Chapter 1 The Strongest Enemy

The Four Emperors of the Boundary Sea were the strongest enemies of this era besides the Corpse Immortal Emperor. As for the realm above the heavens, Jiang Xuan wasn't considering it for now.

That place was too special. Even if the progenitors there became Immortal Emperors, they couldn't be killed. If he wanted to truly conquer it, he would need to plan carefully.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xuan also looked back in the direction of the Foreign Lands. The great war had already ended. Over a thousand years, Shi Hao had led the Heavenly Court's generals to pacify all the enemies in the Foreign Lands. Of course, they had paid a considerable price, and many heavenly soldiers and generals had died.

As for the Immortal Kings, although they were injured, they were not seriously harmed. Especially after the halfway point of the war, the Immortal Kings of the Immortal Domain also intervened and launched an attack on the Foreign Lands, quickly suppressing them together with Shi Hao and others.

Of course, these weren't all the experts in the Foreign Lands. Besides them, there were many supreme giants in the Boundary Sea, but now no one dared to approach them. Jiang Xuan stood on this side of the Boundary Sea, and only Quasi-Immortal Emperors could approach him.

Those supreme giants, although they possessed invincible power in the Immortal King realm, were still far inferior to Jiang Xuan, who was at the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level. They were not even on the same level.

"Prepare for war, the great reckoning is coming."

After the war, the Immortal Kings in the Immortal Domain were all delighted, but Jiang Xuan's voice came at this moment.

Jiang Xuan didn't explain in detail. He knew very well what it meant to become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. The four dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors in the Boundary Sea were already going to carry out a great reckoning. Now that a living being had become an emperor on this side, the situation had changed, and the greatest reckoning in history was destined to erupt ahead of schedule.

Precisely because of this, he ordered some of the giants in the Immortal Domain to quickly summon the experts who had entered the Boundary Sea in ancient times. At the same time, he told his incarnations, Shi Hao, and others to seize the time to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.

As for his true body, he naturally had to go deep into the Boundary Sea.

Someone needed to stop those four Quasi-Immortal Emperors, or at least delay their progress. Although Jiang Xuan had no intention of engaging in a life-and-death battle with the Four Emperors of the Boundary Sea, he was very good at stalling for time.

Moreover, as time passed, his advantage would only grow. After all, with the addition of versions of himself from other worlds, his level of understanding of the Dao was definitely enough to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm. What he lacked now was only thoroughly deducing those understandings and experiencing the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.

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Above the Boundary Sea, ancient guiding halls shone, connected to each other by divine rainbows, forming avenues of the Dao.

These were originally sacred guiding halls, but now they led to the end of darkness. The first Immortal Emperor fell into darkness, and everything changed. Moreover, this was only the prelude. When the realm above the heavens truly descended in the future, that would be the darkest era.

In the Boundary Sea, Jiang Xuan stepped through the darkness, crossed the ancient halls, and finally saw a gray levee at the end of the road, lying across the front.

Here, time and space were disordered, and eras changed, as if it did not belong to the mortal world. The light of the future shone, and fragments of past imprints flowed, making it unfathomable.

At the same time, this place was unusually quiet. On the vast and boundless dark land, there was not a sound. Even the dark storms in the Boundary Sea could not cause the slightest ripple here.

"Which era is he an expert from?"

"He came stepping on the ancient guiding halls, extraordinarily powerful, fearless of everything, truly astonishing."

Outside the levee, behind Jiang Xuan, were floating islands. Though called islands, they were actually composed of fragments of ancient universes, constantly battered by the Boundary Sea tides, gathered together, and finally transformed into islands, floating in the Boundary Sea.

And on these islands, there were ancient beings, who had existed for countless eras, and were all invincible beings among Immortal Kings. Each one, upon entering the Immortal Domain or Foreign Lands, would be an unparalleled powerhouse.

