Chapter 2479 - 2446: A Horde of Yanderes

The Fourth Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty birthed new life amidst its decay!

This Immortal Dynasty era rescued the ever-falling Immortal Dao Civilization, and moreover brought Immortal Dao Civilization back to one-tenth of the productivity of the Ancient Emperor Era, allowing the many Cultivators of the Endless Starry Sky to profit. The surplus productivity could be used to buy off all sides, greatly reducing the will to resist and increasing the political stability of the Immortal Dynasty.

In later generations’ histories, the Fourth Immortal Dynasty era is what posterity knows best.

As for the Second and Third Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty eras, in general only those with some understanding of history will be aware of them.

However, the deepest ambition of the Fourth Immortal Dynasty era was known only to an extremely small number of people. This frenzied longing, rooted in the heart of every Female Cultivator, was practically innate, present since the birth of the first Tushan Maid. With the passage of tens of millions of years, it did not grow dim; instead, it became ever more sickly and mad.

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Great Sun Forbidden Area.

Time flowed ever faster.

The Soul Fragment of the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor—one could not determine whether this was a Life, because no Life could endure for so long. One only knew that he had always existed, always recorded, always cyclically reformatted.

In the end, even this Soul Fragment grew weary.

Thus, he created a new beast of burden, a Soul Fragment of the Soul Fragment, a record-keeping automaton, and then himself sank into a perpetual drowsy slumber, completely ignoring all that transpired in the Endless Starry Sky.

This Soul Fragment of the Soul Fragment took up the brush and wrote.

"The glory of the Fourth Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty lasted for twenty-eight million years. Twenty-eight million years later—that is, nearly eighty million years after your departure—the Second Sangji sank into slumber. This True Immortal Fairy, like the Zhan Yang Sword Master, had an intense yearning for becoming Emperor, and she would certainly not miss the era in which the next Emperor is born."

"Moreover, she need not sleep too long—only twenty million years are required for her to escape the Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor’s shackles upon the era, waiting until the Endless Starry Sky once more manifests an opportunity to ascend as Emperor."

This Soul Fragment of the Soul Fragment clearly bore even less emotional color, merely recording in simple fashion the events occurring in the Endless Starry Sky.

One million years after Sangji True Immortal Fairy’s departure, the Fourth Immortal Dynasty era also began to decay.

The Tushan Maids had held great power in their hands for many years, and likewise began to indulge in pleasure and play. The maids’ clans, Sects, and relatives proliferated ever more, the vested-interest groups swelling to a degree the Endless Starry Sky could no longer tolerate. The Ziwei pivot no longer carefully maintained political balance, and instead more and more cruelly suppressed the Xianmen Sect, Great Sun Sword Cultivation, and the various Super-tier Elite Dao Soldiers across the realms.

The road once trodden by the Xianmen Sect, Great Sun Sword Pavilion, and others was now walked again by the Tushan Maids, whose decline had been delayed for a long time and greatly extended by a True Immortal; yet the same fate descended nonetheless.

First, within Ziwei Tianzhu, the maids themselves developed divergences in ideology and interest, triggering civil war. Thereafter, the power of the Supreme Great Sun Maid Path diminished sharply, while Great Sun Sword Cultivation, the Xianmen Sect, the Beidou Holy Land, and other forces within the Endless Starry Sky rose with astonishing speed, incessantly eating away at the authority of the Tushan Maids.

Twelve million years after Sangji True Immortal Fairy’s departure.

Ziwei Tianzhu.

Here, everywhere was engulfed in war, everywhere resounded with shouts and slaughter. The Xianmen Sect’s Ship Cannons were wildly bombarding; Great Sun Sword Cultivators laughed madly as they drew swords and fought. Plunder of Cultivators was everywhere. The place of ultimate splendor that Tianshu once had been was turned into ruins, blood flowed across the ground, and one Tushan Maid after another died a miserable death.

At the deepest part of the Tianshu Palace, the last Tushan Maid was a delicate girl with a pale face.

Her name was Li. According to the tradition developed over tens of millions of years by the Tushan Maids, her name was Li Ji: the last Tushan Maid Li Ji, so beautiful as to steal the soul, not like a living being of the Human World.

"Your Majesty..."

"In the end, I still cannot see you."

