Strongest War Emperor

Meanwhile, Shen Lang entered the Seal and arrived at the mouth of the rift, where he was stunned to discover a strange energy already suppressing the Supreme Yin Qi.

He activated his Silver Eyes of Truth to investigate and immediately discovered that this was Divine Demon Power from the Upper Realm.

Then, to his even greater shock, he found that the power was of a completely indescribable magnitude...

This power wasn’t just suppressing this one rift. Instead, it radiated out from a single point, extending into the far distance, seemingly suppressing every similar rift that had appeared across the entire world!

Not since fusing with the War Emperor’s memories had Shen Lang felt so utterly shaken!

Although many of the War Emperor’s memories were sealed, Shen Lang could still piece together a general picture of the world by combining what he could access with various classics.

He could also deduce the approximate level of the War Emperor’s cultivation at his peak.

He also had some understanding of the strength of the world’s many powerhouses.

Thanks to the records in the War God Hall, he even knew a great deal about the Divine Demons who lingered in the Human Realm.

It was precisely because he knew so much that Shen Lang was all the more astonished and shaken!

He was certain of two things:

First, while some Divine Demons did exist in this world, one this powerful absolutely should not have appeared.

Second, not even the Five Emperors and Six Ancestors, the supreme beings of the Human Realm, possessed such methods or power!

As for the Upper Realm Divine Demons...

Ten thousand years ago, the Reverse Passage between the Human Realm and the Upper Realm had not yet been closed.

Therefore, ten thousand years ago, many Upper Realm Divine Demons walked this world.

Even further back in time, the Human Realm was nothing more than a private garden for some Divine Demons of the Upper Realm.

Long before the great upheaval of the Blood Race, this world was in a chaotic state, and the Human Race was still very weak.

Upper Realm Divine Demons came here and battled the native Divine Demons of the Human Realm. Like feudal lords carving up territory, they fought endlessly over land and resources. Their battles overturned heaven and earth, causing mountains to collapse and the land to split asunder.

But the power of the Divine Demons who appeared in the Human Realm back then was extremely limited.

Due to the restrictions of Plane Power, the Divine Demons who descended from the Upper Realm had their abilities curtailed. They could still command the wind and clouds in the Human Realm, of course. But strictly speaking, aside from their Divine Power, incredibly tough and immortal bodies, and powerful Magical Treasures, their strength wasn’t much greater than that of the Human Realm’s Peak Powerhouses.

The more powerful a Divine Demon was, the more impossible it was for them to enter the Lower Realm through the Reverse Passage.

This was a Rule said to have existed since the dawn of creation.

Thus, before the Reverse Passage between the Lower and Upper Realms was sealed, the Divine Demons in the Lower Realm were typically just small-time minions by Upper Realm standards.

Although they were powerful, they had not reached a level where they could utterly overwhelm the Human Realm’s powerhouses.

About 300,000 years before the great upheaval of the Blood Race, the wars in the Human Realm finally subsided.

Legend has it that a Venerable Emperor from the Upper Realm intervened, ordering the Divine Demons of all realms to return. And so, most of the Divine Demons in the Lower Realm were recalled.

This finally allowed the myriad worlds to find peace and catch their breath.

By this time, although some Divine Demons still caused trouble in the Human Realm, the situation had become controllable.

Then, ten thousand years ago, something world-shaking occurred—the Reverse Passage between the Upper and Lower Realms was completely closed by a legendary Great Power capable of destroying heavens and razing the earth!

From then on, one could only ascend from the Lower Realm to the Upper Realm; the Upper Realm Divine Demons no longer had a way to enter the Lower Realm through the Reverse Passage.

Some of the Divine Demons stranded in the Human Realm believed that with the Reverse Passage sealed, the Upper Realm could no longer interfere. They thought they could now stir up trouble as they pleased and rule over a few of the Human Realms as local tyrants.

Who would have thought that they would face fierce resistance from the powerhouses of all races?

For a time, they were like rats scurrying across the street, hunted by everyone...

Without support from the Upper Realm, these Divine Demons all fought for themselves, with none willing to submit to another. In the end, the united powerhouses from various factions defeated them one by one.

