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They weren't just bored, and they weren't only looking at one person; Ye Fan was simply their main focus.
During the growth of the Supreme Beings, the Emperors observed each and every prodigy with the potential to reach the Quasi-Emperor realm.
With the help of the power of the Dao Void Divine Realm, they were able to observe the entire universe.
The ancient emperors and contemporary prodigies all grew under their watchful eyes, witnessing the myriad paths taking root and sprouting.
This is why Yunhua has the confidence to say that after the Divine Emperor, all emperors will gradually transform into immortals and enter the era of immortality.
With their accumulated experience over the years, plus what they've gained this time, they're ready to take that step.
You should know that in the Realm of the Void Gods, those related to the Immortal King are all different.
If a grand conference on the Dao is held after a group of enlightened beings emerges in the future, then these supreme beings will have already played their greatest role for the emperors at this stage.
Ye Fan searched for someone in the Void God Realm to no avail, and left in a huff. He then went to Earth to look for Uncle Yun!
The result was that Uncle Yun went on a trip.
It's absolutely hateful!
Ye Fan held the note in his hand; it was left to him by Uncle Yun, and it had a few lines of writing on it.
"I've lived for thousands of years without realizing it, and my body and soul are filled with stagnation. I'm afraid I'm not good enough anymore, so I've decided to take a trip on a whim. Don't worry about me."
Ye Fan got angry when he saw the sentence "I'm afraid I can't do it." "If I can't do it, then you can too!"
In the end, Ye Fan could only angrily put away the note and return to the Ji family.
You should ask him what he went there to do?
Of course, I'd go and take care of the pregnant woman!
That's right, Ji Ziyue is pregnant, which is why Ye Fan didn't dare to move when Ji Ziyue was beating him.
If Ye Fan had been treated like this under other circumstances, he would have certainly not fought back. But even if he couldn't fight back, he could have at least walked around the pillar and pulled it aside.
But now, facing the mother and daughter, Ye Fan could only silently endure the beating.
While Ye Fan was taking care of Ji Ziyue, he was also contemplating his own path. He was about to achieve great success, but he wasn't very confident about becoming an Emperor. Becoming an Emperor with a Sacred Body was too difficult.
He would occasionally reminisce about the old days, those days of bloody battles that were thrilling and unforgettable.
But now, in the search for the ultimate path, he can only rely on himself, and the pressure brought by the Great Emperor and the Ancient Emperor is immense.
Although one can achieve enlightenment through unconventional means and walk the path to true immortality, or even become an emperor by traversing countless paths, one still needs to accumulate experience.
Chapter 363 The Immortal Path in the Mortal World is Full of Old Schemers
Combat is a form of cultivation, and so is meditation. There may be differences in speed, but there is no superiority or inferiority between them.
The path of the Immortal in the Mortal World, however, leans more towards enlightenment—enlightenment into the mortal world, enlightenment into one's own world, enlightenment into immortality, and enlightenment into the Great Dao.
This is a path destined to be lonely, a path with few people to connect with.
The path of every immortal in the mortal world is fundamentally different.
The path to immortality in the mortal world is not suitable for constant fighting and battles. In such a life, where would you find the time to comprehend the methods of longevity and the ways to continuously unlock the next life?
If one is constantly embroiled in bloody battles on the path to immortality in the mortal world, that is not the path to enlightenment, but rather a death sentence, an active severing of the path to immortality.
Although you can sometimes learn more and faster in bloody battles.
However, it must be admitted that he has been so engrossed in battle that he never thought about quiet cultivation, pinning his hopes for improvement in cultivation and strength on one bloody battle after another...
They also die the fastest.
The defining characteristic of the people of the Heavenly Shroud is indeed their constant action, fighting, and killing, but when necessary, they can also calm down and properly reflect on themselves.
This is recklessness, but it's not recklessness without any brains.
And I always feel that if the people in "Covering the Sky" go all the way down the path of recklessness, they will become the ultimate cunning and treacherous villains...
Before the Emperor led his sect to ascend to immortality and all the emperors joined him in the ascension, he was incredibly domineering.
