From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 627 No One Lives Forever (Two Chapters Combined)

An unknown space-time, where the endless river of fate and the river of time intersect.

A magnificent palace floats on two long rivers.

A giant screen displays the scene of the immortal world of immortals.

Suddenly, a huge portal appeared on the screen, then the entire screen flashed, leaving only static!
"This is the godforsaken place. If you ask me, it's all because the old man is too domineering. Otherwise, why would the Jade Disc of Creation be unable to stand him and run away on its own?"

On the sofa, an eight- or nine-year-old child was munching on a piece of cucumber, making whimpering noises...

"Your Majesty, be careful what you say!"

Xing Tianjun, sweating profusely, carefully advised him.

"Be careful what you say, my foot! I've already reincarnated!" the child said with a dissatisfied look. "Now look what's happened, all the benefits have been taken by that bastard in the underworld!"

At this point, he slammed the cucumber in his hand to the ground. "Where did that Li Chengqian come from? How did he manage to break free from fate and become involved with that fragment?"

"It's not that he's involved with the fragments, but rather that the one in the underworld has been orchestrating this all along!" Xing Tianjun said with a wry smile. "The Dao Ancestor... the Dao Ancestor must have reached some kind of compromise with that one..."

"Yes, compromise!" The child slumped onto the sofa and sighed softly. "It seems that person is almost there. Only with sufficient power can the old man compromise!"

"That being who dwells in the underworld has no vested interests with Your Majesty!"

"Of course not, but all of this is something I wanted to do, and I failed while someone else succeeded. What bad luck!!"

Xing Tianjun gave a wry smile and said nothing more.

"Alright, alright, let's leave it at that. Since we've already started, let's go all the way. Tell them that since they've decided to take action, they shouldn't hold back. Use all the power at their disposal and take as much benefit as they can. The Underworld has been in chaos for so long. Given that person's personality, they should have completely figured out the Starry Sky. There won't be another Starry Sky Calamity. This is the last chance."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

——————I am a dividing line————

The Immortal Realm, originally a supreme holy land with stable laws and where all immortals paid homage, has now been reduced to a battlefield engulfed in flames.

Above the heavens, colossal gates of light shone like stars, from which an endless celestial army surged forth like a silver torrent. Squads of heavenly soldiers exuded a chilling killing intent, and soaring waves of murderous aura rose into the sky.

The most terrifying thing is that among the first group of heavenly soldiers and generals, the leading generals were all at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortals, surrounded by an immortal and indestructible golden radiance. Their overwhelming power was in no way inferior to that of the Heavenly Monarch of this world!

These celestial soldiers and generals formed an incomparably profound battle formation. Wherever they passed, the sects, dynasties, and ancient families of the Immortal Realm, no matter how many Heavenly Lords they had guarded or what earth-shattering formations they had set up, crumbled like sandcastles under the unparalleled onslaught of their army. The Calamity Heavenly Lord, the Eternal Heavenly Lord, the Slaughter Heavenly Lord... these beings who had once shaken the Immortal Realm for countless eras, joined forces to set up Calamity Kingdoms, Eternal Divine Cities, and Slaughter Battlefields, yet under the combined attack of several Great Luo commanders of the Heavenly Court, their divine kingdoms shattered, the laws of the universe wailed, and they were forced to retreat in disarray with their remaining troops.

Wherever the Heavenly Army's forces pointed, they swept away all resistance.

In just a few years, apart from a few forbidden zones with the foundation of immortal kings that are still putting up a stubborn resistance, the vast immortal realm has been almost entirely incorporated into the Heavenly Court's territory, either directly conquered or chosen to submit and pay tribute.

On this day, a phoenix chariot toured the heavens, surrounded by celestial light. A woman exuding a terrifying aura descended upon the celestial realm, followed by several figures whose auras were as deep as the sea, as if they themselves were the origin of a universe.

They did not linger, and directly targeted the most core and powerful forces in the Immortal Realm.

The Origin Dynasty, the ancient kingdom created by the Origin Immortal King, was shattered by a combined attack from several Quasi-Saints. The Origin Land was directly breached, and countless gods who worshipped the Origin were instantly reduced to ashes. The Holy Land of Truth, the ancient alliance hidden deep within the dimensions... these Immortal King forces that once stood alongside the Origin Dynasty were also successively destroyed or absorbed by the Heavenly Court in the face of its absolute power.

Finally, the invincible might of the Heavenly Court arrived before that ancient portal located at the end of time and space, the source of all laws, exuding an aura of antiquity, supremacy, and immortality!
It stands silently in the void, with the primordial runes of the Three Thousand Great Dao flowing above its portal, as if it were the beginning and end of all supernatural powers, laws, and civilizations.

"This is the Gate to Immortality! The Jade Disc of Creation! Heh, it's been so long since I've sensed this aura!"

The woman at the head of the group looked at the Gate of Immortality and chuckled.

"Boom!!!"

A deafening roar, seemingly from the primordial chaos yet also from the very end of the future, suddenly erupted from within the Gate of Immortality!

