Ch 286: Black Sky’s Memory Resurgence and the Lord of Heaven! The Fall of a Sage!

Black Sky’s pupils contracted. He was first dazed, then gradually reacted, pursing his lips and trembling slightly, like a furious lion, or a frightened mouse, but in the end, all emotions turned into bewildered suspicion.

He repeatedly sized up Chu Mo, muttering to himself, as if talking to himself, or narrating something to someone, “How could it be you… it’s actually you… it really is you!”

Black Sky’s fist clenched silently. He recognized Chu Mo, after all, the Black Emperor he relied on died because of Chu Mo… even the Lord of Heaven and other existences were summoned by the person in front of him.

Moreover, Black Sky heard that the person in front of him had awakened a Heroic Spirit called the Heavenly Dao. Of course… Black Sky didn’t believe this before! After all, in his mind, there was only one Heavenly Dao… If that one returned, he would definitely be the first to know the information. His relationship with that one was too close…

Emperor Guangwu of Han breathed rapidly, sweat soaking his clothes, knowing that he had just circled the edge of life and death. He cautiously glanced at Chu Mo, a hint of gratitude appearing in his eyes.

After sensing Chu Mo’s aura, the Lord of Heaven was very calm and composed. After all, he was also summoned by Chu Mo. In his eyes… whatever Chu Mo did… was normal… What a load of bull!!

When you summoned them, weren’t they at the peak of Quasi-Sage? Why can you display such Sage-level methods?!

The Lord of Heaven’s scalp tingled. Although his strength was only at the Quasi-Sage level, the awakened Heroic Spirit was ultimately Sage-level… Hundreds of years ago, when he walked among humans, he obtained some of the Sage’s memories. His grasp of realms and energy was still very precise…

So he couldn’t understand… Or was it that the information the Emperor Guangwu of Han told him was inaccurate? Was the Heavenly Dao Heroic Spirit awakened in Chu Mo not the second-generation Heavenly Dao of later generations, but Dao Ancestor Hongjun? And now he has further awakened?

Wait… If things really developed to this point, then when would that Dao Ancestor come alive in Chu Mo’s body? The Lord of Heaven’s thoughts drifted further and further away.

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“What is your relationship with the Three Pure Ones…” Black Sky asked while sizing up the three incarnations in front of Chu Mo. No matter how he looked at it, that kind of law power was from those three who had established themselves in the Primordial Void… But he could still see that these were just Chu Mo’s incarnations.

Incomprehensible!

In response…

“…Can you escape?” Chu Mo said noncommittally. The Demon Slaying Four Swords layered upon each other, and terrifying ripples surged in the void. Chu Mo saw that Black Sky’s inquiry was just a superficial stalling tactic… In reality, he was already secretly trying to escape.

Black Sky’s body first gradually turned into nothingness, then suddenly paused. His face turned pale, his body shook twice, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and the shock in his eyes became more intense.

“What exactly are you…”

He felt a law power exactly like his own, permeating the void, negating his possibility of integrating into the void to escape… But how was this possible?!

If it was said that the person in front of him displayed the Three Pure Ones’ laws, it was possible that those three were secretly using the person in front of him to target him… But displaying his laws… he couldn’t understand! He was very certain that he hadn’t given his power to the person in front of him… How did he do it?!

Just who is this guy…?!

“…Rest in peace!” Chu Mo casually threw the two behind him and took a leisurely step forward. He didn’t have the idea of explaining Black Sky’s confusion or wasting time. Although he didn’t think anyone could save Black Sky, he wouldn’t court death for no reason.

At this moment, his aura condensed with the three great incarnations, and a terrifying figure formed behind him. Encircled by seven-colored divine radiance!

“…That is?!” Black Sky’s eyes slowly widened, and countless memories popped out of his mind out of nowhere. He knew the identity of the person in front of him, he even recalled his own death… But, but how was this possible?!

He remembered that he had clearly lived until the end of the last era… Contradictory and chaotic thoughts collided together.

However, all thoughts were cut off at the moment when numerous Great Dao laws merged into Chu Mo’s body, and Chu Mo gently extended a finger.

At this moment, Black Sky seemed to see… six Sages attacking him together!

Everything that existed, time, space, fate… all the law powers! All were being annihilated and disappearing… In the end, only pure nothingness remained!

