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The world has changed so much in the years since Gao Lan died.

With the Lord of the Merchant Tower suppressing the world, evil spirits do not emerge, and destruction is unlikely. Everything in the world is so beautiful. Even if the Great Zhou is re-established and overseas immortal islands are occupied, the situation will not be better than it is now.

Yan Ran pulled Gao Lan back, seemingly understanding Gao Lan's feelings.

Although they were separated by body, they shared the same heart. Of course, she understood how much the changes in the real world over the past few hundred years had impacted Gao Lan.

It wasn't just the Lord of the Merchant Pavilion who suppressed the world; there was also the prevalence of the Universal Knowledge Talisman. As for the Lord of the Merchant Pavilion ordering the Heavenly Court Star Officials to unleash the power of the ancient stars towards the Real World, enhancing the Real World's primordial energy and making early cultivation easier, that was nothing.

"Fine, since that's the case, I might as well go back."

Gao Lan took Yan Ran's hand, a hint of tenderness in his eyes, and said:
"I've been busy with the affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty these past few years and haven't been able to spend much time with you. Now, before the final calamity arrives, let's go see the scenery of the myriad worlds."

"Gao Lang."

Her eyes were like spring water, captivating anyone who saw them.

Gao Lan took her hand, patted the Emperor's Sword at his waist, and said with emotion, "Go, Brother Sword, go and find someone more suitable."

After Gao Lan was resurrected, the Human Emperor Sword flew back to Gao Lan's side from Meng Qi.

Since he has no intention of ascending to the throne again, Gao Lan should no longer wield the Human Emperor Sword.

He chose to give the Emperor's Sword freedom; otherwise, unless he perished or his character deteriorated in the future, the Emperor's Sword would not leave him on its own.

hum!
The pale gold longsword hummed softly, as if sighing.

In the end, the Human Emperor Sword departed, piercing through the vast universe, and appeared in the hand of the Emperor sitting cross-legged in the center of the Lingxiao Palace.

The reason why the Human Emperor's Sword did not return to the Human Emperor's hands was to conceal the secret of the Human Emperor's resurrection. Therefore, it appeared beside Gao Lan after Gao Lan's resurrection, and after leaving Gao Lan's side, it appeared in the hands of the Human Emperor's incarnation.

Having completely relinquished his identity as an emperor and laid down the Emperor's Sword, Gao Lan seemed to be deeply moved.

What he couldn't understand in his lifetime—the self that he was—now seems easy; the gate of legend has been broken open a crack.

Given time, he will soon prove the legend.

Gao Lan, feeling a pang of emotion, looked up at the boundless sky and sighed:

"Is it fate..."

You have to be willing to give up something.

You have to give up something to gain something.

Is it worth giving up the Emperor's Sword, which would have made him a target of the Other Shore's attention, in exchange for a chance to become a legend?

……

Yuxu Palace.

Meng Qi, who was giving a lecture to a group of Jade Void experts, paused slightly and looked towards the Nine Heavens.

He then shook his head, not knowing what to say.

Gao Lan's relationship with Brother Shang was something he didn't know how to handle when he was in his Dharma Body form, but now it seems to be going quite well.

A celestial being, in this age of great supernatural beings, possessing unparalleled power at the other shore level, is no less powerful than a child carrying gold walking through a bustling city.

Even if it's hidden in some other universe, with the omnipresent power of great beings and supernatural abilities, and the outrageous number of projections and imprints of others, they will eventually find some clues.

They might be wary of Meng Qi and dare not make a move, but what about the other side behind them?
Even though his slash that beheaded the Eternal Mother indirectly severed his path in this era, it couldn't withstand the unpredictability of fate and the wickedness of human nature.

Even so, Meng Qi still felt compassion for Gao Lan when he saw him 'penniless'.

With a single thought, he felt the will of Heaven was high and far-reaching, and the right time, place, and people all came together.

A legendary, peerless weapon began to take shape through countless coincidences, and at some point in the future, it will be 'accidentally' obtained by Gao Lan, who is traveling to another universe. After various enhancements, it will eventually become a creation-level peerless weapon.

……

Lingxiao Palace.

At the moment when Gao Lan's fate changed, Shang Yi also felt something.

"Since Meng Qi has intervened, then forget it."

