Relying on Such a Shortcut to Become Immortal—They Don't Even Have a Single True Daoist
Relying on Such a Shortcut to Become Immortal—They Don’t Even Have a Single True Daoist
Empress Huang Yu had never revived—this was merely a wisp of spiritual fluctuation she had left behind?
The members of the Ascension Celestial Dynasty who had rushed here were all dumbstruck, unable to believe any of it, unable to accept it. The first Empress to achieve the imperial throne during the Era of the Great Annihilation—she had long since departed from this world?
Moreover, her body had long since passed away in meditation, leaving behind only a skull. All traces of her had faded away, leaving only an emotion of yearning and pursuit?
Empress Huang Yu was a heaven-blessed woman of peerless talent and brilliance. What person in this world could possibly be worthy of her pursuit, worthy of her searching for his footsteps?
Such a spiritual fluctuation left the hearts of the Ascension Celestial Dynasty’s people trembling, unable to accept it, even more unable to believe it. But from the Era of the Great Annihilation until now—how distant was that? It was a despairingly long stretch of years. How could Empress Huang Yu have lived that long?
This was actually the fact that was easier to accept. That stretch of time was truly too distant. Even beings of the Immortal Dao likely could not live that long, let alone in this world which lacked Life-Extending Matter. The lifespan of a True Daoist was merely tens of thousands of years.
No matter how heaven-defying Empress Huang Yu was, she could not possibly reverse the great tide of heaven and earth, surviving from that distant era all the way until now.
“This is Heaven destroying our Ascension Celestial Dynasty!”
The Emperor of Ascension was the first who could not accept this reality. His vision went black, and if not for the ministers beside him supporting him, he would likely have already collapsed to the ground.
This was a great, great sorrow. He had thought hope had arrived, but never expected that what he saw was true despair.
Empress Huang Yu was long gone, and this was not her true body either.
“That is not Empress Huang Yu’s true body. It is merely a Dharma Body left behind, possessing a wisp of her original self’s spiritual fluctuation. It has already begun to dissipate now.”
“I said it—how could anyone in this world live that long? Empress Huang Yu achieved the Dao right after the Era of the Great Annihilation.”
“It truly is too distant.”
“Even achieving Immortal status, one could not possibly survive that long.”
Divine sense fluctuations vast as an ocean surged above the Northern Dipper Star Territory.
The Quasi-Emperor beings who had just been alarmed into coming all approached wielding Nirvana Grade Artifacts, wanting to see whether Empress Huang Yu truly still existed in this world, or whether she had left behind some contingency.
But very quickly, they noticed that the white-robed figure who had just suppressed the four seas and eight wastelands was slowly dissipating, no longer possessing that world-suppressing might. She was like a flame burning away its final radiance, a meteor flashing past in an instant—brilliant for but a moment, then returning to silence.
They could even sense a residual spiritual fluctuation—it was regret, it was yearning, it was remembrance.
“What exactly happened, that Empress Huang Yu, even at the moment of her passing in meditation, was still pursuing? Was she pursuing someone?”
“Why would Empress Huang Yu’s spiritual fluctuation awaken at this time? Could it be she sensed something?”
They were incomparably shocked, finding it inconceivable.
In the records of ancient texts, Empress Huang Yu was so magnificently peerless, so dazzlingly radiant. Countless people looked up to her. She suppressed an entire era, and even Cultivators of later generations held reverence and admiration for her in their hearts.
Such an extraordinary woman, yet in the end she died with regret, passing away in meditation deep within the Ascension Celestial Dynasty.
In a trance, everyone saw a white-robed figure gazing distantly in a certain direction, her face full of regret.
She had once left this universe, wanting to pursue the traces of a certain person. She had also lingered long outside Gods’ Ruins, but in the end returned without success. Her lifespan drew near its end, beauty turned to skeleton, and she died of old age deep within the Ascension Celestial Dynasty.
A sigh of regret, mournful and long, echoed in everyone’s ears, as if they heard a murmur—
“So... you were never a person of this world.”
The strongest beings of the Northern Dipper Star Territory and even the surrounding star territories all had changing expressions at this moment.
The residual spiritual fluctuation was powerful to such a degree?
It even, in a trance, gave them a certain illusion—that Empress Huang Yu actually still existed in this world, merely surviving in another form.
Moreover, what did those words mean? Were they spoken to the person she pursued?
According to ancient legend, in her childhood, Empress Huang Yu once mistakenly entered Gods’ Ruins and received guidance from the Lord of Gods’ Ruins. Afterwards, she also searched everywhere for the location of Gods’ Ruins. Could the person she pursued be that mysterious Lord of Gods’ Ruins?
And now, a heaven-shaking upheaval had occurred within Gods’ Ruins, and the residual spiritual fluctuation left behind after Empress Huang Yu’s passing had suddenly awakened. Could it be because she sensed the existence of the Lord of Gods’ Ruins?
“How is this possible? No matter how mysterious Gods’ Ruins is, no matter how ancient its origins...”
