We agreed to go to Taishan Sect and you will pull the coffin for me.

Chapter 369 Purifying the Emperor, Conquering the Immortal Realm
Buzz!
Behind Lu Heng, in the Dao Court, a illusory altar shone brightly, as if it were about to solidify completely. A wisp of eternal power descended, like an ancient and indestructible celestial light, possessing a vast power that encompasses all things, the end of the Dao, and spans time and space.

No! The dark primordial spirit within the Emperor's body instinctively sensed something was wrong, roared, and tried to resist.

Immediately afterwards, the eternal celestial light from the source of all things filled his vision, and the supreme power purified everything, while his own strange and ominous dark power was completely burned away.

Boom!

The Emperor's body trembled, the ominous aura faded, and his main primordial spirit returned. He opened his eyes, which were filled with vicissitudes, and looked around at the immortal beings in the mortal world. He mainly looked at Lu Heng: "The mortal immortal path has been fraught with tribulations. Only today do I realize who I am. Thank you for saving me, fellow Daoist."

He was utterly astonished, never expecting that such a being, a supreme being of the Celestial King, would appear in the human universe.

At the same time, the Emperor is very clever. He has been entangled with darkness for so many years with his own foundation, but he has been unable to do anything about it. Moreover, he has learned a lot of information over the years since he fell into darkness. A simple Immortal King cannot save a True Immortal like him. The power he uses is far-reaching and extraordinary.

He simply didn't intend to investigate further or make it public.

Ye Fan and the others were on high alert, but only relaxed when they saw the unsettling aura emanating from the Emperor dissipate.

"My disciple, what exactly happened to you?"

Only then did the Underworld Lord Duan De speak and ask.

All the powerful figures were paying close attention, especially after learning about the source of the strange phenomenon. They were all very nervous. Wasn't it said that the power of the Desolate Emperor was protecting this place? How could darkness still be invading?

The Emperor looked at Duan De and smiled easily: "Master, it's been a long time. Congratulations on escaping reincarnation and becoming an immortal in the mortal world."

Then he slowly said, "The story of what happened to me is a long one."

At the end of the mythological era, the Emperor summoned all the emperors, wanting the whole world to ascend and enter the Immortal Realm. However, it was not the right time, not the right place, and not the right people. Without at least three mortal immortals, it was impossible to enter the Immortal Realm.

The Emperor naturally failed, but he also gained something: he opened a crack in the Immortal Realm, from which a piece of dark flesh fell, originating from the remnants of the turmoil at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

He discovered the power of darkness within it, a power that could elevate him to new heights. Thus, he actively sought to embrace this power, hoping to transcend it in the future.

Unfortunately, the Emperor clearly underestimated the power of the strange forces. He became entangled with them and tried many times to save himself, such as the arrangements on the path to immortality on Flying Immortal Star. However, at the last moment, he discovered that this level of resurrection could not escape the darkness's corruption, so he had no choice but to give up.

"I never expected the truth to be like this..."

Everyone sighed, and Duan De shook his head and said, "If I had known this would happen, I should have reminded you, but unfortunately I would have already entered the cycle of reincarnation by then."

Lu Heng pondered. This explanation made sense. The mythological era was very close to the time when the Desolate Emperor ended the darkness. After killing so many Fallen Immortal Kings and Fallen True Immortals, it was impossible to completely eradicate all the dark flesh and blood.

Just look at the legend of Lingbao killing the immortal corpse; it's clear that the mythological era inherited many hidden dangers from the previous era.

Regardless, with the Emperor's return, there are now six Immortals in the Mortal Realm: Ye Fan and his son, the Empress, Duan De, Wu Shi, and the Emperor. Each of them is stunningly talented. As the first batch of beings to break through to True Immortal at the beginning of the era, they will be the first to touch upon Immortal King and the first to achieve Quasi-Immortal Emperor status. The more of them there are, the greater the hope for the future.

The Heavenly Army eliminated all hidden dangers and, without lingering, marched into the Immortal Realm in one fell swoop.

