CHAPTER 1646: CHAPTER 1587: THE HUMAN EMPEROR AWAKENS, ANCIENT SOLDIERS RETURN!

A month later, bathed in the remnants of the setting sun’s rays, Xiao Chen entered the Gao Tang Emperor’s Mausoleum for the third time.

Old and decayed, the Ancient Forest held a few venerable figures awaiting eagerly. With a gesture from Xiao Chen, he charged towards the dilapidated mausoleum, as if sensing something. At the moment Xiao Chen’s body collided with the ruined stone of the mausoleum, his entire form twisted instantly.

In a daze, the golden vortex channel manifested again, with time and space flowing in his eyes. Golden ripples brushed against his body, transforming into Golden Dragons and Golden Lightning, constantly roaring towards him. Two or three breaths later, he once again stepped into a golden world.

Compared to last time, at this moment, Xiao Chen felt an endless majesty in this world, a majesty that carried a separation—separating heaven and earth, time and space, as if sealing everything within.

Yes!

It’s as if even time has ceased to pass here.

At the center of the golden world, a massive Golden Coffin hovered, floating amidst the Mountains and Rivers, Sun, Moon, and Stars.

"Descendant of the human race, come as promised to awaken our Ancestor of the Human Emperor, break through epochs, and return to Heaven and Earth!"

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Chen suppressed the turmoil within him and gestured towards the golden giant coffin. In an instant, the golden world reverberated with thunder, the sound of thunder rolling like tides, as if the entire universe trembled.

Dazzling golden light filled the entire realm, immersing Xiao Chen once more in a golden ocean, while brilliance emanated from his body, suppressing the surrounding golden light.

Buzz!

Divine light flickered on Xiao Chen, an illusory mark solidifying above his head. As it rotated, humming sounds arose, enveloping Xiao Chen with thick desolation and decay—marks of time.

Continuous fluctuations from the Emperor’s Seal surged into the golden giant coffin, seemingly engaged in communication. Guided, the golden coffin became etched with Dao Patterns.

In Xiao Chen’s eyes, each Dao Pattern depicted a universe, boundless and majestic.

He fixated on the Dao Patterns on the coffin lid, each representing a Great Dao, with over a hundred Dao Patterns on the lid, far beyond imagination.

As the Dao Patterns continued sketching, the golden lid began to dissolve into dense golden droplets, emitting endless Death Qi and decay.

Soon, the entire lid vanished, replaced by the coffin brimming with golden corrosive droplets. The majestic middle-aged figure Xiao Chen had seen before floated in the decaying liquid.

An infinite Death Qi even from afar invaded Xiao Chen’s Soul World, threatening to plunge it into darkness. The thought of death incessantly besieged his mind, which he could suppress only through great effort, else he’d perish.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

At this moment, the Emperor’s Seal atop Xiao Chen changed again; divine lights, like little dragons, separated from it, interweaving into two ancient script characters, directed towards the Gao Tang Human Emperor in the coffin reverently.

Buzz!

The two characters, emanating the most radiant divine light in the universe, directly integrated into the Gao Tang Human Emperor, causing no ripples.

Yet, in an instant, Xiao Chen sensed a change in the surrounding time and space, no longer silent and motionless, no longer a dead void, but seemingly imbued with divinity.

This is vitality!

This is life force!

Buzz buzz buzz!

Next, even the remaining coffin began to dissolve, forming a lake of golden corrosive liquid. The Gao Tang Ancient Emperor’s body still floated atop the golden ocean.

Despite overwhelming Death Qi, it couldn’t overshadow the boundless life force.

Buzz!

In a flash, as Death Qi pushed Xiao Chen to a corner, his pupils contracted sharply, for he witnessed two divine lights piercing through the golden world!

The majestic figure opened its eyes.

Within the gaze lay infinite creation, sun and moon cycling, stars swaying, Mountains and Rivers majestic, time and space enormous. This time the eyes opened, never to close again.

The Gao Tang Ancient Human Emperor awoke!

Instantly, the universe lost its brilliance, and even Xiao Chen’s mind trembled uncontrollably—not from awe of the majestic aura but because the figure was indelible!

The golden corrosive ocean surged like boiling lava, absorbed entirely by the Gao Tang Ancient Emperor, along with all decay in this universe, swept away completely.

Boom boom boom!

In the golden world, golden light, silver lightning, thunder like dragons, shattered through time and space. The Gao Tang Ancient Emperor stood above the heavenly thunder, stepping on the golden time-space veins, piercing the heavens and earth.

Following the direction of the Gao Tang Ancient Emperor’s gaze, Xiao Chen saw the golden world collapsing, penetrating through endless time and enveloping the Human World on all sides, traversing the Nine Skies and Ten Lands, enveloping the Hundred Clans of Heaven, in dim time and space, silencing various figures.

Thorough insight into heavens, vast time and space!

At this moment, nothing seemed capable of escaping this pair of golden eyes.

"Presumptuous, who dares observe All Heavens!"

