Chapter 390: The Saint of Morality

On the gate tower of Hangu Pass, Great Sage Yin Xi clapped his hands and smiled, saying: "The purple Qi comes from the east for thirty thousand miles; the Hangu Pass has been crossed for the first time in five thousand years."

In the Dharma-Ending Age, sages do not exist; this is the era where the end times suppress sage virtue.

However, it is people who can expand the Dao, not the Dao that expands people. At the beginning of ancient times, there was no one to pass on the Dao; it was the ancient ancestors who trod upon mountains and rivers, ate grasses and trees, watched the vast seas, gazed at the stars, and touched all things, only then did they cultivate the Dao.

Although it is the Dharma-Ending Age, there are still Dao Ancestors who emerge, looking up at heaven and earth, taking nature as their teacher. A grain of dust, a blade of grass, the mountains, rivers, and all things are all scriptures, all can be recited. Through hardships and obstacles, they open up new paths once more.

This is morality overcoming the end times.

The sages born in the Dharma-Ending Age are far superior to the sages and virtuous ones of other eras; they should be called True Persons, True Sages.

"Mouth and nose have no mortal breath, the True Person breathes with their heels; from now on, the true and the mortal stand on two sides, reaching this point, one becomes a body without leaks."

Lin Xian sang as he walked, his green robes fluttering. He stepped onto the mountain peak, and wisps of divine power surged from within his body. Strands of blood energy rose like a true dragon raising its head to pierce the heavens. His whole body was radiant and crystalline, his skin like snow, as if cast from the divine jade of the nine heavens, resembling an immortal who does not eat the five grains, but inhales the wind and drinks the dew, residing in the Kunlun Xianshan.

The sage's might was vast and mighty, surging like the tide, covering hundreds of millions of miles of mountains and rivers. Countless exotic beasts trembled; that aura made even their souls shudder.

Even a King who has severed the Dao, a peerless powerhouse who dominates the Dharma-Ending Age, could only prostrate and worship before such peerless grace.

After five thousand long kalpas, I see morality once again!

"Heh heh heh..."

It is just that the laughter of this moral sage is slightly villainous.

"I have become a sage, the world shall know!"

Lin Xian laughed wantonly, his voice echoing through the nine heavens and resounding throughout Kunlun. He had become a sage; he had finally become a sage!

There is a difference between a sage and a mortal; this is not just talk. A sage has transcended the category of humanity, and the barrier of the Sage Realm separates the two levels of Sage and King like heaven and earth.

Even possessing the seven prohibitions, before a sage, one is merely an ant. This is a heavenly abyss that knocks back all the heaven-defying geniuses who attempt to slay immortals to their original point, suppressing them until they are ineffective. Even a half-sage Emperor's son can only protect himself before a sage.

At this point in time, are there any half-sage Emperor's sons?

The answer is no, not a single one!

Yin Tiande, the first to trigger the divine prohibition, has barely reached the Immortal Third level of severing the Dao; he is not even a Great Completion King, let alone a half-sage.

From this day on, Ye Fan, Wang Teng, none of them are worth mentioning. Before a sage, the ancient Emperor's sons are nothing but chickens and dogs; he could crush them with a single finger.

Like a great sun shining through the ages, at this moment Lin Xian stands shoulder to shoulder with the sages of the past, truly leaving his name in history. All of the cultivation world will record his deeds.

"Roar!"

As Lin Xian's laughter echoed, ten thousand dragon veins roared. Each mountain peak seemed to have life; pieces of stone dragon scales opened up on their bodies, and their eyes even emitted brilliant divine light.

The dragon veins rolled back the divine liquid of the immortal pool, swallowing ten thousand feet of immortal radiance, and fed all the essence back. The Dharma-Ending Age that had plagued the Earth's cultivation world for years was completely ended on this day, and the Golden Age had finally arrived.

All the cultivators on Earth suddenly looked back, gazing in the direction of Mount Kunlun. Since nine years ago, the spiritual energy of the Primordial Ancient Star had begun to rise bit by bit, like climbing a slope, advancing slowly but steadily. But now it rose suddenly, as exaggerated as jumping from a small hill to Mount Everest.

"Spiritual energy increased by dozens of times?" An old cultivator with a head full of white hair wept with joy and shouted: "The ancient era is coming, the golden age where all sects contend and great powers manifest is coming! Severing the Dao to become a sage is no longer a dream!"

The sage emerges, the Dharma-Ending Age ends.

