Living in the deep palace

"The Nether Lotus Territory is merely a 'polluted area' at the border between the Ruins and the mortal world; it is a 'borderland'."

"And my home... is on the other side."

"The vast starry sky!"

"I am coming!"

Su Chen's divine sense pierced through the spatial turbulence spanning billions of light-years, and finally, he captured a completely different aura of the "Great Dao".

Heavy, oppressive, ancient, but... that's the aura of the "Sky and Stars".

"found it."

Su Chen opened his eyes.

He turned around and glanced at the "Nether Lotus Territory," which had been completely destroyed, leaving only a huge hole in the "Ancient Path Starfield," with no lingering affection in his eyes.

"Calamity..."

"I am back."

“This time, your fourth realm of Great Perfection, which specializes in hunting down Great Luo beings of the Immortal Path, will not be a match for me.”

He took one step forward.

"The Great Luo Law - [Void]! Transcendence of Myriad Realms!"

boom--!
Su Chen's figure, imbued with the supreme power of the Jianmu axis, instantly tore through the chaos and crashed into that true... starry sky!
Time and space seemed to rewind rapidly beneath Su Chen's feet.

The leap of a Great Luo Golden Immortal has already surpassed the limits of the laws.

He passed through the chaotic fault line that separated the present world from the Void Realm, and the decay and malice from the Nether Lotus Territory were completely severed.

The next instant, Su Chen's figure stepped heavily into the starry sky!

boom!
An unprecedented sense of heaviness and oppression washed over me.

Su Chen's Great Luo Immortal body suddenly sank.

"This...this is..."

He was stunned.

He had anticipated that the spiritual energy in the present-day star sea would be very thin, but he did not expect it to be like this!
The spiritual energy in this sea of ​​stars... is "dead"!

Do not!
More terrifying than death!
Su Chen suddenly looked up, and his eyes, which were blue on the left and gold on the right, suddenly contracted to their limit when he saw the "sky" of this starry sea!
The "sky" that should have been filled with countless shining stars and flowing with the laws of the Great Dao is gone.

Instead, there was a huge, indescribable... pitch-black hole!
It lay there in the center of the universe, like a black sun, radiating eternal stillness and coldness.

The edges of that hole were crystallized fragments of the broken Star Sea Avenue of the present world, resembling hideous scars.

At the center of that hole lies pure "nothingness" and "malice".

A stream of cold, negative, and malevolent energy was continuously emanating from the "black sun," polluting every corner of this starry sea like a plague.

Su Chen greedily inhaled the air of his "hometown".

It lacks any ethereal quality.

There is no divine power.

Yes, it is, but it is the malevolent energy emanating from that "black sun".

"This...this is..."

Su Chen's Great Luo Dao Heart, which had not trembled even when facing a Fifth Realm True Body, now felt a chill emanating from his very soul!

This is even more terrifying than the "Nether Lotus Territory"!
The Nether Lotus Territory is an invasion by "foreign enemies" and a pollution of "decay".

And here...

“It’s like the sky has fallen.”

"The 'Great Dao' of this universe... has been 'castrated'!"

Su Chen's face instantly darkened.

"Taiyi Dao Palace..."

"boom--!"

His supreme divine sense, at the mid-stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, erupted without reservation at this moment!

Like a storm of will sweeping across the entire universe, it spread wildly in all directions from Su Chen as the center!
One galaxy... ten galaxies...

One star field... ten star fields!
Su Chen's divine sense swept over his once familiar homeland, which was now unrecognizable.

He is searching.

A frantic search!
Searching for even the slightest trace of "immortal" aura! Searching for the lingering glow of "divine" ways!

No.

No.

Nothing at all!

The entire starry sky seemed to have been thoroughly cleansed by that "black sun"!
The path to immortality has vanished.

The way of the gods has perished.

Su Chen's divine sense couldn't even find a decent "cultivator".

"Do not……"

Su Chen didn't believe it.

His divine sense suddenly contracted and focused on the nearest "life-bearing planet".

That was a vast star realm, inhabited by billions of humans.

They are still alive.

but……

Su Chen "saw" it.

In the cities of that planet, in the villages of that wilderness.

Countless humans were kneeling on the ground, offering devout prayers to the "black sun" in the sky.

Their prayers were not for blessings, nor for favorable weather.

Instead, they are... praying for "gifts"!
"Oh, the great 'ancestor of evil spirits'..."

"Your faithful believer, we pray for your mercy..."

"Give me strength...Give me...an eternal 'destination'..."

Su Chen's "Chaotic Dao Eye" pierced through the planet's atmosphere.

He saw.

As the prayers were being offered, wisps of black energy descended from the "black sun," traversing the endless void and entering the bodies of those who were praying.

