It was being baptized by endless dragon qi and auspicious radiance.
It was nothing less than seizing the fortune of heaven and earth.
"Could it be... immortal gold?"
Taiyi's pupils contracted sharply, and excitement surged through him.
He had never imagined that such a supreme sacred treasure would be here.
Still, he remained extremely cautious, first sending out a magical artifact to confirm that there was no danger.
Only then did Taiyi slowly step into the enormous Five-Colored Altar.
He came before the Immortal Pool.
"Is this the legendary chaos immortal gold?"
As he gazed at the immortal gold shrouded in chaos,
Taiyi's eyes blazed with excitement, and he cried out involuntarily.
These supreme Immortal Materials were certainly no inferior to the source root of mother qi of all things, and their rarity was beyond comparison with ordinary immortal gold.
He paid no attention to the vibrant immortal liquid around him, which was even more astonishing than the Divine Spring within the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
But just as he took a step forward,
his entire body suddenly shuddered, and his senses blurred.
He seemed to see a corpse seated cross-legged at the center of the Five-Colored Altar, radiating endless pressure yet utterly devoid of life, its body wreathed in astonishing chaos qi.
A majestic, heroic figure suddenly appeared there, a supreme being whose peerless dominance awed the eight wildernesses and six directions and compelled even the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands to bow.
He stood in the void beneath a great cauldron that shone with immortal light so dazzling that no one could look directly at it.
With overwhelming force, he shattered the supreme formation patterns here, splitting the brows of the five lifelike stone dragons, and carried away the Emperor Corpse...
Boom...
That staggering scene flashed past.
It was as though everything he had just seen had been an illusion, as though it had never happened at all.
Yet that incomparable, terrifying might left Taiyi pale and drenched in cold sweat when he came back to himself.
He nearly collapsed, gasping for breath where he stood. "Hah... hah... was that... Emperor Zun?"
With the Immortal Cauldron above his head and an indescribable supreme might that could make all the heavens and myriad domains submit,
it could only have been Emperor Zun, the former lord of the Ancient Heavenly Court in the Mythological Era.
Suddenly,
as he looked at the massive Five-Colored Altar,
something occurred to him. His pupils contracted sharply, and a bold conjecture arose. "They say Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable once slew the Chaos Body and refined his body into Beidou's Five Regions, creating an unimaginably vast Five-Colored Altar..."
"Could it be that he wasn't trying to advance onto the Road to Immortality at all, but to undergo a nirvana transformation and live another life?"
For a moment,
his entire body shuddered.
A chill rose within him, making his scalp prickle.
Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable had never appeared again. Had he ultimately failed on his own, or had Emperor Zun deliberately sabotaged his transformation?
As for whether he had truly wanted to evolve into a Chaos Body,
there was no way to know.
But Taiyi felt that Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable had most likely failed.
If he had truly been capable of something so extraordinary, he probably would not have lost half his life to Wang Bo, the Chaos Body who had yet to attain the Dao.
Moreover, if Taiyi's guess was correct, the coordinates of this Chaos Immortal Soil were probably not fixed here. Instead, it kept moving irregularly throughout Beidou, preventing anyone from pinpointing it.
Even an Ancient Great Emperor would not easily detect it unless he was relatively close.
The reason Taiyi had sensed it directly while passing by
might also have been that so many long years had elapsed.
Time had eroded the Dao traces here.
They had begun to develop flaws.
"Most likely, ages ago, Emperor Zun discovered this place while Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable was undergoing his transformation, or after he had already failed. He broke through the supreme formation patterns Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable had left behind and took away the Emperor Corpse..."
"Although he destroyed most of Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable's arrangements, over the long ages, they still nurtured the legendary chaos immortal gold!"
Taiyi stood there speculating.
But such a supreme sacred treasure was right before his eyes.
He suppressed his tangled thoughts and set everything else aside.
He strode forward, trying to take hold of the incomparably radiant supreme Immortal Materials wreathed in chaos.
