Shen Qian was very horrified at this moment.
Because he was browsing the hang-up records in his own conscious space at this time.
For any warrior, this is an area of absolute privacy.
At this time, Shen Qian heard another person's voice. This feeling was like someone suddenly talking to you while taking a shower or taking a poop. No, it was even worse... You can imagine the horror contained in it. Know.
When Shen Qian suddenly turned around, he saw that as the sigh sounded, bits and pieces of light floated out from the system, and gradually outlined a translucent illusory figure in front of Shen Qian.
The illusory figure vaguely looks like a young man in his thirties, with sharp edges and an upright face. He is wearing a white mountain and river suit and a purple and gold sun and moon crown.
He has no cultivation and cannot sense vitality, but his vague demeanor has an awe-inspiring aura that cannot be seen directly.
"You are..." Shen Qian had a guess in his mind, but he was not sure.
"You can call me 'Taiyi', or my previous name, 'Lei'."
The young man smiled slightly.
"Emperor of Heaven!"
Shen Qian's body trembled. Although he had expected it, he was still unavoidably surprised.
After all, this is the first person in the system of Chinese myths and legends. Some people call him Haotian God, and some legends call him the Jade Emperor. If his full name and title were written down, it would probably not fit on an A4 paper horizontally:
"The Supreme Lord opens the sky and holds the talisman to control the calendar, contains the true body, the Golden Cloud Palace, the nine domes, and controls the calendar and the ten thousand ways...the high god."
...It's really too long, and Shen Qian didn't remember the middle part.
In the eyes of many ordinary people, he is even synonymous with "Heaven". No, perhaps it should be referred to as the unique "He".
Such a character suddenly appeared in Shen Qian's consciousness space at this time, and one can imagine the shock it brought to Shen Qian.
"The Three Realms once respected me as emperor." The young man nodded, which was regarded as recognition.
Shen Qian remembered that the figure of the other party was projected by the system, and after contacting his previous guess, he couldn't help but ask: "So... you are the system, and the system is you? You have been the one who has been leading my hang-up all this time?"
Upon hearing Shen Qian's question, the Emperor was startled for a moment, then burst into laughter.
"What are you laughing at?"
"If I hadn't perished, why would I have to live in other people's homes to survive? How could a man do such an embarrassing thing?"
The Emperor of Heaven shook his head, suppressed some of his smile and said, "Since ancient times, there has been no immortal in the world. Life is life, death is death...and I am already dead."
"The me you see now is just the shadow of the remaining will in the heaven. You condensed my immortal position, which is equivalent to awakening the remaining 'I'."
These few words of the Emperor of Heaven contain a huge amount of information.
However, Shen Qian clearly heard the negative meaning from it.
The Emperor of Heaven was telling him that with his status and pride, he would not be allowed to do something like hiding in someone else's body and lingering.
In other words, the system has nothing to do with the Emperor of Heaven. The afterimage of the Emperor of Heaven in front of him appears because Shen Qian condensed the other party's immortal position...
Shen Qian was inexplicably relieved at first.
After all, although the system has strong intelligence and autonomy, Shen Qian still doesn't want it to be another living person.
This is probably the difference between a complete puppet and a weak chicken assisted by artificial intelligence. Even a weak chicken will eventually have its own independent personality, which is better than a powerful puppet...
Shen Qian thought mockingly.
But then Shen Qian realized something was wrong.
Because it is clearly written in the hang-up record that "Awakened a memory from the past."
If you are not the Emperor of Heaven, or the system has nothing to do with the Emperor of Heaven, then why does this text jump out?
From the perspective of cause and effect, it is indeed because he awakened such a memory first before he could successfully condense the broken immortal throne of the Emperor of Heaven.
Could it be that...the Emperor of Heaven was lying to him?
Shen Qian was startled at first, but then frowned.
Assuming that the other party wanted to deceive him to achieve some ulterior purpose, there seemed to be no need to jump out at this time, and he could completely control everything silently behind his back.
"I know your doubts, and I also know the origin of the secret in your body."
At this time, the Emperor seemed to see through what Shen Qian was thinking, whose expression was constantly changing, and smiled meaningfully, "But some answers can only be explored by yourself."
"Why?"
This was the first time that Shen Qian met a top expert who clearly knew the existence of his system, even if he was dead... The eagerness to uncover the mystery made Shen Qian become a little irritable.
"It can't be said, even here..."
The Emperor stopped talking mid-sentence.
Even here...
Shen Qian chewed on these six words.
