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

"The method of cultivation is indeed a path, but it is ultimately not based on one's own strength. However, there are no other quick ways to improve at the moment. If you want to try, then try, but don't let it affect your own foundation," Xu Yi reminded him.

Actually, he wasn't worried about Ye Fan, since on the path of sacrifice, one proof is eternal.

Even if his trajectory is off course 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 again would be the one on the sacrificial path.

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

As 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 gained many quasi-emperor level experts, and even emperor level beings. Ye Fan became the new Heavenly Emperor of the new Heavenly Court.

At this moment, the Heavenly Emperor is no longer a realm, but a special state of mind. After obtaining this state of mind, Ye Fan's strength increased rapidly. It took him ten thousand years to enter the realm of Immortal Kings. His true combat power is no less than that of veteran top Immortal Kings such as Wushi and Dizun.

Wu Shi, Emperor 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 shone brightly.

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

Over ten thousand years, he gradually sacrificed himself, sacrificed his Dao, the supreme Dao of the heavens, and countless orders of the heavens, as if leaving only 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 conceived. His Dao coexists with all the heavens, and even once surpassed all the heavens. This is the Sacrifice Dao.

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

But they never managed to overcome the final hurdle.

Even though his cultivation was enough to 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 the sacrificial ceremony not only required his own comprehension and cultivation to sacrifice everything, but also a life-or-death battle to live from death, to break out of the cocoon from the nothingness of death and be reborn through a blood-soaked battle!

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

Xu Yi sighed. The battle of life and death is very important. Even if one cultivates step by step, one may be able to enter the realm of sacrificial arts one day in the future, but he doesn't know when or how long it will 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 Immortals to the realm of Immortal Kings.

According to the actual cultivation time, it is impossible to enter the realm of Immortal King in ten thousand years.

Unfortunately, there was a complete path to learn from and cultivate on, and Xu Yi was there to protect and guide him. This path was too stable, and his combat power was much stronger than that of other disciples 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 actively touch this behemoth that is the plateau."

“But the Sacrifice Dao realm is difficult to break through by simply following the established path. 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 lamented that her cultivation was insufficient to share the burden with Xu Yi, and also lamented that Xu Yi had already taken the lives of all living beings in the entire universe into his hands. In this golden age, there were many powerful figures, but at this moment, only Xu Yi had the strength to fight against the plateau.

She knew that Xu Yi was bound 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 on his body and soul.

This was a fierce and exhilarating battle between spirit and flesh.

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

The Western Emperor is working hard to cultivate, 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 clung tightly to Xu Yi.

“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 most 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 mysterious Immortal Emperors. No one in the entire heaven can retreat safely in front of these beings, not even Xu Yi. So why would anyone go to the plateau on their own initiative? Wouldn't that 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.

/

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 allow him to travel alone.

"Little sister, I knew it."

“But don’t you have any confidence 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 still 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 countless ages ago, so it's impossible for her to be gone now, yet she hasn't left a single 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 go out and 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 towards all the myriad worlds.

Today, just like many years ago, ninety percent of the planes have been occupied and sacrificed by the strange race.

The remaining worlds are just broken little worlds. 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 a strange race.

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

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

Unfortunately, in this vast world, it is extremely difficult to find someone, let alone across 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 jet black and tainted by dark substances, but the aura of the Willow God still lingered on it.

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

Once, the Willow Goddess 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 by the Celestial Emperor.

However, if they are at the same level, it is still very 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 over endless time, and eventually pieced together to form the landscape of the past.

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

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

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

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

Does her arrival here mean that the Corpse Immortal Emperor has perished, or that the dark pollutants on the Corpse Immortal Emperor have been purified by the Willow Goddess?

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

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

On that day, black fog filled the sky, blotting out the sun. Three dark and eerie immortal emperors descended and sealed this realm with a forbidden array across the vast universe. In an instant, mortals without cultivation and low-level cultivators had their souls and life essence drained by the array, turning to ashes.

Under such an array, 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 startled, and even felt a little fortunate, but his expression immediately turned serious. He had to break through to the Sacrifice Path 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 fought with all her might 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 down by the strange clan, her chances of survival are slim.

Xu Yi held a piece of black willow wood in his hand. If the Willow God had not perished, it might have been contaminated by dark matter.

He could vaguely sense his own Dao Fruit within Liu Shen. Although Liu Shen had forged her own path with his Dao Fruit, there were still some connections between them.

