The Human Emperor c1-2382
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Wang Chong couldn’t use them now, as the risk was too great. But Wang Chong remembered someone that could silently infiltrate the capital and gather intelligence without being discovered.
“Master!”
A few moments later, another person appeared in front of Wang Chong. This person wore a mask of black metal across their face.
The faceless man!
The man who had appeared was none other than the faceless man, Zhang Qiantuo.
When Wang Chong headed off for Sindhu, the faceless man had not been in the capital, so he had managed to avoid being wiped out. Moreover… probably not even Heaven knew about his existence.
Wang Chong took a few steps forward and said, “Faceless man, I have a mission for you…”
“Yes, the faceless man will obey!”
After hearing that it was connected to the Celestial God Organization, the faceless man quickly departed.
“We can leave now.”
Once he had made arrangements, Wang Chong quickly set out with Li Xuantu to the north.
……
Two days soon passed.
A thousand feet above the capital, a golden light floated, looking down upon the vast city.
From this height, the dense crowds appeared like flowing rivers, and everything was visible.
“What’s going on? Why has he yet to appear? Did Heaven’s trap not work?”
In the golden light, Essence Supreme muttered to himself as he looked down.
He and Heaven had estimated that Wang Chong wouldn’t be able to wait this long and should have infiltrated the capital by now.
If Wang Chong had entered the capital with all his energy restrained, intent on hiding himself, Essence Supreme might not have been able to discover him, but his Supreme Essence Compass would have had a response. However…
Essence Supreme glanced at the palm-sized golden compass in his hand and fell silent.
Countless lines intersected on this compass, creating an elegant golden screen. He had been able to predict that Wang Chong would appear in the Wang Family Residence because of this Supreme Essence Compass, but it had yet to show any sort of reaction this time.
“Grand Supreme, Radiance Supreme, did you notice anything?” Essence Supreme suddenly asked.
After a moment of silence, two halos appeared around Essence Supreme.
Ripples appeared in the air, and two slender figures soon emerged from the halos. One wore a mask with black on the left and white on the right; the other, vice versa. These were none other than Grand Supreme and Radiance Supreme.
The two of them spoke. “Venerable Essence Supreme, we have been watching the city for any movement this entire time but have yet to notice anything.”
Though they were all Supremes, there were still differences in status between them. After the deaths of Firmament Supreme and Genesis Supreme, Essence Supreme had become Heaven’s favorite, his status rising within the organization.
In fact, Essence Supreme was essentially the leader of the Celestial God Organization now.
“No activity in the King of Foreign Lands Residence or Imperial Palace?” Essence Supreme said after a few moments of silence.
There were still quite a few of Wang Chong’s subordinates in the capital, and Emperor Li Heng had been placed on the throne by Wang Chong. Wang Chong was regarded by the people as a hero of the Great Tang, and he could not simply abandon them.
“No!”
The two of them shook their heads.
“Perhaps he realizes that he’s no match for Heaven and has no intentions of entering.”
“Even husband and wife will flee in separate directions in the face of disaster, and he never really had too close of a connection with them,” Grand Supreme and Radiance Supreme said.
The two of them weren’t surprised about Wang Chong’s disappearance. In fact, it was only normal that he hadn’t appeared.
At least when it came to their level of cultivation, all they truly cared about was immortality.
“Is that so?”
Essence Supreme frowned. Their argument was not entirely unreasonable, but he felt that this Child of Destruction should have been different from ordinary people.
“Right, Venerable One, what do we do about Luo Supreme?” Grand Supreme suddenly said, his voice tinged with worry. “When he rebelled that time, no one had expected Luo Supreme to be hiding so much power. He is an extremely shrewd schemer and has been concealing an enormous amount of strength. He might not be easy to deal with.”
“Moreover, Luo Supreme is different from Origin Supreme and is not that stubborn. Although we found that his Turkic shaman religion began to decline many years ago, and few shamans and priest worship him, it is hard to say what the real situation is,” Radiance Supreme added.
The two of them held a great deal of apprehension about Luo Supreme.
Someone good at battle was not necessarily famed for it. For the rebellious Luo Supreme, the more inconspicuous he was, the more dangerous he was.
Essence Supreme came to his senses and turned his attention away from the topic of Wang Chong.
“You don’t need to worry about that. Heaven has already planned out everything. No matter how strong Luo Supreme is, he cannot compare to Heaven. If he had really been strong enough, he would have formed his own faction rather than continued to hide and feign decline and weakness. But in the end, no matter how he jumped around, he can’t jump out of Heaven’s palm,” Essence Supreme calmly said, briefly pausing for a moment.
“And after so many years, it’s about time to end things.”
Essence Supreme’s words seemed to carry a deeper meaning.
A very, very long time had passed since that rebellion. That rebellion had caused the Celestial God Organization to splinter, the various offshoots suppressing each other. This gave other people opportunities, causing people like Li Taiyi and Wang Chong to grow arrogant, and even the Purification plan to fail.
Those rebellious Supremes had always been secretly opposing the Celestial God Organization.
It was high time for things to end. Heaven’s reemergence was inevitable, and no one could stop it.
