Living in the deep palace

"Rebirth?"

Su Chen looked at the arrogant and ruthless Lu Cheng in front of him.

It thought it was a Heavenly Calamity, but in reality, it was no longer one. It was merely Dark Lu Cheng and could no longer become a Heavenly Calamity being of the Fourth Realm.

The so-called demons or inner demons that spawned from the abyss crevices were nothing more than life forms born from the power left behind by the calamities of the old era—the era of evil spirits.

Dark Lu Cheng controls the real Lu Cheng, influencing his judgment, and lingers here, constantly absorbing these fragments of his own power in an attempt to restore himself.

But it's a pity.

All of this was actually under Su Chen's watchful eye.

Su Chen remained calm.

"Do not."

"You are nothing but a malignant tumor. A parasite that lives on Lu Cheng, parasitizes my new immortal path, and survives by feeding on arrogance and malice."

"You are not Tian'e, you are just a parasite."

Su Chen spoke indifferently, not taking him seriously at all.

"Parasite?!"

Dark Lu Cheng laughed, laughing so hard he almost fell over.

"Su Chen, Su Chen! You...you're still so naive! You really think...this century of arrogance, this hierarchical system of New Fire Ancient City, this inner demon of Demon Suppression City...I created them?!"

"No!"

Dark Lu Cheng suddenly pointed at Light Lu Cheng, who was standing there dumbfounded, his Dao heart already shattered!

"It was him! No! It was you! It was you, Su Chen! You created them!"

"Me?" Su Chen frowned slightly.

"Hahaha!" Dark Lu Cheng laughed even harder.

"You are high above, you have become the new sun, you have established life, you have established order! You have created a perfect greenhouse, a place of pure light!"

"But ah..."

Dark Lu Cheng spread his hands, his malicious smile full of mockery:

"Dao Ancestor, you've forgotten one thing. A towering tree cannot grow in a greenhouse. A day without night is deformed!"

"You bestowed upon them divine powers, but you did not bestow upon them reverence!"

"You gave them new life, but not death!"

"You gave them order, but forgot... that human nature is inherently chaotic!"

"so……"

Dark Lu Cheng pointed to himself.

"I was born."

"You cannot allow chaos."

"You cannot tolerate malice."

"Thus, in this new immortal path, in this vast starry sea, all the arrogance, jealousy, and greed inherent in all cultivators... have nowhere to go!"

"They gathered together, they solidified... and transformed into inner demons!"

"but me……"

Dark Lu Cheng looked greedily at Light Lu Cheng.

"And your most perfect creation, you, the son of the new path, Lu Cheng! He is too perfect! He is too pure! He is the embodiment of your light!"

"So, he instinctively wanted to purify, to erase those imperfections!"

"Hahahaha!"

"He thought he had purified his inner demons! Little did he know, he had merely swept all the garbage, all the negativity... of this starry sea to my feet!"

"He is not a purifier! He is a feeder! He used the malice of immortality accumulated over the past hundred years... to feed me! To feed me, the one who brought about this calamity, to a new life!"

"So, Su Chen."

Dark Lu Cheng opened his arms.

"Do you understand now? I'm not a parasite. I'm an indispensable other half in your new path of immortality!"

"I am the death and chaos that exists outside of your life and order!"

"I am [Wu]!"

boom--!
The moment Lu Cheng roared that word!
Su Chen's Dao heart was as calm as a still well, and he was facing a bottleneck at the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm...

At that moment, it suddenly loosened!
"I see."

Su Chen closed his eyes.

He finally realized it.

He had been searching for the "Wu" for a hundred years.

That missing final touch...

It's not that we can't find it.

Instead, they were driven to the opposite side by the light he created with his own hands!

【芜】 does not mean that it does not exist.

【芜】 represents the end of all things and the opposite of order.

He established the path of immortality, and thus he established the path of demonism.

He created Lu Cheng, and in doing so, he created the inner demon!

"Hahahaha!" Dark Lu Cheng saw that Su Chen was not moving and thought he was scared.

"Dao Ancestor! What are you going to do now?! Kill me?!"

Dark Lu Cheng suddenly grabbed the distraught Light Lu Cheng!

"I am him! He is me! I am the inner demon he cannot eradicate! I am the shadow he cannot purify!"

"Killing me is killing your most perfect creation!"

"If you kill him... I will be free! I will replace him! Replace you! Sooner or later I will become the new Dao Ancestor of this starry sea!"

"Hahahaha! Come on! Choose! Light, or darkness?! [Life], or [Death]?! You choose!!"

Dark Lu Cheng roared madly.

He was determined.

Su Chen, this Dao Ancestor, cannot be chosen.

He is now in an invincible position!
however.

Su Chen slowly opened his eyes.

In his dark, mortal eyes.

The chaotic Dao eyes of the left green (Jianmu) and right gold (Order) slowly emerged.

"You're wrong."

Su Chen said calmly.

"You are not [Wu]. You are just the garbage that [Wu] needs to clear away."

