Chapter 100: The Real Story Behind The Heavenly Emperor’s Massacre Of Humans

“Kill her, or kill her.”

Gu Changqing repeated these words and couldn’t figure out what the ancient emperor was trying to say.

These words were very strange, and even someone like Gu Changqing was unable to understand what they implied.

He stared at Changxi and scanned her with his divine sense again and again. But besides observing that she was a little weak, he couldn’t sense anything else.

Since he couldn’t figure it out now, he had no choice but to throw these words to the back of his mind for now.

Gu Changqing used his human dao will to awaken Changxi’s true soul.

In his arms, this woman slowly regained consciousness.

She was still the same.

Her facial features were immaculate, like a ceramic doll. Her skin was fair and supple, like a piece of white jade. Her complexion was smooth and porcelain like. She was still just as pure and beautiful as back then.

But her gaze looked a little more gloomy now.

It made her look less charming than before.

The two stared at each other and did not say anything for a long time.

Changxi’s gaze was first confused, then pleasant surprise, then grievance. After that, it turned gloomy and conflicted.

Gu Changqing felt an ache in his heart and suddenly blurted out, “From now on, I’ll walk the path ahead with you.”

He couldn’t imagine what this woman must have gone through these past three years, a woman alone and ignorant about the world.

Changxi’s gaze shifted a little.

In that moment, her eyes were filled with tears.

The feud she had with him, the line she had drawn between them in her heart, seemed to have all disappeared because of that one statement.

Her intense longing for him over the past three years had washed away any remaining rational thought in her mind.

She buried herself in his warm embrace and began to sob uncontrollably.

…

The two seemed to have returned to the past.

As for that feud between them, neither said anything about it, as though they had an implicit agreement.

But emotions were something that faded over time and were not as strong as before.

And when that happened, the feud from the past became all the more prominent.

Changxi slowly began feeling just as conflicted as before, even though she never talked to Gu Changqing about it.

The two were no longer as close as before, and were even somewhat estranged.

Until one morning.

The sky was still dark. Changxi packed her things and silently left this man who had caused her unimaginable pain once again.

Gu Changqing was lying there with his eyes shut, but he was not asleep. He could hear the sounds next to him, but he did not stop her in the end.

He knew well that this woman’s world was very small and that she was also very simple.

She was such a simple person, she could only face and accept a relationship that did not carry any other emotional baggage.

…

Time passed. In the blink of an eye, half a year had gone by.

Since he had reached Quasi-Emperor, Gu Changqing remained among the humans.

After he had given up the chance given to become Great Emperor that day and lost the possibility of leveling up, his dao was always just missing that little bit.

And so, he had spent all this time in the human world to try and comprehend the human dao in his heart.

The human race right now were too weak. If they did not have the protection of a powerful person, then even if he gave them greater will and intelligence, it was still going to take humans a much longer time than other races to become stronger.

It was too hard for the humans to rise up in this world where thousands of races were fighting to be the top.

Gu Changqing spent most of his time standing in the void. While looking down at the humans and trying to comprehend human dao, he was also protecting the Nine States, the world where humans lived.

With his protection, this place finally concluded its chaotic era and was able to live in peace and prosperity.

But this day.

As he furrowed his brows to comprehend human dao, Gu Changqing vaguely sensed murderous qi barging into the Nine States.

This murderous qi was extremely terrifying and the wrath it contained was ready to destroy all in its path.

Gu Changqing frowned as he suddenly tore open the void and came to the place where that terrifying wrath was.

But he did not see any terrifying being with that kind of wrath.

Instead, he was met with nothing but bones.

This was a human city that measured more than 5,000 square meters.

But right now, regardless of whether they were commoners or the royal family in their palace.

They had died tragically in this city.

The strong smell of blood hit his nostrils.

Bodies lay everywhere. Bodies of the ones who died tragically.

Men, women, old people, babies…

As if they had been slaughtered without discrimination.

Their fresh blood dyed the entire city a grim, red color.

Rage flashed in Gu Changqing’s eyes.

Demons killed humans to eat their flesh.

Devils killed humans to consume their qi and blood.

But now, whatever killed everyone in this city had not killed for qi, blood or flesh. It seemed to have killed for the sake of killing!

“It’s him, it’s him! He’s the one who massacred the entire city…”

In the midst of the blood, it seemed there were humans that had not died. They witnessed how this bustling and developing city had suddenly met such a horrific tragedy.

Gu Changqing frowned as he looked at where the voices had come from.

Among the pile of bodies, three men were still alive. They were staring at him with terror and fear in the eyes, as well as pure rage.

“You are supposed to be the ruler of the humans!”

“We humans loved you so much, we even put up your portrait in my house and burned incense to worship you! Why did you do this? Why!”

The man whose clothes were drenched in blood lay in the pool of blood as he bellowed angrily.

In the distance, a few small groups of human cultivators came flying over.

One of them was a disciple that had followed Gu Changqing around when Gu Changqing was still wandering the Nine States.

“I heard news from a fellow disciple that the ruler of the humans was massacring humans, and at first, I did not believe him.”

As he spoke, he pointed at the few humans on the ground who were still breathing, then at the dead bodies strewn everywhere.

“To my dismay, it really is you.”

“Why did you do this? Why?!”

“I respected you as my teacher and the human race even worshiped you as their ruler. Why would you do something so cruel and unethical?”

That cultivator was shouting at the top of his lungs. He was extremely agitated.

As for the other cultivators, when they saw that the one standing proudly above the countless bodies below was Gu Changqing, they had run for their lives.

…

Outside the mirror.

The cultivators were stunned as they watched what just happened.

“If my guess is right, this is the so called incident where the Heavenly Emperor massacred the human race, right?” said one of the cultivators.

Everyone sensed that something wasn’t quite right.

The Heavenly Emperor definitely wasn’t the one who killed all these people.

Because their eyes had been on the Heavenly Emperor all this time.

The Heavenly Emperor had remained in the void to protect the humans living in the Nine States.

It was only when he sensed something earlier that he decided to tear open the void and come to this place, only to be met with this destruction.

“Could it be that there’s a misunderstanding about the Heavenly Emperor massacring the human race back then?”