The entire Immortal Realm, no, the entire Eternal World, along with its countless subordinate Great Worlds, Middle Worlds, and Small Worlds, trembled violently at this moment! A terrifying energy, accumulated over countless epochs and unimaginably vast, erupted like a volcano that had been suppressed to its limit!

"Kachacha..."

On the seemingly eternal and immortal gate of the Gate of Immortality, tiny cracks appeared! Immediately afterward, several supreme auras, so powerful that they could stop the flow of the river of time and reset the laws of the universe, suddenly burst out from the cracks!
The Creation Immortal King, the Origin Immortal King, the Truth Immortal King, the Dimensional Immortal King... These supreme beings, who in ancient legends entered the Gate of Eternity in pursuit of the path to immortality and were ultimately suppressed within it, have now broken free from their confinement thanks to the unprecedented external crisis sensed by the Gate of Eternity and the awakening of their internal spirits!

However, immediately afterward, another peaceful yet equally vast and boundless Buddha light emerged, and the Buddha of Worldly Freedom, holding the boat to the other shore, appeared in the void, his body radiating the true meaning of great liberation and great freedom.

For a moment, the newly freed Celestial Kings, the descending Heavenly Army, and the violently shaking Gate of Immortality, which seemed to be brewing something, formed a delicate three-way standoff.

The Creation Immortal King appeared as a dignified middle-aged man, but his eyes flashed with shock and bewilderment. He had schemed for countless ages, plotting against the reincarnation of the artifact spirit Fang Han, intending to completely control the Gate of Immortality, but he had never foreseen such a vicissitude. The Origin Immortal King, the Truth Immortal King, and others also had solemn gazes. The disciplined and incredibly powerful army before them was completely beyond their comprehension.

The Worldly Free King Buddha chanted Buddhist mantras, his eyes filled with compassion and a deep worry. He and some of the Immortal Kings originally planned to join forces with the artifact spirit Fang Han to jointly deal with the great calamity and seek transcendence, but now this "calamity" seems to be completely different from what they expected.

Just as the three parties were each harboring their own thoughts, and the situation reached an extremely delicate juncture—

Li Chengqian, who was in the Limitless World of the Feathered Immortal Sect, was at the final moment of deduce the Great Destiny Technique in the sect leader's meditation room when the destiny runes around his body suddenly burst forth with unprecedented light! He felt an unprecedentedly strong resonance with the Gate of Immortality in the darkness, and an irresistible force instantly crossed endless time and space, directly pulling him away from the meditation room!

The next moment, his figure suddenly appeared in the core of the Immortal Realm, in front of the vast and boundless Gate of Immortality!
Li Chengqian's sudden appearance was like a drop of ice water being poured into a boiling oil pan!
“Buzz——!!!”

The Gate of Immortality seemed to be completely ignited, emitting the most violent tremor since the beginning of time! The cracks on the gate instantly widened, and endless divine light burst forth from within!

That was no ordinary light; it was the primordial runes of the Three Thousand Great Daos! Countless ancient and powerful seeds of divine abilities! Ancient characters carrying the epic history of civilization! Phantoms of sacred immortal artifacts and divine artifacts of creation, enough to drive even Heavenly Lords mad! There were even some special substances radiating the aura of the unity of heaven and earth! At this moment, the Gate of Eternal Life began to spew forth an unprecedented frenzy! As if it were about to unleash all the accumulated power of countless eras in this instant!

Standing at the heart of this great origin, the torrent of supernatural powers, and the storm of divine artifacts, Li Chengqian was suddenly enlightened!

Within his left eye, the lotus embryo of the Great Cause and Effect Technique spun at an unprecedented speed, with countless threads of cause and effect piercing through the void and connecting to the countless treasures, supernatural powers, and ancient characters spewed out by the Gate of Immortality, tracing their origins and connections with the Gate of Immortality.

Within his right eye, the forty-eight layers of wish power halo of the Great Wish Technique bloomed one after another, the vast wish power like a lighthouse, guiding the complex trajectory of fate, intertwined with the threads of cause and effect.

At the deepest part of his consciousness, the "seed of destiny" derived from the Taiyin Refining Technique and incorporating the essence of cause and effect and desire, was throbbing and expanding wildly at this moment!

"Cause and effect are the threads that weave the web of destiny!"

"Wishes are the lamps that illuminate the long river of destiny!"

"The moon is the furnace, forging all laws into one!"

"Destiny... converges! The calamity of eternal life has arrived!"

Li Chengqian let out a silent cry in his heart. He held his hands in front of his chest, and the seed of destiny suddenly exploded, turning into a strange radiance that was neither black nor white, neither alive nor dead, as if it contained all the calamities of the universe's formation, existence, decay, and emptiness, and pointed to the only "eternal" transcendent state!

This radiance is no longer a mere supernatural power, but a phenomenon that transcends supernatural powers, a great immortal technique that triggers the power of the end of an era and the rebirth of a new one—the Tribulation of Eternal Life!
Once this technique is mastered, the gate to immortality reacts with extreme intensity!
“Rumble——!!!”

