"How could this be?"
"God of War …" Zhan Lang, Qing Cheng, and the other wounded God of War Guards were all shocked. They helped Zhan Wu to sit down carefully. As a large amount of Fighting Will Particles flowed out of the wound and spread into the Void, the Sunset God of War's aura weakened and his life was fading rapidly.
"It shouldn't be like this … It shouldn't be like this …" Qin Hao was panicking. He had only been hit once. Even if the Law of Reincarnation had invaded his body, with Zhan Wu's foundation and the power of the God of War, this injury was not fatal. It was not even serious.
But why … "Uncle Han, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?"
Seeing Zhan Wu turn from a strong middle-aged man to a head full of white hair, Bao 'er could not help but fly over from the North Territory's army. She squatted in front of Zhan Wu and cried. She reached out her trembling hands but did not know what to do.
"It's okay. Your father didn't mean to hurt me. It's okay."
Zhan Wu tried to force a smile. He wanted to wipe away Bao 'er's tears, but he realized that he could not even lift his hand.
He did not know when the armor on his body had become so heavy.
"Go away."
Qin Hao pushed Zhan Lang and the others away. He bent down and placed his finger on Zhan Wu's wrist. In the next moment, his face turned pale.
Zhan Wu's Emperor qi was dissipating and his will of Dao was dissipating. Through the sword wound caused by the Reincarnation Technique, it was converging towards the Heavenly Dao. However, this was only on the surface. The main reason for his aging was that his life force … had dried up.
No.
In other words, Zhan Wu had long lost his life force.
His body was completely filled with Dao. His skin was damaged and could not stop the Dao from flowing out. Once the Fighting Will Particles in his body disappeared, he would cease to exist.
The Sunset God of War, who shocked the Five Realms of the East Continent, was actually a living dead.
"Big Brother."
Qin Hao shouted. His eyes were misty and he looked like he was struggling. "You still won't tell me? Even at this time, you still won't tell me everything?"
He did not know what the problem was. According to Zhan Wu's lifespan, he should have been able to live for hundreds of years.
However, he was completely sure that the Sunset Wargod before him had died many years ago, and he was actually supported by the will and Dao Insight he'd left behind when he was alive.
But according to the current situation, Zhan Wu would not be able to hold on for long before his Dao Will dissipated, and his will would cease to exist. Even Qin Hao would not be able to save him, because Zhan Wu had died a long time ago.
"It's no longer important whether you know or not. Perhaps this is the best ending for you. My only regret is that I won't be able to protect you in the future."
Zhan Wu's voice was filled with endless vicissitudes.
He couldn't go back. In the end, he couldn't.
He was clearly powerless, yet he still forced himself to hold on. He was obsessed with the past. This was the end he deserved.
But even if his soul was destroyed, he had no complaints.
That was good too.
Although the Divine Wilderness was bad, at least Qin Hao had reached the top. In the future, without his care, Qin Hao would not be bullied by others.
"Was I wrong? I was wrong from the start …" Qin Hao lowered his head in pain. The memories of his two lives surged in his mind. He tried to find everything about Zhan Wu and him, but the images he saw were mostly fragmented fragments and all the bad aspects of Zhan Wu.
The scene that was engraved in the deepest part of his soul was the destruction of the imperial body in the Valley of the Burial God, as well as the rise of the Sunset Wargod and Empress Ling Xuan.
What exactly went wrong? Who could tell him the answer?
"Ten thousand years of protection, but it was destroyed in a single day. Even if you have to leave, at least leave them with some beauty. Forget it. Even I can't bear to see it. Let me tell you the answer."
On the Towering Divine Peak, the huge phantom of the divine phoenix soared into the sky and circled in the Nine Heavens. Then, it turned into a beam of flame of the Great Path and landed on the battlefield. As the flames retreated, a woman stood in front of Qin Hao and the others.
"Senior Sister!"
Qin Hao looked at the woman, and the shock in his eyes could not be any greater.
It was Myōri of the Megrez Peak.
However, Myōri's condition was very poor. She had lost her imperial body of flesh and blood, and what appeared in front of everyone was an illusory spiritual soul.
"Why bother?"
Myōri's spiritual soul glanced at the white-haired old Zhan Wu, and then nodded at Qin Hao with a smile. "Junior Brother, congratulations. You have finally reached the supreme realm that Master and all the other Uncle-Masters have reached, the Nirvana of the Imperial Way."
"I would rather not have this Nirvana."
Qin Hao was very emotional. If he had known that this battle would cost Zhan Wu his life, he would rather not have fought. Even if Zhan Wu left him with an evil face and a living dead body, he would let this living dead body continue to do evil in the East Continent.
