Cao Ya traveled to famous mountains and rivers, perilous places, and prehistoric ruins in the mortal world, admiring the scenery and comprehending the rules of the Great Dao, but he had never found the path to break through to become a king.
Cao Ya was patient in the face of this. He had only recently broken through to the Yujiu Realm, and it hadn't been that long. Breaking through to become a King was extremely difficult and challenging in any era.
However, while traveling through the mortal realm, Cao Ya discovered that two forces were locked in a fierce battle, ruthlessly killing each other!
"Celestial Forager! Reincarnation Hunter!" Cao Ya stood deep in the void, witnessing a forager kill a hunter, absorbing all its life essence and disappearing without a trace.
"If I remember correctly, the Reincarnation Hunters are a lineage of reincarnation, belonging to the ancient underworld, but they are strangely controlled, manipulating the spirits of heroes from all heavens, and becoming their henchmen and puppets."
Cao Ya stroked his chin. The so-called cycle of reincarnation has undergone many changes. Whether it was the exploration of the Desolate Emperor and the creation of the Underworld, or the Underworld created by the Underworld Emperor in the subsequent [Covering the Sky] timeline, or even the Underworld today, although they are all related to reincarnation and are all named "Underworld", they cannot be equated with each other and are very different!
"Alas, even though my combat strength is that of an ordinary Immortal King, I am still far from being able to break through the cycle of reincarnation!"
Cao Ya shook his head and sighed. Even a quasi-immortal emperor would face calamities and easily perish if he were to carry out such an action, let alone him.
Despite his feat of single-handedly killing over twenty powerful cultivators and commanding respect throughout the mortal realm, he was still relatively weak in the face of truly great figures in the vast universe.
“Unlike hunters, foragers should be sent by the Black Emperor to search for divine medicines of heaven and earth in order to revive the Great Emperor Wushi.”
Cao Ya pondered for a moment. The Black Emperor in the outside world was not the real body, but merely a projection, a divided soul, or a lingering remnant.
The heroes and geniuses of the ancient and desolate eras once fought against the strange and mysterious, but suffered heavy casualties.
Even the most powerful warriors will ultimately perish under the siege of the ever-resurrecting, eerie masters.
Under the schemes of the Desolate Emperor and the Ye Emperor, the two emperors transformed into seeds, waiting for the best opportunity to infiltrate the Evil Land Plateau, to break through the strange ancestral land and crack the root of their immortality!
The two emperors used their great divine powers as immortal emperors to revive their fallen comrades, reflecting ancient history. However, unlike the simple and convenient method on the Evil Land Plateau, where they were brought back to life instantly and without any damage, it would take countless years for them to awaken and regain their former peak!
This move was also used by the Celestial Emperor of Heaven, reflecting the brilliance of Heaven in a certain past era. Heaven also longed for the passage of time and the nurturing of divine powers so that the peak Heaven of the past could reappear!
After all, the true heavens had been breached by the strange forces, and were almost completely wiped out, with only one or two immortal emperors remaining.
That's why Cao Ya never had the idea of entering the heavens.
That place was mysteriously destroyed countless years ago. Now it seems to be glorious and magnificent, a golden age where geniuses rise and heroes compete for supremacy. In reality, it is just a world between illusion and reality, a reflection of the great divine power of the Immortal Emperor!
Cao Ya didn't want to deal with a seven-star Immortal Emperor so early.
Although the original book states that the surviving Immortal Emperors of the Heavenly Realm were not bloodthirsty, but rather allies of the mortal world, they joined forces in the final battle against the Lu Jin-level Immortal Emperor of the strange race!
Cao Ya felt that such things should be avoided if possible, unless he could become an Immortal Emperor... no, even if he was slightly inferior, he could still become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor!
In comparison, he was more familiar with the Desolate Emperor and the Ye Emperor, especially after acquiring the memories of Cao Ya from [Perfect World] and Cao Ya from [Covering the Sky].