"Fellow Daoists, please retreat. I am about to set foot on that shore. A great war is inevitable, and the Boundary Sea is no place to stay any longer."

Jiang Xuan said. Once a Quasi-Immortal Emperor battle broke out, beings below the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level would be like ants. A single aftershock could destroy them countless times, let alone help Jiang Xuan.

What he expected now was only for his incarnations and Shi Hao to seize the time to break through and meet him on this shore to suppress the Four Emperors.

Having said that, Jiang Xuan ignored the calls of the beings on the islands, stepped across the Boundary Sea, and strode straight toward the levee on the other shore. At that moment, the earth collapsed, the heavens shattered, and ghosts wailed. This place seemed to be plunged into the end of the world, and black chains of order turned into storms.

This kind of storm, even Immortal Kings could not resist. It only existed on this side of the levee, as if to protect this shore, and to prevent other beings from setting foot on it.

This was a Quasi-Immortal Emperor level rune storm, with invincible power, stirring up the world on this side of the levee.

However, for Jiang Xuan, the power of this storm was not to be feared. A glittering light shone on his body, isolating the storm, and he walked alone, heading straight into the depths.

Before long, he saw his goal, a being he had previously faced across the sea. It was also a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, but one with a strong aura of darkness.

"Latecomer, prostrate before me, and I shall bestow upon you the opportunity to achieve the Dao." The Quasi-Immortal Emperor said softly, infinite will flowing around him. Even an unparalleled Immortal King would find it difficult to resist the bewitching power in his words.

"A mere fallen one, how can you speak of bestowing upon me the opportunity to achieve the Dao?" Jiang Xuan's expression was cold. The Quasi-Immortal Emperor was indeed very strong, but at the same time, there were also different levels of Quasi-Immortal Emperors. The one before him was definitely not weak, also a supreme being who had pioneered a great Dao.

Unfortunately, he had fallen into darkness and chose another path. Even if he grew stronger, he was destined to be unable to truly cross the shackles.

"An Emperor is supreme. Even if the heavens are destroyed and the myriad realms wither, my body will exist eternally. What is there to speak of falling?"

A rhetorical question came from the Emperor's mouth. He was calm, even knowing that Jiang Xuan was also at the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, he remained indifferent.

"You are far from it." Jiang Xuan said. Although the Quasi-Immortal Emperor was strong, he was not truly invincible and eternal, far from it. This Quasi-Immortal Emperor, like An Lan, was just putting on an act.

"Presumptuous!" The Emperor scolded. A gray palm, almost withered, skin wrapped around bone, slowly and heavily struck forward, bringing with it the monstrous power of an Emperor.

"Foolish!" Jiang Xuan also shouted sharply. Did this Quasi-Immortal Emperor really think that falling into darkness would allow him to become an Emperor? Little did he know that he was already mired in the mud, and the opportunity to achieve the Dao no longer existed.

It should be known that the Dao is supreme, and the Immortal Emperor's path is even more unique. They were now fallen into darkness, all borrowing the power of the Corpse Immortal Emperor, following the path left by the Corpse Immortal Emperor. No matter how talented later generations were, it would be impossible to truly become an Emperor within this realm.

To look up to the light in the darkness was easy to say, but it was absolutely impossible to achieve the Immortal Emperor by this path.

Boom!

The world-shattering collision caused the Boundary Sea to wail and tremble, completely collapsing. The heavens were also cracking, forming boundless storms. The River of Time faintly emerged, lying across the void, blocking the killing. Space was disordered, and endless time and space surrounded it, as if to recast this place and return everything to nothingness.

Fortunately, this was the other side of the Boundary Sea, which could withstand the battle even between Quasi-Immortal Emperors.

At this time, in this place, two great powerhouses, with world-shattering strikes, shook the heavens and the earth. Holy light flowed, enveloping Jiang Xuan, making him incomparably majestic, like the Heavenly Emperor descending, possessing an unparalleled aura!

