disappearing from sight.

"Are we just going to stand by and watch?" Shuxiang couldn't help but ask from the side.

"Just observe," said the War Emperor. "Now is not the time."

“We should have made our move by now, but well, it’s not the right time yet.” Emperor Annihilation shook his head and said that their power had other uses, and it would be a waste to use it here.

"That old bastard, the Heavenly Emperor, he's really good at hiding his true intentions," said the Overlord Emperor, gazing at the Void Realm and looking at the middle-aged man about ten thousand meters away from the seed projection, his eyes filled with killing intent and fighting spirit.

"Heavenly Emperor..." The War Heavenly Emperor and the Annihilation Heavenly Emperor also looked over, their expressions slightly grim.

The Heavenly Emperor can be considered the culprit for the current state of affairs in the Three Realms!

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The Void Realm.

"ah!!!"

Upon seeing the Heavenly Emperor, the God of the Underworld was enraged. He roared and a huge scythe appeared in his hand. It was a weapon of the initial martial arts, and he would only temper one weapon in his lifetime!

"You beast!!!"

Staring intently at the projection of the Heavenly Emperor, the God of the Underworld was furious, his face contorted with rage.

The Heavenly Emperor was once the leader of the Primordial Martial Arts, regarded as a figure akin to the Dao Ancestor. Yet, he actually created the Origin Martial Arts, clashing with the Primordial Martial Arts?!

Well, that's alright. After all, the Martial Arts lineage is a place where countless paths coexist, and many people take different paths of cultivation.

But why is it that the original lineage must kill a peak initial martial arts expert to achieve the Dao and become an emperor?

This is not simply about achieving enlightenment through battle; rather, it requires a supreme initial martial arts master to die at the hands of a supreme original martial arts master before one can rely on that master to become an emperor.

Without a doubt, this provoked Chu Wu's greatest resentment!

The original martial arts must also have major problems. Otherwise, why would the God Emperor and the Eastern Emperor need to kill the strongest beginner martial artist to pass that level and become emperors in order to prove their Dao?

If there is no problem with the original martial arts, why suppress the initial martial arts to prevent it from overpowering the original martial arts?

Moreover, after the Origin Lineage defeated the Initial Martial Lineage, established the Heavenly Court, and ruled the Three Realms, the Origin Lineage still suppressed the Initial Martial Lineage, killing many Initial Martial Lineage experts, but leaving behind a group of Initial Martial Lineage masters to be manipulated at will, like cattle and sheep.

The Underworld God and the others knew why the Heavenly Emperor and the others had done this.

What else could it be for? It's simply because to become a Primal Martial Emperor, one must kill a Primal Martial Supreme.

To put it bluntly, the people who are at the initial stage of martial arts are basically livestock left behind by the original emperors, for future generations of the original martial arts path to prove their path.

It must be noted that the original emperor did not have good intentions; he was not simply trying to cultivate successors and thus bear a bad reputation himself.

The world's flaws are caused by an imbalance of energy, and which life forms have the most energy in the world?

Of course, it's the emperor of the original lineage!

They expect future emperors to take their place, help them suppress the source lands, and fill the loopholes in the world, while they themselves can live freely outside, truly like emperors.

Later generations? Ha, just pawns.

The experts at the initial stage of martial arts can be described as pigs and dogs raised by the Origin Emperor, while the masters of the Origin lineage are merely pawns.

Those who raise pigs and dogs are the original emperors, and so are the chess players.

All living beings in heaven and earth are below the original sovereign, regarded as ants.

Of course, the former's situation was really terrible, so old and new grudges piled up, and the Chuwu lineage hated it to the bone.

The latter were not much better off. In fact, most of those Heavenly King-level experts had gained some insight and noticed some secrets. At the same time, they were all scheming and plotting. They wanted to become emperors and have unparalleled combat power, but they did not want to become pawns of any emperor, helping him fill loopholes and becoming prisoners themselves.

Of course, even among the original emperors, there were calculations and insidious schemes among them. After all, waiting for a pawn to attain enlightenment was far less efficient than having someone else fill the gaps in their ranks.

Moreover, almost all of these situations can be said to have been created by the Heavenly Emperor; he is the culprit.

The Chuwu lineage hates the Heavenly Emperor the most, but in fact, the Benyuan lineage also hates the Heavenly Emperor to the extreme!

If both sides knew the Heavenly Emperor's true intentions, their hatred would likely intensify even further.

The two martial arts paths, the Initial Martial Arts Lineage and the Origin Martial Arts Lineage, have been shrouded in insidious and insidious acts in the past and present. Those who follow the New Martial Arts are all the more grateful that they have embarked on the New Martial Arts path.

Because the new martial arts do not have those flaws, nor will they lead to any loopholes, so there is no need to create so many horrific things.

Fang Ping, Zhang Tao, Zhen Tianwang, Wang Jinyang, Li Hansong, Yao Chengjun, and others, although they mainly follow the original martial arts, have not neglected the new martial arts. They have all gained insights and their strength is much stronger than that of their contemporaries in the original timeline.

Even those kings who have revived in the new era are also studying new martial arts, hoping to switch allegiances and avoid becoming pawns.

Unfortunately, they had gone too far and too deep into the original martial arts path. By this time, it was too late to change their cultivation. The new martial arts method could only be a supplementary cultivation, not the main cultivation path.

A major change is imminent, and disaster is about to erupt. They cannot completely sever ties with the past and embark on a new path of martial arts.

Everyone sighed that Cao Ya was born too late, and the new martial arts appeared too late.

Even Zhen Tianwang and Zhang Tao were amazed.

After all, they had already strayed too far from the original martial arts path and it was too late to change their training.

Fang Ping, Wang Jinyang, Li Hansong, Yao Chengjun, and the others each had their own reasons for having to follow the original path.

Fang Ping's system was created by the War Emperor and relied on the legacy left behind by the three emperors after their deaths. Needless to say, the three emperors were reincarnations of the three emperors.

The path most suitable for them, one with special advantages, is undoubtedly the original martial arts.

On the contrary, other new generation human martial artists have gradually abandoned the original martial arts and focused on pursuing new martial arts, and some of them have achieved great success.

Of course, due to time constraints, no Heavenly King or Saint level beings have appeared yet, but everyone knows that it's only a matter of time.

Cao Ya is a special case and was not included in this count.

"kill!!!"

The God of the Underworld roared, wielding his scythe, and charged towards the Heavenly Emperor.

The Heavenly Emperor was an unremarkable middle-aged man. Upon seeing this, he shook his head, flicked his finger, and the mighty Underworld God, who had just broken through to the eighth level of the Initial Martial Realm, was sent flying backward with a bang, crashing into the dust and collapsing a mountain.

"Ming, you should go back. I cannot give you the seed projection," the Heavenly Emperor said calmly, the implication being: what I don't give you, you cannot take!