Finally, a furious voice echoed from within the endless time-space, an azure Great Sun in the darkness floated overhead. Azure light instantly enveloped the universe, divine light infinite, resounding terrifying celestial sound from the depths of Void.

"Die!"

In Xiao Chen’s astoundingly horrified eyes, the Gao Tang Ancient Emperor reached out a hand into the dark time-space, seemingly cutting through it, vanishing into unknown realms.

"Ah..."

Accompanying the endless time and space was a fear-stricken howl, as the rising azure Great Sun suddenly shattered, a vast expanse of the void deep within the endless time and space collapsed, transforming into an eternal black hole!

When Gao Tang Ancient Emperor’s vast hand returned, Xiao Chen saw in his grasp a pile of utterly rotten blood bones, unrecognizable in form.

"Celestial Race!"

Despite everything, Xiao Chen discerned that it was indeed a strong one from the Celestial race. Yet before he could react, Gao Tang Ancient Emperor’s eyes once again swept across the endless time and space, and his hand extended again.

"Ah..."

Along with a howl, countless voids collapsed, and Gao Tang Ancient Emperor’s hand once more fetched back a pile of blood bones.

"Another strong one from the Celestial race!"

Xiao Chen couldn’t help but gasp, the two piles of blood bones before him, even though they had already turned into sludge, exuded energy stronger than the Golden Dragon Emperor of the past, at least at the World-Pacifying Realm peak, or even beyond.

Yet, before the newly awakened Gao Tang Ancient Emperor, they appeared no more than ants, crushed to death across millions of miles of void!

"They fear death as well!"

A middle-aged Ancient Emperor in a hemp robe, his voice followed closely behind, Xiao Chen looked towards him, only to hear another voice emanating.

"Because my Human race does not fear death, even though my Human race was defeated, it still proliferates upon this Heaven and Earth!"

Xiao Chen did not know if it was in that preceding moment, across the whole Human Realm earth and the All Heavens and Hundred Realms, two divine lights pierced through time and space, leaving a terrifying chasm rip in the world.

The dreadful aura awoke countless ancient figures, directly from their slumber!

"The strong ones of the Human race have returned!"

Deep within the endless time and space, a voice filled with terror echoed, trembling with fear, nobody knew which race’s ancient figure it was, however, at that moment, no one mocked him, that aura instilled a profound shiver across their very lives.

The Human Realm earth.

At this moment, upon the ancient earth, similarly ancient figures woke up, the world resonated thunderously, akin to Heaven collapsing and Earth shattering!

In the extreme east of Eastern Wasteland, a barren wasteland devoid of grass, suddenly ruptured apart, a Great Rift cleaved open transforming into an unfathomable abyss, stretching a hundred thousand miles, swirling with ominous winds.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

Terrifying sounds echoed from beneath the abyss, like the roars of fierce beasts, instilling chills upon hearing!

"My Emperor awakens again, treading the Heavenly Path, Lie Shan Clan returns!"

A desolate horn sound directly overwhelmed the boundless roars, resounding throughout the universe, amidst bursts of thunder exploding from the abyss.

Kill! Kill! Kill!

A war flag thus ascended to the pinnacle of Heaven from the abyss, towering a hundred thousand zhang, yet the war flag was shattered, although upon it, drops of fresh blood appeared as if newly splattered.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Accompanying what seemed like ten thousand horses galloping, a vast malevolent aura and Death Qi stirred the entire Heaven and Earth, blackness covered the sky, and a troop of War Masters clad in battle armor emerged from the abyss!

However, the terrifying War Masters’ emergence stirred countless hearts with tremors!

These were no War Masters, but indeed a Skeleton Army!

Beneath black armor were hollow skulls and skeletal hands grasping war sabers!

Bone People, Bone Beasts, intertwined in black and white, shattered time and space.

Crack!

The abyss’s edge collapsed into void, forming a vortex of time and space, from which the Skeleton Corps stepped into.

In the distant west, a vast void shattered, converging a myriad of golden lights, directly transforming the world into a golden realm.

"My Emperor returns, Jinyang Clan War Soldiers are back!"

Void directly shattered, squads of metal-forged-bodied War Soldiers similarly entered the vortex passage.

"Qiong Sang Clan returns to the Ancestral Land, tread the Heavenly Path once more!"

"Hua Xu Clan returns!" "You Qiong Clan returns!"

"Qing Yang Clan returns!"...

Like a signal, upon the vast Human World earth, all directions, countless mountains and rivers, lakes and voids, split open, figures of desolation, decay, and death Qi returned, as if stepping back from time!

Beside Gao Tang Ancient Emperor, Xiao Chen naturally followed the Ancient Emperor’s gaze, seeing the changes occurring between Heaven and Earth, which caused his mind to tremble.

These returning Ancient Clans, not a single clan had vitality, all were skeletal white bones, he even saw a Ghostly War Master because beneath the mottled iron armor was a mere phantom figure.

They held their flags high, thus stepping into the vortex passages of time and space, entering the legendary battlefield!