Chapter 454: 【Huntu Diplomacy, Envoy to Eternal】

Yin Tiande had severed his Dao early on and had now reached Great Completion. With his attainments in alchemy, refining semi-Saint medicinal pills was effortless for him; even Saint-level pills were a distinct possibility.

However, the Saint King level was too high—it was to be a king among Saints. Unless Yin Tiande became a Saint himself, it would be difficult to refine.

"Uncle-Master might as well settle down for a period of time. To rashly advance to Saint King might lead to an unstable foundation."

Yin Tiande advised. Cultivation was not always about speed; for beings of Emperor-child caliber, becoming a Saint at a hundred years old was not considered late, and it allowed one to forge a supreme foundation.

If one cultivated too quickly, the Great Sage Dou Mu was a negative example: a Great Sage at one hundred, yet trapped at the peak of the Great Sage realm for the next eight thousand years, unable to step into the Quasi-Emperor realm.

"I am just too eager to progress!"

Lin Xian sighed softly, feeling somewhat dejected. If even Yin Tiande, who had obtained the Dao lineage of the Daoist Heavenly Venerate, could not do it, then who could? Could it be that he truly had to wait for the Quasi-Emperor Li Er to return?

As for the issue of an unstable foundation, after obtaining the Nirvana Heavenly Art in the Arctic Immortal Land, he had drawn inferences from other instances. His path of nine lives and nine deaths had been put into practice, broadening his road.

Every instance of nirvana was equivalent to dying and then being reborn, a true shedding of the mortal frame and transcending the past.

"Nirvana and rebirth, the Undying Divine Fetus, the Nine Transformations of the Divine Emperor, the Buddha's nirvana... Throughout history, all the outstanding Heavenly Venerates, Ancient Emperors, and Great Emperors have been expounding on the same topic: nirvana and transformation."

"This is the most correct path, the Immortal Road of the Dharma-Ending Age. We must strive in the correct direction."

"There is no need to enter the Immortal Domain; we will surpass the Immortal Domain."

Lin Xian pointed out the direction for Yin Tiande. The geniuses and heroes of the past had all been groping in the dark, not knowing what was correct. If one could lock onto the direction, it would save a lot of effort, and perhaps more longevity methods could be developed.

"The transformation of life and death—isn't the second life the exclusive domain of Great Emperors?"

Yin Tiande's heart was stirred, and he suddenly saw the light. He witnessed a brand-new direction: the Immortal Road and the Emperor Road could walk side by side.

"Naturally not. Not to mention that the Princess Princess Shen Can race has had nine nirvana rebirths since the beginning of their cultivation, the Buddhist sect even emphasizes reincarnation, claiming that everyone can be reincarnated."

"The Heavenly Court has a practical example: the Divine King of the Jiang family, who truly lived out a second life. He is exactly the same as Di Que of the Primordial Era and possesses the potential of a Great Emperor."

Lin Xian told Yin Tiande to go to the Jiang family to cultivate and observe the Hengyu Divine Furnace. In the future, if he wanted to refine great medicinal pills, this Emperor weapon would be indispensable.

Moreover, he thought highly of this genius of the younger generation who was the first to master the Divine Prohibition. He truly had hope of becoming an Emperor, or at least reaching the level of Alternative Dao Attainment, qualifying him to step onto the Red Dust Immortal Road.

If Ye Fan had not boarded the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin and the old Golden Crow had not stolen the home, then the Great Emperor of this generation would likely have been decided between Yin Tiande and Yaoguang.

The other Ancient Emperor children and Emperor children—it was not that they lacked the aptitude, but they were influenced by their fathers' Dao and were bound to be a step slower.

The people of the past had the heritage of the past; the people of the present had the advantages of the present.

"The Jiang family... I also wish to witness the demeanor of the heroes of Big Dipper." Yin Tiande was thoughtful. He then paused and offered a suggestion: "Uncle-Master, although I cannot refine the sixth stage of evolution fluid, it does not mean the people of the Eternal Star Domain cannot. They have held onto that half of the Immortal Pill formula for too long; it has become the foundation of their civilization."

