Invincible Divine Destiny Selection System - Chapter 1422 - : 1422: eternal path [4 updates]

Chapter 1422: Chapter 1422: Eternal Path [4 Updates]

Outside Sky Castle, a multitude of powerful beings had already gathered. As time passed, the Primal Gods would converge as well.

At this moment, Chu Yuan had arrived at the center of Sky Castle, standing before a towering and magnificent heavenly palace.

Although it was a Primal Divine Artifact, Sky Castle itself was also a vast universe. Much like the Myriad Worlds Heavenly Tower: its appearance suggests just a single tower, but its interior encompasses realms as boundless as all the myriad worlds.

The Sky Lord wielded the power of the skies; his might was vast and immeasurable.

“Main Heavenly Palace,” Cheng Xuan gazed at the Main Heavenly Palace with reverence.

“Come, let us enter Sky Castle directly.”

Chu Yuan stepped into the Main Heavenly Palace.

Billowing clouds and mist swirled, encircling the majestic palace.

Chu Yuan walked inside effortlessly; not a single barrier hindered his path.

“Sky Lord, reveal your will. I know that your consciousness of destiny has not entirely collapsed; you’ve left behind power for sacrificial purposes.”

Chu Yuan’s voice resounded mightily within Sky Castle.

“The Human Emperor of the present…”

Sure enough, a voice responded to Chu Yuan. Amidst the rolling mists, a figure appeared!

It was a middle-aged man, his aura as vast and infinite as the heavens. Unlike Chu Yuan’s piercing intensity, his presence exuded a remarkable serenity.

He was none other than the Sky Lord, a supremely venerable being!

The Sky Lord had fallen long ago. His current state resembled that of the Fire Ancestor and the Judgment God Sovereign–a remnant consciousness of destiny lingering within the multiverse. He had been summoned by the energy stored within Sky Castle.

“Sky Lord, an ancient existence,”

The Fire Ancestor manifested himself as well.

“An existence that has also fallen: the innate divine flame, the Fire Ancestor.”

The Sky Lord’s existence stretched across eras far too lengthy, and with so few Primal Gods in the multiverse, their identities were naturally well-known.

“You’ve fallen too, with only your consciousness of destiny lingering. Though I didn’t know the Human Emperor back then, I did know of you.”

The Fire Ancestor sighed wistfully.

Their dialogue, as two remnants of destiny, seemed profoundly peculiar.

“You didn’t experience the Ancient Wars–it’s a pity,” the Sky Lord said with a smile.

His consciousness had not been sacrificed for many, many years; only Chu Yuan’s intrusion had forced his power to awaken.

He gazed at Chu Yuan and said, “The Human Emperor of this age, Supreme of the Human Path. You differ from the Ancient Human Emperor–you are more domineering, and there is a deep mystery about you that I cannot fathom.”

“The title of Human Emperor is but a symbol. I am aware that the Ancient Human Emperor was benevolent, but I do not share his benevolence,”

Chu Yuan said calmly. “As I entered, I sensed numerous powerful beings outside Sky Castle. This must be one of your contingencies; you deliberately triggered it, spreading the news far and wide.”

“Indeed, it was my doing,”

The Sky Lord replied, “I perished in the battle of long ago. They could not utterly destroy my consciousness of destiny. I left behind Sky Castle, but I knew that, given enough time, Sky Castle could eventually be discovered. So I set a condition: as soon as it was found, its coordinates would spread rapidly. I didn’t expect it would be the current Human Emperor.”

He could not predict who would eventually locate Sky Castle, so he devised such failsafes.

“You’ve amassed an immense reserve of energy within Sky Castle, capable of obliterating it and unleashing its power–even to the extent of eradicating Primal Gods.”

Chu Yuan had already discerned the truth.

“Correct, that is precisely the case,”

The Sky Lord responded. “I cannot tolerate Sky Castle falling into anyone else’s hands. They are unworthy of possessing my Sky Castle.”

“But you are different–you are the Human Emperor of this age.”

