Chapter 225: with translation of chapter title

The crystal wall system of the Immortal Realm was blasted with fine cracks, deeply shocking everyone of the Taiyi Sect inside the Disaster Hall, including the three patriarchs.

However, the crystal wall system seemed to contain a regenerative force, rapidly repairing the cracks.

But terrifying power erupted again above the origin, continuously bombarding the crystal wall system, accompanied by low, rumbling sounds.

A sound capable of destroying the myriad worlds!

Then those inside the hall saw a humanoid shadow appear above the origin.

Though the shadow had only a vague outline, it was indescribably tall and majestic, exuding an endless domineering aura that made everyone in the hall palpitate, feeling as if the shadow stood at the forefront of the ages, a sovereign among immortals, the leader of all.

Moreover, many Elders who had lived over thirty or forty thousand years found it puzzling that the majestic shadow carried a hint of familiarity, as if it were someone they knew.

Could that majestic shadow be an acquaintance?

Who could it be?

Boom boom boom…

The majestic shadow moved, its fists continually striking, so fast that no one could see how many punches it threw.

Crack!

Finally, the regenerative force on the crystal wall system could no longer withstand the shadow's bombardment, a large hole appeared, from which rolled heavenly sounds, as if a host of immortals were chanting, and pure, transparent heavenly flowers drifted down, dancing in the Disaster Hall, splendid and magnificent.

"This…"

Many stared blankly at the sky-full of flying flowers, for these blossoms were condensed from pure-yang crystals, each pure to the extreme, terrifyingly solid, with petals so sharp they were unimaginable; landing on one's body they felt heavy as a star.

"Hiss, the pure-yang power contained in a single pure-yang heavenly flower equals twelve million nine thousand six hundred pure-yang pills, matching the number of the primordial unity!"

"These heavenly flowers are too precious to just let them fall to the ground for nothing."

Some Elders, seeing the pure-yang heavenly flowers falling from the sky, were astonished and gulped, secretly gathering the flowers.

"Good-for-nothings, stop at once, don't let the Immortal Realm envoy laugh at us!"

Taihuang Tian, furious yet helpless, sent a low growl via voice transmission to those Elders gathering the flowers.

As soon as his words fell, the massive vortex in the dome swiftly closed, ceasing to drop flowers.

Moreover, a person appeared in the center of the hall, surrounded by peerless immortal light that made heaven and earth lose color, sun and moon lose luster, and could not be stared at directly.

But no one knew how this person had appeared; only that they were an envoy descended from the Taiyi Sect of the Immortal Realm to the mortal world.

Everyone strained their eyes against the blinding immortal light and saw that the Immortal Realm envoy stood tall and proud, a young man appearing twenty-seven or twenty-eight, his head full of green hair bound by a jade-green hairpin, his bearing extraordinary, like a noble son of the capital.

"Yan… Yan Yujing?!" Taihuang Tian and many of the older Elders exclaimed in shock.

The envoy's appearance bore an astonishing resemblance to Tai Yantian, likewise with a head of green hair; it was none other than Yan Yujing, one of the founding patriarchs of the Taiyi Sect who ascended to the Immortal Realm thirty thousand years ago.

According to occasional news transmitted from the Immortal Realm, after his ascension Yan Yujing remained stunningly talented, rose swiftly within the Immortal Realm's Taiyi Sect, gained a respectable position, and has now become a figure of considerable stature.

This person has actually descended to the lower realm!

Especially the faint yet palpable aura emanating from Yan Yujing made everyone feel as if their life and death were beyond their control, as if a mere thought of his could doom them to eternal calamity.

Even Taihuang Tian felt this way, as if, despite having become a celestial immortal, before Yan Yujing he was no more than an ant that could be crushed at will.

"Yan Yujing's cultivation back then was only slightly above mine, yet now he has become so overwhelmingly powerful that he must at least be a divine immortal, capable of creating and destroying universes." Taihuang Tian felt a chill in his heart.

He dared not delay, hastily sending a voice transmission to remind those nearby, awakening everyone, then together they cupped their fists and bowed to Yan Yujing: "We have paid our respects to Envoy Yan; please withdraw your supreme majesty, for we cannot bear it."

"Hn."

Yan Yujing stood with hands behind his back, emitting a sound from his nostrils; the vast immortal light on his body retracted, and the heavenly flowers filling the sky were gathered into his body.

