"How much time has passed? Five thousand years, or eight thousand years... ten thousand years?"
Ye Fan's body trembled. The world was vast and boundless. His Sacred Body's ten thousand-year lifespan had already passed. Who else could he see in this world?
He rode on a golden rainbow and charged into the depths of the universe like a madman, trying to find the battlefield of the great battle in his memory. However, he found nothing. That place had long since become a ruin, with only remnants of blood and rubble.
The former Burial Emperor Star has vanished, leaving only cosmic dust.
The Earth shattered into wasteland, and everything disappeared.
"Where is that person? Didn't he keep saying he had the power to slay immortals and wanted to enter the Immortal Domain? Where is he!" Ye Fan's voice was hoarse. When he finally saw the result, he trembled all over, clenched his fists, and turned pale. A terrible guess was in his heart.
Is my mother still alive? She followed that man back then...
Even the enemy had vanished, and all hope was shattered. He tried to find something, but discovered there wasn't a trace left.
"Tracing back to the source!"
Ye Fan roared like a madman, and with one roar the starry sky collapsed. This place was immediately shrouded in Chaos energy. He saw many broken scenes, and the immortal light shook the heavens.
The emperors are fleeing, the source of cholera is rampaging, slaughtering Human World and leaving no one to claim supremacy. Rivers of blood flow as far as the eye can see, and everywhere is a scene of destruction over the Life Source Land...
Ye Fan watched as that person finally stormed onto the Road to Immortality, forcefully breaking through the passage between the two realms and stepping into the Immortal Domain.
"He... became an immortal, and his mother followed him into the Immortal Domain," Ye Fan murmured to himself, his voice trembling. This was his last remaining relative in the world.
He stood there, dazed and confused, his face a complex mix of hatred and resentment, but mostly a sense of relief.
But the next moment, the heavens unleashed their killing intent, the stars shifted and constellations moved, and a massive calamity befell the immortal Xian Dao, the scene so dazzling that it was impossible to see clearly.
This is a Dao track pattern at the Xian Dao level, Human Dao Supreme cannot see through. It involves the Immortal King Tribulation and is difficult to trace!
Ye Fan strained to see, his eyes bleeding profusely. In the end, blood flowed from all seven orifices, and he was almost covered in blood. But he still managed to see a fragment: amidst the calamities of the heavens, a celestial figure fell, and that person's primordial spirit was shaken out and exploded amidst the boundless lightning tribulation.
All that remained was a desolate expanse of red, blood raining down!
That person... has fallen!
Ye Fan shook violently, completely unprepared for the outcome.
The other party is dead, and his mother in the inner world... Ye Fan felt a sharp pain in his heart. He staggered, tears streaming down his face, staring at the ruins left by the Immortal King Tribulation, his heart breaking.
Loved ones are gone, old friends are no more, even enemies are nowhere to be found. What immense sorrow this is!
Am I all alone now?
In this vast universe, among countless galaxies, only fragments remain; nothing is ever truly whole. He yearned for revenge, but with that person dead, he had no way to exact his vengeance.
Following his old memories, Ye Fan headed towards the coordinates of the Life Source Land, embarking on an endless journey, only to find desolation and vast ruins.
Gou Chen, Fire Mulberry, Divine Domain, Big Dipper, Ziwei, Flying Immortal... all the once Life planets have been shattered.
For over a century, he has been searching, hoping to find traces of the past.
As Ye Fan ventured deeper into a shattered sea of stars, he came upon a blood mist that shrouded the heavens. It was a vast expanse of ruins, with stars falling like fireflies from time to time.
"That is..."
The Sacred Body felt a tremor in its heart and went deeper inside.
In the hazy depths of the mist, there lay a corpse, its body splattered with Black Blood. A shattered Immortal Sword lay scattered there, decaying and gloomy. The source of the sword even reflected a fragmented and blurry scene. A chilling wind blew, carrying the roars of Supreme from bygone eras, sending shivers down one's spine.
It's him!
Seeing this, Ye Fan felt no joy, no excitement, only boundless sorrow. Could he not even avenge himself?
All his friends and relatives have passed away, so what's the point of his life? All that sustains him is grief and indignation, a desire to find the truth, and an inability to believe that person could be dead.
But what's left now? Even the enemy has been annihilated.
Ye Fan felt no joy at having avenged his great enemy; only endless sorrow. How many past events can be relived?
Was this what the other person was thinking back then? Everything they cared about was gone, to the point of being half-mad.
But at least that person got his revenge, killed all his enemies, and vented his anger.
What about myself?
