An Immortal Divine Medicine had appeared?
This was truly earth-shaking news, enough to send tremors through all Five Regions of Beidou!
"Since when did Immortal Medicine become so common?"
Wushi was stunned. Even while his mother was alive, she had only briefly possessed the Flat Peach Undying Divine Tree.
After his mother passed away, the peach tree had gone off to seek its fortune in the Divine Ruins, a Life Forbidden Zone. The Jade Lake Holy Land could neither keep it nor dare to.
At most, the holy land retained a second-generation sapling painstakingly cultivated from the Flat Peach Divine Tree's fruit pit, nourishing it with water from the Immortal Pool to grow peaches with extraordinary medicinal properties.
And now a wild True Dragon Immortal Divine Medicine had popped up?
"Unless you are a Quasi-Emperor or can wield an emperor's power, do not covet a mature Immortal Divine Medicine."
The Jade Pool Saint spoke with a grave expression, warning the feverishly excited elder, "Besides, the Nether God Palace is no ordinary place. A Primordial Imperial Clan lies dormant there. Recklessly deploying an Emperor Weapon could easily provoke an Ultimate Dao confrontation."
"So what if it does?"
The Jade Pool elder was puzzled. "Our Jade Lake Holy Land inherited the legacy of the supreme Western Emperor. We possess the Ultimate Dao as well. What have we to fear?"
"It is not fear. It is just..."
The Jade Pool Saint wanted to say something, but ultimately shook her head and said no more, dismissing the elder. She would make her own decision.
Once the elder reluctantly withdrew, the Jade Pool Saint's expression grew solemn. Wushi, who had stood with his hands behind his back all along, spoke softly.
"The Myriad Dragon Nest, the Myriad Dragon Emperor... I wonder whether that imperial sovereign lies dormant in the Primordial Ancient Mine?"
The Myriad Dragon Nest alone, a single ancient imperial clan, was not enough to shake the Jade Lake Holy Land.
After all, strictly speaking, the Jade Lake Holy Land had produced two Supremes!
Though the great accomplishment sacred body had died a miserable death, that was no reason to discount him!
Unfortunately, both Supremes had fallen. Their deaths were beyond doubt.
But what of the Primordial Imperial Clan's emperor?
He might well be lying dormant in the Primordial Ancient Mine!
During the primordial era, the Primordial Ancient Mine had been the highest holy ground of Beidou's ancient races. The great imperial clans had held all their gatherings in temples on its outskirts-a glimpse that spoke volumes.
The ancient imperial clans now lying sealed and dormant on Beidou might have countless threads tying them to the Primordial Ancient Mine. For all anyone knew, their ancestors could be lying right inside it!
Though most of those ancient emperors would sleep like the dead and would not emerge unless the Road to Immortality opened... what if one did?
The Jade Lake Holy Land was certainly brave. Its grounds lay only ten thousand li from the Primordial Ancient Mine, even closer than the Jiang Family's thirty thousand li. It was practically blocking the mine's doorstep. If Dark Turmoil erupted from that forbidden zone, it would be on the front line, facing the Supremes directly.
But having no fear of trouble was no reason to go looking for it!
After all, besides sleeping emperors, the mine might also hold divine generals and servants who had once followed the ancient emperors-Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors... even one of them emerging would be enough to give anyone a headache.
"Even if an ancient emperor descends upon the world, Jade Pool has nothing to fear."
Immortal light flashed as the Western Emperor's Emperor Tower floated into view, its deity awakening. "We need only bury Beidou and sever the mist-shrouded road to immortality for all later generations."
"But I do not want you to do that. Even without Mother's contingency, I can walk my path with ease in this lifetime..."
Wushi sighed softly, gazing at this Emperor Weapon whose deity was exceptionally active.
Ordinary Emperor Weapons slumbered for long stretches, their deities sleeping like the dead.
Yet the Western Emperor Pagoda now defied that common rule.
Naturally, there was a reason. It concerned the Western Emperor and held her most terrifying contingency, prepared for her child.
The Western Emperor's husband was already dead. If her child were also to meet an untimely death...
A woman who had lost everything was terrifying, let alone a female Great Emperor!
"I believe in your talent, but the affairs of the world are unpredictable. No one knows what the future holds..." The Emperor Tower's deity remained calm. "Especially the Underworld. When will they strike..."
