Chapter 645: An Unorthodox Union with the Dao! Evolving a Realm of Immortals!

Who but Luo Fu, by following the orthodox Zhe Tian method, forged a divine artifact like the Nine Heavens Treewood during the Lunhai Secret Realm through divine patterns? But now that Luo Fu has switched to the Luo Tian method, the Nine Heavens Treewood has become incongruous.

The artifact was forged using the Zhe Tian method, yet its master, Luo Fu, has abandoned the Zhe Tian system entirely for the Luo Tian method.

Artifacts forged through divine patterns are fundamentally crystallizations of illusory spiritual power; to truly forge them, one must fuse materials of celestial and terrestrial rarity—among which the Nine-Colored Immortal Metal is unquestionably the finest.

Even fusing just one type of Immortal Metal grants the potential to forge an Ultimate Emperor Weapon.

For instance, the Western Emperor Tower, an Emperor Weapon, was originally forged by the Western Empress using Immortal Tear Green Gold.

Though a single type of Nine-Colored Immortal Metal alone is sufficient to endow a divine-pattern-forged artifact with the potential to become an Ultimate Emperor Weapon,

the more varieties of Nine-Colored Immortal Metal fused, the higher the artifact’s ultimate ceiling—and the greater its power.

Yet any single type of Nine-Colored Immortal Metal is a material that even an Emperor would covet.

To date, Luo Fu has been unable to gather any Nine-Colored Immortal Metal to refine his Nine Heavens Treewood.

Though the Nine Heavens Treewood once displayed astonishing power—swiftly erasing countless Zhe Tian cultivators’ spells, artifacts, and weapons with its Twelve-Colored Mystical Light—it remains, at its core, merely an artifact forged through divine patterns in the Lunhai Secret Realm of the Zhe Tian method: a form without substance, pure spiritual power and Dao condensed into shape.

Now, Duan De revealed a piece of Feihua Qing Gold, slightly smaller than a bowling ball—this was an unexpected boon for Luo Fu.

Luo Fu felt no guilt whatsoever about swindling Duan De.

After all, Duan De cultivates the Tribulation Heavenly Art; his ultimate treasure for attaining Dao is not determined in this lifetime.

With a casual wave, the Feihua Qing Gold instantly flew into Luo Fu’s hands, despite Duan De’s reluctant gaze.

Feeling the profound, ineffable resonance on the Feihua Qing Gold—only true Immortal Realm experts could perceive—Luo Fu couldn’t help but marvel: no wonder even Emperors coveted such divine material.

This piece of Feihua Qing Gold likely never came from Yan Ruyu; even if Yan Ruyu were in her prime, the Demon Clan as a whole probably couldn’t afford such a treasure.

The true force behind this exchange was almost certainly the Green Emperor, still trapped within the Ruined Tower, his consciousness barely lucid.

In Luo Fu’s view, the Green Emperor’s entrapment was entirely his own doing.

Among all Emperors, the Green Emperor was, in fact, the one with the final chance to enter the Immortal Realm.

After all, his true body was the Chaos Blue Lotus, a Numinous Immortal Herb. More crucially, the Chaos Blue Lotus only gained self-awareness because it took root atop Green Copper, developing sentience over a million years while growing beside the Immortal Transformation Pool.

The Immortal Transformation Pool, even before its birth, had already sensed the traces of the Great Dao.

This unparalleled opportunity forged the Green Emperor, a unique Demon Clan Emperor.

Because his true body was a Numinous Immortal Herb, theoretically, the Green Emperor was the most likely to break the ten-thousand-year lifespan limit of an Emperor.

Never forget: Numinous Immortal Herbs themselves can sustain a dying late-stage Emperor, allowing him to live a second life.

This means Numinous Immortal Herbs inherently possess the power of rebirth.

Aside from the Chaos Blue Lotus that transformed into the Green Emperor, other Numinous Immortal Herbs also continuously cycle through rebirth.

Whether it was the Nine Marvelous Numinous Herb claimed by the Ferocious Great Emperor, the True Dragon Numinous Herb, or the Bodhi Seed recovered by Ye Hei at the ruins of the Great Thunder Monastery on the Fluorescent Star, all repeat this process.

The total number of Numinous Immortal Herbs is finite; even if one is consumed by an Emperor to achieve rebirth, after eons, it will regenerate anew.

This unique property is an opportunity no other Emperor could ever hope for.

