Chapter 1590: Ancient Mystery, An Immortal Cave

The Ancient Immortal Realm!

This is the Ancient Immortal Realm that exists within the Inner Realm and Outer Realm!

This place is countless times older than the Four Great Immortal Realms, a place that has existed since the very beginning of the Inner Realm. For countless millennia, it has had only one name: the Ancient Immortal Realm!

Seal Venerable emerged from here, Immortal Concubine walked out from here; everything related to that ancient era unfolded from this place!

The vast land became clear as there were no barriers to obstruct his gaze. In the dim sky, it seemed as if countless storms were sweeping across the Nine Heavens, day after day, year after year, month after month, eternally. It was as if these storms had existed since time immemorial, endlessly and tirelessly swirling across this sky in a cycle.

In this dim sky, there were nine suns hidden within the mist, revealing only their outlines. What caused Wang Lin to pause was these nine suns amidst the mist and storms.

"There are nine suns here too…" Wang Lin's pupils constricted. He had previously seen nine suns hanging high in the sky during his glance at the Immortal Astral Continent.

Seeing the nine suns here again, a guess immediately sprang to mind!

"Either this place is a part of the Immortal Astral Continent I saw before… or even if it is not, it must have a deep connection to the Immortal Astral Continent…" Wang Lin silently gazed at everything in this world. As his cultivation grew higher and he learned more, the mysterious veil that had hidden the truth through the ages was gradually being torn away by him. He was about to touch the ultimate secret concerning the Inner Realm, the Outer Realm, and everything in this world.

This secret might be very cruel, perhaps the end of everything, or perhaps, merely another beginning.

Over two thousand years of cultivation, countless hardships between life and death, had brought Wang Lin today to step into this Ancient Immortal Realm, entering this supreme Holy Land in the hearts of all Cultivators!

The land was silent, with countless statues standing tall. Each statue looked like a living person turned to stone, maintaining various poses from their past lives—some standing, some kneeling, some roaring at the sky, some with ferocious expressions. These statues, like a vast army, had remained silent on this land for countless millennia.

After a long, long silence, Wang Lin stood in the sky, head raised, facing the blinding light, his eyes fixed on the nine suns hanging high above. He took a step forward, his figure rising like a long rainbow, and immediately, a whistling sound shook the heavens and earth.

Amidst this whistling sound, Wang Lin headed straight for the first sun.

In an instant, Wang Lin approached the first sun hanging high in the sky, hidden within a mist. Violent winds roared past, whipping Wang Lin's white hair and clothes, as if they wanted to blow him away.

But his body was like an unmoving mountain; he let the storm blow past without being affected in the slightest. His face was obscured by his dancing white hair, making it hard to see clearly, but one could see his eyes through the gaps in his hair, currently flashing with bright, sharp light.

Before that first sun, Wang Lin's body appeared extremely small by comparison, like a speck of dust, incomparable to it. Yet, this speck of dust radiated an earth-shaking, supreme aura. Under this aura, who would dare call him a speck of dust!

Under this aura, who would dare to vie with him for brilliance!

Even this first sun was not qualified! Far from it!

Wang Lin looked at the sun, which was occasionally obscured by the swirling mist. He raised his right hand and flicked his wide sleeve forward. A thunderous roar shook the heavens, and the swirling mist instantly let out a boom and recoiled in all directions, as if Wang Lin's sleeve-flicking power was comparable to heavenly might.

As the mist rolled away like waves, the first sun appeared clearly in Wang Lin's eyes.

A cold light flashed in his eyes, and he waved his right hand again. With this wave, the sun's radiance immediately dimmed, and after seeming to tremble a few times, it actually began to collapse before Wang Lin.

Thunderous sounds echoed, filling this vast world. As the first sun constantly collapsed, its endless outer radiance dimmed directly and finally vanished without a trace. The sun appearing before Wang Lin shrank significantly; viewed from afar, although still immensely large, it was a world of difference from before.

"This is no sun at all; it is clearly something condensed using Divine Ability and Spells! It contains a power of Heavenly Tribulation; this object is the root cause that triggers the Heavenly Tribulation of the world!" Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He raised his right hand and waved it several times; each wave caused the sun to shrink continuously.

A moment later, as Wang Lin flicked his wide sleeve for the last time, the sun emitted an earth-shattering cry, and with a boom, it shattered into pieces and completely collapsed before Wang Lin.

Following its collapse, a twisted bolt of lightning appeared in Wang Lin's sight. The lightning was nine-colored and constantly changing, as if it had been sealed within this sun. Because of its existence, the first tribulation of the Heavenly Tribulation was often Heavenly Thunder!

Gazing at the nine-colored lightning sealed within the collapsed sun, Wang Lin vaguely seemed to see the lightning bolts that destroyed heaven and earth descending when he first faced the Heavenly Tribulation years ago.

