Chapter 625: The Realm of Unity with Dao! The Nine Lives to Immortality of Different Worlds

Even in the Yiren world, after achieving Ni Sheng San Chong, Luo Fu devised a method to reverse three lives—but that was merely a technique of the Yiren world.

In this world where one hand covers the sky, let alone anything else, even in terms of pure power ceiling, the Yiren world cannot even compare.

To some extent, the upper limit of power output in the Yiren world itself is already fixed.

In terms of combat output, strength cannot be mentioned in the same breath as the Zhe Tian world.

In the Yiren world, no matter how profound one’s realm, their power still cannot stand against modern society’s weapons.

But in the Zhe Tian world, not even the top masters, nor those who walk the path of technology, have ever reached the level of Dao-attaining Emperor.

Since the Huang Tian Di severed eternity, only one Dao Yan Emperor has appeared to this day.

Among the many Dao-attaining Emperors, Dao Yan’s path—achieving Dao through technological mecha—is still an aberrant form of enlightenment.

To say Dao Yan’s path of achieving Dao through technological mecha is extremely aberrant, even among aberrant paths, is an understatement.

In the One Person world, this innate primordial qi, though granting incredible abilities, ultimately has an extremely limited combat ceiling.

That is why the Yiren Luo Fu chose to forge his own path using the power of the mind.

Now, the Zhe Tian Luo Fu too must draw wisdom from other worlds to carve out his own way—he is truly the one feeling his way across the river.

Ye Hei and the others watched as Luo Fu, still appearing as a boy, somehow gave them the feeling of an old man on the verge of death.

Yes.

This was an extreme sensory dissonance.

Whether by sight or perception, the Luo Fu before them had indeed undergone a reversal of age and youth after consuming the Nine Marvelous Immortal Herb’s fruit.

Yet in their inner cognition, their conclusion stood in direct opposition to what their eyes had witnessed.

Humans rely on the five senses and six faculties to receive external information and form cognition; under normal circumstances, a person’s cognition should be inseparable from the five senses and six faculties.

But now, on Luo Fu’s body, the five senses and six faculties clearly showed a youthful state after rejuvenation, yet deep within, Ye Hei and the others felt he had aged to the point of imminent death.

This severe conflict between sensory input and inner cognition made Pang Bo rub his eyes—he was even beginning to feel dizzy.

“What the hell is Old Luo… what kind of demonic thing has he pulled off?” Pang Bo’s face was filled with disbelief. “Why… why does he look unchanged, yet makes us feel… like he’s about to die of old age?”

Ye Hei pinched his brow, also feeling discomfort from the conflict between Luo Fu’s senses and inner essence, his gaze shifting to the black dog beside him, whose eyes had lost all focus.

A thought struck him, and Ye Hei slapped the black dog squarely on the head.

After taking Ye Hei’s hard slap, the black dog finally snapped back to awareness.

“Woof!” The black dog shook his head, bared his teeth, glared at Ye Hei, and snarled: “Itachi bastard, how dare Itachi hit the Emperor?”

“I was waking Itachi up,” Ye Hei had no patience for arguing now; his tone was urgent. “Quick—Itachi followed Wu Shi Emperor, Itachi’re his pet, right? Itachi’ve seen everything. Itachi must know what’s wrong with Old Luo!”

At the mention of Luo Fu, the black dog shuddered violently, every hair on his body bristling.

“Woof!” His bark carried a tone of bluster masking fear. “This guy… this guy is too demonic. I dare not even look at him anymore.”

Recalling the earlier conflict between his senses and inner perception, the black dog felt a chill run down his spine.

The black dog was not alone—Ye Hei and Pang Bo were no different.

Their gazes now dared not rest on Luo Fu; instead, they stole glances at the divine tree above his head, which had grown to a certain stage and was beginning to transform into another form.

Meanwhile, Luo Fu’s vitality surged, accumulating to the point of a quantitative leap into qualitative change.

