Chapter 488 - 364: Emperor Merciless (First Update)_1
Above the sky, the Star Sea descends, scattering dazzling starlight. On the earth, it transforms into a vast ocean, surging waves sweeping over countless radiant lights, where countless stars rise and fall.
As far as the eye can see, everywhere are complete laws and fragments of order, bearing the true power of the rules. If placed in the outside world, just a hint of it would be enough to make all the outstanding beings of the outer world fight for their lives. Yet here, they are as commonplace as mundane goods and can be found everywhere. If one desired, they could simply create a world-class powerhouse in a short amount of time with these law fragments.
It is so transcendental that the world rarely sees its likes. It takes a complete life world to form these law fragments after its decay. Each piece is rare and precious.
The death of the Star River and the alternating of all things seem to have no effect here.
Even the most dazzling starlight cannot penetrate here. This place no longer differentiates between darkness and dawn, only silence to the ultimate gloom and hazy fog.
Looking around, all that meets the eye are boundless mighty mountains that are so high they seem to stand as tall as heaven and earth, rising from the gloomy ground, their edges too obscure to be seen.
In the air, there are occasional sounds of drums, like the horns sounded in ancient times, resonating within the grand peaks. There are also surging black mists as if an overturning sea pouring down, continually engulfing these mountains.
Deep within the great peak, a pair of slightly opened eyes emits dazzling aurora, like two suns suspended in the sky. Mortals cannot stare directly at them.
The light falls down.
It’s an unparalleled woman, truly perfect and flawless. Her body is glowing, impossible to describe with language.
The woman looks exactly like the one Jiang Hui met on the dark ancient ship, but her temperament is completely different. One does not seem real, but the other is like eternity, standing firm here. Her every move seems capable of creating heaven and earth.
The former is elusive, but the latter is a real Empress Merciless.
“The forgotten ones have been found, but who is that mysterious person…”
The empress murmurs in her mouth, thinking back to the scene transmitted before that avatar dissipated. Even on her unchanging face, an unexpected look emerges.
With her current strength, spanning across the universe, the Cosmic Star Sea, the Underworld expanse, there could not possibly be any secrets left. She knows the essence of life, the rule of civilization’s evolution, the ultimate mystery of the universe.
But at this moment, she could not see through a single person, which shocks her. Because according to common sense, this situation is entirely impossible unless the other party is at the same realm as her.
But this… is the greatest impossibility!
She has transcended the Tao and embarks on her unique path. Even if the Immortal Emperor is not fearful, besides those few, only the Bizarre Ten Ancestors could be like this.
As for Emperor Huang Tian…
The other party split his life into three, to prevent the Bizarre Clan from finding him and concealed his fate with superior methods, cutting off the years and the fragments of memory. Even she could not sense it, which is why she folded countless paper ships, crossing the Forbidden Sea with thousands of avatars, traversing the river of times, using the simplest but also the most foolish method to find that unparalleled Heavenly Emperor from later generations.
But how many Emperor Huang Tians are there in this world, there’s only that one throughout eternity!
“Fate has begun, and disasters have been born accordingly. All living beings in the world must accompany disaster. Everything, the Cosmic Star Sea, even if in a different space and time, could not avoid it. Even a speck of dust has its cause and effect and fate. Why can he stay out of it?”
Empress Merciless stands up, and twelve doors rise behind her.
They are the Doors of Fate and Cause, a Chaotic Treasure born from heaven and earth, nurtured by sun and moon. Even the Immortal Emperor’s weapon could not compare with it.
Legend has it that if one could break through these twelve stone gates, they could truly master the Art of Destiny. She has now grasped ten of them, only lacking the last two crucial gates.
“Open!”
After contemplating for a moment, Empress Merciless makes a light shout, flipping her jade hands slightly, and in an instant, the twelve stone doors start to rotate rapidly. Above the sky, they form a large pentagram.
Then a divine light captures down, forming a light curtain as large as a mountain.
Next, ripples like water waves ripple on the light curtain, revealing various scenes.
In the scene, there is a small willow tree, just as thick as an arm, swaying in the wind, with the willow leaves fluttering.
The scene then abruptly changes. The small willow tree suddenly grows larger, like a giant that opens up the world, towering into the heavens.
Jiang Hui would surely be stunned if he saw this scene.
Because the figure appearing in the scene isn’t someone else but himself before he transformed.
The twelve Doors of Destiny are incredibly profound, floating in the river of time, encompassing all the useful fragments of scenes, displaying everything from the past.
Empress Merciless watches intently, hoping to gain some insight.
But at this moment, the twelve stone gates that were rotating rapidly suddenly pause.
The next moment, with black mist seething, the protagonist in the scene has already turned into Empress Merciless herself.
Among the brilliant light and shadows, the scenes on the stone gate changed, like an epic, the scenes from the past reappeared.
It’s a remote little mountain village, isolated from the world, just like Paradise.
There are a pair of siblings in the village.
The two rely on each other for survival, and their only toy is a ghost face mask that seems to laugh but is not, seems to cry but isn’t, bearing all their joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness, all their childhood memories.
Latter.
The little girl’s brother was taken away by a force called Yu Hua Divine Dynasty. From then on, that familiar face only existed in the little girl’s memory, and it might dissipate into dust one day.
To find her brother, she competed on the imperial path. She fought single-handedly against thousands of heroes, through countless battles, paved her imperial path with a bloody road!
With a thought, bloomed a flower, she ruled the world!A
From then on, there was no rival in the world, until she reached the Summit Realm and arrived at this plateau…
What the girl pursued and waited for all her life wasn’t fame, wasn’t immortality, she only wanted her brother to come back. Yet even so, the once little girl couldn’t find her brother.
Until now.
The phantasm on the twelve Doors of Destiny abruptly stops.
Empress Merciless is silent, her eyes profound.
That is her everlasting regret!
Even though she has now reached the true Absolute Peak Realm, even though immortals are as insignificant as dust in the starry sky in her eyes, she still has not found that figure in her memory that has haunted her dreams.
But what puzzles this eternal Empress Merciless more is why the twelve Doors of Destiny that had formed a contract with her would suddenly break out of her control…