He muttered something to himself and stopped writing the script.

A line of text is faintly visible on the script cover...

The fallen emperor returns with a vengeance, reigning supreme over all realms!

He would never say that the act of having star officials and gods enhance the vital energy of the real world and bless all living beings was to make a certain emperor at the Celestial Immortal level deeply aware of the changes in the real world over the past few hundred years.

After all, Gao Lan's ability to gain the recognition of the Human Emperor's Sword makes him a very promising individual among humans. After this experience, he may not be able to reach the other shore in this era, but the Creation Realm is possible, and he may even reach the other shore in the next era.

If the Human Emperor advances further, Gao Lan could very well become the target of the Human Emperor's subtraction and emptiness, and at that time Gao Lan might even be able to experience the treatment that Meng Qi received.

Putting away the Human Emperor Sword, Shang Yi took out the Heavenly Dao Monster, which was heavily bound.

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"Ow!"

Terrifying roars that could shatter one's thoughts rang out one after another. Clusters of dark red vortexes instinctively expanded, but were bound by invisible shackles, unable to leave Shang Yi's body.

After staring intently for a moment, Shang Yi shook his head and sighed, "His true nature and intellect have been completely corrupted. Haotian is truly ruthless."

Even if Shang Yi is a nascent Dao Fruit cultivator, he cannot save Donghuang Taiyi. Perhaps only a Dao Fruit cultivator can change Donghuang Taiyi's current state of madness and chaos.

But why would the Daoist Master make a move?

"upbraid!"

Shang Yi unleashed the sacred sound of creation, suppressing the chaotic dark red vortexes and gradually calming the Heavenly Dao monsters.

Even though Donghuang Taiyi was an ancient being at his peak, he is no match for Shang Yi in his current state.

Although the Heavenly Dao Monster resisted with all its might, it was already suppressed by Shang Yi and had no choice in its own destiny. In addition, it was weaker than the other. In no time, the Heavenly Dao Monster's true nature and spiritual light were completely erased, leaving only its remains.

One of the Other Shores has fallen.

All the heavens and myriad realms were at peace, with no unusual phenomena in the world. The masses of beings were unaware of this momentous event, which was rare in history.

When a powerful and highly skilled individual falls, it will cause corresponding changes in all the heavens and myriad realms. But on the other side, beyond the sea of ​​suffering, even if they fall in a single day, the heavens and myriad realms have no right to mourn for them.

boom!
The Heavenly Star Chart roared the moment the Heavenly Dao monster fell, then transformed into a dark, thick liquid containing the ultimate darkness of all realms, and also a color of 'nothingness' even purer than darkness, the graveyard of all light and color.

The thick liquid surged towards the remains of the Heavenly Dao Monster, covering it, assimilating and devouring everything that originally belonged to the Heavenly Dao Monster.

This will take some time. By then, the Heavenly Dao Palace, which has assimilated the remains of the Heavenly Dao monster, will be no less powerful than the Time Blade, even if it cannot compare to the Taiji Diagram, the Pangu Banner, or other divine weapons associated with the Three Pure Ones.

"Now that things have come to this, the cultivation level of the main body can also be improved."

Shang Yi thought to himself.

He was far stronger than the Eternal Mother by more than one level of the Weakened Other Shore realm. Although the reason lay in the Three Corpses, and his cultivation level wasn't actually that much higher than the Eternal Mother's, even so, he could still allow Shang Yi's main body to advance to the Creation realm while the Lord of the Merchant Pavilion maintained the nascent Dao Fruit realm. If the current situation hadn't prevented the Lord of the Merchant Pavilion from falling below the nascent Dao Fruit realm, Shang Yi was prepared to have his main body advance from the Legendary realm to the Creation realm in one go, directly breaking free from the Sea of ​​Suffering.

A wisp of his consciousness shifted to the myriad worlds within his body, and Shang Yi's true form opened his eyes once more from his period of seclusion.

Although the two paths are different, and it cannot be said that one method leads to all methods, they are based on legends, creation, and the experiences and insights of the other shore. With the integration path personally deduced by the Lord of the Merchant Tower, a Dao Fruit in its infancy, even if the Immortal Emperor's body is strong enough to be considered the highest in all the heavens and myriad realms, it can still be compatible with the True Spirit Path of a Supreme Being. The two paths will not cancel each other out or weaken each other because of their differences.

