Chapter 42: The Heavens
The Night King stepped on the freed cang, and returned to the realm of the gods alone.
It was a vast and desolate pure land, surrounded by a layer of mist, reflecting a colorful brilliance.
Its upper layer is the daylight of the arctic day, and the lower layer is the moonlit silent eternal night, and at its junction, 90,000 hectares long, the stars float quietly in the infinite twilight.
That is the legendary divine realm that everyone yearns forβthe heavenly realm.
"Go back to the Sea of Twilight to heal. The Night King retreated and landed on the mirror-like steps, which connected the two layers of the Upper Heavens, day and night, and ran through the entire Sea of Dusk.
At the end of his vision, a woman in a white feather coat sat on a crane, waiting for his return.
"Ripple. Then, the Night King's voice passed through the long steps, and his figure moved slightly, and he had come to the gate of the Polar Day.
The black dragon head hanging on the main hall heard the footsteps, opened its eyes suddenly, and stared at the person with resurrected eyes, and then went down in infinite disappointment, and finally closed its eyes again.
"You're waiting for me. The Night King ignored the black dragon and strode into the polar day, echoes coming from all directions, bringing the silent pure land to life, and the goddess stepped down from the crane, and her long feather coat dragged on the ground, waving a glimmer of spiritual light.
"You know his whereabouts. The Night King asked, "Did you know the whereabouts of the Emperor Zhong early on, and why did you keep hiding it?"
"I don't know. Yun Yun shook his head slightly, the Night King didn't believe it, and said coldly, "If you hadn't known the whereabouts of Emperor Zhong early on, how could you have taken the initiative to break the contract? β
"I didn't break my word. Yun Yun still shook his head and said lightly, "If you are referring to the sun wheel, it is just a small compensation I gave her." β
"Nonsense! The power of the Sun Wheel is so great, is it a small compensation in your mouth!" The Night King was immediately enraged, "The Eastern Emperor and Xiyu, when they had not yet cultivated the divine body, they left their descendants on Zhen Island, but even so, the Eastern Emperor never left the Sun Wheel with them! You have the power of prophecy, what did you tell him that he would be willing to lend you the Divine Ring of the Sun Wheel?"
"Prophecy ......" He suddenly paused, looking at the initiates' unchanged and calm faces, and was shocked, "Is it the prophecy back then?"
"You have always believed me. Yun Yun smiled, and the Night King said cautiously, "If you say it now, I won't believe a word, but ...... At that time, I had to believe what you said. β
The two of them were silent in unison, it was tens of thousands of years ago, their twelve initiates set foot in the heavenly realm for the first time, and worked together to create a domain spell, wrapping this barren land to form the eternal polar day and polar night, since then, the time belonging to the heavenly realm has completely stood still, and the trajectory of the stars has stopped moving, and they have become the rulers of the thousands of islands in the sky, and are revered as the "twelve gods".
At that time, they may still retain the joys and sorrows of being human beings, and they built a magnificent temple on this barren land, and they would look at the thousands of worlds below and listen to their prayers, like real gods.
Later, I don't know how long such days have passed, and the initiates around me left one by one, and occasionally met, but they were relatively silent.
It turned out that God's day was so lonely, and at that time, they finally realized that they were not really God, and they could not bear this eternal loneliness.
It was at this time that Emperor Zhong left the Heavenly Realm alone, and when he left, he was very usual, and he smiled and waved at them at the city gate, as if it was just a simple trip.
No one thought that he would never return, and he would not be heard from again for 9,000 years.
On the day he left, the prophetic power trembled and said the future that belonged to the heavenly realmβthe emperor star rises, the heaven and the earth drink together, the sun and the moon shine together, the emperor star falls, the mountains and rivers lose color, and the sun and the moon mourn together.
The Night King pondered and set his gaze on the Sea of Dusk, where there was an inconspicuous dark star, but that dark star was indeed the brightest emperor star ever, it suddenly lost its brilliance one day nine thousand years ago, but it had been quietly suspended in the Sea of Dusk, and had never fallen.
"Ripple, that star has always been there, does it mean that Emperor Zhong is still alive?" The Night King still had a glimmer of hope in his arms, and asked unwillingly, "He may be like me, even if his body is devoured by the beast, the remnant soul is still there, as long as he is retrieved......"
"The remnant soul of Emperor Zhong is long gone. Yun interrupted the Night King, "It's vague, but I can vaguely perceive something...... He's not like you, he seems to be willing, you look around the Emperor-"
She stretched out her hand to the star and continued: "Even if it is dim, it is still the main star of that star field, and the auxiliary stars around it, either guiding or suppressing, it is the traction of these auxiliary stars that the Emperor Star has never fallen, and the most important ......"
The Night King looked in the direction of her finger, and near the Emperor's Star, there was a dark red auxiliary star, lifeless.
"It was its most important auxiliary star, but it lost its life force. β
"Life force?" the Night King was startled, his eyes twitching, "You borrowed the Sun Wheel for that auxiliary star?"
"That's right. Yun Yun nodded solemnly, helplessly, "After all, I am not a true god, and the power of prophecy cannot penetrate everything, I just relied on my intuition to give the Sun Wheel God Ring to Feng Ji, because Feng Ji's life star is extremely similar to that auxiliary star, I dare not assert whether they are really related, I can only gamble." β
"Huh...... Maybe you got it right. The Night King suddenly remembered that the woman with the half-blood of the Spirit and Phoenix on the Biluo Sea, if she had kept the contract signed by the Spirit Phoenix Clan and the Divine Bird, she would have died early, so the auxiliary star would show a lifeless death, and the Sun Wheel Divine Ring contained exactly the vitality she lacked!
