The Heavenly Emperor of Chu

Chapter 58 Seclusion and Cultivation
Before long, Yao Hao and others gathered the powerful figures of various races outside the divine city and formed a coalition of all races to fight against the creatures of the forbidden zone.

After everything was settled, Chu Tianshu put aside his distracting thoughts and began to focus his energy on himself.

"Incredible, I never expected my blood and energy to continue to rise."

"I can sense that my prime has not yet fully arrived!"

Thirteen thousand years have passed since Chu Tian was born, and ten thousand years have passed since he became emperor.

If it were an ordinary emperor, he would probably be in his twilight years and could only last for a thousand or two thousand years before he could no longer endure it.

However, Chu Tianshu could clearly sense that his blood and qi were still rising rapidly, and the life essence in his body was accumulating quickly.

Based on this calculation, his life is far from over, and his lifespan is likely to reach 30,000 years.

This is an incredible number; even if some ancient emperors lived a second life, the combined lifespan of both lives would not be as long as this number.

It is likely that only those who attained enlightenment through the Chaos Body, or the legendary God Emperors, could achieve such a lifespan in their first incarnation.

"It seems that sorting out the myriad paths of heaven and earth was indeed a profitable deal."

That time, he sorted out the myriad paths of heaven and earth, which completely revealed the myriad paths of the entire human world and universe to him. The evolution, changes, interweaving and collision of the myriad paths gave him endless inspiration.

As a result, Chu Tianshu's cultivation advanced greatly, and he thoroughly deduced the path of the evolution of the Overlord Body, opening many portals inside the human body.

Strictly speaking, Chu Tianshu's physique at this moment has vaguely exceeded the scope of the Overlord Physique, which is why his lifespan has increased dramatically.

If Chu Tianshu hadn't embarked on the path of evolving his invincible body, his lifespan in his first life would probably have been limited to a maximum of ten thousand years.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Emperor Ye lived for 26,000 years in his first life; he had already established his foundation with the fruit of the immortal medicine before he even began cultivating.

In addition, although his cultivation journey was fraught with danger, he had consumed a great deal of rare and precious natural treasures, so it is not surprising that he had such a long lifespan.

Chu Tianshu lived in an era of hardship, where resources were scarce. He couldn't even find a trace of divine medicine, let alone immortality pills. Naturally, his foundation was not as strong as Ye Tiandi's.

But everyone has their own opportunities, so Chu Tianshu wasn't particularly concerned.

"Now that the second incarnation is a done deal, it's time to consider the method for the third incarnation."

Chu Tianshu's gaze was profound, as if containing the myriad principles of heaven and earth.

In the distant past, when the human universe was still intact, there was an abundance of life-giving substances, giving beings of the highest realms ample time to explore the path to immortality.

However, the current human universe can no longer produce long-lived matter.

To become an immortal, one must walk the path of immortality in the mortal world, living life in reverse, one lifetime after another, until one reaches a point where the years do not affect one's appearance.

The key to this lies in transformation.

Or rather, transformation is the essence of the immortal path in the mortal world.

Through repeated transformations, the physical bodies of beings at the highest level gradually approach the form of immortals.

Only when the life essence born from the physical body is sufficient to offset the erosion of time can the path to immortality in the mortal world be considered complete.

At the same time, with each transformation, the cultivator's Dao fruit will be perfected, and their strength will increase accordingly.

But how many of the ancient celestial beings and emperors of the past have been able to survive life after life and achieve immortality in the mortal world?

The path to transformation is not so simple. Even the Celestial Venerable Lingbao encountered serious problems on his path to transformation and died in the universe.

The transformation paths of the later Ruthless Emperor and Ye Tiandi were not smooth sailing, and they were once on the verge of extinction.

Fortunately, Chu Tianshu's second life was already stable, giving him ample time to study the path of transformation for his third and even fourth life.

Regarding the method of transformation for the third incarnation, Chu Tianshu thought of the Chaos Body.

It is said that the Chaos Body encompasses everything; any physical form that has ever existed in the human universe is contained within the Chaos Body.

