531: Chapter 531

The Former Site of the Boundary Sea first trembled.

The old Boundary Sea was pushed to its highest point by this storm, the seawater surging back into the firmament. Large swaths of space were torn open, and massive amounts of Dao fragments poured out from the fissures.

The Four Heavenly Emperors stopped in mid-air.

The expeditionary Emperors stopped in mid-air.

All the powerhouses of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces also came to a halt.

A moment later, the Boundary Sea began to collapse and dissipate.

The gray-blue seawater crumbled layer by layer, transforming into countless flashes of Law fragments, returning once more into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

The two worlds that had originally been severed also truly drew close at this time.

Mountains and rivers began to connect.

The starry sky began to reorganize.

The landscapes of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces were moving.

The lands of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were also moving.

The old boundaries were completely thrown into Chaos.

The originally familiar firmament was pulled even higher.

The Laws that had originally reached their end were replenished and completed.

Many Great Emperors were the first to sense the change.

The Great Daos within their bodies trembled simultaneously at this moment.

The Bottleneck that had suppressed them for countless years loosened.

The upper limit of Heaven and Earth had been raised.

After the Boundary Sea completely vanished, an ancient path vaguely emerged within the Chaos in the deepest part of the firmament.

Only a rough outline could be seen.

It lay across the depths of the Chaos, enveloped by the light of Law fragments, existing between reality and illusion.

But when it appeared, the expressions of all the Heavenly Emperors present changed.

The Aura emanating from that path was no longer within the realm of the Imperial Dao.

It was a higher Aura.

Transcending all living beings.

Heavenly Emperor Dongjue looked up at that path, his chest heaving slightly.

Heavenly Emperor Ximen also looked up, his gaze not shifting for a long time.

The guardian of the Ancestral Court stared at the ancient path, his expression clearly changing as well.

This was the higher path forward that appeared after the reorganization of Heaven and Earth.

It was also the subsequent Dao that had been completely severed after Pei slashed the world back then.

From this moment on, being above the Heavenly Emperor was no longer empty talk.

But everyone's gaze soon fell back down.

Because something more important than the ancient path lay before them.

Ye Yun was gone.

The 'Emperor' was also gone.

Neither of them was at the Former Site of the Boundary Sea.

They were not in the fissures of the firmament.

Nor were they anywhere in the newly merged Heaven and Earth.

The Four Heavenly Emperors acted simultaneously.

The Ancestral Court guardian also joined in the divination.

The expeditionary Emperors formed a formation to deduce their whereabouts.

The result was only a patch of Chaos.

They couldn't find him.

They couldn't see him.

They couldn't even determine whether he was alive or dead.

A heavy weight pressed down on everyone's hearts.

But one thing was no longer in dispute.

If Ye Yun hadn't forcibly pulled the world from the other side of the Boundary Sea back at the end, these two worlds could not have merged.

If Ye Yun hadn't dragged the 'Emperor' down into the deepest depths with him, the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths could not have survived.

Everyone had survived.

But the man who stood at the very front had not returned.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor stood at the edge of the former Boundary Sea site, remaining motionless.

Blood was still seeping from the wounds on his body.

The Aura of his Supreme Perfection Saint Body had not completely stabilized either.

But Desolate Heaven Great Emperor just stood there, looking at that empty space, his gaze not shifting for a very long time.

The Empress walked to his side and did not speak either.

The Fifth Ancestor stood behind them, his hand still clutching the broken spear.

The Great Ancient Ancestor stood straight, his expression very somber.

At this time, the Four Heavenly Emperors and the Ancestral Court guardian finally cleared up the sequence of Karma.

Ye Yun hadn't simply disappeared.

He had more likely turned himself into a bridge.

At the cost of his own life, he had dragged the 'Emperor' along to be swallowed by the order of Heaven and Earth.

Heavenly Emperor Dongjue slowly exhaled a breath.

"He has extended the life of this era."

No one refuted him.

No one could refute him.

Soon, someone proposed to erect a monument.

It wasn't just the intention of the Ye family.

It wasn't a unilateral decision by the Ancestral Court.

Rather, it was jointly decided by the Four Heavenly Emperors, the Ancestral Court, and the expeditionary Emperors.

The monument was erected right in the center of the former Boundary Sea site.

That was where the two worlds had been severed.

It was also where Ye Yun had finally disappeared.

And it was the place where the new era truly began.

There was no grand sacrificial ceremony.

There was no noisy ritual.

On that day, the Former Site of the Boundary Sea was silent.

The Four Heavenly Emperors came in person.

The Ancestral Court guardian came in person.

The powerhouses of both the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Three Thousand Dao Provinces came.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor personally brought the stone for the monument.

