Chapter 147: 【I, Lin Xian, also possess the makings of an Immortal】

Having received the Dao from the Willow Deity, Lin Xian transformed into a copycat, and from then on, there was no stopping him; he possessed boundless mysteries.

Using the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art as his foundation, Lin Xian viewed the several major systems from a transcendent perspective, mastering the Immortal Ancient Law, the Spirit Sacrifice Law, the Secret Realm Law, and the Chaotic Ancient Law. He made an astonishing discovery: these several methods were closely related, some even resonating with one another—it was incomparably profound.

"The Chaotic Ancient Law is the predecessor to the Secret Realm Law, and the Chaotic Ancient Law is a variant that inherited the Immortal Ancient Law. The Immortal Ancient Law, in turn, fused with the Spirit Sacrifice Law; it can be said they are all of one lineage."

Lin Xian pondered secretly, then went to ask the Willow Deity: "Where is the source of all these systems?"

The Willow Deity summoned the old village chief of Stone Village and requested a piece of the Original True Explanation.

"The Original True Explanation, that precious bone that descended together with the Willow Deity!" The old village chief suddenly realized, hurriedly running back to his stone house to retrieve the precious bone, along with two jars of beast milk.

"One jar is for you, one jar is for the little one." The old village chief handed the precious bone and the beast milk to Lin Xian, then pityingly picked up the Little One beneath the willow tree.

In these days, little Shi Hao's vitality had grown increasingly robust; although he had not yet awakened, feeding was no longer a problem, and there was no need to use divine radiance to nourish him.

The old village chief usually placed Shi Hao under the willow tree as a precaution, and when it was time to eat, he would feed him the beast milk with a spoon.

"Chief, I don't drink beast milk, leave it for the Little One." Lin Xian politely declined: "I never drink beast milk."

"You want to add tea leaves, right?" The old village chief suddenly realized, clapping his hands: "There is also honey, that is good stuff. After adding it, it becomes milk tea; many of the big children in the village fight over it."

The Willow Deity smiled softly. Beast milk—with her cultivation, she could naturally see that Lin Xian was not a simple infant; it was highly likely he was also a divine infant reborn through Nirvana.

"As long as you are happy." Seeing that his explanation was only making things worse, Lin Xian could only sigh, looking toward the Original True Explanation. It was lustrous and glossy, like a piece of mutton-fat jade the size of a palm, indescribably crystalline, pure white, and translucent.

Although it was not large, it was densely packed with symbols; one did not know how many had been carved upon it. Vaguely, it was as if the chanting of gods and demons from the myriad heavens could be heard, causing one's heart and blood to churn.

"The source of the Boundary Sea's law..." Lin Xian touched the Original True Explanation, his heart trembling. This was the law of an Immortal Emperor, originating from that Corpse Immortal Emperor who filled the pit with his own body.

He was once the King of the Boundary Sea, the Emperor of all living beings, ruling this Boundary Sea for hundreds of millions of years. In the ancient years, all races revered him; the laws of later generations naturally originated from him.

He once forged a Heavenly Court to stand above the myriad worlds; even the Ancient Reception Halls were established by him. It possessed a magnificent heavenly might, with divine rainbows connecting them, constructing roads of the Great Dao, using Imperial power to link the Boundary Sea that even Kings found difficult to cross.

The current Ancient Reception Halls were utilized by several dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors; they appeared sacred and brilliant, but in reality, they led to the path of darkness.

Yet, in the ages before the ancient times, before the Emperor Fall era, before the Corpse Immortal Emperor turned dark, the Ancient Reception Halls were individual waystations, individual teleportation arrays, the true path of pilgrimage, receiving the myriad immortals of the Boundary Sea to go and pay respects to the Huang Tiandi on the other shore.

And at the end of the road, a stele stood; it was the final chapter of the Original True Explanation, recording the cultivation method of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

This was a great breadth of mind, a great spirit—scattering the Imperial Law among the human world, then erecting the final chapter at the end of the other shore, and establishing the Ancient Reception Halls, allowing all living beings to witness his Imperial Dao one step at a time.

Of course, blindly imitating would mean being restricted by the Original True Explanation for one's entire life; this is the difference between creating a system and continuing the path of predecessors.

Those who create systems and those who pioneer systems are Dao Ancestors, and also Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and they have the hope of creating their own Imperial Law, thereby advancing into the Immortal Emperor realm.

Those who continue the path of predecessors are not Dao Ancestors, merely Quasi-Immortal Emperors; they are appendages on the Immortal Emperor's Great Dao, without their own Imperial Law, and have no hope of becoming an Immortal Emperor.

But Lin Xian did not care; he had never expected that his own talent could make him an Immortal Emperor.

As long as my lower limit is high enough, all roads lead to Quasi-Immortal Emperor!

Lin Xian held the Original True Explanation, his whole body glowing, divine radiance constructing runes that merged with his flesh and blood. He gained profound insights, surpassing his previous understanding, and realized the most fundamental meaning of runes, unable to help but exclaim: "This is the true introductory reading for cultivation!"

