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Chapter 1645 - 997: Universe Annihilation_2

Chapter 1645: Chapter 997: Universe Annihilation_2

However, at this moment, they couldn’t help but want to form a united front, rolling up their sleeves and clenching their fists.

But after thinking it over, the two seemed to have a tacit understanding and decisively gave up on this idea.

It’s not that they couldn’t form a united front,

it’s simply because they couldn’t win.

One is a good brother.

The other is a cousin.

Getting beaten would be too humiliating to talk about no matter what.

"You two, what do you plan to do next?" Shi Hao asked.

Thinking about it, before the Banished Immortal and Stone Toughness could respond, he continued, "I could share my breakthrough experience with you, and maybe you can find new gains based on your own circumstances."

Shi Hao had been watching here for a long time and saw Emperor Merciless breaking through.

"If it doesn’t work, there’s still Fellow Daoist Ye and Fellow Daoist Fierce Man."

As he spoke, he pointed to Ye Fan and the other three in the pavilion.

These people had recently broken through to the Immortal Emperor’s Realm, making their insights the most valuable.

The two naturally did not refuse and immediately nodded in agreement. Ye Fan naturally wouldn’t refuse, and the Fierce Man, since he was going to share experiences with Wushi, wouldn’t refuse either.

But as the saying goes, there are as many faces as there are people, a thousand causes lead to a thousand effects, and a thousand effects will lead to countless variations.

Emperor Merciless might find a suitable path for himself from Ye Fan’s breakthrough experiences, but it doesn’t mean that everyone will benefit in the same way.

This time it was Shi Hao and the Fierce Man giving a lecture, imparting their experiences.

The scripture reading lasted over ten days.

Stone Toughness, the Banished Immortal, Wushi, and others gained some new insights.

However, hoping to find the true Emperor Road based solely on these insights was unlikely and almost impossible.

These people weren’t famed for nothing; they quickly realized that this method wasn’t suitable for them.

If they truly wanted to find their own Emperor Road, they would have to seek another approach.

Of course, there is another method.

This method was mentioned during a lecture by Emperor Huanfen, but generally, it’s not recommended.

It is said that there is great terror between life and death.

Conversely, between life and death, there can also be great opportunity.

This opportunity is the chance for a breakthrough to the Emperor Realm.

However, not every brush with life and death will yield such opportunity.

In the vast majority of cases, dead is dead.

Even if one survives by chance, it’s hard to say if a blind cat will catch a dead mouse.

This is why Emperor Huanfen doesn’t recommend this method.

The probability of success remains slim, and a slight misstep could lead to death and the dispersion of one’s path,

but if there’s truly no way to simply rely on seclusion for a breakthrough, then they might have to resort to this foolish method.

After the lecture, they chatted for a bit before bidding farewell and returning to their respective homes.

Jiang Hui didn’t spend all day watching others.

However, his thoughts were perceptive, not to mention that Liu Village was his main base.

Even if his five senses unintentionally covered this place, any wind or grass movement in the village wouldn’t escape his perception.

Stone Toughness possesses Double Pupils.

With a pair of eyes, the heavens and earth vanish, paths are created, evolving to the extreme, capable of being unmatched in the world.

Double Pupils and Supreme Bone, these two talents, compared to the monsters and oddities of the Immortal Domain, aren’t too heaven-defying, or they’d have been targeted long ago.

The eye and the bone’s origin time cannot be traced, but when evolved to the extreme, reaching Supreme Mirror, it’s possible that their progenitors stepped into the Immortal Path Field, but that’s about it—unlike Shi Hao and Stone Toughness, one an Immortal Emperor, the other a quasi-former emperor.

The reason these two seem so heaven-defying isn’t because of the talent but because of the person.

If talent were grand, the highest one could reach is the limit of that talent.

But if talent is made grand because of the person, then one can ascend into the heavens, achieving many impossibilities, like Er Shi.

The original text states that Stone Toughness never reached the Immortal Emperor’s Realm, but this doesn’t mean he lacked the capital to do so; the time for him just wasn’t enough.

After being resurrected by Shi Hao through special means, he successfully stepped into the Immortal Emperor’s Realm, proving Stone Toughness has that potential.

