Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1042 The Divine Powers of the Imperial Divine Court

some time ago.

An Jing single-handedly defeated the combined forces of numerous prodigies, demonstrating his unparalleled power to suppress the younger generation.

At the other end of the Zhaolin Realm, a raging storm was also brewing.

Above the ruins of the Xuanming Spirit Swamp, two figures flew swiftly across the dried-up swamp land and arrived at the corpse in the center.

"Isn't this Fa Zichen from Zhaixing Mountain?"

Upon seeing the corpse, Minghe Guang took a large gulp from his wine gourd, the pungent liquor unable to suppress his shock: "I thought he had also gone to gang up on my monster nephew, how could he have died in a place like this?"

He became alert. Anyone would be alert. One of the strongest young people of the Huai Xu Era had died here so quietly. This meant that anyone in the Zhao Lin Realm, except for An Jing, would probably face the same fate in the next moment!

"Wait, something's wrong!"

To be honest, Zhou Jin was even more surprised than Ming and Guang, because he had brought people over because he sensed a familiar aura, but he never expected to see a corpse.

But precisely because of this, he quickly noticed something amiss. After bending down to carefully examine Fa Zichen's body, he declared with an extremely serious expression, "Fa Zichen is a member of the Far-Reaching Skywalker! Moreover, he's on our side!"

"Why?" Minghe Guang asked curiously. Although he couldn't hear 'Jin Yuan Tian', he understood Zhou Jin's implication.

—Fa Zichen and Zhou Jin both belong to that mysterious organization that spans the entire Huaixu Realm, and they are very likely to be in the same camp.

In other words, they are teammates.

Zhou Jin stood up and explained in a heavy tone, "Even within the vast heavens, there are different camps, roughly divided according to the sphere of influence of the Huai Xu Heavenly Sect."

“Fa Zichen comes from Zhaixing Mountain, belonging to the Southwest Three Continents lineage. They have never gotten along well with the Heavenly Sect of the North Three Continents, so they actually have a good relationship with us non-Heavenly Sect practitioners from the North Three Continents…”

"Strange, so why didn't he contact me after arriving here? I really thought I was alone!"

“He had teammates.” Ming and Guang didn’t take it seriously, and carefully examined Fa Zichen’s body as well: “Just like us, he must have had a teammate he could trust and rely on… but unfortunately.”

"He was killed in a sneak attack."

With a sigh, Minghe Guang raised his hand, and a mirror appeared in his palm, with a jade frame and a copper base.

The mirror light shone, and a clear radiance shone on Fa Zichen's corpse. The surrounding cosmic light and shadows seemed to be moved by an invisible hand and began to flow backward.

【Haotian Divine Light - Return of Cosmic Light】

A blurry, silent phantom unfolded before their eyes.

Some time ago, the spirited Fa Zichen fought against the Ancestral Spirit and killed it, but his aura was somewhat weak, so he slowly descended from the sky to conserve his energy.

After obtaining the Water Radiance Star True Talisman, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Then, noticing something, he turned around, even with a tired smile on his face.

He raised his hand in a certain direction, as if greeting a familiar teammate.

In that instant, a jet-black dragon's breath, imbued with the intent of certain death, erupted from the opposite direction he was facing, instantly striking him in the back of the heart.

Despite the blow, Fa Zichen did not die immediately. As he fell to the ground, he was stunned and tried to turn his head, but his eyes were fixed on the direction he had been looking in, his eyes filled with disbelief and incredulity.

He fell to the ground, his eyes wide open in despair, and died.

A young hand reached out and closed the other person's eyes.

The illusion dissipated, and Fa Zichen's death was recorded by the mirror.

"As expected! It was an attack by an acquaintance, taking advantage of Fa Zichen's lack of vigilance while he was still recovering from his one-on-one battle with the Ancestral Spirit!"

After reading Zhou Jin's expression, it became extremely solemn: "Too despicable, and... who is his teammate? Who is qualified to be a teammate of a top genius like Fa Zichen? Moreover, judging from the retrospective cosmic light..."

"Very young, and the other one must also be a prodigy!"

Ming and Guang put away the mirror and the jade mirror, their expressions more serious than ever before.

He closed his eyes, carefully savoring the fleeting aura lingering in the dragon's breath, and a strange ripple stirred in his heart.

"Moreover, this aura... feels very familiar."

"Strange, how come it's somewhat similar to another 'foundation' of our Mingjing Sect?"

at the same time.

On the other side of the Mirror Scale Realm, deep within the turbulent flow of the Great Void.

Duan Chenguang and Zheng Huayan are being chased by two dragons and a mysterious figure.

"Xing Ruoyun!"

Duan Chenguang let out a roar, his voice torn apart and fragmented in the chaotic spacetime.

His divine spear blazed brightly, yet he could only barely parry a dragon attacking from the side. His tone was a mixture of heartache and exasperation: "The one beside you, the fallen general, is a traitor! He has defected to the Heavenly Demon and the Blood Sea Demonic Cult!"

"The Shangxuan Sect is truly letting this great calamity happen for its own selfish interests! Don't think that we, the Ancestral Dragon Palace, don't know what the Shangxuan Sect is really thinking!"

His reply was Xing Ruoyun's cold and disdainful dragon roar. Sometime earlier, this prodigy of the Xing Shi Dragon Clan had joined the battle, attacking in concert with the dark dragon shadow, the one who was now the fallen general. The two dragons, one on the left and one on the right, relentlessly suppressed Duan Chenguang and Zheng Huayan.

