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

Chapter 539 The Ascension to Immortality Ends, the World Shines Brightly

Although the chaos that began with the Beidou Path to Immortality has ended, the beings in the universe who were watching all of this are now in an uproar.

This battle made the world realize that there are always people more powerful than oneself, and that there are always higher realms beyond the heavens. It also showed the world the terrifying power of the Boundless Holy Court, and made many peerless geniuses in the universe even more eager to join the Boundless Holy Court, considering it an honor and a goal.

However, as time passed, the popularity of the path to immortality declined, and the focus of attention for all beings in the universe shifted to the emergence of peerless geniuses who were springing up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Ye Liuxian, Ye Fan, Huo Lin'er, Ji Zi, Huo Qizi, Long Nu, Huang Jin Tian Nu, Huang Xu Dao... many geniuses broke through to the Quasi-Emperor realm one after another before the age of five hundred.

Moreover, they continued their triumphant rise, surpassing many established quasi-emperors in just a few hundred years.

More than five hundred years after the advent of the Golden Age, Ye Liuxian broke through to achieve an unorthodox path, not in harmony with the Heavenly Heart Mark, and secretly broke through to become an Emperor.

More than six hundred years after the advent of the Golden Age, Ye Fan broke through to the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor and achieved the Great Perfection of the Sacred Body.

Nearly seven hundred years after the advent of the Golden Age, Huo Lin'er attained the Dao and became an emperor.

More than eight hundred years have passed since the Golden Age began, and many prodigies, such as Ye Fan, Ji Zi, the Dragon Girl, the Golden Heavenly Maiden, and the Fire Kirin, have successively broken through to achieve unconventional enlightenment.

Nine hundred years after the Golden Path descended, Ye Fan defied the heavens, destroyed all the myriad paths of heaven and earth, and became an emperor. Once again, two emperors descended upon the universe.

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During this period, no unorthodox enlightened beings from the old era emerged to preemptively prove their Dao before the prodigies of this era.

The reason for this is twofold: firstly, they are reluctant to come forward to prove their Dao; secondly, even if they wanted to, the Boundless Holy Court would not allow it.

Why were unorthodox enlightened beings from the old era less willing to come forward and prove their path?
Because the Boundless Holy Court governs the world, even if they attain enlightenment and become emperors, they cannot be as supreme as in previous eras and will still have to be subordinate to the Boundless Holy Court.

Because once one has attained the Dao and become an emperor, one cannot seal oneself off unless one severs one's own body.

Most of the unorthodox enlightened beings of the old era have already sealed themselves off, and even those who haven't are already quite old and don't have much time left to live.

Although they didn't have much lifespan left, they all reserved extra lifespan, enough for them to seal themselves up for millions of years to come, or even more distant times.

Moreover, given their cultivation level, it wouldn't be difficult for them to cultivate a peerless genius capable of joining the Boundless Holy Court, and they would essentially secure a spot to accompany the others to the strange world.

It's safe to say that as long as they stay calm, it's a certainty that the Heavenly Emperor will open the passage between the two worlds again, and they will enter the strange world and gain millions of years of lifespan.

However, if they prove their Dao and become emperors, it's a different story. If they don't sever their own ties, given their current state, they will perish within two or three thousand years at most, and they won't be able to wait for the Heavenly Emperor to reopen the passage between the two realms.

If they were to sever and seal themselves, they could live until the next Heavenly Emperor opened the passage between the two worlds. However, the Boundless Holy Court might not stand idly by and watch them sever themselves, nor might it allow them to enter the strange world.

Furthermore, even if one can enter a strange world after self-mutilation, both one's cultivation and lifespan will be greatly affected.

Therefore, many unorthodox enlightened beings from the old era were simply unwilling to come out and prove their Dao and become emperors.

Furthermore, the Boundless Holy Court would not allow unorthodox Dao achievers from the old era to attain Emperor status in the new era.

If many unorthodox paths to enlightenment were to rush to prove their path and succeed at the very beginning of the Golden Age, then the Golden Age would end immediately upon its commencement.

With the end of the Golden Age, fortune will no longer flourish, and the universe will no longer see the birth of numerous prodigies. This is undoubtedly a great loss for the Boundless Holy Court.

