Chapter 2602: A Thousand Years of Affairs, But a Thousand-Page Book

Helian Shanhai has a pair of eyes like the sky, blue sky and white clouds, vast and boundless.

Inherited from the Helian bloodline, the cyan blue has already submitted to her kingly power, a power that even the ancestor Helian Qingtong could not strip away.

It is precisely this pair of eyes, encompassing the universe, that at this moment are looking into the distance, reflecting a red-gold light.

The red-gold, approaching at extreme speed, gradually reveals a pair of calm eyes, set in a young person’s face that shows no surprise.

Strands of power from the Great Shepherd Country, woven into ropes, chase him as he walks, following him through each time-space segment, like a golden floating ribbon tied around his waist.

His body is like a jade tree, and the floating ribbon stretches for ten thousand li. He steps through time as if walking on clear waves, his steps free and easy yet forceful!

Moreover, an ancient copper-colored small bell is tied at his waist, gently shaking… emitting a sound that perceives all worlds.

Indeed, it is the one who once created miracles, ascended to the top of all heavens, and pressured ten thousand realms with his sword.

A thought arose in Helian Shanhai’s heart, and then she wanted to transmit a message over—

This time-space segment, transcending the slaughter, suddenly folded up! Like a page of paper, mixed into the book of years. Then it flipped through, its trace hard to see.

Cangtu God's loud voice was like a chant: "I observe the matters of ten thousand years, no more than a book of ten thousand pages!"

From that majestic god body, countless divine chains pierced out, penetrating into the time-space gaps, making this place of transcendent battle gradually silent and dim. Though it transcends the struggle, it stirs no waves.

"Years pass suddenly, old grudges turn a new page!"

It changed its posture of only avoiding and not fighting, taking on the attacks of the two generations of Shepherd Country emperors, ancient and modern. Even at the cost of suffering some small losses, it wanted to forcibly move the battlefield!

On the one hand, it completely cut off the possibility of transmitting messages from this time-space segment, cutting off communication between Helian Shanhai and that human race’s first heaven’s proud. On the other hand, it directly sealed this time-space segment and mixed it into the book of years, making it impossible for outsiders to capture.

It did not know about Helian Shanhai’s exile plan, but it keenly perceived the danger—that Zhenhe True Monarch, who had come carrying the Broad Hear Bell, was clearly Helian Shanhai’s backup!

A Zhenhe True Monarch at the Derive Dao level was still acceptable; they essentially had no ability to change the transcendent war situation. What it truly dreaded was the Broad Hear Bell, which it had once invaded but which later returned to its original state. After all, it was one of the World Honored One’s three personal bells. It was hard to say what secrets remained on this bell. What if Helian Shanhai used it…?

It had finally returned to its god seat with great difficulty and preserved its present world god position. It truly did not want to take any more risks.

Helian Shanhai tried to seal and suppress it, so it first sealed the entire transcendent battlefield. Zhenhe True Monarch was the opponent's backup, so it directly isolated this person outside.

Countless divine chains, piercing into the void, extended like mountain ranges, rooting themselves in this world, moving heaven and earth.

Helian Shanhai extended one hand horizontally!

She directly grabbed one of the divine chains.

With a pull, it rattled.

She was an emperor who was accustomed to wind and frost, and she deeply understood how powerful Cangtu God was after returning to its god seat. Even with the power of the entire country, she could only confront it, not eliminate it. Moreover, if it truly came down to a life-and-death struggle… Cangtu God fundamentally did not care about the Shepherd Country. The Cangtu God Church could still be considered its fence, and the Great Shepherd Empire was just its sheep pen!

"Exile" was already the best choice in the current situation.

She had already accepted this outcome, and as the Great Shepherd Emperor, she would personally bear everything, with the courage to face life and death, to draw the final period for the dozens of generations of the Helian clan who had gone forward.

Of course, it was a loss.