Afterward, some who saw the writing on the wall went into hiding and entered a deep slumber. Others fled directly into the void, never to be seen again. The rest were suppressed by a joint effort from the powerhouses of the Human Realm’s various races and sealed in the Nine Netherworld Prison...

From that time on, the Upper Realm Divine Demons vanished from the Human Realm, disappearing without a trace.

This information led Shen Lang to two conclusions:

First, the Divine Demons lingering in the Human Realm or sealed in the Nine Netherworld Prison were powerful, but nowhere near this terrifyingly so.

Second, due to the Lower Realm’s planar suppression of Divine Demon Power, even if such a powerful Divine Demon did appear, it could only exist in the void, not in this world itself!

According to the War God Hall’s millions of years of records on Divine Demons, a Divine Demon of such power had never appeared on the Star Continent, from ancient times to the present day.

And it should have been impossible for such a powerful Divine Demon to appear!

Due to the restrictions of a Low-level Plane’s Power, some Divine Demons, even if they possessed the strength to shatter this world, could not descend upon it in their true forms.

In a sense, the Five Emperors and Six Ancestors were considered the Venerable Level powerhouses of the entire Human Realm.

Especially the enigmatic Six Ancestors, each of whom possessed the power to tear apart the heavens and split the earth.

But even they shouldn’t possess the power to seal every Earth Rift across the entire world!

But now, Shen Lang had undeniably discovered this unimaginable power. The situation was simply too incredible, too inconceivable!

’Where in the world is this seemingly impossible power coming from?’

Suppressing his shock, Shen Lang borrowed the power of Zuo Wentian’s Divine Soul and followed the trail of Divine Power, trying to find its source.

Time passed, bit by bit...

Just as the Power of Divine Soul released by Zuo Wentian was about to be depleted, a region thousands of miles across and overflowing with Death Qi appeared in Shen Lang’s mind.

’The Valley of Death, one of the Three Great Wilderness Lands of the Western Wilderness! The Divine Demon Power is actually coming from the Valley of Death?’

Shen Lang gritted his teeth, his gaze following the power further downward, piercing through layers of yellow sand to probe deep into the earth!

At that very moment, in a courtyard within the Purple Chu Imperial Capital, Shen Moran was dancing gracefully with a longsword. Inside a pavilion, Chu Qingcheng, who had been playing a zither, suddenly looked up, his expression changing.

He looked at the sky in disbelief, a wry smile appearing on his lips. "This freak... he found me even though I’m hidden this deep... Heh, how lonely it is at the top..."

Then, Chu Qingcheng shook his head with a wry smile and gently plucked a string on his zither with his right index finger...

ZING!

The note from the zither was faint and ethereal. A flash of divine light vanished from the string, seeming to pierce through space itself.

The next moment, Shen Lang, who was using his Silver Eyes of Truth to probe ever deeper, suddenly felt his head spin!

He felt an unparalleled power erupt from the depths of the earth, instantly repelling him!

In that instant, Shen Lang felt as if he were riding the clouds and mist, crossing through layer after layer of space, returning directly from the Valley of Death millions of miles away to the side of the rift in the Desolate Land!

He had used every ounce of his strength and spent ages just to locate the Valley of Death, only to be instantly repelled by some unknown power!

Activating the Silver Eyes of Truth required Divine Thought, but that didn’t mean the eyes themselves were a form of Divine Thought probe.

Within the line of sight of the Silver Eyes of Truth, there was only a minuscule fluctuation of Divine Thought.

It was a type of Space Rule that even Shen Lang could not yet comprehend.

To discover and attack the Silver Eyes of Truth, one had to possess immense cultivation and have some comprehension of Space Rule.

In all the times Shen Lang had used the Silver Eyes of Truth, he had only ever been detected once before: by the Qilin-like beast deep beneath Extreme Thunder Peak of the Profound Dao Sect.

He never thought that this time, even while borrowing Zuo Wentian’s powerful Divine Thought, he would not only be detected but also be instantly repelled without him even realizing what was happening...

It was clear just how powerful the master of that Divine Demon Power he had sensed was!

"Master, this power is far too tyrannical. Even at my peak, I would not have dared to make contact with it. You absolutely must not probe any further..."

The Sword Emperor, Zuo Wentian, who had never known the meaning of fear, now had a tone laced with irrepressible terror!

This was something that had almost never happened before!