This was nothingness beyond the Primordial Void… a true absence of everything.

The Lord of Heaven stood blankly in the void, also staring at the shadow of the Heroic Spirit behind Chu Mo. He was clearly already dead, and only a phantom from the past was summoned here… But at this moment, he actually had memories surging as well.

His lips moved slightly, his gaze was extremely complicated, and finally, he smiled bitterly, “Just what kind of method is this… Could it be that you really…”

The Lord of Heaven’s words suddenly stopped. A rather terrifying thought flashed through his mind… Could it be that the person in front of him had the power to travel through time? This was a very nonsensical idea… Precisely because he possessed the memory of a Sage, he knew that this was absolutely impossible. After all, even the Dao Ancestor couldn’t do such a thing.

But then again… Chu Mo had done things that even the Dao Ancestor couldn’t do, so was there anything less possible? However, after having this guess, the Lord of Heaven cut off his thoughts in this regard… Regardless of whether Chu Mo had that ability or not, it was not something he should continue to think about, or directly say and expose.

Chu Mo still quietly stared at that place of nothingness. The Lord of Heaven was a little confused. After looking at it for a while, he didn’t choose to ask, but still chose to stand behind Chu Mo, waiting with Chu Mo.

Finally…

A trace of black qi emerged in the void.

“…This is?” The Lord of Heaven was first stunned, then reacted, his expression changed drastically, and he exclaimed, “Impossible… It’s actually… How could he really be dead?!”

He had already recognized that thing—

That was Primordial Qi!

The Primordial Black Qi corresponding to the Primordial Purple Qi, the foundation for the Sages to attain the Dao!

His appearance also meant that Black Sky, who used him to attain the Dao, had truly perished. But the key issue was that Black Sky was an existence comparable to a Sage!

What is a Sage? The primordial spirit is entrusted to the Primordial Void, life is infinite, and lifespan is equal to the heavens!

In theory, only the collapse of the main world… could possibly cause the Sages to collapse together! But the Sages used various means to avoid that great catastrophe more than two thousand years ago… and have returned… And now this world is still newly born, and has not even climbed to its peak!

This meant that the Sages could still live… from the beginning of the Primordial Heaven and Earth to the late Qing Dynasty, such a distant era… But why is the current Black Sky…

Is it also because of the Heavenly Dao authority? But… he didn’t sense the person in front of him using that kind of authority belonging to the Heavenly Dao!

The more the Lord of Heaven thought about it, the more his head hurt, and if he could really obliterate Black Sky… why could the Primordial Black Qi still remain in the end? Shouldn’t the Primordial Black Qi also be annihilated together?!

In theory, the reason for merging with the Primordial Qi in order to become a Sage and possess that kind of immortal characteristic is to synchronize oneself with the Primordial Qi and possess the characteristics of the Primordial Qi…

How could this kind of situation occur… where the person died and the qi was blasted out?

Was he treating qi as a magic treasure?

The Lord of Heaven felt that the knowledge he had obtained from that Sage Master of Heaven was being challenged! He began to doubt his life.

Chu Mo didn’t say a word, took a step forward, and the Gate of Time in his mind shook slightly, incorporating the Primordial Black Qi into it.

If it were any other Heavenly One, any other Sage… standing here! It would be difficult for Chu Mo to kill him—the immortal characteristic of the Sages was too terrifying.

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It could even be said that the reason why Chu Mo didn’t choose to ascend to Sage in the Great Shang Era before going to trouble the Dao Ancestor… was because after taking that step, it would be difficult for him to die even if he wanted to!

But… Black Sky was nothing!

This time, Chu Mo had killed Black Sky in the Shang Dynasty, and after he returned, this great achievement naturally condensed into a Heroic Spirit skill. Of course, the birth of the Heroic Spirit was, after all, a joint effort of the Heavens and the Sages. A mere Heroic Spirit skill was actually not enough to completely bury Black Sky…

But he couldn’t stand the fact that he could also combine it with Chu Mo’s unremarkable finger, which displayed the laws of the Six Sages that he had initially merged—

Under the combination of the two…

It was Black Sky’s honor to die under this move!

With a wave of his sleeve, surging divine power was released at this moment, directly leveling the surrounding chaos. The surrounding void gradually solidified and turned back into the previous Kunlun Mountain peak.