The moment those humans came into contact with the black energy, they let out a painful yet frenzied roar!
Their flesh and blood are mutating! Their souls are twisting!
Behind them, nourished by the black mist, one after another illusory "evil spirit" phantom after another, covered with tentacles and eyeballs, is slowly gathering!

The life essence (vitality) of the humans who have been "given" is being frantically drained by the phantom of the "evil spirit"!

"What...what kind of cultivation system is this?!"

Su Chen's Dao Heart was trembling violently!

"This is not spiritual practice!"

"This is a sacrifice! This is... voluntary 'contamination'! Using one's own 'life force' and 'soul' to feed 'evil spirits'?!"

"Disaster!!!"

Su Chen's anger transformed into the icy power of the Great Luo Dao.

He forcefully suppressed the murderous intent that threatened to destroy everything.

He knew that these billions of humans were innocent. They were the only "way to survive" in this desperate era.

Where is the path to immortality? Where is the path to divinity?

"Taiyi Dao Palace... My Dao Palace... Where is it?!"

Su Chen's divine sense was pushed to its limit at this moment.

He no longer scans those "life-bearing planets".

He began searching the most hidden corners of this galaxy! Those shattered dimensions! Those abandoned star fields! Those crevices in spacetime!
If the path of immortality has not been eradicated, they must be hiding in these places!
"Om-!"

The Great Luo Divine Thought is all-pervasive.

One place... ten places...

One million places...

Su Chen's heart sank little by little.

No.

Nothing at all.

It was as if that era, along with all the cultivators, had been completely swallowed up and erased by that "black sun."

Just as Su Chen was about to despair...

"Ok?"

His divine sense caught an extremely faint trace of... immortal energy in a "nothingness" that had long since been destroyed, leaving only endless fragments of time and space!
That ethereal aura was so pure, yet so fragile.

Like a flickering candle in the wind, it stubbornly burns its last light in the "dark night" of the "evil spirits".

"True Immortal?!"

Su Chen's Dao heart suddenly trembled!
And there's more! The path to immortality... and its inheritance!
Su Chen did not hesitate for a moment. He took a step forward, and his "Great Luo Golden Immortal" body ignored the cutting of the spacetime fragments. The Law of [Void] was activated, and his figure instantly descended to the source of the "immortal energy".

It was a "cave dwelling" suspended in the cracks of time and space.

Rather than a cave dwelling, it is more like a huge "fragment of the world," which was created by force and then hidden by the restrictions of law.

Su Chen's arrival was completely silent.

He passed through the already depleted "protective barrier" and appeared inside the cave.

Inside the cave, everything was in a mess.

All the spiritual veins had long since withered, and all the immortal herbs had turned to ashes.

In the very center of the cave, an old man with white hair and beard, and a withered appearance, was sitting cross-legged.

His immortal robes had long lost their luster and become tattered.

His aura was clearly that of a "true immortal"!
However, his "True Immortal Dao Fruit," which should have been perfectly flawless, was now covered with hideous cracks, as if it would shatter at any moment.

He was already... at his wit's end.

Su Chen's appearance went unnoticed by him. His "divine sense" had long since withered to the point that it could no longer penetrate his body.

"Ugh……"

The old man let out a long sigh.

He slowly opened his eyes, his cloudy eyes filled with deathly stillness and despair.

"Five million years..."

"Am I... the last 'immortal' in this vast starry sky?"

"Is the path of immortality... ultimately... destined to end...?"

He muttered to himself.

Just now.

A calm voice suddenly resounded in his mind and in his cave.

"The path to immortality has not been extinguished."

"Who?!"

Gu Chenzi's previously dormant Dao heart suddenly pounded wildly! His withered immortal consciousness erupted with a roar, and he looked ahead in horror!

Suddenly, a young man dressed in a blue robe with long black hair stood quietly in front of him.

Gu Chenzi... I can't see through him!

He couldn't see through Su Chen's cultivation level!

But he could clearly sense that there was no trace of the filth of that "evil spirit" on the person in front of him!

That aura... pure, vast, ancient... it was as if...

"An immortal?!" Gu Chenzi exclaimed in shock! "You...you are an 'immortal'?!"

"I ask, you answer."

Su Chen's "Chaotic Dao Eye" stared at him, and the pressure from the Great Luo made it impossible for this "True Immortal" to even move.

What year is it tonight?

Where is the Taiyi Dao Palace?

"Taiyi Dao Palace?!"

The moment Gu Chenzi heard those four words, his cloudy eyes widened suddenly!

"you you……"

Instead of the joy of "meeting an old friend in a foreign land," his face erupted with an extreme... fear!
"You...you are a remnant of the 'Taiyi Dao Palace'?!"

