Amid the conversations of the many Great Emperors, Taiyin gradually came to understand what had happened in this future spacetime.
More than a decade earlier in this future era—
The Void stretched vast and boundless, space warped into a kaleidoscope, a tiny patch of ground contained within a sea of stars, and that sea of stars transformed into a single pattern.
This was the inner space of the Void Mirror, a spatial killing formation capable of trapping even Emperor-level figures for a long time.
Taiyin stood in the Void, surrounded by Minecraft chests. He continuously threw Throwable Healing Potions from his hand, smashing them against the human skin before him.
He was trying to revive the Sun Holy Emperor. At the same time, with his free hand, he casually performed a divination in an attempt to glimpse the future.
After a while, Taiyin recalled the scenes he had seen in the divination, and a gratified smile appeared on his face.
"Ye Fan, Void Emperor, Hengyu, Gai Jiuyou..."
"Though this future is bleak, these descendants of the human race are quite outstanding."
Looking at the human skin before him, which radiated holy light, Taiyin smiled. "Once I revive you, I'll go on to revive Void Emperor, Hengyu, and the others."
"To protect all living beings in the universe, the more hands we have, the better."
Though he had seen a tragic future, Taiyin knew that after his revival, the future would never remain that way.
A cold smile curled across his face again, and killing intent flashed through his eyes. "Stone Emperor, Light-Dark Supreme, Longevity Heavenly Venerate... You devoured all living beings to replenish your Immortal Platforms, and even left behind seeds for the future. You're courting death!"
"And the Kirin Ancient Emperor and the others merely severed themselves and sealed themselves away, never devouring living beings. I can have a proper discussion with them."
Then, he attempted another divination, seeking more useful information.
However...
"Hmm?"
Looking at the shattered moon phase in his hand, Taiyin was somewhat surprised. "The divination failed?"
"Could some unusual variable have appeared in the future again?"
He tried to divine once more, yet it still failed. The moon phase once reflected in his pupils was replaced by utter darkness.
Under normal circumstances, in the perspective of his divination, the River of Time seemed shrouded in thick mist. Yet from time to time, the fog would disperse, allowing him to glimpse blurry scenes from a corner of the future.
Now, however, the future was completely sealed behind a layer of dark mist.
Taiyin pondered, "The River of Time is pitch-black. What exactly does this mean happened in the future?"
Suddenly, he stopped. Looking at a ray of light before him like the dawn sun, he smiled. "The revival succeeded!"
Taiyin immediately spread his hand. A surging torrent of blood spiraled forth like the Milky Way, rushing toward the human skin and transforming into a lake of blood that submerged it.
As if awakening from the deepest slumber, the Sun Holy Emperor vaguely felt a gentle moonlight shine upon his face amid his confusion.
Soaked in a lake of Imperial Dao Supreme Essence Blood containing endless vital essence and Taiyin Power, the shriveled human skin gradually swelled, taking the form of an old man in green robes with pale hair.
Within the human skin, a drop of Living Blood and a wisp of Primordial Spirit, condensed from nothing by Throwable Instant Healing Potions, turned into a great sun that slowly rolled within the skin's head.
Taiyin's Essence Blood contained the Shaoyin Power of inexhaustible life force. It was absorbed by the human skin without hindrance and transformed into gentle Shaoyang Power, like the rising sun.
Like a great sun being born in the starry sky, boundless power was rapidly absorbed by that point of light formed from the Living Blood and Primordial Spirit.
In an instant, upon crossing a certain threshold, the Sun Holy Emperor's secret art—the Great Sun Nirvana Art—erupted with a roar.
All things bore yin and embraced yang, blending their energies into harmony.
Li fire could transform into true form!
Though the great sun was supremely hard and supremely yang, it also contained the profound transformations of yin and yang. This was the mystery of cyclical revolution, of burning everything away before being reborn.
