The People of the Three Realms Were All in Despair! (Please Read On)

As everyone waited expectantly, the Sky Screen's golden characters slowly began to change.

[Forty thousand years ago, when heaven and earth first emerged, Ancient Desolate Beasts devoured the human race. Everyone feared them; people couldn't sleep at night or venture out by day.

The Lord of the Heavenly Department, Heaven, the Heavenly Emperor, created the path of Original Martial Arts to battle the Desolate Beasts and expand his territory!

Yang, Qiong, Dou, Hao, the Original Martial Arts Sword God... One powerful Original Martial Arts warrior after another rose to prominence, kindling the flame of civilization!

But the human heart was never satisfied. Martial strife broke out again and again across the Primordial Martial Continent, plunging it into chaos!

Later, the Heavenly Emperor traveled across the continent. The Original Martial Arts Martial God and Sword God clashed, and their battle swept into the Heavenly Department, destroying it!

When the Heavenly Emperor returned, the people of the Heavenly Department berated and resented him. The Heavenly Emperor broke down, utterly losing faith in the human heart!

At the same time, the Martial God, Sword God... and a host of other powerful warriors began vying for supremacy, and conflict raged across the continent!

Thirty thousand years ago, the Heavenly Emperor was beguiled by the Seed and entered the Origin Source. He joined forces with the Seed to create the Origin Source Dao, hoping to ensnare every powerful warrior and eradicate martial arts!]

God Emperor, Heaven Fighting Emperor, and Eastern Emperor watched the Sky Screen expose the Heavenly Emperor, their expressions deeply conflicted.

In those days, the Primordial Martial Continent had been in utter chaos, and people's hearts had been all too complicated.

The Martial God and Sword God had destroyed the Heavenly Department, yet its survivors resented the Heavenly Emperor... That was the human heart for you.

You could never fathom what was in someone's heart!

Seeing this, the Heavenly Emperor gave a silent, scornful laugh.

The human heart? He had long since stopped believing in it!

He had been right to eradicate martial arts!

If not for him, the Three Realms would have been utterly destroyed ten thousand years ago by the struggles for supremacy among the Martial God and the others!

The powerful Original Martial Arts warriors treated all living beings as ants, while he treated the powerful warriors as ants!

He wasn't destroying the world. He was saving it!

Zhang Tao was also conflicted.

The Heavenly Emperor had wanted to eradicate martial arts and put an end to the chaos. He wasn't really wrong; they had simply followed different paths.

[The Heavenly Emperor created the Origin Source Great Dao and shattered the Origin Star. Yang God accidentally entered and absorbed the power remaining around its center, inadvertently disrupting the Heavenly Emperor and the Seed's plan.

Had Yang God not acted unintentionally, all thirty-six of the strongest Original Martial Arts warriors would have fallen into the trap and entered the Origin Source to attain the Dao and become emperors!

In an instant, the Origin Source was sealed. The powerful Original Martial Arts warriors were trapped there, and aside from the Heavenly Emperor, the Three Realms had no other powerful warriors!

With one plan foiled, the Heavenly Emperor came up with another!

First, he secretly attacked the Martial God, who was close to God Emperor, making the powerful Original Martial Arts warriors believe that God Emperor had absorbed the Martial God's power to attain the Dao.

Then he controlled Eastern Emperor to kill the Sword God in full view of everyone, igniting the War of Ten Thousand Daos between Original Martial Arts and the Origin Source!

He also controlled the Original Martial Arts Thunder Venerable to wipe out Spirit Emperor's father and tribe, forcing Spirit Emperor to join the struggle for the imperial path and become the only empress among the Nine Emperors.]

Watching the Sky Screen, Spirit Emperor gave a bitter laugh as a clear tear slid from the corner of her eye.

In the heart of the Immortal Source, the Heavenly Emperor's face darkened at once. He glanced at Spirit Emperor but said nothing.

At that moment, Human Emperor, Western Emperor, and the others were all shocked!

It had been the Heavenly Emperor who controlled Thunder Venerable and destroyed Spirit Emperor's tribe!

When the Nine Emperors attained the Dao, nine of the strongest Original Martial Arts warriors had died as well.

They had only known that Spirit Emperor killed Thunder Venerable to attain the Dao and become an emperor. They hadn't known the deeper truth.

Eastern Emperor sighed. He had been close to Spirit Emperor's father and had always looked after her. He'd never imagined that the Heavenly Emperor would be so deranged as to destroy her tribe just so she could attain the Dao!

[To repair the Origin Source, trap and kill the emperors, and eradicate martial arts, the Heavenly Emperor proposed the Immortal Source Plan and built the Gate of Triple Burner!

He claimed it was for the benefit of martial artists, but in truth, once the Immortal Source matured, the Origin Source would be sealed. The Three Gates would close, the Origin would be severed, and the Heavenly Emperor would sacrifice all Origin Source martial artists to make up for the Origin Source's deficiencies!]

"What! The Gate of Triple Burner was built by the Heavenly Emperor to sever the Origin!"

"The Immortal Source wasn't meant to resolve the Origin's hidden danger, but to trap and kill the emperors!"

"The Heavenly Emperor actually wants to sacrifice all the Origin Source martial artists? How terrifying!"

At that moment, countless martial artists fell into despair.

