Chapter 1991: Dim Lights, Past

Chapter 1991: Dim Lights, Past… This hoarse voice, filled with intense hatred, emerged from beneath the square. The ground of the square immediately roared and shattered, and massive Rifts, several zhang wide, appeared. These Rifts crisscrossed, tearing the square apart as if splitting it into four pieces.

As the Rifts continuously multiplied, almost instantly, the center of the square suddenly collapsed. The ground shook violently, and the many dao ancient tribesmen on the square quickly retreated, their expressions changing, with many flying directly into the air.

A beam of purple light shot up from the collapsed center of the square, heading straight for the sky, looking from afar like a gigantic purple pillar supporting the heavens and the earth.

The moment this purple light appeared, the entire Imperial Palace was instantly enveloped by a purple glow. This purple glow was clearly composed of countless Formations, resembling the activation of the Ten Thousand Ancient Grand Formation within the Imperial Palace.

A purple coffin slowly floated up into the purple light from beneath the collapse. While this light emitted dense Death Qi, an astonishing Ancient Tribe aura also spread out. The moment it captured everyone's attention, the coffin stood upright, its lid shattering inch by inch and falling away, revealing the skeleton-like body within the coffin.

This was an old person, faintly discernible as an old woman. She looked so ancient, as if she had crawled out of the Yellow Springs. She had only a few scattered strands of hair and wore faded Imperial Robes; her body was pitch black.

Three daggers were stabbed into her body: one in the brow, one in the chest, and one in the Dantian.

"We greet the Saint Imperial Ancestor!" The moment this person appeared, all the surrounding dao ancient tribesmen knelt down once more. Their voices merged together, roaring like sound waves that echoed throughout the heavens and the earth.

The reverence shown by these dao ancient tribesmen was comparable to when they had previously witnessed the Ancient Ancestor's phantom image. Especially the fanaticism in their eyes suggested that this old woman possessed an unimaginable status!

Among all generations of Dao Ancient Imperial Venerates, only one person could be called the Saint Emperor!

The moment Xuan Luo saw this old woman, recollection flashed in his eyes. He sighed softly, his expression complicated.

"Ye Wei…"

Wang Lin stood in the sky, his expression normal. He was not surprised by the old woman's appearance. In fact, when the Ancient Ancestor's phantom image had appeared earlier, he had already sensed a half-life, half-Death Qi existing beneath the Imperial Palace.

Even if he hadn't sensed this Qi, Wang Lin wouldn't have been surprised, because during the night banquet before, there were four low tables closest to the great hall.

These four low tables were reserved for the Great Heavenly Venerate, the State Preceptor, and the Dao Ancient Imperial Venerate's father, the previous Imperial Venerate. However, these were only three people, yet there were four low tables. Clearly, there was one more person of extremely high status who, even if they wouldn't attend, still required a low table to be prepared for such a Grand Ceremony.

Wang Lin originally did not know who this person was, but now seeing this old woman and hearing the name Ye Wei spoken by Xuan Luo, he recalled the history of the successive Dao Ancient Imperial Venerates he had learned about after arriving at the Ancient Dao Lineage.

In the history of the Dao Ancient Lineage, tens of thousands of years ago, a woman appeared. She was the only person in the entire Ancient Tribe to become the Dao Ancient Imperial Venerate while being female!

Her succession caused an uproar and sensation back then. Amidst the doubts of countless dao ancient tribesmen, the Ancient Dao Great Heavenly Venerate finally sent a message, acknowledging her existence, which allowed everything to settle down.

This woman was also of the Imperial Clan. Under her leadership, the Dao Ancient Lineage at that time almost reached the Peak, becoming the strongest of the Three Clans. However, following her abdication, tens of thousands of years later, the Dao Ancient Lineage had become the weakest of the Three Lineages.

Because of her contributions to the Dao Ancient Lineage and because the Dao Ancient Lineage reached its strongest point during her reign, this woman was called the Saint Emperor by subsequent Imperial Venerates!

She was also respectfully referred to as the Saint Imperial Ancestor by later generations of dao ancient tribesmen!

Her name was Ye Wei… The moment Wang Lin heard this name, scenes he had learned about this woman flashed through his mind.

Furthermore, Wang Lin learned from the Jade Slip that recorded the successive Imperial Venerates of the Dao Ancient Lineage that his Master, Xuan Luo, also became the Great Heavenly Venerate during the era when this woman reigned.

All these thoughts flashed through Wang Lin's mind in an instant. He looked at the skeleton-like old woman who had emerged from the purple coffin, and cold light appeared in his eyes.

Song Zhi, who had Li Muwan's remnant soul integrated within her, seemed extremely frightened upon seeing the old woman's terrifying appearance. Wang Lin tightened his arm, holding her even closer.

"Leave the Immortal Ancestor's head and the Immortal Emperor's soul, and this old woman can pardon your crimes! Otherwise, even if you can borrow the power of the Ancient Ancestor to manifest the Ancient Ancestor's body, do you truly think you can enter and exit this Dao Ancient Imperial Palace freely?" The old woman looked at Wang Lin and spoke hoarsely. The Death Qi emanating from her body seemed to intensify as she spoke.

"This old woman's cultivation is not as high as yours, but this place is the Dao Ancient Imperial Palace. There are Ten Thousand Great Formations here. This Formation was laid down by the Ancient Ancestor back then, and successive Imperial Venerates could, at most, only activate twenty or thirty percent of it. But this old woman has already achieved Fusion with the Formation itself. As long as I am in this Imperial Palace, I am immortal, and I can activate the Formation up to seventy percent!" The old woman looked at Wang Lin and said grimly.

Wang Lin's expression was calm, but the coldness in his eyes intensified.

