Cangling Immortal Clan

After fighting their way out of the Nine Nether Demon Realm, the group finally returned to the Eternal Heaven Realm.

At this moment, the Celestial Ancestor's expression was not good. In this battle, the Celestial Race lost two Nascent Soul Dao Ancestors, which can be described as a serious blow.

Adding to the one who was previously plotted against and killed, the combined Dao Ancestors of the Celestial Race have now lost 30% of their strength.

At this moment, the Celestial Ancestor looked at Ye Linyuan, then at Mo Yuan beside him, and asked, "Could you hand it over to me?"

“Impossible.” Ye Linyuan spoke decisively, then said with a sneer, “Mo Yuan is a cultivator of my human race, how can he enter your Celestial Race?”

Upon hearing this, the Celestial Ancestor's face immediately turned cold, and he said indifferently, "This person is related to my opportunity to attain enlightenment."

"If you want to achieve enlightenment, you should send your resources to my human race."

"When Mo Yuan subdues the Heavenly Demon and merges with him to become the Immortal Demon Ancestor, you will naturally obtain the opportunity to achieve enlightenment."

Upon hearing this, the progenitor of heaven and man fell silent.

Ye Linyuan's strength in this battle was incredibly exaggerated, and he was likely no weaker than Ye Linyuan, the top invincible Dao Ancestor.

Besides Ye Linyuan, the human race also has two other cultivators at the Perfected Integration stage suppressing their power. If the Celestials were to forcibly take Mo Yuan away, they would likely not gain any advantage.

Moreover, the invincible Dao Ancestors of the ten powerful clans would not give him any support.

After all, while the various races were wary of Ye Linyuan's powerful combat strength, they also did not want a Mahayana Immortal Venerable who combined immortality and demonhood to actually appear in the Eternal Heaven Realm.

Thinking of this, the Celestial Ancestor snorted coldly and said, "Soon, I will send resources to the human race."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Celestial Ancestor flicked his sleeve and led the Celestial Race members away together.

Once the other party had completely disappeared, Ye Linyuan bowed and thanked the combined Dao Ancestors, including the Xuanwu Ancestor, the Qilin Ancestor, and the Heavenly Demon Ancestor.

"Thank you very much."

"As it should be, are we allies?"

The Xuanwu Ancestor smiled slightly. Since they had chosen sides, they would naturally fight to the end.

Seeing this, Ye Linyuan said nothing more, but finally said, "If any of you are in danger in the future, our human race will naturally lend a helping hand."

Having said all he could, Ye Linyuan said no more and returned to the forbidden area of ​​the human race.

After returning to the sacred land of humanity, Ye Linyuan looked at Mo Yuan Demon Lord and asked, "How are you feeling, brother?"

"The Heavenly Demon Clan has not treated me unfairly."

Mo Yuan Demon Lord spoke calmly, then shook his head and said, "It's just that the Heavenly Demon Body's combat power is astonishing. With my current strength, I'm afraid I'm no match for him."

Ye Linyuan nodded, then calmly said, "As long as you stay in the human race and don't leave the Eternal Heaven Realm, you will be safe."

Mo Yuan Demon Lord nodded. With Ye Linyuan and the Heavenly Dao Ancestor as his guarantors, it was likely that no one in the entire Eternal Heaven Realm could harm him.

As for the Heavenly Demon Ancestor and the Nine Nether Demon Emperor, it was not an easy task for them to break into the Eternal Heaven Realm.

After confirming that Mo Yuan Demon Lord was safe, Ye Linyuan immediately opened the Heavenly Demon Clan's treasure vault.

This Heavenly Demon Treasury is filled with rare treasures, most of which are special products of the Nine Nether Demon Realm. Ye Linyuan handed over its ownership to the Devouring Demon Lord, and it is estimated that after digesting it, the Devouring Demon Lord's strength will surely increase dramatically.

Among these rare treasures, Ye Linyuan also found a fragment of the Great Dao True Explanation.

"With the two fragments from the Celestial Race and the Shadow Race, I have now collected six fragments of the Great Dao True Explanation. Reaching the late stage of the Integration Realm should not be a problem."

Ye Linyuan was slightly pleased, and then put away the fragment of the Great Dao True Explanation.

However, he did not immediately go into seclusion to comprehend the truth. Instead, he looked at the two Dao Ancestors, Wan Yao and Wan Ling, and said, "Let's take this opportunity to go to the Spirit Realm."

"..."