Just like Helian Qingtong, who had already admitted defeat.

But these young ones were still not truly despairing people in this world…

They would not admit defeat!

This spirit was worth encouraging, and these children indeed moved her.

But once that Liang fell from Cangtu Heaven Country and descended Qionglu Mountain, Eerde Mina’s side would immediately launch. Before ascending to heaven, she had already left a death order for Tu Hu. Once it was confirmed that seizing the god had failed, the predetermined plan must be immediately executed.

The divine fire of Ten Thousand Teachings would burn, and the “From Ancient to Now Universe Light Array” would open.

She was prepared to be exiled to the universe together with Cangtu Heaven Country and finally burn her body with fire.

But she couldn't possibly exile Zhaotu, who was entrusted with state affairs, Cangming, who was the Shepherd Country’s first heaven’s proud and fought for the country, or even Jiang Wang, who righteously helped the grassland… all together?

Even if she cast aside her personal feelings, if these people were all trapped here and lost, could the Shepherd Country truly restore its peak before God Xiao?

Zhaotu was already a grown heir to the country. Cangming was the Shepherd Country's first heaven's proud. Jiang Wang was a debt that the Shepherd Country owed! The road ahead would be very difficult.

The plan to exile the god alone had become this way, which could no longer be said to be the best choice.

But Cangtu God seemed to have prescience and isolated the communication channels, making her unable to emphasize the key points and notify Jiang Wang and the others to leave.

Solely speaking of the exile plan, Cangtu God’s choice to seal this transcendent battlefield was actually beneficial to this plan and not harmful.

This was equivalent to adding another lock to her suppression.

Waiting until the “From Ancient to Now Universe Light Array” opened, Cangtu God would find it even harder to escape. This was like making a cocoon to trap itself.

But speaking of it again—why did Cangtu God suddenly choose to seal this battlefield?

Although it was filled with countless hatred now, she had to admit that her old ancestor was a heroic figure with great strategy, who would not bend even in great difficulty. How could the Cangtu God, who had always been suppressed by Mu Tai Ancestor, not be discerning and transcend the world?

It was currently exhibiting transcendent power and returning to its god seat. Could it fear a young True Monarch?

Was it not… Did it see something in Jiang Wang?

Helian Shanhai couldn’t help but ponder deeply!

Furthermore, Jiang Wang was not a reckless person. He could rise from a small town youth to his current fame in ten thousand realms; he possessed great wisdom in his heart.

He dared to rush over and point his sword at the transcendent battlefield, so he certainly had assurance.

Perhaps there were new changes in the human world… and she was trapped in Cangtu Heaven Country, fighting on three fronts and consuming herself, unable to perceive them.

In an instant, countless thoughts had passed, and Helian Shanhai had made up her mind.

She pulled back on this divine chain, pulling the entire time-space segment, causing rumbling muffled thunder. The sword on which the sun, moon, and stars rose into a four-sided tripod instantly flew up to heaven. The tripod body was so gigantic, and growing larger, its shadow covering the sky, about to cover Cangtu God!

The sword became the “Qingtian Four Directions Tripod”!

This was the supreme sword canon created by Helian Shanhai alone, intended to be the Great Shepherd Emperor Sword together with the “Fuyu Sword,” passed down through thousand autumns and ten thousand generations.

One sword horizontally wiped out, chopping out a real piece of sky. On one side, it suppressed Cangtu God, and on the other, it integrated this heaven and earth, replacing this sky and that sky.

“Qingtian” was like a curtain, covering the dome, then covering “Daytime”.

Just as “Daytime” was about to be completely swallowed by “Qingtian,” in the center of the high dome, a vaguely character-shaped shadow appeared. It wasn't huge, but it was very profound.

Like a bone in meat, residue in soup, it was the piece that couldn't be swallowed.

At the moment the “Qingtian Four Directions Tripod” formally ground down on Cangtu God's body, in the center of this sky, the character shape overlapping between “Qingtian” and “Daytime” finally became clear.