However, Jiang Hui couldn’t provide much advice; when Stone Toughness can reach the Immortal Emperor’s Realm ultimately depends on his own fortunes.

As for the Banished Immortal, the original text doesn’t describe much, but as Jiang Hui’s follower, he uses predictive techniques to perceive some of his fate.

Stepping into an Immortal Emperor is indeed a greater challenge, but fortunately, the outcome is good.

Truly, talent abounds.

These are times when such beings capable of achieving the end of the road converge under his command.

Besides the Banished Immortal and others, there are descendants of believers with equally impressive talents, though due to their short cultivation periods, they have yet to show specific accomplishments, but in the future, they will at least reach the level of the Immortal King Realm.

It’s worth mentioning that Li Zi Cheng, with the Demon Body, accepted during Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, recently stepped into the Immortal King Realm, also making him a strong contender for future imperial throne ascension.

The number of Immortal Emperors is destined not to be as abundant as lower realm cultivators; the world is only so big, and limited resources can’t give rise to too many Immortal Emperors.

Unless Jiang Hui steps above the Sacrificial Path.

Fortunately, after such a long period of transformation, the entire environment of Liu Village has changed, and indeed there’s potential for birthing more Immortal Emperors; it just depends on who will seize the opportunity early.

...

In the blink of an eye, the four seasons circle, autumn has gone and winter has arrived. The cold wind howls, wandering in the village like a bone-cutting blade.

In one night, temperatures had plunged below zero.

On this day,

snowflakes drifted from the sky.

Snow fell heavily, and a dense mist hung everywhere.

The entire Liu Village was draped in silver, covered in snow, like a meticulously crafted ink painting, remarkably enchanting.

On both sides of the bluestone road, amid tiers of buildings, many villagers braved the heavy snow to step outside their homes.

The village was not only composed of accomplished practitioners but mainly consisted of followers of the Human Path Domain, handling many trivial matters of the village in their daily lives.

However, even if they lacked cultivation, they could rely on the high-level beast meat served daily in the village, so even toddlers learning to walk had vitality as exuberant as a great tiger, with blazing energy, totally unaffected by the surrounding cold.

A group of children toddled out of their homes into the heavy snow, their energy levels so high that they didn’t mind the cold.

On the east side of the village, in an antique courtyard.

"Look at this auspicious snow!"

old man Lin walked with his hands behind his back, wearing the new cotton-padded jacket, and cloak that Lin had sewn for him recently, strolling through the thick snow.

The village had many beautifully layered buildings on either side of the stone-paved road.

But this snow was not ordinary snow; it was formed from condensed droplets of abundant Spiritual Energy, eventually becoming the heavy snow.

The richness of Spiritual Energy contained within it is unimaginable.

This kind of snow is a rare treasure to find. Back in the Wilderness, a single snowball could excite an entire region.

The heavy snow fell for about four or five days.

Then one day, Jiang Hui, who was dozing off, suddenly opened his eyes and looked in a certain direction.

It was towards the depths of the universe, where stars were fluctuating and countless stars were extinguished, innumerable bodies of beings floating lifelessly in the universe, with rivers of blood converging into a scarlet Sky River.

Through the collapsing void, resounding crashes echoed from the depths of the universe, full of sorrow, like an ancient heart moving toward its end, with countless beings’ corpses drifting in the open cosmos, blood forming a crimson river.

All the void collapsed in large swathes, and from the vast depths of the universe came rumblings that were monumental and mournful, like the heartbeat of an ancient entity on the road to oblivion, with myriad lifeless bodies drifting across the expanse of the universe, their remains flowing into the end, forming a blood-red Sky River...

Just when that entire universe was on the brink of total collapse,

that gigantic mouth appeared again, as if to devour heaven and earth, swallowing the whole tattered universe whose boundary wall had caved in...

Even there, in the depths of the universe on the verge of collapse, Jiang Hui could perceive with his profound insight.

"That gluttonous mouth has the power to devour an entire realm, a land of life in one gulp, yet each time, it requires the Bizarre Clan to pave the way... Why?"

With this incident, Jiang Hui discovered something new.

If something unusual happens, it must mean that giant mouth cannot directly devour a place teeming with life, as some restriction is still at play.