It was an ancient Divine Stone cut from the depths of the new world's boundary, gray-green all over, bearing the residual Law traces of the Boundary Sea.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor did not let anyone else do the work.

He erected the monument alone.

He carved the words alone.

The inscription was not long.

Only a few lines were written.

When Desolate Heaven Great Emperor finished the last stroke, his finger paused for a long time.

Blood fell from his fingertip, landing at the base of the monument.

The surrounding Emperors all lowered their heads.

Looking back at the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

After the Laws of the two worlds finished merging, the shackles that had suppressed them for eons were completely burst open.

Old monsters in secluded cultivation everywhere woke up one after another.

Many Supremes whose Lifespans had been exhausted and who only had a few breaths left found a glimmer of vitality reborn within them after the Laws were replenished.

On the same day, Breakthrough phenomena continuously appeared across the various domains of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Some existences who had been stuck at the Supreme level for countless years began to knock on the gates of the Emperor realm one after another.

Emperor Tribulations descended in succession.

The accumulation of an entire eon of suppression exploded on the same day.

This wasn't the Breakthrough of a single person.

It was that entire group of old fellows from the old era who had been suppressed, stepping out together.

The most dazzling among them came from the Eastern Region of the Yuan Land in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

This person's Aura was extremely powerful.

He had lived for an incredibly long time, his blood and Qi had long since withered, and many existences from his era had already fallen.

If he didn't break through, he could only die of old age in his Immortal Cave.

But on the day the Laws of the two worlds were replenished, he emerged from his seclusion.

He stepped into the Emperor Tribulation and forcibly endured the tribulation lightning until the very end.

On the day he became an Emperor, phenomena covered half the firmament.

Crimson divine light shone across the Yuan Land, even dyeing the sky a solid crimson.

A massive crimson sun hung high in the sky, not dissipating for a long time.

The powerhouses of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths all looked in that direction.

A new Emperor was born.

And as soon as he appeared, he was among the strongest of the newly ascended Great Emperors.

But after becoming an Emperor, this new Emperor did not laugh.

He just stood high in the sky, looking toward the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and the Former Site of the Boundary Sea.

He stood for a long time, murmuring to himself.

"There is still one person there who hasn't come back."

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The originally stable landscape of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths also completely loosened after this replenishment of Laws.

Before, a Great Emperor was the end of the era.

Now, even Supremes were starting to become Emperors one after another.

The Great Emperor was no longer the only one.

Nor was it the end point.

On the side of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, several Heavenly Emperors also soon noticed the changes.

Heavenly Emperor Dongjue, Heavenly Emperor Ximen, Heavenly Emperor Yao Xi, Heavenly Emperor Beiming, Desolate Heaven Great Emperor, and the Ancestral Court guardian all entered seclusion one after another to sense the Great Dao.

They all discovered one thing.

The path they originally thought had reached its end had extended forward by another section.

Heavenly Emperor was not the end.

Everyone saw the direction.

Compared to immediately breaking through, seeing the path was more important.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor also completely suppressed his emotions after this.

Ye Yun hadn't come back.

But the Ye family could not be in Chaos.

The Three Thousand Dao Provinces could not be in Chaos either.

Someone had to hold up the situation Ye Yun had left behind.

Desolate Heaven Great Emperor became more silent, and also sharper.

He rarely spoke any extra words anymore.

But every time he opened his mouth, it was the most direct command.

The Great Ancient Ancestor, Fifth Ancestor, and Fourth Ancestor were all the same.

Although the Ye family had not yet completely escaped the lingering effects of their exile, with Desolate Heaven Great Emperor and several elders presiding over it, it remained one of the most unshakeable Orthodoxies in the world.

The Ye family did not give up.

The Ancestral Court did not stop either.

Everyone was trying to find ways to deduce Ye Yun's whereabouts, and also trying to figure out the connection between that flickering ancient path and the place where Ye Yun disappeared.

But time after time, the results that came back were still only Chaos.

In the end, that monument at the Former Site of the Boundary Sea became a place where more and more people would go.

Young Cultivators came.

Older generation figures came.

New Emperors from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths came.

And old friends from the Three Thousand Dao Provinces came.

After the two worlds merged, Heaven and Earth had changed their appearance.

The Boundary Sea was no more.

The monument remained.

When the two worlds merged, the ancient path had flickered briefly, but it never appeared again after that.

Everyone knew that a new era had arrived.

But the person who had forcibly pulled this era open was not here.

The wind blew from the end of the new world, brushing across the surface of the monument and the robes of everyone present.

That monument stood in the center of the former Boundary Sea site.

The name on the monument remained clear and distinct.