Shrouding the Heavens: The Ruthless Heavenly Emperor

"If I hadn't used a trick to put you in the situation you least wanted to face, I probably wouldn't have won either."

"Therefore, we validate each other and grow together."

But defeat is defeat, and there's nothing the woman in white can't accept.

If you lose, you can always win it back next time.

Moreover, she believes that as long as she doesn't admit defeat, she hasn't lost.

"Let's go." Xu Changqing turned around and took out the spaceship.

The woman in white lay in a pool of blood, silently taking a divine medicine from the Sea of ​​Bitterness and swallowing it. Her injuries began to heal, and she regained her mobility. She followed Xu Changqing into the spaceship.

Xu Changqing is right. If he continues to set off from the Ancient Trial Road alone, it may take a lot of time, and he may not encounter any opponents who can rival him along the way.

It would be better to go to the Imperial Road with Xu Changqing, so that when you make a breakthrough in your closed-door cultivation, you can find a sparring partner.

Moreover, after this battle, the woman in white wanted to create a move specifically to counter Xu Changqing's previous attack, which was mainly aimed at her primordial spirit and mind.

Although she keeps reminiscing about her brother, when the obsession resurfaces, she becomes enraged and easily loses her temper.

If it weren't for Xu Changqing restricting her strength and her unfamiliarity with the first battle, she would have broken free of the Soul-Sealing Nails long ago and continued fighting.

Unfortunately, because he was trapped in the environment and was beaten by Xu Changqing from the outside world, his physical body was already exhausted, and so was his primordial spirit.

The woman in white secretly vowed to create a spell to protect her primordial spirit.

However, the best defense is offense.

Having gained experience from her first encounter with Xu Changqing, she also realized her own shortcomings.

Chapter 36 Imperial Pass

On the ancient land of life on the ancient trial road of the human race, many creatures raised their heads and watched the huge spaceship leave, and breathed a sigh of relief.

They looked down at the earth and found that the lush plains had vanished, and the towering lava was constantly gushing forth, like the end of the world.

I also saw the starry sky go out, there was no light, and the whole world was only a dark red, which was the light emitted by the magma.

“Our world was almost destroyed,” one of the creatures said with fear. The two were the most terrifying young people they had ever seen.

Even those younger generation members from other star systems back then were slaughtered by them and fled in terror, but they were terrified by a female demon.

There was no other way; their home was located on the ancient trial road of the human race, one of the few ancient lands of life, where natural resources were somewhat scarce.

"That white-haired man looks a bit like the escaped deity from thirty years ago."

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement. Thirty years ago, the Imperial Pass opened, and the younger generation embarked on the ancient star road to the Imperial Pass.

"This time, our hunt for that woman ended in heavy losses. Let's go into hiding. Almost all of the younger generation is dead, and all the saints have been wiped out. Only the old, weak, and disabled are left. If we encounter another ruthless person like that, we will all be wiped out."

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, three years have passed.

During this time, Xu Changqing and the woman in white would occasionally go to the starry sky to spar, but they did not fight with all their might. Instead, they used the gains from their seclusion to verify each other's skills.

Xu Changqing was using her to improve his martial arts and healing techniques.

He has acquired too many cultivation techniques, including hundreds of millions from the Eternal Star Domain alone, as well as techniques from various star domains and eras. He has also studied all kinds of healing techniques.

The two hadn't spoken once in three years since the great battle. Whenever they wanted to fight, they would go out into the starry sky and wait for the other to arrive.

Over the course of three years, Xu Changqing's movement techniques and healing secrets have become basically perfected.

Because they possess accurate coordinates, they naturally wouldn't engage in bloodshed and battles along the ancient trial path, nor would they attempt to seize the five-colored altars to traverse the starry sky.

However, if they sense the aura of a Saint King, they will go down and fight a Saint King-level expert. They are not half-saints, but saints, and saints who can enter the divine forbidden zone. Naturally, they are not afraid of Saint Kings.

Over the course of three years, Xu Changqing and the woman in white fought no fewer than a thousand times, sometimes hundreds of times a year.

On this day, they arrived at a dead star, and the coordinates on the spaceship were close enough, so they decided to walk there.

This is a dim, ancient star with a scarlet crescent moon hanging in the sky. The ground is scorched black, as if it has witnessed countless battles. Various ghostly entities wander on the earth.

They explored the ancient star, occasionally encountering a grave.

In front of those burial mounds, there is a stone tablet with several lines of characters engraved on it, written in a vigorous and powerful style.

"What am I pursuing? The elusive realm of the Great Emperor? I haven't even reached the entrance of the Emperor's Path, so how can I possibly reach the summit? So, what have I been pursuing all these years?"

The scarlet characters on the stone tablet were glaringly obvious, carrying with them resentment and endless regret.

Xu Changqing then saw a few more lines of text on the stone tablet.

This person severed all ties with the mortal world in order to embark on the path to God, and walked the path alone, only to die tragically here in the end.

"Saint Demon - Ye Ming".

The last thing on the stone tablet was the name of this outstanding person. Xu Changqing didn't know why he was called "Saint Demon," and he was too lazy to find out.