The portal trembled violently, and the torrent of divine light that was spewing forth suddenly stopped. A hidden, profound "black intent," which seemed capable of eroding all things and distorting the laws, spread out from the core of the portal like ink dripping into clear water, instantly coloring a large area of ​​the surrounding divine light!

"No—!! What... what the hell is that?!" Everyone present, whether it was the Creation Immortal King or the Worldly Free King Buddha, had their expressions darken at the same time. They had never seen or heard of this black aura before, but with just one glance, they felt an extremely terrifying aura, an aura that made their hearts tremble.

This is not normal!

Who are they?

They are the Celestial Kings.

In this world of immortality, they have stood at the very top, a tiny group, through countless eras.

What haven't I seen? What haven't I heard? When did I feel threatened?
Now, they feel it.

The chaotic void surged, and the Buddha of the Worldly Freedom, who was actually hidden deep in the chaos, finally revealed his golden body in front of the Gate of Immortality. On that golden body, strange patterns, like stars, began to appear. His eyes were sometimes clear and sometimes crazy and blasphemous, as if countless malicious wills were roaring and vying for dominance within him!

"Not good! Suppress it!" The Creation Immortal King, the Origin Immortal King, and others also changed their expressions drastically. Brilliant Immortal King Laws erupted from their bodies as they struggled to resist the all-pervasive whispers and erosion. Their faces were also distorted, clearly under immense pressure.

However, compared to the Buddha of Worldly Freedom and others, they seem to have a stronger resistance to this power, or rather, their original path was not completely incompatible with this power!

Just as the situation suddenly changed, and violent disturbances occurred within the Immortal King's camp—

"The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak!"

On the Heavenly Court's side, the leading woman's phoenix eyes flashed with a cold light, and she decisively gave the order!

"boom!!"

With a low shout from the woman, Jiang Chen, clad in ancient armor, pale-faced yet exuding an overwhelming aura of ferocity, stepped forward.

"Jiang...Jiang Chen?"

This move startled Li Chengqian. To be honest, he had never seen Jiang Chen in this form before. However, this was not the time for reminiscing. Jiang Chen let out a low roar, revealing his fangs and surrounded by a swirling aura of death, yet also carrying an ancient and immortal Daoist charm. He tore through the void and pounced on the World Free King Buddha, who was undergoing a violent transformation!

"Roar! Buddha and demon are one, the other shore is sinking!"

The alienated World-Free King Buddha let out a roar that was not human-like, and struck out with his palm. At the same time, terrifying scenes of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and the Avici Hell appeared in his palm. The two extreme forces twisted and merged, carrying specks of black light that polluted everything, and headed towards Jiang Chen!
"boom!"

Jiang Chen neither dodged nor evaded, but threw a punch. The fist was simple and ancient, yet it contained the power to tear apart all life and end all things! When fist and palm collided, the void shattered inch by inch like a mirror. The residual power made some weaker Heavenly Lords in the distance feel as if their souls were about to be torn apart!
The fierce battle between the two Immortal King-level beings instantly reached a fever pitch!

At the same time, several other powerful figures behind the woman also made their moves, targeting the other Immortal Kings with obvious signs of mutation, as well as the Immortal Kings such as Creation and Origin who were trying to stabilize their position! The Heavenly Court army formed a battle formation, their immortal light linked as one, and began to wipe out the remaining forces of the Immortal Realm that had been attracted by the treasures spewed out by the Gate of Eternal Life or had been corrupted by whispers and driven into madness.

The area in front of the Gate of Immortality was completely engulfed in an unprecedented chaotic battle!
Amidst the chaos, the woman's gaze pierced through the obstacles and landed on Li Chengqian, the one at the heart of all the events.

She saw Li Chengqian embracing the radiant light of the "Eternal Tribulation" immortal technique, his aura resonating subtly with the vibrations of the Gate of Eternal Life, as if he had become an unstable eye of a storm.

She frowned slightly, then without further hesitation, she raised her delicate hand and patted Li Chengqian from afar.

A gentle yet irresistible force instantly enveloped Li Chengqian, forcibly suppressing the still-unstable "Eternal Tribulation" immortal technique's radiance back into his body, while simultaneously tearing apart the special resonance between him and the Gate of Eternal Life.

"This is no place for you to linger. Go back!"

A cold, clear voice echoed in Li Chengqian's mind.

The next moment, Li Chengqian felt the laws of space around him being forcibly rewritten, and the scene before him rapidly receded. The Immortal Realm, the Gate of Immortality, the chaotic battle between the Immortal Kings and the Heavenly Court's powerful figures... everything quickly blurred and disappeared. In the blink of an eye, he was directly thrown from the core of the Immortal Realm back to the Boundless Great World, to the meditation room of the headmaster of the Feathered Immortal Sect by an unparalleled force.

Inside the quiet room, everything was as before, as if the terrifying events of just moments ago were nothing but a dream.

However, Li Chengqian could clearly sense the rudimentary form of the Great Immortal Technique of the Tribulation of Immortality, which had been forcibly suppressed within his body but had already taken shape, as well as a clearer and deeper understanding of fate, cause and effect, and desires in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Ultimately, everything boils down to four words: No one lives forever!
(End of this chapter)