# Chapter 1778: Meeting Guoguo and the Demon Ape Again
A little bit of power?
Zhang Ruochen did not know what to say.
In Moon God's view, the Divine Left Leg only had a little bit of power left. However, for Zhang Ruochen, that power was extremely vast, many times greater than his own strength.
If the Divine Left Leg were compared to a hundred-jin supreme divine weapon, then Zhang Ruochen was currently like a seven or eight-year-old child. With his strength, he simply could not wield that supreme divine weapon.
Instead, to a certain extent, this supreme divine weapon was even a burden.
Just like now, Zhang Ruochen was walking with a limp.
To be able to use the Divine Left Leg freely, Zhang Ruochen still had a long way to go.
However, possessing the Divine Left Leg was indeed a tremendous blessing. In the future, spending more time refining and cultivating it might even bring unexpected benefits.
Zhang Ruochen thought of another matter and asked, "How is Kong Lanyou's condition?"
Before losing consciousness, Zhang Ruochen clearly remembered that Kong Lanyou had suffered severe injuries, and he was very worried.
Moon God did not speak. The atmosphere in the Guanghan Divine Palace became somewhat heavy.
The more this was the case, the more anxious Zhang Ruochen became. "What exactly happened? Tell me. No matter how bad the news, I can bear it."
Moon God let out a light sigh. "Her Immortal Sacred Body was broken, and her cultivation realm has fallen back to the Saint King realm."
Zhang Ruochen felt a sharp pain in his heart, then clenched his fists tightly. "Damn that Black Heart Demon Lord. If I become a god, I will definitely slay him."
For a Saint King to forge an Immortal Sacred Body and break through to the Great Saint realm required both exceptional talent and various opportunities.
Once successful, one could live at least three thousand years.
Even if one died later, the physical body could remain immortal for ten thousand years.
However, once a Great Saint's Immortal Sacred Body was broken and their realm fell, the difficulty of reforging it would be a hundred or a thousand times greater than before.
Although there were cultivators in history who had successfully reforged their Immortal Sacred Body, they were only a handful. Most cultivators returned to mediocrity, striving their entire lives without being able to return to the Great Saint realm.
It could be said that Kong Lanyou's path had been severed, and her future cultivation journey would be filled with darkness and hardship.
In the end, it was because Kong Lanyou had only become a Great Saint for a few years, so her foundation was unstable. When she fought head-on with a divine clone, she ended up in such a miserable state.
If it were like Man Sword Great Saint, who had cultivated in the Great Saint realm for over a thousand years, this situation would rarely occur.
Moon God said, "Don't worry too much. For her, this might not necessarily be a bad thing."
Zhang Ruochen only thought this was Moon God's words of comfort and could not take them to heart. He immediately wanted to walk out of the Guanghan Divine Palace and rush to Chaisang Sacred Domain to see Kong Lanyou.
He was very clear about how painful and despairing it was for a sacred path cultivator to have their path severed.
Kong Lanyou had waited for him for eight hundred years, treated his enemies as her own, and fought against Chi Yao for eight hundred years.
These eight hundred years, she had already lived very bitterly, her heart must be extremely tired. Though she was a peerless beauty, her hair had turned white. Zhang Ruochen could not forget the sorrow in her eyes.
"If you want to find her, I'm afraid you'll have to go to the Kunlun Realm," Moon God said loudly.
"Kunlun Realm? She went back to the Kunlun Realm?" Zhang Ruochen stopped in his tracks.
Moon God said, "Not only did she go to the Kunlun Realm, but many sacred realm cultivators from the Hell Realm and the Heavenly Court's various realms have also gone."
Zhang Ruochen's heart shook violently, and his eyes widened. "Was the Heaven and Earth Altar of the Kunlun Realm breached?"
"That's correct."
"When did this happen?"
"One month ago."
"Has it been that long?"
"One month ago, the Heaven and Earth Altar was breached. However, the sacred realm armies from various worlds only arrived at the Kunlun Realm in the past few days. So, if there are people and matters in the Kunlun Realm that you are worried about, you can still make it in time if you go now," Moon God said.
