Chapter 430: This Cleansing is Going to be Difficult
"This Cleansing..."
One of the supreme beings slowly spoke.
"It is going to be difficult."
The voice was ancient and indistinct, seemingly originating from somewhere within the River of Time.
Even if Tian Yun’s previous life was merely what they believed it to be, a King, that was still a King.
Kings were existences who had already stepped onto an entirely different level.
𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
Such beings had lived for unimaginable years, possessed countless trump cards, mastered myriad forbidden techniques, and had experienced innumerable life or death battles.
None of them could be underestimated, not even in the slightest.
Moreover, Tian Yun was clearly not the only anomaly in this era.
"There is another."
Another supreme will suddenly spoke.
Its Divine Sense swept across the Lower Realm, penetrating endless dimensions before finally settling in the Eastern Continent.
"This one carries the karma of a Lord, actually connected to the Jade Heaven Monastery."
The primordial void became silent once more.
A Lord, although not comparable to Kings, was also an extremely powerful existence, at least more than enough to turn the tide of the Cleansing. And this one was even connected to the Jade Heaven Monastery, that supreme Dao lineage.
Although that Lord had not fully awakened her memories yet, the signs of reincarnation were already becoming increasingly obvious.
They had not completely recovered, but they were not far away either.
The moment her memories fully awakened, her combat power, comprehension, experience, and countless ancient inheritances would return.
Another supreme existence transmitted a message from the side.
"And there is also... a Sovereign. And it seems he has long since awakened his memories; its not a reincarnation, but possession."
A King, a Lord, and now a Sovereign, all three cultivation realms had now gathered in the Lower Realm.
Now, the only one left was an Emperor, and once such a being also appeared, the Lower Realm would truly possess all the supreme beings of the 33 Heavens Divine Realm.
This Sovereign had never even lost his memories, just changing the physical vessel to cultivate anew, meaning he had already begun returning to his former path.
"This era..."
One of the ancient beings murmured.
"What exactly is happening?"
There have always been reincarnated supreme beings throughout history.
After all, the River of Time is too vast, and some were never truly dead in the first place.
Thus, seeing one or two supreme reincarnators was not particularly strange, but three?
A King, a Lord, and a Sovereign, all appearing within the same era, that was different, basically unprecedented.
And what was even more strange was that these beings had appeared around the same period as the Cleansing.
It was almost as if something had deliberately gathered them here.
"Could it be because of the Cleansing?"
Someone finally asked.
No one immediately responded.
After all, the Cleansing had existed for countless ages.
Why this time, and why specifically this era?
There were simply too many anomalies, and the more they thought about it, the stranger it felt.
...
At this moment, far away from both the Lower and Upper Realms.
There was a boundless divine mountain that connected the 33 Heavens, none other than the Kunlun Divine Mountain’s main branch in the 33 Heavens Divine Realm.
The mountain stretched across countless layers of heaven and earth, and its peaks pierced through the endless heavens.
Its foundation seemed to connect with the deepest origin of the Immortal Dao as countless ancient palaces stood upon it.
Immortal light circulated constantly, and profound Dao rhymes permeated every inch of space.
Even ordinary Immortal Sovereigns would find it difficult to casually enter the deepest regions of this divine mountain.
In its deepest region was the same ordinary looking young man sitting quietly in the center of that seemingly endless hall filled with boundless radiance, surrounded by heavenly lamps.
His expression was calm as he gazed downward, piercing through endless dimensions and landing upon Tian Yun.
At that moment, he raised an eyebrow slightly, a trace of interest appearing in the depths of his gaze.
"An Ancient One..."
He murmured softly.
Unlike those supreme beings who had merely examined Tian Yun’s karma and couldn’t touch his Providence, he saw something far deeper, seeing through the Providence surrounding Tian Yun and the ancient karma hidden within his soul.
The young man’s eyes flashed with a trace of amusement as he smiled faintly.
"That little one truly picked up a bargain before dying."
His voice was extremely calm, almost unhurried.
"To think he actually accepted an Ancient One as his disciple."
The young man looked at Tian Yun for several moments, his smile becoming slightly deeper.
"If this person can reach that step in the future... then perhaps he can become one of them."
The Connate Providence surrounding Tian Yun was too profound; it was something that could only belong to an Ancient One.
But what exactly was an Ancient One?
The young man’s expression became inscrutable.