Beside her, a woman in white stood quietly on a crystal-clear stone tablet, her deep autumn eyes looking at the few lines of words. Her white clothes fluttered in the wind, and her beautiful black hair swayed gently.

"I knew you would come, I'll be waiting for you on the road ahead!"

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Heaven has feelings.

"It's her," the woman in white said softly. Tian Youqing was a powerful figure from their hometown. They had never fought against her, but she was unfathomable.

She possesses a special physique and an innate Daoist constitution, and is also known as the number one beauty of the Big Dipper.

She always wore a veil, and no one had ever seen her true face. She was ethereal, as if a fairy from a celestial realm had descended to the mortal world, her aura even more ethereal and otherworldly than her.

Xu Changqing continued deeper into the area and saw a golden stone tablet with several lines of powerful and vigorous characters. His deep eyes were as calm as a pool of still water.

"I was defeated by my father, and my mother was not strong enough to embark on the path to heaven, so I came!!"

"Next time we meet, I will definitely not lose to him!"

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Xu An.

Xu Changqing watched for a while, a cold smile appearing on his lips. He put his hands behind his back, stopped looking at the stone tablets, and without waiting for the woman in white, he transformed into a streak of light and rushed into the depths of the Death Star.

If I lose to him again, I might die!

He is no longer the person he once was, and he will not show mercy just because he is his blood relative.

"boom!"

Deep within the Death Star, blazing blade light shattered the misty sky, and countless wails echoed.

Those were transparent spirits, all of them young people who died here. Who among those who made it this far was an ordinary person?

Unfortunately, even in life, they couldn't last ten moves against Xu Changqing, let alone as spirits, which are essentially ghosts.

Holding a bone knife, Xu Changqing charged forward, rapidly approaching a narrow path, where he was surrounded by a dense swarm of souls.

But he simply thrust the bone knife lightly into the ground, and with a boom, countless long blades rose from the ground, finally rotating in all directions, their sharp blades illuminating the dim world.

Many holy spirits transformed into points of light.

Xu Changqing did not use a spaceship, but moved forward alone, encountering many ghosts along the way, but he killed them all.

The woman in white also parted ways with Xu Changqing and disappeared into the ancient star.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye. Xu Changqing had killed countless ghostly and terrifying souls. He had a clear direction, so it only took him a week to start seeing figures one after another.

The sky was dark, as if dark clouds had covered it, with only scattered starlight twinkling; there was no sun, no moon.

The rough path was uneven and surrounded by thick fog, but it carried the scents of other creatures. Using the Martial Arts Heavenly Eye to see through the fog, several ancient paths intersected together, and ahead lay the end of an ancient path.

"Roar!"

A terrifying roar came from the side, and a dragon-like creature soared through the misty fog.

It was weaving through the clouds, and above it stood a man dressed in red.

There were also beasts resembling Qilin running wildly on the ground, with dust filling the air on the path. Some of them were at the level of half-saints, and some were at the level of saints. There were many different kinds of them.

There were also some stunningly beautiful women standing on thin air, smiling, but their eyes revealed weariness.

"Get out of the way!"

Just as Xu Changqing reached the end of the ancient road, a furious shout and a strong smell of blood came from behind him, along with an astonishing killing intent.

Upon hearing this, Xu Changqing immediately stopped and turned around. Suddenly, a gaping maw blocked his view, its densely packed teeth sending chills down his spine.

Seeing this, the surrounding creatures all stopped to watch the spectacle. This white-haired man was all alone, and there was no strong killing intent, no smell of blood, and no trace of blood on him.

Unlike them, who fought their way here from their hometown, it took them at least ten years.

Xu Changqing stared coldly at the gaping maw, then stretched out his right hand and slashed it sideways.

"Hey!"

With a flash of light, the enormous, blood-red maw was instantly split in two, and the owner of the voice appeared.

He was an incredibly handsome young man, somewhat thin, with very pale skin, resembling a vampire, but exuding a strong smell of blood, and wearing a sickly smile on his face.

Xu Changqing stood calmly opposite the young man, letting the wind blow through his hair.

The young man opposite him was also a saint!

However, the people around Xu Changqing stared in disbelief at the gaping maw of an ancient beast on the verge of extinction, whose combat power was extremely formidable and possessed heaven-defying strength.

He was able to compete with a divine body within the same realm, but he was instantly defeated by someone whose realm was unknown!

The thin young man looked at the ancient beast lying to the side with a face full of resentment and pain, tears streaming down his face. He alternated between laughing and crying.

It seems he has gone mad.

"No, how could you kill it? It was so cute, how could you kill it?!"

Adorable! Everyone was speechless. The ancient beast looked like a caterpillar, covered in fur, round and smooth, with fine blue hairs. It had hundreds of eyes on its face and three gaping, ferocious mouths.

"It seems he's gone mad after fighting for over a decade."

Indeed, if they were alone with a beast, constantly fighting and being hunted for over a decade, they would go insane.

Xu Changqing watched as the thin young man held the grotesque corpse. Without any hesitation, he raised his hand and slapped him across the face.

boom!

The palm unleashed an extreme divine light, enveloping the youth and the ancient beast. The ultimate attack power was revealed, and the divine might of a saint covered the entire area, causing even some geniuses who had not yet reached the saint level to feel a sense of suffocation.