The God War had taken place in the late years of Primordial Antiquity. It had not been a single battle confined to a few individuals, but a series of immense upheavals that swept across the entire universe and countless trillions upon trillions of living beings.
No one knew what had caused it. All they knew was that multiple Life Forbidden Zones, a double-digit number of supreme beings, and numerous imperial clans and great religious lineages had joined the fighting. By the time the God War ended, many life-bearing stars had shattered, more than half the universe had been plunged into misery, and the number of destroyed Extreme Dao Weapons and slain Supremes surpassed imagination.
Some said a Branch Road to Immortality had opened, its appearance calculated by the Supremes of the forbidden zones, triggering a chaotic war. Others said the God War had erupted over an Immortal Artifact, with some hidden hand plotting behind the scenes, constantly inflaming disputes and widening the conflict until the God War had exploded into something utterly uncontrollable.
Yuangeng had once asked the Qilin Emperor about the God War. The old emperor had held his title for more than ten thousand years and had studied many ancient histories, yet he stated plainly that many crucial points concerning the God War's origins had been erased. Every Supreme who had initially sparked the war was dead, and many details had long since been lost.
This led the Qilin Emperor to suspect that such a hidden mastermind very likely had existed behind the God War, reaping enormous benefits.
"According to our sect's ancient records, during the God War, a being from a forbidden zone descended upon Ziwei, intending to sow chaos. The two oldest Quasi-Emperors of our sect and the Sun God Sect intervened, jointly wielding the Human Emperor Seal, and finally quelled that upheaval. No one knows the details of the battle. All we know is that the soul lamps of our predecessors and those of the Sun God Sect went out, and they never returned. The Human Emperor Seal was lost as well."
On Ziwei Ancient Star, the Lunar Essence Quasi-Emperor Si Qi and the Solar Essence Quasi-Emperor respectfully invited Yuangeng into the deepest part of the Lunar Essence Divine Church. They retrieved half a blade from a collection of ancient relics and presented it to him, recounting what they knew of the past.
"Later, the other Quasi-Emperors of our two clans searched the battlefield, but they recovered only this half-fragment of a weapon."
Yuangeng examined the broken blade. It seemed to have come from a long weapon such as a halberd, spear, or lance, and had been forged from immortal tear green gold. Profound Dao Patterns were inscribed upon it, but some terrifying power had ground away its essence. All its divine arts were gone; only its shape remained.
"The Human Emperor's laws erased the Dao upon this weapon," Yuangeng said softly, extracting a wisp of fragmented Lunar Essence Laws from the green gold shard. "The Si clan carries the Human Emperor's bloodline. Couldn't you summon it back through that blood connection?"
"I fear the Human Emperor Seal's Divine Spirit has fallen into slumber and no longer responds to any summons."
The Lunar Essence Quasi-Emperor was helpless. Over all these years, the Lunar Essence Divine Church had tried every method available, yet each attempt had sunk like a stone into the sea, wasting considerable clan resources.
"Where is the battlefield?"
As Yuangeng spoke, the Lunar Essence Quasi-Emperor Si Qi hurriedly gave him a string of stellar coordinates. He was thrilled. With an Extreme Dao Supreme lending his aid, he finally saw hope of bringing their Emperor Weapon home.
Buzz!
The moment his words fell, Si Qi felt Heaven and Earth turn upside down, the world shaking around him. The elderly Solar Essence Quasi-Emperor was enveloped by those laws as well, and in an instant, they appeared in a stretch of starry space.
Space was cold, but this region was not empty. In the distance, a vast, ruined continent floated in the void, its surface riddled with pits and countless holes punched clean through it. Yet the remaining Formation Patterns inscribed upon it kept it from collapsing.
Clearly, this was another ancient battlefield forged by an Ancient Supreme, possibly connected to the Heavenly Court of the Mythological Era. Unfortunately, after enduring far too many great battles, it had ultimately been abandoned.
Yuangeng opened his Dharma eyes and studied the abandoned battlefield for a long time. He did find several places where Lunar Essence and Solar Essence laws converged, but unfortunately, the Human Emperor Seal was not in any of them.
"It seems I'll have to try another approach. I need a little imperial Dao blood."
He sighed softly, then suddenly pressed a hand upon Si Qi's shoulder. Before the old Quasi-Emperor could react, a strand of Lunar Essence Immortal Light had already sliced across his brow, and crimson Dao blood flowed from the wound.