However, he quickly fell silent again, his face heavy - Emperor Zhong was dead, why hadn't Emperor Star fallen yet, could it be that his descendants would return to the Heavenly Realm as fierce beasts?
The Twelve Gods...... Is it finally time for a replacement?
"Who are you talking about?" Suddenly, a hearty laugh interrupted the two, and the Night King glanced at it, and sure enough, he saw a familiar person sitting in the distance, that person maintained the same high-spirited young man for ten thousand years, only those eyes revealed an indescribable old man, he jumped down from the temple, grabbed his hair, and strode over, "I seem to hear you talking about Emperor Zhong? Why, does that guy know that he has come back after so long?"
"Huangyan, it's not good to eavesdrop. The Night King frowned and accused.
"How can I eavesdrop, I've been lying there and napping in the open, it's because you guys are talking too engrossed, I don't see it. His figure flickered, and he had already moved to the two of them, and simply sat on the ground, tilting his head to look at the star they had been discussing, and suddenly said: "You just said that he was eaten by a fierce beast? β
He looked up and smiled, a little ill-intentioned: "The black dragon outside has died under his sword, and there are any other fierce beasts that can eat him, I don't believe it." β
"If you don't believe it, don't meddle with it. The Night King sneered, and the boy shook his head repeatedly, "That's not good, I'm just going to take care of it, after all...... I once lost to him. β
He let out a long sigh, but it gave the Night King a bad feeling.
The last obstacle they came to the Heavenly Realm was an ancient black dragon, which guarded the realm of the gods and did not let them take a step forward, among the twelve initiates, only Emperor Zhong and Huang Yan had the strength to fight with the evil dragon, they fought in the air for hundreds of days and it was still difficult to distinguish the winner, in the end, the evil dragon seized the opportunity, the dragon claw cut through Huang Yan's cheek, but it also revealed a flaw, and was cut off by Emperor Zhong with a knife!
The head of the black dragon had been hanging in the center of the Polar Sun Gate, but it was only when he saw the emperor that his anger was rekindled.
Perhaps angered by the evil dragon's attitude of ignorance, after they finally swept away all obstacles from the outside world and became the masters of the heavenly realm, the internal contradictions also broke out out out of control.
Obviously, the two of them joined hands to slay the evil dragon, but all the people in the world only remembered the last god of war to cut off the dragon's head, Di Zhong, who had a casual temperament, and had no intention of fighting with the power of the god of war, while the competitive Huang Yan was left out in the cold, and the challengers from all walks of life found the heavenly realm, but they invited the emperor Zhong by name!
Finally, the God of War Emperor Zhong and the Hades King Huangyan froze.
He may have left the Heavenly Realm because of this, and he said that he would go out for a walk, but he never came back.
"Hey, where do you think he is now?" Huang Yan tilted his head to look at them and pointed down, "Is it on that Drift Island that has fallen into the sky? What is the name of that island now?"
"Oh, you're going to intervene too?" the Night King looked at him coldly, his face grinning, even his eyes seemed to be smiling, and nodded, "I don't bother to worry about you and my pet, but if the emperor is on that island, I miss him a lot!"
"Huang Yan, Emperor Zhong is dead. Yun Yun reminded, "The people on the island are not him." β
"Dead?" Huang Yan instantly retracted his smile, stared directly at Yun Yun, and paused word by word, "You lie to me, even if he is eaten by a fierce beast, he will not die, that kind of bloodline, even if there is only a little bit left...... He won't die!, you don't want me to interfere and deliberately lie to me by saying that, right?"
"I didn't lie to you, the people on the island now are more of the bloodline of that beast. β
"Then I'm going to see it. Huang Yan didn't care, he jumped up from the ground and twisted his neck, "The beast that can eat him...... It's really curious. β
"Hey......" The Night King knew that it was not good, and wanted to stop this obedient initiate, but unexpectedly, he had an extra red long sword in his hand, which instantly hit the Night King's throat, and laughed: "Xi Hui, you are like this, it is better to settle the grievances between yourself and that pet as soon as possible, otherwise, if I go down with this sword, I am afraid that the remnant soul that you have just repaired will be broken for thousands of years." β
"What do you want to do?" the Night King was undaunted, pushed away the sword, and asked sharply, "Do you want the Emperor Star to fall and bury the entire Heavenly Realm?"
"Heh......" Huang Yan put away his sword and looked into the distance - the heavenly realm was barren, thousands of miles of dead silence, and the majestic temple stood in the center, but no outsiders had ever come in to admire the demeanor of the so-called twelve gods.
"Just have some fun, why are you so nervous. He blinked slyly and strode away from the polar day.
The head of the black dragon hanging on the door of the main hall opened his eyes in response, ignoring the god passing by, he finally raised his head to look at the dragon's eyes, and after a long time, he stretched out a finger to the dragon's head, and said coldly: "I really hate your eyes, every time I walk by here, I can't wait to dig them out and crush them!" But I won't do that...... Black Dragon, I want you to see with your own eyes with these eyes, and see what the person you think in your heart will be. β
Before he could finish speaking, he jumped from the clouds and fell towards the isolated island at sea.