However, the two emperors had far-reaching plans, and apart from each other and the deceased Empress of Huafenlu, no one knew about their schemes, which was also to prevent leaks.
There's no way around it; this strange race has many Immortal Emperors, and there are as many as ten Immortal Emperors at the Sacrifice Realm, which is the limit of Immortal Emperors!
Such beings could easily reverse time and space, control cause and effect, end the universe, and create heaven and earth. Even without clear information, with the great supernatural powers of the mysterious progenitor, observing the past and future, they could still discover too many clues!
Therefore, they must hide everything to prevent any leaks and launch a fatal blow at the last moment!
Of course, Cao Ya wouldn't be foolish enough to expose the two emperors' scheme.
He was a living being from the mortal realm, and naturally hoped that the two emperors would succeed in suppressing the strange beings!
Cao Ya absolutely does not want to become a new life with the same memories but a completely different way of thinking, cold-blooded and cruel, who has fallen into darkness in every way and is tainted by the mist and black blood!
At that time, he had the same body and soul, and the same memories, but he was a new human being!
Therefore, the two emperors had another backup plan: to create a strange world, just like the Celestial Emperor, to reflect the ages and revive their fallen comrades. Once they were fully restored to their peak condition, the time was right for them to reappear, gather all the heavens and myriad worlds, and the heavens, to launch a great counterattack against the strange ancestral land!
The reason why the Celestial Emperor of the Heavens did not hide in this way was mainly because the entire Heavens were destroyed, the world collapsed, and almost all living beings perished!
What that Luo Tianxian hoped for was the restoration of the entire heavens. Naturally, such actions could not be hidden. However, most cultivators were not strong enough to see through the secrets of the heavens and could not see through the methods of the Immortal Emperor. They believed that the heavens were still as glorious and splendid as ever, illuminating all the heavens!
The heavens at their peak were breached and crushed into dust by the strange forces. Now, with only one or two Immortal Emperors reflecting upon the heavens, the strange races naturally care even less.
They even wish that the heavens would reappear, allowing a new and brilliant civilization to develop, so that billions of years later, the strange and supernatural could reap another great harvest!
However, the mortal realm, as well as the Lesser Underworld, the Greater Underworld, and the Fallen Immortal Realm, were not destroyed. Even though there were great calamities of birth and death throughout the ages, resulting in heavy casualties, the world was still intact. Many races, including the human race, survived into a new era and thrived.
The situation was much better than that of the Heavenly Emperor. However, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and the Ye Heavenly Emperor did not make such a grand show of it. They also secretly carried out the resurrection of those who died in battle in order to lull the strange Immortal Emperor into a false sense of security.
Therefore, Cao Ya knew very well that the real Black Emperor was still in that strange world, either still asleep or already awakened, but waiting for the two emperors to call upon all the heavens and myriad worlds to launch a large-scale attack on the strange ancestral land and shatter the Calamity Plateau!
What manifested in the mortal realm were merely projections and lingering remnants, unaware of the two emperors' backup plans. They believed that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had disappeared, the Ye Heavenly Emperor was also missing, the Ruthless Great Emperor was seriously injured and his whereabouts were unknown, and the Beginningless Great Emperor, who was covering the rear, was besieged and killed by the strange Immortal Emperor!
This Black Emperor from the outside world was already very old. After all, he had lived for many eras, experienced all kinds of life and death, witnessed the deaths of his comrades, and fought against the strange great cultivator, suffering serious injuries that damaged his very foundation.
Despite his extraordinary abilities, the Black Emperor, suffering from multiple injuries to his body, soul, and mind, eventually showed signs of aging.
He guarded the corpse of the Great Emperor Wushi, and the Wushi Bell was also there, but he kept searching for the cosmic elixir, hoping to revive the Great Emperor Wushi!
The two emperors did not lend a hand for two reasons. First, they wanted to deceive the heavens and avoid the strange immortal emperor and the ancestor from noticing anything amiss. Second, the Great Emperor Wushi had a profound foundation and amazing talent. Even without their help, he had already broken through the heavens and attained the highest level of the heavens, becoming an immortal emperor at the end of the road!