"What?!" Dark Lu Cheng's laughter came to an abrupt halt!

"You're wrong too."

Su Chen looked at the radiant Lu Cheng.

"You are not perfect either. You are just imperfect."

“Dao… Dao Ancestor…” Guangming Lu Cheng’s Dao heart shattered, and he murmured to himself.

"Life and death."

"Light and Darkness".

"[Immortal] and [Demon]".

Su Chen slowly raised his hand.

"Why should I choose? Why should I cling to binary oppositions?"

"I, Su Chen...I, Taiyi Dao Ancestor..."

Su Chen's left eye, the green of the Jianmu tree, suddenly erupted with the law of [Life]!

"It's life!"

Su Chen's right eye, the gold of order, the authority of [Order] descended with a roar!
"It is [Order]!"

And it was between Su Chen's eyebrows!
A touch of pure black.

A single point of the "Wasteland" path that negates everything, ends everything, and causes everything to wither and flourish!
at this moment……

It lit up with a bang!

"I, too, am [Wu]!"

boom--!
The bottleneck in the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm!
at this moment!
Shattered!

The Great Luo Golden Immortal has reached perfection!

"No...no! This...this is..."

The moment Lu Cheng saw the blackness between the eyebrows!
He let out a scream a million times more piercing than the demon in his heart!

"【Wu】! The real 【Wu】!"

"No! This isn't me! This isn't Tian'e!"

"This...this is...annihilation!"

"escape!!"

Dark Lu Cheng went mad at this moment!
He actually abandoned the bright Lu Cheng, transformed into black mist, and frantically fled towards the Star River Crack!

"Do you think you can escape?"

Su Chen shook his head.

He didn't even move.

He simply reached out his hand to the distraught Lu Cheng.

"You are imperfect. You have inner demons. You are human."

"And people... should have joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. They should also have light and shadow."

Su Chen pointed a finger at Guangming Lu Cheng's brow.

"What you lack... is not purification. It's acceptance!"

Om-!
Su Chen infused the newly perfected trace of the Dao of Desolation into the body of Lu Cheng, the Bright Man!
boom!
Guangming Lu Cheng's Dao body trembled violently!
Within his moon-white path, a trace of black slowly emerged!

That darkness was not the filth of evil spirits.

Rather, it is the shadow beneath the order!
It is the desolation beyond life!
It is darkness beyond light!

"This...this is..."

Guangming Lu Cheng stared blankly at his hands.

He saw it!

His fleeing inner demons, that dark Lu Cheng... at this moment, he stopped running away!

The dark Lu Cheng was wailing in mid-air...

It's melted!
Do not!
It's not melting!

Yes……

Come back!

brush--!
Those billions of inner demons, the fragments of that calamity, that dark Lu Cheng... all transformed into a beam of black light!
It flew backwards and returned!

"Do not--!"

It flew back to the feet of Lu Cheng, the Bright King!

It flew back...

In his new shadow!
Om-!
Light and darkness.

【生】 and 【芜】.

Inside Lu Cheng's body...

Under the order of the Dao Ancestor...

We've become one!
boom--!
The bottleneck of the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage was shattered at this moment!
A divine aura that surpasses even the Nascent Soul stage and is nearly at the level of an immortal!

It erupted from Lu Cheng!

"I...I...I actually achieved the Nascent Soul stage!"

"Damn it!"

"I remember now. When I first awakened my spiritual root, I was parasitized by this damned remnant of the Heavenly Calamity."

"Thank you so much, Ancestor, for saving me!"

"Otherwise, I would surely die, let alone be able to reach the realm of Evolutionary God now..."

Lu Cheng felt the new life force within his body, the perfect harmony of yin and yang.

His eyes welled up with tears.

He knelt down before Su Chen again.

"Disciple...Lu Cheng...thanks...Dao Ancestor...for the grace of rebirth!!"

On the city wall of Zhenmo City, Lu Cheng knelt on the ground, his aura of the Nascent Soul Realm and the Daoist charm of the unity of immortals and demons were rising wildly.

"balance……"

"Yes, that's the balance..."

Su Chen stood beside him, gazing up at the starry sky.

In his view, the entire Great Dao of the Azure Sky Star Sea let out a joyful groan at this moment because of Lu Cheng's completion.

He established the laws governing immortals and mortals, which supplemented the existing order.

He chose Lu Cheng, who represents the balance of Yin and Yang.

"I created life."

"I created [order]."

“And [Wu]…”

Su Chen had already gained some insight. He slowly lowered his head and looked at his palm.

Is it the opposite of "life"? Is it the antithesis of "order"?

"Do not."

Su Chen smiled.

He finally understood completely.

"【芜】...is not an opposition, but rather an inclusion!"

【芜】 does not refer to the chaos caused by evil spirits (that is pollution).

【芜】 represents decay and prosperity! It represents reincarnation! It represents the end! It represents negation!
It is the law of immortals and mortals that negates arrogance!

