Chapter 1069: The Grand Emperor Dies but His Dao Lingers, Lang Wan Steps onto the Path of Ruthlessness
Since Cloud Deity first set foot on this unfamiliar land, he had often come here, offering advice to the Creator race and teaching Lang Wan and the other Creators various strategies, attempting to make them understand how to deceive. But the results had always been minimal.
This was determined by the environment in which the Creator race dwelled.
All the Creators here yearned for a carefree life; otherwise, they would not have fled here to establish the Grand Void.
It was also determined by their cultivation of divine consciousness.
Among the Creator race, there was no need for lies, no need for deception. They communicated through divine consciousness, and with a gentle touch of their minds, they knew everything in each other’s hearts. Deception and lies had no soil to take root here.
Back then, the reason the First Spirit Luo Xiao could leave the Grand Void to gather information from the outside was that he was the smartest among the Creator race.
Yet even Luo Xiao had not learned to deceive.
What Lang Wan and the others had not anticipated was that Cloud Deity’s final lesson to the Creators would be so cruel.
So cruel that it involved deceiving the tribes on another continent, using the lives of a million people and the destruction of the Grand Void to limit the Grand Emperor’s power!
And those ninety-eight elders and chieftains had actually agreed to his proposal!
The sole purpose of Cloud Deity and those ninety-eight chieftains and elders was to trade a million lives for the lives of a hundred thousand!
That day, the young girl Lang Wan drifted through her days in a daze.
She witnessed the complete destruction of another Grand Void—that vast, boundless continent, the starry sky created by the Creators, the billions of stars, the mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas they had shaped, and every living thing they had made—all annihilated, reduced to a torrent of masterless divine consciousness.
The consequences of the collapse of divine consciousness were too severe, plunging the entire Grand Void into the terrifying state where thought became reality.
Inner demons turned this place into something unspeakably dreadful. The chaotic and terrifying masterless divine consciousness would sense the demons within your heart and manifest them into reality!
At the same time, these terrifying streams of consciousness would touch your own, corrupting your mind!
This supreme pure land was completely polluted. The other Grand Void would likely be destroyed soon as well, because the Grand Emperor had already arrived!
The ninety-eight chieftains and elders followed the plan devised by Cloud Deity and the others, fighting a bloody battle against the Grand Emperor. One after another fell, until they finally lured him into a trap. The trap was designed by the three Deities—Cloud, Moon, and Ling—specifically targeting the weaknesses in the Grand Emperor’s supreme divine consciousness.
But the cost was also horrifying!
To slay the Grand Emperor, they did not hesitate to let him destroy the Grand Void, filling it with chaotic, masterless divine consciousness to suppress his cultivation.
To slay the Grand Emperor, they sacrificed nearly all the sacred relics that countless tribes had painstakingly worshiped day and night, using them to trap him!
They lured the Grand Emperor into the Lotus Continent, activated the trap designed by the three Deities, and used the Dao of Creation to counter the Grand Emperor’s divine creations. Countless thick, root-like tendrils burst through the flesh of the Grand Emperor’s legs, plunging into the Lotus Continent and anchoring his physical body in place.
They fought to the death, forcing the Grand Emperor to unleash his supreme divine consciousness domain. But once that domain was deployed, it sealed his fate.
At the same time, it sealed theirs as well.
In that moment, the three Deities—Cloud, Moon, and Ling—struck simultaneously, reversing the supreme divine consciousness domain, sealing the Grand Emperor along with the remaining chieftains and elders inside it!
The Grand Emperor’s own supreme divine consciousness domain became the final straw that trapped him to death.
The three young Deities stood outside the domain, watching it all, their hearts filled with a tumult of emotions.
Even the Heavenly Emperor, leading the Ancient Gods, had failed to capture or kill the Grand Emperor Ju Yu Shi. Yet now, he had fallen by their hands.
The Grand Emperor—revered by the Creators as invincible in body and mind—his physical form was now dead, his consciousness sealed forever. And all of this was the work of three young human Deities.
“You three!”
The Grand Emperor’s consciousness was frozen within his own domain, still churning violently, but the fluctuations grew calmer and calmer.
He stared at the three young faces outside the domain, using the last shred of consciousness he could muster to turn his voice into words that echoed across heaven and earth: “I will kill you, one by one, to avenge this deep hatred! You are all destined to die by my hand, one after another, and your corpses will become my trophies…”
Ling Deity raised a finger, and a tiny rune leaped from its tip, filling the supreme divine consciousness domain.
It was as if she had completed the final piece of a puzzle. The trap activated fully, and the Grand Emperor was completely sealed!
“The Grand Emperor is finally dead. We should return now,” Ling Deity said.
Moon Deity looked around. The remaining Grand Void was overrun with monsters born of inner demons, no longer a place fit for habitation. A look of pity crossed her face. “And what about them…?”
Cloud Deity walked toward the surviving Creators. The few remaining chieftains and elders told him, “We will lead the survivors to migrate, to the other shore of the Grand Void. Following the First Spirit’s second prophecy, we will build the Void Bridge and establish a carefree world on that shore.”
Cloud Deity nodded. “I will return from time to time to help you, until you have created that world on the other shore. Moon Deity will also help you design the entrance from the Void Bridge to that world. She has designed three houses, ensuring that no one else can find it.”
With that, he came to Lang Wan’s side. The young girl was still lost in overwhelming grief.
“I once liked you, but I never will again.”
The young Creator girl stared blankly into space, then suddenly tears fell. Yet her voice was eerily calm. As she followed the main group of Creators in their migration, she did not look back. “I think I will never like anyone again. Cloud, your final lesson has deeply moved me. For the sake of my race, I will become another you.”
Cloud Deity stood there, stunned, watching her figure recede into the distance. A pang of pain struck his heart.
He wanted so badly to tell this girl that she didn’t have to become like him. He wanted to see her carefree as before. He wanted to shout out and call her back, to promise her something.
In the end, a faint smile hung on his face, and he heard his own voice say, “Alright.”
Hearing those words, Lang Wan’s body trembled slightly. Finally, she made up her mind and walked further and further away.
Moon Deity and Ling Deity came to his side. Cloud Deity wiped the melancholy from his heart, rallied his spirits, and laughed. “We should go too. Humanity still needs us.”
The three of them left that shattered land.
Casually, they looked back. The surviving Creators were trudging through the ruined world of the Grand Void, just as their ancestors had once migrated in hardship.
From here to the other shore, how many of the hundred thousand surviving Creators would make it?
Cloud Deity and the others did not know the answer. But Qin Mu had once heard Lang Wan say that only a little over twenty thousand had entered the other shore alive.
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