Chapter 1573: Ancient Mystery—This is the Immortal Astral

"You bunch of trash, you haven't conquered this place even after several months. Today, this old man's Clone has arrived; you will follow me!" The old man coldly snorted, withdrew his gaze from the Void Gate, and took a step toward the Vermilion Bird Star ahead.

This old man was so famous that almost everyone in the Inner Realm knew of him. He was none other than one of the five Venerables of the Primordial Era, the Void God Heavenly Venerable!

Outside the Vermilion Bird Star, layers of light circles rapidly emerged, spreading countless ripples into the surrounding starry sky. The Formation outside this Vermilion Bird Star had been continuously reinforced over these past decades, and its power of resistance was extremely strong.

At this moment, amidst the echoing ripples, the Void God Heavenly Venerable walked forward with a cold sneer. With every step he took, the Formation outside the Vermilion Bird Star would emit a roar and undergo violent changes, appearing as if it were about to collapse before him.

Behind the old man, the green-robed man and Zhou Jin slowly calmed down from the shock caused by the appearance of the Void Gate. However, the trembling in Zhou Jin's heart remained. He looked up at the Void Gate in the starry sky, fear appearing in his eyes.

Just as he was about to retract his gaze, Zhou Jin's eyes suddenly widened. His body trembled, and he stopped in his tracks, his expression changing drastically once again.

At the same time, the green-robed man also suddenly looked up at the great Void Gate. With this one glance, his mind roared, and an expression of disbelief appeared in his eyes.

"The… the sixth Origin!!! In this world, there is actually someone who can possess six Origins!!!"

The Void God Heavenly Venerable's pupils contracted. He turned his head to stare at the Void Gate, his expression extremely gloomy.

Within the vast emptiness, Wang Lin swung his right hand forward. The fifth Origin, the Origin of Truth and Falsehood, condensed into a seal, transforming into his sixth Divine Ability: the Eternal Seal of Truth and Falsehood.

This seal was also unfathomably powerful!

After forming the five Origins, a cold glint appeared in Wang Lin's eyes. He stood up, raised his right hand, and grabbed the air in front of him. Immediately, a Storage Rift cracked open, and a sword flew out from within!

This sword was the Magic Treasure that had condensed when Qing Shui's Origin of Slaughter reached Major Achievement. This sword was the Origin of Slaughter itself.

Grasping the sword, a strange light shone from Wang Lin's eyes. With a fierce grip, the sword immediately collapsed, roaring as it transformed into countless dark red wisps of Qi, forming a cloud of mist that enveloped Wang Lin's entire body.

As Wang Lin breathed a few times, it was as if every pore on his body was also breathing, absorbing all that mist into his body to become the sixth Origin of his life!

This sixth Origin was the Origin of Slaughter!

As the mist dissipated, it revealed Wang Lin's figure. A crazed, murderous aura surged within his expression, and waves of monstrous slaughter erupted from his body.

"Today, I, Wang Lin, shall use these six Origins to blast open the Void Gate and achieve the Third Step!" Amidst Wang Lin's laughter, he raised his right hand and swung it outside his body, and the bloody light surrounding him suddenly collapsed.

As the bloody light collapsed, Wang Lin took away the still-unconscious Madman. With a flick of his right sleeve, the collapsed bloody light flashed with ten thousand zhang of brilliance and condensed together, transforming into that drop of blood that the Venerable Master had separated from his body back then!

The moment this blood condensed, the bloody light vanished, replaced by a golden hue. From within that gold, waves of astonishing Immortal Qi emanated. This blood was the entirety of the Immortal Undying Body.

Staring at this blood, Wang Lin took it and pressed it against the center of his brow, but he did not fuse with it. Instead, it formed a golden dot at the center of his brow, which flickered a few times before disappearing.

"This item shall be a Magic Treasure for me in the future!" Wang Lin raised his head and looked at the surrounding emptiness, at the place where he had slept for over seventy years. In his eyes, there was reminiscence, reluctance, unforgettable memories, and a vast aura that contained the principles of Heaven and Earth.

Just like that, with a soft sigh, Wang Lin took a step forward. As his foot landed, a huge Vortex immediately appeared in the emptiness before him. The Vortex spun rapidly, instantly emitting a booming sound, as if this step of Wang Lin's contained a power sufficient to blast open the emptiness, forcing it to collapse before him.

Just as he was about to step into the Vortex to leave, Wang Lin suddenly gave a soft 'eh'. His gaze flickered as he looked at the Vortex. He saw that the rapidly spinning Vortex had actually split into two. Thus, it was as if two paths of choice had appeared before Wang Lin.

Those two Vortexes led to different places. From within one of the Vortexes, an aura familiar to Wang Lin drifted out; that was where the Vermilion Bird Star was located, the place where he had disappeared back then.

From the other Vortex, however, a golden light faintly shone, and a rich Immortal Qi drifted out along with the Vortex, attracting the hidden golden blood at the center of Wang Lin's brow.

"That is…" Wang Lin's expression tightened. After looking carefully for a few moments, he raised his right hand and pointed at the golden Vortex. Under this point, the rotation of the Vortex immediately slowed down. As it slowed, Wang Lin's gaze became like lightning, and his Divine Sense surged out, rushing directly into the Vortex like a storm, where he saw a world outside the Vortex that left him completely shaken.

