At Last, He Becomes a Mythic True Immortal; Visions Woven from Immortal and Demonic Energies; The Bustling East Sea

In the days that followed, at the banquet East King Duke held in the Dragon Palace, he traded cups with Ao Guang, called him brother, and constantly flattered and praised him. He buttered up the already somewhat vain East Sea Dragon King until Ao Guang was practically floating on air, so elated he could barely tell which way was up.

With the end of this "reconciliation" banquet, East King Duke's reputation for "letting bygones be bygones" and "honoring the worthy," along with the deterrent power of Ao Chen, the mysterious powerhouse behind the Dragon Race, propelled the East Sea Dragon Clan's prestige to a new peak in a short time!

Across the Four Seas, the myriad clans came to pay homage! Their momentum even surpassed that of the Immortal Court, which had only recently been established and had already suffered a crushing blow!

The balance of power in the Primordial Wilderness seemed to be quietly shifting.

Meanwhile.

Deep within the East Sea Dragon Palace, in that Independent Spacetime cut off from everything else.

Ao Chen sat cross-legged, the aura around him growing ever more elusive and boundless.

The Ancestral Dragon Pearl in his palm had dimmed considerably. Most of the vast Primordial Power and immortal Dao Rhyme it contained had already been absorbed, refined, and comprehended by him!

After hundreds of years of secluded cultivation, with the help of his Heaven-Defying Comprehension and an unparalleled treasure like the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, his understanding of the Mythical True Immortal Realm had reached an unprecedented height!

Ao Chen slowly opened his eyes. Within them, countless stars seemed to be born and extinguished as the sun and moon turned.

A faint smile involuntarily curled his lips.

"Almost there."

Chapter 56: Mythical True Immortality Finally Achieved, Visions of Intertwined Immortals and Demons, the Bustling East Sea

Within the Independent Spacetime, the starry river flowed on in utter silence.

Ao Chen sat cross-legged, his aura perfectly harmonious, as if he had become one with this Independent Spacetime.

"The Ancestral Dragon Path is certainly powerful, but it is ultimately an external thing, not my Dao. I must seek my Dao within myself and find the truth in my Inner Cosmos!"

Determination shone in Ao Chen's eyes.

At a thought, he forcibly extracted the last remaining trace of the purest, most primordial immortal attribute from within the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, which had lost most of its divine essence!

That trace of immortal attribute shimmered with a faint seven-colored light. It contained the Ancestral Dragon's obsession with eternity and yearning for immortality before his fall, and was unyielding, indestructible through the ages!

Yet now, before the will of Ao Chen's Mythical Great Dao, this immortal attribute was as docile as a lamb, slowly guided, unraveled, and reshaped!

At the same time, the Great Thousand Universe within Ao Chen began to revolve at a frenzied pace!

Countless stars trembled in unison, and an endless surge of stellar Primordial Power was roused. Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, it poured toward Ao Chen's body and spirit!

The Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth from every direction was also greedily drawn in by him. Transformed by his Inner Cosmos, it became the purest Primordial Energy, imprinted with his own Great Dao!

The Ancestral Dragon's immortal attribute was the catalyst, the power of his own Cosmic Realm the foundation, and Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth the nourishment!

Ao Chen began to refine his own "Mythical Immortality"!

It was an incredibly arduous and perilous process! The slightest misstep could shatter his Dao foundation or even leave him vulnerable to the backlash of the Ancestral Dragon's lingering will!

But Ao Chen's Dao Heart was steadfast, his comprehension Heaven-Defying, and he had the Independent Cosmic Realm within him as his support!

Golden Dao Patterns, more profound and intricate than ever, began to emerge across his body!

These were no longer mere immortal runes. They incorporated his understanding of the stars, spacetime, Nirvana, and many other Great Daos, ultimately becoming his own "Mythical Dao Patterns"!

Every Mythical Dao Pattern he formed made his body stronger and its immortal properties more potent!

His bones became pillars of jade capable of bearing the stars, indestructible and eternal!

His blood became a roaring stellar marrow, holding the terrifying vitality to remake the world!