With his uniquely gifted Immortal Emperor body, even setting aside his unparalleled Immortal Emperor cultivation, his legendary realm alone surpasses that of all legendary powerhouses.

Within the myriad realms of this merchant lord, the Immortal Emperor effortlessly returned to the very beginning of the myriad realms' creation. In that initial place, he left his own projection and imprint. Then, as time progressed, new universes and parallel universes, under the influence of the perfected legend, also saw the imprint and legend of Shang Yi, or rather, the Xuan Tian Emperor.

This is something that no legend can achieve. Being able to form its own imprint with the birth of the universe does not mean that it can fill all the universes.

Even the instinctive resistance of the forces that correct history cannot stop him.

He is the ruler of this place, the supreme Heavenly Dao, without equal.

All causes and effects, fate, opportunities, and serendipitous encounters are within his control.

Having mastered all the mysteries of the myriad realms and made the One Dao of the myriad realms within his body completely identical to that of the outside world, Shang Yi was able to say this with full confidence.

"Manipulating creation, creating things from the void..."

Shang Yi murmured softly.

As his voice rang out, the Sea of ​​Bitterness churned, seemingly celebrating the birth of a supreme being who stood at the pinnacle of the Sea of ​​Bitterness. The Three Thousand Great Daos resonated with it, celestial birds danced, and extraordinary colors soared into the sky, giving rise to vast and boundless celestial realms. Immortals, gods, demons, and monsters were also born from nothingness.

Every immortal or deity possesses the vastness of the infinite universe, and is like an infinite number of finite universes superimposed, reaching the pinnacle of power, unparalleled in the world, and invincible throughout billions of universes.

Whether it's the vast and boundless sacred realm or immortals, gods, demons, and monsters, they were all created by Shang Yi with a single thought after he ascended to the Creation Realm, arising from nothing.

"As an Immortal Emperor and a great supernatural being, is the divine ability of the Creation Realm, 'Creating Things from the Void,' really exaggerated to this extent?"

"Even the sum of one and one equals ten thousand is insufficient to describe the 'void creation' I have mastered at this moment."

Shang Yi murmured to himself.

When the Lord of the Merchant Pavilion was a great supernatural being, like other great supernatural beings, he could defy worldly laws and truly create something from nothing. However, without utilizing external energy, the limit of creating something from nothing was only about a billion times greater than that of a Celestial Immortal.

Creating a vast universe from nothingness is not impossible, but it would take a considerable amount of time, and it's not even in the same league as Shang Yi's current feat of creating something from nothing.

"No, it's not just a combination of two 'paths'."

After examining himself, Shang Yi noticed something amiss. He thought to himself, "Every time I go to a new world, the corresponding rules will modify my body to make me adapt to the rules of the new world, or rather, its worldview."

As Shang Yi's thoughts raced, countless celestial realms and immortals, gods, demons, and monsters merged into this realm.

He thought to himself, "I wonder which world's worldview has been activated because the 'Void Creation' of the Creation Realm has been activated, causing the terror of the 'Void Creation' to far exceed that of a normal Great Supernatural Power.

"I haven't personally traveled to many other worlds, but I've encountered a lot of them: Global Martial Arts, Tomb of the Gods, Shrouding the Heavens, and Swallowing the Starry Sky..."

"What worldview is this, that possesses such extraordinary power?"

With doubts in his mind, Shang Yi decided that when he had time in the future, he would go back to those worlds that he had personally traveled through back then.

Perhaps beneath the background he is aware of, there is a grander worldview hidden deep within, just like the world of the first lifetime. Although many past eras were glossed over or not mentioned at all, when it became the prototype of the Dao Fruit, Shang Yi truly witnessed those many eras that did not appear in the original timeline.

As Shang Yi pondered, the turmoil in the sea of ​​suffering subsided, and he was elevated from the legendary perfection to the perfection of creation.

The Time Blade floated in strange light, and the Heavenly Emperor gazed at the location of the merchant building.

"The nascent form of the Dao Fruit..."

Even though he was indifferent, he couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions about everything that had happened before.

From any perspective, it is impossible for Shang Yi to defy common sense and achieve the rudimentary form of the Dao Fruit, but this did happen. It is impossible to imagine what methods Shang Yi had to deceive the ancients.

