Chapter 124: Four Extremes

Since ancient times, two Great Emperors have never met; there is also another saying that on the same path of a Great Emperor, two such existences can never appear.

No Great Emperor's path is exactly the same.

Those who imitate me live, those who resemble me die!

Any Great Emperor needs to walk a path that has never been walked before, or at the very least, a path that predecessors have not trodden.

To copy the Ruthless Great Emperor's techniques entirely will absolutely not lead to the end, and there is absolutely no possibility of becoming a Great Emperor.

This point is clearly reflected throughout the Zhetian World: the descendants of Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors are actually harder to become Great Emperors than normal individuals.

They usually rely on the advantages of their bloodline and the top-tier cultivation scriptures passed down by their families, often managing to cultivate to the Quasi-Emperor realm, but that is where it ends.

To go any further is basically impossible, unless they walk their own path.

Throughout the ages, the only one to break through this barrier is Wushi Dadi.

However, Wushi Dadi also achieved the Great Emperor realm by relying on his bloodline and talent, and he did not walk the same path as others.

The Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus is invincible and is the most supreme physique under heaven, on the same level as the Chaos Body.

This has nothing to do with the path of cultivation.

"If I remember correctly, in the original work, the most outstanding and formidable person to cultivate the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art is the Yaoguang Shengzi of the Yaochi Sacred Land; he was already about to step onto the path of Alternative Enlightenment.

He had already cultivated Hun-tun Qi throughout his body, and he had already cultivated nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven types of exotic Origins.

He was only one step away from success, but that step was a chasm, because he ultimately had no way to walk his own brand-new path; his entire path followed the established trajectory of the Ruthless Great Emperor.

In the end, there was no other way, and he could only turn into a sky full of light rain under Ye Fan's fists, completely vanishing into smoke and clouds.

As for me now, it is a stroke of luck that I have walked another path that does not correspond to any cultivation stage recorded in the Indestructible Heavenly Art, and is different from any conceptual realm proposed in its theory.

This is a bad thing; after all, I cannot walk forward along the established path, and much of the experience of my predecessors is useless to me, but in fact, this is also a huge good thing, because I have walked out another path by a twist of fate."

Zhang Xuan pondered silently in his heart. To be honest, when he realized this, he felt a little bit of secret joy; after all, he had walked a path that no predecessor had walked, even if it was with a little help from the Chat Group.

It was a path walked out with the help of his unique advantages, but no matter how it was walked, it was a unique path, and he had walked it nonetheless.

Others have no way to walk this path even if they want to.

Along with the secret joy, there was also a bit of trepidation; after all, the Ruthless Great Emperor can be considered a true monument in the Zhetian Universe.

Following the path set by this Ruthless Great Emperor, one can basically reach the peak before the Great Emperor realm without illness or disaster.

Perhaps it would be better to consider changing at that time; after all, Zhang Xuan has many paths.

Changing at that time should be in time. Now, there is not much to draw from for the path ahead, and often one has to rely on oneself; trepidation is inevitable.

"Still, I cannot harbor too much of this fluke mentality. If I walk along the Ruthless Great Emperor's path all the way, it will be very difficult to break away from that path later; after all, the power of inertia is very strong.

Although I have embarked on another path early, it may not necessarily be a lucky thing.

After all, my cultivation foundation, the Indestructible Heavenly Art, can still be used, and the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal and the ability to swallow other powerful Origins are still in my hands. With this foundation, I am not afraid of problems later."

Zhang Xuan asked himself, and soon stabilized his spirit.

He already had too many unique advantages, and having temporarily jumped out of an established path, he was not overly panicked.

After understanding his own strengths and weaknesses, it was easier for him to jump out of the established framework and think carefully.

"According to Qingdi, the Indestructible Heavenly Art and the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art share the same line of thought, but the Indestructible Heavenly Art is more perfect. Both swallow all things in heaven and earth to supplement oneself, finally making oneself like heaven and earth, becoming a child of destiny for heaven and earth.

But because the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art is too tyrannical, it replaces the heart of heaven with the human heart, swallowing the many children of destiny of heaven and earth with one's own body, and thus will be hated by heaven and earth, with one's life luck being quite poor, and even being attacked by ten thousand people...

Later, the improved version of the Indestructible Heavenly Art created the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal on the original basis, which borrowed the wonderful principles of the black hole between the universe and heaven and earth as the corresponding rules.

It is the universe itself that swallows the Origins of all things in heaven and earth, so it will not be affected by heaven and earth.