His internal organs evolved into five sacred, eternal star domains, perfectly attuned to the Primordial Laws of his Inner Cosmos!

His physical body was transforming into true "immortality"! With a mere thought, it could gather or disperse at will, unharmed by any tribulation!

At the same time, his primordial spirit was undergoing an equally profound transformation! The True Spirit core suspended at the summit of his Cosmic Realm began to shine with a faint golden radiance: his own Immortal Divine Light!

Beneath this light, the laws of the entire Great Thousand Universe grew more stable and complete!

His primordial spirit's connection to the entire Cosmic Realm grew ever closer, until it seemed that he was the Cosmic Realm and the Cosmic Realm was him!

His primordial spirit was ascending toward true "deathlessness"! His True Spirit would exist alongside the Dao, endure with the universe, and remain eternal!

Time seemed to lose all meaning. No one knew how long passed; perhaps a century, perhaps a millennium...

When Ao Chen had fully unraveled and transformed the last trace of immortal attribute within the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, then integrated it into his Mythical Dao Patterns and True Spirit's divine light...

Rumble!!!

The Great Thousand Universe within him shuddered, then expanded at an inconceivable speed!

Once merely an embryonic Cosmic Realm, it now seemed to be infused with boundless energy. Its borders stretched without end, giving rise to vast new star domains, more resplendent stars, and more complete laws!

A Great Thousand Universe, truly independent of the Primordial Wilderness, with its own complete rules and limitless potential, had fully taken shape!

As this Cosmic Realm finally stabilized, a boundless aura burst from Ao Chen, like an Ancient Ferocious Beast that had slept for millions of years finally awakening, and swept through the entire Independent Spacetime!

This aura seemed capable of crushing the myriad heavens throughout eternity, blotting out the sun and moon and dragging all the Myriad Realms into ruin.

At this moment, the Mythical True Immortal Realm! Achieved!

At that very instant, Ao Chen felt that the whole world had changed!

He could clearly sense the invisible barrier between himself and the Primordial World growing more distinct—and more fragile!

He seemed able to "see" the omnipresent web of laws woven by the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial Wilderness. But to him, that web was no longer a constraint; it was more like a set of strings he could pluck at will!

He still dwelled within the Primordial Wilderness, yet was now truly independent of it! The laws of the Primordial Wilderness's Heavenly Dao could barely constrain him!

He could even use the power of his own Cosmic Realm to easily twist and alter the surrounding laws of the Primordial Wilderness, making his words reality!

His strength, too, had undergone a staggering transformation! Before, at the peak of the Mythical Heavenly Immortal Realm, he had needed all manner of means to contend with the Three Pure Ones working together.

Now, he had absolute confidence that if he faced the Three Pure Ones again, he could completely suppress or even kill them through sheer strength, even if they wielded Innate Supreme Treasures!

Of course, that was assuming he could overcome the protection of their Creation Merit and Heavenly Dao fortune.

This was the Mythical True Immortal: an exalted being who forged his own path, was immortal and deathless, and wielded a Great Thousand Universe of his own!

And at the very moment Ao Chen broke through and his aura erupted in full!

Boom!!!

The entire East Sea, along with half of the Primordial Continent, shook violently as if struck by a magnitude-twelve earthquake!

Above the Nine Heavens, the winds and clouds changed color, the sun and moon vanished from sight, and the stars trembled!

Endless purple qi came from the east, surging across thirty thousand li. Auspicious light illuminated heaven and earth, as if an unparalleled Saint had descended!

At the same time, boundless black fiendish qi surged from the west. Demonic clouds blotted out the sky and sun, contending with the purple qi as demonic energy soared—like a world-ending Demon Lord had returned to the mortal realm!

Above the East Sea, visions appeared in a dazzling, bizarre, and astonishing display!

At times, ten-thousand-zhang Seven-Colored Radiance shot into the sky, transforming the entire East Sea into a crystal-clear immortal realm. Immortal music descended from the Nine Heavens, celestial blossoms fell like rain, and golden lotuses sprang from the earth, bearing profound Dao Rhyme—as if an unparalleled Immortal King had taken the platform to expound the Dao!