Emperor Guangwu of Han stared blankly at this scene.

Chu Mo stretched his body and turned his head with interest, “You guys just continue to guard here!”

“Okay… Ah? Me?!” Emperor Guangwu of Han looked around, suddenly woke up, his face was full of disbelief, and he stiffly pointed his finger at himself. No, boss, you…

However, Chu Mo’s figure disappeared in the next moment. Emperor Guangwu of Han stretched out his finger, opened his palm, and finally said nothing. He could only look at the Master of Heaven again, on the verge of tears.

“Don’t worry! It’s not letting you go to fight the Heavens and the Sages!” The Master of Heaven was a little dumbfounded, then his gaze became a little deep, “Those few want to descend, they must have a Quasi-Sage level expert who shares the same origin as themselves as a medium…”

“The Emperor of those few is already dead… so there’s no need to worry about them… The only ones left who might invade are the Heavens behind those two Emperors…”

After a slight pause, the Master of Heaven continued, “Let’s not talk about whether they have the guts… Even if they do! That one might be able to rush over in the next moment… Don’t underestimate that one! With the strength he showed before, I’m afraid the entire world is under his gaze at this moment… Not to mention, so many experts have truly fallen here… Even if they really have that intention, they have to speculate a bit…”

The Master of Heaven shook his head and didn’t continue to speak.

Hearing this, Emperor Guangwu of Han completely calmed down. In fact, as an existence who inherited the memories of Emperor Guangwu of Han in history, and had lived for hundreds of years and experienced countless things, he should have been able to think of these things…

It was just that too many things had happened before, causing Emperor Guangwu of Han to panic and lose his composure.

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Heavenly Dao World.

Chu Mo reappeared here. He sat cross-legged in the void, sensing the two identical Primordial Black Qi in his mind. These black qi trembled slightly, as if they were about to completely merge into one in the next moment…

However, under the suppression of the Gate of Time, they could not truly gather together!

“…Next should be!” Chu Mo rubbed his brow. Although he had obtained another Primordial Black Qi, he also didn’t intend to absorb this black qi from the future—

Even if this black qi was not specially sent by the Dao Ancestor, even if Black Sky had lived for so long and had not turned into a living sacrifice for the Dao Ancestor’s return… But who knew if there really wasn’t any problem?

In reality, there is ultimately only one chance…

Moreover…

“I have countless opportunities to try and make mistakes!” Chu Mo smiled silently, then closed his eyes, and all his divine thoughts were invested in the Gate of Time at this moment.

He entered the River of Time again.

The river was surging and clamorous, mysterious and unpredictable, as always, it seemed to be eternally unchanging.

Chu Mo’s face was peaceful, and he walked calmly. Soon, he arrived at the time when the Heavenly Dao fell and the era changed. He glanced at it twice, but didn’t choose to descend directly. Instead, he went forward again and arrived at the time point when he had died before.

Compared to before, the current Chu Mo truly possessed Sage-level combat power… Only the essence of life had not yet reached that step! So on the River of Time, he was even more free and able to see more things…

Not surprisingly, the River of Time also branched out into a tributary…

“Sure enough, even if I didn’t do anything to completely subvert things… No, it should be said that the smallest disciple taken in by the Dao Ancestor beat all the Sages one by one, and finally died directly in front of the Dao Ancestor… This kind of influence must be extremely vast!” Chu Mo raised his eyebrows with interest. Even if he didn’t truly completely subvert the era, the butterfly effect indirectly caused… might not be smaller than his changing dynasties in later generations!

Then, he stepped onto the tributary of the River of Time that had branched out, and coldly looked down… Countless pieces of information poured into his eyes at this moment.

He saw…

He saw that the Investiture of the Gods was still being staged!

However, the situation had undergone a subversive change.

First of all, the Sages.

The Sages, who originally trusted the Dao Ancestor very much… saw Chu Mo enter the Purple Cloud Palace in good condition, and then directly had his soul scattered. They couldn’t help but be wary.

Yes, although the gate of the Purple Cloud Palace was open…

They could also roughly speculate… maybe, probably, perhaps, Chu Mo really committed suicide? But the problem was… how could Chu Mo commit suicide for no reason?

Even if you think about it with your butt, you know that the Dao Ancestor must have done something, or said something…