Earlier, many Elders had nearly been forced to sit on the ground by the pressure of his phenomenon; now the pressure greatly eased.

"The Taiyi Sect has developed not badly during my thirty-thousand-year sojourn in the Immortal Realm." Yan Yujing glanced over the crowd, spoke lightly, yet carried the air of a superior.

"Not at all, not at all, Envoy Yan overpraises us; our Taiyi Sect falls far short of even a ten-thousandth of what you were back then, we have not done well enough, and we need your continued leadership." Taihuang Tian wore an ashamed expression.

Yan Yujing said lightly: "Indeed, you have done poorly; even now the plan to unify the Xuan Huang Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie remains unfinished."

Taihuang Tian explained: "Envoy Yan may not know, but the situation in the Xuan Huang Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie is extremely complex, after all it was once the foremost of the three thousand great worlds, containing boundless foundations. In the past ten thousand years, first came the Yellow Springs Great Emperor, then the Linglong Immortal Venerable, and now Chen Zheng has appeared, each one tougher than the last, repeatedly obstructing our plan to unify the Mysterious Yellow World. Of course, with your personal presence, Envoy Yan, no one can now stop our Taiyi Sect's grand undertaking of unification—not even Chen Zheng."

"Chen Zheng? Your reports to the Immortal Realm said he was merely a twenty-year-old greenhorn, is he really that formidable? And didn't he kill my daughter? Before my ascension I seemed to have instructed you to look after Chen Yu'er one or two." Yan Jing's eyes suddenly sharpened, fixed on Taihuang Tian.

Rumble!

Taihuang Tian instantly felt that Yan Yujing before him had become the sole true god, his aura collapsing the ages, pressing upon his body, making him break out in a cold sweat: "Envoy Yan, please forgive me, I…"

"Never mind, Chen Yu'er is fine for now; I sense through bloodline that she still lives." Yan Yujing waved his hand, softened his fierce gaze, and said with interest: "Tell me about that Chen Zheng."

Taihuang Tian let out a long breath: "Reporting to Envoy Yan, though Chen Zheng is only twenty, he is a monster surpassing ancient and modern, perhaps unparalleled even in the Immortal Realm; in just a year of cultivation he rose like a comet, outstripping ordinary cultivators who painstakingly train for hundreds of thousands of years, and even I… lost to him by half a move."

"Oh?"

Yan Yujing was surprised, then instantly scornful: "Being able to defeat you in a year of cultivation is commonplace in my Immortal Realm; many can do it, but what does it matter? They remain lowly slaves at the mercy of others' blows."

Having said that, he shifted tone: "However, that Chen Zheng achieving this in such a barren lower realm shows his talent is indeed extraordinary. But you must understand that not all talents can grow to maturity; even if he is extraordinary, I need only stretch out my hand slightly to crush him in his youth, denying him the chance to grow, and his extraordinariness will be like a castle in the air—utter illusion."

As an Immortal Realm dweller, his cultivation far surpasses Chen Zheng by an unknown margin, and with his esteemed status as an envoy he can launch a dimensional strike against the lower realm; naturally he fears nothing, feeling everything is under his control.

Many Elders, hearing this, were astonished that a true immortal in the Immortal Realm could be merely a slave, yet also felt his words made sense.

"And even if Chen Zheng is extraordinary, what then?"

"After all, he's just a youngster who hasn't fully matured; now that Envoy Yan has arrived, if he doesn't obediently accept death, can he still overturn the heavens?"

"Chen Zheng already has no future to speak of."

Taihuang Tian, having crossed blows with Chen Zheng, knows well how terrifying his methods are, yet dare not despise him as Yan Yujing and the others do.

"To prevent future complications, he immediately proposed: 'Envoy Yan, since you say your daughter is unharmed, she must have been seized by Chen Zheng; why don't we at once go to the Linglong Blessed Land to rescue her, slay Chen Zheng and Linglong, then seize the newly emerged Martial Armory and the perturbed Taiyuan Immortal Mansion?'"

"The Martial Armory has emerged? Even the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion has undergone changes? Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier!"

Yan Yujing's eyes flashed with terrifying light, he rebuked Taihuang Tian in a sentence, and with a flick of his form he vanished directly within the Disaster Hall.