Boom-
Even though Taiyi had already prepared himself,
believing that such supreme Immortal Materials were bound to be immensely heavy,
and had therefore spread his arms from the outset, gripping it firmly with both hands to test its weight,
he had never expected that even with his powerful Sun Sacred Body, his blood surging and his face flushed crimson, he would fail to budge it.
Lifting it outright was even further beyond him.
The block of chaos immortal gold, ten feet across and threaded with wisps of chaos qi, seemed firmly rooted atop the Immortal Pool. It would not budge at all.
Had ancient formation patterns not protected the Immortal Pool,
it would surely have collapsed under the weight long ago, destroyed in an instant.
"It's actually this heavy!"
Even Taiyi could not help gaping in astonishment.
This chaos immortal gold was unquestionably far more outrageous than he had imagined, like a primordial divine mountain from prehistoric times, utterly immovable.
Whoosh! His Sea of Bitterness lit up.
A streak of golden light flew out, attempting to draw the chaos immortal gold into his Bitter Sea.
Instead, it caused the chaos immortal gold to blaze brilliantly and hum. The chaos qi enveloping it surged outward, completely disregarding the golden light.
Unwilling to give up, Taiyi sent out successive waves of divine power, trying to lift it.
But the enormous block of chaos immortal gold seemed completely fused with the Immortal Pool, and even the altar itself.
It remained towering and immovable.
"I refuse to believe it..." He decisively began circulating the Sun True Scripture.
His entire body shone, and his divine power boiled, making him resemble a sun in human form.
Gritting his teeth, he pushed his strength to its limit and gripped the peerless supreme Immortal Materials tightly, slowly shifting them. "Up!"
Clang...
The enormous block of Chaos Immortal Material
finally moved under his efforts and slowly rose.
But Taiyi's face was flushed crimson, and he strained immensely.
His steps were unbearably heavy, and every bone in his body hummed.
Anyone else would likely have been crushed into pulp at once.
Of course, anyone else, even a cultivator in the Immortal Platform Realm, would have been unable to budge it, much less lift it.
Even someone with an unrivaled physique like his Sun Sacred Body had to circulate his divine power and give everything he had just to move it and raise it into the air.
It was truly unbelievable.
Chapter 36: Five Dao Palace Heavens? The Yin-Yang Sect in Utter Disarray
"As expected of the legendary supreme Immortal Materials..."
Before the Immortal Pool, where dragon qi billowed,
Taiyi held the ten-foot-wide block of glittering supreme immortal gold aloft, an excited smile on his face. "Perfect. Now I can finally forge a Path-Proving Weapon of my own!"
There was no denying it.
His gains this time were truly immense.
That pool of divine source liquid alone was beyond imagination, enough to let him enter the Four Extremes Secret Realm without worry.
Not to mention the astonishing quantity of rare ancient medicinal herbs he had obtained, all of tremendous age. There were no fewer than five or six ancient medicine kings more than a hundred thousand years old.
Such a large block of chaos immortal gold would be enough for him to forge a true Chaos Bell as his Path-Proving Weapon, accompanying him into battle along the path to becoming an emperor.
Boom!
Within the Immortal Pool, wreathed in immortal light and billowing mist,
Taiyi exerted the strength of nine oxen and two tigers, making attempt after attempt.
At last, he managed to put away the block of chaos immortal gold, drawing it into his Bitter Sea.
Within his golden Bitter Sea, the immortal gold wreathed in chaos sank entirely into the brilliantly shining, vibrant Life Spring, bobbing up and down within it.
"Finally done!" He breathed a sigh of relief, then took out a jade bottle and collected every last drop of the unimaginable precious liquid in the Immortal Pool.
He was unwilling to miss any fortune.
Unfortunately, when he continued searching the place afterward,
he found no Emperor Weapon, nor any supreme scripture left behind.
He did, however, discover a small Five-Colored Altar.
It was perfectly preserved. Having remained for so long within the mist-wreathed Chaos Immortal Soil, abundant in spiritual energy, the essence of its Five-Colored Stones had not dissipated.
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