Moreover, the Chaos Body is in harmony with the myriad principles of heaven and earth. Even with a Great Emperor before him, he can ignore the suppression of the Great Dao and attain the Chaos Emperor's throne. Chu Tianshu even suspected that transforming into a Chaos Body was a crucial hurdle on the path to immortality in the mortal world.

However, transforming into a chaotic entity is not an easy thing.

As far as Chu Tianshu knew, there had only been two instances of the natural birth of a chaotic entity throughout history.

The first one is Wang Bo from the mythological era. Legend has it that his parents were ordinary mortals, and he absorbed the essence of the entire world as soon as he was born.

As for whether his parents were mortals, Chu Tianshu was skeptical.

Could the life essence of an ordinary mortal be sufficient to sustain the development of a chaotic entity?
The second is Ye Xian from the post-ancient era. Her parents were born with the bodies of the sun and the moon, respectively, and were born through the fusion of yin and yang.

In addition, the Ruthless Great Emperor relied on devouring the essence and blood of ten thousand royal bodies, fusing them into one, and thus comprehending the Dao of Chaos.

In his later years of the first life, he shed his old body and transformed into a chaotic form.

Ye Fan, on the other hand, nurtured the Hundred Scriptures in the furnace, went through several lifetimes, fused all the myriad paths into one furnace, comprehended the Dao of Chaos, and in his fifth lifetime transformed into a Chaotic Body.

The birth of Ye Xian and the experiences of the two later Heavenly Emperors undoubtedly pointed Chu Tianshu in the right direction.

Either delve into the principles of Yin and Yang, and through their harmony and interaction, comprehend the principles of chaos.

Or, like the two Heavenly Emperors, one can integrate all the myriad paths into one and comprehend the Great Dao of Chaos.

Regardless of the path taken, as long as one comprehends the Dao of Chaos, one can transform into a Chaos Body.

Chu Tianshu planned to pursue both paths simultaneously, comprehending the myriad principles of heaven and earth, attempting to integrate them into one, and ultimately breaking through the Dao of Chaos.

On the other hand, one must also study the principles of Yin and Yang, and try to harmonize Yin and Yang to transform into chaos.

He has enough time to study it. Even if he can't figure it out in his second life, the life essence he has accumulated over 60,000 years in his two lives will be enough for him to live a third life.

If Chu Tianshu's three lifetimes combined exceed 100,000 years, and he cannot even comprehend the Dao of Chaos, then the path to immortality in the mortal world is destined to be out of his reach.

Chu Tianshu shook his head, no longer considering these things.

Immediately, two immortal golden books appeared in front of Chu Tianshu.

It was the "Ancient Scripture of the Sun" and the "Ancient Scripture of the Moon" that he had stolen from the Sea of ​​Reincarnation.

If we were to say who has gone the furthest in the way of Yin and Yang throughout history, it would be only the Sun Emperor and the Yin Emperor.

"This is the first time I've studied these two ancient scriptures since I got them."

Since Chu Tianshu subdued the eight forbidden zones of life, he has been working to perfect his own Dao fruit.

After that, he tirelessly sorted out the myriad principles of heaven and earth, and revived the human world and the universe.

Then he secluded himself for eight thousand years before absorbing most of what he had learned.

Only now that everything is settled do he have the energy to study the ancient scriptures of the two emperors.

Chu Tianshu opened the "Ancient Scripture of the Sun," and an extremely strong and yang aura rushed towards him.

The ancient scripture is short, with only a few thousand words in total across the five secret realms, yet it vividly demonstrates the Sun Emperor's extreme Yang Dao.

Chu Tianshu even discovered the text of the Extreme Yin Path at the back of the ancient scripture.

Clearly, in his later years, the Sun Emperor attempted to transform himself into a Yin body in an effort to live out his third life.

"Unfortunately, the Sun Emperor's comprehension of the Yin Dao was still somewhat lacking, leading to his failed transformation!"

From Chu Tianshu's perspective, the Sun Saint Emperor's extreme Yin path still needs improvement and cannot be compared with his extreme Yang path; he cannot achieve the transformation of extreme Yang into extreme Yin.

Otherwise, a solar emperor might very well appear in the human world and the universe.

(End of this chapter)