From more than four thousand years ago, when the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent collided until now, the three original empires of the Douluo Continent have always regarded the Sun Moon Empire as a foreign race. This deeply rooted concept has continued to this day.
The soul master great families of the three original empires of the Douluo Continent, which placed extreme importance on bloodline inheritance, even considered marrying people from the Sun Moon Empire as a disgrace, believing it would pollute the purity of their bloodline.
From this, one could see just how enormous the pressure Xu Zihuang's parents had endured when they got together.
Influenced by that concept, when Elder Xuan saw Xu Zihuang appear in the sky above the Sun Moon Empire's sacrificial altar, his first reaction was that Xu Zihuang had deceived all of them. Those who valued bloodline inheritance were by no means limited to the three original empires of the Douluo Continent; the Sun Moon Empire was the same.
If Xu Zihuang did not possess the bloodline of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family, he would never have been acknowledged by the Sun Moon Empire's upper echelons. Unless Xu Zihuang had controlled all the high-level figures of the Sun Moon Empire, that was completely unrealistic.
Even though Xu Zihuang had successfully cultivated the Yin-Yang complementary dual soul cores and broken through to the Title Douluo realm, the Sun Moon Empire side also had the unprecedented level-ten soul mentor Kong Deming on the continent. With Kong Deming leading the entire Sun Moon Royal Soul Mentor Corps in resistance, they were not without the power to contend against Xu Zihuang.
And reasoning backwards from the premise that Xu Zihuang's father was the Purple Sun King of the Sun Moon Empire back then, then everything could be explained clearly.
The reason Xu Zihuang had hidden his identity and entered Shrek Academy to study was precisely to take revenge on the Xu Tianran family and seize the throne of the Sun Moon Empire. The Heavenly Dragon Sect had helped Xu Zihuang conceal his identity because of his other half of his bloodline.
Thinking of this, Elder Xuan's eyes became dim. This heavy blow was truly too great for their original Douluo Continent side. Everything he and Elder Mu had done over the years now seemed like a joke.
But at this moment, Elder Xuan seemed to suddenly grasp something. A flash of inspiration struck his mind, and he hesitantly pondered in his heart.
"Wait, could this be Sea God's arrangement?!"
Xu Zihuang had been chosen by Sea God as his successor, this was a fact he had witnessed with his own eyes. Sea God came from the original Douluo Continent and had a close relationship with their Shrek Academy; he definitely would not sit by and watch a situation unfavorable to the original Douluo Continent occur.
Thinking from another angle, if Xu Zihuang became the new ruler of the Sun Moon Empire, the war on the continent might very likely come to an end because of it. The respect Xu Zihuang had shown toward Elder Mu during his time at Shrek Academy did not seem fake. With such a relationship in place, how could Xu Zihuang go against Elder Mu's wishes and launch another war of aggression against their original Douluo Continent?
From the fact that Xu Zihuang had proactively returned the portion of territory that originally belonged to the Heavenly Soul Empire, one could already see Xu Zihuang's attitude.
Moreover, Xu Zihuang possessed half of the Heavenly Soul Empire bloodline. Under his leadership, the relationship between the Sun Moon Empire and the three original empires of the Douluo Continent could also ease considerably. Long-term peaceful coexistence was not impossible. Most crucially, after this incident, their Shrek Academy's transcendent status on the continent would not only remain unshaken but could even advance further because of the relationship with Xu Zihuang.
"Sea God, you truly are far-sighted! We are ashamed of our inferiority!" Elder Xuan became more and more excited the more he thought about it, his face flushing red as he sighed in admiration.
Under these circumstances, the matter of Xu Zihuang being born from the direct line of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family became less important. Xu Zihuang ascending to power and controlling the Sun Moon Empire was equivalent to solving all problems on the original Douluo Continent, solving all problems without shedding blood.
Unlike Elder Xuan, Song Lao, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Liner from Shrek Academy, who did not know about Xu Zihuang obtaining the Sea God's divine imprint back then. In their shock, their hearts instantly sank to the bottom, their faces turning ugly.
And Zhang Lexuan's gaze toward Xu Zihuang contained only astonishment.
However, among the guests from the original Douluo Continent side, the ones who felt the greatest shock were Xu Sanshi, Xu Jiujiu, Du Busi and the others.
Xu Sanshi's face was filled with disbelief, while Xu Jiujiu's complexion had lost all color, turning deathly pale.
The one who appeared relatively calmer was only Wei Na. Looking up at that incomparably majestic and familiar face that had stirred her heart countless times, a trace of bitterness emerged in her misty eyes.
"Why? Why did you tell me these things in advance?"
