Chapter 945: Inside the Human Emperor Seal

Yuhuang Hall.

The crowd was in no hurry to discuss the Human Emperor Seal; instead, they first spoke of Kong. Wen Yu was quite excited: "That fool Kong thought Su Yu was really going to deal with Jitian. I saw Su Yu strike—impressive in momentum, but actually just an empty shell... I was sweating bullets, scared to death. Su Yu really knows how to deceive!"

"They thought it was some special trick, but then I suddenly erupted, and he never even reacted..."

As she spoke, she felt like laughing.

This killing of Kong, though swift, was truly thrilling!

Indeed thrilling!

There's a kind of ambush called a face-to-face ambush!

Yet, before the enemy could react, Wen Yu had slain him. Now, Wen Yu said excitedly, "Su Yu, if we merge, I think 38 paths would definitely be no problem! How about we merge again next time and fight!"

"..."

Su Yu just looked at her. As Wen Yu spoke, she noticed everyone staring at her and felt a bit speechless.

What kind of looks are those?

Is there something wrong with what I said?

Su Yu alone only has 36 paths. When I merge with him, we have a full 38 paths—much stronger than 36. With those looks, what do you mean?

She knew what they meant, but at this moment, she could only roll her eyes.

Speechless!

Su Yu couldn't be bothered to say much. Casually, he said, "Kong's path mainly follows the Flesh Path and the Thunder Great Path, a fusion of two paths. Give it to the Martial King. I don't expect him to reach 36 paths, but at least above 34!"

The Martial King shook his head: "No need. Give it to the second one! The second one hasn't absorbed much of the Yin Realm Great Path. Actually, when I broke through before, I absorbed some. If you give it to the second one for Heaven and Earth fusion, the second one's improvement will be greater. I think 36 paths is no problem!"

He knew that Kong's path might suit him better, but in terms of improvement, it might not be the case. The Literary King might gain more.

One going from 32 paths to 34, the other from 34 to 36—that's different.

The Literary King looked at Su Yu: "What about you?"

Su Yu smiled: "I don't need it!"

The Literary King seemed thoughtful,

then spoke: "No hurry. Let's wait until we've seen the Human Emperor Seal!"

Su Yu smiled and nodded: "Let's take a look. Perhaps the treasures within the Human Emperor Seal will suit everyone better!"

At this moment, Qiong was no longer eager to see the Human Emperor Seal. Instead, he asked, "Do you think Shi will come back? Or perhaps come straight to defect to you?"

He was still somewhat puzzled.

Of course, he was also thinking: if Shi came to defect to Su Yu... what would I do?

He still hadn't filled his Yang Realm Great Path. Killing the Prison King or the Human Ancestor was his chance, and he already had 38 paths. It would be better to eat them all to avoid insufficiency.

But if Shi came, and Su Yu accepted him, what then?

There were truly few Yang Realm strongmen left to kill.

Only those two!

Unless Su Yu fell out with the others, there would be no Yang Realm strongmen left to kill.

Seeing his unease, Su Yu laughed: "Zhou and Yu, I'll leave them both for you to kill. Kill them and eat them. What do you think?"

Qiong was embarrassed: "Yu seems to have entered 38 paths too!"

He might not be able to beat the two of them together!

Let alone kill them!

Su Yu chuckled and said no more. He spoke up: "Heaven Gate and Earth Gate, to save their lives, are unwilling to act now. But when it truly comes to the point of death, those two are stronger than anyone! So for now, we still can't match them!"

Su Yu's side wasn't weak, but if a real fight broke out, they would still be inferior.

The key was that Heaven Gate and Earth Gate were always worried about becoming Su Yu's main target, afraid of losing one, so even at this moment, they didn't want to act.

Hearing this, the Human Emperor also sighed: "It's fortunate you're here!"

If Su Yu weren't here, it would be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Would the Lord of the Dead go all out?

Not necessarily!

And Qiong?

Though influenced by the Human Emperor, without Su Yu helping him seize the Heaven-Opening Sword, he might not have been willing to act.

