Chapter 2347: Sun and Moon Severance

Alas! Heave-ho!

The waters of Canglang are boundless and extreme.

The stele of the Long River, for whom does it grieve?

“Uh… Ah!”

The neck bones of Long River Dragon Lord have already been completely crushed. The head of Long River Dragon Lord, directly grinding against the neck, together smashed into the chest. This way, it fixes the upright posture.

In front of the eyes, what is seen is the inner wall of one's own Dao body, golden fresh blood soaking the eyes.

Mouth opens, then gurgle, gurgle, blood pours in, and is spat out again. That sound is actually very light and wonderful, like in some autumn day's afternoon, resting in the tree shade, piling stones as a stove, picking dead branches as fuel, setting up a clean pottery pot, boiling a pot of self-brewed fruit wine. When the wine boils, it starts to bubble… fragrance like the wilderness.

“Cough! Cough! Cough!”

The immortal Ao Shuyi, actually already for a long time does not know what the pain of the flesh body feels like.

It also for a long time does not recall.

It puts the power escaped from lifting the Long River Nine Towns, all invested into the Cang Sea, and lets itself here lonely endure.

Head buried in the chest cavity speaking, like only able to say for oneself to hear.

It murmurs, the muffled sound inside this chest cavity is like a grieving sound—

“Our generation… how can we claim to be emperors!?”

When Lie Shan Shi was still alive, he did once jokingly say.

He said, Shuyi ah, otherwise let you be the next Human Emperor.

Ao Shuyi still remembers being stunned at that time, and said how could the Dragon Clan be the Human Emperor?

Lie Shan Shi at that time laughed heartily, and said you really thought about it?

Lie Shan Shi said, days have become leisurely, my mood is very relaxed, I just like to joke, Shuyi you shouldn't take it to heart.

At that time, Sui Ming City had already stabilized, and the Human Clan and Water Clan used this as a base to establish a civilization basin in the Heavenly Prison World. Seeing that the Demon Clan was already powerless to turn things around, and the fire of civilization illuminating the entire Demon Realm was just a matter of time.

In this situation, the Lie Shan Human Emperor, who had vomited heart and spilled blood and bustled without rest after ascending the throne, rarely rested for a period of time. He spent all day wandering mountains and playing in the waters, visiting relatives and friends, and of course also conveniently paving roads and building bridges, asking about agriculture, mulberry, and rice.

Many people saw Lie Shan Human Emperor with their own eyes, all in this period.

Although the ancient Human Emperor Youxiong Shi quelled the magic tide with the help of the ancient Dragon Emperor Yuan Hong Shi. But the trauma brought by the magic tide to this world still needed a long time to heal.

Lie Shan Human Emperor almost rebuilt order from the ruins, and greatly prospered the Human Clan.

He often said, destruction is always easier than construction, peace is actually more difficult than war, and he chose to do the difficult things.

Ao Shuyi was full of admiration for him.

Lie Shan Shi again said, he had opened this kind of joke with several people, and each person's reaction was different. Some people were ecstatically joyful, some people had unchanged faces, some people were scared until their legs were soft. Only you, Ao Shuyi, were different from the crowd, being stupid here!

He said and laughed heartily.

Ao Shuyi instead got used to it, Lie Shan Shi treated himself as a “human”, and got used to himself also being one of the “some people” in Lie Shan Shi's mouth.

At that time, he just followed and laughed, only in his heart curious— who was ecstatically joyful? Who had an unchanged face? Who was scared until their legs were soft?

Later, he discovered that his curiosity at that time was completely meaningless.

Because the several people he guessed at that time are now all already not here. Time took them away.

He believed that was just a joke. Because he clearly knew that he did not have the talent for ruling.

But from then on, he also often thought of that question—

How could the Dragon Clan be the Human Emperor?

Later, he thought of the answer.

Unless one day, there is no need to distinguish between the Human Clan and the Dragon Clan. Human Clan is good, Dragon Clan is good, Water Clan is good, just an ordinary identifier, like the Ji surname, Jiang surname, Ji surname, etc., all spirits together, heaven and earth one family.

He instead did not care about the Human Emperor position.

Mother gave him the name “Shuyi”, also just hoping he would be happier. Although because of his mother's existence, he could not be happy from a young age…

But he very much looked forward to that kind of world, a world where all beings are equal, and the Human Clan and Water Clan coexist harmoniously.