The Martial Armory is a treasury left by the Martial Immortal Venerable Panwu; even though he has long fallen in the river of history, he left behind a mighty reputation, with legends in the Immortal Realm.

Likewise, the Taiyuan Immortal Venerable is no less impressive; his Taiyuan Immortal Mansion left in the human realm is of greater value than the Martial Armory, within which lies hidden a medium-grade immortal artifact called the Gate of the Mysterious Female.

Medium-grade immortal artifacts are rare even in the Immortal Realm; they must be forged by a Daluo Golden Immortal infusing Daluo laws into the vessel.

Moreover, back when he was in the lower realm he had long coveted the Gate of the Mysterious Female, but his repeated attempts to seize it failed, becoming a lifelong regret.

If he had succeeded back then, he wouldn't have needed to ascend so early; he could fully use the Mystic Female Gate to suppress the whole three-thousand great world, gather all rare resources to raise his cultivation, cultivate to deity, even to Xuanxian realm before ascending again; then his status in the Supreme Unity Sect of the celestial realm would be absolutely incomparable to now.

"What should we do now?"

The many Grand Elders in the hall looked at each other.

Nobody expected that upon hearing the news of the treasure's emergence, Yan Yujing would even disregard his daughter.

But this is also understandable.

After all, a daughter can be reborn at any time, you can have as many as you want; if the treasure is missed, it will be hard to obtain later, especially treasures like the Martial Armory and the Primordial Immortal Mansion, which are rare encounters; once missed, one will surely regret it for life.

Upon realizing this, greed appeared in everyone's eyes, and they all became eager to act.

"Let's go to the Linglong Blessed Land!" The voice of the Supreme Emperor Heaven rang like a great bell, shaking everyone's heads with a buzzing sound.

"Not bad, Yan Yujing will go to take the Martial Armory and the Primordial Immortal Mansion; following him would be of no help, better to go destroy Chen Zheng and the entire Linglong clan."

"Good, immediately send troops to the Linglong Blessed Land to rescue Tai Yantian; then Yan Yujing, remembering our merit, will surely reward us handsomely."

Taihe Heaven and Tai Xu Heaven both spoke up, their eyes revealing a ruthless hue.

The will of the three patriarchs brooked no defiance; despite their lingering greed for the treasure, everyone had to act together, marching in a mighty throng toward the Linglong Blessed Land.

What they did not know was that inside the Eternal Divine Furnace, an old man was observing their every move.

When they said they would go attack the Linglong Blessed Land, the old man's eyes flashed with worry, as if wanting to stop them.

But after the old man glanced toward the Linglong Blessed Land, he seemed to sense something and then returned to normal.

The old man was precisely the artifact spirit of the Eternal Divine Furnace.

"The Supreme Unity Sect of the celestial realm actually dispatched an envoy so quickly, yet the Exalted Heavenly Sovereign has not yet replied; what should I do?" The artifact spirit of the Eternal Divine Furnace muttered to himself in a voice only he could hear.

What he did not know was that a shadow suddenly appeared above his head; this shadow was extremely vague, so vague that even a Great Luo Golden Immortal might not see it clearly, yet it was infinitely majestic, not existing in any point of past, present, or future time, seeming to transcend all ages, occupying an inconceivable position, silently overlooking ancient, present, and future.

In the gaze of this majestic being there was an innate affinity; it was smiling, as if it would laugh until the end of time, eternally unchanging.

He was like a heavenly sovereign.

At the same time.

On the other side, the Crimson Abyss Demon Lord and the Heart Demon Elder led Fang Han, Qiu Xiyu, and the others from the Linglong Blessed Land into the spacetime tides beyond Xuanhuang, seeking the location of the Martial Armory.

What none of them knew was that the artifact spirit of the Chaotic Elemental Embryo in their team suddenly changed its gaze, becoming mysterious and weathered; with a single glance it pierced the three-thousand great world, which even the celestial realm could not block, and finally came to rest on Chen Zheng, flashing a hint of curiosity as it silently observed him.

Could this be another heavenly sovereign?

They were all spying on Chen Zheng.

Peeping maniac!

Chen Zheng, however, was completely unaware, still sitting upright on the throne above the Hall of Righteous Qi.

