Chapter 1113 — The Emperor Meditates Upon the Dao
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Hao Tianzun, Huo Tianzun, the Divine Emperor Langxuan, the Ancestral God King, the Void God King, and the newly risen Heavenly Consort Qiang, along with "Her Highness the Empress" personally overseeing the fray, and a mysterious Ming Fangyu—so many masters sealed off every path of survival for Yun Tianzun. In the end, this Heavenly Emperor of the human race fell. The Xiaohan Heavenly Court was conquered. The gods of the Heavenly Court rushed in to plunder its wealth, yet found the palace held no treasures—it was utterly impoverished.
"Yun Tianzun, a seeker of vain glory!
" The crowd sneered: "Putting on a show of poverty was merely to buy people's hearts. He must have hidden a treasury elsewhere!
We heard that the one who stole from Zhaoyang Hall back then was him.
He surely hid those treasures away, kept his own vault, and claimed those treasures for himself! " Yet they searched the entire Xiaohan Heavenly Court and found no so-called Yun Tianzun treasury. For a long time afterward, many demigods roamed in search of treasure, trying to find the whereabouts of that batch of treasures from Zhaoyang Hall. Yue Tianzun led Ling Tianzun and other brilliant talents of the human race away in defeat.
In the end, the ardor in Yue Tianzun's heart dissipated like smoke, and disheartened, she decided to retire to the Peach Grove.
Because Ling Tianzun was still useful, "Her Highness the Empress" spared her. Yun Tianzun's corpse was taken away by Ming Fangyu.
A year later, Ming Fangyu came to Taixu and placed his corpse upon the Great Emperor's brow, a smile on his face: "Yun Tianzun, do you remember? I said all three of you would become my spoils of war, and you are the first!
" The Great Emperor's brow lacked the Primordial Stone of the Great Beginning, making it the perfect place to suppress Yun Tianzun's physical body.
In the realm of supreme divine consciousness, no one could come here. At most, they could only view this "war trophy" of the Great Emperor. "And Yue Tianzun and Ling Tianzun—rest assured, in the future they too will become my spoils of war! " Ming Fangyu laughed: "Because there is another me in this world!
" The Xiaohan Heavenly Court was taken as a massive spoil of war and delivered to the Longhan Heavenly Court, merging with it.
Because Yun Tianzun had rendered great service to the world by opening the Divine Bridge and Divine Treasury, the Heavenly Emperor pardoned his clan, relocated the Yun family to the Heavenly Court, established the Yun Estate, and did not pursue the clan's crimes. And the civilization of the human race in the Primordial World was reduced to ruins alone.
Time flew by.
Unknowingly, tens of thousands of years of the Dark Age passed, and civilization sparked once more.
The suffering human race struggled forward through thorns and floods, among savage beasts. One day, a group of sturdy male hunters, longbows on their backs, were hunting. They chased a wild deer to a ruin. The deer vanished, and the ancient ruins were a scene of devastation.
These hunters, looking like primitives, wiped the mud from their foreheads and stared blankly at the traces left by civilization.
In the distance, the vast Heavenly River descended, plunging into the earth, becoming a great river a thousand li wide, surging onward. This was the place where the Heavenly River fell into the Primordial World, also called the Flood Mouth, meaning the source of the deluge.
Nearby were several valleys shaped like footprints. In ancient legend, a divine being had once held up the falling Heavenly River here, saving all living beings.
But this was merely legend, and no one believed it. The people of this time were primitive and unenlightened.
Only a few cultivation methods had been passed down, and all were ordinary.
Human gods were rarer than phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.