Chapter 345: The Main God Space (Part 1)
Su Chen slowly woke up. A hazy gray space stretched before him. He had returned to the Reverse Fate Space once again.
"The Immortal King is truly terrifying," Su Chen thought with a bitter smile.
Facing the Heavenly Gang Immortal King, he had no chance to resist. The Immortal King severed his connection to his immortal position and plunged him into eternal silence.
Fortunately, even if his Dao disintegrated and he lost himself, he could not truly die. Instead, he returned to the Reverse Fate Space.
"I fear that from the moment I became an immortal, I had already fallen into the Heavenly Gang Immortal King's scheme," he reflected. "It was fortunate that I awakened in time, sensed something wrong, broke ties with Yunxing, and expelled him from the Immortal Alliance to protect him."
Su Chen recalled everything he had done. He had never noticed anything amiss before. The complete absence of any sign was the greatest warning of all.
He had created the Immortal Alliance with shocking ease. At his call, countless immortals answered. The alliance grew powerful right under the noses of the Transmigrator Alliance and even annihilated the Chu Clan, one of its four great clans.
Thinking back on it now, Su Chen felt a chill run down his spine. Everything had gone far too smoothly, impossibly so. That was why Chu Zhao, on the verge of death, had told him that none of them had truly won. From the very beginning, this had been a calculated trap aimed at the Chu Clan. He and the Immortal Alliance were merely pawns in the Heavenly Gang Immortal King's hand, used to eliminate the Chu Clan.
By the end, Chu Zhao must have realized the truth and suffered the Immortal King's secret attack, which explained why he never appeared again.
The gap between realms was far vaster than any natural chasm. In front of an Immortal King like the Heavenly Gang Immortal King, a True Immortal's karma could be manipulated at will. Even if plotted against, there would be no trace to follow. Such power filled Su Chen with extreme vigilance.
[In the eighteenth life, you were an unvalued prince of the Great Jing Heavenly Dynasty. From a young age, you were unable to cultivate the martial path. Fortunately, your comprehension was outstanding. Since the martial path was closed to you, you chose to walk another road. The facts proved you succeeded—your strength progressed far faster than martial cultivation ever could.
To avoid getting involved in the imperial family's internal struggles, you chose to hide your true abilities and let your childhood sweetheart, Nan Hongsang of the Nan Family, draw the attention of the Great Jing Heavenly Dynasty.
On the surface, you were the ninety-ninth prince of the Great Jing Heavenly Dynasty who could not cultivate. In secret, you gradually grew stronger and became the Lord of Wisdom who swept across the Great Jing Heavenly Dynasty. You were also the number one genius of the human race.
You witnessed the death of a human Emperor. You understood that no matter how powerful a sovereign was, they could not contend against a True Immortal. To step onto the immortal path, you had no choice but to seek other methods. You began to lay plans, setting up a grand scheme that deceived the heavens, deceived immortals, and deceived even yourself. Using the power of Burial True Immortal Lord, you allowed your former disciple to sense the aura. At the critical moment of proving your Dao and becoming an immortal, you borrowed a sword to heavily wound Burial True Immortal Lord, buying yourself a slim chance at ascension. After countless layers of planning, you finally became an immortal. You even forcefully killed Burial True Immortal Lord. As fellow True Immortals, it was extremely difficult to completely eliminate one another, but you did not care. You would wait on the road for his return.
In that life, after you killed a True Immortal and proved your Dao, many immortals in the Heavenly Gang Immortal Domain misunderstood your intentions. You offered no explanation. Once the Great Jing Immortal Dynasty had firmly established itself in the domain, you set out on a journey to find your former disciple. That decision helped Dongfang Yunxing survive a deadly tribulation. When master and disciple met again, your heart swelled with both melancholy and joy. In the endless years ahead, you would have a companion on the same path, and you would never be alone. You also learned news of old friends, but after careful thought, you decided to let the past remain buried in the flow of time.
When you and Dongfang Yunxing returned to the Heavenly Gang Immortal Domain together, you encountered the resurrection of the Burial True Immortal Monarch. You readily let Dongfang Yunxing send him back into the cycle of reincarnation once more. The two of you were master and disciple, but also Dao companions. After dealing with the Burial True Immortal Monarch, you began pondering how to fleece the Transmigrator Alliance.
Through relentless effort, you succeeded. You founded the Immortal Alliance, orchestrated the downfall of the Chu Clan—one of the Transmigrator Alliance's four great clans—and rose to fame across the myriad heavens, standing shoulder to shoulder with ancient orthodoxies.