If living in that kind of world, probably there would not be so many fierce contradictions, father probably would not have died miserably, and mother also would not have cultivated demonic arts to gain revenge power, and finally been invaded by demonic nature.

He then would not have had that kind of childhood.

Many tragic things he saw and experienced then would not have happened.

Lie Shan Human Emperor's ideal country ah, was an unprecedented, era-transcending beautiful vision. How much he was willing to be a small soldier, diligent and conscientious, adding bricks and tiles for it. That was the first time he heard of it, and it deeply fascinated him, the future.

In all the unknown possibilities in this world, all the futures that people look forward to, none are more grand, more beautiful than that.

One day, Lie Shan Human Emperor said to him—

“Shuyi, the conditions to be Human Emperor are not quite mature yet. Otherwise… you be the Dragon Emperor then!”

At that time, Lie Shan Shi was leaning under a big tree with branches and leaves lush like a canopy, lazily enjoying the autumn sun. He held a Xu Ling grass in his mouth, his eyes were looking at a book, his expression was very indifferent, and his tone was casual.

At that time, he sat beside him, also looking at a book, the name of the book already forgotten, probably some origins and evolution of surnames and the like, he remembers at that time he just saw the “Jiang” surname.

He also casually said, okay.

He thought it was another joke.

But Lie Shan Shi yet said, he was very serious this time.

Lie Shan Shi said, Xi Hun Shi's cultivation is very high, his ability is very strong, but he did not do well in the position of Dragon Emperor. Because Xi Hun Shi's ambition was too big, always actively or passively creating contradictions, inciting wars. Sitting on the throne for so long, the Water Clan almost had no peaceful days.

Lie Shan Shi said, Ao Shuyi, you can bring the Water Clan a better future. You be the Dragon Emperor, you can let the Water Clan live a better life.

Lie Shan Shi said, Shuyi! For our common ideal!

He seriously believed.

He knows he does not have the bearing of a monarch, no talent for governing, but he very effortfully went to do well.

He exhausted everything, burned everything, wished to use himself as firewood, thrown into that brilliant world.

In the beginning everything was beautiful, later everything was not as wished.

Ten thousand ancient years like a dream!

Several hundred thousand years, just weaving a bubble shadow.

Lie Shan Human Emperor's ideal country, in the end just embedded in the Mirage Battlefield, a small realm, and ironically used in racial wars.

That man who outlined the grand ideal, after completing one piece after another of strange feats admired by the world, yet stopped before the ideal he depicted, chose to self-resolve. And said his departure was the necessary path to the ideal.

This “necessary path”, how long to walk ah?

Several hundred thousand years, not enough?

He cannot but resent Lie Shan Shi, because in his heart, Lie Shan Shi is omnipotent! Lie Shan Shi even if he was going to die, should also be able to arrange everything before death. The Water Clan's fallen to today's situation can only explain that Lie Shan Shi did not act, was not willing.

Perhaps… this is what it means to be a “monarch”!

Having stayed by Lie Shan Human Emperor's side for so long, gazing at today's these so-called emperors, one inevitably feels like “you all are just children”, but also inevitably seeing them, and again thinking of Lie Shan!

Ao Shuyi's Dao body was smashed from “eternal” to “broken”, from “immortal” to “decayed”, his voice echoes in the chest cavity, like muffled thunder that cannot be released.

He wants to roar, wants to rage, but besides that sentence “Lie Shan!”, what else can be said?

Actually, his voice was very low and deep.

“They are not other races, they are also Water Clan, with me the same origin. They walked on different paths for the sake of continuing survival. Different from a guardian like me, different from the path I chose.”

Ao Shuyi's Dao body had already been smashed into a deformed state, and he painfully said: “Two hundred thousand years… you Human Clan, with two hundred thousand years' time, have declared my failure— you cannot again strangle Water Clan's another path!”

Why he endured silently these years was because he could still see hope on the side of the Sea Clan.

The more young Sea Clan scold him, Ao Shuyi, as a “broken-spined river dog”, the more it shows that the new generation of Sea Clan still retain pride, are still unwilling to submit, and are still walking their own road.

Then the future is worth waiting for.

Until now… until now!

The Nine Dragons Holding Sun Eternal Town Mountains and Rivers Seal continuously smashes down, Ao Shuyi's eternal Dao body continuously falls. In the falling process, it is also like a sculpture weathering and collapsing in history.

