Even at the end of the story, Ye Fan was merely a Red Dust Immortal at most, with the cultivation of a Quasi-Immortal King. How could he possibly comprehend the Scriptures left behind by an End-of-the-Road Immortal Emperor?
He then closed his eyes to rest. Behind him, the radiance of the Xuanyuan Sword flowed, blooming into light that illuminated the darkness and kept everyone from having to move in the dark.
The Primordial World-brand Xuanyuan Sword—worth owning.
Not only could it help slay enemies, it could also serve as a lamp. Truly an essential for home life, travel, and murder. Even Ji Hao said it was good.
The Primordial World-brand Xuanyuan Sword—no need for ninety-nine eighty-one, nor eighty-eight sixty-four. Just nine ninety-nine, and take it home right away.
Within the Sea of Bitterness, the Bodhi Tree and Bodhi Seed bobbed together in the Life Spring. Pure Life Essence slowly flowed into the Bodhi Tree, yet it remained steeped in Death Qi, without the slightest trace of Vitality. In truth, after undergoing Nirvana and becoming a Bodhi Seed, the Bodhi Tree was no longer an Immortality Elixir.
The Bodhi Tree was one of the Immortality Elixirs. Once an Immortality Elixir had its essence extracted, it would undergo Nirvana, transform into a seed, and seek a suitable place to grow again.
The Bodhi Seed was dull and gray, utterly unremarkable, yet it bore a naturally formed image of a compassionate Buddha.
The Bodhi Seed above the Life Spring grew hot. Through it and the Little Bronze Coffin, Ji Hao heard the Scriptures of Huangtian Emperor Shi Hao.
"The way of Heaven diminishes excess and replenishes deficiency..."
The mysterious Great Dao Heavenly Sound began with a famous line from Daoist classics, but what followed was an unfathomable ancient scripture unlike anything they had ever heard, its meaning impossible to grasp.
The Great Dao Heavenly Sound was as deep as an abyss and vast as the sea. It contained only a few hundred words, yet every single one was Emperor Script.
This was not an Emperor of the Human Dao, but an Emperor of the Immortal Dao!
An End-of-the-Road Immortal Emperor!
Ye Fan and Pang Bo sat beside Ji Hao, their burning gazes fixed firmly on the Xuanyuan Sword.
"Pang Bo, look at that sword!"
"Ye, what's wrong? Don't tell me you've set your sights on it. Good heavens, didn't you see that huge Tai Chi Diagram he summoned just now? With our little bodies, one spin and we'd be dead."
"Probably wouldn't even need the Tai Chi Diagram. One slap from him and we'd both be meat patties," Pang Bo muttered.
"Who said I had my eye on that sword? Don't talk nonsense." Ye Fan glanced guiltily at Ji Hao. Only after seeing that he was still immersed in the Dao State did he dare speak softly.
"I'm saying, don't you think that sword looks familiar?"
"Familiar? Now that you mention it, it really does look kind of familiar at first glance!" Pang Bo said in surprise.
"Could it be a divine artifact left behind by our ancestors?"
"What does that even have to do with our ancestors?" Ye Fan said speechlessly, unable to understand Pang Bo's train of thought.
"If it wasn't left behind by your ancestors or mine, then why does it feel so familiar?" Pang Bo said.
"Maybe it's in some museum. Otherwise, why would it look so familiar?" Pang Bo murmured to himself.
Ye Fan rolled his eyes helplessly and inwardly complained, Are you trying to claim ownership by association? How can you so openly make someone else's thing yours? You're way too practiced at this. Are you Ye Hei, or am I Ye Hei?
"Wait, no. What the hell is Ye Hei? I'm Ye Fan."
"I'm talking about the carvings on the sword!"
Ye Fan said helplessly.
"Let me see..." Hearing this, Pang Bo hurriedly looked at the glowing Xuanyuan Sword.
"This is... the Xuanyuan Sword!"
Pang Bo cried out. No Chinese person could be unfamiliar with this legendary divine artifact.
One side was engraved with the Sun, Moon, and Stars, while the other bore mountains, rivers, vegetation, and trees. One side of the hilt recorded the arts of farming and animal husbandry, while the other recorded the strategy of unifying the four seas.
