Born with immortal seed

Chapter 878 The Mirror of Three Lives

Deep within the Heavenly Demon Realm, mist churned and the darkness deepened.

Rays of light refracted until they reached the very end, where they could see an ancient, dimly lit palace, its design quite simple.

The plaque in front of the hall bears three demonic characters, neither the Great Mighty Dragon Chapter nor the Great Virtue Phoenix Scroll.

But if you look closely, you can understand the correct meaning of the words:

Demon Emperor's Palace!
Regardless of bloodline, all creatures, whether scaled, fury, feathered, or insect-like, regard this place as an absolute sacred ground.

Outsiders say that the major royal families control the Heavenly Demon Realm, but only demons who have reached a certain level know that the real decisions always come from the Demon Emperor's Palace.

This is not only a sacred place where several true spirits have descended, but also a place where the strongest of each race who can reach the peak of the seventh rank can have their statues erected in the hall after receiving the blessing of the Holy Ancestor.

Before one's lifespan is exhausted, one can enter the Demon Emperor's Palace and transfer one's essence into the Demon Ancestor's statue, thus gaining eternal life through the power of the true spirit.

At the same time, without the limitations of realm, the strength of demonic power increases proportionally with age.

Therefore, the more ancient the demon ancestor, the more powerful they tend to be.

Of course, there are many restrictions.

For example, one cannot leave the Demon Emperor's Palace by more than a hundred miles, and the time one awakens is less than one-tenth of the time one is unconscious. If the Holy Ancestor who bestows the blessing disappears, the ancestral statue will collapse...

With so many restrictions, the Demon Emperor's Palace should theoretically only be a spiritual sanctuary, unable to issue commands to the various races of the Heavenly Demon Realm or possess almost absolute power.

But each of those demon ancestors was an unparalleled figure, and they actually found a way to deal with them.

First, all the demon ancestors reached an agreement to take turns being awake, ensuring that at least one demon ancestor in the Demon Emperor's Palace was in a state of being able to manage affairs.

They also broke the restrictions of the Demon Emperor's Palace, freeing it from its confinement and allowing it to roam the Heavenly Demon Realm in a way that was not understood.

Regardless of their origins, these demon ancestors had little to do with their original clans after entering the Demon Emperor's Palace.

They will certainly continue to take care of their own people, but in essence, they have already formed a new class.

All motivations and actions were aimed at upholding the supreme authority of the Demon Ancestor group.

Throughout history, only a few dozen demon ancestors have been born.

Of those whose ancestral portraits still exist, barely more than ten remain.

The Demon Ancestor is immortal, but as long as one of his true spirits leaves, the Demon Emperor's Palace will experience a major upheaval.

The most ancient Zhulong spirit transcended, and on that day, nearly half of the ancestral statues in the Demon Emperor's Palace lost their spiritual light and became mere clay sculptures.

The recent disappearance of the Azure Dragon's true spirit has also affected many demons.

"I'm exhausted! I've already endured over three hundred more spring and autumn transitions, why hasn't Bai Ze woken up yet!"

On either side of a huge, endlessly extending table stood majestic statues of demon ancestors, most of them with their eyes closed and their bodies more or less damaged.

The most tragically damaged ones had lost their hands and feet, or were even reduced to small pieces of their demonic bodies.

These are all fallen demon ancestors.

The remaining statues, bright and vivid but motionless, represent the sleeping Demon Ancestor.

Throughout the entire Demon Emperor's Palace, it seemed that only a dark shadow was moving around, jumping around on the tabletop, with hundreds of tentacles waving back and forth.

Letters and invitations flew into the Demon Emperor's Palace, and incense smoke and spiritual energy, seemingly from nowhere, gathered and coalesced, creating ever-changing, multicolored images...

Every moment, the amount of information transmitted to the long table that needs to be processed is in the tens of thousands.

It's not just about receiving information, but also about providing accurate feedback immediately.

Fortunately, the person bearing this massive amount of information was a demon ancestor at the peak of the seventh rank or above, so apart from being a little flustered, it wouldn't cause any greater trouble.