Is it possible that someone else can eavesdrop on his heart?
Shen Qian felt a little ridiculous, but looking at the appearance of the Emperor of Heaven, he also knew that he could not force the other party to do anything. He thought about it and tried to learn something useful from this top powerhouse, so he took a deep breath and asked: "Is that dark heart really yours, Emperor of Heaven?"
"It was."
The Emperor of Heaven sighed, "Later it went bad, so I took it off."
"Did you pick it off?"
Shen Qian wanted to ask the other party if he could really become the King of Martial Arts by swallowing the dark heart, but he didn't expect to get such an answer. He couldn't help but be stunned, "What do you mean?"
"literal meaning."
The Emperor smiled slightly.
"Did you commit suicide?"
Shen Qian did not hide his shock.
"You have to understand that at my level, it is difficult to feel death from the perspective of external forces... it is very difficult."
The Emperor of Heaven said leisurely.
"Why are you doing this? Is it because of the so-called catastrophe?"
Shen Qian was puzzled, "But what exactly was that disaster? Why did the immortals and gods in the heavens suddenly start killing each other? Why didn't you stop it? Instead, you chose to go away. In the end, you even..."
From his previous understanding, Shen Qian already knew that the main reason for the collapse of the heaven was due to the infighting among the immortals and gods in the sky.
But what the cause was, even the classics left by Taibai Xingjun couldn't tell the reason.
The Emperor of Heaven was silent for a while before speaking: "I just told you that the heaven is the embodiment of my will in a sense. I have isolated the sea of dao and formed its own rules. The immortals and gods in it are invisible. What I follow is my 'Tao', and when my 'Tao' goes awry, it will subtly affect someone."
"I see."
Shen Qian understood this time. The Emperor of Heaven and the Heaven Realm were one and the same. If the Emperor of Heaven's own Taoist heart "deteriorated", problems would also arise in the Heaven Realm.
The immortal positions in the sky come from heaven and are gifts from the Emperor of Heaven. Although this allows them to live a long life far beyond the ordinary mountains and seas and has the foundation for cross-level cultivation, it also makes them closely connected with the "Tao" of the Emperor of Heaven. If we are connected together, we will both prosper and lose.
"So Queen Mother Xi advised you to burn books in order to cut off the karma between you and the gods?"
Shen Qian suddenly understood.
The List of Gods is the key for the Emperor to control the gods. From this meaning, the truth about the Yaochi Banquet has emerged.
"That's right." The Emperor of Heaven nodded, "It's a pity that I wasn't awake at that time, so I refused the Queen Mother of the West's persuasion. By the time I came to my senses, it was already too late. As a result, countless immortals and gods fell, and the heavens also collapsed..."
"But you have achieved the imperial realm, which is indeed above the princes... uh, that is, above the Daluo Golden Immortal, right?"
When Shen Qian saw the Emperor nodding, he then asked in confusion, "In that case, what else in this world can affect your state of mind, or even make you go crazy without knowing it?"
"That's what I thought at the time. From the glorious heaven and earth, from the sky to the blue sky, to the underworld, is there anything that I can't control?"
At this moment, the young man in white exuded awe-inspiring power, but he quickly restrained himself. He seemed to have fallen into some deep and unspeakable memories, and a dazed look appeared on his face.
"Until I went there to find the answer..."
"Where is that?"
Shen Qian's eyes narrowed, and his heart beat faster unconsciously.
He felt that he was about to touch the core of the matter, the beginning of all these secrets.
"...the end, or the source."
The Emperor of Heaven thought about it for a long time before finally saying a few words.
"The end and the source of what?"
After Shen Qian asked, he knew he would not get an answer, because the Emperor of Heaven looked so mysterious.
Sure enough, the Emperor of Heaven just shook his head and said: "After returning, I collected all the negative emotions in my heart, then released my body, exiled my soul, and asked Queen Mother of the West to seal my heart in a sarcophagus."
When Shen Qian heard this, he became even more curious about what kind of place the "end" was, and what the Emperor of Heaven had seen. He actually asked him to kill him after he returned...
Shen Qian, who was feeling uncomfortable, didn't know what to say for a moment.
"I don't have much time. If you still have any questions, I will try my best to answer them."
Seeing that Shen Qian was silent for a long time, the Emperor of Heaven was the first to speak.
Only then did Shen Qian notice that after the conversation, the other party's figure had become much thinner, as if he was on the verge of dissipating.
It seems that the Emperor of Heaven in front of me is just an afterimage of a gathering of thoughts...
