Chapter 93: Will Of Ancient Monarchs, Solidifying The Emperor’s Heart

On this day.

Gu Changqing finally arrived at the foot of Shouyang Mountain. As he stared up at the peak formed by several layers that resembled steps, he felt a tremendous will.

A will that belonged solely to humans.

This was the origin of mankind, and in that human race ancestral temple on the top of this mountain.

It carried the accumulation of countless ancestors of human will, will that could not be extinguished, will that would rather fight heaven and earth than to give in.

Gu Changqing did not climb the mountain right away. Instead, he stopped at the foot of the mountain.

He took a bath and changed into clean clothes.

His clothes were as white as snow and he stood with his hands folded behind his back.

In that moment.

The suffering traveler who had wandered the mortal world for three years looked like how he did when he attained Great Emperor back then.

Kaboom!

Just then, the weather in the skies suddenly changed.

A terrifying, tragic aura swept through the Beixuan Continent like a tsunami.

In that moment, the heavens in the universe shook, the earth in the mortal world swayed!

“I am the ancient monarch of the demon race!”

“The Sacred Moon Goddess Changxi betrayed my race and is the disgrace of the demon race! Today, I will personally turn her into a cauldron within Taixing Mountain, a cauldron for me to cultivate with!”

“Gu Changqing, either you die or my demon race dies. If you come and beg for forgiveness, I will let her go!”

…

That earth shattering voice was filled with great authority. It rang through the hearts of every living creature on the continent.

Everyone had felt that incomparably terrifying will.

Gu Changqing froze for a moment.

It had been three years.

When he heard the name of that woman again, his heart trembled for some reason.

He looked at the Taixing Mountain range for a long time, then looked away and started walking up the steps of Shouyang Mountain quickly without hesitation.

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Outside the mirror.

The cultivators’ gazes froze when they heard that voice.

The ancient monarch of the demon race!!!

“I’ve heard of this ancient monarch before! That’s the most powerful being the ancient demon race had, a powerful creature that almost reached the maximum level of cultivation!”

“In those times, such a character would remain isolated for a long time to cultivate and would not ask about the demon race. Of course, if the demon race’s core powers are shaken, this monarch would not sit idly by either.”

“But later on I heard that this monarch was killed within the Taixing Mountain range by a powerful existence that nobody had seen before!” said one of the cultivators.

The cultivators’ gazes shifted, but they were not very surprised.

After all, it would be really strange if an ancient, powerful, gigantic race like the demon race didn’t have a few of such hidden characters lying around.

But.

When they saw how the Heavenly Emperor just paused for a while before heading up Shouyang Mountain.

Their gazes were filled with nothing but disappointment.

“So, in the face of finding his own dao, the Moon Goddess who lived with him for three years in the past is not even worth fighting for?”

“How unfeeling! How cruel!”

“Looks like the Heavenly Emperor started taking steps toward his violent, immoral dao from here onward.”

“Over the last three years, he seemed to have done a lot of good deeds for the human race. But in reality, his heart had become cold and unfeeling.”

Everyone glanced at Changxi.

In that moment, everyone felt a deep sadness for her.

This woman had betrayed the demon race for the sake of the Heavenly Emperor, yet now, the Heavenly Emperor didn’t even care about her even though her life was being threatened!

When they parted ways after living together among humans for three years, the cultivators thought that the Heavenly Emperor had some feelings for Changxi. But looking at things now.

He hadn’t asked her to stay when they went their own way, so perhaps at that time, the Heavenly Emperor didn’t have Changxi in his heart at all.

Then again, since the Heavenly Emperor eventually lived to be captured, it meant that a mighty being must have saved him back then.

Perhaps it was that mighty being who killed the ancient monarch!

Ye Chen was feeling especially gleeful.

When he saw that the Heavenly Emperor’s expression remained as aloof as before even after hearing that Changxi’s life was in danger, he felt nothing but glee.

“So, he’s finally going to get cursed at by everyone?!”

Ye Chen, the Great Emperor Ye, had been waiting for this day for way too long.

Changxi just stood where she was the whole time, too stunned to react.

Especially when she saw.

The ancient monarch of the demon race had told every single person in the world that he was going to turn her into a cauldron for cultivation, yet Gu Changqing merely took a glance and his expression did not change. Her heart felt like it had been pierced by a needle and it hurt terribly!

…

Meanwhile, several people had gathered at the foot of the mountain.

These were all the cultivators that had come to send Gu Changqing off.

“Today, I will climb Shouyang Mountain and use the will of human dao to solidify my Emperor heart.”

A voice that wasn’t too strong or solid rang out from Gu Changqing’s mouth.

He quietly stood proudly at the foot of the mountain. He possessed a mortal body, but in that moment, everyone felt like this man was more like an invincible Great Emperor who had just descended.

His heart was invincible and was able to suppress the heavens!

Gu Changqing’s 3,000 disciples seemed like they too, wanted to accompany their teacher on this final journey.

But they had only taken one step toward where Gu Changqing was standing.

And they felt a terrifying, borderless, authoritative pressure fill the skies and surround them. Their souls couldn’t help but tremble under the pressure.

They felt like they had fallen into a deep ice cave!

Nobody dared to look up at the peak of the mountain, as though there existed a being who was too terrifying to look straight at.

In the next moment.

Everyone behind Gu Changqing were so heavily weighed down by the terrifying pressure, they lay prostrate on the ground like ants, trembling at the foot of the mountain.

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Outside the mirror.

The cultivators stared at the mountain that Gu Changqing was at with shock and horror in their eyes.

One of them said puzzledly, “The human race has hidden powers that are this powerful? How is this mountain able to exert such terrifying authoritative pressure?!”

Several cultivators were equally confused.

As far as they knew, the human race was as weak as ants. But the pressure emanating from this mountain made them feel on the verge of suffocation, even though they were merely looking in from outside the mirror.

Just then, Jiang Minghuang said calmly, “This place is the ancestral grounds of the human race, the birthplace of the human race.”

“It has gathered the will of humans, the will of countless ancient gods and demons, and even the indestructible divine sense of humans that have disappeared in the long river of time.”

“Never mind mortals. Even cultivators will not be able to climb this mountain!”

“If the demon race dares to come here, it will only be for a while before they are shattered to mere powder by this terrifying pressure!”

“In this world, only Great Emperors are qualified to climb this mountain. But even Great Emperors will have to suffer the borderless will of humans. There’s only a one in ten chance of making it to the top.”

That was terrifying!

Everyone was incredibly horrified!

“How did the Heavenly Emperor climb this mountain then?” some cultivators asked in shock.

After all, based on past events, Gu Changqing had eventually become Great Emperor very likely because he had managed to reach this mountain’s peak.

But after hearing what Jiang Minghuang just said, they felt that this was now an impossible task.

Could it be that the Heavenly Emperor had given up his previous cultivation system and found himself a new one right at the foot of the mountain??

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Inside the mirror.

Countless cultivators of the Beixuan Continent looked toward the mountain.

Legend had it that the human race’s ancestral temple held many, many secrets of the human race.

All this time, so many people had wanted to climb this mountain, to take a look inside that ancestral temple.

But no matter who they were, they were unable to even start climbing the mountain, never mind reach the top!

It was as though this seemingly ordinary looking mountain was hiding an ancient human monarch in the long river of time that could emanate a pressure that protected this huge mountain.