The high dome faced by the Near Sea and Cang Sea together, entangles the eternal heavenly road's dragon body and continuously tightens!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Shaking and about to fall is the last lament. The giant dragon entangles the heavenly road, at the gap wave after wave of armies strike it, performing all killing methods, however bombardment breaks the scales causing huge wounds, upon this body length endless golden divine dragon, it fundamentally doesn't even count, completely cannot influence it!

The entire Cang Sea at this time thunders nonstop, world-ending thunder is sometimes also broken by dust thunder bombardment. Huge seabed cracks, collapsed seabed mountain ranges, and one by one vortices swallowing everything, as if remotely echoing the eternal dark vortices!

Ling Chen True Monarch in this world-ending scenery inside, with a backhand finger, mobilizes the end calamity power, boundless dark shadows bare fangs and brandish claws, like vines entwining branches, climbing up this golden magnificent dragon body.

That dark color invades the golden color, yet the divine dragon does not even cast a backward glance.

Bang! Boom! Boom!

The Nine Dragons Holding Sun Eternal Town Mountains and Rivers Seal, lifts high and smashes down again and again.

This scene calls Ao Shuyi to think of the time when he was very, very small, the scene of his mother pounding medicine for him. The pounding pestle in the stone mortar, also like this.

“Ao Shuyi…”

“Ao Shuyi.”

“Shuyi!”

Ao Shuyi's gaze suddenly solidifies!

And then disperses.

Rumble rumble rumble!

The Cang Sea and Near Sea together see, that middle ancient heavenly road penetrating time and space… has collapsed!

“Why?”

Ao Shuyi vaguely hears, in that Nine Dragons Holding Sun Eternal Town Mountains and Rivers Seal, in the human way's flood, such dialogue is happening.

“Ji Fengzhou, you need to bear responsibility!”

“No matter what, Long River Dragon Lord also has contributions to the present world. Why it rebelled, whether it could have been avoided, this matter should have an account.”

“Ji Fengzhou, what exactly did you chat with the old Dragon Lord in Heavenly Capital City that day?”

“You say these words now, ha! What could I say with it! Nothing but a tacit understanding of stability! Central Empire bears its responsibility, isn't this something I should do?”

“Ao Shuyi only follows its inner heart, will not be influenced by other things, and no one can truly oppress it— Has it communicated with Ao Jie? Was it originally planned to rebel during the Shenxiao War?”

“Speaking of which, it chose to rebel today, foolish to the point… making people sigh. I unexpectedly for a moment don't know what to say.”

“When Bi An threatened to execute Ao Shuyi, it was very possibly a setup laid by Lie Shan Human Emperor. It probably later thought it through, and thus born resentment.”

“You think Ao Shuyi at that time didn't know me? But this matter reflects Bi An's disrespect towards it, and the Dragon Court’s malice towards it. Whether it did wrong things, is that important?”

“These years, it originally had many opportunities, many better opportunities.”

“Do you believe what it told me?”

“… This is not like a question you would ask. Already walked to this step, now saying whether you believe or not, is that important?”

Ao Shuyi's eyes, originally like two complete gold beads. Gradually scatter into gold sand, dots in the pupils scatter open, finally nothing is left. Not only no gold color, even the eyes themselves are also disappearing.

“Not so… not.”

“Not at all. It's unrelated to all of this. I stood by Lie Shan Shi's side, followed him in battle, became his flag for splitting the Water Clan… because I believed he could create a peaceful and beautiful world for ten thousand clans, I believed only he could complete that great ideal.”

He originally wanted to say so.

But in the end, just silence.

This illusory, vague ideal…

This thing, called ideal…

Who believes it?!!

The middle ancient heavenly road is collapsing.

The present world's last true dragon, the last Long River Dragon Lord, its immortal Dao body, is scattering.

Divine Continent is vast, various places are different.

Rumble rumble!

Originally clear sky, suddenly rained heavily.

Originally places with sudden, continuous rain, again temporarily have sunlight everywhere.

Currently it is exactly summer, most places in Divine Continent have all entered the hot season… at this moment yet it is flying snow!

“The Ode to Cangwu” has a record—

“The death of transcendence, heaven and earth innocent. Clear becomes rain, rain becomes clear. Summer day flying frost, heavenly phenomena reverse. Forty-nine days then stop, return to heavenly norm. Heavenly mechanism chaotic, divination ones blind.”

That is to say, in these forty-nine days' time, the past order of heavenly phenomena is completely out of control, everything becomes unpredictable. Heavenly mechanism will also become very chaotic, unable to grasp, all those who practice divination, like blind ones, lose their past judgment!

