Chapter 418: The Three Immortals Have Vanished

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

Gao Xiang Hong, the First Immortal of Jiuzhou, and Tian Xie Jianxian froze in shock.

This Yinglong was lifelike, strikingly similar to the Yinglong in Chinese mythology.

“What is going on? Did Qin Shi Huang and Yinglong both come here?” asked the First Immortal of Jiuzhou, astonished.

Then, under the gaze of all present,

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

Each transformation took a different shape.

The First Immortal of Jiuzhou, Gao Xiang Hong, and Tian Xie Jianxian recognized some of these shapes.

“That’s the World Tree of Norse mythology!”

“Whoa! Isn’t this Heian-kyo? It’s identical.”

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

Gao Xiang Hong’s expression shifted 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 earlier he thought the appearance of Qin Shi Huang and Yinglong might mean they had visited 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.

It wasn’t just Gao Xiang Hong who recognized the forms; the First Immortal of Jiuzhou and Tian Xie Jianxian also recognized several.

When the First Immortal of Jiuzhou saw the dark glow orb manifest an ancient, hunched old figure, he froze in disbelief, pupils contracting.

“This is Tiancang the Immortal—one of the three true, historically verified Immortals of my Three Grand Realms!”

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

These small worlds are divided into upper, middle, and lower tiers; the lower tier holds the most worlds, the higher tiers fewer, yet each higher world is stronger, with denser primordial energy—until the upper tier, where only three remain.

In each of these three upper worlds, an Immortal once emerged—not rumors or uncertain legends, but truly confirmed Immortal beings.

These three Immortals achieved Immortality, witnessed firsthand by all beings of their worlds.

Tiancang the Immortal is the Immortal from one of the three upper worlds of Jiuzhou.”

As he spoke, the First Immortal of Jiuzhou’s aged eyes glowed with strange light, fixed intently on the figure in the dark glow orb.

He continued:

“Tiancang the Immortal, Minghong the Immortal, Guxi the Immortal—these are the three officially recorded Immortals of my Three Grand Realms. As for other legendary Immortals, their existence remains unconfirmed.”

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

Not even counting the rumored ones—just Tiancang, Minghong, and Guxi: their whereabouts remain unknown. Many powerful and ancient beings in the Three Grand Realms, including myself, have tried to find them.

All efforts failed. No one has ever found them. They vanished as if erased from existence, never appearing again after achieving Immortality.

“Three Immortals vanished?” asked Tian Xie Jianxian.

Gao Xiang Hong was focused on the First Immortal of Jiuzhou, curious why these three Immortals would be linked to a human array, and didn’t notice the strange, doubtful flicker in Tian Xie Jianxian’s eyes as he spoke.

It wasn’t the shock of Immortals disappearing.

The First Immortal of Jiuzhou nodded, not hiding 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 had vanished, it might be explainable—but all three gave the same reason: they each said they had an important task.

It’s impossible for three Immortals to coincidentally have the same urgent mission. I suspect they were all undertaking the same task.

I cannot imagine what task could require three Immortals.

According to ancient texts I’ve studied, the three Immortals achieved Immortality during the Immortal Era.

Yes, all three emerged from the same era—the very era we call the Immortal Era, the most brilliant age ever known, never surpassed since.

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 have dominated their age. Yet all three arose together, vying for the pinnacle of their age.

That era is distant, over a million years ago.

Yet I did not abandon my search. I visited the great clans and sects of the three Immortals; even after a million years, they remain powerful and prosperous.

Leveraging my title as the First Immortal of Jiuzhou, these clans and sects granted me access to their ancient records on the Immortals, and 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 task—they also said one other thing.

They told their descendants: unless you achieve Immortality, or are on the verge of it, do not seek us. The truth will one day surface.”

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

The first half made sense: a task requiring all three Immortals must be terrifying—without such power, going meant death. But the second half was unclear.

What did “the truth will one day surface” mean?

Why make something so mysterious? What truth? What was it tied to?

“Besides this, I also discovered that the three Immortals did not go to any of the three upper worlds, nor to any world within the Three Grand Realms—they went to the Void.”

The Void beyond—meaning the Void outside the world.

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

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

“So they went to another world?”

Asked Tian Xie Jianxian.

As a Divine Sixth-Step being beneath Immortality, Tian Xie Jianxian naturally understood the Void.

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

But other methods exist.

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

All heavens in existence reside within the Void, each world separated by it.

Yet this Void differs from Earthlings’ understanding of the cosmic void; it is far more dangerous, incomparably so.

The Void, as the name implies, is nothingness, infused with Void energy, filled with unknown dangers.

To cross the Void, even gods and demons, immortals and devils cannot manage it—only Immortals, who have transcended life and death, can do so, for the Void’s laws can no longer harm them.

Crossing the Void is, in fact, the standard by which one’s Immortality is judged.

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