It is Lu Cheng's acceptance and balance of his inner demons!

It is the shadow that light must have!

"I don't need to search for [Wu]."

Su Chen slowly closed his eyes.

"I... am inherently [Wu]!"

boom--! ! ! ! !
at this moment!
Su Chen's bottleneck at the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, that century-long pent-up frustration...

That missing final source...

A resounding success!

Om-!
At the center of the universe, the Taiyi Dao Platform!

The central axis of the Jianmu tree, which connects the present world and chaos, suddenly trembled violently at this moment!
The Jianmu tree is cheering!
Those green branches represent life!

Those are the ashes of a dead tree branch!

That represents the void, the branch of emptiness!

That represents the stillness of the path leading to the tomb!

……

……

The nine branches roared in unison!

And at the very center of those nine branches, at the very top of the Jianmu tree!

Tsk-!
A brand new trunk!

A tenth Dao branch, entirely black, seemingly having devoured the void of eternity!

It grew rapidly!

It is rooted in Su Chen's Dao!

It represents [barrenness]!
It represents the ultimate level of the Great Luo Golden Immortal!

Perfection!

boom--!
The aura of a Great Luo Golden Immortal at its peak erupted simultaneously from Su Chen's true body on the Taiyi Dao Platform and his avatar in the Demon Suppression City!

This aura is no longer domineering, no longer warm, no longer cold.

Rather, it is about harmony and inclusiveness!
“I am both life and desolation.”

"I am both order and balance."

"I……"

"That is, everything in this vast sky and starry sea."

At this moment, Su Chen's avatar in the Demon Suppression City slowly opened its eyes.

At this moment, Su Chen finally broke through the last step of the Great Luo Immortal realm, his mental state advanced, and his own Dao Fruit and Immortal Aperture roared together.

At this moment, I stepped into the perfect realm of the Great Luo Immortal Realm.

This is what is known as the Fourth Realm Great Perfection!

At that moment, a thunderous roar erupted!
The immortal aperture universe within Su Chen's body underwent another terrifying transformation, continuously expanding. The original star field finally took a crucial step, becoming a true star sea and world.

The Star Sea can only be possessed by those in the Fifth Realm.

This means that Su Chen's Dao Fruit is still the Great Luo Immortal Dao Fruit of the Fourth Realm Great Perfection.

However, the universe within his body is already a true fifth-realm universe!

And after taking this crucial step...

Su Chen frowned.

He had a vague feeling that this universe was rejecting his existence.

Also.

After all, his inner universe was already a sea of ​​stars, and this vast cosmic sea was finding it difficult to bear.

He can now be described as a special fifth realm being. He appears to be at the peak of the fourth realm, the Great Luo Immortal, but his combat power is beyond doubt, touching, no, firmly at the fifth realm.

The fifth realm is called Eternity.

They are extremely difficult to kill!
His lifespan is endless.

There is only the possibility of falling, but not the possibility of dying of old age; this is the realm of eternity.

Even if one's Dao Fruit truly perishes, the Star Sea remains, allowing one to still live a second life in the Eternal Realm.

The Holy Lord of the Underworld, a dignified fifth-realm being, attacked the Azure Star Sea formed from the fall of the Holy Star Chen in the Ruins Domain. Countless epochs have passed, yet he still has not been able to break through.

Chen Sheng's consciousness, which had only recently provoked Su Chen, completely vanished.

otherwise.

There are at least two or three more eras to survive.

This is the terror of the Fifth Realm.

Difficult to kill.

Therefore, it is respectfully called the Eternal Realm.

"Congratulations, Dao Ancestor! Congratulations, Dao Ancestor!"

Lu Cheng, the newly promoted Nascent Soul Divine Lord, was the first to sense this perfect Great Dao!

Bathed in this aura of power, his newly broken-through realm was rapidly solidifying!

"Long live the Dao Ancestor!!"

Lu Cheng kowtowed deeply!

at the same time.

Xinhuo Ancient City.

The old man, Gu Chenzi, was carrying water as he walked through the alleyways of ordinary people.

He suddenly looked up!
He saw it!

"This...this is...the Dao Ancestor has broken through?!"

Gu Chenzi's eyes welled up with tears!
He looked at the decree of the laws governing immortals and mortals, and felt the perfection of the Dao of [Wu].

He got it!
"Hahaha! So... punishment is also mercy! [Desolation] is also [life]!"

"I understand... I understand!"

At this moment, in the ancient city, Gu Chenzi sat on the ground, and he also had some vague insights. At this moment, his eyes flashed with a strange light.

His aura also changed, although he did not take the crucial step to become a Golden Immortal.

But at this moment, he also stepped into the perfect realm of Xuan Yu Xian.

It soared straight into the sky.

He skipped directly from the intermediate stage of the Profound Jade Immortal realm, leaping to the later stage, and stepped into the perfect stage of the Profound Jade Immortal realm, truly becoming someone who had a chance to glimpse the Dao Fruit of the Golden Immortal. (End of this chapter)