Monster Chronicles: My Daoist Skill Comes from Mythology-Chapter 717 - 617: Emperor Jun’s Demon Court, Swapping the Sky with the Earth

Vast emptiness stretches endlessly, ten suns suspended in the void, their golden light illuminating the star domains.

The Ten Sun Divine Country.

The crowd vaguely saw a hidden dimension looming faintly beneath the ten suns.

Though nothing seemed to exist on the outside, the patrol team members, seasoned from countless crossings through the Middle Thousand World, noticed faint hints betraying this world's concealment despite its meticulous camouflage.

"Should we go in and take a look?" someone asked.

The captain shook his head to stop them, saying, "It's too risky. Let's observe from the periphery first."

This place was evidently not easy to infiltrate; caution was paramount, and unnecessary risks were best avoided.

Exposure was one thing, but the real danger was being tracked back to the Donghua Middle Thousand. The consequences of such suspicion would be catastrophic.

In the Great Thousand World, the last thing one wanted was to have their coordinates exposed. Once revealed, countless forces would covertly keep watch. While things might seem calm under normal circumstances, the moment a crisis arose, it would be like wolves descending upon prey.

"Alright, let's stick to observing from the edge."

Subsequently, the group resumed their stakeout.

The Youming Lantern had the advantage of remaining concealed, unlike the treasure rafts of other forces that often drew attention.

The group stayed on watch here for ten years, gradually piecing together basic information about this realm.

Every so often, a patrol of three-eyed fire crows would fly out of the Middle Thousand World.

During one void storm, the fire crow patrol team was scattered, suffering heavy casualties, allowing the group to capture a single fire crow. Through this, they gleaned an understanding of this world's information.

This place was called Emperor Jun's Heavenly Court, primarily led by the Demon Clan.

However, the true ruler was not Emperor Jun. Emperor Jun had never appeared; in fact, he had perished before the Heavenly Court's establishment, his body transforming into the ten golden crows upon death.

In other words, the ones ruling this Heavenly Court were these ten Golden Crow Emperors.

Each of the ten Golden Crow Emperors possessed True Immortal cultivation.

Upon learning this information, the patrol team noted the coordinates of this site and immediately reported to the Heavenly Court.

The information was passed up layer by layer.

Finally, it reached Song Lin.

Tianji and Bo Yikao requested an audience, presenting this information to Song Lin.

"Emperor Jun is dead? How did Emperor Jun die?"

What shocked Song Lin was not the ten golden crows. Though the variant Golden Crows were rare, they were not unheard of—there was even a Golden Crow Emperor within the Donghua Heavenly Court.

What puzzled him was the fact that Emperor Jun was dead.

It must be remembered, Emperor Jun was an Ancient Heavenly Emperor, a peerless existence during the mythical era of the Undying Pill World. Emperor Jun was the emperor of emperors, the Heavenly Emperor among Heavenly Emperors, a being akin to the Creator God.

Even someone of Emperor Jun's stature had died?

It was almost inconceivable.

This left Song Lin deeply suspicious. What exactly had transpired in this era? Why had the once-mighty Heavenly Courts vanished without a trace, either collapsing or being destroyed?

There had to be some great secret behind it all.

"Where are the coordinates?" Song Lin asked.

"The Shaoyin Heart Meridian's Divine Gate."

"Alright, you may leave."

Song Lin still felt that he should not act recklessly. At present, the Donghua Heavenly Court lacked the foundation to support his arbitrary decisions.

After all, the opposing side had ten True Immortals.

Even with the Water and Fire Emperors and Houtu on his side, they numbered only seven. Although he might be capable of taking on three opponents at once, it was far from enough. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Thus, his priority was to improve his cultivation level before considering expansion.

The Shaoyang faction had already dispatched someone to investigate. If they could locate the West Queen Mother Heavenly Court, it might help unravel the secrets of the ancient era.

Song Lin once again entered seclusion.

Forming the Tao Golden Pill was not the endpoint. The Tao Golden Pill required further refinement and tempering. Currently, the Innate Yang Qi and Destructive Black Lotus aspects were perfected; the Innate Eight Diagrams and Time-Space Dao were nearing perfection, while the Five Elements Dao barely passed the threshold.

Only when all nine golden pills reached perfection could he begin preparing to ascend to the True Immortal Realm.

Once he broke through to the True Immortal Realm, with his accumulated Taoist Realm, Song Lin would become the most powerful cultivator in the True Immortal Realm, just one step away from the so-called Golden Immortal or Daluo Immortal.

