Chapter 1950: The tenth sun of Immortal Astral, The True Imperial Preceptor!

A roar came from outside; clearly, the four Great Heavenly Venerates were unleashing their full power to break through the golden light. Time was pressing, and the Immortal Emperor knew he didn't have much time left!

If he couldn't quickly absorb the power of the Immortal Ancestor's head, once the golden light dissipated and the four Great Heavenly Venerates arrived, all his previous efforts would be in vain.

He would never allow such a thing to happen, and now that he had reached the final stage, with success imminent, he was unwilling to fail!

"My plan was so intricate that even the Imperial Preceptor couldn't see through it. That Jiudi only came because he was in Ancestral City, but Dao Yi and Wu Feng, they arrived so quickly!"

The Immortal Emperor gritted his teeth, unhesitatingly raised his right hand, and pointed forward. The moment his finger landed, it immediately crumbled, turning into flesh and blood.

"With the flesh and blood of a descendant of the Immortal Ancestor, I invoke the Laws of Immortal Astral to undo the eternal Seal of the Dirge Race!" The Immortal Emperor roared, and the remaining fingers of his right hand crumbled again. This time, it wasn't just his fingers, but also his palm.

And this crumbling continued to spread. The moment the Immortal Emperor finished speaking his complete words, half of his right arm was already gone!

A large amount of golden blood spread, condensing into a golden blood rune before him. This rune spontaneously combusted, turning into ash in an instant!

The moment this golden rune burned away, within the Immortal Ancestor's right eye, the Imperial Preceptor who occupied Wang Lin's body trembled. The binding Seal that had restricted his Dirge Race for generations vanished at that instant!

The moment this restriction disappeared, tears streamed from the Imperial Preceptor's eyes. These were tears of excitement, the pursuit of his entire life. He had sacrificed everything, just to undo this Seal, to allow his clansmen to escape their fated destiny from the moment of birth!

The moment this restrictive Seal opened, a power from the Immortal Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate rapidly came from outside the Immortal Ancestor's head, rushed into the right eye, and blasted into Wang Lin's body. This power swept through, easily erasing any trace of the Imperial Preceptor's existence, utterly destroying him!

This was the Immortal Emperor's final killing move. He would not allow the Imperial Preceptor to continue existing after the Seal was broken. The breaking of the Seal was the time of the Imperial Preceptor's death.

At the moment of his death, the Imperial Preceptor, who had occupied Wang Lin's body, felt a layer of memory, seemingly sealed away at some unknown time, awaken in his mind.

He vaguely remembered that the Dirge Race, passed down to this day, had almost completely died out. Long after his birth, including him, only three people remained.

He didn't know who his parents were, and no one told him. He only knew that he was a member of the Dirge Race… Besides him, he also saw a woman and a baby girl.

These mother and daughter were essentially his kin!

He remembered that the woman was the previous generation's Imperial Preceptor, and he himself was not the Imperial Preceptor; the true Imperial Preceptor was that baby girl.

He didn't know who the baby girl's father was; he only remembered that the baby girl disappeared shortly after birth, and he was taught the Divine Abilities of their clan by that woman, treated as the Imperial Preceptor.

Slowly, he grew up, his memories were sealed, and he always believed that he was the Imperial Preceptor. Gradually, when that woman also died, he was already an adult. In his memory, he had many clansmen. These clansmen were all sleeping, not dead, and his mission was to find every way to let his sleeping clansmen break the Seal of destiny.

He always believed that he had many clansmen… But at this moment, the instant this memory awakened, he remembered that his clan, apart from the missing baby girl, only had himself left… "No wonder the Immortal Emperor dared to break the Seal… because the Immortal Emperor knew that my Dirge Race only had me… As long as I die, even if the Seal is broken, it doesn't matter."

"So, I am not the Imperial Preceptor… Then… am I a member of the Dirge Race… Am I… Probably… Now that the Seal is open, that baby girl who disappeared back then, that true Imperial Preceptor, who is she now…?" This poor man, who always believed he was the Imperial Preceptor, who would give everything for his clansmen, who plotted against the Immortal Emperor until his failure, and then fell into despair, his final thoughts slowly dissipated as he perished.

He didn't know who the true Imperial Preceptor was until his death… But even at the moment of his death, he had no complaints. He understood that perhaps this was his mission, a destiny fated from birth: to protect the true Imperial Preceptor and to break the Seal of her clan.

At the moment this pitiful figure was utterly destroyed, the power from the Immortal Emperor swept through Wang Lin's body, confirmed that there was no longer any Soul fluctuation within Wang Lin, and then swept around once more before retreating.

However, even the Immortal Emperor did not detect the Heaven Defying Bead within Wang Lin's body, nor did he detect Wang Lin's Soul, which was enveloped by the Heaven Defying Bead!

Having broken the restrictive Seal of the Dirge Race, the Immortal Emperor's expression showed excitement. He believed that everything was under his control, and his powerful confidence never wavered as he began to rapidly absorb the power of the Immortal Ancestor's head!

Golden wisps of Qi emanated from the seven orifices of the Immortal Ancestor's head, entering the Immortal Emperor's seven orifices, causing the Immortal Emperor's cultivation to surge dramatically.