Wei Na lightly pursed her red lips, falling into endless entanglement. On one side was the blood feud of her relatives, on the other was the person she yearned for in her dreams.
Wei Na, who had always been decisive in front of the civil and military officials of the Heavenly Soul Empire, was now at a loss.
The expressions on the faces of the Sun Moon Empire's high-level figures were also exceptionally colorful.
Four years ago, when Xu Zihuang participated in the All-Continent Young Soul Masters Elite Competition in Ming City, he had left them with extremely profound impressions time and time again.
Crushing the Sun Moon Empire's once-in-a-millennium genius Xiao Hongchen, sweeping away the evil soul masters of the Holy Spirit Cult with their bizarre methods, and later even openly provoking the National Master Zhongli Wu in public.
Such a heaven-gifted prodigy from the original Douluo Continent, why had he suddenly become the Sun Moon Empire's new emperor?
This thought appeared simultaneously in the hearts of everyone present.
Xiao Hongchen, who had previously kept his emotions hidden, had his gaze suddenly freeze on Xu Zihuang. Xu Zihuang's change in identity had also caught him completely off guard.
"Yu Tianhuang is Xu Zihuang?! How is this possible?!"
And Meng Hongchen subconsciously stopped twirling her hair with her slender jade fingers, her red lips slightly parted.
After the brief moment of astonishment came unparalleled joy and excitement.
An unusual flush appeared on Meng Hongchen's charming face, and a seductive intent blossomed in her ice-blue, beautiful eyes.
Having seen such a perfect Xu Zihuang, no other man could ever catch her eye again. From her teenage years until now, Xu Zihuang was the only man who had ever made her heart flutter.
As she grew older, Meng Hongchen could clearly feel that her psychological and physiological desire for Xu Zihuang was becoming increasingly intense, even turning somewhat pathological. It was just that she could not speak of these things to outsiders and had always suppressed herself.
Now she understood the implied meaning behind her grandfather's words from yesterday.
Xu Zihuang's true identity was the only son of the Purple Sun King from back then, the direct line of the imperial family. From today onward, he would become the new controller of the Sun Moon Empire.
The barrier of their identities would no longer exist between them. The longing that had begun in her girlhood finally had the chance to be realized.
In the high sky, Xu Zihuang looked down at the myriad beings below, his gaze slightly focused. An incomparably terrifying aura suddenly swept out from his body. The spiritual will that transcended this world seemed to make time and space sluggish.
Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Bright gold! Blue gold! Silver gold!
Nine world-shocking soul rings rose from beneath his feet, and the bright golden seventh soul ring shone brilliantly.
A massive golden eye pupil light shadow quietly emerged behind Xu Zihuang, overlapping with the golden sun behind him. It was as if countless mystical runes were imprinted upon that resplendent golden sun.
At this moment, he was the incarnation of the golden sun.
And beneath Xu Zihuang's feet, a majestic, deep purple giant dragon light shadow appeared. It was precisely the martial soul inherited by the direct line of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family, Purple Sun Extinguishing Heaven Dragon!
The purple giant dragon light shadow was over a thousand meters long. Xu Zihuang stood proudly on the dragon's head, and his majestic voice spread out along with the spiritual will that enveloped a radius of a thousand li, like radiant splendor covering heaven and earth.
"At the founding of the empire, favored by heaven and earth, the nation was named Sun Moon. However, Xu Tianran colluded with evil soul masters to usurp power, bringing shame to our ancestors of all generations and intolerable to heaven and earth. Today, I hereby inherit the great rule and protect the people of my Sun Moon."
"Execute the false emperor! Welcome, the true sovereign!" Jing Hongchen looked up and shouted loudly, his agitated expression beyond words.
The Sun Moon Empire's group of ninth-level soul mentors immediately reacted and shouted in unison as well. The Purple Sun Extinguishing Heaven Dragon martial soul light shadow was already sufficient to prove Xu Zihuang's identity as a direct imperial descendant.
This fervent atmosphere and the heaven-shaking phenomenon created by Xu Zihuang activating his martial soul deeply infected the Sun Moon Empire's populace present.
"Execute the false emperor! Welcome, the true sovereign!"
Waves of sound rose and fell, soaring straight into the clouds. The Sun Moon Empire's people cheered hoarsely, their expressions fervent.
The admiration of the strong is human nature.
Putting other matters aside, the talent and strength of the Sun Moon Empire's new emperor far surpassed that of past monarchs. The unprecedented prosperity of the Sun Moon Empire was very likely to arrive in this era.
Xu Zihuang enjoyed the worship and cheers of the crowd, but a trace of cold intent surfaced deep in his eyes.
