Just as the old patriarch forced me to my death, I achieved the unity of Dao and fruition.

"It seems... it's been waiting for us."

As the southern child's voice faded, the colorless fruit trembled once more.

Boom!

The entire Zhongtian Immortal Palace trembled slightly.

Gu Changjin did not approach immediately, but instead unleashed his Devouring Immortal Technique, completely enveloping the entire hall.

The nine children also stood at nine nodes, using their authority to seal off all the rules of the place.

Only after confirming that there was no sign of life within the pure white robe and no power within the position that could directly threaten him did Gu Changjin extend his divine sense to probe it.

boom!

The moment his divine sense touched the Earth Immortal realm, a world countless times larger than the True Immortal Small World suddenly appeared before Gu Changjin's eyes.

The mountains and rivers are vast, the sun and moon revolve, and countless living beings thrive and multiply within them.

Beneath this great realm, countless smaller realms float.

Those smaller realms, like the sands of time, arise and perish around the larger realm.

Even a speck of dust, a drop of water, or a leaf in the Great Realm contains the faint outline of a new world.

One grain of sand creates one world, and from one world, countless worlds are born.

A sudden realization dawned on Gu Changjin's mind.

True immortals use the Dao to transform the world, creating a small world within their own bodies.

The Xuanxian (mysterious immortal) takes over the small world, the Great Dao, and all authority, condensing them into immortal deeds, and the place where they are becomes the world.

Above the Xuanxian is the Dixian!

The earth immortals were no longer content with simply becoming heaven and earth themselves.

Instead, it uses its own immortal achievements as a foundation to support a true great world, and then allows the great world to evolve into countless smaller worlds.

As long as one realm exists, the immortals of the earth will never perish.

The more prosperous the myriad realms become, the stronger the immortal path of the Earth Immortals becomes.

As for what realms exist above Earth Immortal, it is impossible to discern them based solely on the current rank.

The Earth Immortal realm is indeed not a cultivation level.

It is the embodiment of a terrestrial immortal's power over the world, the Great Dao, and their own authority; it is the carrier of the terrestrial immortal's path.

And this fruit position before us has absorbed nearly half of the Heavenly Dao's origin over the long years.

Now, as long as it is completely refined, one can skip countless millennia of accumulation and directly ascend to the Earth Immortal realm!

This is an achievement that others might not be able to achieve even after hundreds of thousands of years of effort.

Now it sits quietly in front of me.

Gu Changjin was stunned by this sudden stroke of good luck.

As the nine origins of heaven and earth resonated with the Earth Immortal status, the parts of the Southern Heaven Palace Master's memories that had been erased were finally fully restored.

Combined with the causal traces remaining in the pure white robe and the fragmented images left inside the Earth Immortal's position, everything that happened nearly 100,000 years ago was finally pieced together in Gu Changjin's mind.

The so-called number one immortal of the human race did indeed come from the upper realm.

However, when he first obtained this Earth Immortal Fruit, he did not know its true origin.

At that time, the fruit was severely damaged, and it looked like an unknown wonder of the world.

Even so, it can still suppress the fortune of its master and mobilize some of the world's power.

That person also gained opportunities in the upper realm through this item, rising through the ranks and becoming quite successful.

Until one day, he entered an ancient secret realm and competed with a prodigy from a powerful force for a treasure.

The two sides fought for several days, and the man, relying on his incomplete fruit position, gained the upper hand several times.

However, the opponent's background was too profound, with protective immortal artifacts, forbidden techniques, and life-saving methods left by their elders appearing one after another.

At the last moment, an even greater power, surpassing that of a true immortal, erupted from the opponent's body, forcefully shattering his immortal form.

He could only rely on his remaining body to hide in the incomplete fruit position and escape from the upper realm to this realm.

It was this defeat and escape that severed his once-prosperous fortune in the upper realm.

From then on, his luck never truly returned.

After arriving in the lower realm, that person used the essence of this realm to reshape his immortal body and quickly rose to prominence as the number one immortal among humans.

But during this process, a wisp of the remnant soul of an earth immortal, which had been sleeping deep within the incomplete fruit position, was also awakened.

The earth immortal wanted to seize his physical body and use him to return to the world.

But this first immortal of the human race was ultimately a chosen one of destiny from the upper realm.

