Ch 255: Chu Mo, Black Sky, Liu Bang

Chu Mo lowered his eyes slightly, pondered for a good while, and with a wave of his palm, dispersed the Time River version of the Jade Emperor.

Subsequently, he continued to allocate points, consuming the lifespan of that Eight-Winged Divine Tiger from before.

【 In the first hundred years, you successfully broke through to Golden Immortal… 】

【 In the first thousand years, you successfully broke through to the peak of Grand Unity Golden Immortal… 】

Chu Mo slightly moved his body, feeling the power of the Eighth Level Peak, and sighed softly. He stepped into the void once again, allocating points non-stop.

【 In the first ten thousand years… 】

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At the same time.

Liu Xiu stared at the spatial crack that appeared out of nowhere, gazing at Chu Mo’s back. He opened his mouth, but couldn’t say a word.

Seriously, what’s going on now?!

Liu Xiu knew that one option for top tycoons was to venture far into the Primordial Sea. After all, he was also ranked among the peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals now… But the problem was, this Heavenly Dao should have no reason to go there…

Although the Primordial Sea had a higher upper limit, allowing one to continuously become stronger within it… its harsh environment was also recognized by all the great powerhouses in the world.

Therefore, unless forced to the extreme… even great powerhouses were unwilling to take that step. Most importantly, according to the Jade Emperor, the person in front of him should be the legendary Heavenly Dao…

As the Heavenly Dao, he was the most powerful ruler in his own world. No matter which angle you analyzed it from, he had no reason to leave…

The void twisted.

A man wearing a robe embroidered with the sun, moon, and stars walked out, also gazing at the gradually healing spatial crack, his expression extremely complex.

“…You?!” Liu Xiu’s eyelids twitched. He naturally recognized the identity of this person, but he didn’t dare to say much. Before the Heavenly Dao appeared, he was arrogant in his heart, but after experiencing a beating, he clearly realized that even if his strength had reached the peak of this world, there was still a fundamental gap compared to a God.

That wasn’t a matter of realm… but more like a level of life!

He also deeply understood at this moment why the reign of Emperor Wu of Han… was so prosperous! There was more than one mythical tycoon at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm… In the end, Emperor Wu of Han still issued a self-reproaching edict.

“…So, what exactly is going on with you?!” The Jade Emperor sighed softly. Even after Chu Mo’s figure completely disappeared, his gaze still didn’t leave. He didn’t look at Liu Xiu even once, as if Liu Xiu didn’t exist…

The Jade Emperor completely couldn’t understand this Heavenly Dao. His appearance was sudden, and his departure was sudden… His origins were unknown, and his purpose was unknown. Everything seemed to have fallen into a fog.

He couldn’t even be sure… whether this person was a real Heavenly Dao, or just an existence that was displaying the aura of a Heavenly Dao? He really couldn’t tell… Even if the aura was very similar, a Heavenly Dao should have caused a world-shaking event the moment he descended, and it would have been impossible to hide it from him… But this person’s appearance was just so sudden and outrageous! Especially now that he had entered the Primordial Sea as if he was courting death… it made him even more confused. As the Heavenly Dao, how dare you go there? Did you really not know how much the other Heavens… craved you?

Sighing for the second time, the Jade Emperor shook his head, and his figure gradually turned into nothingness.

Liu Xiu glanced at the departing Jade Emperor, hesitating several times. He also wanted to ask… what was going on? He not only wanted to ask Chu Mo, but also the Jade Emperor!

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【 In the two hundred and forty millionth year, you successfully broke through to the Second Realm of Grand Supreme Golden Immortal. 】

Between Chu Mo’s breaths, his aura exploded in growth. That Motley Giant Tiger had given him 1.1 billion years of lifespan.

Moreover, Chu Mo absorbed the lessons from the Three Kingdoms era. This time, he didn’t choose to follow the steps and rebuild each realm ten times to make his foundation indestructible. Instead, he single-mindedly broke through and became stronger!

Because he wanted to see… whether his strength could be raised to the point where he could deal with the mastermind behind the scenes during this period. Even if he could only exchange one or two moves… that would be enough!

【 In the 1,088,920,000th year, you successfully broke through to the Fourth Realm of Grand Supreme Golden Immortal! In your mind, Sun Wukong’s Great Art of Heavenly Immortality, Yang Jian’s Eight Nine Mysterious Art, the Buddhist’s 108,000 scriptures, and the Three Pure Ones’ fundamental techniques… were all converging! Summarizing.