That was… a “Lie” character.

The collision of the tripod body and the god body produced a shocking, earth-shaking sound that shook the entire transcendent battlefield! If not for Qingtian as a cover and divine chains as locks, this time-space segment would likely shatter directly.

Helian Qingtong’s decayed body trembled!

While Cangtu God was distracted by sealing this transcendent battlefield, it also seized the opportunity to chop this old opponent several times with its sword, feeling a sense of venting its anger before death.

But at this moment, its delight turned to dismay.

The word "Lie" to a monarch is not a simple character.

To pacify the people with merit is called "Lie," to uphold virtue and duty is called "Lie."

When the count of reigns ends, those posthumously titled "Lie" must have extraordinary merit.

The Great Shepherd Empire had such a glorious emperor in its history, who used this character as his posthumous title—

Mu Lie Emperor Helian Wen Hong.

During his reign, the equal relationship between the Great Shepherd Emperor and Cangtu God was established.

Kingly power for the first time truly stood side by side with divine power!

Originally, this transcendent battlefield was a time-space segment opened by Mu Lie Emperor Helian Wen Hong when he ascended to heaven that year.

And it… had actually forgotten!

The “God Heaven Turn Wheel” ground out pure divinity for it and also wore away its humanity. What was put into the grinding eye were those past events that it was unwilling to recall.

Helian Wen Hong and his son, later known as “Mu Taizong,” Helian Hong, had names that differed by only one character.

It was his father, Mu Wei Emperor Helian Ren Rui, who, “chasing the memory of the first ancestor,” hoped his son could resemble the ancestor, hence the name “Wen Hong.”

If Helian Shanhai could take risks for her child Helian Zhaotu, how could it forget its own child Helian Hong?

Helian Hong was a child who was too excellent. Initially, Cangtu God perceived its threat and forced it to ascend to the Heaven Country. Its accumulation at that time was far from sufficient, and it had no other choice. Without a word, it prostrated itself on the ground, with the most pious posture, removed its crown, and performed three steps and nine kowtows before the god.

It was Helian Hong who strove to govern the human world, rising early and retiring late, consolidating the grassland’s hegemony and resisting further seizure by divine power.

In a situation where the founding ancestor was even worshipped as a child singer, and with Helian Qingtong’s hasty departure without explaining anything, he was neither humble nor arrogant, controlled the situation firmly, handled the relationship with the Cangtu God Church properly, and also guarded the foundation left by his father.

Throughout Helian Hong's reign, the human empire gave this founding great ancestor too much support.

The political outline had succession, and the incense fire was not cut off.

In just one generation, it climbed up from being a child singer, listed its name among the twelve main gods of Cangtu Heaven Country, and was in charge of the entire grassland's celestial phenomena. Without offending the order of heaven and earth, it brought favorable weather and good harvests to the grassland.

And Helian Hong himself, after abdicating, went alone to the border wilderness, to avoid "making the god suspicious," and died in the magic tide.

Actually, according to the initial plan, in Helian Wen Hong's generation, it should have already overthrown Cangtu God and succeeded in seizing the god!

It's just that they all underestimated the power of Cangtu God. They had exhausted their knowledge to imagine that transcendent realm numbered as "Great," but the supreme realm was ultimately unimaginable.

It emptied the Heaven Country's accumulation and launched a sudden attack. With the support of two generations of wise monarchs, Mu Wei Emperor and Mu Lie Emperor, it simultaneously launched a war from the human world to the Heaven Country, yet it was still suppressed by Cangtu God, and the war fire was almost extinguished in one fell swoop.

The key moment was Helian Wen Hong's abdication and ascent to the Heaven Country, giving it unreserved support, which allowed it to maintain a confrontational posture.

At that time, it really wanted to sacrifice itself, wanting to complete that Helian Wen Hong, who was "quite similar to Taizong."

