The Eternal God Emperor Begins from the First Realm Breakthrough

Chapter 164 Seventeen Outer Disciples (Ensure Full Attendance First)
In a simple mud house, an old woman with gray hair has reached the end of her life.

There were bloodstains on the leather armor, and there were lacerations on the chest from sharp claws. He looked almost lifeless.

"Mr. Zhang, you're the only one left." The old woman tightly grasped Zhang Ruochen's arm.

Zhang Ruochen pursed his lips slightly, a beard had grown on his face, and his usually sharp eyes now seemed a little empty and lifeless.

From the moment he stepped into the city of Kucha, there was an endless battle. Without the power of the Holy Way, he was just an ordinary person who was slightly stronger and could not fight against ten thousand people alone.

The figures in the city that went from unfamiliar to familiar, and then from familiar to dead, were firmly imprinted in Zhang Ruochen's mind.

Regardless of gender, age or status, they are all comrades, comrades who fought with him on the city walls to resist the foreign monsters.

Too many people died in the battle, and now even the last backbone, the old woman in front of him, is about to die.

"Mr. Zhang, there is no hope for Kucha City, but you still have a chance to leave. Walk out and leave Kucha City. Don't worry about the Anxi soldiers and civilians in Kucha City." The old woman shouted this sentence with all her strength, and then her eyes were filled with tears and she closed them.

Zhang Ruochen was in a state of confusion as he entered the Nine Absolute Divine Tower and came to this strange world.

This city seemed abandoned by the world, stranded in the desert for sixty years, its young and strong dead gone. Those who survived, after sixty years of wind and frost, were already mottled and old.

The barbarian monsters' offensive is getting more and more fierce. If he continues to stay here, Kucha City will definitely be breached one day, perhaps tomorrow, and he will die in this city.

After experiencing countless battles, Zhang Ruochen understood that if he died in this world, he would really die. The test of the Nine Absolute Divine Tower was a true test of life and death, and those who entered it would probably not all survive.

Leave or stay?
Zhang Ruochen looked at the old woman's body on the bed, then turned to look at the waist-high children outside the house. Not far away were a few disabled old men, staring into the house with empty eyes.

They have become numb to the sight of death.

Zhang Ruochen sighed softly. If he left, what would become of the people in the city, young and old? Only death awaited them.

Zhang Ruochen murmured, "Chen Yuan, accompany me to fight for a chance of survival for this city."

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Yellow sand rolled up, and one wild monster after another rushed up the city wall, and they were greeted by the cold light of swords.

Zhang Ruochen had grown a beard on his face. He had experienced the same scene for thirty years.

There are many new tombstones outside the city wall, but there is no one behind them.

He was the only one left.

After repelling another attack, Zhang Ruochen, covered in blood, lay on the city wall, gazing at the azure sky, feeling an endless sense of exhaustion.

"Is everything over? When will it end?"

He muttered to himself.

The lifespan of a Saint King is a thousand years, and thirty years is just the blink of an eye. But for ordinary people, a few decades is half a lifetime. He can feel that although his sword skills have reached the level where skills are close to the Tao, his physical condition is getting worse and worse, and he will not be able to hold on for much longer.

After a long while, Zhang Ruochen stood up. For the first time in thirty years, he had the chance to leave Qiuci City. Behind him, the ruins of the city were submerged in yellow sand, buried along with countless tombstones. Many years later, perhaps someone would come here and discover the tragic years that had happened here.

He held the scarred Shen Yuan in his hand and strode towards the depths of the desert. He had no worries left behind. This time, he wanted to live for himself.

After walking for more than a hundred miles, the yellow sand in front of him gradually dissipated. Zhang Ruochen looked at the scene in astonishment and was speechless for a moment.

Ahead, towering mountains reached into the clouds, a golden divine ladder was suspended in the void, and a familiar atmosphere wafted down from the top of the mountain.

The cultivation that had been dormant in his body for decades began to recover gradually, all the way back to the Eighth Step Saint King, and then in one breath reached the level of the Nineth Step Saint King's rule-based small world.

"Is everything just an illusion?"

Zhang Ruochen turned around and looked behind him, but there was nothing. Everything before seemed like a dream, but a dream was half a lifetime.

Having experienced seven reincarnations in the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram, he was not unfamiliar with this experience, but the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram only contained his entanglement with Ling Feiyu, while there were thousands of people related to him in Kucha City.

After a long silence, Zhang Ruochen walked towards the mountain and climbed up the divine ladder.

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Each cultivator who enters the Nine Absolutes Divine Tower is undergoing a cruel test. For a cultivator, losing their cultivation is a terrifying thing. For them who are accustomed to solving problems with force, after losing their powerful strength, everything they encounter will become very difficult.

Chen Ping's mind was silently watching everything. In just the first round of tests, more than one-third of the cultivators had perished and died in various accidents. Many of the remaining ones were also seriously injured. They only saved their lives but lost the opportunity to continue participating in the tests.

Zhang Ruochen was the third person to pass the test, the first two being Yan Wushen and Yin Yuanchen.