Compared to something like the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, it was far stronger; while being more profound and mysterious, it also pointed directly to the Great Dao. Every word was a gem, deafening and enlightening—this was an Immortal Emperor Law that even Lin Xian could understand.

The Corpse Immortal Emperor is great, no need for more words!

I have long since been a disciple of yours, old man.

Using the Original True Explanation as a guidebook, Lin Xian dissected the Chaotic Ancient Law and studied its connection to the human body's secret realms. He was intoxicated, covered in divine radiance, crystalline and holy. Every drop of blood constructed runes, and the runes intertwined, like a feathered garment draped over his body.

The Blood Moving Realm is the movement of the body's essence and blood to strengthen the physical body; the Cave Heaven Realm is the seizing of heaven and earth's creation to open up one's own Cave Heaven.

The fusion of Blood Moving and Cave Heaven to forge a Unique Cave Heaven is the Bitter Sea, which is exactly the Wheel and Sea Secret Realm of later generations.

The Spirit Transformation Realm is the process of reshaping the true self—the physical body becomes spirit, reshaping the true self, and the Cave Heaven nourishes the spirit.

It is just like the Palace Realm nourishing the spirit, gestating the true self, corresponding to the Palace Secret Realm of later generations.

The Inscription Realm is the carving of one's own runes within the body; the Formation Realm is the arrangement of runes into arrays, deduced into laws.

Strictly speaking, it is the same realm. The Huang Huang Tiandi compressed it into the Four Extremities Secret Realm, using the body as an array, as an inner universe, connecting with the Great Dao of heaven and earth.

The Venerable Realm stands at the pinnacle of the mortal world, mostly consisting of human emperors of ancient kingdoms, mastering the power of dragon energy and dragon veins.

The Huang Huang Tiandi was once the Stone Emperor, and after observing the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, he sublimated this realm into the Dragon Transformation Realm.

Further up, even with the Original True Explanation guidebook in hand, Lin Xian could not fathom it, because he had only cultivated to the Four Extremities Secret Realm; he could glimpse a bit of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, but could not see the Immortal Platform.

He could only guess based on existing information: the six realms of the Divine Dao, lighting the divine fire, should correspond to the six layers of the Immortal Platform, cultivating spiritual sense.

If one were lucky enough to cultivate to the second layer of the Divine Dao, the True God realm, one basically would not need to worry about lifespan, living for hundreds of thousands of years with ease.

This is also the origin of why the Immortal Second-tier Great Experts of later generations wish to gamble for a lifetime of immortality.

If an Immortal Second-tier cultivator happened to stumble into a void crack that rarely appears in eternity, like the Undying Emperor, and stepped into the Immortal Domain, it would truly be possible to use longevity substances to become immortal.

The gap between heaven and earth is sometimes greater than that between an immortal and a dog.

In the current era, let alone the Three Thousand Dao Continents, even in the most barren Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, the resources were so abundant that cultivators of later generations would not dare to imagine it; there were even longevity substances that Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors would break their heads fighting over!

"I feel... my lifespan is extending. If I cultivate for another few decades, just in terms of life force, I could live for over ten thousand years!"

"I am truly going to rival the Ancient Emperors and stand shoulder to shoulder with the Great Emperors!"

Lin Xian breathed in the primordial energy, his eyes shining, sitting in meditation day and night, crazily absorbing longevity substances.

People in the Shrouding Heavens world were scared of poverty; in the Dharma-Ending Age, they did not dare to waste a single bit of lifespan.

Coming to the Perfect World, even in the remote corners, there were longevity substances; Lin Xian simply could not hold back.

Like a mouse that had fallen into a rice jar, he forgot to sleep but did not forget to eat.

Occasionally, when the villagers of Stone Village came to deliver food, Lin Xian was incomparably grateful, then ate the dried meat completely clean, not leaving a single bit, even stuffing the crumbs that fell on the stones into his mouth.

The most ordinary wild beast meat in the Great Wilderness, if placed in the Shrouding Heavens universe of later generations, would be genuine spirit beast meat, a feast that only high-level cultivators could enjoy.

This attitude of cherishing food made even the old village chief, who had been tempered in a harsh environment, mutter to himself.

Is this really a divine infant immortal spirit? Could it be a refugee who escaped from some bitter and cold place?

Every move Lin Xian made, the Willow Deity watched from the side, unable to help but ask: "What kind of environment is your hometown?"

Others might not know the situation of the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, but the Willow Deity knew—this was a prison. Cultivators from the Upper Realm suppressed dissidents, exiling the descendants of hostile cultivators here, demoting them to criminals.

After eating the prison meal, Lin Xian was actually so moved he was almost crying.

This child, what kind of bitter life did he live before? Is he not too malnourished?

Lin Xian pondered for a moment, then slowly asked: "Dare I ask the Willow Deity, at what age does a Venerable who achieves the Dao have the hope of becoming an Immortal?"

