At that moment, all the surviving members of the Immortal Ancient Imperial Court had burning gazes and trembling bodies.
The Imperial Court God of War, the Primordial God-Devil Physique.
The symbol of the strongest combat strength in the Immortal Antiquity Era!
To witness it appear before their own eyes today!
The purple-golden phantom of the god-devil hung high in the firmament, and the nine-year-old child stood beneath it, his dual pupils one purple and one gold, surrounded by soul-stirring ancient killing intent that permeated the air.
Everyone seemed to glimpse the former glory of the Imperial Court from Xiao.
The grand elder pressed his forehead against the cold stone slabs, old tears streaming down his face in excitement.
"Many thanks, Lord Emperor..."
Mu Chiyu walked to Su Linxian's side, glanced at Xiao, and a very complex expression surged in her beautiful eyes.
"You... how did you know?"
"Thanks."
Even she had not sensed the physical origin within Xiao's body.
Su Linxian smiled faintly.
"When you forge your Divine Emperor Foundation, perhaps you will sense it as well."
"It was merely a matter of raising a hand."
Mu Chiyu nodded slightly.
She cultivated the Immortal Ancient Method and walked the path of the Imperial Court's inheritance, which was entirely different from Su Linxian's Dao-Origin Return Flow.
Yet all roads lead to the same destination; once one reached that level, the perception of the rules of heaven and earth would undergo a qualitative change.
Xiao stood not far away, listening to the conversation between the two, and fierce ripples surged in his heart.
"I am... the Primordial God-Devil Physique?"
"Xiao!" Xiao's parents hurried forward, the middle-aged man pressing a hand onto Xiao's shoulder with an urgent voice.
"Xiao! Why aren't you kneeling to give thanks!"
The woman also urged from the side.
"Hurry! Kneel down quickly!"
Yet Xiao did not kneel immediately.
Instead, he stood in place and looked at Su Linxian before him, who was clad in white, possessing a noble and peerlessly handsome demeanor.
A fervor completely unsuited for his age surged in Xiao's eyes, as if a ball of fire were burning in the depths of his pupils.
The moment he thought of how he had been guided in a few moves by the other party and suddenly enlightened, and how his dormant special physique had been awakened by the other party.
This strength, that composure, the bearing of overlooking heaven and earth...
Such an expert was precisely what he sought to pursue!
With a thud, Xiao dropped to his knees, lifting his head with a crisp yet resolute voice.
"Lord Emperor!"
"I beg you to let me follow you!"
[Ding!]
[Congratulations to the master for subduing a follower -- the Primordial God-Devil Physique, Xiao!]
[Obtained 100,000 Villain Points!]
"Oh?"
Su Linxian raised an eyebrow.
"You wish to follow this Emperor?"
The surroundings instantly fell into a dead silence.
"Xiao... what did you say?" The grand elder's body trembled, filled with extreme astonishment.
Right at that moment.
"No way!!"
"Bang!"
Two figures descended from the firmament, landing in the very center of the tribe.
Lu Wu transformed into a middle-aged man with silver hair and silver eyes, possessing a tall stature and a cold expression. Kai Ming transformed into a burly man with red hair and red eyes, six pairs of wings folded behind his back, filled with rage.
Kai Ming strode forward, his red eyes staring fixedly at the kneeling Xiao as he rebuked him angrily.
"Xiao! You are a person of our Imperial Court! The blood of the Imperial Court flows in your veins! Now that the Imperial Court is in decline, how can you stand by and ignore it?!"
His voice was rough and violent, carrying a kind of exasperated rage of a failed expectation of iron turning into steel.
"The God-Devil Physique is the physique of the former God of War! Within a millennium, you will become the strongest combat strength of the Imperial Court! You must stay in the Immortal Mountain!"
Xiao raised his head to look directly at Kai Ming, showing not the slightest bit of fear.
"Lord Guardian Beast!"
"To rebuild the Imperial Court, Xiao has never dared to forget!"
"Yet precisely because of this, Xiao must follow Lord Emperor!"
"What did you say?" Kai Ming laughed out of extreme anger and was just about to speak when a cold voice came from the side.
"Kai Ming."
Mu Chiyu spoke up.
