The Staff of Origin glowed faintly for a long time, then stopped…
‘It still won’t work.’
Li Mo shook his head.
Ever since coming here, the Staff of Origin had turned useless.
‘What a frightening world.’
“Chang’e.”
Li Mo called, the tantalizing woman beside him was unconcerned.
“Even if you’re the real first leader of the Alkaid Holy Land, not even you would wish for this.”
The woman shuddered.
Li Mo smiled.
The looks changed, but the body still remembered.
Chang’e, a character from an ancient Chinese legend. But the one he knew of and the one in the story were entirely different.
“You don’t react to Chang’e, but you tremble at the mention of Alkaid Holy Land’s first leader.”
When Heavenly Emperor formed the Heavenly Court, Chang’e and Hou Yi were God Kings. When the fall of Heavenly Court arrived, the two fled to the ancient planet Alkaid where Hou Yi found an eternal herb.
As it was only one, Hou Yi didn’t wish to use it. But Chang’e couldn’t fight back the lure of eternal life and stole it.
Thousands of years passed and Hou Yi passed away while Chang’e remained. She established the Alkaid Holy Parish and became its first leader.
From what Li Mo knew, the so-called eternal herbs weren’t quite able to grant immortality, only extend life like other longevity herbs. Taking it once doubles one’s lifespan. The second time the effect would be half, the third would be half again, and after that it would turn useless.
Hou Yi lived one life, Chang’e two, but in the end they both died…
That was what Li Mo knew for sure.
This sultry woman may not be Chang’e, but she had to be related in some way to show such a huge reaction.
“I don’t know who you are, but I do know this world belongs to the dead. That I am sure.”
The sultry woman stared blankly, her eyes dead.
Li Mo touched her face, ice-cold.
“There had been countless beings with great power surging throughout the river of time, but only 36 had become God Emperors. You are one of them.
“I used to think there was no life after death, but that may not be the case.
“The place where the dead go… Is this Underworld?”
The sultry woman didn’t react.
“Archfiend Mage is Emperor Jiang, Golden Crows are the Twin Emperors, Insect Emperor, Undying Sovereign… “
Li Mo muttered.
From the moment he ran into Archfiend Mage, he had his suspicion about this world’s true nature.
Archfiend Mage used the same art Emperor Jiang did, Everlasting Undying Art.
Li Mo had recited lines from the same art to make Emperor Jiang react.
From when the ten sacred beasts ravaged the universe, many powerful beings emerge. But those that the world itself recognized as truly strong numbered only 36.
36 God Emperors were world-approved, with the whole universe bowing when they first rose.
Alkaid Holy Parish’s first leader, Chang’e, was precisely one of them, 35th to be exact. And the one following her was Emperor Jiang.
Since Emperor Jiang there had been no one else.
The 36 God Emperors were invincible in their time, with no one to survive them. But there was one thing Li Mo was sure of, all God Emperors died in the end…
Not at the hands of another, but from time.
They had won all their battles, except against time.
Time was the ultimate executioner, culling the 36 Emperors with its slow and constant tick.
“In a world where you can only enter, where one must slaughter to get someone like you, what secrets does it hide I wonder?”
Li Mo frowned, unable to come with an answer.
A month soon passed in which Li Mo used all he knew to find a Gate. It was now that his attempts bore fruit.
Newbies arrived.
They were the second team the Experts Alliance sent to find out the missing members of the first team.
“The Gate is behind us. How can you not see it?”
The second team leader led Li Mo and Du Fei to the Gate.
The result left them speechless. The newbies could see it and use it to get out while the first team was still stuck here.
Li Mo included.
“Newbies can use the Gate as they wish, but as you spend more time here, the Gate will close.”
Li Mo pondered, then drew a talisman with a secret message for the newbies to deliver to Feng City.
He couldn’t go out, but at least he had a way to communicating with the outside.
Days later, Yang Chan came.
Li Mo left the Staff of Origin in her care, told her how to use it, then she left.
Du Fei and many other friends were stuck here. The only one left he could put all his trust in was Yang Chan.
Li Mo returned to Holy City, and heard Dipper Galaxy’s team returned.
Li Mo waited on East Street and Bernado came to see him soon.
“Milky Way Galaxy boss, you aren’t simple.”
Bernado had a complex expression. It hadn’t been long when Li Mo was but a noob but now up and turned himself into the Milky Way Galaxy’s boss. He even had a hero.
“I came to state two things. My lord was assassinated by Heavenly King Galaxy…”
Bernado looked bleak.
“Just what assassin can kill the Dipper’s boss?” Li Mo was stunned.
“Heavenly King Galaxy’s two assassins. One can blink and the other’s words come true. It was through their combined strength that my lord died… Curse those rotten people from Heavenly King Galaxy!” Bernado was enraged.
“Space, words?” Li Mo’s heart jumped, finding them familiar.
“The second information, on behalf of Dipper Galaxy’s new boss, Alcado, I wish for Milky Way Galaxy to become sworn allies.
“Please give us a clear answer!”
