Man is in the heavens, parasites are born

Chapter 245: Timid

Inside the myriad worlds, Fang Ming looked at the now-calmed River of Souls and sighed softly, "These four people do have the potential to become Immortal Emperors, what a pity..."

Shi Hao walked over, looked at the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors in the River of Souls, and said calmly, "It's not such a pity. Keeping such people around will only make them another source of strangeness sooner or later."

"Fellow Daoist, have you ever tried to turn these people around from the root and make them positive figures?" Fang Ming looked at Shi Hao and asked with a hint of curiosity.

He wanted to know if they were capable of doing such a thing.

Shi Hao chuckled and said, "The reason they have achieved such success is precisely because of their personalities. If you were to change them, they would not be able to achieve such success."

There has never been a rule that only positive figures or people of high moral character can achieve great things.

"If we could reverse their personalities and enable them to grow to their current level, it would essentially be equivalent to creating another quasi-Immortal Emperor with the potential to become an Immortal Emperor," he continued.

The implication is clear: why bother with all that effort? Just recreate it directly.

At this moment, Shi Hao looked towards the direction of the Soul River and smiled, saying, "Those few are in trouble. The Immortal Emperor of the Strange Clan has already noticed them."

Fang Ming raised an eyebrow and said, "You won't notice anything unusual about my myriad worlds, will you?"

If the Celestial Emperor of the Strange Clan were to turn his attention here, and after dealing with those four, were to take action, his entire universe might be exposed.

“It doesn’t matter. They’ve become like frightened birds and might not have the guts to make a move,” Shi Hao said calmly. He looked in the direction of Gaoyuan Etu and smiled. “Even if they do have the guts, there’s no need to worry. For us, we can fight when we want and leave when we want.”

He came here because he sensed the approach of the strange Immortal Emperor.

At this very moment, within the shattered River of Souls, four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors are searching for something—the Immortal Emperor Scriptures that might exist outside the primordial spirits of these strange Quasi-Immortal Emperors.

Suddenly, a chilling voice, filled with killing intent, resounded throughout the boundless heavens and echoed in the hearts of countless beings.

"Hmph! You mere four ants at the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level dare to provoke me? I'll show myself now and let you see if you can face my true face!"

Before the sound faded, the area where the River of Souls was located became hazy. The shattered River of Souls disappeared, replaced by a strange and inexplicable place.

There it was magnificent and ancient, infinitely vast, far surpassing the Boundary Sea. Countless crimson waves of the Great Dao annihilated time and space, shattering the Great Dao itself. A supreme figure stood with his hands behind his back, treading on the crimson waves, his eyes coldly fixed on the River of Souls.

Even across endless time and space, one can still feel that supreme aura.

"not good!"

"A true Immortal Emperor..."

The Azure Emperor, the Feather Emperor, the Hong Emperor, and the World Destroyer were all caught up in their thoughts. Without time to think further, they immediately summoned the Ancient Reception Hall to escape from this place.

The only place they could think of to hide was the Ultimate Ancient Land on the other side of the Boundary Sea.

However, at this moment, they found that their bodies were not under their control and remained stationary.

"Leaving already?" A mocking voice came from an unknown place and time, "Didn't you say you wanted to see what I had to offer? Now that I've shown myself, you're all unhappy!"

As soon as the words fell, the Azure Emperor, the Feather Emperor, the Hong Emperor, the World Destroyer, and the others involuntarily raised their heads and looked ahead, directly seeing the figure of the Strange Clan.

"what……"

The four exclaimed in terror, for they had witnessed an incredibly horrifying presence. In an instant, their own Dao principles underwent a strange transformation, becoming inexplicably and eerily corrupted.

In an instant, a strange, multicolored whirlwind swept through the area where the River of Souls had been, and at the same time, countless strange hairs of red, green, blue, and cyan grew out from the bodies of the Azure Emperor, the Feather Emperor, the Hong Emperor, and the Old Man of Annihilation.

"Whoo~"

A strange whirlwind swept past, its multicolored hairs spreading far and wide like a tide, and the original four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors had vanished without a trace.

For a true Immortal Emperor, killing four Quasi-Immortal Emperors is indeed a matter of a single thought.

After completing all this, the Celestial Emperor of this strange race stood on the edge of the highland's perilous land. His gaze swept across the nine heavens and ten earths, across countless worlds, his eyes radiating an incomparably cold light, and he said:
"Another aberrant past, just how much planning did that person make in the past and future..."

In the process of investigating Shi Hao and Ye Fan, and where their roots were hidden, he discovered countless so-called 'variables'.

Most of these variables are man-made, mostly traps, an enormous pit. The person to whom these so-called variables point is actually a manifestation of the Great Law of Self-Transformation.

It's fine if we don't take action, but once we do, in the end, the people transformed by the Great Law of Transformation will awaken, and then there will be trouble.

Most importantly, even if the 'variable' created by the Great Art of Transformation is resolved, the Ancestor himself cannot follow the clues to find where Shi Hao and Ye Fan are hiding.