One day, you sensed something wrong in the depths of your mind. The hidden crisis forced you to expel Dongfang Yunxing from the Immortal Alliance at any cost. You knew that even if you awakened now, you had already become a crucial piece in some unknown entity's game. As the most important pawn on the board, you could no longer escape. But Dongfang Yunxing was different. He still had a chance to live and should not die in vain.
After Dongfang Yunxing left, you finally acted without restraint. You orchestrated a chaotic war that swept through countless forces across the heavens, causing the fall of many True Immortals.
You faintly broke free from the Heavenly Gang Immortal King's control, prompting him to abandon you as a pawn. When you learned the truth, you felt deep unwillingness. Even after becoming an immortal, you had merely jumped from one chessboard to another. And then you died.
In that life, after enduring countless hardships, you finally stepped onto the immortal path. You stirred winds and clouds, swept across the heavens, and unleashed a monstrous killing calamity that accelerated the arrival of the great tribulation. Though you were a piece on the board, you were an indispensable one, destined to bear the weight of endless tribulations across myriad lives and fall forever into the underworld.]
Evaluation: Four Stars (Red)
Rewards: 4,000,000 Reverse Fate Points
Su Chen felt speechless.
An indispensable pawn—was that praise or mockery?
Still, the red four-star evaluation and four million Reverse Fate Points swept away the frustration in his heart.
"What a shame," he thought with some regret. "If I had not fallen into the Immortal King's scheme in that life, the evaluation might have been even higher."
Since becoming an immortal, every step he took had likely been under the Heavenly Gang Immortal King's invisible manipulation.
Su Chen never held grudges.
Talent: 0 (+)
Comprehension: (+)
Family Background: (+)
Dao Heart: 500,000
"Add points!"
Talent: 900,000
Comprehension: 3,000,000
Family Background: 100,000
Su Chen chose to go all in once more.
He invested nine hundred thousand in qualifications, three million in comprehension, and one hundred thousand in family background.
In this life, he was destined to be the unparalleled prodigy of the ages and would not fall into the same awkward situation as before.
After all, he had no intention of walking the path of wisdom again in this life. He needed to forge a third path beyond both wisdom and the Human Emperor.
Su Chen opened the Reverse Fate Scripture.
Nineteenth Life.
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Chapter 346: The Main God Space (Part 2)
Su Chen woke up. His eyes widened in shock. He was lying inside a blood-colored coffin. The coffin still carried a lingering stench of blood and stood half-open.
Su Chen sat up abruptly. The blood-colored coffin floated above a short mountain peak, bound by eight thick chains. The other ends of the chains anchored to eight taller peaks. At first glance, the scene appeared ordinary. Blue skies, white clouds, birdsong, and fragrant flowers created a perfect paradise.
Yet in Su Chen's eyes, the placement of those eight peaks formed a terrifying grand formation. Even by his standards from the previous life, it ranked among the most powerful arrays, far beyond what ordinary True Immortals could arrange.
Su Chen's heart sank.
How could one hundred thousand points of family background involve a True Immortal?
He carefully recalled the experiences of this life.
He had been born into the Zhao family in Heavenly Eastern Dao Province, a declining Emperor clan.
Strangely, he had been unable to cultivate from a young age. His parents died early, leaving him with only an old servant. His life had been bleak and miserable.
Su Chen frowned.
What about all those qualification points?
Something was wrong.
He discovered another set of memories in his mind.
In those memories, he came from a world without cultivators—a completely ordinary office worker. One day, he won a million-dollar lottery and thought his life would improve. But the moment he stepped out of the lottery station, a bolt of heavenly lightning struck him and transported him to this world, where his memories merged with those of Zhao Chen.
The ordinary man's name had also been Zhao Chen.
The situation reeked of manipulation.
Su Chen narrowed his eyes. A fleeting thought crossed his mind, but he quickly suppressed it.
At that moment, the clear sky for thousands of miles suddenly filled with dense dark clouds. Thunder rumbled as purple lightning flashed, carrying an overwhelming heavenly wrath that chilled the soul.
Countless cultivators watched the scene in terror. If such a dreadful tribulation struck, even a saint would perish.
"Is this tribulation aimed at me?" Su Chen wondered.
His heart jolted. He sensed a terrifying force locking onto him from the void.
Damn it, it really was coming for him.
