Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 401

Chapter 401 Changes in the Immortal World

Previously, Jiang Li had always believed that the Mingzhong Continent was transformed by Dao Zong Daozu. Now, he knew that this was actually the continent transformed by Dao Zong Daozu!

Dao Zong Daozu’s status in the Immortal Realm was beyond words; he was the most powerful figure in the Immortal Realm. Not to mention that Dao Zong Daozu had already mastered the Three Corpses Slashing Technique, uniting the Three Corpses into One and achieving boundless Daoist power.

Even so, the cruel truth told Jiang Li that Dao Zong Daozu, the giant of the Immortal Realm and the one known as the source of all Daoist power, was dead.

He picked up the stone tablet and whispered aloud its contents, his voice echoing over Daozu’s corpse:

“Remnants of the Immortal Realm: If you can see this inscription, it means you have defeated Ah Qing, my mount.”

“The Immortal Realm was in chaos. The Heavenly Dao gained intelligence and threatened to destroy all life in the heavens and myriad realms. I tried to stop it, but was miserably defeated.”

“The unwise Heavenly Dao developed a mind of its own, overturning the methods of cultivation. All cultivators below the level of the Immortal Realm went astray and died. The Earthly Immortals lacked sufficient understanding of the Heavenly Dao and failed to fully integrate with it, yet they broke free from their mortal forms, caught between humans and immortals. Ultimately, their thoughts became confused, they devoured each other, and became incomprehensible monsters. Only the Celestial Immortals, close to the Heavenly Dao and in sync with it, escaped disaster, but they also obeyed its commands.”

“In desperation, I fled to this world with your ancestors. Our former companions turned against each other, and the enemy pursued me closely. I fought them, but they were too powerful. I was seriously injured, defeated, and fled here.”

“I refined myself into a continent to provide you with a place to stay, so that they wouldn’t dare to kill you directly. But they might contaminate my Ah Qing. I am no longer able to stop them. I’m sorry.” “

During my escape, I crushed all the ladders to immortality, severing the connection between the immortal world and the myriad worlds. Perhaps due to my haste, some fragments of the ladders to immortality remained.”

“Don’t collect the fragments of the ladders to immortality and go to the immortal world. There are no immortals in the immortal world anymore. If you see an immortal, flee quickly. Remember! Remember! Remember!”

“…”

Jiang Li’s heart trembled with every sentence he read.

He recited the words on the stone tablet over and over again, and finally his eyes fell on a line of words: “The way of heaven has produced spiritual wisdom and wants to destroy all living beings in the heavens and myriad worlds.”

He thought of many possibilities, but he never thought the truth would be like this.

“Yes, when a thing is nourished with sufficient spiritual energy, the essence of the sun and moon, and other spiritual substances, it can develop intelligence and, in turn, a new soul.”

“Immortal artifacts can generate new souls. Senior Meng Chun from the Mysterious Realm can generate a new soul. The flesh of the Red Dust Fairy can generate a new soul… Naturally, the Heavenly Dao has this possibility as well…”

Jiang Li learned from the mermaid ancestors’ notes that Dao Zong Daozu might be one of the Three Corpses of the Immortal Dao Ancestor. He was puzzled. Dao Zong Daozu, the Three Corpses crucial to the Immortal Dao Ancestor’s attainment of the Dao, how could he have died in the internal strife of the Immortal Realm? This was the great vengeance that hindered the Immortal Dao Ancestor’s attainment of the Dao. How could the Immortal Dao Ancestor not protect his Three Corpses?

From that moment on, Jiang Li suspected something was amiss in the Immortal Realm, that the struggle was so intense that the Immortal Dao Ancestor had no time to care for anything else.

But he never imagined that something was indeed amiss in the Immortal Realm, but the magnitude of the problem was beyond his imagination.

It wasn’t Dao Zong Daozu who died, but the Immortal Dao Ancestor!

“So that’s how it is, so that’s how it is.”

Jiang Li couldn’t believe the answer. What he had heard and seen today was too shocking, overturning all his assumptions.

