229: Kun Gou, how dare you!

Above Kaifeng Kaifeng.

Although Kun Gou had some injuries on his body, given his current state, these injuries would not affect the overall situation.

On the opposite side, Emperor Gaozong, who was now possessing Song Yan, had a greatly diminished Aura.

"Gaozong, you're not that capable either. It seems you're not much stronger than your descendants."

"Kun Gou, your time is up."

"I've already sent Zhou Yan away. I'll drag you down with me to hell."

Kun Gou showed annoyance upon hearing this.

"You damned fellow! When Tianjun descends, do you really think Qingxu Grotto-Heaven will be kind enough to revive even your remnant soul?"

"Even if they can revive an entire Kaifeng, your lost national destiny and the backlash from the Human Dao will not return. Great Yu is destined to perish in your hands."

Hearing this, Emperor Gaozong smiled slightly.

"Do you know? I gave Song Yan a dream, telling him to share his fate with Zhou Yan."

"Then guess, once you die, will Zhou Yan, who bears the Emperor's fate, receive commendation from the Human Dao?"

Kun Gou's smile froze.

In an instant, countless pieces of information connected, and he stared fiercely at Emperor Gaozong.

"You bastard... so you were the one behind all this!"

"How could you do it? Aren't you just a remnant soul?!"

Kun Gou understood that he had fallen into the other party's scheme from the very beginning.

Simply because he had never considered this remnant soul a threat.

A lonely ghost who couldn't even leave the imperial palace and hadn't suffered the calamity of a fallen nation was not part of his plans.

If he hadn't met Zhou Yan this time, he wouldn't even bother to show himself, only intending to manipulate from a distance, collecting Materials for the Alias's revival, and preparing for the next true resurrection.

"Damn it, you want to die, do you! Even if this third master doesn't want this Incarnation, I'll still kill all of you and torment you fiercely before you die!"

Kun Gou completely lost his mind, and a special power emanated from him, poised to tear Song Yan's body apart.

At this moment, Li Wenbo and the others rejoined the battle.

A remnant body of a Demon Venerable and two already withered Dharma Idols jointly blocked a small portion of the attack, preventing Kun Gou from instantly killing Song Yan.

And failing to deliver a fatal blow meant that with subsequent rapid recovery, no effective damage was dealt.

Kun Gou frowned, his gaze instantly locking onto Prince Kang, who was carrying Wang Yao and fleeing into the distance.

"It's you, you good-for-nothing! You're truly despicable!"

With an angry roar, Kun Gou charged at the crowd again.

"A bunch of ants, do you really think adding yourselves can stop me?"

Kun Gou attacked viciously, forcing everyone to retreat repeatedly.

If Emperor Gaozong hadn't been constantly resisting and assisting, Li Wenbo and the others would probably have already perished.

After repelling Kun Gou again and creating some distance, the power Song Yan had borrowed finally ran out.

After the next impact, they would probably all die.

Knowing that death was inevitable, they still chose to fight, for no other reason than to accompany Great Yu through its final curtain call.

"Although the ending is bad, at least the goal has been achieved," Prince Kang sighed softly, looking back at the distant sky.

Knowing that there was no power to turn the tide, Prince Kang no longer fled.

He placed Wang Yao beside him, then sat cross-legged on the ground, awaiting his final death.

Whether dying under Kun Gou's wrath or being obliterated by the outsider, resistance was no longer necessary.

Just let it be to accompany Great Yu in its demise.

"No one can save you, you all will..."

Kun Gou's frantic words came from the air.

Prince Kang heard the sound, slowly closed his eyes, but found the latter half of the sentence abruptly cut off.

Suddenly, silence fell all around.

Prince Kang frowned slightly and opened his eyes to look at the sky.

Kun Gou's words were unfinished, but his whole body trembled violently.

Because he saw a wooden sword appear in the center of the battlefield.

Prince Kang was startled and immediately looked at Wang Yao's hand; the wooden sword he had been clutching tightly had disappeared silently, without even a Nascent Soul Cultivator like himself noticing.

In the aerial battlefield, Li Wenbo's side was filled with surprise, but Kun Gou trembled so much he could barely move.

All because of the person standing between the two sides, holding the wooden sword: Zhou Yan.

Li Wenbo and the others only felt that Zhou Yan was incredibly mysterious and incomprehensible at this moment.

But Kun Gou clearly sensed the source of that power.

"An-Ancest... Ancestral Dragon?!"

Kun Gou felt his Sea of Consciousness go blank, and he frantically tried to withdraw his residual will from this body.

As his will withdrew, the body's power began to continuously decline, and parts of the forcibly stripped will began to disintegrate.

"Kun Gou, how dare you!"

A divine voice rang out, Kun Gou's movements froze, and all struggle ceased.

He watched helplessly as Zhou Yan raised his sword and charged at him.