Since when did heavenly tribulations cross worlds to arrest people?
Su Chen had not forgotten that he currently possessed only mortal strength. Damn this thieving heaven!
The rolling thunder converged in an instant, pouring down like a heavenly river. A purple pillar of light engulfed the world.
...
Su Chen was surprised to find that he had not died.
The moment the tribulation fell, a mysterious power had teleported him away.
He now stood in a medium-sized room containing forty-nine other people. Including himself, there were fifty in total.
"Why am I here..." he muttered.
Although this was his first time in this place, it felt familiar.
The Main God Hall.
While dealing with the Transmigrator Alliance in his previous life, his Immortal Alliance had also interacted frequently with the Main God Hall. Based on the nature of transmigration, he should have become a transmigrator in this life, received attention from the Transmigrator Alliance, gained a system, and risen to power. So why had he arrived in the Main God Hall instead?
Among the forty-nine others, a middle-aged man wearing a black trench coat, black sunglasses, and a katana at his waist looked at Su Chen in surprise. It was rare for the Main God Space to insert someone mid-way, especially when the mission was about to begin.
Could this newcomer possess enough strength to complete the beginner task?
"Who is he? Didn't the boss say only we would participate in this instance?" a thin young man in tattered hemp clothes whispered.
The rest of the men and women turned their gazes toward Sun Wang, clearly regarding him as their leader.
Sun Wang shook his head. "I don't know who he is either. This is the first time I've encountered something like this. But I do know that when the Main God Hall makes this kind of arrangement, it's never good news. Your beginner mission this time might become much more difficult because of his arrival. That's one of the Main God Hall's unwritten rules."
The others' expressions shifted at Sun Wang's words, their faces showing varying degrees of unease.
"Boss… you're joking, right?" The thin young man in hemp clothes swallowed hard, his voice trembling. "Even the most ordinary instance has a ninety percent death rate. If we run into a harder beginner instance, how are any of us supposed to survive?"
Clearly, before Su Chen's arrival, the others had already learned the rules of the Main God Space.
Inside the Main God Hall, anyone who passed the beginner test would become a member. Wealth, status, and even immortality would no longer be mere dreams. Although the death rate for beginner instances was extremely high—ninety percent for ordinary ones, according to Sun Wang—only four or five out of their group of forty-eight might survive even the easiest mission.
Despite the high mortality, the temptation of gaining power in another world made it bearable. After all, who didn't want to defy fate and change their lives?
They had personally witnessed the man who called himself the Main God Space's envoy swing a blade that released several meters of sword qi. Such power defied natural laws. With strength like that, wealth, power, beautiful women, and status in their original world would be within easy reach.
Of course, that was only if they faced an ordinary instance.
A difficult-level beginner instance, however, carried a near one hundred percent death rate.
Several people turned hateful gazes toward Su Chen.
"Whoever kills him can sleep with me tonight," a heavily made-up woman suddenly cried out. Despite the thick cosmetics, her golden wavy hair, pretty face, voluptuous figure, and seductive black stockings stirred the desires of several hot-blooded young men. Their eyes roamed over her without restraint.
Deep in the woman's eyes, however, hid a trace of mockery.
"Kid, you heard her. You came at a really bad time," one man said.
"If we kill you now, we can save the other forty-eight lives. You won't even go to hell. Instead, you'll earn boundless merit!"
A burly, bald man with a fierce build stepped forward. His eyes gleamed with murderous intent, and the runes covering his body made others instinctively lower their heads.
Su Chen watched the farce unfold. In his eyes, only the middle-aged man in the black trench coat qualified as a true martial artist. The rest were ordinary people. Even the man in the black trench coat had only reached the peak of the ninth layer of Spirit Gathering.
A low-level instance. Perfect. Su Chen loved low-level instances.
Seeing Su Chen remain completely calm, as if the scene before him had no effect, a flash of surprise crossed Sun Wang's eyes. "Looks like we've got quite an impressive newcomer this time."
Facing hostility from the entire group and a life-or-death crisis, one either possessed strong trump cards, possessed exceptional mental fortitude, or was simply a fool.
Anyone specially inserted by the Main God Space mid-way was clearly no fool. That left the other two options, neither of which was easy to provoke.
Having tested the waters, Sun Wang recognized that Su Chen was no ordinary person and felt the urge to recruit him.
He shouted at the others, "Stop! Have you forgotten the rules I told you? If you want to die, I won't stop you!"