The Human Race Cheers, Houtu Attains Dao

Throughout the entire Primordial World, even Dao Ancestor Hongjun probably wouldn't have imagined that one day an ant could gain the power of a Sage in an instant.

A Sage was a being who truly endured countless tribulations without ever perishing.

Who could borrow external power to attain that realm?

So the price Jiang Chen had paid was rather steep.

"Could it be that only the Human Race's Great Destiny can dispel it?" Jiang Chen murmured in confusion.

But he quickly shook his head.

The Human Race's Great Destiny was the cornerstone of the Human Race's rise!

Only with that vast fortune could more members of the Human Race emerge and comprehend the essence of the books.

And only then could he grow stronger.

"There must be a way to resolve this. After all, this karmic power has already been proven not to be impossible to dispel."

Jiang Chen recalled the feedback he'd received after burying the Human Race three hundred years ago. It had shown him that even great karma could be dispelled.

"The new book is complete. There's no way to clear the great karma in my body for now, so I'd better go to the Great Wilderness first."

Jiang Chen muttered to himself, then darted from Shouyang Mountain straight toward the Great Wilderness in the Human Race Forbidden Zone.

At the same time, in the Human Race Great Wilderness...

Houtu floated a meter above the ground, hovering leisurely over a small hill as she watched another group of more than ten thousand Human Race children with interest.

"Roar!!!"

"Ha!!!"

The children's young faces were flushed as they held up the mountains, sweat flying as they worked.

"These Human Race children are growing at a remarkable rate... If my Wu Clan weren't so favored by Heaven and Earth that even our young are already immortals, I'm afraid our cultivation speed couldn't match the Human Race's now."

That was what Houtu thought.

Then she gazed toward Shouyang Mountain.

More than a hundred years had passed, and Jiang Chen still hadn't emerged from seclusion...

For more than a hundred years, Houtu had spent every day recalling the time she'd spent traveling alongside him over the past three centuries.

Although Jiang Chen was weaker than her, he'd done something she had always wanted to do.

As Houtu lost herself in thought, the more than ten thousand Human Race children before her suddenly stopped moving.

They stood motionless, staring blankly ahead.

Even the Earth Immortals supervising them were just as dazed.

And Houtu herself was startled.

A book had just appeared in all of their minds!

"Hmm? Who is it?" Houtu was on high alert. She sensed that the book in her mind had appeared out of nowhere.

To transmit something like an energy imprint into a Quasi-Saint's mind without their noticing, no one but a Sage could do it!

"Has a Sage crossed the Human Race's Heavenly Chasm Great Abyss?" Houtu's lovely face tensed slightly, her heart uneasy.

She had seen mountains of Human Race skeletons.

She had also seen seas of blood!

From scenes of the Human Race's primitive tribes, where the old and young lived in carefree harmony, to scenes of ruins and wreckage reduced to ashes, she had reenacted them all in her hands.

That experience was etched into her heart, yet it was also one she didn't want to revisit in detail.

If a Sage had crossed the Heavenly Chasm Great Abyss,

no one in the Human Race Forbidden Zone would be able to stop them!

If that Sage intended to attack the Human Race, even she wouldn't have the slightest power to resist.

"This energy imprint... seems to be a book?"

Worried, Houtu began to cautiously investigate the book in her mind.

[A Leaf Covers the Sky]?

"What an overbearing name... The Heavenly Dao is supreme, yet a single leaf can actually cover the sky?"

Was this the method of that Sage?

Did they not fear punishment from Dao Ancestor Hongjun?

This was blasphemy!!

Whoosh!!

Just as Houtu was distracted, Jiang Chen arrived in the Great Wilderness.

The Human Race beings who had been dazed moments ago all fell to their knees as soon as they saw Jiang Chen.

They shouted, "Thank you, Human Emperor, for granting us your blessings once more!"

"????" Houtu blinked her wide eyes at Jiang Chen, her face full of confusion.

Chapter 44: The Human Race Cheers, Houtu Attains Dao

"Thank you, Human Emperor, for granting us your blessings once more!"

"Thank you, Human Emperor, for opening a new path for the Human Race!"

One Human Race being after another knelt down, all with the same goal.

That goal was Jiang Chen.

No living being could predict how much a new book would change the Human Race.

But!

A new book had given countless members of the Human Race another path to transcendence, another path to attaining Dao!

That made the book's value truly precious beyond measure.

The myriad members of the Human Race wouldn't trade it even for an Xiantian Supreme Treasure!

Because this was a path beneath the Human Dao that could lead to the highest realm, bring transformation and transcendence, and attain the supreme Dao.

Looking at the densely packed crowd of kneeling Human Race beings, Jiang Chen used his great Mana to send his voice to every corner.

His voice was gentle, yet full of authority as he said, "The Human Race must strive unceasingly. Do not slack off!"

"We shall obey the Human Emperor's decree!"

Xuanyuan Shi and several others led the crowd in shouting.

Then Chang Ge addressed the more than ten thousand children in the Great Wilderness, calling out, "Those who have broken through the Hundred Thousand Extreme Realm in bodily strength, sit down where you are and comprehend the book's profound meaning! Those who haven't yet reached the Hundred Thousand Extreme Realm should finish tempering their bodies before entering the Great Dao Library to comprehend the new book!"

"Yes!!!"

All ten thousand children shouted in unison.

Not one of them objected.

The children whose bodily strength had broken through the Hundred Thousand Extreme Realm were overjoyed and began sitting down where they were.

Their souls sank into the Great Dao Library in their minds.

There were three books inside.

[Exotic Fire Fighting World], [Invincible Brat], and the new book, [A Leaf Covers the Sky]!

The moment the new book had appeared, they had sensed its presence.

But they hadn't acted rashly.

The Human Race was now united as one!

Their sole goal was to rise and grow stronger.

The paths their predecessors had discovered required them to reach the physical extreme in childhood before comprehending the books' profound meaning. It was all for the sake of their future.

So no one disobeyed.

The children who hadn't yet reached the Hundred Thousand Extreme Realm looked envious, but not disappointed or regretful.

They all wanted to grow stronger. Even if their talents weren't as great as those of the most gifted children, they didn't want their foundations to fall too far behind.

The Human Race's rise didn't depend on any one person alone!

For the Human Dao to be perfected, the entire Human Race had to rise!

If the Human Race couldn't reach the level of the Primordial Beings, the Human Dao would never become as complete or stable as the Heavenly Dao.

Then Xuanyuan Shi, Suiren Shi, and the others went to Jiang Chen.

Their expressions were somewhat excited. "Human Emperor... We..."

"Go on... I'll look after the children..." Jiang Chen could see their excitement and hope.