Lin Xian took a step and left the Kunlun Xianshan. Although the land of becoming an immortal could no longer produce divine liquid, he had already inscribed the terrain of the ninety-nine dragon mountains into his body's formation. He himself was the trend of heaven and earth, his physical body was the sun, moon, and universe. Today, he would gestate an immortal treasure!

A hundred days of Foundation Establishment, ten months of Jin Dan, three years of Nascent Soul, nine years of facing the wall; at this moment, he would attain the fruit of the Dao.

A sage crossing the tribulation is extraordinary. Lin Xian used the Great Void Art to tear open the nodes of the universe, crossing one star field after another, and finally arrived at a cold, desolate universe vault with only dead stars.

"Boom—!"

An endless sea of thunder swept through the vast star field, swallowing Lin Xian. One thunderbolt after another flashed; he did not know how many planets were shattered. It was truly heaven-destroying and earth-shattering.

This was just an appetizer for the Sage's Great Tribulation, yet it was enough to tear apart a Holy Body, kill countless Ancestor Kings, and shatter Lin Xian only for him to reform. If he were not proficient in the God-Immortal Undying Art and the Zhe Word Secret, capable of regenerating from a drop of blood, he would have been struck to death.

"Diagram, come!"

Lin Xian sacrificed his own Innate Universe Dao Diagram, branding the traces of the heavenly tribulation and exploring the origin of the universe. He wanted to evolve the immortal realm within his body and become a world unto himself. Naturally, he could not lack the core mystery of the heavenly tribulation; it was destruction and also vitality. The wonders of longevity are gestated within the thunder tribulation, and one must observe them.

Whether it was Yin-Yang Divine Thunder or Five Elements Divine Thunder, at this moment they all poured down with a crash. Lin Xian recited the Immortal Scriptures, evolving the hundreds of Emperor characters obtained from the Dragon Coffin into the Innate Dao Diagram.

This was the secret technique left behind by the Desolate Huang Tiandi, the foundation for evolving the immortal realm. Perhaps the reason the Green Emperor failed to evolve the immortal realm was because he lacked this thing.

Thunderbolt after thunderbolt fell, shattering the Dao Diagram. He not only had to refine the Emperor Talismans of the immortal realm but also integrate them into the rules of the human universe.

Only with life can there be death; only with the mortal can there be the immortal. Only then is it complete. The Dao Scriptures record that one vessel can break ten thousand laws; this is that moment.

"Refine the two worlds, feather and ascend to immortality!"

Lin Xian shouted, wanting to use the hand of the great universe to make the Innate Dao Diagram give birth to intelligence. Emperor weapons are the continuation of an Emperor's life, and the ability to give birth to a god begins to evolve from this sage realm.

Sage weapons begin to possess weak intelligence, Emperor weapons possess gods, and immortal weapons are equivalent to a living cultivator.

They should not be called immortal weapons, but an Instrument Immortal.

The Universe Dao Diagram refused no one, swallowing all phenomena and evolving its own patterns, wanting to manifest a real great universe. This act of theft seemed to anger the heavens, which sent down an even more powerful tribulation.

Lin Xian's physical body was shattered, and even his blood was almost wiped out. The Zhe Word Secret for regenerating from a drop of blood was about to fail, but fortunately, he still had a backup plan.

"My Lin Mou's life of conduct does not rely solely on one Nine Secrets!"

"Gnaw on great medicines, drink divine liquids, swallow immortal pills!"

Lin Xian, with the Dao Diagram above his head, ate and drank wildly in the sea of thunder. Whether it was a true medicine king of seventy or eighty thousand years, a divine spring from the forbidden zone, Kunlun immortal liquid, or immortal pills of the third or fourth turn, he poured them all into his mouth. Then he evolved the Fuxi Dharma Image, human head and dragon body, suffering in the sea of thunder, like a Bagua furnace tempering a golden body.

These immortal treasures and divine objects were enough for a sage to extend their life for another thousand years. The vast vitality was no less than the sea of thunder, gathering into an ocean of life in the Wheel and Sea universe.

"Heavenly Dao, Human Dao, all are my Dao..."

The Innate Dao Diagram vibrated, evolving the Innate Forty-Nine and the Acquired Three Thousand Order Divine Chains, bathing in immeasurable thunder light, exuding an inviolable sage aura, strand by strand, path by path, crushing the eternal blue sky.

The so-called Innate is just like the Dao of thunder, Yin-Yang, and chaos; the so-called Acquired is the Dao of blades, swords, slaughter, and rebirth.

The Innate Dao Diagram took a step ahead and transformed into a Sage Weapon, completing its final transformation, dripping with ten thousand strands of chaotic Qi, like a canopy blessing it, invulnerable to all laws.