“But what person could live that long? Before the Era of the Great Annihilation, Gods’ Ruins was said to already exist. That incomparably mysterious Lord of Gods’ Ruins within it possesses cultivation that pierces heaven and earth, but even if he were an Immortal, he absolutely could not live that long.”
Divine sense fluctuations surged. Above the Northern Dipper Star Territory, terrifying figures stood one after another, dreadful runes revolving around them, as if they were shrouded within Chaos Energy.
Some had true bodies as tall as mountain peaks, while others appeared with Human faces. All of them stared fixedly at the abnormal changes within the Northern Dipper Star Territory, astonished and uncertain.
Within Gods’ Ruins, divine light still surged toward the heavens. Endless Grand Runes rose and fell there, one after another, like a vast ocean, radiating a heavy, majestic pressure as if it could collapse the myriad ages of the heavens.
A divine tree blotted out the sky and covered the sun. Its spreading branches and leaves were practically like a flourishing small world, emitting rumbling, terrifying sounds that pressed down upon their minds and souls.
One must know, they were Quasi-Emperor beings, yet they did not have the slightest courage to step toward that place, let alone venture deep into Gods’ Ruins at this time.
If Empress Huang Yu’s spiritual fluctuation truly awakened because she sensed the aura of the Lord of Gods’ Ruins, then to them, that would absolutely be a world-shaking matter.
Just how long had that Lord of Gods’ Ruins lived?
Merely thinking about that number made their souls tremble and their scalps go numb.
And at this moment, deep within the land of Gods’ Ruins—
Huala huala.
Branches and leaves rustled against each other as the Tree of Epoch swayed. Every leaf bore world-patterns, and the sounds it produced were both majestic and profound.
Beneath the Tree of Epoch, a blurry white-robed figure sat cross-legged, immortal light coiling around him, Chaos Energy shrouding him, transcendent and otherworldly.
His entire being seemed to sit cross-legged deep within reincarnation itself, his aura ethereal and elusive. Even those most familiar with him would find it difficult to determine his identity.
Strange Grand Runes rose and fell around him, filled with a vast, supreme power that could crush all rules.
Suddenly, this cross-legged white-robed figure stirred slightly, then began to turn blurry, as if in an instant he perished from the void, then was born anew from the void.
In merely an instant, the transformation from void to solid was complete.
“It seems I arrived in time.”
Gu Changge opened his eyes. His gaze was profound, with terrifying world-ending scenes of collapsing heavens and annihilating universes surfacing within them, before settling back into an abyss-like stillness, silent and waveless.
He had left a Dharma Body in this place. Though it served the purpose of guarding the Epoch Dao Fruit, its greater function was as a spatial coordinate, allowing his true body to descend here, thereby saving considerable travel time.
Looking at it now, he had arrived in time. The army of the Beyond had not yet truly descended—what had come were merely vanguard troops sent to die as cannon fodder.
“Thank you for your hard work during this time.”
Gu Changge looked toward the breathtakingly beautiful figure standing on the other side of the Tree of Epoch.
Tao Yao nodded, not saying much, only the gaze she directed at him revealing a trace of complexity.
Although she had previously agreed to help Gu Changge with a favor, she had not expected the scheme he set up would be so grand—using the Tree of Epoch as bait to lure the Beyond into coming.
From the looks of it, he intended to sacrifice this entire universe, thereby burying and destroying those Dao Traditions of the Beyond, using it to fulfill himself and take that step onto that path.
In terms of accumulation, the current Gu Changge indeed could not compare to those Hidden Experts.
So he could only rely on such a shortcut to become Immortal.
“Never mind. Whatever secrets are hidden within that Gods’ Ruins in the Northern Dipper Star Territory, it is no longer something we can pry into. According to news from the other star territories, beings from other universes have already descended—a full four True Daoists leading them.”
At this moment, above the Northern Dipper Star Territory, a Quasi-Emperor being suddenly spoke, his expression changing drastically upon learning the news transmitted from distant star territories.
The Resplendence Universe’s territory was vast and boundless, but to True Daoists, the ends of the earth were but a step away. They could rush here very quickly.
The urgent matter now was to leave the Northern Dipper Star Territory as quickly as possible, and at the same time evacuate this universe.
“The target of those beings is absolutely that divine tree within Gods’ Ruins. If the Lord of Gods’ Ruins is still around, such an existence whose cultivation spans heaven and earth—once he acts, he could destroy heaven and earth at will. A single fluctuation would be enough to kill us ten thousand times over.”
“This place will soon become a land of calamity. Staying long brings us no benefit whatsoever.”
They were very decisive. Their figures departed from above the Northern Dipper Star Territory, planning to return to their respective clan lands and ancient stars, taking their clansmen to flee far away.
But the next moment, terrifying rumbling sounds came from the ends of heaven and earth, sweeping across everything.
“Not good... too slow, it’s already too late.”
“How is their speed so fast?!”
The Quasi-Emperor beings standing above the Northern Dipper Star Territory all had drastically changing expressions, incomparably horrified, unable to believe it.
