Chapter 309: Rebirth - I Became the Grandpa (Part 33)
All laws withered.
Dongfang Yunxing watched as every living being lost their minds and slaughtered one another. They all wanted to survive, yet survival had become impossibly difficult. No one knew when the Great Annihilation Tribulation would finally end.
Civilizations rose and fell. Old friends vanished. For a powerful cultivator, this was a process that had to be endured.
Dongfang Yunxing gradually grew numb. He turned his focus to deducing the eleventh layer of the Undying Nirvana Scripture, all so he could live on and wait for that slim chance at immortality.
“You want to fight me?” Dongfang Yunxing looked at the young man who had intruded into his world. The intruder’s black hair fluttered wildly, his bearing arrogant and unrestrained. The entire world trembled before him.
He was the third seat of the Transmigrator Alliance—the Heaven-Defying Mad God.
The two had schemed against each other for millions of years amid the annihilation.
The Heaven-Defying Mad God spread his hands. “Dongfang Yunxing, you are truly arrogant. You act without restraint, even more wildly than I do, and you have plotted against so many transmigrators in our alliance. Most of the seeds in my hand have been taken by you. Now I no longer have the qualifications to survive this tribulation. Except by killing you.”
Every top seat in the Transmigrator Alliance held seeds—sources of their longevity power. Dongfang Yunxing had repeatedly targeted the alliance, using the Heaven’s Mandate Pearl to create enemies who opposed them. The two sides had traded victories, but in the end, Dongfang Yunxing held the upper hand.
“If it’s a fight you want, then let’s fight.”
The Great Dao beneath Dongfang Yunxing’s feet spun like a rotating wheel, unfolding layer after layer and enveloping the Heaven-Defying Mad God.
The battle did not last long.
Tens of thousands of years passed. In the end, Dongfang Yunxing prevailed. He suppressed and killed the Heaven-Defying Mad God, stripping away and refining his Dao.
He resumed his comprehension of the eleventh layer of the Undying Nirvana Scripture.
In the thirtieth millionth year of the Great Annihilation Tribulation, even powerful Emperor Lord-level beings began to fall one after another.
Dongfang Yunxing did not die.
Ever since the master of the Void Divine Palace had failed to achieve immortality, the Emperor Lords of the palace had either perished or been slain. Only two Emperor Lord-level experts remained. Among the long-lived beings, only these two were left.
“I don’t want to pursue this any longer,” one of them said. “It’s all too exhausting. Even if I survive one era after another, what’s the point? Achieving immortality feels too distant. No one knows how many annihilation tribulations there will be. Across so many lifetimes, not a single person has succeeded.”
He was an ancient elder, frail with age, wearing a black robe that still carried an immortal’s dignity. He was a powerhouse second only to the master of the Void Divine Palace—a thirty-five-tribulation Ruler. His expression was filled with exhaustion. After the death of the Void Divine Palace master, his resolve had begun to waver. His Dao had died.
“Let me become your nourishment. You are still young and have limitless potential. Carry the will of my Void Divine Palace and walk toward a brand-new era.”
The elder spoke slowly. He had lost the will to pursue immortality.
But Dongfang Yunxing had not.
He understood the loneliness at the end of the long road of longevity. Along the way, there had always been people accompanying him. He would not retreat, nor would he lose heart. He would achieve immortality!
Dongfang Yunxing successfully deduced the eleventh layer of the Undying Nirvana Scripture and began his eleventh nirvana.
He succeeded. His aptitude was unprecedented.
Yet Dongfang Yunxing felt in his heart that something was still missing for him to achieve immortality.
“Am I lacking immortal qi?” he wondered. “Or is it…”
He did not know what exactly he was missing.
An unknown stretch of time passed. Dongfang Yunxing realized there were no longer any signs of life in the outside world. Everything had fallen into eternal annihilation.
He had survived the Great Annihilation Tribulation.
But in this world-ending catastrophe, he stood alone in the void. There were no companions, no living beings. He could not leave the place of immortality.
So he began to scatter the seeds of myriad daos. Living beings started to be born in one world after another.
Dongfang Yunxing began creating new cultivation methods. He conducted one experiment after another. He spread the laws he had cultivated across the Great Daos of countless universes.
A million years later.
Living beings gradually began to walk the path of transcendence.
The road ahead was hazy and uncertain.
Transcendents who followed the methods Dongfang Yunxing had cultivated gradually deduced the path forward.
As more and more realms were deduced, a hundred flowers bloomed and ten thousand Daos contended.
Dongfang Yunxing felt as if something extra had appeared within his body.
"Immortality, immortality… Everyone thinks that reaching the peak of the thirty-sixth tribulation Ruler realm allows one to transcend."
"They are wrong. Even at the thirty-sixth tribulation, the forty-sixth tribulation, or even the hundredth tribulation Ruler realm, it is impossible to become an immortal."