"About to ascend to celestial immortal, I should also go harvest the great medicine for a breakthrough."

He glanced at the Mixed Yuan Ultimate Diagram hidden in the spacetime of Sumeru Golden Summit, as if seeing within it the Linglong Immortal Venerable; a faint smile appeared on his face, then he left a doppelgänger stationed here while his true self departed.

In the next instant, he had already appeared outside the Primordial Immortal Mansion in the Abyss of the Great Northern Ocean.

The scene here was vastly different from his last visit; the small halls that had surrounded the perimeter had vanished.

The primordial radiance on the main hall had been torn open, revealing a huge gap, and an ancient stone gate appeared.

The gate stood open, its depths unfathomable, as if a powerful one had already entered.

Chen Zheng stepped toward the stone gate, walking upon the rotting corpses that stretched from the entrance into its interior, and entered.

"A great array of ages, the Primordial Immortal Venerable truly lives up to his fame as a master of time control."

Just after entering the Primordial Immortal Mansion, he fell into a great formation; he felt a temporal force acting on his body, so terrifyingly fast that a single breath equaled thirty-six thousand years.

Moreover, this temporal force affected only him personally.

In other words, three dozen millennia passed on him, while the time of all other things remained normal.

At this rate, even if he possessed 720,000 years of lifespan, he would die of old age after twenty breaths.

Those desiccated bones on the ground were, in life, Grand Elder–level figures, even experts of the King Realm, yet they all died of old age here.

It is truly terrifying.

Fortunately, Chen Zheng possessed a 'transcendence' character, which freed him from the temporal force acting on his body; he hurriedly left the area of the Great Array of Ages and searched within the Primordial Immortal Mansion for treasures and the humanoid great medicines that had already broken in.

Within the mansion lies the Mystic Female Gate; its essence equals that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, its emanating aura condensing into numerous portals divided into the Gate of Life and the Gate of Death; inside are universes parallel to the outside of Xuanhuang, and the infinite universes together form a multiverse.

The vastness of the multiverse makes it naturally difficult for Chen Zheng, with his present strength, to find a humanoid great medicine therein; it is like seeking a needle in the ocean.

But who knows if it is the will of Xuanhuang at work; his luck is through the roof, and after just a couple steps he arrived at a storehouse of pills, obtaining all grades of elixirs here—Dharma Sage relics, Dragon God pills, Nirvana pills, and more—all of which he stored away.

Then he came to another universe, which also housed a treasury containing billions of magical artifacts; tens of thousands of drum-shaped supreme Dao implements were present, plus three perfect drum-shaped Dao implements that could be assembled into the Grand Splendid Heavenly Drum Formation.

"It is said that back then, the followers of the Primordial Immortal Venerable used this drum formation to boost morale against the divine army; wherever its sound waves reached, everything was reduced to dust—quite impressive."

Chen Zheng swept his hand, clearing away all the magical artifacts, and without pause moved on to the next universe.

Not long after he left, a rolling torrent suddenly surged forth, like the heavenly river falling from the nine heavens, destroying the sun, moon, and stars, and descending into this universe.

Upon the flood was a vast, dark army of monkeys, bearing aloft a sky‑covering battle flag inscribed with three scarlet characters: the Divine Monkey Sect.

The battle flag snapped and crackled, killing intent soaring to the heavens.

Beneath the flag stood a lofty throne, upon which sat a monkey whose body seemed forged of steel and iron, its eyes like two seas of blood.

This was indeed an exceedingly rare primordial violent monkey, its aura terrifyingly horrible, filling the universe; it was even three‑tenths more fearsome than the Absolute Martial God that Chen Zheng's clone had slain.

However, this violent monkey is only at the True Immortal realm.

A True Immortal can surpass that sort of celestial immortal of the Absolute Martial God; this primordial violent monkey is practically a once‑in‑an‑age genius among the three‑thousand great world.

Indeed, this monkey is named Yuan Zhenhong, hailing from the Myriad Demon Star River, which stands alongside the Ancestral Demon Land; he is the sect leader of the Divine Monkey Sect, once renowned for his exploits, having fought the Pangu Martial Immortal Venerable to a draw without dying.

"Which damned thing dares to steal my Divine Monkey Sect's magical treasures?" Yuan Zhenhong glared at the empty treasury, his killing intent surging.

(End of chapter)