"Level 45..."
His gaze swept across the altar, landing on the five paths of light that had completely merged, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
" The Five-Crown King... started early?"
He strode to the altar and touched the remaining golden light traces on its edge. The light traces still carried a trace of warmth, but they had completely closed and could no longer be opened.
Beside him, an elder from the Wang Clan whispered, "Reporting to the Divine Son, during your seclusion, the Five-Crown King, the Lin Clan Prince, and three others opened an ancient path."
Wang Teng frowned. "Why didn't you wait for me?"
The old man was silent for a moment, then cautiously spoke, "I heard the Five-Crown King has changed; it's now the Lin Clan son..."
Wang Teng's pupils suddenly contracted.
He stood before the greyish-white altar, his gaze sweeping over the faded runes, then lingering for a moment in the remaining ripples of law, before he murmured, " The Lin Clan son, it's him again..."
He was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his head, Chaotic Devil Qi surged and exploded around him like a volcano that had been ignited.
" Lin Fan!!"
The roar shook the entire mountain range, and the dark red storm of laws sent the rubble around the altar flying several feet. His voice echoed through the mountains for a long time before finally fading away.
"You took my place... you stole my path..."
He stood there, Chaotic Devil Qi surging wildly around him.
After a long while, he slowly calmed down, his gaze fixed on the spot where the golden light had last illuminated, his voice low and deep.
"It's alright, there's more than one Mythical Ancient Road."
He turned and walked towards the forty-sixth level, the Chaotic Devil Qi leaving a long, dark red trail behind him. "I will take another path and wait for you at the end."
Along the golden ancient road.
The moment Lin Fan's feet touched the ground, he sensed an aura completely different from that of the Three Thousand Provinces.
The Spiritual Qi here doesn't look like Spiritual Qi at all. Every wisp is like celestial energy compressed countless times, so pure that every breath makes you feel like you're about to ascend.
There is no sun or moon in the sky!
Only a layer of pale golden clouds spread out at the very top, like ancient immortal gold leaf that had been deposited for countless years, radiating a gentle and enduring light.
Beneath their feet were three thousand Qingtong stone steps, layer upon layer extending upwards, each step engraved with ancient and intricate Dao runes.
The patterns on the runes seem alive...
As his gaze swept over it, it subtly flowed, emitting a deep and melodious Daoist sound, like an ancient immortal melody that had been repeatedly chanted.
"This is the Legendary Ancient Road?"
Lin Fan took a deep breath, Spiritual Qi poured over him like a clear spring, opening up every pore on his body.
He felt his Chaos Gods and Devils Body operating automatically, with the pale golden Spiritual Qi around him converging towards him like rivers flowing into the sea, requiring no prompting from him.
"In this place... even breathing is a form of cultivation."
He activated his Double Pupils, and the runes before him instantly became clearer.
The runes on the blue Qingtong stone steps resemble three thousand great paths, each line recording a fragment of an ancient immortal's cultivation journey.
Some resemble the starting stance of a sword immortal, while others resemble the divine power of Nirvana.
As he ascended, he tried to comprehend the runes.
With each step he took, a rune would light up beneath his feet, radiating a warm glow, as if making way for him or pointing him in the right direction.
[bite!]
I don't know how much time passed.
As Lin Fan ascended the thousandth stone step, a crisp system notification sounded in his ear: [Host detected entering the Immortal Ancient Dao Field. The current environment can greatly enhance comprehension. Use Hundredfold Dao Comprehension Card to stack comprehension?]
"Use."
Lin Fan did not hesitate.
If not now, when?
The Hundredfold Dao Comprehension Card transformed into a purple-gold halo that emanated from his body, immersing his mind in a warm sea of enlightenment. The world seemed to slow down at that moment, and every rune became crystal clear, as if it had been dissected.
He closed his eyes, and countless ancient images flashed through his mind.
A golden dragon shadow hovered in the void, dark blue roc wings spread out to blot out the sky, and a crimson Phoenix Nirvana in flames. The law patterns of the three treasure techniques unfolded one by one in his sea of consciousness.
At the same moment, the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame in his dantian pulsed three times, as if responding to the images that appeared.
The Chaos Scripture operated on its own, and the Chaos Qi surged around him like a tide. The immortal fire emitted extremely faint white flames, burning fine golden patterns into the air.
The three thousand avenues on the Qingtong stone steps pulsate!
He sat on the stone steps of the forty-fifth level, comprehending the ancient runes, the laws within his body undergoing a transformation.
Time loses its meaning on the golden ancient road.
There is no sunrise or sunset, no alternation of day and night, only golden clouds eternally spread across the sky, like a painting that never fades.
Lin Fan didn't know how long he had been sitting there...
All that is known is that the dragon core, formed from the Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood, is growing silently, the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame in the dantian is becoming brighter, and the Chaos Qi within the body is surging into a condensed universe.
"Buzz!"
When a wisp of Immortal Qi condensed above his head, the surrounding space seemed to distort slightly.
It was an extremely fine and faint aura, a chaotic color, somewhere between white and black, without any obvious color, yet it exuded an aura that could not be ignored. It moved slowly through his meridians like a dragon, and with each inch it flowed through, that section of meridian seemed to be tempered.
" Immortal Qi..."
Lin Fan suddenly opened his eyes.
He looked down at his palm, where a wisp of Immortal Qi was slowly rising from his dantian, hovering three inches above his palm like a solidified stream of light.
He had read about Immortal Qi in ancient books and knew how precious it was.
Immortal Qi provides an absolute and overwhelming boost to combat power; the more Immortal Qi one possesses, the higher one's future potential.
Immortal Qi is a characteristic possessed only by powerful beings in the Immortal Realm!
Qi is extremely dependent on talent and environment; ordinary cultivators struggle to condense it even after a lifetime of effort, and it requires a celestial land like the Immortal Ancient Land of Opportunity.
This wasn't unusual in the Immortal Ancient Era...
However, the Spiritual Qi in the current Three Thousand Provinces of the Desolate Ancient Land is thin and the laws are broken. Quasi-Emperor level expert would find it difficult to condense a wisp of immortal Immortal Qi in his entire life, but he did it at the Sage King Realm.
"Hiss..."
He took a deep breath and drew that wisp of Immortal Qi back into his dantian.
The moment that energy entered his body, his entire body seemed to resonate, and a power several times stronger than before slowly rose from within him.
"A mere Immortal Qi is this powerful?"
He stretched his shoulders, and his bones crackled and popped. The Chaos Qi around him surged, becoming even more solid after being tempered by that wisp of Immortal Qi.
He looked down at his dantian.
A wisp of chaotic-colored Immortal Qi, like a tiny yet bright seed, was slowly taking root, surrounded by a faint halo of chaotic light.
He felt he still had energy left; his intuition told him he could condense a second and a third strand.
There's no rush to break through to Quasi-Emperor.
He closed his eyes again. "The end of the Sage King Realm should not be this."
He sat cross-legged on the ancient road and continued his seclusion.
Time flows swiftly and immeasurably along this ancient road.
Before we knew it, two and a half years had quietly passed on the golden ancient road.
Outside, the Mythical Ancient Road has undergone earth-shattering changes.