Perfect Double Agent

This made Bai Ye take a deep breath and forcefully stabilize himself. Regarding the last strand of immortal energy, some people obtain it through lightning tribulation, while others, like Jiang Qingyue, may have two opposing forces from which a third strand is born.

There were several examples of the former, while the latter was a conclusion he reached after studying Jiang Qingyue at the time.

But now, he is undoubtedly using the former method. However, this has not yet triggered the tribulation lightning. If he were to break through, his last wisp of immortal energy would definitely not be able to appear.

Chapter 248 Prominent Figures of the Upper Realm

Two years is nothing to the Upper Realm; the Upper Realm wouldn't even be disturbed by the disappearance of one person.

However, in the past two years, many outstanding talents have emerged. Some successors of previous lineages have not yet appeared, and others have not yet shown their talents due to their young age and low cultivation level.

Since the great leaders began preaching, the entire Three Thousand Provinces seemed to have become more prosperous, with outstanding talents springing up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, dazzling the eyes.

Pu Du, a plant-type prodigy and protector of the true disciples of Luofu True Valley, swept across dozens of states without an opponent. He was stronger than the true disciples he protected. If it weren't for the difference in race, he would probably have replaced the current successor of Luofu True Valley long ago.

The new generation of guardian beasts of the Western Heaven Sect, Ge Dun, is a guy with such a foul mouth that people wish they could strangle him to death. He is extremely powerful and has a full set of defenses that no one of his rank can break. Although many people dislike him, he does have the right to be arrogant.

A prominent figure once said that if this tortoise were to grow up, it could protect the Western Paradise Sect for millions of years.

However, some people suspect that the turtle's lifespan is indeed ridiculously long, provided it doesn't provoke any serious troublemakers. If it were to be killed one day, that would be quite a spectacle.

The Patching Heaven Sect was also shining brightly. One of its members, Flame Wheel, grew extremely rapidly, and his fire-based divine abilities burned across several states, making him brave and invincible.

However, this guy was dishonest. He once traveled across hundreds of states and stayed in Jianzhou for two whole months, forcibly abducting a direct descendant of Jian Valley, shocking the world.

This guy was absolutely audacious, forcibly stealing the pearl of a great sect, and the result was extremely tragic. He was chased and seriously injured by the people of Sword Valley many times. However, the more he fought, the stronger he became. Not only did he offend Sword Valley, but he also ran into Fire Cloud Cave. It is said that he stole their fire magic technique and was chased for hundreds of thousands of miles.

However, Yan Lun is no ordinary person. Some say that he knows the legendary Six Paths Reincarnation Heavenly Art. Like the Little Demon, he has also received the inheritance of the Supreme Hall. Once he uses it, it will shock the heavens and earth and make ghosts weep. Its divine power is unpredictable and it can sweep across the present era. Almost no one can stop it.

No one knows for sure whether it's true or not, but it's true that Flame Wheel seems to be deliberately trying to annoy Sword Valley and Fire Cloud Cave, frequently provoking the current successors of the two lineages, and even ambushing the first generation of Sword Valley.

Meanwhile, the opposing Jie Tian Sect has kept a low profile in the past two years, with few outstanding disciples emerging. Notable senior and junior disciples have not appeared even once, which has made some people feel strange.

Disciples of forces like the Sun God Vine Palace and the Underworld often provoke others in the spirit world because their clan's first generation was killed.

However, this later led to the discovery of a race that had disappeared in ancient times: the Golden Ape.

This race is rumored to have evolved from the Ape Demon, and their bloodline power is many times stronger than that of the Ape Demon. When they first made their move, they attacked the entire continent where the Sun God Vine Palace was located. Their physical bodies were abnormally powerful, and they were immune to magic. They could tear apart magical artifacts with their bare hands and attack anyone they could get their hands on, so much so that the disciples of the Sun God Vine Palace dared not leave the mountain.

Meanwhile, Taurus's power is also a topic of much discussion. It is considered a veteran powerhouse and serves as the mount of the Little Demon.

Although his immunity to magical power wasn't as monstrous as that of the Vajra Ape, it was still extremely strong. With the Primordial Wild Bull Fist and the World in His Palm, the power of the world boiled with every wave of his hand, making anyone he hit practically pregnant.

