Two Realms: Don't call me evil!

The three armies clashed fiercely at the Luo Tian Palace battlefield, leaving the battlefield littered with corpses.

The Heavenly Emperor stepped out of the main hall. His gaze was like light piercing the sky. Wherever his gaze passed, ghostly soldiers and generals screamed and vanished into thin air. Magic boats and warships collapsed and crashed, and the vast sky was shattered.

Whether they were cultivators of the Purple Mansion or Great Emperors of the Void Cave, they were all like ants in front of him. Even top experts at the level of Heavenly Venerable Crossing the Dao could only struggle for a few seconds before they could not escape death.

This is nothing more than killing with one's eyes; their fighting prowess is incomparable.

"Earth Mother, Human Emperor, come and meet your death."

The Heavenly Emperor's voice was like a booming bell, and his domineering aura shook the battlefield.

Above the outer sky of Luo Tian Palace, a man and a woman stood.

The man wore golden armor, had a handsome face, a tall and slender figure, and exuded an aura of uprightness and tranquility.

Behind it floats an ancient bronze mirror, its surface reflecting countless laws of the Great Dao. This is the celestial treasure, the Kunlun Mirror.

The woman had a graceful figure, fair skin and a flawless face, like the most perfect creation in the world.

He held a black spear in his hand, the shaft stained with faint blood, the tip of which swirled with the power of reincarnation—this was the Immortal Treasure Reincarnation Spear.

The fact that they can control the Kunlun Mirror and the Reincarnation Spear makes their identities obvious: they are the Human Emperor and the Earth Mother, two of the three great immortals.

"Heavenly Emperor, you are perverse and cruel, attempting to use the fate of all living beings to seek the Dao, turning the world into your playthings. Today, even if I have to give up everything, I will kill you here."

The Earth Mother's voice was icy, her eyes frosty, and the Reincarnation Spear in her hand seemed to sense her anger, emitting a buzzing vibration.

"How laughable! You, Mother Earth, think you can stop my path to Immortal King?"

The Heavenly Emperor remained unmoved. Behind him, the Chaos Banner fluttered, unleashing countless streams of chaos. In his right hand, he held the Immortal-Slaying Sword, its blade seemingly capable of slaying immortals and destroying gods. Above his head hung the Heaven-Suppressing Cauldron, its swaying motion seemingly causing the heavens and the universe to crumble.

In terms of sheer power, the Heavenly Emperor far surpasses the Earthly Mother.

"Heavenly Emperor, considering that we share the same origin, please stop now. In the memory of our past friendship, we can still coexist peacefully."

The Human Emperor also spoke slowly, now standing on the same side as the Earth Mother.

"I am the Heavenly Emperor, why should I need your charity of peace? It's a joke."

The Heavenly Emperor's eyes were arrogant as he slashed his sword at the Earth Mother and the Human Emperor.

The power of the Immortal-Slaying Sword was unleashed, tearing apart the heavens and the Great Dao River, leaving them flowing with a blood-red color resembling fresh blood.

"war!"

The Human Emperor's Kunlun Mirror rotated, and countless laws of the Great Dao traversed within it, instantly arriving before the Heavenly Emperor.

Swish!
The Earth Mother and the Human Emperor worked in perfect harmony. Almost as soon as the Human Emperor arrived, her Reincarnation Spear shot out from the Kunlun Mirror, aiming to pierce through the Heavenly Emperor.

"It's a trivial skill; only the weak need to work together."

The Heavenly Emperor, exuding heroic spirit, gripped the Reincarnation Spear with one hand, even as his own tiger's mouth exploded, revealing unparalleled domineering power.

"die!"

The Earth Mother's eyes were cold and sinister as she and the Human Emperor surrounded the Earth Mother from the left and right.

The Reincarnation Gun was in her hand. The moment it was drawn, it was as if countless worlds were falling into a cycle of reincarnation, the timeline was disrupted and disintegrated, forming a reincarnation space-time that would plunge one's soul into an abyss forever.

The Kunlun Mirror was also activated by the Human Emperor with all his might, far surpassing the power wielded by Su Jie. The billions of immortal lights shining from the mirror could annihilate billions of star systems and cut the Great Dao River in half.

