Covering the Heavens: Its fortune endures forever, sweeping across all heavens.

"It was you! You're still alive! There's a score I need to settle with you!"

"When I attained enlightenment, you came to seize my destiny. I never imagined you would still be alive!"

The sounds from within the forbidden zone sent shivers down the spines of all the powerful races in the universe.

"Why didn't you stop me from reaching the pinnacle of sublimation? You should have that ability." Ignoring the roar from the forbidden zone, the Carefree Celestial Venerable asked Qin Tian amidst the endless lightning.

Qin Tian said with a faint smile, "When I was young, in order to face all kinds of powerful enemies, I had to use every means and calculate every possible chance of winning."

"But it's different now!"

"Above and below the heavens, I alone am supreme!" Qin Tian stood amidst the vast universe and spoke each word clearly.

"What a self-righteous arrogance!" The Carefree Celestial Venerable sneered, "You're already so arrogant before you've even attained enlightenment!"

"Let me test you to see if you have the right to be so arrogant!" The Free and Unfettered Celestial Venerable unleashed the full power of the Xingzi Secret Technique. His entire body was radiant and crystal clear, his feathered robes fluttering, making him look like a battle immortal about to cleave his opponent in two.

The Carefree Celestial Venerable formed hand seals and unleashed a secret technique, a supreme divine art sublimated from the Xingzi Secret Technique. One of his hands became crystal clear, and with a sudden tremor, it struck towards Qin Tian. The divine light was dazzling, and the auspicious glow was breathtaking—a light of time that shocked the mortal world.

The creatures within the restricted area frowned; this was an attack that posed a threat to them.

Oh, time!

"You can't defeat me!" Qin Tian's eyes evolved into double pupils, which in turn gave rise to the light of time and space. A wisp of eye sword connected the ultimate of time and space, tearing apart the light of the years.

With one hand resisting the Ninefold Immortal Tribulation, Qin Tian's Taiji Diagram, which had already been upgraded to an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, was in his palm, slowly rotating. The black and white true dragons intertwined, illustrating the scene of heaven and earth before they were opened, the chaos before the separation of Yin and Yang, and also describing the Great Dao from beginning to end, and then from nothing to something.

With his other hand, he pressed down on the carefree Celestial Venerable, displaying the supreme power of the flawless Great Emperor with every gesture.

Under the tempering of the Nine Heavens Tribulation, every part of Qin Tian's body was glowing, which was the activation of his supreme potential. It was chaotic and vast, like an eternal immortal light, like a Dao cocoon of Nirvana. Once he was born, he would be invincible in the mortal world.

The entire sea of ​​suffering was boiling, the spring of life was gushing out divine light, life and death, yin and yang, water and fire, all oppositions, all contradictions were transformed into unity at this moment, and the scriptures of the Sea of ​​Wheels reached perfection.

The Dao Palace Secret Realm has long since evolved into five torrents of primordial energy, like dragons, within which countless runes evolve and intertwine, transforming into a world of runes within the body.

This is the most mysterious Taoist repository. Qin Tian believes it to be the most unfathomable of the five great secret realms, not only containing the five elements of internal organs, but also capable of evolving and constructing the five basic elements of the universe.

It also encompasses the past, present, and future, and the three great bodies: the departed self, the true self, and the past self.

The primordial energy of the Five Elements Dao Palace flowed to the limbs and bones, making a rumbling sound. It was evolving the myriad phenomena of the four poles of heaven and earth, which were the pillars supporting the sky.

The universe shattered, and the world was created anew!

Over the course of countless millennia, he has already unearthed all the scriptures of the five great secret realms.

The dragon's joints crackled like popping beans, its golden back swaying, connecting with the passage of time. The endless river of time gave the dragon its power, and once it began, it could never stop, vast and mighty, carrying with it the power of the passing of all things and spirits.

