Chapter 197 - 178: I Am God!

Chapter 197: Chapter 178: I Am God!

In the Yuan Country Imperial Palace.

At this moment, Gu Xuanong, reduced to the state of a mere courtier, had been driven down from the dais of the Golden Hall. Alongside a crowd of palace servants and his imperial brother, Gu Xuanhong, he stared with a grim expression at the self-proclaimed Immortal, Yang Mogu, who stood by the dragon throne with his hands clasped behind his back.

"Has the complete map of the Divine Land that I requested still not been brought here?"

Yang Mogu’s eyes flashed like lightning. His towering figure naturally exuded an aura capable of crushing the current era.

The deterrence this ancient Broken Voider commanded in the present world was beyond description.

Gu Xuanong gritted his teeth. He had never expected that one day he would end up just like Ancient Transformation Dragon and Zhao Yi of Zhao Country. Truly, in this day and age, the title of Emperor was nothing but an empty name. When a person’s Cultivation reached a level where they could crush everything in the mortal realm, an Emperor like him amounted to nothing.

"The complete map of the Divine Land is here!"

Just as Yang Mogu grew impatient, the Chief Eunuch of the Yuan Country Imperial Palace nervously led over a dozen eunuchs into the Golden Hall, carrying a massive map. After slowly unrolling it, he spoke.

"Immortal, this is the complete map of the Divine Land."

The Chief Eunuch introduced it to Yang Mogu with trembling anxiety. Even the current Emperor was so suppressed by this terrifying Immortal that he didn’t dare utter a single word, let alone a spineless eunuch like himself. He was scared half to death.

Taking a step forward, Yang Mogu hovered in mid-air about five feet off the ground. He strolled step by step over the massive map below, which spanned dozens of feet across, taking in the entire landscape of the present-day Divine Land.

Looking down, he muttered, "It’s somewhat smaller than the land of the past."

He stopped above a spot in the South Sea and frowned. "In the past, the highest mountain in the world—and its greatest Grotto Heaven Blessed Land, Luojia Mountain—should have been right here. The Buddhist Sect’s Little Blissful Sacred Land was located exactly at this spot. But now... there isn’t even a mountain left?"

His brow furrowed deeply, and he couldn’t help but shake his head.

The Chief Eunuch hurriedly explained, "To answer the Immortal, that is the small island where the former number one person in the world, Yuan Ruhua, used to reside. It is said that the island grows taller by a hundred feet every year..."

Yang Mogu’s eyes flickered as he looked toward the South Sea on the map. He murmured to himself, "It seems the vicissitudes of time have caused the greatest mountain in the world to sink to the bottom of the sea..."

He thought to himself, "Growing a hundred feet every year... Along with the recovery of heaven and earth, is it now starting to grow anew from the ocean floor?

"With such a growth rate, how long will it take to restore the aura it once held as the world’s number one Grotto Heaven, Luojia Mountain?

"I am the first Broken Voider to revive, meaning I’ve unknowingly seized the initiative. Naturally, I need to occupy one of the best ancient Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands for my Cultivation. After all, these places offer immense benefits for Cultivation after reaching the Broken Void."

If one could say that the Innate Level cultivated the Innate Qi Mechanism, then the Broken Level cultivated a broken Qi mechanism. This type of Qi mechanism varied in density throughout heaven and earth. Among certain famous mountains and great rivers, natural geomantic auras would gather this Qi mechanism together, forming special Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands. When Cultivators trained within them, they could achieve twice the results with half the effort.

In the past, these unique Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands had all been occupied by Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. Meanwhile, the Demon Path of his era had been driven into the Cold Land by the combined forces of the Three Religions.

Now that he had emerged before the other Broken powerhouses of the Three Religions, he naturally had to secure a prime training ground for himself to go further in this new era of revival. Unfortunately, the world’s former number one Blessed Land, Luojia Mountain, had actually sunk into the sea and was now merely a small island.

Yang Mogu had no choice but to abandon this once supreme Blessed Land and continue his search across the map of the Divine Land. What caused him to frown was this discovery: "To think that only a handful of the old Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands remain today," he muttered.

Looking at several locations on the map, Yang Mogu immediately asked, "Which factions currently occupy these places?" He pointed his finger, sending out a few streams of air that landed on the map of the Divine Land, marking the locations of those specific Blessed Lands.

One Little Eunuch replied with a trembling voice, "The places you pointed to are the Buddhist Sect’s Water Moon Temple; the Daoist Sect’s True Martial Sect and Queen Mother Sect; and... the Dao Yi Sect, where the current number one person in the world, Chen Sha, resides."

Yang Mogu’s eyes gleamed as he looked toward the location of Dao Yi Mountain that the Little Eunuch had pointed out.

He let out a faint laugh. "So the Heavenly Yellow Mountain of the past is exactly where the strongest person of your current era resides. What a coincidence."

Although Heavenly Yellow Mountain couldn’t rank in the top five back in the day, it still produced the Yellow Heaven Daoist Sect, which flourished greatly in its prime. In fact, the Yellow Heaven Daoist, Zhang Gong, was an existence worthy of being listed as one of the Thousand-Autumn Powerhouses.

The term Thousand-Autumn Powerhouse referred to individuals who could be considered formidable even within the Broken Realm. During the Nine Tribulations Period of Heaven and Earth, there were hundreds of Broken Ones in total, but there was a clear distinction in strength among them.

Among the absolute strongest was Sister Taie, the number one figure of the Buddhist Sect, who had established the Vajra Fourth Layer system for the Broken Realm. Over the subsequent six or seven thousand years, many Broken Ones emerged, but only a scarce few were ever evaluated as Thousand-Autumn Powerhouses.

"Since I have returned, it’s very likely that Heavenly Yellow Mountain will become the site of return for the Yellow Heaven Daoist, Zhang Gong..." he mused.

However, as Yang Mogu looked up and sensed the strength of the laws between heaven and earth, he offered a faint smile. "The heaven and earth are currently reviving, meaning that laws at the Great Vajra Level have yet to manifest. This implies that even if Zhang Gong has returned, he wouldn’t possess the power of a Broken Great Vajra. He could only exert a Broken Void Level Cultivation similar to mine—so what is there to fear?"