This means the Green Emperor, having taken the form of a Numinous Immortal Herb, could endlessly rebirth through his body’s innate nature—far superior to other Emperors, who must exhaust their genius to find a new path to survival.

Though the rebirth of Numinous Immortal Herbs is passive,

compared to other Emperors who must live nine lifetimes, the passive rebirth of Numinous Immortal Herbs requires an impossibly long time—so long it could drive one to despair.

Yet even so, it remains a legitimate, viable path.

Other Emperors, if they fail to attain the method of Nirvana rebirth in a single lifetime, perish completely—no matter how immense their accumulated power, they die and their Dao vanishes.

The Tribulation Heavenly Art, pioneered by the Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign, with its Nine Cycles of Seals, allowed Cao Yusheng to endure from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths era, through the entire End of the Dharma Age, finally completing the process at last.

At the very least, the rebirth of Numinous Immortal Herbs is no more complicated than the Tribulation Heavenly Art.

Unfortunately, the Green Emperor was unaware of his greatest advantage. After acquiring the Ruined Tower and confirming the true existence of the Immortal Realm, he abandoned his true body, fled into the Ruined Tower, and sought to evolve an Immortal Realm within it.

This was clearly chasing a dream by climbing a tree.

Though the Green Emperor certainly took the wrong path, he was undeniably a true, legitimate Emperor.

After attaining Dao, during the ten-thousand-year reign where one Dao suppresses all others, acquiring a surplus piece of Feihua Qing Gold was not extraordinary.

Seeing his Feihua Qing Gold fall into Luo Fu’s hands, Duan De knew he would never get it back.

Before Duan De could even show his anguish,

Luo Fu gently caressed the Feihua Qing Gold, its countless feather-like gleams shimmering,

and in the next instant, the Nine Heavens Treewood with twelve branches suddenly emerged from his body.

As the Treewood’s Mystical Light enveloped the Feihua Qing Gold,

this piece was almost certainly part of the Green Emperor’s former collection.

The value of Nine-Colored Immortal Metal is so great that even an Emperor would not easily give it away. Moreover, the Green Emperor abandoned his Numinous Immortal Herb body and fled into the Ruined Tower, seeking to evolve an Immortal Realm within it.

Ordinary treasures may have lost value to an Emperor like him, but Nine-Colored Immortal Metal certainly did not—it is material capable of forging Immortal Artifacts.

Ultimate Emperor Weapons forged by Emperors, whether from the era of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths or the future Spiritual Energy Revival era, remain the strongest artifacts beneath the Immortal Realm.

Even in today’s End of the Dharma Age, this holds true.

In the End of the Dharma Age, due to the Heavenly Dao’s inherent flaws, ordinary artifacts gradually lose their divine properties over time, eroded by the passage of years.

For instance, when Luo Fu and others arrived on the Fluorescent Star’s Great Thunder Monastery aboard the Nine-Dragon Coffin, merely a few thousand years later, the very temple where Sakyamuni taught had become ruins, and most of its Buddhist treasures had lost their power.

Yet only Ultimate Emperor Weapons endure the erosion of time. In an age where Emperors themselves live only ten thousand years, the Ultimate Emperor Weapons they forge can truly achieve eternal existence.

Precisely because of this unique property, one of the Supreme Beings in the Forbidden Zones abandoned his physical body, possessing the divine spirit of his own forged Emperor Weapon, seeking immortality.

Ultimate Emperor Weapons are exceptionally rare artifacts; to some extent, they have already partially entered the Immortal Realm—that is why they endure even in today’s End of the Dharma Age.

And Nine-Colored Immortal Metal, the material capable of forging Ultimate Emperor Weapons, is a treasure even Emperors can scarcely hope to obtain.

For an ordinary Emperor, acquiring even one piece of Nine-Colored Immortal Metal to forge an Emperor Weapon is already exceptional.

Cases like the Immortal Heavenly Emperor gathering five types of Nine-Colored Immortal Metal to forge the Immortal Heavenly Blade, or Ye Hei assembling all nine types to forge the Emperor’s Cauldron, are exceedingly rare.

The Immortal Heavenly Emperor could gather five types only because he dominated nearly the entire Ancient Era. Ye Hei’s acquisition of the Nine-Colored Immortal Metal likely owed much to the Ferocious Great Emperor’s aid.

