Living in the deep palace

Inside the Hall of Longevity, as the figures of the Golden Light Immortal and the Heartless Immortal respectfully withdrew, the entire magnificent palace instantly became empty and silent.

Su Chen did not immediately begin his seclusion.

He sat quietly in the very center of the palace, his eyes slowly closing, his mind connecting with the vast starry sea in an unprecedented way.

"Is this the way of heaven?"

"really."

"The old Heavenly Dao was a mark left by the God Emperor, but now it has been completely crushed and fallen by my new Heavenly Dao."

"Now, I am the new Heavenly Dao of the vast starry sea. In other words, as long as I cultivate to the perfection of the Golden Immortal realm, I can directly skip the Great Luo Immortal realm and become a top-level cultivator of the fourth and a half realms..."

Su Chen narrowed his eyes.

The pinnacle of the immortal realm, the Golden Immortal Perfection, is the third realm.

Further up, there are two fourth realms: the Great Luo Realm, or the Summit!
no doubt.

The one who reaches the top is the strongest.

Those who reach the top are considered to be in the fourth and a half realms, while the Great Luo is only in the fourth realm.

"We've reached the summit already?"

"These so-called Epoch-Reaching Ones are truly like Dao Venerables in a star world. I wonder what kind of life's 'immortal aperture' was left behind after the fall of this vast star sea..."

Su Chen murmured.

When someone reaches his level of understanding, they will always have a mysterious feeling that guides them on their path.

The vast starry sea is probably a fallen universe left behind by the Fifth Realm.

And now.

He achieved the status of a Taiyi Golden Immortal, became part of the Heavenly Dao, inherited the destiny to reach the pinnacle, and his own immortal apertures—no, they should be called blessed lands and grotto-heavens—rapidly transformed into the Taiyi Universe.

This so-called Taiyi Universe is probably the prototype of the fifth realm, "Vast Star Sea," corresponding to the fourth realm.

"Cultivating immortality, cultivating immortality, there are heavens beyond heavens!"

"No wonder the Nether Lotus Saint Lord, a fifth-realm powerhouse from beyond the heavens, was so vulnerable when she glimpsed my memories of Earth..."

"He thought the Fifth Realm was the end, and the outer heavens were the end of all worlds, with countless vast star seas located in the world outside the gate..."

"And when he learned that there was a world he didn't know about, the shock and self-doubt drove him mad!"

Su Chen shook his head.

The remnant soul left behind by Zuo Qingcang, which is the mutated and filthy sun, still longs to rush outside the gate even after its fall, in order to pursue the so-called eternity!

Is eternity the fifth realm?

Su Chen was unaware of this.

He had only come into contact with two beings who were suspected to be in the fifth realm, that is, the Eternal Realm: one was the Holy Lord of the Underworld Lotus, and the other was the mysterious white-robed youth at the end of time.

"If I could, after mending the hole that caused the sky to collapse, I would no longer pursue the so-called fifth realm: eternity!"

Let all of this come to an end.

"I will become the new goalkeeper!"

"The strongest fourth realm in history! The Taiyi fourth realm!"

Su Chen gazed at the vast starry sea, the five major star regions.

At this moment, the five star regions before him seemed to transform into a giant network of interconnected flesh and blood.

Every star is an insignificant node.

Every galaxy is a network that carries the laws governing its operation.

"Just as I guessed."

"This vast starry sea is indeed the inner universe of a fifth-realm life form, which was once just like the flesh and blood of a fifth-realm being, and had life."

"But with the fall of the Fifth Realm, the Star Sea Universe also died, constantly withering and decaying."

"As a result, after the ten eras, the top climbers became weaker with each generation, and the strongest was Zuo Qingcang from the first era."

"And the era before the First Era ended was probably the 'Starry Universe' where that fifth-realm being was still alive."

"Within his body, there were once nine star domains, and with the current five star domains, it is a vast expanse of fourteen star domains!"

"pity."

"To die is to die."

"The vast sea of ​​stars can only decay and perish, and now only five major star regions remain..."

However, by the tenth era, the laws were incomplete, the Great Dao was incomplete, and the path had reached its lowest point.

Those who reach the pinnacle of this era are likely to be able to defeat even the most powerful beings among the Great Immortals.

The last one to reach the top was the God Emperor, who was so weak that after destroying the Immortal Dao Era, he was pulled down from the altar by the ancient supreme beings under his command.

only.

In this new era, he became a variable.

Taiyi...!!!
In this era, the path to becoming a Golden Immortal should have been severed.

