"Ah! The Heavenly Court!"
"Ah! Shrouding the Heavens!"
Feng Jiu choked up, speechless.
"There are so many Heavenly Courts in this world-the one from Emperor's Fall, the one from the Chaotic Ancient Era, the one from the Mythological Era... If all else fails, I'd say Ye Fan's Heavenly Court would do."
"Granted, hardly any of these Heavenly Courts come to a good end. Either their families are destroyed and everyone dies, or they're on the road to that fate. Every inch of the air is steeped in malice toward the words 'Heavenly Court.'"
"But at least they had their moments of glory and enjoyed everything they were supposed to enjoy."
"And the Heavenly Court I'm in now?"
"It's a fucking assassin organization!"
"There's no hope of enjoying anything. I'll have to lick blood off knife tips and dance on the edge of a blade!"
"What happened to studying abroad in the Heavenly Courts of myriad worlds, securing an iron rice bowl, and learning the spirit of a Heavenly Emperor?"
Feng Jiu lamented.
As an assassin, he was practically destined never to know a stable life.
He truly couldn't understand it either. Why would an assassin organization call itself the Heavenly Court?
Huh?
Who gave you the right to call yourself the Heavenly Court?
Wasn't that a trap for the unwary?
Not a scrap of the perks of a real Heavenly Court.
But as for its eventual fate, it didn't fall short in the slightest.
Feng Jiu vaguely remembered that, in the original timeline, this assassin organization would suffer a calamity and be all but annihilated. Only a scant few would survive, struggling to carry on its legacy into the era after Desolate Antiquity.
Yes, the period he was living in now was called-the Desolate Ancient Era!
It was over a hundred thousand years before that future Heavenly Emperor Ye's time.
He was certain of that.
Because he had heard of Emperor Hengyu, the Void Emperor, the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor, and others, but had never heard of Great Emperor Wushi, the man described as "one glimpse of Wushi, and the whole story ends"-no, wait, "one glimpse of Wushi, and all other paths become void"!
Transmigrating into Shrouding the Heavens and logging in a hundred thousand years early... How could the word "miserable" possibly cover it?
"Ye Fan, I miss you so much..."
Feng Jiu felt deeply sorrowful.
He felt that he ought to have some connection with this Heavenly Emperor Ye.
After all, whenever he thought of Heavenly Emperor Ye, Feng Jiu felt endlessly inspired, as though a bellyful of wicked schemes were brewing within him, and some indescribable, world-shaking wisdom was about to erupt!
"Since I'm not in your era..."
"My Kirin Immortal Medicine, luxurious nine-dragon coffin, Bodhi Immortal Medicine, Kunlun Immortal Land... All of them, and everything else, are gone!"
It truly was a sorrowful thing.
"Forget it. I'm already here."
Feng Jiu sighed inwardly, finding amusement amid his misery. An assassin it is, then. At least I've stepped onto the path of cultivation...
"Though I feel the waters here run deep. The more I learn, the more I sense a storm approaching, with something utterly terrifying behind it."
"The three great Assassin Divine Dynasties-the Heavenly Court, Hell, and Human World-had major problems from the very moment they were founded..."
Rumors circulated in the world-
In the ancient halls of Human World, the skulls of kings of almost every kind had been collected, with not a single physique missed. They had slaughtered the world's outstanding talents, and none could withstand their edge!
Hell went even further. Like a host of fallen gods, they wielded divine swords dripping with blood, slaughtering the world's Saints and preserving the divine skin, bones, flesh, organs, and more of those they killed. It was bloody and horrifying!
Feng Jiu could testify that all of this was true!
And the Heavenly Court?
It was no less vicious!
It had even put forward the so-called "Way of Heaven": killing was justified, taking from those with excess to supplement those without. They had slaughtered their way into logic, slaughtered their way into reason!
One could say that these Assassin Divine Dynasties specifically killed prodigies and the powerful!
