Chapter 716: History Unveiled!

## The Three-Hundred-Pound Smile

Rushing sounds.

The sky seemed to be pouring down a torrential rain. Grey-black gravel, mixed with an endless shower of metallic-gleaming particles, surged powerfully towards the earth.

"What, what is this..."

Emperor Qi looked up at the sky, his face filled with disbelief. He could naturally achieve such a feat—to make sand and stone pour down from the heavens—but this was not the sky.

It was the world barrier!

This was an incredible feat, even to him; some unknown, terrifying divine power had pierced the world barrier and hurled sand and stone from its outer side.

Crack!

The world wall suddenly became slightly transparent. Dimly visible outside the wall was a world-class artifact of mysterious shape, traversing the surface of the world wall. Its form was extremely blurred, ancient and vast, and it was continuously pouring down sand and stone, actually puncturing the world barrier.

"What ancient artifact is this?" Emperor Qi's expression changed as he looked up at the sky, unable to help but exclaim in shock, "It can actually pierce the world barrier, and it's incredibly massive! It seems four or five times larger than Pangu's true transformed body! It's simply a colossal entity that shakes heaven and earth!"

"Who is it, who exactly is it, filling this world?" Dao Changsheng murmured, his face full of surprise and doubt.

"I don't know," Elmin said, looking up with awe. "But this isn't ordinary sand and stone; it carries a large amount of metal particles, and even some unknown ancient plant and animal remains, emitting a scorching glow."

Could it be the Creator God? Everyone was completely startled, their hearts greatly shaken.

The Earth Mother Empress had once said that whenever a world shattered or underwent drastic changes, ancient avatars of the Grand Dao would descend to maintain order across all worlds. Thinking this way, it was indeed highly possible it was the Creator God, especially since the world was facing a great destruction and lives were being devastated.

"No, it's not!" Meng Mei, however, cried out in surprise, almost leaping up as she gazed at the gravel, realizing something: "It's the Ancient Buddha, the ancient path, that ancient battlefield from hundreds of thousands of years ago, Avici Scorching Hell! That's the gravel from the Buddha Land, it's Buddha Light..."

This exclamation filled the gods with an inexplicable feeling. An ancient battlefield from hundreds of thousands of years ago?

This immense span of time almost made them stop breathing. Their entire civilization had developed for less than ten thousand years up to this point, appearing as insignificant grains of sand in that long history. And an ancient battlefield from hundreds of thousands of years ago? An ancient civilization?

It was as if a magnificent and ancient historical scroll, depicting ten thousand years of remote antiquity, was slowly unfurling. They recalled the Earth Mother Empress's earlier words, which brought a sense of endless tranquility and ancientness: "All conditioned phenomena are like a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, like dew and like lightning; thus should one view them."

"Physics Buddha... It truly is you!!" Those words, quiet in their memory, now exploded like thunder in their hearts.

Physics Buddha? What exactly is it? A person? A civilization? A belief, or perhaps a legacy? What ancient mythological secret from hundreds of thousands of years ago did the Earth Mother Empress truly know?

Rushing sounds! The gravel emitted astonishing radiant light, even containing fragmented ancient sarira, as it poured down from the sky. It was a special kind of energetic glow. It seemed eternally present, tinged with a faint five-colored glaze, yet possessed astonishing corrosiveness. The gods already sensed that even some Emperors might not be able to withstand it for long!

Ancient biological remains, ruins, metal particles—it was as if they were from a remote ancient battlefield. The metal particles resembled broken divine weapons from the war, their surfaces scarred by the heavy sedimentation of history and the erosion of long ages, gradually losing their divine power. It was as if substances from a heap of ancient ruins were being poured into this newly war-torn ruin.

"Earth Mother, what exactly is this?" Even Emperor Qi couldn't help but ask. All the others also wore expressions of disbelief, gazing at the Earth Mother Empress with astonishment, seeking a reasonable explanation.

"Your Majesty, if I am not mistaken, all of this... is from the Super Ancient God." The Earth Mother Empress quickly lowered her voice, looking around solemnly and gravely, "Do not panic. Such a terrifying miracle of divine power is precisely the doing of that ninth-order being!"

