"You actually think you can escape after refining a portion of the source's power?! Haha, what wishful thinking!" The Southern Emperor was very surprised by everyone's reaction and couldn't help but burst into laughter, his tone mocking and sarcastic.
"Why not stop? I can't kill you, and you can't kill me. What's the point of continuing this fight? It will only give us more ammunition to criticize us to the emperors."
The Southern Emperor spoke loudly, proactively signaling the need for peace talks.
There was nothing he could do; the Dao Ancestor Cao Ya behind them was someone he feared. Even though Cao Ya hadn't appeared, his reputation still instilled fear in the Southern Emperor.
Even the God Emperor was injured by his punch, let alone him.
Besides, this seventh heaven is the territory he guards. His true body resides here, and his Dao Fruit is also hidden here. If the fighting continues, his Dao Fruit will be affected, and he will be doomed!
While he was properly guarding the source area, he also had to fight against several broken level nines and a group of broken level eights. The pressure on the Southern Emperor was actually quite great.
Although he had recovered much of his power, the Southern Emperor could not ignore the backlash from the source land—even the Heavenly Emperor could not ignore it, let alone the Southern Emperor. This meant that he had to expend some of his power to suppress the cracks in the source land and repair the leaks.
In short, the Southern Emperor was carrying a heavy burden, essentially fighting against the crowd while bearing the weight of a sacred mountain.
This also demonstrates the power of the Southern Emperor!
Even if one is the weakest among the emperors, that is only in comparison with the emperors themselves. Below the emperor level, even if one breaks through the Eighth Heavenly King or even the Ninth Pseudo-Emperor, one is definitely no match for any emperor!
The Supreme Emperor, having cultivated to the ultimate level, can be considered an unconventional emperor!
"Southern Emperor, you actually want to back down and make peace?" The God-Forging Envoy raised an eyebrow, seemingly very surprised by the Southern Emperor's initiative to soften his stance.
"Since we're all prisoners anyway, we're all in the same boat, why fight amongst ourselves?" the Southern Emperor said in a low voice.
"A grasshopper on the same rope? Ha, you're overthinking it. We've never been on the same side as you!" Fang Ping sneered, his longsword slashing with even greater force, shattering the void.
Having absorbed a portion of the seventh heaven of the source land, Fang Ping's strength increased dramatically, seemingly exceeding the limits of a true emperor or pseudo emperor with a power of fifty million calories!
At this moment, Fang Ping does not need to merge with the heroes to be able to face a Primal Emperor head-on!
"Woof!" The celestial dog roared, devouring the sky and the earth, and also digesting the source land it had devoured.
"Meow, this cat is going to get stronger too!" The gray cat struck a pose like a tiger roaring through the mountains, but its voice was incredibly cute, without a trace of ferocity.
"Stop trying to be cute! You silly cat, do you think you can just charm the Southern Emperor to death? You big idiot!" The Heavenly King cursed, his initial martial arts and original essence merging into one, and he boldly proved himself to be an emperor!
Apart from Fang Ping, Cang Mao, Tian Gou, and Zhen Tian Wang, everyone else was also increasing their strength at this critical juncture, breaking through the ninth level and becoming pseudo-emperors!
The limitations of the source region? The constraints of the source region?
Why worry about all that! Let's get stronger first, then kill the Southern Emperor!
Just like the heroes of the land, don't they know that after proving their Dao and becoming emperors, they will have to enter the thirty-sixth heaven of the source land and become prisoners?
They know! They know it perfectly well!
Even so, they still dream of attaining enlightenment!
After all, if they cannot attain enlightenment, and the emperors unleash a great calamity, their lives will no longer be in their own hands.
A very simple example: eight thousand years ago, how many beings in the heavenly realm died because of the schemes of the emperors that led to the fall of the heavenly court?
Hundreds of millions!
The number of dead heavenly kings and saints is also countless.
The Heavenly King, the Divine Envoy, Shi Po, the Heavenly Dog, the Azure Cat, and the Scholar—they were all eyewitnesses and knew just how ruthless an emperor could be when he was being cruel!
The Chaos King was born and grew up in the chaotic era after the Heavenly Court crashed. His relatives, friends, parents, wife and daughters all died in the chaotic era, which is why he was named "Chaos"!
But who wants to live in chaos?
The Heavenly King went mad because everything he cherished had been destroyed by the aftermath of the emperors' schemes.
What the Chaotic Heavenly King thinks about is attaining enlightenment and becoming an emperor!
Then, they raised their swords against those original emperors to avenge the blood debts of countless lives lost in the chaotic era!
Blood must be paid for blood!
As for Zhang Tao, Fang Ping, Wang Jinyang, Li Hansong, and Yao Chengjun, they are the human race in the human realm, a place that the emperors regard as a pasture. They have all sorts of schemes and plots, hoping to lure out the seed's true form, capture it, fill the loophole in the source land, and allow them to be free and roam the three realms.
As for how many humans would die for this, the emperors may have thought about it or they may not, but without a doubt, they almost didn't care!
Can human lives be compared to their lives?
Human life doesn't even deserve to be called life.
In the eyes of the emperors, human life is worthless!
Once one crop is harvested, another will soon grow.
The emperors didn't care, but Zhang Tao and Fang Ping did.
Those with differing stances are mortal enemies!
Even if they were all trapped in the Origin Land, they would never form an alliance with the Emperors!
Even if such an alliance exists, it would be a temporary one formed under immense pressure, requiring them to unite against coercion from a stronger power.
If the stronger one is defeated and forced to retreat, then the two sides will fight to the death again!
Only when both sides are wiped out will this battle end!
Therefore, when facing the Southern Emperor, everyone had only one word—
"kill!!!"
The crowd, some becoming emperors and others breaking through the nine realms, attacked the Southern Emperor with fierce momentum.
When they attacked, the heavens and earth collapsed, the void exploded, and they slew gods and demons.
The Southern Emperor's eyes twitched suddenly, and he sneered. He unleashed the Returning Origin Technique, sweeping his giant hammer to confront the assembled heroes head-on.
"Even if you become True Emperors or False Emperors by refining the Source Land, so what? I am no ordinary True Emperor!" the Southern Emperor roared.
All around, in the deathly silent seventh heaven, one divine power after another emerged, shimmering and illuminating this dim world. As the light danced, the voice of the Great Dao shook the world!
"You won't accept my peace treaty? Then die!" The Southern Emperor roared, violently swinging the divine weapon, the Desolate Hammer, its cold light illuminating all directions!
Anyone with over 50 million calories can be called a true emperor, and his combat power is as high as 80 million!
Therefore, even if Fang Ping and Zhen Tianwang attained enlightenment, the Southern Emperor was not afraid at all.
"Most of us are only at the eighth level of the Heavenly King realm. Even when only four of us were at the ninth level, you couldn't kill us. Now, the worst of us are at the ninth level, and there are two True Emperors and the Southern Emperor. How are you going to kill us?"
"Let me show you for yourself how we kill you!"
The heroes went berserk, their eyes bloodshot, and launched a fierce attack, eventually besieging the Southern Emperor like a turtle in a jar.
"Ah..." the Southern Emperor roared, his anger rising, but there was nothing he could do to stop it. He was injured by the backlash from the source land and was not at his peak. In addition, the enemy he was facing was quite powerful. With both sides attacking at the same time, the Southern Emperor was now at a disadvantage and his decline was obvious.
There's no way to escape even if you want to!
Besides, where can Dao Guo escape to if he is hiding here?
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