The Willow Deity said calmly: "In the Immortal Domain, a Venerable who achieves the Dao within twenty or thirty thousand years has a glimmer of hope of becoming an Immortal, and is hailed as having the makings of a True Immortal."

"A twenty or thirty thousand-year-old Venerable, just this level?" Lin Xian was immediately amused; this time was enough for a Great Emperor to pass away, unable to help but clap his hands and laugh: "So I also have the makings of an Immortal."

"If you were ordinary, would I let you come forward to pay respects?" The Willow Deity spoke indifferently. She had a great breadth of mind, as the Supreme Ancestral Spirit, once blessing the three thousand worlds, but she was also a Supreme Immortal King, possessing great majesty.

Not just anyone could enter the Willow Deity's eyes. Before Lin Xian and Shi Hao arrived, the Willow Deity had served as the sacrificial spirit of Stone Village for decades, rarely speaking.

A True Dragon does not speak with ants; one speaks of the Great Dao era, eternity passing in a flash, the other speaks of firewood, rice, oil, and salt, a hundred years passing away—the difference is too great.

Without the same topics, how can one make friends? It was destined that they were people of two worlds.

Only some special people and objects could make the Willow Deity look at them with high regard, just like the ancestral land of Stone Village, which was the descendant of the Seven Kings of the Borderlands.

To the Willow Deity, it was the inheritance ground of old friends, and there were divine corpses beneath Stone Village, which was why she came to station herself there. Otherwise, in the millions of villages in the Great Wilderness, where could she not settle?

Lin Xian's expression turned solemn, realizing the Willow Deity was not joking, asking incomparably seriously: "Then at what age must one achieve the Dao to have hope of becoming an Immortal King?"

"Under ten thousand years old, there is hope." The Willow Deity said indifferently: "The Immortal King fruit position is not judged by years, but more by foundation and the Great Dao. There was once an achiever of the Dao at ninety thousand years old, a late bloomer who polished his foundation to be incomparably strong, finally breaking into the Immortal King realm. His Dao fruit was extraordinary; he was a supreme powerhouse."

"Then at what age do ordinary Immortal Kings achieve cultivation?" Lin Xian asked. He knew the Willow Deity was speaking of an individual case, used to encourage him.

But Lin Xian had always been a slacker; he did not even have a Dao heart, so his Dao heart would not be damaged, nor would he be afraid of failure and darkness—he was failure itself.

His own failure was not terrible, as long as the Willow Deity, the Huang Huang Tiandi, and the Ye Huang Tiandi succeeded, that was enough.

"Achievers of the Dao at two or three thousand years old have the potential to impact the Immortal King realm." The Willow Deity said: "However, most stop at the Quasi-Immortal King realm, and some astonishing living beings are even cut off halfway, killed by stronger ones. Only a few people achieve the Immortal King Dao."

"The Immortal Dao is also not a smooth path." Lin Xian sighed, then asked curiously: "Willow Deity, at what age did you achieve the Dao?"

The Willow Deity was calm, her willow branches dancing with the wind, natural and harmonious, saying indifferently: "Eight hundred."

Lin Xian's mouth twitched. Good, good, so that's how you play, huh? On one hand, saying Immortal Kings are late bloomers, on the other hand, achieving the Venerable Dao at eight hundred years old.

I believe you, you ghost. You Immortal Kings are very bad, always fooling young people.

Then, the Willow Deity asked about the situation in Lin Xian's hometown.

Lin Xian said with a calm expression: "In my hometown, an Immortal Domain prodigy of my level would only be slapped to death by someone on the Emperor's path."

"Emperor's path? The path of the Emperor." The Willow Deity asked: "Is your hometown the Upper Realm?"

"It is Hell." Lin Xian sighed, walked into the old village chief's stone house, wiped the milk stains from the Little One's mouth, held him, and sat down again beneath the willow tree, sensing extinction and Nirvana.

Suddenly, he looked down at the young Shi Hao, saying in a low voice: "Struggling between life and death, is this the initial path?"

"Huangtian... Emperor."

The last sentence, Lin Xian did not say out loud, only placing his finger on the Little One's forehead, sensing the changes within.

The Little One was amazing; when he was about to wither, his vitality appeared again, and bit by bit, it grew stronger, finally pulling through on his own, and now he was about to revive.

This kind of realization was the greatest harvest on the path of cultivation. Now, one could not see anything, but when a cultivator's lifespan was about to end and they wanted to live out the next life, this would be a precious treasure.

At this moment, Lin Xian had to sigh: Huang is stronger than Ye. Little Ye Zi had to be nurtured for a long time before he could be gnawed on, unlike Little Haozi, who could be gnawed on right from the start.

Even the Willow Deity, watching the Little One gestate vitality from within withering, had some touches.

"A person who has experienced withering and vitality will become incomparably strong. What if it were a universe..." The Willow Deity fell into deep thought, performing deductions. If a universe experienced prosperity and the Dharma-Ending Age, it was the same as experiencing a cycle.

Would the universe's origin become even stronger? Would some incredible changes appear, able to gestate even more astonishing living beings!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 148 =====