"Breaking news! The witch who disappeared for two years has emerged, leading the Vajra Ape and the Golden Bull, and has invaded the Venerable Land of the Spirit Realm in the Underworld!"

"The witch? Didn't she disappear a long time ago? Some people even said that she had problems with her cultivation and might have already perished." Someone wondered.

"Fallen my foot! You didn't see the scene. She was wearing a dark golden immortal dress, holding a chaotic map in her left hand and a seven-colored golden immortal sword in her right. She was so strong it was completely outrageous. She had just cleaved the current Netherworld Prince in two with a single sword strike, and even killed the decree of the powerful figure she had invited." Someone said excitedly.

This is a major event. Although it is a sacred place in the spirit world, the underworld warriors are bound to be humiliated in this way and will certainly not sit idly by.

But what's even more unbelievable is where the witch got so much immortal gold from. Even terrifying people like the Little Demon and Di Chong never had any.

"I protest! Your disciples have gone too far! I haven't even settled the score with you for killing my clan's first generation, and now you're ignoring the laws of my clan's elders. What exactly does your Jie Tian Sect mean by this?"

Inside the Jietian Sect, the Heavenly Fox Elder calmly sipped his tea, glanced at the middle-aged man opposite him who was almost jumping up and down, and said with an air of composure, "If protests were useful, what would be the point of fists? You could just have someone fight back, I wouldn't interfere."

"You really don't care?"

"Go ahead, I definitely won't stop you."

Middle-aged man: "..."

He really wanted to confront this old fox directly in the face. That place was a Venerable Realm, and the highest level there was only a Venerable. If he lost, where would he put his old face?

"Old fox, don't be so smug. It's not their world yet!" The middle-aged man's face darkened.

But the old fox's expression also darkened. "If you dare to threaten me again, I'll make sure you never leave this palace!"

In the end, the middle-aged man left, leaving behind a Qiankun bag. Great sects all care about their reputation. What happens in the inner world is a private matter, but on the surface, everyone is amicable. In particular, in two or three years at most, the harvest in the lower realm will begin, and the entire upper realm will undergo a great change.

Sure enough, as soon as they paid compensation on one side, they stopped there, and everyone parted ways amicably.

Soon after, the witch arrived. "Old man, can't you have a little restraint? I haven't had my fill yet, and you're already accepting other people's gifts."

The old fox said earnestly, "Making a fuss is enough. There's no point in really fighting. In this Upper Realm, fortunes change. This year you're in my sect, but tomorrow you might be in another sect. The arena is like an iron wall, but the geniuses come and go. No one can guard that arena forever."

This is a fact; even the most prosperous imperial and royal families eventually decline, and countless outstanding individuals have perished in the dust of history.

It's a good thing to have two exceptionally talented individuals in one teaching position, but it can also easily attract jealousy.

"You're absolutely right, I'm going to find my junior brother now," the witch replied with a smile.

"He recently had some insights and went out."

"Could it be that he's about to undergo tribulation?" The witch's expression changed slightly. Her junior brother had actually reached the peak of divine fire when he was in the Immortal Palace, but he had been suppressing it all along in order to increase the success rate of the final wisp of immortal energy appearing.

Lately, I've been eating divine fruits and holy medicines, and my physical body has undergone another transformation. Now, I can no longer suppress it.

"These two children... why have they been acting so mysteriously lately..." The old fox watched the witch leave in a hurry, feeling that he could see through her less and less.

But no one knew that in the depths of that endless wilderness, thunderclouds had already covered the sky and earth. The vast thunder was unprecedented, like an endless ocean, and its intensity was terrifying. It did not fall in beams, but evolved into a giant star that crashed down.

Chapter 249 The Ability to Correspond to the Past, Present, and Future

A massive star crashed down from the sea of ​​thunder, its immensity and vastness causing the heavens and earth to lose their color and all things to dim. The scene was terrifying beyond belief. Even before it landed, it shattered mountains and rivers and shattered the void. This single star could easily kill a true god. If anyone were to witness it, they would be utterly terrified.

This is hardly a tribulation of lightning; it's more like a punishment, a forceful act to erase the one who actively caused the calamity and send them to their death.

A figure remained unmoved, standing high in the sky, gazing up at the massive stars rumbling down from the heavens. His hair, each strand sparkling, fluttered and cleaved through the surrounding space with its movement.

