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

There's no point in fighting Ye Fan to the death.

They had intended to use Ye Fan's coordinates to return to the Big Dipper Galaxy, but they never expected Ye Fan to be so persistent and so incredibly powerful.

Suddenly, the speeding Immortal Emperor stopped, his gaze fixed on the universe ahead, disbelief shining in his crimson eyes.

In the void, wisps of chaotic energy swirled, and within this chaotic energy stood an ancient and simple cauldron. This cauldron was radiating a vibrant immortal aura, and its surface was engraved with the sun, moon, stars, birds, beasts, and all sorts of ancient ferocious beasts, as well as mysterious patterns that were in harmony with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

"This is the Ascension Cauldron!" The Undying Emperor recognized the great cauldron in the chaos.

The Ascension Cauldron is an imperial weapon of the Emperor, so how did it end up here?

Not only the Ascension Cauldron, but also elsewhere, where ripples spread through the void, an ancient bell slowly flew out. The bell's sound resounded throughout the heavens, the celestial music of the Great Dao extended, and various extraordinary phenomena appeared. The top of the large bell seemed to be nurturing a vast universe. Upon closer inspection, one could see that the cauldron contained endless stars and the evolution of billions of living beings.

"The Boundless Bell!" The Immortal Emperor was shocked.

Above the Boundless Bell, a figure stood with his back to him.

Even if he were reduced to ashes, the Immortal Emperor would still recognize his nemesis: the Great Emperor Wushi.

"At the end of the immortal path, who will reign supreme!"

"Upon seeing the beginningless path, all is vanity!"

The Great Emperor Wushi stood with his back to the Immortal Emperor, his hands clasped behind his back.

On the other side of the Immortal Cauldron, an invincible, domineering figure appeared, exuding an aura that seemed to swallow the ages.

"You're still alive, yet you still recognize me?" The Emperor's gaze was piercing, his majesty unfathomable.

Even a mere wisp of energy was enough to terrify the Immortal Emperor, causing his primordial spirit to tremble.

"Your Majesty...you, weren't you dead?!"

The Immortal Emperor's face showed terror and fear. He never expected that the Emperor who had fallen in the mythical era would reappear.

Moreover, he was with the Great Emperor Wushi.

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Chapter 349 The Emperor's Dark Turn: Silencing the Undying Emperor

The strange world was deathly silent.

The wild immortals hidden behind the scenes were also unsettled. After a hundred years, this kid Wushi actually dared to come back again.

The key was to sense the power of the Great Emperor Wushi, who was clearly already a mortal immortal, and whose aura was no weaker than his own.

Even before the Great Emperor Wushi had advanced to the level of a mortal immortal, he was able to slip away from him.

Now at the same level, the wild mortal immortals of the strange world felt an immense crisis was approaching, as if a great calamity was about to befall them.

Of course, it wasn't just the wild immortals who felt the sky had fallen; the immortal emperor did too.

With Ye Fan chasing from behind and the Great Emperor Wushi and the Emperor blocking his way from the front, even if he grew two more wings, he wouldn't be able to escape.

The Emperor's aura was terrifying. Eternally, the Emperor was the ruler of the Heavenly Court and the strongest person in the world. He had several Great Emperors and Supreme Powerhouses under his command, as well as many Quasi-Emperor Generals. It was an era of extreme power.

"Emperor, Wushi!" Ye Fan was quite surprised to see the two of them.

However, considering their strength, which is enough to sense the strange world, they must have sensed their battle aura and therefore rushed over.

The Emperor's gaze was filled with majesty as he stared at the Undying Emperor without saying a word.

Wu Shi glanced at the Emperor, as if he had thought of something, but he didn't say it directly.

Instead, he looked at the Immortal Emperor and said, "Immortal, we have fought for many years. I never expected that you would also come to this strange world."

"Wu Shi, you're not dead yet." The Immortal Emperor feigned calmness and quickly recovered his strength.

“If you’re not dead, how could I possibly be?” Emperor Wushi said.

"What is your purpose in coming here?"

"You have already become immortals in the mortal world!" said the Immortal Emperor.

"Don't you have immortality?" Emperor Wushi asked in return.

"..." The Immortal Emperor.

"That's perfect. We were all once the most powerful figures of our time. Now that you've all become immortals, why don't we join forces to advance on the path to immortality and enter the Immortal Realm together?"

"We've waited all these years, all for the sake of entering the Immortal Realm and achieving a higher path." The Undying Emperor extended an invitation.

"Humph…"

"You dare to say that? You've ambushed those who have attained enlightenment countless times throughout history, including when I attained enlightenment. Do you really think I would join forces with you?"

The Great Emperor Wushi spoke coldly, and the pressure from the Red Dust Immortal made the Undying Emperor's scalp tingle. The two were no longer in the same realm; the gap between them was quite large.

"I can apologize. I am only seeking immortality and to become a celestial being. Besides, Fellow Daoist Wushi, you are fine, aren't you?" the Undying Emperor said.

