Chapter 2339: Eternal Treasure of Heaven

As if to respond to the observer's doubt.

At the lower left corner of those nine eternal heaven monuments, in the place where signatures usually appear in writings or paintings, such a group of imprints stands out.

It is precious, firm, and unquestionable. Overall, it is a square-shaped imprint, framing heaven and earth, with characters protruding. The characters say:

"Everlasting Imperial Treasure, Great Scenery Emperor."

These eight characters are very simple, yet each word is like a mountain, weighing ten thousand *jun*. They do not contain overly complex meanings, only one direct explanation: they explain that these nine eternal heaven monuments are the masterpieces of the Great Scenery Son of Heaven, Ji Fengzhou. The outlining on the heaven monuments is still continuing, and it is Ji Fengzhou controlling supreme great power with his own handwriting!

The emperor's imperial writing, his pen moves like a dragon and snake.

This grand action, stirring the vast sea, is named with Yu Que as the commander, but in reality, it is the Son of Heaven personally conquering!

Today's Ji Fengzhou, of course, cannot compare to the Lie Mountain Human Emperor. Even ruling the central empire and possessing supreme great power, compared to that invincible emperor of the world, he is still too far behind. But the investments made by the central Great Scenery Empire for today's great undertaking are not inferior to those of the Middle Ancient times!

For example, the awakening of the Prisoner Ox bloodline exotic beast. The Jing Country people collected almost all the heart tip blood of famous musicians, used secret methods to nurture and irrigate it, and the "Central Domain's most skilled in music one" nursed it, playing the *qin* for it day and night for several decades. Such things are countless. This is also only the initial preparation.

The torrent of the human path rolls forward.

No matter how much it is belittled, how much it is degraded as "old and decrepit," Jing Country, as the present world's first empire, is absolutely unwilling to rest on the laurels of its predecessors and stand still.

Without a grand plan surpassing past generations, it is not enough to claim the name "first." Without unprecedented and unique determination, how can it eternally occupy the center of the present world?

This "present world's first empire" is not something anyone allowed, nor is it a self-proclamation by Jing Country. It is the result of heroes from all sides challenging it through generations, all of whom were unable to shake its position.

To enjoy ten thousand ancient names, one must have a ten thousand ancient heart.

Places predecessors have not reached, undertakings predecessors have not completed, matters predecessors have not accomplished... people today must achieve.

The Great Scenery Emperor, born into glory, from the moment of ascending the throne, is the "first monarch under heaven," inherently needing more powerful proof.

And the contemporary Jing Country Emperor, Ji Fengzhou, does not seem so "dazzling." Or rather, all his light is obscured under the name of Jing Country.

Ji Fengzhou's life seems to have been without wind or waves.

He is unlike the Eastern Qi Son of Heaven, who often dons armor to go into battle, personally faces arrows and stones, and fights in the especially competitive Eastern Domain, fighting to win, fighting to establish an unquestionable hegemony; he is unlike the Northern Jing Son of Heaven, who killed his way through the plot of ten sons seizing the heir and after ascending the throne often boasted of military exploits, claiming to be the "first Killing Array Son of Heaven of ancient and modern times," having killed many rounds in both the demon and monster realms; nor is he like the Northern Mu Emperor, who spent half his lifetime operating, completing the grand undertaking of completely decreeing divine power through royal power on the grassland...

He was born greatly favored, and when he walked, he was already surrounded by stars. He smoothly became crown prince, with almost no competition in this process. His brothers and sisters were all very humble, and the previous Jing Emperor's attitude was also abnormally clear... The whole country, from top to bottom, silently acknowledged his position in the Eastern Palace early on.

He smoothly became the Jing Country Emperor, with almost no twists on the path of ascending the throne—at least no visible twists. No one felt it was inappropriate, as if he was born to be the monarch of this great empire. Everything was very... according to heavenly principle and earthly reason, logical.

After he ascended the throne, no earth-shaking major events occurred either.

Or rather, many major events that originally should have been earth-shaking all ended up passing lightly.