At other times, boundless blood-red clouds pressed down from above. Countless black bolts of apocalyptic lightning crashed down, blasting ten-thousand-zhang waves across the sea. Torrential blood rain stained the sky crimson, ghosts wailed, and gods and demons roared—as if an unrivaled demon had broken free of an ancient seal and sought to destroy all life!

Sometimes, a hazy vision of the River of Years appeared above the East Sea, its turbid waves towering and roaring. Each wave seemed to contain the rise and fall of an era, the joys and sorrows of countless living beings, and scenes from the past, present, and future woven together. The bizarre spectacle dazzled the eyes, and the slightest lapse in attention could leave one lost within it!

Sometimes, endless Chaos Qi Flow surged and roiled, while Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind rampaged wildly. A blurred giant loomed in the distance, towering between heaven and earth, wielding a massive axe that seemed capable of cleaving open all things. He struck at Primordial Chaos, opened the heavens, shaped the world, and remade creation!

More astonishing still, indistinct yet awe-inspiring roars of gods and demons could be heard from the Nine Heavens above—some full of wonder, some of praise, others of fear or fury...

It was as if countless ancient and powerful beings, long dead and sleeping in the depths of time, had all been roused by this sudden, world-shaking vision that had upset the balance of the Primordial Wilderness!

Good and ill omens intertwined, auspiciousness coexisted with destruction, and creation appeared alongside calamity!

Such bizarre, contradictory, and terrifying sights instantly shook the entire Primordial Wilderness!

Countless mighty beings in secluded cultivation were forcibly awakened, coughing up blood, while countless reclusive old monsters cast horrified gazes toward the east!

"Gasp! What... what kind of vision is this?"

"It's coming from the East Sea! Could... could some Heaven-defying treasure have appeared?"

"No! That can't be right! This power... this Dao Rhyme... it's ten thousand times more terrifying than the appearance of an Innate Supreme Treasure! Could it... could it be the legendary Chaos Spirit Treasure?"

"Impossible! Chaos was shattered long ago, and Primordial Chaos no longer exists. How could a Chaos Spirit Treasure appear? I say this must be some supreme opportunity related to Great God Pangu—or perhaps the rebirth of a god or demon!"

"Come on, let's hurry to the East Sea and see! We can't miss an opportunity like this!"

For a time, the entire Primordial Wilderness went utterly mad over the earth-shattering visions above the East Sea!

Countless immortals and gods, regardless of their cultivation or where they were, surged toward the East Sea like sharks smelling blood, their eyes filled with greed and fervor!

They all believed that a windfall had descended from heaven, heralding the appearance of a supreme treasure capable of changing their fates—or even the balance of power in the Primordial Wilderness!

Whoever reached it first would rise to the top and become the new ruler of the Primordial Wilderness!

Even the topmost, most powerful beings in the Primordial Wilderness were no exception!

Above the ruins of Yingzhou Immortal Island, East King Duke was working hard to restore order to the Immortal Court, secretly nursing his wounds and gathering strength to prepare for revenge. When he felt the fluctuations from the East Sea and saw the visions filling the sky, an incredibly greedy, burning light instantly blazed in his eyes!

"A treasure! It must be a supreme treasure surpassing even Innate Supreme Treasures!"

He reached his conclusion almost at once, and boundless greed temporarily overwhelmed the humiliation and hatred in his heart!

"If I can obtain this treasure... Hahaha! Ao Chen, you brat, Three Pure Ones, Eastern Emperor Taiyi—you'd better all wait for me!"

"When that time comes, I'll trample every one of you beneath my feet! I'll make you taste humiliation ten thousand times worse than what I suffered today!"

"I command every Immortal Court cultivator at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm or above: set out for the East Sea with me at once and search for the treasure! Anyone who disobeys will be killed without mercy!"

East King Duke all but roared as he issued the order. He no longer cared about rebuilding the Immortal Court. Turning into a streak of light, he charged into the depths of the East Sea like a madman, the first to set off!