Atop Purple Bamboo Peak of the Azure Mystic Sect.
Through the image, one could faintly sense the terrifying fluctuations that made the heart tremble.
Fatty Wang’s face was pale, and he instinctively shrank his neck.
Xiao Ruobai and Fang Hanyu also wore solemn expressions. They had once witnessed Xing Tian’ao undergo his tribulation and knew how formidable it was.
Yet the tribulation Ling Xi had drawn down before them was on an entirely different level. Even its aftershocks alone caused their Dao hearts to tremble!
Gu Changge remained seated in perfect calm, his gaze seeming to pierce through everything and settle upon the figure at the center of that sea of lightning.
Within the void, Ling Xi had already merged with her Dharma Idol.
She was like an immortal, eternal Chaos deity. Facing the Guixu Thunder Sea, which was powerful enough to annihilate all things, she did only one thing—
Devour!
The Heaven-Devouring Dao Art circulated at an unprecedented extreme. She and her Dharma Idol transformed into a bottomless black hole, madly devouring the black lightning around them!
The power of annihilation from the Guixu raged within her body, attempting to dismantle her Dao foundation from the inside. Yet she forcefully suppressed and refined it with the purer and more domineering power of the Grand Void Origin!
She tempered her body through tribulation and honed her Dao through calamity!
This was not a tribulation crossing. It was more like an exhilarating plunder and conquest directed at the supreme laws themselves!
The sea of lightning roiled for three full days before finally exhausting itself and fading away.
Yet the tribulation had not ended. It had not even paused.
Following close behind were the invisible and formless flames of the Myriad-Ages Heart Demon Karmic Fire and the Great Dao Body-Burning Flame, which struck directly at the source of her Dao heart and the imprints of her life!
The heart demon conjured visions of her death in her previous life, the destruction of her homeland, and the tragedy of her sect suffering calamity. The karmic fire scorched her soul, memories, and karmic ties.
The Great Dao’s flames were even more ruthless, directly igniting her Dao-rune inscriptions and the origin of her life!
Her body and spirit were refined together, besieged from within and without!
Ling Xi’s figure flickered in and out of existence amid the Chaos. At times, she was as clear as an exiled immortal descending into the mortal world; at others, she was as illusory as a guttering candle in the wind.
She held fast through the pain and was reborn through destruction, treating every tribulation as nourishment to temper her Dao heart and refine her Imperial Body.
And so, another four days passed.
When the light of the seventh day seemed on the verge of being devoured by eternal darkness, the terrifying tribulation clouds—which had spread across countless billions of miles and made even the stars of the heavens tremble—finally began to dissipate.
The void returned to tranquility.
A figure slowly rose from the center of the tribulation.
Her white robes remained as pristine as snow, yet now they seemed to bear the starlight of the ages and the weight of Chaos itself.
Her features were still cold and breathtakingly beautiful, but her brows now held an added depth and majesty born of enduring measureless tribulations.
Not the slightest trace of aura leaked from her body. Yet she seemed like a walking black hole, naturally drawing the surrounding light, energy, and even ripples of law faintly inward.
A brand-new, boundless, and perfectly self-contained Imperial might spread silently in every direction like quicksilver spilling across the ground.
This Imperial might was different from Ye Lingxiao’s stately, weighty presence and utterly unlike Xing Tian’ao’s fierce and overbearing force.
It was more restrained, deeper, and more ancient.
It was as if she were not a newly ascended Emperor, but an ancient sovereign who had slept through countless epochs and now walked back from the upper reaches of the river of time.
Empress Lingxi—no, the Devouring Heaven Emperor Ling Xi, who had transcended the shackles of her previous life and stepped into an entirely new realm.
At this moment, she had truly returned to the Imperial Realm!
Moreover, the strength of her foundation and the depth of her reserves far surpassed those of ordinary newly ascended Emperors!
She slowly raised a hand, palm facing upward, and gently clenched it.
Without a sound, a distant region of spatial turbulence instantly collapsed and vanished, transforming into the purest essence energy before being completely absorbed by the invisible force in her palm.
As she sensed the supreme power surging through her body—power that far exceeded even the peak of her previous life—Ling Xi’s eyes remained as calm as an ancient well.
She turned and took one step.
The void beneath her feet automatically parted, opening a passage as though welcoming her passage.
In the next instant, her figure appeared within the Azure Mystic Sect. With another step, she silently returned to Hidden Peak and stood before Gu Changge.