He was already a Celestial Venerable of the mythical era, yet he possessed great perseverance, determination, and courage. He abandoned his magical power, Dao principles, and even Dao cultivation to start anew, ultimately achieving the pinnacle of glory and being hailed as the Emperor Venerable.
At that time, the Emperor was full of vigor and felt that there was nothing in heaven and earth that he could not do. He directly refined the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, extending the supreme emperor's life in the forbidden zone for two thousand years.
So that they might be born to serve them.
What a magnificent spirit! Although they appear to be equal on the surface, he is actually ruling over many ancient celestial beings!
Emperor Zun can be said to be the first peak of personal power in the era of Shrouding the Heavens.
His strength was unparalleled from the beginning of the mythological era to his time; he was arguably the strongest brute and the master of power in that era.
Although the Underworld Emperor is unfathomable, if a real fight were to break out, he would most likely be no match for the Emperor.
After all, Duan De at that time no longer had the memories of the Chaotic Ancient Era, so he didn't have much of an advantage compared to the Emperor.
After reaching the pinnacle of personal power and experiencing that defeat, the Emperor turned from the light to the shadows, becoming the ultimate cunning schemer, plotting for eternity.
The later Immortal Emperor was just like that. He ushered in the Primordial Era, claiming to be the god of all races, but in the end, he also turned out to be a cunning old fox.
Old Yin Bi seems to be the final destination of all peak powerhouses.
Fortunately, Yun Hua, who is at the peak of individual power in the entire era of Shrouding the Heavens, is neither a cunning old fox nor a reckless brute.
He was just someone who didn't like to move around much or turn over.
The upper echelons of the world of Shrouding the Heavens have fallen into a temporary silence, as everyone desires to progress, break through, prove their Dao, and become an immortal.
Occasionally, a supreme being would emerge from seclusion, exchange ideas with others of the same level, and then continue his seclusion, striving to become the number one emperor of the world.
Unfortunately, even when ancient emperors and great rulers sought to attain enlightenment, they still faced suppression from those who had already attained enlightenment, as well as from the suppression of heaven and earth.
It's worth mentioning that Wu Shi and his two companions have a tendency to become the new trio of the Shrouding the Heavens trio...
After all, the difference in cultivation level between the three of them and the ruthless person was still quite significant.
In the fifth incarnation of Wushi, the Azure Emperor was still exploring the methods of his immortal world, and Ye Fan had not yet attained enlightenment.
The ruthless one is almost a celestial being in the mortal world.
At this rate, when Wushi becomes a mortal immortal in a few hundred thousand years, Ruthless will most likely advance into the realm of immortal kings.
The gap has widened, and it's estimated that it will take until later, when they reach the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level or the Immortal Emperor level, to catch up.
In the original storyline, the scenario where the Emperor and the Undying Emperor from millions of years ago, and Ye Fan and the others who had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years, simultaneously achieved the status of Mortal Immortals is impossible.
Because of Yunhua's influence, Ruthless Man was more than 100,000 years earlier than Wushi, which is three generations earlier, and more than 200,000 years earlier than Ye Fan, which is seven or eight generations earlier.
The difference in their cultivation levels is already quite large, so it's impossible for them to form a group of four, and no one would compare Ruthless and Wushi's two companions.
If you actually did that, you'd be incredibly tactless!
In addition, given the shared identities of Wu Shi and the other two, the new generation of the "Covering the Sky F3" has been born!
In the future, there are likely to be about nine Immortal Emperor teammates who can participate in the sacrificial ceremony: Shi Hao, Emperor Bone, Luo Tianxian, Flower Powder Emperor, Ruthless Man, Wu Shi, Ye Fan, Emperor Venerable, and Azure Emperor. In terms of numbers, that should be enough.
The strange race has ten Immortal Emperors and ten Ancestors! That's a total of twenty beings, all at least at the Immortal Emperor level.
This is a result that is very easy to deduce, yet it is also a chilling one.
Ten bizarre Immortal Emperors, ten bizarre Primordial Ancestors—that's too many to count.
If they all come out together—no, they don't need to all come out together—the Ominous Ancestor can continue to sleep, but if all ten Ominous Immortal Emperors come out together, they can crush Shi Hao in his current state.