"Haha, come on, let's fight to our hearts' content! Don't say that your big brother is bullying you. Show us your full strength, or you'll leave your lives here today and return to the primordial chaos."

The Heavenly Emperor's eyes blazed with fighting spirit, showing no fear. His Immortal-Slaying Sword could cleave the heavens with one strike, destroy the world with another, and slay immortals with yet another. Each strike of his sword light reached the heavens and shattered countless star systems, leaving wounds of varying depths on the Human Emperor and the Earth Mother.

"You don't deserve to be the big brother."

The Earth Mother snorted coldly, her eyes growing increasingly indifferent, and her killing intent surging.

"Brother, if you choose the wrong path, no matter how far you go, it will still be a wrong turn."

The Human Emperor sighed, but his attack became even more ferocious. The immortal light from the Kunlun Mirror pierced through and shattered everything, creating holes in the Heavenly Emperor's body, and immortal blood flowed in the void.

"No one can question my path to immortality. As for right and wrong, you can talk about it when you can defeat me. Or, I can kill both of you to prove that my path to immortality is the most correct one."

The Heavenly Emperor laughed heartily, the Heaven-Suppressing Cauldron roared through the heavens and earth, and the Chaos Banner shattered all paths. The two sides clashed fiercely in an instant, killing each other. Although he was fighting two against one, the Heavenly Emperor did not show any signs of defeat.

The battle between the three immortals was incredibly terrifying. The aftershocks of the battle were enough to cause the Heavenly Venerable of Crossing the Dao to perish. It caused the Great Dao of the universe to collapse, space to become disordered, time to reverse, the River of the Great Dao to almost dry up, and billions of star systems to be shattered, forming countless dead black holes.

The three immortals fought each other, deliberately avoiding Luo Tian Palace, while the others fought soldier against soldier and general against general.

The ghostly soldiers and generals were like a vast ocean, swallowing everything. The cultivators under the Human Emperor commanded massive warships and magic boats, numbering over a hundred million, with cultivators ranging in strength from the Secret Realm to the Heavenly Venerable of Crossing the Dao.

In comparison, the Heavenly Emperor's army of cultivators numbered only a few hundred thousand, but even the weakest cultivators were at least at the Purple Mansion Realm. At the height of the battle, they even controlled a group of chaotic creatures as surprise troops to join the battlefield, turning Luo Tian Palace into a complete battlefield meat grinder.

The scene abruptly ended there, because the owner of the jade pendant had also perished on the battlefield, and all the scenes vanished instantly.

"So the Luo Tian Palace was caused by the war between immortals, no wonder!"

Su Jie was secretly astonished, finally understanding where the ruins of this celestial palace of Luo Tian Palace came from.

Come to think of it, only the other two immortals could probably turn the Heavenly Emperor's residence, Luo Tian Palace, into such ruins.

At the same time, Su Jie also gained a clear understanding of the Heavenly Emperor's powerful combat strength. The Heavenly Emperor truly lived up to his reputation as the strongest immortal, as he was able to fight against the Human Emperor and the Earth Mother single-handedly.

In the ancient times, it was probably this battle that led to the complete end of the prosperous cultivation era.

It is likely that the three great immortals—the Heavenly Emperor, the Human Emperor, and the Earth Mother—disappeared after this battle. Otherwise, if the Heavenly Emperor had won, he would not have chosen not to repair the Luo Tian Palace.

If the Human Emperor and the Earth Mother are victorious, Su Jie has already seen the Human Emperor's corpse, so this doesn't seem like a victory.

"The three immortals won't perish together, will they? What are they fighting so fiercely for, risking their lives for each other?"

This guess popped into Su Jie's mind, and it was the most reasonable speculation. If there really were immortals living, why hadn't any deeds been revealed for so many years?

What intrigued Su Jie even more was why immortals, who had reached the pinnacle of cultivation and possessed eternal lifespans, would fight each other. With this question weighing on his mind, Su Jie put down the jade tablet and continued his exploration.

Affected by the divine light, divine sense could not be used within the Luo Tian Palace, and exploration could only be carried out with the naked eye, which was much less efficient.

