Ch 25: Black Emperor’s Avatar
Changbai Mountain.
Silver-white snow covers Changbai Mountain, stretching to the horizon. There is an indescribable coldness, as if eternally unchanging.
Chu Mo, with the Demon Emperor, arrived at the cave entrance once more.
The Demon Emperor was already very old. Although according to the history Chu Mo knew, the Demon Emperor should have lived for another three years, the Demon Emperor’s treatment in the original history was completely different from now.
Chu Mo even suspected that the Demon Emperor was stubbornly holding on to his last breath, determined to wait until ten years later to see him fall into the trap… only then could he die in peace.
Swiftly passing the murals, Chu Mo arrived at the deepest part of the cave with a solemn expression. The front was very peculiar, seemingly only a step away, yet it appeared dark and bottomless, with the texture of black water.
“Finally waited!” The Demon Emperor’s face suddenly turned ferocious, and he slapped the black water barrier in front of him. Like a balloon, the barrier was torn apart the moment his claws touched it, and black water surged out.
Chu Mo didn’t dodge. The black water washed over his body, but didn’t wet his clothes. This seemed to be an illusion, not real water.
However, Chu Mo’s expression remained unchanged, but his heart was stirred. He smelled the scent of danger that he hadn’t felt in a long time.
“The Emperor of the Demon Court, what do you want from me… Hmm?!”
The cold and solemn voice stopped abruptly. After a brief silence, the voice carried a strong sense of astonishment and disbelief, “How is it possible… How has the world become like this?!”
It was as if the being who made the sound instantly understood everything in the world.
Chu Mo narrowed his eyes, staring intently as wisps of black water continuously reorganized, gradually coalescing into a man wearing a black dragon robe, with a cold and majestic face.
It was impossible to see his specific appearance clearly, because his appearance changed every moment. Sometimes he looked like Emperor Qianlong, but sometimes he would turn into Chu Mo, and even in the next moment, he would become Ji Xiaolan…
Chu Mo: “…”
Although speechless, he quickly found the pattern of the other party’s changing faces. He was transforming into… all the rulers of the Divine Province! At least the three he recognized, himself, Emperor Qianlong, and Ji Xiaolan, all were.
“Zhao Mo?” The black-robed man stared at Chu Mo, uttering the two words with difficulty.
This name was precisely Chu Mo’s name in this life.
“You, where did you come from… How could a guy like you appear in this world!” The black-robed man frowned, as if completely unable to understand. Then, he relaxed, “Forget it, there’s no point in discussing this now… Then I will rewrite the trajectory of fate back to normal!”
“Allow me to ask, who are you? Is the trajectory of fate that the Demon Court continues to rule the world? Why did you only realize that the world situation was wrong after the Demon Emperor touched the black water?” Chu Mo asked with interest.
Of course, Chu Mo wasn’t idle while asking. Almost the moment he sensed the danger, he spent the remaining forty-odd years of his lifespan, investing them into his cultivation.
Demon lifespan and human lifespan were two completely different existences in Chu Mo’s eyes.
Having been the Lord of the World for so many years, Chu Mo had naturally read countless materials, truly understanding what the Domain meant in this era… It was almost the highest level of martial arts that could not be born in this era! Even in the Former Ming, it could be considered extremely rare…
Chu Mo comprehended it at the Innate level, which was quite abnormal… Considering the description at the time, perhaps when his lifespan was about to run out, a special state of breaking free from the world’s constraints would appear…
Chu Mo boldly guessed that using his lifespan to break through to the Heaven-Human Realm… would cause some special reactions!
【In the forty-second year, your life has come to an end, your Qi and blood begin to boil, you feel a terrifying pressure from the heavens and earth, you are burning all your Qi and blood and origin.
You are transforming into a Heaven-Human. 】
Chu Mo felt his body begin a terrifying transformation. Perhaps because of the Point Allocation Deduction, the consequences would not be reflected on him… so he didn’t feel like his Qi and blood were exhausted.
But during the transformation process, the fatal sense of crisis that he had sensed when he was about to break through to the Heaven-Human Realm using demon lifespan… resurfaced!
“…Even using human lifespan can’t avoid it? So be it!” Chu Mo sighed inwardly, not stopping himself from transforming into a Heaven-Human.
“A Human Race Emperor?” After a brief silence, the black-robed man said in a low voice, “Logically speaking, I should kill you directly… but with your identity, you are qualified to know this information! I will let you be a ghost who understands.”
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Demon Emperor: “???”
Explain what ghost! Just attack and kill him!!
“I am the Black Emperor, or rather, an avatar of the Black Emperor. I am also a symbol of the Water Virtue!” The Black Emperor said expressionlessly.
Water Virtue! Chu Mo’s heart stirred slightly. If he remembered correctly, the Qing seemed to be Water Virtue, right? If Water Virtue corresponded to the Black Emperor, it seemed to explain why the person in front of him appeared…
But… if this was really the Black Emperor he understood, why would the Black Emperor stand on the side of the demons!
Chu Mo frowned. Although there wasn’t much information about the Black Emperor in the Main World, he knew before he transmigrated that the myth of the Black Emperor could be traced back to Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang! Liu Bang called himself the Red Emperor’s son before the uprising, but after becoming emperor, he changed his title to the Black Emperor!
If this guy in front of him was really related to Liu Bang… the Black Emperor should have no reason to stand on the side of the Human Race! Unless…
“As for why I have to kill you, I’m sorry! This is according to the arrangement of fate. All extraordinary power of the Human Race will disappear with the end of the Demon Court. Your appearance, the emergence of a dynasty led by the Human Race, may trigger another climax of extraordinary power…” The Black Emperor’s avatar said softly.
Countless pieces of information flashed through Chu Mo’s mind. The end… In other words, the gradual decline of extraordinary power was actually the overall will of the Black Emperor, or rather, the collective represented by the Black Emperor.
Was this the fundamental reason why the power of each dynasty constantly declined with the development of history?!
Chu Mo vaguely guessed that perhaps the belittling of the Human Race’s power was related to the gods, or rather, mythology. After all, the Black Emperor, or rather, the Black Emperor’s avatar, this pointed too clearly… However…
“From the looks of it, the continuous decline of extraordinary power between heaven and earth… also has an impact on these myths! Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to suddenly awaken until Emperor Qianlong touched it, only then realizing that there was a problem.”
While Chu Mo was thinking, he officially broke through to the Heaven-Human Realm.
He looked at his lifespan, which had exploded by hundreds in the Time Door’s display. However… without him using it, it decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At the same time, Chu Mo felt a kind of hostility that seemed to originate from the heavens and earth, as if time was deliberately accelerating on him… Every minute and every second, he was consuming an unimaginable amount of lifespan…
“So, the fatal feeling that I felt I had to encounter when breaking through in the past… is this?” Chu Mo sighed faintly in his heart.
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The Black Emperor’s avatar didn’t speak again. He attacked, and with a wave of his hand, the sky tilted.
It was an unimaginable terrifying majesty… as if the entire world had turned into an ocean of black water at this moment, and the entire ocean of black water was Chu Mo’s enemy…
In response…
Chu Mo just calmed his mood, his eyes were solemn, and he clenched his fist calmly.
His luck and Qi and blood were united, and the luster of the Domain illuminated his forehead.
At this moment, he seemed to have transformed into a great Buddha, sacred and majestic, with mountains and rivers and the sea boiling around him.
The black water was torn apart, and a terrifying punch, carrying a brilliant and majestic momentum, rushed straight forward.
In the Black Emperor’s avatar’s horrified and disbelieving gaze, the fist light completely shattered half of his body.
