Covering the Heavens: Starting from the First Great Emperor

Chapter 108 Second Life

Chapter 108 The Fifth Life

Xu Yuanming came to that noodle shop. The last time he came was 60,000 years ago, before Yuanshi became a Heavenly Venerable.

To be honest, the noodles at this shop are really good. It has been around for 60,000 years, and the owner has gone from a Dao-slaying cultivator at the third level of Sendai to a Great Sage at the sixth level of Sendai.

"Time flies so fast!"

He couldn't help but sigh.

Upon hearing this, the shop owner laughed and said, "Young man, why are you sighing at such a young age? What's the use of being here instead of vying for the position of Heavenly Venerable? If the Heavenly Venerable knew, he would be very unhappy."

"Come on, the Primordial Celestial Venerable resides in the Thirty-Three Heavens. How could we mortals possibly reach him?" a sage who was wolfing down his noodles complained.

“I’m talking about the Celestial Venerable, not the Primordial Celestial Venerable.” The shop owner sat down in a chair. “The Celestial Venerable of Destiny must be watching us.”

A quasi-celestial being chuckled.

"I thought you'd mention Lord Yuanshi Tianzun again! I've heard it countless times, like how Lord Yuanshi Tianzun only ate here before he attained enlightenment 60,000 years ago."

The boss grinned.

"The person I respect most is still the Deity of Destiny. Without him, where would we be today? We are fortunate to be born in a good era. If we had lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, how could we be living in such peace and prosperity?"

“What you say is true. It’s impossible for Yuanshi Tianzun to care about us, but it’s different for Mingshu Tianzun. Although he hasn’t manifested in the world for 60,000 years, I believe he is still watching our every move!”

The saint slammed his hand hard on the table.

"Do you think the Celestial Deity might be sitting right there, watching us?" The boss looked around and said in a low voice.

"Come on!" Quasi-Celestial Venerable clicked his tongue. "I say, boss, you're really getting more and more excited as you talk. The Celestial Venerable of Destiny is probably thinking about becoming an immortal right now!"

"That's not necessarily true, what do you think, young man?" the shopkeeper asked the young man who had sighed earlier.

Xu Yuanming put down his bowl and chopsticks. The scallions in the noodle soup seemed to be playing a joke on his face. Fate is like that too. Life is unpredictable. Who knows what will happen?
Just like when he first traveled through time, how could he have known he would end up like this?

"I think you're all right."

"You insist on a non-stick pan, just say which side you're on, we're not going to hit you, these young people nowadays..."

The boss felt somewhat disappointed.

The quasi-Celestial Venerable looked at Xu Yuanming solemnly and said, "What kind of young person is one who isn't ambitious? If you keep this kind of mentality, how will you ever become a Celestial Venerable? Don't look at how we all failed. You must believe in yourself. This world belongs to you young people."

"What you all say is absolutely right."

Xu Yuanming swallowed all the soup in the bowl in one gulp.

……

Xu Yuanming strolled among the stars.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are vast, so vast that without the spiritual world, 99% of the people in the entire universe would not be able to traverse them all.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are very small, so small that Xu Yuanming could travel from the edge of the universe to its end with just a thought.

When I was young, I always said: "The world is so big, where can't I go?"

Home is where the heart is; they never care about the passage of time or the so-called hardships and dangers.

Where you go isn't a destination, and where you arrive isn't a destination either. Just live life the way you want to live.

Xu Yuanming didn't know where to go. He looked up at the sky, where the sky above the peak restricted everyone.

Without him, the beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths would not travel to the myriad realms.

As it turns out, this matter was entirely beneficial.

The people selected by Yanxuan were indeed very strong, but that wasn't enough. They spread the word about the Celestial Lord of Destiny and revered him.

Xu Yuanming knew all of this. The power of those beliefs was very weak, but when their numbers increased, they reached an astonishing level. This enormous power of belief could instantly transform an ordinary person into the pinnacle of humanity.

……

In the end, Xu Yuanming returned to the small town where he had lived as an ordinary person, which is now a bustling metropolis.

All of this was different from what he had imagined, but he didn't go in; he just glanced at it briefly and left.

It all happened in the blink of an eye, yet it seemed as if he had lived a lifetime.

Xu Yuanming was in a daze; it turned out that it was all a dream!
He was still in the bamboo grove, but for some reason he had fallen asleep.