In the eastern region of the Eternal Heaven Realm, in the center of a vast forest, three Dao Ancestors of the human race stood side by side.

Ye Linyuan stood between the two Dao Ancestors, calmly looking at the void before him, and said in a low voice, "Fellow Daoist of the Spirit Clan, would you mind having a chat?"

"You are not welcome here."

An invincible Dao Ancestor personally came to their door, and even the Spirit Race could not ignore it.

A faint light appeared in the void before them, which then transformed into a peerless, ethereal figure.

This was a woman of unparalleled elegance; even a wisp of her aura was enough to awe the heavens, and her cultivation was even a notch higher than that of the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Medicines.

“Spirit Ancestor…”

Ye Linyuan spoke, a ripple appearing in his eyes.

The Spirit Ancestor is the ancestor of the Spirit Clan. Legend has it that he was the first spiritual root created when heaven and earth were separated, and also the original ancient tree transformed from the origin of this universe.

As the first spiritual root in this universe, the Spirit Ancestor's aura is connected to this universe and cannot leave it, but its strength is absolutely terrifying.

According to Ye Linyuan's feeling, this Spirit Ancestor's aura was unfathomable, and his strength was probably no less than that of the Lord of Asura.

With the other two members of the Spirit Ancestor having reached the Perfected Integration stage, this lineage is strong enough to contend even with an invincible Dao Ancestor, and at least has no problem protecting the Spirit Realm.

It is precisely because of this that the Spirit Race can remain detached from the mortal world and become a transcendent force beyond the rest of the races.

Even so, facing Ye Linyuan, the invincible Dao Ancestor, the Spirit Ancestor still dared not ignore him and personally dispatched an avatar from the Spirit Realm to receive Ye Linyuan.

"Fellow Daoist, there's no need to be so absolute in your words."

Ye Linyuan spoke calmly, then cupped his hands and said, "I have come here to make a deal with you, fellow Daoist."

"A trade?" A hint of wariness flashed in Lingzu's eyes. "What do you want from me, Lingzu?"

"The Heart of Life".

“Absolutely impossible!” The Spirit Ancestor’s expression changed drastically, and he directly rejected Ye Linyuan: “The Heart of Life is a treasure of creation and the treasure of the Spirit Clan. I cannot trade it away.”

This item can enlighten spiritual plants, not only greatly stimulating the potential of their spiritual roots, but also enabling them to develop sentience.

It is precisely because of the existence of the Heart of Life that the Spirit Race is able to possess a large number of members at the Primordial Spirit, Void Refinement, and even Body Integration stages.

Otherwise, there would be very few intelligent beings in the entire universe.

It was precisely for this reason that the Spirit Ancestor directly rejected Ye Linyuan without giving him any room for negotiation.

Seeing that the Spirit Ancestor was about to leave, Ye Linyuan smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist, have you ever thought that this is also an unparalleled opportunity for the Spirit Clan?"

"Oh?"

The Spirit Ancestor paused slightly, a look of surprise on his face.

Ye Linyuan nodded and said calmly, "The combination of the Heart of Life and the miraculous art of nurturing medicine is enough to produce countless geniuses of the Spirit Ancestor, making it the race with the most fusions in this universe."

"The Heart of Life combined with the miraculous art of nourishing medicine?" The Spirit Ancestor hesitated, as if he had thought of something.

Ye Linyuan nodded, then calmly said, "I will use the Spirit Refining Technique to help Senior Wanyao refine the Heart of Life, which will be enough to give him all the abilities of the Heart of Life."

"Moreover, the ability to gain spiritual intelligence after refining the spirit may even surpass that of the Heart of Life itself."

"When the time comes, with the help of Senior Wan Yao's extraordinary techniques and the spiritual plant skills I have improved, powerful spiritual beings will emerge in large numbers, and the number of spiritual beings at the Refinement and Integration Realm will increase at least tenfold." "This matter is mutually beneficial; it is an opportunity for my human race and also an unparalleled opportunity for your spiritual race."

The Spirit Ancestor remained silent, but she could not resist the temptation and asked, "How can I agree to your request for your human race to use my spirit race's alchemy?"

"I can guarantee that we will never harm any spirit race that develops sentience in the future. As long as they offer enough essence and spiritual medicine, we will give up our right to enter the spirit realm for cultivation."

Ye Linyuan explained in detail, and then instructed, "In this way, your Spirit Clan will provide us with the source of spiritual medicine, and our Human Clan will use the miraculous techniques of cultivating medicine to help you cultivate. This will be our unbreakable alliance."

