Strongest War Emperor

When Yu Lingfeng spoke of the Eternal Tree, the calm in Shen Lang’s eyes wavered once again.

’To think that this incomparably mysterious, ancient tree of legend was actually a seed planted by the Pangu Divine Race...’

After absorbing a single drop of ”Life Spiritual Liquid,” the Eternal Tree’s roots plunged deep into the bottom of the lake, beginning to spread toward the depths of the land.

The Eternal Tree’s enormous canopy nearly covered the entire sky.

Meanwhile, her roots burrowed ever downward, stretching out in all directions across the world.

They simultaneously shored up the skeleton of this shattered world and healed its ravaged lands.

In the Barbaric lands, she practically became an eternal symbol of natural harmony.

To prevent the Blood Ancestor from destroying the Eternal Tree, the Pangu Divine Race unleashed a Heaven-Defying Divine Technique, creating a void dimension out of thin air and laying it over this region.

The once beautiful and fertile Moonlight Forest vanished into thin air, never to be found again.

Afterwards, the Pangu Divine Race had the Green Dragon from among the Five-Colored Divine Dragons enter this void dimension, where it has stood guard ever since.

The reason this dimension is called a void dimension is because it is merely a dreamscape.

It is the Amber Dream Realm, created by the Pangu Divine Race when they exhausted their Divine Power.

The Amber Dream Realm is a spiritual Domain, not a physical one.

The Pangu Divine Race used this Amber Dream Realm to conceal the Eternal Tree’s entire aura, stationing the Green Dragon to guard it all. This is how the Eternal Tree was able to grow to its current state.

As for the Pangu Divine Race, they vanished without a trace after that, no longer concerning themselves with worldly affairs.

That is, until ten thousand years ago, when the Pangu Divine Race Elder who had originally cast the seed into Moonlight Lake appeared in the Amber Dream Realm.

He informed the Eternal Tree that the Blood Ancestor was about to emerge and the world would once again face a cataclysmic upheaval.

In ten thousand years’ time, a young man carrying the Blade of Destruction would arrive here.

The turning point for everything would appear at that time.

What the Eternal Tree needed to do was help him, allow him to grow, and ultimately let him guide the world out of darkness and into the light.

After doing all this, the Pangu Divine Race left the Star Continent and was never seen again...

Over the past million years, the Eternal Tree learned many things from the Pangu Divine Race, including that the world was destined for another great change.

After the Pangu Divine Race departed, she fell into a deep slumber, hoping to see more of the truth through the Amber Dream Realm.

A thousand years after the Pangu Divine Race left, the Eternal Tree awoke from its dream and began to bear fruit...

The Feather Wood Race was born at this very moment.

The Witch Race and the Feather Wood Race, in the end, were both races created by the Pangu Divine Race.

They were races created to deal with this world’s crisis.

The only difference is that the Witch Race was originally a branch of the Human Race, merely nurtured by the Divine Power of the Pangu Divine Race and having practiced their Heaven-defying Technique.

The Feather Wood Race, however, was born from the Eternal Tree, a different kind of life form entirely.

And now, both of these races had found Shen Lang...

”All of this was told to us by Mother through dreams when we were born. But for more specific details, you will only know once you go to the Amber Dream Realm, Young Master.”

”Mother told us that the Pangu Divine Race seemed to fear some sort of existence, so there were many things they did not tell her.”

”And after the Pangu Divine Race left, she saw many things through the Amber Dream Realm and discovered that the situation was far more severe than what they had described...”

”But there were many things she did not dare tell us. So she sent us out, on one hand, to find the rifts and use the seeds of the Eternal Tree to suppress the Supreme Yin Qi, and on the other, to find you, Young Master, and have you go to the Moonlight Forest as soon as possible.”

Having said this, Yu Lingfeng looked at Shen Lang with some trepidation and fell silent.

Shen Lang’s expression changed. ”More severe than what the Pangu Divine Race said? And the Eternal Tree didn’t dare tell you?”

”Yes. Mother said there are many things she can only tell you once you’ve reached the Amber Dream Realm,” Yu Lingfeng replied, nodding without hesitation.

Shen Lang fell silent.

Shen Lang couldn’t yet determine what kind of existence the Eternal Tree truly was.

But it came from the hands of the Pangu Divine Race, had absorbed a full, undiluted drop of ”Life Spiritual Liquid,” and could shore up this shattered world and heal its wounds...

It was likely an existence that had long since surpassed the Five Emperors and Five Ancestors.

Why would such an existence say it ”didn’t dare”?

’Could it be that the threat to this world doesn’t actually come from that old fiend, the Blood Ancestor?’

The enormous face that had blotted out the sky when the War Emperor fell subconsciously appeared in Shen Lang’s mind...

Tapping his fingers rhythmically on the table, Shen Lang began to meticulously sort through all the information Yu Lingfeng had provided.

This information about the Blood Ancestor, while differing significantly from the records of the War God Hall, was definitely far more detailed.

Moreover, the War God Hall’s records contained very little information about the Witch Race and the Eternal Tree, and not a single mention of the Pangu Divine Race.

The key problem was...

Shen Lang had already deduced the matter of the Nine-Star Linked Pearls and the Blood Ancestor’s emergence using his Silver Eyes of Truth and the information he already possessed.

He even knew the specific timing: in about ten years.

