My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

Chapter 137 Another year

However, Yuanshi Tianzun was the proudest among the saints.

Now that they are acting under the guise of destiny and with the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, how could they possibly think they can't defeat Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi?

In his mind, he felt that he was just not fully ready yet.

So those immortals and gods who had just breathed a sigh of relief because of the return of the sage were in a terrible situation, worse off than they had been in the past five hundred years.

You must know that Yuanshi Tianzun was an extremely arrogant person.

Unwilling to admit defeat, Yuanshi Tianzun, in his capacity as a Heavenly Dao Saint, issued an order, using the safety of the prehistoric world as a pretext, to have all the Quasi-Saints, Daluo Golden Immortals, Taiyi Golden Immortals, and Golden Immortals who were in seclusion come out of seclusion and follow him to form an array to attack Futu Mountain.

In the great calamities that have already passed in the primordial world, whether it was Rahu's Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation in the Dragon-Han Calamity, the Zhou Tian Star Array of the Demon Clan and the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Array of the Witch Clan in the Witch-Demon Calamity, or the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation set up by the Tongtian Sect Leader during the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

Even the slightly less powerful formations like the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, and the Ten Absolute Formations have all left behind a formidable reputation and numerous battle achievements.

No matter how arrogant Yuanshi Tianzun was, he would never underestimate a formation that could fight across realms.

Although the three brothers Taiqing, Shangqing, and Yuqing received different inheritances from Pangu's primordial spirit.

However, the Taiqing Sage possesses the Two Elements Microcosm Array, which can trap even a Sage; the Tongtian Sect Master has the Immortal Slaughtering Array, which is unbreakable by the Four Sages, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, which can rival even a Sage.

Even the Sage Nuwa has the Mountain and River Formation, the Sage Zhunti has the Bodhi Formation, and the Sage Jieyin has the Ten Thousand Buddhas Formation.

Although these formations are slightly inferior to the four top formations of the prehistoric world, they can still be ranked among the top ten in the prehistoric world.

Yuanshi Tianzun is one of the Three Pure Ones. Would he admit that he is inferior to the other saints in terms of formations?

If you don't have some powerful formations in your hands, how can you claim to be the chosen one?

How could he then demonstrate the infinite mysteries of the Great Dao of Elucidation that he had cultivated?

Therefore, Yuanshi Tianzun had been secretly studying formations, and even wanted to use the famous Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Formation as a foundation to deduce his own Twelve Yuan Chen Formation.

This formation was originally prepared specifically for his twelve Golden Immortals.

However, man proposes, God disposes. The Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Array has not yet been developed to the level of the Ten Great Arrays of the Primordial Era.

The Great Calamity of the Investiture of the Gods suddenly arrived, and this catastrophe shattered the existing order of the prehistoric world. Although the Primordial Heavenly Lord had a clever plan.

However, what he hadn't anticipated was that four of his twelve Golden Immortals betrayed their sect and defected to the Western Sect.

However, Yuanshi Tianzun was still very proud.

Faced with such a blow, they never thought of giving up or changing their approach to divination formations.

In fact, the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation is not very compatible with the Primordial Heavenly Lord's own nature.

Yuanshi Tianzun is an independent consciousness that differentiated from the primordial spirit of the great god Pangu, and was born from the pure energy of heaven.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches were born from the essence of Pangu's blood and the turbid energy of the earth. The Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation further condensed and sublimated the turbid energy of the earth and the evil energy of heaven and earth.

Therefore, he was incompatible with the Primordial Celestial Venerable, who was nurtured by the pure energy of heaven.

The reason why Yuanshi Tianzun chose the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation as the basis for deducing new formations is actually very simple—because the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation has the ability to summon the phantom of Pangu.

Yuanshi Tianzun always believed that he was the true descendant of Pangu, while the Wu tribe was just a bunch of barbarians. Naturally, he wanted to control such a powerful force.

Moreover, controlling the phantom of Pangu to fight enemies seems to be the authentic method of Pangu.

Therefore, the Primordial Celestial Venerable's research into the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array, and the Taiqing Laozi's research into the One Qi Transformation into the Three Pure Ones Technique, were both aimed at mastering this power.

After all, if Pangu's essence blood can summon Pangu's phantom, then Pangu's primordial spirit should also be able to be summoned.

However, once Yuanshi Tianzun calmed down and came to his senses, he no longer became fixated on the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation.

However, Yuanshi Tianzun was skilled in the art of crafting artifacts. So, having calmed down, he began by exploring various artifact techniques, replacing the Zhou Tian Star Array with spiritual treasures and drawing inspiration from the Zhou Tian Star Array to create a peerless array entirely of his own—the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array.