From the moment they received the news to their arrival at the Northern Dipper Star Territory, only a few breaths of time had passed—yet this terrifying army had already descended.
This truly made them tremble, horrified to the extreme.
Vast black shadows, dense and countless, swept across like a flood—knights riding beasts, poised for battle atop Ancient Battleships, all wielding heavenly blades and Heavenly Daggers, their blood qi surging to the heavens.
The leading True Daoist’s gaze was cold and emotionless, carrying mockery as it swept across the many star territories, causing many great stars to tremble and quake, nearly falling from the sky.
These Ancient Battleships were majestic and enormous, as if charging along a cosmic passage, their speed extremely fast, accompanied by heaven-shaking momentum.
All the Cultivators and living beings along the way were terrified to the extreme, their faces deathly pale, despairing and horrified.
A ghastly killing intent enveloped the entire star territory, as if the winter of the apocalypse had arrived and life was withering away.
This was the True Daoist fluctuation that had just been reported.
“Hahaha, merely a spiritual fluctuation left behind by a skull—this Resplendence Universe actually can’t even produce a single True Daoist.”
“Why would the Tree of Epoch choose to take root in this universe? What a waste of a heavenly treasure.”
Gazing at the Northern Dipper Star Territory, now within arm’s reach, the vanguard army that had charged over from the Beyond finally came to a halt in the sky. Ancient Battleships hung in the air, a great black mass, carrying terrifying pressure that seized the hearts of all.
Among the four leading True Daoists, one with a snow-white, bloodless face and snake-like eyes spoke.
He swept a cold laugh over everything below, his voice carrying undisguised mockery.
Just moments ago, they had sensed the aura of a True Daoist emerging from the Northern Dipper Star Territory, suppressing the entire universe, even reaching all the way to them.
So they had spurred their mounts even faster to rush over, but never expected that the True Daoist they saw would turn out to be merely a residual spiritual fluctuation from a skull.
This completely exceeded their expectations, making them unable to resist laughing in derision, not bothering to conceal their contempt for the Resplendence Universe and the Northern Dipper Star Territory.
Even the strongest beings in the surroundings were merely at the Quasi-Emperor level, and of an extremely low level at that. Compared to the True Daoist realm, it was practically like being separated by an insurmountable chasm.
They needed only a single finger to poke these Quasi-Emperors to death, like poking ants to death, without expending the slightest effort.
Hearing this undisguised, cold voice, all the living beings within the Northern Dipper Star Territory despaired to the extreme, kneeling prostrate on the ground, trembling incessantly.
Many of them had been abandoned and left behind, or the Dao Traditions and forces behind them lacked the ability to traverse the star territories and take them away from the Northern Dipper Star Territory, so they could only remain here.
The upheaval within Gods’ Ruins, its fluctuations sweeping across the entire universe—they had long known the Northern Dipper Star Territory was destined to flow with blood, becoming a land of calamity from which no one could escape.
They just never expected these despair-inducingly powerful beings would come so quickly, not giving them even a sliver of a chance at survival.
Since the Era of the Great Annihilation, how many True Daoists had the Resplendence Universe produced?
Yet now, a full four had appeared, standing above the Northern Dipper Star Territory, their cold and terrifying fluctuations suppressing everyone until their souls were on the verge of collapse.
“It’s over, it’s all over. No one who comes can save us. The Northern Dipper Star Territory will soon be destroyed.”
Within the Ascension Celestial Dynasty, the Emperor of Ascension’s face was deathly pale. His entire body went limp outside the clan grounds, filled with despair.
Four True Daoists representing invincibility.
Even if Empress Huang Yu had not passed away in meditation, she could not possibly match them. This was a certain death in itself.
“The fluctuation of the Tree of Epoch is in that place. How strange—there’s actually a fluctuation coming from there that makes my heart palpitate.”
The other three True Daoists swept their gazes across the Northern Dipper Star Territory below, finally fixing their eyes upon Gods’ Ruins.
After all, the radiance there was truly too blazing, practically piercing through the heavens. The fluctuations permeating from it surged like waves crashing toward them, accompanied by the sound of a world, vast and majestic.
Under such an aura, even they felt considerable pressure.
Within Gods’ Ruins, that divine tree was boundlessly enormous, blotting out the sky and sun, its branches and leaves unfurling with rumbling sounds. Every branch and leaf seemed draped and shrouded in vast Chaos Energy, capable of bearing up the heavens themselves.
Without a doubt, this was the Tree of Epoch they had been searching for all along.
“It seems the Tree of Epoch did not accidentally fall here back then—it was brought here by someone, and finally planted within.”
The first True Daoist to speak revealed a burning gaze. Without hesitation, he struck, wanting to probe the mysteries of that region, to see whether he could charge in and take the Tree of Epoch away.
Boom!
The firmament trembled. A silver giant hand suddenly reached out, as if woven from moonlight, silver light brilliant, Grand Runes coiling around it, capable of smashing everything to pieces—striking directly toward Gods’ Ruins within the Northern Dipper Star Territory.