Upon hearing this, the Spirit Ancestor breathed a sigh of relief.

For the Spirit Ancestor, offering up the essence of spiritual medicine would result in a great loss of vital energy, but it would not harm his foundation or life. In particular, for some fruit tree spiritual roots, the loss of nurturing immortal fruits would be minimal.

In order to obtain more spiritual medicine essence, the human race will also use the great Dao techniques and various rare treasures to help them recover.

For the human race, being able to continuously obtain the essence of spiritual herbs is much better than killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. After all, for the sake of sustainable development, the human race originally harvested spiritual herbs and left them as seed.

Therefore, this matter is beneficial to both parties, enough to allow them to forge the most unbreakable alliance.

Thinking of this, Lingzu was almost about to agree, but he couldn't help but ask, "But what if one day, Fellow Daoist Wanyao ascends to the Immortal Realm?"

"If Senior Wanyao were to ascend to the Immortal Realm, wouldn't that be a great opportunity for the Spirit Race of the Immortal Realm?"

Ye Linyuan smiled and then said, "Moreover, we can promise that once Senior Wanyao ascends to the Immortal Realm, he will continue to leave the miraculous art of cultivating medicine in our human race and continue to form an alliance with the human race."

Lingzu took a deep breath. According to her estimate, the chances of Wanyao Daozu ascending to immortality were slim. Even if he did ascend, it would be at least tens of millions of years later.

During this period, the Spirit Ancestor may give birth to hundreds of Dao Ancestors who have achieved the Integration Realm, and there may even be several Great Perfection Dao Ancestors. This foundation is more than enough to exchange for a Creation Treasure.

Thinking of this, the Spirit Ancestor no longer hesitated and said directly, "After we make a vow of Dao Heart and form an alliance, I will offer up my Heart of Life."

Ye Linyuan and the two Dao Ancestors exchanged a glance and nodded in agreement to the condition.

Upon seeing this, Lingzu also summoned his other two merged Dao Ancestors.

Both of them have extraordinary origins. The former is the Azure Lotus Dao Ancestor who attained Dao through the Creation Azure Lotus, and the latter is the Primordial Spiritual Root—the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu Tree.

The six Dao Ancestors from both sides swore an oath together, forming an alliance and issuing three kinds of vows in the Eternal Heaven Realm.

These are the Oath of Heaven, the Oath of the Great Dao, and the Oath of the Dao Heart.

The Heavenly Oath is made with the Heavenly Dao of the Eternal Heaven Realm as its pledge. If it is broken, the Heavenly Dao will reject the person and banish them from the Eternal Heaven Realm.

The Great Dao Oath is a vow made in accordance with the Great Dao itself; once broken, future cultivation will be extremely difficult.

The vow of Dao heart is even more crucial; if it is broken, one may never hope to reach the realm of a Great Ascension Immortal in this lifetime.

These three oaths had enormous consequences for breaking them, and it was clear that neither side was prepared to break them, and both were very satisfied with their cooperation.

Having successfully forged the alliance, the Spirit Ancestor took out a strange stone shrouded in countless Dao patterns and carefully handed it to Ye Linyuan, saying:
"The Heart of Life, also known as the Stone of Life, is the first evolution of the Great Dao of Life in this universe. It is also a unique and irreplaceable item. After it is refined, this item may also become extinct."

"As long as the Great Dao still exists, it will eventually be able to give birth to this thing again." Ye Linyuan was very calm, and then said calmly, "The reason why it cannot be evolved now should be that the origin of this universe is insufficient."

"If one day I can advance to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, I will return to help this universe upgrade, or at least help it restore its peak origin."

Upon hearing this, the Spirit Ancestor's expression changed slightly as he said, "The Immortal Realm is not like this universe. If you were to ascend there, you might not even be able to protect yourself, let alone attain the Great Luo Dao..."

Having said all he could, he did not continue.

Ye Linyuan remained silent. As the only race to have ever produced a Mahayana Immortal Venerable, the human race naturally knew some of the secrets of the Immortal Realm.

According to some of the messages he sent back after his ascension as the Immortal Venerable, the human race in the Immortal Realm was in a bad situation, belonging to the lowest level of the entire Immortal Realm.

In fact, not only humans, but all beings born after birth are at the bottom of the hierarchy in the Immortal Realm.

The true powerhouses of the Immortal Realm are countless innate saints and gods, as well as the ten ancient divine courts that rule the entire Immortal Realm.

