The Glory of One World, the Fall of One World

Chapter 42: The Glory of One World, the Fall of One World

"Everything is ready. Over the years, whenever I came across particularly good treasures, I kept them all for this day—for when we set foot in the River of Time again, to use as River Crossing Fees."

"Same here. The treasures are all prepared."

"Of course they're prepared."

The Three Emperors answered.

"Fifty thousand years have passed now. I wonder whether that senior is still in the River of Time."

For some reason, Bone Emperor was actually looking forward to encountering that senior again.

"Have you all settled your affairs?" Bone Emperor asked the other three.

It was not only he who had founded the Dao Heaven Divine Sect; the other Three Emperors had established sects as well.

They were the Dark Evolution Demon Hall, the South Burning Divine Sect, and the Cosmos Dawn Divine Sect.

The four sects founded by the four of them had now risen to the Top of the Pyramid on this continent.

All of them had been founded ten thousand years ago. In just a short ten thousand years, these four sects had become the continent's four sacred lands, its supreme divine sects.

The purpose behind their founding of these sects had also been to have them search for the Time Wood. Though they were immensely powerful, finding the Time Wood was not something that strength alone could accomplish. It depended on luck.

The more people searching, the greater the chance.

Take this piece of Time Wood, for instance. An ordinary outer sect menial disciple of the Dark Evolution Demon Hall had picked it up in an ordinary graveyard and handed it over to the sect. In the end, it had reached the hands of the Four Emperors.

Sometimes, that was simply how things were. Without that stroke of fate, one would never find it.

"My South Burning Divine Sect has already been given all the necessary instructions before I came," South Emperor answered.

"I've settled matters with the Cosmos Dawn Divine Sect as well, and left behind a small measure of fortune," Cosmos Emperor said slowly.

"I gave a portion of my inheritance to that outer sect menial disciple who helped us find the Time Wood."

"However, his talent is quite good. He possesses the exceedingly rare Asura Demon Body and is a natural-born son of demonic cultivation. With my inheritance added to that, his future achievements will not be low. There is a great chance that he will ascend and leave this world."

Dark Emperor spoke each word deliberately.

"Only natural. If he did not possess such talent, he would not have found the Time Wood."

"Those with great talent are often accompanied by great fortune."

Cosmos Emperor spoke slowly.

"What is that outer sect disciple called?"

Bone Emperor became interested as well. After all, without that outer sect disciple, who knew when they would have found the Time Wood?

"Su Ming," Dark Emperor answered.

It was the only name in the entire Dark Evolution Demon Hall that had left a deep impression on him.

"Su Ming."

The Three Emperors committed the name to memory as well.

"This doesn't sound like you. You actually left him your own inheritance."

Bone Emperor smiled. "His temperament is somewhat solitary. Though he is still young, his state of mind surpasses most."

"Composed, ruthless, calm, clear-minded. Those are all qualities I greatly admire."

"I let him choose for himself: would he take the treasures the four of us rewarded him with, or would he choose my inheritance?"

"Because if he chose a portion of my inheritance, he would have to endure immense sorrow and pain in the mortal world, constantly tempering himself. There was a high chance he would die along the way. He would have to be reborn step by step from the fires of desire before he could cultivate it to completion."

"He surprised me and delighted me. Without the slightest hesitation, he chose the latter."

Upon hearing Dark Emperor's words.

The other three looked at him in surprise. They rarely heard Dark Emperor admire someone so much, much less give such high praise.

"To be honest, I kept a small piece of Time Wood and gave it to him," Dark Emperor said.

The three revealed looks of surprise.

Bone Emperor smiled. "You don't think that one day, he might set foot in the River of Time, do you?"

"His starting point is far too low."

"What if?"

"Though he has only just begun cultivating immortality and his starting point is extremely low, what if he truly reaches that day?"

"Just like how we spent tens of thousands of years searching for the Time Wood, only for an ordinary mortal like him to pick it up. Which of you could have foreseen that?"

Dark Emperor's words left the Three Emperors blank for a moment before they smiled.

"Alright, since everything has more or less been settled."

"It is time for us to leave."

Bone Emperor rose to his feet and spoke to the other Three Emperors.

The next second, the Three Emperors stood as well and nodded, flecks of Immortal Light shimmering in their eyes.

After fifty thousand years, they would set foot in the River of Time once more. Their hearts were anxious, yet exhilarated.

"Then let us go!"

With that, the Four Emperors soared into the air. Powerful immortal radiance erupted in an instant, and the faint traces of aura that spilled forth cracked the earth across tens of millions of kilometers.

At this moment, Li Changtan, Ye Qingran, and the others, who had already gone tens of millions of kilometers away, halted and turned to look up at the void on the distant horizon.

They could not follow them away, nor could they approach, but they could watch their ancestors depart from afar.

Several powerful figures stood in the void above, like the Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, reflected amid the dark clouds—mighty and mysterious.

No one knew that the four supreme experts who ruled this continent were about to cross the River of Time and leave this world.

Nor would anyone know that the most glorious and powerful divine sects on this continent had been founded by those four figures.

Yet all of this had begun merely because of a man above the River of Time. With a wave of his hand, he had changed the fates of four powerful experts and altered the entire structure of a world.

It also proved a saying.

A single leaf from history, when it fell upon an ordinary person, became a mountain too heavy to bear.

A single wave in the River of Time might foretell the glory of one world and the fall of another.

The Four Emperors lowered their heads and took one final look at the world that had trapped them for a full fifty thousand years. Perhaps, for a fleeting instant, there was a trace of reluctance.

They withdrew their gazes and looked up into the void.

The next second, they transformed into streaks of light and vanished into the void, heading toward the legendary River of Time—the River of Time for which they had waited fifty thousand years!

At this moment, in another stretch of spacetime.

On the bank of the River of Time stood a tall, slender young man.

He wore an Azure White Immortal Robe, and his aura was powerful. Like an exiled immortal, he stood there quietly.

Holding a bamboo rod, he stared without blinking at the homemade float on the River Surface.

Perhaps his legs had grown tired from standing, so the young man moved over a large rock and sat cross-legged upon it, continuing to stare at the float on the River Surface without daring to shift his gaze for even a moment.

As a veteran Fishing Enthusiast, he understood all too well. Many fish seemed to have unlocked a god's-eye view—they would strike during the recovery after you lit a cigarette, during the recovery after you went to the toilet. In short, the instant your eyes left the float, they would immediately give you a huge black drift!

Today, his goal was to catch a treasure fish! After staring for quite a while, Su Mu closed his eyes and yawned.

His gaze had left for only one second.

The float bobbing on the River Surface immediately vanished! Fuck!

Veins bulged on Su Mu's forehead as he jerked the rod upward, his face flushing red from the strain.

"What the hell did I hook?"

"Why is it so heavy?"