Cultivating in Seclusion

The Undying Heavenly Emperor was not actually that terrifying. What truly made him dreaded were his schemes and ambushes.

His ambush tactics in particular were impossible to guard against. He always struck when his target was weak and powerless.

The Yin Human Emperor and the Sun Saint Emperor had both died to ambushes.

"Before a transformation, there is no need to fear the Undying Heavenly Emperor. Only at the crucial moment of transformation must one guard against him."

Now that he had just become an emperor, his strength was at its peak. He had no need to fear an ambush from the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Even reaching his late years would take a very long time.

By Chen Zhao's estimate, his First Life would not enter its late years for at least thirty thousand years.

With an Undying Medicine to live a Second Life, he would have sixty thousand years in total.

Such a long span of time was enough for Chen Zhao to find a way to guard against the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Even a dog could become a Quasi Immortal Emperor if it lived long enough.

Chen Zhao refused to believe that after living sixty thousand years, he still would not be able to find a way to deal with the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

"The cultivation crystallizations of the Two Human Emperors."

Chen Zhao looked at the two Immortal Metal Plates in his hands, his voice carrying a desolate note.

The Undying Heavenly Emperor was like a tribulation of man on the path to becoming a Mortal World Immortal. If one could not overcome it, one could only have one's body die and Dao vanish.

The Two Human Emperors' understanding of the Yin Yang Great Dao had already reached the pinnacle, allowing them to transform their Yin-Yang physiques.

If they could achieve Taiyin and Sun Harmony, they could become a Chaos Body.

Now that their legacies had fallen into Chen Zhao's hands, they were of immense value to him.

After all, the Dao Fruits of two three-life Ancient Emperors were astonishing enough.

In particular, both of their Dao Fruits ultimately pointed toward the Chaos Body born from Taiyin and Sun Harmony.

As a Chaos Body himself, Chen Zhao could draw on the strengths of their Dao Fruit legacies to make up for his weaknesses, improving his understanding of the Chaos Great Dao.

If he could absorb the Dao Fruit legacies of the Two Human Emperors, Chen Zhao's Dao Cultivation would advance greatly.

"Why did these two Immortal Metal Plates never appear in Later Generations?"

Chen Zhao stroked the two Immortal Metal Plates in his hands, feeling the yin and yang power flowing from them as he fell into thought.

Aside from conveying the warning to beware of the Undying Heavenly Emperor, the most important thing about the two Immortal Metal Plates was the Human Emperor Legacy contained within.

Any ordinary Ancient Emperor Great Emperor who obtained these two Immortal Metal Plates would gain astonishing benefits.

"Years..."

After only a brief thought, Chen Zhao understood the answer.

The span from the Ancient Era to the Post-Desolate Ancient Era was simply too vast.

So vast that even the once-glorious Human Emperor Orthodoxy had declined to the utmost extent.

The Yin God Sect's bloodline had died out completely, and its inheritance and orthodoxy had been seized by its servants.

The Yang God Sect had suffered grievous losses under pressure from the Netherworld, only to be destroyed by the Golden Crow Race in the end, leaving behind a single surviving descendant.

Over such an immense span of time, preserving the two Immortal Metal Plates had been far too difficult.

Since the Sun Saint Emperor, the Human Race of the Ancient Era had never produced a third Ancient Emperor.

If not for his arrival, these two Immortal Metal Plates would only have vanished into the ancient records of Years, unknown to the world.

"Under the passage of Years, everything turns to decay. No matter how glorious it once was, it will eventually be forgotten."

Chen Zhao's gaze was unfocused. At last, the haze faded from his eyes, replaced by a trace of resolve. His pursuit of the Great Dao grew even firmer.

Holding the two Immortal Metal Plates in his hands, Chen Zhao cleared away the distracting thoughts in his heart. After strengthening his Dao Heart, he entered deep cultivation.

Before he knew it, Chaos Qi began to spread from Chen Zhao's body, eventually filling the entire hall.

It was as though the hall had been transformed into a land of Chaos.

Years passed like a white colt flashing through a crack, and in the blink of an eye, a hundred years had gone by.

The palace in the depths of the Intercepting Heaven Dao remained shrouded in Chaos all year round.

Because the Human Emperor Palace in the depths of the Intercepting Heaven Dao was where the Human Emperor cultivated in peace, it had become the Intercepting Heaven Dao's unquestioned forbidden ground.

Only Li Jing, the Sect Leader of the Intercepting Heaven Dao, would gaze from afar at the Human Emperor Palace, inwardly alarmed. In his perception, the aura within the palace where the Human Emperor resided had grown increasingly powerful.

Clearly, the Human Emperor had been growing stronger without pause throughout these hundred years.

Suddenly, the Chaos Qi that had filled the entire palace for a hundred years abruptly receded, all of it gathering back toward the palace.

In the depths of the palace, Chaos Qi surged in from all directions before finally entering Chen Zhao's body.

Boom! A tyrannical aura swept outward, spreading from Chen Zhao at its center toward the outside world.

The Chaos Great Dao Above the Nine Heavens echoed with that aura, and at this moment, they resonated with each other!

That aura spread across the Cosmic Eight Desolations, within and beyond the Universe. Countless living beings felt the Human Emperor's pressure! When Human Race cultivators sensed that aura, they bowed slightly toward Ziwei Star.

As for the beings of the Ancient Races, upon sensing that Human Emperor Aura, they all lowered their proud heads.

Before a Human Race Emperor, their pride was not worth mentioning.

Provoked by that Human Emperor Aura, the Imperial Weapons of those Ancient Races revived on their own.

It was as if the Ancient Emperors of old had awakened, revealing the Ancient Emperor's Dao to contend against the Human Emperor's aura!

Emperors were incomparably proud, even when they were no longer present.

As the continuation of an Ancient Emperor's life and Dao, the Imperial Weapons revived at this moment, attempting to contend with the Human Emperor! Yet this confrontation did not last long before it was directly suppressed by the incomparably domineering Chaos Great Dao!

After this incident, even the Imperial Clans of the Ancient Races had no choice but to acknowledge the Human Emperor's strength and rein in their former arrogance.

Though they had confidence to rely on, before the Current Emperor, they were truly insignificant.

While the terrifying Chaos Great Dao swept through every corner of the universe, it also surged toward the Big Dipper Star.

Sensing that incomparably domineering Chaos Great Dao, as though it intended to suppress everything, the Imperial Formations of the Life Forbidden Zones revived automatically.

The slumbering Forbidden Zone Supremes were immediately awakened, followed by furious rage! "Having only just stabilized his Emperor Dao Fruit, does he already intend to pacify the forbidden zones?"

A Supreme of a Life Forbidden Zone was awakened, his tone turning cold.

"No, he is provoking us. I can sense danger from his Great Dao. He has grown stronger again."

"Is a Chaos Body attaining the Dao truly going to defy heaven? In merely a few hundred years, he has already reached such a level!"

When the Supremes of the Life Forbidden Zones sensed the sweeping Chaos Great Dao, their first reaction was fury. To them, it was blatant provocation.

After calming down, they discovered that the Human Emperor's Great Dao was terrifying. They could even sense a hint of danger within it.

"Even so, for him alone to wish to pacify the forbidden zones is nothing but wishful thinking." A Supreme of a Life Forbidden Zone cast a Disdainful Glance.

Even Emperor Lord, despite founding the Heavenly Court and shaking the Nine Heavens with his might, had still been helpless against the Life Forbidden Zones.

It was simply impossible for the Human Emperor to pacify the forbidden zones by relying on his strength alone.

They only needed to endure for a few tens of thousands of years. When the time came, the universe would still belong to them.