It can be said that the rulers of the Immortal Realm are all gods born from heaven and earth. Most beings born later in life stop at the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, and only a handful can attain the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Within the Ten Directions Divine Courts, each court has multiple Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Divine Race, and the Divine Emperor who rules over the Divine Court is an unparalleled powerhouse above the Great Luo Golden Immortals.

The human race also has a Celestial Court in the Immortal Realm, but it doesn't even have a single Great Luo Golden Immortal. A Taiyi Golden Immortal can become an emperor appointed by the human race's Celestial Court, and they can only rely on the gods to barely survive.

"The situation of the human race in the Immortal Realm seems to be very similar to that of the human race in this world in the early Primordial Era."

"If we were to divide the Immortal Realm into an era, it would most likely be the Primordial Era at the beginning of the world. This was an era in which the Immortal Realm was completely dominated by innate deities and gods, and acquired beings had almost no chance to rise up."

Ye Linyuan spoke slowly, having already calculated the human race's situation in the Immortal Realm.

The human race in the Immortal Realm is fed on the blood of some gods. In the ancient times, the human race's primordial spirits ascended to immortality, which was deliberately orchestrated by some ancient gods of the Immortal Realm.

They built the Flying Immortal Well, which is a great medicine for humans and all other races after their primordial spirits ascend. Low-level gods can greatly improve their cultivation after using it.

The Dao Ancestor of the Primordial Era and the Immortal Venerable of Longevity in this universe both realized this, so they have been suppressing their cultivation and not ascending.

Even the Immortal Venerable of Longevity had to slaughter the ancient era at any cost to raise his cultivation to the mid-stage of the Mahayana Immortal Venerable before daring to ascend.

After ascending to immortality, the Immortal Venerable became a high-level Taiyi Golden Immortal. As long as the Great Luo Immortal Venerable did not attack him, he had sufficient ability to protect himself.

Even so, the Immortal Venerable of Longevity still had a very difficult life in the Immortal Realm.

Finally, it sent a blood letter to this universe, and then sealed this universe with its supreme divine power, preventing not only cultivators' primordial spirits from ascending, but also preventing even the Dao Ancestor of Integration from ascending to the Immortal Realm.

The only way to ascend to immortality now is to break through to the Great Ascension Immortal Venerable realm, which will break the seal of the Longevity Immortal Venerable and allow one to ascend to the Immortal Realm.

"I wonder if the Immortal Venerable of Longevity is still alive."

"But upon closer reflection, if he hadn't broken through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, he must have suffered greatly."

Ye Linyuan murmured to himself, a sigh creeping onto his face.

According to the blood-written letter of the Immortal Venerable of Longevity, although the Taiyi Golden Immortals in the Immortal Realm are powerful, they are not enough to establish a race's foundation.

Only by attaining the realm of Great Luo Golden Immortal can a race establish itself.

In the entire Immortal Realm, even Great Luo Golden Immortals are rare; they are basically among the pillars supporting the heavens in the Ten Directions Divine Court.

Only by attaining the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm can a race stand firm; otherwise, no matter how many Taiyi Golden Immortals there are, they are nothing but ants, and any Great Luo Golden Immortal can completely annihilate them.

"The Immortal Venerable of Longevity possessed unparalleled talent. Even within the Immortal Realm, he was one of the strongest human beings, yet he could not protect himself."

"Only by attaining the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm can the human race be freed from humiliation in the Immortal Realm and escaped from being the lowest level of food and cannon fodder."

Ye Linyuan's thoughts kept arising, but he then withdrew them all.

If the human race can never produce a Great Luo Golden Immortal, he will become the first Great Luo Golden Immortal of the human race. If the human race cannot produce a Primordial Emperor, he will also try to become the first Primordial Emperor.

As far as Ye Linyuan knew, the supreme god emperors of the ten divine courts in the Immortal Realm all seemed to be powerful figures who claimed to be at the level of the Primordial Emperor.

"Enough of this overthinking, let's just focus on the present."

Ye Linyuan's thoughts raced, but in the end, he withdrew them all.

He took a deep breath and then said to the Spirit Ancestor, "Our cultivation is like climbing one peak after another. No matter how far away the Great Luo Realm is, I will do my best to reach it."

Having said all that, he said no more, bid farewell to the Dao Ancestors of the Spirit Race, and then turned and left with the two Dao Ancestors of the Human Race. (End of Chapter)