Gu Changyuan tightened his grip on the sword in his hand.
The Emperor stopped several dozen yards in front of Gu Changyuan. Golden light surged around him, but it could no longer break through the invisible boundary before Gu Changyuan.
Gu Changyuan’s gaze settled on The Emperor, his voice calm and clear.
“Now, we can continue.”
The Emperor watched as the silver light around Gu Changyuan shifted from restraint to surging brilliance, from concentrated intensity to boundless expansion.
In those pale golden eyes, the composure that had always been present finally developed the faintest crack.
He said nothing, but his body had already given its answer.
He charged at Gu Changyuan. This time, he was faster, more ferocious, and more decisive than ever before. He was like a golden meteor plunging from the heavens, carrying enough momentum to crush everything in its path.
Gu Changyuan remained where he was without retreating.
He watched the golden figure approach at an inconceivable speed. He watched as The Emperor’s right fist gathered enough power to tear space apart and struck toward his face.
He did not dodge. He merely raised the light sword in his hand, pointed its tip forward, and made a gentle slash.
The Emperor’s fist seemed to collide with an invisible river. The force capable of ripping space apart split into two streams the instant it touched the sword light, flowing past both sides of his body and crashing into the ground behind him. Two bottomless craters exploded into existence.
Broken stones and dust soared into the sky, yet the space beneath Gu Changyuan’s feet remained completely unmoved.
At that moment, countless cultivation techniques and secret arts continued to surface in Gu Changyuan’s mind. They were all techniques he had never seen before, yet they felt incredibly familiar.
Gu Changyuan moved.
With nothing more than a slight turn of his wrist, the sword tip shifted from pointing diagonally at the ground to lying horizontally before him. Several thin black fissures were torn open in the surrounding space.
The Emperor raised his hand to block.
Dark-golden light condensed before his palm, forming a thin yet resilient barrier.
When the sword tip touched the barrier, a fine crack appeared across its surface.
Gu Changyuan gave him no chance to create distance. He did not withdraw his sword, instead continuing to drive it forward along the crack.
The Emperor retreated the instant the barrier shattered. His body moved backward even faster than before, his trajectory in the air appearing somewhat hurried.
Gu Changyuan’s second strike followed him as he retreated.
That sword had no fixed trajectory. Just as it reached The Emperor, it changed direction.
One portion veered to the left while another extended to the right. The two streams of sword energy locked onto his escape routes simultaneously, completely sealing off every possible avenue of evasion.
The Emperor raised both hands at once, crossing his palms before him. Dark-golden light condensed between them, forming a rotating sphere of radiance.
The two sides of the sphere met the two streams of sword energy respectively. The instant they collided, the sphere released a deep, muffled boom.
Gu Changyuan had already appeared behind him. He kicked out, and under the impact of that force, The Emperor’s body was sent flying backward. His feet plowed two deep trenches into the ground until he finally slammed into the palace wall behind him and came to a reluctant stop.
Gu Changyuan slowly floated before The Emperor and looked at him.
The corner of The Emperor’s mouth lifted slightly, but the curve was no longer the calm smile he had worn before. It had twisted into a mixture of unwillingness, confusion, and some even more complicated emotion.
“You…”
“Although I don’t know what relationship we have, something in my heart tells me that I must eliminate you.”
As he spoke, Gu Changyuan raised the sword in his right hand and pointed it at his opponent.
Hearing Gu Changyuan’s words, The Emperor’s composure seemed to collapse. Gu Changyuan had not even remembered him, yet had already dealt with him so effortlessly.
What qualification did he have to contend for the position of the Divine Emperor above?
Gu Changyuan stood before The Emperor, the distance between them less than an arm’s length.
His expression was calm, and his eyes held no unnecessary emotion.
He looked into The Emperor’s eyes and spoke in a voice that was not loud, yet rang clearly across the imperial palace square, which had already been leveled by the aftershocks of their battle.
“Your path ends here.”
The Emperor’s throat moved slightly. Under the pressure of the sword tip, the golden light protecting his body grew thinner and dimmer.
His lips parted as though he wanted to say something, but in the end, he only released an extremely faint breath that sounded almost like a sigh.
It was as though all his years of persistence had been nothing more than a joke.
Gu Changyuan gathered all his strength and brought his sword down. A powerful wave of sword energy descended, directly killing The Emperor.
He had sealed the entire area. The Emperor’s soul was completely erased as well, leaving him with no possibility of survival.
Gu Changyuan looked upward. The Immortal Emperors were still fighting, but most of their attention was focused on Gu Changyuan and The Emperor. After all, the outcome of their battle would determine the true direction of the war.
And now, Gu Changyuan had won.
When all the Heavenly Balances saw Gu Changyuan kill The Emperor, their eyes narrowed, and they charged directly toward him.
Gu Changyuan felt no pity for them.
With a single move, he sent them to accompany The Emperor.
Just then, the system in Gu Changyuan’s mind suddenly lit up, enveloping his entire body.
Gu Changyuan’s consciousness slipped into his sea of consciousness. There, he saw a figure—a silver-white consciousness that looked exactly like him.
The only difference was that the figure’s eyes were far deeper than Gu Changyuan’s, like an ancient mirror reflecting countless ages. Every glance carried the weight of memories that had settled there for far too long.
Gu Changyuan was stunned upon seeing the phantom. Then he slowly asked, “So you—the system—are actually a fragment of my consciousness from the past?”
The phantom nodded faintly.
“I am the condensed form of all your former memories, a clone of your consciousness. Now that you have reached the Dao Sovereign realm and defeated The Emperor, it is time for you to learn the truth about those events.
“Because it is about to arrive.”
Before Gu Changyuan could ask anything, the silver-white phantom charged straight toward him.
It moved extremely quickly, as though it had finally returned to the place where it belonged.
The two consciousnesses merged in an instant.
Gu Changyuan’s sensation was incredibly strange. He felt something surging into his mind.
Countless images, sounds, and emotions poured in like a tidal wave. They unfolded, arranged themselves, and fell into order within his sea of consciousness, forming a complete picture that spanned countless ages.
When chaos first began to separate, the universe was still nothing but an expanse of primordial chaos. There was no order and no law.
Later, three forms of Primordial Origin Energy were born from the chaos. They were the most fundamental and original powers between heaven and earth—the foundation of all existence and the source of all laws.
Possessing even one of these forms of Primordial Origin Energy granted one the authority to become a Divine Emperor.
The three forms of Primordial Origin Energy were obtained by three of the most powerful beings.
They cultivated, grew, and broke through independently, eventually becoming the three Divine Emperors who ruled this universe.
Tai Sheng, Wan Shi, and Heng Yin—three names, three wills, and three entirely different paths.
Tai Sheng was Gu Changyuan’s previous life. He followed the Dao of Letting Nature Take Its Course, allowing all worlds and living beings to develop freely without interference.
He believed that the universe possessed its own system of balance, and that excessive intervention by external forces would only destroy that balance.
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