Chapter 688

Li Yuan and God King Dongmang only felt the space shift, and they were already situated inside a massive warship, where the decorations were quite simple.

"Master, why have you come?" God King Dongmang looked at God Emperor Juexing standing not far away, unable to help but ask.

He was indeed surprised in his heart.

In his memory, God Court powerhouses occasionally went to the Immortal Heaven and Earth, but no God Emperor had ever come to pick them up... After all, this would consume a God Emperor's time and lifespan.

For a God Emperor, every second of time is very precious.

"For your junior brother." God Emperor Juexing, in a white robe, looked down at his two disciples: "If you two go to the Immortal Heaven and Earth without my protection... I fear that once you leave the Heart Dream Universe Realm, you might be secretly assassinated by a God Emperor."

"In the cosmic space-time, with your current abilities, you still cannot hide from a God Emperor's karmic sensing." God Emperor Juexing said.

Li Yuan listened.

Previously in the Dark Dragon Star Domain, he dared to take out Emperor weapons precisely because God Emperor Juexing and God Emperor Xinmeng could descend to rescue him at any time... he did not fear other God Emperors snatching them.

"Outside the Universe Realm, once you encounter danger, neither I nor God Emperor Xinmeng will be able to save you in time." God Emperor Juexing said: "If your true bodies fall, it is fine, but if you are captured, that is a troublesome matter."

"God Emperor assassination? Abyss God Emperor? Specifically assassinating junior brother?" God King Dongmang immediately realized this point.

He had self-awareness.

He was not yet qualified for God Emperors to act... Only Li Yuan, with his peerless talent, could make God Emperors disregard their reputation to act.

"Mm." God Emperor Juexing nodded: "Therefore, this time, I will send you into the Immortal Heaven and Earth... it can also save some time."

"In the Immortal Heaven and Earth, the River of Time does not exist, and even peak God Emperor powerhouses will find it extremely difficult to deduce your location... By then, you can go and venture freely."

"Thank you, Master." Li Yuan said respectfully; this was a matter already agreed upon after communicating with Master Juexing last time.

Before stepping into the God King realm, if he planned to go to the Immortal Heaven and Earth, he would ask Master Juexing to escort him.

"Thank you, Master." God King Dongmang also said hurriedly.

He knew clearly that he was catching a free ride; otherwise, based on himself, it would be impossible to have Master come to escort him once.

"You two cultivate in peace inside the flying ship, in three days, you will arrive at the Gate of Immortality, and I will remind you then." God Emperor Juexing said slowly.

Hum~

His figure blurred again, the flow of time around him changed drastically, and vaguely, it seemed as if he had jumped into another space-time dimension.

God King Dongmang and Li Yuan found an empty spot inside the warship and sat cross-legged.

"Three days? That's fast." God King Dongmang said: "Normally, if we travel between the Immortal Heaven and Earth and the Universe Realm... it takes at least a year, and it's easy to encounter danger."

Three days? One year?

Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh; the difference in means between eighth-rank and ninth-rank practitioners is indeed astonishing... Throughout the entire universe, in every era, there are Heavenly Gods who can rival eighth-rank practitioners.

But even in the so-called 'strongest cultivation system', the Star God cultivation system, it is extremely rare for a God King to be able to rival a God Emperor.

"Master restrained his own timeline, yet it doesn't affect us at all." Li Yuan said.

"Mm."

"This warship should be the legendary 'Universe Realm Boat', which every God Emperor refines with the origin of their inner universe." God King Dongmang looked around and explained: "I heard that the Universe Boat maintains high-speed travel, but inside the Universe Realm Boat, God Emperors can make their own time almost completely static."

"In this way."

"God Emperors drive the Universe Boat, traveling through various dangerous places in the vast universe... perhaps they only consume one or two seconds of their lifespan to cross distant space-time." God King Dongmang said.

"God Emperor means are indeed miraculous." Li Yuan nodded secretly.

For God Emperors, strength is one aspect, but what makes God Kings marvel most is their control over time and destiny... using all kinds of methods to restrain their own timeline is the most important thing for God Emperors.