As for Huo Lin'er being able to become an emperor before all the other geniuses when the Golden Age had been around for nearly seven hundred years, it was not because her talent far surpassed that of the other peerless geniuses, but rather because of Li Daoming's scheme.

After the Beidou Immortal Ascension Path ended, Li Daoming lent her the immortal artifact Wuji Dao Disc for five hundred years. Although the Wuji Dao Disc was still an immortal artifact and had not yet become an Immortal King Weapon, it had a very profound foundation. Not long after Li Daoming became a Mortal Immortal, it underwent a transformation, becoming equivalent to a Quasi-Immortal King Weapon.

As a quasi-immortal king weapon of the enlightenment type, even an ordinary person who obtains it can become an unparalleled genius, let alone an unparalleled genius like Huo Lin'er, who would naturally be even more powerful.

It can be said that if she hadn't needed to lay a solid foundation to become stronger after attaining enlightenment, and if she hadn't had the shackles of being an imperial prince to break, she could have attained enlightenment and become an emperor at the age of five or six hundred.

Not long after Ye Fan defied the heavens and proved his Dao, the path to immortality on Flying Immortal Star began.

However, this time, all the supreme beings in the forbidden zone of life have died, so they naturally cannot emerge to attack the path to immortality.

This time, those attacking the path to immortality are Huo Lin'er and Ye Fan, who have already attained the Dao and become emperors, as well as Ji Zi, Huo Qi Zi, and twenty or thirty other people who have achieved Dao in unconventional ways.

The powerful figures who attacked the Immortal Ascension Path on Flying Immortal Star far surpassed those in the original story, and naturally, they easily broke through the Immortal Ascension Path and reached the final Heavenly Gate.

They also learned through the imperial inscriptions on the stone tablet and the imperial inscriptions at the Heavenly Gate that only two or three people could become immortals in one lifetime, and that to open the Heavenly Gate, a blood sacrifice from a master of the imperial path was required.

However, no one sacrificed the blood of a royal expert to the Heavenly Gate, nor did anyone enter the Immortal Gate to become an immortal.

Almost all the powerful individuals who made it onto the path to immortality were from the Boundless Holy Court, and there were only two true experts of the Imperial Path.

If the goal is to sacrifice top-tier imperial experts to the Heavenly Gate, who should be sacrificed? Surely we can't sacrifice our own people?

Moreover, they are not too obsessed with becoming immortals, because they will all be able to enter strange worlds in the future and obtain long lifespans.

As for what comes next? They believed that the Heavenly Emperor would definitely lead them into the Immortal Realm to become immortals.

Since no one offered the blood of a royal expert as a sacrifice to the Heavenly Gate, the Heavenly Gate naturally did not open and was eventually shattered by Ye Fan and the others working together.

Afterwards, they followed the example of the Supreme Being of the Forbidden Zone and set up an array to merge the power of all of them into one, in an attempt to break through the barrier of the Immortal Realm.

Although they completely merged their powers into one, they still could not shake the barrier of the Immortal Realm, let alone break it. Naturally, no one could enter the Immortal Realm to become an immortal.

The path to immortality on Flying Immortal Star has ended, leaving all living beings in the universe deeply disappointed.

They originally thought that someone should become an immortal in this lifetime, but in the end, no one did.

This led countless people to place their hopes of becoming immortals in the strange world and on the Heavenly Emperor.

At this time, two people had already attained the Dao and become emperors, the universe's fortune no longer surged, and all kinds of special physiques and peerless geniuses no longer emerged in large numbers.

However, this golden age did not end there; instead, it intensified.

In less than a thousand years, more than thirty other unconventional enlightened beings were born.

As for those who are about to attain enlightenment at the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, their number is nearly a hundred, and the number of Quasi-Emperors in the universe is close to a thousand.

And this isn't over yet!

It is believed that as time goes by, there will be more powerful individuals who are stuck at the peak of the Great Sage realm who will break through to the Quasi-Emperor realm.

There will also be quasi-emperors who break through their realms and become those who will attain enlightenment or even achieve enlightenment in an alternative way.

(End of this chapter)