And so it all came to an end. No old friends to be seen, enemies dead; all that remained was a corpse, a silent testament to eternal grievances.
Why was I the only one spared?
"You're so proud of your superior deduction skills, you even predicted my current predicament, and now you want me to experience the pain you went through back then."
"Fuck you, Tribulation Emperor."
Ye Fan was disheveled and looked crazy, but a fire was burning inside him that he couldn't quell.
He imitated Wu Zixu's actions, immediately unleashing the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, which instantly caused golden blood energy to surge back, creating a dazzling starry sky. For someone who had lost everything, this was truly something he could do.
But the result was abrupt; he couldn't even break through the opponent's domain and was forced back by the oppressive aura emanating from the Immortal Corpse.
"He has truly become an immortal, transformed into Longevity body..." Ye Fan fell silent, then burst into laughter, but the laughter eventually turned into sobs.
His loves and hates, his joys and sorrows, his madness of hatred, were all buried in the Desolate Antiquity past. In this Lifetime, he has no one he knows anymore.
Ye Fan stayed at the Burial Ground for a hundred years, spending most of that time talking to himself and recounting everything from the past.
At first, he cursed almost every day, but as time went on, he stopped venting his emotions and instead recalled the people and events of the past, erecting a monument to the past...
One day, he inexplicably obtained some Xian Dao scriptures from the corpses and became determined to become an immortal in this era of spiritual desolation.
"My life is not over yet. I want to become an immortal and reclaim everything I have lost!" The beams of light in Ye Fan's eyes were like two sharp swords. His fighting spirit burned like fire. He wanted to collapse the sky, make the earth shatter, and go to the road to Longevity to question the heavens!
"I will break through the Immortal of the Foreign Realm, reverse the past and present, transform the universe, and turn back the clock!" Ye Fan extinguished all the turmoil, making himself calm and determined, full of fighting spirit.
At the Burial Ground, the immortal body floated and sank, emitting a great deal of celestial light. It was an ancient scripture that explained the method to become an immortal.
As time has passed, many of the methods for achieving immortality in the scriptures have become ineffective, but some of the most terrifying ones can still be used.
" The Immortal Sacrifice Method..." Ye Fan's heart trembled. In the immortal light, he saw a complete Road to Immortality, sacrificing billions of souls to open the Immortal Gate...
This was the root cause of the past turmoil!
He suddenly understood many things...
Ye Fan did not choose this path; he Xiang Yu, determined to rely on his own way to traverse the boundless ages.
For a thousand years, he searched for the Way and Law of the past on the blood-soaked, shattered earth, but could not find them; everything had declined too violently.
In the past, the Big Dipper, a place of Dharma Ending, still had creatures in the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, but now even the Dragon Transformation is nowhere to be seen.
A civilization with tens of thousands of years of cultivation, yet its strongest beings are only at the Four Extremes Secret Realm... This is truly tragic.
Ye Fan arrived at the other side of the starry sky. Instinct drove him here. Upon arriving, he saw some broken planets, vast and boundless, stretching out before him.
This place has been through a great battle, and was shattered into pieces. Now it is severely damaged, even containing the Immortal Tribulation Law left behind by that person. However, they are already broken and cannot stop him.
"Where is this place?"
He crossed the spatial layer and arrived at the depths of Chaos. His Sacred Body trembled as he felt a completely different law rushing towards him. The Longevity immortality was spreading, with the essence of the Immortal of the Foreign Realm flowing within it. Thousands of Northern Pole Immortal Light roared above the world.
This is a paradise, though its area isn't very large, not even comparable to Mars.
The starry sky was filled with countless rays of light, as well as countless runes and Dao inscriptions, some golden, some pure white and sacred. Upon closer inspection, they were all Xian Dao laws, a truly astonishing sight.
"Is this... that person opened a passage between the two realms, and some of the laws of the Immortal Domain have washed over this small area, changing it?" Ye Fan was very surprised. His already aging body was yearning for the essence of Life, and he had an impulse to absorb the essence of immortality.
Without thinking too much, he delved into it, wanting to study the methods to achieve immortality, and also to prolong his life and see different scenery.
You've gone to the wrong place.
As the Emperor's Fall and the years passed, a soft sigh washed away the copper flowers of time. Su Yu, who lived upstream in the River of Time, shook his head, not having a high opinion of Ye Fan in this branch of time.
Living in the Dharma Ending allows one to better discover the potential of living beings. Once one enters the land of Longevity and is baptized by Xian Dao laws of immortality, one will develop Longevity inertia. A person who could have lived out their next Lifetime on their own will be tainted by this Longevity inertia and will find it almost impossible to live out their next Lifetime. The difficulty will increase tenfold or a hundredfold.