But the key question is, was what we just experienced real or fake?
Xu Yuanming asked himself these questions, and his state of mind changed for the first time in so many years.

Fate told him it was real, but Xu Yuanming himself felt like he was in a dream.

"It's time to wake up."

Xu Yuanming stretched and looked at Cao Yusheng below the small pit, laughing, "If you keep sleeping like this, I'll probably become an immortal by the time we meet again."

The ancient tea tree was moved to a new location to make way for the grave.

"You too, you've lived too peacefully all these years. In the next era, you should go out and explore, experience some trials, and see if you can transform yourself."

Xu Yuanming had long had this idea, but there were just too many things to do in the heavens, and opportunities were everywhere, which made him somewhat unwilling to pay attention to the nine heavens and ten earths.

Now, he suddenly understood, as if he had figured something out.

The ancient tea tree remained motionless.

Its decision won't change anything.

Cao Yusheng, trapped in the earth, offered no response; this ordeal will keep him asleep for a very long time.

“There’s someone here with you!” Xu Yuanming looked at the corpse opposite Cao Yusheng.

It was a bed, and on it lay the Celestial Venerable of Immortal Tribulation.

He had a dream, a dream that took him back to the ancient immortal realm, but the dream was a little long, lasting 160,000 years.

“I already told you that you were the ones who got robbed, now it’s my turn.”

Xu Yuanming smiled softly, narrowed his eyes, but opened them again the next moment.

Eternal flowers shimmered around him, and Xu Yuanming possessed unparalleled vitality, like a newborn infant.

He lived a fifth life.

The ancient tea tree remained silent. Xu Yuanming closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again, and lived his fifth life. This defied common sense, but Xu Yuanming's very existence was illogical, so it made perfect sense.

"I'm leaving."

Xu Yuanming plans to travel in his true form.

He was talking to himself, or perhaps he was waving goodbye to the heavens and the earth.

……

“He’s gone.” Yuanshi Tianzun walked out of Yuxu Palace and looked at the top of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, sighing.

Yuan Feng asked, "Who left?"

"The Lord of Destiny."

“He didn’t belong here; it shouldn’t be said that he left.”

"That's right. Someone like him shouldn't belong to this world. I have a feeling that the myriad worlds will become incredibly lively because of his arrival."

"Did he go to the main body this time?"

"Don't you trust him?"

"how is this possible?"

……

The nine enforcers of the spiritual world all raised their heads and bowed in unison.

Those long-dormant powerhouses all sensed Xu Yuanming's disappearance, their emotions a complex mix. The Holy Body Tianlan and the Overlord Body Cangming were fully reborn.

"We have the opportunity to attain enlightenment in this lifetime."

……

A beam of light crossed the barrier of the nine heavens and ten earths and arrived in the myriad realms.

"Who is it? How dare they be so high-profile?"

Xu Yuanming made no attempt to conceal his aura, repeatedly leaping towards the site of the giant's ruins, tracing the location based on the fate of his avatar.

He was moving at an almost unbelievable speed.

Just then, a long sword fell, staining the infinite universe with blood.

Xu Yuanming slapped it to pieces.

"It's you!? How can you be so strong?"

This is a mysterious True Immortal, one of the True Immortal imprints that guarded the replica of the Time Furnace at that time.

The loss of such a soul imprint severely damaged his vitality, and he has not recovered even after tens of thousands of years.

He was furious and made an exception to come here, wanting to kill the supreme being who had disrupted their plans.

Finally, the mysterious immortal met an extremely powerful supreme being.

The moment this familiar power of fate was released, it made him feel as if he had returned to a few years ago. He was certain that this was the person who had slain his soul imprint.

So the strange True Immortal held nothing back, wielding his immortal longsword and slashing down at an incredibly tricky angle. Caught off guard, even a True Immortal renowned for his physique would be severely injured, let alone a Supreme Being.

When this aura manifested, it filled the vast universe nearby, attracting countless living beings.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, cracks appeared on the immortal sword.

The powerful impact instantly enveloped this true immortal.

"Ah ah ah..."

The strange immortal was horrified. When the fist struck him, all his blood seemed to freeze, and his Dao seemed to have been swallowed whole, no longer belonging to him.

"How is that possible? He's clearly just a Supreme Being, why..."

With that punch, most of the eerie immortal's body rotted away.

When Xu Yuanming first traveled through the myriad realms, he saved a supreme being named Ming Cang Tian Ting, and he reported this to the Heavenly Court.

