vncnus Chapter 17, The Immortal Song of Tribulation Transcending, the Swan Song of a Generation of Heroes
Chapter 17, The Immortal Song of Tribulation Transcending, the Swan Song of a Generation of Heroes
One or two thousand years after the Green Emperor disappeared.
Quasi-Emperor of the Human Race.
He is exceptionally talented and has the potential to achieve great things.
The clues mentioned in the words of the Great Emperor of Shenzhou converged in Yu Dao's mind, and a figure who had left a deep impression in the original novel of Shrouding the Heavens suddenly appeared—
Cover the Nine Netherworlds!
This name was never overshadowed, even during the golden age of brilliant stars.
He cultivated his skills more than a thousand years after the disappearance of the Azure Emperor.
At this point in time, the Azure Emperor's Heavenly Heart Imprint had only just begun to dissipate, and the suppression of the Great Dao remained at its strongest, not much weaker than when the Azure Emperor was alive.
The entire universe was suppressed under an invisible mountain, while Gai Jiuyou, in his mortal form, made rapid progress and ascended to the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor in a short period of time.
He even dared to challenge for the supreme imperial throne, creating the unparalleled forbidden secret technique, the Immortal Transcending Tribulation Song, and was only one step away from the ultimate leap!
But in the end, he couldn't take that step.
The suppression of the Azure Emperor's Great Dao was like an insurmountable chasm in front of him. No matter how talented he was, he could only be defeated and sunk before that chasm, eventually becoming a sickly old man, and almost no one knew about his glorious past.
His demise is one of the most heartbreaking tragedies in the world of Shrouding the Heavens.
It was not that we were defeated by our opponents, nor by ourselves, but by being born at the wrong time, and by an ironclad rule of heaven and earth.
In his later years, as his life force waned, he still used his remaining body to protect the Beidou human race, confronting the Dark Sovereign. Finally, when the Beidou path to immortality ended and the unwilling Sovereign launched a Dark Turmoil, he achieved his ultimate sublimation, taking one of the Sovereigns with him in a mutual destruction, burning out the last embers of his life. His entire life was spent undergoing tribulations, struggling to cross the threshold, yet he never truly reached the other shore.
"He is a junior human from the Central Plains."
Seeing that Yu Dao seemed to be deep in thought, the Great Emperor of Shenzhou assumed that he was deducing the man's background and continued speaking. With a wave of his hand, a screen of light unfolded before the two of them, showing a scene he was envisioning, imprinted with the Dao marks of the universe.
Within the light curtain lay a desolate expanse of starry sky. A sea of lightning surged, thick clouds of tribulation clouding the path to a quasi-emperor's calamity. Countless lightning dragons roared and weaved through it, each capable of shattering a star into fragments. At the very center of this sea of lightning stood a young figure with his hands behind his back. He was tall and slender, with flowing black hair. His face wasn't conventionally handsome, but he possessed an aura of composure that seeped into his very bones.
Faced with that terrifying calamity that could cause even a high-level quasi-emperor to perish, he simply raised his head and let out a roar!
This whistle was a celestial melody.
Countless musical notes flew out of his mouth, each note being a complete fragment of a Dao principle, weaving together in the air to form a magnificent and indescribable symphony!
The melody pierced through the sea of lightning, shattering the oncoming thunder dragons one by one. Wherever the notes passed, the tribulation clouds dissipated, and the lightning melted away. It wasn't merely a sonic attack; rather, he had transformed his own Dao into a melody. Each note was an extension of the Dao, each melody a testament to his tribulation, his struggle, his fight to reclaim the right to live from the grasp of this world. The celestial music of tribulation transcendence continued uninterrupted from beginning to end, until the final bolt of tribulation lightning was forcefully shattered by his roar, and the sea of lightning completely collapsed, transforming into countless fragments of light.
Then, the light curtain disappeared.
"The Celestial Melody of Tribulation Transcending Heaven, Overwhelming the Nine Netherworlds!"
Yu sighed softly.
Sure enough it was him!