"Oh?" Emperor Qi was slightly surprised. He was quite puzzled by that ninth-order being. Such a situation appeared right after the temporary end of the war. Could it be that this being had been silently observing the war in this world all along?

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, the material being deposited here must be from Avici Scorching Hell! I once heard someone mention that the ruins of that primordial battlefield are extremely similar in composition to what we see now," Meng Mei continued. "And the deposition of all this isn't a crisis, but a huge opportunity. It should be the legacy of a fallen ancient ninth-order being, from both the Buddhist and Daoist lineages, passed down to us."

Everyone's minds reeled. At these words, even Emperor Qi lost his composure. The ancient legacy of a ninth-order being?! This was an unimaginable treasure.

Whoosh! As they watched the torrential rain of gravel descend from the sky, interspersed with endless mysterious withered remains, mostly plant roots and branches. The gods nearby grew uneasy. The more they observed this divine miracle, the more extraordinary it seemed, and they began to discuss it amongst themselves, finding it incredibly unbelievable.

"A ninth-order legacy?""Is this ancient ninth-order being also secretly watching over us?""As for the legacy, I fear it's a bloodline cultivation system. We sense that the remains within contain a peculiar bloodline structure!""Indeed, if we extract from it...""Perhaps, we can once again embark on a new system, an ancient legacy!""Buddhism, Daoism?""Unbelievable."

The sky continued to pour down sand and stone, cascading densely like a rain curtain. The gods, like people sheltering from rain in the Sun Temple, stood under the eaves, watching the water outside strike the earth.

"Earth Mother Empress, I command you to tell me everything you know in detail," Emperor Qi said.

The Earth Mother Empress did not conceal anything. "This story begins in the most ancient era..."

As she recounted the tale, all the gods were plunged into a tumultuous surge, overwhelmed by the profound ancient myths!

"So that's how it is?""These two ancient beings are both connected to these great realms, and once ruled all the nearby worlds.""That was a flourishing era beyond our imagination!""It's like a colony of ants being unable to imagine the world of humans.""Furthermore, that fallen ninth-order being is precisely Hermes, who once briefly appeared in our Demon World before mysteriously perishing." Elmin gasped, covering her mouth. "Had the war already entered its final stage back then?"

How could she not be excited? The mystery of Hermes's demise, which everyone had long pursued, the enemy of the Land of Gods—they finally understood the truth! If Medusa were here, she would surely be just as thrilled, understanding a lifelong unresolved matter!

Hermes, this ninth-order being, had fallen, and Hermes's old friend—the mysterious Super Ancient God—now intended to pass on Hermes's ninth-order legacy, both Buddhist and Daoist lineages, to them anew? As for names, for such ancient ninth-order beings, they were almost irrelevant! They had their own names in different worlds: in the Wizard World, he was called Hermes; in the Ancient Wilderness World, what was he called?

"Back then, he only conveyed concepts to us, but today he will..." Elmin looked up at the sky with excitement, at the showering rain of sand and stone, unconsciously murmuring, "Buddhism, Daoism..."

Meng Mei's expression also turned serious. She saw the remains of branches, leaves, and animals within the sand and stone. It was precisely what she had seen earlier in Avici Scorching Hell: the Bodhi Tree and the Bhikkhuni! The previous Six Paths of Reincarnation World had, from those very substances, extracted two great void transcendent genes—Radiation and True Qi—thereby obtaining the Buddhist and Daoist legacies. With these remains and bloodlines before them, they could naturally also acquire the two great ancient transcendent bloodlines!

"Thank you so much, Super Ancient God," Meng Mei murmured to herself.

Even Emperor Qi's expression changed dramatically. Knowing the truth of the entire ancient mythological history made him extremely unsettled as well. Especially knowing about the Blood of Eternal Life, and that two eternal, unyielding ninth-order beings, along with the Three Pillar Gods and the Sakura Great Emperor from two major worlds, were actually fighting to determine the next successor! To become the next Guardian of the Dao for the Super Ancient God.

"The world has become interesting," Emperor Qi finally couldn't help but laugh, his face filled with anticipation as he gazed at the land, which had been contaminated by a special power, "To face the next arrival of the Three Pillar Gods, and... will the next era of the Seven Realms Court be a prosperous age of Buddhism and Daoism?"