"That's right, the Xuanyuan Sword—and his surname is Ji!" Ye Fan looked deeply at Ji Hao.
"Ye, you mean..." Pang Bo instantly understood what Ye Fan was trying to say.
He then muttered softly, "So the legendary Yellow Emperor really existed."
"That's right! The ancient era truly existed."
"No way, that's impossible, right?" Pang Bo exclaimed.
"Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin has already appeared. We just passed Yinghuo and saw Buddha's Great Leiyin Temple. What's impossible about it? This is all perfectly normal. Look at how little nerve you've got," Ye Fan said.
Ye Fan continued staring at Ji Hao. Looking at Ji Hao, who was enveloped in Divine Light, a trace of envy rose in his heart. Could this be the legendary cultivation? If only I could cultivate too!
Countless streams of Life Essence erupted from Ji Hao's Life Spring and flowed into the Bodhi Seed. With a crack, a tiny fissure opened in the Bodhi Seed, and a flash of emerald light bloomed. A wheel of wisdom lit up within the Sea of Reincarnation. It was not intense, yet it was incomparably sacred.
A Wheel of Wisdom also rose behind Ji Hao's head, making the already extraordinary Ji Hao appear even more sacred. Ye Fan, who had been staring intently at the scene, seemed to be illuminated by the Genesis light of the Bodhi Seed and entered a state of enlightenment as well.
In an instant, he too heard the vast heavenly sound and sank into that strange state, listening to it again and again.
Within Ji Hao's Sea of Bitterness, ancient characters from the Immortal Domain Restoration Scripture appeared one after another on his Divine Bridge, branding themselves upon it. Every character flowed with an aura of Immortality.
Yet once the entire scripture had been branded onto it, all the ancient characters vanished, as though they should not exist in the Human World.
But this was not futile. Ji Hao branded the scripture again and again, and it disappeared again and again, but his Divine Bridge grew ever more dazzling. Lines of Dao Patterns emerged upon it, transforming into dancing dragons and soaring phoenixes, the Sun, Moon, and Stars, mountains and earth. It was as though a vast world of the Immortal Domain was about to emerge from the Divine Bridge.
An aura that transcended all things circulated through the Vessel.
Ji Hao branded the Immortal Domain Restoration Scripture over and over again, then sent the Bodhi Seed onto the Divine Bridge.
Wisps of wisdom's spiritual light continuously scattered from that flash of emerald, and Ji Hao's spiritual perception suddenly became incomparably swift.
The traces left behind by Shakyamuni also emitted a faint spiritual glow, but with a light suppression from the Xuanyuan Sword, the Buddha image vanished as well, leaving behind only a sigh.
After being neighbors for thousands of years, it had to give him some face!
Five-colored brilliant light flowed across the Divine Bridge. In the end, an Other Shore Golden Bridge emerged from within. Its entire body was golden, as though forged from an immortal Immortal Sword, resembling the legendary Dao Tribulation Gold.
A world emerged from the Other Shore Divine Bridge. In the next moment, Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire appeared. The world collapsed, and even the Other Shore Golden Bridge was being destroyed. Ji Hao coughed, and a trace of blood appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Yin and Yang transform, Taiji begins. Tai Chi Diagram, appear!"
The collapsing Other Shore Golden Bridge transformed into a strand of Qi.
The Dao gave birth to One, and One gave birth to Two.
The two streams of Yin-Yang Qi intertwined with one another, ultimately forming a Tai Chi Diagram in which you contained me and I contained you.
"It worked!"
Ji Hao said excitedly.
Unlike other Great Emperors, who generally forged only one Vessel, Ji Hao had forged two: one Sword Germ and this Other Shore Golden Bridge—one for offense and one for defense.
According to Ji Hao's plans, standing upon the Other Shore Golden Bridge would make him Immortality through ten thousand tribulations. It contained the foundation of Transcendence, possessed the power to suppress Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire, and could even transform into a Tai Chi Diagram with peerless defensive power.
Ji Hao had created it based on the Tai Chi Diagram settings from Primordial World webnovels. It had only begun to show its effects now.