Within the Nine Nether King's Estate, Fate-Knower underwent a transformation. Radiance wreathed his body as the Divine Tree's origin nourished its host.
The first person since ancient times to reforge his body with the Immortal Divine Tree would also be the last.
Within his consciousness, an Immortal Gate appeared—the final obstacle before the Mortal Realm. Break open the Immortal Gate, and one could attain the Mortal Immortal Realm.
Legend had it that before antiquity, when the Four Great Immortal Realms still existed, mortals who cultivated to the Fourth Realm could ascend amid rosy clouds and gain the chance to become immortals.
Yet after antiquity, the Four Great Immortal Realms had collapsed. Even if mortals cultivated to the Fourth Realm, they could no longer become immortals.
For this reason, Fourth Realm experts thereafter came to be known as Mortal Immortals. To be an immortal in the mortal world was both praise and mockery.
The King Realm and Emperor Realm that came after likewise belonged to the Fourth Realm. Even if one stood invincible beneath the heavens, one could only be an immortal in the mortal world.
With no Immortal Realm in the world, there were no longer any true immortals among humankind.
Before the Immortal Gate, the white-haired figure stood still for a long time, utterly motionless.
The familiar scene was almost identical to the Eastern Immortal Realm where the Immortal Corpse Procession had brought him a century ago. The only difference was that the Immortal Gate here was more complete.
To attain immortality and the Dao had been the dream of every cultivator since ancient times. For this, countless people had left home in their youth to seek immortals and inquire after the Dao, all for this day that seemed so illusory yet inspired such boundless hope.
Ning Chen looked