Upon seeing this scene, Chu Yang's heart surged with boundless rage.
Although he couldn't clearly see the features of the shadowy figure, from the words spoken, he could infer that it was definitely the deceased Empress.
However, now the Empress had possessed Yao Guang's body.
This was the reason for Chu Yang's fury!
He withdrew from the River of Time and decisively returned to the familiar ancient city of the human race!
With a fierce slap on his forehead, a drop of golden blood flew out from his brow.
The blood emitted a dazzling light, its terrifying pressure intimidating the heavens and earth.
Chu Yang shouted loudly, "Go!"
The drop of golden blood instantly merged into the void space before him, then transformed into nothingness and disappeared.
Before long, Chu Yang seemed to comprehend something, opened his eyes, and they flashed with a fiery glow.
He raised his hand and tore open the void space in front of him once more, then headed towards the next city.
When Chu Yang emerged from the void, a furry tail appeared before him.
It was a fox tail!
Beyond the Emperor's realm!
Seeing this fox tail, all the cultivators' eyes widened in astonishment!
The fox tail was covered in white fur, as captivating as snow.
Most notably, the severed end of the tail bore a few small characters, exuding terrifying divinity.
However, because it had been severed, the divine nature of the tail had weakened considerably.
It was evident that this fox tail came from a fox demon with extremely powerful bloodlines.
As a result, all the cultivators' eyes involuntarily turned towards Bai Xiaoqi.
Among this group of cultivators, only Bai Xiaoqi belonged to the Heavenly Fox clan, and she was the most powerful existence among the fox clan, being the Empress of the demon race.
Her bloodline was exceedingly strong, that of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.
Not far away, Bai Xiaoqi also noticed the gazes of the cultivators and felt somewhat displeased. She coldly said, "You all look at me; do you think this fox tail belongs to this Empress?"
Bai Xiaoqi continued, her body emanating an invisible pressure that made everyone shudder, "In this Myriad Spirit Continent, there are countless fox clans with powerful bloodlines. If anyone dares to pin this matter on our Heavenly Fox clan, don't blame this Empress for being unkind."
Hearing the words of this terrifyingly powerful demon Empress, the cultivators felt a bit fearful and quickly averted their gazes.
They did not want to anger this demon Empress. If she got furious and attacked them, it would be disastrous.
The cultivators remained silent.
At this moment, Bai Xiaoqi also frowned slightly. She was clearly puzzled.
Upon seeing this fox tail, her heart couldn't help but tighten.
Because she felt that this fox tail seemed very familiar, as if she had seen it before, but she couldn't remember where.
At least, she could be certain that this fox tail was not hers.
This was beyond doubt.
She had a vague feeling of foreboding, as if this might be somehow connected to her.
Could it be that there were clues here about why her mother was suppressed by the Emperor?
She felt that the whole matter was much more complicated than she had imagined.
The surrounding cultivators began to discuss.
"It looks like Empress Yao Guang was possessed by that former Empress of the Demon Emperor!"
"From that conversation we heard in the River of Time, one voice was the Empress, and the other was the Heavenly Demon Emperor, who had died but was not truly dead!"
"The Human Emperor has suffered too much; the whole thing was a meticulous setup, and he was framed."
Seeing this, they could be certain of one thing: the Human Emperor never had any intention of harming the human race. Everything was a plot to frame him, giving him an undeserved reputation as a mass murderer of humans.
The scene shifted back to the Emperor's mirror.
Seeing the state of the city, Chu Yang knew he had arrived too late once again.
Sensing the direction indicated by the drop of blood, he set out again.
This time, the trip was accompanied by an overwhelming aura of murderous intent.
Chu Yang understood that the reason it was so difficult to track was likely due to that untraceable treasure.
Otherwise, he would have found the perpetrator long ago.
Chu Yang continued to traverse various ancient human cities, and his figure reached another ancient city.
Here, as before, there was a torrential flood of blood, with piles of corpses everywhere, resembling a hellish purgatory.
Chu Yang's face grew exceedingly grim.
The human race began to voice more accusations against him, but this time Chu Yang did not intend to explain.
He only wanted to find Yao Guang.
Thus, Chu Yang continued to follow the trail of that overwhelming murderous aura.
After pursuing through over a dozen cities, Chu Yang finally arrived at an ancient city in time.
He saw a one-armed man, face twisted in a sinister smile, exuding a malevolent aura like that of the Grim Reaper, mercilessly slaughtering the inhabitants of the city.
The man stood amidst an endless sea of corpses and blood, his body already stained red with blood.
This one-armed man, his face twisted with a sinister smile, looked at Chu Yang.
The man's appearance was identical to Chu Yang's!
If judged by appearance alone, it was hard to tell the two apart.
Beyond the Emperor's realm.
Seeing this, even those cultivators who had always believed that the Human Emperor had massacred the human race understood.
None of this had anything to do with the Human Emperor.
The reason the human race was so certain that the Human Emperor had slaughtered humanity was entirely because the perpetrator had taken on the Human Emperor's appearance, leading to this misunderstanding.
Seeing this, the cultivators were all deeply shocked.
They never imagined that someone could be so malicious.
To exact revenge on the Human Emperor, the perpetrator did not hesitate to massacre over a dozen ancient cities, causing tens of thousands of ordinary people to perish.
Perhaps these tens of thousands were a drop in the ocean for the entire human race, but such large-scale slaughter was enough to make the Human Emperor lose all credibility among humans and become utterly disgraced.
It was likely that the perpetrator felt that the blood of these dozens of ancient cities was enough to achieve their goal, so they didn't bother to flee, waiting for the Human Emperor to find them.
Such a malicious scheme!
The two cultivators who had always believed that the Human Emperor slaughtered humans were now in shock.
They kept saying, "How can this be, it's impossible, was the Human Emperor really framed?"
For them, it was hard to accept this reality.
"If the Human Emperor always cared for the human race and wanted to protect the Nine Provinces, why did he not appear when the human race was on the brink of annihilation, even when we called out his name?"