Origin Supreme was first, Luo Supreme would be second, and Unity Supreme would be next. All the rebels would be cleaned up, and once Heaven broke out of his seal, everything would go back to how it had been. Essence Supreme would join with Heaven in restarting civilization and creating a new batch of Supremes.
“Come on. Once we get Luo Supreme’s two Doomsday Insignias, we can go and deal with Unity Supreme!” Essence Supreme firmly said.
Buzz!
Ripples spread out, and a tall and slender figure walked out of the golden light.
This new figure appeared around eighteen or nineteen, with bright eyes and a handsome appearance. The faint smile on his lips was like a spring breeze, but when this youth raised his head, one would see that he possessed a pair of silver eyes.
While the youth was smiling, his silver eyes were cold and emotionless.
“Venerable One!”
Grand Supreme and Radiance Supreme immediately bowed to the silver-eyed youth.
Essence Supreme had many avatars. Some were human, some were animals, and some were even primordial beasts, but this body was undoubtedly one of Essence Supreme’s strongest avatars. It was clear that Essence Supreme was going all-out to deal with Luo Supreme and was not being as careless as before.
“Mm!”
Essence Supreme nodded. Without another word, he opened his palm, revealing a small golden boat that was around six inches long.
Essence Supreme threw it into the wind, upon which the boat expanded to a length of more than one hundred feet.
Essence Supreme, Grand Supreme, and Radiance Supreme boarded the golden boat. Grotto Heaven Stellar Energy poured into it, and a moment later, the boat vanished into the depths of spacetime.
……
In the distant north, a chilly wind blew across the Great Turkic Steppe. It was al
ready possible to see a faint green papering the steppe.
Grass withered and thrived on the steppe every year!
This was not just true for the steppe after a wildfire, but also true after a cold wave.
After the bitter winter had passed, life slowly began to return to the steppe, new buds emerging from deep in the earth. From a distance, one could even see a few shepherds driving along a few cattle or sheep to pasture on the steppe.
The steppe had not completely recovered, and in that disaster, at least ninety percent of the livestock and wild horses on the steppe had been lost. It would require a very long time to fully recover.
Chapter 2309 - The Mysterious White-Robed Priestess!
Chapter 2309: The Mysterious White-Robed Priestess!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
In the eastern part of the Great Steppe, a mountain soared into the clouds. At the summit, a gray tent had been erected. In front of the tent, a brazier blazed, but there was no one around it. It was an exceptionally bizarre sight.
If someone got close, they would be able to hear a faint voice come from that empty tent on the summit.
“My master, have things truly reached this stage?”
“This slave knows, but… this slave hopes that Master will reconsider!”
“This slave would not dare! I will strictly carry out Master’s order!”
“Yes!”
The voice of a woman came from the tent, and it seemed to be carrying out a conversation with someone else. But even though it was possible to hear that woman’s voice, the one speaking with her remained unheard. Each time, it was only possible to hear a hoarse scratching sound.
After a long while, the conversation seemed to end, and all the voices disappeared.
Buzz!
In a flash of light and rippling air, a figure appeared within the empty tent.
This woman was around thirty years old and had a beautiful face, and she wore a resplendent priestess gown.
But she had a white silk scarf the width of two fingers wrapped around her eyes, making her seem both mysterious and beautiful.
“All of this is destiny!”
The priestess sighed as she looked at a certain point in the distance, a complicated look on her face.
The steppe was empty, but in the ‘eyes’ of the priestess, she could see two figures rapidly approaching.
Buzz!
With a long sigh, the tent, the priestess, and the coal brazier disappeared as if they had never existed.
A few moments later, in a flash of light, a figure appeared at the foot of Mount Yaluo.
“Supremes are truly impressive individuals.”
Wang Chong looked up at the bald face of the mountain as he commented.
He had arrived at Mount Yaluo early and had been searching for any sign of Luo Supreme or the entrance to the dimension that this mysterious Turkic War God had hidden himself in.
But this was easier said than done. Wang Chong had wasted an entire day without finding any sign of Luo Supreme.
He was now beginning to somewhat understand why the Celestial God Organization had never been able to find him, even though they knew full well that he was in Mount Yaluo.
“Spatial geography is completely different from geography in reality. There’s no point in knowing that the entrance to Luo Supreme’s dimension is in Mount Yaluo, because for Luo Supreme, it doesn’t matter if the entrance is in Mount Yaluo or in the Central Plains, since Heaven’s dimension is always in the depths of spacetime!” Li Xuantu’s voice rang out in Wang Chong’s mind. He had spent far more time immersed in Grotto Heaven laws than Wang Chong, so he had a deep understanding of spatial laws.
Spatial laws were extremely complex. Knowing that the entrance was in Mount Yaluo was like only having a piece of the puzzle. One piece was far from enough to make out the full appearance of the puzzle.
“Luo Supreme is probably the most cautious of them all, and he’s always been on guard against the Celestial God Organization and Heaven. Origin Supreme needed to protect the people of Sindhu, so he was always somewhat restrained, and Unity Supreme set up the Great Snow Mountain Holy Temple and was closely connected to it. These people had burdens, but Luo Supreme is different. Even the Turks have abandoned him, so he has nothing holding him down.
