Cultivating Immortality: I Have a High-Martial World

The Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws could sense that his aura was rapidly diminishing.

After undergoing the Immortal Tribulation, he had reached the end of his life. If he could not become an immortal, he would die and disappear in a few days at most.

Under such circumstances, the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws was naturally extremely unwilling.

He looked up at the sky and asked the question: "Why! Why won't you let me become an immortal?"

The Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws exhausted everything he had and used up his last bit of strength to launch this final inquiry to the heavens.

However, Heaven is merciless. No matter how the Dao Ancestor of All Laws questioned him…

After a long time, as the Dao Ancestor of All Laws was about to perish, he finally heard that emotionless reply:

"In this world, there is no longer any chance for immortality..."

……

Ultimately, all laws are dead.

No matter how brilliant he was in life, no matter how many times he was the number one cultivator in the cultivation world, no matter how many preparations he made for crossing the immortal tribulation.

But after death, everything is gone.

Not even bones were left behind; the person was obliterated beneath the Great Dao, returning to Heaven.

However, the impact of the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws was far from over.

Wanfa, desiring to become an immortal, made a great vow when he was undergoing the ninth immortal tribulation, thus forging a profound karmic connection with the entire cultivation world.

Ultimately, after all laws perished, the sky of the entire cultivation world seemed to collapse!

The entire spirit realm plummeted from the endless sky, falling tens of thousands of feet, and landed on Yunzhou.

After suffering devastation and loss of life, the entire Yunzhou was ultimately crushed by the spirit world.

Thus, Yunzhou, one of the five major states in the cultivation world, came to an end.

After Yunzhou perished, the spiritual energy and Dao essence of the spirit realm were never the same again.

The Myriad Laws of Immortal Transcending Tribulation consumed too much of the fortune of the entire cultivation world.

As a result, the spiritual energy of the entire cultivation world declined within a few days, ultimately falling to less than one-tenth of its peak.

With the decline of spiritual energy, the entire cultivation world has entered the Dharma-ending Age.

That's not even the scariest part.

What surprised everyone most was that the Netherworld Qi swept through the entire cultivation world.

What is "dark energy"?

Ancient records from the Jiang Kingdom state that the heavens and earth gave birth to the Netherworld race, which resembled beasts and fed on humans and spirits.

The Nether Beasts have always been suppressed by the Heavenly Dao in the deepest part of the endless sea.

But now, the great karmic consequences are being applied to the entire cultivation world, causing the Heavenly Dao of the cultivation world to be incomplete.

The Netherworld Beast, which had been hidden in the deepest part of the endless sea, has reappeared in the world.

One after another, ferocious and terrifying beasts exuding a ghostly aura crawled out of the underwater hell.

They set foot on the lands of four continents.

They feed on living beings along the way; humans, demons, and countless other creatures are all prey for the Netherworld Beast.

The places the Nether Beast passed through became barren lands, where all spiritual energy dissipated and was replaced by Nether Qi.

In just a few short days, tens of thousands of cultivators from the four major continents died tragically.

Large states like Qingzhou, Yaozhou, and Zhongzhou, with vast and deep continents, can still hold off some of the resistance.

Yingzhou, however, offered almost no resistance!

Yingzhou was originally scattered across the endless sea like an archipelago.

The fall of Yunzhou caused the sea level in the endless ocean to rise by hundreds of feet, and nearly destroyed most of Yingzhou, leaving countless lives lost.

Then, the invasion of the Nether Beasts nearly destroyed the entire Yingzhou.

In the midst of the Nether Beast attack, Yingzhou, one of the five major states, was destroyed within a month, with only a very small number of cultivators managing to escape.

Thus, of the original five continents, only the three continents of Qingzhongyao remain.

Under this great threat, the cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage in Yunzhou finally took action.

It's not for the sake of world peace, but for their own sake.

If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold; if the five continents are destroyed, where will the spirit world be?

Therefore, on the first day of the invasion of the Nether Beasts into the four continents, all the cultivators in the Spirit Realm quickly organized themselves and sent cultivators to the lower realm to suppress the Nether Beasts.