Even though their luck has run out, they still have a few real trump cards hidden in their hands.

After a fierce battle, he actually managed to obliterate the remnant soul of the Earth Immortal and learned the true origin of the fruit position from the remnant soul's memories.

This is a flawed fruit position that can allow a Xuanxian to ascend to the Earth Immortal realm in one step!

However, the amount of world origin needed to repair it is simply too vast.

If nurtured using normal methods, it would take at least hundreds of thousands of years.

He couldn't wait that long.

And so, the celestial palace appeared.

The so-called Five Elements Immortal Palace and Four Directions Immortal Palace are not merely for the nine True Immortals to use their positions in heaven and earth to resist the decay of the lower realm.

These nine locations are themselves a massive array covering the entire world!

The five elements govern all things, and the four directions define heaven and earth.

After the nine True Immortals occupied their positions, they were both borrowing the power of the world and sorting out and extracting the essence of this world for the incomplete positions.

The first immortal of the human race himself occupied the most central position in the heavens.

All the origins that have been processed by the nine True Immortals will eventually converge here and enter the Earth Immortal realm.

The things he said to everyone weren't entirely lies.

Occupying a position in the world would indeed allow them to experience the power of the Xuanxian (mysterious immortals) ahead of time, and would also give them a greater advantage in the competition for the Immortal Ascension Gate.

However, he was never prepared to let these people truly leave their positions before the restoration of their authority.

As for how the origin of the world would continuously assimilate them and even erase their consciousness, he knew this from the very beginning.

Because only by losing themselves can they more quietly extract the essence for the Earth Immortal position.

The reason why the Four Palace Masters' memories would disappear again when they occasionally regained their senses and realized the truth was not because the First Immortal of the Human Race personally intervened.

Instead, the Earth Immortals, in order to protect themselves, actively mobilized the rules of Heaven to erase that memory.

But that number one immortal of the human race had calculated everyone else, yet he overestimated himself.

The position of the Central Heaven connects the entire world and also the position of the Earthly Immortal.

The assimilation he underwent was more terrifying than that of the other nine.

At the original rate, it would take hundreds of thousands of years to complete the fruition.

But his broken immortal body didn't even last 100,000 years.

In his final moments, he even tried to forcibly refine the incomplete fruit position.

As a result, his own consciousness was assimilated by the Heavenly Dao, and his cultivation, immortal soul, and remaining fortune were all devoured by the Earth Immortal status.

This pure white robe is the last trace he left in the world.

After swallowing this chosen one of the upper realms, the speed at which his Earth Immortal status was restored also increased significantly.

After years of nurturing, it was finally completely restored.

However, it is already deeply bound to the Heavenly Dao of this world and cannot be taken away on its own.

Half of the Heavenly Dao is condensed within the fruition position.

The other half is scattered among the five elements, four directions, and nine paths of origin.

Therefore, it is not waiting for the nine palace masters.

Instead, it is waiting for the nine complete origins to reunite and break the final shackles on the world!

"What a kind person."

After witnessing all of this, Gu Changjin couldn't help but sigh.

The previous earth immortal left behind a fruit position.

The geniuses of the upper realm helped to defeat the number one immortal of the human race, sending him and his position to the lower realm.

The first immortal of the human race spent nearly 100,000 years tricking nine true immortals into nurturing him, and in the end, he even sacrificed himself.

The nine palace masters of the five elements and four directions have been guarding him until today.

Why have I met only good people along my journey?

Of course, Gu Changjin didn't completely believe these images either.

The story is indeed self-consistent.

But who can guarantee what the real situation was back then?

Perhaps the remnant soul of the Earth Immortal did not die.

Perhaps that number one immortal of the human race also left behind a backup plan.

Even the very position of Earth Immortal is a trap waiting for those who come after.

Gu Changjin stared at the colorless fruit for a few breaths, then suddenly smiled.

"So what if it's a trap? Can it possibly outdo the attainment of enlightenment?"

The Devouring Immortal Realm unfolded with a bang.

The nine children raised their hands at the same time, and nine streams of the essence of heaven and earth fell towards the Earth Immortal position.

Gu Changjin stepped forward and placed his five fingers directly on the colorless fruit.

"Let's train it first!"