They had thought the Gate of Triple Burner existed to prevent people from straying from the path of martial arts. They'd never expected it to look like honey on the surface while hiding poison within!

Yang God's expression changed completely!

He'd always believed the Heavenly Emperor wanted to create the Immortal Source to suppress the hidden danger of the Origin. He hadn't known that, thirty thousand years ago, the Heavenly Emperor had already joined forces with the Seed to eradicate the powerful Original Martial Arts warriors and ensnare them all!

He and the Heavenly Emperor had been something between enemies and friends. He had never deliberately targeted him.

"Damn it!"

Yang God cursed. The Heavenly Emperor was so vile!

So he alone had been kept in the dark, while Qiong, Dou, and War Heavenly Emperor had long been suspicious.

If the Origin Source were completely sealed, the Nine Emperors and Heaven Fighting Emperor would be trapped and left to die. Even he, Yang God, who had Transcended the Three Realms, would sooner or later be killed by the Heavenly Emperor and the Seed.

Yang God swore furiously, wishing he could split the Heavenly Emperor in two with a single palm!

Aside from accidentally absorbing the energy remaining around the Origin Source, he had never targeted the Heavenly Emperor. Yet the Heavenly Emperor had been so vicious as to scheme against even him.

If the Sky Screen hadn't exposed everything, he might have remained in the dark forever.

After cursing a couple of times, Yang God let it go.

The Heavenly Emperor's scheme had already been exposed, and Yang God was about to Transcend. He couldn't be bothered to make a fuss.

The Heavenly Emperor's scheme had already failed. Even if his strength had improved, he still couldn't kill Yang God.

[With God Emperor, Heaven Fighting Emperor, War Heavenly Emperor, Earth Emperor, Yang God, and the others disrupting his plans, the Heavenly Emperor's scheme to seal the Immortal Source was riddled with flaws.

So the Heavenly Emperor lay low for ten thousand years, waiting for the Immortal Source to fully mature!

He concealed his strength, making the emperors and Yang God believe that he was only slightly stronger than Yang God. In truth, the Heavenly Emperor had surpassed Yang God long ago!

The Heavenly Emperor launched the Immortal Source Plan. Once a million ninth-grade martial artists had stepped onto the Origin Source Dao, the Immortal Source would mature.

Then the Heavenly Emperor could seal the Origin Source and strike with all his strength, eradicating every Origin Source martial artist whose Great Dao had taken root there!

Even if the emperors destroyed the Immortal Source, the Heavenly Emperor wouldn't die. He would only need to lie low for another ten thousand years and wait for a second Immortal Source to mature.]

"???"

Yang God was utterly dumbfounded. What did it mean, the Heavenly Emperor had actually surpassed him long ago?

So the Heavenly Emperor had been putting on an act all those years!

And he'd thought the Heavenly Emperor had shattered his Small World back then because the Seed had helped him. Turns out the damn Heavenly Emperor had been plotting against him!

Yang God swore furiously, wishing he could enter the Immortal Source at once and kill the Heavenly Emperor!

Still, he had deliberately let the Heavenly Emperor shatter his Small World.

At that moment, the entire Three Realms was in shock!

A million Origin Source Daos—meaning that if the Three Realms had a million ninth-grade martial artists, the Heavenly Emperor could eradicate martial arts and kill every martial artist above the ninth grade!

All the martial artists above the ninth grade were horrified!

The Heavenly Emperor had been exposed by the Sky Screen and was about to Transcend.

But the Immortal Source was still there!

All that would change was who controlled the Immortal Source. Aside from those who had already Transcended and the new master of the Immortal Source, martial artists like them who were above the ninth grade would all be harvested!

"No! No!"

"Why is the Origin a trap? Why won't the Nine Emperors, Four Emperors, Heavenly Emperor, and Yang God join forces to resolve the calamity of the Origin?"

"Why should only God Emperor, Earth Emperor, and the Heavenly Emperor be able to Transcend?

They were the ones who left behind this mess!"

"Are we supposed to give up our strength and abandon martial arts?"

For a time, the Three Realms erupted in an uproar. Angry curses and cries of resentment rang out without end, echoing throughout the Three Realms.

King Gen, King Xun, and the other ancient powerhouses were also weighed down with worry.

In the Immortal Source,

the Heavenly Emperor sneered. "That's the human heart for you."

God Emperor and Yang God might have acted for their own sake, but they had also eased the Immortal Source's problems along the way.

Yet some martial artists hated them so much they could have eaten their flesh. There were more curses directed at God Emperor and Yang God than at him, the Heavenly Emperor.

The Heavenly Emperor sneered. "The Three Realms deserve to be destroyed!"

The curses from the Earth Caves naturally reached God Emperor, Earth Emperor, and the others, but they didn't care.

If a few curses could solve the problem, they would have cursed the Heavenly Emperor to death thirty thousand years ago.

People wanted power, but they also didn't want to be harvested and killed.

They were like that, and so was everyone else.

They couldn't solve the calamity of the Origin, but perhaps someone else could.

"I really want to know how the Heavenly Emperor's story ends."

God Emperor gazed at the Sky Screen, his voice low.

Heaven Fighting Emperor and Eastern Emperor said nothing. They simply watched the Sky Screen, waiting for it to reveal more.

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