However, after three changes at the Heavenly Gate, the overall strength of the Spirit Realm is less than half of its peak.

Furthermore, cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage face considerable suppression when they descend to the lower realms...

The cultivators of the spirit realm are not having an easy time fighting against the underworld beasts.

These Nether Beasts are not very strong overall, roughly equivalent to Golden Core to Integration Stage cultivators among humans.

There were simply too many of them, millions upon millions, constantly emerging from the depths of the endless sea and relentlessly encroaching on the four continents along the coastline.

Moreover, the nether energy emitted by these nether beasts greatly suppresses the cultivator's magical power.

Ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, when dealing with Golden Core stage Netherworld beasts, will suffer from being tainted by Netherworld energy. At best, this will disrupt their mana flow and greatly reduce the power of their spells. At worst, it will cause their cultivation level to drop, or even death…

Such an unusual phenomenon caused panic among the human cultivators.

Some cultivators suggested that perhaps once these Nether Beasts had eaten their fill, they would return to the depths of the Endless Sea.

However, after annihilating hundreds of millions of lives and occupying countless territories, these Nether Beasts have become aware of the dangers of invasion.

They are not very intelligent, far less so than the monsters.

But what's terrifying is the speed at which these Nether Beasts grow.

Almost every time these demonic beasts devour a living being, they grow rapidly...

After a full month of fierce fighting, Yingzhou, with the longest defensive line, was finally abandoned by the cultivators.

The cultivators from the other three continents and the Spirit Realm dispatched spirit ships to pick up some of the cultivators and mortals from Yingzhou.

Even so, more than 90% of the creatures in Yingzhou were devoured by the Nether Beasts.

Yingzhou became the base of the Netherworld Beasts.

Meanwhile, the cultivators from the Spirit Realm led the cultivators from the Lower Realm to defend the remaining three continents.

Using the coastline of each state as a battlefield and setting up cities every thousand miles, they attempted to block the Nether Beasts on the endless sea.

But how is that possible?

The coastlines of these three states are too long...

Even with 100,000 Nascent Soul cultivators, tens of thousands of Nascent Soul cultivators, and thousands of Void Returning cultivators coming down from the Spirit Realm to provide support, it would still be difficult to withstand them.

Because it was completely unclear from which direction these Nether Beasts would attack.

Human territory is being increasingly swallowed up, and more and more cultivators are dying in battle.

With the Nether Beasts continuing to grow stronger, the extinction of the human race is almost inevitable.

In an instant, an unparalleled gloom enveloped the entire cultivation world.

All of this happened within just a few months after the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws underwent his tribulation.

Cursing the Dao Ancestor of All Laws seems to have become a daily ritual for cultivators in the cultivation world.

However, compared to the cultivators corrupted by the Netherworld energy, another force played an unprecedented role in this great battle.

Musha!

Martial artists are not afraid of the corrosive effects of the Netherworld Qi, and their advantage in dealing with Netherworld Beasts is far greater than that of cultivators.

If martial arts breathing techniques hadn't become widespread a century ago, the situation in the cultivation world would have been even worse.

Qingzhou, where the martial arts breathing technique is most widely spread, is also the state with the best situation in the human realm.

……

Qingzhou, on the coast of the East China Sea.

Lin Chen, along with Jiang Liqian and a group of martial artists, were hunting down the Nether Beasts that were preparing to come ashore.

After the death of the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws, Lin Chen and Jiang Liqian no longer needed to hide.

All the past conflicts seem insignificant in the face of the Nether Beast disaster.

Therefore, the thousands of cultivators sent from the Spirit Realm formed an alliance with the cultivators of Qingzhou to fight against the Nether Beasts.

Lin Chen also joined in...

Lin Chen was naturally powerful, and the thousands of Great Xia warriors under his command (disguised as disciples of the Martial Arts Palace) were all elites.

But these Nether Beasts are impossible to kill completely; they keep popping up one after another.

