Chapter 10: 【The Great Emperor

Beside the spring pool grew a dozen small trees, each over half a meter tall. Their leaves were broad, dripping with emerald green, and shaped like human palms, as if several multi-armed little people were standing there. At the tip of each small tree hung a bright red fruit, resembling a cherry but as large as a chicken egg.

Lin Xian plucked a fruit and held it in his mouth, then submerged his entire body into the divine spring. The cool water soaked his hem, his fair skin appearing and disappearing beneath the surface. He was cultivating with his whole heart and soul; wisps of hazy white mist rose up, setting off the youth in the spring as transcendent and ethereal, like an immortal.

He closed his eyes to ponder, sensing the Wheel Sea scriptures and combining them with his own understanding of cultivation to touch the origin of his physical body.

There is endless dust between heaven and earth, and every grain of dust is a world; the physical body is the same, possessing countless micro-invisible gates.

The essence of cultivation is to push open one gate after another, to knock and meet one’s true self.

Among them, the lower dantian Wheel Sea is an extremely important gate, one of the five great secret realms of the human body.

Born within the Bitter Sea, brewing vigorous vitality in the midst of desolation, one must carve out an eye of the Life Spring and connect it to the Wheel of Life to be able to unleash various profound arts and divine abilities with unfathomable power. To reach other secret realms, the Wheel Sea must sublimate, cultivating divine veins, forging divine bridges, and tempering the spirit and body. Finally, the spirit and the shell must merge, breaking through shackles, transcending the self, reaching the other shore, and arriving at the end of the Bitter Sea.

This is the entire cultivation of the Wheel Sea secret realm: Bitter Sea, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, Other Shore.

Ancient mighty figures used powerful heart methods combined with ancient secret arts to cultivate a single secret realm, thereby reaching the realm of Sages.

However, Lin Xian did not intend to cultivate this way. It was not just because the Wheel Sea chapter in his hand was merely a scripture written by an ordinary ancient human Sage, less profound than an Emperor’s scripture and not as mysterious as an Immortal scripture; it was because this was not his path.

His path had been set from the very beginning. Regardless of whether his realm was stable or his foundation solid, he would rush to the peak of cultivation at the fastest speed, then sever his cultivation base and start over.

Between life and death, between severing and extinguishing, he would prove his immortal path.

In the dark, desolate Bitter Sea, a jade-green Wheel of Life floated. As the sacred fruit in his mouth was refined, streams of pure energy surged into his body, releasing endless life essence that swirled above the Bitter Sea.

In an instant, the Bitter Sea churned, and great waves rolled. Between the rising and falling tides, a trace of sacred white divine power emerged. Under the guidance of the Qi Body Origin Flow, it flowed into his limbs and bones, washing over his flesh and skeleton, nourishing his internal organs, and strengthening his physical power.

However, this was not the end; it was merely a beginning.

Lin Xian did not possess any special constitution. Under the blessing of the Qi Body Origin Flow, washing his marrow and filling his spirit, he was just a mortal body with cultivation talent, belonging to the level of a genius from a small sect.

Such a constitution, while not bringing a massive increase in combat power, required very few resources. He did not need to be like the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, which required millions of catties of Source to break through a single time.

Furthermore, Lin Xian disregarded costs and cared nothing for his foundation. He did not bother to polish his body or realm, blindly breaking through. His cultivation speed was unimaginably fast.

Before the Four Poles, practitioners did not focus much on Dao enlightenment but rather on physical cultivation. That is to say, as long as there were enough resources, theoretically, a mortal could rush to the second secret realm, the Dao Palace, in one breath.

*Swish, swish.* The energy of the sacred fruit helped Lin Xian sprint to the late-stage peak perfection of the Bitter Sea. He stopped at the half-step Life Spring realm. It was not that the energy was insufficient, but that more divinity lay dormant in his body, waiting to be excavated later, or to allow his recovery speed to be several times stronger than his opponent's during battle.

Lin Xian was not satisfied with this. Besides the sacred fruit, he also had the divine spring. He soaked his whole body in it, drawing in almost infinite essence, breaking through the Bitter Sea from top to bottom, and communicating with the Wheel of Life.

