Lu Yin didn't care about the order of the heroes who had died in battle. The reason he was the first to engrave the names of the Grand Empyreans was because the Grand Empyrean had mentioned the names of many heroes at the tea party. Her respect for the heroes who had died in battle was no less than anyone else's.
In Immemorial City, Lu Yin had learned from the Progenitor that the Grand Empyrean was actually someone from the Primordial Space. She cultivated the exact same power as Astral Source, but also the opposite. She was someone who refused to admit defeat.
"Ancestor Hui, Hui Wen, died in battle in Immemorial City. Today, your name is engraved so that your descendants will never forget it."
Ancestor Hui's contributions were enormous. Without him, the human race would not be where it was today. Everyone was indebted to Ancestor Hui, regardless of their cultivation level. He had changed the history of the human race.
Countless people bowed, including those from the Reincarnation Spacetime and those from the parallel spacetime. Ancestor Hui's benevolence was towards the entire human race, not just the Primordial Space.
Only those from the Sixth Mainland did not bow. They were indebted to Ancestor Hui, as he had allowed the human race to defeat the Eternals. However, he had also harmed the Sixth Mainland. After all, he was a human, not a god, and he had his own selfish motives.
Following that, one name after another was engraved into the fifth pagoda.
Qiu, Qing Hui, Old Zhong, Hui Wu, Bai Sheng, Eji, Babar, Rune Ancestor, Jian An, Bai Mu, Master Shan, Ce Xiao, and so on.
As each name was engraved, everyone remained motionless in their salutes. These people had all died in battle for the human race, and Lu Yin could only engrave a limited number of names. All they could do was express their respect and remembrance for these people at this moment.
The Wordless Heavenly Book was like a sun that illuminated the entire universe and the hearts of everyone present.
Inheritance was not just about civilization, but also about will and culture. If a civilization lost its will and culture, then it would not be considered a complete inheritance. It would only be a continuation of the race, but it would be completely different from that civilization.
The fifth pagoda was meant to pass down the current era, including the fateful confrontation with the Eternals. The will and spirit of the entire human race could not be forgotten by future generations.
After Lu Yin engraved the names of all the people he knew into the fifth pagoda, a beam of light shot through the void, just like how the Progenitor's Sword had taken them. He looked into the river of time, into the unknown history, and saw many people who had died for the human race.......
Lu Yin did not know their names, but he remembered them deeply. Even without their names, the Fifth Pagoda was still resplendent and had not dimmed in the slightest.
At the moment of their sacrifice, the heroes who had died did not expect that they would be remembered by their descendants. However, they deserved to be remembered.
Those small fries who died on the battlefield would also be remembered by this era and passed down through their spirit and will to the future generations.
The radiance of the fifth pagoda lasted for two whole years.
During these two years, Lu Yin had constantly traveled through the river of time, trying his best to find unknown heroes who had died and memorize them. The Wordless Heavenly Tome had become even more radiant during these two years, and its light could illuminate every corner of the dark universe.
Lu Yin could feel the prayers of all living beings become even more obvious, and the region of space around his heart expanded once again.
This was something he hadn't expected. He really just wanted to do something for history, for this era. This was his responsibility.
When he had undergone the tribulation of the Wordless Heavenly Tome, he had made a great vow to redeem others for good. This inheritance of spirit and will was one such method. Anyone who could be touched by this spirit and will would not be evil.
Not everyone could remember the heroes who had died in battle, and not all of them would be remembered. However, everyone remembered Lu Yin, regardless of whether they were humans or other intelligent lifeforms of this era.
Lu Yin wanted to use the Fifth Pagoda as a gift for this era to the future generations. It was like a boundless cemetery, but in reality, he himself was the greatest symbol of this era.
On this day, Lu Yin had been cultivating for exactly a hundred years, not counting the time he had spent cultivating in the mirage domain and the die's Timestop Space, which had a different flow of time, he had been cultivating for exactly a hundred years. A hundred years.
In other words, in the past hundred years, the entire human history had undergone a huge turning point. In just a hundred years.
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There was a place in the Starry Sky of the Astral Tree that was rarely visited. It had once been a magnificent battlefield, the frontline of the Astral Tree's resistance against the Eternals' invasion. It had also been the peak of the Astral Tree's power for an era. That place was the Mother Tree's treetop, the Ruler's Realm.
The Astral Tree had split off from the Fifth Mainland, creating the Ruler's Realm, the Upper Realm, the Middle Realm, and the Lower Realm. The Ruler's Realm was a place that the Progenitors of the Astral Tree had to protect, and it was the battlefield of the Progenitors.
However, the battles here had never been as intense as the ones on the other side. The Eternals rarely had any ideas about the Ruler's Realm, even though most of their battles with the human Progenitors had taken place there.
This was because the Godhawk was there, and the Astral Tree never left the Ruler's Realm empty.
Today was an exception.
The Eternals had been defeated, and the five array bases on the other side of the battlefield had been greatly reduced. The Godhawk had left the Mother Tree, and only Nong Yi was left to guard the Ruler's Realm.
The Ruler's Realm was divided into different regions based on the location of the Progenitors. Lu Yin and the others had been to the Withering Glory Domain, where the Withering Ancestor resided, and the Spirit Void Temple, which had been passed down from him.