It could only be said that Su Yu balanced interests quite well.

But now, before the final moment, everything was hard to say.

And Su Yu, as the leader, had actually improved little.

Even including this slaying of Kong, Su Yu hadn't taken Kong's path but had given it to the Literary King and Martial King. As for who would take it, that was no longer Su Yu's concern.

Sometimes, Su Yu's boldness was unimaginably great.

Su Yu didn't bring this up again. He looked at the Human Emperor.

The Human Emperor quickly produced the Human Emperor Seal. A great seal floated in the air.

At this moment, Doubao also looked suspiciously at the Human Emperor Seal, then at the Literary King, then at the Human Emperor, and finally at Su Yu. He didn't feel any connection with the seal, but as he looked, he found it truly endearing!

A good thing!

Fragrant!

He felt a bit like eating it.

Now, everyone was staring at the Human Emperor Seal. As they looked, they all felt it was truly endearing and warm.

The influence of the Human Emperor's path was no joke.

Qiong looked for a while, then quickly turned his head away. He couldn't look anymore. This thing really made him sadder the more he looked. As he looked, he thought the Human Emperor was handsome and kind—truly a good man!

Bah!

Even the Lord of the Dead, after watching for a while, nodded slightly: "Xingyu, your path is indeed unique. I have to say, your path has great infectious power! It seems like just a support path, but in reality, it's extremely terrifying! This thing is really good at beguiling people. When it comes to beguiling, you and Su Yu are about equal!"

Su Yu also stared for a moment, his expression calm: "The Human Emperor's path, strictly speaking, is a path of brainwashing. Responsibility... responsibility is something one shoulders oneself, not something influenced by the path! His path is actually quite sinister. It's a kind of puppet path, a more advanced puppet path that manipulates people's hearts. So, the Human Emperor is the Human Gate!"

"..."

The Human Emperor was speechless. He looked at Su Yu and said after a long pause: "You looked for so long and came to that conclusion?"

I am the Human Gate?

Su Yu laughed: "Everyone could be the Human Gate. The Human Gate lies in the heart! If the Human Gate doesn't exist, then the Human Gate is a kind of human heart. What's so strange about that? In everyone's heart, there is a gate—the Gate of Humanity! In the eyes of Heaven Gate, the Human Gate is invincible and majestic! In the eyes of Earth Gate, the Human Gate is utterly evil and also invincible! In the eyes of Jitian and the others, the Human Gate is infinitely powerful and majestic..."

A thousand faces for a thousand people!

Everyone's description of the Human Gate was actually different, including its connection to the apocalypse and to Shihuang, with different interpretations.

Su Yu didn't say much more about this. He looked at the Human Emperor Seal again and frowned slightly: "Even now, you can't control the inside of the Human Emperor Seal?"

"No."

The Human Emperor shook his head: "I picked it up many years ago, but it has always been like this—utterly impossible to probe deeply. What did Tiangu and the others say?"

"A single path, a path that binds the three races!"

The hearts of all present trembled slightly. A great path binding the three races?

What kind of path could bind the three races?

At that moment, Su Yu's hands were drenched in blood, the blood seething, yet the Human Emperor's Seal remained utterly still.

Su Yu looked at the Human Emperor: "This is your core of heaven and earth. If it truly breaks open, will there be trouble?"

The Human Emperor shook his head: "Because I cannot breach the interior, the great path is merely attached to the surface. In essence, I still rely on the Starry Universe Seal as my foundation. The Human Emperor's Seal is merely more powerful—I can simply shift the surface path!"

"Then shift it!"

The Human Emperor said no more and swiftly produced a large seal—the very Starry Universe Seal that Su Yu had long held. Soon, the core of the great path on the Human Emperor's Seal began to gradually transfer. The Starry Universe Seal cracked slightly, but was quickly repaired and perfected.

Only then did the Human Emperor's Seal appear clearly before everyone's eyes.

It was a stone... looking somewhat like an egg.