In the Heavenly Emperor's Burial Pit belonging to the strange race, there is a giant reflected by the Great Emperor Wushi, who is lying in wait for the final opportunity!
The resurrection of this original body was achieved by the Great Emperor Wushi without the help of others; he could reverse life and death and invert cause and effect on his own!
Even if a Celestial Emperor at the end of the road has been dead for billions of years, as long as traces of him remain in the world, he still has the opportunity to be resurrected and reborn.
Not to mention the corpse of the Great Emperor Wushi, which has always existed.
The giant reflected in the Heavenly Emperor's Burial Pit, if he hadn't been an undercover agent, exploring the strange secrets, forming alliances to seek complete control of the Heavenly Emperor's Burial Pit, cutting off one of the strange tribes' territories, weakening their power, and even attempting to infiltrate the Calamity Plateau to discover the origins of the strange progenitor, find the secrets of the Calamity Plateau, and unravel the great mystery of the strange tribes' resurrection, he would have already escaped and used his great supernatural powers to revive the original body of the Heavenly Emperor, who was accompanied by the Black Emperor and the Beginningless Bell, and reappeared the divine might of the Immortal Emperor!
Under these circumstances, how could the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and the Ye Heavenly Emperor possibly awaken the Emperor's corpse? Not only would it ruin their own plans, but it would also disrupt the Great Emperor Wushi's dormancy. They might be discovered as something amiss, causing the Great Emperor Wushi's reflection in the Heavenly Emperor's Burial Pit to be exposed by the Strange Immortal Emperor and be surrounded and killed. Their millions of years of undercover work would be in vain! All their previous efforts would be wasted!
"The ancient and desolate heroes still outside, even if they are just projections or remnants of their former selves, not their true forms—they are concealed within the strange world created by the two emperors using unparalleled divine powers, so as not to be discovered by the eerie immortal emperor—their situation is quite dire. They feel that they have been defeated, and the eerie power is overwhelming all the heavens, but they are still unyielding and trying to fight back! To annihilate the experts of the eerie race!"
Cao Ya sighed inwardly.
Like the Black Emperor outside, guarding the Emperor's corpse, he himself was also seriously injured. Emperor Ye Tian, Ruthless Emperor, Duan De, Holy Prince, Ji Zi, and others were all missing. In his opinion, they might be like Emperor Wushi, besieged by multiple strange and powerful figures. No matter how strong their combat power was, the constant resurrection of the opponents would eventually wear them down.
This Black Emperor outside must be in great pain inside, looking around but unable to find any old friends!
The situation was similar for Duan De in the outside world. He was divided into many parts, each with its own schemes, and he was always trying to strengthen himself. One of his fragmented souls was reincarnated and became Chu Feng's son!
Not only the heroes of the ancient times, but also the heroes of the chaotic era, such as the Ten-Crown King, were controlled by the ancient underworld and became puppets of the monsters, suffering a very miserable fate. What he hoped for was that one of the Desolate Emperor, Meng Tianzheng, Heavenly Horned Ant, and others would reappear and rescue him and his other comrades, freeing them from the control of the ancient underworld. Even if they could not return to their peak, they would still fight against the monsters and wage a new war until the death!
"None of the powerful forces outside are in good condition. There's nothing we can do about it. Countless years ago, in the war against the strange forces, they all died in battle, their blood staining the battlefield."
"The Desolate Heavenly Emperor and the Ye Heavenly Emperor possess unparalleled power. They have created a strange world to reflect ancient history, hoping to resurrect those who died in battle and bring them back to life. However, such actions are destined to take a long time, and they must avoid the gaze of the supernatural and not allow anyone to notice!"
"Otherwise, if the news leaks out, it could very well lead to the strange world being breached by the strange Immortal Emperor, or even the strange progenitor taking action to erase everything!"
"To be honest, their true forms may still be in a state between life and death, neither alive nor dead, either alive or dead. Most likely, they have not yet been fully reborn and still need time to nurture their souls."