And this Quasi-Immortal Emperor rose up, darkness shrouded hundreds of millions of miles, everything returned to ruins, turned into ashes, darkness swallowed everything, and annihilated the great chiliocosm.

He exchanged palms with Jiang Xuan, and each strike could set off a storm in the Boundary Sea, sweeping through countless great realms.

Jiang Xuan's flesh shone, the power of time and space added to his body, hazy and unknown, existing in the past and the future, crossing the River of Time, as if existing in any era.

He had not yet truly touched the Immortal Emperor domain, but with his understanding of time and space, he could already use some of its power, existing in the past and the future.

The Quasi-Immortal Emperor snorted coldly. As Quasi-Immortal Emperors, the Dao of Time and Space could hardly affect him. Even if the real River of Time descended, it would at most make him wary, so although Jiang Xuan's methods were mysterious, he was not afraid.

He strode forward like a tiger and walked like a dragon, surrounded by endless darkness. The chaos opened up, and the Boundary Sea seemed to be setting off monstrous waves, shaking the great realms. He had an invincible momentum, like a gluttonous beast, swallowing the heavens and devouring the earth. Time, space, and cause and effect would all be swallowed by him. Infinite power swept through the Boundary Sea, shattering ancient universe remains, causing them to completely sink into the Boundary Sea.

Jiang Xuan's blood was also surging, and white light spurted from his mouth and nose, like silver true dragons dancing, incomparably brilliant. Time and space were added to his body, and a vast ancient domain seemed to descend, boundless and infinite, with endless power pouring into his body.

At the same time, all kinds of Dao techniques appeared, and strange phenomena filled the Boundary Sea, illuminating the myriad realms. Phoenixes chirped, divine mantises disturbed the sky, kunpengs struck the sea… Immortal King techniques and Ten Vicious techniques merged into one, and myriad realm techniques merged with this realm's techniques, shattering boundless darkness and disrupting eras.

"Sacrifice to Heaven, sacrifice to Earth, sacrifice to the spirits of heroes!"

The Quasi-Immortal Emperor also shouted loudly, his hair shining, turning from gray to golden, and his entire person's temperament changed, divine might covered the world, heroic and extraordinary, and his flesh seemed to be gradually becoming full again, no longer withered.

He sacrificed an era, a universe, returning to his peak, and even wanted to sacrifice Jiang Xuan.

The great battle here was too shocking, brilliant and boundless, fiercely fighting, blood splattered in the universe, and the River of Time in the future and the past was unstable.

Life-and-death struggle, becoming more and more tragic. Both were Quasi-Immortal Emperor level existences, who was weaker than whom? Being able to reach this step was naturally a supreme being.

Countless beings trembled and prayed, fearing the end of the world. This level of battle was too terrifying. Even the old monsters in the Boundary Sea were frightened. Even watching from afar, they felt that they might die at any time.

"Kill!"

The two fought, broke through the Boundary Sea, opened up the world, evolved all things, created infinite things. The River of Time, the past and the future had undergone drastic changes, as if countless eras were fighting, crossing immeasurable eras, incomparably terrifying.

Whether in the past or in the future, their figures were fighting, but they were also detached from the River of Time, and did not affect those time and spaces.

Jiang Xuan's eyes were deep, penetrating the heavens and the earth, and supreme techniques merged to attack and kill. Each punch was stronger than the last, and worlds were born and destroyed in his hands. The Boundary Sea's strange phenomena were earth-shattering.

The great battle here was truly too shocking, brilliant and boundless, fiercely fighting, blood splattered in the universe, and the River of Time in the future and the past was unstable.

But in fact, Jiang Xuan had not yet exerted all his strength. He was waiting, using the battle with this Quasi-Immortal Emperor to delay time, delaying time for his incarnations. Of course, he also knew that it was impossible to delay for too long.

