Immortal Kingdom Truth

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The Sanqing Hall faction.

When True Person looked at Lin Yuan, the legendary figure who had joined forces with Master True Person a hundred years ago to besiege Emperor Tianji, and saw him smiling obsequiously at Gu Jinlai, his heart sank.

"It's over."

Master True Person's face was full of bitterness.

It's all over!

They originally summoned Lord Lin Yuan to deal with Xuan Tianzun.

After dealing with the culprit, Xuan Tianzun, Lin Yuan clearly needed some people to help him deal with the remaining members of the True Immortal Palace.

This position originally belonged to their Sanqing Hall.

After all, even disregarding the relationship between Lin Yuan and Wushi True Person, in terms of strength alone, the Sanqing Palace was the strongest among the various forces within the Qiantian territory at that time.

The plan was perfect, but then, Gu Jinlai, the palace master of Lingxiao Palace who had been missing for over a year, suddenly reappeared, bringing with him a celestial dragon!

The ultimate beast taming power, comparable to a true immortal on land—the Heavenly Dragon!

With this Heavenly Dragon present, the Sanqing Palace is no longer the strongest force within the Qiantian Realm.

Despite the favor shown by the True Person Wushi, the Sanqing Palace has no reason to worry about what Lin Yuan might do to them. However, Lin Yuan might choose the stronger Lingxiao Palace over the slightly weaker Sanqing Palace in order to pursue efficiency and completely annihilate the True Immortal Palace as soon as possible, thus needlessly adding variables to the Sanqing Palace's unification of Qiantian.

Therefore, upon seeing Gu Jinlai, he used the pretext of Xuan Tianzun, employing a nine-truths-one-false approach, to quickly provoke a conflict between Lin Yuan and Gu Jinlai.

Things unfolded as he had predicted.

Lin Yuan has made his move against Gu Jinlai.

Not only Lin Yuan, the Lord of the Abyss, but also Jin Haoran, the True Immortal who accompanied him, displayed his unparalleled power as a True Immortal.

But the one thing he didn't expect was...

The Lord of the Abyss, who could even besiege and kill the Heavenly Emperor a hundred years ago, has been defeated.

Even Jin Haoran, a legendary immortal in Qiantian, was defeated.

They were defeated by Gu Jinlai, the master of Lingxiao Palace.

All his scheming and plotting vanished as Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran bowed their heads at the same time.

Gu Jinlai, it has directly descended upon the heavens with overwhelming power, sweeping away all demons and monsters.

That is to say...

He.

"Reason..."

Lin Yuan, Jin Haoran, and Liu Yuxi exchanged a secret glance, and finally decided to tell the truth, "Since the Ancient Palace Master has traveled to the Holy Dynasty, he should have heard about the current situation of our Immortal Kingdom and the spiritual power that the Holy Dynasty has formed from the grotto heavens?"

Gu Jinlai nodded. "The war between the immortal kingdom and the Demonic Beasts in the Blood Swamp Demon Abyss?"

"Right."

Lin Yuan nodded heavily. "The Blood Abyss is a large abyss, quite far from the Immortal Kingdom. When we discovered it, this abyss was just a little short of expanding into a super-large abyss, which would have been able to accommodate the arrival of the Devil Master. Fortunately, there was a Star Gate that immediately transferred the cave heavens there, which barely managed to block the Demonic Beasts army. But that was all."

This top expert from Qian Tian solemnly said, "The Devil Master is even more powerful than the Spirit Venerable. Once he descends, the Immortal Lords' grotto-heavens will inevitably be unable to withstand the calamity of the Demonic Spirit. At that time, the entire Immortal Kingdom will completely collapse! The Demonic Beasts also understand this, so in recent years they have been continuously increasing their troops in the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss. The entire Blood Marsh Demon Abyss has become the biggest meat grinder between the human race and the Demonic Beasts in the Immortal Kingdom! At any time, Demon Emperors and Void Immortals are falling."

Gu Jinlai, they have remained calm and have not offered any comment.

