Grey Cat's eyes widened, its face full of shock and bewilderment!
"I actually became the Emperor Cat, the Dominator Cat, the Seed Cat!"
"How amazing!"
Grey Cat swished its fluffy tail and grinned happily, muttering:
"I wonder if the Seed tastes good."
"Big fatty, why are you staring at me?"
Grey Cat looked at Spirit Emperor with an innocent expression. Why was the big fatty staring at it?
Spirit Emperor vigorously rubbed Grey Cat's fat cheeks.
This cat was incredible!
It shouldn't be on the Sneaky Ranking. It belonged on the Winning Without Effort Ranking!
Grey Cat always escaped danger and met people blessed with great fortune in every era.
Whenever danger arose, it would fall asleep. As long as it was asleep, no one else could find it.
Spirit Emperor suddenly found Grey Cat hard to figure out.
Was Grey Cat a sneak?
It seemed like it was, and yet it didn't.
"Mrow," Grey Cat's face drooped as it muttered:
"Big fatty, so many people are thinking about me."
"And someone's trying to trick me, too. It's such a nuisance!"
Spirit Emperor's gaze turned unfriendly. She pinched Grey Cat's chubby face and said sternly, "Grey Cat, from now on, you're staying in the Spirit Emperor Palace. Don't go anywhere!"
"I'm not stupid!"
Grey Cat stuck out its fluffy rump and swished its big tail, mumbling:
"What do cat treats taste like? I really want some."
The Sky Screen's revelation about Grey Cat shocked Heavenly Dog so badly that its eyes nearly popped out of its head!
Its jaw dropped right to the ground.
"That stupid cat actually became the Emperor Cat, and even the Dominator Cat and the Seed Cat!"
Heavenly Dog bared its teeth enviously.
It wanted to become an Emperor, too—to become a True Heavenly Emperor!
"Cats and dogs just aren't born with the same fate!"
Heavenly Dog sighed.
Meanwhile,
in the Human Realm,
after the initial shock, Zhang Tao was filled with unease and apprehension.
Grey Cat had followed the Future Human King and become the Dominator Cat. Just how powerful would the Future Human King be?
Countless people probably wanted to dig up the Future Human King now!
The Earth Caves would be even more eager to kill him!
If an Emperor entered the Human Realm to search for, control, or even eliminate the Future Human King, what could Zhang Tao do?
Zhang Tao shared his concerns with Heaven Suppressing King and God Forger.
Heaven Suppressing King was deeply troubled.
He couldn't defeat any of the Emperors who had Transcended the Three Realms.
Even if his two bodies joined together, he still might not be a match for Earth Emperor and the others!
If they truly set out to investigate the Future Human King, Heaven Suppressing King couldn't stop them.
"The Emperors probably won't enter the Human Realm."
Heaven Suppressing King furrowed his brow. His master, Yang God, should be in the Human Realm.
As long as Yang God was there, God Emperor and the others wouldn't enter the Human Realm.
Zhang Tao was still troubled. If only he could become an Emperor.
Yang City,
Yang God was so astonished that he just stood there, stunned!
That stupid Grey Cat had actually become the Dominator Cat and the Seed Cat!
Did it just win without even trying?
[Grey Cat, the Emperor among cats, the cat among Emperors. It made no elaborate plans and schemed against no one, yet still managed to surprise everyone!
So how could Grey Cat not count as a sneak?
Grey Cat was the most natural sneak of all—without equal!]
[Therefore, it deserves to be a candidate for the Uncrowned King!]
The mighty figures of the Three Realms were completely numb by now, while ordinary people felt as though their entire worldview had been shattered.
That absurdly fat orange cat had actually become one of the candidates for the Uncrowned King on the Sneaky Ranking!
It was so bizarre, so uncanny!
But when they thought about it, that cat really was damn strange!
How could there be such an incredible cat in the Three Realms?
"Mrow, I made the list!"
In the Void Heaven Realm, Grey Cat's projection beamed.
War Heavenly Emperor rubbed the cat's head without dampening its enthusiasm.
He gazed at the Sky Screen, his eyes deep and his smile calm.
"Is the Sky Screen about to expose me?"
[Second candidate for the Uncrowned King on the Sneaky Ranking: War Heavenly Emperor!]
"War Heavenly Emperor..."
At that moment, King Gen, King Xun, King Gan, and King Kun wore complicated expressions.
They greatly admired War Heavenly Emperor.
He could do what ordinary people couldn't—that was the Extreme Dao Heavenly Emperor!
War Heavenly Emperor was a peerless genius. He became an Emperor after the War of Ten Thousand Daos and was the strongest in the Three Realms!