Lin Xian, with the Sage Weapon above his head, had deep eyes. He let the thunder light pour down, and the Primordial Spirit between his brows was brilliant. He also began the final transformation, verifying his own Dao under the heavenly tribulation.

Taking the body as a seed, a leakless Jin Dan, the body evolving an immortal realm, longevity substances!

This was the first step in his path to becoming an immortal, evolving the method of longevity, and it was also the most critical step. Only when this method was successful would there be a follow-up.

"Vast Kunlun, dragon and tiger intersect, as vessel and as medicine, the Jin Dan Great Dao..."

Lin Xian recited the Immortal Scriptures, his body forming a Great Dan. The so-called Jin Dan is not a crystal of energy; the 'Golden' means indestructible, and the 'Dan' means complete and without loss.

The so-called Jin Dan refers to the body becoming leakless, no longer conducting energy to the outside world, sealing the essence, Qi, and spirit within the body, independent of the great universe, forming an isolated system.

The will of heaven slashed itself with a knife, so longevity substances do not exist. To evolve immortal Qi by oneself, one must deceive the will of heaven and dodge the heavenly knife.

Just like that Sage Spirit stone fetus, it is born of heaven and earth. Before it is born, it will not suffer any loss of lifespan, but will instead receive the blessings of heaven and earth.

The Dao of heaven diminishes the surplus to supplement the deficiency; the Dao of man diminishes the deficiency to supplement the surplus.

Cultivation is originally going against heaven, but blindly going against heaven is just a dead end. Following is mortal, going against is immortal; it all lies in the reversal in the middle.

Lin Xian transformed into a Jin Dan, like a human Sage Spirit embryo, the nine orifices merging into one, manifesting the immortal realm within his body, floating in the void, silent and soundless, yet it was the greatest declaration.

Great shapes are formless, great sounds are silent. This evolution at this moment was like Lin Xian shouting at the great universe, declaring to the heavens: "Father, open your eyes, I am the most handsome boy!"

"Will of heaven, we are on the same side, stop striking me!"

The heavenly tribulation is ruthless, the greatest manifestation of the will of heaven. If one can deceive the heavenly tribulation, it verifies the success of the Dao method.

The originally vast heavenly tribulation paused for a moment, seeming a bit confused, covering the four directions of the galaxy, searching for the one crossing the tribulation.

Where is the one crossing the tribulation? Where is my big one crossing the tribulation! Where did he go?!

Leaping out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements, like a newly born Sage Spirit, the Jin Dan is leakless. Within the Wheel and Sea universe, the immeasurable life essence is like a vast ocean, seeming to be gestating something, constantly reorganizing, constantly being born, constantly changing.

Finally, it compressed a... longevity substance!

"Boom—!"

As soon as the longevity substance appeared, it instantly triggered the fury of the heavenly tribulation. The will of heaven manifested, and a knife slashed down mercilessly. You, an old hen, what are you pretending to be a phoenix for?

An old human cultivator pretending to be a Sage Spirit cub is simply shameless.

"How can I fail at the last moment, just one last line of vitality away!"

Lin Xian roared, the nine orifices merging into one, operating the Eight-Nine, expanding with the wind, shuttling through the heavenly tribulation, evolving various immortal spirits and divine beasts, sometimes spreading wings as a Kunpeng in the chaotic sea, sometimes turning into a Vermilion Bird striking the three thousand worlds... After seventy-two changes, even the heavenly tribulation was stunned, unable to figure out who it was striking.

The Innate Dao Diagram moved, taking advantage of the heavenly tribulation's inattention, swallowing the vast sea of thunder and turning it into a thunder pool within the universe diagram.

After the silence of death, the thunder light finally stopped manifesting.

He had truly succeeded!

He had taken the most critical first step on the path of longevity, giving birth to a strand of immortal Qi.

Although this was extremely difficult, it was true and real.

Cultivating hard for a thousand years to gestate a trace of immortal substance can only extend life for one year. Even if one cultivates for ten thousand years, it only extends life for ten years. Such input and return are not proportional, but it is a wonderful beginning.

Now it is a thousand years for one year, but as the realm rises and cultivation becomes higher in the future, can it be a hundred years for one year, or even one year for one year, where energy consumption and energy production form a one-to-one ratio, neither increasing nor decreasing? That is the beginning of longevity!

When the longevity substances in the body can not only nourish oneself but also allow others to live long, that is the true evolution of a micro-immortal realm, a great divine ability of the Immortal King level!