The final platform was crystal clear and radiant, flowing with the light of immortality. Even though the great dragon had not yet leaped onto the platform, Qin Tian's body was still filled with the aura of the ultimate Dao.

With the five secret realms integrated, only the final step of perfecting the Immortal Platform remains to achieve a leap forward, attain the ultimate Dao status, and merge with the Heavenly Heart Imprint.

He sometimes transformed into a cauldron, sometimes into a tower, each time imbued with celestial aura. Kunpeng, True Dragon, Phoenix, Thunder Emperor, Heavenly Horned Ant, Nine Nether Hound, Nine-Leaf Sword Grass… these ten ancient ferocious beasts manifested as patterns on his body, surging with a tangible power.

"Open for me!" Qin Tian leaped like a dragon, arriving at the very core of the Heavenly Tribulation.

The next moment, unparalleled brilliance burst forth. This was neither the Dao nor the Law, but the ultimate release of one's potential and the full display of one's Dao fruit. The vast and mighty light surged across 100,000 light-years, annihilating every inch of the tribulation lightning. With the loss of the tribulation energy, the nine Dao temples collapsed one by one, and the shadows of the Nine Heavenly Venerables also dissipated.

As the calamity ended and light returned, Qin Tian descended from the sky and looked at the Carefree Celestial Venerable: "Next, only you are left!"

As the Celestial Venerable who wields the secrets of the word "行" (xing), the lightning tribulation did not cause him much harm after he adjusted his state.

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Chapter 458 The Emperor's Plot

Qin Tian was simply too strong. Even with some of his combat power restricted by the secret realm technique, he could still overwhelm the Carefree Celestial Venerable with overwhelming force.

The Carefree Celestial Venerable took a deep breath of vital energy, the primordial energy of the vast sky. This single action caused the Milky Way to dim, and the essence of countless stars reversed its origin and entered his body.

All races in the universe were horrified. At this level, they were consuming the most fundamental and primordial matter in the universe. If they did this intentionally, it would be a catastrophe.

"It's a pity I'm so old... otherwise I wouldn't have been able to kill you!" The Carefree Celestial Venerable sighed. He had just absorbed a massive amount of essence, but in the blink of an eye, ninety percent of that essence had leaked out to him.

His vital energy has deteriorated to the extreme, and he can no longer retain his essence. Now he is about to fall into a state of ultimate sublimation.

"Even if you come to fight me at your peak, what can you do? You will still die in the end!" Qin Tian's expression remained unchanged, with an unparalleled confidence. Even if the Mythical Celestial Venerable were to be resurrected at his peak, he was confident that he could kill him.

The carefree Celestial Venerable's eyes were sharp. Even though defeat was inevitable, he remained arrogant: "I have one last move. Please, the new ruler of the Heavenly Court, judge it!"

"Pursuing the Dao and chasing immortality, questioning the heavens, can it be eternal? The river of time—appears!" The carefree Celestial Venerable roared, his light engulfing the universe.

A river appeared, initially flowing slowly, then becoming rapid, roaring and rushing towards Qin Tian.

The river of time!

This is not a real river, but a manifestation of a law, flowing with the energy of time, overwhelming and rumbling like thunder.

Even with all his might and everything he had, the Carefree Celestial Venerable could only unleash one strike, but this strike was destined to be earth-shattering, reaching the pinnacle of offensive power.

Because this long river contains the Dao fruit of a mythical celestial being.

The river of time roars on, its brilliance engulfing the universe; no one can see clearly how time, like a knife, cuts down even the most proud.

"If I had faced this move before, I would have found it troublesome."

"But things are different now..." Qin Tian looked calmly at the rushing river of time before him.

Then, Qin Tian slowly extended one hand, from which Yin and Yang energies emerged, and the Five Elements and all things changed. It seemed slow, but in fact it was extremely fast, surpassing the passage of time, and he arrived first despite being a latecomer.

A crystal-clear hand took the lead and grasped the long river of time.

"boom!"

