Ancient Godly Monarch - Chapter 1725

Chapter 1725: True Meaning of Undying

Translator: Lordbluefire  Editor: Lordbluefire

The Skyair Palace Lord understood what Qin Wentian said was true. The bloody scar on his throat was still there. Earlier, he had narrowly escaped death.

Was Qin Wentian really brazen and arrogant? Or did he have the strength to back it up?

Who was the arrogant one? As the personal disciple of the Realmlord, the Skyair Palace Lord was one of the three strongest world palace lords under the Lifelong Realmlord. Yet he actually couldn’t even withstand a single strike from Qin Wentian.

Not only was the Skyair Palace Lord speechless, the three other empyreans who were the palace lords of the Xuanyuan Palace, Dragonsaddle Palace and Kanwater Palace were all speechless as they stared at the bloody scar on the Skyair Palace Lord’s throat.

The expression of the Xuanyuan Palace Lord grew extremely unsightly. Earlier, he was still mocking Qin Wentian but now, his face was smacked directly. Qin Wentian used his strength to tell them that true strength wasn’t something that could be measured by how long one has cultivated for or by how famous one was. Back then when he just stepped into the empyrean realm, he already could kill the Lifire Palace Lord. Now, he could similarly defeat them and could even kill them.

However, Qin Wentian didn’t kill his opponent. After all, the Skyair Palace Lord was the personal disciple of the Lifelong Realmlord and was representing the Realmlord in coming to the lower world. If Qin Wentian killed him, this meant that he would never be able to return to the Lifelong Realm. Ye Qianyu and the others were still there in the Lifire Palace. Hence, it was impossible to kill the Skyair Palace Lord today but his earlier attack was already sufficient to cause the Skyair Palace Lord to be unable to forget it for the rest of his life.

“Anyone else still has any objections?” Qin Wentian swept his glance to the other palace lords. At this moment, when his voice entered their ears, they no longer felt he was arrogant. Instead, they felt that he was imposing and was extremely confident in himself. Such majesty would involuntarily radiate forth, the mark of a truly powerful expert. If one didn’t have enough strength, then his words and actions would be arrogance. But if he was powerful enough, he was imposing and his words and actions showed his confidence.

At this instant, the four palace lords all went silent. If they spoke and Qin Wentian asked them to ‘provide guidance,’ how should they react? Should they also fight with him and end up with a bloody scar on their throats? None of them felt that they were stronger than the Skyair Palace Lord.

“What illusionary secret art did you use?” The Skyair Palace Lord asked, reluctance was plain in his voice. Although he had lost, he wanted to lose with understanding. He had clearly broken free of Qin Wentian’s first illusion but why did the second scene of a bloody wound on his throat and the smell of blood appear? That couldn’t be false, it had to be real.

Qin Wentian coldly stared at him. Qin Wentian had comprehended the source origin of the phantasm laws and could manifest laws with just a single thought. The illusionary techniques he used was just something he unleashed by just thinking about it. For a powerful illusionary art, not only could he mislead his opponent’s vision, he naturally could also mislead his opponent’s sense of smell, sense of touch and even his immortal senses. In addition, this illusionary technique he used was something he obtained from the memories inside the tiny astral-being. After Azure Mystic was unified and during the time where he gave lectures to the immortal emperors from the various powers, he used his spare time to cultivate this technique and gradually grew proficient in it.

The name of this technique is ‘Mirror’s Flower, Water’s Moon.’ The reflection of the flower in the mirror, the reflection of the moon on water, these are illusory and ungraspable. There are a total of three levels to this technique. The Skyair Palace Lord was still not up to the mark, only managing to see through the first level. Although the second level was eventually revealed at the end, it was already too late. Even if he had seen through the second level in the midst of his battle with Qin Wentian, there was still the third level. This can fool all senses, mixing reality with illusion. It was precisely why this technique was so fearsome.

Relatively speaking, when someone saw through your illusionary technique, they would feel a moment of liberation and relaxation. At this time, the second level has already kicked in and when they finally broke through the second level, the third level was waiting for them. Such an illusionary technique was simply too tyrannical The Skyair Palace Lord has never fought against Qin Wentian before. Since he was the recipient of such an illusionary technique, he would naturally fall into it.

Qin Wentian naturally wouldn’t tell the Skyair Palace Lord about this. The innate techniques and secret arts of cultivators are their trump cards during combat, how could he explain things to his enemy?