Now, with Su Chen attaining the Taiyi Dao and taking his place, a new vitality is about to emerge.

This vast starry universe has come back to life; it will grow flesh and blood (a new great star field) anew.

"This universe is already terminally ill."

"If I hadn't forcibly established a new order using the 'Primordial' Great Dao, I'm afraid that even without the threat from outside the 'Gate,' it would have extinguished itself after several epochs due to the complete collapse of its laws, easily returning to nothingness outside the Gate."

He finally understood why the mysterious white-robed youth had said that his existence could extend the lifespan of this starry sea by ten epochs or even longer.

Because his brand-new "Taiyi Heavenly Dao" is the only cure for this universe!
"In that case..."

Su Chen's mind stirred.

His "Great Dao of Taiyi," which was already connected to the entire universe, began to slowly operate.

Boom—!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A gentle, warm power of the Heavenly Dao, brimming with "creation" and "order," erupted from the core of the Taiyi Dao Palace!

It is not a violent torrent of energy.

It's more like a gentle, silent spring rain.

Spring rain, centered on the Taiyi Dao Palace, falls on every corner of the vast starry sea.

Those long-dried-up and withered laws, nourished by this "spring rain," were like withered trees coming back to life, radiating a faint but hopeful vitality!
Under the baptism of this "spring rain," a new and more perfect "law order" has begun to slowly take shape in those chaotic areas that had fallen into a "vacuum of laws"!
This is an incredibly massive, yet incredibly lengthy, "restoration" project.

It cannot be accomplished in a day.

However, Su Chen had plenty of patience.

He is the Way of Heaven.

……

at the same time.

Outside the Taiyi Dao Palace, the central star field, which had long attracted the attention of all the top experts in the vast star sea, fell into a deathly silence.

Taiyi Dao Palace has actually... closed its mountain!

A seemingly ordinary yet insurmountable chaotic barrier enveloped the entire massive Dao Palace.

No matter how renowned you are in the outside world, or how powerful you are, enough to suppress an era of immortals.

Or perhaps, the supreme deity who holds the faith of billions of beings and whose words are law. Before this seemingly thin as a cicada's wing, even that appears utterly insignificant.

"What...what does this mean?!"

"Master Taiyi, why are you refusing to let us in?!"

"Do you look down on us?"

"No matter what, we are giants who have reached the peak of the third realm! Even when we ascended to the Heavenly Emperor, he would not have treated us so poorly."

A supreme god of the divine race, with a fiery temper and his body engulfed in inextinguishable divine fire, looked at the tightly closed gates of the Dao Palace and let out a roar filled with incomprehension and anger!

He is one of the ancient ancestors of the Emperor Clan. He has survived since the Ninth Immortal Dao Era and his cultivation has already reached the peak of the Third Realm!
Looking across the vast starry sea, apart from a handful of "Great Luo and Ancient Ones" who have long since retired from worldly affairs, when has he ever received such cold treatment?!

"Fellow Daoist, please calm down."

An old Golden Immortal from the Golden Immortal Alliance, dressed in a Bagua Taoist robe and exuding an air of otherworldly elegance, slowly shook his head. His eyes, which seemed to be able to see through the secrets of heaven, were filled with solemnity.

"Don't you feel it?"

"What do you sense?" The Flame God Lord frowned.

"The power of the Heavenly Dao..." The veteran Golden Immortal's tone carried a hint of awe from the depths of his soul, "is reviving."

"The Dao Lord Taiyi is not neglecting us, but is doing something of immense merit that will benefit us and the entire universe!"

He is reshaping the starry sky!

"This is of great potential for us to climb the path of Da Luo and Cang Gu."

"Right now, only the path to Golden Immortals is reviving, but as the Taiyi Dao Lord continues, the path to Great Luo might also return..."

His words, like a morning bell and evening drum, instantly jolted all the disgruntled powerful figures present!
They immediately focused their minds and carefully tried to sense the new "Heavenly Dao" aura that enveloped the entire universe.

Upon realizing this, everyone's faces showed the same shock and ecstasy as that of the veteran Golden Immortal!
"That's right! It's the 'Tao'! The aura of the 'Tao' has become clearer and more complete!"

"My bottleneck! The bottleneck that has been holding me back for three hundred thousand years has actually... actually loosened a little bit!"

"My God! This...this is simply a life-saving grace!"

In an instant, all the previous dissatisfaction and anxiety vanished.

Instead, there was endless, heartfelt gratitude and awe!
They finally understood.

