Chapter 782: 774: What Constitutes Saintliness
Chapter 782: Chapter 774: What Constitutes Saintliness
Watching the Dark Heavenly God lower his head, Gu An showed no mercy. With a flick of his right hand sleeve, the Dark Heavenly God instantly recovered.
A prompt appeared before Gu An’s eyes, indicating success in seizing billions of years of life span.
He tilted his head slightly, casting a sideways glance at the Demon Emperor.
The Demon Emperor met his gaze and shivered all over. Instinctively wanting to speak, he found that Gu An had vanished into thin air as if he had never appeared.
The wind from afar swept across the heavens and earth, blowing past every living being on the sacrificial altar.
The followers of the Dark Divine Sect felt the dark power within them dissipating, causing them confusion.
If the Dark Divine Sect were to truly dissolve, how would they carry on in the future?
“He is truly a deity. I wonder who that senior was?”
A great cultivator sighed sincerely, his face somewhat dazed, feeling as if everything was a dream.
“That senior was the patriarch of our Wushi who has saved the human world multiple times. You all were fortunate to encounter him in action.”
A disciple of Wushiji laughed loudly and proudly, his words causing an uproar among the other beings.
The patriarch of Wushi?
Isn’t that the legendary great power?
The Demon Emperor also heard these words. A fighting spirit ignited in his eyes, and his whole demeanor transformed as if he became a different person.
True Monarch Qitian, who had been watching him, noticed his change.
Could the Demon Emperor know the Ancestor Master Wushi?
True Monarch Qitian speculated secretly, a bold thought emerging in his mind, which instantly thrilled him.
Unnoticed, Li Ya drew his sword and silently departed.
Elsewhere.
Gu An had already returned to the Daoist Field of the Beginningless. As he walked along the mountain path, he raised his right hand. A mass of black energy emerged from his palm, revealing a pair of eyes—it was the eyes of the Dark God.
“I… how could this be…”
The Dark God was terrified upon seeing Gu An. Before he could finish his sentence, his eyes became hollow.
Gu An began the Soul Search, understanding his past and the Dark Heavenly Court.
The vast memories of the Dark God were nothing to Gu An today. With a probe of his divine sense, all the memories poured into Gu An’s mind.
This Dark God was once a being of the Heavenly Dao. Like most stories of ascending to immortality, he was born in the mortal world, a peerless genius. He endured hardships, ascended to the Great Thousand World, created a Daoist lineage there, and accepted numerous disciples, eventually becoming a legendary figure in one of the Great Worlds.
Later, he ascended to immortality, thinking he had fully attained the Dao. However, shortly after his ascension, the war of the Sons of Heaven broke out, and he was forced into it. Wishing to protect the Great Thousand World and the mortal world he had dwelled in amid the chaos, he ultimately failed, and the Celestial Court annihilated the Three Thousand Great Worlds, recreating them. His past thus ceased to exist.
From then on, a seed of hatred was planted in his heart. When the contest for the Celestial Emperor arose, he was dragged into the chaos again. Ultimately, the Son of Heaven he supported failed and was exiled by the Celestial Emperor, alongside his followers into chaos, suffering endless backlash from the Great Dao.
During those long years of backlash from the Great Dao, that Son of Heaven achieved sudden enlightenment, founding the Dark Fortune, establishing the Dark Heavenly Court, and rescuing them from torment. In the ensuing years, the Dark God continuously cultivated, awaiting the day of returning to the Heavenly Dao.
After the founding of the Dark Heavenly Court, that Son of Heaven proclaimed himself the Dark Heavenly Emperor. He planned to devour the Heavenly Dao with dark power to become the true Celestial Emperor.
In the mortal world, he was a favored scion of the heavens. In the Great Thousand World, he was an unparalleled myth. Yet from the moment he ascended, he was insignificant. Whether in the Celestial Court or the Dark Heavenly Court, he remained little more than a speck of dust.
Having been sent by the Emperor Bone Profound Venerable Sect to the Three Thousand Great Worlds as the vanguard, he bore a selfish desire—to seize the opportunity to escape the Dark Fortune and reincarnate as a true being of the Heavenly Dao.
The Celestial Spirit Great World was not truly drawn into the struggle over the Son of Heaven, and its fortune was on the rise, so he chose it. After observing for a long time, he saw that no stronger immortals or gods intervened despite the Dark Heavenly God’s chaos. He thought his chance had come.
Unfortunately, he encountered Gu An.
Through his memories, Gu An gained some understanding of the Dark Heavenly Court. It possessed nine supreme treasures, of which the Heaven-Suppressing Endless Tower was just one. The exiled Immortal Gods were equivalent to half a Celestial Court, and their survival in chaos indeed posed a significant threat to the Heavenly Dao.
Gu An felt puzzled by the Celestial Emperor’s decision.
The Celestial Emperor had the power to eradicate the Immortal Gods. Why did he choose to exile so many instead, unafraid of nurturing future trouble?
Was it part of a greater plan, or did he simply not care?
The Celestial Emperor was incredibly strong. Even in the Dark God’s heart, he was an invincible existence. It was precisely out of fear of the Celestial Emperor that the Dark God wanted to reincarnate into the Celestial Court, escaping the Dark Heavenly Court. In his eyes, the Dark Heavenly Court held no hope. He followed it out of necessity.
After witnessing the Dark God’s memories, Gu An felt a deep sympathy for him.
With a squeeze of his right hand, he completely shattered the soul essence of the Dark God. Immediately, a prompt appeared before his eyes, indicating that the Dark God had granted him nine hundred billion years of life span.
For one of his level, having only nine thousand billion years of life left meant he was nearing the end of his journey.
In his desire to reincarnate, the Dark God revealed his true essence, giving Gu An the opportunity to eliminate him.
Though his life story warranted sympathy, Gu An would not take him in, for he had betrayed many benefactors merely to survive.
However, out of this sense of sympathy, Gu An decided he would later record his story in a book, ensuring that his erased past would be remembered in the human world.
After vanquishing the Dark God, the destiny of the world in Gu An’s eyes completely changed.
The future would usher in a new era, brimming with interesting events.
“The years are long, and the Mixed Element Profound Venerable Immortal is not enough. Taihao, how high must I ascend to truly defeat you?”
Gu An mused, a smile tugging at his lips as he began to look forward to that day.
Sooner or later, he would honor the engagement and face the Celestial Emperor in a true battle.
The Mixed Element Profound Venerable Immortal was powerful, but it was still far from sufficient!
In the Dark God’s memories, Gu An heard the mysterious Dark Heavenly Emperor mention only two words: Only by becoming a Saint did one have absolute hope of defeating the Celestial Emperor.
Becoming a Saint?
What does it mean to be a Saint?
…
In the depths of the universe, the World Gate was radiating brilliant light as Celestial Spirit God, Taiyi Immortal Monarch, and other immortals and gods emerged one after another.
Aside from them, there was another Immortal God. Clad in heavy golden armor, he was encircled by two red sashes, gripping a long spear with celestial bodies orbiting its tip. His imposing presence overshadowed the others.
They halted and frowned in unison.
“The Dark Fortune… has dispersed?”
As the chief of the Seventy-Two Immortals of Golden Cave, Purple Dragon Star Monarch spoke hesitantly. The other gods all opened their Heavenly Eyes on their foreheads and scrutinized, the results delighting them.