At this moment, the erosion of time and the influence of fate upon Luo Fu were being swept away like dust.

As if emerging from nothing, Luo Fu began to step outside the world itself.

On the surface, whether through ordinary perception, technological observation, or cultivation-based divination, Luo Fu appeared unchanged from before—but only those who had reached the Huang Tian Di, or the Zhe Tian trio capable of crossing the river of time, could truly comprehend the unimaginable state Luo Fu had attained.

He had already broken free from the influence of karma, fate, and time.

Put simply, before his transformation, Luo Fu was an individual with a defined life history.

Born on Earth, with parents, with kin… but now, as Luo Fu forged his own system, he had reached the state of unity with Dao.

As the original pioneer of this system, Luo Fu had become the embodiment of the Dao he had opened.

Do not forget: Luo Fu’s Dao was not like the Huang Tian Di, Ye Tian Di, the Ferocious One, Wu Shi, or even the future Chu Feng—none of them attained Immortal Emperor or beyond by comprehending the Dao from within the world itself.

Luo Fu’s Dao originated from outside the world.

He was the Luo Fu who shared wisdom from other heavens. The Dao from twelve different worlds meant that from the moment he completed his first sharing, he was no longer merely a cultivator.

If the world were a company, all cultivators sought to join, climb ranks, and eventually become shareholders, even leaving the company.

But Luo Fu—since his first sharing—was no longer an employee; he had directly taken the position of shareholder. He had, in effect, invested in the Zhe Tian world with twelve different world’s Dao.

Shareholders inherently possess some authority to determine the company’s future.

Of course, a world, especially a vast one like Zhe Tian, cannot be simply equated to a company.

But in terms of cognition, there is some overlap.

Precisely because of his unique status, Luo Fu now had no “employment” process—he had no past experiences within the Zhe Tian world, from birth to the present. In the river of time, Luo Fu had no past.

Having no past does not mean Luo Fu has no present.

On the river of time, Luo Fu had pulled out his own separate river of time.

Within his own river of time, he had a past, a present, and a future.

But whether in the Perfect Era of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the current Zhe Tian Era, or the eternal future of the Sacred Ruins Era, Luo Fu did not exist within the world’s own river of time.

No past, no future—only the present.

Even the future Ye Hei, the Ferocious One, Wu Shi Emperor; the past Huang Tian Di, the future Chu Tian Di—they might still know of Luo Fu’s existence, but they could never lock onto him within the river of time.

Events like the Huang Tian Di being hunted across the river of time could never happen to Luo Fu.

Anyone, unless facing Luo Fu at this exact moment, could never find him within the river of time.

Luo Fu’s own river of time only intersects with the world’s river of time at this single point—like two straight lines sharing only one focal point.

Beyond this point, there is no other connection.

This is the uniqueness bestowed upon Luo Fu after the birth of his own Dao.

With the completion of Luo Fu’s Luo Tian Fa system.

Whether the Ferocious One in the Ancient Holy Land, the Emperor Zun hidden in the depths of the universe, or Wu Shi Emperor and others in the strange space between the Immortal Realm—all sensed the emergence of a new Dao, yet could no longer lock onto Luo Fu’s location.

Only at the moment Luo Fu first solidified his Luo Tian Fa did a brief, thunderous resonance like the heavens speaking in unison reveal his presence—but after that fleeting instant, Luo Fu had vanished entirely from all probing methods of these great ones.

No perception technique, no divination spell, could locate Luo Fu.

Luo Fu’s current state—saying he had stepped beyond the Three Realms and outside the Five Elements—is no exaggeration.

Due to his uniqueness, even the most outstanding true immortals like Red Dust Immortals, let alone Immortal Kings or Immortal Emperors, could not precisely locate Luo Fu.

Perhaps only the Sacrificed Dao Chu Feng Tian Di might, in the instant of Sacrificing Dao, sense Luo Fu.

