496: Chapter 496 The Heavenly Emperor (61)

Ye Yun's fingers had already begun to turn transparent.

The golden Holy Light faded from his fingertips bit by bit, and the veins on the back of his hands became clearly visible; what flowed beneath his skin was no longer surging Qi and blood, but a stream on the verge of drying up.

But his hand did not let go.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor did not need to look back.

The connection of Bloodline was more direct than any Divine Thought—the Qi and blood behind him were withering, at a speed that made his heart tighten.

The celestial emperor remains moved again.

Ghostly green flames flared in its eye sockets, and it threw a punch.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor met it head-on.

Bang.

The force of this punch was clearly not as strong as before.

He was thrown back by the recoil, his knees smashed into the ground again, and emperor blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.

He was not afraid of death.

From the moment he desperately returned from the Land of Expedition, he had prepared himself for death.

But the child behind him could not die here.

This son, whose entire growth process he had been absent for, could not be buried on this ancient battlefield because of him.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor's gaze changed.

Determination.

He suddenly backhanded a palm strike onto Ye Yun's chest.

Ye Yun was caught completely off guard and flew backward.

Before he could react, a golden Law Seal had already enveloped him.

Instant cast.

The Seal accelerated its operation, and his figure began to blur.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor did not look at him again.

He burned his own Saint Body Origin.

The golden emperor blood turned into flames, engulfing his entire body.

His aura surged in an instant.

Everyone could see that this was overdrawing his life.

He charged head-on into the remains.

Every punch carried fire, and every strike was a trade of life for life.

Ye Yun was trapped by the Seal, unable to move.

He watched his father's burning back, the father he had never met and whose name he had only heard in legends.

Was using his life to buy him a way to survive.

The teleportation technique locked down everything about him.

...

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor had reached his limit.

The time spent burning the Origin was too short, and his Physical Body began to suffer irreversible damage.

His golden skin cracked, and what seeped from the fissures was no longer emperor blood, but the Saint Body Origin.

The remains punched him in the abdomen.

"Puff."

A mouthful of emperor blood sprayed out, and his body fell backward.

He could not hold on any longer.

Just at this critical moment.

A finger extending from the Void Realm gently tapped the forehead of the North Sea Heavenly Emperor remains.

The movements of the remains stopped.

It was not knocked back.

It was not sent flying.

It was frozen in place.

The eerie power controlling the remains surged wildly, attempting to break free.

But before that finger, it was like a backflowing stream trying to fight the ocean—utterly futile.

A Heavenly Emperor.

A true Heavenly Emperor had descended.

A figure slowly stepped out from the Void Realm.

His aura did not leak out in the slightest, yet everyone instinctively felt compelled to submit.

The knees of those Great Emperor Giants on the ancient battlefield went weak uncontrollably.

Those Prodigies who had survived the disaster held their breath even more tightly.

Everyone thought that the first Heavenly Emperor to arrive should have been the Central Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor.

After all, the Central Heavenly Court was closest to this place, and most requests for aid were sent to the Central Heavenly Court.

But the one who came was not the Central Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor.

The person who arrived wore a simple cyan robe, with an ancient face and a profound aura.

The Eastern Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor.

Ye Yun's heart skipped a beat.

Why did the Central Heavenly Court not intervene immediately?

Was it too late, or did they not want to come?

...

The Eastern Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor did not say much.

He glanced at Desolate Heaven Great Emperor, his gaze flickering slightly.

The two clearly had a deep friendship.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor forced himself to stand straight, standing side by side with the Eastern Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor.

The two joined forces.

The Eastern Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor led with the power of a Heavenly Emperor, while Desolate Heaven Great Emperor provided support through the Bloodline resonance of his Major Achievement Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.

His Saint Body power was nearly exhausted, but he possessed a natural perception of and restraint against the eerie power.

Working together, the Eastern Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor completely suppressed the North Sea Heavenly Emperor remains.

A Heavenly Emperor-level Law chain formed and locked the remains tightly.

The ghostly green flames struggled for a few breaths.

Then they extinguished.

At the same time, Ye Yun's Heavenly Eye and double pupils captured a key piece of information.

The moment the remains were completely suppressed, the external eerie power controlling them voluntarily severed the connection and fled into the distance.

It was not severed.

It ran away on its own.

It was wary of something and did not want to expose its true existence in front of the Heavenly Emperor.

...

The teleportation Seal dissipated.

As the battle ended, Desolate Heaven Great Emperor voluntarily lifted the means he had applied to Ye Yun.

Ye Yun reappeared on the battlefield.

He looked at the man who had burned part of his Origin, whose aura was withered to the extreme.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor did not fall.

He was holding on with the last shred of his will.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor opened his mouth.

Perhaps it was an apology that had been delayed for too long.

Perhaps he wanted to call his son's name.

But he did not say anything.

He just reached out and patted Ye Yun's shoulder.

Just like before.

Very lightly.

Then his legs gave way, he lost consciousness, and collapsed.

Ye Yun caught him.

The Eastern Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor watched this scene quietly from the side, without disturbing them.

None of the surrounding Prodigies who had survived the disaster made a sound.

Ye Yun knelt on one knee, resting his father's head in the crook of his arm.

The golden emperor blood soaked his white robe, which was already stained red.

He lowered his head.

His father's breathing was very shallow, his complexion gray, and the wounds on his body were still seeping blood.

But he was still alive.

Ye Yun raised his hand, pressed it against his father's chest, and transferred his remaining Saint Body Qi and blood over, bit by bit.

Not much.

But enough.

Enough to keep this heart beating.

...

Although Desolate Heaven Great Emperor was unconscious, Ye Yun sensed something through their Bloodline connection.

His father had burned his Origin in this battle, paying a heavy price.

But between life and death, at that final moment of burning out, his Desolate Ancient Sacred Body had touched a threshold of a higher level.

Supreme.

He did not achieve a Breakthrough, but he had seen the crack in the door.

At the same time, after the suppressed and sealed North Sea Heavenly Emperor remains had completely quieted down, an unexpected event occurred.

The last shred of lingering goodwill in the remains turned into a pure force of insight and surged toward Ye Yun.

It was a fragment of insight regarding the Supreme level of the Five Elements Saint Body.

It was the final gift left behind by the North Sea Heavenly Emperor Ji Fan before his lingering consciousness dissipated.

He passed his ultimate understanding of the Five Elements Dao to the youth who had once tried to awaken him in this way.

Ye Yun's body jolted suddenly.

In his chest, five sacred bones resonated violently at the same time.

The sacred bone of fire.

The sacred bone of metal.

The sacred bone of earth.

The three sacred bones that had already been nurtured and formed were trembling, and the fourth sacred bone of water, which was ready to be formed, also began to stir.

The insight into the Supreme Five Elements poured into his Sea of Consciousness like a torrential flood.

Ye Yun closed his eyes.

He did not have the Five Elements Saint Body.

But he had the Five Elements sacred bones.

Five sacred bones, five attributes, five forms of the Saint Body.

When this insight washed over his Sea of Consciousness, a Cultivation Technique from his previous life automatically surfaced.

"Taiyi Transformation into Two Pure Ones."

That was the fundamental method he had used in his previous life to achieve Rebirth in Chaos after dissolving his Supreme Body.

"One produces two, two produces three, three produces all things."

Five Elements sacred bones.

Five attributes.

Five forms.

If all the Five Elements sacred bones were nurtured and formed, and then used Taiyi Transformation into Two Pure Ones as a bridge to completely fuse the five sacred bones into one… A thought emerged in Ye Yun's mind.

He opened his eyes.

His gaze was burning.