Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

After many years, he returned to the lower realm for the first time.

He had grown up in this world, risen here, fought here, and left behind too many precious memories.

Those sad, happy, and bitter experiences were, in his eyes, indispensable parts of life's journey.

He unleashed his powerful divine sense, quickly covering the entire Emperor Beginning Star Region.

The lower realm universe, the vast starry sky, all the living beings on the ancient stars he had explored had been migrated to the Emperor Beginning Star Region under his guidance.

For this reason, he had specially requested the help of mythical-level experts from the Dragon Nest to construct the ecological environment of the Emperor Beginning Star Region, resulting in a staggering number of ancient stars with life.

Although those stars were not as massive as the Emperor Beginning Star, they were still considerable in size, possessing vast waters and land areas, sufficient for the creatures on the ancient stars to multiply and thrive.

Over the years, the environment of the lower realm universe had changed, not to mention the environment of the Emperor Beginning Star Region. At a glance, every ancient star with life, every inch of its mountains and rivers, was a sacred place for cultivation!

Auspicious energy floated, sacred springs gurgled, and even the roadside weeds contained traces of sacred spiritual energy!

Within his Celestial Cave Star Sea, he experienced a miraculous sense, hearing the sincere prayers of all living beings, generating a massive and continuous stream of power of faith.

His divine sense swept across those ancient stars with life, and he saw countless creatures piously kowtowing before his divine statue.

He focused on the cultivation levels of all living beings. Universal cultivation had begun long ago, and after so many years, there should be some results.

He didn't know until he looked, and he was truly shocked when he did.

Perhaps because there was no suppression from the laws of heaven and earth, reaching the Saint Realm had become countless times easier than before. Coupled with such an excellent cultivation environment, Saint Realm beings were everywhere.

Surprisingly, half of them had entered the Saint Realm, which was truly quite exaggerated.

"I actually forgot that the arrival of the apocalyptic torrent in every world coincides with its most prosperous age. It's just that it's difficult to resist the apocalyptic torrent, so the prosperous age eventually turns into the apocalypse. The lower realm has survived the apocalyptic torrent, the prosperous age itself is already there, and there is no suppression of order, and the environmental evolution is so excellent..."

Jun Wuxie looked at the flourishing prosperity before him, and at this moment, he couldn't help but feel excited.

This prosperous age should be what everyone had once hoped for and wanted to see.

The creatures of the lower realm had paid too much blood and tears, and finally fought for this prosperous age.

His divine sense shifted from ordinary beings to the legions of those ancient stars with life.

He discovered that all the legions had been incorporated into the Black Armored Army at some point. The armies on each ancient star with life were all group armies under the jurisdiction of the Black Armored Army, and each group army was further divided into dozens of legions.

The scale of the Black Armored Army was now somewhat frightening, even to the point of being exaggerated.

Those legions, with an average of several million soldiers per legion, had a Black Armored Army population of about 100 million on each ancient star with life.

The entire Emperor Beginning Star Region had numerous ancient stars with life, and the total number of Black Armored Army soldiers added up to an astronomical figure.

He carefully observed them, and the spirit, energy, and essence of the Black Armored Army on each ancient star with life were all very good. The military camps were strictly disciplined, perfectly inheriting the iron-blooded military soul of the Black Armored Army.

"Yinlan is really too capable. In just a few years, she has developed the imperial dynasty to such an extent. An imperial dynasty on the scale of the entire lower realm is still maintaining a strong cohesion, and has not become lax because of my departure..."

Jun Wuxie finally understood why the God-Slaying Sword would say that the development of the lower realm imperial dynasty was very stable and good.

It was not easy to gain the approval of an Emperor Weapon like it.

His divine sense withdrew from the various ancient stars with life, covering the imperial city and the surrounding mountains and rivers.

The main camp of the imperial dynasty's Black Armored Army was here.

He saw familiar faces, the soldiers who had followed him in the battle against the darkness, fighting bloody battles.

Some of them were cultivating, some were undergoing combat training, and they were very diligent.

"We are the Black Armored Army, the soldiers of Lord Jun, shouldering the important task of guarding the imperial dynasty and protecting our homeland! We will only be Lord Jun's sharpest blades, not Lord Jun's burdens!"

In the military camps of the various Black Armored Armies, those soldiers who were about to be unable to withstand the arduous training roared with bulging veins.

