Chapter 1 Mountain Top and Bottom

Up and down the mountain.

Father and son looked at each other from afar, one with a detached expression, the other with a sighing tone.

The mountain was silent.

Whether it was the many nobles of the Da Yong Dynasty or the powerful lords who dominated their regions, all felt a chill in their hearts at this moment.

For a time, some couldn't guess what this father and son duo intended to do.

But everyone knew that the visitors today did not come in peace.

"Your Majesty, you..."

Some remained silent, while other veteran officials couldn't help but prostrate themselves on the ground:

"You're still alive..."

"Alive, alive."

Mo Tianqing nodded slightly, his gaze fixed on Mo Yin, his expression indifferent and complex.

Finally, it turned into a sigh:

"I truly underestimated you."

Looking at his father, whom he had never met, Mo Yin was extremely calm:

"Are you disappointed?"

"A little, but only a little."

Mo Tianqing seemed gratified:

"After all, you are my child. With such achievements, I, as your father, am also quite pleased."

"Your son?"

Mo Yin's gaze was like a tangible force, pressing down on the void, the heavy aura causing everyone to change color:

"That joke is not funny!"

Buzz!

In the eyes of the color-changing crowd, a multicolored light curtain burst forth from the Dou Fa Divine Mountain, evolving into layers of images.

"This is... a fluctuation of time?"

Jing Xiaolou's eyes narrowed, noticing the anomaly.

These streams of light did not originate from within the Dou Fa Divine Mountain, but were driven by the Da Yong Emperor with great divine power, using the Dou Fa Divine Mountain.

Using the aura of this place as a medium, he intercepted a segment of the past.

"It's actually come to this..."

Chu Fan was also shocked, and the shadow of a divine sword flashed behind him unconsciously.

Thousands of years ago, when they first came to this world, the Da Yong Emperor was strong, but far from being able to touch time.

"It's that Dou Fa Divine Mountain!"

Feng Mingtao said in a deep voice.

He cultivated the Great Divine Elephant Technique, using the earth as a carrier, the stars and celestial phenomena as sustenance, devouring all kinds of spiritual energy, and refining eighty-four thousand great divine elephants within his body.

And the first spiritual energy he absorbed came from the Dou Fa Divine Mountain.

At this time, among the people present, some might have higher cultivation than him, but few could compare to him in sensing the Dou Fa Divine Mountain.

"That is?"

A group of princes and nobles looked at the light curtain.

As the water flowed, they saw a familiar scene, except for the difference in time, the scene within was no different from the present.

It was still the Dou Fa Divine Mountain, still the Dou Fa Divine Platform.

The only difference was that in the light and shadow, Mo Tianqing with white hair was sitting high on the divine platform.

His expression was pale, a finger pressed against his brow, his aura weak, almost tottering.

And in front of him, a faceless figure was coughing blood.

"Unthinkable, unthinkable..."

The faceless figure's voice was hoarse, and as he spoke, thick blood mist spewed out from all over his body.

The whole person was like a leaking water bag, his essence leaking out.

"The Grand Astrologer?!"

"The Faceless Shadow, one of the three treasures that safeguard the Da Yong Dynasty. Those who wear this can see the future or the past at the cost of a certain price!"

"More than a thousand years ago, the Grand Astrologer was suddenly seriously injured and died in seclusion. It turns out he was probing the years and was backlashed!"

...

Seeing the faceless shadow, there was an uproar on the Dou Fa Divine Mountain.

Several old men who looked like priests glared at Mo Tianqing and questioned:

"What exactly did you force the Grand Astrologer to calculate that even with his six tribulations body, wearing the Faceless Shadow, he would be backlashed by the years and die?!"

"Why ask me?"

Mo Tianqing flicked his finger lightly and said casually, "Keep watching, and everything will be clear."

The old priest glared angrily, wanting to attack, but still endured it. The veteran officials were also watching him coldly.

"Grand Astrologer, what did you see?"

In the light and shadow, Mo Tianqing, whose eyebrows were oozing blood, asked in a low voice.

He used his lifelong cultivation to activate the Dou Fa Divine Mountain to bless the Grand Astrologer, and was also backlashed, to the point that his hair turned white in an instant, and his lifespan was reduced by nearly eighty percent.

"A death tribulation, a death tribulation..."

The Faceless Shadow fell off, and a bloody figure, unrecognizable from its original appearance, walked out.

His voice was old and painful, even trembling slightly:

"The tribulation of Da Yong has arrived, inevitable, unstoppable, and even inescapable."

"Inevitable?"

Mo Tianqing seemed extremely disappointed, and his whole person became even older.

The Grand Astrologer remained silent, his aura like a candle in the wind, seemingly about to be extinguished at any moment.

"There is still one method!"

After an unknown amount of time, Mo Tianqing suddenly raised his head, and a terrifying blood essence gushed out from the blood hole in his brow, surging turbulently.

It poured back into the Dou Fa Divine Mountain beneath him.

"Impossible!"

The Grand Astrologer seemed to have seen something and stepped forward to stop him.

But he was seriously injured, how could he stop Mo Tianqing?

Mo Tianqing suddenly swept him out of the Dou Fa Divine Mountain, and amidst the trembling and buzzing of the various Dou Fa Divine Platforms, he took out a pulsating, scarlet heart!

The heart was as red as fire. Looking at it from afar, one could only feel a fire burning, and as it beat, the crowd of people thousands of years later

all felt their blood flowing backward, as if about to be shattered.

"What is that?"

Everyone was horrified.

But what was even more shocking was that this place had already gathered the most supreme group of people in the Da Yong Dynasty, but no one knew the origin of that heart.

