After speaking, he turned his head and looked at Jiang Tingting and the others nearby.
Seeing Fang Zheng pause the conversation for the moment, Jiang Tingting hurried forward and joyfully bowed. "Senior Human Emperor! You're back."
Jiang Tingting looked at the man in green beside him and respectfully asked, "Senior Human Emperor, how should I address this senior?"
Taiyin reached out and patted the man in green on the shoulder, smiling. "You may also call him Sacred Emperor."
Jiang Tingting was puzzled. "Sacred Emperor?"
"That's right. After me, he inherited my will and continued protecting all living beings. He is an outstanding junior who makes me immensely proud—the Sun Holy Emperor!"
"To distinguish him from me, just call him the Sun Emperor."
Smiling, Taiyin heavily patted the Sun Holy Emperor's shoulder, then pointed at Jiang Tingting. "Sun, this is my successor. She shares my Taiyin Physique. Hurry up and give the junior a greeting gift!"
After examining Jiang Tingting, the Sun Holy Emperor nodded and smiled gently.
"I have only just been resurrected and possess nothing else. Your yin energy is currently too abundant, and your Taiyin origin is overly strong. Yet a lone yin cannot grow, nor can a lone yang be born. Excessive yin can also become too rigid and easily break."
He then looked at the nearby blood pool, where Taiyin energy was incomparably dense. A trace of helplessness appeared in his smile as he lightly tapped Jiang Tingting's forehead with a finger. "From now on, you will not lack cultivation resources. I shall give you a strand of harmonious yang energy and a method for reversing yin and yang, helping you regulate and balance yourself."
Immediately afterward, that finger radiating divine light inscribed nine mysterious ancient characters containing the essence of the sun upon Jiang Tingting's forehead. They slowly sank into her Immortal Platform.
An incomparably vast current of harmonious yang energy, far surpassing all the Nine Nether Yin Yang Bone Shedding Ganoderma fused into the blood pool and containing the purest vitality, continuously spread from the nine ancient characters, easing the strain her body endured from its excessive Taiyin origin.
The nine sun-like ancient characters, woven from harmonious yang energy and Dao laws, circled and danced with the nine moon-like ancient characters that had already existed within Jiang Tingting's Immortal Platform.
Yin and yang merged, forming a cocoon of light suffused with chaotic energy that enveloped her body and plunged her into a transformation of her physique.
If Jiang Tingting's original physique could be called the Taiyin Physique,
then after the earlier resonance enhancement caused her origin to surge, and after this balancing transformation was complete, her physique could likely be called the Taiyin King Physique—the king among Taiyin Physiques!
Next, Taiyin turned around and looked at Jiang Wen, who stood nearby with an excited expression and seemed about to ask something. He interrupted him. "The human race has Void Emperor, Great Emperor Hengyu, and juniors like you. Both Sun and I are deeply gratified."
"It is precisely because generation after generation of you have held fast to your legacy and protected all living beings that they retained a sliver of hope during the Dark Turmoil."
Taiyin spoke gently. "You have done very well. Very well."
"And now, leave it to us. Go and rest properly first, and recover yourselves. Once the Great Emperors of all ages are resurrected, there will still be many things for you to do."
"You juniors who hold all living beings in your hearts should not die so early. You ought to continue shining in the future."
Taiyin lightly raised his hand, and a streak of crimson light rose from the Essence Blood within the nearby blood pool, which brimmed with boundless vitality.
He extracted and purified all the Imperial Dao laws contained within it. Although this greatly reduced the effects contained in the Essence Blood, it would also prevent it from overwhelming those with lower cultivation.
After removing the Supreme Dao Laws, the immense Taiyin energy within the Essence Blood was also catalyzed into Shaoyin Power containing the gentlest vitality.
Then, the blood flow containing endless Shaoyin vitality and the pure-yang medicinal properties of the Nine Nether Yin Yang Bone Shedding Ganoderma surged toward Jiang Wen, whose face was full of hesitation as he was about to speak again. It transformed into blood-red crystals that tightly wrapped around him.