But Helian Wen Hong said—"Now that Taizu is dying, Wen Hong cannot resist Cangtu. If Wen Hong dies, Taizu still has a chance to win. Moreover, the Great Shepherd Emperor's life and death for the country is not determined by you and me. Now is the time for me to die, and I certainly will not refuse."

Then he died.

With this total dedication, it finally withstood Cangtu God's offensive, finally rose up and fought, occupying half a buttock on Cangtu God's god position! But everything that had passed, all the people, could not come back.

This war to seize the god… was too difficult!

Challenging a transcendent being, exhausting the heart's blood of dozens of generations, it is still difficult to see success.

From then on, it dared not light the war easily, and only had to seal Cangtu Heaven Country.

To gain an advantage in seizing the god, it continuously purified its divinity, making itself more like a god.

Using several thousand years, it continuously bled Cangtu God.

It also became accustomed to the role of "being supplied" under the continuous transfusion of blood by the human emperors, gradually feeling at ease, thinking that everything was as it should be. Even if those who ascended to heaven later were unwilling to sacrifice for it, it saw it as a debt!

Today's forceful seizure of Helian Zhaotu, this secret method could not be cultivated in a day.

Helian Qingtong had already become a PART of Cangtu God. Its god name was not "Helian Qingtong," but "Cangtu."

No matter which of it and Cangtu God wins the final victory, both will only preserve their divine existence. Both will only re-establish the grassland order with the Cangtu God Church as the main force, turning the Great Shepherd Empire back into a sheep pen. They will let the boundless grassland become a pasture for spirits again.

It was precisely upon discovering this point that Helian Shanhai changed from helping Taizu seize the god to solely suppressing two honors.

The matter has come to this, and it does not want to say that it made a forced choice. It thinks it was just afraid, tired, couldn't bear it, ground away those things with profound memories, and let go of the glorious side within its humanity, perhaps precisely to "feel at ease."

Can it truly feel at ease?!

"Good sword technique!"

The senile emperor cheered loudly.

It disliked the cumbersome and decaying divine dragon under its feet and crushed it into qi with one foot. It led this vast dragon qi flow, all gathered at the sword tip, howling into mountains and rivers for ten thousand li, among the numerous human figures—

Kings, marquises, generals, shepherds, peddlers, travelers, guests of the five horses!

Precisely, the “Fuyu Sword”!

Today, in the cultivation of the Fuyu Sword, Helian Shanhai has surpassed it in both momentum and intent. But after all, it is the creator of this sword technique, and only it can kill a path from the most humble to the most supreme.

It did not live in vain these past few thousand years, reaching the supreme level in its sword moves, unmatched by anyone.

"Your two sword techniques are all very good." Cangtu God's wolf eyes were fierce, emitting cruel light: "Pity that you persist in your wrong course and are hard to wake up, you have already entered the wrong path!"

Cangtu God's wolf head hung from the tripod, its back against the sword, its body wearing divine chains locking heaven and earth, letting the strong wind blow!

At this moment, it no longer avoided anything. Sometimes, trying to be stable with one mind instead leads to defeat.

Strongly attacking against the attack!

It precisely wanted to take on the struggle of these two people and forcefully return to its god seat!

"But speaking of the sky…" It reached out to the sky and said in an indifferent voice: "It seems to be my authority!"

Among the wolf, eagle, and horse, "Eagle" precisely represents the sky.

Its palm directly grabbed that four-sided tripod.

The eagle wings behind it unfolded, then a piece of sky rose!

Vast as a tide, this was a piece of cyan-black sky, the legendary “Cangtian”!

“Cangtian” pounced to the highest place, sweeping away both “Qingtian” and “Daytime”—

Now a new sky changed again.

The great power at the transcendent level continuously modified the rules of this world, repeatedly fabricating the essence of this world.

There is no true, false, right, or wrong. The truth of this world lies between the thoughts of the strongest.