Zhang Ruochen breathed a slight sigh of relief, trying hard to calm his chaotic thoughts and organize his mind.
He definitely had to return to the Kunlun Realm. His mother, Lin Fei, his fourth brother, his ninth sister, and the former remnants of the Sacred Bright Central Empire all had to be taken away and settled down.
Besides that, there were some matters he had to investigate clearly.
Regarding the great upheaval eight hundred years ago, Zhang Ruochen did not fully believe Chi Yao. He did not believe that his father, the Emperor, would really be controlled by Xue Hou. A majestic emperor like him, even a god could not turn him into a puppet.
If his father had become Xue Hou's puppet, how could he have cultivated to become a Buddha in the Western Buddha Realm and had Ci Hang Fairy bring the Eight Dragon Umbrella to him?
Thinking of this, Zhang Ruochen's thoughts suddenly paused, and he realized he might have been going down the wrong path before.
"Back then, Ci Hang Fairy only said that the Eight Dragon Umbrella was given to her by an emperor from the Kunlun Realm several hundred years ago to bring to me. However, several hundred years ago, there was more than one emperor in the Kunlun Realm."
"Could it be that the one who became a Buddha in the Western Buddha Realm was not my father at all? Otherwise, why didn't he come to see me?"
"If the one in the Western Buddha Realm is not my father, then where did my father go? Is he still alive?"
"And Xiao Hei—he is an old acquaintance of the Black Heart Demon Lord and is very close to Qiangu Nüdi. What else has he hidden from me? One hundred thousand years ago, was he really the Emperor Who Slays Heaven and Earth? Why did Xumi Saint Monk seal his sacred soul inside the Cosmic Divine Wood Map?"
"Is my mother really Xue Hou?"
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Zhang Ruochen had too many questions in his heart. He closed his eyes and asked, "Moon God, where is Xiao Hei?"
"That undying bird?"
Moon God said, "After the divine battle, it left Moon God Mountain and never returned."
"Bastard."
Zhang Ruochen clenched his fists, feeling furious. That fellow must have hidden many things. Knowing that Zhang Ruochen would question him, he slipped away and hid.
If he saw him next time, he would definitely pluck all his feathers.
"I need to go out for a while."
Zhang Ruochen took out the Golden Step Dragon Chariot, harnessed the nine golden dragons, and flew out of Moon God Mountain.
Before returning to the Kunlun Realm, there were some questions he had to clarify.
Two hours later, Zhang Ruochen arrived at a sacred domain with numerous peaks. He drove the dragon chariot and stopped at the foot of a camel-hump-shaped sacred mountain, sending out sound waves: "Zhang Ruochen, Crown Prince of the Sacred Bright Central Empire, comes to pay respects to the mountain."
The two guardian divine beasts of the Sacred Bright Central Empire were both at the Great Saint realm. In the Shatuo Heaven Domain, they occupied two sacred domains as their territories. The half-saints, saints, and saint kings of the Sacred Bright Central Empire's remnants cultivated in these two sacred domains.
Zhang Ruochen had come to one of these sacred domains.
They were guardian divine beasts, Great Saints, and the last living beings to have seen the Ming Emperor eight hundred years ago. Zhang Ruochen did not believe they knew nothing.
After a moment, earth-shaking sounds came from within the sacred mountain, and two surges of demonic qi surged out.
From within the demonic qi, a rabbit and a demon ape rushed out.
"Zhang Ruochen, you finally came. I thought you had been killed by the gods!" The rabbit, whose body was as fat as a pig, excitedly pounced toward Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen quickly sidestepped to avoid it.
"Bang."
The rabbit fell heavily to the ground, smashing a large pit.
"Disrespect toward His Highness the Crown Prince. Serves you right."
The demon ape rolled its eyes, then clasped its fists and said, "Greetings, Your Highness."
These two beasts were none other than the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit Guoguo and the Demon Ape, who had stolen and eaten Zhang Ruochen's divine medicine leaves back in the Qiankun Realm.
How precious were those divine medicine leaves? Zhang Ruochen could not bear to eat them himself.
A single "Moon" leaf had restored Moon God's divine power to over fifty percent.
