Covering the Sky: I am the King of Men, and I rule over the rise and fall of all heavens.

Chapter 24 An unexpected encounter with the original Dao Prover.

"Then let's go to the next place."

Jiang Bai's figure flickered continuously in the universe, heading straight to the outside of the Overlord Ancestral Star.

Even without entering, Jiang Bai's strength was enough to hear and see the situation of the Tyrant Blood Clan members inside.

Only those below the rank of saint are still alive; those above have all fled.

They didn't leave because they believed Jiang Bai was a human, an emperor, and wouldn't harm them, these "mortals."

"Unfortunately, you've misjudged the situation." Jiang Bai's brows twitched, and the Myriad Soul Banner appeared, rushing into the Tyrant Blood Ancestral Star.

The Great Dao was evident, the essence of heaven and earth was abundant, and the ancestral stars of the Overlord Body, which were filled with the inheritance of the Overlord Bloodline, began to gradually wither away.

The Great Dao is receding, plants and living beings are dying, and the bloodline inheritance that filled the world is beginning to dissipate.

The myriad spirits on the ancestral planet of the Overlord cried out in agony and fled. Some tried to escape with the help of a secret treasure, only to find that the entire sky of the planet was blocked.

"As for those who left, do you really think you can escape?"

A series of lights flashed in Jiang Bai's eyes, and the power of faith belonging to the Human King in the universe began to surge.

In a mountain village on the planet Ziwei, the Blood Saint Cangyun, who was hiding there, was in seclusion when he was instantly turned into a dried-up corpse.

Gouchen Star, having undergone a complete transformation, was having its essence drained in full view of everyone as it was chatting with the local sages about life.

This startled the group of sages who were discussing the Dao.

In the seventieth city of the ancient human road, the Great Sage Zhou Mu was having a pleasant conversation with the protectors of the ancient road when his pupils suddenly opened, and he died instantly.

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“I once used the power of faith to extract your essence. Did you really think you could escape?”

"You have underestimated the Emperor's divine power."

Jiang Bai looked at the source of the Overlord Blood that he had condensed in his hand and threw it directly at the Myriad Soul Banner, which was still absorbing the Overlord Body Ancestral Star.

A few minutes later, the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls flew back, and the Ancestral Star of the Overlord Body transformed into a desolate planet.

"Since they're all dead, let's bury them."

As Jiang Bai turned around, the Overlord Ancestral Star turned into endless dust and dissipated in the universe.

"With the destruction of the Ancestral Star of the Overlord Body, I can consider this as fulfilling some of Yang Yun's entrustment and protecting the Holy Body lineage."

Looking at the even more powerful Myriad Soul Banner after absorbing the Underworld and the Tyrant Blood Ancestral Star, Jiang Bai felt even more at ease.

The next step is to forge the silver armor into a celestial artifact.

Regarding the advancement of the Silver Armor, Jiang Bai chose to nurture it with the power of faith and then fuse it with other immortal metals.

Jiang Bai had a deep affection for the silver armor, a weapon he had forged since he was a child, which had protected him countless times.

When Mu Tian ambushed him, he even self-destructed once. The current silver armor is a reconstruction based on the deity before the self-destruction and a part of the corpse.

This is also why Jiang Bai dared to self-destruct the Demon-Subduing Pestle and the Taiyin Human Emperor Seal; he was experienced and knew how to cultivate them.

Jiang Bai, the ancestral star of the Overlord Body, plundered a lot of treasures in the Underworld this time. Now, it can be said that he is extremely wealthy.

There are three pieces of divine gold, each the size of a millstone, used to forge imperial weapons: Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold, Dragon Pattern Black Gold, and Dao Tribulation Gold. There are countless other smaller materials and divine medicines as well.

It's true that as long as I'm strong enough and good at fighting, my neighbor is the guardian of my precious child.

Not long after, Jiang Bai once again gathered the power of faith and created a new self of faith, sending it back to Mount Sumeru to continue trading with all living beings in the universe.

The first of the three tasks is to gather enough faith power to nourish the silver armor.

The second is to continue condensing the essence of immortality.

The third task is to observe the Vermilion Bird's Elixir of Immortality and see if we can research anything from it.

With nothing else to do and feeling that his lifespan was plentiful, Jiang Bai wandered around the universe.

On the ancient road through the starry sky, Jiang Bai heard about his polarized reputation.

A group of people thought it was a great thing that Jiang Bai survived, and that they could continue to make deals with the King of Men, be happy for Jiang Bai, and praise him.

A group of people thought Jiang Bai was too ruthless, having slaughtered the entire Hegemon Ancestral Star, where many ordinary people still lived.

