525: Chapter 525 The Heavenly Emperor (90)

The Three Thousand Dao Provinces had never been immersed in such pure revelry as they were at this moment.

Since the return of the expeditionary emperors and the restoration of the Four Heavenly Emperors, the coalition forces of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces had launched a decisive battle that swept across the entire Southern Dao State with the force of a thunderbolt.

In that baptism of blood and fire, the army of Fallen Beings that had been entrenched for untold ages was defeated.

The remaining forces were all driven back to the Land of Expedition, and the Seal reset by the emperors working together temporarily cut off the threat.

This war was won.

In just a few days, this news spread to every corner of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

Led by the Four Great Heavenly Courts, an unprecedented Victory Celebration Ceremony was held.

The powerhouses of the various Orthodoxies clinked glasses, divine music played, and the aroma of wine permeated every Floating Divine Island.

The surviving Cultivators shouted the names of heroes, celebrating this hard-won peace.

And among all the names, one was mentioned the most and sounded the loudest.

Ye Yun.

That young emperor who had repelled millions of enemy troops single-handedly at the border of the Western Dao State.

At this moment, he was surrounded by countless powerhouses in the center of the celebration, accepting admiration and praise from all directions.

Holding a wine cup with a smile on his face, he responded to everyone who came to toast him.

But his heart was very calm, and there was even a lingering chill that would not dissipate.

As his gaze swept across the reveling crowd and the faces weeping with joy over the victory, the unwarranted unease in his heart did not fade but instead grew stronger.

Victory had come too easily.

In that seemingly decisive battle, the resistance of the eerie beings was far lower than he had expected.

Their defeat seemed more like a pre-arranged performance, collapsing at the first touch.

The overall strength of the Fallen Beings was definitely not weaker than the Three Thousand Dao Provinces; their top-tier combat power even steadily surpassed the Three Thousand Dao Provinces when the Ancestral Court did not interfere.

More importantly, as the supreme commander of the Fallen Beings, the Abyss Lord had not shown its face from beginning to end.

This did not fit its cunning and cruel character.

Ye Yun calmly slipped away from the crowd and came to the edge of the celebration alone.

He found the Guardian from the Ancestral Court, Senior Murong.

"Senior."

Ye Yun's voice was very low, "I have some doubts in my heart."

He voiced all his suspicions regarding this 'victory.'

"This doesn't seem like a decisive battle; it feels more like a carefully planned strategic retreat. I feel as if there is a hidden hand manipulating everything."

After hearing this, Senior Murong fell into a brief silence.

His cloudy eyes looked at the reveling crowd in the distance and then at Ye Yun's solemn young face.

"Ye Yun, your concerns are not without reason."

The old man sighed, a trace of fatigue in his voice.

"But the Three Thousand Dao Provinces need this victory. They need to breathe, to recuperate."

He patted Ye Yun's shoulder with a gentle tone.

"You needn't worry excessively. Now that the Four Heavenly Emperors have returned to their positions and the expeditionary emperors have come back, even if that Abyss Lord has some other scheme, we are enough to deal with it."

"Relax your mind and enjoy this rare peace."

Ye Yun said no more, only nodding silently.

Perhaps he really was overthinking it.

...

The Victory Celebration Ceremony reached its climax.

Just as the entire Three Thousand Dao Provinces were immersed in the joy of victory, and just as everyone believed the catastrophe had ended and peace was imminent.

Without any warning.

A cataclysm originating from the end of the world instantly swept across the entire Star Domain.

The Boundary Sea.

That gray-blue ocean that separated the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths from the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, which had been deadly silent and waveless since the primordial era, was boiling over at this moment.

Ten-thousand-foot waves soared into the sky, battering the barriers of time and space.

The sky was dyed a bizarre color by the rising mist, the Laws began to fall into chaos, and time and space were twisting.

An ominous and oppressive aura spread from the deepest part of the Boundary Sea.

That aura instantly extinguished everyone's joy.

The celebration was interrupted.

The divine music stopped abruptly.

The faces of all the powerhouses changed drastically, and they immediately tore through the Void Realm to descend upon the shore of the Boundary Sea.

Dongjue, Ximen, Yao Xi, and Beiming, the four Heavenly Emperors, the Desolate Heaven Great Emperor, various Ancient Ancestors of the Ye family, the Hundred Emperors who returned from the expedition, the Guardians of the Ancestral Court... all the top combat power of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces gathered here.

They looked at that unprecedented scene with solemn expressions, as if facing a great enemy.

Amidst the boiling sea mist, a blurry figure slowly appeared.

Step by step, he was walking from the end of the Boundary Sea toward the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, treading upon the surging ten-thousand-foot waves.

He walked very slowly, but every step he took caused ripples visible to the naked eye in the surrounding time and space.

It was as if the Laws of the entire Three Thousand Dao Provinces were trembling beneath his footsteps.

A pressure far exceeding all previous fallen emperors and the Saint Clan surged forth.

Cultivators with weaker cultivation could not even remain standing; they collapsed to the ground, their Divine Souls trembling and bleeding from their seven orifices.

Several Heavenly Emperors tried to investigate with their Divine Thought.

But their Divine Thought was easily crushed by an invisible force when it came within a hundred-foot radius of the figure.

They were completely unable to see his true face.

At that moment, Ye Yun pushed his Heavenly Eye and Heart Heavy Pupils to their limit simultaneously.

With the power of the Supreme and the Major Achievement Five Elements Saint Body augmenting him, his vision finally pierced through the layers of mist.

When he saw that face clearly, Ye Yun's heart jolted, and he felt cold all over.

He had seen that face before.

The newcomer was none other than the Son of the Heavenly Emperor of the Central Heavenly Court, who was rumored to have been in seclusion for several eras, intending to break through to a higher Realm!

It was the very person who was the first to arrive at the North Sea Tomb in the North Sea Heavenly Emperor's memory!

Why was he here?

Why would he walk out from the other side of the Boundary Sea?

Immediately after, Ye Yun perceived two incredibly familiar auras on him.

One was an aura that was cold, cunning, and filled with the desire for devouring and destruction.

It was the Abyss Lord!

Wasn't it attached to the Central Heavenly Emperor? Hadn't it been repelled back to the Land of Expedition? How could it be fused with this Son of the Heavenly Emperor?

However, this was not the most critical point.

Beneath the aura of the Abyss Lord, there was another even more ancient and eerie aura that made Ye Yun's Divine Soul ache.

The moment he perceived that second aura, a memory from his past life that had been sealed away in the deepest part of his Divine Soul suddenly surged forth.

That was the final battle he encountered in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths after his Yin-Yang Indestructible Body achieved the emperor seat through Rebirth.

At that time, he had exhausted all his trump cards and still could not escape it; if not for the azure pagoda, he would never have come to the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

And now, on the body of that Son of the Heavenly Emperor, the aura that had almost caused him to fall once had appeared again.

The culprit behind the mystery of the missing Great Emperors of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

That eerie existence, older and more powerful than the Abyss Lord.

It had come as well.

Ye Yun's heart sank to the bottom.

He finally understood.

This was the opponent's true hidden move.

This was the true... Endgame of this catastrophe.