An earth-shattering collision was born, and fragments of time flew about, allowing all living beings in the heavens and the earth to witness this battle.

When everything came to an end, the carefree Celestial Venerable staggered, covered in blood, his precious bottle shattered, and the world was filled with mournful cries, a scene of utter devastation.

He ultimately failed!

"I have lost!" The carefree Celestial Venerable lay on the starry sky, his brow already cracked, a deep finger mark piercing through his celestial platform.

"The path to immortality is long and arduous!" The Carefree Celestial Venerable exploded, turning into dust, leaving behind only one sentence: "I hope you can complete the great work that the Emperor Venerable did not finish, and let the immortal path descend upon this realm!"

The Heavenly Emperor slew another Supreme Being, the Carefree Heavenly Venerable, one of the Nine Heavenly Venerables of Mythology, shaking the Ten Desolations and causing a great upheaval that shocked countless people.

.........

After killing the Carefree Celestial Venerable, Qin Tian returned to the Big Dipper. Memories flooded his mind, and a thought struck him: "An eye for an eye!" He thought of the Five-Colored Heavenly Blade and felt a surge of anger: "It is impolite not to reciprocate!"

The Immortal Emperor sent him a five-colored heavenly blade from afar, leaving him with many wounds.

Qin Tian has never been a magnanimous person; he's been quite petty.

Since they couldn't defeat the Immortal Emperor before, they didn't go to Mars to look for him.

But now that his cultivation has greatly increased, it would be unreasonable not to retaliate!

"Before that, I need to go to Sacred Cliff," Qin Tian murmured to himself.

The reason why the Great Emperor Wushi was able to withstand the Immortal Emperor's million-year cultivation with less than 100,000 years of cultivation is that...

The Immortal Taoist also contributed.

As the embodiment of faith of the Undying Emperor, the Immortal Daoist shares some similarities with the Undying Emperor in origin, just as the Undying Emperor attempted to study his acquired sacred body and Dao embryo to deal with the Great Emperor Wushi.

The Great Emperor Wushi had long ago discovered a way to counter the Undying Emperor by studying the body of the Immortal Daoist.

Although imperfect, it does have special attacks, which makes the Undying Emperor very wary. He confronted the Great Emperor Wushi on the Immortal Path for two thousand years, playing a game of "Red Light, Green Light".

Fearing that in the event of a real war, the Great Emperor Wushi would use the Immortal Daoist's origin as a template to understand his origin rules and then thoroughly refine the Daoist techniques targeting him.

Therefore, the usually prudent Immortal Emperor chose to wear down the Great Emperor Wushi.

He was very confident in his long lifespan, which spanned many lifetimes.

As he had expected, the Great Emperor Wushi did not gain much advantage. When the war actually began, he was outmaneuvered and was banished to a strange world by the Undying Emperor, from which he could not return.

Of course, the Immortal Emperor was not having an easy time either. He was injured by the Great Emperor Wushi, which forced him to undergo Nirvana prematurely. He sat on the ancient star Yinghuo for 80,000 years and has not yet completed his transformation.

Qin Tian took a step forward, and a golden road appeared beneath his feet, spanning most of the star field, returning to the Big Dipper, and arriving at the Sacred Cliff.

He also wanted to follow the method of the sages—borrowing the body of the Immortal Taoist to comprehend the original mystery of the Immortal Emperor, and thus deduce a peerless divine technique that could specifically defeat the Immortal Emperor.

After all, facing an existence at the level of an unparalleled Heavenly Emperor, it would be worth it even if it took all one's effort.

Even if it only gives us a slight chance of winning, it's worth it.

His fighting style can be summed up in two words: steady and reliable.

After all, although the current Undying Emperor is in a state of Nirvana and his strength is only a fraction of what it used to be, Ye Fan, who was at the Quasi-Emperor level in the original work, was able to force him to hide in the Strange World.

