Longevity Heavenly Venerable gazed into the starry sky as memories of the past surged into his mind. Back then, he had been at the peak of his powers, flawless and complete. Emperor Zun had invited him out of seclusion, promising to extend his imperial life by two thousand years and journey together upon the Immortal Ascension Road. The price was the most profound Nine Secrets: Zhe.
It was not the Divine Spirit Indestructible Scripture passed down through the world, but the ultimate profundity Longevity Heavenly Venerable had deduced after lying dormant in the Forbidden Zone for a million years. It was an evolved version of Nine Secrets: Zhe, the Longevity Method that had allowed him to live from the Mythical Era until today.
On that foundation, Emperor Zun had combined the methods of the other eight Heavenly Venerables and eventually created Daoism's supreme myth, the Nine Secrets, which could contend against Buddhism's Six-Syllable Mantra.
This achievement shocked eternity and made ancient races tremble. Even the Supremes of Kunlun Immortal Mountain went mad. A group of human-path beings had actually joined forces to create an immortal art comparable to the Immortal Dao. It was simply inconceivable.
Then came the birth of the Green Cauldron, marking Ancient Heavenly Court's rise to its peak. Everything flourished. Immortal arts and Immortal Artifacts emerged one after another. If nothing unexpected happened, immortals would be born next.
But... at some moment, things seemed to have changed in a subtle way.
"When was it? When Emperor Zun returned from the Primordial Ancient Star, after he attacked the Kunlun Remnant Tribe, or when he discovered traces of Heavenly Venerable Ji Mie's imprisonment..."
Longevity Heavenly Venerable narrowed his eyes and murmured, "Was it a person with reincarnation, or an event with reincarnation?"
Everything was so similar. For immortality, Emperor