However, his eyes were unusually strange, one black and one white like two bottomless abysses. His left eye was pitch black, as deep as the boundless void, containing countless stars.

The right eye is bright yet hazy, completely obscuring the view, mysterious and dreamlike. With a gentle ripple, it seems as if the seasons are changing, the heavens and earth are aging, and all things are decaying. Strange phenomena occur one after another, making it extremely bizarre.

But at that moment, he also raised his hand and threw a punch. The fist wind was mighty and powerful, simple and direct, domineering and fierce, piercing through the star and turning it into countless beams of lightning that splashed around him.

Ten thousand bolts of lightning fell simultaneously, surrounding a man soaring into the sky, as if a primordial deity was bathed in the light of tribulation lightning—a breathtaking scene.

He was taking the initiative to attack, wanting to enter the sea of ​​lightning, unwilling to passively accept punishment. This was terrifying. The mysterious youth's actions seemed to have angered some kind of will in the dark. With immense power, one after another, huge stars fell, like tens of thousands of great worlds, wanting to destroy all living beings.

"You think... he might get struck dead... I'm really looking forward to it, but I don't think he'll die. Good people don't live long, but evil people live for a thousand years, and turning evil ruins one's life."

Judging from the current situation, your good brother, the Wheel of Reincarnation, is protecting him, so he shouldn't be a bad person, or he's just too good at hiding. It's a pity I missed the best opportunity to strike him down..."

A figure materialized in the distant land, holding a phantom bell in one hand and a soul lamp in the other, gazing with great interest at the dense array of stars.

Those were formed from the profound meaning of thunder, each one surpassing the current realm of the one undergoing tribulation, a symbol of destruction, with unparalleled destructive power.

However, to her disbelief, the great anomaly, as expected of the dark creature that was the most deeply hidden and most wicked in the future, had its left eye glowing, unleashing endless power of the void. It actually swallowed tens of thousands of lightning stars, forming tens of thousands of lightning marks in its left eye, before exploding with a bang.

Countless bolts of lightning surged forth, incredibly violent. Bai Ye seemed to transform into a blazing sun, his entire body crackling and popping incessantly, his bones, flesh, and even his primordial spirit on the verge of being torn to shreds.

This was originally a tribulation beyond his current realm. If he had undergone it normally, he would have been completely unharmed. However, this method was too domineering and extreme. Forcibly refining the lightning mark would have been fatal for anyone else.

However, he withstood it, every inch of his body glowing, every skin showing fine lines that lit up, even his primordial spirit.

At this moment, it was as if endless potential was being released within his body. His flesh and blood were crystal clear, while his insides were hazy. Accompanied by rumbling vibrations, his body and soul were rapidly repairing themselves, broken bones were being reconnected, his physical body was being restored, and his primordial spirit was being reorganized. In just an instant, he had fully recovered.

However, what is puzzling is that his body has begun to age, transitioning from a youthful state to an old age.

This state was very strange, and the transformation was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, a tall and handsome young man transformed from an incomparably charming man into an old man with white hair and nearing the end of his life, although his back was still straight and had never bent in the slightest.

“Huh, him…” Ye Qingxian narrowed her eyes, her Martial Arts Heavenly Eye flashing continuously in her pupils. Suddenly, her gaze sharpened as she discovered a phenomenon that even she found unbelievable.

The old man looked back, his gaze weathered and distant, as if he had traveled from the far future and landed on her, making her scalp tingle.

She couldn't describe what those eyes were like. They seemed to see through the river of time, or to have traversed the endless void and forcefully descended upon her, making her feel as insignificant as a speck of dust in the endless space.

Fortunately, that feeling only lasted for a moment. The old man moved, stepped into the thundercloud, and engaged in a terrifying battle with the tens of thousands of figures that appeared in that layer of thunder sea.

Tens of thousands of lightning bolts appeared, like the myriad paths of heaven and earth, each an embodiment of the Dao, incredibly powerful.

But what's strange is that the old man was even more terrifying. He appeared above a person's head in an instant, stomped down, causing space and time to boil, and directly crushed the enemy's head, with blood and bones flying everywhere, it was unbelievably realistic.

