Chapter 268: A Wonderful Misunderstanding, Zhang Xuan the Reincarnated True Immortal!

"When I absorb the Origin of Dugu Baitian and the others, a peculiar aura naturally arises, and Immortal Substance flows out from my body, merging into this world.

"Those peculiar rules and substances from another world are also a rare supplement for this world.

"The world senses this situation and responds to me in a hazy way; vaguely speaking, I am of great help to this world, constantly giving back to it.

"Therefore, when I inhale and exhale the Heaven and Earth Essence, peculiar rules naturally fill in and supplement my body."

Zhang Xuan attempted to absorb another wisp of Origin from Dugu Baitian's body, but instead of absorbing it, he flicked his hand and cast it into the entire world.

In an instant, golden lotus platforms seemed to form in the sky, flowers rained down, and golden lotuses surged from the ground.

Then, as Zhang Xuan simply absorbed the Heaven and Earth Essence as usual, one rule after another naturally merged into his body.

"Similar to the Sun Monarch and Lunar Monarch, the special physique Origin of the sun and lunar twins..."

Zhang Xuan sensed that uniqueness, while the Great Accomplishment Saint Body beside him was filled with shock and bewilderment.

Because the purest and most sacred Immortal Light erupted from within Zhang Xuan's body.

A moment later, that most sacred and brilliant Immortal Light illuminated the Universe and merged into the world.

At that instant, endless Immortal Substance gushed out; the Great Accomplishment Saint Body, merely by instinct, absorbed a bit, which allowed his lifespan to increase by a thousand years.

This was no ordinary thousand-year lifespan; he was a Great Accomplishment Saint Body who had reached the limit of his life and was about to die, having even consumed Undying Divine Medicine.

Logically, there should have been no substance in the world capable of extending his lifespan, yet merely by taking a breath here and inhaling a wisp of the shattered Immortal Light, he was able to extend his life by a thousand years.

This was information that could shake the entire Heaven and Earth.

Feeling that Immortal Light flying out from Zhang Xuan's body, Zhang Xuan seemed prepared to continue this action.

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body placed a broad palm on Zhang Xuan's shoulder and shook his head, saying: "Do not do this anymore. Constantly squandering your Dao Fruit from your past life will make it impossible for you to truly climb to the peak in the future.

"Although time is tight, there is no need for you to do this. Merely merging the purest and most sacred Origin into this world yields too little return and response; for you, it is truly a huge loss. There is no need..."

Zhang Xuan looked at the Great Accomplishment Saint Body's serious and earnest expression, and after pondering with his Divine Sense for a moment, he roughly understood the Great Accomplishment Saint Body's line of thought.

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body had completely believed that Zhang Xuan came from a powerful Foreign Realm, or perhaps from the Immortal Domain.

Zhang Xuan came to this world to change the situation within it, to suppress the Dark Turmoil, and if possible, likely to return to the Immortal Domain and open the passage between the human world and the Immortal Domain.

Zhang Xuan's cultivation was so rapid because the Dao Fruit of his past life was constantly recovering within his body, making him stronger and stronger.

And now, facing the Undying Emperor and the threat of that terrifying figure, Zhang Xuan, forced by necessity, was actively releasing the Origin within his body to extend his lifespan while also making this world more accepting of him.

"If you are using your past life's Dao Fruit and your past life's Origin to let me and others gain an extension of life, or to refine a Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, that is going too far.

"A hundred years of peak lifespan is enough. I will definitely fight the Dark Turmoil with my life and will not give the opponent a chance."

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body was very serious and earnest, even looking a little ashamed as he scratched his head while looking at Zhang Xuan.

"You have misunderstood!"

"I wish I had misunderstood, but the dense Immortal Substance just now, and this pure method of extending life with Immortal Substance, is exactly the effect of a Nine-Turn Immortal Pill.

"Although I have never eaten a Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, I have learned about it from ancient records, and I even once obtained a broken Nine-Turn Immortal Pill in the sky outside a Forbidden Land.

"The one you gave me is very different from the broken pills they refined. Originally, I thought it was some other method, but now that I see this scene, I finally understand. Do not do this again."

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body had clearly misunderstood, and he held onto this misunderstanding very firmly, not giving Zhang Xuan any time or space to explain further.

Zhang Xuan explained several times, but in the end, he could only give up helplessly.

"Ah, yes, yes, everything you say is correct. I will try to change and will not do this again. Let us return to Beidou first."

Amidst a sigh, the Great Accomplishment Saint Body solemnly took Zhang Xuan and tore through the void, leaving this world.