“If he wants to hide, it will truly be rather difficult to find him,” Wang Chong sternly said.
He had sensed special pulses of power from the summit of Mount Yaluo several times, but each time he went over, the other party had seemingly already sensed him and disappeared. Thus, Wang Chong had made little progress.
“Right, Heaven is moving against all the rebel Supremes and even managed to kill Origin Supreme and take his Doomsday Insignia. Do you think he knows?” Li Xuantu suddenly said, bringing up the matter of Origin Supreme.
Li Xuantu was extremely interested in the internal strife of the Celestial God Organization. His sharp intuition told him that this strife was perhaps their best and only chance to achieve victory.
“Luo Supreme isn’t as closed-up as you think. He’s just vastly restrained his operations so as to not attract the attention of outsiders. That doesn’t mean that he knows nothing about the outside world. I sense that he has always had spies on the outside, and his understanding of what’s going on is probably greater than we imagine.
“He probably already knows what happened to Origin Supreme,” Wang Chong said.
He sensed that Luo Supreme was much stronger than many of the Supremes, including Genesis Supreme. Judging by his actions over the past several hundred years, he was either truly weakening or was far more troublesome to deal with than imagined, and Wang Chong would lean more toward the latter.
After all, Heaven and Essence Supreme had chosen to deal with Origin Supreme first before dealing with Luo Supreme.
“If that’s true, it means that Luo Supreme has already made his preparations and will probably be even harder to find than usual.” Li Xuantu’s voice came from the halo divine tool.
Li Xuantu had never underestimated the Supremes. This trip to the steppe would probably be more difficult than anticipated.
Time was not on their side. Once Heaven succeeded, they would lose any hope of victory. Moreover, within the halo divine tool, Li Xuantu could tell that even though the several hundred people of the Wang Family Residence had been sealed, their condition was worsening.
After a few moments of silence, Wang Chong laughed.
“Heh, relax. We’ll definitely find him.”
Buzz!
As if sensing something, Wang Chong turned and looked behind him.
The two of them could sense an astonishing energy rapidly approaching.
Wang Chong instantly disappeared with Li Xuantu.
A second later, with a massive roar, a spatial disturbance appeared to the south of Mount Yaluo, sixty-some meters in the air. A moment later, space parted, and a dazzling golden boat emerged from the depths of spacetime.
This golden boat was surrounded by a storm of energy and instantly exerted a mountainous pressure that made even Mount Yaluo slightly tremble.
Buzz!
A split-second later, three enormously powerful and divine figures appeared in front of the golden boat. The earth trembled, and Mount Yaluo seemed to sink a little into the ground.
To the left, Grand Supreme looked around and indifferently said, “This should be the place.”
“Such profound methods. Alas, it was all within Heaven’s expectations,” Radiance Supreme added.
Only the silver-eyed youth, Essence Supreme, was calm and unperturbed, with neither happiness nor sadness on his face.
“Luo Supreme, an old friend has come. Why have you not come to welcome him?”
Essence Supreme’s eyes scanned the earth before finally resting on the summit.
All was quiet, and the only sound was that of Essence Supreme’s booming voice. There was no response, as if the three had be
en talking to themselves.
“Hmph!”
Grand Supreme and Radiance Supreme coldly snorted in displeasure.
As a Grotto Heaven realm expert, Luo Supreme could even sense a fly passing over Mount Yaluo. It was impossible for him to have not heard their voices. Luo Supreme was just choosing to ignore them.
Essence Supreme remained unperturbed, as if he had already anticipated this.
“Luo Supreme, you were the strongest of the twelve Supremes, and some said that you were almost able to match Heaven. But that was then and this is now.”
Essence Supreme’s voice resounded through the world.
“Since you are not willing to come out, I will personally invite you out.”
As Essence Supreme spoke, he took a step forward.
Bang!
He walked the air as if it was solid ground, and an enormous energy erupted from his body and into the space below.
A flash of light emerged from Essence Supreme’s body and formed into the Supreme Essence Compass. A few moments later, countless silver rays of light erupted from the compass and covered Mount Yaluo.
Rumble!
This energy caused Mount Yaluo and the section of space it was established on to shudder as the countless silver threads locked down the region.
In the center of this silver weave, a white light like a flashing star appeared.
“Hmph, right here.”
Essence Supreme confidently smiled as he thrust out a finger, and a torrent of spacetime energy hurtled toward that white light.
Crack!
There was a deafening crack as if a domain was shattering, and the space on which Mount Yaluo was established shattered like glass.
Whoosh!
A fierce wind swept over the region, and as the three Supremes looked on, the deserted Mount Yaluo suddenly grew three times larger. Not only that, an enormous and majestic palace of gold appeared on the summit.
This palace was one hundred meters tall and grandiose to behold, tinged with a hint of hallowed divinity. This palace was built up along the entire face of the mountain, and some buildings even hung out from the sides, forming an extravagant and ancient palace complex.
Chapter 2310 - The Divine Dimensional Superposition Art!