This time, Yuanshi Tianzun was truly ruthless. He planned to gather many powerful figures from the prehistoric world, totaling 48,000, to set up the complete Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array.

If there are not enough Quasi-Saints and Great Luo Golden Immortals, then use Taiyi Golden Immortals to make up for it; if there are still not enough Taiyi Golden Immortals, then Golden Immortals must also be used.

Unfortunately, before he could successfully gather the 48,000, he encountered the human race.

Although the human race cherished the incense offerings of the saint Nuwa, they temporarily halted their expansion into the four seas.

However, compared to the overwhelming power of the human race, those sentimental bonds of kinship are of little significance.

Rather than saying it was to save face for the sage Nuwa, it would be more accurate to say that they were at an impasse with the sage Nuwa.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable urgently needed a large number of cultivators above the Golden Immortal level to cooperate with him in setting up his formation, but most of the powerful figures of the Xuanmen sect had been taken away to invade the Human Immortal Realm.

It is worth mentioning that between the Human Immortal Realm and the Primordial Realm lies the Chaotic Land, which is an unknown distance away.

The Chaotic Land is fraught with danger and teeming with murderous intent.

Without the strength of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, or without the protection of an innate spiritual treasure, it would be impossible to withstand the erosion of the rampant and violent chaotic aura unscathed.

Moreover, the Chaotic Land has no suitable spiritual energy for cultivators to directly absorb and restore their own magical power.

However, if one refines chaotic energy into spiritual energy, without the strength of a sage, no spell will work.

Therefore, even a sage would find it difficult to protect those below the Great Luo Golden Immortal level from problems indefinitely.

Therefore, only those with strength above the Great Luo Golden Immortal level are qualified to enter the Chaos Land.

Even so, the vast distance between these two realms alone would take tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years to reach.

That's why, when the innate deities of the human and immortal realms learned of the impending invasion of the primordial world, their first choice was to reincarnate and rebuild their strength in order to greatly enhance their power.

After all, the time between the beginning of the Great Wilderness's determination to launch this invasion and the actual arrival at the gates of the Human Immortal Realm was enough for these innate deities to reincarnate and achieve success once again.

Zhao Xuan possesses an indestructible Xuanhuang body. As long as he doesn't actively touch the dangers within the chaos, there will be virtually no danger.

Moreover, due to its unique nature, being complete and without any defects, simply traveling does not consume its own strength, so it does not need to replenish its magical power as frequently as other cultivators.

Even so, it took a thousand years to travel from the Immortal Realm to the Primordial World.

As for the cultivators who left the prehistoric world, probably not even one-fifth of them could complete the journey.

Nearly three thousand years have passed since Zhao Xuan set foot on the primordial land.

After his arrival, the five saints—Yuanshi Tianzun, Tongtian Jiaozhu, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti—had not yet left the prehistoric world.

That's why Zhao Xuan acted alongside the Supreme Saint, in order to deceive the Five Saints and the Heavenly Dao.

Not long after, Sun Wukong was born, and the aura of the Great Calamity changed. Only then did the Five Sages lead everyone to leave the prehistoric world one after another. It has been more than 2,800 years since then.

Five hundred years ago, the Sage Taiqing acted with Zhao Xuan, causing himself to be sealed by Zhao Xuan.

It was only five hundred years. Yuanshi Tianzun and Nuwa returned at the call of the Heavenly Dao.

In other words, the vast army of the primordial world marched forward for two thousand three hundred years, but the two sages returned successfully in a mere five hundred years.

This shows that the primordial army did indeed slow down the five sages.

The speed at which the primordial army moved was indeed shockingly slow compared to Zhao Xuan's.

However, none of these are the key points. What is truly important is that as many powerful beings from the primordial world set out on their expeditions, Yuanshi Tianzun discovered that he simply could not gather 48,000 powerful individuals with cultivation levels above the Golden Immortal realm.

Therefore, Yuanshi Tianzun had no choice but to turn his attention to the human race, which had just begun to emerge and was rapidly rising in prominence.

They planned to have the human race send people to help them arrange their troops and attack Mount Futu together.

However, putting aside the fact that after escaping their predicament, the ancestors and sages of the human race had already vaguely sensed that there was an intricate connection between the rise of the human race and the manipulator behind this great calamity.

The mere thought that Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi might also be pawns of the one who helped the human race rise to power made the human race dare not act rashly.

Moreover, the arrogant attitude of Yuanshi Tianzun, who said "I am the mandate of heaven, I control all living beings," was even more unbearable for the human race.