Now, the Supreme Being Mingcang has returned to this place with the true immortals of the Heavenly Court.

Upon seeing a human who had not been corrupted by the strange entity being ambushed by the strange immortal, the Heavenly Immortal immediately launched an attack to try and repel him.

To everyone's surprise, Xu Yuanming actually managed to block the attack and even managed to injure the strange immortal!

“Fellow Daoist Destiny Celestial Venerable!” Supreme Ming Cang recognized Xu Yuanming.

He couldn't help but gasp; this young man was far stronger than he had been 60,000 years ago.

Xu Yuanming turned around, looked at the two of them, and smiled gently: "Wait for me a moment."

The strange immortal wanted to escape, but Xu Yuanming's punch had really hurt him. Although it was unbelievable, it was the truth. He had encountered a being who could defeat an immortal with the power of humanity!
He used the talisman of the Celestial King, tearing the void apart and passing through countless places in an instant.

"It must be reported! We absolutely cannot wait for it to grow, otherwise..."

The eerie immortal swallowed hard, and after looking around and finding no one from the Heavenly Court, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Or what?"

At that moment, a voice devoid of any emotion came from behind him.

The strange immortal quickly turned around and saw the young man right behind him.

"Impossible! How did you follow me here?"

"you are too slow."

Xu Yuanming told the truth.

Having experienced the great fortune he gained through his avatar in his fourth life, and having emerged from the second secret realm, his true body had already attained the strength of a true immortal. Now, having lived through his fifth life, his strength is extremely formidable.

And this is his true form!
He possesses nine true forms, as well as two spiritual worlds, making him far stronger than his external avatars.

The two clashed again, and Xu Yuanming defeated the strange immortal with an almost overwhelming advantage.

In his fourth incarnation, his avatar could instantly kill a true immortal with all his might, let alone his original body, which had already lived out its fifth incarnation.

The immortal weapon sword in the hands of the strange immortal was shattered by Xu Yuanming's punch, and the same thing happened to the physical body that was reconstituted; Xu Yuanming shattered it with a single punch as well.

"That's all."

Xu Yuanming was not proud of being able to crush a strange True Immortal. In his opinion, if he couldn't do it, he might as well go to the Chaos Land that Shi Hao had separated for eternity and drown himself!
Not long after, the Heavenly Immortal arrived here with the Supreme Being of the Azure Sky. He was dumbfounded when he saw the strange Immortal being completely obliterated by Xu Yuanming.

The Supreme Being Mingcang inquired, "Fellow Daoist Destiny... have you already become an immortal?"

"It will be soon," Xu Yuanming said.

He could become an immortal at any time, but the accumulation of nine lifetimes has slowed down his progress. He is simply searching for a special realm.

That is, the pinnacle of immortality.

There has never been any record of this field, and there are very few descriptions of it in the world. Even Shi Hao has not reached it; it is a blank slate.

The true immortals of Heaven discerned Xu Yuanming's cultivation system and inquired about it.

"Fellow Daoist, could you perhaps be from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?"

"Yes."

"The Path to Immortality in the Mortal World".

"Yes."

"Which lifetime has it been?"

"Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this will be my last life."

This is even more explosive than what happened before; that was a mortal immortal!

For thousands of years, no one in the Heavenly Court has ever officially left, but now they have actually encountered people from the Heavenly Emperor's hometown.

Moreover, this person has lived through countless lifetimes in a world where spiritual energy was depleted and there were no substances for immortality. His current accumulation is already enough to make even a quasi-immortal king feel apprehensive.

If the other party were a War Immortal, the two of them wouldn't have lost their composure like this.

Supreme Mingcang asked, "Where are you going, fellow Daoist?"

This was his second meeting with Xu Yuanming, and he was more familiar with him than this true immortal.

"The ruins of a giant".

The immortal asked, "I know the coordinates. Do you want me to take you there?"

Xu Yuanming laughed and said, "You're too slow."

Having said that, he transformed into a beam of destiny, traversing the heavens and heading towards the ruins of the giant.

"Fellow Daoist, would you be willing to join my Heavenly Court?"

Behind him, the immortal called out.

Mingcang Supreme thought of Xu Yuanming's first words and murmured to himself.

"If fate allows, perhaps we will meet again, but no one knows where we will be then."

Xu Yuanming's loud laughter echoed throughout the heavens.