Aspiring to the Immortal Path

“You’ve finally come!”

These words rang out in Tang Jie’s ears like banging gongs, making his mind reel in shock, and then a flood of memories rushed into his mind.

He saw a cultivator flying out of the endless void, stopping in front of a giant planet.

With a swing of his divine sword, the planet was chopped in half.

It was the same as what the Blood River Lord had projected.

But what came next was different. Once the planet had been cut in half, the cultivator divided his body and soul.

The body entered Blood River while the soul entered Rosecloud.

His bones and blood nourished the Blood River Domain, creating its unique environment. As for his soul, it flew into a mortal of the Rosecloud Domain and began its long slumber amidst those numerous reincarnations.

The hundred lives once more played out in all their joys and tragedies, hopes and despairs. Nobody knew that a terrifying will was hidden behind this seemingly ordinary life.

This will had effectively hidden itself using the Plane of Reincarnation. Even someone who had comprehended Insight and entered Reincarnation could not discover him.

Just like that, he had hibernated, biding his time…

“The Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art!” Tang Jie cried out.

This really was all Yu Cheng’s plan!

Just like the Azure Dragon, the Lithos Dragon, the Bejeweled Star Lord, and Wind Holder, he had used the Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art, and his own body had been Yu Cheng’s host.

But why had Yu Cheng waited for so long to make his move?

Tang Jie didn’t know.

This Yu Cheng was simply an illusion from ten thousand years ago, using the Daos of Space and Time to cross the eons to leave behind these words, but had no more to tell him.

But then, the Blood River Lord came to Tang Jie’s mind.

“‘The moment… is not right’…” Tang Jie muttered.

“The moment… is right…” the blurred figure suddenly said.

And his body began to shatter and fade, truly disappearing.

“Oh no!” Tang Jie shouted.

He finally understood what that “moment” was.

As the projection shattered, Tang Jie began to pull his mind out of the Plane of Reincarnation.

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The Zephyr Mountains!

The avatar Tang Jie.

The moment he completed his Reincarnation Dao Art and did what no one had ever done before, an immense fear seized his body.

It instantly engulfed him, rendering him immobile.

A majestic will emerged from the depths of his body, swiftly spreading through him.

A dark figure appeared in his mind, yet it caused his body to inexplicably cheer as if it was welcoming its true master.

As the dark figure appeared, Tang Jie found himself rapidly losing control of the avatar’s body. And as his Sea of Cognition began to accept the Immortal Emperor’s will, that massive figure grew more solid and developed a blurry face.

Immortal Emperor Yu Cheng.

“So it really was like that?” Tang Jie bitterly smiled. “‘The moment’ was the twelfth Dao Art. Your will was waiting for that moment. You slumbered for ten thousand years and went through all those reincarnations so you could comprehend all the Great Daos, right?”

Back in the Court of Myriad Domains, Tang Jie had caught on to the possibility that his body might be the host for Yu Cheng’s reincarnation, which was why he had cultivated the World Descender Mantra and sent away all his treasures.

Even so, he had no idea what conditions would trigger Yu Cheng, but he now understood that the critical point for the Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art was collecting all Twelve Great Daos.

The Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art existed for the sake of breaking through innate bottlenecks.

For other cultivators, pushing through these bottlenecks was simply a matter of improving one’s potential and cultivation.

But even that presented no small challenge.

As for Yu Cheng, who had long ago become a Dao-Proving Saint Immortal, advancing was even more difficult.

There was no path forward, so he had to make his own.

It was just like the path from Violet Palace to Immortal Platform, from True Immortal to Gold Immortal, and from Gold Immortal to Saint Immortal. For each step, countless people had tried and failed, their cumulative efforts finally turning the Five Realms and Fourteen Tiers into Five Realms and Sixteen Tiers.

Yu Cheng had also chosen his own path to break through, yet the object of his pursuit was no longer purely an increase in cultivation level, but instead that realm never pursued before, the realm of the Heavenly Dao!

He wanted to become the Heavenly Dao!

Beneath the Heavenly Dao were the Twelve Great Daos.

Since he wanted to become the Heavenly Dao, he needed to comprehend all the Great Daos, and once he gathered them all and brought them together, he would have the Heavenly Dao!

This was something Tang Jie realized through the memories of the awakened Immortal Emperor.

But comprehending the Twelve Great Daos was easier said than done. Even with his outstanding talent, Yu Cheng had only managed to comprehend six and enter four, which made him the one who had entered the most Daos in the world. And after becoming a Dao-Proving Saint Immortal, he had become so powerful that the world had gradually begun to reject him.

Of course, a Saint Immortal was so powerful that they could push back against the world’s rejection and get along fine. The problem was that the rejection of the world made it extremely difficult to comprehend the Great Daos.

This was just like how a powerful general or minister no longer needed to fear their king, but also could no longer enjoy the favor of their sovereign, which created many inconveniences. These were only further exacerbated for one seeking to usurp the throne of the Heavenly Dao, which would not tolerate such insubordination.