But that was a great feat accomplished only with the help of the Wushi Bell and the remote assistance of the Wushi Emperor.

Most importantly, the Immortal Emperor had no desire to fight, which forced them into the Strange World.

But Qin Tian's desired outcome was not simply to force the Undying Emperor into the Strange World.

As the saying goes, it is impolite not to reciprocate.

The Undying Heavenly Blade left him with numerous scars, and he also wanted to leave the Undying Emperor with an unforgettable memory.

He, Qin Tian, ​​is petty!

.........

Decades have passed, and the Sacred Cliff remains unchanged, entirely black, as black as ink. Countless ancient trees on it cannot conceal its presence. More than fifty great mountains are connected together, majestic and imposing, exuding an aura of immortality.

In the past, this sacred mountain forced him to be extremely careful, fearing that he might be robbed if he wasn't careful.

But now, when he sets foot on this demonic mountain again, it's as easy as walking on flat ground. There's no obstacle that can stop him, or even a supreme expert who is comparable to the flawless emperor.

The Boundless Dao Patterns that the Black Emperor used to constantly test are now nothing.

A Taoist priest appeared before Qin Tian. He looked the same as before, with a dull purple-gold crown on his head and tattered Taoist robes, as if he would turn to ashes at any moment.

"Fellow Daoist, it's been a long time!" Qin Tian greeted him with a smile.

The Immortal Taoist was shocked: "It's you? That arrogant brat!"

"How long has it been? You've already attained enlightenment?!" The Undying Daoist couldn't help but question his own existence. Could it be that the Great Emperor Wushi's seal also possessed the characteristic of obscured time?

How come he didn't know this before?!

Could it be that a thousand years have passed in the mortal world during the time he has been asleep?!

Otherwise, how could a mere child who had only just begun cultivating decades ago suddenly transform into a being akin to a flawless emperor?

This is simply unreasonable!

Qin Tian said, "I said before that I would release you next time we meet, and now I'm here to fulfill that promise!"

"Indeed!" The Immortal Taoist's eyes lit up.

"Of course!" Qin Tian nodded with a smile, "But I've already collected all nine secrets!"

"Can we change the compensation?"

"If you can really rescue me, I can teach you the scriptures of the ancient gods!" the Immortal Daoist said through gritted teeth.

"Sorry, I also have the Ancient Scripture of the Gods!" Qin Tian shrugged.

"How about this!" Qin Tian said casually, "Legend has it that the Undying Emperor was a phoenix descended to earth. I am very curious and would like to see your origin. What do you think?"

With the Immortal Daoist combined with the Heavenly Emperor's essence, he was able to develop a secret technique specifically targeting the Immortal Heavenly Emperor.

Although it couldn't play a decisive role, it was enough to leave a deep impression on the Immortal Emperor.

The Immortal Daoist's face darkened, as if recalling some unpleasant memory, and he said decisively, "Impossible!"

"Even if I am sealed away for eternity, I will never allow you to study my origins and use them against the Supreme Emperor." With that, the Undying Daoist prepared to dissolve this avatar and return to the seal.

"Hey, that's not up to you!"

"The tide has turned!" Qin Tian smiled contemptuously. Trying to escape in front of a flawless Great Emperor?!

Then all his ten thousand years of cultivation would have been for nothing!

Qin Tian reached out and grabbed the remnant soul of the Undying Daoist, unleashing an unstoppable surge of extreme Dao energy that caused the entire Sacred Cliff to erupt into battle.

"Is it really the Flawless Emperor?!" The Undying Daoist trembled all over upon sensing this aura.

"No, you are not yet perfect? ​​Yet you already possess this level of power..." A look of shock flashed in the eyes of the Undying Daoist. He had never even seen such a being before.

"Compared to the Emperor..."

At this point, the Immortal Daoist suddenly fell silent. As the embodiment of faith in the Immortal Emperor, the thought that had just arisen was already a form of blasphemy.