"That's right." Lin Xian's eyes lit up. If there was ready-made evolution fluid, there would be no need for such trouble. The Supremes needed the Nine-Turn Evolution Fluid, while the other medium-grade evolution fluids could be distributed by the Heavenly Court and the Ancient Emperor clans.

After Yin Tiande left, Lin Xian summoned the captive captain from the Eternal Star Domain to ask if the Eternal Star Domain had Nine-Turn Immortal Fluid. The captain was a middle-aged man with golden hair, from the Canghai tribe of the Eternal Kingdom.

"My lord jokes. Ever since the ancient gods passed away, Eternal has not seen the ninth stage of evolution fluid."

The middle-aged man of the Canghai tribe was very humble. Ever since he learned the true situation of the Big Dipper Cultivation World, he had abandoned the arrogance of the high-and-mighty cosmic god-level civilization of the past.

The power gap was too vast. The ancient gods of Eternal had already passed away, yet the Heavenly Court had living gods. How could they fight? Fight with a hammer?

Now, he had very smoothly become a craftsman for the Heavenly Court; he was already a person of the Heavenly Court.

The lack of ninth-stage evolution fluid was within Lin Xian's expectations. However, the vast Eternal Ancient Star, a god-level civilization that had produced two Great Emperors, should have had it.

Yet, regrettably, the answer was no.

The Canghai Heavenly Craftsman smiled bitterly: "The main mineral resources for the seventh and eighth stages are also hard to find. The most sensational event in the Eternal Star Domain was the successful refining of the sixth-stage evolution fluid fifty thousand years ago."

Currently, on the Eternal Star, the highest stage of evolution fluid is the fourth stage, which was successfully extracted by the Qi family of the Xianyu Star Sea five thousand years ago.

The Eternal Kingdom is a civilization where the Great Dao and technology merge; it controls a vast star domain and has countless space colonies, but there are only four true life-bearing planets.

The main star, Eternal Ancient Star, and three secondary stars: Xianyu, Shimo, and Shentu.

Eternal is a life ancient star that has existed since ancient times and is one of the rare life sources in the great universe, while the three secondary stars were formed later.

Eternal has three physiques: the Primordial Demon Body, the Fantian Battle Body, and the Taishang Immortal Body. Each is more heaven-defying than the last, and the Taishang Immortal Body is the most monstrous, with hope of becoming an Emperor.

The first-generation Taishang Immortal Body was surnamed Qi. He carved out a chaotic pure land for his descendants and condensed a life source, which became the Xianyu Star.

As for the origin of the Shimo Star, it was similar; it was carved out by the first-generation Primordial Demon Body for his descendants, and the rulers are the Mo family.

As for Shentu, it is the territory of the God Organization.

"Wait, this style is not right. What about the Fantian Battle Body? Shouldn't there be a Fantu Star?"

Lin Xian complained. Being one of the three major physiques, how did the Battle Body end up so pathetic?

"The Fantian Battle Body fought across the world, supreme in the nine heavens and ten earths, invincible on the Eternal Ancient Star. In ancient times, its physical combat was called peerless."

"It was just unlucky to run into the ancient god Daoyan when he emerged."

The Canghai Heavenly Craftsman said with a subtle expression: "In the end, the Fan clan remained on the Eternal Ancient Star, and no fifth Fantian Star appeared."

A Great Completion Battle Body could challenge ancient gods—those who know, know. It is just like a Holy Body challenging a Great Emperor; it can fight for three thousand rounds and can be called a Supreme, but it will eventually die.

"It is a star domain that has produced two Great Emperors and three Supremes, yet it is so poor that it doesn't even have sixth-stage evolution fluid. It is simply unscientific!"

Lin Xian shook his head and pressed the Canghai craftsman, asking if the major families had any heritage—the kind of treasures left behind by ancestors, the treasures at the bottom of the box.

"There were, there once were."

The craftsman of the Canghai tribe indicated that Eternal once had such things. One hundred thousand years ago, the Eternal civilization reached its peak. Not counting exceptions like Big Dipper, it was considered glorious for a life ancient star to produce two or three Great Sages in one era, but Eternal had at least seven Great Sages emerge in succession.

What kind of concept was this? The current Ancient clans only have six or seven Great Sages. The Eternal Ancient Star of that period was glorious to the extreme, and some could even sprint into the Quasi-Emperor realm, marching toward the realm of ancient gods.

