325: Seventh Era, Brilliant God

"I am Divine Venerable Huangji, a Cultivator of the Seventh Epoch."

"By the time you see my statue, I fear I will have already fallen for who knows how many years."

"I do not want to die."

"However, the will of Heaven cannot be defied."

"After the Epoch resets, no Cultivator, regardless of their kind, can survive."

"Helpless, I have no choice but to preserve everything I have learned throughout my life, leaving it for future Cultivators as a reference."

As Divine Venerable Huangji's voice faded, an illusory golden book appeared before you.

On it were written five large characters.

Chronicles of Huangji.

With a heart full of excitement, you opened it and carefully read through it page by page.

It contained many things.

The records began from the Early Stage of the Seventh Epoch.

According to Divine Venerable Huangji's records, the structure of the world is different with every Epoch.

Sometimes it might be a single, solid continent.

Sometimes it might be split into two halves.

Sometimes it might be a vast ocean.

And sometimes it might be myriad Universes.

According to Divine Venerable Huangji's description, the Seventh Epoch he lived in consisted of two landmasses.

People called them the Eastern Lands and the Western Lands.

Many civilizations appeared one after another on these two lands.

They eventually developed their own methods to Cultivate.

The Western Lands learned magic.

They could utilize the elemental powers between Heaven and Earth to unleash various attacks.

The Eastern Lands attempted to incorporate the Qi of Heaven and Earth into themselves.

They could absorb the aura between Heaven and Earth to increase their own physical strength.

However, during the Seventh Epoch, the Qi of Heaven and Earth was not the Spiritual Qi and Dao Yuan you have now.

It was Yuanling.

This was a substance similar to Spiritual Qi and Dao Yuan, yet entirely different.

Cultivators at that time could use Yuanling to continuously temper their bodies, thereby achieving the goal of longevity.

The Middle Stage of the Seventh Epoch.

This was the most prosperous period for the Eastern and Western Lands.

Supreme powerhouses had appeared in each.

In the Eastern Lands, there was Divine Venerable Huangji.

In the Western Lands, there was the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint.

These two had reached the "God Realm" of the world you are currently in, successfully achieving immortality.

At the same time, they unified the Eastern and Western Lands respectively, becoming the masters of this place.

The Late Stage of the Seventh Epoch.

More and more Cultivators in the Eastern and Western Lands reached the Realm of immortality.

Divine Venerable Huangji soon realized that something was wrong.

He could clearly feel that the entire world was beginning to grow weak.

Although he did not know exactly what this meant, it was certainly not good news.

Divine Venerable Huangji began to prevent other Cultivators from reaching the Realm of immortality, and simultaneously sent the same warning to the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint.

Soon, both the Eastern and Western Lands began to prevent others from reaching the Realm of immortality.

But in the face of the temptation of immortality, how could others simply turn a blind eye?

War after war broke out in the Eastern and Western Lands.

Countless Cultivators desperately tried to step into the Realm that could grant them immortality.

At first, Divine Venerable Huangji and the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint were able to stop them.

It was fine when dealing with those Cultivators without foundations.

But what if the relatives and close friends of other immortals wanted to make a Breakthrough?

It would be fine if it were one or two.

But as more and more such Cultivators appeared, Divine Venerable Huangji and the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint were unable to stop them.

In the end, Divine Venerable Huangji had no choice but to let it be.

After all, he did not know what would actually happen.

In his mind at the time, the weakening of the world would at most just mean that everyone could no longer Cultivate.

The End of the Seventh Epoch.

The Killing Tribulation arrived.

Divine Venerable Huangji's vision went black, and he fainted.

When he woke up again, he found himself on a small island.

At this moment, his body felt incredibly comfortable, as if he had taken a nap on a summer afternoon, and all his fatigue had vanished.

However, this sense of comfort did not last long.

A few quarter-hours later, he saw a horrifying scene.

It was as if an invisible wall of air had appeared between Heaven and Earth, strangling all Cultivators.

Everyone died upon touching it.

Their entire cultivation of Yuanling would return to Heaven and Earth the moment they fell.

This gave Divine Venerable Huangji a hair-raising feeling.

But he had no way to stop it.

People are always afraid of the unknown, and even he was no exception.

Divine Venerable Huangji could only run all the way, heading towards a safer place.

Just like that, he ran for several days.

Afterwards, he saw a familiar person—the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint.

Unlike Divine Venerable Huangji's fear, the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint was much more indifferent.

He told Divine Venerable Huangji, "All living beings under Heaven, all things in the world, how can there be anything that is immortal and indestructible?"

"Death is nothing to be afraid of."

"Moreover, this is an Epoch reset; six Epochs have already been destroyed before them."

The Nine-Yuan Magic Saint told Divine Venerable Huangji many things about the Epochs.

But Divine Venerable Huangji still did not give up on resisting.

He believed that a Cultivator's life is inherently about contending with Heaven, Earth, and people.

"How can one easily give up one's life just because of something unknown?!"

The two debated for a while.

In the end, the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint decided to join Divine Venerable Huangji in searching for a chance to break the situation.

The two of them joined forces to form the Two-Yi Heaven-Swallowing Formation and burned their entire essence and blood to unleash a supreme strike!

On this day.

The winds and clouds changed between Heaven and Earth, and rolling black clouds covered the entire sky.

Countless surviving Cultivators looked towards Divine Venerable Huangji and the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint.

At this moment, they became the saviors of the entire Eastern and Western Lands.

However...

All of this was just in vain.

The supreme strike that Divine Venerable Huangji thought he had unleashed could not even touch that invisible wall of light.

Naturally, it could not stop it.

With a loud bang, the Nine-Yuan Magic Saint turned into a mist of blood, dying before Divine Venerable Huangji.

Although Divine Venerable Huangji could still escape, he could not avoid the fate of his body dying and his Dao dissipating in the end.

At the very last moment, he recorded everything he had learned in his life and his experiences in the Seventh Epoch, hoping that future generations would find a chance to break the situation.

"The Seventh Epoch..."

Myriad thoughts flashed through your mind.

Since that Nine-Yuan Magic Saint knew so much about the Epochs, he must have been like you, having found the records left behind by predecessors.

It was just that this number was truly absurd.

In their era, six Epochs had already been destroyed before them.

And the subsequent Eighth Epoch was still different from the Epoch you were in.

This meant that you were currently at least in the Ninth Epoch.