"The vengeance owed from back then will never be forgotten."
"Only, at the time, for your sake, the Western Emperor swallowed her grief, restrained herself, and endured..."
"Otherwise, she would have thrown everything aside back then. Even if she died in battle, she would have taken several of the Underworld's Supremes with her."
"The Western Emperor did not fear death, did not seek to live alone, and did not live for immortality..."
A Great Emperor who had never severed her own cultivation even at death had truly looked beyond life and death, and truly did not care about the Road to Immortality!
For there were people and matters more important to her: her own child, and her blood debt.
And when those two could still be bound together, the result was destined to be terrifying!
"If an ominous fate befalls you, let the pursuit that the world has cherished for countless ages be buried alongside you."
The Western Emperor's deity spoke distantly. In that moment, it seemed to be more than itself, as though the female emperor of old had turned to look back across the divide between life and death.
"When you were born, your mother was delighted, and astonished as well... all because your constitution defied heaven too greatly. It combined the strengths of the Indestructible Golden Body and the innate dao embryo, then rose another step beyond them both."
"A sacred body at great accomplishment can battle those who have attained the Dao with its flesh alone... yet you surpass even that. Once you reach great accomplishment, how peerless will you be?"
"And so your mother studied this constitution with great care. For a time, she even considered transforming her own constitution."
"But... she failed."
"In the end, she could not undergo a heaven-defying transformation into a divine embryo like the legendary Devouring Heaven Great Emperor, who was suspected of having attained a true chaos body."
"However, the research inspired your mother, giving her a different approach to using her own innate dao embryo."
"The innate dao embryo is close to the Great Dao. Its body merges with the Dao, allowing it to borrow the Great Dao's power and become one with heaven and earth... this constitution is no less than the Indestructible Golden Body."
"Yet, ultimately, it lacks the Indestructible Golden Body's final transformation at great accomplishment, which allows it to contend with the Ultimate Dao... even an innate dao embryo at great accomplishment, at the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm, would suffer a crushing defeat against someone who had attained the Dao, with almost no power to fight back."
"For emperors are invincible. They command the heavenly heart and stand above the innate dao embryo!"
"But inspiration struck your mother... a dao embryo combined with a golden body, possessing both Dao and physique, transcended them both."
"If her dao embryo could also break free of its 'embryo' and become a 'body,' might it undergo a similar sublimation?"
A dao embryo embodied gestation and, in the end, still carried limitations.
But if it became a "Dao body" and broke free of those shackles, it would stand independently beyond them.
Unfortunately, the Western Emperor had failed to follow the path of the innate sacred body dao embryo.
But she did not need to follow it herself. Something ready-made already existed.
"Your mother exhausted her heart's blood and finally turned her gaze to this ancient star beneath our feet, to what had once been... a chaos body!"
"In the mythological era, after a true chaos body fell, the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable refined it, and it was then built up through the blessings of those who followed... after the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, every Dao-attainer who visited the Big Dipper Ancient Star left traces of their Dao upon this star, all of which were
"blessings upon it."
"Once the Road to Immortality opens, this star will become a Five-Colored Altar, displaying the chaos body's transcendence and smelting fragments of every Great Dao. Even the Ultimate Dao will be no exception. Myriad Daos will unite, shaking antiquity and dazzling the present!"
"Using this to attack and wage war upon the road to immortality... might add one slender chance of attaining immortality."
"But your mother cared nothing for any of that."
"She only wanted to leave behind the power to safeguard your path... and so she willingly entered the hopeless depths of death, burying herself upon this ancient star. With her own death, she anchored herself to the dead chaos body and extracted the origin of her dao embryo."
"One day, when you emerge into the world, the dao embryo's origin will merge with me, and the contingency already laid will activate... the moment you enter a hopeless situation with no path to survival, I will take control, shattering your mother's emperor corpse, then ending it in Dao Transformation. I will ignite the destructive dao fire and bring this chaos body's remains into Dao Transformation with it, along with the many Heavenly Venerables, ancient emperors, and Great Emperors of all the ages-their Great Daos, their heart's blood..."
"All will wither together, exchanged for one ultimate strike against your mighty enemies and the Underworld... to join our family on the road to the Yellow Springs!"