Afterwards, Ziwei Ancient Star wanted to pay respects to Zhang Xuan, this supreme existence who had achieved the Quasi-Emperor realm.

After the Holy Land and powerful clans of Ziwei Ancient Star ascended into the sky, they could only see a boundless ruin.

All objects no longer existed in this part of the world.

They could only sigh and then shake their heads and leave.

But everyone's heart was filled with grand waves, and they were filled with unprecedented confidence in the future.

"If we can't break through now, it is definitely a problem of our own posture, not the reason of the world. Others are breaking through to Great Saint and Quasi-Emperor as easily as eating and drinking.

"We can't even break through these small realms and are getting stuck at the Dao-Severing stage? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Holding such an incredibly firm belief, another batch of top-tier geniuses aggressively wanted to sever the Dao during this period and continue to forge ahead, and then they felt the disparity of society and the complexity of the Universe.

They couldn't get through; they simply couldn't get through. They tried with all their might and still couldn't get through.

Others were breaking through to Great Saint and Quasi-Emperor, truly with ease. Five people in a row underwent tribulation here, and no one failed.

Yet they couldn't even rush past the Dao-Severing stage; they really couldn't rush past it.

In the Eight Views Palace, Yin Tiande's heart was inevitably anxious. Originally, he had said he was prepared to step into the starry sky of the Universe.

Now, however, he felt the timing was not quite right.

"There are simply too many top-tier experts in the starry sky of the Universe. I had better polish myself for a while longer; I will head to the starry sky of the Universe after I step into the Saint Sage Realm."

After the initial brief anxiety, his mood gradually calmed down. His temperament was already very extraordinary, far surpassing ordinary people.

At this moment, he was already making other alternative preparations in his heart.

"Perhaps this era is not my era. Haste cannot be rushed; it is better to polish myself as much as possible and wait for the future."

With this calculation in his heart, Yin Tiande became even calmer.

On Beidou, the Great Accomplishment Saint Body had an unreadable expression. Looking at Zhang Xuan, for the first time, he felt a peculiar sense of shock.

"The times you extended my life and Gai Jiuyou's life before, were you using the Origin of your previous life?"

"I have said it is not, it really is not. That was just a misunderstanding; that was just a gift given to me by a friend from the Foreign Realm."

"Then does this gift contain the Origin of a True Immortal?"

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body still asked this. Zhang Xuan thought for a moment; although they were bodies left behind by Dugu Baitian, the Demon Lord, and others who were not at their peak periods,

compared to the Zhetian Universe, they should count as True Immortals, and perhaps even reached the level of a Quasi-Immortal King.

"If you count it that way, it does indeed count as Origin at the True Immortal level, perhaps even more so."

"Then you should be careful from now on; do not perform such operations recklessly. After all, it is the Origin gifted to you by your friend from the Foreign Realm... oh no, your friend from the Foreign Realm. You shouldn't waste such precious Origin on us, or at least, don't spend too much."

Seeing the helplessness on Zhang Xuan's face, the Great Accomplishment Saint Body changed his wording halfway through his sentence.

But looking at the expression on his face and the meaning behind his words, he clearly regarded Zhang Xuan as a True Immortal from the Immortal Domain reincarnated.

Even his correction was done with reluctance.

Zhang Xuan felt genuinely helpless, but he truly had no way to correct him any further.

He had always spoken of a friend from the Foreign Realm, yet that friend had never appeared in this world.

On the contrary, the Origin of Dugu Baitian and the others had truly erupted from within his body.

From the perspective of the Great Accomplishment Saint Body, Zhang Xuan could indeed be considered a reincarnated True Immortal.

And this True Immortal had even spared no effort to consume precious Origin from within his body to extend his life, allowing him to live at his peak.

"Just how strong is the combat power at the True Immortal level?"

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body asked curiously, for the first time acting like a curious child, despite having been very composed before.

Seeing him like this, Zhang Xuan could not help but let out a deep sigh.

But thinking of the ancient times, when nine Great Accomplishment Saint Bodies emerged one after another, bathing in blood for the Human Race until death, constantly fighting against the Dark Turmoil, and even fighting to the death against the Ancient Emperors of old.

Since the Great Accomplishment Saint Body rarely showed such a curious expression and asked such a question, Zhang Xuan thought for a moment and decided to answer.

"The combat power of a True Immortal is not as exaggerated as you imagine. If we divide it purely by combat power, several people throughout the entire ancient history have already reached the level of a True Immortal."

"Hmm?"