At the Hundred Emperors Banquet back then, War Heavenly Emperor had pointed his arrow at the Emperors. When he released it, every one of them had felt they were going to die!
And the arrow hadn't even been aimed at them—it had been aimed at the Emperors!
The Emperors had all changed color on the spot, their faces turning deathly pale!
God Emperor, Eastern Emperor, Heaven Fighting Emperor, Human Emperor, and Earth Emperor also wore complicated expressions.
If War became the Uncrowned King, would he live a second life and grow even stronger?
Unlike God Emperor and the others, everyone else had no complicated thoughts. They were simply curious about how powerful War Heavenly Emperor was and what earth-shaking plans he had made!
[War Heavenly Emperor, one of the Four Emperors, an Extreme Dao Emperor Venerable who attained the Dao through the Extreme Dao of Vitality.
Though he followed the Extreme Dao, his path encompassed everything. He could become an Emperor at any moment!]
[War Heavenly Emperor was born near the end of the Original Martial Arts era, when Original Martial Arts had suffered a crushing defeat and was about to withdraw from the struggle for the Great Dao.
The Nine Emperors had already attained the Dao and become Emperors, while Dou, Mie, and Ba had long since become Extreme Dao Emperor Venerables.
(At this time, Heaven Fighting Emperor followed the Extreme Dao of Original Martial Arts.)
He studied under the Three Emperors and sought guidance from the Three Emperors.
From God Emperor, he learned the art of longevity; from Human Emperor, the art of Vitality; and from Eastern Emperor, the art of balance.
He absorbed the strengths of a hundred schools and made them his own. In just a thousand years, he ascended to the rank of Extreme Dao Emperor Venerable through the Extreme Dao of Vitality!
But his path was not purely the Extreme Dao of Vitality. It was the path of all-encompassing power, the path of balance.
Thus, before he became an Emperor, War Heavenly Emperor's Vitality was already nearly two hundred million, and he had complete control over his power!
Even God Emperor, the foremost of the Emperors, might not have been a match for War Heavenly Emperor.
The Emperors once said that War Heavenly Emperor had the makings of a Heavenly Emperor!
Even Heaven Suppressing King, who was older than War Heavenly Emperor and possessed exceptional talent, was merely hailed by the Emperors as second to War!]
"Makings of a Heavenly Emperor! Nearly two hundred million Vitality before becoming an Emperor, and he could attain the Dao and become one at any moment!"
"Is that what they call having the makings of a Heavenly Emperor? Even the Heavenly Emperor himself wasn't that incredible!"
"What do you mean, 'makings of a Heavenly Emperor'? War Heavenly Emperor surpassed the Heavenly Emperor!"
"You bunch of War fanboys! If War Heavenly Emperor really could surpass the Heavenly Emperor, why did he kill himself?
If it were me, I'd have ripped off the Heavenly Emperor's head and stuffed it into the Origin Source!"
"He's too strong! Is War Heavenly Emperor even an Extreme Dao Emperor Venerable? He's more outrageous than a true Emperor!"
"Hiss, that's terrifying. He attained the Dao in just a thousand years!
War Heavenly Emperor is terrifying!"
The Three Realms erupted into an uproar!
Many Emperor-level powerhouses who had lived for thousands of years felt as though they'd wasted their lives.
There was just no comparison. Comparing people was enough to scare you to death.
King Gen, King Xun, and King Gan were terrified!
War Heavenly Emperor's power was even more frightening than they'd known!
Nearly two hundred million Vitality before becoming an Emperor, complete control over his power, and able to become an Emperor at any moment!
Even God Emperor might not have been able to defeat War Heavenly Emperor!
How terrifying was that!
God Emperor, Eastern Emperor, Heaven Fighting Emperor, and Earth Emperor weren't surprised.
They knew better than anyone how powerful and supremely gifted War was.
War alone could fill all the Origin Source fissures of God Emperor, Eastern Emperor, Human Emperor, and Earth Emperor. That alone showed how formidable he was.
Western Emperor was dumbfounded, too. War was that strong?
Then why had he killed himself? Why not attain the Dao and become an Emperor, then take on the Heavenly Emperor?
He might have been living it up in the Three Realms right now.
Outside the Spirit Emperor Palace,
Heavenly Dog sighed mournfully.
War had understood something back then that even a dog like it could see, but he... Who knew what he'd been thinking?
Heaven Sealing Island,
Feng's expression shifted, uncertainty and suspicion filling his eyes!
"War Heavenly Emperor could have become an Emperor at any moment back then?!"
In the Human Realm,
Heaven Suppressing King fell silent, too.
He had once been an arrogant, overbearing man, and he'd resented being called second to War by the Emperors.
But looking at it now, War truly had been a peerless genius.
He couldn't compare to War.