"Childish."
Myōri chuckled and let out a long sigh.
"Senior Sister, what's going on? Where's your imperial body?"
Xiao Han flew over and asked.
"It's destroyed."
Myōri said, her eyes sweeping across the vast battlefield in front of her, looking at the countless corpses of the War God Guards floating in the void. "Just like them, it's destroyed.
However, I'm considered lucky. Zhan Wu used his fighting spirit to resist the laws of the Heavenly Dao, and with the nourishment of the Spirit Qi of the Sunset Dao Peak, it delayed the time for the Heavenly Dao to melt my spiritual soul.
At least, I'm still alive for now. "
However, the spiritual souls of the countless God Guards and God Generals did not exist.
"Senior Sister, tell me everything. I can fix it."
Qin Hao said anxiously, seeing Zhan Wu's aura getting weaker and weaker, and the old body in the armor was even more illusory than his Senior Sister. His tone was pleading.
"You can't even save yourself. How can you save all of us?"
Myōri said.
"Don't say anymore."
Zhan Wu pleaded.
Myōri ignored Zhan Wu and continued, "Actually, I don't know much. Only when Zhan Wu is tired and can't take it anymore would he talk to me for a while.
According to him, the two of you are not from the Divine Wilderness. "
"This …" Bai Di and the others were shocked.
Qin Hao was also stunned.
"Due to certain reasons, you and Zhan Wu left your home and ended up in the lower realms. Before this, you already suffered extremely serious injuries, having your dao heart gouged out and your dao bone removed. Only an extremely weak soul remains, and it's incomplete as well."
"In order to let you be reborn, Zhan Wu tried everything. Because you are not an ordinary person, the conditions for rebirth are very difficult. The beings of the Lower World cannot withstand the strength of your Dao Will.
"But he didn't think it was difficult. He spent countless years and didn't care about the exhaustion of his life to find a suitable Dao Body for you. Oh, it's more appropriate to call it a Divine Body.
"Don't say anymore …" Zhan Wu didn't want to talk about those days. It was as if he had been humiliated.
"He found three Divine Bodies for you, but you died prematurely. In the end, you were stranded in the Divine Wilderness and experienced the Ancient War of the Gods. Actually, you and Zhan Wu also participated in that war."
Myōri's tone was bleak. Qin Hao was one of the main culprits that caused the Divine Wilderness to be devoid of Gods.
Ten thousand years ago, because the experts of other regions coveted a certain item in the Divine Wilderness, they wanted to seize the power of the Heavenly Dao. In order to help Qin Hao recover his divine sense, Zhan Wu brought his incomplete self to serve the experts of other regions, participating in that battle.
Because of this, Qin Hao died in the Divine Wilderness Divine War.
In fact, in the Demon Domain, Shi Ming wanted to tamper with Qin Hao's Divine Residence, causing a divine imprint to appear on his glabella. At that time, Shi Ming recognized Qin Hao, so he had an extremely strong killing intent.
Because Qin Hao destroyed the Divine Path of the Divine Wilderness.
Later, Shi Ming restrained himself. He said that it was the will of the heavens and helped Qin Hao completely inherit Yan Ming's Divine Strength. He also helped him gather the Demon Emblem and temporarily control the evil power.
"After a long time, you wandered the myriad of worlds with an incomplete soul. You were despised, bullied, and exploited by other gods. Every time you went to a new world, you would be assimilated by the Heavenly Dao and your Divine Personality would be weakened continuously. Until you fell into the Divine Wilderness, Zhan Wu no longer had the strength to take you out. He was suppressed here by the Heavenly Dao of the Divine Wilderness and fell from a Divine King to an ordinary person."
This was the price.
It was the price for Qin Hao to pay for his fourth reincarnation.
In this reincarnation, Zhan Wu did not continue to accompany Qin Hao by his side and did not carefully watch over him like before. On the contrary, because of this, Qin Hao grew smoothly and soared to the sky, becoming increasingly uncontrollable.
He met a benefactor, obtained an opportunity, and turned danger into safety time and time again until he inherited the Divine Strength of a Divine Wilderness expert and reached the Nirvana Realm.
Although there were some accidents along the way, for example, the Evil Soul in the Divine Palace was extremely dangerous.
However, Zhan Wu had already been killed by the Imperial Censor.
The Divine King Armor was never obtained from the Divine Burial Ruins. It was the armor of the Divine King of the Archean Divine World.