The Heavenly Side of your Grand Supreme Law was constantly sublimating and evolving. 】

Chu Mo’s eyes suddenly narrowed, sensing a familiar sense of crisis. Without the slightest hesitation, he directly used the Heavenly Side.

Two figures instantly landed in place. And he used the Ancestral Sorcery to rapidly escape to the distance in the void…

Red Sky and Vast Heaven took action almost simultaneously, and the auras of the two merged together, completing the sublimation. Starting from the Fourth Realm of Grand Supreme Golden Immortal, it began to explode in growth!

A giant hand condensed from Primordial Qi pressed down towards the two. The two Heavens resisted for a moment! But in the next moment, they completely collapsed.

That hand froze for a moment, and then, a terrifying and suffocating aura suddenly erupted, setting off monstrous waves in the Primordial Sea! It was a scarlet divine radiance, the power of laws representing destruction and vitality.

Red Sky!

He was furious.

Chu Mo understood this and wasn’t surprised by the emotional fluctuations of the other party. After all, his condensing the Red Sky Side was a huge provocation to the main body of this Heaven.

Just as he was about to leave, Chu Mo sensed something was wrong, because… another existence had taken action at this moment.

Black light was mysterious!

The black light was trying its best to stop the Red Sky’s divine radiance, and at the same time, it was also grabbing towards his direction. The two were restraining each other!

The only thing the two had in common was… that almost crazy greed for him! They had even lost their minds… After all, if the two were really awake, they would definitely choose to capture Chu Mo first, and then slowly fight…

“…A bit familiar!” Chu Mo muttered to himself, his figure disappearing from the spot, leaving only thoughtful words, “I seemed to have encountered it once before… So that’s it, Black Sky…”

In the next instant, the two Heavenly auras that were originally only restraining each other stiffened for a moment.

At this moment, time seemed to freeze. But soon, a collision suddenly began. That aura was too terrifying and magnificent, colliding together… like a Great Thousand World was being destroyed and born!

However, this battle that shook the immeasurable Chaos, attracting the attention of all the tycoons… was more like the two were venting something than a duel.

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Above the vast River of Time.

Chu Mo frowned, staring at the River of Time. After waiting for a good while, he discovered… that the River of Time didn’t split again.

“…So, the standard for splitting or not splitting is influence?” Thoughts flashed through Chu Mo’s mind. He thought of a sentence he had read in his previous life… In the Primordial World, small trends can be changed, but big trends cannot be changed.

But for Chu Mo, this could be completely changed to… if small trends are changed, there won’t be any influence at all. Chu Mo quietly stared at everything that Liu Xiu experienced in history, reflected in the River of Time… Vast Heaven was also standing tall in the Heavenly Court as always…

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He added leisurely, “But if big trends are changed… a completely new River of Time will be directly split off.”

For example, the Third Han Empire from before. Or everything he had experienced in the past…

“I’ve come to a useful conclusion!” Smiling silently, Chu Mo walked towards the upper reaches of the River of Time again. He was thinking, “So, if I return now… will I condense two Heroic Spirits, or… one? The cultivation of two Heavenly Dao Heroic Spirits doesn’t feel quite the same.”

Chu Mo arrived at the dividing line of the River of Time, which was the dividing line between the Qin and Han dynasties. One step further… the river water would become turbid, and he would no longer be able to maintain his prescience, and even the authority of the Heavenly Dao would be lost.

He looked down. Liu Bang was ascending the throne, but there was no trace of Black Sky behind him. Or rather, his current aura carried a bit of Red Sky’s flavor… But at the same time, there was no Red Sky by his side either.

“How strange!” Chu Mo fell into deep thought. “Is it because Liu Bang started calling himself the Red Emperor’s son!”

Black Emperor was something Liu Bang created and called himself in his later years. So… was Liu Bang the legendary three-surname slave? Did he switch jobs halfway?

Remembering that Liu Bang had looked at Lu Bu differently during the Three Kingdoms period, Chu Mo suddenly felt a kind of black humor that was difficult to describe in words.

Scratching his head, Chu Mo smiled and finally decided to quietly stare at Liu Bang. Watching him fight north and south, watching him dominate the world, watching him be arrogant and unrestrained… watching him massively reform the Qin Dynasty’s laws, deciding to enfeoff the Liu surname kings, and making the White Horse Covenant…

Watching him establish the Black Emperor Temple and proclaim himself the Black Emperor.

After staring for a good while, Chu Mo took a step.

