Eternal Holy Emperor

Chapter 1804 - 1619: Secrets Passed Down, Heavenly Mechanism Calculation!

"Combat Saint Emperor!?"

As these words fell, they boomed beside Ye Chen’s ears like thunder, leaving him utterly dumbfounded, completely stunned in place.

The Combat Saint Emperor was precisely the Combat Saint Ancestor, the founding patriarch of the Combat Saint Lineage.

Regarding that one Great Emperor Reincarnation from the Mythical Era, Ye Chen had imagined many Great Emperors, all of them other Ancient Great Emperors of the Chaos Sea, yet he had never dreamed that, in the end, it would turn out to be the ancestral patriarch of his own lineage.

The Combat Saint Ancestor was actually a Great Emperor Reincarnation, the one who defied the heavens to live out a second life and then ascended to the Strongest Emperor Realm, that Eternal Emperor!?

Even now, he still found it somewhat hard to believe.

But thinking it over carefully, it was not impossible either.

How many of the Strongest Emperors throughout the ages have there ever been? Such as the Heavenly Emperor, the Combat Saint Ancestor, the Time-Space Emperor, the Emperor Supreme Saint, the Primordial One, the Emperor Haan Tian, and so on—looking across the entire Chaos Sea, through the rise and fall of one epoch after another, how many such existences could there be when added together?

To say they could be counted on one’s fingers would be no exaggeration at all.

These were beings who had surpassed even the Emperor Realm, the utmost existences most likely to ascend to the Eternal Domain.

Was the Combat Saint Ancestor not also one of the Strongest Emperors? He too fell within this range.

Only, the descriptions concerning the Combat Saint Ancestor were basically all about his achievements after he attained the Strongest Emperor Realm—sweeping across past and future, slaying Alien Emperors, striking down Supreme Immortals—those awe-inspiring battle records that shook all ages. Even within the Sealing Universe, there were not many accounts of the Combat Saint Ancestor prior to that; they were basically brushed over in a single stroke.

And those who lived in the same era as he did were all people of the Mythical Era. Even though many Emperors and Sovereigns had perished, the survivors had long since gone far away to other domains, struggling and bleeding for that blood-drenched future. As for everyone else, they had died off countless tens of thousands of years ago.

This was the Emperor’s secret, unknown to the world; only on this Ultimate Ancient Road—where countless Heavenly Prides from various Ancient Universes converged—did some of these unrecognized imperial secrets get gathered and recorded.

"Correct, it was indeed the Combat Saint Emperor." Jingtian Great Power spoke. Yet when he mentioned this imperial title, even someone as peerlessly mighty as he could not help but feel a surge of respect from the depths of his heart.

For the Combat Saint Emperor was not only one of the mightiest Emperor Supremes throughout the ages, but was also reputed to be the existence with the strongest Emperor Body.

During the period in which he attained the Dao in his second life, he discarded all the various Supreme Emperor Methods of his first life, broke the old to establish the new, and created the Combat Saint Body, this Supreme Holy Body Technique.

There was no need for an Innate Treasure Body; even as an Acquired being one could cultivate a Supreme Holy Body, standing in defiance of the heavens.

The Combat Saint Ancestor was precisely the one who cultivated the Combat Saint Body to fruition, and further perfected it to Great Perfection, breaking into the Strongest Emperor Realm, suppressing all ages, sweeping across the Chaos Sea. No one dared even to claim they could be compared with the Combat Saint Ancestor in this field.

From this, one could glimpse a fraction of his might.

Moreover, his senior disciple, the Wuxiang King, was likewise an unmatched fierce figure. In the Mythical Era, he once slaughtered so fiercely upon the Ultimate Ancient Road—then in its most brilliant and flourishing age—that no one dared utter a sound. Even now, the unvanquished prestige belonging to him still circulates across the Ancient Road.

He later achieved the position of the Strongest King; though not a Great Emperor, he could battle a Great Emperor, displaying the utmost demeanor.

He even incited the Alien Race to spare no cost, dispatching seven Supreme Monarchs together with two Great Emperor to strike. Nine Supremes schemed to besiege and kill him, yet even with their entire army wiped out, they still failed to slay him, only leaving him grievously wounded and on the verge of death.

