The Heaven-shattering: I and Wu Shi compete for the throne

Chapter 531 Failure and Collapse of the Path to Immortality
The crack expanded rapidly under the impact of numerous supreme beings, constantly overflowing with ethereal immortal energy.

"Boom!" In just a few breaths, the Heavenly Gate shattered completely, and through the world barrier, everyone could see a bizarre, vast, and unpredictable immortal realm.

The Heavenly Gate shattered, revealing a vast world. Was that the Immortal Realm? The mountains were boundless and towering, reaching the heavens. Divine vines and immortal trees grew there, exuding an ancient and weathered aura, as if they had existed for hundreds of millions of years.

"Is this really the Immortal Realm?" At this moment, even the voices of supreme beings trembled. After lying dormant for millions of years, had they finally seen the Immortal Realm? It was a feeling of both surprise and unease, as if it were unreal.

"Is this the Immortal Realm, the place I dream of entering?" asked the Ancient Emperor Wanlong.

"Hahaha..." The White Tiger Taoist laughed wildly, almost maniacally, his snow-white hair like tangled weeds, and finally tears streamed down his face from laughing.

"At this moment, I should be overjoyed, but why does my heart feel lost, even a little painful!" Another supreme being sighed desolately.

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One by one, the supreme rulers expressed their feelings, some joyful, some sorrowful, some crying, some laughing, some mad, and some going crazy.

Suddenly, a loud "Boom!" startled everyone. A supreme being rushed towards the Immortal Realm, but he couldn't get through at all. He was stopped by the barrier of the Immortal Realm and bounced back, his body almost exploding.

In an instant, many supreme beings realized that they were only one step away from entering the Immortal Realm: breaking through the Immortal Realm barrier here and opening a passage.

"Kill!" The many supreme beings stopped lamenting and attacked in unison, unleashing their most powerful forbidden secret techniques to break through the barrier of the Immortal Realm and enter it.

"Boom..." They tried to break through together, but failed. The Immortal Realm barrier looked like only a thin layer, but it was hard to shake. It was like an immortal monument, standing at the end of the world, and could not be broken through at all.

The supreme beings went mad, striving to become immortals, awaiting the ultimate dream of eternity, for which they almost gave up everything.

Relatives, friends, lovers... one by one they have all left them and turned to dust. Only they themselves, in order to survive, resort to any means necessary, living a difficult and torturous life.

They are now only one step away from becoming immortals, and they are unwilling to give up no matter what.

In an instant, the twenty-eight supreme deities exchanged thoughts, revealing their trump cards. For example, the supreme deities of the underworld brought out the celestial artifact, the Heaven-Reaching Nether Treasure; some celestial deities who participated in the creation of the ancient Big Dipper Star brought out their research results, which could temporarily merge the Dao of many supreme deities, achieving the unification of all Daos and unleashing an ultimate strike...

Then, they quickly deduced that they wanted to combine their power to unleash a stronger force, rather than continuing to disperse it as before.

They believed that if their power were combined, they could even slaughter a true immortal and surely conquer the Immortal Realm.

Although they were all outstanding figures of their time, standing at the pinnacle, and although they had made some predictions in this regard, the time frame was too short, and there were too many of them.

They failed, yet they also succeeded.

They were unable to combine the power of all twenty-eight of them into one and unleash a devastating attack.

However, they deduced a method that could combine the power of more than a dozen people to unleash even greater power.

They split into two groups, each with a dozen or so members. They simultaneously gathered their strength and combined it to activate the Celestial Artifact, the Heavenly Nether Treasure, to bombard the Celestial Realm barrier, hoping to shatter it and break into the Celestial Realm.

However, as time went by, the hearts of many supreme beings gradually sank.

Confident in their abilities, they split into two groups, each comprising over a dozen individuals. Together, they unleashed the Heavenly Nether Treasure, delivering an ultimate strike that even the Heavenly Emperor's Faith Body dared not withstand head-on. To do so would result in severe injury, if not death. Any one of them, even at the pinnacle of their power, would be utterly unable to withstand this terrifying attack and would die instantly.

But despite unleashing countless terrifying attacks, the Immortal Realm barrier remained completely unbroken, leaving them with no hope of breaking through it.

At this moment, Li Daoming, who was watching this scene from the Divine Ruins, was not surprised, and had even expected it.

It is said that, at the right time and in the right place, even if it is not the right person, it would be much easier to break into the Immortal Realm.

At this time, the Immortal Realm and the Human Realm are closest, and the merging and collision of the barriers between the two realms has greatly weakened the strength of the Immortal Realm's barrier.

Even with a significant reduction, it's still not something that twenty-eight supreme beings could break through.

Before the barrier of the Immortal Realm was weakened, it would not only require three Immortals of the Mortal World, but also the deduction of the correct coordinates, in order to break into the Immortal Realm without causing great damage to it.

After being weakened, according to his deduction, he should not need the strength of a Mortal Immortal, but he would need the strength of a peak True Immortal or close to the peak True Immortal to break into the Immortal Realm in that place where the Immortal Realm barrier is weak.

The combined power of the twenty-eight supreme beings activating the celestial artifact, the Heaven-Reaching Nether Treasure, was indeed formidable.

However, they have not yet reached their ultimate sublimation, and the power of all of them has not been completely integrated into one. Their power is at most at the early stage of True Immortal, and they are even inferior in many aspects, such as cohesion and the essence of power...

How could they possibly break into the Immortal Realm?
Even if they all reached the pinnacle of their powers and completely merged their strengths into one, activating the celestial artifact Tongtian Mingbao, their power would still not be close to that of a true immortal, nor would they have any chance of forcibly entering the immortal realm.

The difference is too big!
Suddenly, with a loud "boom," it seemed that the time had come, and the path to immortality began to collapse, and everything would cease to exist. The path to immortality was about to end.

"So this is the ending! Whoever achieves enlightenment in this lifetime will become an immortal!"

"I'm not reconciled!"

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More than twenty supreme beings roared repeatedly, their voices echoing throughout the entire path to immortality.

"Fellow Daoists, the path to immortality is crumbling, but it hasn't completely collapsed yet. We still have time and opportunities to strive for the ultimate sublimation and reclaim our peak imperial status. Perhaps we can even break through the barrier of the Immortal Realm and enter it." At this moment, the Supreme Being, still unwilling to accept defeat, sent a message.

"Alright, go all out and fight our way in, even if it costs us everything." Several Supreme Beings who had already lost their minds echoed.

"To the utmost, to fight our way in with everything we have? But can we really get in?"

Just now, we split into two groups and simultaneously gathered the strength of more than a dozen people to jointly activate the Heavenly Nether Treasure to bombard the Immortal Realm Barrier. We attacked it countless times, but we couldn't shake the Immortal Realm Barrier in the slightest.

We have reached the pinnacle of our abilities and become stronger, but it is now much more difficult to completely unify our power; it is simply impossible to do so now.

"If we cannot unite our powers into one, can we really shake the barrier of the Immortal Realm?" the Golden Ancient Emperor objected after calming down.

The reason he was able to calm down so quickly was not because he had an exceptionally strong mind and could withstand the blow of failing to become an immortal, but because he felt that they had not yet reached the point of despair.

(End of this chapter)