Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Chapter 316: First Holy Emperor

Su Yun followed Jing Zhao's figure and saw Jing Zhao walking out. With white hair and beard dancing in the wind, he seemed to have a kind of transcendent freedom.

Jing Zhao was also a wise person, but he fell into the demonic path because of his deep obsession.

This time, he set fire to the "Fire Cloud Cave Heaven," burning away the efforts of the ancient saints and the protection and pride of the previous Fire Cloud Cave Masters for the past five thousand years.

After burning everything, his demonic thoughts also disappeared, leaving only regret and guilt in his heart.

When his demonic nature disappeared and his wisdom became clear, he quickly saw through Su Yun's plan, so he turned back.

In the process of going and returning, Jing Zhao's regret and guilt vanished, and he gained a new life.

"If Jing Zhao loses his obsession and dies now, his spiritual essence will not be pulled by the Heavenly Market Constellation, and he will ascend directly," Su Yun thought.

Then he became alert in his heart, realizing that he had been with the people from the Tongtian Pavilion for too long, to the point where his thoughts unconsciously aligned with theirs.

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The people from the Tongtian Pavilion were rarely emotional and more rational, making them appear eccentric.

Yu Qingluo walked over and thanked Su Yun with a bow. This young girl somehow found a green silk dress and wore it, covering her white robe.

Wearing the green silk dress, Yu Qingluo appeared tall and slender, exuding a unique charm.

"When I felt my teacher leaving, my Dao heart became calm and peaceful. There are no more obstacles in his Dao heart," Yu Qingluo said as she watched Jing Zhao leave the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven and then turned her gaze back. "Su Master, what you want to know is here. Please come this way."

Su Yun followed her, with more than two hundred experts from the Tongtian Pavilion behind him.

Su Yun hesitated for a moment, about to ask them to stop, but Yu Qingluo smiled and said, "It's alright. Master, do you know? The first thing I want to do when I return to Yuanshuo is to make the saint's profound arts of the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven known to everyone, so that all schools and academies in Yuanshuo can cultivate any kind of saint's profound arts."

She walked side by side with Su Yun and said, "When I came to Daqin and studied at the Jiange, I was determined to absorb the strengths of new knowledge and make up for the shortcomings of the ancient saint's profound arts. However, I found that one person's wisdom is limited. With my own strength and only a hundred years of lifespan, I cannot promote the profound arts of so many saints throughout history! To rejuvenate the ancient saint's profound arts, we need to gather the wisdom of all the scholars in Yuanshuo!"

"The saint's profound arts in the Fire Cloud Cave have never belonged to the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven, but to every person in Yuanshuo!"

Her smile had a unique charm, and her words were full of inspiring power. "The Western countries have been rejecting the ancient saint's profound arts, trying to sever the connection between the new and old knowledge. They cannot help me complete the revolution of the saint's profound arts. Therefore, I can only return to Yuanshuo! When you enter the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven again in the future, you will find that the saint's profound arts here are no longer old but full of vitality!"

Su Yun admired her boldness and praised, "Jing Zhao did not misjudge you. Lady Qingluo, you indeed have great courage. What he couldn't do, the others in the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven cannot do either. Only you can accomplish it."

Yu Qingluo's smile was somewhat shy, and she bowed, saying, "Master, you flatter me."

Behind them, Jieba said to Yan Qingzhou and the others, "This Fire Cloud Cave Master has a broader mind than our Pavilion Master, much broader."

Everyone nodded in agreement, deeply feeling the same.

Yan Qingzhou whispered, "The only advantage of our Pavilion Master is that he looks good."

Su Yun heard their conversation and smiled slightly, not caring, thinking to himself, "You are all jealous of me..."

Yu Qingluo led them to the Three Emperors' Shrine. Everyone was puzzled because she had been here before, and there were only three scriptures in the shrine, without even the mark of the Fire Cloud Cave's Three Emperor's seal.

"All the secrets recorded in the Fire Cloud Cave are recorded in the Mirage in the Cloud Sea. Only the Cave Master can open it."

Yu Qingluo reached out and pressed her palm on the altar where the three scriptures were enshrined. Suddenly, the ceiling of the shrine slowly changed.

Everyone looked up and saw that the ceiling was marked with a sea of clouds. The clouds surged, and starlight shone down from the clouds, illuminating the altar!

Su Yun quickly stepped out of the Three Emperors' Shrine and looked up at the sky above the main hall. He saw the nebula outside the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven swirling like a tornado, pouring into the shrine.

He entered the shrine again and saw a powerful aura emanating from the sea of clouds in the shrine, even stronger than that of the Original Dao. It carried the fierce aura of primordial beasts!

"Something is coming down from the nebula!"

Su Yun's heart stirred, "Yu Qingluo seems to be activating the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven, but she is actually summoning creatures from the nebula. There is a powerful being guarding this Fire Cloud Cave Heaven, and this creature can live in the nebula!"

A huge pearl appeared in the sea of clouds in the shrine, and the pearl slowly unfolded, revealing a pure white mirage dragon with a slender figure.

The mirage dragon swam out of the pearl, with deer antlers and a dragon body, moving in the sea of clouds.Suddenly, the pure white body of the mirage dragon descended from the sea of clouds, and its head hung in front of everyone. It spoke softly, "You called for me, what story do you have to tell?"