The Luo Tian Palace spans a million kilometers in length and width, an astonishing size that even Su Jie would have to explore slowly.

Many treasures remain in these ruins, including spoils of war from the fallen Dao Transcending Realm cultivators, who all used top-tier Dao treasures.

However, what Su Jie wanted most was the legacy of the immortals, especially those related to becoming an immortal.

"Perhaps we can find something there."

Suddenly, Su Jie had a flash of inspiration. He stopped his exploration and headed straight ahead at full speed in one direction.

The ruins of Luo Tian Palace posed no real danger. At most, some lost divine weapons and treasures, covered in dust, would spontaneously attack and injure people, but Su Jie could easily handle them.

Traveling at full speed, Su Jie traversed the ruins of the no-man's-land and arrived at his destination shortly afterward.

This is a large hall that has mostly collapsed, suspended high in the sky, and you can still vaguely see its magnificent splendor when it was intact.

This is the main hall where the Heavenly Emperor delivered his speech, as depicted in the jade tablet scene. This must be an important location within the Luo Tian Palace.

Golden Palace!
Su Jie saw the collapsed plaque, written in Cangshu script, which read "Golden Palace".

Stepping inside, although most of the objects had been reduced to collapsed ruins, the general layout was basically the same as what Su Jie had seen in the jade tablet scene.

Upon entering, Su Jie was immediately drawn to a jade disc located atop the throne. This jade disc was ten zhang in size and emitted a hazy, ethereal light.

"The Supreme and Wondrous Emperor of the Golden Palace, the Supreme Creator of Heaven, who holds the talisman and governs the calendar, the Greatly Compassionate and Holy One, is known as the Heavenly Venerable Who Forgives Sins, the Heavenly Duke of the Mysterious Vault, and resides eternally above the Supreme Mysterious and True Heavenly Palace."

The Heavenly Emperor went through countless eons and attained the Dao Body, Dharma Body, Original Body, True Body, Manifestation Body, Manifestation Body, Divided Body, and Transformation Body.

He governs the thirty-six heavens above and the seventy-two lands below, his power is boundless, he is the holy lord of the heavens and the king of all the celestial realms, his wondrous appearance is majestic, and his Dharma body is supreme.”

As Su Jie focused his gaze, an image automatically appeared in his mind: the majestic figure of the Heavenly Emperor, along with the sound of words.

It's a bit like the corporate culture promotional display that plays on the background screen when you enter a company. In this scene, the Heavenly Emperor is praised to the skies, with all sorts of majestic and venerable titles bestowed upon him.

Su Jie felt a bit of a headache listening to this. He had long known that the Heavenly Emperor liked to show off. His Chaos Banner, Immortal Slaying Sword, and Heaven-Suppressing Cauldron all bore traces of this, and now even the Golden Palace was not forgetting to promote itself, leaving its name everywhere.

Su Jie listened for almost half an hour to the praises and great achievements of the Heavenly Emperor, which deepened his understanding of the Heavenly Emperor several times over.

When this Heavenly Emperor was active in the ancient times, he recruited heroes from all over the world through the Luo Tian Palace. Those with talent could be admitted exceptionally and become members of the Luo Tian Palace.

The cultivators that Su Jie had previously seen fighting against the Human Emperor and the Earth Mother's army came from here.

The Heavenly Emperor's fame was known to all in the ancient times. He was hailed as the strongest immortal, whose power and strength surpassed those of the Human Emperor and the Earth Mother, making him the greatest in the world.

An hour later, Su Jie suddenly perked up, because the praise for the Heavenly Emperor had finally ended, and the story of the Heavenly Emperor's origins and origins began.

To be precise, the story is still primarily told from the perspective of the Heavenly Emperor.

In Su Jie's mind, there was a timeline even more distant than the Primordial Era, so distant that even time itself had lost its meaning.

The universe was a chaotic void, a primordial chaos and darkness, devoid of any living beings, and even lacking the concepts of matter, energy, and spacetime.

Later, in this primeval darkness, celestial light surged, sprouted, branched out, and grew. A primordial celestial tree radiated celestial light and grew to reach the heavens and the earth.

