The Human Emperor c1-2382
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That dignified voice echoed in ‘his’ ears, but ‘he’ appeared to only half-understand, remembering nothing except the final words.
Afterward, countless armored warriors holding high torches appeared in the palace and took him to the side of an ancient swamp.
‘He’ saw a massive pit here.
“This is where you will be eternally sealed! You will slumber under the earth for the rest of time!” the leading soldier sternly said.
A moment later, a massive metal cage brought him into the depths, and what followed was endless darkness and cold. And then… there was no more. It tried many times to climb back up, reaching the top of the pit.
There were many times when it had been capable of leaving. But when it saw that dignified and familiar seal atop the pit, it hesitated.
What had sealed it was not unfathomable strength, but the person represented by that seal.
What sealed it was its heart.
“So it turns out that the Origin Immortal Lord wasn’t the one to dig out this pit, but the Yellow Emperor. And the Yellow Emperor was also the one who sealed it!”
Wang Chong’s mind was in turmoil, an indescribable feeling in his heart.
He could see from this Nightmare Beast’s memories that it apparently shared an extremely close connection to the Yellow Emperor. This was something that he had never imagined.
What followed were countless fragmentary memories of the Nightmare Beast’s millennia-long imprisonment in the pit. No one could endure such a long period alone—not humans, and not Nightmare Beasts. Over the thousands of years, it had been expectant, furious, and in pain, and it had thought many times about leaving.
But each time, it fell back before that familiar seal at the top of the pit.
These memories of darkness lasted until that person made their way down the pit.
“The person you are waiting for will appear after eight hundred years! If you protect this place for me, I promise that you will meet the person you are waiting for. This is our promise…” A deep, warm, and soothing voice came out of the darkness.
The Nightmare Beast calmed down and returned to its endless wait.
“So the Origin Immortal Lord came to find it!”
Wang Chong had a flash of insight.
That swamp of the ancient era had become the place where the Yellow Emperor had sealed the Nightmare Beast, but the Origin Immortal Lord had still managed to find it and make the place his own, the Nightmare Beast becoming his guardian beast. With the passing of time and the shifting of continents, the swamp had long ago become mountains and deserts, but the Nightmare Beast continued to wait.
Perhaps because of its relationship to the Yellow Emperor, Wang Chong felt some sympathy for the Nightmare Beast. But a moment later, this emotion vanished.
The many white bones piled up in this cave probably all belonged to the Nightmare Beast’s victims.
You brought this on yourself, Wang Chong thought coldly.
Buzz!
As he obtained the Nightmare Beast’s energy, his Psychic Energy continued to strengthen, and it soon reached an absurd level. The Nightmare Beast’s Psychic Energy was unbelievably powerful and vast, as it had been accumulated over thousands of years.
As a strange beast that was born with the ability to control Psychic Energy, the Nightmare Beast had reached a level of Psychic Energy that no human could ever even imagine, much less reach.
Wang Chong felt like he was staring alone into a vast and boundless ocean.
Buzz!
A few seconds later, Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy broke free of its former shackles and soared.
“So powerful! I can’t believe it!”
This was the first time Wang Chong had felt this sort of ecstasy after suffering from his cultivation defect.
But the joy brought about by Psychic Energy far exceeded the joy brought about by an increase in Stellar Energy or physical strength. In addition, as Wang Chong absorbed more of the Nightmare Beast’s Psychic Energy, he felt that he had reached a threshold.
This was an invisible barrier, one that Wang Chong had never known to exist before this.
So it seems Psychic Energy, like martial arts, also shares something like the Subtle realm, an even higher level of existence!
Wang Chong soon had an idea of what was going on.
For the vast majority of martial artists, Psychic Energy was just divided up by how much one had and how strong it was. There was no specific division into levels or tiers. This was because Psychic Energy, unlike Stellar Energy, had no shape or form. But now, borrowing the Nightmare Beast’s strength, Wang Chong suddenly understood that he had reached a level that most Psychic Energy practitioners could only dream of.
If he broke through this threshold, his Psychic Energy would evolve into a higher state of existence.
Chapter 1465 - The Trajectory of Destiny!
Chapter 1465: The Trajectory of Destiny!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Bang!
Wang Chong instantly opened his mind and began to absorb all the pure and fundamental Psychic Energy being released by the Nightmare Beast, even linking his own Psychic Energy to it. He gathered up his Psychic Energy into a massive tsunami that slammed again and again into the invisible barrier.
Once, twice, thrice… with each collision, the strength of the strike grew stronger and stronger. Suddenly, Wang Chong’s mind shuddered and boomed, and the entire world seemed to go still.
Wang Chong could no longer hear even a single noise at his ear. Finally, after what seemed like countless epochs and also like a single second…
Like a silver vase shattering, the invisible barrier of Psychic Energy exploded. That Psychic Energy whose growth had been halted gushed forward once more.
Now that the Psychic Energy had grown past the limit, it underwent a qualitative change, one that Wang Chong had been waiting for. The boundless Psychic Energy suddenly constricted until it wasn’t even ten percent of its original size, but it was now five to six times denser.