"How dare evil spirits and demons offend my heavenly might? I hereby borrow the power of the nine heavens to suppress all evil and malevolent forces in the world. The light of my Sun Moon shall forever illuminate the earth!"
He pointed his right hand toward the sky, and a magnificent and exquisite golden longsword appeared in his right hand's grasp. He then coldly shouted.
"Get out of here for me!"
Xu Zihuang raised the longsword high, making a motion as if to pierce the vault of heaven, performing a pulling action in the air.
Four massive pillars of light rose into the sky from Ming City to the north of the Sun Moon Sacrificial Altar, echoing in response. The light pillars crossed the sky and, in an instant, merged into the golden longsword in Xu Zihuang's hand.
This golden longsword was named the Sun Moon Heaven Suppressing Sword. Like the Sun Moon Qiankun Bowl, it was a ninth-level peak soul tool, one for attack and one for defense. These two ninth-level peak soul tools had originally been on Xu Tianran, but Xu Zihuang had seized them one after another.
Relatively speaking, the Sun Moon Heaven Suppressing Sword was of a higher grade and was called a half-step tenth-level soul tool. Because it itself was also the key to activating the high-energy compression array soul tool in the Sun Moon Empire's imperial palace.
"Buzz—"
A crisp buzzing sound rang out. A heaven-shaking sword light that the thousands upon thousands of people present would never forget swept past.
The sword Xu Zihuang swung caused time and space to stagnate once more. The power akin to heavenly might was elevated to the extreme in this instant.
Elder Xuan, Du Busi, Elder Yang, and the Heavenly Sun Douluo in the foreign guests' area all had drastic changes in their expressions. The power of this sword had already surpassed the limit that human soul masters could reach. Even a true deity would probably have to temporarily avoid its edge.
The sky was completely split into two halves. The golden sword light remained condensed and undispersed. Within the cracks in the sky, thick layers of clouds churned continuously, with countless bolts of lightning flashing. This space seemed as if it were about to collapse. The terrifying pressure made even the Title Douluo powerhouses present feel somewhat breathless.
The energy contained in the high-energy compression array soul tool was indeed astonishing, but the reason Xu Zihuang's sword carried such overwhelming might was fundamentally that he had infused it with his control over the power of time and space.
Under everyone's gaze, two extremely disheveled figures revealed themselves, isolated by this sword light that stretched for ten thousand meters.
Appearing on the right side of the sword light was an old man with white hair wearing a simple black robe. It was the Dragon Emperor Douluo, Long Xiaoyao.
More than half of Long Xiaoyao's black robe had been dissolved by this sword light. His eyes were bloodshot, his hair disheveled, and he roared loudly toward Ye Xishui, who was in the space on the left side of the sword light.
"Xishui?!"
Compared to Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui's appearance at this moment was even more miserable. Her robe had been destroyed, leaving her nearly naked and exposed before the eyes of the millions of people present. Moreover, both of her hands had been severed, the cuts smooth as mirrors, with blood gushing out madly.
Ye Xishui stared fixedly at Xu Zihuang before her. In her eyes, besides an almost tangible hatred, there was also an irrepressible terror.
She could not understand why Xu Zihuang had become so powerful?! Originally, she and Long Xiaoyao, while recuperating from their injuries, had gained further insights at the Limit Douluo realm. Hidden in the void, they had even concealed themselves from the perception of Limit Douluos like Elder Xuan and Du Busi.
Why could Xu Zihuang still precisely sense their presence and heavily injure them with such a near-overwhelming posture in a single sword strike?
"Ye Xishui?! Long Xiaoyao?!" The sudden change in the high sky once again tugged at the hearts of Elder Xuan, Du Busi, and the others.
"Ah—"
Ye Xishui also discovered her exposed skin at this moment. She let out a shrill scream and activated her martial soul true body, transforming into a blood soul demon puppet that was a thousand meters tall.
Although Ye Xishui had given birth to a son for Long Xiaoyao and later mingled with the old ghost Zhongli to give birth to Zhongli Wu, she still did not want others to see her body again.
The humiliation Xu Zihuang brought her nearly caused her to collapse.
"Go to hell!" Blood seas surged around the blood soul demon puppet that Ye Xishui had transformed into. Countless blood lights shot toward Xu Zihuang. Her shrill scream was as sharp as the demonic sound of hell. The dark red Death God Tower was also released by her, and the Death God Light seemed as if it would be unleashed in the next instant.
Xu Zihuang disdainfully raised the Sun Moon Heaven Suppressing Sword in his hand once more.
Long Xiaoyao, who was about to rush toward Ye Xishui, seemed to sense the pull of qi and momentum. He abruptly turned around and arrived between Xu Zihuang and Ye Xishui.