For many years, he quietly sat on the central throne, nearly lukewarmly welcoming challenges from all sides. In many instances, hidden under the great curtain of the name "Central First Empire," his personal unique charm was not embodied, as if he were merely a silhouette named "Jing Country Emperor." Through thousands of autumns and ten thousand generations, as if anyone could... Yet, once personally written, it must be an unworldly achievement!

He desires to compare his merits with the Human Emperor!

The nine sons together rushing the heaven-reaching great path are simultaneously watched by both the human race and the sea race. In the myriad heavens and ten thousand realms, it should also be conspicuous! It is just that outside the present world, strong interference is not possible for the first time. After all, the vast sea is not the divine firmament, and the present world still has the heaven gate.

In a certain sense, the near sea and the vast sea are connected at this point.

This Middle Ancient Heaven Road, in terms of space, is a bridge crossing the near sea and the vast sea. In terms of time, it is a bridge crossing the Middle Ancient and the present world. All ancient and modern concepts of "bridge" are interpreted to the end on this Heaven Road.

The *mijie* spanning between the near sea and the vast sea, and this world's several tens of thousands of years of vast waves of history, are the flowing water under the bridge, murmuring past.

The Dou E Army, the first under heaven, gathered a crowd of ten thousand under the command of Yu Que, also merely serving as a guard army to ensure the stability of the Middle Ancient Heaven Road.

The Chao Cangwu Sword, possessing supreme status, cuts out sword light, also only to open a path for this Middle Ancient Heaven Road.

It itself has great meaning; it is not something Yu Que can open up, but a grand feat accomplished in this world by pouring in the power of Jing Country!

The nine carefully nurtured Cave True level nine sons' bloodline exotic beasts are only the introduction. The Central Domain's first True Person holding the Chaos Hole is only the starting stroke.

The complete great power of the Middle Ancient era's Dragon Emperor's nine sons is the skeleton of this heaven-reaching great path.

And relying on this Middle Ancient Heaven Road, the Great Scenery Son of Heaven personally writes, carving nine eternal heaven monuments that replicate the great traces of the Lie Mountain Human Emperor. How can this not be called grand? It truly and completely shook the hearts of the sea race, and in the first moment of its creation, with an unstoppable posture, forcefully suppressed the vast sea waves!

That ten thousand *li* of flat waves are not just a verbal description. The clear sky sweeping away the gloom is a happening thing.

The eternal heaven monuments are forming, and at the same time they are forming, they are already exerting their effect.

The Dragon race once co-ruled the present world with the human race. That great authority was dependent on the long river.

In this central world of the myriad heavens and ten thousand realms, water and land were once parallel.

The long river before the Middle Ancient era was far more magnificent than it is now.

The long river, numbered as "Land Vast Sea," the ancestral vein of all waters in the present world, in terms of space, is probably not as vast as the vast sea, but in an extraordinary sense, it is actually more majestic than the extremely harsh environment of the vast sea.

And such a long river was also suppressed!

The reason it is said that the nine towns of the long river are a supreme great undertaking created by the Lie Mountain Human Emperor is precisely due to this reason.

The vast sea is a place the Lie Mountain Human Emperor did not reach. Today, the human race army is greatly coming west.

In former days, the Human Emperor lifted his sword and drove the Dragon Emperor east, creating a *mijie* out of nothing. It is precisely this *mijie* battlefield that overturned all rules that served as a stop sign for that battle. The war that continued for several tens of thousands of years thereafter was all an aftersound of that battle.

Today, the Middle Ancient Heaven Road crosses history, crosses the *mijie*, and the eternal heaven monuments continue the great undertaking.

How can the knowledgeable scholars of the sea race not each feel self-endangered?

The sea race, entangled with the human race for tens of thousands of years, is after all not an idle race.

Although the Jing Country people's plan was deep, its outbreak was sudden, its moves were vicious, and its scope was broad, far exceeding the sea race's routine defense range and even piercing through their emergency war preparedness plan. The sea race side still erupted with the fastest reaction, one after another implementing interceptions.

Those who rushed to the battlefield for the first time were not only Chi Mei.