In the atmosphere of the current Golden Age, the Eternal Ancient Star chose to go all-in. The major forces refined the heritage left by their ancestors into seventh-stage and eighth-stage evolution fluid, wanting to push out the third god of the Eternal Ancient Star.

Then, there was no then. The Great Sages of the Eternal Star took a large amount of evolution fluid to the universe to collect resources, wanting to refine the ninth-stage evolution, but they encountered a mysterious ancient coffin, which led to their fall. Not a single person returned.

Prosperity leads to decline. The rise of the Eternal Star was suddenly interrupted, high-end combat power was lost, various evolution fluids were lost, the heritage ceased to exist, and it had not recovered to this day, with each generation worse than the last.

"A mysterious ancient coffin? The god coffin buried above the nine heavens—aside from the Divine Emperor coffin, it could only be the Emperor coffin of the Void Great Emperor."

"The Eternal Star Domain couldn't touch the Emperor coffin, leading to total annihilation, but I can."

"I am already a person of the Ji family!"

Lin Xian was overjoyed. He arranged for the Ji family to be included in this expedition list and asked the Ji family Saint to bring the Void Mirror to go to the Eternal Ancient Star together.

The list for this expedition: Void Emperor Mirror, Divine Emperor Immortal Robe, Chaotic Green Lotus, Ten Thousand Dragon Bell, Phoenix Wing Gilded Halberd, Corpse Emperor Divine Bow, Golden Rod, Qilin Staff, Hou Emperor Great Wilderness Axe, Kunpeng Yin-Yang Fan.

A total of ten Extreme Dao Divine Weapons to suppress the Eternal Ancient Star.

"Ten Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons? This is thinking too highly of Eternal. Is this fighting Eternal?"

After the Lord of Taichu finished reading the list, he laughed and handed the list to the other Supremes: "What do you fellow Daoists think?"

"One Emperor and one weapon is enough." The Golden Ancient Emperor shook his head: "The Heavenly Court is still too cautious."

"Being cautious is good." Lin Xian smiled slightly. Ten Emperor weapons appearing together was naturally not to deal with the Eternal Ancient Star.

With the strength of the Eternal Star Domain, three or four Emperor weapons could sweep it. Creating such a large formation, the real purpose was to guard against the Ancient Emperors turning their backs after grabbing the pill formula.

Among the seven Supremes, only the Wan Longhuang and the Xue Huanghuang were considered half-members of the Heavenly Court and were worthy of trust, so the Heavenly Court had to bring out three more Emperor weapons.

"I have no objection." Wan Longhuang chimed in: "Eternal is, after all, a planet that has produced two Ancient Emperors. If there is an Emperor formation guarding it, it would be much trickier."

"Let it be so."

The Qilin Ancient Emperor made the final decision. If the Heavenly Court had brought out seven or eight Emperor weapons, he would have objected. Now it was just five against five, which was considered fair.

"Daoyan's offspring should exist. I wonder if the Eternal Emperor still has any princes left."

The Golden Ancient Emperor was thoughtful: "We can take this opportunity to exchange pointers. By drawing inferences, the Eternal civilization also has its merits in refining Nine-Turn Immortal Fluid."

The Ancient Emperors were single-mindedly seeking immortality. Aside from the Immortal Dao, the only thing they truly cared about was their own children.

If the flight to immortality failed, the Ancient Emperor children carried the future hopes of the Ancient Emperors.

"Exchange pointers? Why go to Eternal? All the experts of the world are in the Heavenly Court."

Lin Xian smiled slightly. Ever since Huang Xudao and Huo Lin'er entered the Heavenly Court a few days ago, the Princess Princess Shen Can Daoist had also high-profile entered the Heavenly Court. Among the Ancient Emperor offspring, only one Golden Heavenly Maiden was left outside.

"Miao'er will arrive at the Heavenly Court in a few days."

The Golden Ancient Emperor raised an eyebrow and asked: "Aside from the reincarnation of the Emperor, who else in the younger generation of the Heavenly Court is comparable to an Ancient Emperor child?"

"Me." Lin Xian was shameless, pointing to his own nose: "Actually, I am also of the younger generation."

The Emperors were speechless. They had never seen such a thick-skinned person. You, an old thing, are also considered the younger generation?