"Ang—" An intense dragon roar sounded. A thousand-meter black dragon appeared across the sky. A pair of dragon wings spread out to cover the sky and block the sun. He resolutely stood in front of Ye Xishui and opened his mouth to spray a jet of pitch-black breath toward Xu Zihuang. This was a Limit Douluo-level true dragon breath, vastly different from the white dragon breath of the Holy Dragon Douluo back then.
The black dragon's breath, which originally had a diameter of only a hundred meters, instantly expanded to over a thousand meters in diameter, like a natural disaster descending.
"Time-space imprisonment." A soft chant came from Xu Zihuang's mouth. The golden eye pupil light shadow behind him burst forth with dazzling golden light. Under the rendering of this resplendent golden radiance, this heaven and earth lost its former colors, becoming like an eternal picture that had flowed down through the ages, filled with the texture of passing years.
Long Xiaoyao's thousand-meter black dragon and that mass of black dragon breath suddenly froze within this picture.
As Xu Zihuang swept the Sun Moon Heaven Suppressing Sword horizontally, the golden light faded, and the flow of time returned to normal. But the dragon head of the thousand-meter black dragon, along with that mass of black dragon breath, was severed by a single sword.
The black dragon collapsed, and Long Xiaoyao, who had returned to his original form, was also beheaded, his body and head separated. A powerful Limit Douluo standing at the peak of human soul masters thus perished.
This was the gap between an ordinary Limit Douluo like Long Xiaoyao and the current Xu Zihuang. Xu Zihuang's absolute crushing superiority over Long Xiaoyao was beyond doubt. Moreover, he had also drawn upon the energy of the high-energy compression array soul tool in the Sun Moon Empire's imperial palace through the Sun Moon Heaven Suppressing Sword.
Xu Zihuang's left hand pulled with soul power, and a pure white jade-like bead drilled out from Long Xiaoyao's bosom, falling into his hand.
Ye Xishui was first stunned upon seeing Long Xiaoyao perish, then she let out a frenzied and shrill howl.
"Xiaoyao—"
The blood soul demon puppet's arms embraced the dark red Death God Tower that was a hundred meters tall. At the tip of the sharp tower, a thick, white light pillar shot out without warning. The white light pillar appeared to have no dazzling momentum, yet black spatial cracks appeared around the light pillar.
The Death God Light was aimed directly at the entire Sun Moon Sacrificial Altar. If the Death God Light were allowed to fall, all the high-level figures of the Sun Moon Empire would likely be completely erased from this world.
Xu Zihuang lowered the Sun Moon Heaven Suppressing Sword in his right hand. His left hand suddenly reached forward, and an ancient black spear condensed in his hand.
A point of black light arrived first, followed by the spear shooting out like a dragon, colliding with that white Death God Light.
Compared to the Death God Light, the Annihilation Divine Spear was insignificantly small. Yet that white Death God Light rapidly melted away like snow and ice the instant it touched the tip of the Annihilation Divine Spear.
Before Ye Xishui could react, Xu Zihuang's figure had already flashed past. Holding the Annihilation Divine Spear, he pierced through her blood soul demon puppet martial soul true body.
The blood soul demon puppet light shadow collapsed. A gaping hole appeared in Ye Xishui's chest, piercing through her body. The power of annihilation was still eroding her body relentlessly.
The ninth soul ring beside him bloomed with an extremely majestic silver-gold radiance. Xu Zihuang made a grasping motion with his right hand. Mystical runes shone, and a golden-silver time-space barrier suppressed Ye Xishui's body as it fell toward the low sky. During the fall, Ye Xishui's body turned into nothingness under the erosion of the annihilation power, leaving only her soul still imprisoned by the time-space barrier.
Although Long Xiaoyao had aided the wicked, he was far from being as vicious in his actions as Ye Xishui. Since Long Xiaoyao had sought death, Xu Zihuang simply granted it to him with a single sword.
But for Ye Xishui, Xu Zihuang naturally would not let her die so easily. Having taken over the control of the Death God Tower from Ye Xishui, he controlled the Death God Tower to land in the center of the Sun Moon Sacrificial Altar, suppressing Ye Xishui's soul within it.
"Ye Xishui, from this day onward, I shall make your soul endure endless torment within the Death God Tower, never to be reincarnated for all eternity."
Xu Zihuang's icy voice carried not a trace of emotion, as if he had done something insignificant. Yet the supreme might he unintentionally displayed by casually slaying two Limit Douluos caused the qi and momentum to stir, making everyone from the original Douluo Continent side feel a chill run through their entire bodies.
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