In the sky above the military camp, there was a projection of a huge rune memory stone. The projection showed a continent filled with rolling dark energy, where a figure faced away from all living beings, fighting alone against billions of dark troops.

Jun Wuxie did not expect that the Black Armored Army would use the scene of him fighting against the dark army to motivate the soldiers.

"The training ground seems to be covered by a special order formation..."

Jun Wuxie faintly sensed something, but it was not very clear.

Even with his current soul perception of a half-step Eternal Saint Realm, he could still only vaguely sense it, which made him slightly stunned.

In that case, I'm afraid it was the work of a God Realm expert.

Then, the God Realm expert must be from the forbidden area. Thinking this way, it must be either Divine Phoenix Mountain or Dragon Nest.

Within the vast training ground covered by the formation, every training soldier was under tremendous pressure. The gravity here was far from comparable to the outside world, unknown billions of times!

When Jun Wuxie focused on their realm, he could hardly believe his eyes.

All the centurions and above in the Rune Armor Army were actually in the Great Saint Realm!

Many of those generals were Overlord Saints!

How could their realms be so exaggerated in just a few years?

Immediately, he discovered that the highest-ranking commander in the army was still in the Overlord Saint Realm.

Throughout the imperial dynasty, only the imperial palace had the aura of a half-step Saint Emperor.

This meant that the strongest person in the imperial dynasty was a half-step Saint Emperor.

Following the aura, Jun Wuxie locked onto that half-step Saint Emperor, who was none other than Ji Yinlan.

She was currently summoning her ministers in the imperial court to handle imperial dynasty affairs.

"It seems that the Ancestral Master or Ancestral Master's Wife constructed a secret realm with accelerated time flow, otherwise it would be impossible for the soldiers of the Black Armored Army's main camp to cultivate to this realm within a few years..."

Jun Wuxie was almost certain that this was the truth of the matter.

Although he had only been gone for a few years, the cultivation time of the soldiers of the imperial dynasty must have been more than just a few years.

"The Ancestral Master and Ancestral Master's Wife did this, it seems they have been paying attention to my situation, knowing that I am developing an imperial dynasty in the upper realm, lacking foundation, and the strength of the army is too weak in a short period of time to compete with other imperial dynasties."

Jun Wuxie really did not expect that the Ancestral Master and Ancestral Master's Wife would help him in this way.

His figure disappeared from the spot, and in the next moment, he appeared in the Hall of Valor of the imperial dynasty.

As soon as he entered the Hall of Valor, strong soul fluctuations gradually emanated from the spirit tablets inside, and then soul light lit up.

A large number of faint soul bodies flew out from the various spirit tablets.

"Lord Jun..."

"Lord Jun's aura..."

Countless faint souls floated around Jun Wuxie.

Obviously, their souls were severely incomplete and had not yet fully recovered, so their memories were somewhat lacking, and they could only reflexively emit muddled voices.

Perhaps they don't remember anything now, but they only remember Lord Jun, remember his aura.

Jun Wuxie looked at these floating souls and slowly walked towards the spirit tablets, gently stroking them, his mood indescribably heavy.

Past events emerged in his mind one by one.

From the year when the Great Zhou resisted the Western Forest, too many soldiers died in battle.

In the defense of the capital of the Great Zhou, even children over ten years old went into battle.

They were small in stature, unable to wear armor, went to the battlefield in cloth clothes, took the pills of the Demon Sect, burned their lives to gain strength, and used their lives and blood to defend their country, fighting bloody battles.

During that time, the streets in the city were filled with corpses, covered with white cloths, stretching for dozens of miles.

Since that battle, the Great Zhou was greatly injured, and the population was reduced by more than half, five out of ten households had no sons!

Apocalyptic torrent, dark invasion, whether it was the Black Armored Army or the people of other ancient stars, too many died in battle, countless.

In such an era, everyone who dared to raise a spear against the darkness was a hero!

"The lower realm universe is very stable now. Although your heroic souls are incomplete, you can slowly nourish yourselves here, and there will eventually be a day when you fully recover."

Jun Wuxie muttered to himself as he looked at the spirit tablets. He stood here for a long time, then disappeared.

In the next moment, he appeared in the Cemetery of Martyrs.

This was the burial place of all the heroic martyrs who defended the Great Zhou against the Western Forest, and later sacrificed themselves to resist the darkness.