“Did Yi teach you that?” The Skyair Palace Lord transmitted his voice over to ask, his expression extremely unsightly. Yi was also a world overlord character, the same level of existence as his master the Lifelong Realmlord. He thought that Yi had taught Qin Wentian this tyrannical technique which was why he had lost. As for other aspects of combat, he didn’t feel that he would be inferior to Qin Wentian. He wasn’t willing to admit it.

“You can go complain to the Realmlord, saying that I want to bring my senior apprentice sister along but you obstructed me and was defeated by a single sword strike of mine. If you don’t say things clearly and in the future if the Realmlord questions me, I will tell him honestly what happened.” Qin Wentian ignored the other party’s question and directly spoke. This caused the expression of the Skyair Palace Lord to turn even more unsightly. He was the disciple of the Lifelong Realmlord and Qin Wentian was Yi’s disciple. A sword strike from Qin Wentian almost killed him, leaving a bloody scar on his throat. What would his master think?

He wouldn’t simply be throwing his own face, he would also be throwing the face of the Lifelong Realmlord as well. Hence, it was best to hide this matter if they could hide it. If he lost face for his master, his master would surely be very disappointed in him and start to alienate him.

Qin Wentian’s body flashed, vanishing form his location and reappearing by the side of his allies. He then spoke in a low voice, “Let’s go.”

Beiming Youhuang cast a deep glance at Qin Wentian, she didn’t expect that Qin Wentian was already this powerful. She was very clear about the Skyair Palace Lord’s strength, yet he was actually so easily defeated. Seeing the bloody scar on his throat, she knew that Qin Wentian could have killed him. If the Skyair Palace Lord wasn’t the Lifelong Realmlord’s disciple or if Qin Wentian wasn’t someone from the Lifelong Realm, the Skyair Palace Lord would already be a dead man.

As for those from Azure Mystic, they have seen too many wondrous things from Qin Wentian that they were already numbed. In the process of unifying Azure Mystic, several empyreans died to Qin Wentian. In their eyes, Qin Wentian being able to defeat opponents on the same level was nothing special. After all, they knew nothing about who the Skyair Palace Lord was and what was his status.

After Qin Wentian’s group left, the Skyair Palace Lord glanced at the three other palace lords and spoke. “For this matter, it’s best that everyone temporarily not speak of this to my master. By not traveling with us, Beiming Youhuang has already defied the will of my master. At the time when the blame is assigned, we will definitely have to bear part of it.”

The three other palace lords cursed silently in their heart. The Skyair Palace Lord was intentionally dragging them down under the water. He actually wanted to keep this under wraps. However, they could also understand the thoughts of the Skyair Palace Lord, and could only nod with a heavy expression. The Xuanyuan Palace Lord glanced at the direction Qin Wentian headed to as he sighed in his heart. In the Lifelong Realm, other than the Realmlord, most probably only the Desolate Heaven Palace Lord could suppress Qin Wentian.

Who would have thought that the Lifire Palace would rise up in such a short time after being taken over by a new palace lord. To them, this wasn’t a good thing. Earlier, they had already caused the relationship between them and Qin Wentian to be strained. It is going to be extremely hard to repair the crack in the relationship.

But luckily, the Skyair Palace Lord would bear the brunt of this. He was the main person who had offended Qin Wentian and was even the personal disciple of the Lifelong Realmlord. They needn’t worry about this too much.

Each of the palace lords then respectively warned their subordinates to keep this matter a secret. After that, they continued to advance into the depths of the ancient battlefield, searching for the secrets here as well as bouts of good fortune. If they really could gain something beneficial in this place, all of what just happened just then could be tossed to the back of their minds.

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Qin Wentian and the others continued on their way. The powerful source origins of spatial laws radiated from him, enveloping his group as he brought them through spatial gates again and again, traveling a thousand miles with a single step. In his mind, the ancient will of the heavenly deity was providing directions to him.

“Senior, where should we go?” Qin Wentian soared through the air, leading his group as he asked the heavenly deity.

“To the center of Ancient Azure Mystic. Over there, there was once a flying city and was the most prosperous place in the world. That is also the center of the ancient battlefield. If you wish to seek good fortune, that place is the most suitable. There are definitely divine depositories buried there.” The heavenly deity replied.

“How much longer?” Qin Wentian asked.

“Our speed is too slow. This world has transformed into endless stretches of desolation and there are no teleportation arrays. If you maintain this speed, you will need roughly about two to three years more of time.” The heavenly deity replied.

Qin Wentian’s heart trembled despite already steeling himself for the answer. He was still shocked regardless.