"Come on!"

"Get out of here! Do you want to get me killed?!"

Gu Chenzi looked like he'd gone mad! He suddenly swung his withered hand at Su Chen!
"Get out! Get out of my cave! I've never seen you before! I know nothing about you!"

Su Chen's brows furrowed slightly.

He could sense that the Dao heart of this "Gu Chenzi" had long been distorted by five million years of despair and fear.

"Taiyi Dao Palace...what is that? I don't know! I don't know!"

Gu Chenzi roared madly, but his trembling right hand was secretly hidden in his sleeve.

Su Chen's "Chaotic Dao Eye" had already seen through everything.

He saw.

In Gu Chenzi's sleeve, he was tightly clutching a... pitch-black communication talisman engraved with the runes of "evil spirit"!

"Ah……"

Su Chen's heart turned completely cold.

"The last 'immortal'?"

"Do not."

"Just a... pathetic wretch whose Dao heart has been castrated by fear."

Su Chen shook his head.

He saw Gu Chenzi's trembling right hand suddenly crush the pitch-black communication talisman!
"You...you demon!" As Gu Chenzi crushed the communication talisman, he seemed to have used his last ounce of strength. He pointed at Su Chen and screamed, his voice trembling with fear:

"You remnant of the 'Immortal Path'! The 'Mysterious Immortal' of the 'Black Sun Sect' is on his way! You...you're dead!"

"Black Sun Sect? Mystic Immortals?"

Su Chen calmly pondered these unfamiliar words.

He did not stop Gu Chenzi.

His right eye, which was infused with the authority of "order," calmly watched as the communication talisman burned and tore open a "monster" coordinate in the void.

He needs a "guide".

A guide of sufficient "weight".

"Why...why didn't you run away?!"

When Gu Chenzi saw that Su Chen not only did not run away, but stood there calmly, a strange fear arose in his twisted Dao heart.

"escape?"

Su Chen asked back.

"Why run away?"

"you……"

Gu Chenzi wanted to say something more.

"boom--!"

The coordinates of that "evil" suddenly erupted!

The spacetime rift was forcibly torn apart by a brute force!

"Hehehe... Gu Chenzi, you old dog, how dare you call upon me? Has your 'immortal source' finally dried up, and you've finally decided to 'convert' to me, the 'Ancestor of Evil Spirits'?"

A hoarse, shrill voice, filled with filth, suddenly descended!
"Hey!"

A gigantic tentacle, wreathed in countless vengeful spirits and black energy, and covered with pale white eyeballs, was the first to emerge from the crack!

Followed by.

An old man dressed in a black Taoist robe, with a face as pale as paper, stepped out into the air.

This old man was clearly a human!
But he had long since lost all trace of human nature.

Behind him, a towering "evil spirit" phantom, hundreds of feet tall and seemingly made up of countless corpses and tentacles, was closely connected to his physical body!

The oppressive aura of that "evil spirit" was vast and powerful!
Surprisingly... he was comparable to a "mystical immortal"!
"Master...Master!"

Upon seeing the old immortal, Gu Chenzi scrambled to his knees and kowtowed frantically!
"Master, save me! It's...it's him! He broke into my cave! He even asked...he even asked about the 'Taiyi Dao Palace'!"

"Ok?"

The old man, known as the "Mysterious Immortal"—the Black Abyss Master—suddenly locked his pure black eyes onto Su Chen.

The moment he saw Su Chen clearly, his pale face first froze, then burst into an extreme mix of... astonishment and ecstasy!

"Haha...hahahaha!"

"Pure! What a pure soul!"

The Black Abyss Master was acting like a madman! He greedily inhaled the aura of the "Dao" of a "Great Luo Golden Immortal" emanating from Su Chen!

In the perception of that "evil spirit path", Su Chen... was a "sun" walking in the darkness!
"I thought it was some ignorant 'remnant of the immortal path'..."

The Black Abyss Master's pure black eyes were fixed intently on Su Chen:
"I never expected... that he was actually a... 'lost' 'ancient immortal'?!"

He could sense that Su Chen's soul was too "ancient" and too "clean"! So clean that... it didn't belong to this era of "evil spirits"!

"Boy!" The Black Abyss Immortal's overwhelming pressure, at the "Mystic Immortal" level, relentlessly crushed towards Su Chen! "In this era of 'evil spirits'! Your 'purity' is your 'original sin'!"

"Your soul... is the most perfect sacrifice for the 'Ancestor of Evil Spirits'!"

"Kneel down obediently! Offer up your Dao Fruit and soul! I... may grant you a quick death!"

"Evil Spirit Path - Myriad Souls Demon Hand!" (End of Chapter)