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Black Emperor Temple.

Solemn and majestic, it was too vast, as if corresponding to the Heavenly Court in the sky, stretching endlessly, sacred and extraordinary. Inside the palace, Great Worlds were being nurtured one after another… Wisps of black light flickered! A kind of rich Primordial Qi that was difficult to describe in words permeated, as if connecting to that vast and unimaginable Primordial Sea.

Liu Bang lazily poured wine. Every drop of wine was crystal clear, emitting the light and heat of a star. He poured it into his belly, and the fiery energy illuminated his skin with a fiery glow, but he seemed to be unaware…

He was about to die!

Dying from the end of his lifespan.

Even as a top Divine General at the peak of the Grand Unity Immortal realm, this set of Divine General techniques couldn’t give him eternal life. Or rather, in the orthodox cultivation of Immortals in the sky… this realm might not be able to achieve immortality either!

Perhaps only in that era when the Heavenly Dao hadn’t fallen… could the Immortals in the sky achieve immortality! After all, their Qi and blood were connected to the heavens in some way… As long as they didn’t blaspheme the heavens and provoke the heavens to become furious, they wouldn’t trigger the so-called Five Signs of Decay and die suddenly.

A Go board was placed in front of Liu Bang. He would occasionally pick up a piece and gently place it on the board.

And in the next instant, a piece of another color would also float up and then fall.

It was as if… he was playing Go with someone! Even though there was no one on the surface of the position opposite him…

Pitch-black night.

Mysterious and eerie Black Emperor Temple.

The other person who didn’t exist, playing Go with the contemporary Black Emperor…

Revealed a kind of bizarre aura that was difficult to describe in words!

“You guys actually have this hobby.” Chu Mo’s voice rang out, with a bit of inexplicability and a bit of thoughtfulness.

Then, mysterious power was constantly intertwined. Chu Mo’s flesh and blood were condensing, and his figure gradually took shape in the void. He sat cross-legged on the side of the Go board, propping his cheek with his hand, able to see the two playing Go.

Liu Bang, who was picking up a Go piece again, paused, but he didn’t even look at Chu Mo. He just took a deep breath and then chose to place the piece again.

However… the existence opposite him couldn’t hold back first. He didn’t choose to continue placing the piece!

Wisps of aura were lingering.

Black light entangled, finally condensing a semi-illusory figure. Although it was in the form of a person, it couldn’t see its face…

“…Heavenly Dao?” The black light existence said softly, as if asking, and also as if questioning. It contained wisps of disbelief.

“You… are you feigning death? No… no!”

The black light existence fell into contemplation again.

Chu Mo’s eyes narrowed slightly, and thoughts flashed through his mind. “…Black Sky?”

It seemed like an inquiry, but the words were very certain. Chu Mo quickly figured out why this time when he met this person, this person’s attitude wasn’t as crazy as when he met this person in later generations!

The reasoning was very simple. Perhaps for the Black Sky of the current era… the death of the Heavenly Dao was only a matter of a few imperial calendars ago. Even Liu Bang hadn’t died yet!

There wasn’t much difference between this and ordinary people thinking that it was a matter of yesterday or the day before…

Such a short time wasn’t enough to erase Black Sky’s awe of that Heavenly Dao. Therefore, it was natural that he couldn’t be almost crazy and take action greedily immediately after sensing Chu Mo’s identity…

“Speaking of which, what are you guys doing?” Chu Mo crossed his arms. “Playing Go? And it looks like you’ve been playing for a long time… If I remember correctly, this should be the first time you’re playing Go, right! Why is the atmosphere so harmonious…”

Chu Mo raised his eyebrows, just like a curious baby.

The knowing emotion in Black Sky’s heart stopped: “!!!”

What’s with you looking at them all the time?!

Originally, he had already guessed whether this person was a newly born Heaven. Then… he gave him such a big one.

He even suspected that it wasn’t that the person hadn’t reached the time of death at all… but that he had deliberately made himself appear dead to the outside world for some plan, and then prepared to fish?

Was the target him? Had he been caught?!

The more Black Sky thought about it, the more frightened he became. Just as he was about to retreat, he discovered that after Liu Bang finished a piece with cold sweat, Chu Mo had taken a Go piece in his place and suddenly dropped it.

The sound was crisp, containing a mysterious power. Black Sky was covered in cold sweat, realizing… that the place where this piece had fallen was exactly the place he had wanted to place it before.

In other words… he had been completely seen through by the existence in front of him?!