Only when the mist dispersed could one see that the dark figure was an octopus-like monster, with facial features on each tentacle, revealing different emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

"I'm not doing it anymore! I'm going to sleep right now. Who wants to do this hard work anyway!"

"No, Bai Ze has not yet awakened, and it will be seven hundred years before the next demon ancestor awakens... If the Demon Emperor's Palace remains without a demon ancestor to oversee it for such a long time, chaos will surely ensue!"

"Everyone says Bai Ze is as wise as the sea, so why does he do things so incoherently?"

"Let the floods rage, let's create our own world in our dreams!"

"Bai Ze is knowledgeable about the past and present, and his strategies are flawless... He's inexplicably three hundred years late. Could something have gone wrong?"

The octopus demon ancestor began to talk to itself, with each tentacle emitting a different sound, creating a noisy scene like a market.

In this environment, a vast will suddenly pressed down, and the Demon Emperor's Palace emitted a squeezing sound as if it could not bear the weight.

Without any hesitation, it lay directly on the table, its suffocatingly terrifying pressure unifying all its tentacles, causing them to shout:
"Welcome, Holy Ancestor!"

Even if a hundred seventh-tier warriors joined forces, they couldn't shake the Demon Emperor's Palace in the slightest.

Only through further sublimation and a fundamental difference can the Mahayana cultivators of the human race and the true spirits of the Heavenly Demon Realm achieve such a lofty position, a height that cannot be reached through sheer numbers.

Even if you combine all the seventh-tier demon gods from countless millennia, they still wouldn't be as good as the tip of an eighth-tier true spirit.

It is the true ruler of the Heavenly Demon Realm, and also the blessed spirit Kunpeng of the Octopus Demon Ancestor.

Its true form is unknown, perhaps in some distant place, or even outside this space-time, this dimension.

With just a thought, he descended upon the Demon Emperor's Palace.

The vast will came suddenly and went quickly.

In an instant, the Demon Emperor's Palace returned to normal.

"By order of the Holy Ancestor Kunpeng, Heluo summons all descendants of the noble blood of the True Dragon to gather in the Demon Emperor's Palace to forge the Ascending Dragon Token!"

The octopus demon ancestor finally raised its head after a long while, its expression solemn, and chanted in unison.

The sound echoed throughout the Demon Emperor's Palace and resounded deep into the clouds.

It then spread to even more distant and wider areas without diminishing, until every race in the Heavenly Demon Realm received it.

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Rotten Axe Mountain, Dragon Pool.

In recent years, this pool of water has become even more profound, with sunlight not even penetrating the surface and remaining merely floating on the surface.

The pool water was like a piece of solidified tourmaline, still and motionless.

The deeper you go, the more intense the turquoise becomes, almost turning pale blue.

Several bamboo stalks on the bank are growing vigorously, reaching a thickness equivalent to that of a thousand years in just a few decades.

The Dragon Pool was bottomless, and it was unknown how many feet it had descended to, where there was a secluded cave covered with moss.

Fish and dragons crouched in rows, carrying algae, and a black tortoise carried a stone scripture, all quietly guarding outside.

Feeling the rise and fall of the breath in the secluded cave, the lingering essence of true meaning, his eyes became increasingly bright and intelligent.

Even a random fish-dragon bloodline is more valuable than the Jade Rabbit; with a little nurturing, it can become a sixth-tier demon saint without much investment of resources.

These were all the various demon generals under the command of the Golden Lion when it was alive.

Unfortunately, it appeared at the wrong time. It didn't enjoy the status of the Jade Rabbit, and it wouldn't even get a second glance.

"Legend has it that the Mirror of Three Lives can allow people to see their past lives, find their true selves, and greatly benefit their self-cultivation... But my fate is special; I have no past life and no reincarnation. I wonder what it will reflect?"

Bai Zichen, with his long hair loose, sat leaning against the seventh-tier white bone spiritual ground. The pure spiritual energy produced strange phenomena, which were then quickly withdrawn and stored away.

He was like an insatiable vortex, swallowing up all the spiritual energy, which darkened the colors behind him, and layered phantoms overlapped together.

