In the days that followed, East King Duke traded toasts with Ao Guang at the dragon palace banquet, calling him brother, ceaselessly flattering and currying favor, puffing up the already somewhat vain East Sea Dragon King until he floated on air, nearly losing all sense of direction.
And with the conclusion of this "reconciliation" feast, East King Duke's reputation for "letting bygones be bygones" and "humbly seeking the worthy," combined with the deterrence of the mysterious powerhouse Ao Chen behind the dragon clan, propelled the East Sea Dragon Clan's prestige to a new peak in short order!
Within the Four Seas, myriad races came to pay homage! Their momentum, in some respects, even overshadowed the newly established Immortal Court, which had just suffered a heavy blow!
The landscape of the Primordial World seemed to be quietly shifting.
Meanwhile.
In the deepest recesses of the East Sea Dragon Palace, within that isolated Independent Spacetime.
Ao Chen sat cross-legged, his aura growing ever more ethereal, ever more vast.
The Ancestral Dragon Pearl floating above his palm had dimmed considerably; most of its boundless origin power and immortal Dao rhythm had already been absorbed, refined, and comprehended by him!
After centuries of secluded cultivation, leveraging his Heaven-Defying Comprehension and the supreme treasure that was the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, his understanding of the Mythical True Immortal Realm had reached an unprecedented height!
Ao Chen slowly opened his eyes; within his pupils, it seemed billions of stars were born and died, suns and moons cycled.
A faint smile curled at the corners of his mouth.
"Almost there."
Chapter 56: Mythical True Immortal Finally Achieved, Anomaly of Immortal and Demon Interwoven, Bustling East Sea
Within the Independent Spacetime, the river of stars flowed, silent and still.
Ao Chen sat cross-legged, his aura perfectly harmonious, as if he had completely merged with this Independent Spacetime.
"The Ancestral Dragon Path, though powerful, is ultimately an external thing, not my path. My path must be sought within myself, found in my inner universe!"
A resolute light gleamed in Ao Chen's eyes.
With a thought, he used his great divine power to forcibly extract the last trace of the purest, most primordial immortal attribute remaining inside the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, which had already lost most of its divine charm.
That wisp of immortal attribute shimmered with a faint seven-colored light, containing the Ancestral Dragon's obsession with eternity before his fall, his yearning for indestructibility—unyielding and uneroding through the ages!
But now, before the will of Ao Chen's Mythical Great Dao, this immortal attribute was like a docile lamb, slowly guided, analyzed, and reshaped!
At the same time, the Great Thousand Universe within Ao Chen's body began to operate frantically!
Countless billions of stars vibrated in unison; endless stellar origin power was mobilized, surging like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, rushing toward Ao Chen's physical body and Primordial Spirit!
The Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth from all directions was crazily absorbed by him in a whale-swallowing manner, transformed through his inner universe into the purest origin energy bearing the imprint of his own Dao!
Using the Ancestral Dragon's immortal attribute as a guide, his own universe's power as a foundation, and the world's spiritual energy as nourishment!
Ao Chen began to condense his own "Mythical Immortality"!
This was an extremely difficult and perilous process! The slightest misstep could cause his Dao foundation to collapse, or even invite backlash from the Ancestral Dragon's lingering will!
But Ao Chen's Dao Heart was firm, his comprehension heaven-defying, and he had his own independent universe as a backing!
Golden Dao patterns, even more profound and complex, began to emerge on his physical body!
These patterns were no longer simple immortal runes; they had integrated his understanding of many great Daos—stars, spacetime, annihilation—ultimately transforming into his exclusive "Mythical Dao Patterns"!
With each Mythical Dao Pattern condensed, his physical body's strength increased by a fraction, and its immortal nature grew stronger!
His bones completely transformed into jade pillars bearing stars—indestructible, eternal, unbreakable!
His blood became surging, roaring stellar divine marrow, containing the terrifying life force to recreate heaven and earth!