In an instant, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth merged with the essence within his body, surging and turbulent, transforming into a liquid state and forming a Life Divine Spring within him!

Under the mobilization of his will, the essence of the divine spring merged with his spirit to become magic power. As long as the source of divine power was endless, his magic power would be inexhaustible.

At this realm, one could ride a rainbow, fly through the sky, and tunnel through the earth. Although he could not fly far or high, and could not achieve the immortal feat of visiting the North Sea in the morning and the Cangwu in the evening, or crossing vast domains and roaming the universe, he could finally fly, fulfilling one of humanity's ultimate dreams!

When Lin Xian wanted to continue cultivating to sprint toward the Divine Bridge realm, to sublimate the Wheel Sea, produce heavenly divine veins, and release his own endless potential...

An accident descended.

It was not the Ruthless Emperor who struck. That person had already forged an immortal heart, without sorrow or joy, viewing all living beings as floating clouds and stray dogs. Unless it involved her obsession with her brother, her emotions would not have a single ripple.

In her eyes, Lin Xian was merely interesting; he was not worth a strike from a Great Emperor.

The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body was the same; his Supreme Dao heart was firm, and the joys and sorrows of the ages were commonplace to him. Unless it was a similar person, it was difficult to pluck his heartstrings.

What triggered the anomaly in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land was a Desolate Slave.

That Desolate Slave was a woman with bright eyes and white teeth, a slender neck, like a lotus rising from the water, transcendent and peerless. Her white clothes fluttered in the wind, like a Guanghan fairy arriving on the wind, otherworldly.

"Huang?"

Lin Xian was suddenly shocked, cold sweat dripping, subconsciously blurting it out, and then reacting.

This was not Huang. The Ruthless Emperor had shackles on her body; this was an ancient person from six thousand years ago, the last Saintess of Tianxuan.

Why did he trigger her anomaly?

In a flash of lightning, Lin Xian looked at the wisps of magic power emerging from his fingertips and suddenly realized. Yes, it was his magic power that had attracted this Tianxuan Saintess.

The scripture he cultivated came from a method created by a Tianxuan Sage.

In the eyes of the Tianxuan Saintess, this was the aura of a fellow sect member, so she naturally sensed it and came.

"But, did she come on her own, or was she ordered to come?"

In an instant, Lin Xian's heart rose again. The Tianxuan Saintess was a Desolate Slave, and behind her was Huang.

If she came on her own, it would be fine; if she was driven by the Ruthless Emperor, what was he to do!

Recalling the ruthless methods of that Ruthless Emperor, that heartless demonic nature that relied on her own strength to slaughter all kings and stand alone above the nine heavens, Lin Xian only felt his heart and liver trembling.

One must believe in the greatness of the Emperor, but one must not believe in the benevolence of the Emperor.

Every Emperor was killed out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

If he wanted the Ruthless Emperor to show mercy, his surname was not Ye.

If he were the Ruthless Emperor, how would he treat himself?

Lin Xian's mind turned rapidly, measuring others by himself, and he quickly imagined an incomparably cruel scene.

First, use the God-Degreeing Art to convert him into a slave, becoming truly one of her own, and then everything would naturally be revealed, and all secrets would be exposed.

If he wanted to resist, she would directly slap him down, shatter his physical body, and directly perform soul-searching.

Even if she killed the wrong person, so what? Not to mention that the Emperor had the ability to be reborn from a drop of blood and recreate the universe, who would settle accounts with the Emperor for the sake of an ant?

Emperors have always been arrogant; it is not innate.

The Emperors and Heavenly Venerables of the ages were not fools before they attained the Dao, but after attaining the Dao, they all became reckless. There is only one reason for such a unified performance: all schemes are no match for the power of the Emperor.

A thousand words and Prajna wisdom are not as simple as a single slap.

The Primordial Sages lodge their Primordial Spirits in the Heavenly Dao, hence they are immortal; the Great Emperors of Shrouding the Heavens lodge their brains in the Heart of Heaven, hence they are reckless in heaven and earth.

Do not try to reason with a Supreme Being unless you have similar strength.

The Sage's Primordial Spirit is lodged above the Heavenly Dao; the Emperor's brain is lodged above the Heart of Heaven.

Being reckless is all there is to it.

(End of chapter)