In the end, an Alien Race Supreme Emperor could no longer preserve his dignity and personally made a move, finally strangling this King of Kings, Wuxiang, at the threshold of becoming an Emperor, causing countless people in the Chaos Sea to shake their heads and sigh softly.

Otherwise, the Wuxiang King would surely have broken the shackles of the Emperor Dao, and it was by no means impossible that, after the Combat Saint Ancestor, he might have become another Strongest Emperor.

And now, this lineage had once more produced a Chaos Young Supreme such as the Combat Saint King, whose potential was boundless. Perhaps there was even a sliver of hope that he might surpass his predecessors, perfect the Great Perfection Chaos Dao, completely break the shackles of eternity, and become an existence of the Eternal Domain.

The Jingtian City Lord had no choice but to acknowledge the heaven-defying nature of this lineage; thus, toward the Combat Saint Ancestor, this ancestral patriarch, his admiration was truly without limit.

A blazing flame likewise ignited within Ye Chen’s heart. This was the progenitor of the Combat Saint Lineage—who, within a ten-deaths-no-life desperate situation, defied the heavens to live out a second life, and furthermore attained the Strongest Emperor Realm, shaking past and present—and was also his grandmaster.

The Jingtian City Lord said, "So, Great Emperor Reincarnations do indeed exist, and it is highly likely that one is right now on the Pill Emperor Star."

With the Combat Saint Ancestor as a precedent, the existence of a second Great Emperor Reincarnation was not impossible.

Ye Chen nodded, and humbly asked the Jingtian City Lord for instruction regarding Great Emperor Reincarnations.

Because of his various brilliant achievements, Ye Chen had gained the recognition of the Ultimate Ancient Road. The Jingtian City Lord naturally did not deliberately conceal anything; on the contrary, he took the initiative to inform him, allowing Ye Chen to learn many ancient and unknown secrets, things that not even many ancient forces ruling the starry skies within this Ancient Universe necessarily knew.

According to the Emperor’s secret they obtained, it was learned that the Supreme Emperor once born on the Pill Emperor Star was not only born upon this star, but likewise passed away upon this very star, shrouding it in a veil of mystery.

Generally speaking, a Great Emperor’s lifespan is endless, Immortal through Changsheng, yet it does not mean they will never fall.

This invincible Ancient Great Emperor, in those years, due to certain unknown reasons—perhaps because he had experienced the most terrifying Emperor Battle and was left with irreconcilable wounds, or perhaps because he suffered the gravest Dao injury while assaulting the Eternal Domain, or for other reasons—ultimately was still powerless to turn the tide, and sat in death upon this Pill Emperor Star, perishing thereafter.

At that time it caused an unprecedented, colossal uproar; the Qi Mechanism of such a Supreme Emperor sitting in death alarmed the entire Great Universe, drawing the attention of all living beings in the cosmos, startling every lifeform, and even affecting the River of Time itself.

Yet there is another rumor: although this Ancient Great Emperor sat in death, he did not utterly perish, but has always existed within this Pill Emperor Star, maintaining a single undying True Spirit.

Throughout these tens of thousands of years he has been undergoing a deep-level metamorphosis, intending to defy the heavens and return, to live out a second life, to re-enter the invincible Emperor Road, and to shatter the shackles of eternity, rising against the heavens.

Some unverifiable scraps of information mention that this Ancient Great Emperor may reappear as a newborn, sever all his former Emperor Dao foundation, once more campaign along the Emperor Road, and cultivate upon an entirely new path, ascending to the ultimate summit.

The so‑called notion of a Great Emperor Reincarnation spread precisely from this.

What is even more important is that, if the rumor is confirmed, this time the Great Emperor’s Reincarnation and rebirth may appear on the Pill Emperor Star in the near future, seizing the star’s entire fortune and emerging into the world.

The high echelons of the Ultimate Ancient Road all believe that the Great Emperor Reincarnation is very likely imitating the Combat Saint Emperor, likewise standing on the brink of death and seeking Nirvana, to live out a second life, perhaps to thereby tread upon the defiant path of the Combat Saint Emperor and also ascend into the Strongest Emperor Domain.