His internal organs evolved into five eternal sacred star regions, perfectly aligning with the fundamental laws of his inner universe!
His physical body was undergoing a true transformation toward "immortality"! At a thought, he could gather or disperse at will, untouched by countless calamities!
Meanwhile, his Primordial Spirit was undergoing an equally profound transformation! The core of his true spirit, suspended at the peak of his universe, began to emit a faint golden radiance—the Immortal Divine Light belonging to himself!
Under this divine light, the laws of the entire Great Thousand Universe became more stable, more complete!
His Primordial Spirit's will grew closer to the entire universe, as if he were the universe, and the universe were him!
His Primordial Spirit was ascending toward true "indestructibility"! His true spirit existed alongside the Dao, coexisted with the cosmos, eternal and undying!
Time seemed to lose meaning at this moment. Who knew how long passed—perhaps a hundred years, perhaps a thousand...
When Ao Chen had completely analyzed, transformed, and integrated the last trace of immortal attribute from the Ancestral Dragon Pearl into his Mythical Dao Patterns and true spirit divine light...
Boom!!!
The Great Thousand Universe within him shook violently, then expanded madly at an inconceivable speed!
What had once been a universe in its infancy was now injected with infinite energy, its boundaries extending endlessly, evolving into vaster star regions, more brilliant stars, more complete laws!
A true Great Thousand Universe, independent of the Primordial World, possessing its own complete rules and limitless potential, had fully taken shape!
And with the final stabilization of this universe, an aura vast beyond measure, like an ancient beast awakening after eons of slumber, erupted violently from Ao Chen's body, sweeping through the entire Independent Spacetime!
This aura seemed capable of crushing the myriad heavens of all ages, dimming sun and moon, causing all realms to sink.
At this moment, the Mythical True Immortal Realm! Achieved!
And in that instant, Ao Chen felt the entire world become different!
He could clearly sense the invisible membrane between himself and the entire Primordial World—it had become clearer, and also more fragile!
He seemed able to "see" the omnipresent web of laws of the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World, but this web was no longer a restraint to him; it was more like a stringed instrument he could pluck at will!
He was still within the Primordial Continent, yet in a true sense, he stood independent of it! The binding force of the Heavenly Dao's laws upon him was almost negligible!
He could even rely on the power of his own universe to easily twist and alter the surrounding laws of the Primordial Continent, his words becoming law itself!
His power had undergone an earth-shattering surge! If before, at the peak of the Mythical Heavenly Immortal realm, he still needed to employ various means to barely contend with the combined might of the Three Pure Ones—
Then now, he had absolute confidence that if he faced the Three Pure Ones again, even if they wielded their Innate Supreme Treasures, he could use sheer force to completely suppress them, even slay them!
Of course, the prerequisite was being able to break through the protection of their merit from opening the heavens and the Heavenly Dao's fortune.
This was the Mythical True Immortal! A self-attained Dao, immortal and indestructible, an unparalleled existence governing a Great Thousand Universe!
And the moment Ao Chen broke through, his aura erupting completely—
Boom!!!
The entire East Sea, and even a small portion of the Primordial Continent, trembled violently as if struck by a magnitude-twelve earthquake!
Above the nine heavens, the winds and clouds changed color, the sun and moon lost their light, and the stars quaked!
Endless purple qi surged from the east, vast and sweeping for thirty thousand miles, auspicious light illuminating heaven and earth, as if an unparalleled sage had descended!
Meanwhile, boundless black Sha qi emerged from the west, rolling demon clouds blotting out the sky and sun, contending with the purple qi, demonic energy flooding the heavens, as if a world-destroying demon lord had reappeared in the mortal world!
Above the surface of the East Sea, visions unfolded in a dazzling, bizarre, and shocking display!
At times, ten-thousand-zhang multicolored rays of light shot into the sky, illuminating the entire East Sea like a glazed immortal realm, celestial music cascading from the nine heavens, heavenly flowers raining down like a storm, golden lotuses springing from the seabed, bearing profound Dao rhythms, as if an unparalleled immortal king were opening a sermon!
