The whole universe trembled! A True Immortal scripture, a hundred-year epiphany!
Silence...
The voice of the Great Dao spread throughout the entire universe, like mighty bells striking hard at the heart of every living being!
Buzz-!!
The instant Lu Qingyun stepped into the Immortal Court.
The entire universe seemed to tremble faintly. The Heavenly Heart Imprint peeled away from Lu Qingyun's body and returned to the universe of its own accord!
Heaven's mandate for this era stood vacant once more!
This also proved that Lu Qingyun's words were true!
He, the Chaos Heavenly Emperor who had just attained the Dao and could rightfully be called the strongest Great Emperor in history.
At the very first moment after successfully attaining the Dao, he had entered a forbidden zone, just like those Supremes who had held heaven's mandate for tens of thousands of years before their lifespans ran dry and they resorted to prolonging their lives with the blood essence of all living beings!
Why?
This question surfaced in everyone's hearts.
There was simply no reason for it!
Having attained the Dao with a Chaos Body, he possessed an immense lifespan. He faced absolutely no predicament that required him to enter a forbidden zone!
Yet Lu Qingyun had done exactly that.
And he had done so with exceptional decisiveness, without the slightest hesitation!
He was even famously poor, yet he had managed to establish a supreme forbidden land like the Immortal Court straightaway.
Clearly, he had planned this for a long time!
This sudden turn of events plunged every living being in the universe into despair!
In everyone's hearts, wasn't it only natural for the reigning Great Emperor to take protecting all living beings as his duty?!
Why, when this era's Great Emperor was clearly the strongest.
When he even had hopes of waging war against the forbidden zones and making an immense contribution to future generations!
Why had he instead become a new forbidden zone? Nine great forbidden zones now stood-what a cause for despair!
An old Saint wailed in grief, his state of mind shattering on the spot!
There were also contenders for the Dao on the imperial path who rejoiced wildly. Having only just sealed themselves within Divine Source, they immediately broke out again, their fighting spirit soaring into the heavens!
Within the great forbidden zones, cries of doubt and astonishment likewise rang out without end.
Ever since the last time, when seven Supremes had emerged but failed to bring Lu Qingyun down.
These forbidden zones had already tacitly agreed to lie dormant for over a hundred thousand years.
To outlive this Chaos Heavenly Emperor with his unparalleled battle prowess.
It was precisely for this reason that they had not intervened during his Dao attainment tribulation.
Nor had anyone dared to interfere!
Yet this move of Lu Qingyun's left them utterly unable to tell what he was plotting.
They had no idea whether it was real or false.
"Could it be... he intends to use this scheme to lure us out of the forbidden zones and launch a Dark Turmoil? Then he could slay us outside?"
"Entirely possible! This fellow has a venomous mind and no shortage of daring. Last time, he spent his entire fortune setting up an Emperor Formation to lure us deep inside. Had heaven and earth not loathed him, leaving him with practically no fortuitous opportunities, more than one fellow Daoist might have fallen then."
"Hmph-! Whatever he intends, we need only watch and wait."
"I'm more curious where he found this immortal blessed land. Could it truly be a lost part of the immortal realm?"
"Heh-what, tempted? Isn't that a forbidden land too? You could give it a try. Perhaps... he really might save you a place."
The voices of the Forbidden Zone Supremes gradually fell silent, just as before.
"The Heavenly Heart Imprint? Tsk-"
Lu Qingyun rubbed his chest, his face showing no trace of regret.
There was even a hint of mockery.
Because the path he had taken was never the conventional route of attaining the Dao and becoming a Great Emperor.
Loathed by heaven and earth, he not only had pitifully few fortuitous opportunities.
Even the suppression of the Great Dao was thousands upon tens of thousands of times greater for him than for other cultivators!
It could entirely be seen as him enduring the suppression of a Great Emperor and relying on his Chaos Body to forcibly trample the myriad Daos beneath his feet and become an Emperor.
The Heavenly Heart Imprint had only come to him of its own accord after seeing that he had become an Emperor and could no longer be suppressed.
Now, seeing Lu Qingyun turn himself into a forbidden zone.
It had simply departed again.
Although the Heavenly Heart Imprint could help him perfect his Great Emperor Dao Fruit more quickly.
For Lu Qingyun, however, its absence would not have much effect.
He paid no attention to the immense commotion he had caused outside. His gaze had already been wholly drawn to the Immortal Court Forbidden Land rewarded by the system.
Throughout the forbidden land, Qi imbued with immortal resonance swirled.
Exotic beasts appeared among the mountains, including many rare species from Desolate Antiquity that had already vanished from the outside world.
Medicine kings over ten thousand years old grew like weeds on the cliff faces.
Breathing in and out the Qi imbued with immortal resonance, every one of them had reached the pinnacle of medicinal potency!
Although these medicine kings were of little use to Lu Qingyun as he was now, they still moved him!
He had been poor for eight hundred years!
When had he ever seen such a dreamlike sight?!
What did it mean for bitterness to end and sweetness to come?!
This was what it fucking meant!
Deep within the Immortal Court, the Qi imbued with immortal resonance reached its peak.
Immortal Source Liquid capable of sealing away Great Emperors had gathered into a lake, and more was constantly forming, flowing slowly like spring water with a gentle tinkling sound.
Immortal Source Liquid on this scale was enough to seal away over a hundred Supremes at once!
[Ding-! Mission complete. Reward: one True Immortal scripture. Delivered!]
As the system notification sounded, an enormous flood of information surged into his soul!
But with the current strength of his soul, receiving it was still effortless.
Buzz-!
Under the control of Lu Qingyun's will, the entire Immortal Court trembled. The Great Emperor Formation Patterns throughout it, seemingly inscribed by heaven and earth, all activated!
In an instant, this place became a true forbidden land!
Even a Supreme who intruded would be blasted to death in an instant by these slaughtering Emperor Formations!
The True Immortal-level cultivation method instantly sent Lu Qingyun into a state of epiphany.
Chaos Qi suffused his surroundings.
Divine chains of order appeared across his body, as though trapping the Great Dao around him to aid his comprehension!
Immortals.
In this world, they were not vague, illusory existences.
There was considerable evidence proving that, long ago, this world had been incomparably prosperous and had even given birth to True Immortals!
It was just that, owing to a great upheaval in heaven and earth.
Traces of immortals had already become difficult to find in the present universe.
Even things related to immortals were almost impossible to find.
Let alone an entire True Immortal cultivation method.
All the Supremes now lay dormant within the forbidden zones, trying every conceivable means to survive until the moment the Road to Immortality opened.
So, if those Supremes in the other forbidden zones who believed their path ahead had been severed learned that Lu Qingyun possessed an entire, complete cultivation method, they would probably immediately form a party to raid the boss.
Chaos Body? Heavenly Emperor?
With a whole pack of Supremes swarming him, no matter how well he could fight, he would still have to spill blood!
Years went uncounted in cultivation.
A single session of Dao comprehension lasted a hundred years.
Lu Qingyun slowly opened his eyes, a glimmer of divine light flickering within them, reflecting chaos.
"A hundred years of cultivation passed in an instant."
"Although my Dao Fruit is still far from perfect, comprehending this True Immortal cultivation method advances my cultivation much faster than that Heavenly Heart Imprint."
"It's just... this cultivation method seems to be missing something..."
Lu Qingyun's brows furrowed slightly, but soon relaxed.
As though he had discovered something, he gave a soft sound of surprise.
He looked beyond the Immortal Court.
Outside the Immortal Court, a young Quasi-Emperor sat cross-legged in the void, his breathing long and steady. Clearly, he had been there for quite some time.