Under these circumstances, learning about the Blood Race’s past rebellion was of little use in figuring out how to deal with the Blood Ancestor’s coming emergence now!

What Shen Lang wanted to know more was, first, what kind of relationship he had with the Emperor Star;

And second, how to deal with the Blood Ancestor’s emergence!

The first point was perhaps not that important right now; knowing or not knowing wouldn’t make much of a difference.

But the second point was a matter of life and death...

First, Shen Lang now knew that the Blood Ancestor was even more terrifying than the War God Hall’s records described!

Second, the current strength of the major races on the continent was simply not enough to deal with the Blood Ancestor!

Among the Five Emperors and Five Ancestors, the Soul Ancestor only made a fleeting appearance during the great war against the Blood Ancestor and was never heard from again;

The Corpse Ancestor was rumored to have been severely wounded and hadn’t appeared in many years;

The Witch Ancestor used the Witch Race’s Forbidden Technique to try and annihilate the Blood Ancestor back then, and was reduced to ash;

The Demon Ancestor was sealed in the Demon Realm along with the Demon Race;

As for the Five Directions Emperor...

The War Emperor had fallen, but the previous War Emperor was still around... The problem was, the entire War God Hall had been sent into a Space Rift by the War Emperor.

The Flame Emperor and the Ice Emperor, for some godforsaken reason, agreed to Zuo Wentian’s request ten thousand years ago and went to the Barbaric Secret Realm, never to return...

The current Flame Emperor and Ice Emperor were the successors of those two old geezers. They had only received the inheritance after the two Great Emperors met with mishap, forcibly raising their Cultivation to the Great Emperor Cultivation level. They were nowhere near comparable to the two who had disappeared.

With the situation like this, how could they possibly face the Blood Ancestor?

Unless the Blood Ancestor, like them, had been crippled back then and hadn’t yet recovered. That was perhaps their only sliver of hope.

But based on the information Shen Lang now had, the Blood Ancestor probably hadn’t been seriously injured at all... And even if he had been, that old monster was still hoarding who knows how many Elemental Power Fragments!

With so many Elemental Power Fragments, even if he had been crippled back then, he would have recovered most of his strength by now.

On the other hand, with the Nine-Star Linked Pearls, the world’s transformation, and the emergence of Supreme Yin Qi, if things weren’t handled properly, or if the experts of the various races couldn’t unite...

Then the world’s environment would let the Blood Ancestor move like a fish in water, while the Cultivation of the other races’ experts would be greatly diminished!

Thinking of this, Shen Lang’s head began to throb.

He had learned quite a lot from listening to Yu Lingfeng, but everything was still shrouded in mist... and his heart was heavy with worry!

After all that talk, Yu Lingfeng had only given Shen Lang one piece of good news.

The Guardian of the Amber Dream Realm was the Green Dragon of the Five-Colored Divine Dragons!

And Shen Lang was currently looking for the Ten Great Divine Beasts!

Of the Ten Great Divine Beasts, he had already seen a Qilin—one was being suppressed beneath Extreme Thunder Peak in the Profound Dao Sect, but he didn’t dare go near it now.

As for the Vermilion Bird, it wasn’t hopeless... but with Lan Mengling’s temper, if Shen Lang dared to ask her for Essence Blood, the probability of death was ninety-nine point nine percent.

Since the Eternal Tree was obeying the Pangu Divine Race’s command to assist Shen Lang and help him grow stronger, then asking the Green Dragon in the Amber Dream Realm to offer a drop or two of Essence Blood didn’t seem like too much to ask, right?

After listening for so long, this was the only uplifting news.

’The Eternal Tree sent someone to find me, told me a bunch of things that aren’t very useful, and then said there’s much more that she only dares to tell me once I reach the Amber Dream Realm... What is she hinting at?’

’The matter of the Amber Dream Realm is no small thing. It seems I must make the trip...’

’I’m looking for the Ten Divine Beasts, and there just so happens to be a guardian dragon, the Green Dragon, in the Amber Dream Realm. Is this a coincidence... or did the Pangu Divine Race intentionally leave this for me? Coincidence or not, this drop of the Dragon Race’s Essence Blood should be the easiest one to obtain.’

’Life Spiritual Liquid... both Zuo Wentian and Yu Lingfeng confirmed that only the Pangu Divine Race can obtain it. So where did the Life Spiritual Liquid inside the Gate of Creation come from? It seems I’ll need to find time to visit the Gate of Creation as well...’

Shen Lang’s fingers stopped tapping. He looked up and said, ”Ling Feng, let me summarize what you’ve said. See if this is correct...”

”The Pangu Divine Race came to this world and discovered that the Blood Ancestor, who practices the ’Blood God Atlas,’ was secretly instigating a war between the Divine and Demons. This caused the earth to shatter and the entire world’s framework to crumble and fall apart, producing numerous Elemental Power Fragments that the Blood Ancestor then collected.”

”To avoid a direct conflict with the Blood Ancestor that would accelerate the world’s destruction, the Pangu Divine Race retreated into the shadows. They instead supported the Witch Race and other major races to contain the Blood Race and prevent it from growing stronger. Finally, they waited for the Emperor Star to appear, which would be the world’s only chance of survival... Is that the gist of it?”

Yu Lingfeng nodded. ”Yes, that’s correct.”

A slight smile touched Shen Lang’s lips. ”Then why did you come looking for me instead of the Emperor Star? And what is the relationship between the Emperor Star and myself?”