Chapter 745: End of Volume: Jade Palace of Jiuhua

Twenty thousand years later, the Netherworld.

Waking up suddenly from a dream, Wu Yao rubbed her eyes, only to realize she wasn’t in Wangchuan.

This was a slightly luxurious grand hall, where the bed made of dark corroded wood was covered with precious furs, surrounded by various ornate treasures.

"Oh, so today I am resting!"

Still dazed in the dream, it took Wu Yao a while to come to her senses.

But that dream was just too real.

So real that Wu Yao still couldn’t forget that sense of "unity of all."

In that incredibly realistic dream, it seemed she was no longer herself.

She was merely a part of a vast group, a basic unit of the entity called "Heavenly Inheritance and Earthly Imitation Queen of Earth".

In that dream, Wu Yao experienced countless different lives of hers and witnessed the birth of heaven and earth and the world’s end.

Until the end, that indescribable presence traveled back to twenty thousand years ago.

"Wait... was that really just a dream?"

Rubbing her temples hard, the now fully awake Wu Yao murmured suspiciously.

If it were only a dream, then the clarity of Li Boyang’s teachings was a bit too vivid, wasn’t it?

The "Tao of Taiyi" he expounded transcended the Three Realms, transcended time and space.

Even now, it is still deeply imprinted in Wu Yao’s mind.

The crucial point is, that Emperor Hao achieved the "Tao of Taiyi", leaping to become the true Lord of Heaven.

"Lord of Heaven?"

With sudden realization and wide eyes, Wu Yao noticed the extra memory that had appeared in her mind.

Wu Yao thought it was just the memories of other Wu Yao left in the dream, but now it clearly seemed to be an alternate life of her own.

"Xiao Hei, what time is it now? I mean, the Heavenly Dao Calendar year."

With such thoughts, Wu Yao snapped her fingers lightly, and the ebony stone figure of a hunting dog by the door suddenly turned around.

Although it was merely a stone statue, it demonstrated a remarkable spirituality.

"Today is the forty-seventh year of the Heavenly Dao era, during the Xia time of the year, the sixteenth of July."

"Because the Ghost Gate opened wide last night, all the ghosts went to the mortal world, so you have a day off."

At this point, the hunting dog statue suddenly paused, a hint of human-like concern in its eyes.

"Did you sleep poorly last night? Should I call the Celestial Erosion Monarch over?"

Shaking her head to decline the statue’s suggestion, Wu Yao just continued to massage her head with a smile.

"No need for such hassle."

"If I really call that guy over, I guess I’ll have an even worse headache."

Wu Yao was speaking the truth; ever since her rebirth, the Celestial Erosion Monarch seemed to treat her like some "fragile item".

Even the most trivial matters would cause him to make a big fuss, giving Wu Yao endless headaches every time.

Of course, Wu Yao did not dislike this feeling.

Because she knew she was not the true Wu Yao, but a new individual pieced together from Wu Yao’s remnants.

Even having inherited past memories, Wu Yao felt a sense of unworthiness.

Especially in front of the Celestial Erosion Monarch, Ye Ming, and Xiluo, this favor she received by replacing others made Wu Yao cherish it immensely.

"Speaking of which, what is Ye Ming doing today?"

Ye Ming, in her role as Wuchang, was responsible for maintaining the order of the Yin and Yang Realms.

Thus, on the important day when the Ghost Gate opened wide, she would often go to the mortal world to watch over the ghosts.

"Is she still, as before, on duty at the Mansion Lord of Mount Tai’s shrine?"

Upon hearing this, the statue didn’t respond immediately, but looked at Wu Yao with a strange mixture of concern in its gaze.

"Master, Mount Tai is the domain of the Eastern Peak Emperor, and it has long been decided that Yin Spirits are not allowed on duty there."

Such words left Wu Yao momentarily dumbstruck.

"Eastern Peak... Emperor?"

In Wu Yao’s impression, there was only one Mansion Lord of Mount Tai, the embodiment of the Lord of the Netherworld in the mortal world— the Mansion Lord of Mount Tai.

Where did this Eastern Peak Emperor emerge from?

Thinking this, the additional memory in Wu Yao’s mind clarified the truth.

The Eastern Peak Emperor, named Jinhong Clan, was the reincarnation of the Lord of the Netherworld from twenty thousand years ago.

After the great war from twenty thousand years ago, Jinhong Clan chose to stay in the present world and did not return to the Netherworld.

And when Li Boyang achieved the Dao, Jinhong Clan replaced the Mansion Lord of Mount Tai from the original timeline, becoming the agent of the Lord of the Netherworld in the mortal world.

Even the title "Eastern Peak Great Emperor" was derived from the renown of the Five Peaks.

Indeed, in this era, due to the ongoing impact of that great war twenty thousand years ago, five towering peaks emerged.

The world only thought that with the decline of Kunlun, the world naturally evolved in such a way.

However, inheriting memories from other timelines, Wu Yao understood that the rise of the Five Peaks was the will of that "Heavenly Inheritance and Earthly Imitation Queen of Earth".

"History... has truly changed?"

Only at this moment did Wu Yao feel the alteration of history as something tangible.

—So how many people now remember the history before it was changed?

This thought slipped through Wu Yao’s mind, and she fell silent.

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"Has the long river of history upstream of the River of Time been reshaped?"

Gazing at those five mountains towering on the earth, the Celestial Erosion Monarch murmured with confusion.

"Could that ’Heavenly Inheritance and Earthly Imitation Queen of Earth’ be Wu Yao?"

The path taken by the Celestial Erosion Monarch was different from all Pathfinders.

He did not seek the path externally but walked the road of "with the heavens and earth gone, I remain independent".

Thus, this timeline shift had the least impact on the Celestial Erosion Monarch.

At the very least, the Celestial Erosion Monarch, unlike other Pathfinders, does not possess an alternative life memory post-timeline shift.

In the Celestial Erosion Monarch’s subjective perception, he only saw a central deity born of the earth smile faintly at him, and then the world transformed profoundly.

Mountains and rivers changed course...

The Five Peaks rose from the ground...

By the time the Celestial Erosion Monarch realized, he had become the Observatory Master of the "Nine Blossoms Jade Pavilion".

This "Nine Blossoms Jade Pavilion" was not part of the Five Peaks nor part of the physical world.

It was a Blessed Cave Heaven born naturally from the earth, located in the Yellow Court deep within.

"So the question is, what on earth happened to me?"

He looked down at his own splendid robe.

The Celestial Erosion Monarch’s life experience was rewritten, yet he did not inherit the memory after the historical rewrite.

So now he was left with endless confusion and bewilderment, entirely unaware of why he became the Observatory Master of the "Nine Blossoms Jade Pavilion".

"Perhaps... I should ask Wu Yao?"

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