In any case, it was very rare to have a direct conversation with an emperor-level powerhouse. Shen Qian had no choice but to restrain his depression, settle for the next best thing, and asked another question that had been buried in his heart for a long time.
And given the level that the Emperor of Heaven is at, perhaps he will have a clear answer to this matter.
"Emperor Heaven, it is rumored that the path to the modern Martial King has been cut off. Do you know under what conditions this situation would occur?"
The Emperor of Heaven has fallen for thousands of years. Shen Qian estimated that the other party would not know about this, but at least he might know the cause.
"The 'road' is cut off?"
The Emperor of Heaven raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said thoughtfully, "It is also a way, but it is a pity that it only treats the symptoms and not the root cause..."
"What do you mean?" Shen Qian asked.
"To answer this question, you must first understand the Golden Immortal, which is what you call the realm of princes."
The Emperor of Heaven smiled slightly, "I see that your clone has already entered this realm, so some things are not difficult for you to understand."
"Appreciate further details."
Shen Qian had a lot of complaints about the long-lost big brother Gao. After all, he had been crossing the river by feeling the stones since Shanhai, and even his senior brothers couldn't teach him anything about princes.
Of course, it is estimated that the boss Gao Ye may not have expected Shen Qian to walk so fast...
Finally, there was a one-on-one teaching opportunity before him, which would help him systematically sort out the confusion he had accumulated in his cultivation for a long time. Shen Qian naturally had to grasp it firmly.
"The Golden Immortal Realm can be divided into four levels."
After taking a look at his thinner figure, the Emperor's speech became more rapid, "Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Daluo Golden Immortal, and the top Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal."
Shen Qian nodded slightly, which should respectively correspond to Bo, Hou, Gong and the top King Wu among the princes.
"The Golden Immortal casts the crown of the sky, first reaches the stars, and becomes the realm of the Golden Immortal. His lifespan can exceed three thousand years!"
Jinxian is the state that Shen Qian's clone is currently in. What surprised Shen Qian was that this was the first time he heard someone accurately define the life span of a prince.
But there is nothing wrong with thinking about it. After all, modern martial arts textbooks, due to the lack of history and the shortage of statistical specimens, naturally cannot clearly state how long a prince can live.
It is estimated that many princes themselves cannot explain clearly. For example, taking Shen Qian's own clone as an example, he can feel the vast and endless vitality and has the illusion that he will not die.
But if you ask Shen Qian's clone to tell you exactly how many years he can live, he won't be able to tell.
After all, Tianjie has a long history and has witnessed many sample statistics of Jinxian. It must be impressive in this regard.
It turns out that ordinary princes can live for three thousand years...
Although it is not eternal life, there is actually not much difference.
For Shen Qian, who was under twenty years old, this was an unimaginably long time.
"Then there is the next level up Taiyi Golden Immortal."
Seeing that Shen Qian had no clear questions, the Emperor continued, "Taiyi Golden Immortal can open the Heavenly Gate, from the lowest level one to the twenty-first level, with different levels of strength... Of course, the twenty-first level Heavenly Gate is just a legend. , no one has seen it since ancient times.”
"What is 'Tianmen'?"
Shen Qian chewed on the word and asked.
This was not the first time he heard the term "Tianmen".
Because of the different accumulations in the realm of mountains and seas, there is a huge difference between princes and mountains and seas, and they do not necessarily follow a step-by-step process from low to high.
There are people with outstanding talents who can directly cross the lowest threshold and reach a higher realm, and there are many such people.
For example, the current number one genius in the human race, Ling Tianhou, became a prince the day he broke through the ranks of princes. The fifth senior brother said that he had opened the "Fourteenth Level of Tianmen", which astonished countless eyeballs.
Shen Qian's clone did not see the so-called "Tianmen" when he broke through the princes. He thought it was because of his qualifications and path.
After all, the clone is just following the "path" of the predecessors step by step. Regardless of the bonus of the alien fire, it is also considered weak among the princes, so he does not have high expectations.
"In the most popular terms, the Golden Immortal Realm is actually the road to the ladder to heaven, and the existence of the 'Tianmen' is to make this ladder more stable and give it various bonuses. Can you understand this? "
The Emperor said with a smile.
"Stairs...portal..."
Shen Qian murmured to himself, and then he remembered the clone standing on the Dao Sea, the vaguely spreading stairs leading to the depths of the starry sky under his feet, those stairs that he had not yet dared to step out, and he vaguely seemed to understand something.
(End of chapter)