Doubao's eyes widened as he stared at the thing, his nose twitching as he sniffed it. Somewhat entranced, he mumbled, "Feels... a bit fragrant, but there's a layer in between!"

The Lord of the Dead also examined it from top to bottom, frowning slightly: "Feels like an egg!"

"Could it be the egg of some creature?"

Everyone else looked on as well. Su Yu was utterly unceremonious—he reached out, grabbed it, and held it in his hands, scrutinizing it carefully. He chuckled: "If it's an egg, that would be interesting! But more likely, the outside is just an empty shell, and the essence lies within. It might be a complete heaven and earth, or a single great path. If we guess more boldly, inside could be a world with living beings!"

Su Yu laughed: "A world like the Myriad Realms, where people live—but they are inside, and we are outside!"

The Human Emperor shook his head: "That shouldn't be the case. According to your reasoning, the ancestors of the three races—gods, demons, and immortals—might all have emerged from an egg..."

"Why not?"

Su Yu smiled: "Anything is possible! The Myriad Realms are not unique—that is beyond doubt. The Myriad Realms are merely a world opened by the Lord of Time. Where did the Lord of Time come from? Was there originally a world, a universe? What if the place they came from was not chaos?"

This matter was hardly a secret; everyone knew that the Myriad Realms were created by the Lord of Time, who was the opener of this world.

Where, then, did the Lord of Time's formidable power come from?

And what of the origins of beings like Qiong?

Su Yu looked at Qiong: "Brother Qiong, you are among the earliest existences. You have long dealt with the mighty ones of the Creation Era. Do you know where these people originally lived?"

Qiong nodded: "Right here in this chaotic region. Originally, this was all chaos. These people were born and lived in chaos. There were some broken mountains, stones, and continents in chaos—beings like Shi were all existences of chaos. As for the Lord of Time... I truly do not know. Though I am his sword, by the time I gained sentience, he had already vanished!"

"The Lord of Time disappeared long ago—perhaps he returned to his own heaven and earth?"

Su Yu smiled: "Thus, the Myriad Realms are most likely not the only world. Including you and me—if my heaven and earth grow and mature, it will become its own world. Then, stepping out from my world and looking back at the present Myriad Realms... it would probably seem quite strange!"

Having said this, Su Yu continued: "According to what Jitian and the others said, the so-called Myriad Realms are merely a place used by the Lord of Time to seal the Human Gate. A prison, nothing more!"

Qiong couldn't help but interject: "Just open it directly! Why so many guesses? Whether it's a world with people, a world without, or a single great path—just open it! So much useless chatter!"

This Su Yu, whenever he did something now, loved to spout some commentary.

Su Yu said no more. Drop by drop, his blood dripped onto the Human Emperor's Seal.

The Human Emperor's Seal showed no reaction.

Su Yu frowned slightly.

Was the blood concentration insufficient, or was the method of activation wrong?

Tiangu had only speculated, but Su Yu felt the speculation had merit—it wasn't baseless nonsense. Otherwise, Su Yu wouldn't have believed it, and Tiangu wouldn't have risked death to come here!

Su Yu looked at Doubao. Doubao, frightened by his gaze, quickly said, "I don't know how to open it! Do you want to drip my blood? But I have no blood!"

He had no blood!

Su Yu knew this. A spirit of the great path—where would it get blood? Back then, Su Yu hadn't absorbed Maoqiu's essence blood, so he had never unlocked Maoqiu's innate talent. In truth, Maoqiu was essentially the great path itself, with no innate talent to speak of.

The Literary King pondered for a moment and said, "Doubao, try to see if you can enter!"

"Me?"

The Literary King nodded: "I tried back then. You can come out, but you can't go in..."

He then looked at Su Yu: "This thing might allow exit but not entry. How about this: summon Moduona from the demon race and have him try using his innate talent to see if he can draw some power from within... Once the power is drawn out, Doubao might be able to slip in through the gap!"

Su Yu's eyes flickered. That was possible.

"I also know the innate talents of gods, demons, and immortals. How about I give it a try?"

Su Yu laughed. He knew them too!