That newly appointed "Lord of Heaven's Way" has a vision and scope that far surpasses their comprehension!

The other side didn't care at all whether these so-called "supreme strongmen" came to pay their respects or submit.

From the very beginning, their focus was on the entire universe! On all living beings!
"We have judged a gentleman by the standards of a petty person!"

The previously hot-tempered Flame God blushed.

immediately.

He actually faced the direction of the Taiyi Dao Palace and respectfully performed a grand salute from a junior to a senior!
"Thank you... Dao Master, for continuing... the Great Dao for us!"

His bow seemed to light a fuse.

At this moment, the dozens of powerful figures who looked down upon all living beings bowed their proud backs towards the Dao Palace without prior agreement.
At that moment, they all realized with absolute clarity an undeniable fact!

A brand new "Golden Age," far more glorious and magnificent than the ancient "Celestial Court" era, has begun!
The one who created this "great era" was the Taiyi Dao Master, whose true appearance they had never even seen!

The rising stars will trample these old fogies underfoot.

Since then.

They were completely convinced!
From then on, no one dared to make a sound outside the Taiyi Dao Palace.

They either sat cross-legged on the spot, seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to comprehend the increasingly clear "Great Dao".

Or, they might respectfully leave their "calling card" and "gift" before quietly departing.

What should have been a tense and probing meeting between various forces ended peacefully in a way that surprised everyone.

……

……

The river of time flows on and on.

It is the oldest and most mysterious forbidden area in this universe.

Any being that dares to venture into this realm, even one as powerful as an "immortal giant," will have their "Dao Fruit" mercilessly worn away and decayed by the passage of time.

Ultimately, it transforms into a "time-trailing soul" devoid of self, reduced to mere instinct, rising and falling with the waves in the long river of time.

However, at this moment.

This is a forbidden river that would make even the most powerful immortals tremble.

A figure in blue, however, strolled upstream as if taking a leisurely walk.

He was none other than the Daoist Cang who had just finished discussing the Dao with Su Chen!

His seemingly thin blue Taoist robe was like the most solid dam in the world, which could not be shaken in the slightest by the raging torrent of "time".

His deep eyes gazed calmly ahead.

In his eyes, this rushing river of time is not simply the passage of "time".

Rather, they are the "afterimages" and "imprints" left behind by countless "epochs" and countless "eras".

He saw it.

We saw the grandeur and magnificence of the ancient "Heavenly Court".

It was a supreme celestial court constructed from the pure laws of "immortal path," suspended in the dome of the entire universe, its radiance illuminating all the heavens and myriad realms!

Countless immortals and gods were among them, chanting Taoist scriptures and demonstrating their supernatural powers.

How prosperous and thriving the universe must have been back then!
Then, the scene changed.

He then witnessed the collapse of the "Heavenly Court".

He saw the "Gate of Collapse" that tore apart the universe, and from behind that "hole," swarmed out things outside the "gate" whose terror and evil could not be described in any words!

He witnessed the "Battle of the Collapsed Heavens" that dragged the entire universe into endless war and destruction!
He saw countless once high and mighty immortals and gods falling from the shattered "Heavenly Court" like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

Their immortal bodies, corrupted and distorted by the things outside those "doors," turned into the most ferocious and terrifying... monsters!

He even saw... his former self.

That was a younger, more... spirited "self" than he is now.

At that time, he was the most outstanding "Second Immortal Venerable" in the "Heavenly Court"! He was second only to Zuo Qingcang.

He is the strongest among the Great Luo Immortals!
He once challenged Zuo Qingcang's position as the top climber!
He once stood shoulder to shoulder with Zuo Qingcang! Fighting bloody battles against the creatures outside the gate!
Holding a cyan immortal sword formed from his own "Great Dao of Azure", he dared to launch a one-man army charge against the overwhelming army outside the "gate"!

In that battle, he slew countless terrifying demons whose strength was comparable to "Golden Immortal Giants" or even "Great Luo Immortals"!
His sword light almost cleaved the dark, starry sky in two!
But in the end...

He still lost.

They were defeated by the endless, seemingly inexhaustible "demonic tide".

They were defeated by that projection, which had caused the entire Heavenly Court to tremble simply by sending down an "avatar"!

His "immortal sword" broke.

His "Tao Fruit" shattered.

His "immortal soul" was also completely annihilated under the scorching fire of the "Nether Lotus" filled with "ultimate pollution".

"Ugh!"

Gazing at the projection of that battle from years ago, Cang Daoren let out a long sigh. (End of Chapter)