Moreover, there's the progenitor who surpasses even the mysterious Immortal Emperor...
The so-called "sacrifice to the Dao" is to burn away all rules and order, to sacrifice the supreme Dao, and to use the infinite power after the "sacrifice to the Dao" to propel the Immortal Emperor to the ultimate sublimation, reaching this ultimate realm.
This is the pinnacle of all evolutionary paths in the Heavenly Realm, from its creation to the future, and it no longer belongs to the Immortal Emperor's domain. It is said that the existence of this domain can completely suppress and kill the Immortal Emperor!
Yunhua recalled this area in her mind, feeling both shocked and speechless.
He remembered what Shi Hao had once told him: the Immortal Emperor is immortal. Even if he perishes for countless years, as long as there is still a thought about the Immortal Emperor in the world, the Immortal Emperor can return. The Immortal Emperor's corpse had already been summoned back by Shi Hao himself.
But now it seems that there is no such thing as absolute immortality in this world; everything is relative!
In the previous life's online forum, there was a legend about the progenitor among the strange race of Immortal Emperors. There were probably only three to five of them. The fate of Shi Hao and the others in the future was unknown, and it was suspected that one of the progenitors had intervened.
The path of sacrifice is too unpredictable. When you are in dire straits, if you place your hopes on the path of sacrifice, you will become even more distant from transcending the path of sacrifice.
Not everyone has the resolve to give up everything for a ritual, because failure means certain death, beyond saving, and time will erase all traces of you.
Even the memories in the hearts of all living beings will be lost; no one will remember you, and the world will not remember you either.
When you try to resolve the strange calamities caused by the heavens by breaking through the ritual path, you will no longer succeed, because you have something you cannot let go of in your heart.
Like the master of the Three Coffins, he was neither dead nor fully alive, neither ready to be sacrificed nor fully prepared, and eventually he tormented himself to the point of illness. After his supreme Dao was sublimated to the level of the sacrificial Dao, it was distorted.
Yunhua estimated that those strange progenitors had consumed one-tenth of the ashes of the Three Generations Bronze Coffin Master, thus possessing the essence of sacrificial arts and corresponding power, but still not as good as proper sacrificial arts.
Chapter 364 The World of Yang God
High above the nine heavens, Yun Hua, still and contemplative, prepares to traverse the world once more, to witness different landscapes and gain insights into different ways of the world.
However, Yunhua does not plan to travel to the world in his true form. Now his strength is almost comparable to that of a quasi-immortal emperor. The world he travels to in his true form would be absolutely terrifying, such as the world of the Shrouding the Heavens trilogy.
Strands of primordial light flowed from his body, as if standing at the beginning of creation, at the place of all paths, and merged into a refined Yang God thought, washing away the laws within and retaining only its essence. As the gate to the other shore opened a crack, the Yang God thought slipped inside.
With Yunhua's current strength, even a single thought of a Yang God possesses power nearly equivalent to that of an Immortal King. If Yunhua were to recklessly unleash his Dao Fruit, he would possess the power to strike an attack infinitely close to that of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
Now, Yunhua can also get a rough view of the scenery during the clearing process.
His mind slowly calmed, merging with the divine light emanating from the depths of his Yang God, transforming into a point of immortal spiritual light that hung high and entered an unknown land.
Faintly, he seemed to sense countless intersecting lights and shadows passing by, a vast, hazy shadow, like the Dao itself, hanging high at the end, like a disc, like a crown; beneath it, countless points of light shimmered, flowing with entirely different auras.
The myriad spirits transform into countless forms, stretching as far as the eye can see, with numerous points of light interconnected, seemingly sharing some hidden connection.
The vast world he had escaped from was also enormous, connected to two other hazy points of sunlight, as if echoing each other, forming a closed loop of spacetime.
"So this is the world. Not bad." Yunhua's divine sense sensed the unique laws and true meaning of this world.
The world is a great sea of suffering. People are in the sea, their bodies are boats, and their souls are the people on the boats. The boats carry people, sailing towards the other shore.
The universe is born and dies every 129,600 years. At the time of birth and death, the world is frozen and all living things perish.