The Human Emperor and the others looked at him strangely. Su Yu chuckled: "What are you looking at me for? Wenyu knows them too!"

Wenyu muttered, "I don't!"

"..."

Su Yu was taken aback and looked at Wenyu.

Seeing Su Yu's gaze, Wenyu said irritably, "What are you looking at me for? I really don't! I did collect the bloodline great paths of the three races—gods, demons, and immortals—but I only know the immortal race's life-force stimulation and flesh regeneration, the demon race's blazing demonic flames and inferno, and the divine race's sacred radiance! These are all innate talents of the three races, but they are related to the great paths of the three ancestral beings."

Su Yu frowned deeply at her: "Impossible! The innate talents I learned all came from your Time Book!"

Wenyu looked aggrieved and helpless: "Really! I truly don't know them! How did you learn them?"

Su Yu said gravely: "By drawing the essence blood of the three races, your Time Book naturally revealed them!"

Wenyu thought for a moment and said, "Then it must lie in the blood itself, not in the great path power I drew. What I extracted and purified was all great path power—I never captured those innate talent powers. So, I can understand that you could borrow them using essence blood back then, but now you can use them without essence blood..."

She drew in a breath: "Then you might have the blood of all three races! You're a hybrid!"

Su Yu was a hybrid?

Su Yu frowned slightly, but quickly dismissed it and said frankly, "In the Tenth Tide, hybrids are normal. So it might be that I later mastered them myself? In the early stages, my bloodline was insufficient to activate them, but later I awakened the bloodlines of the three races?"

"That must be it!"

Wenyu nodded: "Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to use them—how could you? It should be that when the Time Book absorbed the blood, it analyzed them and mapped them out, allowing you to learn them... But when I absorbed them back then, I didn't get these powers, which means I probably couldn't absorb them, while you could..."

Hybrid!

Su Yu didn't care much about this. In the Tenth Tide, five hundred years ago, when the races entered the human realm, gods, demons, immortals, and humans were actually quite similar—unless deliberately revealed, the differences were minor.

Who knew which ancestor of his had dallied with a god, demon, or immortal?

Among humans today, more than half might have blood from the three races.

Of course, tracing further back, they were all human—it was just that the cultivation methods of the three ancestral beings and the Heavenly Gate cultivation methods differed, leading to racial divisions later, including the giant race, which was still a legacy of Zhou.

Su Yu said no more.

At this moment, he attempted it. Even though the Civilization Record had merged with heaven and earth, he could still use it.

"Divine Transformation!"

With a low shout, Su Yu felt a force gathering swiftly from the unseen. He hadn't used it in a long time, because it was useless—it seemed that with the Human Emperor's Seal here, after the Human Emperor's return, it could no longer be used.

These things no longer granted him amplification.

But now, the great path power outside the Human Emperor's Seal had been shifted away by the Human Emperor. At this moment, everyone's expression changed!

Just then, a faint, barely perceptible force seeped out from within the Human Emperor's Seal—so subtle that if not for everyone's attention, it might have gone unnoticed!

"Bean Bun, go in and take a look..."

Su Yu called out. At that moment, he felt a very faint force seeping into his body, but it didn't enhance him much—too weak.

Bean Bun, however, had a look of utter misery in his eyes: "Um... what if I go in and can't get out?"

I don't want to go in!

What if I get trapped inside?

Su Yu chuckled: "No worries, if you're stuck, we'll just break it open by force! If you really can't get out, you'll wake up after a nap. We've come this far—how could you not get out?"

Fine!

Bean Bun was resigned. Wen Wang smiled: "If you can get in, you can get out. Don't worry! At worst, I'll do what I did back then and extract you again—I can pull you out!"

Alright, I'll trust Old Wen one more time!

Bean Bun chose to trust Wen Wang after all—they were old companions for many years. Even though Wen Wang had now shifted his affection to Fatty Ball, Bean Bun still loved him.

He began to try squeezing into the eggshell along the path where the force had seeped in, but it still didn't work.