Yu Qingluo said, "Senior Mirage Dragon, I am Yu Qingluo, the current Lord of the Fire Cloud Cave. I have come to inquire about the ancient secrets..."

"I remember you."

The mirage dragon, as white as sheep fat and beautiful jade, swam lightly around her, its slender dragon claws stepping on the starry clouds. Su Yun even saw the mirage dragon smile.

"Yu Qingluo, the last time you came here, you tried to steal the ancient secrets from me, but you were discovered by Jing Zhao. And now you've come again."

Her eyes turned and fell on Su Yun, smiling, "Are you here to steal books for him? I hope that next time you can bring your own stories."

She suddenly flew into the air and disappeared into the algae well. The sea of clouds in the well exploded, and the vast clouds engulfed everyone in the temple.

Pictures appeared in the mist, with figures moving in them. Su Yun was inexplicably surprised and walked towards one of the pictures. In that picture, he saw a scene of the world's destruction, with calamitous fires still burning between the mountains and rivers, and ashes falling from the sky.

However, in this scene of the world's destruction, many places had already turned green, and cities had appeared in some places. The ancestors survived and multiplied in the world after the destruction.

Su Yun approached to take a closer look, and the scenes in the painting came to life. He reached out to touch it, but suddenly slipped and fell into the world within the painting.

Su Yun stood there, sniffing hard. The air was filled with the smell of ashes, but as the ashes settled, the natural energy of heaven and earth became incredibly pure!

He didn't go hunting beasts, but walked in the world filled with ashes. Looking around, he saw huge cities within the calamitous fires. These were the remnants of the ancient world, the previous world.

He suddenly remembered what he had seen in Boshan City and understood everything: "So that's how it is... The natural energy of heaven and earth in the previous world underwent a mutation and turned into ashes, burying the previous world. And as the natural energy of heaven and earth burned, new energy was generated. The ancestors grew and thrived in the new energy, but the new energy was like poison to the calamitous ash monsters. They couldn't survive in the poisonous gas."

Suddenly, his vision blurred, and he walked out of this strange picture and returned to the mist formed by the nebula.

He walked into the second picture, where the ashes had already settled, and everywhere was filled with green mountains and rivers. However, the sky was torn apart, and huge fragments of planets floated in the sky, with a piece of land slanting on the horizon.

The North Sea floated in the sky, with the other end of the ocean hidden in the void.

Su Yun walked in this world and saw many divine demons appearing from nowhere, running rampant in the new world. These divine demons had strange appearances and various forms, and there were many of them.

Su Yun even saw the mirage dragon among them. Apparently, the mirage dragon had also written itself into the story.

The mirage dragon followed the giant with a human head and a dragon body, and the giant taught the ancestors knowledge. They called the giant "Sui."

Sui pointed to the stars in the sky, as if saying that they came from there.

Su Yun walked through the pictures, observing the history of the ancient times.

Later, Sui left, and in the direction he pointed, he returned to his homeland. Then, a giant with a snake head and a human body came, and people called him Fuxi, continuing to teach the ancestors.

After Fuxi left, before leaving, he also pointed to the stars in the sky.

Then, a giant with a bull head and a human body came, continuing the unfinished work of Sui and Fuxi. People called him Shennong.

When Xuanyuan became the Holy Emperor, Shennong also left. He left behind a group of fire clouds for Xuanyuan, pointing to the stars in the sky before leaving, saying something unknown.

Shennong's departure marked the end of the era led by the three Holy Emperors.

The three Holy Emperors were not of the human race, but divine demons. Xuanyuan, however, was of the human race and was therefore called the First Holy Emperor.

He refined the fire clouds into treasures, thus creating the Fire Cloud Cave to commemorate the three emperors.

Xuanyuan stood in the Fire Cloud Cave, overlooking the heavens and earth, observing the celestial phenomena, creating various realms, and influencing the next five thousand years.

The mirage dragon followed the First Holy Emperor Xuanyuan faithfully, continuing to record the events that happened to him.

On the ashes of the previous world's destruction, a country was established called Yuanshuo.

Xuanyuan, the First Holy Emperor, began to seal and suppress the demons from all over the world, from the Yuanshuo continent to overseas, to the Western Land, sealing the demons there.

At that time, the calamitous fires that caused the destruction of the previous world had not completely subsided.

After Xuanyuan, feeling that his life was coming to an end, he looked up at the sky.

After the death of Xuanyuan, his physical body was buried, and his spirit departed from the Fire Cloud Cave and entered the starry sky, following in the footsteps of the three Holy Emperors.

The excitement and melancholy in Su Yun's heart could not be calmed for a long time.

"The story of the First Holy Emperor is truly heroic... Oh, in the story recorded by the mirage dragon, it seems that there is no story about my brother, Yinglong!"Su Yun ran back and forth, flipping through the stories several times. Indeed, there was no mention of the Winged Dragon!

As the first war god under the command of the Emperor Xuanyuan, who had slain the Demon Emperor Chiyou and the Demon God Kuafu, he didn't even show his face!

"Did Brother Winged Dragon offend the Shenlong? Didn't Brother Winged Dragon show off his pectoral muscles to her?"

The young man was puzzled, "Are there things that can't be solved by flexing pectoral muscles? Maha..."

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