Chapter 386: Profound Heaven Emperor
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“Shang Zhou, have you lost your mind?”
The Marquis Champion-like dark creature was completely shocked. Today’s events had simply refreshed his worldview.
Although they were dark creatures, there were also conflicts between them.
But at critical moments, they still understood who the enemy was and who the friend was!
Yet Shang Zhou had appeared and immediately killed his own ancestor. What was the meaning of this? Was it his turn next?
“No!” Shang Zhou shook his head slightly, a smile appearing on his face as he calmly replied. “I’m merely walking a path already tread by those before me!”
The path walked by a great emperor perhaps cannot be walked the same way by another. But one thing was undeniable: This path was the right one! As long as he did not walk to the end of this road, nothing would happen!
“What path?” Hearing this, the dark creature’s heart shuddered. His intuition told him something bad was about to happen! He really wanted to escape.
But Shang Zhou was in front and Su Chen behind. Neither would let him get away so easily.
“The path to becoming an emperor!” Shang Zhou said softly.
He formed seals with his hands, then shouted loudly, “Open!”
As his voice rang out, it was like the sound of the Great Dao, shaking the surroundings.
Ten thousand miles, a hundred thousand miles, a million miles… Within this endless distance, everything began trembling in unison. The palace at his feet rumbled and collapsed. A dark red sun appeared before everyone’s eyes. With this sun at the center, it spread out crazily in all directions. Looking down from the sky, there was no end in sight. No one knew just how vast the land was that these red lines covered.
“What is this…”
“A formation! It must be a formation!”
“I didn’t expect Shang Zhou had set up such a grand formation before this! Looks like he was well prepared!”
“Such a mysterious formation, 1 can feel the aura of a great emperor within!”
“Could this be some killing formation?”
The moment the countless red lines appeared, everyone was shocked. Glancing around, formation patterns were everywhere above and below. The entire firmament was shrouded in a layer of crimson, as if they were in h.e.l.l, giving people an inescapable sense of fear.
Even some had already deduced this formation might be related to a great emperor! Fortunately, this formation was not set by a great emperor’s hand.
The materials used were only immortal gold. Therefore, this could only be considered a great emperor’s remnant formation. Even so, it was still terribly frightening.
Such an awe-inspiringly powerful formation simply could not compare to the grand nation-protecting formation previously guarding Dashang’s Imperial City.
Based on the speculations of others, this formation could at minimum trap and kill powerhouses at the Great Saint Realm. Even Saint King Realm masters who came would likely perish. As for whether it could restrain a quasi-emperor, that was not something they could conjecture.
“Truly an astonishing gambit! So Shang Zhou had been hiding behind the scenes all this time for this very moment!” a saint spoke up. There was a hint of apprehension in his voice.
Before this, no one would have imagined Shang Zhou still had such a trump card. After all, in Dashang’s history, there had never been a great emperor! There hadn’t even been any Quasi-Emperor Realm powerhouses.
Yet who could have thought they would possess a formation left behind by a great emperor? If they had known beforehand, the factions that came today would probably have brought imperial weapons.
The appearance of a single imperial weapon would be enough to easily shatter the formation before them. But at this point, it was already impossible to go back and retrieve an imperial weapon.
“Haha…” While the others were fretting, the Marquis Champion-like dark creature let out a long laugh to the sky instead. His voice was gleeful as he proclaimed loudly, “So this is the backup Fellow Daoist Shang spoke of earlier! With this formation, I’m afraid all who came with malice today can be buried here! After this is over…”
Here, he paused. His gaze turned, finally settling on Su Chen. In the depths of his eyes was a greedy look as he said, “Please leave this one’s corpse behind, 1 have great use for it!”
The Marquis Champion’s body, not to mention in the entire East Barrens, even in the whole world, was absolutely top tier. After all, it was a divine body!
But compared to Su Chen’s physique, the gap was just too ma.s.sive. Thus, he coveted Su Chen’s body greatly. If he could obtain this body, he could virtually abandon his original one.
With Su Chen’s body, he could even become a great emperor in this world! Moreover, the time to become an emperor would still be calculated based on the current world. If things went well, in just a few thousand years, he could become an emperor.
This was something his original body could not compare with at all. After all, the restrictions on dark creatures were far too great. Just to become a saint required tens of thousands of years. To become an emperor needed hundreds of thousands of years, even millions, to start with. Comparing the two, the difference was clear.
“No need to keep it.” Hearing this, Shang Zhou’s expression did not change. He lightly shook his head and casually spat out five words.
“Hmm?” The smile froze on the dark creature’s face.
He had originally wanted to play dumb to defuse the awkward atmosphere between himself and Shang Zhou.
Although not long ago Shang Zhou had killed his own ancestor. No matter what, at this moment they were still allies of the same camp. He did not think that after killing his ancestor, Shang Zhou would choose to make a move against him as well. Yet Shang Zhou’s reply made him feel slightly uneasy.
“What do you mean?” the Marquis Champion-like dark creature asked in a deep voice.
“Nothing, just that you might not get to use it.”
Shang Zhou took a step forward, the light on his body dazzlingly bright. The dark red aura almost blended together with the altar behind him, like a blazing red sun incinerating the void.
He formed more seals with his hands once again. The nine ancient glyphs shone radiantly like nine ma.s.sive stars revolving, illuminating with eternal light.
This was the secret technique left behind by the Profound Heaven Emperor, able to activate the formation at his feet. The moment he struck out, the entire grand formation rumbled to life and began operating.
“Is this the Profound Heaven Emperor’s Heavenly Bloodshed Formation?” Su Chen spoke slowly. His voice was not loud, yet spread throughout the void.
Countless years ago, the Profound Heaven Emperor had appeared from nowhere. Originally, he did not have the potential to become a great emperor. His ultimate accomplishment would only have been a peak-stage Great Saint Realm powerhouse.
Yet in his twilight years, he created the shocking Heavenly Bloodshed Formation. Relying on this formation, he had sacrificed the entire ancient domains, each the size of the current East Barrens.
No one knew how many living beings had fallen under the Heavenly Bloodshed Formation.
Drawing on the origin of these lives, the Profound Heaven Emperor defied the heavens and broke through his shackles, instantly reaching the peak stage of the Quasi-Emperor Realm and even pa.s.sing the Emperor Tribulation.. From then on, he became a great emperor who suppressed the ancient era!