Zhang Tao, meanwhile, was deeply troubled. He had always remembered that War Heavenly Emperor and Earth Emperor had made plans.
That chess piece was either in the Earth Caves or in the Human Realm—and it was more likely to be in the Human Realm!
"What exactly did War Heavenly Emperor plan? And who was that chess piece?"
At Magic Martial University,
Fang Ping was stunned.
Wait, someone this amazing wasn't even the protagonist?
And he was so powerful, yet he killed himself!
If Fang Ping were War Heavenly Emperor, he'd secretly ambush them one by one, taking out a few Emperors before they knew what hit them, then finish off the rest.
As for killing himself... Better someone else die than me!
At Southern Martial University,
Wang Jinyang recalled War Heavenly Emperor's projection on the Sky Screen earlier and felt, for some reason, that it looked familiar.
"Strange."
When Zhang Xuan saw Wang Jinyang emerge from seclusion, he flashed him a toothy grin.
Wang Jinyang saw Zhang Xuan smiling at him and found it a little baffling.
[The Immortal Source Plan was proposed, dividing immortals from humans. War Heavenly Emperor strongly opposed it.
When the Origin faced a crisis, he urged the Nine Emperors to relinquish their power and return it to the Origin Source, promising to protect them while they rebuilt their strength through Original Martial Arts.
The Nine Emperors refused. They were even less willing to give up their power.
But God Emperor and the others didn't say so openly. Instead, Earth Emperor opposed the proposal in court!
At the Heavenly Court banquet, War Heavenly Emperor pointed his arrow at the Emperors and even flew into a rage at Earth Emperor!
After the banquet ended, Earth Emperor approached War Heavenly Emperor and tried to join forces with him to kill the Emperors and the Heavenly Emperor!
War Heavenly Emperor refused. He even offered to fill the pit in Earth Emperor's place, but Earth Emperor still refused and continued urging him to join forces to kill the Emperors!
Seeing that War Heavenly Emperor was determined to make the Emperors return their power, Human Emperor promptly informed on him. The Nine Emperors surrounded and attacked War Heavenly Emperor and Earth Emperor!
War Heavenly Emperor refused to fight. He killed himself, filling the sea and suppressing the source!]
"What the hell? An invincible powerhouse just killed himself like that?"
"Make the Emperors give their power back? What a fool!"
"The Nine Emperors had attained the Dao and killed the strongest of Original Martial Arts. If they lost their power, they'd be doomed!"
"Wait, why would War Heavenly Emperor rather kill himself than fight? How frustrating!"
"It's understandable that War Heavenly Emperor didn't want to fight. After all, he'd have had to kill his brothers and his master. How could he bring himself to do that?"
"Human Emperor actually snitched? That's shameless!"
"..."
At that moment, everyone thought War Heavenly Emperor was far too naive.
How could anyone who had gained power possibly give it up?
War Heavenly Emperor might have been willing, but the others never would be.
People were selfish.
God Emperor murmured, "Zhan... was far too naive!"
Zhan had the heart of an innocent child, but human nature was hard to fathom.
None of them were willing to give up their power, and none had truly agreed with Zhan's plan.
[After learning that War Heavenly Emperor had been surrounded and attacked by the Nine Emperors, Heaven Dominating Emperor and Heaven Extinguishing Emperor charged up to the Heavenly Court without hesitation!
That day, the heavens and earth collapsed, the Great Dao shattered, and the Three Realms were stained with blood!
The Emperors bled and were gravely wounded!
Heaven Dominating Emperor coughed up blood. His Extreme Dao golden body shattered, and he died on the spot. His vitality pierced through the ninth heaven, and he died standing!
Heaven Extinguishing Emperor's spiritual consciousness transformed into ten thousand Daos. His Origin World descended upon the Heavenly Realm, covering it as countless stars fell!]
In the Void Heaven Realm,
War Heavenly Emperor was no longer calm or composed. His gaze was full of sorrow.
The holy way was useless. He should have used the thunderous force of a tyrant to suppress them!
Unfortunately, he had come to his senses too late!
He had dragged Mie and Simpleton down with him, costing them their lives.
Back then, if I'd been willing to fight, could they have lived?
He didn't know.
But he had given up!
At that moment, the Three Realms fell silent!
"So the Heavenly Court fell back then because the Nine Emperors fought Heaven Extinguishing Emperor and Heaven Dominating Emperor!"
Zhang Tao understood, but his heart felt heavy.
War Heavenly Emperor had wanted to resolve the Origin problem peacefully, to fill the sea with himself and suppress its source. But he had failed to solve the problem and had dragged the two Emperors, Mie and Ba, to their deaths.
Was it worth it?
God Emperor, Heaven Fighting Emperor, and Eastern Emperor all remained silent, their eyes filled with sorrow.