Jiang Li bowed to the corpse of Daozu, paying his respects to this pioneer of cultivation.

…

Upon learning that the Heavenly Ladder to Immortality had been destroyed, the Tribulation Crossing cultivators flocked to Dao Sect to ask Immortal Changcun what to do.

Immortal Changcun was the only immortal remaining in Jiuzhou, and

his knowledge and cultivation far surpassed the others. Immortal Changcun waved his hand, remaining silent. His face was ravaged, rapidly aging, and his playful spirit had vanished.

“Let me think about this,”

he muttered glumly, hunching over and stumbling back to his cave abode.

Once there, he set up a massive formation to block any outside observers.

Like a puppet without power, he collapsed to his knees, weeping heartbreakingly in the direction Daozu had departed.

“Master… Master… Master…”

His earthly immortal cultivation was useless at this moment.

“Master, has the Way of Heaven truly unfolded in the worst-case scenario?”

Immortal Changcun slowly lifted a wooden box containing a rare copy of an ancient tome he had obtained from the immortal realm.

He remembered a visit to his master several years ago, where he had spoken of his soon-to-be-merged master with the Dao Ancestor of the Immortal Realm, becoming the most powerful being in the realm. At that time, he would hold lectures and share his cultivation experiences.

Immortal Changcun prepared a rare copy of the ancient tome as a gift for his master.

A few months ago, he returned to the immortal realm to see his master again. By then, his master had achieved the unity of the Three Corpses, inheriting their cultivation, insights, and memories.

It could be said that his master was both the founder of the Dao Sect and the founder of the immortal realm.

Thousands of cultivation methods could be traced in his master, even their origins. The “Dao” that eludes the understanding of immortals throughout their lives lingered around him, looming ever-present.

His every move seemed to flow naturally from the Dao, the laws of nature.

He seemed to stand at the end of the immortal path, his cultivation complete.

Changcun Xianweng was happy for his master and asked when he would begin his lectures. His master, however, looked grave and offered no specifics, stating only that the Heavenly Dao seemed to be changing, potentially allowing the emergence of spiritual intelligence.

The Daoist ancestor, even during his tribulation period, had forged the Yin-Yang Celestial Seal, a powerful force that could enlighten all things. He was most familiar with and sensitive to the process of spiritual intelligence.

Logically, the emergence of spiritual intelligence from the Heavenly Dao was likely a good thing; the faith of all beings coalesced into the Heavenly Dao, a Heavenly Dao that would only protect all.

Yet, his master felt something was amiss. He calculated on his fingers, unable to determine whether this was a good or bad outcome.

His master advised that until the emergence of spiritual intelligence became clear, he should not hold his lectures, nor should he disclose the story of his three corpses uniting.

Changcun Xianweng obeyed his orders and anxiously returned to Jiuzhou to await the outcome.

Today, he finally saw the result, which proved to be the worst possible outcome for his master.

Changcun Xianweng immediately recognized the giant hand as his master’s.

In tens of thousands of years of living together, Immortal Changcun had never seen his master injured. In Jiuzhou, Dao Zong Daozu was synonymous with invincibility. He forged supreme immortal artifacts with his tribulation-surviving body. In the immortal realm, Dao Zong Daozu and the immortal realm Daozu were untouchable.

Not even the corners of his clothing had ever been soiled, let alone injured.

Now that Master had suffered such a serious injury, it could only mean that he had failed, defeated by the Heavenly Dao, or perhaps by several immortal masters of his caliber, completely defeated, with no chance of a comeback.

Immortal Changcun speculated that Master had destroyed the ladder to immortality in order to prevent the immortal realm from finding the location of the heavens and myriad realms, severing their direct connection with the Heavenly Dao.

This method could only delay the invasion of the immortal realm, not permanently eliminate the threat.

“Brother, sister…”

If Master was so vulnerable, how could his brothers and sisters survive?

Immortal Changcun recalled every experience he had with his master and his brothers, and was overwhelmed with grief.

(End of Chapter)