Li Ji ignored the explosions and screams outside the palace, ignored the sound of one Tushan Maid after another collapsing to the ground, and gently stroked the painting before her.

In the painting, the green-clothed youth still sat quietly upon the Crystal Divine Throne, his gaze deep as he watched the Starry Sky, a flavor of cold cruelty and terror beneath his indifference.

As ever, he showed no change at all.

Yet the maids of the Human World had already passed through Reincarnation countless times.

"Your Majesty,"

"you belong to us."

Li Ji murmured calmly.

Clang~

She slowly drew her sword, placed it against her snow-white neck, and gently pressed.

Great gouts of fresh blood gushed forth; her delicate body softly collapsed into the painting of the green-clothed youth, and thus the last Tushan Maid of the Fourth Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty died without a sound.

No one knew how much time had passed.

The shouting, killing, and explosions outside the palace gradually subsided.

Accompanied by footsteps, one powerful Cultivator after another entered the palace. At least seven Emperor Realm Cultivators were present, from the Xianmen Sect, Great Sun Sword Pavilion, Beidou Holy Land, Hehuan Holy Land, Fusang Holy Land, and other Sects.

This outcome was astonishing.

One must know, the Ancient Emperor had departed eighty million years ago!

Reasonably speaking, the Endless Starry Sky ought long since to have declined, unable to furnish the resources required to nurture so many Emperor Realm Cultivators. Yet reality was otherwise.

One could only say that the legacy the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor left to later ages was too abundant—so much that even eighty million years had not exhausted it.

"In the end, she got off cheap!"

One powerhouse snorted coldly.

In the late years of the Fourth Immortal Dynasty, many atrocities beyond human comprehension occurred.

Many Tushan Maids, in order to extend their lifespan and pursue ultimate beauty, frequently employed Blood sacrifice, slaughter, soul-switching, Seizing, and other methods. For this they even developed proxy Demon Schools such as the Blood River Demon Gate and White Bone Sect. The targets of Blood sacrifice were chosen with the highest possible talent; every great Sect and Holy Land suffered grievously from this, including the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and the Xianmen Sect.

Among these, the greatest mastermind behind the scenes was precisely Li Ji.

For reasons unknown, this person possessed a yearning for beauty that defied comprehension. Numerous Holy Daughters of the great powers perished by her hand, all to perfect her own beauty. She surpassed even the Fusang Empress recorded in history—this was the ultimate beauty of the Human World. Before her, no one had ever seen a woman of such beauty.

Judged solely on outward appearance, Li Ji was the foremost beauty of the entire Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty.

In Li Ji’s hands, a branch of the Supreme Great Sun Maid Path was developed—the Li Dao. This line of inheritance did not emphasize combat strength or escape ability, but rather the ultimate pursuit of beauty. The many cosmetic Immortal Dao Inheritances it produced were startling to the world, far outstripping those of any prior era.

Within these methods of beauty there were both Righteous and Evil paths, containing Immortal Wisdom of extreme depth.

Of these, the Immortal methods leaning toward the Righteous Dao and relatively gentle were treated as treasured prizes by the Female Cultivators of all forces in the Endless Starry Sky, taken into their possession without hesitation, completely disregarding the vehement opposition of male Cultivators.

"She is indeed worthy of the title of last Monarch."

"She did not disgrace the Ancient Emperor."

A Cultivator of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion said blandly.

The many Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure and stores of the Fourth Immortal Dynasty were gradually divided up by the crowd. No fierce clashes broke out, and likewise no one harbored much intent to further slaughter.

Because it was meaningless.

"The Great Sun Original Ancient Talisman is about to collapse; at most, there is but a million years of time left."

"This gathering should be the last. After this, all Cross-Star Domain Transmission Arrays will vanish, and the Endless Starry Sky will become isolated islands one by one."

The Immortal Gate Governor sighed softly.

"Everyone, farewell."

During the span in which the Great Sun Original Ancient Talisman was nearing collapse, the Xianmen Sect would at all costs hoard resources upon the Mother Star, waiting and waiting—waiting until the shackles of the Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor vanished, and the opportunity to ascend as Emperor arrived once more!

"Farewell."

"Farewell."

The powerhouses of the great forces exchanged glances and turned away one by one, leaving Li Ji and the great conflagration to bury Ziwei Tianzhu, burning away the last strand of splendor of the Fourth Immortal Dynasty era.