Free Web NovelChapter 622: Chapter 593: Laying the Cards on the Table
"Endless ages ago, before the Immortal Path was severed, the Upper Realm launched a great calamity against the Starry Sky, and the former Starry Sky overlord, the Taichu Immortal Court, emerged, leading powerful beings of the Starry Sky in opposition to the army of the Upper Realm.
The battle shattered the Starry Sky, and the sole sixteenth-tier powerhouse from the Taichu Immortal Court intervened, severing the Immortal Path, thus resolving the crisis of the great calamity.
Yet, despite this, the powerful beings of the Starry Sky were nearly wiped out. Since then, the Immortal Path was severed, and no further cultivators from the Starry Sky could achieve Ascension to Immortality!"
Gu Qingyang sat at the end of the river of rules, speaking slowly. As his voice fell, ages-old images suddenly appeared, allowing all the cultivators of Cyan Yang County and the Cyan Yang Divine Realm to witness them with their own eyes.
In those images, one could see the fierce slaughter between the Upper Realm and the Starry Sky.
Powers emanating terrifying auras crushed the heavens, obliterating galaxies, and countless creatures turned to ashes and perished.
The sky wept blood.
The Immortal Court was destroyed.
All cultivators witnessing this scene were profoundly shocked.
Even Demon Venerable Xuan Yin, a cultivator who had experienced ancient calamities, could not help but feel alarmed upon seeing these images once more.
This is the terror of the ancient calamity.
Star systems were extinguished.
Worlds turned to ashes.
Against the cavalry of the Upper Realm’s army in the Three Thousand Cosmos, the Starry Sky’s resistance seemed futile.
Ultimately.
A giant emerged across the sky, with a body as majestic and tall as a galaxy, slaying one Upper Realm powerhouse after another, then led the Starry Sky warriors into the Immortal Path, intending to counterattack the Upper Realm.
Immediately.
The scene changed again.
On the Path to Immortality, warriors shed blood.
Powerful existences one after another perished on the Immortal Path.
The giant who led the Starry Sky warriors into the Immortal Path also suffered ambushes from other powerhouses, leading to an exceedingly fierce slaughter.
In this battle.
The giant shed blood.
The Immortal Path was broken.
Then.
The scene thoroughly dissipated.
All cultivators of the Cyan Yang Divine Realm fell silent.
No reason.
Only because the scene just witnessed was too shocking.
Even those somewhat aware of the ancient calamity through scattered words from Ancient Ruins were far less impacted than seeing such images firsthand.
Upon truly witnessing these images, they understood how mighty the Starry Sky was once, and how terrifying the Upper Realm was.
The numerous Starry Sky warriors who followed the giant into the Immortal Path, each radiated an extremely terrifying aura, which today’s thirteen-tier powerhouses of the Cyan Yang Divine Realm could not compare to.
In other words.
These powerhouses.
Were all above the thirteenth tier.
"Dare I ask His Majesty the God Emperor, the reappearance of ancient calamity images, does it portend something?"
At this moment, Gu Fang was the first to ask.
The others, upon hearing this, all looked to Gu Qingyang, awaiting his reply.
Under everyone’s gaze, Gu Qingyang calmly said, "The Immortal Path disjoined to end the great calamity, now the Cyan Yang Divine Realm nurtures Immortal Qi, and the severed Immortal Path shall reconnect.
Eleven thousand years later, the Immortal Path shall reappear, and the ancient calamity shall restart.
The time now left for you is scant. If unable to wield power to counter the Upper Realm before the calamity begins, then what awaits the Starry Sky is a repetition of the ancient calamity’s end.
Furthermore, this situation may be more dire than the ancient calamity.
In future projections, the emperor saw the Starry Sky collapse, all creatures perish, yet the future is not immutable, and the variables rest in you!"
After speaking.
All celestial phenomena dissipated.
Gu Qingyang vanished at the end of the river of rules.
However, what he left behind was a wake-up call akin to a morning bell at dusk.
It turns out.
The ancient calamity has not passed.
Or rather.
The ancient calamity passed, but a new calamity will come again.
Eleven thousand years!
This time seems long, yet in reality, it is but a matter of fact.
For a moment.
Many cultivators grew a sense of urgency.
However.
Not many cultivators felt panic or at a loss.
After all, in these years, Cyan Yang Divine Realm has always had some rumors about the Upper Realm’s calamity, and now Gu Qingyang’s words only confirmed this news for them.
"Eleven thousand years later, the Upper Realm will descend again; at our current strength, it’s perhaps difficult to withstand!"
"Even if the Upper Realm army descends, Cyan Yang Divine Realm is not certainly an opponent of the Upper Realm."
"Indeed, His Majesty the God Emperor’s cultivation is sky-high, surely able to lead us against the Upper Realm."
"Stop joking, His Majesty’s strength is indeed strong, but the giant of the ancient calamity was equally powerful, and in the end, he fell..."
Some cultivators discussed fervently, some with pessimistic attitudes, others full of fighting spirit.
These changes.
Gu Qingyang witnessed them all.
However.
He did not interfere too much.
The matter of the calamity ultimately had to be exposed; instead of revealing it at the last moment, catching everyone off guard, it’s better to tell them in advance, allowing a mental preparation.
The current Cyan Yang Divine Realm is not what it once was, having undergone over eleven thousand, nearing twenty thousand years of accumulation, its strength compared to the past has grown by not just billions of times.
With such powerful support, even if there is some distance with the Upper Realm, it’s not enough to drive everyone to despair.
With morale.
There is hope.
Therefore.
This is why Gu Qingyang chose this precise moment to reveal the reason.
"Nowadays, heaven and earth should advance to the sixth tier!"
Three thousand years of discourse!
Finally allowed Cyan Yang Divine Realm to bring forth some thirteen-tier powerhouses again.
Originally, before the discourse, the Cyan Yang Divine Realm had over ten thousand twelve-tier powerhouses, among them there were those reaching the upper and complete levels of the twelfth tier.
Now, this three thousand-year discourse allowed some of these cultivators to break through barriers and ultimately step into the thirteenth tier.
Currently.
The number of thirteen-tier powerhouses shockingly broke two digits, reaching thirty-six.
Thus.
Conditions for the sixth tier of heaven and earth are naturally met.
Immediately.
Gu Qingyang invoked a thought to let the entire Cyan Yang Divine Realm ascend.
Five-tiered heaven and earth.
The Heavenly Dao level comparable to thirteenth-tier powerhouses, able to accommodate powerhouses up to the peak of the thirteenth tier, and when advancing to the sixth tier, it goes further, allowing the Heavenly Dao’s power to match the fourteenth tier, accommodating a number of powerhouses stepping into the peak of the fourteenth tier.
Of course.
That’s the standard of ordinary heaven and earth.
After all, the normal five-tiered heaven and earth is about the size of nine galaxies, but the Cyan Yang Divine Realm at the five-tiered level was already equivalent to the size of three hundred sixty galaxies.
With the current upgrade, it caused a profound change in the entire world.
Expansion!
Heaven and earth are expanding at an incredibly frightening speed.
From an external perspective.
One can see the Cyan Yang Divine Realm devouring galaxy after galaxy, incorporating all these galaxies into the Star Sea, and then witnessing the vast and magnificent world spanning the Starry Sky, seemingly eternal forever.