Excitement and elation filled the Immortal Emperor's entire being at this moment. Enveloped in golden light, he did not see that outside the golden light, in the distant sky, Heavenly Venerate Haizi, at the moment the Immortal Emperor broke the Dirge Race's Seal, her body trembled violently.

Haizi's eyes revealed confusion and struggle, as if a memory was rapidly Awakening in her mind, and with the dissipation of the Dirge Race's restrictive Seal, a power awakened within Haizi's body!

This power came from the Dirge Race; it belonged to the true Imperial Preceptor of the Immortal Clan!

Her eyes gradually shone brightly, and her right hand subconsciously lifted, pointing towards the Immortal Ancestor's head, which was emitting golden light!

"All existence, because it inherently exists, can therefore be lost; this is 'Wang' (Death)…"

"All the deceased, because of the living's remembrance, thus thoughts arise from nothingness; this is 'Diao' (Mourning)…"

"The Dirge Race, taking the thoughts of the living, taking the existence of the deceased, taking the spiritual sustenance of pursuit, taking the power of this life and the next, condenses it into incense, and with this… transforms mourning into death, allowing what exists to continue existing, and allowing what has passed… to return to nothingness!" Haizi murmured. The moment her fingertip landed, the vast golden light visibly contracted, instantly disappearing and completely reconverging into the Immortal Ancestor's head.

As the golden light dissipated, it revealed the Immortal Emperor, who had previously been hidden within it!

And the Immortal Ancestor's head beneath the Immortal Emperor, a flash of golden light on it completely vanished, causing the head's eyes to slowly close, once again filled with Death Qi, losing the power to float in mid-air, and falling towards the earth.

It also interrupted the Immortal Ancestor's golden Qi that the Immortal Emperor was currently absorbing into his body through his seven orifices, causing the golden Qi that had already entered the Immortal Emperor's body to lose its support and dissipate from his body, returning to the Immortal Ancestor's head falling towards the earth.

This sudden scene left the Immortal Emperor stunned. His eyes snapped wide open, revealing an expression of disbelief. He mumbled and then suddenly looked up, instantly seeing Heavenly Venerate Haizi!

"This… This is impossible!!! The Imperial Preceptor is dead, completely dead. You are not the Imperial Preceptor, you are not of the Dirge Race, how could you possess the Imperial Preceptor's power?!" The Immortal Emperor was almost insane. He dared not believe everything he saw with his own eyes. This scene, he dared not believe, nor was he willing to believe!

"You are definitely not of the Dirge Race!! Under the Immortal Ancestor's Seal, the Dirge Race cannot leave the Imperial Palace, cannot leave Ancestral City… You are not the Imperial Preceptor, who exactly are you?!" The Immortal Emperor's face was pale. He had thought he controlled everything, thought his plan was unknown to anyone, and he had possessed strong confidence.

Everything had indeed proceeded according to his scheme, except for the swift appearance of Dao Yi and Wu Feng, which slightly deviated his plan; everything else was as usual!

But just as he was about to succeed, about to absorb the power within the Immortal Ancestor's head, and inherit the Immortal Ancestor's cultivation, becoming the second generation Immortal Ancestor, he suddenly discovered that none of this was as he had imagined, and everything he had done was actually within someone else's calculations!

"I… am the Imperial Preceptor…" Heavenly Venerate Haizi spoke softly, her expression complex. Her memories had awakened, encompassing her mother's memories and the Legacy of all previous Imperial Preceptors of her clan.

"The one who died was the last member of my clan on this Immortal Astral Continent, besides myself…" Haizi sighed softly.

"What on earth is going on? This is impossible. If you are the Imperial Preceptor, how could you leave Ancestral City?! Jiudi, tell me!" The Immortal Emperor took a deep breath. As a Great Heavenly Venerate, despite being almost frantic at this moment, he forced himself to calm down.

"This plan was conceived by a Prodigy of my clan back then. For this, he even went so far as to create seemingly divisive signs, attempting to find a way, and eventually succeeded in leaving here, creating the Great Soul Gate… Although he died, he perfected this plan, passing it down, and even found the key person in this plan: this person is Wang Lin! A Cultivator from the Immortal Cave Realm… Only his body could be Possessed by our clan, thus allowing this plan to proceed perfectly…"

"As for why I could leave Ancestral City… it's because my Soul belongs to the Dirge Race, but my body belongs to the Immortal Astral Continent…" Haizi spoke softly.

"Immortal Emperor, she is my daughter!" Jiudi was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke.

"The reason I could live until now, possessing endless Lifespan, and even become a Great Heavenly Venerate back then, was all due to the help of the Dirge Race!

The Dirge Race had prepared this plan for a long time, only beginning to execute it when they calculated that Wang Lin would appear on the Immortal Astral Continent!" Jiudi's expression was calm as he looked at the Immortal Emperor, who was silenced by this truth.

Wang Lin, within the Immortal Ancestor's head, also heard all of this. While everyone's attention was on Heavenly Venerate Haizi and Jiudi's words, his Soul emerged from the Heaven Defying and regained control of his body!

"So, this is the truth!" His eyes flashed, revealing a sharp glint!

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