Chapter 2603 - 2568: Undying Nether Palace
The Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor quietly slipped into the Undying Domain.
This seemingly empty and peaceful starry sky was not as tranquil as mortals and most cultivators perceived. In the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor’s eyes, black and white lights flickered slowly, constantly analyzing everything before them, and silently bypassed the invisible threads of causality, one by one.
"Interesting."
"The Undying Ancient Emperor, his achievements in concealment and escape must be quite remarkable..."
Jiang Ding whispered in his heart.
Along the way, the rules and threads of causality were as densely woven as a spider’s web throughout the entire Undying Domain, permeating it. Any creature entering here would be instantly detected by the Undying Ancient Emperor, and as they approached the center of the Undying Domain, these invisible causal threads became increasingly dense.
Finally, when Jiang Ding reached the core Netherworld Ancient Realm of the Undying Domain, the intensity of these causal threads suddenly surged countless times!
"Quite spectacular!"
Jiang Ding remarked with some awe.
Standing there, he observed causal rule threads spread throughout the entire ancient realm like weaving silk, no longer threads but a fabric!
Layer upon layer, tightly packed, impenetrable.
The entire Netherworld Ancient Realm was enclosed within a formation named the Immortal Nether Life and Death Immortal Array, layers upon layers, impenetrable even by rules and time.
It is clear that during the time of the Nine Character Immortal Scripture, the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor could not have sneaked in here.
Indeed, even just infiltrating the core area of the Undying Domain, approaching the Netherworld Ancient Realm, would result in immediate detection, with no chance of slipping through. The so-named Undying Ancient Emperor explored and researched this area too deeply. Among those of the same rank, he is almost impossible to assassinate, almost impossible to die.
However, now...
"Fellow Daoist, your fate is unfortunate."
"Tsk, tsk..."
"I am truly sorry..."
Jiang Ding said with feigned embarrassment, yet his eyes remained fixed on the entire Netherworld Ancient Realm. In his pupils, the black and white lights suddenly intensified, transforming into a deep and terrifying vortex, before altering once more into a faint black line, emitting an extremely dangerous aura, yet not spreading outward in the slightest.
𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
The Great Sun Immortal Mortal Sword Soul Attribute, Eyes of Destruction and Immortality!
This is a treasure born within the Soulless Universe, a miracle. It has progressed even further after ninety million years of cultivation, polishing, and refining, becoming an existence infinitely close to the True Immortal’s Eyes, possessing the incredible attribute of defying cosmic rules and creating miracles, currently the highest in the Endless Starry Sky.
These are eyes capable of efficiently analyzing the universe and the heavens and earth.
"Impenetrable, flawless..."
"That is not necessarily so, Undying Daoist."
Jiang Ding whispered.
At the instant the Eyes of Destruction and Immortality were fully activated, everything before him began to change.
The Netherworld Ancient Realm continuously expanded, from layers of black mist formations to the vast earth of rising mountains and rivers, to the endless continent before the eyes, to the mountains, rivers, lakes, plants, and trees... and then swiftly transforming into the extremely minute microstructures of Immortal Path molecules, Immortal Path atoms, Spirit Elements, and so forth, ultimately transitioning to a rules vision, causal vision, great dao vision...
Finally, the essence vision of the Immortal Path slowly emerged before the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor.
At this essence level of the Immortal Path, the impenetrability of the Immortal Nether Life and Death Immortal Array failed. Within the dense causal net, the overlapping layers of rules appeared vast gaps, not requiring much caution; just step across, and you can pass without disturbing anything.
This is the high-dimensional vision of the Eight-character Immortal Scripture!
Immortal Path has reached this stage now; a single character difference is a world of difference, standing taller, seeing farther, utterly unreasonable.
This disparity, no brilliant talent or foundation of yours can compensate.
"I feel that, perhaps,"
"it’s possible to ambush a Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor in one fell swoop, there’s quite the possibility..."
Jiang Ding mused to himself.
He placed his hand on the sword hilt, took a step, crossing over several threads of causality in front of him.
In an instant, the world changed!
Countless scenes, the Netherworld Starry Sky, the boundary of the Netherworld Ancient Realm, and one after another Undying Dao Soldiers flashed past his eyes as if fast-forwarded. Various mountains, rivers, palace flashes, countless spaces, and rules changed, finally stabilizing, freezing at this point, and the world once again clear and stable.
Before him, a bone-white, seemingly endless, and nearly boundless black palace appeared before the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor.
Here was the fallen land of the Undying Forbidden Area, the Undying Nether Palace!
The place of meditation for the Undying Ancient Emperor!
Everything was so relaxed and casual, like visiting a neighbor’s house with ease and grace, with no obstruction, nothing extraordinary.
Here, strong individuals of the Netherworld Dao lineage in the Imperial Realm traveled back and forth, busy with something.
Occasionally, a Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor from the Phoenix Immortal Clan descended here, frowned slightly, surveyed the surroundings, and then flew into the palace bathed in brilliant flames.
Among the Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors of the Phoenix Immortal Clan, the Undying Ancient Emperor was a particularly powerful one, respected by several other Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors.
However, many ancient emperors of the Phoenix Immortal Clan did not prefer to reside here; the environment was unsuited for the growth of the Phoenix Immortal Clan.
Only a branch of the Phoenix Immortal Clan, the Immortal Nether Phoenix, was the sovereign here.
"Is the person here?"
"Is there a possibility of false scenes being set up..."
Jiang Ding gazed quietly toward the depths of the Undying Nether Palace.
One by one, dragon-like torrents of domain spiritual energy roared and gathered, converting into Netherworld type Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi, flowing into the palace, accompanied by a vast river of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure pouring in, gradually turning into the provisions for the Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor, facilitating the transformation from the Nine Character Immortal Scripture to the Eight-character Immortal Scripture.
Meanwhile, plans for Undying Immortal Medicine, Seven-character Immortal Scripture, and others have commenced.
Things prepared are successful, things unprepared fail.
The vision of the Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor never limits itself to the present, but rather focuses on the future, seeing far beyond; any random move now will become a crucial weight affecting future battles among the Infinite Starry Sky.
Many Phoenix clansmen, ancient emperors, hovered nearby, offering their services to the Undying Ancient Emperor, accelerating his transformation process.
Internally, the unity of the Phoenix Immortal Clan generally surpasses that of the Human Race.
Like now, numerous Human Race Ancient Emperors are in a neutral stance, aiding none, watching, and rebellious, always ready to challenge the old rulers.
This point has been mocked by the myriad races, saying it is the inherent flaw of the Human Race’s internal strife.
In the eyes of some Human Race strong individuals, this is the indomitable spirit of the Human Race, fighting against the world, recognizing no inherent nobility as kings or dukes—a commendable trait.
"The body of the Undying is here."
"Without a doubt."
"Just the escape formations and immortal techniques are numerous and dense, like a hedgehog..."
Jiang Ding took a light breath.
This old turtle is too timid!
It’s clearly the lair, yet there are only a few attack immortal formations and immortal techniques. The remaining thousands of immortal techniques are all escape techniques, involving causality, substitute death, spatial shifting, great dao revival, temporal reversal resurrection, seizing... and so forth, almost an all-around escape.
It’s simply ghostly!