In the blink of an eye, the Desolate God Key changed hands.
Huatian Du's face twisted completely, as though his heart were bleeding.
"Lin Xi, you're forcing me into this. You're forcing me... I never wanted to let the Taiyi Sect into the Desolate God Key, into the Ancestral Witch Mirror. But you've driven me into a corner, so I'll take you down with me. If I can't have it, neither will you. I'd rather hand it to the Taiyi Sect than let you profit.
"True Immortal incarnation, Tai Huangtian's talisman! Patriarch Tai Huangtian, let your avatar descend here!"
As he spoke, Huatian Du ripped open his robes, exposing his chest. A long spirit talisman was drawn across it, radiating an immortal's oppressive might.
Its power actually surpassed that of the Holy Light Great World's Void Immortal Talisman.
It was an incarnation of Tai Huangtian—a True Immortal Spirit Talisman.
Those who reached the ninth level of eternal life and survived the Immortal Realm's lightning punishment were called Void Immortals.
Those at the tenth level, who comprehended the law of life and death's impermanence, were called "True Immortals." They were genuine immortals, no longer merely insubstantial ones.
Tai Huangtian stood at precisely this realm. One step further, and he would become a Celestial Immortal.
What was a Celestial Immortal? To cultivators, heaven did not mean the starry universe. It meant the Immortal Realm. The Immortal Realm was heaven.
Once a True Immortal ascended to heaven and underwent another transformation upon entering the Immortal Realm, he became a Celestial Immortal.
The terrifying power of a True Immortal at the tenth level of eternal life needed no explanation. Such beings stood at the pinnacle of the universe, traveling among the stars and crossing great worlds as easily as strolling through a courtyard. Crushing