The Human Emperor

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

“For the next few epochs, we and Heaven tried our utmost to stop those otherworldly invaders, but we would ultimately fail. And after these repeated failures… Heaven changed.”

Origin Supreme sighed.

Wang Chong felt his heart thump as Origin Supreme continued to speak.

“I don’t know what happened to Heaven, but not long afterward, the Purification plan was born, and it was at that point that the twelve Supremes broke up.”

“What is the Purification plan?” Wang Chong asked.

Despite experiencing it once, Wang Chong was still confused over the Purification plan.

“Have you heard the story of how Yu the Great tamed the floods?” the Arab High Priest suddenly butted in.

Bang!

Wang Chong felt like he had been struck by a bolt of lightning, his body trembling in shock.

The Purification plan?

Yu the Great taming the floods?

Could it be…

“It seems that you understand. No creature or thing can escape the cycle, can escape death—no plants, trees, or humans, or even the world. It is destroyed again and again, reborn again and again. No matter what we did, we couldn’t change it.”

Origin Supreme’s voice echoed through the stone chamber as he slowly closed his eyes and thought back to that long-ago era.

“No one knows what the objective of the otherworldly invaders is, only that they will utterly destroy the world before disappearing, a cycle that repeats without end.”

Wang Chong said nothing as he thought back to his own memories.

For others, Origin Supreme’s words were just a description, but Wang Chong had truly experienced it.

The earth crumbling away, the blood and fire gushing out, the ground covered in corpses—a hellish landscape emerged in Wang Chong’s mind, a pain that he would never be willing to recall.

“…Perhaps because of our numerous failures, Heaven lost confidence and decided to carry out the ‘Purification’ plan. Since the otherworldly invaders sought to destroy the world, it would be better to simply purify the human world.

“Destroy the majority of humanity before the otherworldly invaders could, and leave only a minority to serve as seeds for the new world, the sowing of new civilizations. In this way, we could preserve as much civilization from each epoch as possible.”

Origin Supreme’s voice gradually weakened, this conversation seeming to take a great deal of his energy.

“At the time, this plan attained the support of Essence Supreme, Genesis Supreme, Grand Supreme, and Radiance Supreme, but I and a few others could not accept it.

“To wipe out so many lives, annihilate tens of millions of people, and transform the thriving human world into a silent hell… How was what we were doing any different from the otherworldly invaders?

“But this was not the most important. What was most important was that we discovered that Heaven was gradually turning cruel and emotionless, even losing any affection for humans. For him, those beings in the world were the same as ants. He was no longer the same person.

“As our ideals differed, because we could not approve of Heaven’s plan, the twelve Supremes broke up.

“I left the Celestial God Organization a long time ago. After me, others also left the Celestial God Organization, all of them with their own resolves, so they used different methods,” Origin Supreme sternly said.

“And the others?” Wang Chong asked. “Senior said that you were not the only person to leave the Celestial God Organization.”

The Supremes had parted ways!

If more than one had left the Celestial God Organization, it meant that if he could find the other Supremes, he could join with them to resist Heaven.

This was the best news Wang Chong had heard in a while.

“You are not unfamiliar with some of them, though they do not call themselves Supremes.

“You should know of Ü-Tsang’s Great Snow Mountain Holy Temple, yes? That is the hiding place for one of the Supremes. His name is ‘Unity Supreme’,” Origin Supreme solemnly said.

“The High Monk of the Holy Temple?”

Wang Chong raised an eyebrow in surprise.

Almost everyone knew of the Great Snow Mountain Holy Temple. If Heaven had been seeking out those rebellious Supremes, there was no reason for him to not know of that place.

After all, the Great Snow Mountain Holy Temple was far more obvious than Origin Supreme, who was hiding away in this tiny space.

“Unity Supreme joined Heaven even earlier than me, and when Unity Supreme’s epoch perished, it produced an enormous ritual tool that he refined into his personal divine tool.

“He used that ritual tool to cover the entirety of the Great Snow Mountain Holy Temple. In that region, Unity Supreme can harness the entirety of the Tibetan Plateau’s earthly energy and also suppress the strength of other Supremes.

“Thus, even though Heaven knew that Unity Supreme was there, neither Genesis Supreme nor Essence Supreme dared to approach him,” Origin Supreme said.