In just a few months, Lin Chen led thousands of martial artists to kill at least hundreds of thousands of Nether Beasts, and he personally killed no fewer than 100,000 of them.

However, the casualties among his warriors remained severe.

Nearly 30% of the casualties were killed or injured...

In the entire Qingzhou region, the troops he led were in the best condition.

He heard that territories in both Zhongzhou and Yaozhou were beginning to fall.

On the battlefield, Lin Chen skillfully controlled hundreds of flying swords, hunting down the Nether Beasts. With each sweep of the swords, hundreds of Nether Beasts perished.

But as he watched the endless stream of Netherworld Beasts crawling out of the seabed, Lin Chen still frowned.

"This situation is not sustainable... Qingzhou will be destroyed sooner or later, not to mention the other states..."

"We must find the root of these Nether Beasts and eradicate them at their source..."

Lin Chen murmured.

He was well aware of this principle and had even tried it several times over the past few months.

He was highly skilled and daring, and he dived directly into the depths of the endless sea.

But there, Lin Chen sensed an incredibly terrifying aura, as if some being was continuously releasing these Nether Beasts.

Lin Chen knew that was the source of everything.

Unfortunately, Lin Chen was no match for that ancestor of the Netherworld Beasts.

As for the other Transcending Tribulation Ancestors, their strength in the lower realm was even inferior to that of Lin Chen.

In this situation, there is only one way to eradicate all of this—

Immortal!

Yes, one must become an immortal to fight against the Netherworld Beasts!

Becoming an immortal is incredibly difficult; even someone as powerful as the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws failed and perished.

At this moment, Lin Chen had no other choice.

So he found Jiang Liqian, and also contacted his master and friends...

He told them that he would be leaving for a while to seek a way forward.

If the cultivation world really can't be saved, then he can only try to bring a group of people back to the Blue Star world.

But this is the most helpless measure...

As for the current situation in the cultivation world, although it is not good, it can still hold on for some time.

Lin Chen must return to Blue Star to find an opportunity to become an immortal.

If you can't become an immortal in the cultivation world, what about on Earth?

Lin Chen had no choice but to give it a try.

In addition, the flow of time is different in the cultivation world and on Earth.

Lin Chen only had hope of breaking through to the Tribulation Transcending stage after returning to Blue Star.

Therefore, Lin Chen temporarily put aside everything in the cultivation world and returned to Blue Star through the Heavenly Ruins.

……

Blue Star, the forbidden cultivation ground in the back mountain.

"So, the calamity that Zhulong spoke of... is the calamity of the Netherworld Beasts?"

"I wonder how long the cultivation world can hold out?"

Lin Chen pondered to himself.

He has Blue Star as his backing, and if he is defeated, he can still cultivate and live on Blue Star.

But after hundreds of years of cultivation in the cultivation world, he couldn't bear to leave it.

"In that case, we have no choice but to give it a try... If we want to save the cultivation world, we must become immortals!"

"However, before that, we must first enter the Tribulation Transcending Stage..."

So Lin Chen stayed in the back mountain to comprehend the Great Dao of Time.

He desires to cultivate the Great Dao of Time to perfection and enter the realm of tribulation transcendence.

The path from mastery to perfection in the Way of Time requires a long period of time, and even more so, a fortunate opportunity.

Fortunately, observing the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws undergo his tribulation allowed Lin Chen to find an opportunity to reach perfection.

Now, Lin Chen will use this insight to break through to the Great Dao Perfection.

Lin Chen sat cross-legged, his mind clear and focused. In his sea of ​​consciousness, the River of Time reappeared.

Each scene represents both the past and the future.

Like peeling silk from a cocoon, Lin Chen absorbed the essence of time from the river of time.

Time seemed to slow down around him, even within a hundred feet of him...

……

Time flies like an arrow, summer passes and autumn arrives, cicadas chirp in the withered willows, and the Great Fire flows westward...

Sixty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

When Lin Chen finally finished his cultivation, he opened his eyes, which seemed to carry the vicissitudes of countless years.

He slowly rose and did a quick calculation with his fingers.