Humans are born into this world and struggle in a sea of suffering. In their quest for transcendence, the strong of the past created martial arts and Taoist arts.
Martial arts training involves strengthening the body, muscles, tendons, skin, bones, internal organs, marrow, and blood. Only by thoroughly training the entire body, inside and out, can one achieve the body of a martial saint, which is the beginning of the martial arts path.
These earlier realms are not very powerful; they do not possess any heaven-defying strength and are still at the low martial arts level.
Next comes the cultivation of one's own acupoints to become a human immortal. This involves refining the major acupoints, condensing the fist intent, and going through the process of fist intent becoming substantial, flesh and blood evolving, undergoing countless transformations until the final step of shattering the vacuum. From this point on, one transcends and becomes a saint in the physical body, possessing the power to destroy the heavens and the earth with every move.
Taoist cultivation of the spirit involves achieving states such as mental stillness, astral projection, nighttime travel, daytime travel, controlling objects, manifesting form, possession, and seizing bodies. Reaching this level can be called becoming a ghost immortal.
Just like the early stages of martial arts, the early stages of Taoist arts are not that powerful either; perhaps this is a characteristic of this world.
Only after a Ghost Immortal passes the tribulation of lightning does a qualitative change begin. Their soul transforms from yin to yang. With each tribulation passed, their strength undergoes a dramatic transformation. The first tribulation brings pure yang thoughts, the second brings forth tiny rays of light, the third brings forth arcs of electricity, the fourth brings a world in a single thought, the fifth brings a sudden impulse, the sixth brings shattering the void, the seventh brings creating things from the void, the eighth brings refining the soul into a god, the ninth brings transforming lightning into water... and finally, they ascend to become an unfailing yang god!
However, the Yang God of this world is very different from Yunhua's Yang God. Yunhua's Yang God is a differentiation of Yunhua's own primordial spirit. It was specially condensed to unify the spirit of the whole body and enter the acupoints. In fact, it is still the way of nurturing gods in the secret realm of the Heaven-Covering Realm.
The Yang Gods of the Yang God world are more like the achievements of those who have been infused with the laws of heaven and earth, possessing unique magical abilities of this world, much like the rewards for reaching a certain level and passing a test.
Yunhua sensed that this world had almost reached the limit of the Middle Thousand Worlds. In order to upgrade, the world's consciousness specially conceived the protagonist of the era, allowing him to progress to surpass the world, and then drive the world to upgrade.
In this world, whether it's martial arts or Taoist arts, the styles of high and low levels are completely different.
This world, called Yangshen, is very peculiar in Yunhua's eyes. It will be destroyed once every 129,600 years, at which time all life will die, including even powerful beings like Yangshen and those who can shatter the vacuum.
Every destruction marks the beginning of a new era.
Is this world reaping the benefits of all living beings? Or are there other factors at play?
Yunhua was very curious about this.
However, Yunhua had another guess: this world was conserving and harvesting its own essence. The essence of the human realm harvested over countless eras, along with their somewhat miraculous transcendent laws, had propelled this world to the pinnacle of the Middle Thousand Worlds.
After transmigrating to this world, he discovered that... the rules of this world are more inclined towards idealism. As long as one's will is firm enough and one's Dao heart is clear and stable enough, one's soul will naturally become powerful, and then one can do some extraordinary things.
Yunhua's will was naturally not weak, and his understanding of heaven and earth, the Great Dao, himself, and external things was extremely thorough.
It even surpasses the limits of this world, so Yunhua's Yang God thought, even without any Dao principles, still possesses various great powers.
Yunhua stepped into the time river of this world, which was a series of loops, and retrieved a large number of the world's divine skills and secret techniques. Some of them still exist, while others have been lost.
The Amitabha Sutra of the Past, the Tathagata Sutra of the Present, the Unborn Sutra of the Future, the Two Sutras of the Universe, the Creation Sutra, the Primordial Chaos Sutra, and so on, made Yunhua feel that there was a worthwhile path in this world.
The ancient sages and the Great Emperor Yang Shen of this world divided cultivation into the physical body and the soul. They likened the physical body to a boat and the soul to the people in the boat. The ultimate goal of cultivation is to reach the other side of the sea of suffering.