Take Wang Changsheng, for example. He was the reincarnation of the Dark Immortal King. He was exceptionally talented, but after being bathed in Immortal Qi for so long, Longevity too lazy. As a result, he couldn't even squeeze out his body's potential to start the next Lifetime, ending up in the embarrassing situation of only being half-transformed.
In the later era of "Shrouding the Heavens," Guan Cheng, Jiang Taixu, Golden Crow in "The Path of the Starry Sky Emperor" all lived out their second lives through their own efforts.
It's not fair to say that Wang Changsheng was inferior to the others; the main reason was simply their different environments.
Similarly, in the era of "Shrouding the Heavens," a number of Extreme Dao Supreme could emerge within a million years, while in the Immortal Ancient Era, it was extremely difficult to forge oneself into Extreme Dao Supreme because the environment was too favorable and the obstacles too severe.
The harsher and more desolate the environment, the more likely it is to forge those with extraordinary abilities.
The same applies to starting a new life and achieving the immortality of the mortal realm. Even someone as stunning as Huang, placed in the Immortal Realm, could not possibly achieve immortality in the mortal realm; the influence of the environment on a person is too great.
The Chaotic Ancient Era Supreme that Shi Hao sealed on the Flying Immortal Star Ancient Road had combat power almost no different from that of the Supreme of the Shrouding the Heavens era. However, the Perfect World Supreme in the early Chaotic Ancient Era period, apart from Wang Changsheng and Meng Tianzheng, did not have that kind of extreme combat power at all, and could only rely on immortal scriptures and immortal artifacts to wreak havoc.
Chapter 861 Dark Ye Fan
For a thousand years, the blood energy in the Lesser Thousand Realms of Xian Dao surged to the heavens, piercing the sky and alarming all living beings in this realm.
Amidst the overwhelming surge of blood energy, Ye Fan reappeared, slowly rising to his feet. He underwent a rebirth amidst the boundless blood energy and powerful vitality, reshaping his original bloodline and rising once more!
Baptized by the essence of Xian Dao, the losses caused by the great battle of the past were wiped out, and he climbed to the highest peak he could stand on, truly Alternative Dao Attainment.
Further on, the path to the Sacred Body is blocked, and new paths need to be opened up by those who come after.
At the same time, a great change also occurred in this small world. The essence of Longevity was reduced by nearly 90%, and it lost its former sacredness.
If the small worlds were previously similar to the Immortal Domain or the Primordial Ancient Realm of the Immortal Ancient Era, they have now fallen into the Nine Heavens of the Dharma Ending.
This was under Ye Fan's deliberate suppression. If he were to absorb it with all his might, a fully-fledged Great Accomplishment Sacred Body would be enough to instantly drain this Lesser Thousand World. At that time, the Sun-Moon, and stars would fall, and all living beings would be annihilated.
A young Supreme, as if beginning a second life, with his black hair flowing like a waterfall, naturally draped over his crystalline body, stood tall in the vast sky, his eyes burning brightly, piercing through countless miles, looking down upon the shattered Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
" The Heavenly Heart Imprint is incomplete; it's shattered."
Ye Fan sighed softly. Having reached this level, he was already capable of proving the Dao, but the environment did not allow it. The Heavenly Heart did not exist, and there would be no more Supreme Emperor Realm for a very long time to come. It would take at least two or three hundred thousand years for this universe to form the Heavenly Heart Imprint again.
Borrowing strength is the cause, repaying blood is the effect.
Deep within the Lesser Thousand Realms, Ye Fan left behind three jars of Crimson Blood that could change his destiny, and set off once more.
Unbeknownst to him, in the shadows, a pair of indifferent eyes watched his retreating figure, as if devoid of all emotions and desires, severing all ripples of Human World, beyond comprehension.
"This bit of immortal essence will at most allow you to live for another ten thousand years... You cannot escape this fate on the Immortal Road sacrifice..." the shadowy figure whispered, then disappeared into the depths of the starry sky.
In the years that followed, Ye Fan's figure could be seen on many Life stars. He was trying to find the old sites of the Road to Immortality from different points in time and space, so as to break through to the Immortal Domain. He wanted to get through it.
With his Heavenly Heart shattered, he could not attain enlightenment; his only obsession was to become an immortal.
This power and feat shocked all living beings in the universe.
"I feel like he looks a lot like the person recorded on the Golden Heaven Black Earth Painting unearthed from the ruins," a Sect Master of the Four Extremes Secret Realm whispered. Unfortunately, the image carved on that Immortal Map was very blurry and incomplete.