Her gaze swept across Kai Ming and Lu Wu, and she said in a tone that allowed for no refusal.
"Even the strongest physique requires tempering."
"Staying inside the Immortal Mountain will not forge an Imperial Court God of War."
"Since this child is willing, let him go with him..."
With that, Mu Chiyu turned her head to look at Su Linxian, inquiring.
"What do you think?"
Su Linxian smiled.
He raised a hand, and a stream of power surged from his palm, warm and rich, gently lifting the kneeling Xiao up.
Xiao's feet landed back on the stone slabs, gratitude and elation welling up on his face.
"Alright, get up."
Su Linxian smiled, his tone gentle and casual.
"When matters here are concluded, you will leave the Immortal Mountain together with this Emperor."
"Following this Emperor does not conflict with your status as a survivor of the Imperial Court."
Overjoyed, Xiao hastily bowed and said.
"Xiao thanks Lord Emperor!"
The grand elder also revealed a trace of a smile. "This child... very well, so be it."
Not only was this lord terrifyingly monstrous in strength, but he also had the Su Family of the Emperor Clan standing behind him.
For Xiao to gain the favor of this lord, his future achievements would boundlessly be limitless!
Mu Chiyu: "Lu Wu, Kai Ming, where is the Kunwu Mirror?"
Lu Wu and Kai Ming exchanged a glance.
"Goddess." Lu Wu stepped forward, forming hand seals, and a silver-white divine ability condensed in his palm.
Hum.
Within that divine ability, an archaic silver-white ancient mirror slowly emerged.
The Kunwu Mirror.
Densely packed ancient Dao patterns flowed across the mirror surface, every single trace containing profound power that surpassed the Emperor Realm, and the mirror surface reflected the past, present, and future of the Myriad Heavens, with countless rivers of fate surging within it.
Holding the Kunwu Mirror with both hands, Lu Wu respectfully offered it toward Su Linxian.
"Lord Emperor, this item is the Kunwu Mirror."
Su Linxian reached out and took it.
The moment the mirror came into his hand, that icy sensation once again spread from his fingertips to his entire body.
Looking down at the mirror surface, his own visage was reflected within.
Su Linxian's eyes flickered, and he could sense the profound and mysterious power contained within the mirror.
"So this is the item..."
He had personally experienced the might of the Five-Colored Divine Light.
What a good treasure!
Su Linxian stowed the Kunwu Mirror into his sleeve and said.
"Once we become familiar with this item, we will deal with that Heavenly Evil Aura."
To deal with that thing, he still needed to make some preparations.
Night fell.
Above the firmament of the Immortal Mountain, silver-white auroras slowly flowed, bathing the entire tribe in a crisp halo of light.
Stone houses were scattered orderly, and the noisy children from the daytime had already been pulled back into their homes by their respective parents, leaving only the ancient silver tree gently swaying in the night wind, a never-extinguishing faint light flowing among its branches and leaves.
Inside an independent stone hall.
Su Linxian summoned the Kunwu Mirror, causing it to hover before him.
That silver-white ancient mirror sat in the exact center of the stone hall, with densely packed ancient Dao patterns flowing across its mirror surface, every single trace throbbing with profound power that surpassed the Emperor Realm.
Silver-white light poured out from the mirror surface, enveloping the entire stone hall in a sacred and archaic clear radiance.
Yu Yao crouched to one side, staring at the mirror for a good while before she spoke.
"Hey, Goddess."
Yu Yao spoke in a low voice, a trace of irrepressible curiosity in her tone.
"I heard the Kunwu Mirror can reflect antiquity and the future. Is that true or false?"
Mu Chiyu nodded slightly.
"It is true."
"Huh?!" Yu Yao's eyes lit up.
Leaping up, she bounced over to the Kunwu Mirror with an expression full of eager anticipation.
"Master, then let me try!"
Su Linxian: "Very well."
Mu Chiyu: "You need only infuse a wisp of your own aura."
Yu Yao reached out.
Her fingertip touched the mirror surface of the Kunwu Mirror, and a wisp of golden aura merged from her fingertips into the mirror.
"Hum hum hum..."
The mirror surface of the Kunwu Mirror abruptly lit up.
