Dominator Emperor

Li Qiye drove the Four-Battle Copper Vehicle up the Celestial Road. His eyes were narrowed the entire time. No one knew what lay at the end of the Celestial Road—perhaps the Celestial Coffin, or perhaps something else entirely.

”The Celestial Road appears, the Divine Stone opens. Enter the Celestial Coffin, achieve eternity; open the Corpse Land, Celestial General Gu!” Li Qiye had been pondering this phrase. In truth, the end of the Celestial Road didn’t necessarily lead to the Celestial Coffin!

Li Qiye traveled upward in the Four-Battle Copper Vehicle. He had no idea how far he had gone or how long it had taken, but eventually, he saw the end of the Celestial Road.

The end of the Celestial Road was, unexpectedly, a mountain peak. The peak wasn’t particularly large; it was nothing compared to the Giant Peak in the Ancient Sky Corpse Land where the Wooden Coffin hung.

However, this unassuming peak was accompanied by the sun and moon and wreathed in stars. Entire galaxies swirled around it, as if this peak was the center of the Celestial Universe, the very beginning of heaven and earth.

Li Qiye ascended the peak. There was nothing on it except for a pool of flowing water. In the center of the peak was a large pool, the water within seeming to flow slowly.

In the middle of the pool, a spring actually spouted forth. The fountain wasn’t high, only about three feet.

The moment he saw the water in the pool, Li Qiye’s heart shook. At first glance, the water looked no different from ordinary water, but upon closer inspection, he realized it was anything but. The quietly flowing water held a faint luster. Looking even more carefully, he saw that this faint luster wasn’t light, but countless stars, suns, and moons. The strands of luster connected to form entire galaxies, a self-contained universe.

Within this luster, each star, sun, and moon was a hundred times smaller than a speck of dust. That was why it appeared as just a faint sheen.

”Star River Everything Water!” Seeing this pool of water, Li Qiye’s heart shook. He had lived for eons; what kind of treasure had he not seen? He had even seen treasures hailed as the greatest in the world.

Before this, Li Qiye had only seen Star River Everything Water once, and that was in a very distant era. It had only been a single drop, yet it had drawn the entire Nine Realms into conflict. Immortal Emperors had personally taken action, and those with a Great Success Immortal Body had fought to seize it. A single drop of Star River Everything Water had triggered a war on the Immortal Emperor Level!

Li Qiye took a deep breath, and then his gaze fell upon the fountain in the pool. The fountain was only three feet high, but it supported a piece of Treasure Gold!

This piece of Treasure Gold was wreathed in primordial chaos, as if born at the dawn of time. It hummed softly, the sound extremely faint, yet it was like an Immortal King preaching the scriptures or a True God singing hymns. To the ear, it sounded like the tolling of a great Yellow Bell or the beat of a giant drum. A single note felt like a sudden, profound enlightenment.

What was even more shocking was that this piece of Treasure Gold was nurturing nine characters within it. The nine Golden Texts formed a single entity, becoming a line of Supreme True Words! This single line of Supreme True Words created its own world, transforming into a Supreme Celestial Scripture! However, this version of the Supreme True Words that had become a Supreme Celestial Scripture was only in its nascent form, not yet at Great Success!

In an instant, an incredibly dazzling light shot from Li Qiye’s eyes. The moment he saw the Golden Text inside the Treasure Gold, his entire body shuddered! In that split second, he saw the Golden Text clearly!

”Heaven and Earth Origin Gold!” Li Qiye’s expression changed drastically. He sucked in a cold breath and couldn’t help but mutter.

In all of eternity, was there any shortage of treasures that Li Qiye had seen? There was Dao Treasure Gold, which contained the Scriptures of the Great Dao. As a material for refining Treasure Artifacts, Dao Treasure Gold that nurtured nine Daoist Golden Texts was considered the most precious!

However, Dao Treasure Gold with nine Daoist Golden Texts was not the most valuable of all. Among Cultivators, there was a saying: a Nine-Character Treasure Gold is not as good as a three-character True Word Treasure Gold!

If a piece of Dao Treasure Gold nurtured nine Daoist Golden Texts, but those texts were merely scattered and disjointed, one could only say that the piece of Treasure Gold had reached its limit in terms of the number of characters. However, if a piece of Dao Treasure Gold nurtured three Daoist Golden Texts that formed a line of True Words, then in the eyes of many, its value would be even greater than that of a nine-character Dao Treasure Gold.

The reason was simple. When Daoist Golden Texts could be linked together to form True Words, their power would multiply! The power of three Daoist Golden Texts forming a line of True Words would be in no way inferior to a nine-character Dao Treasure Gold!

Therefore, some people reverently called Dao Treasure Gold whose Golden Texts could form True Words ”True Word Treasure Gold” or simply ”True Gold.” Some even ranked True Word Treasure Gold above Immortal Gold!

Throughout the eons, Li Qiye had seen plenty of True Word Treasure Gold. He had seen Treasure Gold with three-character True Words and even Treasure Gold with six-character True Words! But this was a Nine-Character True Words. What was even more terrifying was that this nine-character mantra was the Supreme True Words hailed as the number one True Words in all of heaven and earth—Linyin Battle, all arrayed and advancing forth!

That wasn’t even the most terrifying part. The most terrifying part was that these Nine-Character True Words formed a single entity, the nine characters becoming one embryo, transforming into a Supreme Celestial Scripture.

