Chapter 418

Previously it was Qin Shi Huang; now it is Yinglong.

Gao Xiang Hong, Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian, and Tianxie Jianxian were stunned.

This Yinglong was lifelike, resembling exactly the Yinglong from Huaguo mythology.

"What's going on? Did Qin Shi Huang and Yinglong both come here?" Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian exclaimed.

Then, under everyone's gaze.

The dark glow orb periodically shifted—human, deity, Buddha, demon, monster, plant, object—as if it were a collective of all things, capable of transforming into anything in the world.

Each transformation took a different shape.

Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian, Gao Xiang Hong, and Tianxie Jianxian recognized some of these transformed forms.

"That's the World Tree of Norse mythology!"

"Whoa! Isn't this Heian-kyo? Identical down to the last detail."

"This human figure looks familiar... emmmm, damn! These are the Twelve Titans! I saw them before in the Greek mythology return phenomenon—this one looks exactly like one of them."

Gao Xiang Hong went from surprise to astonishment, then to horror.

The dark glow orb manifested many forms—he didn't recognize most, only a few—but even those few were not few, all closely tied to the Initial Realm.

If at first he thought the appearance of Qin Shi Huang and Yinglong meant they had come here, causing the dark glow orb to replicate them, now he was certain they might not have come at all.

Because the dark glow orb didn't just manifest humans—it also showed buildings, even the entire Norse world.

Not only did Gao Xiang Hong recognize the forms the dark glow orb took, but Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian and Tianxie Jianxian also recognized some of them.

When Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian saw the dark glow orb manifest an ancient, hunched old figure, he froze in shock, his pupils contracting.

"This is Tiancang BuXiu—one of the three truly documented, verified immortals of my Three Great Realms!"

My realm is composed of countless small worlds; the smallest may not even be as large as Asia in the Initial Realm, while the largest are boundless.

Small worlds are divided into upper, middle, and lower tiers; the lower tier has the most, the higher up, the fewer—but the worlds grow stronger, the qi denser; at the upper tier, there are only three.

In each of these three upper worlds, an immortal has emerged—not rumors or uncertain legends, but truly verified immortal beings.

These three immortals achieved immortality, witnessed firsthand by all beings of their worlds.

Tiancang BuXiu is the immortal of the upper tier world I come from: Jiuzhou."

As he spoke, Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian's aged eyes glowed with strange light, fixed intently on the dark glow orb's figure.

He continued:

"Tiancang BuXiu, Minghong BuXiu, Guxi BuXiu—these are the three documented immortals of my Three Great Realms. As for other legendary immortals, their existence remains unconfirmed."

But without exception, whether verified or legendary, all of them have vanished.

Not even mentioning the legendary ones—just Tiancang, Minghong, and Guxi: their whereabouts remain unknown. Even I, along with many powerful and ancient beings in the Three Great Realms, have tried to find them.

All efforts were in vain; no one has ever found them. They vanished as if erased from existence, never appearing again after achieving immortality.

"The three immortals disappeared?" Tianxie Jianxian asked.

Gao Xiang Hong was focused on Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian, curious why the three immortals would vanish into human rituals, and didn't notice the strange, doubtful flicker in Tianxie Jianxian's eyes as he spoke.

It wasn't the shock of immortals vanishing.

Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian nodded, not concealing anything:

"Shortly after achieving immortality, Tiancang, Minghong, and Guxi each left their clans and sects, claiming they had important matters to attend to—and never returned."

Strange as it sounds, if only one immortal had done this, it might be explainable—but the key is all three gave the same reason: they all said they had an important matter to handle.

It's impossible for three immortals to have such coincidental reasons—I suspect they were all going to do the same thing.

I can't imagine what matter could require three immortals to undertake.

According to ancient texts I've researched, the three immortals achieved immortality during the BuXiu Era.

Yes, all three emerged from the same era—hence why we call it the BuXiu Era, the most brilliant age ever, never surpassed.

One era producing three immortals—no other world in history has ever witnessed such glory.

In any other era, even one of these three immortals would be a peerless figure who dominated the age—but all three emerged together, vying for the pinnacle of their age.

That era is distant from now, over a million years ago.

Yet I did not abandon my search. I visited the great clans of the three immortals—their lineages and sects—which, even after a million years, remain powerful and prosperous.

Leveraging my title as Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian, these clans and sects granted me respect, allowing me to examine their ancient records on the immortals; from them, I uncovered some secrets.

It turns out that when the three immortals left their clans and sects, they didn't just say they had an important matter—they also said one other thing.

They told their descendants: unless you achieve immortality, unless you are nearing it, do not seek us. The truth will one day surface."

Tianxie Jianxian and Gao Xiang Hong murmured in confusion, not understanding the meaning.

The first half made sense: if three immortals were to do something together, the matter must be terrifying—without that power, going would mean death. But the second half was unclear.

What does "the truth will one day surface" mean?

Why make something so mysterious? Truth? What truth? Does it imply this matter is tied to something else?

"Besides this, I also discovered that the three immortals did not go to the upper three realms, nor to any world within the Three Great Realms—they went to the Void."

The Void beyond refers to the nothingness outside the world.

Just as beyond Earth lies the universe, lifeless, seemingly all Void.

To Earthlings, Earth is a world; beyond it, the universe is Void.

"So they went to another world?"

Tianxie Jianxian spoke.

As a god of the sixth step below immortality, Tianxie Jianxian naturally understood the Void.

To reach another world, one must open a world passage—that's the simplest and easiest method.

But other methods exist.

One such method is crossing the Void—traveling through the Void from this world to reach another.

All the worlds in the universe exist within the Void, each separated by the Void.

Yet, this Void differs from what Earthlings understand as nothingness; it is not like the cosmic stars beyond Earth—the Void is far more dangerous, by an incomparable margin.

The Void, as its name suggests, is nothing at all, imbued with Void energy and harboring unknown dangers.

To cross the Void, gods and demons, immortal and demonic beings cannot accomplish it; only those who have transcended life and death—the Immortals—can do so, for having transcended life and death, such Dao principles as the Void can no longer harm them.

Crossing the Void may be said to be the standard by which one's status as an Immortal is judged.

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