Then the Great Dao Treasure Bottle integrates the swallowed Origins into the practitioner's body. From this perspective, those who practice the Indestructible Heavenly Art have their entire physique bestowed by heaven and earth; by swallowing the corresponding Origins, not only will they not be hated by heaven and earth, but they will be liked by heaven and earth instead..."

Zhang Xuan knew that all this sounded very simple in theory, and the conception did not seem too difficult, but to be able to truly put this wonderful idea into practice, that was truly a talent and intelligence that was shocking to the extreme.

It is like everyone knows that if every person in the world gave him one yuan, he himself could become the top billionaire on Earth. This idea is of course wonderful, but wanting to put this idea into practice is the most difficult of difficulties.

The Ruthless Great Emperor put such an ingenious idea into practice.

"And when the Indestructible Heavenly Art is cultivated to the end, one will become the person most favored by heaven and earth. In the Zhetian Universe, the physique and person most favored by heaven and earth is undoubtedly the Chaos Body.

In the Zhetian Universe, the ultimate version of the Indestructible Heavenly Art is the Chaos Body, but it would not be so in other worlds.

If it were a world like Resident Evil, the child of destiny of the physique would probably be Alice's physique and the related telekinesis, combined with the wisdom of Einstein, Hawking, and others, finally forming a strange and unknown existence.

If the Shenmu World were the mother template, swallowing many Origins between heaven and earth, the ultimate evolutionary body would either be a strange existence like the Heavenly Dao, or a strange physique like that of Dugu Baitian and others.

And in Chang Sheng Jie, the ultimate answer to the Origin should be a physique and potential like that of the Little Stone Emperor; the highest probability should be the Little Stone Emperor..."

Such thoughts arose in Zhang Xuan's heart, and at this moment, the plane had already arrived at the airport of the provincial capital of Tibet.

A familiar prompt sounded in his ears.

"Dear passengers, we have safely arrived at our destination. To ensure your safety..."

Zhang Xuan turned his head to look out the window; the original blue sky and white clouds had been replaced by an empty concrete ground, and the plane was slowly taxiing.

Zhang Xuan immediately collected his thoughts and went out of the airport with a group of passengers who had arrived here. In the open square outside the airport, he could still see the lead tour guide holding a sign and shouting loudly.

"Hengfeng Tour Group, Hengfeng Tour Group, everyone gather here, everyone gather here, don't get separated, don't get separated!"

Zhang Xuan glanced sideways, then merged into the crowd, disappeared after a few turns, and waited until he walked out of the airport.

In a remote and deserted corner, pressing the Bluetooth headset in his ear, Zhang Xuan asked softly: "Moss, are there any cameras around?"

"All controlled!"

The voice of Alice that Moss specifically imitated made Zhang Xuan nod slightly.

The next instant, the Eight-Nine Profound Art operated, and he turned into a nimble bird, rushing quickly toward the no-man's land in the wider area like an arrow leaving the bowstring.

With extraordinary blessing, the speed was fast, and it took less than half an hour to reach a vast no-man's land, surrounded by continuous, never-thawing snow-capped mountains.

Only when he arrived here did Zhang Xuan breathe a sigh of relief; the feeling in his body that he was about to break through at any time was almost uncontrollable.

He chose to take the plane before because that feeling was too strong, and he didn't dare to mobilize too much energy at once, for fear of breaking through by accident.

Now that he had reached an empty and deserted area, Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. With his mindset relaxed, his state was actually better than before.

He did not rush to break through, but once again openly downloaded the Four Extremes chapter of the Indestructible Heavenly Art in the Chat Group.

With the previous experience in Chang Sheng Jie, especially since the folk customs in Chang Sheng Jie are simple and honest, and the resources are abundant.

Most of the ancient exotic beasts Zhang Xuan hunted at the very beginning had their Origin swallowed by the Indestructible Heavenly Art for one round, but he did not do so for the subsequent ones.

After all, no matter how much Origin of the same kind is swallowed, it does not have much significance for the Indestructible Heavenly Art.

Zhang Xuan subsequently exchanged many of the captured ancient exotic beasts into the Chat Group.

After roasting the excess prey he hunted, he sent them as Red Packets in the Chat Group, which harvested a wave of goodwill, and at the same time, it also showed that the points he obtained were completely reasonable, legal, open, and fair.

Of course, it was inevitable to cook the books a little bit here, fabricating some non-existent transactions in the void, to make Zhang Xuan's points increase in a reasonable and legal way.

Anyway, the one doing the accounting was Zhang Xuan, and others had no way to question or check.

