Wayfarer

Chapter 882: The World Mourns

chapter 882: the world mourns

yu fuli's words astounded one and all.

what if the heavens were a collective? one representative of the heavens alone had been so powerful as to make them all despair. if there were more, how would they survive?

"you need not despair," yu fuli continued, his voice steady. "i have shown the world that the heavens are not invincible. they have fallen once; they can fall again. i hope you will all shoulder the weight of this realm's survival."

everyone straightened and saluted solemnly. "yes, your majesty!"

yu fuli smiled faintly. "that said, your time is limited. now that the heavens have fallen, the world away will respond quickly. the next representative of the heavens may arrive sooner than you would expect.

"the world away?" someone asked.

yu fuli nodded. "twenty thousand years ago, an ancestral dragon led a group of powerful cultivators toward the world away. unfortunately, they returned empty-handed, save for a piece of useful intelligence. during his journey, the ancestral dragon noticed traces of the heavens' presence and concluded that the heavens reside in the world away, the other shore of the celestial firmament."

"the cursed effigies summoned across the eras likewise come from the world away. do they come from the same place as the heavens?" someone asked curiously.

yu fuli thought for a moment. "you'll have to explore that train of thought yourself."

"understood!" everyone replied.

"before i depart, allow me to bestow upon you all a piece of my cultivation insight.

as he spoke, yu fuli raised a hand. his already dim and fragile form faded further. a small purple sphere materialized at his fingertips, one which exploded into drops of liquid that shot into everyone's mindscapes.

xiao nanfeng found his drop of liquid exploding into a long text.

"the yuqing yin body," xiao nanfeng exclaimed.

"the jade emperor's frame?"

"the insights of the heavenly sovereign..."

"the art of fishing!"

everyone's eyes opened wide. what yu fuli granted the cultivators seemed to be what they were most lacking in.

"thank you, your majesty!" everyone bowed.

"don't hold a funeral for me. some people might find it unsettling," yu fuli said with a wry smile.

everyone glanced at each other, confused. who would dare feel unsettled by the heavenly emperor's funeral? even so, sensing his firm resolve, they didn't dare protest.

"understood!" they responded, bowing again.

"i have said all that i wish to say. from now on, this celestial realm, this world of ours—i leave in your hands." yu fuli smiled warmly.

with those final words, his body disintegrated into countless specks of light that vanished without a trace.

"farewell, heavenly emperor!" the entire gathering, including xiao nanfeng, solemnly bowed to yu fuli.

"farewell, heavenly emperor!" everyone on the plaza bowed deeply, then what seemed like the entire world.

just then, the overcast skies turned blood-red.

thunder rolled across the continents as torrents of bloody rain began to fall, not only over the sieve of heaven but over the entire world.

"the mourning of the world?" someone exclaimed.

"who are you?" xiao nanfeng demanded.

"enough talk. let's take him down!" another figure shouted.

"very well!"

the three attacked without further warning.

before they could reach xiao nanfeng, however, a shadow streaked forward and struck the lead assailant with a devastating punch, sending him flying. then, the figure struck at the other two cultivators as well.

"ye sanshui? what's he doing here?" the other two cultivators exclaimed.

ye sanshui rapidly took down the second cultivator, then the third.

he chased after the first cultivator as tu feng and the demon child appeared from two different directions.

tu feng's nine fox tails slammed into one assailant, sending him flying.

"tu feng? shouldn't you be dead?!" the man shouted in shock.

"you really are talkative, aren't you?" tu feng retorted, continuing his assault.

meanwhile, the demon child unleashed a storm of sword energy on his opponent.

the three attackers were all overwhelmed within moments. ye sanshui struck especially fiercely, leaving one white-robed attacker gravely injured.

xiao nanfeng hovered in the air while a group of dazheng cultivators surrounded him.

"your majesty, we were delayed. if third uncle hadn't brought us here, it would have taken some more time before we caught up," ye dafu reported.

"it's a pity you failed to make it to his majesty's final distribution of gifts, but it matters not. i shall grant you what techniques he has made accessible to me," xiao nanfeng replied.

"understood!" ye dafu replied, nodding.

the divine emperor and liu miaoyin had emerged from secluded cultivation, so the demon child and tu feng had no need to remain in the respective capitals any longer. according to xiao nanfeng's orders, they had headed toward other divine empires to enforce the covenant.

over the course of the day, more fortune had been amassed by every empire around the world. in case yu fuli would have need of it all, everyone continued to guard the various empires and divine empires in their vicinity.

only when yu fuli's fragment of will reappeared did they end their surveillance and head to the sieve of heaven as quickly as they could—but in the end, they were too late.

xiao nanfeng had been intending to meet up with them as he emerged from the sieve of heaven, only to encounter three assailants along the way.

the three white-robed cultivators were all early-stage boundless immortals.

very quickly, ye sanshui crippled the first among them.

"take him!" ye sanshui shouted, tossing the defeated white-robed cultivator to a golden cultivator as he rushed toward the demon child's fight.

the other two cultivators blanched and turned to flee.

"hold it!" ye sanshui and the others shouted.

however, against boundless immortals intent on fleeing, even they had little recourse.

"don't bother giving chase. there may yet be ambushes in the vicinity. we should return for the moment," xiao nanfeng said.

"understood!" everyone replied.

the cultivators left with xiao nanfeng and the boundless immortal they had just caught.