All we know is that those two must still be alive! The strange Immortal Emperor's gaze swept across the nine heavens and ten earths, across the Immortal Realm, the Burial Ground, and other places. He saw the vanished alien realms and the expanding myriad worlds, and a look of apprehension appeared on his face.

Of course, what he feared was not the master of the myriad worlds who had not yet advanced to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, but rather his suspicion that the master of these myriad worlds was actually the manifestation of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's Great Transformation Technique.

Admittedly, even the Desolate Emperor suffered considerable injuries after that battle, but he was, after all, the Desolate Emperor, the one who caused the Ancestor to perish forever.

Right now, if I were to fall into a trap, even if I didn't die, I would be badly injured!

There is more than one such example. In the future or the past, some quasi-immortal emperors and even immortal emperors of the strange races made some discoveries and thought they had found the so-called 'variables', but they all ended up falling into a trap.

With these thoughts lingering, the figure of this eerie Immortal Emperor gradually dimmed. He had already made his decision: simply increase the number of Quasi-Immortal Emperors under his command, and refrain from taking any risks himself.

Currently, no Quasi-Immortal Emperors have been born in the heavens. Even if there are Quasi-Immortal Emperors, their numbers are limited. This can be verified by increasing the number of Quasi-Immortal Emperors in their race beyond the carrying capacity of this era.

As this Immortal Emperor disappeared, time reversed, the shattered River of Souls was restored to its original state, and countless beings within it reappeared, including the strange Quasi-Immortal Emperor who had been beheaded by the four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors.

This is the mighty power belonging to the Celestial Emperor!
"There really wasn't any other movement!!"

Within the myriad worlds, Fang Ming was genuinely surprised to see the Immortal Emperor of the Strange Clan depart.

I thought he would have to test the waters no matter what, after all, there was such a big variable in front of us.

Not far away, Shi Hao smiled, seemingly thinking of something interesting, and said:
"It's not entirely unexpected. I once used the Great Transformation Technique to set traps in different times and spaces, artificially creating countless 'variables.' They've been tricked so many times that they've become extremely sensitive. Even strange beings at the Immortal Emperor level dare not easily step out of that cursed land."

Once bitten by a snake, twice shy – this is a very apt description of the current elites of the eerie group.

After the Immortal Emperor of the Strange Clan left, Shi Hao also returned to his secluded cultivation place.

Occasionally, he would also enter into the body of his own avatar, which was derived from the Great Art of Self-Transformation, and engage in a contest of strength with figures such as the Immortal Emperor and even the progenitor of the strange race.

Seeing Shi Hao leave, Fang Ming's mind raced, and his attention returned to his attribute panel. After so much time, he was already able to reopen the next gate to the myriad realms.

"However, the question of where the Gate to All Realms should be opened is still a problem..." Fang Ming pondered.

Opening the gates to the celestial realms is not without risk; if one were to open a dangerous and powerful world, the consequences would be dire.

Especially since there have been excellent examples before, the opening of the gates to the heavens is random. If it happens to be a more powerful spacetime within the current worldview, that would probably not be so wonderful.

Even if you don't randomly get into another timeline that's more powerful than the current one, there will still be dangers in any other timeline.

In the blink of an eye, Fang Ming had already made up his mind. He had already arrived in Ye Fan's foundation world and found Ye Fan.

There is nowhere safer than here right now.

Compared to others, Ye Fan, who was also from Earth, was considered a "fellow countryman," which made him a bit more of a topic of conversation.

The foundational world where Ye Fan resides, and the countless heavens and realms they rebuilt with their great magical power, are not within the same heavenly world as Fang Ming.

Of course, these two are connected and not completely independent.

Here, time was completely independent, and Fang Ming did not interfere in their affairs.

A thousand years later, they have long since reflected back the immeasurable heavens and the endless heavens.

Nowadays, these Immortal Emperors have already severed their avatars and begun cultivating their second Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit.

Seeing Fang Ming's arrival, Ye Fan wasn't too surprised. He had already guessed it and said, "Fellow Daoist, you've come here, presumably to prepare to open the passage to other realms beyond the Dao?"

Admittedly, for them at present, the two heretical information contained in Fang Ming are enough to enable them to cultivate two Immortal Emperor Dao Fruits.

However, opening the path to the outer lands was Fang Ming's personal matter, and they had taken it into consideration from the very beginning of the cooperation.

When it comes to cooperation, you can't just consider your own gains without taking into account the corresponding risks.

Fang Ming's journey across the country must have been for a reason; they believed he might have other motives, and therefore they were bound to share some of the risks with him.

After analysis, and after observing Shi Hao's actions from this time and space, they concluded that the risks posed by Fang Ming, this outsider, were less than those of the Mysterious Plateau, and that the existence of the Mysterious Clan posed a greater risk. Comparing the two, they chose the lesser of two evils and opted to cooperate with this outsider.

Now, it's time to take the risk.

(End of this chapter)