After all, from the moment Luo Fu severed himself from the river of time, he had become something intrinsically distant from this world—always on the verge of slipping away.

After completing the construction of Luo Tian Fa and firmly treading this path.

Luo Fu clearly understood: from this moment on, he had embarked on a path utterly different from Ye Hei and the others.

This was a path to heaven, completely unrelated to the Zhe Tian Fa derived from “Body as Seed.”

Whether he could succeed ultimately depended on Luo Fu himself.

In truth, only after forging this path did Luo Fu realize how difficult it was.

The reason was simple: as the pioneer of this Dao, Luo Fu was not like the Huang Tian Di, who had already brought “Body as Seed” to near its ultimate limit before evolving it into a new system.

Luo Fu himself was still half-baked.

And beyond the pioneer, even if others received Luo Fu’s teachings and followed him on the Luo Tian Fa path, they could never surpass his achievements.

Cultivating Dao is like a narrow, rugged path that can only accommodate one person: when the pioneer advances, followers may advance further.

Like walking a narrow road with no retreat, no alternative direction possible.

If the pioneer does not move, when followers reach the step just below the pioneer, they are stuck.

Even the Zhe Tian Fa, once reaching the Emperor realm, had no further path.

The “Nine Lives to Immortality” method, in essence, was a path each Zhe Tian cultivator forged independently.

Yes.

Every Red Dust Immortal of the Zhe Tian era had carved out their own path.

Though the “Nine Lives to Immortality” appeared similar on the surface, their differences were as vast as heaven and earth.

Take Wu Shi Emperor as the clearest example—he did not follow the “Nine Lives to Immortality” path of the Zhe Tian system. By chance, during his battle with the Immortal Heavenly Emperor, he entered a strange space still containing faint immortal matter, and through that thin substance, achieved his final leap to Red Dust Immortality.

The Immortal Heavenly Emperor was no different.

He bathed countless times in Emperor blood; he did not achieve Red Dust Immortality through the traditional “Nine Lives to Immortality” path in this era of a broken Heaven Dao. Instead, he nearly stole the Dao fruits of many Emperors and, like Wu Shi Emperor, used the thin immortal matter in the strange space to evolve his own immortal substance capable of eternal life.

Beyond these two examples.

The Ferocious One, Ye Hei, and even Duan De the Fat Man—all had vastly different “Nine Lives to Immortality” paths.

Duan De used the spirit of Emperor corpses to condense nine Reincarnation Seals, then merged them into one to achieve Red Dust Immortality.

The Ferocious One wandered between life and death, achieving it in a way slightly different from Duan De.

The one who walked the true “Nine Lives to Immortality” path most smoothly was Ye Hei, the current protagonist.

Remember, the Ferocious One was not like Ye Hei, who walked the “Nine Lives to Immortality” path almost effortlessly. Under unprecedented conditions, though the Ferocious One deduced the method, she had no precedent.

In most cases, the Ferocious One existed in a state neither alive nor dead.

The identity of Huang Zhu was born from this unique state of the Ferocious One.

Originally, the Huang Tian Di taught only the first five layers of “Body as Seed” because he did not wish to influence others with his Dao.

Theoretically, the Zhe Tian Fa had no path beyond the Emperor realm.

But the Huang Tian Di had open-sourced “Body as Seed”—any cultivator with sufficient talent had a chance to forge their own path.

Unfortunately, although Luo Fu had the intention to open a path to heaven for others, he was still nowhere near the Huang Tian Di who pioneered “Body as Seed.”

Remember: the Huang Tian Di’s “Body as Seed” was theoretically capable of directly cultivating to Immortal King—only the final two layers were erased by him.

Luo Fu himself, even after forging Luo Tian Fa, was only at the level of the Immortal Platform in the Zhe Tian Fa.

Under these circumstances, he did not even know how far he could go—how could he guide others through their confusion?

(End of Chapter)