Rumble!
This time, the major immortals of the mortal world didn't move. With a casual punch, Lu Heng located the nearest fragment of the immortal realm and opened up the path to immortality.

A massive celestial gate opened, and a vast army surged into the Celestial Realm. Several powerful immortals, utilizing the remnants of the Emperor's arrangements, dragged the entire Strange World into the Celestial Realm. Originally, the Strange World was a vast world created by some being to repair the Celestial Realm, but it was abandoned as a failed experiment.

Now the two worlds have merged into one, perfectly integrated.

If viewed from a higher dimension, one would see two vast continents merged together, one large and one small. Surprisingly, the strange world is even larger than this immortal realm, several times larger.

Lu Heng understood. The Shrouding the Heavens universe was originally quite large, originating from the Primordial Ancient Realm and then the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. In terms of plane level, it was on par with the Immortal Realm. It was just that a great war later turned it into ruins, and its area became even more expansive.

The Immortal Realm, on the other hand, shattered into hundreds or even thousands of fragments at the end of the era, a tragedy even more devastating than that of the Shrouding the Heavens universe.

Of course, since the Immortal Realm was only shattered once, its essence is still quite resilient.

The true distinction between the mortal realm and the immortal realm lies in their origins. For example, this fragment of the immortal realm before us, though smaller in size than the strange world, possesses an extremely rigorous stability, reaching a level where even a powerful immortal of the second rank cannot fly.

In a universe like the one depicted in the novel "Covering the Sky," any cultivator with a life spring could easily shatter a small hill, something impossible in the Immortal Realm.

Even the Supreme Being shouldn't dream of waging a great war to the edge of the universe, destroying star fields and even erasing the Great Dao.

Furthermore, the completeness of the Great Dao and the yield of immortal essence are also significant differences in quality.

Therefore, the moment the strange world and the fragment of the immortal realm came into contact, the immortal realm swallowed the large one, and the large ball of light rapidly shrank, gradually becoming one-third of its original size, and merged into the immortal realm.

Rumble!
Such an unprecedented reaction naturally caused changes in the strange world and the immortal realm.

The entire strange world was collapsing. All the powerful beings mobilized to protect the living beings in all directions. They carefully sensed that the essence of longevity was rising rapidly, the universe was becoming more and more stable, and the Great Dao was becoming more and more perfect. They were both surprised and delighted.

The Immortal Realm trembled, and the Supreme Beings within reacted.

"what happened?"

"Are they powerful beings from other fragments of the Immortal Realm attacking?"

The Heavenly Army was endless, occupying the entire strange world as its base for infiltrating the Immortal Realm.

Lu Heng and the other Immortal-level experts swept their thoughts over this fragment of the Immortal Realm and realized that its level was worrying. Although there were quite a few Supremes, only a handful had reached the Great Emperor level, which is the pinnacle of the Human Realm. Most of them had reached that level through years of honing their skills. Their auras were distant and peaceful, and they were clearly not very good at fighting.

As for the remnants of immortals and immortal king artifacts, none of them have been found in this fragment, but a few immortal artifacts have been left behind.

"Move! Sweep away the entire Immortal Realm, and show no mercy to those who resist."

The Heavenly Emperors issued an order, and their well-prepared, formidable army marched in dozens of routes to unify this celestial realm.

Lu Heng's view was not to hold back. The Immortal Realm was inherently arrogant and had inherited this character. Take the Path to Immortality for example; it only offered two or three spots each time it opened, and it looked down on the beings in the lower realms.

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad. He vividly remembered that during the future Holy Ruins, Ye Tiandi and his two companions faced a great sacrifice and the ultimate darkness, exhausting all their resources. And what were the local forces of the Immortal Realm doing? They were betraying him!
All descendants of the Heavenly Court suffered persecution, especially the bloodline of Emperor Ye, whose entire family was slaughtered and used as a tool for cultivating immortal gold.

(End of this chapter)