Ye Chen nodded; since that Eternal Emperor was already about to sit in death due to Dao injury, it is highly likely he would have taken the Combat Saint Emperor as a reference, unwilling to simply sit in death, and thus chose Nirvana, to live out a second life.

Moreover, the Jingtian City Lord had learned that although the world did not obtain as many Emperor’s secrets as the Ultimate Ancient Road, it had nonetheless received the same news—that the suspected Great Emperor Reincarnation would defy the heavens and return, and be born upon the Pill Emperor Star.

If one could slay this Great Emperor Reincarnation, one would seize his Emperor Dao foundation, and barring accidents, would surely become Emperor and bear the title of Emperor in the future.

Although the news has not been verified, in merely two months it has spread throughout the entire Ancient Universe at an inconceivably shocking speed, stirring up surging tempests on all sides, drawing the attention of the whole Ancient Universe, and even causing endless strong beings to descend.

The Great Universe fell into a boiling frenzy.

For this reason, the Pill Emperor Star is even about to host an Eternal Conference that will attract the eyes of the ages, solely to seek out the Great Emperor Reincarnation, slay him to seize the Emperor Dao foundation, and contend for the Emperor Dao.

Some have even obtained secret information that the Great Emperor Reincarnation is very likely within the vanished Fiftyth Pass, undergoing Nirvana and metamorphosis therein, and that all sides must join forces to search him out.

However, the Fiftyth Pass is only rumored to exist and has never been confirmed; even many Great Powers on the Ultimate Ancient Road today do not dare to assert whether the Fiftyth Pass truly still exists in the world.

"The Fiftyth Pass does not exist?" Ye Chen was startled. Could it be that even the upper echelons of the Ultimate Ancient Road do not know?

The Jingtian City Lord shook his head and said, "The Fiftyth Pass does exist, but its whereabouts are a mystery. Let alone you, even the Ultimate Ancient Road does not know the true destination of the Fiftyth Pass. It vanished into thin air many tens of thousands of years ago, and it should be related to that Great Emperor."

Some legends claim the Great Emperor Reincarnation is within the Fiftyth Pass, and this is not baseless, because the time when the Fiftyth Pass vanished coincides precisely with the period during which the Great Emperor sat in death.

Moreover, the Fiftyth Pass is very different: the Dao is forty‑nine in number, and the fiftieth is the one that slips away.

Precisely because of this, many people believe that the Great Emperor Reincarnation is within the Fiftyth Pass.

In order to find traces of the Fiftyth Pass, someone invited Heavenly Masters of long‑standing renown in the universe.

The so‑called Heavenly Masters are, naturally, Heavenly Masters who peer into the Heavenly Mechanism, Cultivators skilled in the Dao of calculation. Their cultivation may not be very strong, yet in the path of divination their attainments are profound as creation itself, surpassing many Great Powers.

There are even a very few Heavenly Masters whose Dao in the aspect of calculation is not necessarily inferior even to that of an Ancient Monarch.

Only Tian Jizi, one of the nine ancient road tyrants, can utterly outmatch these Heavenly Masters.

Naturally, some have also sought to invite Tian Jizi to carry out a Heavenly Mechanism Calculation, but unfortunately, in recent years Tian Jizi’s power of calculation has been too defiant, drawing the hostility and even pursuit of other Ancient Road Dominators, leaving him powerless to concern himself with such matters, and no one has been able to find any trace of Tian Jizi, which is regrettable.

In the end, as many as nine Heavenly Masters descended, invited at immense cost by the various great powers. Together they calculated the Heavenly Dao, searching for the legendary Fiftyth Pass.

It is said that during the calculation the Heavenly Mechanism suddenly changed; the entire Pill Emperor Star saw its winds and clouds turn color, heaven and earth violently quaked, and countless terrifying anomalies appeared.

Blood rain drifted down; green hairs fluttered in the air; Fierce Ghosts from hell emerged; blood‑reeking corpses plummeted down one after another; the sun exploded, the moon shattered, ghosts wept and gods howled... One chilling anomaly after another ceaselessly manifested and fell upon the mortal world, arousing boundless terror among countless beings, as though heaven itself intended to annihilate the world.