**Translation of the context into English** is as follows (note: names are all translated in **Pinyin**, the Chinese language has also been cleaned up and edited during the process for clarity, with no deviation from the original narrative tone, but enriched into fantasy tones):
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“**Boom!**” – At the lower tiers of the Skyfire Refinery Pillar, within the passageway that extended down toward the lava world, molten rocks erupted abruptly upwards. Right after, a figure darted from out of the flames, appearing slightly bedraggled, startling those such as **Xun’er**. “**Master Xiao yan, ge-ge!**” – Seeing the silhouette of Xiao Yan emerge amidst flying lava droplets, **Xun’er’s** beautiful face pales in fear as she rushes forward with wide eyes. “**I’m all right,” Xiao Yan murmured, landing lightly upon the ground, and brushing away the blood at the side of his mouth. Without hesitation, his expression turned sharp while his sight locked hard on the crimson passage behind him, fingers tensing tightly into a fist. Deep within the molten abyss… there truly existed something terrifying.
Confused upon his disarray, **Grand长老 Su Qian**, **Yintianchi **and the others hurried over. They knew Xiao Yan’s formidable strength well. Yet even so, seeing his battered exit sent sharp shudders of worry across their hearts. Exactly what kind of dread had hidden in depths of the fire-mass? “**Senior Li**! Inform Patriarch Gu Yuan of the result. We’ve verified the situation!” Xiao Yan muttered seriously before issuing the sharp order.
With expressions turning pale, Yintianchi hastily nodded and, without further delay, quickly withdrew from the area to carry this life-altering news.
“**The Ancient Emperor’s Buried Vault was beneath the molten rocks all this time?**”
The ever-cool **Cailin’s** voice now quivered, eyes flashing unease as she gazed down at that burning passage. In the ancient history – even she had resided near here a while. Yet she’d felt absolutely nothing.
“**Hmm.**”
Xiao Yan nodded curtly before swiftly summarizing how, in the lava’s deep abyss, a being had awakened, matching in might those as mighty as **Gu Yuan **and Hún tiāndìm. Hearing that revelation, even Xun’er and the others were unable to stop a jarring shift across their visage.
“Thankfully… that entity seems shackled **within **the dimensional realm,” Xiao Yan murmured with an uneasy chuckle filled with relief, thinking back on the beast’s strength. If released outside its prison, nothing on these lands would stand against such a thing – and he, maybe less than all others…
“**Now it’s merely a waiting game…**” He exhaled softly. As expected, the **alliance armies** must be summoned, and at all costs, halt **Hún Zú**’s progress for this time. “**Once the Emperor Seed Medicine drops into **Hun Tiandi**’s hand… the skies themselves may no longer shelter his equal.**” And for such a reason, all the allies stood beside him and silently agreed.
Back in the Hall within **Hell’s Dominion…**
“…**Task complete? Is that your report now, I wonder?**” Atop the grand throne, **Hun Tiandi’s** calm gaze slowly closed his eyes and stared downward at a figure trembling in fearful prostration at his feet, speaking cold and soft. “**We were… discovered.**” the kneeling figure gasped, sweat pouring. Xiao Yan **unexpectedly** intercepted those forces before they could fulfill the secret mission at **The Land of Darkness’.** Every last soldier dispatched was lost.
“**Hun幽 fell by Xiao Yan?**” The mighty ruler mused, brows darkening. “Yet Xiao Yan… shouldn’t have possibly known our plans. Unless…” he continued, trailing off suspiciously. **Xiao Yan was merely one who **once **belonged **in the Land of Darkness**, the **Garreño Academy**… and if they’d just summoned him as a last defensive line… how could he have reached the site so swiftly?**
At this, **Xuwuton Yian**, seated at the side, gave a derisive scoff as black flames spiraled in his vision.
“Slight possibility Xiao Yan already knew more. That crafty beast always moves in hidden tides.” he muttered dangerously, the dark energies swirling deeper.
After that chilling implication hung in the space of the chamber:
“…What of **Gu Yuan**,” the voice rumbled from shadow.
“I have arranged an interworld **Spatial Relay**, opening a passageway toward your homeland’s boundary.
You and your war hosts will march to The Darkness, while I hold Gu Yuan fast.”
Hun Tiandi said flatly
and yet with final confidence burning in his breath.
XUWUTON paused for the merest moment; then his head inclined with grim accord.
“…Soon,” the mighty ruler’s lips parted in icy mirth. “once mine grasp falls on the **Imperial Elixir**’s nascent core from the Imperial Tomb, every mortal alliance gathered… will but scuttle like crushed ants.” The cold whisper vanished beneath the vault.
In the boundless **Star Realm**, the great Primordial Monarch **Gu Yuan** sat cross-legged atop an obsidian pagoda, his endless aura surging like endless cosmic tides into the skies above, casting an unspeakable awe even upon those few mighty enough to approach the hundred-fer long pagoda perimeter…
Inside the sanctum’s pinnacle floor, **Gu Yuan **opened his eyes and exhaled deep… the **vast cosmic sea** bending at once with every flicker of thought inside his consciousness, searching the Void until threads of his divine awareness touched against another presence far far beyond his realm – yet suddenly… that space **bucked, twisted**… and then a figure appeared silently in its center.
