(The first day after returning to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands)
With that said, a full moon emerged behind Taiyin's head. Its phases cycled endlessly before finally turning into a ball of lightless pure black, becoming the utterly yin, utterly dark Dark Night.
At the same time, the Taiyin Moon Blade at Taiyin's waist left its sheath. He gripped it with both hands as vast, abyss-like Extreme Yin Power poured into it.
Silently, the Myriad Daos retreated. The remaining Immortal Domain laws within the void of the Immortal Ascension Road, along with the traces of laws from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, were torn apart together.
This stretch of void within the Realm Barrier of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands was forcibly ripped open, revealing a massive crack filled with endless immortal light and lightning.
Taiyin simply stepped inside.
Within the spacetime passage, endless chaos qi surged violently, boundless radiance bloomed, and limitless immortal light and heavenly punishment thunder roared madly.
It was like a foreign object entering the body and provoking a counterattack from the immune system.
This was the instinctive rejection of the Realm Barrier of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
The so-called Immortal Ascension Road was something like an external organ, forged by combining fragments of the Immortal Domain's Realm Barrier with fragments of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands' Realm Barrier, blending the laws of both.
Before the Immortal Ascension Road officially opened at the right time and place, whether one tried to force their way through it from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands or advanced toward the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands from within the Immortal Ascension Road—
It was like bacteria invading the body from outside, or flesh within the body trying to burrow out.
Either would trigger the instinctive rejection of the universe's Realm Barrier and bring about a tremendous calamity.
Even for a Supreme Being, it required their full strength to overcome.
Back then, after the Taiyin Human Emperor was gravely wounded by the immense power of the Boundary Sea, his Primordial Spirit and body shattered, and he nearly died after encountering some strange thing, his injuries had been too severe to withstand this repulsive force. He had been forced to abandon half his broken body on the Immortal Ascension Road.
As a result, when he finally returned home, not even a complete corpse remained.
At the end of the surging chaos qi, a faint glimmer appeared. Taiyin looked toward it and vaguely sensed the familiar aura of his homeland's laws. His gaze grew complicated as he murmured:
"My homeland, which I have not returned to for hundreds of thousands of years... I am back!"
He raised his hand and slashed again.
Within the universe known as the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, in that place where the stars were dim and deathly still, devoid of even the slightest trace of life or Spiritual Energy, where even spacetime had nearly come to a standstill and all that lay ahead was endless chaos qi—
The universe's borderlands, which should have been dim and lightless, suddenly blazed with light.
As tribulation clouds covered dozens of light-years, endless lightning writhed, Flying Immortal phantoms appeared, and a massive hole suffused with destructive aura suddenly exploded open in the Void.
Amid the endless heavenly punishment lightning, an incomparably powerful wisp of pressure capable of crushing a river of stars spread out. It ground away the tribulation clouds spanning dozens of light-years, causing the Myriad Daos to resonate in the Void as the Myriad Heavens' Laws emerged.
The imprint Taiyin had engraved into the Myriad Daos of heaven and earth when he attained the Dao during the ancient era hundreds of thousands of years ago, which had gradually faded with the passage of time, suddenly resonated.
As though injected with a stimulant, it abruptly rose with overwhelming force, suppressing all the other Myriad Daos of heaven and earth beneath it by itself.
Throughout the universe, within one life forbidden zone after another, the ancient Supremes who had divided up the Law Cubes filled with endlessly surging immortal qi in the starry sky over the past few days, then returned to their respective forbidden zones to absorb the Immortal Substance within that qi and restore themselves, all opened their eyes.
The universe was vast. To the weak, even traveling at light speed for tens of billions of years would not be enough to traverse its ends.
Yet to the strong, the universe was small. When moving at full speed, they could almost cross from one end of it to the other in an instant.
For Supreme-level figures standing at the peak of a realm, any anomaly caused by a powerhouse of the same level anywhere in the universe was difficult to conceal from their senses unless powerful Heaven-Deceiving Formation Patterns had been set up beforehand.
Whether it was the Primordial Ancient Mine, Undying Mountain, Immortal Mausoleum, Sea of Reincarnation, Underworld...
Every Supreme within every forbidden zone across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, along with all powerhouses above the Quasi-Emperor level, sensed a faint leak of law aura seemingly belonging to the Immortal Domain, as well as the resonance of the Myriad Heavens' Laws.
The weaker cultivators who had not become Emperors were already numb.
They no longer had the heart to howl and rage endlessly as they had a few days ago—(The heavens are unfair! Why has someone already attained the Dao and become a Great Emperor when the golden age has only just begun?)
A few days ago, they had already been shocked once by the dozens of Extreme Dao Pressures permeating the universe. Now, there was merely one more.
Deep within the Primordial Ancient Mine, endless immortal qi permeated the air.
The many ancient emperor clans that had sealed their entire clans since ancient times, waiting only for the Immortal Ascension Road of the Big Dipper Star to open, had all long since awakened.
Within one vast ancient mine cavern, space had been opened into a chaotic Secret Realm. The Dark Nether Clan and the Bright Clan, once mortal enemies in an age of incomparable antiquity but later reconciled because of a Forbidden Child, lived there together.
The Great Saints and Quasi-Emperor-level powerhouses of both clans had all awakened and were jointly worshipping a mysterious figure seated at the center, one possessing both traits as light and darkness intertwined.
There, chaos qi surged as ultimate light and ultimate darkness alternated and flickered.
There, every instant contained power comparable to the full-force strike of a Supreme Being, enough to erase an entire starfield.
Law Chains formed from intertwined White Tiger and Vermilion Bird laws continuously poured out from a golden-red cube, only to be forcefully suppressed by a massive hand.
That black-hole-like hand continuously broke down the Law Chains, which otherwise would have spread through hundreds of thousands of light-years in their surging flow and caused massive destruction, into incomparably dense immortal qi that filled the entire mine cavern.
It also refined from them faint yet unending Immortal Substance, enough to mend the cracks in the Immortal Platform.
The owner of that hand, the ancient emperor known as the Light-Dark Supreme, suddenly frowned. Divine light flickered in his eyes as he stared toward the universe's borderlands. "What?"
He recalled an infuriating battle he had encountered during the ancient era, when he had awakened and preyed upon living beings. His expression turned somewhat unsightly.
"This aura? The Taiyin Human Emperor! How is that possible?"
"He had clearly failed in his attempt to break through the Immortal Ascension Road and was on the verge of death. He dragged half his broken body down from the Immortal Ascension Road, and I personally delivered the final blow and plundered his vital essence!"
"Why? Why has he suddenly come back to life? Could he truly have become immortal?"
The Light-Dark Supreme's expression shifted unpredictably. A faint wisp of Extreme Dao Pressure spread out along with his emotions, making the bones of the Bright Clan and Dark Nether Clan Quasi-Emperor-level powerhouses worshipping around him creak as blood seeped from the corners of their mouths.
"Humph!" With a cold snort, the Light-Dark Supreme opened his mouth and swallowed the Law Cube in his hand, using his Ancient Emperor Weapons—the Light Staff and Dark Shield—to suppress it as he continued refining it.
He then walked outside.
He intended to visit several ancient emperors and Celestial Venerables who had once launched the Dark Turmoil alongside him, fought fiercely against the Taiyin Human Emperor, and forged mutual enmities with him.
A faint cold snort rang out. "Humph! Taiyin, so what if you truly became immortal? This is no longer the past. We have all obtained these strange treasures that fell from the Immortal Realm and recovered to our peak states. Even extreme sublimation will not inflict much damage upon us."
"So what if you are immortal? We will slaughter immortals! It is time to settle the old grudges completely..."
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