Hum~

The warship traveled through the void with astonishing fluctuations, each traversal crossing distant star river regions.

"So fast." Li Yuan's eyes glowed with purple light, observing the movements outside.

When God Emperor Juexing took Li Yuan and God King Dongmang's true bodies away, in the territory of the Abyss God Court, a powerful will swept across the star sea.

"Juexing, you are cautious enough."

"Even Xinmeng has been secretly paying attention?" The Abyss God Emperor jumped out of the timeline, but he had been paying attention to Li Yuan and had already perceived the basic situation.

If Li Yuan had just set off with God King Dongmang, the Abyss God Emperor would definitely have acted... just as God Emperor Juexing did not trust his promise.

The Abyss God Emperor did not even trust himself.

However.

Now that God Emperor Juexing was following? The Abyss God Emperor naturally gave up.

"The direction they are going is the Immortal Heaven and Earth? Wanting to use the special nature of the Immortal Heaven and Earth to avoid my karmic perception?" The Abyss God Emperor was thoughtful, his eyes dark: "However, the places you can go are nothing more than one of the Qing Tian Luo Star City or the Tongtian Star City."

"There will be opportunities."

The Abyss God Emperor didn't care about ordinary God Kings at all... but he cared very much about Li Yuan; the other party was not only related to the Supreme, but his growth speed was also terrifying.

Moreover!

The karmic deduction in the dark gave him a premonition that if he did nothing, the other party would very likely cause a huge obstacle to his plans in the future.

"Soon."

"Just waiting for the Abyss Gate to be completed... everything can begin." A trace of coldness flashed in the Abyss God Emperor's eyes.

The warship traveled through space-time.

Not long after, it had left the Heart Dream Universe Realm and entered the dark cosmic zone outside the Universe Realm... This is true darkness.

"This is my second time leaving the Heart Dream Universe Realm." Li Yuan sighed secretly; the last time he left, he was only at the Demigod realm and could only go with the flow.

This time, the feeling was completely different.

In Li Yuan's perception, the void in all directions was pitch black.

As if all light had been swallowed.

Darkness!

Is the main body of the universe.

The Universe Realm that nurtures countless lives? It seems like just a reef exposed in the entire cosmic ocean... very inconspicuous.

"Leaving home."

"One can understand even more that the universe is truly vast." Li Yuan said sincerely.

"The universe is indeed vast... a single dark domain is unimaginably vast." God King Dongmang also said from the side.

Time passed.

Not long after, in Li Yuan's perception, a massive cosmic celestial body swept past the warship... accurately speaking, the warship flew past this cosmic celestial body, it was just that the warship's speed was too fast.

"It is the cosmic dangerous place 'Strange River Valley'." God King Dongmang said: "There are no treasures here, so almost no powerhouses will go to venture."

"Mm." Li Yuan nodded.

In the vast cosmic dark zone, any 'cosmic celestial body' formed by the gathering of large amounts of matter can be called a dangerous place.

The degree of danger varies; some are very safe for Heavenly Gods, while some extremely dangerous ones can threaten God Emperors...

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Along the way, they passed more cosmic dangerous places; some were like a massive planet, some like a vast ocean, some like a high mountain... but without exception, these cosmic dangerous places were incomparably massive.

Like a mountain.

A mountain passed on the way had a height exceeding 100,000 light-years; such massive celestial bodies are almost never seen inside a Universe Realm.

"In the universe, the most massive celestial bodies are actually 'Universe Realms'." God King Dongmang said: "Large Universe Realms have a diameter span of hundreds of billions of light-years, and the range of their origin influence is over a trillion light-years... Small Universe Realms also have an origin influence range of several billion light-years."

"Mm."

Li Yuan nodded; these few days, he had also seen several massive and vast 'Universe Realms', their origin auras surging endlessly.

Even separated by endless space-time, they could sense them.

Unlike when he was in the Heart Dream Universe Realm... when the warship approached those strange Universe Realms, Li Yuan could clearly feel the rejection of the Universe Realm origin towards him.

"Li Yuan."

