Shrouding the Heavens: The Ruthless Heavenly Emperor

"Several young powerhouses, including the Buddha's disciple, are inside. I believe you have never met them or fought them." The guide's aged voice reached Xu Changqing's ears.

Xu Changqing, however, did not fight those human powerhouses. After all, in his eyes, these people were not formidable enemies, and he did not want to waste his time on them.

Only the Ruthless Great Emperor is his match!

It wasn't that he was arrogant, but rather that he had a clear understanding of himself.

While the guide was sketching mysterious runes on the open ground of the city lord's mansion, he kept chatting with Xu Changqing, but it was all him talking and Xu Changqing did not respond.

"boom!"

Soon, a huge explosion rang out in the city. All living beings looked up and saw that a huge hole had been torn open in the sky, with a dazzling road running through the opening, its destination unknown.

Upon seeing the opening of the cave, the guide, slightly out of breath and with a pale face, complained, "If it's not opened within the stipulated time, we have to pay a price to create the passage. I don't want to waste so many rare and precious materials; it hurts my heart."

"Losing most of my strength to open the passage was not a loss; I recovered quickly."

It's clear that this guide is very greedy.

Xu Changqing stepped into the passageway.

The guide seemed to have thought of something and hesitated before speaking, saying, "Ruthless, according to reliable sources, the Holy Lord of the Misty Holy Land on Burial Emperor Star has embarked on the Emperor's Path, and it is said that he has come to find you."

Upon hearing this, Xu Changqing paused for a moment, then continued walking without responding or speaking.

"Wasn't it supposed to start in half a month? Why has the trial started now?" Many of the younger generation wondered.

Suddenly, everyone saw ripples spreading out, and a white figure appeared and then disappeared. The moment the passage opened, that person went inside.

Chapter 59 Five Years

A golden road stretched across the sky, connecting to the unknown, opening up in an instant, only to disappear just as quickly.

This left everyone in the city stunned. Who was so powerful that they could get the guide to open the passage ahead of time and let someone in?

Immediately, someone protested, "Your Excellency the Guide, why can that person go in, but we can't?!"

Of course, I felt uncomfortable. Everyone who comes here is arrogant and doesn't think they are weaker than anyone else.

A middle-aged man in black armor rode an ancient beast through the city, followed by rows of armored soldiers.

He glanced at the crowd around him and said coldly, "When you one day go to the Holy Spirit Emperor's Road to slaughter people for the sake of humanity's reputation, sever their ancient path, and make them lose face, you can have the guide take you to travel all over the starry sky."

Upon hearing this, everyone froze, their eyes widening in disbelief, their breathing becoming heavy, and those who disagreed turned pale.

"Commander Momo, you're saying that person is heartless?!"

Someone questioned in a trembling voice, "None of the powerful figures who have reached the seventy-plus levels of the human race have not seen Xu Changqing. Most of them came from the fiftieth level."

Commander Mo nodded, his eyes filled with admiration and boundless fervor, before finally calming down and leaving.

He himself was also at the Saint King realm, but compared to Xu Changqing, the other party could probably kill him with just a glance.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. If they had really gone in with that guy, not to mention whether they would have had a chance to get the rare treasures, they weren't even sure if they would survive.

He was a true god of war, though he rarely appeared in public, his legend persisted.

This was a forest of fiery mulberry trees. Xu Changqing was stunned as he looked at the fiery red expanse ahead.

Mulberry leaves fell from the trees with the breeze, drifting in the air, creating a fiery red expanse as far as the eye could see.

On a road paved with bluestone, there were fiery red leaves everywhere. There was nothing else here except an endless forest of mulberry trees.

After walking around for two days, Xu Changqing discovered that there was a house deep in the Fire Mulberry Forest.

The room was old and had a heavy, oppressive feel to it, hazy and indistinct, as if it didn't belong to this era.

Seeing this, Xu Changqing stopped in his tracks, his gaze becoming somewhat unfocused, and he didn't even notice anything amiss.

"Whoo~"

A gentle breeze swept by, causing Xu Changqing's white hair to sway. He froze on the spot, his gaze lost in thought.

He saw a girl sitting alone on the wooden house, her hands wrapped around her knees, her head tilted back, staring blankly at the sky, her eyes glistening with tears.

Xu Changqing didn't even notice that the sky was black, dotted with stars, the Milky Way was flowing, and the bright moon was hanging high. The girl seemed to be in a daze, or perhaps she was just lost in thought.

"I will always be here waiting for you to come back."

The intense longing spread, and Xu Changqing was infected by that emotion, constantly recalling the time before he rose to power.

He reminisced about running a breakfast stall with his wife, spending every day happily together.

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Later, he became intimate with another woman, and the scenes kept changing, showing his past time with his Daoist partners.

Xu Changqing was trapped in an illusion, without even realizing it.

Outside, two blurry figures were observing him from the side.

He didn't say anything, just watched quietly.

