Chapter 1601 - 168: Ceasing War (Part 2)

Chapter 1601: Chapter 168: Ceasing War (Part 2)

Paused for a moment.

"To be precise..."

"For certain specific causal events, only Zhao Chunyang can make changes."

The Holy Emperor looked at Xie Xuanyi, contemplated for a long time, and spoke word by word.

This seemingly ordinary statement.

In reality, each word was a gem.

"Crack, crack, crack!"

As he spoke, Xie Xuanyi faintly heard the sound of breaking, and the stone fetus wrapped in brilliant golden light was cracking bit by bit.

These words...

Involved heavenly secrets, classified information.

Once leaked, it would be equivalent to altering cause and effect.

The Holy Emperor was paying the price!

Xie Xuanyi’s expression turned stern, from the words of the Holy Emperor.

He vaguely guessed something...

The pinnacle great divine ability users of the previous era seemed to have already met within the River of Destiny.

Master, Xiao Yaozi, Zen Master, and the Holy Emperor.

These strongest beings clearly had a common goal!

The scope of Master’s Sword Origin River was the most extensive, therefore...certain things must be accomplished by Master. Is this the reason why Master cannot return to the mundane world?

What are these strongest beings planning to do in the River of Destiny?

"Is it because of...the Shadow?"

In Xie Xuanyi’s heart, an assumption inevitably arose.

"Shadow?"

The Holy Emperor was speechless.

"Was the River of Destiny tainted by the Shadow?"

Xie Xuanyi knew.

These filthy things were suppressed by the Primordial Immortal Hall a thousand years ago and did not usher in a major trend.

But some alternative existences inevitably achieved their outcome and escaped into the river.

"You’re overthinking it."

The Holy Emperor shook his head: "Although the Shadow is formidable, it is not the main scourge of this world. To be precise...it has not yet grown into a true ’Great Catastrophe.’ What we are confronting is not a creature, but ’a person.’

"A person?"

Xie Xuanyi was slightly taken aback.

It was hard to imagine.

So many of the strongest beings met in the River of Destiny just to confront...a single person?

"Lu Yuzhen."

Xie Xuanyi almost directly blurted out this name.

"Yes, and no."

The Holy Emperor smiled and said, "Lu Yuzhen is his name a thousand years later, but what we are confronting...is him from a thousand years ago."

At this point,

The Holy Emperor waved his sleeve again.

A patch of mottled golden light scattered down, transformed into a majestic great river.

"The River of Destiny, in fact, is not much different from the rivers of the mundane world."

The Holy Emperor watched the great river formed by the golden light and said meaningfully: "There is a past, a present, and a future... This river is flowing, continuous. Within the river, countless causes and effects are generated, countless petals bloom, each petal representing a possibility. For a Divine Traveler, these petals are illusions, illusions; each time divine skills are used to deduce, it may create a petal."

Over the long term.

The petals became innumerable.

In his last Divine Travel, Xie Xuanyi stepped into a petal world once.

"The birth and death of petals do not affect the surging of the River of Destiny."

"But..."

"This River of Destiny encountered an unexpected incident."

The Holy Emperor said gravely: "A special existence, each time he steps into the river, causes the River of Destiny to encounter a ’break point.’"

"Break point?"

Xie Xuanyi’s pupils contracted slightly.

He saw the Holy Emperor suddenly reach out towards the golden splendid river with his palm.

Crash!

The flow of light shattered, and the great river was forcibly extinguished.

In the next moment,

The Holy Emperor released his grip.

The golden light river simulated with Taoist intent resumed its flow, but it clearly lacked the vitality it had before, cut off once, as if suffering a grave illness.

"The petal world can break, but the flower bud world, once it encounters a break point, the entire river...may this time silently annihilate."

The Holy Emperor said: "That guy called ’Lu Yuzhen,’ wantonly traversing the River of Destiny with the Daoist Brush, caused enormous influence on the flower bud world. Initially, it was the Zen Master who was responsible for hunting him down, but he is almost unkillable, indestructible."

Speaking of this,

The Holy Emperor showed a headache expression.

Lu Yuzhen’s indestructibility and immortality are entirely different from the Shadow.

"As I mentioned earlier, he has the Daoist Brush."

"His existence, for the continuous River of Destiny, is an unknown ’break point’ that could appear or disappear at any time."