This Cemetery of Martyrs was shaded by trees, but it did not feel dim at all.

As soon as you entered here, you felt that the entire cemetery was shrouded in a sacred light, filled with an indescribable aura of righteousness.

Although there were countless graves here, the feeling it gave people was one of incomparable sacredness and warmth.

"It's been five years since I came to see you."

Jun Wuxie took out a jar of Peach Blossom Wine.

This was specially brewed for him by Yao'er. He himself usually couldn't bear to drink it, nor was he willing to share it with others.

He poured the Peach Blossom Wine on the ground to pay tribute to all the heroic martyrs, then sat down on the ground and began to talk to the martyrs' graves.

He talked about the apocalyptic torrent of that year, and also talked about his establishment of an imperial dynasty in the upper realm, and so on.

He sat in the Cemetery of Martyrs for a long time, talking all the time, until dusk.

...

In the pavilion on the back mountain of the Immortal Execution Sword Sect, Tian Jianyi and the Phoenix Lord sat facing each other, leisurely and contentedly sipping fragrant tea.

"This kid, after coming back, the first places he went to were actually the Hall of Valor and the Cemetery of Martyrs, staying there for a whole day."

Tian Jianyi sighed, saying that there were really too few people like him. No one in history has been like him after reaching such a position.

"That's why he's special. How can others compare to him? No matter how high he goes, he always sticks to his original intentions and maintains his original heart. How many people in the world can do that? In this regard, I think he's stronger than you!"

The Phoenix Lord's words were obviously meant to mock him, causing the corners of Tian Jianyi's mouth to twitch slightly, "Why did I get shot for no reason..."

"Isn't it so? He values love and righteousness, but you abandoned your wife and children back then."

Tian Jianyi was speechless, he could only silently drink his tea, not responding to the conversation.

"There was actually such a thing?" Jun Wuxie's figure suddenly appeared in the pavilion, looking at Tian Jianyi with astonished eyes, "Grandmaster, I really didn't see it, you actually did such a scummy thing before!"

"Huang'er, did you not block your voice just now?"

Tian Jianyi was stunned. He was actually heard by Jun Wuxie, who even called him a scum. He was so angry that his lips trembled.

The Phoenix Empress covered her mouth and chuckled, which made Tian Jianyi feel very speechless.

"You brat, you have no respect for elders, is that how you talk to your grandmaster?" Tian Jianyi reached out as if to flick his forehead, but didn't actually do it. Jun Wuxie dodged it, "You, your grandmaster and I have been worrying our hearts out for you all these years. You come back and not only do you not show filial piety, but you even make fun of your grandmaster. Do you believe I'll spank your butt into eight pieces!"

Jun Wuxie revealed an awkward expression.

"You brat."

Tian Jianyi stroked his beard and laughed.

Of course, he wouldn't really be angry. He really liked this grand-disciple too much. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he was the apple of his eye.

"Wuxie, come, let Grandmaster-Aunt take a good look at you."

The Phoenix Empress had a loving smile on her face as she sized him up, nodding incessantly, "Yes, you look more mature than before. Your realm has improved very quickly, and your Dao of Inscriptions has already reached the Primordial level. Just speaking of the realm of the Dao of Inscriptions, you can be considered a top expert even in the Upper Realm."

"Grandmaster, Grandmaster-Aunt, what day do you not look at me?"

Jun Wuxie knew what was going on, "I'm in the Upper Realm, and even if you don't say you're paying attention every day, it's probably close to it."

"You're so clever."

The Phoenix Empress smiled and poured him a cup of tea.

"Thank you, Grandmaster-Aunt."

Jun Wuxie picked up the tea and took a sip. The fragrance lingered in his mouth and teeth, and he felt every pore in his body stretch open. In that instant, he had a feeling of his soul leaving his body, floating like an immortal.

"Grandmaster-Aunt, what kind of tea is this?"

At first, he was just floating like an immortal, but immediately after, Jun Wuxie found that his soul was rushing out of his body. He was almost unable to control it, and his soul was about to float away.

"Don't panic, it's tea to help nourish your soul. Before, your soul realm was too low, so even this tea water, diluted countless times, was too much for you to bear. Now you can finally try it."

The Phoenix Empress waved her hand, and a barrier appeared around Jun Wuxie, quickly shrinking. A formation diagram appeared above his head, and with a press down, it forcibly pushed his soul back into his body.