The Sunset Arrow was also not a divine weapon that Dendi had. It was a weapon that Zhan Wu gave him to protect himself and taught Qin Hao the Sunset Mental Cultivation Technique.
Therefore, the source of the Sunset Mental Cultivation Technique was with Zhan Wu.
As for why Qin Hao did not have the cultivation technique of the Art of Honest Battle, it was because he could not master it. This was a set of Archean Divine Path techniques that fixed one's Godhood. If Qin Hao mastered it, he would no longer be an Alchemy Venerable, and this would very likely affect his awakening of the Celestial Source.
"After four reincarnations, you have become the Supreme Being of the East Continent that everyone envies. Do you know that behind every reincarnation, you are actually being carefully protected by a pair of invisible hands? Unfortunately …" Myōri looked at the white-haired Zhan Wu. "For your fourth reincarnation, someone exhausted his own Celestial Source. However, there is no one behind him to protect him."
"You have said too much."
Zhan Wu gritted his teeth. If he had hardened his heart and continued fighting at the Sunset Peak, he might have been able to force out Qin Hao's dormant Celestial Source and awaken the memories of three reincarnations.
As for him, he had been weakened by layers of Heavenly Dao and was already riddled with holes. It did not matter if he was reborn or not.
"Ah …" It was unknown if he had suffered some kind of shock, but Qin Hao held his head with both hands and let out an ear-piercing scream.
Why?
His memories were blank.
Why? He did not know anything.
Wrong.
He was not Dendi of the East Continent. He did not belong to the Divine Wilderness. He and Zhan Wu had another homeland.
"Qin Hao, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me."
The scream was too loud. Waves of evil aura that was filled with sin, resentment, and murder began to surge out from Qin Hao's shoulders. The terrifying aura sealed the area and seemed to want to devour everyone. Xiao Han suddenly panicked.
"This evil aura is not strong. Suppress it. You can do it. Suppress it."
Zhan Wu did not know where he got the strength from. Without anyone's help, he stood up shakily and roared at the deranged Qin Hao.
How could the resentment of a lowly creature from the Lower Domain compare to the divine power of a Primordial Divine Venerable? There was no need for Shi Ming's help. As long as Qin Hao stimulated the power of the Divine Source, he could stop the evil aura from spreading and not be affected by it.
"Back off. If you don't want to die, all of you back off."
Ancestor Mo Hai roared crazily at everyone. An extremely evil aura spread out. Waves of evil spirits began to sway behind Qin Hao. Crazy laughter and ear-piercing cries merged together, trying to drag people into the Nine Serenities. Under the Ultimate Nirvana of the Emperor's Way, no one here could compete with Dendi.
The only one who could suppress Qin Hao, the Sunset War-God, had exhausted his Divine Source and caused his divine power to collapse. If he stayed here and was entangled by the evil spirits, he would die without leaving a trace.
Buzz! Buzz!
Buzz! Beams of Emperor's Light frantically escaped into the distance, pulling an absolute distance away from Qin Hao.
The sword cultivators of Jueying Sword Palace, Southern Region Sword Sect, Eastern Sea Shuo Clan, Northern Region Phoenix Flower Sect, Central Region White Lunar Pavilion, and Immortal Sect. They came in an orderly manner, but fled as quickly as they could.
Including the Emperors, no one dared to approach the demonized Dendi. He was like an abandoned lunatic roaring, but no one was willing to come forward to comfort him.
Except for Zhan Wu, who dragged his trembling body and used his almost dissipated hands to grab Qin Hao's arm. He roared angrily as if he wanted to use his voice to expel all the evil from Qin Hao's body.
Xiao Han's eyes were filled with tears as she stood with Bao 'er and Mu Yuwei. She was also one of the few people who remained here. Other than them, the other heroes of the prosperous East Continent all avoided them like the plague.
"Sigh …" Myōri let out a long sigh. It was all the sins of the Divine Palace. Under the stimulation of the evil spirits, Zhan Wu's fourth reincarnation, which he had painstakingly cultivated for Qin Hao, would probably die at the end of the Emperor's Path.
How sad!
Boom!
An extremely powerful beam of Emperor's Path exploded from the south. The terrifying radiance of the Great Path radiated across the entire sky. Turbulent shock waves roared through the void, causing huge rocks to fall from the Sunset Peak. Tens of thousands of palaces on the peak collapsed, and the War God Temple on the peak also sank.
"Not good."
Zhan Wu looked in that direction and sensed waves of overbearing auras tearing through the space and closing in on them in a frenzy. They were filled with billowing murderous intent. At this critical juncture, the calamity that he was most worried about had arrived.