The Holy Emperor sighed: "I fought him once. At first, when I hunted him down, he was merely at the Yang God Eighth Layer Heaven, but in the blink of an eye, when he reappeared before me, he had already reached the realm of the strongest...even his cultivation realm was above mine."

This is the difficulty of hunting down Lu Yuzhen.

Relying on the Daoist Brush,

Lu Yuzhen wandered between the gaps of the River of Destiny; his growth was not continuous.

"The Zen Master once used divine skills to deduce."

"The Primordial Qi Tribulation a thousand years ago is significantly connected to Lu Yuzhen."

The Holy Emperor stated: "He...most likely comes from a thousand years ago. If guessed correctly, the great catastrophe of that year was due to too many break points, and the River of Destiny couldn’t remain continuous, thereby leading to the collapse of the Heavenly Dao."

Xie Xuanyi turned serious.

No wonder.

No wonder Master stained his clothes with blood last time.

These pinnacle divine ability users who stepped into the Divine Travel Realm were all battling within the River of Destiny.

"What’s more problematic is,"

The Holy Emperor solemnly stated: "That guy’s growth speed is really too fast. Not long ago, he was still in the phase of fleeing for his life; now, he already possesses the power to fight against the strongest...to be precise, he has already successfully killed the strongest."

Bear in mind,

Throughout this thousand years,

More than just these four had cultivated to the Peak of Yang God Realm.

Those able to traverse into the River of Destiny through Divine Travel were extraordinary.

"What is Lu Yuzhen trying to accomplish then?"

Xie Xuanyi’s mind was shocked.

"Certification."

The Holy Emperor remained silent for a moment, then uttered two words.

"That Lu doesn’t care whether the Heavenly Dao collapses or whether the River of Destiny is obliterated..."

"He only wants to certify the Dao, to achieve beyond Heavenly Human."

The Holy Emperor said: "Due to the Great Tribulation, the Heavenly Dao shattered, making it so that there will be no more births of Heavenly Humans in this world. A thousand years ago, with abundant primordial energy, as long as one cultivated to the Peak of the Yang God, without major accidents, one could achieve the ’Heavenly Human Fruit Position.’ Unlike the twenty realms of the Yin God and the ten realms of the Yang God, Heavenly Humans do not have those boundaries."

Heavenly Human is Heavenly Human.

Because the Great Dao intent cultivated in the Yang God Realm differs, after promoting to Heavenly Human, the Origin Power wielded also differs.

Consequently, there was a distinction in the strength of Heavenly Human Realm cultivators.

And Lu Yuzhen confronting various strongest beings in the River of Destiny...to some extent, could be seen as confronting different ’Quasi-Heavenly Persons.’ If the Heavenly Dao releases its restrictions, these strongest beings’ Great Dao intents might evolve into Origin Power."

"To kill Lu Yuzhen, I’m afraid it’s very difficult now."

The Holy Emperor’s expression was somewhat helpless.

He, along with Zen Master, Xiao Yaozi, and Zhao Chunyang, had all attempted to hunt him down.

Without exception, all ended in failure.

If,

At their realm, one is capable of altering cause and effect, then the repeated failures might mean...the causal event of killing Lu Yuzhen is not permitted to occur. Or in other words, they cannot instigate it to happen.

"So..."

The Holy Emperor looked at Xie Xuanyi and said, "We can only do our best to stop him... but as of now, even stopping him seems highly challenging."

A special existence bearing the Daoist Brush, not within the cause and effect of the River of Destiny, is indeed hard to kill and tough to stop.

Within the Lotus Cave Heaven of Da Sui Sword Palace,

That might have been the closest moment Lu Yuzhen came to death.

Even a little delay,

And he would have been killed by Zhao Chunyang’s punch.

Unfortunately, fate dictated otherwise...

Escape from this catastrophe meant that the ensuing tribulations were inconsequential for Lu Yuzhen.

Just like when Xie Xuanyi nearly perished in the Desert Ruins at the hands of the Great Palace Master, now bathing in karmic fire for a breakthrough... the tribulation of the past becomes creation.

"This is the reason I came to find you today."

The Holy Emperor paused.

He earnestly looked at the young sword cultivator before him and said, "Xie Xuanyi, you should have guessed...Lu Yuzhen’s ultimate target is you."