Now that he had entered the empyrean realm and was the Heaven Empyrean of Azure Mystic, he was told that his speed was too slow despite him traveling by spatial gates? He still needed two to three more years of time to reach their location, he was simply speechless when he heard that… But when he thought of what sort of character the heavenly deity was when he was still alive, Qin Wentian also understood. How much more powerful was a deity compared to an empyrean? There was simply no way to compare. It was like the sun in the sky being compared to a tiny ant crawling on the surface of the earth.

As for the time needed, it was very normal as well. Ancient Azure Mystic was a place that could cause the various experts from the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms to covet for it, how vast was that world then? Qin Wentian only needed to use the Lifelong Realm as a comparison target and he could instantly understand. Even for the Lifelong Realm, it was already boundlessly vast to him.

“Ai!” Qin Wentian sighed depressedly. Even making their way there needed two to three years of time. He was simply speechless.

“Why are you sighing? If there really are divine depositories there, others would spend thousands to over ten thousands of years searching and wouldn’t find the time taken long at all. Everyone under the heavens seeks the Great Dao, for people with a high enough cultivation base, a bout of good fortune far surpass cultivating for a million of years. Two to three years of time is merely a drop of water in the oceans, insignificant.” The ancient heavenly deity calmly spoke, it was like he knew what was Qin Wentian thinking about.

“A million years…” Qin Wentian bitterly smiled and shook his head. “Junior has only cultivated for a short time and has no way to imagine that amount of time.”

“Mhm, your talent can be considered one of the very best out of the people I’ve met. Without the resources of super powers like the Heavenly Deity Race, you can already be considered extremely outstanding given your cultivation speed. However, you need to be able to endure loneliness. That existence who passed the Undying Scripture to you most probably didn’t only want you to protect Azure Mystic. He placed his hopes on you, and probably wanted you to restore Ancient Azure Mystic.”

“Restore Ancient Azure Mystic?” Qin Wentian started. “A world that has been buried, how do I restore it? How many years would that need?’

“Haha, since you have cultivated the Undying Scripture, as long as you don’t die in unnatural causes, you would have unlimited time. What this world lacks most is time, but what it didn’t lack most is also time. For an undying existence, as long as one’s talent is good enough, he or she would sooner or later be able to climb up to the peak. Can it be that you still don’t understand the true meaning of the Undying Scripture?” The ancient heavenly deity’s voice turned solemn as he continued, “Undying is a state, it is able to subdue time, and allow one to climb up to the supreme peak.”

Qin Wentian was stunned, he had never truly considered things from this angle. Was this why the Undying Scripture was so powerful? As long as he didn’t die in battles or accidents, he would be able to climb to the absolute peak. Time was nothing to him.

This world has never lacked geniuses, including supreme characters. However, who would dare to say that they won’t die? The vast majority of them would fall at different stages of cultivation. Or for others, they might have unrivalled levels of talent but they ultimately were still defeated by the strongest enemy of all – time. But for an undying existence, he wouldn’t lose to time.

All Great Daos are simple. The stronger a Dao was, the more simple the logic in it is!

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Chapter 1726: Return of the Undying

Translator: Lordbluefire  Editor: Lordbluefire

The heavenly deity was right. The most valuable thing in the world was time, but the thing the world was lacking least was also time. Time would never cease its flow.

In the blink of an eye, already two years plus have passed since Qin Wentian entered the ancient battlefield for the second time. During these two years, many things happened, especially so in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms. There would be countless things occuring every day but all of that was just like a drop of water in the ocean, insignificant to the grand scheme of things. The only thing of importance was the news about the reappearance of Ancient Azure Mystic. Although the news was already out for two years, not only did the intensity of it not fade, it even grew fiercer.

Because, many powers here in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms have already sent their forces into Ancient Azure Mystic. This led to endless circulation of the news in the upper world as everyone, even the bottom feeders of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms knew about this. Not only did the ancient battlefield appear, even remnants of wills from ancient heavenly deities still survived. Among one of the clans of the Heavenly Deity Race, the Winged God Race, one of their ancestors appeared and borrowed the body of a Winged God descendant.

However, only the people from the Winged God Race knew that the genius Yu Feifan who lent his body to a heavenly deity, had already fallen.

This news was an absolute secret, they sent out even more experts, rushing towards Azure Mystic. No matter what, they had to take the strand of will from their ancestor back to the Winged God Race. This was a death order, they were prepared to spare no expense to achieve this.

After all, as one of the ancestors of the Winged God Race, even if he died, even if just a strand of his will survived, he would know of many memories. To the Winged God Race, it can be considered a valuable divine depository.