Silver-white light surged and shifted within the mirror, transforming into a blurry image.
Yu Yao stared intently at this scene.
The image gradually grew clear; heaven and earth were chaotic and pitch-black, and within a dead and silent void, there was only a pool of murky deadwater, devoid of a shred of vitality or spiritual Qi, resembling a pool of stagnant water forgotten by heaven and earth.
Yet right within that deadwater, a golden little carp of extraordinary charm was swimming leisurely.
That carp was merely the size of a palm, golden-scaled all over, with faint golden halos flowing over its scales that were exceptionally eye-catching, filled with an innate spirituality.
"Is this... me?" Yu Yao blinked.
Suddenly, the sound of gentle footsteps rang out.
"Dap, dap..."
A youth in green robes appeared by the edge of the deadwater at some unknown time.
The youth looked to be around fifteen or sixteen years of age, wearing a green cloth robe, barefoot, his hair casually tied up behind his head, and his features were delicate yet ordinary, yet those eyes contained an indescribable profundity.
This is...
Su Linxian was slightly startled.
His father, Su Qi?
Within the image, Su Qi lowered his gaze to look at the golden little carp in the water, the corners of his mouth curving slightly upward.
"To think one could actually encounter a Heavenly Dragon Carp in this place..."
His voice was clear and lazy, carrying a trace of faint interest.
"Interesting."
"Given time, perhaps it can..."
With that, Su Qi paused slightly as if sensing something.
Then he slowly turned his head, his emperor eyes piercing through the mirror, as if across an infinitely distant void, landing with absolute precision in a certain direction.
Then he broke into a grin.
"Little fellow, stop looking."
"You still have great use for the last strand of Order Divine Laws that my son requires."
"Boom--!"
At that moment, the image turned into mist across the sky and dissipated with a crash.
"Are you kidding me!?"
Yu Yao violently pulled back her finger, her whole person springing up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, stumbling back two steps before landing squarely on her backside on the ground, her little face turning pale as paper.
"Ma, Master..."
"How does... how does your father feel... as if he could see my appearance right through the Kunwu Mirror?"
At that very instant, she felt as though she had been targeted by the other party across an entire river of time.
That sensation was far too terrifying and real.
It felt as if an invisible giant hand had pinched her soul across countless epochs!
"Is this that Divine Emperor of the Su Family?!"
Mu Chiyu's pupils contracted, and she abruptly looked over at Su Linxian.
"Your father... is truly terrifying."
Su Linxian nodded slightly.
"Indeed."
Yu Yao patted her small chest, climbed up from the ground, her little face full of lingering fear.
"Too scary!"
Looking at the Kunwu Mirror again, she hesitated for a moment, yet ultimately could not resist her curiosity.
"I'll look at the future again!"
Yu Yao stepped forward once more, her fingertips pressing against the surface of the mirror.
The mirror lit up again.
Within the vision, thunderclouds blanketed the sky, and the firmament shattered.
"Rumble--"
Countless figures poured out from the rifts. Those figures possessed bizarre appearances and terrifying auras, their bodies wreathed in the otherworldly energy of the Otherworld that did not belong to the Myriad Heavens. Howling and roaring, they swarmed madly toward the direction of the Myriad Heavens.
Su Linxian frowned.
Otherworld heretical cultivators!
Invading the heavens.
Right amidst that chaos and destruction, suddenly.
A streak of golden divine radiance tore through the firmament.
The light was dazzling and sacred, dyeing the entire ash-gray firmament into a brilliant golden hue.
Amidst the divine radiance, a figure descended from the heavens.
It was an peerless woman standing proudly above the firmament.
Her cascade of golden hair fell like a waterfall, and her face was beautiful to an indescribable degree, her facial features so exquisite they did not seem like something of the mortal realm.
Her figure was proud, slender, and straight, and her body was wreathed in an aura that was supreme to the extreme and incomparably sacred, resembling a deity descending from the peak of the firmament. Her pupils were a pure, indifferent, and majestic gold, resembling the Heavenly Dao itself overlooking all living beings.
The next moment, the woman slowly raised her hand and softly uttered a single word.
"Perish."
"Rumble!"
Golden radiance poured down from her palm, transforming into a sky full of golden rain.