There seemed to be nothing wrong with that-turning their blades on the strong and ruthlessly targeting them. What a spirit! What a way to bully others!
Even the villagers would give them a thumbs-up.
But...
As an outsider who had once been able to enumerate the thirty emperors across the ages as readily as his own family treasures, Feng Jiu felt that the hidden tricks here were far too serious.
Because all prodigies and all powerful people shared one trait-their origins were powerful!
And speaking of origins, one had to mention an emperor of astonishing talent. The era she lived in had been an absolute nightmare for everyone with an extraordinary physique!
-the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor!
She had gathered ten thousand physiques and refined them into herself, acquiring a Chaos Body and creating a legend unprecedented throughout the ages!
Like a towering monument, she had shown later generations that this, too, was a path they could take!
Still despairing over the weakness of your physique?
Still helpless over your poor talent?
Come!
Join the Devouring Heaven Holy Land! The Devouring Heaven Demonic Art awaits you!
That was right. The Devouring Heaven Holy Land still existed in the world, its might bearing down upon all beneath heaven. It was a renowned supreme holy land on the Big Dipper Ancient Star.
Although every cultivator on the Big Dipper secretly called it the "Devouring Heaven Demon Sect," who didn't hastily call it the "holy sect" to its face?
Anyone who objected could go argue with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar!
At worst, they could just sink the Eastern Wasteland in battle!
The world's people dared to be angry, but dared not speak.
The three great Assassin Divine Dynasties weren't supreme holy lands, yet they had remained alive and kicking for so many years, their legacies unbroken. How much more secure was a true holy land that possessed an Emperor Weapon?
Even if it had committed evil for years, its Emperor Weapon was the perfect cure for every objection!
By comparison, the Assassin Divine Dynasties at least had to conceal themselves somewhat.
But however well they hid, over a hundred thousand years, the number of prodigies and outstanding talents they had slaughtered was by no means small.
"The timing of the Assassin Divine Dynasties' founding is very interesting. It was right after that female emperor 'passed away in meditation'..."
Feng Jiu recalled the information the Heavenly Court used to brainwash its assassin seedlings day and night, teasing the threads apart.
"The targets of their slaughter are very clear, too. On the surface, taking money to kill people seems perfectly natural."
"But so many things in this world fall apart once you really think them through..."
"Of the three great Assassin Divine Dynasties, the Heavenly Court reigns supreme... And where did the Heavenly Court come from?"
"A Quasi-Emperor founded it!"
Feng Jiu's gaze deepened.
There had once been a Saint who, by a stroke of chance, obtained the Movement Secret, one of the Nine Secrets. It represented the ultimate extreme of speed, and after ultimate sublimation, it even reached into the domain of time.
He had cultivated diligently for an entire lifetime without mastering it. But through another stroke of chance, he obtained a fruit from an Immortal Divine Medicine. After eating it, he began a second life, and in that life, he finally achieved complete mastery!
Perhaps thanks to this as well, the Saint ultimately broke through to the Quasi-Emperor realm, founded the assassin divine dynasty known as the Heavenly Court, and became its first Lord of the Heavenly Court!
And the Movement Secret became the Heavenly Court's central great secret art!
A Quasi-Emperor working as an assassin-how outrageously absurd was that?
At that level, was there still a future in being a sneaky bastard and launching ambushes
or not?
Well!
Now you could see for yourself!
"So was all of this really just coincidence?"
"Obtaining the Movement Secret by chance, obtaining an Immortal Medicine by chance..."
"Could this be some Heavenly Venerate who prefers to remain anonymous-the one who created the Movement Secret... raising fish?"
"Raising a..."
"Chaos fish?!"
"Once that chaos fish has matured, he can seize its body..."
"The Assassin Divine Dynasties are just his white gloves, keeping his hands clean..."
"That makes sense!"
"In this world, if there are a few insurmountable divine mountains in the realm of ambushes, one of them is called the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and another must be the Carefree Heavenly Venerate!"