I, the Chaos Being, joined the chat group at the start.

“The power of sentient beings’ thoughts is indeed a path, but it is ultimately not one’s own power. However, there are no other quick ways to improve at the moment. If you want to try, then try, but don’t affect your own foundation,” Xu Yi reminded him.

Actually, he wasn't worried about Ye Fan, since on the path of sacrifice, one certificate is valid forever.

Even if his trajectory has deviated now, Ye Fan will eventually prove his Dao and ascend to the Dao in another way.

If Ye Fan had perished prematurely, then perhaps the Ye Fan who would return on the path of sacrifice would be the one who survives.

"I understand, Brother Yi." Ye Fan smiled and left.

The great era continued. With the establishment of the Heavenly Court, many experts flocked to it. Over the next few thousand years, the Heavenly Court had many quasi-emperors and even emperors. Ye Fan became the new Heavenly Emperor of the new Heavenly Court.

At this moment, the Heavenly Emperor was no longer a realm, but a special state of mind. After obtaining this state of mind, Ye Fan's strength increased rapidly. He spent ten thousand years entering the Immortal King realm, and his true combat power was no less than that of veteran top Immortal Kings such as Wu Shi and Di Zun.

Wu Shi, Di Zun, and others were exploring the realm of Quasi-Immortal Emperors and showed signs of a breakthrough.

As the chosen ones of each era, the strongest beings, given enough time and environment, their talents burst forth with dazzling brilliance.

During these ten thousand years, Xu Yi has been comprehending the Dao of Sacrifice, and has reached the most crucial moment.

Over tens of thousands of years, he gradually sacrificed himself, sacrificed his Dao, and the supreme Dao of all heavens, the countless orders of the heavens, seemed to be nothing but an empty shell.

This process was too dangerous. For a period of time, Xu Yi was even in a daze, losing all his memories. He was no longer himself and became a special contradictory being. Fortunately, all of that is over now.

The light of the Immortal Emperor still exists, and the Dao Fruit belonging to the Sacrifice Dao is being nurtured. His Dao coexists with all the heavens, and even once surpassed all the heavens. This is the Sacrifice Dao.

It sacrificed its Dao, but it is itself a special life form comparable to the Dao of Transcending.

But he never managed to overcome the final hurdle.

Even though his cultivation level was enough to suppress and kill the progenitor of the sacrificial path, there was still a barrier between him and the sacrificial path that he could not break through for the time being.

Xu Yi quickly realized that sacrificing oneself to the Dao not only requires one's own comprehension and cultivation, sacrificing everything, but also requires a life-or-death battle, facing death to be reborn, breaking out of the void of death and being reborn through a blood-soaked battle!

"It seems we still need to go to the plateau."

Xu Yi sighed. The life-or-death battle was extremely important. Even if he cultivated step by step, he might be able to enter the sacrificial path realm someday, but he didn't know when or how long it would take.

They can't wait, and they don't have that much time.

Miaoyu Nunnery.

Xu Yi came to visit An Miaoyi, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. An Miaoyi had been following his path for ten thousand years and had already stepped from the realm of True Immortal to the realm of Immortal King.

If we consider the actual time required for cultivation, it's impossible to reach the Immortal King realm in just ten thousand years.

Unfortunately, there was a complete path to learn from and cultivate on, with Xu Yi protecting him. This path was too stable, and his combat power was also stronger than that of other cultivators at the same level.

With An Miaoyi's Immortal King realm, she can remain undefeated against two or three Immortal King level experts at the same time, and may even be able to kill one or two of them.

An Miaoyi played the zither, brewed tea, and danced for Xu Yi. Her eyes were very charming, containing the gentleness of water, which could dissolve all kinds of complicated emotions in the world, but there was still a trace of worry in the depths of her eyes.

“Young master, I know I can’t stop you from going to the plateau, but you must protect yourself,” An Miaoyi said softly.

“I know, Miaoyi.”

"If it weren't absolutely necessary, I wouldn't want to deliberately touch this behemoth that is the plateau."

“But the Sacrifice Dao realm is difficult to break through by simply following the established path of cultivation. Even if my strength is enough to suppress a Sacrifice Dao cultivator, without taking that step, there will never be a qualitative improvement!” Xu Yi said.

An Miaoyi remained silent for a long time. She sighed that her cultivation was not enough to share Xu Yi's burden, and she also sighed that Xu Yi had already taken the fate of all living beings in the universe on his shoulders. There were many powerful people in this golden age, but at this moment, only Xu Yi had the strength to fight against the plateau.

She knew that Xu Yi was determined to succeed; if he didn't break through to the Sacrifice Dao realm, the destruction of the entire universe was only a matter of time.

She didn't try to persuade Xu Yi, nor did she say anything more. Instead, she poured her emotions into Xu Yi, wanting him to remember her forever and to have her love engraved in his body and soul.

This is a thrilling and exhilarating duel between spirit and flesh.

After parting ways with An Miaoyi, Xu Yi went to find Xihuang Xiaoxi.

The Western Emperor is diligently cultivating, but although she was once a great emperor of an era, now that she has stepped into the Immortal King realm, the difficulty of taking the next step to become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor is much greater than that of the Emperor Venerable and Wu Shi.

When the Western Emperor learned that Xu Yi was leaving again, he was very reluctant to part with him, tears streaming down his face, and he held onto Xu Yi tightly.

“My lord, if you perish, I will certainly not live on alone,” the Western Emperor said.

“You’re too naive, Xiao west. At my current level, the Highland Clan would have to sacrifice at least half of their resources to completely kill me. Besides, I can’t fight them to the death; I just want to find an opportunity to break through,” Xu Yi explained.

How could such an explanation possibly put the Western Emperor at ease?