Su Yu, meanwhile, kept experimenting, even burning the bloodline power of Tian Gu and the others, letting it permeate the entire eggshell. He himself kept summoning, using his talent skills!

Time and again!

Gradually, a force seeped out, slightly stronger than before.

And Bean Bun, at that moment, managed to squeeze half of his big head inside. His voice came through: "I see... it's pitch black..."

He had half his head in, and it seemed he saw something.

Su Yu and the others felt a stir. Saw something?

"Pitch black—is it a world or something? Are there living people inside?"

What Su Yu and the others feared most was if there were living beings inside. What then?

The ancestor of the three clans?

What level of power would that be?

That was the truly terrifying part!

"I don't know!"

Bean Bun had his big head fully inside now, but his voice could still be heard. Soon, though, he said urgently: "Hurry, keep going! It feels like it's squeezing again—you have to keep summoning!"

Su Yu was speechless but had no choice but to continue, letting the force seep out steadily.

Gradually, Su Yu also felt it—the more he summoned, the more it seemed to have some effect.

The boost wasn't much, but there was indeed a slight increase in power!

And at that moment, Bean Bun suddenly cried out in alarm: "I'm falling!"

A thud... as if something had dropped inside!

When they looked again, Bean Bun was gone!

And the Human Emperor Seal had returned to stillness.

Su Yu frowned slightly. They all exchanged glances. Wen Wang spoke: "It's probably not a big deal. Back then, I extracted Bean Bun using the method of creating a spirit. If this is a world, then Bean Bun could be considered the world's spirit, or the spirit of its Great Dao!"

If it's an internal spirit, Bean Bun should be fine.

The precondition is that there are no living beings inside—just a pure Dao or world.

If there are living beings, Bean Bun might be doomed.

Su Yu furrowed his brow: "Can't we open it? What exactly is this outer layer?"

It was too solid!

Even Su Yu and the others couldn't open it. Su Yu handed it to the Lord of the Dead, hoping he could try to break it. Couldn't this 39-Dao powerhouse manage it?

Tian Gu had said that if there was enough bloodline power, it might open.

But from what they could see now, Tian Gu's bloodline wasn't enough!

At that moment, Wen Wang suddenly said: "Try this—don't burn the bloodlines mixed together. Try using Tian Gu's bloodline alone!"

Su Yu was puzzled and hesitated: "You mean... Tian Gu's bloodline might be purer?"

"Yes!"

Wen Wang nodded: "Bean Bun has always wanted to eat Tian Gu—maybe it's because Tian Gu's bloodline is purer. And Tian Gu's talent is indeed terrifying. You know, back in that era, the students I and Tai Shan took in were all quite talented, yet they all lost to Tian Gu! The Celestial Clan couldn't produce a genius like him either..."

So, Tian Gu might have been a bloodline atavist.

Su Yu thought for a moment and quickly set aside all the other blood, to avoid contaminating Tian Gu's bloodline.

Soon, drops of golden blood appeared.

This was Tian Gu's bloodline. After Tian Gu was killed, Su Yu hadn't burned it, because the condition they had agreed upon was that the bloodline power would be preserved. If it were truly burned, everything done before would have been in vain.

When Su Yu extracted Tian Gu's essence blood and dripped a drop onto the eggshell, he suddenly felt a stir.

The others also looked on.

At that moment, the seemingly indestructible shell appeared to develop a tiny crack!

They exchanged glances, all surprised.

The Human Emperor was also astonished: "It really is!"

The Lord of the Dead, meanwhile, toyed with it for a moment and said slowly: "This thing... should be a world membrane. But the world membranes we form aren't that thick. This one must be very ancient, self-sealed as a world, with no one entering or leaving. Over time... it formed a world membrane! It's similar in nature to a realm barrier!"

"It can't be broken!"

The Lord of the Dead explained: "Not that it can't be broken, but breaking it would easily cause the entire world to collapse. So, inside this, there really might be a world!"

He paused, then added with some excitement: "A world from before the Opening of Heaven?"