This Primordial Tree is the origin of everything. Its trunk contains all matter, its branches and leaves contain infinite energy, and its roots surge with the power of time and space.

The Primordial Immortal Tree is the greatest miracle in the universe. Its growth has given this universe true meaning, and it is no longer all nothingness.

As the Primordial Immortal Tree grew, the universe also expanded rapidly. The Primordial Immortal Tree gradually matured and produced eighteen flower buds and green fruits on its crown.

Ultimately, in the primordial universe where there was no concept of time, the Primordial Immortal Tree, having grown to its limit, could no longer support the expansion of this universe. Its trunk could not bear the pressure of the vast universe, and under the crushing weight of the primordial universe, the tree broke, and the backbone supporting the universe collapsed with a crash.

The primordial universe was shattered, but the death of the Primordial Immortal Tree also caused the energy, matter, and spacetime contained within it to spread throughout the universe. The Primordial Origin transformed into a boundless river of the Great Dao, and the universe thus gave birth to a series of physical laws. The primordial universe, which should have been destroyed, instead stabilized.

And after an unknown period of time, life was born in the primordial universe, forming planets, galaxies, and other cosmic matter.

Of the eighteen immortal fruits nurtured by the Primordial Immortal Tree, three eventually matured and grew into human form thanks to the remaining nutrients after the Primordial Immortal Tree collapsed and broke.

The first and largest immortal fruit to take human form grew into the appearance of the Heavenly Emperor; the second immortal fruit grew into the Human Emperor; and the third immortal fruit transformed into the Earth Mother.

This is the origin of the Heavenly Emperor, the Human Emperor, and the Earth Mother.

The Heavenly Emperor, the Human Emperor, and the Earth Mother possessed the cultivation level of the Transcending Dao Realm upon their birth. Later, they cultivated using the remaining immortal energy of the Primordial Immortal Tree. Because they were immortal fruits produced by the Primordial Immortal Tree, they were naturally able to absorb Primordial Immortal Energy. They quickly comprehended the myriad Daos of the Primordial Chaos and became the supreme immortals.

In the very end, the Heavenly Emperor used the trunk of the Primordial Tree to create the Heaven-Suppressing Cauldron, the roots to forge the Immortal-Slaying Sword, and the bark to weave the Chaos Banner. The Earth Mother used the branches of the Primordial Immortal Tree and the remaining fifteen unripe immortal fruits to create the Reincarnation Spear, and the Human Emperor used the heart of the tree to forge the Kunlun Mirror.

When Su Jie saw this, he was stunned.

It turns out that the three great immortals, the Heavenly Emperor, the Human Emperor, and the Earth Mother, were immortal fruits that had become spirits. Su Jie had a question before: were immortals born from heaven and earth, or did they cultivate step by step from being human? Now he finally has an answer.

In addition, Su Jie learned for the first time about the origin of this universe. It turns out that whether it is immortals or immortal treasures, they all come from the original Primordial Immortal Tree. Even this colorful universe was created because of the Primordial Immortal Tree.

The Primordial Immortal Tree is the origin of everything.

Su Jie finally understood why the Human Emperor said he and the Heavenly Emperor came from the same source, and why the Heavenly Emperor called himself the elder brother. They grew from the same tree, so they were of the same origin and kind!

"If the fruit were to become a spirit, and people knew the origins of the three immortals—the Heavenly Emperor, the Human Emperor, and the Earth Mother—they would be utterly astonished."

Su Jie's expression was complicated; he hadn't expected that the legendary immortals would come about in this way.

After the initial shock, Su Jie's heart pounded wildly, for he witnessed the experiences of the Heavenly Emperor, the Human Emperor, and the Earth Mother who ascended to immortality using primordial energy.

"The transformation from the Dao Transcending Realm to an Immortal relies on the Primordial Immortal Qi?"

Su Jie muttered to himself, "So this is the secret to becoming an immortal."

The three original immortals, relying on the remaining primordial immortal energy of the Primordial Immortal Tree, ultimately ascended to immortality; this is the secret of becoming an immortal. (End of Chapter)