CHAPTER 102:Heaven-Defying to Live Out the Ninth World

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The entire world was shaken. No one could have predicted that Shi Hao would traverse time and space, returning to the ancient era of Emperor Luo.

In that distant age, Shi Hao engaged in bloody wars against all races across the Eight Desolations, staining the stars with blood. He fought fiercely against the Dark True Dragon Clan, defeating countless of their powerhouses and nearly dying in the process. He briefly encountered the Butcher in his youth, but they did not clash. The Butcher soon left that realm.

By his own strength alone, Shi Hao annihilated the Divine Spirit lineage, sparking massive upheaval throughout the world. He decapitated thirteen rising prodigies of the Kaitian Deity line, shaking the heavens.

Years passed, time flowed relentlessly.

The images of the Desolate Emperor continued flashing, showing Shi Hao waging endless wars in an era where emperors had fallen. He became immortal through battle, slaughtering across heaven and earth to their very limits. But after countless years of slaughter, he calmed.

Without Immortal Ascension, all achievements ultimately become dust. No matter how peerless one is, without transcending, all returns to ashes.

In the era of Emperor Luo, heaven and earth were suppressed too strongly. Since the great battle that ended in the fall of all supreme giants, Immortal Ascension had become impossible. That age forbade transcendence. The catastrophe of Emperor Luo's time saw countless powerhouses perish, their essence becoming one with the Dao, merging into the world's rules to suppress all future life.

To break through, one had to overcome that all-encompassing suppression. It was impossible to bypass the infinite, suffocating weight of the rules.

As time passed, the world underwent great changes.

Shi Hao lived for thirty thousand years, an impossible lifespan for anyone during the decline of law. In those countless days and nights, he continued to cultivate and refine his Dao. His Taoism was tempered endlessly, his body became flawless, his spirit sharp, his power unmatched.

With only his body, he wandered the edge of life and death like ancient lightning striking a dead tree, igniting vitality in decay. Through nirvana, he lived a second life, shedding all that was rotten and pushing his Dao Fruit to greater heights.

Shi Hao was determined to ascend.

Again and again he tried, facing endless setbacks. Tyrannical and relentless, he only desired to become a Battle Immortal. Yet his efforts left him scarred and exhausted. Were it not for his terrifying foundation, he would have perished long ago. Even so, the violent methods left severe internal injuries. Over time, his life force dwindled.

In this life, only ten thousand years had passed.

Compared to his past lifespans, this was far from his end. But decades later, he could no longer persist. Though his body radiated overwhelming might, his life force was depleted. His time in this life was coming to a close.

Then, Shi Hao consumed an immortal elixir and entered his third life.

In that third world, he lived another thirty thousand years.

Using the True Phoenix Nirvana Art, he once again defied the heavens and extended his existence, stepping into his fourth life.

In this fourth incarnation, Shi Hao's lifespan was longer than ever before, reaching a staggering fifty-six thousand years.

Adding up the years from his previous three lives during the Age of Godfall, Shi Hao had lived for more than one hundred and twenty-six thousand years.

Throughout this long fourth life, Shi Hao entered deep seclusion, focusing entirely on cultivating to ascend as an Immortal.

He gave it everything.

Countless methods converged, turning into divine chains spiraling around him. While aiming for the Immortal Fruit position, he also delved into the secrets of formation arts.

Yet in the fourth life, he still failed to break through to immortality.

Before the attempt ended, Shi Hao constructed a terrifying array using the power of fortune itself. The grand formation linked together nine secret realms, each housing immense blessings. They formed a great circuit that gathered and fused their power into one.

Seated in lotus position at the center, Shi Hao absorbed the spiritual essence of the nine blessed lands. He entered deep sleep, letting the earth's essence purify his flesh and soul.

Through this, he birthed his fifth life, like the rebirth of a divine embryo. He shed his human skin entirely, forcing old bones from flesh and regenerating anew.

Harnessing the mysteries of heaven and earth, the essence of Innate energy flowed through his formation to spark another rebirth.

Then came the sixth, seventh, and eighth lives.

Each time, his lifespan doubled.

By his fifth life, Shi Hao was already strong enough to challenge immortality retroactively.

At that moment, all realms trembled.

"In this age of dwindling law, to ascend against the current is terrifying—truly heaven-defying!"

"To live out eight lives and still charge at true immortality! The Desolate Emperor is a monstrous existence!"

"This is too powerful!"

"Who still dares call themselves invincible? Who dares claim supremacy? The era of Emperor Luo has faded, but Huang alone stands peerless across eternity!"

The heavens and realms were in uproar.

Especially within the world of Shrouding the Heavens.

So many emperors at the peak of humanity could not escape the shackles of lifespan. They had to sever their paths, abdicate their thrones, and enter slumber in the divine sources of forbidden lands just to resist the erosion of time.

Sometimes, when the great tribulation of lifespan struck, these emperors launched black calamities to absorb the vitality of billions of lives just to sustain themselves, replenishing life essence and bolstering the soul.

Even so, these ultimate emperors who once stood at the summit, even those who defied the heavens, at most lived a second or third life. None could compare to the Desolate Emperor.

"There is truly no one like Huangdi in the past, and there will never be another. He is unmatched for all ages."

Ye Hei sighed.

He himself was a peerless prodigy, undefeated in ten thousand battles, suppressing an entire era alone, gazing down upon the entire golden age.

Yet, he had to admit, in comparison to Huang, he could only bow his head.

As the years passed, the images continued to unfold.

After living out his eighth life, Shi Hao finally returned to the Chaotic Era and descended once more upon the Nine Heavens. He continued battling within the golden stele floating in the strange void, cultivating endlessly, refining his body and will.

Eventually, he entered his ninth life. His qi and blood, once decayed, were reignited, returning him to his peak.

He fought in the mortal realm, endured the ultimate trial of Immortal Ascension, and succeeded before the eyes of the world—becoming a true Red Dust Immortal.

Red Dust Immortals exist in the same realm as True Immortals, yet their strength far exceeds the latter.

Nine Heavens trembled.

Then came invasion from the foreign lands.

Shi Hao stood once more, becoming the pillar of resistance against the exotic threat.

The scenes played on.

Ten thousand years later, just as Shi Hao charged at the Immortal King realm, he was ambushed and slain by the three Immortal Kings of Ao Sheng.

Cao Yusheng and the puppy carried Shi Hao's remains to the Burial Ground, begging Sanzang and Shenming to restore him. Afterwards, Shi Hao slumbered there for five hundred thousand years. Finally, a trace of his primordial spirit awakened, stepping back onto the Immortal Path and refining the Desolate Tower.

Upon witnessing this, the beings of the Shrouding the Heavens world were stunned.

"What? The Desolate Emperor we've known all along was just a trace of primordial spirit, while his true self was in slumber?"

Jiang God King and the others looked at one another in utter disbelief.

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