He looked at Su Yu and the others. Wen Wang and the Human Emperor also showed some excitement: "A pre-Heaven world... even if we can't inherit it, it would be something to see what a world looked like before the Opening of Heaven! Would it be the same as the Ten Thousand Realms? Would there also be a River of Time? Or would it be different?"

Before the Opening of Heaven!

That was even before the Time Lord opened the heavens—this was of great research value!

They had already seen the Great Dao from before the Opening of Heaven, like the Great Dao of the Great Sage of the Human Gate, which was from that era—independent, not connected to the River of Time.

But a world from before the Opening of Heaven? They had never seen one. The earliest world was the Ten Thousand Realms.

As Tian Gu's essence blood dripped in, cracks appeared on the eggshell. At the same time, Bean Bun's voice suddenly came through: "Can you hear me? I'm scared—it's so dark!"

Everyone was speechless. This guy was afraid of the dark?

But this was good news—they could hear Bean Bun's voice. Su Yu quickly said: "Bean Bun, can you get out?"

"It seems I can... I see the sky cracking..."

That was the crack on the eggshell!

Clearly, Bean Bun saying the sky was cracking meant that inside, there really was a world that had been opened.

Who opened it?

At this moment, no one had the mind to dwell on it; they just opened it first!

Drop by drop, essence blood kept falling, and the next moment, a small pit appeared on the eggshell. Doubao suddenly shouted, "It's over, it's over, my Dao is about to break..."

Everyone was startled!

What's happening?

Doubao hurriedly cried out, "It's over, it's over, it's really over. This damned place is draining my Dao. I think I'm about to die..."

King Wen's heart stirred, and he immediately spoke: "No... it might be that the Dao I later grafted onto Doubao has some issues—a rejection?"

Doubao was merely a spirit; later, King Wen grafted a Dao of Illusion onto it.

Perhaps this Dao was clashing with the world inside.

Su Yu, however, was too lazy to say more. He instantly shrank his body, becoming the size of an ant, and strode straight toward the crack. The Human King and the others were startled, and the Human King quickly said, "Wait..."

This Su Yu was truly bold!

Are you just going to walk right in?

Damn it, if it seals up again later, how will you get out?

What if a powerful being is sleeping inside, and you get killed?

This kid was really reckless!

But Su Yu didn't care. He said, "Either come in with me, or I'll go in alone. Danger or no danger, it makes no difference to us now. If a strong one is truly sleeping here, it's best to dig them out!"

It was that simple!

Where in the heavens wasn't dangerous?

If even these thirty-six Daos of mine could be easily wiped out, then let this demon loose and let it fight it out with the Heavenly and Earthly Gates!

The Human King cursed under his breath, quickly shrinking: "Let's go in together!"

Alone, it was too dangerous.

Su Yu had been getting crazier lately, probably driven to desperation. The moment he heard he could boost his strength, he didn't care about anything else!

The Lord of the Dead and Qiong exchanged a glance, then shook their heads slightly. Everyone shrank into tiny figures and flew together toward the crack.

Let's all go in and take a look!

As for not getting out... if it were truly that formidable, and all these people were sealed inside, then that would be something. It would mean no one else could break in either, so they might as well go into seclusion and sleep together.

That was unlikely. Besides, as Tiangu's essence blood dripped in, the crack, once opened, showed no sign of closing.

...

When Su Yu stepped into the crack, he reappeared as if in a new universe.

At that moment, Su Yu suddenly smiled!

"A world!"

Those entering behind him all nodded!

A world!

Yes, a desolate, lifeless world.

Either its master was dead, or had completely abandoned it, just like the Lord of Time, who had opened the River of Time. If no one cultivated, it would be just like this world—fallen into silence.

The myriad realms had vitality because people constantly cultivated there!

Now, Su Yu swept his gaze across. It was a vast world, much larger than his own. In the past, it might have been inhabited, for he could faintly see some buildings in the darkness.

As for Doubao, Su Yu and the others glanced at it, all feeling something strange.

Doubao was being devoured by a book!

A book!

Yes, the core of a world was usually a book, and here it was the same!