"Your senior brother is wrong." Xiao Mu's voice suddenly sounded: "In this vast universe, there are still some dangerous places that can exceed the scale of a Universe Realm... like the 'Life Source Mountain' in the First Dark Domain, its height reaches a massive 300 trillion light-years... it nurtures massive amounts of star beast life and is also suspected to be an Eternal Ruin... It's just that even the Supreme cannot enter, and Brother Beihe was unable to descend onto the Life Source Mountain back then, so it cannot be confirmed."

"A mountain of 300 trillion light-years?" Li Yuan was stunned.

This already exceeded his scope of understanding.

"There are also 16 other Eternal Ruins."

"They are simply like 16 small universes, and the vastness of their internal space-time is far beyond any Universe Realm." Xiao Mu said: "Moreover, outside the 81 dark domains, there is endless mystery... In short, always maintain awe for the universe."

"Understood." Li Yuan was solemn.

Unlike when he came out of the Beiqiu mortal domain back then... the mortal domain was essentially a part of the God Domain, and the planets of the mortal domain were no different from the star system planets of the God Domain, so he had no burden.

But inside and outside the Universe Realm... the difference is much greater.

The universe is indeed too vast.

Even the Supreme has not exhausted the secrets of the universe.

Suddenly.

"That world is the 'Tongtian Realm'." God King Dongmang suddenly pointed through the warship into the distant void: "The third largest power in the Eighth Dark Domain."

"Tongtian Realm." Li Yuan couldn't help but look.

That was an incomparably vast and immense heaven and earth... the origin fluctuations it emitted were boundless and mighty, already approaching some of the small Universe Realms he had seen before.

The only difference was that the origin of this world had no rejection towards him.

"A heaven and earth opened up by the Tongtian Master?" Li Yuan said softly.

"Yes." God King Dongmang nodded: "The Eighth Dark Domain has established three star cities in the Immortal Heaven and Earth, one of which is the 'Tongtian Star City'."

"Tongtian Master is of star beast life origin."

"He achieved the Master realm, and the star beast powerhouses of the Eighth Dark Domain... now more than half are attached to him. In terms of the number of eighth-rank practitioners, the Tongtian Realm is far beyond any major power in the Eighth Dark Domain." God King Dongmang said.

Li Yuan couldn't help but nod. The countless star domains and star systems within a Universe Realm will give birth to a large number of life races; these races are capable of reproduction and follow the operation of heaven and earth... but star beasts are naturally nurtured in various places in the vast universe under the operation of cosmic rules.

They are born strong.

They are born with knowledge.

They naturally have extremely powerful bloodline abilities... some of the most heaven-defying star beast lives are even born as eighth-rank, known as 'Star Beast Emperors'.

Ninth-rank star beasts are at the Emperor realm.

Star beasts are not bound by the River of Time... as long as they step into the eighth rank, their souls can directly sense the Eternal River.

That is to say, star beasts do not have the 'Universe Realm Reincarnation Tribulation'.

But at the same time, star beast life also does not have a 'hometown Universe Realm' as a protective barrier; they cannot reproduce normally, and wanting to break the bloodline shackles is extremely difficult.

Looking at the Eighth Dark Domain, in terms of the number of seventh-rank practitioners, Universe Realm life is far less than star beast life... but in terms of the number of eighth-rank practitioners, those of Universe Realm origin are very close to star beast life.

Emperor realm? Universe Realm life occupies the vast majority.

It can be said that the further one cultivates, the greater the potential of Universe Realm life that rises step by step from weakness.

In the intelligence Li Yuan knows, Tongtian Master is the only Master among the star beast life in the Eighth Dark Domain... he protects countless weak star beasts and even used great divine powers to open up heaven and earth to form the 'Tongtian Realm', establishing such a massive power.

"Star beasts are born with strong divine bodies, their whole bodies are treasures, and they have special divine powers to sense some treasures in the cosmic dark zone... they are naturally hostile to Universe Realm life, and there is quite a bit of mutual slaughter." God King Dongmang said: "Like me, I have joined forces with other God Kings to hunt and kill more than one Star Beast Emperor."

Li Yuan immediately thought of the Space Star Emperor Fruit.