At other times, boundless blood-red black clouds pressed down, billions of pitch-black world-destroying divine thunders crazily struck, blasting ten-thousand-zhang waves from the sea, torrents of blood-red rain dyeing the sky crimson, countless ghosts wailing, countless gods and devils roaring, as if a supreme demon lord had broken free from an ancient seal, intent on annihilating all life!
Sometimes, a blurry phantom of the River of Years manifested above the East Sea, turbid waves surging, roaring and raging, each wave crest seemingly containing the rise and fall of an era, the joys and sorrows of countless beings, past, present, and future interweaving in a dazzling, dizzying spectacle that could trap the unwary!
At other times, endless Chaos Qi Flows surged violently, Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind rampaging wildly, and faintly visible was a blurry yet towering giant's phantom, wielding a massive axe that seemed capable of splitting everything, fiercely cleaving through the primordial chaos, evolving heaven and earth, recreating the universe!
Even more striking, one could clearly hear from the nine heavens faint yet majestic roars of gods and devils—some in awe, some in praise, some in terror, some in fury...
It was as if countless ancient and powerful beings, long slumbering in the depths of time and already passed, had been stirred awake by this sudden, earth-shattering vision that broke the balance of the Primordial Continent!
Good omens and ill omens intertwined, auspiciousness and destruction coexisting, creation and calamity appearing side by side!
Such a bizarre, contradictory, yet terrifying sight instantly alarmed the entire Primordial Continent!
Countless great powers in secluded cultivation were forcibly awakened, spitting blood; countless Old Monsters hidden from the world turned their shocked gazes eastward!
"Hiss! This... what kind of vision is this?!"
"The East Sea direction! Could it be... could some heaven-defying treasure have appeared?"
"No! That's not right! This might... this Dao rhythm... it's ten thousand times more terrifying than an Innate Supreme Treasure emerging! Could it be... could it be a legendary Chaos Spiritual Treasure?"
"Impossible! Chaos shattered long ago, the primordial chaos no longer exists, where would a Chaos Spiritual Treasure come from? In my view, it must be some supreme opportunity related to Lord Pangu manifesting, perhaps even a God or Devil being reborn."
"Let's go, quickly head to the East Sea to see! Such an opportunity cannot be missed!"
In an instant, the entire Primordial Continent went utterly mad over the earth-shattering visions above the East Sea!
Countless immortals and gods, regardless of their cultivation level or location, surged toward the East Sea like sharks drawn to the scent of blood, their eyes filled with greed and frenzy!
They all believed this was a windfall from heaven, a sign of an unparalleled treasure emerging that could change their own fate, even reshape the entire Primordial Continent's landscape!
Whoever seized it first would ascend to the heavens in a single step, becoming the new overlord of the Primordial Continent!
Even the top-tier Great Divine Powers standing at the pyramid's peak were no exception!
At the Yingzhou Immortal Island Ruins, East King Duke, who was struggling to restore order to the Immortal Court, licking his wounds in secret, and gathering strength for revenge, felt the fluctuations from the East Sea and the sky-filling visions. His eyes instantly blazed with incomparable greed and fervor!
"A treasure, absolutely an unparalleled treasure surpassing Innate Supreme Treasures has appeared!"
He made the judgment almost instantly, his humiliation and venom temporarily replaced by boundless greed!
"If I can obtain this treasure... hahaha! Ao Chen, you brat, Three Pure Ones, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, just you wait!"
"By then, I will trample you all underfoot! Make you taste ten thousand times the humiliation I suffered today!"
"By my decree, all cultivators above the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm in the Immortal Court, immediately, right now, follow me to the East Sea to seek the treasure! Anyone who disobeys, killed without mercy!"
East King Duke practically roared out the order, abandoning all thought of rebuilding the Immortal Court. He transformed into a streak of light, charging like a madman first toward the depths of the East Sea!
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