Su Yu understood the situation at once. King Wen also looked baffled. "Doubao really is the spirit of this world. In the past, it must have been the spirit of this book, and I took it away. Now the book wants to merge with it..."

Su Yu smiled and reached out to grab it, but the pitch-black book suddenly emitted a faint force, blocking his hand. Su Yu's eyes flickered, and he chuckled: "An unmanned world, a world core without a spirit, and it can still block my hand. This world is no weakling! If its master were here, they'd be at least at the thirty-eighth Dao!"

The Lord of the Dead frowned: "More than that. I'm a thirty-ninth Dao world-opener, and my world book isn't this strong. The opponent might have been at the fortieth Dao, or even stronger. But this world is abandoned—whether its master died or left, I don't know."

Doubao was panicking. It was about to be eaten, and these people were still chatting! It hurriedly said, "This book wants to eat me..."

Su Yu laughed: "Eat you? No, don't worry. Just scatter your Dao power. It's just rejection. You were originally the spirit of this world, taken away by King Wen. Now you're coming home!"

Really?

Doubao trusted Su Yu's words—Su Yu was amazing!

A bit hesitant, but it decided to try. The next moment, it scattered its Dao power. Sure enough, the black book stopped forcibly devouring Doubao and began to merge with it rapidly!

Doubao felt the world spin!

After a while, it suddenly opened its eyes, a strange look on its face. "It's dawn!"

Boom!

The dead world suddenly turned from darkness to light. At that moment, a great sun appeared, the world turned white, and a new world unfolded before everyone's eyes!

Su Yu quickly probed it, then said after a moment: "Interesting... It's indeed a complete world. A bit different from the myriad realms, more like the feeling of a world that has died of old age..."

The Lord of the Dead, not caring much, nodded and said with some strangeness: "It doesn't feel like the perfected River of Time, nor the balance of myriad Daos. It feels more like... a single Dao magnified."

Yes, similar to the Lord of the Dead's own feeling—a single Dao magnified.

As for the core Dao, they all sensed it.

The next moment, they exchanged glances and murmured: "The power of life? Is that it?"

They looked at each other, and soon the Human King judged, carefully sensing: "It does feel a bit like the Dao of Life... but not entirely."

Wen Yu, who had seen much, sensed it too and shook her head: "It's not exactly the power of life. It's more like... a power of bloodline vitality!"

The next moment, Wen Yu understood: "I see! This person opened a world, probably based on blood power, not life power! Of course, blood power contains some life force. That would explain why, even with the world sealed, they passed down talent techniques to the three races. The ancestor of the three races must be this person! They opened a world of blood!"

As she spoke, Doubao seemed to discover something amusing. It suddenly activated a river within the world—a blood-red river!

The Dao of Blood!

Indeed, this was a river forged from blood power, a world centered on blood!

Everyone was startled. Was this a river constructed from bloodlines?

Su Yu, however, had a strange look in his eyes. Suddenly, a divine rune that had long been dormant emerged—a rune for "blood"!

Boom!

This rune, which had never transformed into a Dao in the myriad realms, now instantly became a Dao, connecting to the blood-colored Dao in the void!

Everyone turned to look at Su Yu.

Su Yu, too, was bewildered. After a long pause, he said: "My first divine rune! The first divine rune is usually the one most aligned with one's own Dao power. But my blood power... I rarely use it! Actually, my blood power also has some illusionary qualities, and Doubao..."

Su Yu looked at Doubao, even more baffled. As a spirit of heaven and earth, Doubao was also adept at the power of illusion.

Blood power, illusion power!

A blood heaven and earth, a spirit of heaven and earth capable of illusion!

At this moment, everyone turned to Su Yu, and even the Lord of the Dead was speechless: "So, you brat... actually possess an innate talent technique! Or rather, your first divine rune is your innate talent technique. The reason it couldn't grow strong is that this heaven and earth was sealed! So, you brat, do you have some connection to the master of this heaven and earth?"