"These are not beings of the same dimension."
Dongfang Yunxing discovered that his strength had become powerful enough to easily destroy everything, even to annihilate the entire cultivation era of the Land of Immortality. Yet he still could not achieve immortality.
One day, Dongfang Yunxing encountered a person. He vaguely felt that this person walked the same path as him.
A middle-aged man wearing a faded cyan robe, his face calm as still water.
"Who are you?" Dongfang Yunxing asked.
"Great Yang Emperor Lord," the middle-aged man replied indifferently.
Both of them were far too powerful.
Great Yang Emperor Lord discovered that he had destroyed all living beings in the End Times Immortal Domain and seized the immortal spiritual vitality.
He had surpassed everything. But he still had not become an immortal.
He had survived the Nirvana Great Tribulation. He had seen the arrival of a new era, where a person spread the Dao among all living beings with astonishing talent, seeking the secret of immortality.
Great Yang Emperor Lord found it very interesting. He hid in the shadows.
He sensed the changes in Dongfang Yunxing's body. The secret of immortality was about to appear. He revealed himself.
"Hand over the secret of immortality. In exchange, I can share what I know with you. We are not walking the same immortal path, but perhaps we can comprehend the secret of immortality together."
Great Yang Emperor Lord smiled. He acknowledged Dongfang Yunxing. This was a fellow Daoist worthy of seeking the secret of immortality alongside him. He believed Dongfang Yunxing would not refuse. At their level, they had long abandoned everything else. Pursuing immortality together was their only goal.
"I refuse," Dongfang Yunxing replied expressionlessly, unmoved.
Great Yang Emperor Lord narrowed his eyes, a trace of regret in his gaze. "Why? I thought we were fellow Daoists who would walk that supreme path together."
Dongfang Yunxing said calmly, "We are not fellow Daoists."
Boundless lights of the great Dao illuminated the void. All the powerful beings in the Land of Immortality felt the greatest terror in the world about to arrive.
"How can such an existence exist in this world?"
Even the most powerful beings born in this era felt insignificant in this moment.
"What a pity… Then I can only kill you and study the secrets within your body."
Great Yang Emperor Lord felt it was a shame.
He no longer held back his aura.
Two figures that could shatter the void clashed.
Suddenly, Great Yang Emperor Lord suffered a heavy blow.
"It's you…"
Chapter 310: Rebirth - I Became the Grandpa (Part 34)
The clash between Dongfang Yunxing and Great Yang Emperor Lord had reached a level beyond comprehension. Within the Land of Immortality, they were nearly indistinguishable from true immortals.
Shockwaves from their battle destroyed one civilization after another.
As Dongfang Yunxing and Great Yang Emperor Lord were locked in a stalemate, their levels were so high that completely killing the other was extremely difficult unless some unforeseen variable occurred.
A variable capable of interfering in a battle of this level was almost nonexistent. But… the pearl that had been silent for so long began to stir.
Everything happened too suddenly.
Great Yang Emperor Lord had never imagined that there could be a third existence at their level in this world.
An aura similar to Dongfang Yunxing's, yet different.
Myriad Laws unified into one, the ultimate power of destruction. Even though Great Yang Emperor Lord immediately unleashed a great divine ability to scatter himself across countless time and space to avoid the strike, it was still too late.
That fist pierced through his chest.
Great Yang Emperor Lord stared at the white-haired middle-aged man who had appeared.
His aura was cold and indifferent.
"It's you… You didn't die…"
In Great Yang Emperor Lord's mind, a figure he had thought long dead overlapped with the one before him.
Although their appearances were different.
"Master…"
A long-lost smile appeared on Dongfang Yunxing's face.
Su Chen's expression remained calm. Ever since the Absolute Dao Forbidden Zone, he had been alive and fully conscious, staying inside the Heaven's Mandate Pearl the entire time.
Using the hands of Di Chan, Chi Yao, and Qin Wujie, he had schemed against and killed the forces that had destroyed his family in this life and knew about the Heaven's Mandate Pearl. They became part of the many powerful Sovereigns who had been eliminated. No one knew it was all because of a single pearl, nor did anyone know of the Heaven's Mandate Pearl's existence.
To set up this grand scheme and wait for the Great Yang Emperor Lord to reveal himself, Su Chen had not left the Heaven's Mandate Pearl for nearly a hundred million years. No one knew he was still alive. Even when Chi Yao probed, he did not respond. Watching his old acquaintances feel sorrow, he still did not leave the pearl. This was a heaven-defying grand scheme spanning countless years, related to the secret of immortality.
For this, Su Chen had remained hidden inside the Heaven's Mandate Pearl. As Dongfang Yunxing killed more and more powerhouses, the pearl's energy grew stronger, and Su Chen's own strength became increasingly unfathomable along with it. Even after the Nirvana Great Tribulation, Su Chen had not emerged.