Stars were the life force of the universe. Destruction itself contained the path of life and death, just as stars used Nuclear Fusion to reorganize matter, transforming light matter into many heavy substances and scattering them into all things in the universe.
The sun contained both the power of collapse and expansion.
The two opposed yet generated each other. At the peak of brightness came darkness; at the peak of yang came yin, until all finally returned to the chaos of the limitless.
At this moment, a wisp of Primordial Spirit and a drop of golden blood, like the two poles of the Sun Law, shone against each other within the corona vortex, transforming into a world-burning great sun capable of devouring heaven and earth.
Within moments, the entire crimson-gold blazing sun abruptly perished as its core collapsed.
Qian and Kun, burning and birth, achieved a profound balance and reversal in that instant.
At the peak of yang, yin was born; at the peak of yin, yang transformed.
When the crimson-gold blazing sun that had burned away the Taiyin Power completely retreated into the form of a black sun, at the instant even its light was swallowed by its own gravity...
The Sun Holy Emperor's old human-skin body was also shattered and absorbed. Within the pitch-black egg that devoured everything, only an incomparably pure blazing-white singularity remained, like a streak of gilded ink left in the Void by a primordial deity opening the heavens.
At the ultimate end of yang, a Chaos Fire Seed carrying the aura of the primordial beginning quietly sprouted!
Boom!!!
It was as though the universe had been created.
Infinite life force exploded from a single point!
Endless True Sun Fire condensed into an exceptionally valiant man in green robes.
The Sun Holy Emperor had been revived!
Seeing Taiyin quietly waiting nearby and the blood pool in which he had been immersed, a trace of surprise flashed through the Sun Holy Emperor's eyes.
As the Sun Holy Emperor who attained the Dao immediately after the Taiyin Sacred Emperor, he naturally knew the Taiyin Sacred Emperor's appearance. Looking at the figure beside him, he asked in surprise, "Are you Senior Taiyin Sacred Emperor?"
Taiyin smiled faintly and nodded. Then, he began communicating with him through Divine Sense.
After a while, a look of realization appeared on the Sun Holy Emperor's face. "Time flies, and seas turn to mulberry fields. Since my passing, such an immense span of years has actually gone by..."
"Heh heh heh..." He lowered his head and chuckled softly a few times, shaking his head slightly before raising it again.
"Let's go. Since Nine Heavens and Ten Lands now faces such a crisis, there is no need to waste time. Our top priority is to revive the other Great Emperors as quickly as possible."
Taiyin nodded in agreement. The two left the inner space of the Void Mirror together, preparing to seek Fang Zheng once more for more Healing Potions and accelerate the revival of the other Great Emperors.
However, the moment they arrived at the entrance to the Jiang family, a ripple suddenly came from the Void, and Taiyin's expression changed drastically.
"What? Little Friend Fang Zheng suddenly vanished!"
The Sun Holy Emperor frowned slightly as well. "Vanished?"
It turned out that the spirit of the Taiyin Moon Blade, which the Taiyin Sacred Emperor had used to protect Fang Zheng, had informed Taiyin that Fang Zheng had mysteriously disappeared.
Crossing an immense distance in an instant, Taiyin and the Sun Holy Emperor pierced through the Void and arrived within the small world guarded by the Jiang family's Hengyu Furnace.
They saw that Fang Zheng, who moments earlier had been playing with the Flood Dragons, had now vanished without a trace.
Only the Bedrock blood pool he had just built remained, along with Jiang Tingting, Jiang Yifei, Jiang Wen, and five Flood Dragons, all illuminated by moonlight and frozen in spacetime.
Endless moonlight blossomed throughout the small world, as though it had turned the entire place into a solidified crystal.
At the instant Fang Zheng suddenly vanished, the spirits of the Taiyin Moon Blade and the Taiyin Human Emperor Seal had erupted with all their power, completely locking down the Void.
At this moment, Taiyin arrived in a flash. Divine light surged within his eyes, illuminating every direction as he carefully examined even the faintest trace within the frozen Void.
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