Su Yu was caught between laughter and tears: "Connection my ass! Don't tell me I have some ancestor from the Tian ancient lineage? The Tian ancient bloodline isn't weak, but don't let it be that I have some ancestor who's tied to Tian!"

That would be exasperating!

"Don't say it's impossible!"

The Human King also smiled bitterly: "Didn't they say that back in the day, the celestial race and the human race allied, and many celestials entered the human realm? Your family might indeed have a celestial ancestor... sigh!"

It was quite helpless!

Su Yu didn't really care, just curious: "So, I almost inherited an innate talent technique, the Blood character talent technique, but unfortunately, this heaven and earth was sealed, so it couldn't form... no, that's not right either. It did form! It formed the Blood character divine rune!"

The first divine rune was always the one most aligned with one's own path. Su Yu had once thought about strengthening the Blood character divine rune, but later on, he found it too difficult to enhance.

Moreover, in the long river of time, the path of blood was almost never opened or used by anyone. He would have to forge it himself, and few cultivated it.

Later, Su Yu gave up.

Today, however, the Blood character divine rune was dissolving into the Dao here!

"Your talent is formidable, and perhaps you are indeed connected to the master of this heaven and earth..."

The Human King suddenly said: "The transformation by the Time Scroll is one factor, and your inheritance of some bloodline is another. This heaven and earth is not weak..."

As he spoke, they all looked toward a massive palace within this heaven and earth.

A blood-red palace!

Perhaps the master of this palace, the master of this heaven and earth, had left something behind.

And Doubao, now flying over swiftly, stared at Su Yu with curiosity, full of curiosity in his eyes.

Are Su Yu and I related?

Su Yu didn't say much, just looked at Doubao and smiled: "Can you control this heaven and earth?"

"No!"

Doubao explained: "Only a little, because I'm very weak. This heaven and earth seems to be dead... it can't be revived. A dead heaven and earth! This Blood Path Scripture also seems dead, with only a trace of power left. Now I know why I couldn't enter before—blocked by the heaven and earth's barrier, and it was nearly dead, so it couldn't pull me in!"

A dead heaven and earth!

Su Yu grew interested and smiled: "Let's go to the palace and take a look. Maybe something was left behind. Let's see if we can find out the identity of this heaven and earth's master, or learn more about whether it's connected to the Lord of Time."

This heaven and earth might be the first in the world, or the second!

Either way, it was ancient!

Perhaps even older than the heaven and earth of the long river of time!

No one delayed further. They all flew toward that heaven and earth. It was already half-ruined, and the blood-colored river flowed only faintly. Su Yu understood the situation.

Everyone knew!

Cut off from the outside, with no external energy entering, unable to convert chaotic energy, this heaven and earth had consumed all its power over time and was nearly abandoned.

But if the heaven and earth's barrier were opened and chaotic energy absorbed for conversion, it could still be restored to life.

The next moment, the group entered the blood-red palace.

Inside, not much was left. Only one wall was covered with many divine runes, or rather, will-characters, identical to those commonly used in ancient times.

Everyone's attention was instantly drawn.

This was probably the only message left by the master of this heaven and earth.

Su Yu and the others swept their eyes over it, all focusing on a few characters they recognized.

"The sword-wielder is too strong, can't fight him..."

Everyone turned to Qiong. This sword-wielder—your master?

The Lord of Time?

Good heavens, a true ancient relic! Someone who had contended with the Lord of Time?

But Qiong paid no attention to that. He stared at the characters, muttering after a long while: "Sky-Shattering Sword... is that about me? I have a brother named Cang who's missing?"

"..."

Everyone looked at him.

The Human King comforted: "Maybe it shattered. Which sword would call itself Qiong Sword? It must be Sky-Shattering Sword. Don't be sad; even shattered, you're still a good sword!"

Damn you!

Qiong was speechless but fell into thought. I had a brother?

Where did I lose him?

Can I find him again?

If I do, will I become stronger?

"Cang..."

He began to recall. In the era of creation, was there a Cang?

The others ignored him and continued reading, all with a gossipy air, looking at these words.

To them, the time before creation was indeed just gossip.