Not only so.

As everyone knows, a day has seven periods, called: Mao time, Chen time, Si time, Wu time, Wei time, Shen time, You time.

Night has five watches: First watch is dusk, at the first quarter of Xu time; Second watch is when people are settled, at the third quarter of Hai time; Third watch is midnight, at the whole of Zi time; Fourth watch is when the rooster crows, at the second quarter of Chou time; Fifth watch is dawn, at the fourth quarter of Yin time.

Of course, the four seasons divide cold and heat, day and night have waxing and waning, sometimes the day is long and the night is short, sometimes the day is short and the night is long. One day and night are one hundred quarters, if the daytime is long then sixty quarters, if it is short then forty quarters, it is not constant.

But usually it is all like this, “seven periods and five watches”.

But in the forty-nine days after the death of transcendence, it is not so.

As “The Ode to Cangwu” said: Thereafter forty-nine days, day is chopped into four, night into three periods. Night is chopped into three, day into two watches. Also called “sun and moon chopped decline”!

That is to say, in the next forty-nine days, the daytime's Chen time, Wu time, and Shen time will turn into night, and the daytime will also be “chopped” into four segments, only seen in Mao time, Si time, Wei time, and You time. The night's second watch and fourth watch will turn into daytime, and the night will also be “chopped” into three segments, only seen in the first watch, third watch, and fifth watch.

In the next forty-nine days, day and night will repeatedly alternate, and heavenly phenomena will change indefinitely. The entire present world will welcome a period of “disorder”, and how to allow the common people to pass through it stably will be the test question for the various countries.

The present world has not had such a thing happen for too long, and no country has experience in coping. At least since the new start of the Dao Calendar, this is still the first fallen transcendence.

Tragic ah! Sun and moon chopped decline!

Under the joint effort of the emperors of the six honored overlord countries, the Nine Dragons Holding Sun Eternal Town Mountains and Rivers Seal, will smash the Long River Dragon Lord, clamped by the Long River Nine Towns and Guan River Terrace, fall from the transcendence realm, smash into meat paste, grind into fine dust, and finally even the fine dust will not be left, completely returning to the origin sea.

He originally already transcended everything and existed, undying and indestructible, proved eternity. Finally, again, he involved himself back into the sea of suffering.

Or perhaps, he never truly left from the beginning, and cannot be considered true transcendence.

Probably he had already transcended all realistic meaning, but could not transcend his own heart. What he sought was too big, while reality was too heavy. What he pursued was something that even transcendence could not do!

This is probably the first one in history, a transcendence standing there and being beaten to death alive.

In the past, Feng Hou embraced a tree, still died in battle.

While he today, had almost no resistance.

Perhaps he did not die today.

Above the Cang Sea, gold sand floats all over the sky.

Like golden mist, hanging down blocking the curtain between the two worlds, of course not only blocking vision.

The contact between the middle ancient and the present world has already been restored to the rushing river of time. That bridge on the long river of time, has also fallen into the torrential time!

Long River Dragon Lord is thoroughly dead, the middle ancient heavenly road has also thoroughly collapsed.

The Near Sea and the Cang Sea, again have absolutely no traffic.

In the dim clouds and sinking rain, in the heaven collapsing and earth cracking Cang Sea, that terrifying dragon body stretching on the sea surface like mountain ranges, as if it has awakened, in the pure, swallowing all blackness inside, a faint light flows. That pair of dragon eyes like blood-colored suns, that continuously rotating infinitely deep, faint dark vortex, in a flash actually sank.

East Sea Dragon King Ao Jie, originally already destroying the Cang Sea, contending with Ling Chen True Monarch for the end calamity power, to send the Sea Clan elites to Gui Xu…

This flash, pulls out of the sea, looks up to the sky and roars: “Capture Yu Que alive! Leave Ji Zuo!”

Fixed extreme then moves, absolute death then life.

The entire Cang Sea, the raging waves all stopped for an instant. That mist's flame light in the deep place of the Cang Sea, in a flash violently jumps, then thoroughly darkens! In the past, those arrangements about “killing the Cang Sea”, were forcibly destroyed by Ao Jie. The road to Gui Xu, was pushed back to the world's end by him— he halted the process of killing the Cang Sea!

This process cannot be redone in a short time, but he has already made the decision.

The end calamity power flowing around his body, again scatters path after path, returning to heaven and sea. Becomes food, becomes grass and wood, becomes spiritual quality, repairs this scarred world.