Its birth is related to the Star Beast Emperor.

"In the Eighth Dark Domain, there are quite a few powers established by Emperor-realm star beasts, and they assassinate each other with Universe Realm life." God King Dongmang said.

"However, Tongtian Master acts relatively gently, protecting star beast life, but is not hostile to Universe Realm life." God King Dongmang said: "Therefore, many powers in the Eighth Dark Domain also have bases in Tongtian Star City."

Li Yuan understood in his heart.

Hum~

Soon, the warship had moved away from the Tongtian Realm and entered the more distant cosmic space-time.

And deep within the Tongtian Realm.

"Mm?"

A cyan giant snake winding for who knows how many billions of miles was coiled around a divine pillar of astonishing length; this divine pillar traversed this void.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, a trace of doubt in his eyes.

"Is it the Universe Realm Boat? It seems to be God Emperor Juexing of the Heart Dream Universe Realm." The cyan giant snake muttered to himself, then closed his eyes again.

He had a gentle personality and ruled this space-time, so he rarely had disputes with other Emperor-realm beings.

Three days passed in a flash.

The scenery along the way also opened Li Yuan's eyes; although he had obtained a lot of intelligence before, only by seeing it with his own eyes did he know the wonders of the universe.

"We've arrived."

"The Gate of Immortality." God King Dongmang pointed through the warship into the distance, and Li Yuan also followed and looked over.

Only to see in the dark void.

There actually stood a towering and endless red divine gate; behind the divine gate was a blur, only ripples of space-time arose, not knowing where it led... An aura of supreme eternity diffused from the divine gate, shrouding this star sea and sweeping through endless space-time.

Even hiding inside the warship.

When looking directly at this red divine gate, Li Yuan felt a tremor in his heart, as if he had seen an existence of a higher dimension that he must look up to.

Even the power erupted by the Abyss God Emperor and God Emperor Xinmeng he had seen before could not compare to it at all.

"This is the Gate of Immortality, after passing through it, one can enter the Immortal Heaven and Earth?" Li Yuan held his breath.

This divine gate seemed eternal.

"It is said."

"In the eighty-one dark domains... there is a Gate of Immortality in each." God King Dongmang also looked up and said: "In this way, powerhouses from the entire universe can gather in the Immortal Heaven and Earth."

"This Gate of Immortality cannot be touched."

"Cannot be touched?" Li Yuan was stunned.

"Yes." God King Dongmang said: "In history, many powerhouses suspected that this Gate of Immortality is a supreme divine artifact and tried to approach it, attempting to recognize it as master, but no matter how they flew, they could never truly arrive... It seems as if it is not in the same space-time dimension as us."

"So miraculous?" Li Yuan was secretly surprised, looking at that Gate of Immortality from afar.

"Li Yuan."

Xiao Mu's voice sounded suddenly: "Actually, Brother Beihe had some guesses about this Gate of Immortality... He suspected that the Gates of Immortality in the eighty-one dark domains are essentially one, just projections descending and reflecting in different dark domain space-times."

"One?" Li Yuan's heart moved, becoming even more curious.

It's just that this Gate of Immortality must involve the deep-level secrets of the Immortal Heaven and Earth, which he cannot understand now.

"There are other powerhouses too." Li Yuan also discovered that in the extremely distant space-time, some figures were entering the Gate of Immortality.

At this time.

"Disciples."

God Emperor Juexing, who had been sitting in the distance, opened his eyes, the flow of time around him returned to normal, and he looked at Li Yuan and God King Dongmang: "I will send you here... Dongmang, you have ventured in the Immortal Heaven and Earth before and are familiar with everything, so there is no need for me to lead the way to the Star City."

"No need, I will lead junior brother for the rest of the way." God King Dongmang said hurriedly.

"Sorry for the trouble on this journey, Master." Li Yuan also said.

"Go." God Emperor Juexing smiled, raised his hand and waved, and God King Dongmang and Li Yuan disappeared, having been sent by him into the Gate of Immortality.

The Immortal Heaven and Earth contains vast space-time.

