After Dayi killed the Xiu Snake, he did not hide but went directly to Kunlun Mountain to meet the Celestial Emperor.
As expected, although the Celestial Emperor valued Dayi greatly, he still stripped him of his power, removed him from his position, and banished him back to the mortal world.
This period was the lowest point in Dayi’s life.
Even considering the Celestial Emperor’s favor, no faction of the Gods dared to make a move against Hou Yi.
Stripped of everything during the prime of his life, he could only live in seclusion in a remote tribal forest.
No one can easily escape the despair brought by such a fall from grace.
Although Dayi was a great hero of the human race, with the ability and courage to hunt Celestial Gods, he was not immune to human nature.
For a full ten years, Dayi was in a state of despair.
He neglected his martial arts and archery, and even his once powerful physique was no more...
Fortunately, though Dayi’s bravery and achievements were no more, he met the love of his life—Heng’e.
With Heng’e’s gentle care, Dayi lived a considerate and stable life, until the Celestial Emperor’s fury caused the Ten Suns to Appear Together.
When the night disappeared, and the scorching sun endured endlessly.
The ten suns in the sky scorched the earth, cracking and drying it, leaving no survivors.
In such a scenario, Dayi, who wanted to live out his life peacefully, had to stop this catastrophe, if only for his wife’s sake.
Thus, after ten years of idleness, Dayi returned.
With the Crimson Bow and White Arrow bestowed by the Celestial Emperor in hand, Dayi’s first battle ended in unprecedented defeat.
The Crimson Bow and White Arrow were gifts from the Celestial Emperor, and Dayi was far from his peak state. How could he possibly harm the ten sons of the Celestial Emperor?
It can be said that Dayi’s attempt to stop the ten Golden Crows’ apocalypse was nothing short of self-humiliation.
Fortunately, at that time, it wasn’t just all living things that resisted the Celestial Emperor; the Gods, also pushed to the brink, acted covertly as well.
They took the opportunity to rescue the severely wounded Dayi and helped him remold the Crimson Bow and White Arrow.
——They used the Essence of the Earth to remold the Crimson Bow into the [Sun-Shooting Bow].
——They used the Guanghan Qi to remold the White Arrow into the [Sun-Shooting Arrow].
With these two Divine Artifacts in hand, and the power of the Gods bolstering him, Dayi finally returned to his peak state.
Afterward, Dayi embarked on a years-long journey to pursue the suns.
In various myths and legends, Dayi shooting the suns seems like a mere conclusion, as if he shot down nine suns in a single day.
However, in the real world, shooting the suns was not that simple.
From shooting down the first Golden Crow to the ultimate showdown with the Great Golden Crow...
The process of Dayi shooting the suns was one of constant hunting and counter-hunting, with him nearly meeting his end multiple times.
However, as Li Xudou had mentioned before.
Dayi was not a God, but a hero who attained the Way through martial prowess, achieving sanctity with his mortal body.
Every fight with a Golden Crow was a form of tempering for Dayi, allowing him to become stronger than before.
In his final battle with the Great Golden Crow, Dayi even crossed the Divine Gate, becoming a being second only to the Great Celestial God.
It was a path neither of Essence, nor Qi, nor God, an "Divine Gate Celestial Pass" that pushed faith and spirit to their limits.
It was at that moment that Dayi heard the voice that transcended time and space.
[Become the first of the Ancient Ones! I await you at the end of the River of Time!]
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"The Hundred Lands Mountain Range is where the Great Golden Crow fell..."
"And in the Shocking God Valley of the Southern Tree Sea lies the ’Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow’."
Silently listening to Li Jingshu’s narrative, Lord Tingyao’s eyes were uncontrollably trembling.
Lord Tingyao was using the Divine Power of Future Knowledge to peer into the timeline and glimpse that grand Battle of the Sun-Shooting from millennia ago.
From Lord Tingyao’s perspective, the sanctified Dayi’s imposing aura startled the Gods, with every arrow forcing the sky’s suns to dodge continuously.
More importantly, Lord Tingyao clearly sensed that more than one pair of eyes lingered on this era.
They either came from the past or the future, but without exception, they were beings who had initially escaped the constraints of the River of Time.
The Battle of the Sun-Shooting that occurred millennia ago was a critical historical node in the entire River of History.
That epic battle directly led to the collapse of the Celestial Emperor’s rule and the extinction of the Golden Crows.
Since then, the rule of the Gods ended, and all living beings began to rise.
Until three thousand years ago, the first Witch King led the human tribes to sweep across the Central Plains, establishing the All Xia Alliance that symbolized human dominance.
"So the question arises..."
"In such a pivotal battle, why did the Celestial Emperor never appear?"
In a tone filled with contemplation, Lord Tingyao asked meaningfully.
"The Golden Crows aren’t like those Daughters of the Celestial Emperor; they are the continuation of the Celestial Emperor’s rule."
"As long as they are alive, even if the Celestial Emperor dies, the rule of the Gods will inevitably continue."
"So what exactly happened at that time, causing the Celestial Emperor to be unwilling to appear, even at the cost of abandoning his own sons?"
Lord Tingyao’s question was also one that those peering into this piece of history had.
Everyone knew that the Celestial Emperor was different from the Tao Ancestor.
As the absolute ruler of the Gods’ civilization, He would never allow beings from other timespaces to disrupt His reign in this era.
Therefore, without fully unraveling the mysteries and questions of this history...
Anyone attempting to rewrite their origin and become an Ancient One would face the Celestial Emperor’s full force.
"It’s not just that the Celestial Emperor did not appear so simply."
At this moment, Li Jingshu raised another issue that everyone had overlooked.
"The ten Golden Crows are not just the Celestial Emperor’s sons..."
"They are also the sons of the ancient Sun Goddess Xi He, born as Celestial Beings, the embodiment of the sun."
"The younger sibling said that Xi He, reputed as the ’Sun Goddess,’ co-founded the age of the Gods alongside the Celestial Emperor."
"But for some reason, Xi He eventually parted ways with the Celestial Emperor and vanished without a trace."
Gazing at Lord Tingyao with narrowly squinting eyes, Li Jingshu spoke with implication.
"Xi He was an ancient Great Celestial God, whose power at its zenith even the Celestial Emperor had to share the authority of heaven and earth."
"Do you think she could watch indifferently as her sons perished in the ’Battle of the Sun-Shooting’?"
Lord Tingyao naturally heard the implication in Li Jingshu’s words, but he had a completely different perspective on the matter.
"If Xi He were still alive, your assumption would naturally be valid."
"But what if Xi He was already dead?"
"After all, since the Celestial Beings reshaped the River of Time, the Great Celestial God was no longer a symbol of ’immortality.’"
"A Great Celestial God is merely the strongest of each era, not the immortal and eternal Ancient One."
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