Ancient Ones were not necessarily Immortal Emperors, but they almost certainly had connections with that realm.
Every Ancient One had one thing in common; they possessed the Connate Providence of an Ancient One, and that Providence was not something one could obtain through cultivation.
It was mandated, bestowed by the Heavenly Dao for existences who had survived an Immortal War.
An Immortal War, that was a catastrophe involving the highest existences within the entire Great World.
In an Immortal War, even Emperors could fall.
Countless beings beneath the Emperors would perish, entire races would disappear, ancient Dao lineages would be erased, and the very structure of heaven and earth would undergo a complete reshuffling.
Every Immortal War was essentially a great cleansing of the highest level.
Those who participated in such a war were all supreme existences, and those who survived were the ones with the greatest Providence.
The ones who had survived against impossible odds, whose karma was too profound to be erased and who had accumulated enough fortune to remain standing even after everything else had been destroyed.
Those were the Ancient Ones.
The last Immortal War occurred before most of the Immortal Emperors currently alive were even born.
That was an extremely ancient era, so ancient that most of the history of the current Great World did not even exist at that time.
The current Immortal Emperors and supreme Dao lineages were mostly descendants of that ancient era.
An Ancient One was someone who had survived such an Immortal War; their existence alone represented unimaginable karma.
They had connections to countless ancient beings, and they had witnessed the rise and fall of Emperors.
Because of that immense karma and Providence, Ancient Ones were almost destined to reach an extreme height.
Perhaps not all of them became Immortal Emperors, but the probability was extraordinarily high, and those who became Emperors were almost guaranteed to stand among the strongest.
Most importantly... Ancient Ones often possessed karmic ties with beings above the Immortal Emperor Realm.
That was why they were so terrifying.
An Ancient One could not be seen as just an individual. Behind them was a entire network of ancient karma.
The young man’s eyes flashed as he looked at Tian Yun again.
"To think that such a person would appear in this era."
He could not determine exactly which Ancient One Tian Yun was according to the records of Kunlun.
The ancient karma was too deeply concealed, even he could not completely calculate it.
But there was one thing he could confirm.
"This person was at least an Immortal Emperor in his previous life."
An Ancient One who was an Immortal Emperor... was really capable of reaching that step.
"If he really reaches that level..."
His gaze shifted slightly.
"Reviving the Sword Venerable won’t be difficult."
The River of Time contained the past, the present, and the countless possibilities of the future, infinite timelines and branches of heaven and earth.
For beings above the Immortal Sovereign Realm, reversing the dissipation of body and soul was technically possible, but that was not true resurrection, it was merely interfering with the River of Time.
Dragging an existence from the past into the present while bearing the karmic backlash tied to that existence’s karma and Providence.
Such a method could be called resurrection, but it was not a true revival.
A true revival required something far beyond just Immortals and Gods, including Immortal Emperors.
Only those Unspeakable Existences could accomplish it.
A faint smile appeared on the young man’s face as he slowly stood up for the first time in countless years.
"If the Lower Realm cannot survive even with so many variables... then perhaps it is beyond us to save it."
...
Meanwhile, within the Second Great Mortal World.
Tian Yun did not care about how many supreme beings were currently watching him.
His attention remained focused on the heavens above.
The enormous crack in the sky continued expanding as Immortal Qi poured downward.
The entire world had already been transformed, and countless cultivators were experiencing breakthroughs every moment.
Tian Yun’s Supreme Daoist Physique continued awakening, deliberately obscured from the perception of supreme beings by him.
Only a tiny portion had emerged right now, yet even that tiny portion caused his perception of heaven and earth to change dramatically.
Tian Yun quietly experienced this transformation for a moment before he paused.
Then, he slowly looked towards the distant heavens, his expression becoming a few degrees colder.
At the same time, throughout the Second Great Mortal World, all the powerful entities gathered sensed the same thing.
The atmosphere instantly became incomparably tense.
Within the Great Path Holy Land, having completed their breakthrough, ancient existences opened their eyes one after another.
Within the Celestial Valley of Light, the Dazzling Gold Celestial Halberd released an increasingly brilliant radiance.
Within the Benevolent Buddha Hall, the Supreme Bodhisattva’s Dharma Avatar slowly opened its eyes.
Within Pristine Waters, the enormous Flood Dragon raised its head towards the heavens.