"If you want what belongs to this Wang, you can try!" Wang Lin spoke slowly. The Great Heavenly Venerate Sun behind him suddenly materialized. Amidst the black and white colors swirling around, Wang Lin's hair moved without wind, and beneath the Great Heavenly Venerate Sun behind him, a dao ancient phantom image that looked exactly like him suddenly appeared.

That dao ancient phantom image seemed to be carrying the Great Heavenly Venerate Sun, looking coldly at the old woman.

Wang Lin could only manifest the Ancient Ancestor's phantom image by burning the Soul Blood within his body. Since it had just appeared once, the Soul Blood was currently dispersed within him and required some time to condense before it could be burned again.

The old woman's dim eyes flashed. Her withered right hand, like a skeleton, lifted up, and just as she was about to clench the Void Realm, a sigh escaped Xuan Luo's mouth.

This sigh reached the old woman's ears, causing her right hand to tremble.

"Ye Wei… he is my Disciple." Xuan Luo looked at the old woman with a complicated gaze, and a trace of tenderness actually appeared in his eyes. To him, the old woman before him was not ugly at all, but just like the beautiful and bright woman she was back then.

"He was once your Disciple." The old woman was silent for a moment, then looked at Xuan Luo, her dim eyes also filled with complexity, and she spoke hoarsely.

"I know you favored Ye Dao, that descendant. When he was young, he inadvertently went to the place where you were in secluded cultivation. You felt that child had an affinity with you… I clearly did not think highly of this child; he was arrogant and intolerant of others. I originally did not want to appoint him as Imperial Venerate, but he carried your Qi, so I chose him.

Today, he forced my Disciple to do this, making my only Disciple, Wang Lin, sever the Master-Disciple bond with me, and preventing him from remaining in the Dao Ancient Lineage henceforth. Do you think he did the right thing?

Should he, as the Imperial Venerate, have done this? And do you really believe this Grand Formation can trap Wang Lin?!" Xuan Luo almost roared the last words. His expression showed deep distress, especially when his gaze fell upon Wang Lin; the pain was heartbreaking.

He could never forget that smile, which was like a cry, the bow and the kowtow that followed that smile, and the palm strike that shattered fate and severed the Master's grace.

He understood that the strong bond of Master and Disciple between him and Wang Lin had vanished after that palm strike, along with the collapse of Wang Lin's body.

The old woman remained silent, speaking hoarsely only after a long while.

"Ye Dao certainly deserved to die, but as the Imperial Venerate, he could not be killed for nothing. If Wang Lin does not leave the Immortal Ancestor's head and the Immortal Emperor's soul today, I will still launch a major war! Moreover, I do not believe this Grand Formation cannot trap him!"

The moment she finished speaking, Wang Lin smiled. The cold light in his eyes intensified. As he raised his right hand, the Immortal Ancestor's Eight Extremes Dao Divine Ability immediately spread out with a roar.

The azure wisps of smoke were the Extreme Fire Dao!

The blue ripples were the Extreme Water Dao!

The golden etherealness was the Extreme Metal Dao!

Wang Lin had learned six of the Immortal Ancestor's Eight Extremes Dao in the Heavenly Venerate Nirvana Land. Now, with a flick of his sleeve, the Six Extremes Dao manifested one by one.

Among them, besides Water, Fire, and Metal, there were also Wood and Earth. After the Five Elements were complete, the sixth Dao was the Extreme Death, Extreme Life Dao!

As for the seventh Extreme Hair Dao and the final Extreme Sky Dao, although Wang Lin had not received the Legacy, he could faintly sense the changes of the last two Daos, and given enough time, it would not be impossible for him to Master them.

Simultaneously with the appearance of the Immortal Ancestor's Divine Ability, Wang Lin raised his right index finger. His entire fingertip was suddenly enveloped in silver light—the Ancient Ancestor's One Finger Technique, condensed and manifested.

Wang Lin's actions caused the old woman's pupils to contract. She had originally estimated that even a Great Heavenly Venerate would only have a thirty percent chance of survival under the Formation's strangulation.

This Wang Lin would surely face near-certain death within the Formation.

But now, the old woman hesitated. She stared at the Six Extremes Dao surrounding Wang Lin, clearly sensing the destructive power contained within it.

Furthermore, there was the Ancient Ancestor's One Finger. She had not dared to appear just now, but she had felt the power of that finger. She had thought it was merely a one-time attack derived from the Ancient Ancestor's Jade Slip, but now she discovered that Wang Lin could still deploy it.

While she hesitated, Wang Lin sneered. His hair gradually shifted from half black and half white, slowly changing to completely black. An earth-shattering aura of slaughter and destruction burst forth from his body.

The old woman's expression immediately changed.

"Ye Wei! I promised you back then that I would protect you for a lifetime… protect the Dao Ancient Lineage for a lifetime… I am very tired… Let him go. You are not his match, and this Grand Formation cannot trap him. I am saving you…" Xuan Luo's appearance slowly aged, yet the tenderness that had remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years still existed in his eyes as he looked at the old woman.

The old woman was silent for a long time. She raised her right hand and suddenly waved it, and the purple glow Grand Formation covering the Imperial Palace immediately dispersed.

Wang Lin glanced at Xuan Luo and sighed inwardly. The moment the Grand Formation dispersed, he embraced Song Zhi, who had Li Muwan's remnant soul integrated within her, and shot straight toward the sky. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly let out a soft exclamation. From this position, he clearly saw a burly man among the dao ancient tribesmen below, looking up with bright eyes, smiling and sighing with emotion as he watched Wang Lin.

His gaze met the burly man's gaze, and Wang Lin's body suddenly paused.

"It's you…"

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