She bowed deeply to him.
“Your disciple Ling Xi has fulfilled her duty.”
Her voice was calm, yet each word carried weight as heavy as a river of stars.
Gu Changge looked at her. His gaze lingered on her for a moment before he gave a slight nod.
“Good.”
Gu Changge studied the Ling Xi before him, whose aura was perfectly harmonized and restrained, with Imperial might hidden beneath the surface.
His gaze seemed capable of penetrating the Imperial Body she now possessed and seeing every strand of Dao law flowing within it.
“Your Heaven-Devouring Dao Art…”
Gu Changge’s voice was not loud, yet Xiao Ruobai, Fang Hanyu, and Fatty Wang, who stood nearby, as well as Ling Xi, who had only just stabilized her aura, all instinctively focused and listened carefully.
“Though it may be considered incomparably domineering and reaches directly toward the origin of devouring, it is too fierce and violent.”
Ling Xi’s heart tightened. She bowed and said, “This disciple is foolish. Please enlighten me, Master.”
Gu Changge said no more. He merely raised the index finger of his right hand.
At its tip, a glow of hazy Chaos slowly brightened, seemingly containing endless creation and destruction.
The radiance was not dazzling, yet everyone present felt the cultivation arts they practiced and the Great Daos they had comprehended tremble inexplicably—as if yearning for it.
Gu Changge pointed lightly at Ling Xi.
The speck of Chaos light detached itself from his fingertip, transformed into a streak of light, and entered the space between Ling Xi’s brows.
Ling Xi’s delicate body shook violently. Her eyes closed at once, and her sea of consciousness was overturned in an instant!
A vast torrent of information surged into her mind like a sea of stars. It was not merely words or images, but the imprints of the most fundamental laws and the inheritance of Dao resonance!
She saw the runes of the Heaven-Devouring Dao Art being dismantled and reconstructed one by one, fusing into an even more ancient, more domineering, and more all-encompassing concept.
She saw the origin imprint of the Devouring World Beast slain by her Master being extracted and purified.
Its innate divine ability to devour all things and transform them into Chaos was skillfully grafted into and fused with the framework of the new cultivation art.
She saw even the cultivation path, physical constitution, and insights into cultivation from both her previous and present lives being perfectly woven into this entirely new art!
No one knew how much time passed. Perhaps it was only an instant.
Ling Xi suddenly opened her eyes. Chaos swirled within them, and terrifying visions flashed by: the birth and death of the sun, moon, and stars, and the rise and fall of the myriad heavens and worlds.
The Imperial might that had originally been restrained around her spread out of control in the slightest trace.
At once, the space across the entire Hidden Peak warped faintly, and the flow of time seemed to fall into disorder. Yet in the blink of an eye, it was smoothed over by an invisible force.
Ling Xi drew a deep breath, suppressing the raging waves in her heart and her boundless enlightenment. She bowed deeply to Gu Changge, her voice carrying a tremor she could barely restrain.
“Thank you, Master!”
What she had received was far more than a cultivation art.
This was clearly a path to the heavens that her Master had rebuilt for her—a path countless times broader than the one she had walked in her previous life!
The Dao and principles contained within were enough to occupy her entire lifetime of exploration!
Gu Changge calmly accepted her bow and said indifferently:
“This art was born from the Heaven-Devouring Dao Art, incorporates the mysteries of the Devouring World Beast’s origin, and harmonizes with the potential of your own Dao path. We shall call it the Heaven-Devouring Immortal Art. Study it well.”
The Heaven-Devouring Immortal Art!
The moment those four words were spoken, Ling Xi felt her very soul resonate with this newly born supreme cultivation art!
Gu Changge’s gaze then shifted toward Xiao Ruobai, Fang Hanyu, and Fatty Wang, who had long since been left thrilled and dazzled by what they had witnessed.
“Right.”
He flicked his fingers lightly, and four streaks of light shot toward the four of them.
“The techniques from before couldn’t see through me, couldn’t catch me, and couldn’t defeat me, so I upgraded them a little.”
Gu Changge’s tone remained as calm as ever. “Wait until you reach the Great Emperor realm, then cultivate them.”
But Gu Changge still wasn’t finished. He took out several black jade slips that looked utterly ordinary—even somewhat gray and shabby. With a flick of his finger, he sent them flying toward the others.
“There’s also this one: ‘The Unkillable Me’!”
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to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
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.