"Judging from Shang Yi's attitude, perhaps he has a trump card that allows him to live into the new era."

As the dark liquid that had swallowed the remains of the Heavenly Dao monster slowly took shape and was about to transform into that dark palace again, the Heavenly Emperor thought to himself, "The palace formed from the remains of Donghuang Taiyi is slightly superior to the Demon Emperor's Palace in terms of rank."

He had no interest in vying for the Dao Fruit of this era, so apart from necessary matters, he rarely interfered in worldly disputes. Although his true form had long been exposed, he still existed in the world as an unparalleled divine weapon. He was even uninterested in possessing the body of Emperor Fu and returning again.

“He was just an ordinary mortal back then, and in the blink of an eye, several hundred years have passed, and he has surpassed me…”

"Fate is truly unpredictable."

After a moment of inner turmoil, the Heavenly Emperor's thoughts settled. Watching the dark liquid that had swallowed the remains of the Heavenly Dao monster slowly take shape, about to transform once more into that star map, the Heavenly Emperor thought:
"The star map formed from the remains of Donghuang Taiyi is slightly superior to the Demon Emperor Palace in terms of grade."

He had no interest in vying for the Dao Fruit of this era, so apart from necessary matters, he rarely interfered in worldly disputes. Although his true form had long been exposed, he still existed in the world as an unparalleled divine weapon. He was even uninterested in possessing the body of Emperor Fu and returning again.

"The reincarnation of the Buddha of Freedom in the world, in the blink of an eye, several hundred years later, has surpassed me..."

"I don't know how He did it. Fate is truly unpredictable."

After a moment of inner turmoil, the Heavenly Emperor's thoughts settled down.

……

Nine Heavens.

Su Daji looked at the sea of ​​people before her and casually approved the assessment data of millions of candidates.

She said, "Go check it yourself. Those who pass the test will receive a notification, and those who fail will also receive a notification, which will tell you which aspect you failed. I hope that the failures will continue to work hard in the next hundred years."

After a slight pause, Su Daji said with a meaningful sigh, "After all, there are only a few hundred years left before our destruction."

Her words reached everyone's ears without any hindrance, revealing the profound mystery of the celestial being.

Everyone present wore a somber expression.

The era has ended!

Perhaps before today, some people could not have imagined what that scene would be like, but until the recent battle on the other shore made everyone understand that it was a disaster even more terrifying than the battle of the other shore beings, and even the other shore beings who have transcended the sea of ​​suffering could not ignore it.

"The three corpses have each achieved their own peerless level of the Other Shore. If I can create a fundamental divine skill at the rudimentary level of the Dao Fruit, I can then begin the final calamity."

"Even if something unexpected happens, the main body can directly use 'Wealth Can Move Gods' to forcibly cultivate that fundamental divine skill and advance to the rudimentary form of the Dao Fruit."

As each thought sank into the deepest part of his mind, Shang Yi combined what he had seen throughout his life to create the fundamental law.

When one reaches the level of Shang Yi, every word and action is law, and every move is the way.

With a thought, countless wondrous methods flowed through his mind, each one extremely powerful. Theoretically, if there were still 'cultivation techniques' to be found on the other shore, the profound mystery of the nascent Dao Fruit should not be something that any cultivation technique could encompass.

After all, the rudimentary form of the Dao Fruit is to grasp all the mysteries of the myriad worlds. It does not require any specific cultivation method. It only requires gradual comprehension. Once you have completely mastered everything, you will have reached the rudimentary form of the Dao Fruit.

If Shang Yi hadn't known that the "Eight-Nine Mysterious Techniques" created by Yuanshi Tianzun contained a chapter on the rudimentary form of Dao Fruit, he probably would have thought that any otherworld-level divine skill was limited to those who were not ancient.

"Generally speaking, only after a cultivator reaches a certain level can they use the divine manuals to expand their realm and gain unique abilities that set them apart from other cultivators at the same level."

"The same applies to fundamental techniques at the Other Shore level when one is not an ancient being. However, once one reaches the nascent stage of the Dao Fruit, things change. The ultimate goal of any divine technique is to enable one to become a nascent Dao Fruit, not to grant one methods different from those of other ancient beings." (End of Chapter)