Have you ever seen an Emperor child who could sit and discuss the Dao with Ancient Emperors?

"Aside from you, who else?"

The Golden Ancient Emperor was helpless and asked: "Has the Green Emperor left any offspring?"

"Actually, the Green Emperor child is also me."

Lin Xian said without changing his expression. Disciple, also Green Emperor child, and besides, he was also the Green Emperor's son-in-law; he had long been a person of the Green Lotus clan.

The Golden Ancient Emperor's face turned black, and he said in a deep voice: "Miao'er has fought with you. Change to another one."

"How about the Heavenly Emperor child? He is the Crown Prince of my Heavenly Court. As for those who can fight like this, my Heavenly Court has ten more."

Lin Xian was talking nonsense with a straight face, but it shocked the Emperors.

The Heavenly Court has ten Crown Princes? Wouldn't that be ten Emperor children? If they came from different lineages, the Heavenly Court would have ten Great Emperors!

Aside from Amitabha, the Green Emperor, the Underworld Emperor, the Empress, and the Emperor, who else was there?

"Fellow Daoist, can you introduce the Green Emperor to us?"

The Kunpeng Supreme's voice was weathered; he did not want to miss any opportunity to seek immortality and ask about the Dao.

"His Majesty the Green Emperor is in seclusion inside the Immortal Artifact Desolate Tower. The Dao is different, so meeting may not necessarily lead to any discussion."

Lin Xian sighed: "If a few seniors wish to stay and evolve the Immortal Domain together with the Green Emperor, this junior can report it."

The few Ancient Emperors hesitated for a moment, but still shook their heads. For the sake of the Immortal Road, they had hibernated for a million years and had abandoned too many things. The sunk cost was too great; how could they easily give up?

Unless the Immortal Road failed and only a trace of their Primordial Spirit escaped, they would choose to live under someone else's roof.

"If there is nothing else, let it be so. Accelerate the refining of the Eternal Sacred Artifact flying saucer."

The Lord of Taichu said indifferently and slowly closed his eyes. A Quasi-Emperor level Dao body was also transformed from a trace of an Ancient Emperor's Primordial Spirit; it was better not to waste it if it could be avoided.

Before refining the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill and Immortal Fluid, every drop of power was extremely precious.

"There is one more thing. My Heavenly Court is prepared to appoint Great Sage Huntu as the Heavenly Court's diplomatic ambassador to go to the Eternal Ancient Star to read the edict, so that the Eternal Ancient Star will surrender without a fight."

"After all, my Heavenly Court is the orthodoxy of the universe. We must have a teacher to be famous; we cannot punish without teaching."

Lin Xian asked: "What do the Emperors think?"

"Great Sage Huntu? Which ant is this again?"

The Emperors looked at each other, and then one of the Supremes waved his hand impatiently: "Handle this small matter yourself. If there is no Quasi-Emperor or Emperor weapon causing trouble, do not disturb us."

They manifested their Dao bodies to supervise the Heavenly Court's refining of the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill. If the Ancient Emperors had to take action for everything, wouldn't they be working for the Heavenly Court? They were not subordinates of the Heavenly Court.

"Got it!"

Lin Xian cupped his hands in a salute, then turned to issue the edict to Great Sage Huntu. On it, one after another, true and undeniable Ancient Emperor auras could be seen, making this loose-cultivator Ancient clan Great Sage tremble with fear.

"This... this is truly the decree of the Ancient Emperors!"

Great Sage Huntu gasped. On this decree, he saw the auras of the Fire Qilin Cave, Blood Phoenix Mountain, Golden Cave, and Ten Thousand Dragon Nest. Aside from that, there were some unfamiliar Emperor imprints, which were terrifying to the extreme.

"Wrong, this is the decree of the Heavenly Court, symbolizing the common will of the human Emperors and the Ancient clan Emperors."

"Now that Big Dipper is saturated, if the Ancient clans do not want to break out into conflict with the human race, they can only expand their territory outward."

Lin Xian smiled slightly, patted Great Sage Huntu on the shoulder, and said meaningfully: "Great Sage Huntu will likely be very busy in the future. The Heavenly Court wants to add a burden to you."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 455 =====