This marked the pinnacle of cultivation and the ultimate end of the Great Dao.

Eternal and indestructible, at one with the Dao.

Another five hundred years passed.

Over five centuries, countless Heavenly Court cultivators relied on Immortal Pills to advance.

Yuanbo, Zhonghuang Zi, the Divine Phoenix (Emperor Life River), Zhengxin, the Divine Turtle, and King Wen all successfully ascended to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

The first-generation disciples had, for the most part, entered the Harmonization Realm, becoming the backbone of the Heavenly Court.

From the Donghua Temple to the present, it had taken several thousand years for them to achieve the Harmonization Realm—a talent neither too extraordinary nor too poor.

The top-tier geniuses had now begun secluding themselves to search for the path to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Only a Heavenly Immortal could transcend the small thousand worlds and roam freely within the Great Thousand Void.

In these five hundred years, the Water and Fire Emperors, along with Houtu, had been successfully refined and formally became part of the Donghua Heavenly Court. However, they were not yet entrusted with vital roles, requiring several more millennia of trials to prove themselves.

The Ten Sun Divine Country.

Ten blazing suns stood in the void, shining radiantly upon the Middle Thousand World below.

It was an immense continent divided into four continents, mirroring the layout described in myths.

At the pinnacle stood the one and only Heavenly Court—the Golden Crow Emperor Court.

Strange and fantastic palaces were inhabited by Abnormal Soldiers with jade-green eyes and square pupils, as well as demons with human bodies and beastly heads.

Deep within these palaces stood ten dragon chairs, upon which sat golden-robed, red-haired emperors—ten in total—uniform in attire and wearing golden masks.

A closer look, however, revealed subtle differences.

From left to right, the first nine figures had their eyes open, but their pupils were emotionless, shrouded in a layer of gray mist, with an overwhelming aura of death emanating from their bodies.

Only in the tenth figure did signs of vitality flicker faintly.

The tenth figure removed their mask, revealing crimson hair, red eyebrows, jade-like skin, a delicate nose, and rosy lips. Her noble air carried a faint melancholy.

To everyone's astonishment, she was a woman—or rather, a female Golden Crow.

The Golden Crow got up, approached the third dragon chair, took its mask, and placed it on her own face.

She stepped out of the grand hall, her voice becoming rough and hoarse.

"The Third Emperor Yuan Year begins. Summon the court officials!"

Her voice echoed in all directions.

Approximately thirty-six thousand years ago, the Golden Crow Heavenly Court declared an unprecedented decree: the ten suns would no longer appear simultaneously but would instead rule in rotation, with one replacing the other every millennium. Each Golden Crow Emperor wore a mask, and the officials distinguished their identity from their voice and the patterns on their masks.

Currently, it was the era of the third-ranked Golden Crow.

But the Heavenly Court's myriad immortals were unaware that the first nine Golden Crows were long dead. For countless years, the tenth, Xii Jing, had been impersonating all of her elder brothers.

At the heart of the Heavenly Court.

Kunpeng, the Qilin, the Dragon King, the Phoenix, Kui Niu, the Undying, the Three-eyed People, the Sun People, and other Ancient Strange Beasts and Abnormal Soldiers gathered, each reporting their duties.

"Good."

"No, you're useless!"

"Begone!"

Xii Jing responded in the voice of her third brother, carefully mimicking his irritable temperament.

These ancient Great Demons were fiercely formidable. If they found out that her nine elder brothers had perished in Harmonization long ago, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At that moment, a bird-beaked elder leaning on a cane stepped forward.

"Kunpeng Emperor Master, what report do you bring?"

"Third Majesty, a rogue Great Demon has recently appeared outside the domain, frequently attacking fire crows and forcefully intruding into our territory. I plead that Your Majesty intervene to eliminate this demon."

"Oh? Have you all lost your worth? Turned weak? To the point that this seat must intervene? Why do I bother keeping you in service?"

Xii Jing berated him with fury. The True Taiyang Fire overhead blazed fiercely, releasing a pressure that swept through the land, causing the assembled demons to tremble in fear.

Kunpeng remained unaffected, a strange smile playing on his face:

"We dare not, we dare not. This unnamed Great Demon is exceptionally ferocious, and I, your humble servant, lack the mana to confront it. I fear delaying critical matters. If Your Majesty does not wish to act, this old servant will stake my life to deal with the creature."

"Withdraw. If you cannot defeat it, I shall step in. Remember, the Heavenly Court does not raise the useless."

"As you command."