Nine Golden Texts, the nine characters forming True Words, Supreme True Words! None of that was the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing was the True Words transforming into a Celestial Book! That was the truly terrifying part.

Although the Celestial Book formed from these Nine-Character True Words was only in its nascent form, far from becoming a true Celestial Book, it was already frightening enough!

One must know, there was an old saying in the world: ”When heaven and earth were like a chicken’s egg and primordial chaos first split open, Taichu derived nine characters. Nine Words Create Nine Treasures, and the Nine Treasures and Nine Books are inscribed!” This was the origin of the legendary Nine Great Heavenly Treasures and the Nine Great Celestial Books!

This Heaven and Earth Origin Gold before him was the nascent form of one of the Nine Treasures and Nine Books. Of course, for this nascent form to become a Celestial Book and a Celestial Treasure, it would likely require endless eons—perhaps tens of millions of years, or even hundreds of millions.

But for Li Qiye, that didn’t matter right now. He couldn’t wait for this Heaven and Earth Origin Gold to transform into a Celestial Treasure and a Celestial Book. After all, he couldn’t possibly wait tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years.

As long as he could obtain this Heaven and Earth Origin Gold and forge it into a Supreme Treasure, then one day, when he shouldered the Celestial Mandate and became an Immortal Emperor, this Treasure Artifact would be unrivaled under the heavens. Even an Immortal Emperor True Artifact would be inferior to it!

Heaven and Earth Origin Gold was merely a legend, something that only existed at the beginning of time. Li Qiye never imagined he would actually see a piece of it today!

BOOM—BOOM—BOOM— Just as Li Qiye was staring in a daze, a sudden rumbling sound echoed. Li Qiye immediately spun around to look!

When he saw the scene in the Void, Li Qiye was dumbfounded. Ants, one after another, were carrying a coffin. They passed by the front of the peak and walked into the Void.

”Ancient Ant Moving Coffin!” Li Qiye was a bit stunned, muttering to himself. Not long ago, in the Ancient Sky Corpse Land, he had seen a group of ants carrying a Wooden Coffin into its deepest parts.

In fact, that previous time wasn’t Li Qiye’s first time seeing the Ancient Ant Moving Coffin. He had seen it once before that. But he never expected to see the Ancient Ant Moving Coffin again here today.

Li Qiye was certain that this Ancient Ant Moving Coffin was the very same one he had seen not long ago! This situation left even Li Qiye, who had witnessed countless strange and bizarre things, in a daze.

Li Qiye had the urge to chase after it and open the Wooden Coffin, but he held back. He had heard another legend—one with a rather grim outcome.

Only when the Ancient Ant Moving Coffin disappeared into the Void did Li Qiye snap back to his senses. Looking at the pool before him, he took a deep breath, took out a treasure, and aimed it at the pool water, trying to draw it in as he shouted, ”Rise—”

However, the pool water didn’t stir in the slightest. One must understand, the Jade Bottle in Li Qiye’s hand was a type of Qiankun Pouch. It could hold not just a pool of water, but an entire lake, yet there was no reaction at all.

No matter how hard Li Qiye tried to use the Jade Bottle to draw it in, he couldn’t get the Starry Universe Water from the pool into it. At that moment, Li Qiye realized something. This Starry Universe Water was not something his Jade Bottle could contain. Each drop of this water held countless stars, suns, and moons! How could a mere Qiankun Bottle possibly hold it?

At this moment, Li Qiye thought of something and took it out. But as soon as he took out the Ten Thousand Furnace God, before he could do anything else, it flew out of his hand. With a BOOM, it greedily gulped down a huge mouthful of the Starry Universe Water!

However, after the Ten Thousand Furnace God swallowed that huge mouthful of Starry Universe Water, it clearly had no intention of leaving any for Li Qiye. It desperately began to digest the Starry Universe Water. In an instant, its entire body began to emit a hazy radiance, and tiny stars appeared on its surface! It was actually transforming.

However, after digesting less than half of it, the Ten Thousand Furnace God started acting like a drunkard. It swayed dizzily before, with a THUD, it fell to the ground.

”Damn it, this is ridiculous. It just hogged the treasure for itself.” Li Qiye was speechless. He had no choice but to put away the Ten Thousand Furnace God. ’This guy is completely unreliable. It devoured a huge mouthful of the Starry Universe Water all for itself, with no intention of leaving any for me.’

Relying on the Ten Thousand Furnace God to collect the Starry Universe Water was no longer an option. At that moment, Li Qiye thought of something else. He took out a sheet of Immortal Order Paper, folded it into a small cup, and used it to scoop up the Starry Universe Water.

’Worthy of the name Immortal Order Paper, a peerless treasure through the ages.’ The fact that the Immortal Order Paper could hold the Starry Universe Water delighted Li Qiye. ’This thing really can hold the Starry Universe Water.’

Li Qiye folded another sheet of Immortal Order Paper, intending to collect more Starry Universe Water. But this time, the paper cup couldn’t hold it anymore. It wouldn’t even hold a single drop!

’It seems this water has achieved Divine Communication!’ Even the Immortal Order Paper could only be used once, and only for a small cup. He couldn’t collect any more Starry Universe Water. This made Li Qiye realize that this thing had already achieved Divine Communication!