Chapter Forty-Nine: The Origin of Future Anomalies

Through the conversations among the various Great Emperors, Taiyin gradually came to understand what had transpired in this future spacetime.

A little over a decade prior in this future timeline—

The void surged, space twisting into a kaleidoscope. A tiny patch of ground was reeled into a river of stars, and that river of stars in turn transformed into a single intricate pattern.

This was the inner space of the Void Mirror, an imprisoning spatial death trap capable of sealing away beings of the Great Emperor level for a long time.

Taiyin stood loftily in the void, surrounded by Minecraft-style chests piled high. He continuously hurled splash potions of healing, smashing them against the human skin laid out before him.

He was attempting to resurrect the Sun Holy Emperor. At the same time, using his free hand, he casually performed a minor divination, trying to peer into the future.

A moment later, recalling the visions he had seen in the divination, Taiyin wore a gratified smile.

"Ye Fan, Void, Hengyu, Gu Jiuyou..."

"Although this future is desolate and bleak, these younger generations of the human race are truly outstanding."

Looking at the human skin emanating a sacred glow before him, Taiyin smiled and said, "Once I finish resurrecting you, I will move on to resurrect Void, Hengyu, and the rest."

"To protect all living beings in the universe, the more hands we have, the better."

Despite witnessing a tragic future, Taiyin knew that after his resurrection, the future would never remain that way.

A cold smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth, and a flash of murderous intent crossed his eyes. "Stone Emperor, Light and Dark Supreme, Lord of Immortality... Devouring all living beings to mend your Celestial Seas, yet leaving behind seeds for the future. You are courting death!"

"As for Sovereign Qilin and the others, they merely slashed themselves to seal their own bodies without devouring the living masses. Perhaps we can have a proper discussion with them."

Following this, he attempted divination once more, seeking to obtain more useful information.

However...

"Hmm?"

Looking at the shattered moon phases in his palm, Taiyin was somewhat surprised. "The divination failed?"

"Could there be some strange new variable in the future?"

He tried divining again, but met with failure once more. The moon phases previously reflected in his pupils were replaced by pitch blackness.

Under normal circumstances in a divination perspective, the River of Time usually appeared shrouded in thick mist, yet one could occasionally see the mist disperse to catch a blurred glimpse of a corner of the future.

Now, however, the future was completely sealed off by a layer of dark mist.

Taiyin pondered, "The River of Time is pitch black. What on earth does this imply has happened in the future?"

Suddenly, he stopped. Gazing at a speck of morning-sun-like brilliance before him, he broke into a smile. "Resurrection successful!"

Immediately, Taiyin opened his hand, and a surging torrent of blood coiled forth like a heavenly river, rushing toward the human skin and transforming into a blood lake that submerged it.

As if waking from the deepest slumber, the Sun Holy Emperor felt a gentle moonlight shining upon his face amidst his daze.

Soaked in the pool of Imperial Supreme blood—which contained endless essence of vital blood and the power of Taiyin—the shriveled human skin gradually swelled, taking the form of an old man in azure robes with white hair.

Within the human skin, a single drop of living blood and a wisp of primordial spirit, condensed out of thin air by the splash potions of instant healing, transformed into a great sun that slowly rolled within the skull of the human skin.

The endless vitality and Lesser Yin power contained within Taiyin's imperial blood were absorbed by the human skin without the slightest obstruction, transforming into Lesser Yang power as gentle as the morning sun.

Resembling the birth of a great sun in the starry sky, boundless power was rapidly absorbed by the luminous point condensed from the living blood and primordial spirit.

In an instant, having crossed a certain critical threshold, the Sun Holy Emperor's supreme secret technique—the Great Sun Nirvana Scripture—erupted violently.

All things carry the Yin and embrace the Yang, blending their breaths to achieve harmony.

Separated fire can manifest its true form!

Though the great sun is supremely firm and masculine, it likewise contains the profound transformations of Yin and Yang; this is the profound principle of the revolution of the heavenly bodies and rebirth through incineration.

A star is the vitality of the universe, and within destruction inherently lies the Dao of life and death—just as a star reorganizes matter through nuclear fusion, converting light elements into numerous heavy elements, and thereby scattering them as all things in the universe.