Soon, tears streamed down Xu Changqing's dazed eyes, hot tears flowing down his cheeks, as he murmured repeatedly, "We will always be together. I will not cultivate. I do not want to enter the world of cultivation. I want to stay with you in the mortal town and spend the rest of my life together."

“See, I told you he would cry,” a blurry figure laughed beside Xu Changqing.

Soon, two more figures appeared beside Xu Changqing, both enveloped in dense fragments of time, making it impossible to discern their faces.

"Wouldn't it be inappropriate to do this?" one of the figures said hesitantly.

"Hasn't this guy made us cry enough?"

Time passed, and Xu Changqing remained trapped in the environment for three whole years. During these three years, he did not recall anything and had no memory whatsoever.

He spent every day with his three wives, running a steamed bun shop, and had a bunch of children.

However, Xu Changqing had a persistent feeling that he was asleep, a sense of unreality. But he was just a mortal and had no idea what to do, feeling a tightness in his chest.

"His Dao heart is about to shatter!" a blurry figure said coldly.

"It's not a big problem."

"Changqing, what's wrong with you lately?" A woman dressed in red silk looked at Xu Changqing with a worried expression.

She has a cute and innocent look, but she is not the kind of stunning beauty. She looks quite ordinary, with a delicate and fragile beauty.

Her appearance was not as stunning as the woman in white, as cute as Mu Miaomiao, or as ethereal as Lin Qianyu.

She possessed only the qualities of an ordinary person, and there were plenty of women in the city who were even more beautiful than her.

Xu Changqing lay on the bed, staring blankly at the woman, muttering, "I don't know what's wrong with me. I feel like I'm dreaming. Seeing you makes my heart ache."

For some reason, a year ago, when he first saw this woman, his heart fluttered, and the desire to win her over had become an obsession.

Time passed, and five years had gone by in the outside world, while Xu Changqing had spent almost half his life in the illusion.

He had three wives and many children and grandchildren.

For some reason, Xu Changqing felt nothing for Mu Miaomiao and Lin Qianyu, but instead doted on and spoiled the ordinary-looking girl.

He had even forgotten the name of the woman in red, only knowing that she was his wife, without even realizing it.

Fifty years of his life passed, and he felt increasingly anxious, his body began to weaken, and his mind was constantly in turmoil.

People can become incredibly impulsive, losing all rationality.

One night, Xu Changqing had a dream in which he was holding a blood-stained human head in a desert.

He was running wildly, running while crying and laughing, roaring about the injustice of heaven and cursing all the cultivators in the world.

"boom!

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The next moment, Xu Changqing outside burst out with an extremely brilliant light, shattering the Fire Mulberry Forest. The white light shot directly into the starry sky, accompanied by an angry roar.

"Huh, you've broken through." A blurry figure said.

Xu Changqing stood still, his white hair dancing wildly, his eyes filled with lightning, exuding an incomparably domineering aura. He stared expressionlessly at the sky, where endless lightning tribulations were gathering.

He didn't see the blurry figure beside him, or even notice it.

"No wonder when I saw him again in my youth, his cultivation was actually above mine," a pleasant female voice rang out.

This silenced a blurry figure nearby.

Even without His intervention, this secret realm would still be filled with illusions. He only added a tiny bit of something, which simply clouded Xu Changqing's mind and prolonged the time.

While others might stay here for a few days, Xu Changqing would stay for several years.

"Hehe, if this continues, my Dao heart will shatter."

Xu Changqing chuckled self-deprecatingly, looking at the mangroves swirling in the sky outside, with endless lightning pouring down, yet unable to harm him in the slightest.

For him, this was a precious opportunity. He was unaware of his own obsession and even doubted himself on several occasions that he was running away!

He didn't know what was going on. Xu Changqing thought it was a test to enter the secret realm, and he had experienced this situation several times before.

But they all have memories and recollections, unlike here.

He completely forgot that he was a cultivator, and even lost most of his memories. Those memories of cultivation, those unforgettable experiences, were all gone, leaving only an incomparably beautiful illusion.

Luckily I had that dream, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to wake up.

After breaking through the illusion, my Dao heart became more resilient, my state of mind became more complete, and my understanding of the Reincarnation Blade Technique deepened.

He even broke through to the pinnacle of Saint King, almost reaching the Great Saint realm!

Chapter 60 Buddha

Xu Changqing transcended the tribulation and reached the pinnacle of Saint King, almost breaking into the Great Saint realm.

He never imagined that upon entering this place, he would be trapped in an illusion, forced to confront all the events of that year, with those tragic experiences romanticized.

"Trapping me in an illusion, sealing off everything about me, and bringing my mindset back to what it used to be—this kind of method..." Xu Changqing frowned slightly; it was the first time he had ever experienced something like this.

He was caught off guard and fell into the illusion. The intense longing he felt was so strong that even he was affected.

He even experienced a mortal's entire life within the illusion.

The illusion was so beautiful that he didn't want to leave and remained immersed in it.

Unfortunately, a dream shattered his spirit, making him realize that these people were already dead in his memory.