Wang Chong said nothing as he pondered these revelations. The Sindhu High Priest was a Supreme of the Celestial God Organization, as was the High Monk of the Great Snow Mountain Holy Temple.

How many other Supremes had fled during that time of internal discord, changing their names and appearances as they moved about the world?

At this time, Wang Chong felt that his understanding of the world had undergone a momentous shift.

In other words, everything was inextricably connected to the Celestial God Organization.

The Arab High Priest had established the powerful Arabian Empire, but Origin Supreme alone had been able to protect all of Sindhu. As for the Ü-Tsang Empire, it revered the Great Snow Mountain Holy Temple, and almost all of its generals had come from that place.

Wang Chong had no idea what else he regarded as normal was connected to them.

“Sindhu is close to Ü-Tsang. Why did Unity Supreme do nothing when Essence Supreme’s group arrived?” Wang Chong suddenly asked.

“It was useless. Heaven’s avatar went there.”

The one who had spoken was not Origin Supreme, but the Arab High Priest.

As the ‘spy’ within the Celestial God Organization, the Arab High Priest knew much more about what was going on than Wang Chong. The mention of Heaven’s avatar amply explained why Unity Supreme had not come.

Wang Chong fell silent.

“The twelve Supremes are not what you imagine them to be. Although some of us did not approve of Heaven’s ideas and left over the Purification plan, not everyone shared the same idea. Do not believe that just because the Supremes broke up, you can bring together those that fled. Things are far more complicated than that.”

Origin Supreme spoke in a tone of warning, apparently knowing what Wang Chong was thinking.

“The twelve Supremes are not kind people. Before their epochs crumbled, some of them were ruthless and brutal devils!”

After a few moments of silence, Origin Supreme began to speak in a much weaker tone.

“But this is no longer important. The seven Doomsday Insignias contain enormous power and are linked to the life and death of this world! If Heaven obtains them all, he will break out of his seal, and there will be no saving this world.

“Origin Immortal’s insignia has already been brought to Heaven, and now, Heaven has obtained mine. The time of his escape grows closer and closer. We left the Celestial God Organization with the Doomsday Insignias precisely so that we could buy time and prevent Heaven from emerging. But it now seems that things have reached their end.

“King of Foreign Lands, remember: no matter what, you must stop him! If he succeeds, the numerous civilizations that live on this world will all end!

“Under Heaven’s hand, everything will truly turn to ash, a calamity visited upon the world! More people will die than even under the Purification plan!

“He will show no mercy!” Origin Supreme sternly said.

He understood Heaven too much. The failure of the Purification plan had enraged him, and an enraged ‘Heaven’ was more frightening and cruel than at any other time.

This would be the annihilation of all humans!

For no one could stand against the Divine Martial realm!

The mood in the stone chamber was heavy and still.

Even the Arab High Priest had a grave expression.

He had also devoted some of his sweat and blood into the human world, and he did not wish to see it all turned to nothing.

“Relax! He won’t succeed!” In this oppressive air, Wang Chong suddenly spoke.

“It’s impossible for him to gather all the Doomsday Insignias!”

Buzz!

Wang Chong flipped his palm over, revealing an insignia.

This insignia was somewhat similar to the Doomsday Insignia that the Arab High Priest had made a projection of, but it differed in that it also had a few silver inscriptions upon it that endowed it with a hallowed aura.

“The Primal Insignia!”

“Li Taiyi really gave it to him!”

The two of them stared in shock at the insignia in Wang Chong’s hand.

“The Primal Insignia?”

Wang Chong raised an eyebrow.

The Sage Emperor truly had given him this insignia, but Wang Chong had no idea that it was called the Primal Insignia.

“The Primal Insignia is the first Doomsday Insignia! It is said that it was the first Doomsday Insignia that Heaven discovered!” the Arab High Priest explained, shooting Wang Chong a complicated glance.

There was truly something special about this Child of Destruction. He had been confused at first, but he now understood why Origin Supreme had chosen to entrust this boy with his hopes.

“Though there are seven Doomsday Insignias, this is the core, the key piece for unsealing Heaven! Without it, even if he has the others, he cannot use them. Heaven has sought the Primal Insignia for several thousand years. It has always been rumored that this insignia was in the hands of some imperial household, but after investigating, Heaven ruled it out as complete nonsense.

“The only signs of progress were with that Sage Emperor of yours, Li Taiyi.”