After the whole process was done, many members of the Chat Group knew that Zhang Xuan had made a fortune in Chang Sheng Jie.

At the very least, he had picked quite a lot of so-called Millennium Lingzhi, ten-thousand-year ginseng, and the like, and he even sent quite a few as benefits in the Chat Group.

Zhang Xuan gorged himself in Chang Sheng Jie and did not calculate his gains during this period too clearly, but one point was enough to show that his harvest was extremely great.

The space in the Plantation could no longer hold the many newly picked spiritual items.

Currently, the most valuable growing crops have been replaced by Millennium Lingzhi, yellow essence, and ten-thousand-year ginseng from Chang Sheng Jie; the Blood Bodhi from the Wind and Cloud World are still among the options because of their special effects.

But the Kunlun Flat Peach from The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber no longer had the qualifications to continue being planted in the Plantation.

It can be said that Zhang Xuan's current points were all reasonably fought for; even if there were a little more, the people in the Chat Group would not have noticed, but in fact, Zhang Xuan's accounts were very careful.

Looking at the points, his spending was reasonable, sensible, and legal.

After the exchange, Zhang Xuan was still not in a hurry to break through, but first took out Qingdi's annotations on the Indestructible Heavenly Art and read them carefully once again.

Speaking of which, it was still a little bit awkward; the cultivation insights and experiences of the Indestructible Heavenly Art annotated in detail by Qingdi were actually very, very detailed and very, very numerous.

Simply put, his annotations can be understood as the cultivation of the Indestructible Heavenly Art from entry to the grave, from a mortal body to the extraordinary transformation of the Chaos Body.

Qingdi was clearly very curious about the Ruthless Great Emperor; after all, looking through the entire ancient history, the Ruthless Great Emperor was the only person who had the ability to go to the Immortal Realm but did not, and instead forcibly tempered herself bit by bit in the Zhetian Universe to reach the level of a Red Dust Immortal.

The rumors and Legends left behind by her were too many in history; even Qingdi was very curious about this person, and even had to admire her.

He was also very curious about the inheritance of the Ruthless Great Emperor and studied it very diligently; after all, the Ruthless Great Emperor was the one who had walked the path to becoming an Immortal to the end.

Qingdi's annotations were written very diligently and very, very conscientiously, but Zhang Xuan's cultivation time was really too short, and the speed of his breakthrough was too fast.

Cultivating until now, it has been less than half a year from a mortal to the point of almost reaching the Four Extremes level; it can be described as advancing by leaps and bounds, exceeding everyone's expectations.

In the early stage, he was comprehending the Nine Yang Divine Art, and at the same time, he was comprehending the Eight-Nine Profound Art; in his spare time, he also needed to comprehend the Indestructible Heavenly Art. Although he had roughly read it once before, Zhang Xuan felt that he had not yet fully understood this powerful technique.

Cultivating and breaking through quickly is a joyful thing, but being as fast as it is now still gave Zhang Xuan a slight sense of crisis.

"Don't cultivate and break through too fast, or the foundation will be unstable, and then it will be game over."

In other worlds, Zhang Xuan would not worry too much about this point, but in the Zhetian World, in the Zhetian Great Universe, an unstable foundation is a big problem, and it will cause very, very big problems in the later stages.

If you are a little bit off at the beginning, the gap in the later stages will be worlds apart.

Especially since he was about to break through to the Four Extremes Realm and would soon face the lightning tribulation, Zhang Xuan did not doubt that his lightning tribulation would also be terrifying and would not be inferior to that of an ordinary Saint Body.

This is a big threshold in the early stage of cultivation; a slight carelessness would lead to big problems, so Zhang Xuan polished it carefully and studied the relevant Four Extremes techniques in this uninhabited snowy mountain for half a month.

At the same time, he also thoroughly studied the secret technique created by the Ruthless Great Emperor, which was specifically used for recovery and was not inferior to the Zhe Secret of the Nine Secrets, as pointed out by Qingdi.

By this day, Zhang Xuan's whole body was glowing; from his hair to his toes, every pore was spitting out brilliance, adjusting his state to the absolute peak.

The old dead cells in his body were expelled, new cells grew rapidly, and broken hair strands were healing.

The vast Origin he had swallowed previously condensed in his body, causing his bones, blood vessels, and skin to change; the whole person was like a God who had descended from the nine heavens to the human world.

The five strands of Essence Wolf Smoke that had gathered in his body gathered at this moment, and then boomed into one, forming a dragon of blood and Qi that pierced through heaven and earth.

Four Extremes, arrived!

(End of this chapter)