He believed the Great Yang Emperor Lord was not dead. After devouring all the immortal spirits of the End Times Immortal Domain, a Nirvana Great Tribulation could not kill him.
Only Dongfang Yunxing knew that Su Chen was still alive. He did not understand why his master had seemed to disappear after that one time, with no further messages. It was not until he saw Great Yang Emperor Lord that Dongfang Yunxing finally understood why his master had been gone for so long.
Su Chen looked at Great Yang Emperor Lord.
Great Yang Emperor Lord stared back at Su Chen in shock. He had clearly witnessed Su Chen scatter his Dao and die before his eyes. Why had he come back to life?
Great Yang Emperor Lord did not know the answer.
Su Chen had no interest in telling him.
The Myriad Laws Treasure Wheel spun in Su Chen's hand, transforming into a sword that could exterminate all Daos. Without giving Great Yang Emperor Lord any chance to breathe, it slashed toward him.
During the long years of seclusion, Su Chen had continuously perfected his own cultivation method. It had already surpassed his previous life. The Myriad Laws had fused into one supreme path, in no way inferior to Great Yang Emperor Lord's.
Dongfang Yunxing attacked alongside him.
Two powerhouses of the same level, not inferior to Great Yang Emperor Lord, were jointly besieging him alone.
The Land of Immortality had turned into ruins.
Knowing he was no match, Great Yang Emperor Lord used his last ounce of strength to attempt to escape the Land of Immortality.
No one knew how much time had passed. A flash of despair appeared in Great Yang Emperor Lord's eyes. No matter how far he went, he could not reach the end of the Land of Immortality, nor could he reach the Void Cosmic Sea.
"This place…"
Great Yang Emperor Lord realized he had returned to the Land of Immortality.
This scene filled him with despair.
"We can't escape… None of us can escape this place… It's all a lie. Everything is a lie. Becoming an immortal is a lie!"
Great Yang Emperor Lord suddenly laughed maniacally.
The Land of Immortality… without becoming an immortal, one could never leave. It was nothing more than a giant cage.
Great Yang Emperor Lord suddenly charged toward Dongfang Yunxing. That terrifying power pierced through the long river of time in the void.
Su Chen, wielding the Myriad Laws Immortal Sword, severed one of Great Yang Emperor Lord's arms. The blood that dripped annihilated vast stretches of ancient history.
No one knew how much time had passed. Only then did Great Yang Emperor Lord's aura gradually dissipate.
Su Chen looked at the pearl in his hand. Unlike the Heaven's Mandate Pearl, this one had been formed by refining Great Yang Emperor Lord. Strands of immortal spiritual qi were sealed within it. Great Yang Emperor Lord had wanted to use this immortal spiritual qi to prove the Dao and become a true immortal of the End Times Immortal Domain.
But for some unknown reason, he had failed.
Su Chen's main body transformed into the Heaven's Mandate Pearl and floated in the long river of time. Yet at this moment, the river of time appeared so dim.
Dongfang Yunxing had fallen into a deep sleep. In the battle against Great Yang Emperor Lord, he had been severely wounded. The two of them had fought in the long river of time and both suffered terrifying time punishment. While Great Yang Emperor Lord's Dao had perished, Dongfang Yunxing had also suffered backlash and was heavily injured.
Su Chen looked at the towering body floating above the long river of time. He did not intervene. Instead, he began to comprehend the secrets of the immortal spiritual qi left behind by Great Yang Emperor Lord.
No one knew how much time had passed. Even the flow of time in the void began to stagnate. A certain aura began to appear on Dongfang Yunxing's body. That aura seemed to be growing stronger.
"Finally succeeded?" Su Chen's eyes showed joy.
On Dongfang Yunxing's body, an indescribable characteristic began to emerge. Su Chen did not know where it came from, but he knew it was related to immortality—the secret of becoming an immortal.
The Heaven's Mandate Pearl trembled. A terrifying fluctuation emanated from it.
This time, Su Chen did not suppress it.
The Heaven's Mandate Pearl flew onto Dongfang Yunxing's body.
A look of pain appeared on Dongfang Yunxing's face, as if he was struggling.
"Immortality… immortality…"
Su Chen's eyes were calm.
The Heaven's Mandate Pearl had been refined by a true immortal.
How could a being of that level be so simple?
Inside the Heaven's Mandate Pearl, there was a strand of characteristic. With Su Chen's existence, it had perfectly suppressed that true immortal's strand of characteristic. That was why Dongfang Yunxing had never discovered it.
After living one life after another, Su Chen understood.
A true immortal who had touched upon a great secret had died unexpectedly and wanted to use the immortal domain of the Void Cosmic Sea to live a second life as a true immortal.
Upon sensing the true immortal's characteristics, Su Chen had chosen to push things along all for this very moment!