"It is indeed this person." The Great Emperor of Shenzhou nodded slightly. He thought that Yu Dao had used some kind of time-traveling technique to trace Gai Jiuyou's origin and name from the traces of the universe, which was why he was able to identify him so easily.
After all, for a supreme being, as long as a trace is left in the world, it is not difficult to deduce, especially since it is a living being of this era.
"He's no weaker than those who achieved enlightenment before their final leap," the Great Emperor of Shenzhou commented, his tone a mixture of admiration and regret. "Unfortunately, he was too confident and too persistent. He wanted to achieve enlightenment under the suppression of the Azure Emperor's Great Dao. How could that be possible? There can only be one emperor in a generation; that's an ironclad rule. Even the suppression of the Great Dao by an ordinary enlightened being is enough to make a latecomer to enlightenment despair, let alone someone of the Azure Emperor's level."
The Great Emperor of Shenzhou had accepted the fact that there were different levels among the extreme realms, but he still did not believe that Gai Jiuyou could break through the suppression of the Great Dao and become an emperor under impossible circumstances.
Little did people know that even in the ancient times, the supreme god revered by all races, the immortal emperor who divided the mythological and ancient eras by his own attainment of the Dao, only emerged and made his final leap after the suppression of the Emperor's Dao dissipated.
Among the ancient supreme beings that the Great Emperor of Shenzhou speculated might embark on the path to immortality in the mortal world, the Undying Emperor was one of them!
"It is indeed extremely difficult to achieve Dao under the suppression of the Great Dao. Under normal circumstances, it is almost impossible." Yu Dao nodded slightly.
If breaking through all paths to attain enlightenment were so easy, how could there be no precedent for it throughout history?
In the golden age ten thousand years later, how could the ancient princes and imperial princes who emerged from the seal be willing to abandon their homeland and sleep for eternity just to avoid that insurmountable barrier in front of them?
Only those with physiques at the level of Chaotic Body and Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo can disregard those who block their path. Or, like the Heavenly Emperor Ye of later generations, they are truly powerful to the extreme, and even though others in their time have already attained the Dao, they still tread upon all paths, achieving a feat unmatched since ancient times.
While Gai Jiuyou was indeed stunning and powerful, he did not meet either of these two conditions. The outcome of his attempt to break through the suppression of the Azure Emperor's Great Dao was already predetermined; that ironclad answer had already been written as a settled matter in the original novel of Shrouding the Heavens.
The breeding ground designed by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor was indeed too cruel. In past eras, there was no clear-cut divide between Supreme Beings and Ultimate Supreme Beings. If the former could continuously refine their cultivation, they could naturally step into the Ultimate Realm without any limit on the number of individuals. But in the world today, some things have been deliberately erased. The gap between Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven and those who have attained Dao is unimaginably large. Before their final leap, Emperors and Sovereigns challenge all adversaries in the universe. Only after being invincible in a hundred battles can they break through to the next level with supreme strength, unite with the will of Heaven, and become the sole ruler of the universe. This is certainly the fastest way to select the strongest, but it undoubtedly buries many outstanding individuals. Without attaining Dao, their lifespan is only a short ten thousand years. It is already difficult to take another step to become an alternative Daoist. The remaining time is far from enough for these beings to explore other paths to achieve the Ultimate Realm when others in the world have attained Dao.
Perhaps what the Desolate Emperor needs is precisely an exceptional individual capable of surviving such extremely harsh conditions. It's just too cruel for others.
A thought flashed through Yu Dao's mind, and he slowly spoke: "It would be a real pity if such a rare talent were to fade away under the suppression of the Great Dao."
Under the gaze of the Great Emperor of China, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of bending it in the distance.
A branch from the ancient peach tree fell with a thud, its entire body shimmering with a pale pink light, with a few tender emerald leaves still clinging to it. The branch landed in Yu Dao's palm, and the essence of life gathered at the break like a gentle stream, radiating a warm glow.
A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the Emperor of Shenzhou.
"Brother Dao, what's going on?"