Yan Wushen has been operating in Fengdu for many years. As a living being, he became the king of all ghosts. He built a passage to the netherworld of the dead, sent all ghosts to the afterlife, and successfully passed the test.

Yin Yuanchen joined the Imperial Guard and became the emperor's most trusted minister all the way. He guarded three emperors. In his later years, he mastered the martial arts and was able to break through the void, successfully ascend to heaven and become a legend of the world.

After the three of them, monks one after another passed the first round of tests.

The Four Heavenly Kings, Nie Xiangzi, Prajna, Xie Liuyun, Feng Xi, Feng Yan, Xiang Chunan, etc.

It is worth mentioning that at this moment, Xue Tu was looking at the iron bars with his eyes somewhat empty.

When he first saw the golden staff, he couldn't suppress his greed and wanted to take it away, but he didn't expect to encounter an agency - the public security agency.

After happily receiving the silver bracelet, all he had left were tears behind bars. Fortunately, his sentence was about to end.

"I, Xue Tu, will be free soon."

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After passing the first test, all that appeared before everyone's eyes was the towering sacred mountain and the golden sacred ladder.

On the top of the mountain is a stone tablet about ten feet high with a mysterious ancient text on it.

In Yin Yuanchen's eyes, the word above contains the meaning of killing, and in Yan Wushen's eyes, the word reveals the meaning of reincarnation.

Those who practice Buddhism feel as if they have seen the Buddha, and those who practice Taoism feel as if they have seen the Taoist Master. A stone tablet seems to explain all the ways in the world, but in fact they all originate from the way without way.

The first level tests one's state of mind, the second level tests one's understanding, and as for the third level, those who can pass both levels are rare, so why bother with the third level?

Zhang Ruochen looked at the stone tablet in front of him and felt that the words on the stone tablet seemed to have turned into a Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram, which contained various changes of Tai Chi Yin-Yang, the Four Symbols and Five Elements, the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, and encompassed the truth of time and space, and many mysteries such as boxing, palm, and swordsmanship.

Especially the guidance on the way of kendo, which is like a road to heaven.

After thirty years of fighting with a sword, his understanding of the sword has reached a higher level. Now, when he sees the Dao Monument, he suddenly realizes.

...Only a few people have passed the first level. The vast majority of cultivators who entered the Nine Absolute Divine Tower stopped at the first level. Those who were eliminated suffered a mixed number of casualties. The injured were directly sent out of the Nine Absolute Divine Tower and appeared at the entrance of the secret realm they entered.

As these monks walked out of the secret realm, the news from the Nine Absolutes Divine Tower quickly spread and reached back to the Heaven and Hell.

For a moment, all the gods in heaven and hell found it difficult to remain calm.

How many people in the world can resist the temptation of immortality? Even if this news may not be true, it is as deadly as poison to those ancient beings whose lifespan is coming to an end.

On the Xingtian Cliff, the Xinghai Fisherman held a fishing rod in his hand and sat on the cliff for an unknown period of time. Naturally, the news of the Jiujue Divine Tower had reached his ears.

"Immortality, the Nine Absolute Divine Tower? It doesn't sound like the work of an ordinary person. Kunlun Realm, is it that person from the Divine Realm?"

He shook his head, and a red crow flew out from the red crow forest on Xingtian Cliff, landed beside him, and turned into a man's figure.

"Sir, what are your orders?"

"You should go to Kunlun Realm and find out the origin of the Nine Absolute Divine Tower. Remember, try not to reveal your identity and don't cause trouble." The Star Sea Fisherman said lightly.

"I understand." The man transformed from the red crow took the order and left, disappearing from the Starry Sky Cliff in the blink of an eye.

This Red Crow man is an extremely powerful cultivator, several levels stronger than the old woodcutter who is cutting down Red Crow trees in the mountains.

The old woodcutter's idea was to cut down all the red crow trees in the mountains in order to make the sky round and perfect, but this was something that was simply impossible to achieve.

This was a trap set for him by his most beloved master, a road that would never end.

Before the Red Crow King arrived at the Kunlun Realm, two extremely obscure auras had already quietly descended from the void outside the Kunlun Realm.

They have special secret treasures on them, and even the half-ancestor may not be able to discover them, but in front of Chen Ping, the ancestor with a spiritual power of the 96th level, they have nowhere to hide.

Chen Ping's spiritual sense quietly locked onto the two of them and quickly determined their identities.

"Someone from the God Realm used immortality as bait, and they were able to lure him out so quickly."

Compared to the strong men of the Hades faction who are hidden in the heaven and hell, the God Realm is extremely mysterious and high above. The strong men of the Human Ancestor faction are basically hidden in the God Realm, and the outside cultivators cannot find the location of the God Realm at all.

Even the Underworld Ancestor, who had fought with the Human Ancestor for endless years, did not know where the God Realm was.

The ancestor of time and space, named after time and space, has reached the pinnacle of achievement in both time and space. With his means, he has separated the entire divine world from the universe and the long river of time, making it no longer in any time and space, and naturally others cannot find it.