"In fact, twenty-two years ago, the Immortal Kingdom had already formulated a plan, a plan to nurture the 'Heavenly Dao'. If this plan succeeds, there will be no more soil for Demonic Spirit to survive in our world. Demonic Spirit will find it difficult to survive in our world, and naturally they will not be able to continuously transform into Demonic Beasts. At that time, the Demonic Beasts will be as if they have lost their reinforcements. We only need to eliminate the existing Demonic Beasts, which is equivalent to completely expelling the Demon Realm."

Lin Yuan paused slightly at this point. "The key to this plan lies in spiritual energy; only a large amount of spiritual energy can give birth to the 'Heavenly Dao'."

At this point, he added, "In fact, many people speculate that the Blood Abyss was exposed because the Demonic Beasts realized that we intended to nurture the 'Heavenly Dao' to deliver a fatal blow to them. Therefore, they exposed the Blood Abyss before it fully expanded, diverting our attention. They feared our plan and were afraid of the 'Heavenly Dao' Principle that we were nurturing."

Upon Gu Jinlai quickly understood. "You intend to gather spiritual energy from the Qian Heaven to nurture the Heavenly Dao!?"

"Yes."

Lin Yuan nodded. "I have just explained the situation of the Immortal Kingdom to the Ancient Palace Master. In fact, we are at a disadvantage in the war of the Blood Swamp Demon Abyss because... our focus is on the nurturing of the 'Heavenly Dao'."

He clenched his fist heavily. "What we want to do now is to do our best to stop the Blood Abyss from expanding, and at the fastest speed, collect enough spiritual energy to nurture the 'Heavenly Dao'. Only after nurturing the 'Heavenly Dao' can we drive out the Demonic Beasts from the root of the problem. Otherwise, even if we win in the Blood Abyss, the Demonic Beasts can open up a new battlefield in another medium-sized abyss."

"Dongtian, Lingji".

Gu Jinlai, people have heard descriptions of spiritual power from the Central Plains.

He himself had already mastered the art of spiritual manipulation.

Although it is a fragment of the Lingji Technique, it still reveals the influence of this special existence on all living beings.

Besides the most basic benefits of accelerated cultivation and increased combat power, spiritual energy is even related to the spirituality of a place.

Since ancient times, people have used phrases like "a place blessed with outstanding natural beauty" and "a land of outstanding people and beautiful scenery" to describe places, mountains, rivers, and lakes.

The "spirit" in these statements can be regarded as inspiration.

When the vitality of a region is stripped away, the people and things in that region will gradually lose their potential for growth.

"You should know what consequences the theft of Qian Tian's spiritual energy will bring to Qian Tian's future."

This Gu Jinlai.

"I know, but firstly, the current threat from the Demon Realm forces us to do this, and secondly, we are not completely severing Qian Tian's future."

Lin Yuan said, "We will select ten thousand of the most outstanding cultivators and let them cultivate in the cave heavens, growing in an environment rich in spiritual energy. Because they gather a large amount of spiritual energy from the entire Qian Heaven into their bodies, the probability of them becoming powerful beings and the realm they can ultimately reach will exceed the total of the entire Qian Heaven!"

He solemnly promised, "I don't know the current situation, but a hundred years ago, the strongest people in Qiantian were only me, Tianji, Wushi, Tai'a, and Xuwu. Our combat power, even with the aid of divine weapons, was only comparable to peerless Void Immortals. Only Tianji and Wushi had the combat power of True Immortals. Once the cave heaven is established and the spiritual energy is allocated, I can guarantee you that Qiantian will definitely produce five True Immortals within five hundred years!"

"Select ten thousand of the most outstanding cultivators to cultivate in the cave heaven... But what about the others? Without spiritual energy, their potential will drop to an unprecedented level, and they probably won't even have a chance to break through to the Spirit Refining Realm!"

This Gu Jinlai.

"The situation is dire. We can only choose to empower a portion of the population first, overcome the difficulties, and then lead all of Qian Tian to become strong together."

Lin Yuandao.

