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

Chapter 638 The Mysteries of the Immortal Emperor Realm

With a deafening roar, like the voice of the Great Dao, Li Daoming stepped into a higher realm.

He exuded the aura of a Celestial Emperor, and this aura alone was enough to crush all the heavens and the long river of time. Everything became unstable because of his presence, as if it were about to perish at any moment.

A domain of laws rippled around him, forming an independent spacetime. It was the domain of the Immortal Emperor. Based on his understanding of the Dao of Spacetime, he felt that he could rewind time within this domain, confining everything to this silent spacetime, making everything inseparable from this point.

He seemed to transcend, breaking the river of time, ignoring the constraints of age, standing atop the heavens, impervious to all laws and paths, immortal and indestructible.

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In an instant, countless insights arose in his mind, but before he could calm down and comprehend the mysteries of the Immortal Emperor realm, he underwent a strange change.

He was driven to self-destruction; his immortal physical body and primordial spirit were dissipating at a visible speed, seemingly erased by a forbidden power.

"Ha! My body is immortal! My soul is indestructible!" Li Daoming roared, his whole body radiating brilliant imperial light. His Dao and Law transformed into endless divine chains of the Great Dao, intertwining and weaving around his physical body and primordial spirit, to protect his physical body and primordial spirit from being immortal and indestructible.

It was useless. His Dao and Dharma could only delay things a little before dissipating along with his physical body and primordial spirit, and could not stop his self-destruction at all.

"Broken Jade! My body and soul are forever secure!" Li Daoming activated the Broken Jade, and an incomparably terrifying Dao light emanated from his body, fixing his physical body and primordial spirit, seemingly freezing his time. His physical body and primordial spirit finally stopped dissipating.

At this moment, Li Daoming dared not delay and quickly focused all his mind on the broken jade, carefully comprehending the mysteries of the Immortal Emperor realm.

His time was limited. Although he stood in the realm of a quasi-immortal emperor and possessed a supreme treasure like the broken jade, he was still young.

However, his refinement of the broken jade was insufficient, and the effort to stabilize the broken jade in its current state was extremely taxing.

Moreover, he dared not exhaust his mind and strength. Otherwise, once he withdrew from the Immortal Emperor realm, he estimated that he would not have enough mind and strength to recover from the injuries he sustained while trying to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm.

As Li Daoming carefully contemplated the mysteries of the Immortal Emperor realm, numerous insights arose in his heart, and endless enlightenments surfaced, causing him to become somewhat immersed in them.

However, it wasn't long before Li Daoming, with great willpower, forcibly broke free from this intoxicating state.

He activated the broken jade, withdrew the Dao light that had immobilized his physical body and primordial spirit, and then fell down from the Immortal Emperor's domain on his own.

Although he fell out of the Immortal Emperor realm, Li Daoming's condition did not improve; on the contrary, it worsened.

His physical body and primordial spirit retained a faint power of an Immortal Emperor, and his body was permeated with a faint aura of an Immortal Emperor. Although the traces of an Immortal Emperor were not many, they were enough to overwhelm his physical body and primordial spirit.

Moreover, without establishing himself in the realm of the Immortal Emperor, he found it even more difficult to suppress the power of the Immortal Emperor within him. His physical body and primordial spirit were still heading towards self-destruction, and his injuries were further aggravated.

Sensing this, Li Daoming felt no worry whatsoever. Instead, he laughed inwardly, "I understand! I understand!"

This time, his breakthrough into the Immortal Emperor realm allowed him to comprehend the profound mysteries of the Immortal Emperor realm. Not only did he refine and elevate his own Dao and Dharma, but he also gained a sufficient understanding of the Immortal Emperor realm, found his next direction for cultivation, and learned about his current situation...