In the first moments of the Middle Ancient Heaven Road's descent, the Ling Ming Emperor Lord Wu Zhi Qi just activated his supreme means, causing ten thousand stars to respond together, warning all strong ones in the vast sea.

But there are also some strong ones who, before the warning was transmitted, had already captured the message of danger a step earlier.

For example...

At this moment on the Middle Ancient Heaven Road, a silhouette suddenly drifted down—

It possesses unique divine power, quietly penetrating the thick soldier evil clouds. Before Yu Que's gaze could be cast, it had already drifted down a step earlier. It drifted towards the nine sons running on that heaven-reaching great path...

That is a tall and thin female, wearing a sacrificial crown on her head and a sacrificial robe on her body. In her hand, she holds a sacred female perch crow, a sacred and strange scepter.

The vast sea's famous "Doomsday Heaven Boat" sect is huge in scale and wide in influence, and all its believers are her followers.

That beautiful naked sacred female image, with both hands raised high above her head, fingers interlocked to form a tree branch shape, with a red-eyed crow perched on the tip of the branch. The moon-white sacrificial crown and the embroidered strange sacrificial robe all produce a harmonious resonance because of the existence of this scepter.

Her body is both real and illusory, and her god is noble and inviolable.

She seems to grasp the most sacred authority in this sea domain. In a breath, billions of vast sea creatures prostrate and pray... the most devout power from the depths of their souls.

Surveying the vast sea, there is only this one in the world—Xuan Shen Emperor Lord, Rui Chong!

At the time when Wu Zhi Qi and Yu Que clashed for the first time, she had already arrived.

Just as Wu Zhi Qi sought Yu Que's loophole deep within his bloodline, she also silently intended, preparing in the divine path, waiting for a possible breakthrough. Until this moment, she could finally wait no longer.

Time has never stood on the side of the sea race from the beginning—this is a painful fact.

Rui Chong's divine silhouette drifted in the air following a wonderful trajectory, just like this, avoiding visible and invisible interceptions. It seemed slow but was actually fast, lightly folding itself and falling onto that dragon son shaped like an angry lion—

The Middle Ancient Dragon Emperor's fifth son, like a quiet good fireworks, shaped like a lion, also named Suanni.

Suanni was precisely the culmination of the dragon race's divine path in the Middle Ancient era, a terrifying existence hopeful of opening the divine path era.

As the contemporary sea race's highest achiever in the divine path, Rui Chong chose to start with Suanni, borrowing the incense fire of billions of vast sea creatures to shake this dragon son's divine power, thereby breaking the fusion of the nine sons' power and disintegrating this Middle Ancient Heaven Road through backlash.

Rui Chong, holding the scepter in her hand, displayed supreme divine might. Her embroidered strange sacrificial robe floated in the air, like a beautiful rainbow rarely seen in the vast sea. Beneath the sacrificial robe were straight and slender legs, fair to the point of faintly showing blue veins.

She walked forward, stepping on the heartbeats of billions of vast sea creatures, with countless virtual shadows of prostrating sea race souls behind her.

So, with the image of the sacred female perched crow on the scepter, she pointed towards Suanni's lion-like eyes, her thin to nearly transparent lips lightly opened, and she ordered—

"Decree, the three paths reverse state, divine path, divine spirit, divine faith!"

Crackling, *dong dong clang clang*.

"Worship the god, worship the god!", "Gain longevity, gain peace!"

Between heaven and sea, countless noisy sounds arose, all in response to the voice of Xuan Shen Emperor Lord's command.

This is what is called "one god rises, ten thousand faiths respond." Using the present to prove the ancient, using a god to call another god!

The Suanni running on the Middle Ancient Heaven Road is the concrete manifestation of true Suanni power. Under the support of the Middle Ancient Heaven Road, it is becoming increasingly strong, moving towards clarity in the process of being sacrificed by the nine sons' bloodline exotic beasts. The wind around its body undulates like spiritual smoke.

This time, endless virtual shadows also appeared thereafter. Like a three-dimensional real incense fire painting scroll, among them are dragons, fish, and also people, all prostrate, all devout. That is the Middle Ancient era, creatures offering faith towards Suanni.