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body was originally just chatting and did not expect Zhang Xuan to actually answer.

He wore an expression that said, "I can tell you are a reincarnated True Immortal."

He asked with anticipation and excitement: "The True Immortal realm is above the Great Emperor, but can it actually be defeated head-on by a Great Emperor, or is their combat power roughly the same?"

"Then wouldn't this breakthrough in realm be equivalent to nothing? This True Immortal would be too weak."

Hearing this, Zhang Xuan shook his head, then nodded again.

"What you said is both correct and incorrect."

"Hmm?"

"To discuss True Immortals, one must start from the Chaotic Ancient Era."

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body's eyes were bright, revealing a luster, and he was very quiet.

After a brief pause, Zhang Xuan spoke in a calm tone: "Throughout this entire ancient history, the Chaotic Ancient Era can be considered the beginning of all eras."

"After the Chaotic Ancient Era came the Mythological Era, where the Emperor Venerable reigned supreme, and countless Emperors rose up across the heavens and the earth."

"I have some understanding of this part."

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body nodded.

Zhang Xuan glanced at the Great Accomplishment Saint Body and shook his head again: "Then I will tell you a part you do not know."

"From the Mythological Era down to the present age, although no one has been heard to have become an Immortal throughout all of ancient history, everyone firmly believes that it is possible to become an Immortal. In the most ancient Mythological Era, it was even claimed that some had killed Immortals."

"Why would that be?"

"Is it because of the uniqueness of the Chaotic Ancient Era? Were there Immortals during the Chaotic Ancient Era?"

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body's mind was very agile, and he offered a rough guess, to which Zhang Xuan nodded.

"You guessed correctly. In the era of the Chaotic Ancient Era, there were Immortals between heaven and earth. Becoming an Immortal was not an ethereal term, but truly someone had reached that realm, and that realm was called True Immortal."

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body's eyes were brighter than ever, and he blurted out: "Huang Tiandi? Did Huang Tiandi truly become an Immortal?"

The Chaotic Ancient Era was simply too far, too far from the present.

So distant that all history had dissipated into the Time River, and no exact records could be found at all.

Not to mention the Chaotic Ancient Era, even the Mythological Era that followed it had most of its history dissipated into smoke and clouds, making it difficult to explore.

The only item left behind from the Chaotic Ancient Era that endured through the ages was the Desolate Tower, which legend says was left behind by Huang Tiandi, who became an Immortal during the Chaotic Ancient Era.

Hearing Huang Tiandi, Zhang Xuan's gaze flickered, and then he shook his head.

Under the Great Accomplishment Saint Body's astonished gaze, he denied it: "Huang Tiandi was indeed the most special figure of the Chaotic Ancient Era, but he cannot be considered a True Immortal; he surpassed this realm."

The period of Huang Tiandi should have been the process of Shi Hao falling due to an accident, his physical body remaining intact, and him constantly reincarnating between heaven and earth to recover his memories.

During that period, Huang Tiandi's strength and realm fluctuated greatly, and he could clash head-on with True Immortals with his physical body alone.

In fact, he was the most special and unique figure of all.

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body was puzzled, yet incredibly shocked.

"There is a realm above True Immortal? If True Immortals are not eternal, how can there be a higher realm? The highest cultivation method today only reaches the Great Emperor realm, how can there be a higher level?"

He had many questions, but Zhang Xuan simply reached out and pressed down, signaling him not to be anxious.

"Listen to me slowly. In the Chaotic Ancient Era, there were True Immortals between heaven and earth, so this realm was passed down, and later people firmly believed they could achieve True Immortal status."

"But the cultivation methods of the Chaotic Ancient Era are vastly different from those of today, and the realms and levels of cultivation are also different from the Chaotic Ancient period."

The Great Accomplishment Saint Body was confused, yet somewhat puzzled.

"Since the original cultivation method could achieve True Immortal status, and even reach realms above True Immortal."

"Then why not cultivate according to the original method, instead of switching techniques, leading to everyone today being trapped in the Great Emperor realm, wanting to become an Immortal but unable to?"

Hearing this pure and ignorant question, Zhang Xuan could not help but be amused.

"Hahahaha! Do you think everyone can become a True Immortal?"

"The path of the Great Emperor is enough to make billions of geniuses sigh in regret; is a True Immortal really that easy to achieve?"

"Moreover, it is unknown whether the current cultivation method or the one from the Chaotic Ancient Era is superior. If figures from the Chaotic Ancient Era heard your thought, they would likely burst into laughter on the spot, thinking you ignorant and foolish."

(End of this chapter)