Back when humanity was weak, it had no choice but to endure the rampant exploitation by the gods and immortals; but now that humanity has finally risen to power, must it continue to suffer the oppression of the gods and immortals?

In that case, wouldn't humanity have suffered so much in vain?

For this reason, the human race completely ignored the orders and commands of the Primordial Celestial Venerable.

Moreover, when Yuanshi Tianzun tried to forcibly mobilize the human race, they did not hesitate to set up nine great formations that could rival the saints, showing a posture of being determined to fight Yuanshi Tianzun to the death.

Now, the once arrogant Yuanshi Tianzun was suddenly caught in an awkward dilemma.

If it really came down to a fight, let alone the fact that Yuanshi, with the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, would have no difficulty in defeating these nine formations that barely touched the aura of the early stage of the Saint Realm.

Even the Primordial Celestial Venerable himself was not afraid of the human race.

After all, Yuanshi Tianzun had cultivated his skills in the realm of saints for many years, and his cultivation was already quite profound. He had no problem facing the nine formations that had just entered the realm of saints.

The problem is that once action is taken, it will inevitably lead to an intolerable and serious consequence.

A real confrontation would complicate matters.

The three emperors among the human race are all at the level of quasi-saints. Although they have not yet officially entered the realm of saints, their strength has already reached the peak below the saint level. It can be said that their cultivation path has reached perfection, and what they lack is only that wisp of primordial purple energy.

One can sense from the aura emanating from the human race that if the Primordial Celestial Venerable dares to attack them, the human race will fight him to the death at all costs, even if it means mutual destruction.

After all, for the human race, the worst that could happen is that they would simply use all their resources to create a brand new prehistoric world.

More importantly, if the Primordial Celestial Venerable can be successfully killed here, then the originally intact holy position will inevitably become vacant.

In this way, the Primordial Purple Qi might be freed up, which would undoubtedly provide the human race with a rare opportunity to attain enlightenment.

Of course, the human race knew that Yuanshi Tianzun had already attained Dao, and the probability of him being killed was extremely small. However, they couldn't resist the temptation of the position of a saint. Even if there was only a one in a trillion chance, it wouldn't be a loss.

Just when tensions were running high and war seemed imminent, the sage Nuwa herself intervened to mediate.

She returned the 19% of the Qi that belonged to the human race as a concession and compromise, which allowed the human race to temporarily put aside the conflict between the two sides and helped Yuanshi Tianzun successfully gather a total of 48,000 cultivators above the Golden Immortal level.

Actually, this deal wasn't a loss.

The true purpose of Heaven and those Heavenly Saints in sealing the ancestors of the human race in the Fire Cloud Cave was nothing more than to take this opportunity to divide up the vast fortune possessed by the human race.

Among them, the Dao Ancestor directly occupied the two-nine fortunes; the Taiqing Sage and the Nuwa Sage each took the one-nine fortunes.

After such plundering, only five-nine percent of the human race's fortune remained.

Even so, the remaining fortune still could not escape the fate of being divided up again.

Before Zhao Xuan made his move, the entire human race had only one-ninth of its remaining fortune, which was truly lamentable.

However, as the human race gradually rose to power, they successfully reclaimed the Five Nine Destinies.

Now, all that's missing is the final bit of luck in the fourth nine-year cycle.

Despite lingering concerns, the human race decided to send personnel.

Zhao Xuan didn't take any of this to heart. He knew that the human race was only suspicious of his existence, and he himself had never admitted it.

Therefore, this cannot be considered a betrayal.

Moreover, successfully bringing back the two sages had already achieved his initial goal.

Therefore, Di Jun, who was transformed from Zhao Xuan, and Donghuang Taiyi, engaged in a tug-of-war with the Refining Heaven Array, which was carefully set up by Yuanshi Tianzun, for more than two thousand years.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhao Xuan took the opportunity to allow the Taiqing Saint, who was imprisoned in the great formation, to escape.

Then, the Sage Taiqing joined forces with the other two sages, and the three sages launched an even more ferocious attack on Zhao Xuan's transformed Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi.

With the combined attack of the three-dimensional saints and the Heaven-Refining Array, Zhao Xuan, in his transformed forms Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, persisted for another thousand years before finally self-destructing to their satisfaction.

However, with the self-destruction of Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, the gods and Buddhas in the sky suffered heavy losses.

Under Zhao Xuan's deliberate control, all the spiritual treasures and spiritual roots of the cultivators who participated in the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array were destroyed.

This is a gift from Zhao Xuan to all living beings in the primordial world. Countless innate, indestructible spiritual lights, no longer restricted by spiritual treasures and spiritual roots, directly returned to the world.

Those who have a moral compass have a chance to seize a lifeline.