Over the next few days, the immense vitality within would be gently infused into Jiang Wen's body, extending his lifespan by at least eight thousand years and restoring him to his youthful days.
If not for other considerations, Taiyin could even directly operate the Taiyin Rebirth Method and use that terrifyingly vast amount of Essence Blood to forcibly grant him an entirely new life.
At that moment, aside from the five rigid, motionless Flood Dragons, only the Jiang family head, Jiang Yifei, remained standing in place with a bewildered expression, looking somewhat at a loss.
He looked at his ancestor Jiang Wen, then at the younger Jiang Tingting.
Both had fallen asleep after receiving tremendous opportunities, leaving him alone under the fixed gazes of the two ancient Sacred Emperors, Taiyin Sacred Emperor and Sun Holy Emperor.
Moonlight shone brightly in the Taiyin Sacred Emperor's eyes as he gazed at Jiang Yifei and sighed. "How wondrous. His ancestor's blood has fully awakened within him, making him almost exactly like his ancestor."
The Sun Holy Emperor also sighed. "Yes, truly wondrous. To live within the thoughts of all living beings, to live within the bloodline of one's descendants—an alternative method of longevity."
"I once attempted something similar. Unfortunately, my descendants fell victim to schemes, and the foundation I left behind was exhausted through one Dark Turmoil after another. My earlier attempt ultimately never fully succeeded."
Like the rising dawn, divine light shot from the Sun Holy Emperor's pupils as he gazed into the deepest depths of Jiang Yifei's bloodline and Primordial Spirit.
"But Hengyu and Void Emperor, those two human descendants, went farther than I did. If they were united with a peak Imperial body, they might be able to live an entirely new life."
Taiyin sighed. "A brief return to life would not be a problem. But if one wished to ensure a truly new life, the price required would be incomparably brutal."
Shaking his head, he seemed to see a tragedy in which corpses of the entire Jiang family lay everywhere, every blood relative drained of blood and stripped of their Primordial Spirits, until finally a Primordial Spirit was pieced together within a blood cocoon and entered a fleshly body.
Listening to the conversation between the two human Sacred Emperors, cold sweat gradually formed on Jiang Yifei's forehead. Hesitantly, he asked, "Two Senior Sacred Emperors, could it be that our Jiang family's Great Emperor Hengyu has not truly died?"
Taiyin shook his head. "No, he is dead."
"It is only that... he has not died completely."
"And he may very soon come back to life."
"What?!" Jiang Yifei desperately pondered the meaning behind their words.
Although a vague guess had formed in his heart, he did not dare confirm it. He could only keep turning it over in his mind. Could it be that the reversion of my bloodline to its ancestor was not an accident, but a backup plan left behind by the Great Emperor Hengyu?
He thought, The Great Emperor Hengyu's bloodline reverted in me, making me nearly identical to my ancestor. If my ancestor can be reborn through me, then what will happen to me? Will I die?
As he thought, the gentle smile of a woman appeared in his mind, along with the infant in her arms.
She was an utterly ordinary member of the Jiang family who had never even embarked upon the path of cultivation. She was also the beloved wife of Jiang Yifei, the Jiang family head.
Jiang Yifei's face twisted in pain. "If I die, what will happen to Cai Xuan and Feng'er?"
His expression was conflicted, then gradually became firm. "If my ancestor truly needs me, then not for the sake of protecting all living beings, but solely to protect my beloved ones, I must become the sacrifice for the Great Emperor Hengyu's resurrection!"
However, while Jiang Yifei remained deeply conflicted, the Taiyin Sacred Emperor temporarily ignored him. Instead, he pulled the Sun Holy Emperor over to sit down and earnestly said to Fang Zheng beside them,
"Fang Zheng, thank you, truly, truly thank you. The first step in resurrecting the Great Emperors of all ages has succeeded."
"This one called the Sun Holy Emperor attained the Dao thirty thousand years after my death..."
Taiyin roughly introduced the deeds of the Sun Holy Emperor in detail to the curious Fang Zheng.
After a while...
Only then did the Taiyin Sacred Emperor once more turn serious and say to Fang Zheng, "The situation facing the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands is even worse than I had expected. We must hasten our progress."
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