558: Chapter 558 A Familiar Figure—It Was the Great Emperor!

[Year Fifty-Four.]

[The war has entered its most brutal stage.]

[You stand upon the ruins of the Sacred Heaven Sect, your gaze sweeping across the devastated land of the Middle Province.]

[Three years.]

[A full three years have passed.]

[The eerie army has been surging in wave after wave like a tide, never ceasing.]

[The mountain gate of the Sacred Heaven Sect has been mostly destroyed; the once magnificent palaces are now nothing but broken walls and crumbling debris.]

[The number of Disciples has plummeted from an initial hundred thousand to less than ten thousand.]

[Every day, people fall.]

[Every day, new tombstones are erected.]

["Su Ming."]

[Sword One's voice comes from behind you.]

[You turn around and see him dragging his exhausted body toward you.]

[His right arm is gone.]

[That happened half a year ago; to block a fatal blow from a Quasi-Immortal Emperor weird being, he forcibly traded his right arm for the opponent's life.]

["Senior Brother Sword One, you should go rest."]

[You frown as you look at him.]

["Rest?"]

[Sword One gives a bitter laugh.]

["Where is there time for rest now? The eerie army could attack again at any moment."]

[Hearing this, you fall into silence.]

[You know that Sword One is right.]

[Over these three years, the Eerie Clan's offensive has never stopped.]

[Whenever you think you can catch your breath, a new eerie army pours out from the cracks.]

["As for the Outer Heaven side..."]

[Sword One hesitates to speak.]

["There is still no news."]

[You shake your head.]

[Saint Heaven Immortal Emperor and the others have been fighting in the Outer Heaven for three years.]

[In those three years, not a single piece of news has been sent back.]

[You do not know if they are alive or dead.]

[But you know that if they fail, the Canglan Realm will completely fall.]

["What about the situation in the other four provinces?"]

[Sword One asks.]

["It's about the same."]

[You sigh.]

["In the Qing Province, Empress Cangqiong's Astral Barrier has already shattered twice."]

["The Huang Province and Xuan Province aren't doing much better."]

[After hearing this, Sword One's expression becomes even grimmer.]

["If this continues..."]

["I know."]

[You interrupt him.]

["But we have no path of retreat."]

["One step back is the bottomless abyss."]

[Sword One is silent for a moment, then nods.]

["You're right."]

[Just as he finishes speaking!]

[At that moment.]

[The sky suddenly darkens.]

[You abruptly look up.]

[You see the crack above the Middle Province suddenly begin to tremble violently.]

[An unprecedentedly terrifying aura slowly permeates out from the crack.]

[That aura.]

[It is even more powerful than an Immortal Emperor.]

[More terrifying than any existence you have ever seen.]

["This is..."]

[Sword One's face changes drastically.]

["Great Emperor!"]

[Your voice is low.]

["A Great Emperor level weird being."]

[Just as the words leave your mouth.]

[A figure slowly walks out from the crack.]

[It is a massive ball of flesh that blots out the sky.]

[From that massive ball of flesh, a figure slowly splits off.]

[That figure's gaze pierces straight through the firmament, looking toward the Outer Heaven.]

[Seeing this scene, what alarms you most...]

[...is the aura emanating from his body.]

[That aura is all too familiar to you.]

["It's him!!!"]

[You mutter to yourself.]

[In your mind, countless simulated images flash by.]

[In one simulation, you fled to the Canglan Immortal Domain to hide, only to eventually be discovered and eaten by the Eerie Great Emperor before you.]

[Back then, you only suspected the opponent was at the Immortal Emperor Realm; now it seems you still underestimated him.]

[You didn't expect that the opponent would actually be a Great Emperor level existence.]

[And in a simulation after that, Zhuge Qing was deducing the Great Tribulation of the World in the Canglan Realm.]

[As a result, just as Zhuge Qing was halfway through the deduction, he was backlashed by a terrifying power of Karma; the one who traced back along the karmic threads was precisely this Great Emperor.]

[Countless simulations.]

[Countless deaths.]

[This Great Emperor is one of the strongest enemies you have encountered in the simulator.]

[He is also a hurdle you have never been able to cross.]

[The single weird being that causes you the most fear.]

["Su Ming?"]

[Sword One notices your abnormality.]

["You know him?"]

["I do."]

[You take a deep breath.]

["As you know, I come from the Canglan Realm!]

[In previous simulations, he has killed me many times."]

[Sword One is stunned.]

[Then he reacts.]

["You... you had already begun deducing Great Emperor level experts before you were even below the Immortal Realm?"]

["Yes."]

[You nod.]

["In the deductions, I encountered him many times, but every single time, it ended with my death."]

[Sword One's face instantly turns pale.]

[To have deduced so many times and still be unable to escape.]

[Then in reality...]

[At that moment, the Great Emperor weird being turns his gaze toward your direction.]

[Immediately, a hint of astonishment flashes in his eyes.]

["Interesting."]

[That Great Emperor suddenly speaks.]

[His voice is low and raspy, carrying an indescribable eeriness.]

["You are the person who performed those deductions on me back then?"]

[You are startled inwardly.]

[You didn't expect that he had sensed your existence so long ago.]

["It seems you are very surprised."]

[The Great Emperor smiles.]

["Did you think your deductions were very secretive?"]

["The Great Tribulation of the World in the Canglan Realm back then was organized by me; I noticed your movements long ago."]

["A pity."]

["You will never be able to stop any of this from happening."]

["Because the gap between you and me cannot be bridged by mere deduction."]

["I must admit, you are the only one I've seen who performed a deduction on me and did not suffer a backlash."]

[You do not speak.]

[You only stare fixedly at him.]

["However, I am curious."]

[The Great Emperor tilts his head.]

["This time you didn't deduce, but faced me directly. Is it because you feel you have a chance of winning? Or is it..."]

["That you are so desperate you can't even be bothered to deduce anymore?"]

[You take a deep breath.]

["You talk too much."]

["Oh?"]

[The Great Emperor seems quite interested.]

["It seems it's the latter."]

["True, after three years of war, the five great provinces have suffered heavy losses, and your Immortal Emperors are trapped in the Outer Heaven, their lives uncertain."]

["And you are merely a Cultivator at the Immortal King Realm."]

["Facing me, a Great Emperor, you indeed have no chance of winning."]

["So, you choose to give up struggling?"]

[Listening to the Eerie Great Emperor's every word, there is only endless hatred on your face.]

[You hate that your strength is still so weak.]

[At the same time, you cannot understand.]

[Why there would be a Great Emperor level weird being within the Canglan Immortal Domain.]

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