Yuangeng gathered a mass of Quasi-Emperor blood and brushed a fingertip across it. The Imperial Dao Laws within the blood awakened, and the Great Dao surrounding it gradually grew deep and solemn, as though a majestic emperor of the human race stood within, gazing into the distance.
Si Qi was, after all, a Quasi-Emperor cultivator. Although at least a thousand generations separated him from the Lunar Essence Human Emperor, his many years of cultivation had indeed brought an ancestral resurgence in his emperor's blood, giving it the potential to resonate with the Human Emperor Seal.
"Reflect the Ancient!"
Using that wisp of imperial Dao blood as his anchor, Yuangeng employed an ancient method. A blood-colored treasure mirror appeared in his hands. Its surface trembled slightly at first, but with Yuangeng personally sustaining it, it quickly stabilized and finally reflected images of a passage of history.
The two Quasi-Emperors hurriedly watched. Dazzling images of battle appeared within the blood-colored mirror. On one side stood a gray-haired figure wielding an immortal tear war spear. His body was withered and frail, yet it contained boundless power. Every strike pierced the universe and annihilated untold numbers of star rivers.
Facing that supremely powerful being were two equally aged cultivators whose blood and vitality were failing. Together, they had awakened a pitch-black great seal. Relying upon the fully revived Divine Spirit within it, they repeatedly met the spear-wielding being head-on.
Clearly, against a true Supreme, the Quasi-Emperors of the Lunar Essence and Solar Essence lineages were at a disadvantage. They could only endure by relying on the Human Emperor Seal's mighty power. They had no choice, for if they relaxed even once, the Supreme would not only devour and destroy them, but would also descend upon a life-bearing star and unleash upheaval on an immense scale.
Yet the spear-wielding being was in even worse condition. He seemed to have already endured a succession of desperate battles and was far too weak, urgently needing life energy to replenish himself. Again and again, he fought with his life on the line, suppressing the Human Emperor Seal.
"Roar!"
Gradually, the spear-wielding being sank into utter madness. He simply could not break free of the Human Emperor Seal's restraint, and his life was running out. In the final moment before death, he abandoned all concern, set the immortal tear war spear burning and breaking apart, and hurled it savagely at the Human Emperor Seal.
The Supreme's dying strike clearly possessed power beyond the Human Emperor Seal's ability to control. The war spear collided with the seal, and the Quasi-Emperors of the Lunar Essence and Solar Essence lineages behind it were instantly crushed into nothingness. Both had reached the eighth heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm, yet they still died in an instant beneath that strike, without even a moment to think.
In the end, the laws within the immortal tear war spear burned away, and it perished alongside its master. The Human Emperor Seal was grievously damaged as well. Not only had one corner been blasted off, but deep cracks had opened across its body. Though it had not broken apart, its Divine Spirit fell asleep on the spot, and the seal flew uncontrollably into the deepest reaches of space.
Yuangeng frowned and summoned the Eternal Ancient Ruler from his Sea of Bitterness, using it to reinforce the blood mirror and stabilize its essence further.
Within the images, the viewpoint followed the Human Emperor Seal as it raced through the universe. Only after shattering countless stars and extinguishing countless suns did it finally stop, floating amid a star river like an utterly ordinary great seal.
Many, many years later, a divine bird resembling a gigantic crane, its whole body wreathed in flames, passed through that stretch of space and spotted the seemingly ordinary seal...
The images ended abruptly.
"So that was what happened."
The elderly Solar Essence Quasi-Emperor understood. The battle back then had been so brutal. Their ancestral predecessors had fallen because they had failed to anticipate the Supreme's
desperate counterattack at death's door. No wonder they had been unable to find the Human Emperor Seal all these years.
"One old mystery is solved. An ancient Bifang Great Saint found the Human Emperor Seal."
Si Qi's face was somewhat pale, but he still nodded slightly. Although his emperor's blood was precious to him, he still possessed the reserves of a Quasi-Emperor, and his foundations would not be damaged so easily.
"The Kunlun Remnant Clan."
Yuangeng glanced at him. The blood mirror dissipated, turning back into a mass of Dao blood that merged into Si Qi's body once more. Although there was much less of it than before, Yuangeng's personal refinement had fully awakened the Imperial Dao Laws within it, and its purity now far exceeded imagination.
Having finished all this, Yuangeng once again stirred the Heaven and Earth Laws beneath his feet. His destination went without saying.
Flying Immortal Star.
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