Chapter 1163: Emperor's Arrival on Earth

The Emperor sat calmly in the Underworld.

Suddenly, Meng Po entered and said, "Maotiao requests an audience."

"Let him in," the Emperor replied without opening his eyes, still resting.

A moment later, Maotiao entered respectfully and indeed said, "Your Majesty, the ancient land of Huaxia has revived. They wish to invite you to attend the ceremony. It won't take long, just a brief appearance. This is, after all, an ancient land, and we look forward to your presence."

"This is the birthplace of civilization; it's only right that I make an appearance," the Emperor mused for a moment on his throne before responding.

In a special reception hotel in the Huaxia Capital, Mengmei was in her room taking selfies and livestreaming to a forum, while also preparing for the grand ceremony about to begin.

In the adjacent room, her parents, who had come to attend the ceremony in reserved VIP seats, felt utterly overwhelmed and still found it incredible.

At that moment, not just her parents, but all her aunts and uncles had also arrived to witness the event.

Mengmei's mother sat in the center of the crowd, chattering excitedly, "Oh, my girl! I always knew she was smart from a young age. When she was little, we went to a temple to see a Taoist priest, and the old priest immediately pulled her aside, saying she had a connection to the immortals!

Just a few months ago, I thought she was possessed! She'd always hide in her room, giggling, doing push-ups on the floor, building muscles, and muttering 'a daughter must strive for self-reliance.'

I was truly terrified, and that wasn't even the strangest part.

Most people who exercise and build muscle don't transform like that, but my daughter was different. She became tall and burly, with muscles like knotted gluten. She looked like the Hulk from the movies and weighed over a thousand jin! Her walking was like an earthquake. At the time, I thought, 'Oh no, she's possessed! My daughter is ruined, who would ever marry her?'"

A relative quickly interjected, "I asked my son about this, and he said it's called 'Martial Arts'! It's a cultivation method for physical training. Once you reach the Seventh Tier Heavenly Emperor, you'll return to your original body shape. Look at your daughter now, isn't she incredibly beautiful, like a fairy descended to earth? And my son isn't bad either; he's handsome, graduated from a renowned foreign university, and has taken over the family business. You should consider..."

"Pfft, pfft, pfft," Mengmei's mother playfully chided, "My daughter is about to become an immortal; she's already achieved enlightenment and ascended. She's a celestial being, capable of living for thousands, even tens of thousands of years! Before, I did think highly of your son, but now, there's a distinction between immortals and mortals!

And don't just look at how beautiful my daughter is now, with skin as smooth as tender tofu. She actually weighs three thousand kilograms! Her skin might look delicate, but if you actually touch her face, it's as hard as jade – you couldn't dent it with a hammer. Her life level has increased, her body density has grown. How could an ordinary mortal man withstand that? One of her fingers could poke you like tofu. This is the difference between immortals and mortals!"

The aunts and uncles nearby listened in astonishment, finding it absolutely miraculous.

"So that's how it is! The ancient saying about the distinction between immortals and mortals was for this reason!"

They all eagerly continued to curry favor.

It was truly a case where one person's success lifted all their relatives.

Their daughter had become an immortal, and in the ancient Chinese mythology within the Seven Realms, no less, as the Earth Mother! How noble was that?

As they chatted on this side, Mengmei, hearing them from the next room, felt her eyelids twitching wildly. Her mother was revealing all her old secrets! Was her past as a thousands-of-jin strong muscle woman something that should be blurted out so carelessly?

She decided it wasn't worth bothering with.

A few hours later, the time was ripe, and the ceremony officially began.

After a complex series of rituals, with local TV stations broadcasting live and officials giving speeches, Mengmei gradually ascended into the air amidst countless camera flashes.

Boom!

Spiritual energy from heaven and earth surged around her.

Streaks of divine light emerged. An Eighth Tier God was still incredibly powerful; after all, it wasn't an ant-like form, but a normal human shape. As the strongest being on the planet's surface, the stir it created was immense.

Mengmei gradually flew upwards, reaching the clouds, as various energies converged.

The white clouds in the sky cleared instantly.

It was as if a giant hand had wiped away a sand painting, leaving the sky clear, azure, and cloudless for thousands of miles.

She became an immortal!

She became an immortal!

Everyone watched this scene in shock, utterly astonished whether in front of their televisions or computers.

This scene was too grand. Before, they had only seen videos and images, with no real sense of its impact. Now, they truly grasped its terror; this was merely an Eighth Tier God, yet already so formidable.

This was destined to be a historic moment for Earth, as it formally began its own epic of history.

"Mengmei is so ostentatious; I always guessed she was a rich girl in real life, a damned tycoon who hasn't even killed a chicken and always has a pure heart. Only rich girls are so idealistic, wanting to establish a dragon's vein to help all beings escape the previous tribulations of becoming gods, so that the tragedy of Dao Changsheng doesn't happen again." Autumn Mountain Speed watched the TV, speechless.