The celestial paradise of Shaohua seems to manifest in the real world, yet it also seems to be hidden in the void, constantly shifting and changing.

Over the past forty years, Bai Zichen has fully absorbed the benefits brought by the Supreme Sword Bone and refined and subdued the Misaligned Heaven Sword.

Although he has not yet comprehended any new divine powers, the Great Dao of Time continues to surge forward.

As for his own swordsmanship, he improved day by day.

Compared to when they first arrived at the Six Blessings Immortal Realm, their regular combat strength has increased by at least 50%.

But in his eyes, they were all trivial matters.

We were helpless against the combined forces back then, and we are still helpless now.

Only through a breakthrough improvement can one gain the ability to fight against a combined force.

Just like the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, which was just completed in the Core Formation stage, only the Star River Sword Formation and the Dao-Born and Dao-Extinction Sword Technique could achieve cross-level reversal.

Currently, apart from the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, other supernatural abilities are only a superficial solution to cultivators at the Integration Stage.

How long the River of Time can trap a Nascent Soul cultivator is another unknown.

As everyone realized that True Dragon Island was not going to fight Four Views Island head-on, and that their previous actions were more like a punitive act, the atmosphere in the Five Dragons Sea changed.

The forces that had previously cowered and retreated resurfaced, and coincidentally clashed with Rotten Axe Mountain, while secretly transporting large quantities of strategic materials to Four Views Island.

From talismans and spiritual herbs to elixirs, magical artifacts, and magical robes, even large warships and complete sets of formations, everything is available.

Even Siwang Island's counterattack has become much fiercer, no longer confined to the island, and daring to extend its fist back onto the sea.

Lankeshan clearly lacked the strength to wipe out Siwang Island in one fell swoop, and the battle lines were pushed back again.

If we can sense the change in wind direction, it's likely that the moment when Shao Yang makes his move for a decisive battle isn't far off.

This led Bai Zichen to focus his attention on the Three Lives Mirror, to see if this broken and rare treasure he had acquired in the Azure Sea Heaven could bring any unexpected gains.

Only a small piece of the mirror remains, ancient and weathered, with peculiar patterns and a dark surface that cannot reflect anything.

The complete Three Lives Mirror is a rare treasure of the Heavenly Palace. This piece of the mirror only has a fraction left, and it's hard to say how much power it still possesses.

However, since Bai Zichen would think of it when time was precious, he must have made ample preparations.

The place where the remains of Lü Zhengyang and the elder of the Heavenly Sword Pavilion were discovered is a spring of eternal life, and it was from this spring that the two combined their powers to fight to the death.

Bai Zichen successfully found it before leaving the deserted island and used his great supernatural powers to separate it from the island.

Besides helping cultivators quickly break through the bottleneck from the early to the middle stages of the Nascent Soul realm, the Fountain of Immortality also possesses other abilities.

For example, reuniting souls and activating treasures, even if only scraps remain, can be activated as if the treasure were at its peak after absorbing the Fountain of Immortality.

Compared to its most famous effects, no one is willing to use it elsewhere.

For a cultivator at the Integration Stage, advancing even one step is incredibly difficult; remaining completely stagnant for tens of thousands of years is the norm.

Apart from Bai Zichen, even forces like the Dao Court, Heavenly Palace, and Heavenly Sword Pavilion were reluctant to use it to activate the treasure.

Only he, completely unconcerned, immersed the Three Lives Mirror into the Spring of Longevity, absorbing every last drop in an instant.

A faint mist seeped through the void onto the mirror's surface, causing the surrounding area to distort and deform, with streams of air forming channels.

On the other side of the passage, there are layers upon layers of circles, and the final exit is clearly not here.

This passage, though only a few feet long, contains profound mysteries of heaven and earth and the ultimate truths of the universe.

Staring at it for too long will not bring any benefit; on the contrary, it will give you a creepy feeling.

With each glance, something within you is lost.

"Let me see if the so-called 'Double Dragons Holding Power' destiny is just something the Evil Fate Sect makes up, or if it's actually true!"

Bai Zichen raised the fragment of the Three Lives Mirror to eye level and gazed deeply into it.

(End of this chapter)