Chapter 231: Are you the mastermind behind the scenes?
In fact, Zhu Qi had been searching for the mysterious person who imparted the Dharma to him since long ago.
Eventually, he focused on "Nokron."
After all, it was only natural. In the apocalypse world, there were his footprints, in the wizard world, there were also traces, and in the martial arts world, it was his ancient legacy of direct lineage.
In this world, such a mysterious existence could only be this one.
And over the years, he ruled the entire continent, established countless stars and clouds, surveyed the world, not only maintaining his rule, finding enemies, but also searching for this elusive existence.
But he could never find it.
And in today's era, after the four-hundred-year war in the Divine Realm, the soul fully dense, spiritual qi revived, permeating the whole earth.
The clouds and stars in the sky, using the dharma method, once again improved to monitor the earth with spiritual qi!
The soul qi everywhere was their eyes and ears. With the advent of methods like Downwind Ear and Thousand-Mile Eye, they traced the slightest clue of Sylvie.
"In this life, it is with your guidance that I have come this far."
After this bow, the Witch Emperor slowly rose.
The ancient being before him, Nokron, seemingly was only at the Demigod Realm at this moment, not even becoming a god, lower than his own realm, belonging entirely to the mortal.
But he still dared not act presumptuously.
In his view, this being had just awakened.
Life Map too long, needed to recast ring by ring, fully recover, destined to be long.
Look at the Emperor and Minis, their Life Maps were very long, stuck in the Demigod Realm.
He already clearly knew that this being's combat power could not be measured by the Demigods. Just that recent baptism made one's heart thump wildly.
A mortal seemingly able to kill a True God!
The Emperor could slay a True God, why couldn't this one?
This being would have certainly also crafted a True God weapon, or other items, to protect the path, even if a reincarnated re-cultivating mortal, was not an existence at the True God level, one could provoke.
"You're not just here to thank me, are you?" Nokron said.
"This trip is not for the Emperor, Minis, or other enemies. My war, I'll handle it myself." Zhu Qi spoke.
"Senior, I came here to see you, searched for you for thousands of years, always with a deep question."
"Speak." Nokron said only a single word.
"I want to know, what will the ultimate fate of this martial arts world be? Will we be destroyed, how far into the future does it span?"
"Is this era predestined? Are we merely on a stage? Puppets on strings?"
This current Celestial Emperor, asked an incredibly sharp and hard-to-comprehend question.
Li Qing didn't expect the other party to ask that way, suddenly laughed: "The outcome of the era is fought for by oneself, why ask others?"
Yet, Zhu Qi the Celestial Emperor spoke to himself: "Senior, although some words may be mere conjecture, I feel there are questions within that are difficult to fathom, which I've been unable to comprehend for years."
"But speak freely." Nokron said indifferently.
Behind him, Sylvie performed the duties of a maid, stood quietly behind, very obedient.
She had just asked a question she thought was sharp enough, with vast amount of information.
But unexpectedly, this one's question was even sharper, with greater information.
Zhu Qi the Celestial Emperor pondered for a few seconds, said: "Over the years, I've always believed there is a mysterious hidden hand behind the scenes, propelling the development of the martial arts civilization, interfering in everything from behind, even influencing each era in secret."
The Witch Emperor's gaze showed a hint of nostalgia, saying:
"The first era, was the era of the Emperor, that era was aspirational, the most primitive ancient barrenness, that martial arts legend descended upon this primitive Great Secret Realm, opened up martial arts, propelled the era."
"This was originally a glorious thing, but according to historical studies, when the Emperor descended, he came as the Emperor from a small martial world, and he was only a Fifth Realm Golden Martial Artist then. How did he traverse space and reach this Secret Realm?"
He paused, "In my view, there surely was a great and mysterious ancient existence, in an ultra-ancient era before martial arts emerged, opened up the great world of martial arts, left behind legacy inscriptions in that small world, but perished, now returned, and once again propelled the inheritance of the martial arts era, and the rise of posterity."
"And the second era, Yang Tiansheng, Emperor Tiansheng, in his later years many strange things, why did he suddenly have a flash of inspiration, would propel the great fusion of the Eight Desolates Space, ultimately becoming the Four Domains?"
"And rumors said he recluded to enjoy his later years, yet in a few years returned to the world, turning sight to the monstrous martial arts system he had never thought of? As if, there was some backstage existence secretly guiding."
Sylvie suddenly felt the atmosphere instantly oppressed.
Her intuition was indeed not wrong!
This Witch Emperor, indeed had the boldness, really asking some incredible things.
No wonder his aptitude could only be called top-notch, yet dared to snatch food from the jaws of the Emperor and Minis, and even succeeded!
Aptitude, was not the most important, not solely talent decides the winner.
The opponent's courage, fierceness, were also very important.
"And the third era, my era."
Zhu Qi the Celestial Emperor softly murmured:
"This one, ah, was originally a down-and-out child on the street! Yet obtained guidance from an existence for several days, gained black magic, rose to a high position, suppressed a century of millennia, propelled the rise of the True God Era today, with the Divine Realm flourishing!"
Counting through the entire history, the footprints of this existence, spread across the key nodes of each era.
Was it coincidental?
This is too much a coincidence.
Is it as elders, able to propel the martial arts civilization?
Perhaps, it is so.
And another side of the doubt, like earth civilization, multiple overlapping identities, memories, who is true? Always feeling many things shrouded in fog, unable to peek at the truth.
Anyway, all these signs indicate, Nokron, in secretly guiding everything.
Although not calling it complete control, it is deliberately influencing the process of martial arts history, and the future of this land.
Even, Zhu Qi these years, has been pondering some questions.
If sincerely propelling the martial arts era, why all the detours?
Straightaway deliver the ancient martial arts civilization's legacy, Life Map route of the Martial Path Race, to this era.
Why let them deduce anew?
Now the Martial Path Race, the Emperor such cultivation, re-exploring Life Map, is it not a waste of time?
Propelled, but only the most primitive propulsion method, as if not understanding the martial arts civilization's cultivation system, complete Life Map...
Very contradictory!
And over the years, the more thought, the more peculiar it felt, pondering, why such contradiction!
Thus instinctively, wanting to break free from the martial path route given by the opponent, the lineage of the Black Magic Master.
He decisively cut off the martial path foundation, not just for quickly becoming a god, but also to break away from the control of this black hand, to become independent from the Martial Path Race.
And constantly deducing the lineage of witchcraft path, attempting to break away from the confines of the martial arts system, self-reliant, also for this reason.
"Each time I see the history of the apocalypse world, I feel fear in my heart."
Zhu Qi the Celestial Emperor smiled bitterly, "You and I stand on the world stage, all historic puppet roles.... Every time I read that segment of history, I feel fear in my heart, in the end, what is true, and what is false? Are we living in a dream now? From where do we come, and to where do we go?"
"Are we ourselves truly ourselves?"
"Are our memories truly our own?"
"That ancient Earth God, before sleeping, a dream-like lantern, in order to continue its civilization, in the process of recreating reincarnation history, wanting to restore its civilization."
He enunciated each word, as if murmuring, also as if asking himself: "And the civilization of the martial arts world, whether, also a god, reviewing historical martial arts processes in history, attempting to restore the old glory, remembering the distant past?"
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