Why it was hidden in the Dou Fa Divine Mountain.

"The Heart of Dou Fa!"

After a long time, Mo Tianqing slowly raised his head and said the name and origin of this heart:

"It seems that eighty thousand years ago, when my Da Yong's Grand Ancestor was still a child herding on the borderlands, one day, he saw a stream of light coming from beyond the heavens, chased after it, and discovered this heart..."

His calm voice echoed in the void, Mo Tianqing's white hair moved without wind, and an extremely powerful aura had already risen.

"You thought that the Dou Fa Divine Mountain nurtured this heart? On the contrary, the original Dou Fa Divine Mountain was just a grain of sand stained with a wisp of blood from this heart!"

"The Grand Ancestor obtained this fortuitous encounter, and later received the decree of the Heavenly Lord, creating this dynasty that dominates the endless continent, but how could he be willing?

How could he be willing to be a dog herding for others for all eternity, generation after generation?"

"Refining this heart is the reason why the emperors of Da Yong have short lives. This heart was originally colorless, but it was dyed red by the blood and lifespan of my ancestors!"

Whoosh whoosh~

The raging gale scattered the iron-blooded aura that permeated the void.

On the Dou Fa Platform, Mo Tianqing had already stood up, his eyes cold:

"You are indeed my son!"

"It is my son who brought you new life at the cost of his body and life!"

Boom!

A stone stirred up a thousand waves!

Throughout the Dou Fa Divine Mountain, the expressions of the Da Yong ministers changed, and they all looked at the still calm, even somewhat indifferent figure on the Divine Platform.

As if facing a great enemy.

The outer heavens have always been the most dreaded place in the endless continent. There, there is the high and mighty Heavenly Lord, and even further away.

There are still mysteries that they may never be able to glimpse in their lifetime.

From ancient times to the present, all records of objects from beyond the heavens in ancient history are ominous!

"New life."

Mo Yin chewed on these words, without joy or anger, but with a faint disappointment in his eyes.

As early as a thousand years ago, when he stepped into the Dou Fa Divine Mountain, he had already understood his past and present life.

But it also stopped at the moment of descending from the outer heavens.

He thought that the Da Yong royal family would have some secrets that he didn't know, but unfortunately...

"Your progress is beyond my imagination. If you are truly my son, then everything will be perfect. This throne should be given to you too, but..."

Mo Tianqing opened his arms wide, causing endless gales and air currents to roar:

"I brought you new life, you should have been used by me!"

Rumble!

The moment Mo Tianqing opened his arms wide, beams of light as thick as stars and extremely dazzling soared into the sky.

Like heavenly swords tearing through the void, cutting through everything.

At the same time, like the sharpest spears in the world, they deeply pierced into the Dou Fa Divine Mountain.

Whoosh whoosh~

Endless chains of laws were then created, crisscrossing among the thousands of divine lights. In just a few moments, they had already transformed into a vast net.

Binding the Dou Fa Divine Mountain within.

"It's the Dou Fa Platform."

Amidst the terrifying gales, Chu Fan somewhat understood: "So, the Dou Fa Platform is actually a means used by the Da Yong Dynasty to restrain the Dou Fa Divine Mountain.

No, to restrain 'that heart'!"

Feng Mingtao and the others also understood in their hearts.

They can freely dispose of any resources of the Da Yong Dynasty, so they naturally do not lack Dou Fa Platforms.

The Dou Fa Platform is a magical treasure, the condensation of an inner world, and can even be regarded as an alternative Dao soldier.

But its deepest function is actually to use the Dou Fa Divine Mountain as a medium to restrain and bind the one who truly created the Dou Fa Divine Mountain.

Mo Yin!

"Eighty thousand years of hard work, success is in my hands."

Mo Tianqing flicked his fingers, like a top weaver, using these endless chains of laws as threads to seal off all possibilities of escape in this place, in this void.

Only then did he look at the old ministers on the Dou Fa Platforms, whose expressions were changing:

"His acceptance of the throne was my arrangement, and you officials don't need to have any misgivings. After today, things should continue as before!"

"Your Majesty..."

On the Dou Fa Platforms, the Da Yong Dynasty's group of veteran ministers' expressions changed, and after a long time, they bowed:

"We are willing to capture this rebellious traitor for Your Majesty!"

"Good... hmm?!"

Mo Tianqing was about to nod when he suddenly noticed something strange, and his face immediately darkened.

Although the many veteran ministers bowed, the person they were bowing to was not him at all.

But Mo Yin, the current Emperor, who was sitting high on the Divine Platform, his expression as before, without any emotional fluctuations!

"You?!"

Mo Tianqing was shocked, angry, and stunned.

"It turns out you know nothing."

On the Divine Platform, Mo Yin sighed softly:

"What a fool you are to think that I would go to such great lengths for a slightly tricky bug like you?"

Buzz!

Mo Tianqing's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly turned his head, only to see a shadow flowing out of the endless dimensional void, transforming into a human form.

The person was wearing a red-patterned golden dragon robe, carrying a golden mace as thick as a person's waist, his aura arrogant, and between his brows, there was a domineering air that looked down on the four poles.

"Is such a small bug worth so much talk?"

The newcomer said this, looking coldly at Mo Yin.

"There is some connection after all."

Mo Yin replied indifferently, also looking at the newcomer.

At the intersection of the two's gazes, Mo Tianqing's heart trembled, feeling cold and chilly all over his body.

"You..."

Mo Tianqing looked down.

The two's gazes were even more terrifying than the most terrifying divine powers he had ever seen. Silently, his body had completely dissipated.

So, he died just like that?!