Return of the Immortal Emperor Daddy

Tian Wen wanted to speak, but he was held back by an involuntary fear. He didn’t dare voice the words. It wasn’t because he was a coward; it was the imperial might. An Immortal Emperor possessed an imperial might, and anyone beneath the Immortal Emperor Realm who tried to reveal their secrets without permission would have to bear that immense pressure.

Tian Wen desperately wanted to speak, but to his dismay, his mouth simply wouldn’t open.

Seeing this, Wu Tian understood the reason. He walked over and gently patted Tian Wen’s shoulder. "It’s alright. You can speak now."

Suddenly, Tian Wen felt all the pressure on him vanish. It was as if a great mountain had been lifted from his shoulders, disappearing completely.

"You are..." A shocking realization struck Tian Wen, and his face turned pale. It felt as if the sky itself were collapsing. This person before me... is actually an Immortal Emperor? Am I mistaken?

"You can continue now," Wu Tian prompted him.

Among the various World’s Number One techniques, Wu Tian possessed one himself: the World’s Number One Defensive Move. It was said to be able to withstand any attack, rendering one impregnable. Yet, he never expected that what the Undead Martial Sovereign cultivated was the World’s Number One Mental Method. What is so extraordinary about this mental method that it deserves to be called the world’s number one?

"Yes." Tian Wen nodded. Now having a strong guess about Wu Tian’s identity, he dared not show any neglect. He said solemnly, "The World’s Number One Mental Method was originally discovered by me."

"Senior, I believe you already know this," he continued. "The various World’s Number One techniques are truly incredible. Some are like Secret Scrolls, some take on human form, and others... they are simply wondrous."

"Legend has it that they were the life’s work of the Creation Martial Emperor. When these techniques were born, the heavens rained blood and ghosts wept through the night. The Creation Martial Emperor, their creator, vanished afterward. Some say he died, while others believe he was gravely injured. In any case, he never again appeared in the Immortal Emperor Realm."

"Indeed," Wu Tian nodded. He recalled the moment he obtained the World’s Number One Defensive Move. Back before he had become an Immortal Emperor, rumors spoke of an impregnable city in the North whose walls could not be damaged in the slightest, no matter the assault. Wu Tian had an epiphany while standing beneath those walls. After seven days and seven nights, the city wall disappeared, transforming into a ray of light that entered his heart. As it turned out, the city wall itself was the manifestation of the World’s Number One Defensive Move.

This made Wu Tian curious. "How did you obtain the World’s Number One Mental Method?"

"The day my wife died..." Grief filled Tian Wen’s eyes as he remembered her. Without becoming an Immortal Emperor, one’s lifespan is ultimately finite. His wife was not skilled in the Martial Path and passed away peacefully at the age of two hundred.

Tian Wen still remembered it clearly. He was standing beside his wife’s body when, suddenly, Corpse Qi began to rise from her. The Qi coalesced into characters that floated in the Void. That was the World’s Number One Mental Method.

"The World’s Number One Mental Method appears randomly in places with Death Qi."

Wu Tian hadn’t expected the mental method to manifest in such a way.

"I would rather never have found it," Tian Wen growled, slamming his fist into the ground. He hadn’t wrapped his fist in Spiritual Power or made any effort to protect it. The earth was fine, but his fist was instantly covered in blood. Yet, the pain in his fist was nothing compared to the agony in his heart.

"What does this have to do with the Undead Martial Sovereign?" Wu Tian couldn’t help but ask.

"It happened like this..." Tian Wen slowly began to explain.

Gradually, Wu Tian and the others came to understand the full story. The World’s Number One techniques, as if guided by fate, possessed a consciousness and chose their own masters. Back then, many powerful experts had visited the impregnable city, finding it miraculous but gaining nothing from it. In contrast, when Wu Tian went, he obtained the World’s Number One Defensive Move! This proved that the techniques chose their masters.

It turned out that Tian Wen and his wife had a son. Devastated by his mother’s death, the boy refused to eat or drink and eventually collapsed. When he awoke, he seemed like a completely different person. Incredibly, he now possessed the qualification to practice the World’s Number One Mental Method: "rebirth after death."

Tian Wen guided his "son" for three years. But at the end of those three years, his "son" suddenly told him, "I am not your child. Your son died from grief after your wife passed away. I do not know how, but my soul came to occupy his body. Thank you for teaching me the World’s Number One Mental Method."

This was because Jiang Feng was the one chosen by the mental method. Heartbroken after his Great Saint Six Paths of Reincarnation Physique was stolen, his state of despair allowed him to be acknowledged by the mental method. His soul then inhabited the body of Tian Wen’s son. After those three years of learning, Jiang Feng’s soul departed from that body. Relying on the World’s Number One Mental Method, Jiang Feng rose step by step, eventually becoming an Immortal Emperor. As for Tian Wen, the man who had been a father to him for three years, he was simply ignored.

So that’s how it happened? Wu Tian was amazed by how miraculous the mental method was. But what exactly is its ability?

Sensing Wu Tian’s confusion, Tian Wen explained, "To practice the World’s Number One Mental Method, one must experience ’rebirth after death.’ The ability of the method is... immortality."

"Immortality?"

Wu Tian and the others were skeptical. Immortal Emperors were immortal under normal circumstances, but they could still be killed in battle or struck down by the Heavenly Dao. How could someone truly be undying?

Tian Wen said, "I know it sounds like an exaggeration. The core of the World’s Number One Mental Method lies in its Avatar. After a cultivator of this method dies, even if their soul is annihilated, they will be reborn in someone else’s body. That is the so-called Avatar. Even without dying, the cultivator can proactively transfer their consciousness into another person’s body."

Wu Tian was speechless.

The little one also gasped, its mouth forming a small ’o’ of surprise.

The atmosphere suddenly grew heavy. The World’s Number One techniques, true to their name, were peerless. The World’s Number One Mental Method was naturally in a class of its own among mental methods. Defeating the Undead Martial Sovereign might be possible, but was it truly impossible to kill him?

"Before becoming an emperor," Tian Wen continued, "the Undead Martial Sovereign used the mental method to occupy many bodies. There were children, husbands... he even played the role of a wife. After he became an emperor, all these people, who were linked to his past scandals, were killed by him one by one."

"The reason he didn’t kill me is that if I were hunted down, it might trigger the ’rebirth after death’ condition, allowing me to learn the mental method as well."

Tian Wen clenched his fists in rage. The Undead Martial Sovereign had made a mockery of kinship, friendship, and love. He had been other people’s sons and daughters, calling them "father" and "mother," only to cruelly slaughter them later. He had also been people’s husbands and wives. In particular, when he posed as a husband, he violated women; afterward, those who had spent a night with him were all executed. Tian Wen was utterly enraged by such a person.

Unfortunately, he lacked the power to defeat the Undead Martial Sovereign. But now, the appearance of Wu Tian had finally given him a glimmer of hope.