With Luo Fu’s current Saint-level cultivation, even without encountering Duan De as a middleman, obtaining Nine-Colored Immortal Metal would not be easy—it has little to do with how short a time he has spent on Beidou.

After reaching a certain level of cultivation, even alone, one need not suffer the hardships of ordinary seekers when pursuing celestial treasures.

Upon touching the Feihua Qing Gold, Luo Fu did not even actively refine it—the Feihua Qing Gold was passively absorbed into the Nine Heavens Treewood.

Perhaps this was due to the inherent Dao and principle within the Nine Heavens Treewood, which uniquely attracted materials like Feihua Qing Gold, possessing the essence of the Immortal Realm.

In Duan De and Qin Yao’s incredulous gazes, the Feihua Qing Gold vanished in an instant, and the Nine Heavens Treewood’s colors gained a new depth and solidity.

Recall: since its forging through divine patterns, the Nine Heavens Treewood has incorporated almost no other materials—only the slight amount of Xuan Huang Qi traded earlier from the Ferocious Great Emperor.

As the Mother Qi of All Things, Xuan Huang Qi formed the trunk of the Nine Heavens Treewood—this is why it can manifest such ineffable power.

But now, the Nine Heavens Treewood has truly acquired a hint of the Immortal Realm’s essence.

Yes.

The Nine Heavens Treewood’s essence, combining the Dao and principle of nearly twelve celestial worlds, transcends Luo Fu himself.

After sharing power, Luo Fu must localize it to his own world—but the Nine Heavens Treewood does not, for it is already a fusion of Dao and principle alien to this End of the Dharma Age.

An Emperor, whose Dao suppresses all others, means his Dao is independent of—or transcends—the world.

The Heavenly Heart Seal is like a covenant between an Emperor and the world.

Similarly, an Emperor possessing the Heavenly Heart Seal is, in a sense, in a unique state of merging body and Dao.

This grants him greater combat power than other Supreme Beings of the same realm who have lost their Heavenly Heart Seals.

From this, it is clear that the Zhe Tian universe in the End of the Dharma Age is exceptionally unique.

It is not that Luo Fu’s shared abilities require no localization because of the universe he inhabits.

The Dao being accepted by the world does not mean the vessel carrying the Dao—Luo Fu—is instantly accepted by the world.

This is like how Ultimate Emperor Weapons, once forged, can endure eternally in this End of the Dharma Age, yet the Emperor who forged them still has only a ten-thousand-year lifespan.

Dao is not distant from man, yet Dao is not man.

Between Dao and man, there exists a barrier—seemingly invisible, yet utterly distinct.

The Nine Heavens Treewood was born from Luo Fu, yet it is two sides of the same entity.

The duality and unity here cannot be conflated in concept.

As the Feihua Qing Gold was fully absorbed by the Nine Heavens Treewood,

the Mystical Light radiating from Luo Fu’s Treewood transformed into countless fluttering, ethereal feathers—like petals falling in late spring, swirling endlessly around the Treewood.

These feather-like, petal-like lights are the concrete manifestation of the Dao and principle shared from the twelve celestial worlds—profound and ineffable. Though they have yet to be tested in battle,

Luo Fu had a strong intuition: the Nine Heavens Treewood’s power had ascended to a new level after fusing the Feihua Qing Gold.

Exactly how much the fusion enhanced the Treewood’s power still requires battlefield validation.

Watching his own Feihua Qing Gold fall into Luo Fu’s hands, transforming Luo Fu’s purely divine-pattern-forged artifact into something utterly reborn,

Duan De’s breath hitched with anguish.

“Old Luo,” Duan De took a deep breath, resolved that all his gains as a middleman had ended up in Luo Fu’s hands. When Luo Fu met Yan Ruyu, he would demand compensation from the Demon Clan no matter what.

“Look, Itachi’ve got the item. When do we go see Miss Yan?”

Luo Fu knew well: though this meeting was ostensibly arranged under Yan Ruyu’s name, the true instigator was the Green Emperor—who abandoned his body, fled his soul into the Ruined Tower, and sought to evolve a new Immortal Realm.

Of course, Luo Fu believed Duan De, this fat cheat, had guessed it too.

Though this fellow was despicable, his wisdom in preserving his life surpassed ordinary mortals.

Probably the moment Yan Ruyu and Qin Yao approached him, he had already deduced the truth—but pretended ignorance.

After all, the more Itachi know, the more dangerous it is—a truth that holds just as firmly on Beidou.

(End of Chapter)