Chapter 80: Gu Changqing Hits Great Emperor

An even more terrifying wave of Dao laws came crashing down from the skies.

They rushed right into the little fox’s body.

The terrifying waves drowned the entire basement of the palace. Even the huge hall built in the middle of Tanggu collapsed.

Boundless might filled the heavens and the terrifying vitality force brought down on this place turned this sea of lava into a green, luscious space.

But that young woman did not wake up.

Gu Changqing stood in the middle of the rubble. An incredible pain welled up in his heart as their past together flashed in his mind.

The little fox who had stolen divine pills for him and fed him blood.

The little fox who had sheltered him from the wind and rain.

The little fox that had drained herself of everything for him even when she was barely clinging onto life herself.

It had been so hard for her to finally break that bloodline curse. Why wasn’t she allowed to live on?

Gu Changqing’s tears had turned to blood. He could barely contain his grief.

*If the heavens won’t pity you, I will! *

He disregarded the potential backlash from the heavens he was probably going to face and gathered a huge amount of life force from the world into the life mill. The territory that had once been filled with the Demon Race turned into a dead zone.

“Come!”

“Again!”

He kept yelling again and again, his presence more and more commandeering each time. But to no avail.

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Outside the mirror.

Everyone watching couldn’t help but feel something when they watched how the Heavenly Emperor seemed to have completely lost his mind.

“He’s trying to use some reversal technique to resurrect the little fox, right?”

“But how can that be possible? How can a dead person come back to life?”

“The Heavenly Emperor had been able to rescue Bai Su the last time because what he actually did was to break the bloodline curse. But this time, she’s really crossed to the other side of life. How can he reverse that?”

“I’ve never heard of anyone being able to revive a dead person by their own strength.”

Countless cultivators shook their heads sadly.

Especially when they could see that while Gu Changqing’s presence was growing more and more commandeering, his physical body was becoming more and more frail. His life force was thinning out and his expression was pained.

While it was true that the Heavenly Emperor was incomparably cruel and ruthless later on, the sincerity of his feelings toward the little fox they could see right now really touched the hearts of everyone watching.

Ye Chen had a very worried look on his face right now.

Even though he knew that nobody could revive the dead, he couldn’t help but worry.

After all, if this little fox came back to life, then she was definitely the Qingqiu Empress Bai standing next to him right now.

The good part was that.

The end result was exactly as he had thought. No matter how hard Gu Changqing tried, the little fox did not regain consciousness.

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“Bleaaagh…”

Gu Changqing spat out several mouthfuls of blood and looked like he was about to die.

He couldn’t even remain standing anymore and collapsed onto the ground.

His body was wrapped by Dao laws that ate into his flesh, their power turning his flesh to powder.

The pain was hard to bear.

This heavenly power that he had summoned at all costs was something that even himself at Quasi-Emperor found hard to endure.

Gu Changqing stared at the lifeless body in front of him and felt nothing by despair.

He looked up at the sky. The power of the laws that he had been able to use to kill a Great Emperor turned out to be completely useless when it came to death.

“If a Quasi-Emperor can’t do it, then I’ll have to be Great Emperor.”

A resolute look shone in Gu Changqing’s eyes.

He gently placed the woman in his arms on the ground.

He leaped into the sky, and in that boundless void, Gu Changqing slowly took that step that he did not complete back then when he slayed the Golden Crow Great Emperor.

KABOOM!

Thunder exploded in the sky!

A borderless sea of lightning shook the void as thousands of Purple Cloud Divine Lightning roiled in the sky.

If he became Great Emperor, then he would be unrivalled in the world!

If he became Great Emperor, then he would be an existence that defied the heavens!

This one step was a tribulation he had to face as a cultivator of the Heavenly Dao, and it would be one of his greatest tribulations.

Gu Changqing did not want to take this step earlier because he didn’t want to die just yet. He had a feud from the past to settle.

But now, he didn’t care anymore.

Gu Changqing took one great leap into the sea of lightning and allowed the lightning dragon to attack him without restraint.

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Outside the mirror.

Every cultivator stood with their eyes and mouth agape.

“Is the Heavenly Emperor…on his way to Great Emperor?”

“But you mean…once he does that, he’ll be able to raise the dead to life?”

Everyone could tell what Gu Changqing was trying to do, but they couldn’t understand why.

After all, one could not revive the dead.

That was a law of the heavenly way that even a Great Emperor had to accept and abide by.

“Well, if he doesn’t become Great Emperor, there’s definitely no hope. Maybe he just wants to give it a shot…” suggested a cultivator.

But he was met with nothing but silence.

For the sake of a tiny bit of hope, this man was willing to risk his life? And allow himself to face such a terrible tribulation?

The crowd couldn’t believe it. At the same time, they felt that this Heavenly Emperor always seemed to possess such mind bending resolve.

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BOOM!!!

Terrifying blasts of thunder continued to resound again and again.

The lightning dragon gathered Dao laws, ready to annihilate and slaughter all things!

Gu Changqing did not hold back anything.

This lightning tribulation was not just a test of his physical body but even more of his will.

His dao, his search for the Heavenly Dao, was an unwavering one. He was determined to find his own way and he did not fear fate.

The lightning tribulation was here to cut off his path ahead.

It was here to destroy his will.

Boom!

Boom!

Lightning dragon after lightning dragon struck Gu Changqing’s body.

He was already covered in blood from head to toe.

His flesh was a mess and there was no part of him that wasn’t hurt.

Each time a lightning dragon hit him, the aura around himself would decrease.

Even so, he remained standing proud in the sky.

His bones were fractured, but his spine stayed straight.

After a full 81 lightning dragons had hit him and Gu Changqing was left with just one last bit of breath, the sea of lightning finally faded into nothing.

The Heavenly Way was a just one. Since Gu Changqing had survived the tribulation, he was to be rewarded next.

Even more terrifying powers of the laws entered his body to repair his broken shell.

In that moment, Gu Changqing’s aura suddenly grew incredibly powerful.

The earth shook in fear, the universe trembled wildly!

Gu Changqing was now like the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao. Every move he made contained the boundless powers of Daoism.

His body had transformed into a body of laws, containing countless laws within. Behind him, a Merit Golden Wheel appeared.

In that moment, golden lotuses in the heavens bloomed, vast amounts of purple air filled his surroundings and terrifying amounts of blessings and qi rushed into his body.

He seemed to have turned into the most favored child of the Heavenly Dao.

No, more accurately speaking, he was the Heavenly Dao itself.

He was an accumulation of limitless talent, blessings, merit and qi!

Everything behind him pointed to his peerless might and capabilities, as well as his smooth sailing road of cultivation ahead.

And in this moment too, all living things in the universe understood one thing.

An extremely terrifying existence had just been born!

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“A 20-year-old Great Emperor! What!”

“That’s insane!!”

Even though everybody already knew that Gu Changqing was going to survive the lightning tribulation, they still couldn’t believe what they were seeing right now.

Every Great Emperor since the beginning of time had to go through thousands of years of cultivation to get to this stage.

But Gu Changqing?

“I didn’t expect the Heavenly Emperor to reach his Great Emperor era this quickly.”

As they stared at the figure in the ancient mirror.

In that moment, regardless of whether they were a Great Emperor or otherwise, they felt like they could barely breathe.

It was as though that Heavenly Emperor who could suppress the entire world and stood atop myriad paths had returned to this world.