Chapter 457: Ascension to Immortality

Jixia Academy, Chengshen Palace complex.

Gao Xianghong, Zhang Hao, Wang Wen, and other initial-worlders, along with the extraordinary outsiders who entered Jixia Academy, arrived at the Chengshen Palace grounds.

Becoming a god is easy for them, but it still takes time—they are not that “monster,” Kamikawa Mitsu.

“Look, there’s a record stone here too.”

An outsider prodigy stood before a stone tablet.

The record stone’s purpose was clear: it documented the feats of those who broke records.

Earlier, they had seen one such tablet at the Chengxian Palace, which recorded the fastest Jixia Academy disciple to achieve immortality since the academy’s founding.

This tablet before the Chengshen Palace, without doubt, recorded the fastest Jixia Academy disciple to become a god.

“Of course it’s Kamikawa Mitsu.” Zhang Hao stepped forward to examine the stone.

The Chengxian Palace record stone documented Kamikawa Mitsu, detailing his path to immortality.

He achieved immortality before eighteen, just a few months ago.

The outsider prodigies and gods and demons had heard of Kamikawa Mitsu’s deeds from the initial-worlders, but they doubted them—after all, it was secondhand testimony, prone to exaggeration.

Rumors, weren’t they just stories passed from mouth to mouth, twisting as they spread?

Only after seeing the Chengxian Palace record stone did they confirm the initial-worlders had not exaggerated—Kamikawa Mitsu truly became immortal at eighteen.

“Let me see how old Kamikawa-senpai was when he became a god.”

One outsider prodigy was curious: Kamikawa Mitsu became immortal at eighteen—so when did he become a god? What age was that?

Whether in the initial world or the outsider worlds, gossip always drew the most attention from living beings.

Record Stone:

【Kamikawa Mitsu, ascended to Life Ninth Tier at thirteen. He could have broken through to the threshold of godhood within a year, yet deliberately suppressed his breakthrough, choosing instead to accumulate and refine within the Life Ninth Tier.

He was the earliest Jixia Academy disciple to reach Life Ninth Tier, holding the record to this day, unbroken.

Due to his ascension at thirteen, he was given great expectations and drew attention from all Jixia Academy disciples and major figures.

Yet, when he reached fourteen, he still had not broken through to the threshold of godhood, shocking everyone.

Some envious ones mocked him, claiming he had exhausted his potential to reach Life Ninth Tier, and now had nothing left to reach the godhood threshold.

Others sneered, saying his potential had reached its limit—that his ascension at thirteen was a fleeting bloom, incapable of breaking the record for the shortest time to reach the godhood threshold.

These rumors and whispers followed Kamikawa Mitsu for four years.

Four years passed; Kamikawa Mitsu was seventeen, still not having broken through to the godhood threshold, yet still under intense scrutiny.

Though he had not broken through, at sixteen he slew a threshold-of-godhood cultivator while still at Life Ninth Tier, reigniting admiration from Jixia Academy disciples and major figures.

Kamikawa Mitsu paid no heed to mockery, steadily building his foundation.

Until the day of his seventeenth birthday, he was assigned a battle by Jixia Academy—he defeated three Life Ninth Tier disciples on the brink of godhood, each with a single punch.

The disciples he defeated were no weaklings; each, had they been born in a glorious age, would have been peerless prodigies capable of at least achieving immortal-demon status, undefeated in their own tier.

Kamikawa Mitsu’s victory drew crowds of senior disciples to watch.

After the battle, he finally ascended to the threshold of godhood.

Four years later, at seventeen, he reached the threshold of godhood, entering the realm of gods and demons—yet he still broke the record for the earliest ascension to godhood.】

“Unbelievable. Fuck.”

One prodigy couldn’t help but curse.

The others fell silent, sharing the same thought—wanting to curse too.

They remembered clearly: Kamikawa Mitsu became immortal at eighteen, meaning he went from becoming a god to becoming immortal in just one year…

“Monster,” another prodigy said bluntly. “Four years? That wasn’t burning out potential—it was accumulating, waiting to explode.”

Kamikawa Mitsu’s four years of refinement yielded a single year’s leap from the threshold of godhood to the fourth step of godhood—that was the result.

Each heart was filled with complex emotions; no one spoke further. Stunned by Kamikawa Mitsu, they abandoned sightseeing and entered the Chengshen Palace to cultivate.

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Jixia Academy, the highest immortal palace.

Kamikawa Mitsu listened to Qingyun’s report while observing all the actions and words of the others.

Watching the outsiders grow ever more reverent toward the initial world, and the initial-worlders grow ever prouder of their own world, all striving harder to cultivate—he was very satisfied.

“Next comes the Jixia Academy TV drama,” Kamikawa Mitsu murmured.

He planned to film the events of Jixia Academy like a school drama, capturing the daily lives of the initial-worlders and outsiders who joined—only needing to set the script’s ending.

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In the following days, Kamikawa Mitsu methodically developed the script for his Jixia Academy TV drama.

Notably,

After this Jixia Academy recruitment, not only did Earth undergo earth-shattering changes, but the myriad worlds did too—through the oral transmission of outsider beings who had been eliminated and returned to their own worlds, the initial world spread throughout the myriad realms.

The consequence was clear.

The myriad realms began coordinated, simultaneous actions: opening channels between realms—not to invade, but to connect them. All great powers and ancient beings were acting to open these pathways.

At this rate, true inter-realm connectivity would not take long.

At most one year—after one year, the myriad realms would be fully connected.

…

Several days after Jixia Academy’s recruitment event.

As a system alert sounded in his mind, the script points for the drama arrived.

Seeing the script points—so many digits he couldn’t even count—Kamikawa Mitsu’s heart surged.

“System, exchange for the character Su Daji!”

He had exchanged for humans, gods, demons, and buddhas—only a demon remained.

Kamikawa Mitsu chose the immortal Su Daji.

BOOM!!

Upon exchanging for Su Daji, Kamikawa Mitsu’s physique, strength, combat power, and all aspects of himself underwent a cataclysmic transformation.

Immortal!

After half a year, he had finally reached immortality!

Kamikawa Mitsu opened and closed his eyes; his gaze swirled with ancient light, as if radiance had endured since the dawn of heaven and earth, born at the universe’s origin, eternal and indestructible—though heaven and earth decayed and perished, his light would never fade, enduring forever.

Time could not erode his body.

Time could not corrode his spirit.

A single wisp of aura leaked out, imbued with immortality, eternity, permanence, indestructibility…

He stood on the balcony of his apartment, eyes deep, gazing far away—at the mysterious mist over the Pacific.

Today, the mysterious mist finally ceased expanding, halting its spread.

But Earth continued to expand—perhaps in ten thousand years, perhaps a hundred thousand, perhaps even a thousand—it didn’t matter. As long as Kamikawa Mitsu kept improving, Earth would become the vast initial world he had envisioned.

The mysterious mist had stopped spreading, but Kamikawa Mitsu did not lower his guard, nor abandon his investigation into the Yin Earth realm within it.

He had once decided: until he reached immortality, he would not explore the Yin Earth realm within the mist.

The Yin Earth realm was too dangerous—entering without immortality was no different from suicide.

Now that he had achieved immortality, he possessed the strength to survive within it—it was time to explore the Yin Earth realm.

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