Strongest War Emperor

Shen Lang originally had many questions he wanted to ask Gu Feng.

But to his surprise, the old coot had been avoiding him, even calling him a ”Calamity Star.”

Shen Lang couldn’t care less if he was a Calamity Star, but he had to pay attention to the matter of his luck.

The luck between heaven and earth was ethereal and intangible, formless and shapeless, yet it was undeniably real.

The reason Shen Lang had tempted Chen Tianci with ”becoming the Barbarian Emperor” was not just because Chen Tianci himself was exceptionally intelligent, but more importantly, because of the fatty’s heaven-defying luck.

Whether it was the Thousand-leaf Fruit or the Water Spirit Pearl, these were things an ordinary person could never hope to encounter.

Moreover, the time between Chen Tianci discovering the two was frighteningly short!

Chen Tianci’s fortune was so profound that even Shen Lang was extremely jealous.

Hearing Gu Feng say that his own luck was strange and suppressed, Shen Lang immediately tossed aside his other questions and asked about his fortune.

Gu Feng shook his head. ”I can’t. On this matter, this old man is powerless to help... because it’s not just an issue of your luck being suppressed. It’s as if something is seizing your luck, siphoning it off. Even I can’t calculate the details.”

”Seizing my luck? There’s such a thing?” A sharp glint flashed in Shen Lang’s eyes.

Gu Feng nodded. ”That’s right. There is something on you that doesn’t seem to belong to this world. It’s being suppressed by this world’s Rules and must siphon some of your luck to survive here... Don’t ask me what to do. I’m powerless.”

”Unless...”

After saying that one word, Gu Feng stopped.

Shen Lang rolled his eyes. ”Unless what? People who stop mid-sentence deserve to fall in a latrine pit on a dark night!”

”Hm? Is that a real saying?” Gu Feng scratched his head.

After a pause, Gu Feng continued, ”Unless you can make a trip to the Witch Race Secret Realm in the Barbaric lands. The Witch Race might have a way to help you with this. Do you know why I’m here? First, that thing I just mentioned appeared not long ago, right when you broke through to the King Martial Realm. It was only for a moment, but how could it escape my celestial divination?”

”Second, I detected the aura of the Emperor Star at Cangxia Mountain, so I came to take a look.”

”But it’s useless to ask me more about these things. The secrets of heaven are unfathomable. Even when I divine the heavens and the earth, I can only grasp the tiniest sliver.”

’It appeared when I was breaking through to the King Martial Realm?’ The image of the small tree inside the Tai Chi Diagram immediately surfaced in Shen Lang’s mind.

It had appeared at that moment, and Gu Feng had called it ”something that doesn’t belong to this world.” Besides the World Tree inside his Tai Chi Diagram, it really couldn’t be anything else.

However, if it was the World Tree, Shen Lang didn’t need to worry.

The World Tree was the soul of the Tai Chi Diagram, and the Tai Chi Diagram was equivalent to his own soul. It was only natural for it to share his luck.

Shen Lang and the Tai Chi Diagram were already interdependent and inseparable.

Shen Lang paced a couple of steps in front of Gu Feng, setting aside the matter of his luck. He asked cautiously, ”You can’t talk about the Emperor Star either? Or is it that you don’t actually know much?”

Gu Feng gave a mysterious laugh. ”It’s not that I’m arrogant, but in this world, you really won’t find a second person who knows about the Emperor Star besides me. Not even the Witch Race!”

Just after saying those incredibly arrogant words, Gu Feng’s face immediately fell into a pathetic frown as he said timidly, ”But it’s precisely because I know so much that I can’t say it... Because I don’t dare! This concerns you and him, your past and present lives. If I were to interfere, I might not live to see tomorrow!”

”You saw it yourself. That Celestial Demon was so badass, yet he was crippled in a single blow by him. This old man wants to live a few more years... I can’t afford to provoke him, I really can’t!”

”Me and him, our past and present lives!” Shen Lang’s gaze sharpened. ”I’m starting to think Jianfeng was right to give you a good beating. The more I ask you, the more questions I have! It would have been better not to ask at all!”