With the discovery of the news that there might be ancient wills from heavenly deities surviving, this time around, the major powers of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms truly sent out formidable experts. The forces were no longer small-scaled ones, but truly an army formed from empyreans. Given how deep the foundations of the ancient Heavenly Deity Race are, the amount of time their inheritances had been passed down for, was incalculable. After developing for so many years, how large a scale were they now? For some of the heavenly deity clans, they even had billions of people and occupied vast amounts of territory and this was just the people of a single clan, including blood descendants, followers and servants.

Extremely powerful characters moved out, personally escorting the army of empyreans through the starry skies, sending them to Azure Mystic.

Hence, Azure Mystic became lively again, the news about the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms’ experts coming here in droves was no longer a secret. Many people heard the news and many also saw these experts from the other immortal realms and they were all from the upper world. When they saw how powerful these upper world’s visitors are, some ambitious people of Azure Mystic were filled with boundless yearning towards the upper world.

For the situation in the external world, Qin Wentian naturally knew about it. Di Tian was cultivating outside, guarding Heaven Empyrean City and the thoughts of both of them were linked, so was their comprehension of insights. Di Tian had no need to enter Ancient Azure Mystic, it was better for him to guard Heaven Empyrean City in secret. After all, Qin Wentian’s original body brought many immortal emperors from the various powers into the ancient battlefield. The number of experts outside was now lacking and Di Tian had to stay behind.

Luckily, these people from the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms were here just for Ancient Azure Mystic, they had completely no interest towards this weak world that was the current Azure Mystic. Although there were some minor incidents occurring, such things were inevitable. The vast majority of experts from the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms immediately rushed to the forbidden grounds of the Darknorth Immortal Dynasty the moment they arrived.

However, after the passage of two years, Qin Wentian and his group were still making their way there. Naturally, they didn’t rush there without pause, some times, they would stop to rest too.

For example, they were now at a desolate range. Qin Wentian stood on an ancient peak and was staring at a beautiful figure sitting cross-legged in the distance. This beautiful figure was none other than Beiming Youhuang. Around here, many zombies could be seen moving about, guarding this area. The eyes of these zombies were vacant but would occasionally glow with light. It was extremely bizzare.

“Hu…” After drawing in a deep breath, Beiming Youhuang opened her eyes and glanced in the direction of Qin Wentian.

Qin Wentian’s figure flashed, he came to Beiming Youhuang’s side and asked softly, “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine. But using such techniques truly requires a large amount of energy consumption. Given the strength of my soul currently, although I can control the zombies casually, I can only control them to a certain extent. If I want them to listen to my instructions or to fight in combat, it would be extremely strenuous, this is especially so if I wish to control empyrean-level zombies, the burden on my soul will be exceedingly heavy.” Beiming Youhuang softly spoke.

Qin Wentian nodded. He could understand this. After all, Beiming Youhuang’s cultivation base was only at the peak-stage of the immortal emperor realm. She, who had cultivated the Death Scripture, could easily control zombies who didn’t have their will left. But if she wanted to control them to a greater degree, allowing them to unleash their combat prowess, the burden of doing so would be exceedingly great on her. Now, she could only control a few empyrean zombies. Once there were too many empyrean-level zombies under her control, her soul wouldn’t be able to bear the burden.

And also, during the process of controlling them, she couldn’t be distracted. This meant that she had no way to join the battlefield to fight at all. It was best that she could find a quiet place to reside as she controlled the zombies or she herself might be in danger. However, this can also be solved by having zombies guarding her surroundings. Despite so, it was important that it wouldn’t be so easy for others to tell that she was the one controlling the zombies.

This was also the reason why Qin Wentian and Beiming Youhuang were here alone. Even for Beiming Youhuang’s father, the Darknorth Immortal Emperor, they didn’t tell him the truth.

The inheritance of the Imperishable Heaven Lord from Ancient Azure Mystic naturally had to be kept a secret. Once news of this leaked, he and Beiming Youhuang would become the targets of countless powers in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms, maybe also including the Heavenly Deity Race. If that was the case, they wouldn’t even know how they died.

“Try to control as many as you can, and as you slowly adapt to the burden, you would gradually be able to control more.” Qin Wentian spoke. This wasn’t his own words, it was the ancient heavenly deity’s will’s suggestion. He was merely passing on the message.

“Right.” Youhuang nodded. “Senior has already reminded many times on our journey here. I’ve been controlling the zombies ever since we started the journey.”

Qin Wentian silently laughed, “Alright, let us go back for now.”