"Only a mere sixty years have passed..."

Lin Chen looked somewhat dazed.

In his sea of ​​consciousness, in that long river of time, he seemed to have traversed thousands of years.

But only sixty years have passed in reality.

"So that's how it is, a moment is eternity..."

Lin Chen seemed to understand something, and the hem of his clothes fluttered even without wind.

At that moment, Lin Chen's Great Dao of Time finally reached perfection.

He also successfully entered the tribulation stage!

"Having perfected the Great Dao of Time, I have finally entered the Tribulation Transcending stage... Next, I will become an immortal!"

"But where are the immortals?"

Lin Chen fell silent.

Having witnessed the scene of the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws undergoing tribulation, Lin Chen was now somewhat at a loss as to what to do.

Even someone like the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws failed under the Immortal Tribulation.

It's simply because he lacks the destiny to become an immortal... but where can Lin Chen find this destiny?

"A chance to attain immortality is truly rare!"

"Even with the opportunity to become an immortal... with my current strength, it would be very difficult to withstand that immortal tribulation..."

Lin Chen silently recalled for a moment.

The fact that the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws underwent the Ninefold Immortal Tribulation greatly benefited Lin Chen, allowing him to understand the power of the Immortal Tribulation.

Without the help of the fortune of the cultivation world, even someone as powerful as the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws could only withstand the eighth level of the Immortal Tribulation.

Lin Chen at present is probably only at the level of undergoing the fifth level of immortal tribulation, which is far from his goal of transcending the ninth level of immortal realm.

"The gap between me and the myriad laws... in terms of magical power, the Great Dao... is vastly different, but my advantage lies in my physical body, which is stronger than that of the Dao Ancestor of the Myriad Laws."

Lin Chen pondered to himself.

Theoretically speaking, since they are all ancestors who have undergone tribulation, their magical power is based on the same foundation.

However, Wanfa has accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years, while Lin Chen's foundation is still shallow.

In addition, many cultivation techniques and secret methods also have the effect of strengthening true essence and magical power.

The Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Laws must have cultivated countless techniques before his true essence reached the pinnacle of the Tribulation Transcending stage.

At this moment, Lin Chen was also preparing to cultivate all techniques and strengthen his true essence.

"The matter of magical power is easy to resolve; it simply involves cultivating more techniques and supernatural abilities, and using more spirit stones and spirit dew for cultivation..."

"And my use of the Great Dao of Time to fight against the Immortal Tribulation is far from enough."

The Great Dao of Cause and Effect of All Laws is no weaker than Lin Chen's Great Dao of Time, but it is far inferior in its ability to withstand the Immortal Tribulation.

Ultimately, by relying on dozens or even hundreds of Great Dao Laws, they were able to withstand the seventh and eighth tribulations of lightning.

Lin Chen also planned to cultivate more of the Great Dao, and with the Myriad Laws Mirror in his possession, it wouldn't be difficult for him to do so.

"As for the connection to immortality, that remains a mystery for now..."

Lin Chen shook his head. He planned to first raise his physical strength to the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage, and as for his immortal destiny, he could only rely on luck.

So Lin Chen continued to cultivate in the back mountain.

The spiritual energy here is more abundant than in the cultivation world. In addition, before returning, Jiang Liqian gave Lin Chen almost all the spirit stones and spirit dew from the Jiang Kingdom's treasury.

This will provide Lin Chen with sufficient resources for cultivation.

So Lin Chen began to practice the cultivation techniques left behind in the Jiang Kingdom's Scripture Pavilion.

The cultivation methods are as vast as the ocean, but Lin Chen only sought methods to enhance his true essence and magical power within them...

And so, another sixty years have passed.

On the back mountain, jade slips and ancient books that had been used for cultivation were piled up like mountains.

In the span of sixty years, Lin Chen has learned at least a hundred martial arts techniques, and his true essence has more than doubled in strength.

But that alone is far from enough.

The reason he paused his cultivation was because...

The Myriad Laws Mirror, dormant for 120 years, has awakened! (End of Chapter)