And deep in Wang Chong’s mind, a white bead the size of a mustard seed formed.
Wang Chong’s mind was suddenly in turmoil.
A Psychic Core!
This was a manifestation of the Psychic Energy’s evolution.
Wang Chong had never imagined that the invisible and formless Psychic Energy would appear in his body through such a method. Psychic Energy’s insubstantiality seemed to be a part of its nature, an unbreakable law.
Breaking this law was as difficult as spanning the gap between heaven and earth.
But once it was broken, it signified endless possibility, that one could evolve to reach the same abilities as the Nightmare Beast. Although it might still be impossible to reach that level, Wang Chong had definitely entered a new world.
Boom!
After condensing and evolving, Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy once more began to swell. In the blink of an eye, it had doubled in quantity, and it was still increasing.
“My Psychic Energy, no…” A weak voice came from the core in Wang Chong’s fingers.
Wang Chong’s finger flick had heavily damaged the Nightmare Beast’s core, greatly weakening it, but the Nightmare Beast was not dead.
The core was its life. As long as the core remained, it would not die. But if Wang Chong wanted it, the Nightmare Beast could be taken care of in seconds.
“Heh, at a time like this, you still think you have a chance?” Wang Chong indifferently said.
With the loss of its fleshly body and its core under Wang Chong’s control, the Nightmare Beast was just a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. But the Nightmare Beast truly did possess immense amounts of Psychic Energy. Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy had swelled to four times its original size, but it had still not absorbed all the energy in the core. On the contrary, Wang Chong felt a slight bursting pain.
This is probably my limit. Until I digest and stabilize this energy, I won�
�t be able to grow any more, Wang Chong murmured to himself in understanding.
Men were different from beasts. Under normal circumstances, a human would never be able to get stronger than a tiger or elephant. In terms of Psychic Energy, the same could be said for the Nightmare Beast. The Nightmare Beast was a monster naturally attuned to Psychic Energy, and its body was constructed differently from humans. Thus, it could reach a level of Psychic Energy that even the strongest human martial artist could only dream about.
“It’s about ready!”
With a thought, a white ray of light burst out of one of Wang Chong’s fingers, formed from pure Psychic Energy.
Buzz!
Wang Chong lightly touched the black core, and a moment later, this tangible Psychic Energy imprinted a Psychic Seal on the core.
The black Nightmare Beast Core instantly dimmed, all its energy sealed within.
“Congratulations to user! For defeating the Nightmare Beast, you have been rewarded with 300000 points of Destiny Energy!” The Stone of Destiny’s familiar voice rang out in his ear.
Wang Chong raised an eyebrow in surprise. He had been informed that killing a Dragonbeast would reward him with Destiny Energy, but he had heard nothing about being rewarded so much Destiny Energy for killing the Nightmare Beast.
Unbeknownst to Wang Chong, when the Stone of Destiny’s voice rang out, the sealed Nightmare Beast suddenly trembled in shock and began to howl.
“This… it’s that energy, but how? Why does he have the same kind of energy as my master? Could it be…
“Could it be that the person I’m waiting for is…”
Countless thoughts flitted through the Nightmare Beast’s mind.
“…A day will come when you find someone similar to me. When that time comes, you can follow him like you follow me today. He is me!”
“The person you are waiting for will appear after eight hundred years! If you protect this place for me, I promise that you will meet the person you are waiting for. This is our promise…”
The voices of the two most important humans in its life resounded through its mind. The Nightmare Beast seemed to understand and felt unprecedented shock. When it heard those first words, it believed that it would only need to wait a few centuries, but it had ended up waiting thousands of years.
And when it heard the second words, it believed that it would only have to wait eight hundred years, but it still ended up waiting nearly one thousand years without meeting the person prophesied. This caused it to go insane with rage, wanting nothing more than to kill.
But it now realized that the second person had said ‘after eight hundred years’, not that it only needed to wait eight hundred years. It had misunderstood from the very beginning.
So it was him!
The Nightmare Beast frantically howled, but none of the sound it made could leave the core. The Psychic Energy seal had not only sealed its mind, but also its voice.
Wang Chong could not hear the pained howls of the Nightmare Beast, and he swiftly put the core away.
“Ah!”
At this moment, he heard a clamor, and looking around, he saw that the martial artists the Nightmare Beast had knocked unconscious were beginning to awaken.
“This… What’s going on here?”
“Didn’t I go back to the sect? Why am I here?”
“My head hurts! What happened?”
“I clearly obtained the Origin Immortal Art and became the world’s number one. How did I end up back here?”
The martial artists sat up, stood, or simply looked at their surroundings in confusion. Clearly, they had yet to fully awaken from the Nightmare Beast’s illusory world.
“Bastard! You’re from the Blazing Fire Sect! If you’re next to me, it means that you must have played some trick on me while I was running!”
“Truly enemies meeting on a narrow road! Whether or not I can get the Origin Immortal Art, I’ll first kill you members of the Black Yin Sect!”
