A Supreme Being Reminisces About the Past / Seeing the Undying Heavenly Empress Naked (3.4K)

For that very reason, in his previous life, he had not possessed even a single Immortal Divine Medicine.

Such things had to be seized from the lairs of those flourishing Primordial Emperor Clans. Unfortunately, he had died before reaching that stage...

"At this time, it hadn't fled to Undying Mountain to settle down?"

Not finding the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, Tan Lin's remnant soul felt somewhat regretful and puzzled.

Among the many Immortal Divine Medicines, this tree had suffered the worst fate. Many Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors had felled it one after another, using it for coffins, grafting it, or transplanting it.

Yet at this time, it should have temporarily escaped the Sea of Bitterness. Could it be that it had once again fallen into someone's hands?

As thoughts flowed through his remnant soul, Tan Lin controlled the body and swiftly headed toward the outskirts.

The "Fireflies" within the Deep Crimson Light Point expended today had already exceeded the budget somewhat. The body was also nearing its limit and was about to collapse. It was time to prepare to leave.

Hm? Wait...

Just as his remnant soul had already withdrawn from the Restricted Area and the body housing his primordial spirit had reached Undying Mountain's outer region—

His divine sense, wrapped in deep crimson-gray mist, suddenly swept across a broken wall engraved with an ancient battle diagram.

His divine sense abruptly halted.

There was a section of withered branch there. Though its vitality was almost entirely severed, the natural Dao patterns concealed within its branches resonated invisibly with the Great Dao.

"This is..."

Tan Lin's remnant soul revealed a startled expression, followed by unprecedented delight.

Wasn't this the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree?!

"So it was undergoing Nirvana amid extinction... I never expected it to be right here on the outskirts..."

Tan Lin calmed his emotions and immediately began collecting it.

This was the seed form of the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree: merely a section of dead branch. Had he not seen it with his own eyes, he truly would never have imagined it.

The Restricted Area's overlord, the Stone Emperor, had been asleep for a long time, and even his servants were slumbering. It worked out in Tan Lin's favor...

While he steadied his breath and focused his mind, the body moved as swiftly as lightning.

He did not directly use divine power to collect it, instead repeating the same method as before.

The whole process appeared smooth, but it was actually fraught with peril.

This time, even under [Inverted All-Causes Vision], he could sense an incomparably terrifying will, like a primordial beast, slowly stirring in the deepest part of the Restricted Area, as though it showed signs of awakening.

That was the Stone Emperor's sleeping consciousness. Within Undying Mountain, he was practically the absolute ruler.

"So it still has an owner?"

Just as he was about to put away the dead branch into the crimson-gray mist, his brow furrowed slightly.

He discovered a connection between this dead branch and a certain slumbering site deep within the Restricted Area.

But this discovery did not make him back down. Gritting his teeth, he directly took it!

"Who is it?!!"

Almost at the same moment, as the dead branch entered the [All Causes Barrier], that invisible connection was severed.

The next instant, the Supreme Being at that slumbering site abruptly awoke. A terrifying will raged through Undying Mountain, seemingly searching for something.

Chapter 24: A Supreme Being Reminisces About the Past

Boom!!!

In an instant, the laws of heaven and earth across the outskirts of Undying Mountain violently trembled!

And that Supreme Being's awakening triggered a chain reaction.

The ancient existences sleeping within Undying Mountain awoke one after another. Even in several other Restricted Areas, a scattered few beings awakened and briefly looked into the current outside world.

Among them, the Stone Emperor's awakening caused heaven and earth to change color. In an instant, he had grasped an invisible trace.

It was the route someone had taken while gathering rare treasures. Though he could not see through the crimson barrier under its dual-state effect, the disappearance of those heavenly materials and earthly treasures was undeniable.

The scents of rare treasures from more than a dozen breaths ago still lingered at the scene. They had clearly just been unearthed together!