Immediately afterwards, he pointed to the sky, and the great sun of time shone across the sky. An endless waterfall descended, engulfing the heavens and the earth, washing over the entire world. Around him, the ocean was raging, and the waves of time and space surged. In just an instant, countless figures were annihilated.

This is an extremely sinister old man, with a great sun above his head and a transparent ocean beneath his feet. He seems to be standing in a realm of absolute supremacy, having undergone an ultimate sublimation. Although he is old, he is sweeping away thousands of troops, causing the sky to darken and spacetime to distort.

"What the hell..." Ye Qingxian rubbed her eyes, because in that short time, the old man had already shattered that world, as if stepping on the corpses of countless paths to enter the second level of the Thunder Sea, as if he wanted to fight his way up to the heavens level by level to see the light.

"As people age, their qi and blood become insufficient, and their condition will inevitably decline, leading to a drop in combat power. This is an inviolable common sense. How come his combat power is increasing exponentially as he gets older?"

"Time and space have three aspects: youth, adulthood, and old age, which mostly correspond to the past, present, and future..."

Therefore, what you saw was not a real old man, but probably someone who had been given power from the future. He must have come into contact with that power after he grew old..." the hazy little bell said.

However, this future is just a concept; it doesn't actually refer to the power of the future. Rather, it refers to a mysterious potential or a secret technique that, when applied, can increase one's combat power by ten times or even more—a special and powerful force.

As if to confirm its words, a faint ethereal aura was gathering beside the old man. It seemed to come from the endless end of time and space. As soon as it appeared, it caused the heavens and earth to shatter, the Second Thunder Sea to become unstable, and the old man's combat power to soar rapidly.

At the same time, there were three incredibly thick streams of immortal energy around the other party, each one hazy, mysterious, and dreamlike.

Thunder roared, and figures descended. The second level was far more powerful than the first, but it had fewer people, only three thousand. If the first level represented the myriad paths, this level seemed to represent the three thousand great paths. Every living being was just like a real one, with a transcendent and aloof deity, like an unparalleled god descended from the heavens.

They trod upon the Great Dao, their bodies shone like the sun, enveloped in endless celestial radiance, each one looking down upon the world with unparalleled nobility, as if saying, "I am your sun!"

However, the old man was not afraid. He reached out and pulled, and the first wisp of immortal energy landed in his hand. The immortal energy transformed into a blade, and the little figure making hand seals transformed into the blade's edge, which was extremely strange.

Time is a cruel butcher's knife... each cut has aged us...

"boom!"

The old man rushed forward, wielding a hazy longsword. With a swift movement, a dragon claw materialized, and the power of spacetime flowed between his fingers, imprisoning a figure. Then, he stomped the figure down with his sword!

However, the figure reassembled in the sky, but strangely, its aura was much weaker than before, and even its figure seemed to be aging.

"kill!"

The old man's beard and hair danced wildly, braving the blazing sun of time and space, treading on the boundless sea of ​​time and space, wielding a long sword, his movements sweeping and powerful, as if he were going mad with killing. Each strike aged him, each strike diminished his fighting strength, yet he grew stronger with each kill.

What's most terrifying is that, as time went on, the old man's combat power actually continued to increase, as if he had absorbed the essence and spirit of those creatures and strengthened himself.

This was simply unsolvable. It was simultaneously weakening the enemy's strength and increasing its own. This left Ye Qingxian completely dumbfounded. Her eyes were glazed, her red lips parted in an "O" shape, and it took her a long time to utter a few words, "This is not scientific..."

"Isn't this cheating...? Who can withstand this? The enemy gets weaker and weaker the more we fight, while he gets stronger and stronger. Every strike he makes hurts my heart..."

Ye Qingxian couldn't describe her feelings at that moment. That old man was incredibly powerful, even more so than when he was young. Once he activated his magic immunity, he could strike down anyone he caught. He was both arrogant and domineering, as if it wasn't the tribulation lightning punishing him, but rather he punishing the tribulation lightning.

"Could this ability be permanent? What do you think... would happen if it were permanent?"

"It shouldn't be possible... at most it's temporary... his weakening ability should be related to the past, and the improvement in combat power mostly represents the future, the present..." Suddenly, Xiao Zhong stopped talking because it sensed something was wrong.

"Could this life be eternal..." Ye Qingxian felt like she was a jinx, because it was too likely. Living in this life, looking back at the past and the future, her own life was eternal.