As the martial artists returned from the illusory world, the mood soon changed, and small battles began to break out.
This search for the Origin Immortal Art had gathered martial artists from various sects, and they each had their various quarrels with each other. With the Nightmare Beast gone, these grudges had floated back to the surface. As for why everyone was here, nobody really cared.
Wang Chong coldly spectated and shook his head. These martial artists had all come for the Origin Immortal Art, but they had seemingly stopped caring about it and begun to focus on their personal grudges.
“Ah! Look over there! It’s the Demonic Emperor’s disciple!”
Someone finally noticed Wang Chong.
Ever since the Demonic Emperor Old Man had personally intervened to deal with the Black Yin Ancestor and Song Yuanyi for Wang Chong during the opening of the Origin Immortal Formation, Wang Chong’s identity had become known throughout the region.
“All those of the evil path must be punished! Everyone, let’s work together to kill him!”
Some of the bolder martial artists viciously glared at Wang Chong.
Whoosh! Their words caused everyone else in the cave to focus on the Demonic Emperor’s disciple.
“The Demonic Emperor isn’t with him. They must have been separated! Everyone, don’t be afraid! We can kill him if we work together!” someone called out in encouragement.
Clangclangclang!
With a ringing clatter, many of the martial artists pulled out their sabers and swords and pointed them at Wang Chong.
All of them knew about the calamity the Demonic Emperor had brought down on the martial arts world. The entire martial arts world had lived under his rule of terror, and now that his disciple, Wang Chong, was alone, they would never miss out on the chance to execute justice in the name of the heavens.
“Kill him!”
“Kill this little devil! Or else the old history of the martial arts world will repeat itself!”
Whoosh! Savage light in their eyes, the martial artists leapt at Wang Chong, but before they could reach him, they came to a sudden stop.
“What is that?!”
They had finally noticed the two-meter-tall corpse of the Nightmare Beast near Wang Chong.
All of them had gone through a harrowing experience in this vast cave network, and when they saw that strange corpse, they immediately thought back to those three unkillable Dragonbeasts.
They seemed to understand something.
“He saved us!”
They stared at the sword that was dripping blood in Wang Chong’s hand and the Nightmare Beast’s corpse that had been cleaved in two. Complicated looks appeared on their faces and they were rendered speechless.
Anyone who could appear here was no idiot. It was clear that their appearance here and those dreams they had gone through were probably the work of this monster.
Wang Chong coldly watched, a smile on his lips. He had gone through great effort to free these people from the control of the Nightmare Beast. He wanted to see if these people would still attack him even after learning the truth.
The mood instantly turned strange.
Chapter 1466 - Bizarre Poison Threads!
Chapter 1466: Bizarre Poison Threads!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The crowd of martial artists couldn’t help but slow down when they saw Wang Chong’s gaze, and they did not dare meet his eyes.
A martial artist took two steps forward and exhorted the crowd, “What are you doing? This is an evil path disciple, and the disciple of the Demonic Emperor! Since ancient times, righteous and evil have never stood on the same side, but are you now thinking about engaging in a reasoned argument with members of the evil path? Everyone, join me and kill him! If someone in the martial arts world learns that we killed the Demonic Emperor and his disciple, we’ll be famous!”
Another person stepped forward and agreed, “Brother Gu is right. Those of the evil path must all be pu
nished! Everyone, together!”
“Stop!”
Before they could attack, a martial artist of seemingly considerable strength lost patience and stepped forward to block their path.
“Whether one is righteous or evil, and regardless of what sect one belongs to, one at least must know the difference between kindness and grudges. This young master has done us a kindness, but we would point our weapons at him. This makes us even worse than beasts.”
“Brother Lu is right! After receiving a person’s kindness, how can we return it with hatred? If anyone dares to strike this young master, I, Zhao Qi, will be the first to object!”
“That’s right! A true man knows the difference between kindness and grudges. If you want to act against this young master, come and talk to me first!”
“Gu Tong, you and your fellows are acting just a little too shameless. Even I can’t bear to watch something like this. I truly feel ashamed to even be associated with you!”
“Get out of here!”
With one person stepping forward, more and more people began to pile on and stand in front of the group of aggressors.
“You’re… you’re all crazy!”
“You’re protecting a member of the evil path! This is absurd!”
Seeing so many people coming forward to protect Wang Chong, Gu Tong and his group paled, even panicked. It was obvious that they had not predicted this development.
Interesting.
Wang Chong had already prepared to strike back, so these developments had taken him by surprise as well.
But Wang Chong did not stick around to argue with them. As Gu Tong and his group were being surrounded, Wang Chong leapt away, using this chance while everyone was distracted to vanish into another cave.
I have to find a place where I can properly rest! Wang Chong said to himself as he ran.
His fight with the Nightmare Beast had given much to Wang Chong, but there was no avoiding the consumption of Stellar Energy. He needed to find a place where he could sort out his body’s condition.
There were no interruptions this time. Around five minutes later, Wang Chong had recovered and got back up to go elsewhere. As he began to move, tendrils of Psychic Energy began to spread through the cave.