Extreme Dao might already be a thing of the past.
The two Emperors, Mie and Ba, had truly fallen.
Zhan... what a pity!
They had taken part in that battle, yet they still felt it was a pity.
If Zhan hadn't fallen first, and had joined forces with the two Emperors, Mie and Ba, as well as Earth Emperor, would everything be completely different now?
[Before War Heavenly Emperor fell, he already knew that the Seed and Heavenly Emperor were working together. He also knew the root of the problem with the Origin Source, and what the Seed intended to do.
Taking advantage of the Seed and Heavenly Emperor's desire to sever the Three Emperors' Great Dao and permanently seal off the Origin Source, he began making arrangements for what would happen after his death.
First, he went to the two Emperors, Mie and Ba, and obtained a great deal of source-less energy.
At the same time, he made arrangements so that if he fell, and the two Emperors, Mie and Ba, fell alongside him, the Three Emperors' Great Dao would revive at a particular moment.
The Three Emperors' Great Dao would resonate, and the power of War Heavenly Emperor's strike would reappear.
This would be the moment he ambushed the Seed and outmaneuvered Yang God!
He succeeded in ambushing the Seed. From the Seed's internal Non-Martial World, he released the Human King of humanity's future—the ruler who would restore order to the Three Realms!
Though he released the Future Human King, he had no other schemes.
He simply wanted the Future Human King to resolve the turmoil caused by the Origin, end martial arts, and restore order to the Three Realms!]
Rumble!
At that moment, everyone in the Three Realms felt their ears roar!
"The Future Human King was actually part of War Heavenly Emperor's plan!"
"Terrifying! How terrifying!"
"War Heavenly Emperor knew everything long ago! He even knew the Seed and Heavenly Emperor were in contact. How could that be possible?"
"If War Heavenly Emperor knew everything, why did he kill himself?"
"War Heavenly Emperor is unfathomable!"
At that moment, the powerful figures of the Three Realms all felt a chill at the thought of War Heavenly Emperor.
War Heavenly Emperor had calculated everything!
If Mie and Ba hadn't died, his contingency plan would never have been activated.
If they died, the Future Human King would be released from the Seed's inner world.
"Zhan... he actually wanted to end martial arts through the Future Human King!"
God Emperor stared at the final line of gilded text on the Sky Screen, his gaze shifting.
Eastern Emperor and Heaven Fighting Emperor were both shocked.
"Zhan released someone from the Seed's inner world!"
That wasn't something an ordinary person could do. It was an utterly terrifying feat!
At the very least, they couldn't do it.
Even with Yang God's power, they likely couldn't break through the Seed's inner world.
"Zhan really planned this well," Eastern Emperor said with a soft sigh.
He hadn't wanted to come to blows with them, so he'd left a contingency plan behind.
If they'd remembered their old friendship and refrained from killing Mie and Ba, that contingency plan wouldn't have been activated.
But... Zhan had been far too naive.
Although the Future Human King he released really did resolve everything in the original future, and might even have killed them, the Emperors...
But ending martial arts... how could that be easy? It was simply impossible.
Would someone from the Seed's inner world still be willing to give up after witnessing martial arts?
No!
Zhan had won, but his wish to end martial arts was doomed to fail!
"Zhan knew everything, and yet..."
At that moment, Earth Emperor felt an indescribable mix of misery and frustration. He really wanted to ask Zhan in person: why?!
"Zhan's an idiot!"
In the Human Realm,
"War Heavenly Emperor's pawn was actually the Future Human King!" Zhang Tao was completely stunned.
He had considered the possibility, but seeing the truth laid out before him filled him with fear and shock!
Zhang Tao swallowed. Not one of the Emperors or Extreme Dao Emperors was simple.
War Heavenly Emperor hadn't wanted to attack his teacher, so he'd created a contingency plan to resolve everything in his place.
In truth, that was just a way of running away. Perhaps War Heavenly Emperor had grown tired of everything, tired of martial arts and immortality.
That was also why War Heavenly Emperor wanted to end martial arts.
At Magic Martial University,
Fang Ping was utterly terrified. His body went rigid, and his hands and feet turned cold.
He wasn't from this martial arts world. He came from a peaceful world!
A world without ancient martial arts, without New Martial Arts, without martial arts at all!
He was the contingency plan War Heavenly Emperor had made. His system had been created by War Heavenly Emperor, that invincible powerhouse. He was the Future Human King!
Rumble!
Fang Ping felt his head roar as the world faded around him.
The Sky Screen said War Heavenly Emperor had no other plans for him, but could he trust the Sky Screen?
Fang Ping didn't dare trust it completely. Right now, he couldn't even trust himself!
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