Each Immortal Divine Gate corresponds to different space-time coordinate points... a red divine palace standing in the endless star river.

At the very bottom of the divine palace is a super-large square, and above the square are space-time vortexes... God King Dongmang and Li Yuan flew down from one of the space-time vortexes.

They landed on the square.

"So many." Li Yuan's gaze swept over, only to find that nearly a hundred figures had already gathered on the square, mostly waiting quietly.

There were also quite a few who seemed to know each other and were chatting together.

But they had one thing in common: they were all very quiet.

"Junior brother, don't be surprised, there are three major Immortal Divine Palaces in the Immortal Heaven and Earth... each Immortal Divine Palace corresponds to 27 dark domains." God King Dongmang said: "Therefore, when powerhouses from 27 dark domains enter the Immortal Heaven and Earth, they will all come here."

"Mm." Li Yuan had already obtained intelligence on the Immortal Heaven and Earth and roughly knew this.

Moreover.

With Li Yuan's realm, observing, he could find that many of the nearly a hundred figures here had clearly different auras.

Some life auras were extremely mighty, not inferior to his and Senior Brother Dongmang's.

Some were almost spirit bodies, with weak life auras, but their soul fluctuations were astonishing.

Others seemed very weak in body, but in the dark, the threat they posed to Li Yuan was very astonishing... and some had a large number of puppet servants with them.

"Heavenly Witch cultivation system? Immortal Soul cultivation system? Spirit Demon cultivation system?" At a glance, Li Yuan investigated the background of many powerhouses present based on intelligence.

The universe is vast.

In the Eighth Dark Domain, the Star God cultivation system is the mainstream... but in other dark domains, there are many different cultivation systems with complicated means.

However, all paths lead to the same destination.

No matter which cultivation system, what they ultimately pursue is basically opening up the Eternal Dao... until they achieve eternity.

"Junior brother, can you sense it?" God King Dongmang said.

"Mm."

"The River of Time really does not exist." Li Yuan nodded and said: "Moreover, compared to cosmic space-time, the space here is actually so much more stable? It seems only slightly weaker than inside the Beichen Star."

"Even void shifting is very difficult." Li Yuan adapted quickly.

"Yes."

"Inside the Beichen Star, it relies on the origin of Emperor weapons to stabilize, and the internal space is limited... But the Immortal Heaven and Earth is vast and immense, yet the space can still be so stable, it is simply unimaginable." God King Dongmang sighed: "I fear that only the legendary 'Eternal Realm' can do this."

Li Yuan nodded; eternity is traceless.

But this vast universe indeed has many creations that transcend the means of ninth-rank practitioners.

Li Yuan's heart moved; the mysteries of the two Eternal Daos he had opened up could still operate... but wanting to deduce them further became extremely difficult.

It was as if he were bound by a layer of shackles in the dark.

"Cannot deduce the mysteries of the Dao." Li Yuan shook his head; even with his high comprehension, with two true bodies deducing simultaneously, the efficiency had dropped to a terrifying level.

"It cannot be deduced."

"The Eternal Ruins are just a place for God Kings whose lifespan is coming to an end to linger on, but wanting to advance one's strength here is almost impossible." God King Dongmang sighed lightly, a trace of complex emotion flashing in his eyes.

He still had quite a bit of lifespan, but that was in preparation for the future 'resurrection of fallen true bodies'.

Since he chose 'main body slumber', it meant that he had basically given up on impacting the Emperor realm.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

"Quiet."

"The two newly arrived eighth-rank practitioners, find a place to sit." A low voice sounded, and a figure flew out from the high part of the red divine palace.

He wore red armor, his aura was mighty, and he looked down at Li Yuan and the other coldly.

"It's a God Guard." Li Yuan and God King Dongmang looked at each other, their hearts moved, and they simultaneously released an aura of the Great Dao unique to themselves.

"Eternal Dao?"

The red-armored God Guard's expression changed slightly, and his demeanor softened a lot: "So it is two Quasi-Saints, excuse my rudeness, I hope the two will forgive me. I wonder if the two have received the 'Immortal Order'?"

(End of chapter)