After the voice of the Chaos Heavenly Emperor vanished completely, the shattered Immortal Realm remained silent for a long time. Only the imperial figure seated before the darkness continued to illuminate the sea of stars.
Empress Jiuhua stood beyond the chaotic firmament, the broken imperial sword slowly lowering in her hand. Her gaze never left that imperial body.
She knew the Chaos Heavenly Emperor was not truly dead yet.
But the power, cultivation, and Chaos Indestructible Body belonging to this lifetime had all been left behind there, never to depart with him.
“Jiuhua.”
A familiar voice suddenly came from beside her. Empress Jiuhua turned sharply and found an almost transparent figure standing behind her.
The figure still had the appearance of the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, but the imperial might that once suppressed the heavens was gone. His aura was even weaker than that of an ordinary immortal.
Only a wisp of uncontaminated divine soul remained.
Empress Jiuhua looked at the person before her, then at the imperial body seated before the darkness. For a moment, she could not tell which one was the true Chaos Heavenly Emperor.
“You succeeded?”
“Mm.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor lowered his head and looked at his palm. Only a faint trace of chaotic power remained there. He could no longer tear apart a river of stars with a casual gesture.
The Reincarnation Imperishable Body had preserved his true spirit, but it could not carry away all the cultivation accumulated within the Chaos Indestructible Body.
From this moment onward, he was no longer the great emperor who had suppressed an entire era.
Empress Jiuhua came before him and instinctively reached out, only to find her fingers passing straight through his illusory divine soul.
Her movement paused, but a smile quickly returned to her face. “You’ve become so weak that I could disperse you with a single strike.”
“So don’t move recklessly.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor answered calmly, his tone exactly as it had always been.
The corners of Empress Jiuhua’s lips lifted slightly, but her eyes never regained their former light. “In your current state, can you still enter reincarnation?”
“There’s still one thing missing.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor turned and looked toward the deepest part of the shattered Immortal Realm.
The Immortal Realm had been broken apart, and countless immortal domains and worlds had been sent into the chaos. Yet in the center of that constantly collapsing ruin, a faint glow still hovered.
The glow was tiny. From a distance, it looked like a star that could go out at any moment. And yet all the surviving Great Daos of the Immortal Realm still revolved slowly around it.
The core of the Immortal Realm.
Empress Jiuhua saw it as well. “You intend to take the core into reincarnation?”
“Mm.”
“Those creatures have been searching for it all this time.”
“That’s precisely why it cannot be left behind.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor walked toward the core of the Immortal Realm. His weakened divine soul crossed the shattered sea of stars, but no Great Dao willingly submitted beneath his feet anymore.
He walked very slowly.
In the past, he had needed only a thought to cross such a distance. Now, he had to rely on the last remnants of power within the Reincarnation Imperishable Body and advance step by step.
Empress Jiuhua did not mock him. She merely carried her broken imperial sword at his side, cutting apart all the dark-red mist left along the way.
The core of the Immortal Realm seemed to sense the Chaos Heavenly Emperor’s aura. Its faint light trembled gently, then slowly rose from the ruins.
The instant the core left its place, the distant darkness suddenly surged violently. The three Outer Gods turned their gazes toward it at the same time!
The Chaos Emperor Body seated before the entrance also opened its eyes at that moment. There was no emotion in them, only the purest instinct to suppress.
Boom!
The Chaos Great Dao erupted behind the imperial body, severing the gazes of the three Outer Gods as they reached toward the core of the Immortal Realm. Vast stretches of darkness were forced back behind the entrance once more.
Empress Jiuhua watched the imperial body take the initiative to act, and her eyes trembled faintly. “It still recognizes you.”
“Only instinct remains.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor raised his hand, and the core of the Immortal Realm fell into his palm.
A faint thread of causality from the worlds that had been sent away still remained within it.
Some worlds would continue to grow on their own after being shattered.
Others would fall into different streams of time and head toward futures that Tianxuan had never witnessed!
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor did not know where the power capable of defeating the Outer Gods might be born.
The core of the Immortal Realm did not know either.
All it could do was remember every failure throughout the endless cycles of reincarnation, then take him toward another possibility.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor pressed the core into his brow. Faint immortal light slowly sank into the depths of his divine soul, stabilizing the Reincarnation Imperishable Body that had been on the verge of dissipating.
Empress Jiuhua stood beside him and watched for a long while before speaking. “Are you planning to reincarnate with your current memories?”
“I can’t take them with me.”
“Why not?”
“Because the current me has already failed.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor’s answer was utterly direct. He did not spare himself even the slightest shred of dignity.
In this lifetime, he had reached the end of the immortal path, suppressed countless immortal emperors, and possessed the strongest power in the old Tianxuan.
Yet against the Outer Gods, he could still do nothing but shatter the Immortal Realm and exchange his imperial body for an unknown length of time.
If he entered reincarnation with all his memories, then no matter how many times he started over, he would eventually walk the same path again.
He would continue cultivating the immortal path, continue becoming the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, and then lose once more.
“I must forget this place.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor looked toward the imperial body before the darkness. “And I must forget that I was once the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.”
The smile vanished completely from Empress Jiuhua’s face. “What about me and Luo Xuan?”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor fell silent for a moment. “I’ll forget you too.”
Empress Jiuhua said nothing.
She had known this would be the answer from the very beginning. Yet when she truly heard it, her chest still ached as if pierced.
The three of them had walked through countless years side by side.
They had witnessed the most brilliant age of the Immortal Realm and stood together amid the final ruins of that age.
Luo Xuan had already entered reincarnation ahead of him.
Now the Chaos Heavenly Emperor was going to forget everything as well, becoming someone with no connection to the past.
“If you forget everything, how will you ever return?”
“I believe in myself… and in you.”
Empress Jiuhua lowered her head. Only after a long while did she raise her hand again and slowly draw a nine-colored imperial seal from between her brows.
Once the imperial seal left her body, her already weakened aura fell even further, and great cracks appeared across the Empress’s Great Dao behind her.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor looked at her. “What are you doing?”
“You can forget.”
Empress Jiuhua pressed the imperial seal into the core of the Immortal Realm. The nine-colored radiance soon intertwined with the aura belonging to Luo Xuan Empress within it.
“But you have to leave us a way to find you.”
“Luo Xuan has already entered reincarnation. I’ll go find her as well. When you appear in some world again, the two of us will naturally come looking for you.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor watched the two auras within the core but did not stop her.
Empress Jiuhua withdrew her hand. A faint smile once again appeared on her pale face. “Will you still be the Chaos Heavenly Emperor in your next life?”
“Perhaps I’ll be an ordinary person.”
At that, Empress Jiuhua suddenly found it somewhat amusing. “The mighty Chaos Heavenly Emperor might not even be able to afford a meal in his next life.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor thought for a moment. “Then I’ll earn money.”
“Can you do that?”
“I can learn.”
At last, Empress Jiuhua laughed aloud, but her eyes slowly reddened amid that laughter.
She took a step forward. Though she knew she could not truly touch his divine soul, she still gently embraced the illusory figure before her.
“Then don’t become the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.”
“Next time we meet, let’s get to know each other anew.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor fell silent for a moment before finally nodding slightly. “All right.”
The core of the Immortal Realm began to tremble, and the Great Dao of Reincarnation that remained between heaven and earth was awakened once more.
“Don’t forget me… I am Empress Jiuhua, Luoxi… Empress Luoxuan, Bai Qianshuang…”
As they entered the River of Time, the voices within reincarnation gradually faded away.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