”Alright, my curiosity is strong, but I know my limits. I don’t want to make things difficult for you... I won’t ask about the Emperor Star anymore. It doesn’t have much of an impact on me anyway, and sooner or later, I’ll get to the bottom of it myself. Old man, tell me, what’s going on with Shiyin and Dingdang?”

Hearing these two names, Gu Feng froze for a moment.

He looked up at Shen Lang’s expression and knew that if he didn’t answer this question properly, there was no way he’d be allowed to leave.

He had no choice but to close his eyes and begin calculating with his fingers.

Gu Feng might as well have not calculated at all. The moment he did, his expression changed drastically. ”It’s over, it’s over, he’s coming back... He’s coming back...”

As he said this, Gu Feng’s face went completely pale, and his whole body began to tremble as if he had a fever.

Seeing that he looked too unsteady to even stand, Shen Lang hurriedly supported him and asked, ”Who? Who’s coming back?”

”Fear, the Ultimate Fear! The Ultimate Fear that will destroy the entire world!” Gu Feng screamed hysterically. ”The Nine-Star Linked Pearls, the emergence of Supreme Yin Qi... I thought the Blood Ancestor would bring a cataclysmic disaster to this world, but I never imagined... It’s not the Blood Ancestor, it’s not the Blood Ancestor!”

Seeing Gu Feng’s unfocused gaze and weakening breath, Shen Lang sent a stream of Spiritual Power into him.

He was both helping Gu Feng hold on and taking the opportunity to investigate the condition of his body.

This Gu Feng was still the same as when he’d seen him in Celestial Palace City. The tiny bit of Spiritual Power in his Pill Sea was comparable to a Spirit Martial Realm Martial Artist, unchanged.

With the help of this Spiritual Power, Gu Feng finally stabilized a little.

He shook his head and said, ”Unspeakable, unspeakable... To think that I, Gu Feng, can divine the heavens, the earth, and everything in between, yet still failed to foresee something like this!”

”The Ultimate Fear that left this world is finally returning... Once it returns, this world is doomed to perish... There’s not much time left, not much time at all!”

Shen Lang’s expression remained unchanged. He suddenly asked, ”I asked you about Shiyin and Dingdang, but you started talking about some Ultimate Fear. Is it because you foresaw that Dingdang’s memories were sealed? Is this so-called Ultimate Fear the Demon God Hall? But the Demon God Hall is already in this world, so there’s no ’returning’ to speak of...”

”I can’t say, I mustn’t...” Gu Feng’s gaze was unfocused as he sat slumped on the blue stone, trembling nonstop.

Shen Lang glanced at Gu Feng with a normal expression, then raised his head to look at the night sky.

What exactly the Ultimate Fear was, Gu Feng wouldn’t say, and Shen Lang didn’t know.

But he could still deduce a few things from the available information.

Since Gu Feng discovered the arrival of the Ultimate Fear while divining about Dingdang and Shiyin, it was highly possible it was related to the Seal on Dingdang.

And Dingdang’s current Seal was related to the Demon God Hall.

Shen Lang didn’t know much about the Demon God Hall; most of his related memories had been sealed by the War Emperor.

But when the War Emperor fell, the world-destroying pressure he clearly faced was the Ultimate Fear, or the power brought by the Ultimate Fear.

As the War Emperor fell, he had laughed wildly at the sky, ”I understand!”

What exactly he understood, Shen Lang desperately wanted to beat it out of him, but that was obviously no longer possible.

’Thinking about it now, perhaps what he understood was this ”Ultimate Fear” that Gu Feng is talking about?’

Shen Lang was quite philosophical about it. If the sky falls, the tall people will hold it up. He would just do what he could. The most important thing was to first cultivate and become stronger so he could protect the people around him.

It was completely unrealistic to be thinking about some Ultimate Fear or destruction and all that nonsense right now.