He didn't want to ask who these "ten thousand people" were. Gu Jinlai, he asked directly, "Where did the Immortal Kingdom's research on spiritual power and the spiritual techniques you spread originate? Why do the six great grotto heavens of the Holy Dynasty regard the Immortal Kingdom as a traitor to civilization?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan's expression showed a hint of disdain, a hint of anger, but more so, helplessness. "The six great grotto heavens of the Holy Dynasty have a deep misunderstanding of us. However, the reason why they regard us as traitors is not only due to the misunderstanding, but also because of their own selfishness, in order to satisfy their desire to escape with a lot of resources without feeling guilty."

"So, what's your explanation?"

Gu Jinlai have looked at Lin Yuan.

"This all started with our Immortal Kingdom's founder—Immortal Lord Zhao Xi."

Lin Yuan said, "A thousand years ago, cultivators were suppressed by the Creator to the point of being unable to breathe. One by one, True Immortals gathered together to protect themselves and seek ways to fight against the Creator. By fortuitous opportunity, Immortal Lord Zhao Xi discovered an ancestral book and learned about the existence of the Spiritual Mechanism Technique. So, he led other True Immortals to build the first Immortal Kingdom based on a large cave heaven. He allowed True Immortals to integrate their own Dao Fruits into the cave heaven and opened up the path of Immortal Lords."

He took a deep breath. "On this path, the Dao of True Immortals and the Grotto-Heavens are completely integrated. The Grotto-Heavens are equivalent to the True Immortals themselves, expanding the 'upper limit' of True Immortals countless times. It's like a True Immortal with a hundred-meter-tall immortal body suddenly growing to tens of thousands of meters, or even hundreds of thousands of meters!"

"A celestial body ten thousand meters tall!"

It goes without saying that this could unleash terrifying power, Gu Jinlai.

"The downside of this path is that if an immortal who was originally only one hundred meters tall suddenly gains a body ten thousand meters tall, he will become unable to move even a little, and even his thinking will become slow. He can basically be regarded as a ten-thousand-meter mountain, a ten-thousand-meter lake, a ten-thousand-meter forest..."

Lin Yuan said, "It's just that the materials used to build these mountains and lakes are special and sturdy, but in reality, they are still a sitting duck."

"Is ingenuity the key to overcoming this drawback?"

Gu Jinlai immediately guessed what was going on. "The spiritual mechanism granted the immortal lords the power to control the grotto-heavens!?"

"Yes."

Lin Yuan nodded heavily. "Although the Immortal Lords can only draw energy from their own Dao Fruits and condense a True Immortal Body that their Dao Fruits can contain due to the limitations of their own Dao Fruit strength, the True Immortal Body condensed in this way is almost inexhaustible! As long as the power of the Cave Heavens does not run dry, the Immortal Lords will not die!"

"The reason why the Creator couldn't do anything to the Immortal Lord's grotto-heaven back then was because he was essentially fighting against the entire grotto-heaven at the same time... or rather, the power of all living beings in the entire grotto-heaven?"

Gu Jinlai, something came to mind.

"Yes, it is even the will of all living beings formed by spiritual energy gathered from other places."

Lin Yuan nodded.

"So, the key lies in that book?"

"Yes."

Lin Yuan sighed and nodded, "That book... comes from another world, and was written by a cultivator who accidentally ended up in our world—Shu Yueming."

"Another world..."

"For a thousand years, the true immortals of the Immortal Kingdom have been trying to find that world, because according to Shu Yueming, the cultivation system of that world seems to be more complete..."

Lin Yuan paused slightly at this point. "And after a thousand years of research, finally... a little over a hundred years ago, with the help of an experiment that mobilized almost everyone in the Immortal Kingdom, they... succeeded."

"Wait, more than a hundred years ago!?"

Upon hearing Lin Yuan's description of the time, those from Gu Jinlai suddenly realized something. "Just how many hundred years ago?!"

Lin Yuan observed the changes in Gu Jinlai's expression and knew what he wanted to ask.

He was silent for a moment, as if he wanted to explain something.

But in the end, he let out a long breath and said, "It's the time you know... before the Demonic Beasts chaos broke out."