"I, the Daoist, have succeeded!"

Lin Xian laughed loudly, incomparably proud. He had taken the first step of the ten-thousand-mile march, saw hope, created his own path, and could stand shoulder to shoulder with the sages.

However, he had not been happy for too long before joy turned to sorrow.

The Sage Tribulation is not that simple. The thunder tribulation is just an appetizer; the real great disaster is still to come.

A vast aura surged, covering the sky and earth. An ancient Great Emperor appeared, even more real than previous heavenly tribulations.

"Damn it, I'm not even following the Emperor's son genius route, becoming a sage early, why is this damn Emperor shadow still chasing me?!"

Lin Xian's expression changed. He gazed at the Great Emperor in the distance, a trace of an ominous premonition appearing in his heart.

The person who came had a majestic figure, standing tall between heaven and earth, with black hair disheveled. He looked no different from a human Great Emperor, with deep eyes that gazed through time and saw through the ages, but he was not any young Great Emperor that Lin Xian was familiar with.

His appearance instantly made the heaven and earth universe silent, possessing an invincible, peerless aura.

Past, present, and future, I am the supreme, ten thousand Daos become empty, suppressing the enemies of the current age—this is what is said of an Emperor!

"Boom!"

Lin Xian struck first, operating the True Dragon Treasure Art, transforming into a flawless true dragon to attack, his fist suppressing the world.

The Great Emperor opposite raised his brows, also using a True Dragon Treasure Art, and with a casual press, he sent Lin Xian flying.

"How is this possible?"

Lin Xian was shocked. Even a young Great Emperor could not defeat him like this. The Emperor shadow opposite had not triggered the divine prohibition, so why was he like this?

Lin Xian did not believe in evil and attacked again, only to be defeated by the same move.

However, this time Lin Xian sensed a familiar aura from that Emperor.

"Primordial True Explanation?!"

Lin Xian's expression changed drastically. How could he not know who had come? Damn it, an Immortal Emperor is also an Emperor, right!

Why the hell didn't you evolve the Desolate Huang Tiandi as well?

"Exterminate all living beings." The Emperor shadow opposite casually swung a sword, the sword Qi traversing hundreds of millions of miles, reaching everywhere, killing everything, as if the Boundary Sea had been split open.

"One Qi transforms into three me!"

Boom—, another Emperor shadow manifested, but it did not attack Lin Xian, but rather the dark Emperor shadow. One shadow transformed into four, representing the past, future, and present.

"Desolate Taishang, right? I hope there aren't also Ye Yuanshi and Chu Lingbao."

"The most ancient Yuanshi, the Taishang who is the source of all laws, the Lingbao with peerless fields."

Lin Xian's mouth twitched, and he was forced into the battle between the two Emperors. Between the opening and closing, he witnessed the birth and death of the universe, and only after the power of the heavenly tribulation dissipated did he miserably fall out of the battlefield.

He sat cross-legged in the universe, absorbing the most original power. This was a method only a Sage King would have, but he had undying medicine in his body, so he could also borrow it.

Reaching the sage realm was a qualitative leap. Many mysterious things revealed a mysterious corner.

The mysteries of undying medicine and the power of Emperor weapons could all be borrowed to exert true power.

Crossing the universe galaxy for three days and three nights, Lin Xian inhaled starlight and moonlight, his divine power accumulating to a limit. His black hair was disheveled, his immortal body was crystalline, and one door after another was pushed open by him. His life potential was vigorous, yet not a single bit leaked out.

True perfection, a true sage, far from what a half-sage can compare to.

Lin Xian took a step, leaped, flew over a star field, and arrived at a place filled with Taiyin power. He picked eighteen moons and refined them into a bracelet, preparing to give it to Jiang Tingting when he returned.

Immediately after, he shattered a few dead stars, took out the divine iron from the core, and refined a small purple bell.

Finally, he stepped into a few stars to search for treasures. The scorching sun could no longer hurt Lin Xian now.

The Sun Star was very large, with a few stars revolving around it. Lin Xian explored it for half a month and discovered a Nine Yang Divine Grass.

Although it only had six leaves, it bore nine fruits, hanging like small suns.

"Good luck."

Lin Xian sighed. Many Sage Kings search through millions of Sun Stars and might not find one. This is a supreme divine object for body refining, suitable for a Sun Body.

Holding the sun and moon, picking the stars—reaching the sage realm, this is not a virtual finger, but a real proof.

Performing the Four Steps of Treading Heaven, Lin Xian trod on the nodes of the universe and flew back to Earth, but stopped before Hangu Pass, because the Great Sages and Quasi-Emperors who had been enlightening themselves in Kunlun Mountain over the years had almost all arrived.