The Great Emperor Wushi hadn't expected the Undying Emperor to be so shameless. "Your Majesty, the Undying Emperor once ambushed you. What do you suggest we do with him?"

"Simmer it! Simmer it!" Ye Fan shouted from behind.

Upon hearing this, the Immortal Emperor's face turned ashen, and he clenched his fists tightly.

"Immortal, you once joined the Heavenly Court and were a key figure there. Why did you ambush me at the last moment?" the Emperor said.

During the Heavenly Court era, the Undying Emperor was merely a quasi-emperor, while the Emperor Venerable was a pinnacle existence in the human realm, capable of taking on five or six contemporary emperor-level beings single-handedly, or even stronger.

The Immortal Emperor, a quasi-emperor, ambushed the Emperor, who could kill him with a single glance.

This is not a battle that the Immortal Emperor can participate in; the two sides are not on the same level.

However, the Immortal Emperor had an extraordinary background and knew many secrets of the Chaos Era. During the great battle, he did not directly attack but instead used the blood-stained Kunlun Immortal Bell to stab him in the back.

The Undying Emperor remained silent, looked up, and stared at the Emperor before him. He found that the face had not changed much in millions of years and was somewhat familiar. Looking back, he was surprised to find that the Emperor and Ye Fan looked six or seven parts alike.

“Your Majesty, I once followed you, but there are some things I must do. Your ambitions were too great back then,” the Immortal Emperor replied.

"Is the ambition too grand?" Emperor Wushi pondered, his back to the Emperor.

"I am the Lord of the Heavenly Court. I have spent my life fighting against the calamities of the ancient times. My achievements are praised throughout many eras. Your immortality is not a reason for your betrayal." A glint of killing intent flashed in the Emperor's eyes.

This murderous intent was naturally detected by the Great Emperor Wushi.

The Emperor and the Immortal Emperor clearly have a secret they can't tell anyone. They both know it, but they won't say it.

The Great Emperor Wushi once guessed that besides the Immortal Emperor, there was another ancient mastermind behind it all: the Emperor who had faked his death. However, there was no evidence, because the Emperor had never appeared.

Furthermore, after learning that the Emperor was his father's son from the mythical era and that the two were brothers, Emperor Wushi didn't think much of it.

It seems that the Emperor still has some secrets.

"Back then, you said you'd take us with you to ascend to immortality, Your Majesty! We all believed you, but did you really do it?"

The Immortal Emperor asked, "Although I cannot defeat the Emperor, I am determined to take a gamble for my own survival."

"I did it, and I was just one step away from success. If it weren't for your betrayal and the disruption of my Dao heart by the Eternal Life Celestial Venerable, how could I have failed in the end?!"

The Emperor shouted loudly, his voice booming, and an invisible force shook into the Undying Emperor's body, causing him to vomit blood.

"No, no! You did this for..." The Immortal Emperor was about to reveal the secret from back then.

The Emperor's pupils flickered, and a golden beam of light, like a divine punishment, pierced through the void. Before the Undying Emperor could react, most of his physical body was reduced to dust.

Fortunately, although the Immortal Emperor did not react in time, he was always on guard against the Emperor's underhanded tactics. He only lost half of his physical body and primordial spirit, but he was still seriously injured. If he were to suffer another attack, he would surely die.

The Emperor raised his hand, about to annihilate the Undying Emperor with a single finger.

The Great Emperor Wushi stopped the Emperor, "Emperor, don't be in such a hurry to silence him! Let him speak!"

Upon hearing this, the Emperor turned around and stared intently at the Great Emperor Wushi for a long time before finally sighing.

“What Immortal said is true. I did have my own selfish motives back then,” the Emperor said.

"But it's gone now."

The Emperor looked calmly at Wushi. Back then, because he had lost his father and was the ruler of the Heavenly Court, he commanded the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with great prestige. Although his achievements were remarkable, he also became arrogant, changed, and developed desires and ambitions.

If one cannot become an immortal in the end, then what is the point of everything one has done before?

Even emperors, supreme beings, and extreme figures, basically become more afraid of death the longer they live, and their will and fighting spirit are worn away by time.

The Emperor's desire to promote ascension and achieve immortality wasn't for the sake of the entire Heavenly Court ascending, but rather for some other reason…

Before he could even do it, he was surrounded and beaten by a group of thugs.

Therefore, in the eyes of many Heavenly Court generals, the Emperor is still the respected Lord of Heaven, the Heavenly Emperor, who has spent his life fighting and defending the human race for the peace of the universe.

Today, the Immortal Emperor is one of the few beings in the world who knows this secret.

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Chapter 350 Xu Yi and An Miaoyi

Due to the obstruction of the Great Emperor Wushi, the Immortal Emperor was not completely silenced by the Emperor.

The Immortal Emperor was taken into the Supreme Hall as the vanguard in the future fight against the strange race.