On this side of the Boundary Sea, the four Quasi-Immortal Emperors were united in spirit, and had launched countless dark upheavals since ancient times, destroying how many universes and great realms?

This time, fighting with the Cang Emperor, the possibility of drawing out the other three Emperors was very high. Of course, he had no choice. As a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, being targeted by them was only a matter of time.

What he had to show now was nothing more than being evenly matched with the one in front of him, so that the other three would not be too wary. And once his incarnations became Quasi-Immortal Emperors, even if only one became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, it would change the situation.

Time flew by, and Jiang Xuan had been fighting with the Quasi-Immortal Emperor for hundreds of years. The Boundary Sea had also undergone strange changes. Countless fallen Immortal Kings gathered, summoned the army, and attacked the great domains.

The old monsters in the Boundary Sea also began to return. They all knew that the darkest era was coming, the great reckoning of the heavens, no living being could escape, and was destined to fight for countless years.

However, on this day, hundreds of years later, outside the Immortal Domain, in the Boundary Sea, boundless immortal light rose again, and a figure sat cross-legged, with endless light and myriad divine rays all gathered on his body, as if he could shatter the boundless universe and crush the eternal blue sky at any time.

Also at this moment, on the other shore of the Boundary Sea, Jiang Xuan suddenly erupted, the void shook, swept through the Chaos Sea, truly showing his own combat power. In one punch, he contained the beginning of chaos, to the end of chaos, the innate Taiyi to the return to nothingness, all evolved to the extreme by this punch!

"World!"

In one punch, chaos opened up, as if it contained the entire process of an endless world from opening to ending, and one could even see infinite life, thriving in it, developing civilizations, and evolving various Daos and techniques.

"Pfft!" In an instant, the Quasi-Immortal Emperor's brow split open, pierced by this punch, shattering his frontal bone, and the light of the primordial spirit shone.

However, the light of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor illuminated the past and the future, unparalleled in the world. Even with such a punch, this Quasi-Immortal Emperor did not die. The Quasi-Immortal Emperor had initially transcended everything, and all kinds of laws were no longer a threat to them.

Even if they were beings of the same level, it would be absolutely difficult to suppress and kill them. Just like that Quasi-Immortal Emperor who left a line of footprints on the levee in the past, he was not invincible against any one of the Four Emperors, but was besieged, and it was difficult to reverse the situation. It was impossible to fight one against four.

"Defeated, I have finally experienced this feeling." The Quasi-Immortal Emperor laughed, with regret and confusion.

"Cang Emperor, it seems that we still need to take action…"

Very abruptly, a voice came, breaking through time and space, accompanied by the power of time, as if it came from hundreds of millions of years ago.

At the same time, a living being appeared. He wore a purple-gold crown, and his face was also purple-gold. He was slender and tall. This was a terrifying being, suffocating people.

"Hong Emperor, you have come." The Cang Emperor opened his mouth, looking at the slender figure wearing the purple-gold crown. This Quasi-Immortal Emperor was very calm, as if he had known long ago that the other party would arrive.

Perhaps, he had known for a long time that this Hong Emperor had already arrived, but in order to fight Jiang Xuan to the fullest, he did not let the other party help.

He was ultimately a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, who had pioneered an ancient road, was the creator of the law, and had truly stood at the peak in a certain era. He also had his own pride and invincible heart, which remained unchanged even after falling into darkness.

"A sleep of ten thousand eons, and another Emperor has appeared in the world. Unfortunately, he does not understand the secrets of heaven, and acts stubbornly. He can only be sent on his way!" As Hong Emperor spoke, among the Four Emperors, except for the detached Old Man of Destruction, the other three had similar strength. Jiang Xuan's ability to defeat one of them alone was already a threat to them.

More importantly, Jiang Xuan and they were not on the same path, and were unwilling to look up to the light in this darkness. A battle was inevitable, and they would naturally not allow Jiang Xuan to grow. At this time, they also chose to suppress and kill him!