"Greetings, seniors." Lin Xian stepped into Hangu Pass, bowed, and greeted Great Sage Yin Xi, but a few demon Great Sages turned to the side and only accepted half a bow.

"You have become a sage, you are one of us, just call us fellow Daoists." Great Xia Longque said indifferently, and the other demon gods also nodded, not being arrogant.

Under the sage of Laozi's sect, except for Quasi-Emperor Supremes, who would dare to be a generation higher than him? Didn't they see Great Sage Yin Xi still watching from the side?

"Junior brother has become a sage, congratulations." Great Sage Yin Xi said with a smile: "The Primordial Dao lineage can also be safely handed over to you."

"Senior brother is leaving?" Lin Xian was shocked and asked quickly.

Great Sage Yin Xi shook his head and said: "This poor Daoist doesn't care, I can stay at Hangu Pass and wait for the teacher to return. It is Senior Emperor Yu who is leaving."

"Laozi, Shakyamuni, the Yellow and Yan Emperors, four fellow Daoists are traveling through the starry sky to find the Immortal Slaying Sword. Feixian Star lacks Great Sages and Quasi-Emperors to sit in town." Emperor Yu said indifferently: "News came from there that the Kunlun remnants are making trouble again. After cleaning them up, some Qi practitioners will return to the Primordial Ancient Star one after another."

So it was returning to Feixian Star. Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at the few peerless demon gods: "Are you fellow Daoists also going to Feixian Star?"

"We are not going to Feixian Star." The Silver Snake Demon God sighed: "The demon is old, inevitably wanting to go home."

Of course, besides missing the mother star, more importantly, Kunlun Mountain fed back to Earth, the divine liquid of the land of becoming an immortal was all consumed, and the greatest opportunity, the Green Tripod, could not be taken away, so staying was meaningless.

The Human Demon Quasi-Emperor swept his eyes and said in a deep voice: "You can go, but you must not bring disaster to the human world, otherwise..."

Several demon gods shuddered instantly. The flesh of the Crocodile Ancestor was still lying in the Xuanhuang Tripod. They swore and vowed one after another that they were only returning temporarily to summon the sons of the mother star, form a great army, and then bring them back to the Heavenly Court, with no other intentions.

"Since you are all leaving, I will also go to see other life stars. I heard that the Five-Colored Altar of the Ziwei Emperor Star has been set up." Daoist Shan Huang was also eager to move, wanting great freedom and great detachment.

"No." The Human Demon old man shook his head.

"Why?" Daoist Shan Huang was stunned.

"You have to go with me." The Human Demon old man said indifferently, clearly not trusting Daoist Shan Huang.

This was a demon suppressed by Shakyamuni. If there were no constraints, who knows how he would ruin Ziwei Star.

A Quasi-Emperor is not like a Great Sage; the Heavenly Court does not have many, so he must be watched strictly.

Of course, Daoist Shan Huang was a smart man and naturally understood the Human Demon's meaning, but he also wanted face, so he didn't say it clearly, licking his face and saying: "Our generation of Quasi-Emperors wants to attain the Dao, how can we live in one place? We must roam the vast universe and achieve a supreme Dao heart."

"I thought about it and decided not to go to Ziwei Star, but to accompany fellow Daoist Human Demon on a trip through the starry sky."

As soon as these words came out, several demon gods rolled their eyes. It was one thing for the Human Demon to go to the vast universe to seek opportunities, but a six-thousand-year-old Quasi-Emperor was in his prime. In the ancient times, there were Emperors who attained the Dao at six thousand years old. You, a Quasi-Emperor approaching nine thousand years old and about to die of old age, are seeking a fart opportunity? You are clearly the Human Demon's spare rations.

Before leaving, the sages organized another Dao discussion conference. This time Lin Xian finally made it to the stage. The only pity was that there was no Emperor Ye Zun in the audience to listen, missing an opportunity to show off.

The sages expounded their own scriptures, and Lin Xian was no exception, evolving his own Jin Dan Great Dao.

"Such life aura has traces of longevity methods." Emperor Yu commented: "Your lifespan is very long, at least you can live for seven thousand years."

As soon as these words came out, several Great Sages were very moved. Seven thousand years, what is this concept? Many low-level Great Sages only have this lifespan.

Several demon gods whose lifespans were about to end asked Lin Xian for the longevity method one after another. How was this done?

"Nothing else, just gnawing." Lin Xian smiled indifferently.

(End of chapter)