Someone had silently infiltrated the Undying Mountain Restricted Area and, beneath the eyes of all the Supreme Beings, stolen the seed left after an Immortal Divine Medicine's Nirvana. This was undoubtedly a resounding slap in the Stone Emperor's face!

"Insolence!!!"

The Stone Emperor's furious rebuke shook heaven and earth.

That voice was a hundred times more terrifying than thunder. It exploded in the depths of Undying Mountain, throwing the winds and clouds across the Central Region of the Eastern Wasteland into turmoil.

Rumble...

Immediately afterward, deep black chains of order materialized from thin air. In an instant, they crushed the void, mountains, rivers, and lands within a radius of ten thousand miles outside Undying Mountain.

Everything turned into a void of ruins.

"The spiritual energy outside the Restricted Area is so thin. Not long ago, an existence at least at the Great Saint level was here devouring essence energy..."

The divine sense of the Supreme Being who had lost the Immortal Divine Medicine stirred slightly, having already perceived everything outside.

"Heavenly secrets are obscured. Nothing can be deduced..."

"That person has already escaped? What remarkable means. He actually kept all of us from noticing the slightest thing. If he had not set his sights on that Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, I fear we would still be unaware."

"In these years, what astonishing figures have emerged in this world?"

A Supreme Being asked.

"That child Yuhua has been dead for twenty or thirty thousand years. The suppression of the Heavenly Heart's Myriad Dao has long since dissipated. This golden age has yet to begin, and no one has attained the Dao in this lifetime..."

"How strange. Who exactly dared act in such a manner?"

"..."

Unable to find anything, the Supreme Beings who had slept for so long briefly conversed during this moment of awakening.

"Hmm? Has the Stone Emperor already made a gain?"

At that moment, a Supreme Being gave a soft cry of surprise.

A domineering Imperial Dao aura that seemed capable of suppressing heaven and earth and reigning supreme over all returned from outside the Restricted Area like a receding tide.

The Stone Emperor had not emerged, nor had he completely awakened. This was merely the fury of one disturbed from slumber by an ant!

A wisp of terrifying divine sense, like a storm of destruction, swept over every inch of ruins outside the Restricted Area before finally returning with a cloud of blood mist left ten thousand miles away.

Specks of divine light glittered within the blood mist, and there was even a trace of the aura left behind after a primordial spirit had shattered.

"That petty thief died just like that? Without even causing the slightest ripple..."

A Supreme Being found it hard to believe.

After all, the heavenly secrets truly had been obscured. That person truly had been capable of avoiding their notice, and his trail had been perfectly hidden. They could not investigate the slightest clue.

How could someone with such methods have been annihilated merely by a trace of the Stone Emperor's domain laws leaking out?

"Something is wrong. Great Saint level... The primordial spirit was incomplete, and the body did not match this primordial spirit at all... Who exactly was this?!"

"This was clearly just a substitute thrown out by that person to weather the disaster. Still, the lingering Lunar and Solar power in this blood mist is rather interesting..."

Within the slumbering region, the divine sense fluctuations of a former Primordial Emperor grew noticeably stronger.

"Indeed. This Lunar and Solar power is not distinctly divided, but shows signs of fusion... Tsk. I never expected that, after that person from the Primordial Era, someone else in this world would achieve this step by cultivating both Lunar and Solar power..."

"Heh, listen to yourself. From your tone, don't tell me you think it could be that person from back then, returned to life?"

Someone sneered.

"The misery of that person's Dao-Proving Tribulation back then was rarely seen in the world. More than one or two people attacked him. First Xiaoyao reappeared, then came three from the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning, but in the end, he still died beneath the Undying Heavenly Blade."

"Actually, I was never certain that day whether the one who wielded the Undying Heavenly Blade in the end was the Undying Daoist or the Undying Heavenly Emperor."

"Was the Undying Heavenly Emperor truly dead..."

"..."