Like the storm breaking the silence.
The figure atop the sky Pagoda rose, and **vanished into a streak of divine shadow** in the next moment, then stood in an eyeblink at face-to-face range against the shadow that just emerged.
“**Hun Tiaodi!**”
The man cloaked in white, with soft flowing hair and dignified poise, met with coldness and death’s ice wind in **Gu Yuan’s stare**, as if the stars themselves were frozen from movement.
“Two of the old four remain. Such are the whims of Time.”
HUN Tiandi said serenely, looking at Gu Yuan.
“And the others,” Gu Yuan growled cold, “fell by your hand, didn’t they.”
The white-robed ruler merely **shrugged**.
Then abruptly, as though revealing something never spoken, “**Walk beside **my** rise”, he proposed softly with an eerie calm, “**once your old nemesis ascends, you will ride **on that tide**, no?**”
Gu Yuan stilled… then chuckled a slow reply: **“You **do realize **how laughably naive your suggestion is… do YOU?”
Yet Hun Tiandi simply gazed back, the tiniest flicker of regret in his smile.
“You were once rare as air… worthy of my recognition… pity.” Hun Tiandi whispered, looking beyond the void.
The space trembled again as he murmured cryptically:
“**All** these legends claim the *Emperor*s’ might defies mortal chains, and yet… why is it none among those Emperors now linger, vanished so utterly?**” A pause settled between them.
“Those are truths… to be discovered with every rise.” The white-eyed Emperor whispered dreamlike, voice turning hard as diamond with one breath:
“**This **cosm is my leash. Not for much longer…**!”
His voice rose like a thunderous war-cry across time, a claim carved in reality itself – and **not one Gu Yuan took lightly,** for Hun Tiands’ centuries-old legacy was real.
“…So **that’s your move now! Hn!**” Gu Yuan’s voice sharpened: he was being kept in **place **by these games… and that meant Hun’s armies had set off, already.
Yet the other did **not deny**—just softly, he whispered after an eternal pause:
“**I imagine time’s ripe indeed…**”
A silence passed, thick as blood.
“**The Vault hides **in **The Darkness?**”
Gu Yuan’s question cut through. The moment he said those words, Hun’s mask **slightly cracked **before being repaired.
“**I **suppose the cats out now. Yes… you did finally learn.”
And Hun Tiandi no further denied, nor revealed how the secret was pierced – for he understood well now Gu Yuan was **fully aware**.
“The **Skies may refuse you, yet still you chase,**”
Gu Yuan laughed bitterly.
“Until they fall into my grasp.”
“I must thank one **other…** was it **him, then?**” The white emperor narrowed those strange eyes, curiosity now mingled with something darker.
“You suspect Xiao Yan **somehow found** **this** tomb? The vault that our generations have chased so endlessly?
Gu Yuan smiled faintly – neither confirming nor denying.
“**Such a bane. Who knew, from the ruined ruins of the Xiao Bloodline… could come a **being **such as this. Even our kind had **suffered losses under him. Now even ancient **secrets **bow to him before I reach them…”
“**Stupidity! And silence!**” Hun hissed, his hand clenching hard against his robes in frustration.
**If it wasn’t Xiao Yan’s **miraculous survival **in the **early days when we hunted… perhaps he’d long have vanished in those flames. Yet instead – I let him flee… grow…** while my gaze was elsewhere.”
Then came a dark whisper from Hun’s pale mouth.
“And now? I hear your praise, O Ancient Sage.” The great **black dragon **smiled, “**He might perhaps… truly surpass Xiao Xuànn? Is that the meaning behind your words?**”
But Hun did not sound perturbed, merely **amused**:
“High words… yet Xiao Xuann met his end to my power. If another steps, so can another fall.”
“**We shall meet soon…**” Hun’s voice drifted outward as his figure slowly **began collapsing into void**, a rift forming beneath his boots: “In… the realm of **Dark’s Maw.**”
With his final breath of speech, the space split entirely around him as he vanished.
Gu Yuan’s eyes glinted with killing frost.
Before even a second passed, his aura surged. And in a flash, he stood in the **Star Domain’s War Council**, standing tall at center stage. Eyes locked on warriors like **Leiyin** and others, his arm rose like sword, voice slicing command:
“**ALLIANCE FORCES TO THE LAND OF DARKNESS – WE WILL STOP HUN’S INVASION THIS TIME, I swear!**”
—— **AND A NEW AGE DAWNED.** 🌎🔥⏳
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The translation preserves both a strong fantasy atmosphere and the original meaning while using **literary, dramatic tones** often associated with Epic Fantasy tales in high-saga form—complete with rich descriptive flow, ancient echoes, and divine stakes.
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