“Mhm.” Beiming Youhuang nodded. Qin Wentian’s spatial energy enveloped her body as the two of them instantly departed. A moment later, they joined their group again and when the Darknorth Immortal Emperor saw that the two of them were together, a meaningful smile appeared on his face. Sometimes, he was thinking what was the exact relationship between Qin Wentian and his daughter, Beiming Youhuang. The two of them had already broke off from the main group several times and went elsewhere together.

Many people also smiled as they glanced at the Darknorth Immortal Emperor, if Beiming Youhuang was really an item with Qin Wentian, the status of the Darknorth Immortal Emperor would become equal to the Evergreen Immortal Emperor. However, since both the Evergreen Immortal Emperor and Evergreen Qing`er were present, nobody would be foolish enough to voice such things out.

Qin Wentian didn’t say anything. He walked towards Qing`er and held her hand. Others might not know but Qing`er understood this. Before her, he kept going out frequently together with Beiming Youhuang, if he still hid things from her, what would it count as? It would be too disrespectful towards Qing`er. There were no secrets between them.

Qing`er’s expression didn’t change. Her Master had also silently reminded her to be careful, and she was speechless, not knowing how to reply. If Qin Wentian really wished to marry more women, she wouldn’t say anything let alone the fact that she knew of the real reason. Qin Wentian had told his wives what he and Beiming Youhuang had experienced during their stay in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms.

Their group then continued on the journey and on their way there, they encountered trouble frequently. There were some zombies whose obsessions were too strong. Even though they were already dead, they still didn’t forget their mission to protect this place. Luckily, Qin Wentian didn’t tangle with them, also, with the ancient will of the heavenly deity and the presence of Beiming Youhuang, they weren’t delayed by too much.

Finally, another half a year passed and they finally arrived at their destination – a flying city in the air.

This was the central core of Ancient Azure Mystic, the most prosperous area. One could very well imagine how majestic this city was in ancient times. But now, when Qin Wentian and his group arrived below the floating city, they only felt a bleak sense of desolation.

The floating city was true to its name, located between the sky and earth. It was at least ten thousand feet in height, and at the entrance of the city, there was a stairway leading upward. This stairway was damaged, but despite so, everyone could still imagine how glorious its appearance in the past was. But now, this stairway was broken in many parts and the city’s gate had collapsed, leaving only crumbled fences and dilapidated walls. Dead silence filled the atmosphere, under the black sun, decay was everywhere, causing everyone to truly feel the atmosphere of this apocalyptic battlefield.

As they climbed up the stairs, ruins came into their vision. There were even more zombies here in this area and all of them were filled with their obsession from back when they were alive to guard this place. Sadly, they were helpless and couldn’t do so.

Qin Wentian saw an extremely powerful zombie hugging a baby that was already dead. That zombie stood there unmoving, unwilling to place the baby down. When he was alive, he had failed to protect his child.

He saw another sturdy and muscular man wielding a terrifying divine weapon, guarding at the entrance of one of the ruins. That man was like a divinity standing there, yet his eyes were blank, completely without spirit. The thing he once protected was no longer there.

Every scene here created a rush of impact to those in Qin Wentian’s group. They involuntarily felt sorrow. This was what war is, how cruel and cold-blooded. Not only that, this was a world-ending one, to those heavenly deities who stood at the top, what were the multitude of lives here?

At this moment, a figure rushed over. It was a giant with a height of 1,000 meters. However, this giant didn’t have a head. Its head was already sliced off by someone. He exuded a terrifying aura and faced Qin Wentian’s group. His voice originated from some unknown location, “Where are you guys from?”

A fearsome looking giant axe could be seen in his hands. In an instant, a tyrannical and stifling aura gushed forth enveloping everything. If he cleaved down with his axe, he could annihilate all existences before him.

“I brought them here.” A voice from within Qin Wentian rang out.

“Who are you?” That giant asked.

“This body…it should be the body of the Futian Battle God when he was alive. Who would have thought that he was beheaded. Are you the will of Futian? Or are you the will of some other heavenly deities?” A human shadow flew out from the center of Qin Wentian’s brow.

“Daybreak Heavenly Deity.” The voice of the muscular expert contained a ripple. “To think that a strand of your will still survived and you are actually willing to leave the area where you died at. I’m none other than Futian. Where do these people come from? To think that you are actually willing to give up your obsession in protecting your own location to come here.

“Because, the Heaven Lord’s prophecy is about to come true. This is the reason why I came.” The Daybreak Heavenly Deity spoke.

Futian Battle God’s gigantic body trembled. After that, a solemn voice seemingly from the primordial era rang out in the air from the Futian Battle God, “When the return of the undying is here, Ancient Azure Mystic shall reappear and bring peace to all the thirty-three heavens.”