Under the call of Xuan Shen Emperor Lord, those creatures did indeed shake. Those who were prostrate gradually lifted their heads, and the eyes that held only devout faith successively gave birth to emotions, as if asking—who was worshipped? What was sought?

Most importantly... what use is it to worship you?!

What is the vast sea today? What is the situation of the sea race today?

One who receives incense fire should bear its burden!

All faith powers between this heaven and sea are manipulated by Rui Chong at this moment. The thousands of threads and ten thousands of strands of faith powers have thousands of kinds and ten thousands of kinds of developments. Rui Chong pushed the power of the divine path to the extreme, constantly exploring the infinite possibilities of divine nature.

All those devout murmurs, in the end, mixed together, converging into a complex but grand same sound—

"Heaven spirit, earth spirit, sacred *zun*, god *zun*. Dragon Emperor burns incense, Suanni is born!"

The lion-like eyes of the Suanni giant beast on the Middle Ancient Heaven Road instantly stood up, swiftly revealing hidden red light.

Under Rui Chong's wonderful guidance, the faith power of today's vast sea and the Middle Ancient water domain resonated. That intersecting majestic faith power is even promoting the birth of true Suanni's will!

She wants to borrow the power of Suanni that has descended upon the Middle Ancient Heaven Road, borrow the faith of billions of vast sea creatures, and let the true Suanni revive in faith.

This is indeed a wonderful method of breakthrough with visible feasibility!

"Good one, Xuan Shen Emperor Lord!" At the end of the Middle Ancient Heaven Road, such a voice rang out.

It was extremely grand, penetrating heaven and earth, and spreading throughout the vast sea.

As soon as this voice came out, Yu Que lowered his eyebrows, and all ten thousand armies were solemn.

This naturally could only be the voice of the Great Scenery Empire's contemporary central Son of Heaven, Ji Fengzhou.

This voice indifferently said: "Governing a god in the vast sea like this, you fully deserve to be arrogant."

For a strong one like the Xuan Shen Emperor Lord, he is also high above, commenting casually.

On that eternal heaven monument that is in the process of being outlined, the one that solely carves the image of Suanni *zun*, as if an invisible brush lightly touched the eyes, simply hooked a stroke like this...

"Roar!"

Suanni's eyes seemed to open completely, opening with "god," and the faith power between heaven and sea suddenly surged like a tide, like a lion's roar!

Crack crack crack!

The sacred female perch crow scepter in Rui Chong's palm, starting from the eyes of the red-eyed crow, exploded with a clear visible crack, running down straight to the end of the scepter.

The hand with which the Xuan Shen Emperor Lord grasped the scepter also cracked its five fingers, fresh blood dripping, revealing white bones.

And her figure, in an instant, became illusory to the extreme, as if about to shatter immediately!

The conception was very good, but the power was insufficient!

Compared to the water race in its full prosperity, the sea race, which retreated to the vast sea after the great split, is far inferior in strength to its initial state. Although the vast sea sea race has also developed generation after generation and progressed generation after generation, especially after the sea lord's true form was completed, it has experienced a greater life leap. But it is still very distant from the peak time when it initially divided and ruled the present world.

To use a not entirely appropriate example—the divine path's highest achiever once was Suanni, a strong one with the opportunity to open the divine path era. Now, the divine path's highest achiever is Rui Chong, who is only considered first in the divine path in the vast sea.

Of course, this does not mean Rui Chong is weak or not good in any way. Her cultivation is also limited by the era and the race group's dilemma, especially the divine path's need for incense fire support. It is inevitable that it is not as it was in ancient times.

It just means that the gap can be seen from this as well.

Different from this is...

Lie Mountain himself unraveled, welcoming the contention of a hundred schools, welcoming a new heaven of sun and moon. The human race has advanced generation after generation, and now the time has already surpassed the past.

The Central Jing Country Son of Heaven, Ji Fengzhou, represents precisely the peak power of the human path torrent.

With one stroke of the imperial brush, today he wants the vast sea to submit!