The sun simultaneously embodies the forces of gravitational collapse and expansion.

The two restrain and give birth to each other; extremity of brightness turns to gloom, Yang at its peak gives birth to Yin, ultimately returning to the uncarved chaos of Wuji.

At this moment, a wisp of primordial spirit and a drop of golden blood, acting like the dual poles of the sun's laws, shone brilliantly upon one another within the corona vortex, transforming into a world-incinerating great sun capable of swallowing the heavens.

Within a moment, the entire crimson-gold blazing sun vanished abruptly with the collapse of the stellar core.

Qian and Kun, incineration and life, achieved an arcane equilibrium and reversal in that split second.

Yang at its extreme gives birth to Yin; Yin at its extreme transforms into Yang.

When that crimson-gold blazing sun, which had incinerated the power of Taiyin, completely plunged into the form of a black sun—the very moment even its light was swallowed by its own gravity...

The old human skin of the Sun Holy Emperor was likewise pulverized and absorbed. Within the all-consuming dark egg, only a purely blazing white singularity remained, resembling a drop of gilded ink dotted by a primordial deity upon the void.

At that ultimate boundary of Yang, a chaotic fire seed carrying the breath of primal genesis quietly sprouted!

BOOM!!!

It was as if the universe were being cleaved open.

Boundless vitality exploded violently from a single point!

Endless true fire of the sun condensed into a heroic, extraordinary azure-robed man.

The Sun Holy Emperor was resurrected!

...

Looking at Taiyin standing quietly to the side, as well as the blood pool he had just soaked in, a trace of astonishment flashed through the eyes of the Sun Holy Emperor.

As the Sun Holy Emperor who attained the Dao immediately following the Taiyin Holy Emperor, he naturally recognized the appearance of the Taiyin Holy Emperor. Gazing at the figure beside him, he asked with pleasant surprise, "Are you Senior Taiyin Holy Emperor?"

Taiyin smiled faintly, nodded gently, and immediately initiated divine sense communication with him.

A moment later, a look of sudden realization dawned upon the face of the Sun Holy Emperor. "Time flies, seas change into mulberry fields. From the time of my self-transformation to this day, such an unimaginably long epoch has passed..."

"Hahaha..." He lowered his head and chuckled softly, shaking his head slightly before raising his gaze once more.

"Let us go. Since the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths currently face such a crisis, there is no need to waste any more time. The most urgent task is to resurrect the rest of the emperors as quickly as possible."

Taiyin nodded in agreement, and together they left the inner space of the Void Mirror, preparing to seek out Fang Zheng once more to obtain more healing potions and accelerate the resurrection of the other emperors.

However, just as they arrived at the entrance of the Jiang family estate, a fluctuation suddenly rippled through the void, and Taiyin's expression altered drastically in an instant.

"What? Little friend Fang Zheng has suddenly vanished!"

The Sun Holy Emperor also frowned slightly. "Vanished?"

It turned out that the divine spirit of the Taiyin Moon Blade—which Taiyin had left to guard Fang Zheng—had just informed him that Fang Zheng had mysteriously disappeared.

Instantly spanning a vast distance, Taiyin and the Sun Holy Emperor pierced through the void and arrived inside the minor world guarded by the Jiang family's Hengyu Furnace.

There, they saw that Fang Zheng, who just a moment prior had been teasing the horned dragons, had now inexplicably vanished without a trace.

Remaining in his place were only the bedrock blood pool he had just constructed, alongside Jiang Tingting, Jiang Yifei, Jiang Wen, and the five horned dragons, all frozen in spacetime, illuminated by a beam of moonlight.

Boundless moonlight blossomed throughout the entire minor world, as though transforming the entire realm into a solidified crystal.

This was the result of the Taiyin Moon Blade and the Taiyin Emperor Seal divine spirits erupting with their full might the very instant Fang Zheng vanished, completely locking down the void.

In an instant, Taiyin arrived at the spot, the divine light in his eyes flaring intensely to illuminate all directions. He carefully scrutinized every trace of the void in the frozen space, down to the most infinitesimal detail.