Xing Ruoyun was surrounded by a crimson-gold aura of fortune. Each time he joined forces with Wang Jiangzhi's attack, the intertwining of the paths of rise and fall would subtly reduce the karmic influence around Duan Chenguang.

Suddenly, the heavens and earth repelled him, making many of the attacks he instinctively avoided unavoidable.

puff!

Caught off guard, Duan Chenguang's chest was grazed by a breath of annihilation from a dragon, and his sturdy armor instantly crumbled, leaving a deep wound that exposed bone.

But that wasn't the worst part. Taking advantage of the moment of weakness, the mysterious figure unleashed a burst of divine light and energy, piercing through Duan Chenguang's chest and severely injuring his heart. Duan Chenguang was struck as if by lightning, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

His aura suddenly dissipated, and it was clear that he had lost all life force. Even if he were still alive now, he would be nothing more than a moving corpse.

"Brother Duan!" Zheng Huayan, struggling to maintain the divine light of the [Book of Calamity Relief] and protecting the two people amidst the attack of two dragons and one figure, was also greatly shocked to see this scene.

But at that very moment, Duan Chenguang, who had been severely injured, also saw the mysterious figure appear like a ghost behind Xing Ruoyun, who was casting a spell with all his might!

Immediately afterwards, a divine seal containing a supreme decree, as if acting on behalf of Heaven to punish, was silently imprinted on the back of Xing Ruoyun's head.

hum!
Xing Ruoyun's enormous dragon body trembled violently, his dragon eyes filled with utter astonishment and disbelief.

He turned his head with difficulty, looked at the blurry figure, and let out his last gasp: "How could it be you?! How could you be here?!"

His remains fell into the turbulent flow of the void.

Another prodigy has fallen.

At this moment, Duan Chenguang's heart was filled with endless regret.

It's all the sect's fault... It's all the sect's fault for deliberately allowing the Blood Sea Demon Sect to grow stronger for its own benefit, causing allies to lose trust and ultimately leading to the tragic death of Xing Ruoyun, a powerful figure who could have fought alongside them, due to betrayal!
—The sect made a mistake, which made an even bigger mistake inevitable.

—You can’t do wrong things… If it’s the right path, you must uphold it, even if it means death!

But in this world, who can truly say they've never made a mistake? Mistakes are inevitable!

Regret and enlightenment intertwined, and in that instant, Duan Chenguang suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He remembered the supernatural power that the mysterious figure used to kill Xing Ruoyun; he had seen it in the sect.

That was no ordinary supernatural power, but a supreme divine power belonging to one of the few top-tier celestial sects in over a dozen eras that once challenged the authority of the Upper Mystic Sect and possessed the potential to unify Huai Xu.

[The Supreme One's Edict: Heavenly Divine Restriction]

[Taiyiju God dispatches generals’ divine seal]

"The Imperial Court...?"

A bolt of lightning flashed through his mind, and a chilling possibility surged in Duan Chenguang's heart.

A resolute glint flashed in his eyes, and in the next instant, he willingly abandoned his own body, which was on the verge of breaking apart!
His divine soul transformed into a stream of light, flying recklessly towards the Zheng Hua Yan.

—The physical body, the future, the identity of a prodigy, and even everything else can be abandoned!

I must preserve everything I see and think!
Because... this is probably the last bit of justice I can uphold.

Beyond the Scaled Realm, in the vast, chaotic void.

The Four Seasons Dragon Gods aren't all that great, are they?

With his crimson hair flying and blood lotuses blooming all around him, the leader of the Divine One Sect single-handedly suppressed both the present and ancient dragon gods.

He laughed heartily, mocking without mercy: "The 'Ancestral Dragon Scale,' such a supreme divine object of heaven and earth, is a complete waste in your hands! In all these years, not a single peak Dragon God at the Ninth Heaven of Refining Dao has appeared. Now it's even more pathetic, with only four Heavenly Monarchs who have mastered its foundation."

Ultimately, you so-called dragons will never understand the true 'Ancestral Dragon,' because you are not actually descendants of the Ancestral Dragon, but something... similar yet completely different, hahahaha!

Despite the fact that the God One Sect Master's Blood Sea Path was capable of corrupting the Great Void and even turning spacetime into living beings, transforming them into various spacetime gods and demons, and the Great Void Beasts, the two ancient and modern Dragon Gods remained unmoved.

[The young junior... Refining the Dao to the Ninth Heaven? Still confined to realms, still following the path of predecessors, still trying little by little, using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, using conventional methods to reach the higher 'Above the Sky']

The ancient dragon god murmured, his tone filled with disdain: "[This is impossible. If the celestial beings had not tacitly allowed you to devour the heavens and the earth, even if you spent your entire life revising your path, using every imaginable method to become a billion times stronger, even if you repeated this countless times over countless ages, you would never be able to reach the highest heavens.]"

"As I said," the Dragon God said with even greater arrogance, "it's not that we can't, but that we're unwilling."

As for now, let me show you.

At this moment, the divine light of blue and gold converged and rose upon them.

Under the will of the two dragon gods, the past and present of the entire Huai Xu world seemed to be awakened at this moment.

Two endless rivers of time emerged from nothingness, encircling the two dragon gods. Within these vast celestial rivers, the birth and death of all things, the rise and fall of civilizations, and the rise and fall of all geniuses since the beginning of time...

That's the weight of the entire world.

The two dragon gods joined forces, drawing upon the power to suppress everything, and unleashed the supreme divine power of the Ancestral Dragon Palace, exclusive to the Four Seasons Dragon Gods.

[Time and History: Ancient and Modern Records]!
(End of this chapter)