This was why, if one wanted to become the Heavenly Dao, one had to be furtive about it, comprehending the Great Daos before the world had grown jealous.

With this mindset, Immortal Emperor Yu Cheng had used his supreme intelligence to create the very unconventional Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art, using a fake death to get rid of all the limitations of the world and lurk in hiding until the right moment had come.

Unlike the others, however, he had given up all his cultivation, only hiding away his understanding of the Dao!

After a hundred lives to wash away all impurities, he would be reborn and instantly become a genius.

This was the fundamental reason Tang Jie could comprehend Daos so quickly—because he wasn’t just him. He was also the Immortal Emperor.

With the Immortal Emperor’s will attached to him, he would naturally comprehend the Great Daos at an incredible speed. The Immortal Emperor had already been able to enter four and comprehend six, and he was more prepared the second time around, which made entering twelve Daos a real possibility.

Still, that took several hundred years to complete, and it was only after Tang Jie reached Immortal Platform that he finally completed his Reincarnation Dao Art. If Tang Jie had grown stronger and become a True Immortal, doing this would have been even more difficult.

Regardless, the moment Tang Jie completed his twelfth Dao Art, the opportunity the Immortal Emperor had awaited for ten thousand years would finally arrive. And it was for this reason he had chosen to revive in Tang Jie’s avatar, not the original body, for it was the avatar that had entered the Twelve Daos. And through mental transmission, his will could descend on any one of them.

As the slumbering will descended and began to take control, the dark figure grew more and more solid.

Tang Jie knew that once it was completely realized, the Divine Soul would manifest and the Immortal Emperor would completely revive, which would mean his death.

He clenched his teeth and gathered up all his power, sending a storm at the dark figure.

There was a soft sigh.

“Pointless.”

That terrifying will instantly pacified the storm.

This body was originally the Immortal Emperor’s body, obedient to his will.

An immense pressure suppressed the will of Tang Jie’s avatar, compressing the territory he controlled. In the Sea of Cognition, the golden region representing Tang Jie grew smaller and smaller while the black and white region representing the Immortal Emperor grew larger and larger.

The dark figure grew more and more realized, the face resolving into a lean face that exuded a quiet majesty, but its eyes were shut as if still in that long slumber. All that it was doing seemed purely out of instinct.

He was still waking!

But this drowsy will was already routing Tang Jie.

He retreated again and again, his golden region dwindling away.

The Immortal Emperor’s will grew clearer and stronger.

A voice rumbled through his mind. “I’ve finally returned, carrying a dream of ten thousand years. This time, I shall transcend the Heavenly Dao!”

With this voice, the will of Tang Jie’s avatar shattered, and the black and white region rapidly conquered all…

This battle of wills had ended, the Immortal Emperor winning an overwhelming victory.

A moment later, the “Tang Jie” in the prison opened his eyes.

An immense pressure erupted from his body, and he ran out of the prison and flew up into the sky.

Yu Cheng examined his body and said, “All Twelve Great Daos have been entered, and controlling them is only a matter of time. Meanwhile, this body’s cultivation level is a little too low. Those old scoundrels should have sensed my rebirth, and at this cultivation level, Dao Arts are not enough to stop them. Fortunately, I am prepared…”

He waved his hand.

The skeleton in the hut stood up and flew toward Yu Cheng. Yun Tianlan wanted to stop it, but a moment later, a terrifying will seized him, leaving him so shocked that he couldn’t move. This pause was enough for the skeleton to fly away, and as it flew, it dissolved into a pure stream of energy.

At the same time, two giant fish leapt out of the depths of the Blood River, flying toward Yu Cheng. Like the skeleton, they also dissolved into energy and hurtled toward Tang Jie’s body.

Yu Cheng floated high in the heavens, and as that power entered him, his aura instantly soared.

These were his remains, his power. Even though he had given up on all his cultivation to enter the cycle of Reincarnation, Yu Cheng had found his own ways of leaving behind his power. After ten thousand years, he had returned and reunited his flesh and spirit.

With this fusion, his cultivation level instantly rocketed to True Immortal, and then it kept going, shooting right into Gold Immortal.

Although Yu Cheng had been a Dao-Proving Saint Immortal, the skeleton and fish ultimately weren’t his whole self. Ninety percent of his power had been lost, but just ten percent was enough to take him from Earth Immortal to Gold Immortal.

Yu Cheng didn’t mind. For him, the Heavenly Dao, not the Saint Immortal Tier, was his goal.

As he looked around, his immense pressure swept over the Blood River and Rosecloud Domains, his voice transcending space to travel to every corner of the Great Stellar Chiliocosm.

“Ten thousand years of slumber for a single day! The court has returned, and the Immortal Domain is reborn!”

“RAAAAA!!!”

With this solemn announcement, a disciple of the Basking Moon Sect suddenly roared, and his Mortal Shedding Realm cultivation swelled all the way to Earth Immortal.

He flew into the sky and bowed to Yu Cheng. “Essence Refiner has returned as decreed!”

Similar scenes played out across the Great Stellar Chiliocosm!

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