"I have long suspected that everything in this world cannot possibly appear out of thin air. All living beings, the birth of all things, all have Karma… Even the Heavenly Tribulation is by no means self-generated, but rather created by some strange power, or perhaps by some powerful existence!"

Wang Lin muttered to himself, raising his right hand to grab at the sealed nine-colored lightning in the void. With this grab, the lightning roared and headed straight for Wang Lin, and in an instant, Wang Lin grabbed it in his hand.

With the lightning bolt in his hand, it twisted continuously, as if it would never submit to Wang Lin, unless Wang Lin's power exceeded that strange existence that had created it years ago.

Holding the lightning bolt, Wang Lin's eyes showed hesitation.

"I can see how the Heavenly Tribulation appears… I have had my guesses, but do I really want to know, do I want to verify that guess…" After a long time, Wang Lin's eyes showed determination. His immense Divine Sense surged out, directly permeating into the lightning bolt in his hand; he wanted to see who exactly created this Heavenly Tribulation.

The moment his Divine Sense entered the lightning, Wang Lin's mind boomed, and his vision blurred, as if time were reversing for countless millennia.

Slowly, he saw a world, a world containing endless seven-colored radiance. That seven-colored light covered the land, making this world look like a dream.

This world was vast, boundless.

Within this seven-colored radiance, there was a middle-aged man wearing seven-colored Daoist robes. This man had an arrogant expression, eyes bright and piercing, and an extremely powerful pressure radiated from his body.

It seemed that as he stood there, the heavens and earth were beneath his feet, and all things had to submit, because he was a person broader than the heavens! It was as if with just one thought, this world would collapse before him. The arrogance in his expression contained endless coldness.

This person's lips were thin, looking serious and harsh, as if he were ungrateful and devoid of righteousness.

The moment he saw this seven-colored man, Wang Lin's mind boomed. This man was almost exactly the same as the statue in his Storage Rift; they were completely the same person!

Wang Lin remembered that when he saved Qing Shui in the Seven-Colored Realm years ago, he had also encountered a seven-colored person. But compared to this person, that seven-colored person was completely inferior, like the bright moon compared to starlight.

And although the two had many similarities in appearance and expression, anyone who saw them would never think they were the same person.

"This Immortal Cave of mine forms a world of its own, containing the creation of heaven and earth, with all things in my grasp, changing according to my will… Although it cannot compare to the Sen Luo Realm of the Great Venerable Sen Dao, it is not far off… The only pity is that it lacks a Heavenly Dao, cannot undergo the evolution of time, cannot give birth to all spirits, and cannot extract incense power… But all this will change after today; I have snatched a Heavenly Dao!

With the Heavenly Dao, from now on, my Immortal Cave can give birth to all living beings, the passage of time, and Cultivators… Since there are Cultivators, there must be tribulations… This first tribulation is thunder…" The seven-colored man muttered to himself, raising his right hand and gently waving it toward the sky. Immediately, the sky boomed, and bolts of lightning broke through the void, appearing directly in the man's hand.

Under his Hand Seals, in just a moment, the incoming lightning bolts condensed together, forming a bolt of Heavenly Tribulation thunder.

"From now on, you shall be the Heavenly Tribulation thunder guarding my Immortal Cave, punishing all living beings who harbor Heaven-Defying intentions!"

The scene dissipated, Wang Lin's Divine Sense returned to his body, his body shook violently, and his eyes revealed a complex expression as he looked at the still-struggling lightning bolt in his hand.

"I should have guessed it long ago…" Wang Lin muttered.

"Immortal Cave… Immortal Cave… Old Ghost Zhan once said that the Inner Realm is the inner chamber; all of this was already very clear, but I was unwilling to believe it… Just like Venerable San Ling of the Seven Million Worlds, he discovered all the secrets, but he almost went mad…"

"Immortal Cave… Immortal Cave… So the world I, Wang Lin, live in, so this Inner Realm and Outer Realm, is merely an Immortal Cave transformed by a Great Venerable of the Immortal Astral Continent!!!"

"So this is how it is, it is so ridiculous; so all living beings in this Inner Realm and Outer Realm were born because of this… Heaven-Defying Cultivator, Heaven-Defying Cultivator… The reason the Heavenly Tribulation punishes Heaven-Defying Cultivators is because they possess an intention to defy the heavens, and they will eventually choose to understand what this world really is, and therefore the Heavenly Tribulation must punish this group of people…"

"This is far, far more sophisticated than the scene of the Seven Million Worlds. I should have guessed it long ago… I could have guessed it… I just didn't want to believe the truth of all this…" Wang Lin laughed wildly, pointing at the sky, his laughter growing louder and louder.

Watched my Ku6 interview… Sweat, didn't realize I'd gained a few pounds… It must be the clothes, it definitely must be the clothes.