Chapter 121: The Last Human King Physique
Sister…
Mingyan pursed his lips. If he continued like this, he would truly fall. He shook his head and asked, “Sister, I have a few questions for you.”
“Ask away.” Wang Qingchu took his hand and sat beside him on the beach, gently resting her head on his shoulder, her gaze fixed on the energy sea.
“You said I’m the ninth Human King Physique. So, including you, there have been eight before me?”
“Yes. I’m the eighth. The seven brothers and sisters before me have all passed on.” Wang Qingchu nodded. “I obtained my Sun and Moon Scripture from the Qi Sea of the previous sister.”
“You lived for nine thousand years in your previous life. How much of your lifespan is left?” Mingyan was concerned about this. He didn’t know how she had reawakened. Even for a Peak Human King Physique, nine thousand years should have been the end of her lifespan.
“I don’t know.” She said, “I once fought a Great Emperor-level being from the outer realms and was accidentally transported to another world.”
Her expression turned slightly grim. “That should be the invaders’ home world. I made many discoveries there. All the invaders have an infinite lifespan. They don’t die of old age. The laws of that world are completely different from ours. And after I found a way back, I discovered I had been tainted by the laws of that world. My lifespan has become a mystery. I’ve lived for nine thousand years and haven’t felt my lifespan deplete. Later, I found a way to put my body and consciousness into a deep sleep. And I slept for hundreds of thousands of years.”
Mingyan was shocked. “So, Sister, have you also become immortal?”
“I don’t know…” She shook her head. “But at least, because of this law, I can live to this day, to see you. That’s enough for me.”
“Those invaders are immortal…” Mingyan frowned. “Since you’ve been to their world, Sister, did you find out why they come to our world to slaughter?”
She shook her head. “I barely survived in that world. Unlike ours, where only one Great Emperor can exist at a time, their world seems to have several, even dozens, of Great Emperors simultaneously. I was lucky to escape. I didn’t have the strength to investigate further.”
Mingyan’s scalp tingled. Several, even dozens, of Great Emperors?
No, if there were so many, perhaps they weren’t even considered “Great Emperors” in their world.
“But a long life is meaningless. I want to watch you grow, to be by your side. If your lifespan runs out, I’ll bury myself with you. Or, I’ll find a way for us to be immortal.” She rested her head on his shoulder, smiling faintly.
“Oh… by the way…” Mingyan suddenly remembered seeing another Peak Human King Physique in the “#” symbol in the Supreme Dao Hall. He told her about it.
“#?” Wang Qingchu said, “I’ve also obtained the ‘‘ and ‘#’ symbols before, but I lost them when I returned from the outer realms… They seem to have been left by our mother. The ‘‘ symbol represents the future. The Sun and Moon Scripture has a secret technique related to it that can increase our combat power several times over. And ‘#’ represents the past. The Sun and Moon Scripture doesn’t have a secret technique related to it, but I’m sure it doesn’t contain a space. The Peak Human King Physique you saw was likely an apparition of the ‘past’… And your description…”
She thought for a moment. “It doesn’t sound like any of the brothers and sisters I know… It might be our mother.”
An apparition of the past? Mingyan remembered that Huang Feiyan, his senior sister, and Ning Feixuan had all seen scenes from their past. Ning Feixuan, though she hadn’t said anything, had looked very upset, likely having seen her parents…
So, he should have also seen something from his past? But he didn’t remember ever being in that palace.
“Could it be that the palace I saw was the world behind the stone gate?” he asked.
“I think so.” Wang Qingchu nodded, then looked puzzled. “But I never discovered anything through ‘#’ before… It seems you, as the last Human King Physique, are special. Hehe, my Yan’er is special.”
She smiled and intertwined her fingers with his.
Mingyan wondered if all women liked to hold hands this way. His senior sister also liked to interlace their fingers, leaving no gap.
“Sister, why did you say I’m the last Human King Physique?” he asked, like a curious child.
“Because no other Human King Physique will be born after you,” she replied. “Remember the river flowing out of the cave? The Dividing River. Like you, I also floated down that river, and like you, I also grew up in Sun Moon Village.”
“Is that so?”
“All Human King Physiques floated down that river. That’s why I’m sure our mother is behind that stone gate. When I was born, there were still some records about the Human King Physique in the village. From your reaction, it seems they’ve been lost. The villagers of Sun Moon Village are ordinary people. It’s normal for things to be lost over time. After all, they only live for a hundred years at most. Those things couldn’t have been passed down.”
“You’ve likely seen some legends in the village about the beginning of human civilization?”
“Yes, I have, but not all of them.”
“When I was born, those legends were more complete,” she said. “From the beginning of civilization, to the unification of the cultivation system, to our mother’s slumber, it was all recorded in detail. According to legend, before she fell into a slumber, our mother left behind nine restrictions, corresponding to nine crises. Each crisis was a dark era, and with each one, a Human King Physique would be born. But there was a problem with the first one. He was born in an era without a dark era. So, when I was born, it was actually the seventh dark era. You should have been born during the eighth, but it seems you weren’t. You waited until the ninth, the one that’s coming.”
So that was it. It seemed not all Human King Physiques had reached their full potential… Otherwise, they would have been as famous as Wang Qingchu, even if no one knew she was a Human King Physique.
“If the legends are true, then after you were born, no other Human King Physique will be born…” she said. “You are the last one.”