Chu Yuan faced no danger upon entering; this was because he represented the Supreme Human Path. The Sky Lord, himself aligned with the Human Emperor, would not oppose Chu Yuan.

The title of Human Emperor represents a profound legacy.

“I don’t understand–how did the Human Emperor Sword come into your possession?”

Even the Sky Lord seemed puzzled.

“That is something you need not concern yourself with,”

Chu Yuan’s Human Emperor Sword was granted at the beginning of his journey, courtesy of his system.

“Indeed,”

Said the Sky Lord with a gentle smile. “The Human Emperor once said that anyone could become the Human Emperor. The Human Path is eternal and indestructible. Though he fell, the glory of the Human Path remains immortal–unending. Human civilization will continue to shine across eras, and there will always emerge a new Human Emperor to lead. He may perish, but the power of the Human Path will endure.”

The Ancient Human Emperor was a figure of immense charisma.

His benevolence and wisdom inspired even the Sky Lord to willingly become his steadfast ally, sacrificing his life.

“And now, it seems the Human Emperor of the present has appeared,” he remarked with a smile.

“Sky Lord, why did the Human Emperor fight?” Chu Yuan asked.

“For the immortality of the Human Path–indeed, for the preservation of the entire multiverse. He sought to shatter the ancient curse, to forge a road to eternity–a nearly impossible path fraught with insurmountable odds.”

“The Eternal Path…”

This was the first time Chu Yuan had heard of it.

He suddenly recalled the Celestial God Mountain.

Back then, he had witnessed countless powerful beings struggling toward something, only to fail and perish. Could this be what was called the Eternal Path?

“Indeed, the Eternal Path. Yet it is so arduous. Many have sought to traverse it, but almost none have succeeded. That’s why so many civilizations have collapsed; why so many epochs have been buried,”

The Sky Lord said pensively.

The Human Emperor embarked on the Eternal Path, and the Sky Lord stood by him unconditionally.

Time had stretched unbearably long for him.

“Did the multiverse’s strongest beings besiege the Human Emperor during the Ancient Wars, all because he sought to traverse the Eternal Path?”

Chu Yuan felt he was nearing a revelation of monumental proportions.

“Human Emperor of this age, the Eternal Path is merely a name we’ve given it. It isn’t literally a road but rather a conceptual journey toward eternity–thus we call it the Eternal Path.”

The Sky Lord had not appeared for an unfathomable span of time.

He said to Chu Yuan, “The price of failure on the Eternal Path is catastrophic–not just for the Human Emperor alone. Should he fail, the strongest beings across the multiverse would fall alongside him. This includes the Gods’ Heaven, Hell Heaven, all of the Thirty-Three Heavens, and even those hidden in extradimensional realms–every one of them would perish!”

“Such a thing is possible?”

The Fire Ancestor was so horrified that his soul seemed to quake. “Failure on the Eternal Path would mean the entire multiverse’s extinction as the Human Emperor’s funeral pyre?”

The cost was unimaginably steep.

This might have been the reason why epochs long past had been annihilated.

“Without sufficient strength, one cannot even approach the Eternal Path. I myself only learned its secrets because of the Human Emperor,”

The Sky Lord said. “The Human Emperor is devoted to establishing and advancing human civilization.”

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“The multiverse’s strongest beings believed the Human Emperor would fail; that his actions would doom them all. Yet the Human Emperor insisted on confronting the Eternal Path, wagering everything for one slim hope of eternal transcendence. Their conflicting ideals and faiths sparked the Ancient Wars.”

Chu Yuan now understood the cause of the Ancient Wars.

It wasn’t about right or wrong–the stakes were monumental. If the Human Emperor failed, the multiverse itself would die alongside him; yet his chances of success were minuscule and incredulously remote, leading many not to believe in his endeavor.

“The Human Emperor wasn’t wrong; nor were those who opposed him. No one was at fault, save for the divergence of their ideals and the differing paths they chose to walk,”

Chu Yuan mused.