He Dug Out an Immortal Bone, and He Deserves to Be Called a Heaven Emperor?
"Whoosh..."
The images in the retrospective video about the Desolate Heaven Emperor
did not stop because the countless cultivators of the myriad mortal realms, or even the Forbidden Zone Supremes, were moved.
Instead, they continued to change.
An ancient and magnificent altar came into view.
It towered beyond reach, rising straight into the clouds.
It was steeped in the breath of ages.
On the altar, which was grander and larger than a mountain, lay a vast number of fierce beast corpses.
There were also all kinds of strange divine treasures and precious medicines.
This was an entire nation offering sacrifices to heaven!
A golden sun radiated an utterly supreme presence, its brilliance so piercing that no one could open their eyes.
This was the human emperor of an ancient kingdom, ruler of hundreds of millions of miles of land. Now, he was personally offering sacrifices to heaven with the utmost solemnity.
A group of powerful members of the imperial family, along with nobles and officials, followed behind him, their imposing presence awe-inspiring.
The presence radiating from this group alone seemed to make heaven and earth tremble.
Farther back stood an endless, densely packed army, a black mass stretching beyond sight.
The entire nation was offering sacrifices to heaven, and the spectacle was immense.
It was unimaginable, almost like something out of a myth.
Its impact was beyond words.
"Is this a nation... offering sacrifices?" -[The Sky Has Cleared and the Rain Has Stopped]
Although Sasuke Uchiha had witnessed the future Fourth Shinobi World War in a retrospective video,
a grand spectacle of an entire nation offering sacrifices to heaven was far more staggering than a Fourth Shinobi World War involving a mere few tens of thousands. Its visual impact was indescribably shocking.
Moreover, every one of the important figures there had an outrageously powerful presence.
The human emperor of the ancient kingdom at their head was especially godlike.
He inspired awe.
"Gulp! Why do I get the feeling that countless people in there could kill me in an instant?" -[Sniper King from Sniper Island]
Aboard the Going Merry, Usopp trembled with fright.
Any random soldier from that ancient kingdom's army could probably finish him off on the spot.
"A spectacle like this is nothing remarkable. That human emperor isn't necessarily stronger than me, either..." -[Great Xia Emperor]
As the ruler of the Great Xia Dynasty, an immortal dynasty with a profound foundation that had once produced Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors in the myriad mortal realms,
he considered a spectacle like this grand, but as an emperor himself, he was not particularly surprised.
What he truly cared about was who the Desolate Heaven Emperor was.
"Indeed. From the looks of it, that human emperor's true age shouldn't be young. He probably isn't the Desolate Heaven Emperor!" -[One Leaf Shrouds the Heavens]
On the Ancient Road of the Human Race, Ye Hei, who had long since passed his tribulation and become a sage, nodded inwardly.
The Great Xia Emperor was right. Although the ancient kingdom's human emperor was incomparably majestic and had an astonishing bearing,
when all was said and done, judging by his bearing alone, he might not even measure up to a king who had Severed the Dao.
Moreover, he had presumably cultivated for quite a long time already. He could not possibly be the Desolate Heaven Emperor, a born supreme whose brilliance outshone all ages, who had created the Five Great Secret Realms cultivation method and defied the tide to become an immortal in the mortal world.
In the world of the "Chaotic Ancient Era,"
in the Desolate Region of the lower realms,
in New Stone Village, somewhere in the Great Wilderness,
the Bear Child, who had been cultivating, sat bolt upright in shock.
He stared fixedly at the video on the heavens' retrospective, his gaze trembling in disbelief. "Could it be..."
In the footage,
the families of some important figures were also taking part in the grand ceremony, bathing in the sacred radiance that spread like an ocean.
He noticed a young woman among them holding a baby still in swaddling clothes. The child laughed happily and kept reaching out with his little hands. The sight moved him deeply and felt strangely familiar.
He had a few guesses.
He instinctively looked toward the Stone Village elders present.
"What's going on?"
"Aren't those Little One's parents?"
"Is that child Little One back then?"
"Could the Desolate Heaven Emperor be one of Little One's clansmen?"
"Is that figure, brighter than the sun and comparable to a god, the human emperor of the Stone Kingdom?"
"Could he be the Desolate Heaven Emperor?"
The Stone Village elders
were also astonished and could not help speaking up one after another.
"Are those my father and mother?" Hearing them, the Bear Child was filled with excitement.
He stared fixedly at the smiling couple holding a child who looked remarkably like him.
"That's right. They are your parents..."
On a withered piece of Lightning-Struck Wood, a dozen or so fresh, tender green willow branches glimmered and swayed gently.
An indistinct voice came from it, speaking to the Bear Child. "Back then, they were the ones who brought you here after someone cruelly dug the Supreme Bone out of your body. Your bloodline had severely regressed, and you were weaker than ever before, nearly dying."
In truth, seeing this scene, she could not help forming a few guesses.
The earlier narration had said that the Desolate Heaven Emperor was a born supreme...
In that case, it referred either to the Stone Kingdom's genius, who had been born with Double Pupils and extraordinary aptitude and had later gone so far as to dig out the Bear Child's Supreme Bone, or to the ill-fated Bear Child, who had once possessed a Supreme Bone but had unfortunately lost it.
But the Willow Deity kept feeling that the Desolate Heaven Emperor could not be that Stone Kingdom youth with Double Pupils, whose mind was too dark and who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
He was most likely the innocent, naive Bear Child before her, who loved drinking beast milk.
As things stood for now,
although the Bear Child had excellent comprehension and extraordinary natural talent,
he was still clearly inferior to the cubs of those pureblood primordial fierce beasts, as well as the innately gifted first-generation geniuses of the Upper Realm.
Let alone the foremost freaks, monstrous talents, and outstanding figures of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, each peerlessly gifted, unrivaled throughout the ages, and outrageously powerful.
Of course, that did not mean the Bear Child was lacking.
His cultivation journey had only just begun.
From the outset, he was a step behind the heirs of the great sects, on whom the major superpowers had lavished vast resources from childhood, sparing no expense in nurturing them and leaving them wanting for neither immortal treasures and spirit medicines nor divine abilities and cultivation techniques.
But that was not impossible to make up for.
"Supreme Bone?"
The Bear Child froze, staring blankly at the Lightning-Struck Wood, half of it charred black, which had only recently undergone nirvana and been reborn. "Willow Deity, what are you talking about?"
"Be patient and keep watching..."
With a few uncertain guesses in mind, the willow tree said no more.
A strand of her divine sense remained focused on the mysterious heavens' video website, whose origins even she could not fathom and which was utterly different from the "Void God Realm."