To cultivate into an Immortal Emperor, the most important thing is not the physical body and primordial spirit, but the Great Dao. Only by developing one's own Great Dao and deduce invincible imperial techniques based on it, allowing one's own Dao and techniques to reach the Immortal Emperor realm, can one be qualified to break through to the Immortal Emperor level. Only then, after breaking through to the Immortal Emperor level, can one stabilize one's body and soul with the Dao and techniques of the Immortal Emperor level, preventing self-destruction due to the power of the Immortal Emperor.

At this point, given enough time, one can gradually refine one's physical body and primordial spirit with the power, Dao, and Dharma of an Immortal Emperor, allowing the physical body and primordial spirit to reach the Immortal Emperor level, and ultimately leap to become a true Immortal Emperor.

However, if one does not develop one's own Great Dao, deduce invincible imperial laws, and extend one's own Dao and laws to the realm of Immortal Emperor, even if one forcibly breaks through the barriers and enters the realm of Immortal Emperor with the Dao and laws of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, one will not be able to withstand the power of the Immortal Emperor realm, and one's physical body and primordial spirit will self-destruct under the great power of the Immortal Emperor.

Therefore, he will focus his spiritual practice on his path and methods.

He will explore his Great Dao, deduce his invincible techniques, achieve ultimate sublimation, leap to the realm of Immortal Emperor, break through the half-step Immortal Emperor, and then slowly use his Dao and techniques to refine his physical body and primordial spirit. After refining his physical body and primordial spirit to the realm of Immortal Emperor, he will make the final leap and truly break through to the realm of Immortal Emperor.

While laughing with joy, Li Daoming did not forget that he was in a bad situation, with his physical body and primordial spirit heading towards self-destruction.

He hurriedly activated the broken jade, which emitted a hazy light that permeated his body. In less than a quarter of an hour, the power of the Immortal Emperor within him was completely extinguished.

Without the influence of a Celestial Emperor-level power, Li Daoming's injuries, though not fully healed, were no longer worsening. In fact, he was rapidly absorbing the primordial energy of chaos to slowly recover and repair his damaged physical body and primordial spirit.

At this rate of recovery, his injuries will be fully healed in a few thousand years.

After pondering for a moment, Li Daoming swallowed all the chaotic creation energy here, and then took a quasi-immortal emperor's heart and refined it into his body.

He did not intend to absorb the chaotic creation energy gathered and condensed by the Quasi-Immortal Emperor's formation here to recover from his injuries.

He didn't want to waste thousands more years here, and although there was plenty of primordial chaos energy here, it was far from enough to restore and repair his damaged physical body and primordial spirit.

Because the power of the Immortal Emperor was no longer influencing him, the Quasi-Immortal Emperor's heart contained a vast amount of high-quality Quasi-Immortal Emperor's essence, and since it shared the same origin as him, it could be easily refined by him.

In less than a month, Li Daoming's injuries were fully recovered.

Not only did he recover, but his physical body and primordial spirit also became stronger through the tempering of the Immortal Emperor's power, breaking down and rebuilding.

At this moment, Li Daoming recalled the gains from breaking through to the Immortal Emperor realm, and an impulse welled up in his heart to break through to the Immortal Emperor realm again.

However, Li Daoming immediately dismissed the idea.

How much can one gain by breaking into the Immortal Emperor realm, establishing oneself in the Immortal Emperor realm, deducing and perfecting the Dao and Laws within the Immortal Emperor realm, and comprehending the mysteries of the Immortal Emperor realm?
Of course there are more!

However, if he hadn't refined a portion of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor's Heart, it would have taken him at least several thousand years to recover from his injuries, during which time his enlightenment and cultivation would have been affected.

Taking into account the influences he has received over the past few thousand years, even if he briefly establishes himself in the realm of Immortal Emperors and reaps great rewards, it is highly unlikely that he will be able to accelerate his cultivation; on the contrary, it may slow him down.

However, after each breakthrough to the Immortal Emperor realm, his physical body and primordial spirit, having endured the power of the Immortal Emperor and undergone a process of destruction and rebirth, would experience a significant improvement.

(End of this chapter)