"To have drawn the attacks of so many people, that person likely carried a great secret..."

"Perhaps it was to study the path of balancing yin and yang and giving rise to chaos. But what it was truly for, I fear only those involved back then knew in their hearts."

Whoosh...

As waves of divine sense stirred in the depths of Undying Mountain—

A wisp of the Stone Emperor's divine sense swept up that cloud of blood mist and directly tossed it into the slumbering site of the Supreme Being who had lost the Immortal Divine Medicine. After that, there was no further movement.

"The Stone Emperor has gone back to sleep?"

Deep within the Restricted Area, a younger Saint Spirit asked in confusion.

"The Stone Emperor never woke up. This was merely a wisp of consciousness formed from the stone embryo he left outside... Without some major event like a contemporary Great Emperor coming to attack, how could he possibly be disturbed..."

A servant explained.

At the same time.

Beyond the ten-thousand-mile radius of that region, which had already become ruins—

The invisible crimson-gray mist churned. Tan Lin's remnant soul within it dimmed slightly.

Facing a Great Emperor-level existence who had attained the Dao as a Saint Spirit, in his current state, even the aftershock from a mere trace of Imperial Dao law domain aura sweeping past had undoubtedly destroyed both his incomplete primordial spirit and body.

The body was one thing, but a wisp of his remnant soul consciousness had been lodged within that incomplete primordial spirit to control it.

After its annihilation, he naturally suffered some backlash. His remnant soul had weakened, and he might need to rely on the Firefly glow of the Soul Pearl to nourish it for some time before recovering.

Still, compared to this haul, everything had been worth it.

A variant rare treasure of the Nine Nether Soul-Returning Grass, a fist-sized piece of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, two Supreme Medicine Kings capable of bearing fruit like the Fire Date Tree of Spring Autumn Pavilion, five Grand Medicine Kings, more than ten Little Medicine Kings, and several pieces of Sub-Divine Gold.

So-called Sub-Divine Gold was the foremost category of artifact-refining material beneath Ultimate Dao materials.

It was the preferred choice when none of the Nine Divine Metals were available.

Yet before the dead-branch seed of the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, all of that was ultimately nothing much.

However, for Tan Lin's next lifetime after reincarnation, these resources would still be quite important for his early growth.

If the "Fireflies" in the second Deep Crimson Light Point had been more plentiful, giving Tan Lin a greater budget, his gains this time would definitely have been far more than this.

This was already the limit of what he could collect during the dozen or so breaths he controlled the body within Undying Mountain.

"These things need to be stored somewhere, for my next life..."

A faint glint flashed through Tan Lin's deep eyes, and in an instant, he chose the location.

Chapter 25: Seeing the Undying Heavenly Empress Naked (3.4K)

Whoosh...

With that thought, Tan Lin did not hesitate and once again activated the Soul Pearl with all his strength.

Bolstered by the dual state, he pushed the concealment effect to its limit. At the same time, his remnant soul became like a wisp of green smoke and sped in the direction from which he had come.

Whoosh!

At that moment, two powerful auras tore through the void and appeared within the ten-thousand-mile ruins outside Undying Mountain.

They were Xiaoyao Dao Body and the Undying Daoist, who had arrived at the first possible moment.

"He really escaped from the Soul-Severing Formation..."

The Undying Daoist's gaze was icy as he swept his eyes over the Restricted Area, whose turbulence had yet to subside.

"Not only did he come here, he even entered Undying Mountain and stole treasures. Truly audacious beyond measure."

Xiaoyao Dao Body looked even more solemn. He attempted to deduce the heavenly secrets, only to find chaos still before him, leaving nothing to deduce.

"Something is off. Why is this scoundrel's concealment method so strange? And this infiltration technique, these shell substitutes... If he had possessed such methods in the Primordial Era, he might not necessarily have perished."

As they spoke, the two exchanged a glance, each seeing a trace of shock and doubt in the other's eyes.