Breakthrough to the Golden Immortal Realm

After the figure of the Sect Master of Wenxian completely dissipated, the Chaos Domain suddenly fell silent.

It was as if all the filth had vanished.

The Severing Dust Sword hung by Ye Chuan's side, its blade trembling slightly, as if bidding farewell to its former master.

Ye Chuan glanced at it and casually stored it away.

"I'll wash you cleaner later."

The Severing Dust Sword let out a clear chime, as if it understood. The artifact spirit's intelligence was very high.

Withdrawing the Chaos, the next moment, the entire domain began to tremble.

In the distance, the phantom images of floating, shattered stars extinguished one by one. Dense cracks appeared in the sky, like a shattered mirror slowly collapsing from the edges.

Su Rui and Lin Xi were swept back to Ye Chuan's side. Watching the continuously collapsing domain around them, their expressions changed simultaneously.

Lin Xi tightly grabbed the corner of Ye Chuan's clothes, not daring to breathe heavily,

"Mr. Ye, is this place going to explode?"

Su Rui also subconsciously looked at him, "Should we run first?"

Ye Chuan stood in place, his expression quite calm. "No need."

He looked up at the collapsing sky, a hint of thoughtfulness in his eyes,

"It's just that after the source of pollution in the domain was severed, this space became unstable."

"Simply put, this space is like a pair of underwear, and the source of pollution is a person. When the person is gone, the underwear is going to fly away."

"Is that easy enough to understand?"

Su Rui and Lin Xi: "..."

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The three of them returned to the central altar.

The pitch-black stone coffin had split in half. The black-red flesh that originally entwined the altar had completely dried up, turning into ashes layer by layer like vines that had lost their roots.

Countless infected divine souls emerged from all over the ruins.

There were remnant souls of cultivators wearing Daoist robes, remnant souls of explorers who had strayed into the ruins, and twisted shadows that had long been so polluted by the Outer Gods that they had lost their shape.

They floated around the altar, their faces showing pain, confusion, and madness that had not yet dissipated.

Some divine souls were still whispering in low voices.

"Become an immortal..."

"I want to become an immortal..."

"Where is the Heavenly Gate..."

"Why won't the gate open..."

Those voices mixed together, making Su Rui's scalp tingle.

Even though the Sect Master of Wenxian was already dead, the resentment and pollution remaining in these ruins were still terrifyingly massive.

If these divine souls were allowed to drift out, it probably wouldn't take long for the entire Zeus Space Station to become a second Wenxian ruin.

Su Rui looked at Ye Chuan with a solemn expression. "What do we do with these things?"

Ye Chuan didn't answer immediately; he just raised his hand and summoned.

An ancient black banner emerged from his palm.

As soon as the World Suppressing Banner appeared, the entire ruin seemed to be suppressed by something.

Those polluted divine souls that were originally still struggling suddenly stopped.

They raised their heads and looked at the World Suppressing Banner, the madness on their faces fading away bit by bit, as if they had finally woken up from a long nightmare.

"Rise—"

Ye Chuan waved his hand casually, and the World Suppressing Banner expanded rapidly in the wind. The banner unfurled, almost covering half of the shattered void.

"Collect."

As the word fell, all the infected divine souls in the ruins were simultaneously drawn up.

Whether it was the lingering thoughts hidden in the crevices of the stones, the resentful souls attached to the fragments of immortal artifacts, or even those twisted consciousnesses that had stuck together with the pollution of the Outer Gods, they were all forcibly peeled away by the World Suppressing Banner.

The power of Chaos was immune to spells, and the World Suppressing Banner was the nemesis of divine souls.

In the world of the Outer Gods, he was the greatest terror.

Soon, the ruins that were originally filled with whispers quieted down bit by bit.

Before those divine souls were sucked into the World Suppressing Banner, some actually briefly regained their clarity.

A broken divine soul of a cultivator looked at Ye Chuan, his eyes carrying unspeakable exhaustion, as if he had waited for billions of years and finally got a result.

He bowed his head to Ye Chuan, and his body turned into a stream of light, submerging into the World Suppressing Banner.

Then came the second.

The third.

More and more remnant souls regained a moment of clarity at the last moment.

They did not wail or struggle; they just silently bowed to Ye Chuan.

It was as if they were thanking him for slaying that Corrupted Immortal.

It was also as if they were thanking him for ending this nightmare that had lasted for countless years.

The immortal path...

Seemed to no longer be important.

Lin Xi watched this scene. She originally wanted to say something, but in the end, she just muttered softly,

"It looks like they can finally get off work."

Su Rui glanced at her. She originally wanted to tell her to be serious, but she swallowed the words back down.

Because although this phrasing was weird, it seemed to be correct.

These divine souls were indeed too tired.

They had been trapped here for too long.

So long that even death had become a luxury.

After the World Suppressing Banner collected the last wisp of polluted remnant soul into the banner, the entire ruin suddenly trembled slightly.

The black-red mist that originally permeated the ruins began to disperse.

Hidden beneath the mist was a purer, higher-level power.

"Immortal power?" Su Rui seemed to understand something.

Immortal power.

As one of the core sects of the cultivation civilization in this region, Wenxian Sect had accumulated an unknown amount of immortal foundation.

It was just that this immortal power had been suppressed by the pollution of the Outer Gods for countless years and could never manifest.

Now that the Corrupted Immortal had fallen and the pollution was suppressed by the World Suppressing Banner, this immortal power that had slept for billions of years finally re-emerged.

Golden streams of light slowly rose from the shattered immortal palaces, broken stone steles, and collapsed preaching platforms, converging towards Ye Chuan from all directions like countless rivers.

Su Rui just stood to the side and inhaled a trace of it, and she felt her spirit jolt, all the exhaustion in her body swept away.

Her eyes instantly changed. "This is immortal power?"

Ye Chuan looked thoughtful and nodded. "Stuff that's a level higher than spiritual energy."

Lin Xi looked eagerly at those golden streams of light. "Can I absorb a little?"

Ye Chuan glanced at her. "If you absorb too much right now, you'll explode."

Lin Xi immediately withdrew her gaze. "Forget it then, I'm someone who values my life."

Ye Chuan didn't speak anymore.

He raised his hand. The World Suppressing Banner floated above his head, and black-gold Chaos power spread out from his body.

In the next instant, all the remaining immortal power in the entire ruin was drawn over.

Countless golden streams of light converged into a sea, surrounding Ye Chuan.

His aura began to rise.

His cultivation, originally at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, seemed to have finally touched some invisible barrier under the infusion of this massive immortal power.

After becoming an immortal, the difficulty of improving cultivation increased exponentially every time.

The immortal power here shouldn't have been enough to allow a Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivator to break through further.

But—

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He closed his eyes.

The World Suppressing Banner trembled slightly above his head. The black-gold patterns on the banner surface seemed to catch fire, beginning to crazily refine the remaining pollution and immortal power.

Immortal power entered his body.

His immortal soul trembled.

An invisible boom echoed within Ye Chuan's body.

The next moment, his aura suddenly skyrocketed.

Golden immortal light and black-gold Chaos intertwined, sweeping out from beneath his feet and sweeping across the entire Wenxian ruin in an instant.

Those broken immortal palaces trembled slightly under this aura, as if bowing to a new powerhouse of the immortal path.

He broke through.

Golden Immortal Realm.