What kind of place is the plateau? It is inhabited by ten ancestral-level sacrificial Daoists and ten strange Immortal Emperors. No one in the entire heaven can retreat safely in front of these beings, not even Xu Yi. Moreover, going to the plateau on his own initiative would be suicide!

"Remember, you must come back alive." The Western Emperor could not change Xu Yi's mind. She held Xu Yi tightly, her body sobbing softly.

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Chapter 405 Rewinding Time, The Tribulation of the Willow Goddess

“Brother, if you want to go, I will go with you.”

When the ruthless woman learned that Xu Yi was going to the plateau again, she suddenly became agitated. She grabbed Xu Yi and refused to let him travel alone.

"Little sister, I knew it."

“But don’t you have any faith in me? With my current strength, it’s almost impossible for the Highland Clan to keep me here,” Xu Yi replied.

"That won't do, brother. We'll go together once I break through to the Immortal Emperor realm," the Ruthless Empress said resolutely.

After ten thousand years of recovery and consolidation of his cultivation, the ruthless man has made further progress, but it is unknown how long it will take for him to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm.

"Time waits for no one. Only by reaching the sacrificial path will our world truly be qualified to compete with the plateau," Xu Yi said.

“But the Highland Clan is too strange, brother. You really can’t go alone,” the Ruthless Empress said.

“I’m not stupid. I can’t possibly go into the heart of the plateau alone. Besides, even if I wanted to leave, they couldn’t stop me,” Xu Yi said.

"Besides that, I've always had some worries in my heart. For many years, Liu Shen has disappeared without a trace. She attained the Dao of Immortal Emperor eons ago, so it's impossible for her to be gone now, yet she hasn't left any trace. Perhaps it's related to the Highland Clan."

Xu Yi looked at his ruthless younger sister in front of him, reached out and gently stroked her face to comfort her.

If conditions allowed, he wouldn't want to risk his life alone; wouldn't it be better to be with his lover, family, and brothers?

"Is it really absolutely necessary to go?" The ruthless empress sighed softly, her mood low.

“Yes, we absolutely have to go,” Xu Yi replied.

……

After reuniting with his family, Xu Yi once again embarked on the Journey Through the Heavens, heading to all the myriad worlds.

Just like many years ago, ninety percent of the planes in the heavens have now been conquered and sacrificed by the strange race.

The remaining worlds are just broken little worlds, and the cultivation system has even disappeared. Some worlds don't even have true immortals. They have no idea what happened in the heavens, nor do they know that one day in the future they will suddenly become sacrifices for the strange race.

Xu Yi left behind some of his legacy in some small worlds, hoping that these once-ravaged worlds could be revitalized and rise again.

At the same time, he searched throughout the heavens and realms, trying to find traces of the Willow God's existence or any marks he had left behind.

Unfortunately, in the vast universe, finding a single person is extremely difficult, especially when separated by such a long period of time.

Thousands of years later, Xu Yi found a piece of blackened willow wood in a broken world.

The willow wood was black and tainted by dark substances, but the aura of the Willow God still lingered on it.

Upon seeing this, his heart sank; the scene he least wanted to see had still happened.

Once, the Willow God fought in this realm.

"Tracing back to the source, will the past reappear?"

Xu Yi used his great supernatural powers to directly manipulate the river of time, causing everything that happened here ten thousand years ago to reappear.

Such supernatural powers are easily attainable for a Celestial Emperor.

However, if they are at the same level, it is still difficult to manifest beings at the same level.

But Xu Yi was too powerful; even the karma of a Celestial Emperor-level expert could be reproduced.

Time flows like water, its ripples never ceasing. Scenes of the past are transformed into fragments, reshaped in the endless flow of time, and eventually pieced together to form the landscape of the past.

In the past, this world was not yet broken and destroyed; it was clearly a civilization of immortals.

One day, Liu Shen, who had become an Immortal Emperor, came to this world and spread the Dao, creating several quasi-Immortal Emperor level powerhouses.

Just as Xu Yi had guessed, Liu Shen eventually left the Chaotic Ancient Era.

Back then, he remembered that after breaking through to the Immortal Emperor realm, Liu Shen restrained the Corpse Immortal Emperor at the Ultimate Ancient Emperor realm.

Does her arrival here mean that the Corpse Immortal Emperor has perished, or that the dark and polluted substances on the Corpse Immortal Emperor's body have been purified by the Willow God?

There are too many mysteries surrounding the chaotic past, and Xu Yi is currently unable to fully understand them and can only continue to observe the bygone era.

One day, this world was targeted by a strange race that wanted to destroy it!

On that day, black mist filled the sky, obscuring the sun. Three dark and eerie immortal emperors descended and sealed this world with a forbidden formation across the vast universe. In an instant, mortals without cultivation and low-level cultivators had their souls and life essence drained by the formation and vanished into nothingness.

Under such a formation, it's only a matter of time before even Great Emperors, True Immortals, and Immortal Kings are sacrificed.

"If those Dark Immortal Emperors had used such an array on the Shrouding the Heavens Universe back then, they probably could have made the entire universe disappear in an instant."

Xu Yi was shocked, yet also somewhat relieved. But his expression immediately turned serious; he had to break through to the Sacrifice Dao quickly.

Otherwise, if the highland tribe uses this powerful sacrificial method again, he might be able to stop them, but the creatures of his own world would not be able to.

Liu Shen fought a fierce battle with three strange Immortal Emperors. The battle lasted for a long time. Liu Shen did her best and killed one of the strange Immortal Emperors, but she was also seriously injured. In the end, Liu Shen had no choice but to retreat.

Looking back to the present, Liu Shen's fate is unknown, but being hunted by the strange clan, her chances of survival are slim.