Those golden drops of rain landed on the Otherworld heretical cultivators, and every single drop carried the power to destroy everything. The heretical cultivators howled and struggled in the golden rain, turning into flying ash in patches upon patches. With a wave of her hand... she suppressed and annihilated countless Otherworld heretical cultivators!
"This is me!?"
"I will turn into that in the future?!"
Yu Yao was extremely excited, staring at the golden-haired woman in the vision as she laughed loudly.
"Hahaha! Master, did you see, am I handsome or not!"
Su Linxian glanced at her flat chest, then looked at the proud figure of the golden-haired woman in the mirror.
With tightly locked brows and a skeptical expression, he muttered to himself.
"You?"
"Tsk tsk, it doesn't look like you at all..."
There was a feeling that even the species had changed.
Yu Yao said angrily, "Master, what do you mean by this!!"
Mu Chiyu looked at Su Linxian and said.
"Aren't you going to try?"
"Alright." Su Linxian smiled and stepped forward.
The two women watched over simultaneously, both of them extremely curious.
What kind of appearance would this existence who had already reached the peak Emperor Realm and forged the Divine Emperor Foundation possess in the future...
Su Linxian raised his hand.
The moment his fingertips touched the surface of the Kunwu Mirror.
"Boom!!"
Boundless primordial chaos energy gushed out from within the mirror, instantly enshrouding the entire stone hall.
The surroundings plunged into pitch-black darkness. The stone hall and the stone slab road beneath his feet all vanished, and apart from that Kunwu Mirror before him, nothing else remained.
It was as if he had been placed in another world, a void land containing only chaos and darkness.
Su Linxian frowned.
"What's going on..."
On the surface of the Kunwu Mirror, the images began to churn.
First was the scene of himself being hunted down in the Ziwei Domain, where four great emperors joined forces to encircle and kill him, and the light of the Tai'e Return-to-Origin Sword pierced through the heavens and earth. Then came the vision of Li Junhua undergoing his tribulation deep within the forbidden zone, followed by the Arena of King-Sealing City...
Scene after scene flashed by at high speed.
Just as the Kunwu Mirror was about to reflect the future.
Those images shattered simultaneously!!
"Crack--"
On the pitch-black mirror surface, a pair of scarlet giant pupils abruptly opened!
"Thud!!"
Those pupils were incomparably huge, occupying the entire firmament like two blood moons hanging in the void. Within the pupils churned boundless chaos and slaughter, and every single pattern contained a terrifying aura that surpassed the great emperors!
"At last..."
A voice came from the depths of the void, ancient and bizarre, sounding as if countless voices were speaking together at the same time, shaking the entire expanse of chaos into turbulence.
"Found you!"
Rumble!
Su Linxian's entire body grew cold, his hair standing on end.
What kind of existence was this?!
Even though he had already forged the Divine Emperor Foundation and touched upon that realm...
Yet when facing those crimson giant pupils, he still sensed a terror originating from the depths of his soul!!
Boundless bizarre energy condensed, transforming into a gigantic claw that pierced through the mirror from above the firmament and pressed down...
That claw was as thick as a heavenly pillar, its surface covered in densely packed primordial chaotic patterns. Every single pattern was writhing, twisting, and devouring. The entire void was collapsing, and even chaos itself was being devoured completely by that claw. Heaven and earth shattered, and everything vanished into nothingness beneath that claw.
The claw grew larger and larger, as if it intended to pierce right through the Kunwu Mirror!
That oppressive sense of suffocation was far too terrifying, feeling as though the entire heaven and earth were crushing down upon him alone!
"Not good!"
Su Linxian's pupils shrank to pinpoints, and he rapidly retreated in a burst of motion.
Boom.
The Divine Emperor Foundation manifested simultaneously, and the Order Divine Laws were abruptly unleashed.
Right at that moment.
"Hmph!"
A cold snort resounded through the void.
Like a divine thunder exploding across the entire expanse of chaos.
"Fellow from the Otherworld..."
"Unable to accomplish anything in the future... yet you want to span the river of years and move against my son from the past?"
"Two thousand years from now, I shall lead the heavens to wage war on the Otherworld. Now..."
"Scram!"
"Rumble--!!!"
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