"The heroes outside are a collection of projections, lingering remnants, and fragmented souls; in a sense, they are also a part of themselves."
Cao Ya sighed. Upon closer examination, it was clear that both the heroes outside and those within the strange world were enduring extremely difficult lives!
"Its eerie power has oppressed the heavens and covered countless eras, reaping countless civilizations and countless powerful beings. There are a lot of seven-star Immortal Emperors and Sacrifice Dao Realm cultivators. In all the heavens and myriad realms, even if we include the heavens, in terms of numbers, at the level of Immortal Emperors and Quasi-Immortal Emperors, it is an absolute disadvantage!"
"The existence of the E'tu Plateau allows these strange experts to be reborn infinitely. No matter how powerful our heroes are, even if they can kill these people once, twice, or even ten or a hundred times, the strange cultivators are not weak either. After a thousand or a hundred entanglements, they will eventually wear down all the heroes of the heavens!"
"That's why the Desolate Emperor and the Ye Emperor changed their strategy. Instead of launching a direct attack on the Calamity Land, they decided to sneak in and wait for the right moment to completely dismantle that strange plateau and destroy the enemy's biggest trump card!"
"Otherwise, even if we wage war billions of times, the various factions of the heavens will never be able to win!"
Cao Ya pondered, desperately yearning to break through to become a king, and then to become an emperor!
The combat power of an ordinary Immortal King is really not enough in the final battle to come; they can only be cannon fodder!
Even a quasi-immortal emperor at the peak of the six-star level could not influence the course of the battle at that time.
"Fortunately, I'm not fighting alone!"
Cao Ya took a deep breath, hoping that the next time he entered the system space, there would be a new six-star user, or perhaps another version of himself from another universe would be greatly moved and achieve six-star status!
Universes like [Perfect World], [Immortal Gourd], [Peerless Supreme], [Stellar Transformation], [Panlong], and [Primordial Era] are all seven-star universes, and there are also quite a few six-star universes of the next level.
"call!
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Cao Ya left these mountains and rivers, no longer paying attention to foragers and hunters. His immediate priority was to find his own path to the King Realm!
He is also combining fire-based laws from other universes and the essence of Buddhism to improve his mastery of the "Great Sun Tathagata Fist," hoping to break through the limits of the universe and attain the status of an Immortal King!
While traveling in the mortal realm, I occasionally heard about Chu Feng's rising fame. He used the aliases Cao De and Cao Da to make a name for himself in the Three Kingdoms Battlefield. Later, he even entered the forbidden area, the Supreme Eight Trigrams Furnace, where he reaped great rewards and greatly improved his strength!
Cao Ya understood that after Chu Feng became stronger, he would definitely leave the Xiazhou battlefield to seek revenge against Taiwu Tianzun and the Yuan Clan.
With the Lesser Yin Realm Dao Fruit, there's nothing to worry about. Besides, Chu Feng has many trump cards, including that mysterious stone jar, which is a seven-star divine object!
When Chu Fengheng, at the King Realm level, uses the Lesser Yin Realm Dao Fruit, even ordinary Heavenly Venerables are no match for him!
If someone were to ambush him, it would be like handing over resources to Chu Feng!
In addition, the wonderful methods given by Cao Ya, such as "A Smile While Picking a Flower" and "The Dao Spreads Throughout the Universe," are enough for Chu Feng to cultivate to the Immortal Emperor realm!
Cao Ya was also studying the "Great Thunder Sound Breathing Method" and "Dream Ancient Breathing Method" that he had obtained from Chu Feng. He felt that his understanding of the "Great Sun Tathagata Fist" was becoming more and more profound, but he had not yet reached the threshold of the Immortal King Realm, which made him very distressed.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Cao Ya was startled and discovered an anomaly in the mortal realm. A mysterious and eerie aura was seeping in from who-knows-where. The sky cracked open, revealing a large hole, and a dark mist appeared, carrying an ominous meaning.
"What's going on? Has something strange invaded us?"
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