Chapter 666: Human Emperor Xiao Fan, Secrets of the Nine Provinces

The emergence of the Human Emperor could not be kept hidden from the true powerhouses and descendants of the royal family across the Nine Provinces.

Some ancient relics who had been in seclusion for many years and were nearly decaying could also sense the massive change in the world!

The birth of a new Human Emperor represented a change in the landscape of the Nine Provinces!

Inside a cold and gloomy ancient cave in a Secret Realm…

An elder with a hunched figure, his body nearly reduced to a skeleton, slowly sat up from a stone coffin.

"How many tens of thousands of years has it been? The Human Emperor has finally appeared… Could it be that a war is about to begin?"

The skeleton-like elder muttered to himself, his gaze deep as he looked into the distance, lost in thought.

His body was decaying, long since exhausted of life, yet for some reason, he still remained in the world!

Boundless Battle Intent radiated from the nearly decaying elder… A moment later, the Battle Intent dissipated without a trace.

"It is not yet time; I must still wait…" the skeleton elder murmured, lying back down inside the stone coffin!

Silence…

Wuhuang Province, inside the underground palace of the Mysterious Giant…

After the Secret Realm was destroyed, this underground palace drifted within a black hole in the starry sky.

At this moment, the Mysterious Giant inside the underground palace opened his eyes, his expression one of shock!

"The Human Emperor has appeared!!!"

The giant was extremely excited, erupting with monstrous Battle Intent, but a moment later… he slowly closed his eyes again.

Yihuang Province, inside a Secret Realm, within the divine temple.

Xiao Fan's expression was dignified and imposing, with the aura of an emperor flowing from his body, inspiring awe!

Even though his current strength was only at the Yuanhun Realm, this imposing manner was truly unique!

"Greetings, Human Emperor!"

The Black-haired Elder bowed respectfully, his body trembling with excitement; a new Human Emperor had been born!

"Rise," Xiao Fan said indifferently, his tone unconsciously infused with the imposing authority of an emperor!

"Thank you, Human Emperor!" the Black-haired Elder said aloud, rising respectfully.

"Who are you, and why did I become the Human Emperor? Explain clearly," Xiao Fan asked in a commanding tone. The moment he sat on the golden jade dragon throne, countless images had flashed through his mind.

"Reporting to the Human Emperor, this old servant is Hou Wanli, responsible for guarding this divine palace while awaiting the birth of the new Human Emperor."

The Black-haired Elder explained; his name was Hou Wanli.

"This old servant was a servant to the first Human Emperor, Your Majesty, and have guarded this divine temple for countless tens of thousands of years…"

"A servant to the first Human Emperor?" Xiao Fan was stunned, not expecting the elder to actually be a servant of the Human Emperor.

"Explain the whole story clearly," Xiao Fan asked.

"Human Emperor, Your Majesty, what happened back then…" Hou Wanli's expression turned serious as he began to recount to Xiao Fan those ancient secrets from countless tens of thousands of years ago.

"When a Human Emperor is born, the Nine Provinces submit. The Human Emperor was the true ruler of the Nine Provinces… the guardian deity of our Nine Provinces continent. Back then, the Nine Provinces were prosperous, and powerhouses were as numerous as clouds…"

"But later, the Witch God Clan invaded, joining forces with the Weiyang Clan to attack the Nine Provinces… Although our Nine Provinces were at their peak at that time, and a large number of powerhouses went to battle, the result… was still defeat!"

"The Human Emperor's cultivation and fortune reached the heavens, but he could not withstand the joint attack of the experts from the other two clans, and in the end, he died in battle!"

"And our Nine Provinces were reduced to a wasteland… The Witch God Clan and the Weiyang Clan sent a large number of experts into the Nine Provinces, where they burned, killed, and looted, stealing all of our resources."

"Furthermore, these two clans decided to use the method of raising Gu to farm the living beings of our Nine Provinces continent. They tampered with the rules of this continent, placing everyone in the Nine Provinces under the surveillance of their two clans…"

"On this continent, whenever a true young Prodigy is born, or a Human Race powerhouse advances to the Pi Hai Realm, it triggers a Heavenly Tribulation to exterminate them… This so-called Heavenly Tribulation is actually a mechanism created by those two clans tampering with the rules of the Nine Provinces continent!"

Listening to Hou Wanli's words, Xiao Fan's expression grew increasingly grave…

He recalled the text he had seen on the walls inside the underground palace of the Mysterious Giant.

Now, combined with what Hou Wanli said, it seemed that everything connected.

The Nine Provinces continent… was actually someone else's Gu farming ground!

"Then why have I never heard of this in the outside world?" Xiao Fan asked in a deep voice, trying to keep himself calm.

"For those two clans, the Nine Provinces continent is actually more like their Secret Realm… Countless tens of thousands of years ago, they slaughtered all the powerhouses on the Nine Provinces… That great war lasted for decades… but the result…"

"The Nine Provinces were defeated, the Human Emperor died in battle, and the rulers of the Nine Provinces continent were also miserably defeated… They knew that this continent would fall into despair, so they used their own methods to allow their Bloodline descendants to preserve the power of each province!"

"Unexpectedly, these two clans then modified the Laws of heaven and earth in the Nine Provinces and sent experts to destroy all records of the great war… ensuring that future generations would know nothing of the original war!"

"Moreover… the current Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces, or perhaps it is more appropriate to call it the Heavenly Dao of the Witch God Clan and the Weiyang Clan… anyone who discusses content related to the war from ten thousand years ago… will trigger a Heavenly Tribulation to exterminate them!"

Hearing Hou Wanli's words, Xiao Fan's expression grew even graver. Seemingly having thought of something, he took out the tianzhu sword.

Back when the tianzhu sword's intelligence had awakened, Xiao Fan had asked the tianzhu sword why it had fallen into slumber.

At that time, the tianzhu sword's answer seemed similar to what Hou Wanli had said!

"Is what he said true or false?" Xiao Fan used his Divine Thought to communicate with the tianzhu sword.

"True!"

A moment later, the tianzhu sword responded via Divine Thought.