However, most supreme beings have a rebellious streak and cannot completely obey one person. Therefore, in the end, they brought the Great Emperor Wushi back to the Shrouding the Heavens universe and had his father, Xu Yi, plant an inescapable primordial spirit mark on him.

When the Immortal Emperor saw Xu Yi, he was completely stunned.

Even during the chaotic ancient era, he had seen supreme experts in the Immortal Realm. Some of these experts even raised the True Phoenix like a chick. But in the eyes of the Undying Emperor, none of them were as powerful as Xu Yi. They were not even on the same level!

Xu Yi had no objection to Wu Shi's actions.

The Immortal Emperor's talent is undeniable; he is among the top emperors. If nothing unexpected happens, he will have no problem advancing to the Immortal King level in the future.

However, the Undying Emperor had a karmic connection with the Ruthless Sister in his previous life. After the Ruthless Sister met the Undying Emperor, she beat him up, causing his physical body to explode. Ye Fan collected and stewed the remaining fragments.

As the supreme being of the ultimate path, he is the pinnacle of existence in the realm of humanity.

As long as the primordial spirit is not destroyed, a new physical body can be reshaped using the primordial spirit.

Faced with the Ruthless Great Emperor's attack, how could the Undying Emperor dare to resist? He never expected that the Ruthless Great Emperor had already reached the Immortal King realm. In the Chaotic Ancient Era, that would be a top overlord of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, or even the Immortal Realm!

As for Ye Fan, his brief experience in the strange world has come to an end, and he can only return to his own plane now.

In order to quickly improve his strength, Ye Fan began to move towards the path of immortality in the mortal world in his first life.

The time it took to become an emperor in this lifetime was only a hundred years, which is the peak period for the Holy Body. The blood and qi of the Ancient Holy Body are incomparably strong. While most emperors are already in old age at ten thousand years old, the Holy Body is at its peak at ten thousand years old.

Given Ye Fan's level, his lifespan in his first life should be at least 20,000 to 30,000 years.

However, it won't be so easy to pass through the first life peacefully, because the lifespan has changed. In the tens of thousands of years that follow, a strange race will invade, which will affect the entire world.

Once war breaks out, the entire universe cannot be saved; everyone may be buried, and an era may be destroyed.

At this moment, Xu Yi, Wu Shi, Di Zun, Gai Jiuyou, Jiang Taixu and others are all in seclusion for cultivation.

Xu Yi has been walking the path of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. He has already entered this stage. If he wants to enter the realm of Immortal Emperor, he must walk this path to its end.

Xu Yi has experience in achieving the status of an Immortal Emperor through the cycle of reincarnation, but just because he has been an Immortal Emperor doesn't mean he will necessarily cultivate to that level again.

Apart from the special and mysterious Immortal Emperors, the path of every Immortal Emperor in the heavens is unique. Each Immortal Emperor's path is a new system, a new path that cannot be replicated, and no two Immortal Emperors can appear on the same path!

In this life, Xu Yi's cultivation naturally opened up a new path. His experience of reincarnation in his previous life was the path to enlightenment, and his cultivation speed on this path was naturally faster than that of other quasi-immortal emperors.

Ancient and forbidden land.

Xu Yi awoke from his seclusion. These few times he practiced the Great Dream Divine Thought Freedom Technique, he did not enter the cycle of eternal reincarnation, but simply practiced. However, his understanding of the power of the Dream Dao and the Three Thousand Great Daos became more profound.

In a short period of time, he had made great strides in the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, far surpassing ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and his strength was improving almost every minute and every second.

As his strength has evolved, Xu Yi's perception of the unknown has become more acute.

He could sense that the Strange Clan was investigating and searching. The causal power in the dark was spreading throughout the heavens. With the strength of the Strange Clan, especially the unfathomable power of the Strange Immortal Emperor, it wouldn't be long before they found this place.

However, Xu Yi was able to sense that there was also a mysterious power in his own spacetime that was isolating it from all the heavens. However, this power was already very weak and, after the passage of time, it would disappear sooner or later.

Xu Yi understood that it was the power left behind by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor from countless ages ago, which could dominate the ages, sever the past, and completely hide a piece of history.

But this is not a long-term solution, because in the future along the original trajectory, the Shrouding the Heavens universe also could not avoid being destroyed. Spacetime shattered, billions of living beings died, and countless traditions disappeared.

Even the past of the three Heavenly Emperors has been erased. Although the Earth is constantly being reshaped and destroyed, its future trend is irresistible.

Xu Yi felt a sense of crisis, a sense of crisis that had been there for a while.

Even knowing that the three future emperors will all be above the Sacrificial Dao realm, a realm where everything is omnipotent and can be altered at will, and that all of time and space can be changed like a blank canvas, it is better to rely on oneself than on others.

Xu Yi did not expect to solve everything by waiting for the Three Emperors to become the Supreme Ones. Now that he had come here and cultivated to this level, he naturally wanted to move towards a higher level and solve the root cause of the world's chaos.