Chapter 195 - 111: The Immortal Gate Opens
Chapter 195: Chapter 111: The Immortal Gate Opens
An enraged roar echoed.
The divine silhouettes of countless prodigies rushed forward.
Among them was one figure.
He was high-spirited, his Demonic Qi billowing to the heavens.
His name was Zhuo.
...
"The Immortal Gate is closed."
"We can’t go back."
"Stepping onto the Dao Platform is useless. It doesn’t extend our lives; we still only have a hundred years..."
’Is this what makes the Human World left behind by a Divinity Transformation Great Immortal different?’
Watching the heavens and earth close off, the prodigies of the Immortal and Demon Sects despaired as time slipped by.
Their lifespans were ending!
They were about to die of old age!
But according to their calculations, they would have to wait a thousand years before they could leave.
And so, in their madness, they began to slaughter one another, trying to seize each other’s treasures and absorb their cultivation to extend their own lives.
Ten Dao Platform experts fell.
Only the most frenzied and powerful prodigies survived.
Even the First Generation Human Race of the Heavenly Fall, all of them Cultivators, were slaughtered one by one, becoming life-extending elixirs for these madmen who were determined to survive for the next thousand years, no matter the cost. Ironically, it was the inferior bloodlines of the first generation humans, those with no aptitude for cultivation, that managed to continue.
This was the chaos of the Heavenly Fall Era, a slaughter so complete it created a fault in history, leaving not a single written record behind.
Only a single sentence remained.
A Great Immortal fell, and thus became the Human World.
"I’m dying."
On this day, the Demon Sect prodigy named Zhuo found another prodigy from an Immortal Sect, one named Void.
"I know."
"Me too."
Void was also smiling.
The two looked at each other and saw that they were both decrepit and old, with heads full of white hair. They no longer had the high spirits of their youth, when they had joined forces to slay ten Dao Platform experts.
"I’m going to reincarnate."
"This place... the heavens are crippled and the earth is flawed. After ten lifetimes of Reincarnation, perhaps my last life will be able to hold out until the Immortal Gate opens."
Void explained.
"I... plan to go there."
"To merge... with the resentment of the fallen Great Immortal..."
"And Seal myself!"
"Perhaps."
"I can also hold out that way..."
Zhuo gave a bitter smile.
The two parted ways.
...
In his final moments, Zhuo walked into the Bottomless Abyss.
There, he merged with the resentment left behind by the fall of that Great Immortal.
As a result, this mass of resentment gained a self. It believed it was Zhuo. It wanted to go home. It resented everything. It sought the Four Holy Pearls, wanting to break free and kill everything.
Zhuo fought with it.
Zhuo personally scattered the Four Holy Pearls into the Human World.
It became enraged.
It suppressed Zhuo, transformed into the terrifying Muddy World Immortal, spread its teachings through dreams, laid a great net to collect the Four Holy Pearls, and schemed to break free, destroy the world, and then go home...
Zhuo seemed to have completely fallen into oblivion.
Until one day, a young man in a Black Dragon Robe with a pair of crystalline eyes came to the Bottomless Abyss. He looked at the terrifying Muddy World Immortal and asked for the slumbering Zhuo within its body.
"Zhuo, it’s time to go home..."
He took away that part of Zhuo’s consciousness.
He left the Muddy World Immortal, along with Zhuo’s body, behind in the Seal within the Black Abyss.
Later, he used the Four Holy Pearls to Seal the Muddy World Immortal’s consciousness and retrieved Zhuo’s body...
At that moment, the Muddy World Immortal’s fury reached its peak!
"I am the true Zhuo!"
It roared.
As if it were speaking to Su Chen.
...
BOOM!
The vision shattered.
Su Chen awoke and was silent for a moment.
’So that’s what the Heavenly Fall was all about.’
’If that’s the case...’
’With the Immortal Gate opening, the Ancient Immortals and Ancient Grandmasters of the Great Yu Era are seeking greater Immortal Fate. I wonder how many other ancients like Zhuo and Void have survived?’
’Lifespan...’
’A Divinity Transformation Immortal, a being whose body can become a world after their fall, can actually die from lifespan exhaustion...’
Su Chen subconsciously looked at the Longevity Dao Tree in his mind.
It still looked like a sapling.
Fused with Su Chen, it granted him an immortal, everlasting lifespan.
’If this were to be exposed...’
’No matter how strong I am, in front of a true titan, I’m just an ant. It’s hard to say whether I’d be refined into a Human Pill or just eaten raw.’
’This Cultivation Realm is a little different from what I’m used to.’
"Red Dragon!"
Su Chen glanced at the thousand-zhang-long Red Dragon, which was still prostrating itself and acting deranged.
"Sword Immortal, I am here..."
Although deranged, the Red Dragon’s fear of Su Chen was etched into its bones, even surpassing its fear of the Black Abyss Ancestor. Its body trembled as it hastily replied.
The last time it met the Wind Snow Sword Immortal, it had dared to fight.
Now, it wasn’t even worthy of forcing him to draw his sword.
’He’s grown too fast!’
It had seen Su Chen’s secret dossier. In just over thirty short years, he had transformed from an ordinary person with no cultivation into a terrifying Sword Immortal who could crush monstrous old experts with centuries of cultivation underfoot. Not even the Three Immortals of Great Yu were such prodigies.
"The Three Sects and Seven Religions are going to the Imperial City for an audience with the Emperor of Daqian?"
"Consider yourself lucky."
"I’m also going to the Imperial City. I can take you along."
"Han is as ruthless as ever. Wiping out the Sword Cleansing Pool for a single sword... Consider this my way of repaying the debt of ’One Sword’ to your Sword Cleansing Pool."
Su Chen patched up the carriage, barely managing to construct a frame. He placed the unconscious young miss of the Sword Cleansing Pool, Su Xue, and her flustered young maidservant inside.
Then, Su Chen looked at the thousand-zhang Demon Dragon—deranged, but not daring to show it in his presence—and asked,
"Do you know any transformation Immortal Skills?"
"The Demon Horse ran away."
"You can pull the carriage."
Forcing an Innate Realm expert to pull a carriage!
This was a humiliation.
But now, the Red Dragon was moved to tears of gratitude, hastily saying,
"I do!"
"It is a great honor to pull the carriage for Lord Sword Immortal."
’This means I don’t have to die!’
In an instant, it performed a transformation Immortal Skill, turning into a tall Demon Horse clad in red Scale Armor, and began to slowly pull the carriage forward.
The night deepened.
The moon hung high in the sky.
The carriage chased the wind and moon, as if riding the clouds and mist as it sped through the sky.