The speed was not fast, it could even be called slow.

But this sword, he could not dodge.

As the wooden sword swung, the eyes, which had returned to normal due to Emperor Sizong's consciousness being annihilated, changed again.

The pupils continuously split, reverting to their original three-eyed anomaly.

Immediately after, his scales and long horns retracted inward, finally returning him to the appearance of a normal person.

The wooden sword continued to approach.

Kun Gou felt a pull, and then a Physical Body appeared before his eyes; he recognized it as the Divine Body he had used for a long time.

As he detached, two more phantoms appeared consecutively: one a sickly young man, the other a stern old man.

Finally, he looked at the wooden sword that was now pressed against his body.

This Immortal Artifact should have exhausted its power and been unable to harm him further.

But the moment the wooden sword touched his body.

Time and space drastically changed.

In his eyes, the Zhou Yan before him was replaced by a towering, majestic figure, and that small wooden sword also transformed into a giant sword like a mountain.

The giant sword sliced through, and this part of his consciousness was completely annihilated.

Following the Karma connection, Kun Gou's main body, located in an unknown space, also suffered heavy damage.

Emperor Sizong's body fell from the sky, and the two souls entered Reincarnation.

The sky, originally shrouded by a barrier and appearing eerie, became covered in cracks and finally shattered with a roar.

Brilliant sunlight bathed Kaifeng Kaifeng, and the battle thus ended.

The defending soldiers and Prodigies below cheered in victory.

"Is it... over?"

Li Wenbo coughed up a mouthful of blood, still looking at the scene before him in disbelief.

At this moment, a small mouse in the outer Kaifeng quickly ran to a black-clad young man.

"Big Brother Zhao, I finally... wait, who are you?"

The little mouse finally saw the other person's face clearly: a man with dark circles under his eyes, pale lips, and gaunt cheeks, staring straight at the distant sky.

If not for the extraordinary handsomeness still discernible on that face, she would never have believed this was Zhao Da.

The young man merely glanced at her, then looked back at the figure in the sky, his voice trembling slightly.

"Zhou Yan... are you actually the Ancestral Dragon?"

Unlike the excitement of others, Zhou Yan at this moment felt an unspeakable fear.

Just now, he felt that slowly absorbing Luck was too slow, so he chose to absorb it while Invoking the Gods.

Since Luck is connected to fate, as long as it doesn't affect fate, even if all Luck is drained, one would only become extremely unlucky.

Furthermore, as a Child of Destiny, Long Tianxing wouldn't get too unlucky no matter what, so Zhou Yan absorbed freely.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he did this, a will pulled him into an unknown space.

He saw a person connected by countless 'golden threads,' who was precisely the Ancestral Dragon he had seen before.

Zhou Yan hadn't even spoken, but the other party seemed to understand, merely glancing at him and saying one sentence.

"Do it again, and you will die."

Then his consciousness was pulled back, and he began to feel his body out of control, gradually shifting into a third-person perspective.

Subsequently, he saw 'himself' look at Long Tianxing, and Long Tianxing began to tremble all over.

'He' instantly drained the other party into a sickly, 'kidney-deficient' state.

If not for the panel showing that the other party was fine, Zhou Yan would have almost disconnected.

Afterward, 'he' took a step, entering a spatial rift.

In the passage, 'he' casually opened a small rift and took out a wooden sword from it; Zhou Yan recognized it at a glance as Xiao Sheng's sword.

When 'he' emerged from the spatial rift, 'he' had already appeared on the battlefield, swinging the sword to strike Kun Gou.

To be precise, Zhou Yan's consciousness only barely caught up at this point; when 'he' swung the sword at Kun Gou, he finally broke free from that detached state.

As that sword fell, 'chains' appeared on his body.

He vaguely understood that these symbolized 'restriction,' 'maintenance,' 'balance,' and a meaning called 'isolation.'

The closer the sword's edge, the clearer the chains became.

Zhou Yan followed the direction of the chain connections and looked up at the sky.

Then, he witnessed a scene he would never forget.

The sky was densely covered with countless 'chains' and 'characters,' which became increasingly clear in his eyes.

Zhou Yan began to 'see.'

"I want the world to be more stable."

"I want more love in the world."

"I want everyone to have Opportunity."

..."I want humanity to prosper."

Zhou Yan's gaze fell on the sentence that seemed to be missing a word, and he subconsciously blurted out the missing word.

"Flourish?"

As the word left his lips, Zhou Yan suddenly felt all his strength drained, his consciousness rapidly sinking, and he fell into a deep sleep.

Before falling asleep, he vaguely heard.

"Ding, detected player directly contacting the incomplete Human Dao. Human Dao comprehension progress +3%"

[Great Dao: Human Dao (3%)]

"Ding, side quest 'Unveiling the Dragon Bone Sacrifice Secret - Stabilizing the Heavenly Dynasty' has been completed."