On a tree branch far away from the Spirit Void Temple was a place called the Frenzied Sword Domain, where the Progenitor of the Astral Tree lived.
The Frenzied Sword was from the Liu family, and he was a Progenitor of the Liu family. His sword was wild, and for a period of time, he had swept through the battlefield on the other side of the battlefield, which had caught the attention of the Eternals. After coming to the Ruler's Realm, he had been located much closer to the battlefield on the other side of the battlefield than the Withering Glory Domain.
However, after the Frenzied Sword's death, this place had been abandoned.
No one had expected the Sole True God to be here.
The Sole True God was still covered in the golden Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm, but the blood-red light had suppressed the light. Otherwise, he would have been like a bright lamp wherever he went, and there would have been no way to hide.
He looked down and saw countless people in the Upper Realm bowing in the direction of the Wordless Heavenly Book. He praised, "Humans are a strange race. They can always stand up in desperate situations, and there will always be someone who will lead them out of the darkness. Even if it is not Lu Yin, there will always be someone else."
"This child is like an illusion created by the entire human race to reverse a desperate situation. However, the illusion will eventually disappear."
The Ancient God and Hei Wushen stood behind the Sole True God and watched on calmly as well.
Tiangou quietly crouched by the Sole True God's feet. After so many battles, it still showed no signs of dying. It was clearly just a captain of a True God's guard, and its strength was nowhere near the Seven Skygods', but it was still extremely resilient.
"I'm just afraid that this illusion will take you away before it disappears," an old voice rang out from behind them.
The Ancient God and Hei Wushen turned around at the same time, but they were shocked to find that they had not discovered who it was.
The Sole True God's expression did not change. "He can't take me away. No matter how resplendent the illusion is, it's still fake. Long time no see." He turned around and looked at the old man in the distance. "Grass Grandmaster."
The person who had appeared behind them was Grass Grandmaster. Lu Yin had seen this old man before and asked him about him, but he had not been able to find anything strange about him.
He was the old man who had led the Windrift Hall to save people and had a great reputation in the Innerverse and Outerverse.
The Ancient God stared at the old man in the distance. He had never seen this person before. Who was this old man?
He was a Primordial Realm expert, and even the Sole True God might not be able to silently appear behind him without being discovered. The Ancient God knew that he was strong enough to fight the Sole True God, but he had not sensed this old man who had suddenly appeared.
Could this person be an Eternal Realm expert?
Was he the Fated One that the Ancient God had been searching for all this time?
Grass Grandmaster carried a bamboo basket on his back and looked just like an ordinary old man who had gathered herbs. He slowly walked over with a smile on his face. He looked at them and said, "Of the mighty Eternals, only the few of you are left. How sad."
"You are?" Hei Wushen could not help but ask.
Woof!
Tiangou barked, but when Grass Grandmaster looked at it, it was instantly terrified. It curled up and buried its head under its body, not daring to make a single sound.
The Ancient God frowned. He knew Tiangou's strength very well, but he did not know why it was so resilient. Even he was not confident that he could kill Tiangou.
Tiangou was actually so afraid of this old man.
Grass Grandmaster looked at Hei Wushen and said, "All of your schemes are nothing, not to mention that your schemes are nowhere near as good as that child called Huiwen. You did not lose unjustly."
Hei Wushen clenched his fists, but he dared not retort. He was not stupid. He could guess what was going on, so he backed away silently.
Grass Grandmaster looked at the Ancient God and praised, "Primordial's disciples are all impressive. If it weren't for the fact that Primordial Realm had forcefully suppressed your cultivation, preventing you from breaking through to the Primordial Realm, the former Above Heaven sect might not have been defeated so easily."
"Who are you?" The Ancient God asked.
Grass Grandmaster smiled faintly and sighed, "Who am I?
I've even forgotten about it. I've lived for far, far too long. Not being able to die is a vexing matter. Eternal Realm. You want to reach Eternal Realm even in your dreams, but little do you know that Eternal Realm is the beginning of the nightmare. "
"You can't understand what it's like to never die."
The Ancient God's eyes narrowed. Eternal Realm. He really was an Eternal Realm expert. This old man was fate, the existence behind the protectors of the four directions.
He had actually never seen him before.
The One True God looked at Grass Grandmaster, "Not being able to understand is even more lamentable than being able to."
Grass Grandmaster smiled faintly, "The universe's restrictions on Eternal Realm experts are too severe. Even though Eternal Realm experts can never die and are invincible in the universe, the universe itself is the greatest enemy of Eternal Realm experts. If it weren't for the restrictions, I wouldn't have taken away a period of time from that person called Ku Jie."
"I can't let him take away that period of time."
"You should have killed him directly," said the One True God indifferently.
Grass Grandmaster shook his head, "That's why there are restrictions. Tian 'en is too useless. He can't even kill that person under those circumstances. But it doesn't matter. He'll never get the time that was taken away."
The Ancient God listened quietly without any change in expression.
"Three of the protectors of the four directions have died, and only Tian 'en has escaped. My Eternals have been defeated. Either you help me remove the Six Paths of Reincarnation, or I'll let your spiritualized universe do it yourself. Although the Above Heaven sect has many experts, they might not be able to stop your spiritualized universe," said the One True God.