There, it was a boundless land. Above the sky, there were actually nine suns. Those nine suns were infinitely large, hanging there, their light enveloping everything.

There were towering, majestic mountain Peaks everywhere, and endless oceans with roaring waves, as well as many lakes and rivers. With Wang Lin's Divine Sense, he could not see the full extent of this place at all. A sweep of his Divine Sense seemed to cover less than one ten-thousandth of this continent.

Such a continent was almost comparable to countless Inner Realm and Outer Realm Star Domains!

The Immortal Qi was so dense that it was unimaginable. Among the many plants on the ground, not a single one was something he recognized. There were also many small beasts, some of which were surrounded by Immortal Qi and possessed not insignificant cultivation.

He felt waves of powerful auras here, the strength of which reminded him of the Seven-Colored Daoist he had seen in the Seven-Colored Realm!

He even saw a blue light flash across the sky there, but it paused in mid-air, transforming into a young girl wearing blue clothes.

The girl looked to be only seven or eight years old; she was very beautiful, with pure eyes and a hint of curiosity. After pausing, she looked down. Her gaze seemed to pierce through everything, appearing as if she could see Wang Lin.

"What place is this…" Wang Lin's Divine Sense looked at this world with bewilderment. But the moment his Divine Thought was transmitted, a force seemed to come from within the void Vortex, blocking Wang Lin's Divine Thought and even bouncing his Divine Sense back, causing everything he saw to rapidly recede like lightning. Wang Lin's Divine Thought was withdrawn, and in a shock of his mind, he was still standing in the emptiness, before the two Vortexes.

Looking at the Vortex leading to the strange world, Wang Lin fell silent. After a long while, his gaze flickered, and he walked toward the Vortex leading to the Vermilion Bird Star. But just as his foot stepped into that Vortex, a curious, childish voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

"Why are you leaving? This is the Immortal Astral… My name is Wawa, what is your name?"

Wang Lin's footsteps paused, but the voice had already become blurred, as if the distance of the separation was too, too far, and it gradually dissipated.

"The Immortal Astral!!" Wang Lin turned around and looked at the other Vortex. This was not the first time he had heard this name; he had heard it once before from the Madman's mouth.

The Madman once said that his hometown was called the Immortal Astral.

Wang Lin was silent. Faintly, he seemed to understand something and was about to grasp a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering secret about the Inner and Outer Realms, but there was still a layer of film, and he could not completely connect his thoughts.

"The Immortal Astral, the Seven-Colored Daoist, Qing Shui, the Madman, the Venerable Master, Old Ghost Zhan, the farming of the Heavenly Dao… the Heaven Defying Bead… the Ancient Immortal Realm… and a word that Old Ghost Zhan once said when speaking with the Venerable Master in the Cloud Sea: 'Inner Mansion'… There is a thread that exists here, a thread that connects these people, or perhaps others I do not know. But once this thread connects them all together, it is the final, heaven-shaking secret of these Inner and Outer Realms!"

"Perhaps before the Dream Dao, I was not qualified to know these things, but now, I have this qualification!" Wang Lin's eyes flashed with a coldness as he walked into the Vortex leading to the Vermilion Bird Star.

His figure suddenly merged into the Vortex and disappeared.

In the Kunxu Star Domain, outside the Vermilion Bird Star, the infinitely large Void Gate that had appeared in the starry sky was entwined with the power of six Origins, making this Void Gate a Peak phenomenon that had never appeared in the history of the Inner and Outer Realms.

This Void Gate appeared there, yet the person who was to break the gate never walked out. As a result, it formed an invisible force of suffocation, making the Outer Realm Cultivators, including the Void God Heavenly Venerable, feel the presence of pressure.

"Damn it, there are actually six Origins. Such a thing is something even the Venerable Master cannot do. Who exactly is this person? He actually used six Origins to trigger the Void Gate. If he blasts it open, even if his cultivation is still at the Early Stage of void nirvana, he could fight even an Early Stage empty profound Cultivator, and he might even surpass the Void Realm in a very short time!!

This person, if he is a Cultivator of the Inner Realm, he must be killed!" Murderous intent flashed in the Void God Heavenly Venerable's eyes. He turned around, not looking at the Void Gate that terrified him, and instead took a step toward the Vermilion Bird Star.

Although he was only a Clone here, he still possessed the cultivation of an Early Stage empty profound Cultivator. As he stepped forward, the moment he approached the Formation outside the Vermilion Bird Star, he raised his right hand, and his entire arm transformed into purple mist. With a slap, the mist expanded and writhed, rushing directly toward the Formation outside the Vermilion Bird Star like a storm.

Amidst the echoing roar, this Formation, which had held on for months and was already about to collapse, suddenly shattered, transforming into countless fragments that surged backward, leaving the Vermilion Bird Star with no protection.

"Kill your way in, destroy this star, and then leave immediately." The Void God Heavenly Venerable's body flickered, and he stepped directly through the collapsed Formation, seeing the towering statue of the Seal Venerable on the Vermilion Bird Star.

Around the statue, thousands of Inner Realm Cultivators were gathered, preparing to engage in a fight to the death here.

With a cold sneer, the Void God Heavenly Venerable raised his right hand, about to destroy this statue, but just then, his expression suddenly changed. He turned around abruptly to look at the starry sky beside the Void Gate behind him.

"The person who breaks the gate!"