According to His Majesty the Human Emperor, this thing would ultimately be entrusted to her?!
This was the Human Emperor Banner!
Whoosh!
Whoosh... whoosh...
At this moment, streaks of rainbow light flew in low from beyond the Human Emperor Hall's territory.
These were outside cultivators who had witnessed the battle's conclusion and the Human Emperor's arrival. They had rushed in from all across the Big Dipper, all wishing to come and "make a pilgrimage" and behold the Human Emperor's majestic bearing. Yet at this moment, they were blocked outside by the Human Emperor Hall's grand formation, unable to advance even an inch.
They shouted loudly outside, demanding to make their pilgrimage and see the Human Emperor, but none of the hall's disciples answered them.
That was because everyone in the Human Emperor Hall had gathered around the core Dao platform palace. Their fanatical yet reluctant gazes of reverence had never left that towering figure.
Before the great hall, Tan Lin spoke to no one else. He had already made the arrangements, leaving the choice entirely to them.
Yet the cultivators around him still stood there hesitantly, looking up at him.
At this very moment, everyone knew that he was about to pass away. Everyone wanted to see him off, and many had soaked their lapels with burning tears.
But these people did not know that if they refused to leave, Tan Lin could not conveniently extricate himself either.
He still had a short while before he vanished.
Countless eyes were fixed upon this place. Hidden gazes from the Restricted Areas and the Outer Domain watched him silently from the shadows.
Thus, he had no intention of activating the All-Causes Soul Pearl here in advance to reincarnate.
Should I do anything else with the little time remaining?
Thoughts stirred in Tan Lin's mind.
Before he had come outside the hall, the fireflies within the third Deep Crimson Light Point he had consumed had already completed the process of stitching up his true soul.
Now, he had almost nothing left to worry about and could begin his next lifetime.
However, it was worth mentioning that the gaps in his true soul filled by the Soul Pearl's fireflies had not truly been restored. The original was always superior to a substitute.
That final tiny fragment of his true soul, suppressed in the depths of the Sea of Reincarnation, had to be reclaimed in his next lifetime if possible. He would have to break into the Restricted Area and seize it back.
Whoosh...
Endless auspicious radiance continued to descend from the heavens, making Tan Lin's face increasingly blurred.
A deep glimmer flickered in his eyes. He was preparing to leave this place where he had once cultivated.
But before that, he still needed to take someone away.
Buzz!
At this moment, the dual states of [Inverted All-Causes Vision] and [All Causes Barrier] activated once more!
Then, his figure and aura completely vanished from everyone's perception.
"Your Majesty!!"
"Your Majesty..."
This phenomenon immediately drew cries of shock and grief from countless cultivators around the great hall.
Many believed that perhaps their Human Emperor had already vanished at this moment, without any warning.
Meanwhile, underground.
Crimson-gray mist surged as Tan Lin appeared directly beneath the Dao platform within the great hall.
His gaze swept around, and he abruptly spotted a piece of sealed humanoid Divine Source underground.
The Divine Source was bound by layer upon layer of restrictions, with dozens of chains of divine laws wrapped around it. Its safeguards were quite formidable, but to him now, breaking them was as easy as turning his hand.
Crack... crack...
Without the slightest hesitation, Tan Lin waved his hand and shattered every restriction in an instant.
The person sealed within the Divine Source had disheveled hair and the appearance of a madman. Boundless polar Yin and Yang power also surged within his body.
"The Human Demon... Dongfang Taiyi?"
Tan Lin stared at the Divine Source, his thoughts inscrutable.
He had known someone was sealed underground ever since he had infiltrated this place to seize the Human Emperor Banner. However, he had only learned the person's identity from those old subordinates.
This Human Demon, who in the original timeline had been born in the Southern Ridge at the end of the Primordial Era, had actually joined the Human Emperor Hall out of admiration for his deeds, then cultivated both Yin and Yang.
In the end, it had driven him mad...
? Chapter 48: Severing the Undying Mountain Peaks (3.1K)
"Many have attempted to cultivate Yin and Yang since the Primordial Era. Yet for you to reach this level, going mad rather than undergoing Dao Dissolution before even crossing the threshold of Quasi-Emperor... even across the entire world, that makes you one of the rare few. It is truly commendable..."
A thread of Tan Lin's divine sense rippled out, calming some of Dongfang Taiyi's mad thoughts within the Divine Source.
Then, seeing that the other man seemed eager to emerge and pay his respects, Tan Lin frowned slightly and ordered him not to enter the world now. He was better off remaining sealed within the Divine Source in silence, waiting for an opportune age in the future.
After saying that, he swept his sleeve and stored the Divine Source away as well.
Unknowingly, a Causal Line between him and the Human Demon had long since indirectly formed. It had only remained hidden because when Dongfang Taiyi was born at the end of the Primordial Era, Tan Lin had already fallen long ago, existing merely as a Branch Line of the Human Emperor Hall.
But now that Tan Lin had returned from nothingness and Dongfang Taiyi's restrictions had been broken, the two had met. Their Causal Line consequently shifted from a Branch Line of the Human Emperor Hall into a Main Line directly connected to him.
Whoosh...
Having finished all that needed to be done, Tan Lin did not linger.
With a flash, he transformed into a wisp of crimson formless mist and headed straight for the hidden treasure land in the Central Region of the Eastern Wasteland.
The six pieces of Divine Source, along with some treasures taken from the Human Emperor Hall's treasury accumulated over countless ages, all needed to be relocated.
Soon, above the Heavenly Mystic Ancient Clan Secret Land in the Central Region of the Eastern Wasteland.
Tan Lin's figure silently emerged.