Every winter solstice, countless new creatures in the universe obtain the Divine Mark from the Divine Realm, but no one has ever traced the source of the Divine Mark to find the Divine Realm. This shows how terrifying the methods of the ancestor of mankind are.

However, the divine realm is not completely untraceable. If the cultivators in the divine realm want to enter heaven and hell, they must have a passage. As long as they find the location of this passage, they will have a chance to find the divine realm.

The two people in front of me are the breakthrough point.

Soon, Chen Ping felt the unique aura of the Red Crow King again. Although it was hidden in the void, it was discovered the moment it entered the Kunlun Realm starry sky.

"Red Crow King, it seems that he was sent by the Corpse Nightmare to gather information."

Chen Ping smiled in his heart and ignored the two groups for the time being.

Inside the Nine Absolutes Divine Tower, the test of the second level is still going on. The content of this test is very simple, which is to comprehend the first level of mystery on the stone tablet within a hundred years. Those who comprehend it will pass, but the test will not end immediately. They have to wait until a hundred years have passed.

During this period, you can continue to comprehend the second level of mysteries.

The entire interior of the Nine Absolutes Divine Tower is shrouded in the power of time. Unlike the flow of time in the outside world, a hundred years in the tower is only a hundred days in the outside world.

Zhang Ruochen and Yan Wushen had the highest comprehension ability. They understood the mystery of the first level in just over thirty years. Yin Yuanchen was second, having spent over forty years.

The other monks were far inferior to them.

Soon, the hundred-year period was up, and a total of seventeen people passed the second level of the test.

The stone tablets in front of the seventeen figures disappeared, replaced by a deep passage.

They followed the instructions in the passage, stood up and walked into the passage. After walking for an unknown amount of time, the view in front of them gradually became wider.

A huge fairy palace is suspended above the head, sacred and majestic.

At the feet was a huge platform, magnificent and golden. In the center of the platform was a list carved from divine jade, with names densely written on it.

"Once you have passed the two tests, you can become outer disciples of my Longevity Dao sect. Your path to immortality begins here. In the future, if you become a true disciple, your name will be engraved on the Longevity Dao Monument."

The familiar voice of vicissitudes of life sounded again. Yan Wushen, Yin Yuanchen, Zhang Ruochen and seventeen other figures all looked at the Divine Jade Heavenly Stele. It turned out that the inscription on the stele was actually a list of names.

Each of these names is shrouded in a mysterious power. Only the general outline can be seen, and their true appearance cannot be glimpsed. It seems that without sufficient cultivation strength and status, there is no qualification to even know their real names.

Only the two names at the bottom of the stele could be vaguely distinguished. After careful observation, everyone felt a sense of disbelief.

These two names, one is 'Chen Wudao' and the other is 'Luan Weiyang'.

Chen Wudao, also known as Lord Wudao, is the number one person in the Temple of Truth. He holds the Hong Ding and can fight against the Heavenly Lord.

Luan Weiyang, this name is rarely known to outsiders, but his other name is resounding throughout heaven and hell. He is the God of Disaster in the Temple of Destiny, who holds the Heavenly Cauldron and can also fight against the God of War. Not long ago, outside the Kunlun Realm, he lifted the Ghost Gate and broke into the Kunlun Realm single-handedly, and almost rescued Xu Fengjin.

Were these two actually disciples of the Immortal Dao Sect? True disciples, indeed, their names inscribed on the Immortal Dao Monument.

Everyone was skeptical. If Lord Wudao and Lord Huoze were both disciples of the Changsheng Dao Sect, then how many powerful people were there in the Changsheng Dao Sect?
Judging from the past events of Lord Huo Ze and Lord Wu Dao, even if these two were really true disciples of the Taoist sect of immortality, it seems that there is no so-called fellow-disciple friendship between them.

Zhang Ruochen looked around, sizing up the other sixteen figures. These figures were enveloped in a soft glow, preventing their true appearances from being seen. Unless they revealed themselves, no one would know their true identities.

Before figuring out the origins of the Changsheng Dao Sect, no one was willing to reveal their true identity, including Zhang Ruochen himself.

A moment later, seventeen streams of light flew out from the fairy palace hanging in the void and fell into the hands of seventeen figures.

Zhang Ruochen held a Tai Chi Yin Yang Fish jade pendant, Yan Wushen held a seven-colored compass, and Yin Yuanchen held a black jade stone... Seventeen different treasures, all of which were the most suitable treasures to assist them in their cultivation.

At the same time, the seventeen light spots also sank into their holy souls and qi seas, turning into a seal of longevity, just like the seal of the quantity organization, which is a symbol of the identity of a disciple of the longevity sect.

"You all have extraordinary talents. You should cultivate diligently and become gods as soon as possible. After becoming gods, you can use the Immortal Dao Seal to participate in the assessment of inner disciples. If you pass the assessment, you can become an inner disciple.

If an inner disciple reaches the limitless realm, he can participate in the assessment of the true disciple. If he passes the assessment, his name will be recorded on the monument of immortality."

The ancient divine voice sounded again.

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(I have finished writing one chapter for tomorrow morning's update, and I am still writing the second chapter...)
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