The collision of “Cangtian,” “Qingtian,” and “Daytime” howled out aftermaths that devoured all things.

Helian Qingtong's Fuyu Sword, chopping on the divine spirit's back as firm as a mountain, actually emitted the sound of a flood bell.

Scattered sword light ran wild, and when it caught the edge of the aftermath of the "three skies" devouring this side of heaven and earth, it exactly shattered a wisp of thought—

That was Helian Shanhai’s earlier thought of contacting Jiang Wang, but it was isolated again.

To advise Jiang Wang and the others to withdraw from Heaven Country, Helian Shanhai mentioned the "exile spirit" plan in this wisp of thought.

This wisp of thought was originally hidden very well, about to be annihilated, yet it was cut open in such a coincidental way.

Among the secret information, it was revealed in an instant.

Cangtu God was immediately shocked!

Ten Thousand Teachings divine fire? Exile the universe? Strip the present world?

Helian Shanhai had set up such a big scheme!

What terrified it, of course, was that this plan was actually feasible. The Heaven Country had been sealed for several thousand years, and the Cangtu God Church had retreated step by step before the kingly power… Its roots in the human world had long been unstable. There was a possibility that this Heaven Country could truly be stripped of its present world name and exiled to the depths of the universe!

What especially annoyed it was that it had been cautious towards Helian Shanhai, yet it had unintentionally helped Helian Shanhai, instead promoting this opportunity. Making a cocoon to trap oneself was especially pitiful.

Mistakes, of course, must be corrected.

It, lifting the green tripod in its hand and stepping on the earth, at this moment had its back against Helian Qingtong's sword. The sky wind blew its long mane, and suddenly its body twisted, like a heaven pillar moving—breaking the divine chains!

It released this piece of heaven and earth to freedom again, letting it return to its original place, then wanted to fully welcome the next sealing and suppression.

Since it already knew Helian Shanhai’s plan, it must not possibly fall into the trap again! It must tear down this broken cage before the "Exile" begins!

Of course, the price of forcibly moving the sky and moving itself back was that its god body was pressed down by the "Qingtian Four Directions Tripod" for three thousand zhang. It prided itself on its sky authority, and "Cangtian" was inversely rolled by "Qingtian"!

Jiang Wang stepped through the sea of time and saw exactly this—the years suddenly rose into a book, borrowing the Broad Hear Bell to capture that time-space segment, suddenly divine chains were added as locks, turning into a page in the book, hidden among the flipping pages.

He didn't know where to look, but the next moment this page of the book flipped out again, and it flew back again!

There was still a clear “Lie” character on the book page.

It was really a bit baffling.

He only perceived the scattered dragon qi in the middle of the sea of time through the Broad Hear Bell, which had a tendency to gather as a seal and suppression. Because of this, he knew that the Great Shepherd Female Emperor intended to seal and suppress this transcendent battlefield.

Thinking of reinforcing a seal conveniently before withdrawing from the Heaven Country, he came just in time…

How could Cangtu God just tremble and make a fuss when he had only walked a few steps towards his destination?

It seemed there was some misunderstanding.

If there was anything about himself that could make Cangtu God fear…

Jiang Wang’s steps did not stop, his gaze did not change, and his face suddenly showed compassion, with a wheel of Buddha light behind him!

All living beings and monks appeared behind him as virtual images, golden light shining everywhere, as if a Buddha had descended into the world. They chanted the "Three Treasures Tathagata Sutra" in low tones, and the Sanskrit sound spread throughout the countless time-space segments here, and the treasure bell by his waist rang!

Then, with the sound of the Broad Hear Bell, he fiercely struck Cangtu God’s ear consciousness from a distance.

"Stop walking!"

He was a Buddha wielding a sword, with great compassion and great courage. His voice was also like a Vajra showing anger: "How can a dignified present world god be afraid of someone named Jiang?!"