The lord of the Cang Sea, at this time, decrees to all seas, launching an attack on Jing Country's forces!

As long as there is a bit of hope, who is willing to leave their homeland?

Although the Cang Sea is barren, in these several hundred thousand years, it has embraced the Sea Clan, giving the Sea Clan a place to multiply.

In Ao Jie's eyes, the vortex disappeared, between heaven and sea, yet one by one huge vortices appear. Different from the eternally dark vortices suspended in the sea, faintly black and swallowing everything, these vortices are all deep blue, and stand in the air, like portals. Only from the front can they be seen clearly, looking from the back, yet they cannot be seen.

This is the “Ruins Village Gate”!

This is Ao Jie’s unique spell, never shown to people before, used in coordination with the Gui Xu world— in the process of killing the Cang Sea, the Sea Clan elites he wanted to send to Gui Xu were hidden in this gate.

Such a spell of course can only be used once, next time, traces will certainly be captured.

Never have a next time…

Because the world already without that broken-spined river dog!

From inside that deep blue Ruins Village Gate, a man in a gold crown and splendid robe steps out. He is not alone, rushing out of the Ruins Village Gate with him are one by one nine zhang tall Sea Clan giants, each wearing heavy armor, like moving steel fortresses, the steel armor still engraved with complex spell inscriptions.

These warriors, one hand holds a giant shield like a high wall, one hand carries a wolf tooth club with iron spikes, so mountain-toppling and sea-filling they come out, vividly killing weapons!

This is Great Prison Sovereign Lord Zhong Xi, and the absolute elites of the Cang Sea he leads, the Qing Ding Army!

His bloodline, the young Sea Clan general Ao Huang Zhong, has a “Fa Shi” army. This kind of sovereign lord who fought his way up, the army under his command is even more his fundamental foothold.

This army is named “Qing Ding”. One is to say that this tripod has the weight of the blue sky, he can bear this tripod, can use this army, can use it to fix the eight wastes. Furthermore, above the Cang Sea, it is hard to see the blue sky, often there are dark clouds that do not go away. He uses this name, naturally also has the meaning of subjugating the Human Clan and returning to Divine Continent.

The Cang Sea's resources are barren, and in the choice of weapons, they have always focused on nurturing sea beasts. This army is equipped so finely, it can almost compare with the Human Clan's world strong armies, sufficient to see the effort he has spent on this army.

In the harsh environment of the Cang Sea, the Sea Clan produced distortions early on.

And there are hundreds of types, different forms. Because of the common evolution of the Sea Lord's original form, and also because they are under the pressure of the Cang Sea, they can recognize each other and belong to the same clan.

The warriors of this army are all carefully selected, one in ten thousand!

They bear the most difficult battle tasks, challenging the most dangerous sea areas. “Those who are not extremely prosperous in qi and blood are insufficient to lift the Qing Ding”, hence this strong army!

“Now, the great trend of the Cang Sea, if it rises, it dies with a roar, if it crouches, it dies silently and namelessly. Can I not lament for the former? I should be the first!”

Great Prison Sovereign Lord leads the army out, crushing his gold crown! In a flash, soldier's fierceness rolls, turning into an iron fist covering the sky and earth, rushing out of the Canglang waters, hitting ten thousand li of floating dust open, as if an angry sea swings a fist, bombarding the firmament!

This is the moment of the last charge, time to verify the Sea Clan's determination to defend their homeland.

One by one “Ruins Village Gates” open, one by one Sea Clan strong ones, one by one Sea Clan armies—

With faith power strongly gathered Xuan God Sovereign Lord Rui Chong, and her church guard army “Tian Zhou Near Guard”; at great cost, temporarily letting herself return to peak Ling Ming Sovereign Lord Wu Zhi Yang, and his “Ming River Water Division”; Wu Yuan Sovereign Lord Zhan Shou, and his commanded “Wu Chang Flying Armor”; Nie Xian Sovereign Lord Si Liang, and his army, “Dead Speakers”; Wu Dang Sovereign Lord Yuan Ji, and his army “Three Fork Divine Edge”…

Flowing lights fill the sky, all seas completely surge.

Ten thousand kinds of phenomena, infinite shadows, all erupt from heaven.

At this time, the entire Cang Sea, still shaking and about to fall, its lament not stopped, gives to the invaders, a ten thousand times response!

Also gives to Ao Shuyi, a ten thousand times memorial!