He hadn't gone to attend the ceremony, preferring to keep his identity hidden and not expose himself. Since he hadn't become a god, it was better to lie low, as he wasn't fond of such public events anyway.

Beside him, his girlfriend also sat seriously on the sofa, remarking, "They managed to invite the Emperor; that's truly amazing."

"That's quite normal," Autumn Mountain Speed said dismissively, full of confidence, "After all, this is the land of origin. Many ancient people and even ultra-ancient gods from Huaxia originated here. Of course, they'd want to make a statement. It's perfectly normal for them to come and observe; it doesn't take much effort, just a moment. Not coming would be abnormal."

His girlfriend thought about it and agreed, then watched the TV, speechless. "But Mengmei is still single. She's been single for ten thousand years! And no one's thinking of finding her a boyfriend."

Everyone else was pairing up.

Balloonfish had Du Xue—they were already a couple in real life—and the Alchemy Emperor and Ermin were in a teacher-student relationship.

Autumn Mountain Speed's eyelid twitched. "She's still thinking about the Creator God. Don't worry about that for now. Once we're done with what's at hand, we'll have much more to do. For instance, the God of Destruction created that universe and then disappeared. There's so much to investigate."

"True, I also have my Quantum Mini-TV to work on."

As they were talking, Mengmei, on the TV screen, finally completed her breakthrough. She addressed the world, giving a grand, eloquent speech about the resurgence of spiritual energy, how all beings could achieve immortality, and the return of Chinese mythology to the human world.

After her grand speech concluded, the sky subtly trembled.

It was as if some terrifying cosmic entity had fully arrived.

Like the advent of some ultimate cosmic cataclysm, or a colossal celestial deity opening vast eyes from outside the universe, looking down upon the entire Earth as one might gaze at a basketball.

Like a divine dragon gazing at a dragon pearl.

"It's the Emperor!"

"When I was not a god, there were no gods in the world!"

Everyone was excited.

Was this the Tenth Tier Ultimate, the great ultimate being standing at the end of the universe?

This was the Emperor who had previously defeated the Nine-Headed Ancient Mother who had descended to rule this starfield!

Such an existence, a cosmic sage standing at the pinnacle of the Great Dao, was far beyond anything an Eighth Tier God could compare to. Even a mere glance could cause one's soul-body to collapse.

The momentum of Mengmei's breakthrough to godhood earlier, faintly visible across the Asian sky, was already considered incredible.

The spectacle of that breakthrough was equivalent to a nuclear explosion, but compared to the infinite majesty currently before them, it was a difference between heaven and earth.

"Emperor!"

Mengmei stepped forward, bowing respectfully in the sky towards the ancient god beyond Earth. "I am Qing Teng, the Earth Mother among the Seven Realms."

"You all have appointments in various places, and even in an unspecified domain, you have a place. That's quite good," the Emperor nodded, his voice piercing the atmosphere and echoing in every corner of Earth. He smiled, "It's good that the ancient land of yesteryear has revived now. This opportunity was originally given to you by my master, a chance to revive ancient civilization, to evolve the transcendent, and to venture to various great worlds. The current orderly development is also quite good."

Mengmei, her expression solemn, bowed again. "Everything is thanks to the Ancestor's grace."

The Emperor merely chuckled. "For this visit, I don't have many gifts, just a small token to celebrate the revival of the ancient land: an opportunity for you to achieve Ninth Tier enlightenment. How does that sound?"

An opportunity for me to achieve Ninth Tier?

Mengmei was utterly bewildered.

She was already a Ninth Tier enlightened one!

But the next second, the Emperor said, "It is an opportunity for *this* body of yours, right now, to achieve Ninth Tier enlightenment."

Mengmei trembled, her face filled with disbelief.

My Earth body, becoming Ninth Tier?

She knew her own situation best, or rather, everyone knew that one person could not simultaneously be two Ninth Tier beings. The path to Ninth Tier involved the soul and body becoming one; how could one person have two souls?

What on earth was going on?!

Even the news media and various Earth officials in the capital looked up at the sky in astonishment.

They naturally understood all the forum histories and possessed knowledge unique to players, so they knew how incredibly impossible this was.

This gift was profoundly mysterious.

Truly worthy of a Tenth Tier Ultimate, who had effortlessly subdued the Nine-Headed Ancient Mother that ruled a nebula cluster.

"May I ask, Emperor..." Mengmei couldn't help but say.

The Emperor replied, "Naturally, you cannot achieve enlightenment again in *this* universe. However, what if I send this body of yours to another universe?"

Another universe!!

As soon as these words fell, the entire venue fell silent, utterly still.