Furthermore, they all believed that Jiang Bai lacked a sense of responsibility, having actually destroyed the Ninefold Imperial Pass, cutting off everyone's path to training and obtaining the inheritance opportunity. This was not at all befitting of an emperor.

Interestingly, regardless of how these people viewed Jiang Bai, they continued to do business with him, and the number of transactions increased.

This made Jiang Bai laugh; this was what they called saying one thing and meaning another.

In the third thousand years of traveling the ancient starry road, Jiang Bai met a peerless genius of the demon race, who was old and frail, on a snow-capped mountain on a planet called White Dragon.

This demon prodigy is named Feng Ming, a snow wolf whose cultivation has reached an unorthodox level of enlightenment.

Perhaps it was because he was dying and saw Lin Bai's "quasi-emperor" cultivation level that he wanted to find a successor for himself.

So Fengming told Jiang Bai his story.

Feng Ming was born in the years immediately following the end of the suppression of the Great Dao of Amitabha Buddha. He embarked on the ancient road of the starry sky and made great strides forward, believing that he was qualified to attain enlightenment.

Unfortunately, on the day he was undergoing the Great Saint Tribulation, he encountered Jiang Bai undergoing the Great Emperor Tribulation.

"Fate is fickle." Feng Ming smiled bitterly.

But Feng Ming did not stop there. He followed in Jiang Bai's footsteps and walked through the starry sky. He found a document left behind by Mu Tian in the starry sky. It was a study that he and Jiang Bai had conducted together on the impossible path to enlightenment.

"The King may not know that his friend who betrayed him actually had feelings for him, but he also had his own difficulties, after all, loyalty and filial piety are hard to reconcile." Feng Ming smiled somewhat lewdly.

Jiang Bai pursed his lips, not caring. Just because a bad person has their reasons doesn't mean they should be forgiven for their bad deeds.

Having obtained the research materials, Fengming continued his research, eventually reaching an unconventional state of enlightenment.

Unfortunately, his cultivation level was insufficient, and he failed, leaving behind a Great Dao injury.

Feng Ming said he had considered seeking refuge in the restricted area or asking Jiang Bai for the elixir of immortality.

"But I gave up later because the records left behind by the Human King when he was young said that if you live and survive to the next life, you will have unexpected gains." Feng Ming's eyes flashed with brilliance.

"Moreover, I am a proud genius who has the potential to attain enlightenment, but was born in the wrong era. How can I bow down to others?"

He has backbone.

After Fengming, he returned to his hometown and began to devote himself to researching how to live a second life.

After all, there are many cultivators in the universe who have lived a second life. As long as we study it carefully, it is definitely possible.

With the accumulation of two lifetimes, he will surely reach the point where he can break through all paths and become an emperor.

After thousands of years of research, Fengming successfully lived out his second life in his later years after his first life.

After living a perfect life, the Great Dao injury disappeared, the origin expanded, and the lifespan was extended. Feng Ming was very happy.

"Back then, I even maliciously speculated that if the Human King had been eliminated by the Supreme Being in his first life, I could have directly attained enlightenment." Feng Ming chuckled self-deprecatingly.

Jiang Bai wasn't angry, which is normal.

However, even in his later years in his second life, Feng Ming had not accumulated enough combat power to break through all the myriad paths.

Hearing this, Jiang Bai sighed slightly. Accumulation alone is not enough. In the original work, before Ye Fan tried to break through the myriad paths and prove his Dao, his combat power had already reached the point where he could overpower the Golden Crow Emperor and force the other party to remain in a corner of the world.

Although people often insult the Golden Crow Emperor, it is undeniable that in his first life he was also a being who swept across the universe, a standard template of an emperor.

Even though he was defeated several times by Ye Fan and others when he tried to force his way to immortality, he managed to make up for it later.

Moreover, he also underwent a rebirth to strengthen his origin.

Therefore, it is impossible to break through all paths by simply accumulating experience; constant battles are required.

"Perhaps it was because I lived through my second life during the unconventional path to enlightenment in my first life, and because the laws of the Imperial Path permeated my physical body, that I lived a very long life in my second life, a full eleven thousand years."

"I am now in my third life."

Jiang Bai's eyebrows twitched wildly. How did you manage to live another life?

As for Feng Ming living to be eleven thousand years old, Jiang Bai was not surprised. In the original story, Duan De was able to obtain the Great Emperor Dao Fruit before he even achieved Dao, and lived to be seventeen or eighteen thousand years old.

"In my later years in my second life, I began to wander the universe. Perhaps due to good luck, I found the True Dragon Elixir of Immortality." Feng Ming flipped his hand and took out the Elixir of Immortality.

"What great luck!" Jiang Bai couldn't help but exclaim.

At the same time, Jiang Bai also confirmed that this Fengming was most likely the enlightened one after Amitabha Buddha in the original timeline.

(End of this chapter)