Shen Lang gently patted Gu Feng’s shoulder and said lightly, ”Old man, don’t be so pessimistic. The Great Dao is fifty, but heaven uses forty-nine. The Celestial Dao is incomplete by one, but it always leaves a sliver of hope. I don’t believe in any of this ’Ultimate Fear’ crap. Don’t we have the Emperor Star to hold the line for us?”

”Since you know about this thing, and you know the Ultimate Fear is returning, you must know how to avert this calamity, right?”

As Shen Lang spoke, he waved his hand in front of Gu Feng’s face. ”Stop staring into space, there’s nothing there. Look at me... Stop talking nonsense and answer my two questions. First, how do we deal with this Ultimate Fear? I know you must know a lot. Second, what is the deal with Shiyin and Dingdang, and what do they have to do with my past life?”

”Don’t you dare give me the runaround, or I’ll forget all about respecting my elders.”

Hearing Shen Lang’s words, Gu Feng slowly raised his head. ”This old man... isn’t omnipotent, you know. How could I know everything? Calculating certain things shortens one’s lifespan...”

”Are you going to talk or not!” Shen Lang grew angry, his expression darkening as he demanded an answer.

Gu Feng jumped in fright and quickly said, ”A sliver of hope... it does exist... It lies with you and the Emperor Star.”

”Originally, I was very optimistic, because I always believed the apocalyptic calamity would come from the Blood Ancestor, and that the Emperor Star was born to face this calamity and would eventually suppress this Evil God.”

”I never expected...”

”To think that I, Gu Feng, know the astronomy and geography of the heavens, the past and the future, and there is almost nothing on the entire Star Continent I cannot calculate... But you, the Emperor Star, and the Ultimate Fear are things I cannot calculate at all. You are not pawns on the chessboard of heaven and earth, but the players who control the game!”

Shen Lang chuckled. ”Don’t say such cryptic, pointless things. With my current Cultivation and what little I know, at best I’m just an apple that has fallen onto the chessboard. I’m far from being able to control the game.”

Gu Feng was taken aback, then couldn’t help but laugh. ”You have a very profound understanding of yourself... However, sometimes the impact of an apple that falls onto the chessboard is actually greater than that of the players themselves.”

”The effects caused by this apple are something they can neither control nor eliminate.”

”As for the Ultimate Fear, it’s not like there’s no solution... Have you ever heard of the Nine Great Celestial Books and the Five Supreme Celestial Divine Weapons?”

Shen Lang’s face flushed, and he answered crisply, ”I’ve heard of the Nine Great Celestial Books. They are mysterious celestial books scattered throughout the Three Thousand Great Worlds and the Billions of Little Worlds. It is said that he who obtains a Celestial Book will rule the world, as if it were true... But in these tens of millions of years, has anyone ever seen a Celestial Book appear?”

”As for the Five Supreme Celestial Divine Weapons, as far as I know, the Ten Great Celestial Artifacts are already the pinnacle of Magical Treasure Secret Artifacts in this Human Realm. I even saw one a few hours ago. If there really were any Divine Weapons, they should have come from the Upper Realm, but I’ve never heard of any ’Five Supreme Celestial Divine Weapons’.”

Gu Feng pondered for a moment before saying, ”A Celestial Book has already appeared; people just don’t know it. The Blood God Atlas in the Blood Ancestor’s hands is the first of the Nine Great Celestial Books!”

”There’s such a thing?!” Shen Lang was startled. ”Legend says the Blood Ancestor relied on the Blood God Atlas to create a terrifying race like the Blood Race. That Blood God Atlas... is actually the first of the Nine Great Celestial Books?”

After saying this, Shen Lang’s expression suddenly turned bitter. ”Old man, you said there was a sliver of hope... You’re not going to tell me I have to collect all Nine Great Celestial Books and find the Five Supreme Celestial Divine Weapons, are you? I’m not doing something like looking for a needle in a haystack!”

”Besides, leaving everything else aside, if you think I’m going to the Blood Ancestor’s home to steal the Blood God Atlas, forget about it!”

”That’s not a job for a human being!”

”I’d like to live a few more years!”