He did not enter the secret land directly. Instead, he hovered above the Nine Heavens, his gaze like two bolts of cold lightning as it suddenly shot toward the southwestern mountain range shrouded in ancient darkness and ominous aura.
Undying Mountain!
His current state was special. He had exchanged every trace of Dao from his previous life for this brief peak, but the mighty power of the Imperial Dao upon him was utterly real.
An Imperial Dao aura sufficient to contend with any Supreme Being looked down upon the world. His divine sense swept over endless mountains and rivers, placing most of the Big Dipper within his perception.
"There is still a little time. I can still lay some foundations for my next lifetime..."
He murmured softly, his tone calm.
The moment he spoke those words, he had already made his decision.
The next instant, he moved.
Concealed by the Soul Pearl's dual states, no earth-shaking spectacle appeared in the outside world before he truly came into contact with anything.
After all, what he intended to do was unlike sneaking silently into Undying Mountain more than ten years ago to gather treasures. This time, he could only catch the Supreme Beings of Undying Mountain off guard.
The key to this was surprise and speed. Otherwise, he truly would not succeed.
The current Undying Mountain Restricted Area was far beyond what it would be in the Post-Ancient Era. There was no future Female Emperor... no Void, nor several Great Accomplished Saint Bodies who had taken down several of the beings within Undying Mountain.
At present, this Restricted Area contained more than ten self-sealed Supreme Beings.
It was a colossal existence second only to the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning in the entire universe, and during this Ancient Era, it was also the most active Restricted Area without question.
Buzz...
High in the sky, Tan Lin simply extended one hand.
Enveloped in dense crimson mist, that hand instantly crossed endless space. It grew with the wind, continuously expanding until it became a chaos-like giant palm that blotted out the heavens and earth.
Yin and Yang energies circulated in its palm, evolving earth, water, fire, and wind, as though it held a newly opened world.
The palm reached directly for the black mountains on Undying Mountain's outskirts, those relatively most extraordinary peaks that emitted dense traces of unusual substance!
Those peaks were precisely where he had discovered the dead branch seeds left behind by the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree's Nirvana more than ten years ago.
The entire mountain range had been steeped in some mysterious aura for countless ages, containing unimaginable special fortune, while also mixed with faint threads of formless ominous aura.
This time, he intended to cut away these mountain peaks and use them as the core to create a small world secret realm within the Heavenly Mystic Ancient Clan Secret Land, one suitable for the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree to survive.
There should be at least a fifty to sixty percent chance of bringing the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree back to life, allowing its seeds to take root and sprout.
Rumble!
The instant Tan Lin's great hand touched those pitch-black mountains, before he could even exert force to sever them—
In an instant.
From the deepest part of Undying Mountain, a terrifying will that dominated heaven and earth and made all living beings tremble abruptly awakened!
The aura of that will was like a mythical giant awakening from slumber and opening its cold eyes.
Immediately afterward, endless Imperial Dao pressure erupted like a tsunami, sweeping across heaven and earth!
This was the Stone Emperor's aura!
The Stone Emperor's stone embryo Dao thought left in the outside world had been disturbed!
"Human Emperor!! You again! You are pushing your luck... you are courting death!"
The Imperial Dao Will of that stone embryo Dao thought pierced through endless space, carrying heaven-shaking fury.
At the same time, an equally sky-covering stone giant hand reached out from the depths of Undying Mountain.
The giant hand was wreathed in tyrannical divine might, as though it could suppress the azure heavens for eternity, and it met Tan Lin's chaos-like giant palm head-on!
The power contained in this hand was enough to crush star fields and shatter galaxies with ease!
BOOM!!!
The two palms collided, yet the imagined apocalyptic scene of the Big Dipper collapsing and the universe crumbling did not occur.
At their level, their control over power had already reached perfection.
At this moment, countless gazes from within and beyond the domain converged once again. In the direction of the Human Emperor Hall in the Central Plains—
Those cultivators who had previously believed the Human Emperor had vanished froze where they stood the instant they sensed that vast, majestic pressure sweeping across heaven and earth once more.
"His Majesty... is still here. He has not vanished. Instead... he has attacked a Restricted Area?"
Suiren Lianlei's red lips parted slightly as she lifted her head, her lovely face turned toward the sky.
As she gazed into the distance across space, her whisper carried a trembling surge of excitement.
Witnessing that shocking scene in the distant sky, she deeply felt how temporarily insignificant she was now.
At this moment, even merely watching a corner of such a confrontation from afar made her feel like a mayfly gazing at the azure heavens!
Beside her, Suiren Hong carefully held the Human Emperor Banner in his hands, revering it like a god.
Seeing the unusual disturbance reflected in the heavens above the Central Plains, he immediately took a deep breath, calming his surging emotions before slowly voicing his speculation:
"His Majesty the Human Emperor is acting for the Big Dipper, for the Human Race, for all beings in the universe! He wishes to use these final moments to attempt to take down one of the Supreme Beings within the Undying Mountain Restricted Area..."
Upon hearing this, the surrounding cultivators, whether they belonged to the Human Emperor Hall or not, grew even more solemn and reverent.
"His Majesty the Human Emperor is truly magnificent!!"
"His Majesty's intentions are so painstaking..."
Boom!!
In the distant sky, where the two palms collided, the land of the Central Region did not tremble in the slightest. Yet the void above silently collapsed and was annihilated.
It turned into endless chaos-like mist, with earth, water, fire, and wind raging madly within.
At this moment, the aura of the Myriad Daos of heaven and earth became utterly chaotic in that place!
A horrifying sight of the Great Dao crumbling and all things returning to ruin emerged high in the sky!
Under Tan Lin's control, that destruction surged beyond the heavens, and the terrifying shockwave that erupted in the Outer Domain spread outward in rings.
Bang... bang...
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