Putting aside his complicated emotions, Xu Yi set off, instantly traversing the vast multiverse to reach the plateau.

Along the way, he conveniently destroyed several altar strongholds of the strange race and killed some quasi-immortal emperors and dark creatures.

As they approached the plateau, a thick, eerie black fog lingered for a long time. The dark matter was so dense that only immortal emperors could survive under such pollution; all other cultivators would inevitably be corroded.

Without uttering a few words, Xu Yi's power transformed into a massive golden handprint that covered the entire universe, unleashing a full-force strike towards the entire plateau. This single strike was enough to instantly destroy the endless universe, possessing immeasurable power of an Immortal Emperor; even the entire heavens could not withstand this blow.

The plateau trembled, and rings of eerie black shields appeared, blocking Xu Yi's attack. However, the entire plateau continued to shake, and the quasi-immortal emperor within was shaken to the point of vomiting blood. Low-level dark creatures were instantly annihilated!

"How dare you!"

A series of angry shouts resounded from the depths of the plateau. One ancient coffin after another slowly emerged from the thick black fog in the void, and one ancient figure after another slowly appeared. They were all priests, and the ancestor of the priesthood had appeared.

"It's you! How dare you come to the heart of my tribe's territory!"

One of the progenitors recognized Xu Yi as the strongest being who failed to conquer that universe back then, who suppressed the Daoist with the power of an Immortal Emperor. Now, many years later, his strength has become even more unfathomable.

It should be noted that the Ten Ancestors have been taught and improved by the High Priest over the years, and it can be said that they have all been upgraded. However, as a priest, they actually felt immense pressure from the Immortal Emperor, which is truly unbelievable!

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Chapter 406 Dark Willow God

A terrifying aura of darkness emanated from the eerie plateau and radiated throughout the entire universe, because throughout countless eons, very few had ever dared to venture alone into the plateau, and their fates were always extremely tragic.

Xu Yi looked at the several ancestral figures carrying coffins in front of him. Although they were at the Sacrifice Dao Realm, the pressure they exerted on him was not strong. If it were a one-on-one fight, he was confident that he could kill them directly. However, it was clear that the other party would not give him the opportunity to fight one-on-one.

Upon closer inspection, he realized that these ancestors were even stronger than they had been ten thousand years ago.

Clearly, in addition to them becoming stronger, these strange creatures are also becoming stronger, but the extent to which they are becoming stronger is different.

Without saying much, Xu Yi chose an ancestor and went to kill him directly.

The progenitor did not dodge, but instead slashed down with his decaying, dark, and chipped sword. This strike cleaved through time, tearing a massive rift in the universe. The destructive intent of the sword lingered, transforming into a long, dark river that rippled through the multiverse.

Xu Yi raised his hand and unleashed the Chaos Fist, shattering the Dark Greatsword with his supreme fist intent. The fist intent was as bright as the sun, dazzling and overwhelming, pressing down on the heavens of the plateau.

Immediately, all the ancestors made their move. The combined attack of the ten ancestors was so powerful that even Xu Yi, who was strong, had to avoid their sharp edge. Although they were all at the Sacrifice Dao realm, there were still differences in strength among those at the Sacrifice Dao realm.

However, in order to comprehend life and death and fully enter the realm of sacrificial rites, Xu Yi did not choose to hide, but instead confronted the ten patriarchs one by one.

This is an inconceivable thing. Throughout history, across countless eras, no one has ever been able to withstand the combined might of the Ten Ancestors. If the Ten Ancestors were to act together, they could completely reshuffle and restart the entire universe.

But Xu Yi did it. He actually fought against the ten ancestors at the same time. Even though he was at a disadvantage and suppressed, he was not without the power to fight back!

The battle did not last long. At this level of combat, every move was a killing move, a divine technique that was sure to kill.

At this moment, such intense fighting brought Xu Yi's body to the brink of collapse. His internal meridians were shattering, and bright red blood was constantly flowing from his body. The battle was extremely fierce, but the more this happened, the calmer Xu Yi became. He felt as if the whole world and time were slowly coming to a standstill.

In addition to the ten progenitors, the ten immortal emperors also joined forces, clearly intending to completely eliminate Xu Yi and give him no chance whatsoever.

Although these ten extraordinary immortal emperors were not as powerful as the progenitor of the sacrificial path, a few of them were still close to the level of the sacrificial path!