These two fellows had not wasted the divine medicine leaves. Their cultivation had both reached the Six-Step Saint King realm, and the aura they emitted was like two demon gods.
These two gluttons' cultivation speed was even faster than that of White Li Princess, who had also stolen and eaten the divine medicine.
However, White Li Princess was improving step by step, and she had also cultivated the Way of Truth, making it difficult to find an opponent at the same realm. Unlike the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit and the Demon Ape, whose cultivation came entirely from eating, there was still a considerable gap between them.
Thinking about the stolen divine medicine, Zhang Ruochen was still furious.
"Where are the two Golden Qilin Beast Kings? Why are only you two here?" Zhang Ruochen asked.
The Demon Ape said, "The Kunlun Realm is facing an unprecedented great calamity. The two Beast Kings have already returned to participate in this war."
Zhang Ruochen frowned. "Nonsense. On the Kunlun Realm battlefield, only beings below the Great Saint realm can enter."
The Swallowing Elephant Rabbit climbed up, patted the dust off its belly, and said, "You don't know this. The Kunlun Realm battlefield is indeed only accessible to beings below the Great Saint realm, but the starry sky around the Kunlun Realm is the battlefield for Great Saints."
"Apparently, they not only have to fight each other but also compete for the Star Soul Divine Thrones left by the gods of the Kunlun Realm. Every Divine Throne Planet makes the Great Saints salivate, helping them comprehend the divine path."
"Damn it," Zhang Ruochen said.
The Divine Throne Planets in the starry sky around the Kunlun Realm were treasures left by the ancient gods of the Kunlun Realm. Now, they could only watch helplessly as the Great Saints from the Hell Realm and the Heavenly Court's various realms took them away. It was infuriating.
The Swallowing Elephant Rabbit's eyes rolled slyly. "Actually, it's not that simple. Without precise positioning, even Great Saints find it very difficult to find the Divine Throne Planets."
"Because after a god falls, the light of the Divine Throne Planet dims, floating in the dark starry sky. Only through spiritual power can they be detected."
"The two Beast Kings said that the starry sky around the Kunlun Realm is as vast as an ocean, and the Divine Throne Planets are like small islands in that ocean. Finding even one is as difficult as reaching the heavens."
"Moreover, many of the Divine Throne Planets in the starry sky around the Kunlun Realm were hidden by a bald donkey from the Middle Ages using spatial means, making them impossible to find."
"Bald donkey?"
Zhang Ruochen glared at the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit.
The Swallowing Elephant Rabbit patted its paws and said seriously, "That's right. That's what the two Beast Kings said."
Zhang Ruochen said, "Since it's so difficult to find, why did the two Beast Kings still go to participate in the battle?"
"The two Beast Kings said they want to use the few Divine Throne Planets they had previously detected to set traps and kill a few Great Saints from the Hell Realm."
The Swallowing Elephant Rabbit laughed happily, rubbing its paws together. If its cultivation level were not high enough, it might have gone with the two Beast Kings to pull off a heist. Even killing one Great Saint would yield resources and treasures beyond the imagination of Saint King realm beings.
Then, Zhang Ruochen took the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit and the Demon Ape to visit Taiyi Patriarch, wanting to ask what the Dragon-Protecting Pavilion had been building when they took the national treasury of the Sacred Bright Central Empire.
Unfortunately, he came up empty again. Taiyi Patriarch had also returned to the Kunlun Realm.
In the end, Zhang Ruochen could only drive the Golden Step Dragon Chariot back to Moon God Mountain. It seemed that the various mysteries of eight hundred years ago could only be uncovered by himself.
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(The next part of the story will be difficult to write, because we need to start filling in the holes—the Yunwu Commandery hole, the Luo River hole, the Eastern Domain Sacred City hole, the Liangyi Sect hole, the Sword Grave hole, the Immortal Machine Mountain hole... and so on. There is a general direction in mind, but the details have not been worked out yet. In any case, the Kunlun Realm will have many things that surprise everyone. The Three Empresses from eight hundred years ago have only mentioned Xue Hou so far. The other two Empresses should also be explained.)