Returning from the Void to Ascend, Three Essences Unite with Yang (Part One)

The Five Manifestations Essential-Separation Divine Radiance lit up the Abyssal Ruins, striking the emperor's corpse like the first mystic light of dawn.

In an instant, the power of the Five Elements surged and churned through the endless silt and mire. The brilliant radiance stretched across the Abyssal Ruins like a rainbow, parting the chaos for millions of miles and blasting the emperor's corpse—climbing upward along wisps of Calamity Aura and stagnant gloom—back into the depths.

As the divine corpse fell into the mire, layers of filth closed in from every direction and swallowed it.

Xiangyu Immortal Monarch did not lower his guard. The divine corpse had lain in the Abyssal Ruins for a hundred thousand years without rotting or decaying. Even he had never encountered such a strange thing.

It had endured since the previous cosmic cycle and was a contingency Rahu had left for his return. Xiangyu Immortal Monarch would not underestimate it in the slightest.

When he had fought the founding emperor of the Qian Dynasty, Xiangyu Immortal Monarch had known the man was only one of Rahu's incarnations. He had not expected that incarnation to be so troublesome. It had taken him three years of battle to subdue it.

And what he had subdued was merely an incarnation, not Rahu himself.

Now Jiang Sheng had sent word that Rahu had reappeared in the Yu Capital of the Netherworld. With the Taiyin Year Star hanging high in the sky, he had proclaimed his return for all to see.

But was the founding emperor of the Yu Dynasty truly Rahu himself?

Or was the divine corpse in the Abyssal Ruins Rahu's true body?

As Xiangyu Immortal Monarch pondered, his right hand formed a succession of seals. "Five Elements, reveal the mysteries; Red Fire, blaze bright."

"Cleanse the hidden evil;